tonight. a foreign policy stumble. the biden administration sending two senior officials to china yesterday the exact day the tin men square anniversary. we don t know to this day how many people were killed. recognizing that atrocity still forbidden in china. tom cotton says this official visit sends exactly the wrong message. biden administration officials should stop chasing after the chinese communist counterparts like love struck teenagers. it is embarrassing and pathetic. it projects weakness to china and encourages them to do things like buzz our aircraft or come within a few hundred yards of our ships and encourages them to send spy balloons all over america. john: there has been 0 direct communication between biden and xi since the u.s. shot down the china aircraft in our airspace earlier this year. jake sullivan down playing tensions. the desire on both parts to put a floor under the relationship, to manage the competition responsibly and insure competition do
what we know so far here. the former president told to appear in federal court in miami next tuesday to face the charges. tonight, our team talking with sources at bedminster, new jersey, where the former president is huddled with his advisors. he had recently been told by the special console that he was the target of a criminal investigation into his handling of classified documents. that was a signal that this could be coming in tonight it is now playing out. a former president indicted by the special counsel. pierre thomas, dan abrams and our investigative team and what they ve learned of this hour and what america will now witness play out next week. also tonight, 120 million americans now under alerts and warnings over hazardous smoke now stretching down through the northeast all the way down to washington, d.c., alabama. hundreds of wildfires in canada, more than half still out of control. the new york city skyline blanketed. in the nation s capital, the washington monu
people on board the private plane was flying from tennessee to new york. instead of landing it made a sudden u turn and set off alarm bells. dana: it breached the no-fly zone over the capitol. the fighter jets tried to flag down the plane but the pilot was unresponsive and ultimately crashed in virginia. bill: scroti brenner is here with analysis. jennifer griffin is joining us live from the pentagon. well, it was a moment of high drama in washington, d.c. that shook the capitol. new details on who was on board that flight. a 49-year-old was on board with her 2-year-old daughter and nanny, the daughter of john and barbara rumpel. barbara serves on the executive committee of the nra women s leadership forum in florida. my family is gone, my daughter and granddaughter, rumpel wrote in a post. the plane was registered to encore motors of melbourne, florida. their other daughter died in a scuba diving accident. the cessna took off from elizabethton, tennessee en route to lo
as it is getting closer to birmingham. here s a quick peek at what he looked like smiling after decades and a peruvian person. he is held there in the death of a difference a young woman. after the natalie holloway case. smiling as he mugged for the cam is a little bit in peru. he is charged are being brought back here because he is being charged with trying to extort a quarter of a million dollars from the family as he dangled leads to finding her body to them for money. and it led to nothing. but more heartbreak for the holloway family. their daughter natalie was 18 years old when she vanished during a graduation trip in aruba. in 2005. her body was never found. ted williams is life in birmingham, alabama where the family is from and where vandersloot s plane is about to arrive. tj ward worked for the family has a private investigator during this case in aruba, following up on those leads that lead nowhere at that time. geraldo rivera covered this case extensively for fox n
of classified documents after he exited the white house. plus, the latest from outside the federal courthouse in miami where that second grand jury is a key part of this investigation. and tens of millions of americans are still under air quality alerts as officials urge people to put on their masks because wildfire smoke from canada is continuing to blanket this country. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. i want to begin right here on the roof of 30 rock with msnbc host lindsey reiser covering the smoke-filled skies. you have the same mask on i had on walking to work this morning. i think the governor of new york is making a whole lot of those available. tell us the latest. reporter: and, chris, i m sure you felt it too, itchy eyes, scratchy throat, my nose has been stuffy the past 24 hours. things are better in the new york city area. normally the air quality index should be around 50. yesterday, chris, in the peak of the orange haze