probe into an ex-president s handling of classified material. new york times notes that it is incredibly rare for even a partial affidavit to be released at all. they add this, quote, the submission by the justice department is a significant legal mile post in an investigations that has swiftly emerged as a major threat to trump, whose lawyers have offered a confused and at times stumbling response, but it is also an inflexion point for attorney general merrick garland who is trying to balance protecting the prosecutorial process by keeping secret details of the investigation and providing enough information to defend his decision to request a search unlike any other in history. the impending release of a critical document in doj s investigation into the ex-president is where we begin today with some of our favorite reporters and friends. carol leonnig is here and former national security adviser to president obama and neal katyal is back former solicitor general and now law
wallace. ever since charged were handed down against donald trump, the ex president has seen returning to the white house as his best defense. no one is more aware of this than jack smith. jack smith asked the supreme court to rule on donald trump s bid to have the charges ruled out because the alleged crimes took place while he was president. this is not new. judge tanya chutkan rejected that claim and trump appealed. jack smith is asking the supreme court to leap frog the appeals court and settle the matter once and for all. the special counsel s move setting up the first, but maybe not the last time, the supreme courtla a role in the united states versus donald trump. prosecutors say, quote, this caserents a fundamental question at the heart ofur democracy. whether a fmer president is absolutely immune from federal prosecution for crimes committed ile in office or is constitutionally protect from federal prosecution when he s been impeached by the house, but not convicte
now. it is 4:00 in new york. breaking news this hour. we are covering yet another mass shooting in this country. this one on the campus of the university of nevada las vegas this afternoon. it is still early, but minutes ago, police saidsuspect, now dead. as for victims, police say tre appear to betiple although how many exactly is still unknown. at least one of thes of the ooting, unlv s beam hall, the university s business school, mere yards from the student union. law enforcement is still asking people to avoid the area. joining us now, nbc news justice and intel correspondent, ken dilanian. former fbi agent, peter strzok and with me at the table, professor of politics and journalism at morgan state, jason johnson. ken, please fill in the gaps wherever possible. what do we know? well, about an hour ago, the university of nevada las vegas twitter account posted an alert that said university police were responding to a confirmed active shooter in beh, which stands for be
on this dark question. is hamas not won t talk about being abused in captivity? also tonight the man who tried to overturn the election, he lost, is now warning that president biden and not he, is the real threat to democracy. that, as a former top republican warns, we are, quote, sleep walking into dictatorship if he wins a second term. later, harvard s trouble for facebook founder and $500 million donor mark zuckerberg. good evening. thanks for joining us. we begin with a very full night of developments in and around israel s war in hamas and a new focus today on allegations that rape was a central part of the atrocities hamas committed to start the war. it s been a heavy day and night of israeli air strikes in gaza, about 200 targets hit according to military officials. israeli forces using explosives to demolish large building in central gaza, housing the hamas-run justice ministry and courthouses. elsewhere on the ground, meantime, our first evidence that the idf i
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