david brooks and jonathan capehart consider the week's political news. ukrainian artists who cannot return home form a new community in the u.s. plus, much more. >> this is the pbs newshour from weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. judy: in a grand ceremony at the kremlin today, russian president m putin signed papers to formally but illegally annex four regions in ukraine, an area the size of ohio, after what the west calls sham referendums. the u.s. and allies responded with tougher sanctions and reiterat their support for ukraine. that all happened athe same time as one of russia's deadliest strikes on civilians. ck schifrin begins our coverage. nick: today's reality, the body of the ukrainian civilians killed by a russian rocket. today's alternate reality, the red square celebration of conquest. a euphoric concert marking russian annexation. reality, ukrainian soldiers re-seizing their own territory from russian occupiers. alternate reality, a handpicked audience cheers

jonathan capehart and michael gerson weigh in on the latest political headlines...re. >> this is "the pbs newshour" from weta studios in washington, and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. judy: today the united nations' nuclear watchdog made its strongest warning yet, of the possibility of a nuclear accidentt zaporizhzhia in ukraine. rafael grossi said a lack of external power, and staff access to the plant, make this moment critical. mr. grossi: let me be clear, the shelling around zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant must stop and a nuclear safety and security protection zone agreed immediately. a nuclear power plant can never be a pawn of war. its fate must not be decided by military means. the consequences of such action are far too grave. judy: russia occupied zaporizhzhya six months ago. this week, nick schifrin and his team traveled to the nearby village of nikopol and discovered russia has made the nuclear plant a combat zone. nick: from behind a nuclear shield, russia strikes nikopol's civilian targets. includ

jonathan capehart and michael garrison weigh in on the latest political headlines. >> this is the pbs newshour, from w eta studios in washington, and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. julie: the united nations nuclear watchdog made its strongest warning yet of the possibility of a nuclear accident in ukraine. raphael grossi said a lack of external power and staff access to the plant make this moment critical. >> let me be clear, the shelling around the nuclear power plant must stop. and a nuclear safety and security protection zone agreed immediately. a nuclear power plant can never be a pawn of war. its fate must not be decided by military means. the consequences of such action are far too great. julie: russia occupied zaporizhzhia six month ago. our correspondent traveled to a nearby village and discovered russia made the nuclear pan -- nuclear power plant a combat zone. >> from behind a nuclear shield, russia strikes civilian targets. including what used to be her apartment. she and her son stand in the spot a

tim miller, jonathan capehart, great to have you here. when we come back, with the leader of the oath keepers about to stand trial, his former spokesperson is here to update his warning to january 6th committee, about the very possibility of a very civil war. that's when the 11th hour continues. continues. your projects done right . with angi, you can connect with and see ratings and reviews. and when you book and pay throug you're covered by our happiness check out angi.com today. angi... and done. your shipping manager left to “find themself.” leaving you lost. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you do. indeed instant match instantly delivers quality candidates matching your job description. visit indeed.com/hire ♪♪ you see that? that's the moment i realized i'm ready to open my own restaurant. ♪♪ start your financial plan today. ♪♪ i think we saw a glimpse of what the vision of the oath keepers is on january 6th. it doesn't necessarily include the rule of law. >> the former spokesperson for the oath keepers delivered that testimon

david brooks and jonathan capehart, thank you both.judy. ♪ judy: if all goes as planned, nasa will launch a rocket tomorrow afternoon that is the start of a longer mission to get back to the moon. the first phase of the artemis moon mission will send an unmanned capsule to lunar orbit and back. but nasa wants humans to land again on the moon in 2024 or 2025 and has far grander designs for destinations after that. our science correspondent miles o'brien tells us it has taken a long time and a lot of money to get the artemis mission off the ground. miles: a countdown to yet another delay. years late and billions over budget, nasa's most powerful rocket ever is still on the pad in florida after bad weather and a host of technical issues scuttled a lunch attempt monday. the space launch system will be carrying an orion spacecraft on an un-crewed test flight to orbit the moon. it is the artemis i mission, the first foray to an encore campaign to send humans back to the lunar surface. this time the agency is promising more than flags and foo

jonathan capehart and michael gershon weigh in on the life and legacy of queen elizabeth ii

jonathan capehart and michael geon wei in on the life and legacy of queen elizabeth ii and what new pollingoming midterms.

