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our special breaking news coverage on msnbc as donald j trump is likely facing his most serious legal challenge yet. today, we learned much more about the very serious federal criminal charges in involving his handling of top secret u.s. documents. today, special counsel jack smith released an indictment laying out the evidence against trump. nbcs laura jarrett has the details. >> new details on the stubborn move up the speed -- of a former president, also the leading republican challe...

>> a lonely, self-consumed, self-serving, mirror hog is not a leader. >> steve kornacki will join me from the big board on whether these two can find a lane. we are waiting for updates from the vatican. the sudden news that pope francis is undergoing abdominal surgery and we remain in the hospital for several days. good day. im andra mitchell in washington. we are on indictment watch after a number of developments in separate grand jury investigations into former president trump. j...

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around the nuclear power station was extra. it would appear from these satellite images that it is almost certainly untrue. that there has been no significant change in the level of attacks, evidence of attacks since the las images were taken a month ago. so that really gives the lie to longstanding propaganda line, taken by the russians, that the ukrainians are trying to shell their own nuclear power plant to make the russians look bad. thats on the one hand. ive seen the evidence on ...

Family while joe biden was Vice President and i will continue reading from Tony Bobulinskis report. Which says and i quote, bobulinski, hunter biden and james biden did not receive come pentation because joe biden was Vice President during the time period. There by cefs. Hunter biden and james biden both wanted to be compensated for assistance provided to Cefc Ventures and believed cefc through the use of the biden family name to advance Business Dealings. The bidens were paid over 1 million by ...

Lets bring in katie trukasky. compare and contrast this investigation and what happened with the former president at mar-a-lago where you put them side by side, 1 of 0 plus secret, 60 top secret found at mar-a-lago. these are less than 12 total, some top secret documents found in this office from the former vice president. >> well, obviously i think the truth sometimes is stranger than fiction here. this has been a story weve been talking about with donald trump and now we have something that se...

Classified information, exposure, quantities of materials exposed with intentional misconduct, indications of disloyalty or efforts to obstruct justice. when you talk about mishandling of classified information. there was a lot that was willful about hillary clintons conduct. she didnt accidentally set up a server. some of the other efforts, the obstruction efforts may not be the same. so we have to know a lot more about this. but one thing i would like to make clear. a lot of these folks who lo...

Neither he nor dr. kupperman agreed to appear for testimony as part of this inquiry. and thats the final point here. the president trying to obstruct this impeachment inquiry. its half of this report, its second two of this report. and its half of this report with an exclamation point because the obstruction efforts by the president have affected our ability to actually figure out what happened here. and more broadly than that, its a -- its sort of one size of a crisis in this country. if a pres...

Quote, on september 10th john bolton resigned. his deputy became the acting national security advisor. the committee was unable to determine his departure was related to matters under investigation buzz neither he nor dr. cupperman decided to appear before this inquiry. >> and thats the final point here. its half of this report, its second two of this report. and its half of this report with an exclamation point because the obstruction efforts by the president have affiliated our ability to actu...

Efforts, to not acknowledge their commands to appear, as obstruction efforts as well, eventually. >> michael, of course, it is mick mulvaney who essentially admitted there was a quid pro quo in his damaging white house press conference. i mean, if he did show up to testify, he would surely be in the hot seat. >> he would be in the hot seat. he also might try to cite executive privilege or some reasons not to answer questions, perhaps a lot, and that could become a problem as well. but theres no ...