>> all right ken dilanian for us. ken, we appreciate it. >>> people in allen, texas are still mourning tonight after a gunman killed eight people at a mall last week the chaos captured in newly released 911 calls that also show how dispatchers helped save lives morgan chesky has the late details, and we do want to warn you, some of you viewers may find the audio disturbing >> reporter: seconds after a gunman opened fire, a terrifying flood of calls for help >> yes, my mom just got shot my mom'sed collapsed >> allen 911 are you calling about the shooting >> yes, sir. about 20 of us hiding in a bathroom. >> reporter: as hundreds hid wherever they could, police say mauricio garcia opened fire almost immediately after he pulled up on a busy saturday the 33-year-old armed with a rifle, handgun and wearing body armor began shooting near the mall's h & m store. >> can you please press something on it to stop the bleeding >> we did. we do. >> reporter: before an allen police officer shot and killed the gunman those calling 911

lester >> ken dilanian, thank you. >>> in new york, demands for criminal charges tonight after a deadly confrontation in the subway. a man dying after another passenger put him in a chokehold we get details now from stephanie gosk, and i have to warn you, some of the video in this story is disturbing >> reporter: tonight there is growing pressure on the manhattan district attorney to bring criminal charges after a man was choked to death on the subway monday >> he could not breathe. >> reporter: jordan neely ended up on the floor of the train in a headlock after police say an argument turned into a violent confrontation. when it was over, neely was unconscious. ems attempts to revive the 30-year-old failed the medical examiner ruled his death a homicide by chokehold. so far there are no criminal charges the 24-year-old who held neely in a headlock was taken into custody, and then released according to police the video obtained by nbc new york shows neely in a chokehold for nearly three minutes. the witness who took it said neely got on the subway and was acting aggressively, telling rid

lester >> ken dilanian tonight, thank you. >>> the newest declared republican candidate for presidentorida governor ron desantis, looking to move on today after a turbulent campaign launch and now he is starting to take more shots at a past ally, former president trump here is gabe gutierrez >> reporter: it's only day two, and tonight florida governor ron desantis already doing damage control after his campaign's rocky roll-out >> it did break the twitter space. and so we're really excited with the enthusiasm. >> reporter: the glitchy audio-only campaign launch on twitter spaces with billionaire ceo elon musk was delayed by nearly a half hour as the live stream crashed repeatedly. >> there is so many people it's unfortunate i've never seen this before. >> reporter: desantis' campaign was able to put out its first ad >> i'm ron desantis, and i'm running for president to lead our great american comeback. >> reporter: but critics like republican front-runner former president trump slammed the launch as a disaster >> rob desanctimonious and his poll numbers are dropping like a rock is he

here is ken dilanian. >> reporter: tonight, one of the key figures behind the january 6th attack on theitol facing the toughest sentence in more than a thousand prosecutions. stewart rhodes, the founder and leader of a far right group called the oath keepers was sentenced to 18 years in prison after being convicted of seditious conspiracy, using violence to prevent the government from carrying out its lawful duties. rhodes was not physically present at the capitol during the january 6th attack, but judge amit mehta said he conspired with others to make it happen and to take up arms and foment revolution. a former army paratrooper who graduated from yale law school, rhodes wore an orange prison jumpsuit during the dramatic court hearing. he showed no remorse, defiantly telling the judge that he considered himself a political prisoner. judge mehta responding to rhodes, "you, sir, present an ongoing threat and a peril to this country, to the republic and the very fabric of our democracy." rhodes' lawyers promised an appeal. >> well, i think that this case was all about the weaponization of

ken dilanian has details. >> reporter: prosecutors called them the key instigators of the january 6th assault on the u.s. capital. >> american citizens are storming the capitol. >> reporter: after a three-month trial, a jury tonight has found five members of the notorious extremist group the proud boys guilty of most of the charges against them. four of the five defendants, including the group's former leader, enrique tarrio, were convicted of seditious conspiracy, a civil war era law making it a crime to violently resist the authority of the u.s. government. four were convicted of trying to obstruct the certification of president biden's electoral college victory. and all five were convicted of interfering with the duties of members of congress, many of whom found themselves running for their lives on january 6th. today's verdict makes clear that the justice department will do everything's in its power to defend the american people and american democracy. >> reporter: the evidence coming in some cases from the defendants' own mouths. >> january 6th will be a day in infamy. >> the sig

ken dilanian, thank you very much for joining us.ions for four of the proud boys. and that's going to do it for me today. "deadline white house" starts right now. >>> hi, everyone.

