president biden looking to flip the script on republicans with a law and order midterm swing. we re live in pennsylvania with more on that. the news on another speech later this week, and why the president s advisers think now is the time to make a broader pitch to voters, besides the obvious pre midterm timing. two u.s. officials telling nbc news russia has combat drones from iran. what we re learning about how they plan to use them on the battlefield in ukraine and the push to prevent a nuclear disaster in that country. i m hallie jackson in washington. we start with the latest fallout after that mar-a-lago search. i want to bring in nbc s julia ainsley, ben collins, charles coleman, former prosecutor, sich rights attorney and msnbc legal analyst and clint watts, msnbc national security analyst. julia, let me start with you first. the dod ruling is expected to come down at some point today. we don t know the timing. that s what i m trying to say here. we do know it s expect
issues of decriminalizing cannabis, for example. how does the president walk that tightrope ahead of the midterms? i think the bottom line i if democrats want to hold on to many as many seats as we can, if that means some democratic candidates have to run against, quote, unquote, democrats in washington, fine. if you re going to go out there and embrace the president s policies which he has passed historic amounts of legislation, positions on roe, putting a black woman on the supreme court f. you re going to embrace those policies, you should be campaigning with the president. numbers go from the mid 30s to now the mid 40s, a huge jump over the past few weeks. my guess is they ll tick up even more. as they tick up a little more, you re going to see more candidates who want to campaign with them. adrienne elrod, thank you for
biden s business dealings. with a senior law enforcement official confirming to nbc news that agent has resigned. nbc s tom winter is all over this one for us. tom, there s been a lot of talk about this agent, but some important context here that i know you want to lay out for us. so explain this. right. this person s name and information about him first came up in late may, may 31st when this letter was sent to the fbi and to the attorney general. it was sent from senator chuck grassley. it raised some questions about this agent, thomas timothy tebow who is an assistant special agent in charge of the washington field office. now that maybe sounds like a bit of a higher position in that office than it is. no disrespect to people that have obtained that title and that position. it is not somebody who necessarily runs that office day to day. may not even run certain parts of major decisions of that
the fbi field office in baltimore, not washington. two, the investigation is primarily focused on tax issues at this point. there s a heavy irs criminal division focus there. those investigators are heavily involved in that and have been for some time. it s unclear to me how this individual could have specifically thwarted an investigation. number three, as you well remember, there were no overt steps taken in that investigation in the lead-up to the election. same with the rudy giuliani investigation. any overt steps that were taken in those investigations happened after the election, hunter biden, about mid december. we have the rudy giuliani search warrant in april of 2021. that s kind of the backstory. there was no investigative activity that would have been happening if there wasn t a threat to a life or somebody else s life, it s unlikely any case would have been opened into the son of a presidential candidate at that time.
president biden looking to flip the script on republicans with a law and order midterm swing. we re live in pennsylvania with more on that. the news on another speech later this week, and why the president s advisers think now is the time to make a broader pitch to voters, besides the obvious pre midterm timing. two u.s. officials telling nbc news russia has combat drones from iran. what we re learning about how they plan to use them on the battlefield in ukraine and the push to prevent a nuclear disaster in that country. i m hallie jackson in washington. we start with the latest fallout after that mar-a-lago search. i want to bring in nbc s julia ainsley, ben collins, charles coleman, former prosecutor, sich rights attorney and msnbc legal analyst and clint watts, msnbc national security analyst. julia, let me start with you first. the dod ruling is expected to come down at some point today.