kelly o'donnell leading us off from the white house. >>> i want to bring in our justice correspondent ken dilanian kelly touched upon this in her story, but explain to our viewers what laws does the fbi suspect the former president has broken >> the warrant says the fbi was looking for documents connected to violations o three statutes one makes it illegal to destroy or conceal records in a federal investigation. a second prohibits the unlawful removal of government materials a third, the espionage act, makes it a crime to take national defense information with the intent to harm the united states anyone convicted of any of those could face significant prison time, though it is not clear at all whether the justice department intends to charge trump or anyone else >> ken, the former president, as you know, saying he declassified those documents. does he have a legal argument and will he need proof >> many legal scholars say he doesn't have an argument, tom even though the president has the power to declassify documents at will they believe the declassification has to be documented in s

>> all right kelly o'donnell leading us off tonight. kelly, thank you with that new reporting, i want to bring in justice correspondent ken dilanian we can't lose the magnitude of this moment walk us through this move by the justice department >> this appears to be a first, tom legal experts are unaware of any other time in history when a former president's house was searched by law enforcement agents to get the warrant, the fbi had to convince a federal judge there was evidence of a crime inside trump's florida residence. but even before that, justice department officials had to mak the decision that such a controversial move was the best way to obtain what they were looking for. the doj is not commenting it is all but certain this search would have been approved by the attorney general himself who decided that simply asking for the documents, or demanding them with a subpoena, wasn't going to work. tom? >> and ken, because the home of a former president was searched, the big question tonight is, does this mean trump is likely to be cha

eye of a legal storm raging all around the former president tonight we begin our reporting with kelly o'donnell. >> reporter: tonight unraveling secrets behind the mar-a-lago search a tight circle of former trump white house officials with direct knowledge of how the former president handled classified materials are among those interviewed by the fbi according to "the new york times. including white house counsel pat cipollone, deputy counsel patrick philbin named in this letter as his representatives to the national archives. also interviewed, derek lyons who as staff secretary managed all documents that reached the president. witness testimony remains confidential as a new clash pitts former president trump against the department of justice. thursday in florida a federal magistrate will consider unsealing more documents the former president used social media to render his judgment in the interest of transparency, i call for the immediate release of the completely unredacted affidavit. federal prosecutors signaled they are open to releasing some materials but not the affidavit that explains pr

kelly o'donnell is at the white house with late details >> lester, the past saturday night 9:40 p.m. eastern saturday night the u.s. government used an unmanned drone and hellfire missiles to target the third floor balance coney in down on it afghanistan to kill the president of al qaeda president widen who has covid has announced the successful operation claiming no civilian casualties. >> no matter where you hide, if you are a threat to our people, the united states will find you and take you out. >> reporter: officials say they brought a model of the kabul apartment building to the white house situation room to explain the operation. they had long been tracking the leader and his family who had moved to a safehouse in the last year very few u.s. officials were aware of this mission and the president ultimately gave the go-ahead one week ago. >> kelly o'donnell, thank yo >>> his signature was on many of the worst terrorist attacks of our time tonight our chief foreign correspondent richard engel with details. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> reporter: ayman al zawahiri was al qa

the latest inflation number will be released lester >> all right, kelly o'donnell, thank you. >>> also tonight senate democrats are voicing optimism about passing their big climate tax and health care bill. ali vitali is at the capitol. how did it finally come together? >> senator sinema now in lock step with the caucus after senator schumer accepted her changes to the bill including removing a provision that would have closed the carried interest tax loophole which benefits wealthy hedge fund managers. plus adding billions in drought relief funds. now it is full steam ahead. democrats going into a rare saturday session to pass the package, schumer telling me today he is confident his party will stand together to pass this legislation which at the earliest would be sunday lester >> okay. thank you. >>> just breaking, a jury in austin, texas ordering alex jones to pay millions in punitive damages anne thompson joins me now. what happened in court today? >> reporter: lester, this is a big win for the victim's parents a texas jury today ordering alex jones and his company to pay more than

