Across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. Well see you at the end of tomorrow. Tomorrow thank you all for joining us at this hour. We have breaking news tonight, as i just mentioned. If your calendar was marked for this coming monday, when President Trump was set to hold a Press Conference that he promised would exonerate him from the allegations laid out in that Fulton County indictment, if that was a date that was reserved on your eye calla, well im sorry to inform you, that it has been called off. Trump says tonight that his legal team is instead putting all of the overwhelming evidence informal legal filings. He adds, therefore, the News Conference is no longer necessary. That news comes right after trumps legal team and another case finally gave its answer as to when they believe the former president should go to trial. Trumps team is arguing tonight that the federal 2020 election case brought by special counsel jack smith should go to trial in April Of 2026. Th
Chance to get around, i dont know if you guys have, but theres a major data in the amount of paper theyre dealing with. Oh, its coming up. We got a full screen to that. I hadnt intuition that would be there. Thats a tease. Look at that. Come on, when you see stocks of paper compared to National Monuments you know were going to full screen that. You at home are going to get you to that in this a few seconds. Thank you my friend. You bet. Thank you all for joining us this hour. We have breaking news tonight, as i just mentioned, if your calendar was marked for this coming monday when President Trump was set to hold his conference if he would promise would exonerate him from the allegations laid out in that Fulton County indictments, if that was a date that was reserved on your eye kyle, im sorry to inform you that it has been called off. Trump says tonight that his legal team is instead putting all of the overwhelming evidence in formal legal filings. He adds, therefore, the News Confere
covid-19 pandemic. that s according to a newly updated classified intelligence report from the u.s. energy department. according to two sources energy officials have low confidence in this latest assessment. that means the information is either not reliable enough or it s too fragmented to know for sure. it only adds to this big divide within the u.s. government over whether the pandemic began in china 2019, as a result of a lab leak, or whether it emerged naturally. president biden specifically requested that the national labs which are part of the department of energy be brought into this assessment. because he wants to put every tool at use to be able to figure out what happened here. we need to do extensive hearings. i hope our democratic colleagues in the congress can support that. i know the republicans in the house are certainly supportive of that. but this is a country that has no problem coming out and lying to the world. steven jiang live from beijing with the
Mitch mcconnell s reelection campaign for the election campaign back in 2014. perhaps you will find it reassuring to know that they had a reason for doing this. under u.s. campaign finance rules, politicians are prohibited from coordinating with the super pacs that support them. but over the years, campaigns have found creative ways around those rules. a campaign watchdog group noted at the time that mcconnell s campaign at the time likely put out that campaign publicly so he s super pack could use the footage to make their own mitch mcconnell. plausible deniability for finance collaboration would be hey we re not collaborating with super pacs, we just want to make this strange stock footage video. we needed to be out there. the story of that weird very video is helpful in understanding what just happened with ron desantis s campaign. according to the new york times, a firm associated with the super pac that is taken over desantis is presidential campaign, posted online
The video just goes on like that for two and a half minutes. no narration, no soundbites. it s like the intro to a 90s sitcom where all the characters are played by the senior senator from kentucky. that video was released by mitch mcconnell for the election campaign back in 2014. perhaps you will find it reassuring to know that they had a reason for doing this. under u.s. campaign finance rules, politicians are prohibited from coordinating with the super pacs that support them. but over the years, campaigns have found creative ways around those rules. a campaign watchdog group noted at the time that mcconnell s campaign at the time likely put out that campaign publicly so he s super kept pack could use the footage to make their own mitch mcconnell. adds the plausibility for finance collaboration would be hey we re not collaborating with super pacs, we just want