A very happy political saturday night, everyone. Welcome to our very special coverage of the South Carolina Republican Primary, im chris hayes. Im joined tonight by my colleague, rachel maddow, and my colleague, joy reid, here with me at this table here, lawrence odonnell, 70 role, alex wagner, and ari melber. Weve got a whole gang together. Across several different locations. Polls will close in South Carolina in just about half an hour. At seven eastern. Coming up, were going to hear from Steve Kornacki, out of course, the big board. We will also hear from South Carolina voters out in the field, we have a lot to get to over the next few hours, in what has been a crazy last 48 hours of news. This Republican Primary tonight, of course, brings us back to the home state of one, nikki haley, where she was twice elected governor, at high Approval Ratings as such. It also brings us the moment where donald trump hoped to basically end this thing. To close the race out and consolidate his con
federal judge in louisiana. here s his exchange with republican congressman mike johnson on wednesday. the fbi made the social media platforms pull that information off the internet if it came from conservative sources. they did this under the guise that it was disinformation. can you, can you define what disinformation is? our focus is on malign, foreign disinformation; that is, foreign hostile actors who engage in mr. wray to use our social media platforms i have to stop you for time. that s not accurate. you need to read this court opinion, because you re in charge of enforcing it. paul: joining the panel, columnists dan henninger, kim strassel and bill mcgurn. so, bill, first, let s start with that exchange on disinformation. what do you make of the fbi director s answers? i think he answered very weakly. he came across as a man who either hadn t read the material as congressman johnson suggested, or he just didn t take the whole oversight process very
trump s prediction there is, again, it s not their role to abide by what the impacts could be in terms of bedlam or the political impact, but also if they were to abide by that, they re essentially giving in to trump. i mean, remember that he is the one that helped cause helped fan the flames that led to the insurrection, however they decide, right? and that is still an ongoing threat that people are dealing with, people of both parties, legislated officials, people in the judiciary who are not political at all because of this rhetoric. so it s already happening regardless of how the supreme court decides on this, and i think that s important to remember. jen psaki and michael steele, our thanks to both of you. let s do a quick reset at the top of the hour, i m ana cabrera alongside my colleagues, josé diaz-balart and andrea mitchell. thank you for being with us as we continue our special coverage of the arguments before the supreme court that we brought to you live on a
documents case. what special counsel jack smith did about it today. also tonight, record rain and floods in the northeast, we ll tell you who s about to get hit next. good evening, vladimir putin may be one of the most secretive russian leaders since joseph stalin. tonight, we re taking you inside his secret armored train. this on a day that russia and the war in ukraine is very much in the news. president biden has arrived in lithuania for the nato summit when the u.s. and allies will discuss efforts to obtain vladimir putin s aggression. as for biden, we ll be meeting with ukraine s president zelenskyy whose attendance had been in question until late today. both expected to be on the agenda and top the agenda. also today. turkey dropped objections to sweden becoming a member, and stockholm in turn appears to be supporting turkish membership in the european union. according to turkey s state run news agency. complete the succession to nato is a historic step that benefit
in fact, sonoma county firefighters had to rescue someone trapped in their car that was surrounded by rushing waters. also right now, some supporters of a far right group that calls itself god s army heading to the texas border and calling for a civil war. what they say they ll do when they get there. plus, the eu reaching a critical $54 billion deal to fund ukraine. so, can president biden push congress to do the same? our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. we begin with the looming question of when there might be u.s. military retaliation against iran. nbc s courtney kube is reporting on this from bahrain. courtney, what do we know at this hour? reporter: so we re still waiting to hear about what frankly the administration has really been telegraphing was an expected response or retaliation to those deadly attacks over the weekend, in which three u.s. soldiers were killed and at least 41 others were injured, including one who was seriousl