arrived. prince charles and prince william second to line to the throne, brother harry and wife meghan in europe now heading to scotland as well. buckingham palace confirming to nbc news just yesterday that the queen had to pull out of a virtual event to rest. tuesday she met with the new prime minister liz truss. first time in her 70-year reign she did not perform the ceremonial duty as is custom. the last public engagement in june opening a new hospital alongside princess anne and also we know princess anne has been staying alongside the queen at balmoral as well. we have an expert team of folks following this breaking news for us and bringing us anything new that happens. nbc news senior international correspondent keir simmons with us from london. katty kay and msnbc contributor. daisy mcandrew, nbc news royal commentator as well. welcome, guys, as we follow this breaking news out of the uk i want to go around the horn if i can, keir and start with you. as to your thought
arthel neville but the president is spending the weekend at his delaware home. but it won t be easy to get away from the firestorm of criticism in the nation s capitol. the announcement comes just days after turning general merrick garland appointed a special counsel to investigate the handling of those files. meantime house republicans say they will launch their own search for answers. there is a reason we have skiffs secure compartmentalized information facility. there is a reason for it in those documents are supposed to be in a skiff. they are never supposed to leave secure custody. your garage shall commence under lock and key as the president indicated you are never supposed to have classified information like that. eric: how about this situation? lucas thomason live at the white house with the very latest and they are. hey eric, let s go back to what president biden told our own peter doocy on thursday. he said some classified material had been discovered in that g
june. about that investigators say this, quote, the fbi uncovered multiple sources of evidence indicating that the response to the may 11th grand jury subpoena was incomplete and that classified documents remained at the premises. the government also developed evidence that government records were likely concealed and removed from the storage room and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government s investigation. all of this is what led doj to obtain that search warrant for mar-a-lago. during that search agents found more than 100 classified documents at trump s residence. here s what doj says about that misfiling. quote, that the fbi in a matter of hours recovered twice as many documents with classification markings as the diligent search that the former president s counsel and other representative his weeks to perform calls into serious question of representations made in the june 3rd certification and cast doubt on the extent of cooperation in this matter. this
wanted to happen that day, that it was the pre-planned and desired result of a wide-ranging coup attempt by donald trump and orchestrated by him and his close allies and just like they did in other hearings, the committee will use team trump s own words to describe what happened on january 6th with video of trump s own advisors and trump s own allies and trump s own lawyers and trump s appointees, a sneak peek was posted by committee member adam kinzinger who will be co-leading alongside his colleague congresswoman elaine luria shows trump officials in effect corroborating one another, each of them testifying to the fact that as vice president mike pence and lawmakers fled from a mob of trump supporters filled with white supremacists and domestic violent extremists, donald trump was in the dining room watching tv. watch. was the president in that private dining room the whole time that the attack on the capitol was going on or did he ever go to the oval office or the white
overturn the election results. that man is donald trump s top white house lawyer pat cipollone. he sat down for a transcribed interview under oath with investigators this morning. as far as we can tell, that interview or that meeting is ongoing at this hour. punch bowl news reports this about the parameters of today s testimony from cipollone, quote, sources tell us that the select committee does not have an agreement about what investigators can or cannot ask him. prior to hutchinson s testimony the panel had discussed an arrangement with cipollone for an on the record interview, but cipollone backed away from it, sources tell us. cipollone is expected to claim executive privilege over conversations he had with trump, but there is plenty that the committee is interested in outside of that category. for example, we expect cipollone will be asked about conversations with former white house chief of staff mark meadows. the possibility that cipollone could provide gamechanging i