instigators of the january 6th attack. for members of the proud boys, including their former leader found guilty of seditious conspiracy. what today s verdict could mean for the investigations into donald trump. then, new ethics questions about supreme court justice, clarence thomas. and a billionaire donor. and, with just one week until title 42 expires, a look at the humanitarian crisis at the southern border as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. i m symone sanders-townsend in four stephanie ruhle. tonight, there s brand-new reporting that special counsel jack smith is ramping up efforts to find out former president trump hid classified documents. the new york times writes, prosecutors have, quote, obtained the confidential cooperation of a person who has worked for trump at mar-a-lago. the report continues, quote, the existence of an insider witness, whose identity has not been disclosed could be a significant step in the investigation. this news comes jus
donald trump. then, new ethics questions about supreme court justice, clarence thomas. and a billionaire donor. and, with just one week until title 42 inspires, a look at the humanitarian crisis at the southern border as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. i m simone in for stephanie ruhle. tonight, this brand-new reporting that special counsel, jack smith, is ramping up efforts to find out former president trump hid classified documents. the new york times writes, prosecutors have, quote, obtained the confidential cooperation of a person who has worked for trump at mar-a-lago. the report continues, quote, the existence of an insider witness, whose identity has not been disclosed could be a significant step in the investigation. this news comes just hours after the justice department scored a critical win in its prosecution of the january 6th attack. today, for members of the proud boys, including the group s leader enrique tarrio were convicted of seditious
you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin this hour in ukraine. new worries, one year into the war that russia could soon receive support that could be a game changer. the source of the concern is china and the possibility of beijing providing lethal aid to russia. now, the white house has called this a red line and the cia doesn t believe a final decision has been made by beijing, but it s worrisome, nonetheless. and, you know, beijing will have to make its own decisions about how it proceeds, whether it provides military assistance, but if it goes down that road, it will come at real cost to china and i think china s leaders are weighing that, as they make their decisions. but first, let s go to cnn s alex marquardt, who is in ukraine with the latest on the fighting there. jim, some of the heaviest fighting, some of the worst casualty rates on both sides is now taking place around the eastern city of bakhmut. russian forces from the gro
sunday. i m fredicka whitfield. an updated classified intel report saying the u.s. department of energy has assess thad the source of the covid-19 pandemic likely came from a china lab leak, but there is one major caveat. sources at the department of energy tell cnn that the report has, quote, low confidence. cnn s natasha bertrand has been reporting on all of this and joins us on the phone. various intel agencies have been split on this issue for years now. this is from the department of energy, low confidence. what does all this mean? reporter: this is essentially another data point. the intel community has been examining this really closely for the last two years, ever since president biden tasked them with investigating the origins of the covid-19 pandemic shortly after he first got into of office. back in 2021 the intel agencies, roughly 58 of them, couldn t come to a decision about where it came from. what we re seeing is the department of energy has collected some ne
investigation. among them, senator lindsey graham why didn t the d.a. pursue them? how graham is reacting. and just in, the judge s ruling on mark meadows request to move his case to federal court. just breaking, the significant drop in the number of missing after the maui fires the race to rescue an american trapped more than 3,000 feet down a cave. why the mission could take days. and chaos at the u.s. open. protesters disrupting play one gluing his feet down the charges they face as coco gauff advances to her first u.s. open final. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening if you live along the east coast, you may already have an eye open for that monster hurricane lee. its explosive growth from a category 1 to a major category 5 hurricane in just 12 hours yesterday has forecasters in awe now, back down to a category 4, lee is the most powerful storm so far in the atlantic hurricane season at one point driving wind gusts of 165 miles