ken dilanian joins us from washington. there was new information revealed in court as well.nce in federal court from the suspect today, prosecutors revealed that he is neither a u.s. citizen nor a lawful permanent resident, and they're still trying to figure out his national origin. they didn't say he's here illegally specifically. he's only been charged with a property crime but it's possible other charges will be added later. authorities said he told secret service agents after he was arrested that his goal was to get to the white house, seize power and be put in charge of the nation and when agents asked him how he would seize power, he said according to court documents he would kill the president if that's what i have to do and would hurt anyone that would tan in my way and also expressed admiration for hitler and the nazis. >> how are law enforcement agencies looking at this at the white house and other buildings? >> reporter: it underscores growing concerns about attacks on government buildings and other symbolic targets by lone extremists. local police in virginia arr

nbc's ken dilanian is following this. ken, this is not connected to the big verdicts we got yesterday at the proud boys trial. tell us who this guy is, and why his case is the one doj is asking for a big sentence on? >> his name is peter schwartz. he's 50 years old, and what's really going on here is the doj contends he's essentially a career criminal. they say he's got 38 prior convictions going back to 1991, including many convictions for domestic violence and making threats. so when you have somebody with that kind of record who's now convicted of violently attacking police officers at the capitol, that makes for a long prison sentence, so they're asking for 24 years in prison for schwartz. his lawyers are countering that he should serve four years. when your lawyers are asking for a four years as a minimum, you know that's a bad day for you. prosecutors really portray him as one of the most aggressive rioters on january 6th. they say that he picked up discarded chemical spray and then sprayed the capitol police and met

joining me morgan chesky and ken dilanian here with me. ken, there's so many questions here today, texas again, and i was watching the news conference, the briefing live saturday night. in allen, texas. and they came out, one after another, the state rep,, the po fire chief, the mayor. and it all came out and said we need to pray. we need prayers. nobody said anything about doing anything about guns. >> no, and that's the political climate, and in texas, a state controlled by republicans, andrea. there are a few voices in the wilderness, mostly democrats, calling for gun control, but they're pretty much drowned out. >> and just the restrictions, red flags, something, morgan, let's talk about allen. let's play what we heard yesterday from a former police and army officer, steven spanhart, he's a father, his son was there and was in the lockdown. so this father, former police chief, rushed into the scene after hearing from his son. morgan, you interviewed him. let me play some of this. >> it wasn't mental health that killed these people, it w

joining me now is nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian. e was so strong that brian jeffrey raymond, former cia officer, actually pleaded guilty in two counts in a plea deal, after agents found hundreds of photos on his phone of him engaging in sexual abuse of incapacitated women, mostly in mexico city where he was based as a cia officer. but then his lawyers discovered there were problems in which the state executed the search and seizure of his iphones. so they convinced the judge to withdrawal the guilty plea. and tomorrow, the judge is holding the hearing a motion to suppress if not most or all of the evidence in the case. essentially, they violated his rights because they didn't understand how iphones work and iphone password and security. after they left, they left the iphones back to him. and demanded that he use his thumbprint to open the phone committee warrant gave him the right to do. then his lawyers say they badgered him in giving up his pass code which the court's upheld you can't do because that's considered a fifth amendment

ken dilanian joins us with more. ken, good morning. so, they knew something was going on with him, but yet he kept doing it? >> it is pretty amazing, jose. these revelations are coming in a new detention memo by the department of justice, which is arguing to keep him behind bars awaiting trial and there is a hearing on that tomorrow and the judge is expected to decide it. what these new revelations show is that on at least three occasions teixeira was observed doing something suspicious with classified information. so troubling that it was documented in writing, but his bosses not only let him continue to work with classified material, they took no steps to investigate what he might be doing outside of work. and what he was doing, as we now know, was leaking secrets and expressing racist and extremist sentiments. so specifically september memo says he was seen taking notes on classified information, and then putting a note in his pocket. that was flagged. a month later ordered to, quote, cease and desist on any deep dives into classifi

nbc's ken dilanian has been following this for us. tell us about it. >> this is one of the biggest scandals involving a u.s. attorney, accusing rachel rollins of serious misconduct, including violating federal law by lying under oath and using her office for political purposes, the doj's inspector general said in a 155-page report that she used her position to help a candidate for district attorney by trying to plant a story that the justice department would be investigating the candidate's opponent for public corruption. the ig said she falsely testified about that episode under oath to federal investigators acknowledging her role after being confronted with text messages about it. the report also accuses her of violating ethics rules by accepting free tickets to a boston celtics game and accepting political contributions, and disregarded ethics advice when she attended a democratic party fundraiser featuring jill biden. in a separate report, the doj 's office of special counsel concludes rollins violated the hatch act, and that repo

