on midair scares that grounded the boeing 737 max 9s. and later, millions still under flood alerts, los angeles one of the many cities under water as a record-breaking system drenches california. thanks for being with us. a lot to get to. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. we begin with the breaking news on capitol hill where we expect to hear soon from the speaker of the house. he s set to take reporters questions as republicans plan to move forward today with a vote to impeach homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas. they allege he has committed high crimes and misdemeanors by failing to secure the border. it is unclear whether republicans actually have the votes to succeed. all this comes as gop divisions threaten to sink that new bipartisan border bill. nbc s julie tsirkin is joining us from capitol hill. we ll see the speaker any minute now. what should we expect to hear from him on this impeachment vote we know house republicans have just a razor thin
launching a massive air war against him in iowa. the drama, it affected my family. you know? with my own sister, i didn t get inviting to her thanksgiving after a while. and brand-new details on new big money patrons for supreme court justice clarence thomas. when all in starts right now. good evening, from miami i am katie phang, and for kiss hayes. tonight, a development in the classified documents case against donald trump. this comes as a form of a filing from trump s coconspirator and codefendant walt nafta. today, his lawyers started to get the first hearing in the classified documents case postponed indefinitely. they filed this motion, asking federal district court judge aileen cannon to delay the hearing not a clean thing in his motion that the date doesn t work, because nauta lead lawyer stanley woodward is set to begin a trial for another client in washington, d.c. this week. notably, that clients is a federal jury go kwan, a former trump appointee at the sta
putin felt like he had to invade ukraine because he felt very shy about nato. the nato alliance just had too many countries in it, too many countries that were too close to russia, and that all just gave putin this terrible feeling about nato being too close, and so therefore, he had to invade ukraine. i don t actually think that s it. i don t think we know all of the reasons he does what he does, who knows what s going on in his little short dictator heart of hearts. but if, in fact, the apologists are at least partially correct, if, in fact, putin was hoping that one of the effects of him invading ukraine would be a brush back to nato, that he would be able to worry less about nato, and somehow starting this war would make that happen, sorry. when putin invaded ukraine, there were 30 countries in nato. now there are about to be 32. finland was the 31st country to join in april. that gave russia 800 more miles of border directly with a nato country, and now as of tonight, we
it s 4:00 in the east. a stunning comprehensive brand new piece of reporting that really amounts to a first drafrt of history for merrick garland s justice department a piece of reporting that answers questions we ve been asking for years now questions that have dogged doj for many many months why did it take so long for d.o.j. to investigate? the first formal step into probing the campaign to overturn the 2020 election. the criminal inquiry now into the fate of electors did not take place until april 2022 more than a area after the insurrection and well after the january 6th select committee had begun to uncover a complex multipronged plot and democracy with donald trump in the driver s seat. the washington post is reporting in the immediate aftermath of the january 6th insurrection, acting u.s. attorney michael sherwin, senior justice department officials and paul abbate quashed a plan in the u.s. attorney s office to directly investigate trump associates for any links to
has an audio recording of former president trump in 2021 seemingly admitting, again, on tape, that he took a classified document with him when he left the white house, a classified document allegedly detailing plans of how the u.s. could attack iran. that document. well tonight, we have new reporting that trump s lawyers do not know where the document is. they are unable to find the war plans trump may have been casually waving around at his new jersey golf club two years ago. everybody check your golf carts, ask your caddies! anyone see stray plans for war in iran? no. we are going to talk about that a little bit later tonight. but we also have some big news in one of the other big trump investigations. it came out of fulton county, georgia where district attorney fani willis is investigating trump s effort to overturn the 2020 election results. let me back up first. do you remember this story from february about how trump s campaign hired a team of researchers to prove thei