election interference, what he s saying and when he might go under oath. developing news overseas, putting europe on edge. international inspectors on their way to that nuclear power plant coming under fire in ukraine. the fears growing over a possible radiation disaster. our team there on the ground with a live report for you. meantime, good afternoon to all of you. i m alex witt, in for hallie jackson here in new york. i m joined by ken dilanian, as well as msnbc legal analyst kelly, you re with us, as well. ken, with the doj with at least some of those seized documents contained some attorney/client privileged material. how will that affect the investigation going forward? probably not at all, alex. it s pretty routine when the fbi searches somebody s office and they grab all their files, they may pick up stuff that s privileged. that s why they use what s known as a privilege or filter team, a group of independent prosecutors to go through the documents before they
classified material in the first 15 boxes that were returned to the national archives. and a member of the january 6th committee has revealed a new thread of the panel s investigation, the money behind the january 6th riot. all this while the former legal team struggles to define a defense argument. if there s a prosecution of donald trump for mishandling classified afternoon after the clinton debacle, there will be riots in the streets. let s dig into this with ryan riley and ali vitali, along with glen kushner, a former prosecutor, and robert gibbs, press secretary from the obama white house. the washington post is reporting that the filter team has already gone through these documents and taken out what was lawyer/client privilege. that s all they should have to go through. @ job should be done for them. the doj did go through this very quickly over the course of essentially two or three weeks. that s according to the latest filing this morning from doj. it said th
sensitive documents, the dna is conducting its own review. avril hayne said her department is looking into any potential risks to national security. another delay could be the appointment of a special master opinion on saturday federal judge eileen cannon indicated she is inclined to grant trump s request. she also ordered the dodge to file under seal a more detailed inventory of what agents took from mar-a-lago. while we don t know what merrick garland will decide and when he will decide it, we do know americans will go to the polls on november 8th. and while republicans complain about and question d.o.j. s timing, some prominent republicans also concede donald trump s actions are cause for concern. it s hard to believe that the justice department and the fbi would take steps unless they had something pretty serious they were investigating. we don t know the facts yet. he should have turned the documents over. i think we re all concerned about what might be in those do
244,000 people seeking unemployment insurance last week. as americans struggle with the rising costs of everyday goods. new details about former president trump allegedly trying to call a witness involved in the january 6th committee s investigation. we begin this morning with what appears to be a stark difference between the president of the united states and israel over how to deal with iran. during a joint news conference with israeli s prime minister in jerusalem, president biden defended his efforts to restart an international agreement aimed at preventing iran from building a nuclear weapon. this is a vital security to both israel and the united states. and i would add for the rest of the world as well. i continue to believe that diplomacy is the best way to achieve this outcome. and we ll continue to work with israel to counter other threats from iran throughout the region. but the israeli leader said diplomacy will not work and that the international community
to the region and quite frankly the whole world. the israeli leader also talked about the president s visit to the saudi kingdom. giving him a message to pass on to the leaders he will be meeting there in his trip. mr. president, you will meet with the leaders of saudi arabia, qatar, kuwait and oman and iraq. i would like you to pass them all a message from us. our hands are outstretched for peace. with that talk more about this nbc news chief white house correspondent peter alexander and jane harmon and president emeritus of the wilson center and author of insanity defense while why the failure makes us less safe. so peter, what more do we know about what president biden s expected to do and talk about when he is in saudi arabia? it s quite an accomplishment, a president of the united states going from israel to saudi arabia. reporter: yeah, that really says as much about the changing landscape here in the middle east as it does about anything else. the first u.s