it is good to be back with you on this second hour. at this hour, the fbi informant whose claims about a biden bribery scream became the heart of the gop's impeachment inquiry now heading to court. plus, years after releasing american military secrets, wikileaks founder, julian assange, makes a last ditch bid to avoid extradition back to the u.s. we are live outside the courthouse in london. gridlock over gaza. the u.s. vetoes another u.n. cease fire resolution, pushing an alternate plan instead. can that pass? and new details about a double murder at a colorado college dorm. police say the suspect wasn't just a student at the school. he was also one of the victim's roommates. our nbc news reporters are following all the latest. we begin with ryan riley

covering that former fbi informant accused of making up serious accusations about the bidens. ryan, alexander smirnoff is scheduled to be in court later today. what more can you tell us? >> reporter: we know now that he's an american citizen and holds an israeli passport. he's in american custody as he's held. so this is a case that's going to unfold at 3:00 p.m. local time in nevada and we're going to hear arguments from his defense lawyer to say he should be released pretrial. that he has a long standing relationship with his girlfriend who he's known for many years and is not a threat. but you know, he is informed on several cases previously so that's probably why that protective custody is in place. he was an fbi informant until 2010 so you can imagine that some other people who make caught some cases wouldn't be so thrilled finding out this person they had met maybe played a role perhaps in one of the cases they

are investigating here. but it really was the heart of this gop investigation. in fact, over the summer, these false allegations were the center of this effort to hold the fbi director in contempt and threatening to hold him in contempt unless he released these documents. republicans cited this information from this informant over and over again. it was the thing they pointed to that said this is the most reliable information that we had. this is what gives it credibility here because this was all coming from an fbi informant. what the government allegations now is that all of that was just made up. >> ryan riley, thank you for that. now to london where julian assange is facing a critical decision on his future. josh letterman is there. when may we find out what the decision is here? >> reporter: well, chris, you could call this julian assange's last stand in his extradition battle that has been going on now for more than a decade. including seven years he spent holed up in ecuadoran embassy

here in london. he has been in prison for several years since then. in court today at the royal courts of justice behind me, his lawyers argued that the u.s. is trying to prosecute assange as a result of his work as a journalist. as a publisher. and as a whistleblower against what they describe as crimes by the u.s. government. and of course conducting the wars in iraq and afghanistan. we heard from his wife today laying out what she sees as the stakes in this case. take a listen. >> it's only a handful of us in that room but you understand what this is about. you, us, the public's right to know. the right to be able to speak freely without being put in prison and hounded and terrorized by the state. >> reporter: tomorrow in court,

the u.s. will have its chance to make its case which the u.s. is expected to say that assange caused grave damage by conspireing with chelsea manning to obtain massive amounts of u.s. classified documents, put them out for the public that risked the lives of american citizens. at the end of that hearing, the judge will be able to rule on whether to grant a full appeal to extradition to julian assange. if that request for an appeal is turned down, chris, there will be nothing standing between julian assange being put on a plane and brought to the u.s. to face those 17 counts of espionage. >> josh, thank you. the u.s. has vetoed a u.n. security council push for a cease fire in gaza, proposing its own instead. raf, tell us about these two proposals and how they're different. >> reporter: so, chris, the

resolution the united states vetoed earlier today was put forward by algeria and calls for immediate cease fire in gaza without preconditions. the american resolution which hasn't been put to a vote yet calls for a cease fire in gaza but ties it to a deal to release the hostages to get more humanitarian aid into gaza. now, there are 15 countries on the u.n. security council. 13 of them voted in favor of this resolution. the u.k., a close american ally, abstained. so it was the u.s. casting this vote that ultimately torpedoed this resolution. linda thomas greenfield says she understands the world's impatience to see an end to the fighting but felt this resolution would be counterproductive. take a listen. >> believe me, i understand the

desire for the council to act urgently. still, that desire cannot blind us to the reality of the situation on the ground. and it cannot come at the expense of undermining the only, and let me repeat, the only path available toward a longer, durable peace. we believe that the resolution on the table right now would in fact negatively impact those negotiations. >> reporter: now, chris, this is the third time that the u.s. has vetoed cease fire resolutions at the u.n. security council. the third time the united states has appeared pretty diplomatically isolated in the chamber. you've heard criticism from american allies in the middle east including the egyptians who say they wanted to see that cease fire go through. here in israel, there is not much indication the israeli

government is feeling a lot of pressure from the biden administration to bring this war to an end. we have heard american officials from the president on down warning israel not to move ahead with a planned assault on the city of rafah where half the population is currently sheltering. unless there is a credible plan to move those civilians out of harm's way, but we are also hearing every day from israeli officials that they are planning to move ahead with that offensive. just a quick word on the hostage negotiations. hamas' political chief did arrive in cairo today for talks but we are hearing from israeli officials that these talks remain gridlocked on a broad range of issues and there's not a lot of optimism for breakthrough. >> thank you. we're learning more about the suspect accused of gunning down two people inside a dorm at the university of colorado's colorado springs campus.