good evening, i am jonathan capehart in for 70 rule. tonight, a newly unsealed in the tory reveals the most details yet about what the fbi seized during its search of former president trump's florida home last month days at the the justice department revealed that federal agents who achieved more than 100 classified documents at mar-a-lago. a federal judge released an itemized list with new information about what those documents were and where they were found. nbc's kelly o'donnell has more. >> 48 folders are classified markings inside the presidents office and storage area were empty when the fbi searched. another 42 empty folders indicated that the contents had to be returned to a military eight. where are the government secrets that might have been inside, unknown. the fbi did seize 103 classified records up to top secret level found inside the office and storage room. the inventory notes the highly restricted documents had been mixed in with ordinary things magazines, gifts and clothing. for the first time, the department of justice

david brooks and jonathan capehart analyze the state and federal response to hurricane ian and recent by right-wing political parties across europe. all that and more on tonight's "pbs newshour."

david brooks and jonathan capehart weigh in on president biden's message and the rest of the week's news tonight's "pbs newshour."

. >> joining me now is the host of the sunday so jonathan capehart. sing my's friend. michael steele the nice cabin for you including wearing the square. he hardly puts a tie on. he put a tie on and he wore a pocket square. he said you get a keep up key part standards and i agree. >> i'm glad he did because he knows what to happen otherwise. you know ali i can't wait to go to the jackie robinson museum because we all know him as a baseball player but as that report shows he was much more than that. he was a pivotal figure in this country moving to where in need to be in terms of racial equity and justice. but ali, we got a lot as usual on tap for the sunday show. including a sunday show exclusive with white house press secretary kareen jean pierre. rachel is on me to talk about a number of issues including the water crisis in jackson mississippi. and president biden's message to the nation about mega republicans. plus students in uvalde texas had back to school on tuesday just three months after the massacre at robb elementary love 19 students and two

i'm jonathan capehart, here in new york, with chris chances, and london. welcome back to live coverage, of the royal transition, as king charles the third, takes the throne in the wake of the death of his mother, that was queen elizabeth the second, speaking at the white house in 1976, for the bicentennial celebration of the united states. just moments ago, her coffin arrived at the royal palace in edinburgh scotland. over the next few days, the coffin will travel to london, where the queen's funeral will be held on monday, september 19th. >> this will be a major international gathering, president biden will be among the world leaders who will attend the funeral, it is a sign of the special relationship between the u.s. and britain, during queen elizabeth 70-year reign. >> never was that more on display, and 21 years ago today -- kills 2977 people. she broke center -- to play the american national anthem, during the changing of the guard, i buckingham palace. -- historian and author of presidents of war, michael, thank you for coming to the sunday show, ch

and please be sure to tune into the sunday show with jonathan capehart. that is me!unday morning, 10 am eastern, right here on msnbc! and on that note, i wish you a very good night! and from all of us and our colleagues across the networks on nbc news. thank you for staying up late i'll see you sunday morning! have a great weekend! a great labor day weekend! >> i see her laying there on the floor. and i see a person i've never seen before in my house. and i'm looking at him and he tells me i'm next while he's reaching for a butcher knife. terrified. >> i just walked in and i saw blood everywhere. it was her mom who found her. >> her daughter's laying there. a young girl coming home from lunch getting brutally attacked. >> blood on the floor. a shovel. duct tape. a knife. >> i rushed home. i truly thought brittani would die. >> somehow she battled back. a fight to live. >> it was a struggle. it was a huge struggle.