nbc news justice and national security correspondent ken dilanian joins us now from washington. ew court filing the justice department includes three memos, so that on three different occasions, his superiors wrote up the fact that he was behaving suspiciously with classified documents. in one case someone saw him taking notes and then putting a note in his pocket. in another case, he was said to have conducted a deep dive into a classified system where he wasn't authorized to go, then he was found to have done that again. so what this shows is that the air force was on notice that teixeira was behaving suspiciously with classified information but for reasons unknown his access was not taken away. he continued in his job, and all during this time he's allegedly posting documents to that discord server. tomorrow a judge will decide whether to keep him in jail pending trial. >> ken dilanian, our thanks. >>> what pop star demi lovato wants anyone who might be struggling with their mental health to know. >>> in today's mental health check singer and actress demi lovato is opening up

joining us now is nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian. re are we learning from prosecutors on their efforts to keep teixeira in custody? >> that video is so disgusting we can't even play the sound, and prosecutors say it personifies their argument that jack teixeira is not the man his lawyers are saying he is. his lawyers are portraying him as kind of an innocent, naive young person who never meant for this material to be shared widely. prosecutors have now presented a host of evidence that he knew exactly what he was doing. he was leaking a lot of material to a lot of different people including people that said they were foreigners and had foreign ip addresses on some of these servers. more than that he has a history of making extremist and racist comment, and essentially he is hiding his true character. he did that when he got a security clearance. they're arguing to keep him behind bars. they presented really disturbing evidence that the military knew he was doing suspicious things with classified information. they wrote it up in memos,

i'm going to bring in nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian, also with us, formere did we learn in this filing? >> well, chris, this is remarkable. this is the justice department trying to convince a judge to keep jack teixeira in jail. in the course of that, they disclosed this incredible information that really paints a picture of gross negligence on the part of the commanders at that air base in cape cod where he was working. as you said, on three different occasions he was written up for suspicious activity involving classified information. in one case he was alleged to have taken notes and put a note in his pocket. in another case he was admonished and told not to do deep dives into information that didn't have anything to do with his job, and then he did it again, and in no case was his access to classified information rescinded nor does it appear that they did any investigation of what he was doing on social media outside of work. if they had, they would have learned that he was leaking information and posting racist and extremist content. we're going to fin

thank you very much, clint watts, ken dilanian, maggie vespa, appreciate you all. >>> new developments with the other tragedy in texas, the driver who crashed into a group of migrants with his suv has now been charged with eight counts of manslaughter. according to police, the 34-year-old man is a local resident with a, quote, extensive rap sheet. they still don't know whether it was an intentional act. joining us from brownsville, texas, is nbc news national correspondent gabe gutierrez. gabe, what more are you learning? >> reporter: good morning. well, that deadly crash has left this community completely stunned and, of course, this all comes as tensions remain high along the southern border as title 42 is set to end later this week. and now we're learning that three of the ten injured migrants have just been released from the hospital. and also it comes as we're hearing from one of the victims for the first time. an emotional vigil for the victims of sunday's horrifying crash as a suspect now faces manslaughter charges for ramming a group of venezuelan migrants outside a shelter. fa

i want to bring in ken dilanian, priscilla, by the way, thank you to you, to talk more about what we'rerning about the gunman. i know you have been digging into possible motives here, ken. what do you know? >> our sources are saying this is being investigated as a possible case of racially motivated violent extremism because there's a lot of social medialinged -- media linked to this person, we're being told, that included neo-nazi posts and there was a patch on his tactical vest bearing the acronym, rwds, which is believed to stand for right wing death squad, a meme popular in far right circles for many many years, and the police found weapons and ammunition in his car and again, they've reviewed hundreds of social media posts, suggesting that he has ties to a mishmash of ideologies including far right extremism. they have not declared that that was the motive here. they're investigating. >> ken dilanian, we thank you for that. >>> i want to go to brownsville, texas, where an suv crashed into a crowd of migrants sunday morning. gabe gutierrez is there on the ground with more. gabe, wha

