and the here is scale of the senseless of amount of human misery from deaths to ukraine andhs deaths of russians. none of it happen to happen. very hard to wash. >> it is. great show, chris. >> thanks. >> thank you to you at home for being here with us tonight. do you remember when donald trump and his allies were very, very concerned about the t mishandling of classified information? it was the thing they cared about almost more than anything else. much of trump's presidential campaign was premised on the idea that his opponent could not be trusted because he mishandled classified information. in fact, trump's capaign was so

concerned, they believed hill clinton should go to jail. >> if i win, i am going to instruct my attorney general to get aat special prosecutor to lk into your situation. >> you know, it is just awfully good that someone with the temperament of donald trump is not in charge of the law in our country.r >> because you'd be in jail. >> should hillary clinton be in jail? yes no. you know her. >> if i did what she did, i'd be in jail. >> if i did a tenth of what she did, i'd be in jail today. >> remember the crowds at the republican national convention just thundering over and over again, lock her up! what they were actually saying was lock her up for mishandling

classified information. once donald trump did become president, he did try to put her in jail. on multiple occasions he told officials toe prosecute clinto. he ordered his white house counsel to get a justice department to prosecute her. according to a book from beater baker, trump repeatedly pressured his attorneys general to prosecute clinton, but told donon mcgann if they wouldn't, would prosecute hern' himself. they had to explain, no, they cannot prosecute people. n that's not how any of of this works. donald trump campaigned on it. he tried to do it as president. here we are more than a year and a half after he left office and donald trump is still at it. after his no good very bad day of legal developments yesterday, trump went on shawn hannity's

show to vent about the way he's been mistreated. what hillary clinton was accused of, having classified documents in her possession, whats so bad itss might have been her e-mail the fbi was looking for when they swooped down on his florids beach club last month. that's what he said. >> i pointed out hill kri clinton this mirrors your case and i mentioned, for example, 33,000 e deleted e-mails. we talked about hunter biden's laptop. do we have equal justice. >> it's a very unfair situation. there is also a lot of speculationo because of what ty did to severity of the fbi coming and t raiding mar-a-lago. were they looking for the hillary clinton e-mails deleted but they're around some place? were they looking for the -- >> you said they had it. >> they may be saying -- they may have thought it was in there. the. >> okay. >> a lot of people

y said the onlyle thing that would give the kind ofin severity that they showed actually coming in and raiding withg many, many people is the hillary clinton deal. >> yes, the only thing that would have justified the fbi searching donald trump's home ir not anything that trump did, but something that hillary clinton did. hillary krin clin was never prosecute ford having classified documents because she didn't have any documents marked classified in her possession. but boy, it's clear that donald trump thinks that anyone did something that brazen and awful, like say if someone had stashed 100 highly classified documents in the basement of his beach club, well that, person should definitely get the book thrown

at him. look him up. wait a second. in addition to the head spinning discussion, he also once again threw out the idea the fbi planted evidence when they searched his club. >> today judge raymond deery gave trump's team to eight days to state officially whether the fbi planted any evidence. put up or shut up time for your clients' claims. this comes after last night's ruling from the 11th circuit court of appeals. allowing them access to the documents seized from mar-a-lago, documents trump was trying to keep the justice department from using in its investigation. i think we've been expecting be trump's team to appeal that ruling to the supreme court any minute now. but here's something else to consider on that front. the 11 rnlg circuit ruling was a

rebuke to the trump appointed district judge who had ruled in trump's favor who ruled that justice department couldn't even look at any ofo the documents seized from trump's house. today that district judge amended her order to comply with the 11th circuit's reversal. no longer the doj can't look at those 100 classified documents. one question legal experts are pondering, does that mean there is nothing else for him to appeal to the supreme court?pe is this done? what does the justice department do now? will they have unfeddered access to the classified document thez found atss mar-a-lago? what will their investigation lookl like? after all, donald trump himself has spent years telling us mishandling classified documents is a very, very, very serious crime. joining us now is david rogue. david, great to see you.

