to make sense of the latest news that burst out this weekend. everybody in the world trying to figure out whether russia may be falling apart again, whether vladimir putin may be teetering at long last after 23 years of n increasingly consolidated, increasingly dictatorial power in russia. david remnick will be joining us live on that story in a moment. we are also keeping eyes tonight on our own supreme court where in the midst of their own serious and expanding ethics scandals among conservative justices on the court, that court is nevertheless expected to issue yet another round of hard right, very controversial,e possibly very unpopular rulings. we ve got more on that ahead tonight ahead of what is expected to be a big day at the court tomorrow. we are also watching one rr particular federal court in south florida. tonight the trump appointed judge who will apparently be tr overseeing the federal criminal trial of former president trump issued an order about witnesses in
christian dog ran, nbc news. teamwork making the dream work. and on that note, i wish you a good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc, thanks for staying up late. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. it s really good to have you here. before he became the editor of the most important english language magazine and the world, david remnick was a moscow correspondent for the washington post. he in fact won the pulitzer prize for his landmark 1993 book about the last time russia fell apart at the end of the soviet union. david remnick is gonna be here joining us live in just a few minutes, as we all try to make sense of this latest news that burst out this weekend. everybody in the world trying to figure out whether russia may be falling apart again, whether vladimir putin may be teetering, after 23 years consolidated, increasingly dictatorial power in russia. again, david remnick will be joining us live on that story in just a moment. we a
that little black and white box that will take you right there. that s it for me, for now. now, it s time for the last word. good evening, lawrence. rachel, the audiotape that you played in the last hour, we are gonna run it again. the audience gets to hear all two minutes of it, uncut, once again. and it brings to life page 15 and 16 of the indictment against donald trump in which there is a partial transcript of what we hear tonight. and that issue, when you are reading the indictment, the words sound like, as you read them, like donald trump is showing a document. but the audio, the audio sounds, you hear those paper sounds. you hear that it sounds like he is holding up a document, which he describes as being pages long. this audio recording is, again, i m not a lawyer, i don t even play one on tv. it is like if you are charging somebody with a bank robbery, and you had an audio recording of them being like, okay i got my beliklava on. i m walking into the bank. i m
reportedly showing off u.s. war plans against iran with people who were at his golf club in new jersey two years ago. we re going to have much, much more about this seemingly damning piece of evidence in just a moment. plus, the latest from russia following a failed revolt by the leader of a mercenary group against president vladimir putin and his defense leaders. and also back here at home presidential candidate ron desantis unveils his hard right immigration and border policy ahead of a day of dueling events in new hampshire with trump. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, june 27th. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. weeks after donald trump pleaded not guilty to 37 felony counts related to his mishandling of classified documents, a damning new audio recording appears to be the clearest evidence yet of his alleged wrongdoing. in the leaked tape which was obtained by cnn last night, the former president seems to show-off wha
one last thing before i go. i have a new podcast. it is called rachel maddow presents deja news. it s only six episodes altogether. episode number three just came out today. you know how republicans say the election was stolen, and it was all voter fraud, and they are sure they can prove it, but they never do. they ran that exact same play almost exactly the same way in the 1960s. it is uncanny, and it involves all the cast of characters that will surprise you, a bunch of people that are still shaping our politics even today. again, it is called deja news. episode three is out right now. it is free to listen wherever you get your podcasts. you can also just use your phone to scan that black and white box thingy right there. on your screen, if you scan