and justice and intelligence correspondent, ken dilanian. it must be awful there.t else are you learning? >> reporter: it is awful and sadly at this hour, we are learning more about the youngest victims of the shooting. the wiley school district superintendent announcing that a 2nd grader, sophia mendoza is among those deceased. a 4th grader daniela mendoza, also deceased and their mother, ilda remains in critical condition. we know the names of two other victims, 20-year-old christian lacour, his grandmother confirming that he was a security guard here, and that he was fatally shot. she described him as a beautiful soul who had big dreams for his future, and also aishwarya thatikonda, an indian woman who was an engineer here, a nonprofit confirming that she was among those killed. her family now working to make sure her remains are brought back to india. and that is some of what we're learning. there are still six people, we're told, that remain in the hospital. three of them in critical condition. and among those six hospitalized, that does include children and t

ken dilanian, priscilla thompson and clint watts, i appreciate it. >>> turning to illinois now, where a stretch of interstate just reopened this morning after a wild dust storm turned deadly. take a look at these nearly blinding conditions. six people were killed, dozens more were injured when a combination of strong winds and dirt from the nearby fields caused more than 70 vehicles to crash. it was a massive pileup. nbc news correspondent shaquille brewster is following this story for us. shaq, what more are you learning? >> reporter: well, ana, we're expecting to hear from police, from illinois state police in just about half an hour or so. you mentioned that that stretch of highway, which is about 3 1/2 hours from here in chicago, just reopened this morning. it is a clear reflection of the scale of that pileup that was caused by what officials say is a pretty common occurrence. but that dustup, that dust storm on the highway causing deadly and unusual impact. >> oh, my god! oh, my god! oh, my god! right in front of us. >> i see. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: a blinding dust storm alo

ken dilanian joins us now. there's so much that's in here, these allegations.. it's stunning. >> it's remarkable. we knew this was bad. two commanders have been suspended. this is just really amazing, the idea that there are three separate instances documented in writing that he was doing something suspicious with classified information, putting a note in his pocket based on notes he took about classified information. >> they didn't take away his clearance. >> all they did was write it up. he went on his merry way. they didn't go in and investigate and see what was he doing online. if they had done that, they would have found out he was leaking classified information and posting racist and extremist things that didn't comport with somebody holding a secret clearance. >> this was the pentagon that cleared him. do they go through the intelligence community? is it done by the defense -- >> it's the same procedure. they fill out the form and they do a background check. i'm not sure -- i believe the pentagon has its own agency to vet people. this was a management pr

joining me now is nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian, please make sense of this for us. >>> i wish i could. this was just a stunning revelation in this new memo from the justice department which is arguing to keep teixeira in jail, and he's going to face a judge tomorrow who will decide whether he stays in jail pending trial, but in the course of making the case, the justice department revealed, as you said, that on three different occasions, teixeira was written up by his superiors for doing suspicious things with classified information, for, in one case, taking notes, in another case, doing a quote, deep dive into material he wasn't supposed to access, didn't need it as part of his job, and yet his access wasn't taken away. we know from being in workplaces that often things happen that don't get written up. we can only imagine what else people saw. what this makes very clear is that the air force had many chances to stop this leak. had they just simply begun looking at his social media after those incidents, they would have discovered that he was leaking m

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let's bring in nbc's ken dilanian with more. what's the latest on this?atter said a computer network that helps track down fugitives remains ouch service more than two months after nbc news first revealed it was hit by a ransomwear attack. now, the fact that the commuter system remains down was first reported by our friend develin barrett at "the washington post," which in his report described the impacted network as a stand alone system that contains cell phone and location data used to find targets. the post reported that the marshals did not pay the ransom. the ability to locate fugitives has been hampered, but they have used work arounds and have arrested thousands of fugitives since the attack in february. it wasn't immediately clear how much the outage is affecting the man hunt for the mass shooter in texas. it's apparent the marshals are not at 100% in terms of their ability to track which is a problem. the compromised network did not impact the witness security program or the marshal's mission to protect federal judges. >> ken dilanian, thank you.

joining us now is rehema ellis in long island, ken dilanian, garrett haake and former u.s.y paul charlton and ken dilanian here with me, ken, you read through this indictment. talk to me about the details of the charges and what might be added on. >> there are three separate buckets of charges here. one relates to allegations that he defrauded campaign finance system, misappropriated campaign funds for personal use, he solicited large donations that exceeded the legal limits. then out of left field, that he defrauded the unemployment system. he accepted benefits from the covid relief program in new york that he was not entitled to, $25,000. lastly, charged with lying on his house financial disclosure form. interestingly, he is charged with overstating his income, declaring $700,000 in income that he did not receive. that raises questions about where that money came from and what isn't in this indictment. >> that's money that showed up in his campaign. >> that's right. he loaned his campaign a large sum of money. >> he had no such income anyone could figure out. >> exactly.