so whatse is the justice department doing right now? >> they are -- now they have the 100ow documents they can use, i think law enforcement officials told me they're going to hell out of.he this they want to finally go question tons of people. and law enforcement said they have some sort of leads they want to pursue. one of them, this is not confirmed, not confirmed but they have a lead that possibly trump was showing some of the classified documents to people at mar-a-lago. very reckless handling. >> r and probably -- probably de tails with the criminal investigation. that is not something a former president can do or any person can do, show documents to a random mar-a-lago staff. >> this is a lead they want to pursue. they blocked them from doing that. they were not able to d use any material or knowledge based on thedg 100 classified documents question a witness. well, you know, you were shown a classified document. what did it say?

whatwh country was it about? they want to corroborate is this person telling the truth? the goal is investigate, e, investigate, investigate. my sense is there is no decision yet on indicting trump. there is a will he or won't he e question. i don't know if imis legal lingo. do you think that circumcised their actions in this hour?on >> i don't think. so once they got this you know, this big win, it was a very surprising one from the 11th circuit, i think they already started investigating the case. a positive note here, this was a opinion by, you know, three judges. had they to just demolish and dismiss this claim from trum thap he can, you know, wave his

hand or think that and declassify things. and these are clearly classified documents. they're marked classified. they belong to the u.s. government. end of discussion. so, you know, he could go -- i don't know. it's a strange thing he did removing that, you know, she was supposed to wait. see if they were going to take it to there supreme court. she just immediately amended the order to saymm you can use the 100. >> pos bhi because such a judicial thrashing from the 11th circuit. the other thing they did state that fbi's investigation was es intertwined with the intelligence community's assessment. that is the office of the directore of national intelligence. doing sort of separate in tandee review to see how much this compromises our national security. what do you think is going on that front as the doj now has access to the 100 classified documents? >> i think doing review. they, again, had that part was stopped as well. the order was sort of vague. there was a decision for them to

stop the review. were there human sources compromised during this period that the documents were in donald trump's basement? were there listening devices? they want to see if there is damage as a result of the way he handled the thdocuments. this is all very important. was he showing them to random people. a human source may have been killed. none of this is confirmed. all of that strengthens the prosecution. the you want to tell a jury a story. you want to say it wasn't just that these documents were sitting in a basement, it was they caused real harm. >> right. >> so these are critical things. i want to praise the two trump judges. a term that somebody likes to use is if the judicialry, the judges are the last wall. t many trump judges stood up and jekted the false claims in 2020 of voter fraud. v and judge cannon did the wrong thing. i think issued a series of partisan pro trump rulings. >> i think we were worried this

something were discussed last week. l the trump fiction of the judiciary. we have a please regular buttal to that concept. >> i got to ask you. in that vein, the special master is a judge appointed by ronald reagan. a conservative. he has been checking trump and his claims inmp real time. right? he began this whole special master plo ses by asking questions about declassification. trump lawyers punted on. but now he's asking, he's pressing trump's tloirz say it s. there anything in this traunch of document that's might have beenh planted by the fbi? is there anything that wasn't at mar-a-lago that could have been fromul somewhere else? how meaningful is that deery is able to check the voracity of the claims he is spouting on the

internet? >> it's horrific. it's a trial. are you and i going to be prosecuted andd maybe go to ja? a trial is a fact finding exercise. can you prove this occurred beyond a reasonable doubt? and judge deery is saying you're making the wild claims publicly these were planted, prove it. send me a list that were planted. present that in a motion and then we'll go through this piece by piece. he is a reagan pinted judge. i want to be hopeful. there are good conservative judges.iv and, you know, two on the 11th circuit did the right thing. it's just very important for people to believe there can be sort of public servants in these positions. not everyone has to be so partisan and polarized. >> not even a question of glass half full or empty.lf the only judge who really done jump's bidding is eileen cannon. she did a strange thing today.