kelly o'donnell reports. >> reporter: after two weeks of trump-style message bluster, outside of court, tonight this 27-page motion is his first legal action pushing back against the unprecedented search of his mar-a-lago home the former president is requesting what's known as a special master to review the seized documents the filing reveals new details about the investigation. on may 11th, a grand jury subpoena sought classified documents at the trump office. later, mr. trump personally granting access to doj officials, but on august 8th when mr. trump's lawyer was notified about the fbi search of mar-a-lago, a heated discussion ensued the trump filing reveals an extraordinary phone call from an unnamed trump lawyer to the justice department on august 11th to deliver this message president trump wants the attorney general to know that he has been hearing from people all over the country. the heat is building up the pressure is building up. earlier today a federal magistrate in florida suggested he may not unseal many of the details from the search warrant as the doj requested to prot

kelly o'donnell is tracking late details. >> reporter: new tonight granted in part a decision from the florida federal magistrate to unseal by noon tomorrow a redacted copy of the affidavit used to authorize the controversial mar-a-lago search. where fbi agents seized 11 sets of classified information from former president trump's seaside home mr. trump has demanded the whole affidavit be made public. late today, former trump senior advisor jared kushner agreed. >> i think what the judge should do is release all of the information so people can know whether there is a serious allegation or this is more manufactured. >> reporter: parts of the search warrant affidavit will be blacked out. the judge findin government lawyers made a compelling argument that releasing all of it would identify witnesses and law enforcement and reveal strategy as well as sources and methods. but new information will become public as the judge described the redactions as narrowly tailored. after president biden insisted wednesday he had no warning about the search. >> i didn't have any advance notice none, zer

it's where we start tonight with kelly o'donnell. >> reporter: tonight, measuring the mar-a-lago search fallout. the director of national intelligence has ordered a damage report, an assessment of the potential risk to national security today, the white house distanced itself it said it did not request that review. and president biden has received no information. >> i can say he has not been briefed >> reporter: 11 sets of classified materials were seized and another 184 classified documents were recovered earlier from the trump residence, according to the department of justice, who today told the court they did find a limited set of what could be attorney/client privileged information seized by the fbi during the search. protected documents the former president's lawyers cited when he sued the u.s. government, asking a federal judge to name an independent party to review all material taken. the judge indicated she is likely to grant that special master. today the department of justice told the court that the initial sorting of documents has already been completed. but mr. trump's team

could happen next if this violent talk keeps escalating our senior white house correspondent kelly o'donnell starts us off tonight. >> reporter: tonight, an alarming new warning sent to law enforcement about their own safety volatile fallout after some angry reactions to the court approved search of former president donald trump's florida estate monday a five-page joint intelligence bulletin states the fbi and dhs are aware of an increase in recent threats and calls for violence against federal law enforcement. u.s. government and judicial personnel in reaction to the fbi execution of a search warrant in palm beach, florida, on 8 august 2022 federal sources say the bulletin does not name mr. trump or any targeted officials but warns that their families could also be at risk. these threats are recurring primarily online and across multiple platforms secret service says it's hardening security at its posts and locations like the white house. fbi headquarters and field offices are taking steps as well today the former president on his social media accused the fbi and department of justice of ac

kelly o'donnell starts us off tonight with late details >> reporter: tonight federal agents at heightenedisk. barriers up at fbi offices and secret service posts hardened against new threats motivated by anger over the fbi search at mar-a-lago today these federal court documents show a pennsylvania man charged after making online threats to kill fbi agents these chilling words among the more tame of the man's inflammatory posts from this past week, according to court documents. "if you work for the fbi then you deserve to die." and in another, "my only goal is to kill more of them before i drop." today former president donald trump told fox news the temperature has to be brought down in the country if it isn't, terrible things are going to happen but often it is mr. trump striking a match with his social media posts, accusing the fbi of being corrupt or planting information despite days of sharing incendiary content about federal law enforcement. today the former president inserted himself as a peacemaker "if there is anything we can do to help i and my people would certainly be willing t