nbc news justice and intel correspondent ken dilanian has been covering this case. that this dispute could make new law on what constitutes an illegal search in the digital age. tell us exactly what happened here. >> sure, this case may stretch the bounds of what's called the good faith exception to a problematic search warrant. brian jeffrey raymond was a cia officer based in mexico city, and back in 2020, a woman ran screaming from his apartment and claimed that she had been raped. the investigation that followed included agents going and seizing his iphones on which they found hundreds of incriminating photos, all sides agree they were incriminating of him with incapacitated women, sexually abusing them. he actually agreed to plead guilty last year to two charges in a plea deal, went to court, said he was guilty, but then his lawyers discovered some problems with the search, and he convinced a judge to allow him to withdraw that plea. and the issue was when they went to seize his phones, they didn't know how iphones worked, the agents from the state department, th

. >>> joining me now is nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian.ke this investigation is expanding with these new subpoenas. as you said, two sources told our wnbc colleague that the new subpoenas were not related to the meat company the original focus of the probe but instead seeking information about legislative changes in new jersey. and one of the new subpoenas went to a powerful new jersey mayer who is now saying, he issued a statement saying we cooperate. it is not clear what prompted these new information demands bit fbi but it doesn't seem like good news for the senator. as you will recall, the investigation started over whether questions menendez and his wife improperly took cash and gifts from the owners of that new jersey meat business. and the senator of course has denied wrongdoing, as have the company owners. the justice department and the fbi declined to comment. one of the big questions is how that meat company won an exclusive worldwide contract back in 2019 with egypt for islamic certification of imports. multiple sources telling

also nbc news senior capitol hill correspondent garrett haake, and ken dilanian, our nbc news justice correspondent. tell us more. >> reporter: yeah, katy, a lot going on here this afternoon. it was quite the scrum in terms o. number of cameras and reporters who were trying to get a word in edge wise with the freshman congressman, george santos, and finally he was able to make his way to the cameras with the microphones and many questions were asked, and one of the things, just towards the end there, he was asked about this $500,000 cash bond, which was put up by three unidentified people. his attorney joe murray said that in the courtroom, he was not going to identify those people because he was afraid about retaliation. just a few moments ago when he was asked to identify those people, george santos says essentially the questions you're asking me, i don't want you to ask them, that they're entitled to their privacy, and so he would not reveal that information. he waived his right to the reading of the indictment during this eleven minutes that he was before the judge in a packed cou

ken dilanian joins us now from the justice department with more. what can you tell us?they're calling this one of the biggest operations of its kind, spanning three continents. as you said, nearly 300 arrests. they say there were a total of 117 illegal firearms seized, more than 200,000 pills in the united states, many laced with fentanyl. so, i have to be candid with you, this is a marketing situation here with the justice department. a lot of the cases are old, they're announcing them because they're under a lot of pressure to show they're dealing with the fentanyl problem, which is killing 70,000 americans a year from overdoses. the attorney general merrick garland acknowledged there is a whac-a-mole situation here, they arrest all the people, other people come back in the dark web that the fentanyl continues to flow, but he said we're going to continue to whack. they need to do this stuff to send a message to criminals there is a price to be paid. what they didn't want to confront at this news conference, garland or the other officials, was one of the biggest proble

nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian has the details. >> reporter: good morninged with blistering criticism of the fbi, for its decision to open that investigation of the trump campaign, but critics say durham's investigation ultimately fell flat, even though it lasted more than a year longer than the actual russia investigation by special counsel robert mueller. durham brought just two criminal cases that ended in acquittals, and his report called for no major changes. this morning, the investigation that followed a political firestorm around the 2016 election -- >> a horrible, horrible, disgusting witch-hunt. >> reporter: -- finally wrapping up ahead of the next one. republicans saying it exposed serious wrongdoing by the fbi. >> the fbi has an awful lot of work to do. >> reporter: while democrats call it a rehash that didn't live up to its billing. >> the investigation of the investigators by durham revealed little to nothing. >> reporter: mr. trump on his truth social website saying the american public was scammed. but the report, though highly critical of th