so perhaps the judiciary is as strong as we had hoped it would be. >> we'll see. >> we shall see david, thank you for your time. y much more ahead this hour including what is behind this very curious scene front of a federal courthouse today in washington, d.c. these three suit clad men have one big thing in common. they're all lawyers representing donald j. trump. next, mark caputo joins us with revelations about connections to a florida based air charter company that flew migrants from texas to martha's vineyard. stay with us. martha's vineyard stay with us

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this is the website for a private charter flight company called vertol systems. it used to be the website. web design is a little dated. it's got a lot of pictures of big fancy helicopters. under a section titled unique qualifications, they list a unique qualification. vsc is the only civil company currently operating russian helicopters in the united states. good for vsc. i say this is what the website used to look like. if you go to that same website today, you get this. looks like this domain isn't connected to a website yet. thanks to got folks over at the internet archive, the website

for that aviation company appears to have gone dark last friday. that is important. that was right around the time it first game public that vertol systems was the company that got paid by the state of florida to run governor ron desantis' stunt of flying migrants from texas to martha's vineyard. governor desantis' admission is refusing to release the details of a $12 million contract entered into with vertol systems. the daily beast reports that they pawed them more than double the market price to fly migrants from san antonio to martha's vineyard last week. why is this mysterious little flight company getting so much money from florida taxpayers? probably has something to do with the fact that vertol systems has numerous times to republican politicians in the state of florida. vertol systems former lawyer, larry keefe, is now in charge of

immigration policy for the desantis administration. and keefe's former law partner who also represented the company is florida republican congressman matt gaetz. the company again also contributed to richard corchran who played a role in overhauling the civil systems. they gave money to jay trumble jr., the republican chair of the state appropriations committee. a committee that helps secure money tore desantis' migrant stunt. he wanted this political play to keep him in the national spotlight. he might not have anticipated how much that spotlight would also shine a light on i had republican friends and donors and cronies. joining us now is mark ka

caputo. mark, always good to see you. thank you for this reporting. let me first just start as our man in florida. how is all of this playing for ron desantis? he's up for re-election as a governor. there is a large immigrant population in florida. venezuelans, cubans, many migrants that at one point might have sought asylum for political reasons. is this working for him? >> i don't know that answer. we're in a polarized society. we're in a polarized state. i would like to see more polling about it. but when you talk to republicans, they think ron desantis is doing a great job. democrats think he's doing a terrible job. independents are focusing on other things. this depends on how this is messaged and handled going forward and what the facts are when they go out or when they come out. as you pointed out, we asked for the contract. everybody asked for the contract. we have a good generous public records law in florida.

it hasn't been honored by the desantis administration. so there has been an odd level of stonewalling by desantis administration. the more this is talked about in desantis world, the more they think they're winning on it. maybe they're right, maybe they're wrong. he is sitting on a huge pile of money. and if you look at the polling, immigration generally favors republicans when it comes to public opinion. so as i he said, too early now to really tell. we are in it a polarized state, a polarized society. i wait to see on prognosticating the facts. >> well, i will say, you know, desantis acrowing about this on fox news. republicans everywhere are saying this is a great move by him. but the fact is, you know, let's start with the facts. vertol systems took the website down. is that indicative of anything? are they forthcoming with information? >> oh, gosh no.

as i wrote today. they got $1.6 million for two flights. one of which didn't happen. we have no idea really what happened to that money outside of the fact that roughly 50 migrants were flown over from san antonio, texas to martha's vineyard. the state program that this was authorized under said it was for unauthorized aliens from this state. but they didn't get them from this state. they got them from texas. that's not what the law says. that's not what the budget says that authorized this. in addition, these migrants were not unauthorized aliens when you talk to their lawyers. they said these were asylum seeking migrants mostly if not all venezuelan. therefore, they were authorized to be in the united states. so a program for unauthorized aliens to be removed from florida wound up enrich something company based out in the panhandle of air charter company to remove authorized aliens from texas.