we should learn more kate >> kelly o'donnell following all of it at the white house.nk you. >>> just breaking tonight, amid those concerns over the safety of fbi agents, the end of a violent confrontation involving the fbi and an armed suspect stephanie gosk is in cincinnati with late details there. what are you learning about the suspect involved >> kate, just moments ago we learned that the suspect is dead after that standoff in a corn field two officials familiar with the matter tell nbc news his name was ricky walter schiffer and he was at the capitol on january 6th. state police tell us they tried to negotiate with him and use nonlethal methods. but when he pulled his gun, they fired. >> reporter: tonight in ohio, a violent hour's long standoff is over after authorities cornered a man who tried to break into the fbi building in cincinnati. >> he succumbed to his injuries at the scene. >> reporter: at 9:15, this morning the man entered the visitor's screening area in the fbi field office wielding an ar-15 style rifle and nail gun which he fired at people according

kelly o'donnel starts us off from washington >> reporter: deposition day in new york for former president donald trump. >> how do you feel, mr. trump? how do you feel? >> reporter: but today, his blunt, brash words saved for a press release, as he refused to answer questions from the new york attorney general's office, part of a long-running civil investigation of the trump family business practices i decline to answer questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the united states constitution a right he is free to assert >> fifth amendment, fifth amendment, fifth amendment. horrible, horrible >> reporter: but one he's repeatedly mocked. >> see the mob take the fifth. if you're innocent, why are you taking the fifth amendment? >> reporter: a trump lawyer in the room says the former president did read a statement calling the inquiry the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country and accused attorney general letitia james of quote opening campaigning on a policy of destroying me at an april campaign event, james touted her case. >> we sued the mos powerfu

lester >> kelly o'donnell, thank you. >>> his signature was on many of the worst terrorist attacks of our time tonight our chief foreign correspondent richard engel with details. >> reporter: al-zawahiri was succeeding osama bin laden, in dozens of videos attacking u.s. and allies he directed al qaeda's thinking, led the operation and was a key planner of the 9/11 attacks and the 1998u.s. embassy bombings in east africa we know it was his urging that bin laden really took an interest in attacking the united states >> reporter: he meticulously planned mass murder. tried to arm al qaeda with weapons of mass destruction and wrote the declaration of war against the u.s. his transformation into the world's most wanted terrorist had an unlikely start. he was born in 1951 into a wealthy egyptian family, of doctors and scholars he became radicalized as a teenager after joining muslim brotherhood before training to be a surgeon at 31, he was one of hundreds assassinated after the assassination of the egyptian president. he was tortured during three years in an egyptian jail and left to seek re

kelly o'donnell, you covered this man full time for many years. the m.o. is the man you covered, certainly taking things -- you know, you can understand him taking some mementoes and even a copy of the letter from kim jong-un. some of these things you could defend because they were so personal to him and he loved the so-called beautiful letter. but names and sources, spies, signals intelligence -- there's just no way to justify that being anyplace but in the national archives or some other vault. >> listening to your conversation, if i could knit together a couple of points that i was reminded of listening to some of our other guests here. on the issue of the public face of the donald trump defense in contrast to what he knew was going on behind the scenes. another example of that is the passports. after he had been notified by the government that they had collected in the search his passports, after he was notified, then he came out with a public statement on his social media saying they had been stolen. very much like the example that neil just gave abou

nbc's kelly o'donnell has details. >> reporter: tonight an alarming new warning sent to law enforcement about their own safety. volatile followed after angry reactions to the court approve search of former president donald trump's florida estate monday. a five page joint intelligence bulletin states "the fbi and dhs are aware of an increase in recent threats and calls for violence against federal law enforcement. u.s. government and additional personnel in reaction to the fbi execution of a search warrant in palm beach florida on eighth august 2022." the bulletin warns that targeted officials families could be at risk. these threats are occurring primarily online and across multiple platforms. secret service said it's harboring security at its posts and locations like the white house. fbi headquarters and field offices are taking steps as well. today, the former president and his social media accuse the fbi and the department of justice of acting with lyrical motive. he is also out of control, great simmering anger. tonight national security advisor john bolton disputes his explanations

