The president has expressed full faith and confidence in me. Fit for duty, the White House Doctor releases his assessment of President Biden calling him a healthy, active and robust 81yearold. The one test he didnt have done. And why. More money, more problems, a judge refuses to halt Donald Trumps nearly half billion dollar fraud penalty. Leaving him less than a month to pay the money or secure what he calls an impossible bond. Plus, the largest wildfire in Texas History grossed more than 1 million acres and counting. How people in one town covered in ash are talking about rebuilding. Our nbc News Reporters are following all of the latest developments. We begin on capitol hill where they push Defense Secretary lloyd austin for answers on his failure to disclose his secret hospital stay last month. Nbcs Courtney Kube joins us now. How did the secretary defend himself . Reporter well, he did make the point over and over, that despite his hospitalization, despite his staff nor he notifyi
greetings everyone, you are watching symone, after the long anticipated chaos, united states southern border is roads to flee calm at this hour. more than 36 hours after title 42 expired. an influx of people seeking entry into the united states has slowed down. but overwhelming challenges remain. we are talking to the mayor of mcallen, texas, for more of what he is seeing on the ground. former president donald trump found liable of sexual abuse and defamation just before getting a free primetime platform to spew more lies and fallacies. we are digging into how exactly he uses the media apparatus to plus, oklahoma s republican governor moved to defund the pbs station there, stripping residents of one of the only free resources of news and educational programming they have. all because of lgbtq inclusive shows. we will hear from one of the state senators who is pushing back. i am symone sanders-townsend, and i have something to say. there has been a lot going on this
in what led to that aggressive unprecedented action taken by the fbi? we know former president trump seemed to be corporating with the feds regarding his presidential records. his team had already transferred 15 boxes earlier this year but the wall street journal reports things started to escalate earlier in the summer. what changed? newsweek claims there was someone inside mar-a-lago that told them exactly where they could find more documents. the magazine writing this, the raid in mar-a-lago was based largely from information from an fbi confidential human source, one who was able to identify what classified documents former president trump was still hiding and even the location of those documents, meanwhile, attorney general merrick garland is under growing pressure after the judge who approved the raid is refusing to let the d.o.j. stay silent. he s not giving the department until monday to answer requests to unseal the search warrant. that sounds like a call for tran
earlier to discuss the findings before releasing the report. we will bring it to you when it begins. i m eric shawn. arthel: i m arthel neville. today s report comes days after the release of surveillance video from inside rob elementary school on the day of the shooting. we want to warn you that you may find this video disturbing. the video was obtained by the austin american statesman and [inaudible] tv and was edited into a shorter clip with some of the audio removed. it shows several officers standing in one of the school s hallways with while the shooter was still inside the building. it took 73 minutes to finally confront the shooter. today s report finds that nearly 400 officers were at the school. most of them state and federal law enforcement. senior correspondent casey steagall is live in uvalde with more. casey? yeah, arthel, as we speak, the victims families are still in that meeting with the state investigative committee here in uvalde. they are going over e
role to organize the electors in his state and coordinated the efforts with the former president s campaign. more in a moment. the revelation comes the same day that the january 6 committee delayed hearings. the reason is one of his members, raskin, had a deluge of new evidence. he would not elaborate but said the new information was what we learned yesterday and beyond. the former president and his family recorded this before and after january 6th. those recordings have been turned over to the committee. a subpoena has, over also. the testimony of the republican party member, mcdaniel. that links to the presidents reply. he turned the call over to mr. eastman who proceeded to talk about the importance of the rnc helping the campaign gather these contingent electors in case there are legal challenges that were ongoing to change the result in any state. more helping them reach out and assemble them. my understanding, the campaign did not take the lead. we were just helping t