take them to martha's vineyard. we're not getting a lot of answers in the way of, you know, understanding what happened. >> not only are they flying migrants in the wrong sort of immigration category out of the wrong state, they're also doing it at i believe double the market rate, right? that's another point. that's the daily beast is reporting that this -- the flight to massachusetts was literally double the rate for charter flights. then, of course, there is a flight to delaware which gets scuttled. they were paid a million dollars that was empty. >> we don't know. the problem is we don't exactly know what they're doing with the money. understand, to the best of our ability in having read other media accounts, listen to what migrants are told other reporters and what the lawyers have told me and what some abc agents discussed, the state of

florida didn't pay a company to pick up a crew of people and fly them. it wasn't like they were just at the airport. these people recruited by different vendors and agents of the state. they were given food. these are fast food vouchers from mcdonald's in san antonio. they were put up for a night, these 54 so folks in the la quinta inn. there was transportation provided to the airport and ultimately air travel that was provided from san antonio ultimately to martha's vineyard. exactly what was paid on the air fair from the air charter company that this air charter company chartered, we don't know. but this is something we should know. one way to find that out is look at the contract. have someone answer basic questions. that's not happening yet. you step back, you look like okay. well, who are the different bhoem have been affiliated with this program in larry keefe is dubbed by the "tallahassee democrat" as the public safety

czar. his portfolio, as you mention, is over immigration. he was the lawyer for this company. we would like to know, did he recommend this company? and what was his relationship with this company when under discussion? again, no answers. >> there are a number of republican ties to this plot that make you think it's just slightly political. mark caputo, national reporter for nbc news digital, thank you for your reporting. >> thank you. coming up, three high powered attorneys, you can see them right here, they emerged from a d.c. federal courthouse today. they all represent former donald trump. so why were they there? but next, u.s. ambassador to the u.n. linda thomas greenfield joins me in studio to discuss historic protests for women's rights and much more. s for wome rights and much more

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these are scenes from inside iran the past few days. people out on the streets of the capital city clapping, oppression against women. in the northern city, women throwing head scarfs into a bonfire outside of city hall. hundreds of miles to the south a woman in the city square, her

head uncovered in a crowd cheering her on as someone helps her cut off her ponytail. demonstrations and demonstrators clash with police in the street. protests like these are spreading throughout iran for seventh day despite a crackdown by security force that's have killed at least nine people and injured dozens more. they're experiencing near total internet blackout and apps that demonstrators use to organize protests have widespread outages. the protests were sparked by the death of a 22-year-old woman. she died last week in the custody of u ran's morality police. they enforced iran's ultra conservative dress code. detained for having some hair visible under her head scarf. police say she was taun to a station for justification and education. fi hours hater, her family was told she was hospitalized and in

a coma after suffering a heart attack or a stroke. three days later, she died. she was beat bin police on the way to the station. they deny any abuse. and they want the judiciary for prosecute people for spreading fake news. they show her in the police officer talking to an officer who points toward her clothe brg she collapses. iran's president who addressed the u.n. general assembly this week ordered an investigation into her death as has the country's judiciary. the there is distrust to figure out what happened to the woman. the u.n.'s acting human rights chief is calling for an impartial investigation and today the u.s. treasury sanctioned iran's morality police and senior security officials condemning them for abuse and violence against iranian women and the violation of the rights of peaceful

protesters. joining me to talk about the situation in iran and more is linda thomas greenfield. madam ambassador, thank you for joining us. let's start first with the sanctions that were announced today. there are so many sanctions on iran. what is the goal here in terms of really moving the needle and supporting these protesters? >> first and foremost, it is the whole accountable those individuals in iran responsible for committing human rights violations. and this is truly a horrific violation. the killing of this woman, the blocking of individuals from their ability to protest in the streets. every iranian should have the right to protest and every woman in iran should have the right to wear what she wants to wear without having to justify themselves to these morality police. >> for people who don't follow