joining us now white house correspondent kelly o'donnell, capitol hill correspondent ali vitali. what's the message going to be from the president? >> reporter: i think this will be a mission that will accomplish a couple different things. part of it is the job of the president to go to places where there has been tragedy and dove station. he has the first lady with him. it is the compassion of the presidency to deliver. he is known for being able to connect with people going through hardship so expect to see some of that today. but then also to be able to talk about federal resources that are being brought to bear in kentucky. money that's already been delivered but then also being able to talk about the legislation just passed by the senate that deals with climate and to connect it to the devastation from flooding and storms that kentucky experienced and the communities around the nation have in all kinds of weather related events and to say part of what washington and his administration are trying to do is to find ways to releigh the climate crisis by putting in new steps that

let's bring in correspondent kelly o'donnell at the white house. kelly, is the white house saying anything about its strategy headed into the midterms? >> reporter: well good to be with you, mika. and if you hear noise, that is fitting with the situation because there is always political noise and trying to cut through that for the white house has been a challenge. and these numbers show that the sort of slow, steady wind in their face approach that the biden white house has been dealing with is for this moment producing some dividends. so they are looking at this as trying to create a stark choice for voters come midterm election time. and to use some of the legislative wins that the president has racked up, some of those were bipartisan, some like thein nation reduction act, democrats only. and then bigger issues that have taken place. roe v. wade being overturned, how people have responded to that with what happened in kansas, where voters showed up and made a big statement about wanting access to abortion in that state. so, they are looking at t

. >> joining us now nbc news senior white house corespondent kelly o'donnell.t more can you tell us about the president's message? >> important to point out there are two kinds of campaign events for the president. the first one you played just -- you gave the quote, there was no camera there but they do allow some representatives, some reporters to be inside a fundraiser with the big dollar donors to be aware what the is the president communicating to donors and a separate public event and sometimes, what the president says matches up and sometimes it's a little different and that can be very much planning of what does this president and the democratic party want to do waging the battle ahead for the midterms and so clearly, president biden has given this a lot of thought and a lot of time. this was his first one into midterm politics and wants to make the argument certain elements of the republican party. careful to say republicans are people he works with and has respect for but those who have gone the maga route and election denier route and arguing for a r

joining me is senior white house correspondent kelly o'donnell, jake sherman, co-founder of punch bowl news, susan page, washington bureau chief and peter baker, author of "the divider." jake, i want to start with you because you're on capitol hill. there was a vote-a-rama over the weekend. it's in the house now. what are the big headlines? >> the big headlines is that they got it through after 18 months of tortured negotiations over this package and the will he or won't he of joe manchin and will she or won't she of kyrsten sinema, they found a package they can support. quite the chain of legislative victories for the democratic senate and president biden, who is the beneficiary of these wins, even though he's not the designer of many of these victories. i would say a few things, important to note that they are going into this august recess with the wind at their back at least legislatively. the president's approval ratings are still in the 30s and that's not helpful for any democratic candidate that's running for reelection in 2022. we'll have to see what the inflation numbers are on

kelly o'donnell is live at the white house.ne, some stuff is going to happen right away, some in a few months, and some longer term. >> that's typical for legislation. sol of the best things are the not happening as quickly but they will talk about them. some of the things that perhaps of the kriltices, those will happen quickly. if you look at irs, they can start doing some of the additional staffing. that's been something republicans have challenged as well. you will see tax credits for some energy efficient purchases. that will happen right away. so people will be able to take advantage of that. and next year you'll see some of the benefits that have to do with health care with this it comes to cap on insulin prices at $35 for those on medicare. and the ability for medicare to do some negotiating. and some of the long-term things will roll out over time. that is what happens in legislation. it's the mechanics of how you can make big structural changes. and part taking time to ramp up new programs and contracts that are invol

according to nbc's kelly o'donnell, the bulletin includes the following passages. these threats are occurring across multiple platforms online, including social media sites, web forums -- the fbi warned that it has seen personal identifying information for possible targets of violence, like home addresses and identification of family members as additional targets. horrific stuff. earlier today, a man died by suicide after driving a car into a barrier outside of the u.s. capitol building. the individual got out of the car, and as officers approached fired shots into the air before ultimately shooting himself. this all comes on the heels of the cincinnati fbi field office attack on thursday, carried out by a former january 6th insurrectionists, who seems to be incited by the maga cult response to federal agents searching donald trump's home in mar-a-lago, for classified materials. it is that ludicrous, hyper ventilating may get called response that i want to begin with tonight. by, now we have all come to accept that donald trump lies as easily and as often as the re

