legends, whose greatness will stand the test of time. these two great ladies take us off the air tonight. on that extraordinary note, i wish all of you a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late with, us i will see you at the end of tomorrow. tonight on all in. if there is a prosecution of donald trump on this classified information after the clinton debacle there will be riots in the streets. trump defenders use the january six playbook to manage the doj. we have seen these maga extreme republicans making these kind of comments, which is dangerous. tonight, as the reviewed evidence from mar-a-lago continues, the white house announces a primetime address on the threat to democracy. plus, while trump s attempt to slow down the investigation may be too late. plus is there more coming for the theft of ashley biden s diary? and allegations on a texas podcast that could be on to something when it comes to stude
a to do list including sop of the most precedent setting decisions as they prepare to present closing arguments. add to that list what to do with the mountain of evidence they have accumulated specifically about donald trump s role, hands-on role as the driving force behind the campaign to overturn the 2020 election. one that would ultimately endanger his own vice president and members of congress. here s what committee chairman bennie thompson said about this when speaking to reporters on tuesday. i think now that the department of justice is being proactive, i think it s time for the committee to determine whether or not the information can be beneficial to that investigation. so thompson added in that press avail that the committee will issue an interim report in october followed by a final report by the committee at the end of the year. all the vital work by the the select committee happens as the existential threat to democracy posed by trump and his big lie, a threa
toward a civil war. president biden, meanwhile, is expected to address the threat of political violence head on as he hits the road today. the white house says the president will call out the far right for its dangerous rhetoric and challenge the republican claim that it is the party of law and order. we re also following major developments out of ukraine, where officials in kyiv say russian forces are in retreat as ukraine launches a counteroffensive in the south. president zelenskyy says, quote, we will chase them to the border. major news out of ukraine. we ll get to that in a moment. boy, it really is something. and you look at the poll numbers. first of all, fascinating it is joe biden s poll numbers that go up, willie, as democrats seem to be doing far better in the midterm elections than expected. the same group of people, donald trump, lindsey graham, those type of people, who challenged the 2020 election, or with lindsey, went back and forth, back and forth, th
federal court. the bottom line is, he is toast! there is nothing he can do [laughs] i was gonna say screwed. there is a consistency problem here. you can say many times, in public, on television, there was all kinds of things in those boxes. i don t know what was in those boxes. so it s very hard to get from at and have any idea what was in the boxes, to, i know they planted things. do you agree with that? i completely agree. judge dearie is a no nonsense judge. he s not going to take pr statements and say that that has any merit and his court. he is going to say as these guys said, prove it. this is a very dangerous game for them to play as nick said, this is just another criminal charge waiting on all of the other criminal charges that are being investigated. so how do they play it then? yeah, i think they declare victory in some way and get out of this thing because this is not going to end well for them, this will end with perjury charges, it ll end with a hum
he s going to say, as these guys said, prove it. this is a very dangerous scheme for them to play. as nick said, this is just another criminal charge waiting on other criminal charges being investigated. how do they play it, than? i think they declare victory in some way and get out of this thing, because this is not going to end well for them. this is going to end with perjury charges. it s going to end with a hearing being called that they are not prepared for. and if they tried the pr strategy and judge dearie s court, it s going to be worse for the lawyers. okay. and politically it s terrible. but let me just say, they re gonna claim victory of some sort, some way. how does one do that in this instance and then get out of this? how do you get out of it at this point? are they in for a penny, and for a pound? all we really care about is the mystery special master looking at the other items seized on the search. we never said we were going to take possession of or w