iran closely, i think it bears mentioning protests like this do not happen often in this country. the last time we saw something like this, widespread protests, whats in 2009, 13 years ago. are these meaningful or indicative of a population and maybe something more, greater down the line? >> absolutely. people are frustrated. they are angry. their ability to be themselves that has been suppressed by this government and by the morality police. so this is significant that this is happening at this time. >> it is time of protests around the world. there are large scale protests. you're in town for the u.n. general assembly. you announced, i think, before you -- before the general assembly even started, you said

there are no plans at this time to have meetings with the russians. the they have not indicated that they have an interest in diplomacy. can you explain the strategy there a little bit? >> first and foremost, the russians need to understand this is not going to be buzz as usual for them. they have attacked their neighbor. they have attacked the core, soul of u.n. charter. they tacked all of our values. so we don't want to treat them, they're not a permanent member of the security council, they're not behaving with the responsibility that we would expect of a permanent member of the security council. so we, until they can show and until they would withdraw troops from ukraine, they don't deserve to have any recognition that things are normal. >> is there talk on the security council of taking any punitive measures against the russians? >> we have already.

they have been roundly condemned. that condemnation continues. we are stronger than we ever were before in terms of the european union, nato, all of this was not part of putin's plan. i think he thought that we would start to fray around the edges very, very quickly. and we're much stronger as an alliance now than we ever were. and that alliance has really imposed strong sanctions on the russians. they're feeling the sanctions. >> i wonder because you're all in this con clove this week, have you talked to your indian or chinese counterparts about this? in recent weeks, prime minister modi and xi have been critical of russia. are you following up on any of the criticisms at the united nations? >> it just happened last week that both china and india, their presidents expressed their

strong concerns to the russians. they were in the council for the first time today. i thought that their statements to day were very measured. they were not in any way pro russia. so again, this is -- >> that's as good as being almost anti-russia? the fact that they're not pro russia. the. >> they did not condemn russia in the same way that other members of the council did. but they certainly expressed their concerns about the consequences of this unprovoked war. >> when we talk about that unprovoked war, how do you think of what putin is doing? we talk about needless, senseless depth, russian and ukrainian. there are people comparing i think the international criminal court prosecutor, he spoke to the security council today. he said that echos of hitler

were heard today. >> we should look what the he's doing the same way. we saw the beginnings of what hitler was doing. he has built a strategy around destroying a country, destroying a people. human rights violations have been committed. sexual violence against women. people have been tortured. we have seen signs that war crimes are being committed. and we're working with the ukrainians, with the international court of justice, the icc to collect evidence so that when the time comes to hold these -- those who committed these crimes accountable, we have the evidence and we're ready. >> so you're hearing the echos of hitler too? >> we're hearing the echos of gross human rights violations, torture, same kinds of things that we heard previously.

>> linda thomas greenfield, u.s. ambassador to the united nations, what a time to be could be veening a world body. thank you so much for your time and service. thank you for joining me on set. >> thank you. much more ahead this hour including possible reasons why three lawyers that represent former president trump were spotted walking out of a courthouse earlier today. t of a courthouse earlier today

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next wednesday the january 6 committee is set to hold the first public hearing in 2 1/2 months. we do not know what the topic of the hearing is yet or if there will be any witnesses, there is an interesting development in terms of closed door interviews. conservative activist ginni thomas, wife of clarence thomas, agreed to meet voluntarily with the committee for a closed door interview. i am sure the committee will have a lot to ask her about. ginni thomas reportedly exchanged text messages with trump chief of staff mark meadows shortly after the election urging him to help overturn the results. according to cnn, after the election was called for biden, thomas wrote the former chief of staff, "help this great president stand firm, mark. the majority knows biden and the left is attempting the greatest heist of our history." thomas also reportedly e-mailed an aide in indiana saying she wouldn't support his republican study committee group until she saw us members "out in the

