president biden looking to flip the script on republicans with a law and order midterm swing. we re live in pennsylvania with more on that. the news on another speech later this week, and why the president s advisers think now is the time to make a broader pitch to voters, besides the obvious pre midterm timing. two u.s. officials telling nbc news russia has combat drones from iran. what we re learning about how they plan to use them on the battlefield in ukraine and the push to prevent a nuclear disaster in that country. i m hallie jackson in washington. we start with the latest fallout after that mar-a-lago search. i want to bring in nbc s julia ainsley, ben collins, charles coleman, former prosecutor, sich rights attorney and msnbc legal analyst and clint watts, msnbc national security analyst. julia, let me start with you first. the dod ruling is expected to come down at some point today. we don t know the timing. that s what i m trying to say here. we do know it s expect
ranks of both of these organizations. i think that s bad for the continuity of these institutions and doesn t help them do their jobs which is to protect and defend every u.s. citizen around the world, around the country. they need sources, they need tips and leads. they need to work with state and local partners. none of this is helping when you have them targeting institutions like the fbi. clint mentioned the high profile resignation. clint, you re referring to tony ornato, the head of the detail for former president trump. we have found out now, and the post has it as well, that he has retired. he told nbc news this was long planned. he was at that time center of that explosive testimony that was since dispute friday cassidy hutchinson about what happened, whether donald trump lunged at his drive tore try to get him to take him to the capitol on january 6th. what else do you know? the timing of his retirement is certainly suspicious or at
refuses to help you. a high profile resignation in a republican party in michigan today following hot on the heels of the decision by mission republicans this weekend to put to fire breathing conspiracy theorists election deniers forward as a republican parties official nominees this year for michigan attorney general and michigan secretary of state. joining us now is craig mueller his report of the detroit news, mr. monger thank you very much for joining us tonight. appreciate it. hey. thank you so much for having me. so you broke the story about this resignation in the michigan republican party and published this sort of scorching resignation letter from the official who stepped down. let me just ask you for a little context, whether this was a surprise, whether this is the sort of person kind of expected this from. and how it s landing in michigan. yeah, i mean i sort of expected it having known tony donned for quite awhile. but this is a guy that has spent his life trying to
an anti trump deep state in the government or resistance. he calls what he saw a complacent state in a state where political appointees contributed to incompetence and policies that the president would sometimes change on a whim without any notification. chuck park joins me tonight for his first tv interview about his high profile resignation. so explain why you decided to resign. sure. so let me start off by saying this is absolutely a personal decision for me, really difficult for me. i don t mean to project my values on the entire federal bureaucracy. let me say there. there are thousands and thousands of employees that did not make the same decision i did and they are absolutely working to prevent this freight train from going off the rails and exploding. respect for them. but and i think this was the real kind of one of the core
over three tour as bros abroad, worked to spread values freedom and fairness and tolerance. more and more, i found myself in a defensive stance struggling to explain to foreign peoples the blatant contradictions at home. chuck park spoke with anderson cooper about his high profile resignation. the past three years have felt like the house is on fire and not only on fire, but a man purposely lighting more fires. so, you know, when i talk to my colleagues, it is not that they don t feel the same distress that i do. they absolutely do. it is not like they re not as concerned as i am about that house on fire. it s not they don t have compassion for the people in that house who are being hurt.