see tomorrow state from the source tonight, breaking news out of baltimore were moments ago, the ntsb revealed what s been discovered on a newly obtained data recorder from that dude cargo ship. and 764 tons of hazardous material that was on board when it crashed into that bridge. also tonight there was a new litmus test apparently to get a job at the new trump run, republican national committee. wrong answers only apparently to this question was the 2020 election section stolen? it wasn t. but also just in speaking of the 2020 election, the chief architect of that plot to keep trump in power is tonight facing a major you re reckoning and screens and teens are smartphones and social media dooming a generation. a guest tonight who has studied the science says yes, and to take them all the way until high school, i m kaitlan collins, and this is the source but we start with the breaking news tonight as we have just heard from the ntsb, with new information on its investigation
john eastman and jeffrey clark trying to save their law licenses right now. the painful, heartbreaking grief for four families waiting for answers about their loved ones who are presumed dead in that horrific baltimore bridge collapse. the challenging recovery effort underway. and the new $2 million ad buy from tiktok, how the wildly popular app is fighting back against a possible u.s. ban. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments and we begin in atlanta with donald trump s latest bid to get the election interference case thrown out. nbc s blayne alexander is there. what happened today, blayne? reporter: well, chris, what we saw today in the fulton county courtroom is what we have seen play out many times over the course of this, between either the former president or his many codefendants in trying to get this indictment thrown out. basically today, steve sadow arguing that everything alleged in the indictment fell under first amendment prote
now with elycia menendez in for alex. reporter: the bread and butter of conservative media for years now has been hyping up the investigation into president biden s adult son, hunter biden. it s never been seen to end. they used it to create asymmetry that didn t really exist between trump s alleged crimes and what they speculated was the crime ridden biden family, and so long as this case was open and the investigation was behind closed doors, they could really make it whatever they wanted it to be. and even though that was the case, even though republicans have been dining out on this hunter investigation for years, they also have been up in arms about how it hadn t finished yet. they were aghast that trump was indicted before hunter. they wanted hunter s case resolved immediately. well, today we have some closure in that case. today we got the news hunter biden is expected today enter a plea deal for two tax misdemeanors in that investigation. he s also expected to strik
because together, we rise. and on that note, i wish you all a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. the bread and butter of conservatives in the conservative media for years now has been hyping up an investigation into president biden s adult son hunter biden. but it never seem to end. the investigation, which was open in 2018, under trump s justice department, has been used as a black box of sorts by republicans. they use it to create a symmetry that didn t really exist between trump s alleged crimes, and what they speculated was the crime ridden biden family. and so long as this case was open, and the investigation was behind closed doors, they could really make it whatever they wanted it to be. and even though that was the case even though the republicans have been dining out on the hunter investigation for years, they also have been up in arms about how it h
our calendars. yes ought to use a pencil, not a pen. it s monday, august 14th, it s a little less than two months from right now, and that is the day that judge aileen cannon has set for the trial of donald j. trump in the case having to do with classified documents, the legally and dangerously illegally and dangerously kept by him at a mar-a-lago. relatively speaking, that s soon, perhaps surprising given judge cannon s history of rulings considering to be favor to believe the disgraced ex-president who apointed her. but things get murky. the date august 14th is subject to delay, maybe delay after delay. in addition to what one would normally expect, illegal tactics, on one side to drag things out, there is another complicating factor, and that is complexities having to do with the classified material itself and something called the classified information procedures act. as we said, we re using pencils at this point, not pens. our experts will explain all of it in greater