streets." thomas also e-mailed 29 arizona state lawmakers urging them to overturn the election results, e-mailing to say they had the, quote, power to fight back against fraud and ensure a clean slate of electors is chosen. for the record, they were fraudulent impersonators. if that all wasn't enough, thomas tried the very same ploy with wisconsin state lawmakers. her outreach extended to trump lawyer john eastman who supported the pressure campaign on vice president mike pence. and after all the behind the scenes maneuvering and cajoling, ginni thomas, the wife of a sitting supreme court justice attended the rally. like i said, there will be a lot to talk to ginni thomas about. meanwhile in, a separate investigation into january 6, this one courtesy of the department of justice, something curious happened today outside the d.c. federal courthouse.

eagle eyed nbc reporters saw three trump lourz leaving the white house around the same time as the lead january 6 prosecutor. now we do not know why trump's lawyers were there. but jackie allamany reports tonight they were there present in their capacity representing trump regarding the january 6 investigation. joining us now is ryan goodman, former special counsel at the department of defense, co-editor and chief of just security and law professor at nyu. great to see you, professor. first of all, ginni thomas willingly going to meet with the january 6th committee. you are surprised? are you shocked? >> i'm totally shocked. >> you're totally shocked is my totally different. tell me why. >> she signed a letter that actually said that the two republican members of the committee should be thrown out of the republican caucus because she thought the committee was so

corrupt in her views. so so combative, allergic to this committee saying some really testy words about the committee. one would think she wouldn't come forward voluntarily. she seems to have made that choice. the. >> do you think there is a legal incentive, she would rather go willingly than be subpoenaed? >> i think so. on the other hand, she can fight a subpoena. time is on her side with respect to the midterms. the committee does the final report and then 30 days to sew up business. it doesn't explain they should have that legal jeopardy hanging over her. maybe it is the legal embarrassment of a subpoena from congress that could be combined with contempt. that's a stay. >> it is almost a bed on the mid terms too. if the democrats keep the house, the january 6th interest continues. a contempt of congress citation could base he cannily -- steve bannon, that could be her fate.

if the republicans take the house, then, of course, it's a different story entirely. but she's got to figure out who she thinks is going to have the upper hand after the election. >> that's right. >> let me ask you, in terms of the trump lawyers at the courthouse, i know this is all a guessing game to some degree, do you believe -- what do you think this could be related to? is it trump? it is executive privilege? where do we see the meeting of this minds? >> so if you think of everybody who's kind of in the cross hairs of the justice department, the most recent reporting from "the new york times" is that eric hershman who gave fantastic testimony to the january 6 committee in terms of credible testimony, very compelling, "the new york times" says that trump's lawyers were trying to block him asserting executive privilege because he is being handed a grand jury subpoena from the d.c. court. there they are. two of the people that are mentioned in "the new york times" report walking out of that courtroom are the ones that were with hershman trying to

block him. "the new york times" report says he said to them, if you get a court order to block me, then they wouldn't testify. then there is this tanned liesing end to "the new york times" story. his testimony has been delayed. i think that's the most likely that we're in the realm of speculation. >> how do you like the privilege claims on this? >> i think it's pretty clear that they'd be dead in the water in the d.c. circuit. there is a d.c. circuit court of appeals decision that is so squarely on point and it says can you not assert executive privilege when you have a grand jury calling for your testimony. in fact, in that case, it was an incumbent deputy white house counsel. more so there would have been interests on the side of executive privilege for the incumbent white house counsel. here we have a former white house lawyer and the incumbent president has waived executive privilege for the january 6 inquiry. of so it's really remarkable. it's almost like they're setting themselves up for another embarrassing loss that this is

