along with a powerful and heartwarming stadium tradition. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt and good evening i m tom llamas, in for lester tonight we begin with that breaking news on this labor day. the surprise holiday ruling a judge handing former president trump a legal victory, appointing what s called a special master to oversee the documents seized from his home that ruling essentially removing the files from the justice department s possession the move could slow down any further investigation into the former president s handling of classified documents. the doj now has to decide whether it wants to fight that decision and it comes as mr. trump blasts the fbi in his first rally since the search for his part president biden was on the campaign trail today as both ramp up their roles in the final sprint to the midterm elections. kelly o donnell starts us off tonight reporter: tonight the criminal investigation into those classified documents fo
being careful about what body camera and surveillance video w ws we show you. we want to be respectful of the grieving families. some videos are difficult to watch given knowing what is happening off screen. there is a lot to learn but worth mentioning had parents and families, reporters and others not demanded answers from law enforcement officials in the hours and days and months after this massacre, it s likely we wouldn t know as much as we do about what really happened in uvalde:breaking news out of texas police on the scene of a deadly shooting at an elementariry school. difficult images. for hours after the shootings in uvalde, there is chaos around the school and few details. we ve not been give b or heard reporting on a timeline. is it clear how quickly police were able to get on the scene. relatively quickly but not fast enough. i don t want to go beyond that because we don t know how quickly agents were able to respond to the scene. there s a lot of fac
they both have a breaking news story to deal with, which you just delivered. everything i know about it is when i just heard you say about it on tv. just give us the short recap of it again, the donald trump apparently reached out to a support staff are at the white house. we don t know the norm of they sport they ve been described is a support staff. or it appears that it is not something that he would ve had a normal relationship with. this person did happen to be in touch with the january 6th committee separately, and so that feels to some people, and again we ll have that conversation later, it feels to some people like potential witness tampering it is been handed over to the justice department to handle it. we will get professional reaction to it in this hour. thank you very much. i did something today that i did not want to do. i knew i had to do it. i watched all of the video released yesterday showing with the police were doing in the hallway of robb elementa
good evening once again, i am stephanie ruhle. we have brand-new information this evening about the january 6th committee accusing former president donald trump of trying to contact a witness during the investigation. nbc news has confirmed reporting that the witness was a member of the white house support staff. at the end of yesterday s hearing liz cheney said that the matter had been referred to the justice department. this afternoon, the committee s chair person was asked about cheney s comments. are we going to hear from this witness? i would doubt it. we re concerned obviously about the witness, and we do not want to put that witness under unnecessary pressure. is there enough evidence that there was an attempt to influence the witness? from my vantage point, it is highly unusual to do that. that s why we, more or less, put that in the hands of the justice department. is this just one missed phone call from the former president? that s all i m aware of. as
again we ll have that conversation later, it feels to some people like potential witness tampering it is been handed over to the justice department to handle it. we will get professional reaction to it in this hour. thank you very much. i did something today that i did not want to do. but i knew i had to do it. i watched all of the video released yesterday showing with the police were doing in the hallway of robb elementary school, after a mass murderer fired his mass murder weapon in two classrooms. i would not have gotten through that video, i would not have gotten through the first few minutes of that video, if there had not been a very important sound edit in that video. that made it possible to watch it and listen to it. i ll explain that later, as i describe the video. the video does not show any children or teachers at all except for one child, very briefly, one child. he steps into the other end of the hallway, far away from the shooter. and when the child sees the