. >> joining me now is nbc senior white house correspondent, kelly o'donnell. , adrienne elrod, democratic strategy and former senior aide with the biden/harris campaign. kelly, this is a different tone from the president than we've heard in the past. what's going on behind the scenes? >> well, they finally have a galvanizing message. and it might be a case to make that for many months in the biden administration, democrats are searching for what would that midterm message be, knowing they had historic headwinds against them, with control of the white house. both chambers of congress, and what that historically says. likely to lose seats. but now they feel that they have some arguments to make and some successes to tout. and one of the most effective arguments in a campaign is to try to make it a stark choice and to use the power of fear. fear about rights that could be lost, fear about a country going backwards. those can be very powerful emotions to get democrats who might otherwise be willing to sit on the couch and not get up to turn out. and certainly the o

. >>> now to kelly o'donnell who has the latest on the increased threats on the fbi in the wake of the mar-a-lago raid >> reporter: federal agents at heightened risk. barriers up at fbi offices and secret service posts, against new threats motivated by the search at mar-a-lago these posts show a pennsylvania man making threats to kill fbi agents, these among the more tame of his inflammatory posts if you work for the fbi you deserve to die nan a and in another, my only goal is to kill more of them before i drop former president trump told fox news the temperature has to be brought down in the country. if it isn't, terrible things are going to happen. but often it is mr. trump striking a match with his social media posts. accusing the fbi of being corrupt, or planting information, despite days of sharing incendiary content about federal law enforcement, the former president inserted himself as a peace maker if there is anything we can do to help, i and my people would certainly be willing to do that. the fbi and homeland security issued a joint bulletin this weekend warning of calls for

justice department comes as the fbi has warned of a spike in threats against its agents nbc's kelly o'donnell has more >> reporter: an alarming new warning sent to law enforcement about their own safety volatile fallout after some angry reactions to the court-approved search of former president donald trump's florida estate a five-page joint intelligence bulletin states the fbi and dhs are aware of an increase in recent threats and calls for violence against federal law enforcement. u.s. government and judicial personnel in reaction to the fbi execution of a search warrant in palm beach, florida on 8 august, 2022 federal sources say the bulletin does not name mr. trump or any targeted officials, but warns that their families could also be at risk these threats are occurring primarily online and across multiple platforms secret service says it's hardening security at its posts and locations like the white house, fbi headquarters and field offices are taking steps as well. the former president on his social media accused the fbi and department of justice of acting with political motives it is a

kelly o'donnell now with the latest. >> reporter: tonight visiting the iowa state fair mike pence defended law enforcement amid an angry fallout over the mar-a-lago search. >> we can demand that they reveal why the search warrant was executed against the residence of a former president of the united states without demeaning the rank and file of men and women of the fbi. and i'm going to continue to be a voice for that. >> reporter: pence did not answer questions about criticism of the fbi coming from former president trump who blasted these accusations tonight. the atrocities being perpetrated by the fbi and doj, they have no shame. they are destroying our country. mr. trump's allies have repeatedly dangled a possible video release to show what happened inside the estate during the search. a trump attorney says that should be made public. >> i would love for the country to see what i saw from those cameras. >> reporter: but today a department of justice official told me they urge those with access to video taken during the mar-a-lago search to use caution. if video is provided that it obsc

nbc's kelly o'donnell joins us now from the white house with this hey, kelly good morning. >> reporter: good morning, hoda. though covid positive, the white house says the president does not have any symptoms. and is not getting any new treatments so far this time. he is being monitored closely. he'll stay away from others in the residence, working from home this morning, back in isolation with a rebound case of covid it developed for president biden on saturday. >> i'll be working from home for the next couple of days, and feeling fine >> reporter: during his first round of covid, the president had been treated with the antiviral medication paxlovid. health officials say a positive test can return after the medication is stopped. >> clinical data suggests that between 5 and 8% of people have rebound. >> reporter: in a memo, the president's physician said he had tested negative tuesday night through friday morning so this, in fact, represents rebound positivity, adding the president has experienced no re-emergence of symptoms then again on sunday, his doctor writes -- unsurprisingly, h