what they're trying to do. >> we know from the january 6 committee hearings that eric hershman has a lot of inside information around the plotting of january 6, attempt to overreturn the results. >> yeah. i think it's delay, delay. he also seems to get that. the times reporting is that he says to them, you are not going to put me between yourselves and the justice department. and he's obviously cooperated with the january 6 committee. he has bombshell testimony that could be a star witness, let's put it that way, if there is a indictment coming out of the justice department. >> if we're talking about star witnesses, the big question i think is vice president pence, right? and i think we all understand how farfetched that seemed. but the fact that ginni thomas is now willingly testifying in front of the committee, do you think there is a chance that vice president pence he could operates with the committee? i believe that pete aguilar, one of the committee members said today, there is new information we received since our hearings that is helpful to our investigation it would make the

most sense for the former vice president to come speak with us and we're still hopeful that that can happen. >> a certain sense i thought i'd live to see the day she was there. i shouldn't discount he would. pence may have given the green light to his people around him to cooperate with the committee. >> mark short, greg jacob. so at a certain point can you imagine he would also see his duty in coming before this committee that has established the reputation and credibility in a way that i think would be afeeling him. and it's a safe space in a certain sense for the people that have come forward to tell their truths. >> i will say, there was -- in an unrelated testimony secret service special agent elizabeth glavy, one of the top secret service acts on the vice president's detail, was asked today whether in her 13 years of service she had ever had a protectee in this case the vice

president, come as close to danger as mike pence did on january 6th and her response was no. that seems meaningful f you're mike pence and you hear your service detail saying that about the hazard, the danger you were in, i just wonder if that moves the needle in terms of his decision making. also, legally, what does that do to the case that is being built by the doj as far as the actions of certain individuals on january 6? >> it dove tails with his chief of staff's testimony. that also said that he had anticipated there might be serious threats against the vice president's life because trump would turn against had him on january 6. so if that is the ok, at least in terms of the criminal case that could be mounted against trump, one of the clearest cases is the pressure campaign on pence. if he knew that pressure campaign on pence was included in that, use of violence, threat, implicit threat of violence and within pence's authority to do anything but

count the votes, then i think that's one of the lowest hanging fruits for the justice department and then to have people like this come forward, i think that also puts something in the mind of mike pence. he has to think, look, these are the people around me who protected me, who served me. they've come forward. they've told the truth to the american public. and this is also venue for me to do the same. >> we will see. you never know. ryan goodman, former special counsel at the department of defense and co-editor of chief of just security. thank you. >> up next, a mega aligned republican running for a house seat appears to have lied and now he is paying a political price. no, really. that is actually happening. stay with us. really that is actually happening stay with us

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strong like the country that i fought for. >> that was an ad for j.r.mijuski trying to unseat marsy captor. a pillar of the campaign self promotion as a combat veteran. he served a tough combat tour in afghanistan. there is just one problem. the air force has no record of it. yesterday the ap got ahold of his military records which indicate that he never deployed to afghanistan. his actual military receives appears to be a six month stint thoepg load planes at an air base in qatar, a long time u.s. ally, very far from what people call a tough combat tour. now both the political report and "politico" rated this as a tossup. republicans thought they could win it and putting full weight behind majewski until today. the committee canceled all of its ad buys for j.r. majewski.

i'm not sure if lying about your military service is a red line for the republican paerd or just a hurdle he won't be able to overcome. this very good news for the democrat and democrats in the house overall. that does it for us tonight. will we'll see you again tomorrow. wait is coming up next. >> ahead on "way too early," a show your cards moment is coming for trump's legal team. special master in the mar-a-lago documents case sets a deadline for them to back up serious allegations by the former president. plus, a high profile u.s. senator makes another bold claim about putin. why he thinks the russian president's days are numbered. meanwhile, russia's foreign minister makes a notable entrance and exit as diplomats from around the world condemn his country's actions in ukraine. we'll have more from the meeting from the u.n. security council.