that was nbc's ken dilanian with the report.se photographed with his feet on a desk of then speaker nancy pelosi's during the insurrection has been sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison, as well. >>> florida governor and 2024 hopeful ron desantis promises if elected president, he, like donald trump, would consider pardoning some of the convicts who rioted on charges related to january 6th insurrection at the capitol. he made the comments on a radio show. take a listen. >> the doj and fbi have been weaponized. we see that. we see some of what you mentioned. some is the fbi going after parents going to school board meetings. some is how they treat a pro-life demonstrator, how they don't go after people attacking pro lifers. what i'm going to do, day one, i will have folks that will get together and look at all these cases who people are victims of weaponization or political targeting, and we will be aggressive at issuing pardons. now, some of these cases, some people may have a technical violation of the law, but if there are three o

that was nbc's ken dilanian with the report. as we told you yesterday, the writer whose photographed with his feet on a desk of then speaker nancy pelosi's during the insurrection has been sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison, as well. >>> floridagovenor and 2024 hopeful donald trump said he'd pardon some of the rioters from january 6th at the capitol. he made the comments on a radio show. >> it's been weaponized. we see some of what you mentioned. some is the fbi going after parents going to school board meetings. some is how they treat a pro-life demonstrator, how they don't go after people attacking pro lifers. what i'm going to do, day one, i will have folks that will get together and look at all these cases who people are victims of weaponization or political targeting, and we will be aggressive at issuing pardons. now, some of these cases, some people may have a technical violation of the law, but if there are three other people who did the same thing but in a context of blm and they don't get prosecuted at all, that is unev

nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian has been following it from the beginning. ken, there are also new court filings, right, that show -- confirming a disturbing video published by "the washington post" involving teixeira. walk us through what it shows and how could that play into today's hearing? >> reporter: yeah, vicky, the video is horrific and it shows teixeira uttering racial slurs and then turning and firing an assault rifle in what he calls a mag dump. emptying it of ammunition and the prosecution is pointing to this as evidence that this is not some naive young man who well intended, who didn't mean for these documents to get out to the broader public. what they're says here is this guy was hiding his true character. that he's a bad guy, that he's a racist and extremist and fascinated with weapons and mass shootings. his lawyers on the other hand argue that he's an understanding member of the community and they want him to be released to his father's house with no access to the internet or weapons, but prosecutors say he's a flight risk and they worry

joining me now is nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent, ken dilanian.rs believe he might have been after the president? >> we're told this 19-year-old suspect who's from missouri made incriminating statements at the scene that led investigators to believe he was seeking to harm the president. and he is now facing some serious charges including intent to harm the president and other related charges. i'm also told he flew from st. louis to dulles airport where he rented that u-haul truck in which they found a nazi flag. so and they're looking into his background and whether he has mental health issues. he had no weapons. no real danger to the president, but this caused a big rucous. it's just another example of people who are potentially mentally disturbed sort of veering into actually acting on whatever fantasies they are living under and in this case, right in the heart of washington, d.c. crashed his u-hall into a barrier about a block from the white house. >> i'm going to have you attach your microphone back. i think it fell off at some point. i want

joining us now is ken dilanian and former u.s. attorney paul charlton. ken, take us through it.n't want to infer too much. but there seem to be indications, at least according to this, that jack smith is getting closer to a decision stage and looking at obstruction. that's pretty clear. there could be a number of motivations for moving boxes. the inference in this reporting is, according to those familiar, that it was to move them away from where they could be observed easily by the fbi coming to bring them back to the national archives. >> you put your finger on what this report does say and what it doesn't say. what it suggests, it raises questions about a series of actions that look like hiding the ball. it looked like people were trying to keep classified documents away from investigators. at this point, there wasn't a subpoena, but the archives were asking for the records. the day after the boxes were allegedly moved, a justice department lawyer came with a subpoena and was actually -- he went to this storage room but was not allowed to open the boxes. the thing that this s

joining me is nbc news correspondent, ken dilanian, our justice correspondent and legal analyst barbara a moment ago. it was highly anticipated. what did we learn from it? >> we're still trying to determine exactly what's new in here, katy, as we go through this 300-page exhaustive report, but the argument that john durham is making here is an argument he has made before which is essentially that he doesn't believe the fbi was fully justified in opening that counter intelligence investigation code named cross fire hurricane back in 2016 into the trump campaign. he says the fbi acted hastily and on uncorroborated, raw information. there was over information about the hillary clinton campaign, involving a foreign government that wanted to try to influence them that the fbi didn't react to in similar ways. one of the most important things to know about this report is that this is directly contradicted by a 2019 report by the justice department's inspector general, which also looked into all of these events and interviewed a lot of these people, and concluded that the fbi was justified in o

