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good evening and welcome to a special early edition. i m laura coates. live. we begin with breaking news. special counsel jack smith is now thinking a gag order against donald trump in the classified documents case. jack smith is asking the judge to quote, make clear that trump may not make statements that pose a significant imminent and foreseeable danger to law enforcement agents who are participating in the investigation and prosecution of this case. so now, why is it special counsel asking for this? you might be asking, well, it s because of what donald trump said this week when he falsely claimed, but fbi agents who searched mar-a-lago or quote, locked and loaded and authorized to shoot him. he was misrepresenting the standard language and documents and the fbi says it uses routinely. here s by the way, how attorney general merrick garland explain it just yesterday okay. and that one that allegation is false and it is extremely dangerous the document that is ....
tonight, knowing that robert card it s no longer a threat to anyone. i know there are some people many people who share that sentiment, but i also know that his death may not bring solace to many. but now is a time to heal. and with this search concluded, i know that law enforcement continues to fully investigate all the facts, so we can bring what closure we can to the victims and their families. all 18 victims in wednesday s attack have now been identified. i want to begin with nbc s kathy park, who is at the press conference in lewiston tonight. kathy, thank you for being there. when else you hear from officials? and how are you? this had to be an extraordinary few days. yeah, and an extraordinary 12 hours, to be quite frank with you, stephanie. so, at 10:00 this morning we got an update as to how law enforcement was going to move forward with their investigation. they talked about the law police presence in the lisbon area, the boat launch in that area, that ....
your liver health der any today i dosed daily.co i m even mackenzie in washington and this is cnn hello again everyone. thank you so much for joining me on the brink of whitfield and we begin with dangerous weather that could impact your travel this holiday weekend, more than 70 million people are under a severe sure. weather threat as intense tornadoes. baseball-sized hail, and nir hurricane-force winds hit the central plains and parts of the midwest. let s bring in now cnn meteorologists, alyssa rafah. so at least what areas are we talking about? we re really keeping an eye on parts of oklahoma and kansas. that s where we have the greatest threat for severe weather outbreak today, you could see it in the red area that s that moderate risk level four and a five where we could find intense tornadoes baseball-sized hail, and a string of damage managing wins that could be pretty hefty as well. notice the risk kind of stretches even into the deep south, including place ....
msnbc headquarters here at new york city. and we begin this evening s broadcast with major breaking international news. the u.s. has carried out military strikes and syria today. secretary of defense lloyd austin said president biden ordered self-defense drags onto facilities in eastern syria used by iran s revolutionary guard. he added the strikes our response to attacks against u.s. personnel in iraq and syri by iranian-backed militia grps. joining me now on the phone to discuss, my colleague msnbc white house correspondent peter alexander. peter, what can you tell us about how biden order the strikes and why they were carried out today? stephen, a first, i think we should put this in the context of what we ve been watching happen in the middle east. and as we heard from lloyd austin night, the u.s. military action, these defensive strikes, if as you describe them, they do come amid the rising tensions in that region with the rising tension between israel and hamas, ....
them the next leaders in civilian and military life. but without naming donald trump are really making a direct election year appeal president biden also under scored the values that he has previously said are at risk if his republican rival were to take a second term, for example, protecting democracy and also the nature alliance. now on that front, the president talked about us leadership on the global stage, including, for example, again, that nato lyon saying, for example, that russian president vladimir putin are testing his assumption that nato would not be able to unify and support ukraine from his invasion. saying quote, putin was certain that nato would fraction of course there speaking directly to the invasion of ukraine and instead, the president said, it is the greatest defense alliance in the history of the world. now of course, president biden has been a defender of nato, especially earlier this year when former president donald trump said he d encourage r ....