joining us now white house correspondent kelly o'donnell, capitol hill correspondent ali vitali.m the president? >> reporter: i think this will be a mission that will accomplish a couple different things. part of it is the job of the

kelly o'donnell has the latest on this one. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. there is a new push from different corners to learn more about exactly what the fbi seized from the home of former president donald trump today. and the big question, what was at risk to national security or intelligence assets like spies working for the u.s. government because mr. trump kept sensitive secrets at his private club in florida? this morning, the latest twist on the trump fbi search. two separate moves for mar-a-lago damage control. first, the director of national intelligence has told key leaders in congress that she has launched an assessment of the potential risk to national security. if secrets seized from the former president's home had been compromised, 11 sets of classified documents were removed in the search. plus another 184 classified documents recovered earlier as described in the affidavit. democrats say that danger is real. >> he could be putting our national security at risk. he could be putting the lives of individual people who work for the united states

i want to bring in kelly o'donnell, our senior white house correspondent, and our senior political editorth you. get to the bottom line for us. what was this executive order that the president signed as it relates to abortion access? >> reporter: the truth is it is limited at this point. the president's power in the executive are limited because congress really needs to make big changes. what can the president do? in this, he is asking his own executive branch department, health and human services, to try to set up rule over the next 30 days to use medicaid, which is a joint state and federal program to h

i want to get right to kelly o'donnell at the white house and dr. . what are you hearing from the administration about this move? >> they are declaring a national emergency. officials are answering

i want to bring in kelly o'donnell, our senior white house correspondent, and our senior political editor. kelly, let me start with you. get to the bottom line for us. what was this executive order that the president signed as it relates to abortion access? >> reporter: the truth is it is limited at this point. the president's power in the executive are limited because congress really needs to make big changes. what can the president do? in this, he is asking his own executive branch department, health and human services, to try to set up rule over the next 30 days to use medicaid, which is a joint state and federal program to help those women in states where abortion is not legal because of the overturning of roe v. wade, and to see if they can travel to states where those services are legal, and to have an ability to transfer the kinds of benefits that include transportation in certain circumstances, and the medical care to allow those women to have access to abortion. to look at how could that be done under the law. so this is really the president signing an order that directs hhs to s

i want to get right to kelly o'donnell at the white house and dr. patel, former white house policy director is with us too. i'll start with kelly. what are you hearing from the administration about this move? >> they are declaring a national emergency. officials are answering questions. this has been in some ways considered a slow to act criticism of the biden administration that this was identified in may. there's been 6600 cases of monkeypox, roughly every eight days. the number of cases has doubled. it is contagious illness. it's not considered as serious as coronavirus that we have been living with for the past two and a half years. but it is something that has been very present in some big cities primarily, but they want to go beyond that. it frees up some federal resources. they have named a person from fema to oversee the federal response. they want to get vaccines, testing and treatments into a more coordinated accessible approach around the country. declaring it a national emergency allows them to do that. that's something that critics have

appointee, signaled preliminary support for a third party to review the cover documents, our own kelly o'donnell has more. >> today, the doj told the court that the initial sorting of documents has already been completed. -- the trump team pushed back. >> we had a lot of problems accepting everything at face value, that's coming out of doj these days, it was very politicized fifth place, i'm afraid to say. >> when he was a candidate, donald trump said that he pledged to protect official secrets. >> in my administration, i will enforce all laws concerning the protection of classified information. but trump ally lindsey graham says that any charges could actually lead to violence. >> i will say this, if there is a prosecution of donald trump, for mishandling classified information, there will be riots in the street. >> we will have much more on lindsey graham's a headline making comments later in the hour. but let's stay where we are now, because the justice department is facing with the new york times is calling a, quote, unparalleled test. katie benner writes, when it started as an effort to ret