. >> with us now to take a closer look, nbc news justice and ken dilanian and philip mudd, former senior from this report? there were some troubling things coming out of it. >> reporter: yeah, there were, jose. but it didn't break a lot of new ground because the department of justice inspector general had already exhaustively examined this investigation and published a report back in 2019 that identified a lot of failures and misjudgments by the fbi, mostly by fbi personnel who no longer work at the bureau. the fbi says they made a number of improvements. what's significant really is that this was the special counsel. he was supposed to find criminal -- potential criminality here if you listen to donald trump and his allies that the fbi conspired and acted out of political bias and sought to frame essentially the former president and his allies. well, durham didn't find any of that. he didn't find that any particular fbi agent acted out of political bias. he did accuse the fbi of confirmation bias, being too credulous about believing evidence that supports their thesis. the justice depar

ken dilanian is live for us from u.s. what do we know? >> his federal public defender did file a request for a delay saying she needed more time to prepare a release plan. it's not clear the hearing will proceed today as scheduled but a memo that federal prosecutors filed friday in support of keeping him behind bars say he kept a journal that included a speech that he planned to give had he taken over the government after the crash. the memo quotes a passage describing a post democratic united states. he addresses my fellow citizens of america and was going to announce the u.s. was no longer a democracy and any opposition will be met with the death penalty. he added there shall be consequences if civil unrest happens. also that he told the secret service after he was arrested his plan was to kill the president and seize power and that he admired the nazis. so not a well person. we'll wait and see about the detention hearing. thank you for that. >>> the defamed thernos founder, elizabeth holmes, just arrived to begin serving an 11-year sen

nbc news justice intelligence correspondent ken dilanian and also nbc legal analyst. ryan, what do we know at this moment? >> reporter: we know the jury will be delivering this verdict at any moment now. it's a partial verdict. we are expecting any second to find out what those initial conclusions were. we know after they deliver this verdict, whatever counts were outstanding, the judge is going order them to deliberate those counts. right now, we're unsure what counts they were able to reach a conclusion on, any one of the counts. and which ones they're still split on. they need to continue to deliberate and see if any of the holdouts on either side there were in the minority of the jurors will be able to ultimately move away from or be convinced of. being that they have been deliberating for about a week now, although there have been some half days mixed in there, i think when they go back, it will be a bit of a challenge. and that's why the judge at the beginning of this instructed them not to come in with any firm decisions and not to go too hard with their opinio

joining me now is nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent, ken dilanian.wsuit. >> disturbing. she says in the 70-page complaint that after he hired her, he sexually assaulted her, harassed her, refused to pay her wages and made sexist and antisemitic remarks. she's seeking $10 million in compensatory damages. she said he hired her and would pay her $10 million a year. the suit alleges that he told her he was selling pardons for $2 million and he and president trump would split is money. as you said, giuliani is flatly denying these allegations who said his lifetime of public service speaks for itself and he will pursue all available remedies and counterclaims. >> thank you so much. and joining me now is former press secretary and spokesman for giuliani's 1993 mayoral campaign. ken was a recent consultant on a documentary about giuliani. ken, i want to start with you before we get to danny with the details of this lawsuit. from what you read, does this sound like the rudy giuliani that you know? >> no. it doesn't. i never knew rudy to use such crude languag

nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian has the details. >> reporter: prosecutors called them the key instigators of the january 6th assault on the u.s. capitol. >> american citizens are storming the capitol. >> reporter: after a three-month trial a jury just found five members of the notorious extremist group the proud boy guilty of most of the charges against them. four of the five defendants including the group's former leader enrique tarrio were convicted of seditious conspiracy, a civil war era law making it a crime to violently resist the authority of the u.s. government. four were convicted of trying to obstruct the certification of president biden's electoral college victory, and all five were convicted of interfering with the duties of the members of congress. many of whom found themselves running for their lives on january 6th. >> today's verdict makes clear that the justice department will do everything in its power to defend the american people and american democracy. >> the evidence coming in some cases from the defendants' own mouths. >> january 6th w