>> let's discuss, with per load surprise winning journalist jonathan capehart, associate editor for thepost, you know him here as anchor of the sunday show on msnbc. and tim miller, contributor to the bulwark, and former communications director for jeb bush, author the new book why we did it. mr. capehart, a natural disaster like a hurricane, could have desantis asking joe biden's white house for help. how is that going to go? >> well, we shall see. the last florida governor i remember, republican governor i remember asking a democratic president for help, and also giving that democratic president a hug, ended up being run out of the party, and i'm talking about democratic congressman and candidate for governor, charlie crist. so, the pickle the governor dave desantis is in, is he's playing around with the lives of human beings, with migrants, in defiance of human decency, and the administration, but that is going to ask that same administration for help, when the citizens of florida get hit by a hurricane ian. governor desantis, we now know, has no shame. so i don't think it will bothe

let's get scared, and bring it pulitzer prize-winning journalist our friend jonathan capehart, associateof the washington post. and of course anchor of the sunday show right here on emerson nbc. and stuart stevens joins us to, a veteran of the mitt romney and george w. bush campaigns. he is now with the lincoln project. guys, let's get scared. what is at stake with election deniers on the ballot in key states, arizona, pennsylvania, michigan. jonathan, i turn to you first, right? the whole thought was, let's get these far right crazies on the ballot, they will be easy to beat, is that a good idea? >> you know, well, we will find out for sure, stephanie, in november. but i have been concerned that things have been so volatile in american politics for quite a while now that this is a gamble that i hope democrats win because if some of these election deniers get elected to some of these key places, democrats will rue the day that they gambled with democracy this way. the key, the key state i'm thinking of, and have been thinking of this whole time is pennsylvania, with doug mastriano as the

welcome back to the sunday show, i am jonathan capehart.going after president biden's speech. they're warning the republic of the imminent threat to democracy extremists mega republicans, those on the far-right called a divisive and unfairly vilifying republican party is unhinged extremists whipping up supporters into violent rhetoric. really? >> if they try to prosecute president trump for mishandling classified information after hillary clinton set up a server in her basement there literally will be right in the street. >> we are going to totally defunded joe biden's 87,000 irs army. i definitely think the operational on of the department of justice and fbi does not deserve a paycheck. >> despite great outside dangers, our greatest threat remains the sinister and evil people from within our own country. >> after hearing all of that you can understand why president biden was right on target in a speech earlier this week. >> it's sickening, to see the new attacks on the fbi threatening the life of law enforcement agents in their family for

joining me right now is jonathan capehart, host of the sunday show here at msnbc. i remember that you hosted the barbara bush foundation for family literacy, celebration of reading, earlier this year. and this issue of books and identity is very close to you. >> yeah. that was such a fun events to do. and i hope they ask me to do it again. but yeah this is not an issue that is very important to. maybe because, look ali. you know of. this and that is a beauty of your banned book club. books are supposed to soothe as much as they are supposed to challenge. but books are also supposed to open up new worlds to us, while at the same time showing us that we are not alone but having us read stories by other people who either share our identity or do not. >> both, yeah. >> books are to educate. >> yeah, ali totally. >> i'm on the show we've a lot going on i just spoke to mayor about the crisis facing the city being sent out by governor greg abbott without any. notice that full interview is coming up in just minutes. also ali as you know,thread. one of the many signs of thi

and please be sure to tune into the sunday show with jonathan capehart. that is me!on msnbc! and on that note, i wish you a very good night! and from all of us and our colleagues across the networks on nbc news. thank you for staying up late i'll see you sunday morning! have a great weekend! a great labor day weekend! great labor day weekend! thank you all for being here tonight! happy holiday weekend. again. there is no such thing as a summer friday anymore. so we are just want to jump right in. over 10,000 documents. that is the number of documents that the fbi retrieved from trump's beach club in august alone. today we got a clear picture for the first time of the sheer volume of documents that traveled nearly 1000 miles from the white house to trump's palm beach club, when a federal judge unsealed a previously unseen and detailed inventory of what the fbi retrieved during its search last month. as a reminder here, trump's team wanted this to come out.

