and powerful drugs, we welcome mat yowelcome-- matthew whitake.l 500 people. >> it is stunning, let's remember why operation legend was established for the 4-year-old who was killed while slipping sleep sleeping in his n kansas city in summer was an increase in violent crimes in some major stays, and president and attorney general were not going to stand by and the lows the cities, they surged resources, money, agents with task force officers on address theou this you seeing result of the that cir effort that federal surge of resources will not be a forever solution, we need to get the city and police department to continue p to press the advantage that federal attention is giving them to take the bad actors over the street and the guns away, and fentanyl is a big killer, taking those big doses off of the street as is a win. elizabeth: i like you your reacn labeling to portland, seattle and new york city at anarchist jurisdiction, mayor de blasio pushing back. ior takyour take on this? your reaction. >> you are seeing in these cities deemed anarch

tonight former acting attorney general matthew whitaker will break it down.epublican doug collins from house judiciary as washington braces for that senate republican report. their probe into what could come out possibly this week on the bidens alleged conflicts of interest allegations. white house trade visor peter navarro, president trump, telling the united nations general assembly, hold china accountable for covid-19, beijing fighting back accusing the president of lies and using the u.n. of confrontation. 200,000 dead in the u.s. because of covid-19. tonight former i.c.e. acting director on a major bust after massive human trafficking ring and a drug ring. what they were doing now, what they are doing now to commit their crimes this is a stunning revelation. you will see it tonight. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. elizabeth: president trump says he will announce his supreme court nominee on saturday to fill the late justice ruth bader ginsburg's seat on, this is basically out of respect, the president says for justice gin

elizabeth: matthew whitaker, thanks for joining us. come back soon. >> thank you, liz. always enjoy it. elizabeth: next up, president trump firing back, saying joe biden's brand of d.c. establishment globalism companies hollow out and destroy american communities and take american jobs. we've got that. this story, a niece of al qaeda terrorist, 9/11 mastermind of osama bin laden. she now says only president trump can prevent another 9/11. she adamantly said america is not a racist country. we have house ranking republican house oversight james comer to weigh in on all of that and much more. stay right there. president trump: joe biden, radical socialist democrats would immediately collapse the economy. if they got in, they would crash, you have a crash the likes of which you would never seen before. ♪. elizabeth: welcome back. president trump slammed the d.c. establishment, quote, globalism as destroying american communities by taking away american jobs. this as joe biden told a union event that he will be the strongest labor president that union workers ever had. watch

let's welcome the former acting attorney matthew whitaker with us. it's great to have you back on . >> your thoughts on this. >> i know, americans want their children to be able to play safely the front yards. and they also want to especially outside to dine in this moment of the pandemic. safely without being confronted on the street and joe biden's america, neither one of those appear to be possible in his supporters, clearly have just dropped. this sort of normal americans going about their everyday . and it's concerning and i would expect that candidates on both sides and americans on all sides would condemn this. and this is confrontation is not the american way. we settle things diplomatically. in a civil manner. in this what we are sing across her cities can be not seen. we need law and order. liz: but now we will have it through the election according to the protesters. riots leave scars that last for decades. and investigating the rioters attacking diners as you pointed out and restaurants in cities like pittsburgh and rochester. smashing ta

we have matthew whitaker. your thoughts, sir?d says the leaks are really getting out of control and they're criminal. what do you think? >> liz, first of all, glad to be with you, tonight. what i think john ratcliffe is telling us something very important, and that is, there are members of both the intelligence community and possibly members of congress that are criminal leakers and this is not only un-american but it is really disgusting. these intelligence leaks that really don't allow the federal government to function the way it should. that it is done instead of to improve legislation, improve our republic, it is used to damage individuals politically, especially the president of the united states. so i think, i'm happy to hear that these referrals have been made for investigation and i'm, i hope that we can hold people accountable and prosecute some folks for leaking classified information. elizabeth: democrats nancy pelosi and adam schiff say they are outraged by the pause on the briefings, the individual personal briefing

since barr replaced the unqualified acting attorney general matthew whitaker in 2019, he has done nothingrr will ask which line would you like me to cross today? this is not how the rule of law in a functioning democracy works, and that should terrify every american citizen. joining me now, former u.s. attorney joyce vance. joyce is also an msnbc contributor and university of alabama law professor. i don't even know where to start with all of this. let's start with nora's resignation. she worked with john durham. we are hearing, we will know much more about her until yesterday probably nobody knew her name. but what we want to know is, why did she resign and is there pressure for -- coming from barr to john durham to release this so-called investigation into the russia investigation before the election? >> i think the short answer is that we don't know for certain yet. but nora dannehy, a long-time career law professor of john durham's had left the justice department and came back at his request and got involved in, as you point out, the so-called durham investigation, the investigation i