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it s good to be back with you on this second hour. at this hour, president biden s critical next move. he says he has decided on the u.s. response to the drone attack that killed three u.s. soldiers in jordan but what it is, where, and when, he isn t revealing. plus, cori bush confirming she is the target of a justice department probe over her campaign spending. what we know this hour live from washington. plus, homeland security secretary under the microscope as house republicans hold another meeting moving closer to impeachment. our reporters are following all of the latest developments. let s start with keir simons now. president biden has made his decision clear. at least that he s made the decision clear, but what he s going to do against iran is an ongoing question. what s the latest, keir? secretary of state blinken not saying when the response from the u.s. might come, but saying it would likely be sustained over time, multilevel and could come in stages. as ....
canadian wildfires. meteorologists expect the effects to linger for at least another day and possibly into the weekend. millions of people are affected. doctors in some places are advising people to limit their time outdoors. many schools, cities and sports organizations have postponed or canceled events because of the air quality. new york city is clearing up a bit, but the smoke is kind of drifting elsewhere. correspondent nate foy is in jersey city, new jersey tonight. nate, good evening. trace, good evening to you. what a difference 24 hours can make. we can actually see the sky tonight in new york city which was not the case yesterday. but other parts of the country remain heavily impacted as the smoke continue informs drift. one day after the worst air quality ever recorded in new york city today cities like philadelphia and washington, d.c. are covered in dense smoke as residents breathe air defined as very unhealthy by the e.p.a. the smoke obliterated the is ....
it is thursday. i m off tomorrow for my daughter s first play. this is very exciting. you re looking particularly beautiful this morning. oh, gosh. you are so sweet. it s true. we have a lot going on this morning. let s get started with five things to know for this thursday, june 1st. also i had mom s birthday. happy birthday, mom. really significant news here first on cnn. caught on tape. federal prosecutors have donald trump in his own words acknowledging he held on to a classified pentagon document after he left the white house. and told people he couldn t share it with them. this is first on cnn reporting. what does it mean for the investigation? and speaking of trump, his former number two mike pence about to take him on for the white house. pence will announce his run next week as will former new jersey governor chris christie. the house overwhelmingly passing that debt limit deal in a move to avert a national and global economic crisis. the fate of the ....
nbc news that jack smith has a tape of donald trump talking about a classified document he took with him from the white house. an audio recording of the former president talking to aides about iran, and a document he knew was classified. detailing a potential u.s. attack. cnn reports that according to their sources trump allegedly acknowledged that its classification limited his ability to share it. nbc news has not heard the recording but our source tells us that it was played during grand jury testimony. donald trump has denied any wrong doing. ken dilanian is with us to explain what we know. andrew weissmann is here to explain the significance. and vaughn hillyard will join us in just a moment from the campaign trail with how things are going on the road as donald trump tries to block out ron desantis. what exactly are the two men saying or not saying about this new reporting? joining me now is nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian. so, ken, wh ....
attorney, roberta kaplan. they were here last week in the immediate wake of that remarkable court ruling in which a jury held unanimously that former president donald trump had sexually abused e. jean carroll and when he disparanoid her, he was the one. and he was defaming miss carroll and he would have to pay for it. in that case, that jury ordered donald trump to pay e. jean carroll $5 million in damages. both for what he did and for what he said about it. if you watched the show last week and you saw that interview that i did with e. jean carroll and her attorney, you might remember that in addition to sort of reflecting on the fact that they had won that case, one of the thing they were newly contending with in the wake of that jury verdict was that even though trump had just been ordered to pay out millions of dollars because of his attacks on e. jean carroll, his lies about her. even though he had just been ordered to pay millions of dollars, literally within a da ....