toward a civil war. president biden, meanwhile, is expected to address the threat of political violence head on as he hits the road today. the white house says the president will call out the far right for its dangerous rhetoric and challenge the republican claim that it is the party of law and order. we re also following major developments out of ukraine, where officials in kyiv say russian forces are in retreat as ukraine launches a counteroffensive in the south. president zelenskyy says, quote, we will chase them to the border. major news out of ukraine. we ll get to that in a moment. boy, it really is something. and you look at the poll numbers. first of all, fascinating it is joe biden s poll numbers that go up, willie, as democrats seem to be doing far better in the midterm elections than expected. the same group of people, donald trump, lindsey graham, those type of people, who challenged the 2020 election, or with lindsey, went back and forth, back and forth, th
the biggest nuclear power plant. a pair of u.s. senators who landed, what they re telling our team in ukraine about the surprise visit. we have all of that coming up. i m 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 appoint a special master which is what the department of justice wants. will the filing give us new clues about the investigation itself, things we did not know more broadly? will the doj challenge the judge s jurisdiction here, the one who said, she said this weekend, judge cannon, she was inclined to go ahead and appoint the special master which raised eyebrows in the legal world. to you on this. the investigation itself we could see bread crumbs. the justice department has chosen to spea
referendum on the current one? we must change direction before its too late. plus, more details about the classified documents donald trump was hoarding in his florida home. these documents belong to the american people. it s not a good picture for trump. as the mar-a-lago search and its aftermath dimmed trump s 2024 odds. in a race for the senate, can democrats really pull off an upset in a state trump won by eight points. this is about getting back to common sense, about getting back to building the economy, making th things. inside politics, the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters now. welcome to inside politics sunday. i m manu raju in for abby phillip. it s labor day in the united states, the unofficial start to the final sprint to election day. in 65 days americans will head to the polls to decide control of congress. president biden wants it to be seen as a choice between democracy and donald trump. there s no question that the republica
makes it all the more concerning when you look at how many of trump s pardons carried the stink of political patronage and best in corrupt self-interest at worst. according to pew research center over the course of his four years in office trump only granted 237 acts of clemency. that s the third lowest number of pardons for any president in history. only the two president bush is pardoned fewer people. it would seem that trump was extremely selective about who he pardoned. still some of his pardons were widely praised. like alice johnson in 2020 who was serving life in prison for a nonviolent drug conviction. he posthumously pardoned the historical figure season being anthony, arrested for voting illegally. in 1870 to inject johnson the first black heavyweight boxing champ who is subject to a racist conviction in 1913 for transporting a white woman across state lines. but he also pardoned a robes gallery of political figures including many of his own associates. some of whom
sorry, sparky. i m jonathan capehart, this is the sunday show. this sunday, president biden on offense. in a fiery speech outside independence hall on thursday, he warns that americans democracy is at risk from trump loyalist who he calls maga republicans. in that same, speech the president has talked about the progress that biden has made on key issues intended to move the nation forward. all around, thursday the cdc recommended new booster to fight the highly contagious omicron subvariant. the next day the economy got a boost with another solid month of job creation. but as the residents of jackson mississippi will attached, not everything is going well. they are now in their seventh straight day without clean water. here to discuss all of this and more, karine jean-pierre, white house press secretary. karine, welcome back to the sunday show. thank you so much, jonathan, thanks for having me. let s start with, jackson mississippi. president biden signed an emergency dec