planting evidence at mar-a-lago. then, after it was revealed the documents were classified, trump s team said he had taken them home to work on them, falsely claiming that president obama had done the same. then, this third reason why it was okay from trump s team, quote, he had a standing order that documents were moved from the oval office, taken to the residence, were deemed to be declassified the moment he removed them. former national security adviser john bolton told nbc news this. i think that claim is almost certainly a lie. i was never aware of anything even remotely approximaing that policy and haven t heard anything of it since i left. so i think this is made up. and i think a key point here is when somebody is making up stories like that, i think it indicates a level of desperation. as we try to figure out why and how those classified documents ended up at mar-a-lago, nbc news has uncovered new details about the final days of the trump presidency and the last-
children s lives. stunning new details and the images this morning on law enforcement s response to the mass shooting at a school last month in uvalde, texas. we are learning that 11 officers responded to robb elementary school within three minutes. they were armed to the hilt. they had protective gear, bulletproof protective gear, but still waited. why? this image obtained by the austin american statesman shows an officer with a ballistic shield, 11:52 a.m., 19 minutes after the gunman first entered the school,. another image obtained by the texas tribune shows officers with rifles, ballistic shields, and an ax-like tool. so they had all of this, but we do not know, we should note, at this point, what point in the standoff this image was taken. this morning, a father of one of the students killed in the mass shooting tells cnn he cannot fathom why officers would wait so long to act. they re supposed to be trained professionals, bulletproof vests, heavy automatic weapon
and we start the fourth hour of morning joe with the january 6 select committee holding the final public hearing before the july 4th recess and there were plenty of fireworks and a lot of drama. top officials from the justice department described then president donald trump s relentless obsessive efforts to persuade doj officials to join him in a plat to overturn the 2020 election results by just saying the election was corrupt and essentially act as an extension of his campaign. riveting testimony came from trump s former acting attorney general jeffrey rosen. his deputy richard donahue and steven engel. how often did president trump contact you or the department to push allegations of election fraud? so, between december 23rd and january 3rd, the president either called me or met with me virtually every day. so the common element of all of this was the president expressing his dissatisfaction that the justice department in his view had not done enough to investiga
lifting the gas tax is on the table. plus captured americans. russian state media shows two alabama men who volunteered to fight alongside ukraine in captivity held by russian-backed separatists. up first for us, nthe january 6h committee next hearing is tomorrow. fallen promises to expose donald trump s role in a scheme to sub in fake electors for the real ones. on cnn a committee member says part of the evidence will directly tie the former president to the plot. we will show evidence of the president s involvement in this scheme. we ll also, again, show evidence about what his own lawyers came to think about this scheme. we ll show during a hearing what the president s role was in trying to get states to name alternate slates of electors, how that scheme depended initially on hopes that the legislatures would reconvene and bless it. will we see that he directed it? i don t want to get ahead of what we ll show during the hearing. we did hear last week from the forme
refining capacity. the administration estimates the moves could lower gas prices by at least $1 a gallon, if they can get it all through congress. i should say, this faces steep opposition from some on capitol hill, even from some of the president s own party, and members of the administration have even conceded there are significant downsides to do this, jim. plus, significant new evidence in the latest hearing from the january 6th committee, witnesses testify that former president trump and sitting gop lawmakers were directly involved in pushing fake slates of electors in multiple states to attempt to overturn the 2020 election while the president s personal attorney rudy giuliani admitted they had no evidence of widespread fraud to back up that plan. he turned the call over to mr. eastman, who then proceeded to talk about the importance of the rnc helping the campaign gather these contingent electors. did you also receive a call from u.s. representative andy biggs of