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Tonight, two American Communities now take their places on the list of cities that will forever be associated with gun violence and the lose of innocent lives as the combined death tolls from el paso and dayton reached 31. The president condemns White Supremacy and spreads the blame along the internet, video games and Mental Illness and says nothing about his own inflammatory rhetoric, words in regular use by white supremacist. As americans look to their lawmakers to do something, millions wondering if this time will be the time for congress to break its pattern. Its modern day tradition of in...

Course of a president ial campaign, and we know that because weve seen it happen before. The 11th hour on a thursday night just getting underway now. Well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 974 of the Trump Administration, once again breaking news tonight centering around that explosive whistle blower complaint from inside administration that has set off this latest battle with congress. The Washington Post has already reported the complaint, which was filed with the Intelligence Community Inspector General involved Donald Trumps private communication...

People i'm talking to are hoping is that this document can perhaps better explain the foundation, how we got here, why this search was not a judicial over reach or rash of abuse of power like trump and allies are portraying but a carefully considered process where the government including cautious chris wray as betsey laid out bent over backwards to give donald trump every opportunity and his allies to turnover these highly classified documents before they took the extraordinary step of getting a search warrant, jose. >> of course, we're standing by for the release of this affidavit any second...

Noon pacific to unseal it. the fbi seized 11 sets of classified documents, some labeled top secret. trump said he's as innocent as a person can be and slammed it as politically motivated. joining us is ken, phil rutter, deputy national editor and msnbc political analyst and former u.s. attorney george vance and betsey swan a national correspondent at politico. ken, how is this going to play out today? do we know what the timeline is right now? >> good morning, jose. we don't have exact information on that. obviously sometime between now and noon. this document will be posted on the federal cou...

>> well, because frankly, the pleadings filed by the news agencies make a compelling point that as a matter of law, there is a strong public interest and doj isn't in the position of being able to ignore the public's interest in information but they are entitled to balance it against their interest in protecting the integrity of an ongoing criminal investigation. it looks like what happened here was that doj behaved very respectfully of the news agency's interest and public's interest in this case and agreed to find a way to balance those interests and release parts of the affidavit. but i wou...