dean, what karine jean-pierre, white house press secretary was on my colleague jonathan capehart's showsten to what she said. >> look, the president was very clear. all you have to do, again folks need to watch the speech go read the speech. if you have it, it is in powerful it is impactful. and you will hear directly from the commander in chief what he was speaking to. and he actually called out he called out mainstream republicans, democrats, independents, to come join him to help protect, to fight to protect our democracy. so, it was about a specific, particular, extreme, extreme part of the party that has taken over. the >> so, dean, who are these mainstream republicans who joe biden says, and still reaching out for them? i get why the president and his white house press secretary have to say it? but you and i don't, are there any minstrel publicans left to work with. 90% of the party seems to be maga, it's not a minority other publican party. >> i tweet every day, i daily reminder today's gop is no longer a political party. it's a white nationalist fascist movement. i've been doing

with jonathan capehart begins now.d he's attention, and he's getting plenty of it. getting plenty of it. in and washington where there is washington, where there a new is a new january six hearing this week january six hearing this, and liz week, and liz cheney cheney there says there may be war. says there may be more. >> >> so so this year it will this hearing will not be the not be the last year we will last hearing we will see? -- >> we -- >> we don't don't anticipate anticipate that it will be the last hearing. that it will be the last >> year. >> and in in new york, new york where a new where a new lawsuit lawsuit from the state from the state ag could ag could bring down bring down trump's trump's company. company. i'll i'll talk to the talk to the man man who helped who helped trigger trigger it, it, michael michael cohen cohen. he joins. he me live. joins me live. republicans republicans reveal their reveal their agenda just agenda just weeks weeks before the before the midterms. midterms. white house white ho

hurricane ravaged i'm jonathan puerto rico. i'm capehartlive from jonathan capehart live los angeles. this from life -- is the sunday show. los angeles. this is the sunday show. ♪ ♪ ♪ this sunday, the this sunday, a very -- phrase of the week is prove it. >> the >> the problem that you problem that you have is that you have is they go go into into rooms, they rooms, they won't let won't let anyone anyone knew they would near them. they want even let them in the same to let them in the same building. did building. did they they drop anything drop anything into those into those piles? or did files? or did they they do it later? do it later? there's no there's no chain of custody here with them. chain of custody here with >> them. >> special special master master, judge raymond job graeme dearie that asking jury is donald trump's lawyer asking trump to backup their lawyers to backup their claim that claims that of fbi agents fbi agents planted some of the planted some of the documents documents seized from seized from mar-a-lago. mar-a-lago. d

i am jonathan capehart, anchoring live in new york. and chris jansing is in london, co-hosting with me today as we bring you live events from two nations, dedicated to memorializing those that we lost. here at home, americans are taking time for reflection, service and remembrance of those who perished in the deadliest terrorist attack on u.s. soil. it is a rare moment of unity in a nation that is so divided. >> the attack 21 years ago reached a federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies to focus on international terrorism, the focus today has become the threat from within, domestic violent extremism. we will have more on this later, as i sit down with secretary of homeland security, alejandro mayorkas. >> and jonathan, as you know, i'm across the pond in the united kingdom. first of all, it is wonderful to be with you, to be able to cover these historic events. i have been remembering how on 9/11, queen elizabeth broke 600 years of royal port a call by ordering the star-spangled banner be played here at buckingham palace, in an

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it's all part of a full week and it's why we are grateful to turn to the analysis of capehart and kherson. that is jonathanate editor for the washington post, and his colleague michael kherson. david brooks is away. hello to both of you on this friday evening, thank you for being here. let's start with the migrant situation. jonathan, we have two governors, the governor of texas, greg abbott, the governor of florida, ron desantis, sending plane loads, busloads of migrants to washington, d.c., and just in the last couple of days to martha's vineyard, this island a part of massachusetts. they say it's about payback because the federal government hasn't done anything about this. others are saying it is a stunt. what is it? >> it's a stunt. they've sent busloads and planeloads of migrants to not just washington, d.c. and martha's vineyard, but new york city, chicago, and giving no notice. i did an interview with mayor eric adams for the "texas tribune" festival and i asked him, have you spoken to governor abbott? no. there's no coordination. no one is calling them. and as we know about what happened on martha'