casting ballots for one of nine people running for mayor, but it could be weeks before we find out who wins. growing fears in east palestine, ohio. the head of the epa is there now taking questions directly from residents who say they will caught in a political fight. the gang of eight getting its first briefing on classified documents. found at the properties of joe biden, donald trump and mike pence. what they will and won t be able to find out. and a rare live report from inside russian occupied crimea. a critical area russia annexed back in 2014. ukraine s president says the war will not end until his country gets it back. our nbc reporters are across the globe following all of the latest developments. we start with nbc s chief international correspondent, keir simmons, in crimea. you re the first western journalist to enter since the invasion. talk to us about what you re seeing and finds out. reporter: there s a lot of talk about crimea, that russia and ukraine will
ex-president very clear publicly known efforts and plot to overturn his defeat in the 2020 election. a series of court battles over the last few weeks have largely gone in special counsel jack smith s favor, resulted if a whole slew of new trump officials and allies now being ordered to testify. some big names, none of them bigger than the one, vice president mike pence, news broke on tuesday that a federal judge had ordered him to answer questions under oath regarding conversations that may involve illegality on donald trump s part. here s what mike pence told nbc news about all of that this morning. i ll be in washington, d.c., later the week. i ll be meeting with my counsel that week and we ll determine the best way forward. again, i have nothing to hide. i believe we did our duty under the constitution on january 6th. nothing to hide, but that response begs the question, if that s the case, and frankly the fact that he wrote the book about it, why hasn t he testified
d.c., i m in for chris hayes. there has always been a racist white supremacist fringe the republican party. it hasn t always been overt, but it has reared it s head from time to time, going back decades. republican leaders, even presidents, have indulged it. for example, takes from the nixon era show the president engaging in blatant antisemitism. all of it which families are close, but there is this strange malignancy now that seems to creep among them. i don t know, the radicalism. the jews are born spies. you notice how many of them are? they re just in it up to their next. and ronald reagan, infamously popularized the racist trope of the welfare queen. in chicago, they found a woman who holds the record. she used 18 aims, 30 addresses, 15 telephone numbers to collect food stamps, social security, veterans benefits for for a nonexistent deceased veterans husbands, as well as welfare. her tax free cash income, alone, has been running $150,000 a year. george h. w. bu
criminal probe. according to the posts reporting, investigators are honing in on trump s pressure campaign on mike pence to overturn the election. and would instructions trump gave his lawyers and advisers about fake electors and sending electors back to the states. now, on wednesday, cassidy hutchinson, the january 6th committee s super star witness, was the next to name whose name was what came out cooperating with doj investigators. late last, night the washington post dropping another bombshell. text messages during the lead up to january 6th from donald trump s acting secretary chad and cuccinelli are missing and likely to get recovered. the missing texts were reported to the dhs inspector general in february. but cuffari did not press the department leadership at the time to explain why they did not preserve those records, nor seek ways to recover the lost data, according to the four people briefed on the watchdogs actions. cuffari also failed to alert congress to t
criminal probe. according to the posts reporting, investigators are honing in on trump s pressure campaign on mike pence to overturn the election. and would instructions trump gave his lawyers and advisers about fake electors and sending electors back to the states. now, on wednesday, cassidy hutchinson, the january 6th committee s super star witness, was the next to name whose name was what came out cooperating with doj investigators. late last, night the washington post dropping another bombshell. text messages during the lead up to january 6th from donald trump s acting secretary chad and cuccinelli are missing and likely to get recovered. the missing texts were reported to the dhs inspector general in february. but cuffari did not press the department leadership at the time to explain why they did not preserve those records, nor seek ways to recover the lost data, according to the four people briefed on the watchdogs actions. cuffari also failed to alert congress to t