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Good morning, everyone. Lets get things started with fife things to know for this wednesday, august 16th. There are new developments in Donald Trumps georgia indictment. Overnight we learned the form president is expected to be booked into jail at any point in the next nine i days. And were learning his dms on twitter were of great interest for the Special Counsel. New questions this morning about what caused wildfires on maui that are now blamed for 106 deaths. The Washington Post is report ing...

tonight on three 60, can the president get away with murder? that question in the chilling answer got a court today is the former president makes a case for presidential immunity and raises the specter of criminal impunity. also tonight, the grandmother who bought the election lie, does she still believe it going into her first night of a five year sentence? and later, meet the man who has found a airliners missing door plug in his own back yard. his find could help find experts find o...

ac 360 starts now. tonight on 360, can a president get away with murder? that question and the chilling answer in court today as the former president makes a case for presidential immunity and raises the spector of criminal impunity. also tonight the grandmother that bought the election lie. does she still believe it going into her first night? and the man that found an airliners missing door plug in his own backyard. his find could help investigators find out what severely damag...

continue to slaughter more innocent ukrainians. we dont want to see that. again, well see what these leaders come out with and what they say at the end of these discussions. well watch this very, very closely. again, we have communicated privately to the chinese. we certainly have communicated it publicly that that would not be an outcome thats to the better, not only of china and their interest, but certainly to the ukrainian people and to the whole idea of peace. >> what does it say ...

our thoughts remain with those impacted by hurricane ian. for those who need help, please ask for it. and if you can give help, please, give it. on that note, i wish you all a very good and safe night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late with us. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. >> when hurricane ian came ashore yesterday afternoon and what was one of the stronger storms to ever hit the united states, period, and after a terrifyi...

investigation and possibly chill witness cooperation. jessica schneider is here with the breaking details. what has the judge agreed to release? >> reporter: the judge has already made one crucial decision here. he says that he will unseal some relatively minor filings from the doj and this was something that the doj had said would be fine in their court filing, so the things that will be unsealed. it includes the departments motion to seal the warrant documents, also the courts order ...

Of extraordinary Political Drama on capitol hill, as the republicans tried and failed to put their health ca re tried and failed to put their Health Care Legislation to a vote, early morning, The Big Question was, did they have the support to get the bill across the line . After intense last minute discussions between Speaker Paul Ryan and donald trump, just minutes before the planned vote, the president called the speaker and told them to pull it. A little earlier, donald trump had this to say ...

Going to go from the optics perspective either because instead of it being a big showcase moment of him going to court again, which was a purely political decision, i was told, you didnt see him going into court. instead you saw his attorney getting browbeaten by the judges with these deeply skeptical questions. and then trumps brief comments after the hotel where he continued to repeat his election lies which have been debunct. >> i think we will see a ruling within two weeks w. ve to watch for...

Difficult time for trumps attorneys. and i also think i dont think it went the way the trump thought it was going to go, from the optics perspective either, because instead of being this big showcase moment of him going into court and being able to use, which was a purely political decision, i was told. you didnt see him going into court, and instead you saw his attorney kind of getting brow beat by the judges, with these deeply skeptical questions of their arguments. and in trumps brief comment...

The american people. it needs to be decisive, clear, quick. >> kayleigh: it will be hard not to let it drag on because next year, soon, the u.s. will be in a deep retractor a recession because of everything going on with inflation and federal reserve trying to fight it. so it is from an optics perspective that will look bad appear the reason that these republicans and the americans demanding some answers out of this oversight committee is because the very big media and big tech sensor, these rep...