and subway choking victim jordan neely s family calling the indictment of daniel penny, quote, the right result for the wrong he committed. what nbc news has learned about the charge he ll be facing coming up. but we ll start with new reporting that former president donald trump had multiple opportunities to resolve the standoff over classified documents amicably but opted out every time. according to the washington post trump time and time again rejected the advice of lawyers and advisers who urged him to cooperate and repeatedly refused to give documents back, even when some of his longest-serving advisers warned of peril and some flew to mar-a-lago to beg him to return them. other advisers told the post that the fact that the fbi and national archives wanted the documents so badly made trump even less inclined to give them back. now the former president s lifelong penchant for digging in and doubling down isn t just putting hmm at legal risk, it s drawing republicans
including a new threat from the former president. donald trump much like richard nixon openly opining about using the power of the federal government against his political enemies. his efforts to weaponize the justice system if he returns to office already underway. plus, the lawyer defending paul pelosi s attacker in court not denying he did it but arguing that david depape s decision to break into the pelosi house was fueled by conspiracy theories. he believed he was disrupting a corrupt, liberal network of child abusers, and believed it, according to his lawyer, with, quote, every ounce of his being. and the ongoing threats against elections. the latest on the fbi investigation after envelopes containing fentanyl, at least some of them had fentanyl in them, were sent to election workers in five states. one had a note inside that read end elections now. so we re going to cover all those stories this hour. we begin with former president trump insisting that if he s ree
report today on nbc news now. now to a disturbing case coming out of harvard. yesterday, federal officials arrested seven people including the former manager of its medical school s morgue for allegedly stealing and then selling human body parts on the black market. prosecutors say not only did they deal in cadaver parts for years, including heads, brains, skin and bones that had been donated for research, they also allowed some buyers to come to the morgue to choose what parts they wanted. and the details just get more gruesome from there. one u.s. attorney said some crimes defy understanding, while a statement from the medical school called the allegations an abhorrent betrayal. coming up, a major blow to a major city, what the closure of the downtown mall means for san francisco. is it a sign of what s to come elsewhere? you re watching chris jansing reports only on msnbc. you re wg reports only on mbcsn (vo) sadie s done paying for wireless bundles with things she doesn t ne