with new details about donald trump s alleged mishandling of classified documents. this time, during his time as president. nbc news has no exclusively obtained a copy of ex homeland security aide miles taylor s upcoming book, in which he accounts 2018 meeting with the national security advisor john bolton. during that meeting, then white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders and heard bolton s office, told him that trump just shared classified information to reporters, while discussing the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi. sanders told bolton that the president had picked up documents relating to intelligence on khashoggi s death, and displayed the. them, taylor writes, but the reporters were unlikely to have been able to read the text. according to the book, bolton yeah gasped at first, but breathe a sigh of relief when sanders told him that there have been no cameras in the room. but as taylor writes, quote, we were all disturbed by the laps lapse in protocol
trump s right-hand man, walt nauta, enters a plea to charges he helped trump mishandle classified documents. in the aftermath of the supreme court affirmative action decision, a republican senator warns colleges against admitting too many blacks and latinos. we discuss. elon musk spent $44 billion to buy twitter. what s it worth now? after more than 30 million people have signed up for mark zuckerberg s rival app threads in less than 24 hours. we begin tonight with the third time being the charm for walt nauta, donald trump s co-defendant in the special counsel s classified documents case. he finally faced his arraignment after finding a florida-based criminal attorney. he said, yes, your honor, as he pleaded not guilty to the six charges laid out in last month s indictment, including conspiracy to obstruct justice, withholding a document or record and making false statements. mind you, that was three more words than trump uttered during his arraignment last month. naut
what are the odds that he actually faces justice? plus former president trump s attorney ordered to testify as part of the investigation into the formerer president s handling of classified documents. how he could turn out to be one of the most crucial witnesses in the special counsel s probe. it s thick in the summertime, builds up and smells terrible. it s also headed right for the u.s. away we know about the 5,000-mile massive seaweed make ing its way to the east coast and the impact it is will have on florida s beaches and tour u. for just the second time ever, a 16 beats a 1. plus another stunning upset in the ncaa tournament. a huge underdog 16 seed knocking out a number 1 in the first round of the tournament. andy scholes is laughing at our brackets. it s a dumpster fire out there. we start this morning with big international news. the president of russia is now aed man. the international criminal court issued arrest warrants for vladimir putin and the countr
threatening to destroy them. classified documents found at former vice president pence s home. washington wonders who s next. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. good morning. we begin with a wave of reported tornadoes, more than a dozen of them, wreaking havoc across southwest texas and southeast louisiana. oh, my god. in the suburbs east of houston, only one injury reported, remarkably. but officials are calling the damage catastrophic. house is gone so the whole top section of the house is completely ruined. so it s toast. the house will be torn down now. kind of hard to take but, hey, we re alive. that s the main thing. we all ran to the restrooms and just watched the whole building fall. luckily the restrooms didn t fall. that was the only thing that kept us alive. reporter: numerous cars and tractor trailers overturned. buildings smashed. roofs torn off. one nursing home had to be evacuated and power
i m katie phang. we start today s show with more new evidence from the january 6th committee. they ve released more transcripts today, including interviews with critical players like donald trump s son don junior and top adviser stephen miller. miller admitted being told of a march to the capitol, telling the committee, quote, i think there might be, like, a plan for there to be a, you know, a peaceful walk to the capitol. the transcripts also revealing don junior was perturbed by the capitol insurrection. the committee questioning him about a text he wrote to meadows advise them to consemithis s stuff, don junior saying he was referring to the violence that s going on. even noting the hypocrisy of it all, saying, i spent the last 18 months call out violence and looting. but the committee alleges trump knew about the violence and didn t want to stop it. remember this critical testimony from former white house aide cassidy hutchinson. i overheard the president say somethin