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now. thanks, chris. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. we start with breaking news out of "the new york times." special counsel jack smith has interviewed donald trumps son-in-law and former top white house aide jared kushner. "the times" reports in an interview last month the special counsel focused on whether trump had privately acknowledged that he had lost the 2020 election. in other words, when trump claimed the election was rigged, did he know he was lying? did...

january 6th select committee officially issuing a subpoena to donald trump. when exactly they want to sit down with the former president, and whats next and what could be a potentially long and historic legal battle. plus, president biden set to speak any minute now. the focus, the student debt relief program. with election day less than three weeks away, how its moving forward, after surviving two legal challenges. >> and while were talking midterms, senator raphael warnock, no more...

remaining undecided voters to decide. theres a lot of them out there. with every day comes a new batch of headlines that can help or hurt. today, it is the economy. the job numbers are still strong, gas prices, inflation, and a declining stock market have a lot of folks feeling like this country is going in the wrong direction. and the numbers show that they are blaming the party in power. these are new polling numbers from "the new york times" and sienna college. republicans are winni...

were back to president biden giving an update on the student loan forgiveness program. he will be speaking at that podium right there. well go there when he begins. first, candidates in some of the most crucial races of these midterms are starting to debate in a few hours. in georgia, brian kemp squares off with his democrat opponent stacey abrams for the first time in the gubernatorial rematch and what they will be telling voters. what will happen there in the first big election cycle...

the biggest nuclear power plant. a pair of u.s. senators who landed, what theyre telling our team in ukraine about the surprise visit. we have all of that coming up. im hallie jackson in washington. i want to start with nbc news justice reporter ryan riley and former prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst carole lamm. ryan, i want to come to you with some of the questions hanging over this filing, some of the key questions our team has identified. is it going to convince a judge not to...

We propose to the committee advancing referrals where the gravity of the specific offense, the severity of its actual harm, and the centrality of the offender, to the overall design of the unlawful scheme to overthrow the election, compel us to speak. ours is not a system of justice where foot soldiers go to jail and the masterminds and ring leaders get a free pass. mr. chairman, as you know, our committee had the opportunity last spring to present much of our evidence to a federal judge. someth...

A 32 point swing, last month favoring democrats by 14 points and this month favoring republicans by 18 points. dave, whats going on? >> yeah, i am going to hold up a yellow flag here, because to read in a 32-point swing in a month, among a sub-set of voters in a poll that has 792 total respondents, to me that is not believable that we have seen a shift in that cohort with that statistical noise. but have we seen on the aggregate some snap-back toward republicans in the last few week, as weve gro...

Will take away from what is expected to be a 40-page filing instead of a 20-page filing given that judge has already in some ways showed her hand a bit as to where she feels she might want to end up going as it relates to the special master? >> yes. the judge did indicate tentatively she was inclined to appoint a special master, but, of course, that was before she knew that the department of justice had already concluded its taint review process and often those processes take a long time, but fo...

This is why. in the execution of a search warrant, the agents are limited to reviewing and perhaps taking just what happens to be there in the moment, right. i mean, these documents just happen to be lying around when the agents went in and what they were really looking for were these highly confidential and/or classified documents. they were not necessarily looking for attorney-client privilege documents. if they ended up taking them and they had run them through their taint review process, whi...

Markay, axios reporter, joining us now. in your new reporting, you detail key names who helped convince former president trump that jd vance was indeed worth endorsing. tell us about this. who are they? >> yes, donald trump jr. was perhaps the biggest one. hes really been pushing vance privately for a while. long before the endorsement actually came. tucker carlson was a huge backer. and of course, the most popular cable host on tv right now. and just immensely popular with a pretty influential ...