donald trump has convinced his supporters agencies nonpartisan public servants are out to get him. after the fbi search false claims about records stored at the national archives facility. set aside for use of president obama s presidential library. sitting a person familiar with the situation, a report quotes on friday the hoffman estates, police departed increased patrols around the building after a spike online chatter regarding the facility. this comes after the fbi the department of homeland security warned the spike in threats to federal law enforcement and the days after the mar-a-lago search. republicans continue to defend trump s actions and congressman adam kinzinger called out their loyalty and had this message for trump supporters today. the hypocrisy of folks in my party that spent years chanting lock her up about hillary clinton because of some deleted emails or quote unquote wiping a server are now out there defending a man who very clearly did not take the
retaken more than 1,000 square miles from russia. in just 48 hours russia retaliating by striking ukraine s power grid. is the war at a turning point? donald trump s legal team objecting to the doj s special master candidates to review the classified documents seized from mar-a-lago. what they re asking the judge to do. extreme weather in the west. heavy rain triggering mudslides. more than 50 people rescued as dozens of wildfires rage in the region. caught on camera, jeff bezos s unmanned blue origin rocket bursting into flames after lift-off. and the tributes for the queen. and what officials are now asking mourners to stop leaving behind. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening. the coffin of queen elizabeth ii lies at rest tonight in edinburgh, scotland where thousands have lined up to pay their respects. tonight the queen s daughter and three sons led by charles holding a vigil for their mother at st. giles cathedral. it was a day
plus, a new breaking developments on the redacted mar-a-lago affidavit, with the intelligence community announced earlier today, and the white house calls out republicans who attacked student loan forgiveness, after having their own loans forgiven. the irony, i am ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. mohyeldin t started. mohyeldi let s begin with some breaking news, just hours ago. a federal judge in florida appointed by donald trump, we should note, issued a preliminary ruling on trump s request to obtain a special master for the darkness that were seized with by the fbi search of mar-a-lago. the judge says that she plans to apply the special master, but no actions have been taken just yet. a hearing in the case has been scheduled for this coming week on thursday. that would be september the 1st. we will have more coverage of this breaking news in just a moment. but we do want to talk about politics here to start out. democrats just flip 2022 on its head. possibly crushing
ongoing. this document, and it s completely unredacted form, is what convinced a federal judge in florida to sign off on a search warrant at trump s club to the ex week go. more than half of those today pages are redacted, even full or part. but despite that, we learned quite a bit from it. here we go, page one, quote, the government is conducting a criminal investigation concerning the improper removal and storage classified information in unauthorized spaces, as well as the unlawful concealment or removal of government records. on january 18th of 2022, the national archives received from the office of former president donald j trump, 15 boxes of records. i just want to pause here for a second. remember this was a document that was written before the search warrant that was executed on august 8th. it is kind of starting to see just how much evidence the government had on hand to support probable cause that even more classified documents remained at trump s palm beach estate.
good evening once again. i m alicia menendez in for stephanie ruhle. it was nearly three weeks ago that former president trump first told the nation, the fbi was executing a search warrant at mar-a-lago. today, americans had the chance to see some of the justice s reasoning for that move. the heavily redacted affidavit that underpins the warrant has been unsealed and made public. the document supports much of which was already known about the criminal investigation to whether trump and his aides took secret government papers, and failed to return all of them, despite repeated demands from senior government officials. nbc s peter alexander has more on today s bombshell developments. reporter: the 38-page affidavit focuses on what the fbi says it found in 15 boxes mr. trump returned to the national archives in january. mixed in with newspapers, magazines, and presidential correspondents were 184 classified documents, 67 of them marked confidential. 92 marked secret. and 25