getting some of our biggest clues yet about the directions special counsel jack smith is taking the politically fraught and complex and unprecedented investigations of an ex president by the justice department. there are major developments in both the january 6 investigation and the probe into the classified documents. we ll get to that in a minute. but we begin with what we know about the sprawling criminal probe into the capitol insurrection and the coup plotted by the ex president and his allies and including those in the administration and in congress. as the new york times reports, jack smith steps us the pace, sorting through a mountain of evidence from the january 6 committee and looking to interview witnesses that did not speak to the congressional panel. from that times report, quote, did former president trump consume detailed information about foreign countries wild in office? how extensively did he seek information about whether voting machines had been tampered
plus, tennis superstar serena williams, her major announcement about her future on the court. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening i m tom llamas in for lester tonight we are getting new information on that hours-long search of former president trump s mar-a-lago residence in florida with heightened security, we see it right here, flanking the compound nbc news reporting the search was tied to classified materia trump allegedly took from the white house when he left in 2021 the former president claiming in a statement that the fbi broke into a safe, calling the search, quote, unannounced republicans raising questions tonight about the timing, pointing the finger at attorney general merrick garland for executing the search with less than 100 days until the november mid-terms, and fueling talk of trump s potential bid for president in 2024. we have team coverage tonight. kelly o donnell starts us off from bedminster, new jersey, where the form
Important to remind students that they can mess up a lot and still find their way go orange believer, jake tapper starts right now trump in the bronx, looking to challenge the status quo. He says, the lead starts right now in the empire state, which no republican president ial candidate has one and 40 years, donald trump is setting his sights on new york. Hes looking to make inroads with black and hispanic voters today in the bronx scenario, he lost by quite a bit in 2020. What todays moves says about the political moment were in chinese fighter jets and warships and circling taiwan, the Chinese Government insisted this is only a task, but there also calling these Quote Punishment Drills Plus as the Summer Concert Season kicks off, the federal lawsuit aiming to break up live nation and ticketmaster accusing the 20 ten merger of stifling competition, hurting consumers. Ill talk to one of the top prosecutors taking on the ticket behemoth everyone, welcome to lead. Im jake tapper. We star
So he took the manila folder and put it over it so that it would keep the light down so he could sleep at night. leader of the free world, is a blue light in his bedroom, leader of the free world s blue light keeps him awake. so leader of the free world does a diy fix and puts a folder over it. okay. that was tim with that bizarre story about the discovery of a folder labelled as classified at mar-a-lago. he added that doj quote, went crazy when they discovered the existence of the folder and issued a subpoena for you. whatever team trump is provided for the folder ending up at mar-a-lago it is worth noting we don t know what happened to the stuff that was inside of it. the fact that the justice department issued a subpoena for it speaks to the intensity with which jack smith is now pursuing the document probe as well.
As, quote, a domain awareness gap. that is not something i like to hear with regard to national security. domain awareness gap is we re blind about something. and what we seem to have been blind to or are blind to is these objects apparently with frequency coming into our territory undetected and yes, they may have opened the aperture and increased the filter but as has just been said wait a minute, you mean we haven t in the past seen things that are enough of a threat to have to shoot down? and so we need answers on that before this continues and we need to establish new criteria, what gets shot down, what not. but it s a teachable moment for us because there is a whole lot of stuff floating out there in space. a lot of it. commercial. much of it commercial. navigational satellites. mapping satellites. weather. all of that going on all the time.