at all. what i am doing is very serious. it s very important work. nope, not a game. that was fulton county d.a. fani willis last summer talking about her probe of trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. and there are new indications tonight of precisely when any indictments will be coming this summer. also tonight, ron desantis gets set to formally launch his presidential campaign with the baggage of a four-plus year record of attacking the personal freedoms of the people and businesses in his own state. including his economically destructive fight with disney. plus, my conversation with chasten buttigieg who has a message for young people amid the growing threats to lgbtq youth. but we begin tonight with seven battle ground states that president biden won in 20202020. arizona, georgia, michigan, pennsylvania, and wisconsin. not only will these all be states to watch in next year s presidential election, but all part of the failed plot by donald trump and his
congresswoman ilhan omar about that as well as how she became target for house republicans and kevin mccarthy we are also keeping an eye o the breaking news in californi where there is major floodin in a weekend of extrem weather. new travel warnings from mexic after the disappearance of three women. plus this. drag queens are the marines of the queer movement. don t get it twisted and don t be distracted. register to vote so we can get these stunned queens out o office and put some smar people with real solutions int government rupaul ready for battle t fight back against the war o drag shows and trans americans across the country i will speak to former recal drag show contestant peppermin about all of that later on thi hour we start though with forme vice president mike pence. finally coming out of his shel a bit. and taking on the president he once served over january 6th which is something other potential gop rivals have ye done thus far. want to get right to nbc s ju
material seriously. i also said we re cooperating fully and completely with the justice department s review. the other epresident of the united states, you can declassify just by saying it s declassified, even by thinking about it. two distinctly different approaches to two completely different situations. but why is attorney general merrick garland moving so quickly to appoint a special counsel for the biden documents when it took forever to do the same for trump? also tonight, the quote of the day coming from george santos who said with a straight face, i have lived an honest life. and now, there s new reporting on the multiple investigations into his questionable finances. and did you hear? joe biden s coming for your gas stove. no, not really, but two weeks into the new year, it s a top republican priority to talk about it along with ending so-called wokeness and crt and counting fetuses in the hov lanes. we begin tonight just a little over two months since president
boris johnson resigned as british prime minister. what happened next is as clear as mud. welcome to the lead. we start today with ow national lead. the father of the suspected gunman of the highland park attack said he consented to his son buying guns in 2019 thinking the son would use the weapons at a shooting range. instead the guns were used in monday s mass shooting that killed seven people. the night before the attack the father said his son mentioned the mass shooting in denmark. the father himself could face charges linked to the rampage. reporter: in the mayhem of the shooting at the fourth of july parade new details emerge from a witness that provided key surveillance video. see m running. he is walking. reporter: a sur rail lance camera connected to a building that recorded that crucial moment with the alleyway used to reach the roof top and fired off more than 80 rounds. started to look at the camera here. shows on the film at 10:07 into the alley and 1
abroad could start arriving this weekend. after the president used emergency powers to try to solve this formula crisis. amid the conflicted messaging, the white house is in the midst of a staff shakeup. john kirby is now headed to the white house joining the national security council. the latest from ukraine where the donbas region in the east is, quote, completely destroyed and resembling hell according to president zelenskyy. this as ukraine is about to get nearly $60 billion more in aid from the u.s. and from g7 nations. in oklahoma, the most restrictive abortion law in the nation approved by the legislature on thursday. banning the procedure from the moment of fertilization. the first of the growing challenges facing the white house. joining me now is senior white house correspondent. kyle: kelly o donnell in seoul, jonathan lemire, and former white house press secretary robert gibbs. we have former undersecretary of state richard s this engle. kelly, why thi