donald trump not to be charged. that s former federal prosecutor andrew weissman with analysis on the meeting yesterday between donald trump s attorneys and the department of justice concerning the classified documents case. we ll go through all the new developments straight ahead. plus, one down, one more to go. mike pence is officially in the race for the 2024 republican presidential nomination with new jersey governor chris christie expected today join the field later tonight. and an update from ukraine i it appears the long awaited counter offensive may be underway. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, june 6th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day us. we ve got a lot of news to get to this morning. there s a potential new key development in the investigation into former president donald trump taking classified documents with him to mar-a-lago after he left the white house. nbc news has confirmed that attorneys for the former p
my brother need not be idealized or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life. to be remembered simply as a good and decent man who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it. those of us who loved him and will take him to his rest today pray that what he was to us and what he wished for others will some day come to pass for all the world. as he said many times in many parts of this nation to those he touched and who sought to touch him, some men see things as they are and say why, i dream things that never were and say why not. that was senator ted kennedy at the funeral of his brother bobby. second funeral he would have to mark and today is june 6th. david ignatius, two monumental things happened on this day, of course, the assassination and the death the assassination and the death of bobby kennedy on june 6th, 1968, a day that really marked in many ways a low point, the chaos of the 1960s and i must say also a
clear that donald j. trump is a target of the investigation. we ll have legal analysis what that means for a possible indictment in just a moment. meanwhile trump s former running mate is now his newest challenger in the 2024 presidential race. we ll have more from mike pence s campaign launch. plus that hazardous haze that s been covering the northeast is expected to kick back up today. we ll get the latest time line for when the wildfire smoke from canada could finally clear out. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, june 8th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. nbc news has learned that former president donald trump s attorneys have been told that trump is a target of the justice department s investigation into the former president s handling of classified documents after he left the white house. prosecutors told trump s attorneys about their client being a target in that probe during their meeting monday at the doj headqu
Fox news alert. We begin with continuing moment by moment coverage of day eight of former President Trumps New York Criminal Trial. This is the faulkner focus. Hello. Happy friday. We have a lot of news packed in for you this hour. Court got underway last hour. A loss hat gone on so far. David pecker ends how he started on the witness stand. Right now trumps Team Continues their Cross Examination. Pecker to remind you is the former ceo of american media. His testimony this week mostly focusing on a quote, catch and kill scheme to buy stories about his then friend donald trump without publishing them effectively keeping them hidden. Atactic he used for other celebrities, too. Separately braggs team accused former President Trump of violating his gag order four more times. Thats in addition to the ten claims already made, by the way. Prosecutors meantime want the judge to fine trump and hold him in contempt for every one of those. A hearing on the gag order is set for thursday, may two,
newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin this hour with a critical situation unfolding in gaza. this as intense fighting between israeli forces and hamas forces continue around gaza s biggest hospital, al-shifa. doctors without borders who has staff inside said the clashes are stopping them from evacuating patients. that the hospital has lost power. the director of the health ministry in gaza said two babies died after a generator was damaged in that hospital. the idf said it is working on a plan to help evacuate infants from the hospital s pediatric unit and denies claims the hospital is under siege. israeli officials say the military can coordinate with anyone who wants to leave the hospital safely. in the meantime, the red cross said gaza s health care system has passed the point of no return. intense fighting is taking place over the streets of northern gaza. let go straight to correspondent oren lieberman who has more on this. what are you seeing right now? rep