nbc senior white house correspondent kelly o'donnell has more. >> reporter: before the trump faithful, the former president dangling another 2024 trial balloon. >> and now we may have to do it again. >> reporter: at the conservative political action committee gathering, in dallas on saturday, mr. trump basked in the loyalty of his base. >> i'm all in. >> reporter: in the cpac straw poll, 69% of attendees say if donald trump is on the ballot, they would vote for him. florida governor ron desantis is next at 24%. >> would you really like to see a push from ron desantis. >> reporter: knocking democrats from president biden to leaders on capitol hill, he painted a bleak picture of the economy, crime and cultural divides. >> we are a nation in decline. we are a failing nation. >> reporter: describing himself as persecuted, he again made false claims about the last election and the january 6 investigation. then mockingly acted out his denial. >> his neck is like this -- >> reporter: a former trump aid cassidy hutchinson's headline-making testimony about an alleged incident between mr. trump

nbc's kelly o'donnell is tracking that story. >> reporter: mr.'s allies have repeatedly dangled a possible video release, to show what happened inside the estate during the search. a trump attorney says that should be made public. >> i would love for the country to see what i saw from those cameras. >> reporter: but today, a department of justice official told me, they urge those with access to video taken during the mar-a-lago search to use caution. the video is provided, and it obscures the faces and identifying information of law enforcement personnel. >> we are gonna see if we ever see any of that surveillance video released. but meanwhile, we are now in a holding pattern on that affidavit. if we end up getting it, and the whole thing is basically blacked out, luke, what was the point of doing it, to begin with? >> yeah, that is a fair point. you know, i've seen these affidavits released in the past in other public corruption cases, and they almost never looked good for the person whose home got searched. i mean, there is usually pretty damni

kelly o'donnell is at the white house and of course reverend al sharpton remains with us. set the stage, brittany greiner contrite. she apologized, she took responsibility. in many ways this was never about what she did or said, was it? >> this was never about what she did and certainly anything she said today would change that verdict. she did plead not guilty, clearly a part of the defense strategy. she reiterated that it was an honest mistake. this was accidental. she never meant to hurt anyone. i want to add the prosecution asked for no half, the maximum sentence for the charges were 10 years. they gave her nine. they also levied a 1 million rubles fine, that's about $16,000. we did hear from her defense team who were seriously disappointed. [ clip playing ]'s >> we saw brittany on tuesday she said see one doomsday. it looks like she was right. she's very upset and very stressed. she can hardly talk. it's difficult for her. >> chris, as she was leaving the courtroom, written he is 6'9", she was in the cage. she left the courtroom in handcuffs and sent to the camera in

we want to bring in nbc's kelly o'donnell and the polling director at the harvard kennedy school's institutef the thinking of the timing of this announcement and what more we're going to learn from the president when we do hear from him. >> reporter: there had been a lot of pressure building on an answer for what president biden might do concerning student loans. there was a deadline coming up for the beginning of repaying loans, which have been on hold during the covid period where there's been a pause on repayment. part of what you mentioned was the package he'll announce. they're calling it a final extension to give people time to make plans to put that back in their budgets, to repay what they owe for january of the new year. so that extension will be part of what people can get accustomed to. and now this new piece basis on income threshold and the type of loan that you may have in your student debt, this piece of loan forgiveness. some advocates had wanted more. the president was under pressure from his own party on the liberal side of his party to does as much as $50,000. he did not g

i want to bring in nbc senior white house correspondent kelly o'donnell, former federal prosecutor shan wu, msnbc contributor and senior official chuck rosenberg, and charles coleman as well. you're outside the white house there, kelly, and a lot of folks wondering how the white house is responding, if they're sifting through it themselves. the president as well, if he has anything to say. >> well, the white house, meaning the current biden white house, when we refer to the former president, i'm sure that gets confusing to viewers sometimes. but president biden has said that he is not involved in this. this is a matter for the justice department. earlier in the week he had said that he had had no advance warning that there would be a search at mar-a-lago, and today when asked by one of our colleagues, a reporter in the pool at an event for president biden that was unrelated to any of this, at the end of the event, as we often do when we ask about the news of the day, the president was asked, do you believe there is any compromise to national security based on what has happened at mar-a-