let's talk about it with ken dilanian. and also a former federal and state prosecutor from new york. good to have you both here. and so ken, what more do we know about penny's decision and when this grand jury testimony could take place? >> "new york times" is reporting that penny is expected to testify sometime next month and that the decision appears to reflect confidence among his legal advisers that he has a helpful story to tell, that he can persuade grand jurors that his actions were justified perhaps because he felt threatened. the backdrop is although prosecutors have charged him with manslaughter, they still need a grand jury indictment to take the case to trial. so they will have to convince grand jurors there is probable cause to believe penny wasn't acting in self-defense and that he consciously disregarded the potential fatal risks to jordan neely. the question of self-defense, there is no indication that neely attacked anyone on the train although witnesses did say that he was acting in a threatening manner. a

nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian has been following this from the beginning, ken, as you sort of turn through the pages, 306 of them, of this, what did you see inside? any new revelations? any bombshells to your reading? >> willie, there was some new information, really only meaningful for us who are following every little twist and turn of this. but the thing that was most remarkable to me about this report is that john durham did not even actually come out and say that the fbi should not have opened that investigation after george papadopoulos, the trump aid, told an australian diplomat the russians had offered to help the clinton campaign. he didn't even go as far as he did when the justice department ig report was released that you mentioned. at that time, durham issued a shocking, public statement. prosecutors don't do this. he issued a public statement saying he disagreed with the ig's conclusion that the investigation was justified. but he seemed to have walked back that conclusion because i didn't see it anywhere explicitly in this report. now, he cri

he nbc news justice correspondent ken dilanian is with us.harges that are being weighed? >> good morning, yasmin, the suspect made a first appearance in d.c. superior court yesterday. and as of now, he's only been charged with degradation of government property. additional charges can be added later. it's not clear if that could happen today. initially he'd be charged with threatening to harm the president. authorities say in court documents that kandula flew from st. louis to dulles airport outside of washington, d.c., monday evening where he rented that u-haul and drove straight to the white house. that's where he allegedly crashed the truck into a barrier a block from the presidential residence. during an interview, kandula said his goal was to get to the white house, seize power and be put in charge of the nation. when agents asked him how he would seize power, he said he would kill the president if that's what i have to do and hurt anyone that would stand in my way. the documents also say kandula removed that nazi flag from the truck aft

nbc news that not verified the reporting but joining meet now is ken dilanian. so what can we say?rting that walt nada moved boxes and told two different stories about whether donald trump told him to move those boxes or not. and that is why he is not cooperating right now and is at risk of being charged with false statements. we have not confirmed the second account of the person that helped him, but the real question in all these stories about moving boxes is what was this? and does this connect to touchdown? was this a scheme to hide classified documents from investigators? we haven't seen any real evidence in any of the stories that add up to that, but that is the big question. that is what prosecutors are trying to determine. it looks like there were efforts made to withhold some of these documents. and donald trump has said publicly that he considered these to be his documents. he was in a dispute with the national archives and that he had every right to withhold them, but if he hit classified documents particularly after a subpoena was dropped on him by the department of jus

joining me now is justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian. and be under the care of his father or whether he should remain behind bars. doj is saying you have to keep him behind bars, he is a threat. tell me what the judge just said. >> magistrate judge david hensee ruled with the government to keep jack teixeira in jail. this was a difficult for the government to meet the burden. but the justice department argued over two detention hearings that jack teixeira posed a danger to the public and to u.s. national security. this is video there that they pointed to that was obtained by "the washington post" where he uttered a horrific series of racial slurs and fired his weapon in what he called a mag dump, emptying all the ammo. this was a person, according to the justice department, who was fascinated with mass shooters. and a judge cited that in his comments. he said he was concerned about two things. one is his fascination with firearms. and secondly, what the judge said was his lack of candor and integrity. the record is replete with examples

i want to bring in nbc justice correspondent, ken dilanian. only did the judge hand down this really long sentence, he had some pretty pointed words for stewart rhodes. >> that's right, yasmin. the judge imposed the stiffest sentence yet in a january 6th case, in part because he said rhodes poses a continuing threat to the country. attorney general merrick garland said afterward that the sentences imposed on rhodes and his top deputy reflect the grave threat their actions pose to our democratic institutions and he vowed that the justice department will continue holding accountable those criminally responsible for the attack. >> it's the longest sentence imposed on any january 6th defendant so far. oath keepers founder stewart rhodes given 18 years in prison in connection with the attack on the nation's capital. rhodes, a former army para trooper with a yale law degree was sentenced after being convicted of seditious conspiracy using violence to prevent the government from carrying out its lawful duties. rhodes was not physically present at cap