>> in the next hour and a half or so, the suspect, 25-year-old nicholas jordan, will appear before a judge for the first time so we're hoping to gain more insight on what motivated this horrific shooting on friday. there were two victims shot dead in a dorm room. a 24-year-old and a 26-year-old. and while there's been little information provided around the possible motive, police are telling me that not only was the suspect a student at the university of uccs, but he was the roommate to one of the victims, sam, and that the shooting happened inside their dorm room. there were dozens of people on the campus yesterday, gathering, walking in memory of the two victims. here's more from one of the friends. >> he meant a lot to the people in the community. also his guitar playing.

probably the most talented guitarist i've ever met and a talent taken from us too soon. >> the suspected murderer is facing two counts of first degree murder. he is currently being held on a $1 million bail. you can see him on your screen. nicholas jordan, a detroit native. police say they took him into custody yesterday morning at 8:00 a.m., a few miles from the campus. he had been in a car. they had used a number of different methods in trying to track him down. something they had been doing for three days before they did manage to track him down and arrest him. we should learn more information as this investigation remains active and ongoing, chris. >> thank you. in 60 seconds, the masses and rare international operation to take down the most notorious cyber crime gang in the world. t cyber crime gang in the world.

the fbi and some of our top international allies just seized the dark website of the most prolific ransom ware gang in the world. the group, lock bit, is known for stealing victims' sensitive data and threatening to leak it if they don't pay a price. they have an extensive rap sheet. more than 2,000 victims including the world's largest bank, boeing, even cyber attacks on a children's hospital in chicago, and hacking computers and phone systems in fulton county, georgia, where donald trump is facing charges. i want to bring in nbc news justice correspondent, ken dilanian, also, glenn kirschner. merrick garland said they are quote, taking away the keys to the operation. what do we know about the bust? >> yeah, this justice department

is touting this as a major takedown. they've charged a total of five people and they used a court order to seize control of a site on the dark web where criminals could purchase this ransomware to extort victims. this was a really ruthless group that targeted children's hospitals, schools, and government agencies. here's more from attorney general merrick garland. >> it's not the first ransomware variant we have dismantled. it will not be the last. >> it's worth pointing out that one enforcement action however important is not going to stop the problem, which has been growing by the year and is at record levels. >> yeah, so what's in place to make sure this doesn't happen again or even members of lock bit who may still be out there just starting up again? >> you know, you've put your finger on the real problem here. these are russian nationals. the two men charged today who are in russia outside the reach of the justice system.

as long as russia turns a blind eye to cyber criminals, there's nothing from stopping these men from trying to establish another ransomware gang. it's a bit of a whack a mole situation, but that doesn't mean authorities will stop trying to bring these people to justice. >> so they get to the biggest bank in the world. and boeing, a children's hospital. what are the legal ramify cases here? >> as you and ken have put your finger on, one of the challenges is when the department of justice indicts russian nationals, refresh her recollection, they are largely beyond the reach of the u.s. system. i think the doj press release says this brings to five the number of lock bit nefarious actors who have been indicted. i think only two are in custody. one in canada pending extradition to the united states. the others may remain beyond the

reach of the u.s. government and the criminal justice system. and you know, as fast as the department of justice can attack the ransomware problem, these bad actors can adapt quickly. can relaunch new sites on the dark web and can continue. this nefarious operation and it's not only children's hospitals and boeing. they actually attack the washington, d.c. metropolitan police department. they've attacked manufacturing companies. logistics companies, insurance companies. and indeed, fulton county municipal government was also the subject of a malware attack. >> what are the implications for places like say fulton county? it is the center of one of the biggest and most consequential cases anywhere in the united states, right? the vulnerabilities that are there. if a place like boeing can get hacked, if a place like the biggest bank can get hacked, what are the implications for

let's say a courthouse in fulton county, georgia? >> yeah, when i read some of the atlanta journal constitution's reporting on the malware attack on the fulton county municipal offices, it said that you know, some of the court documents in some of the cases down there had been put up on the dark web. there were ransom demands made and as of last friday, those documents were pulled down, which leads to at least the inference or the suggestion that perhaps the ransomware had been paid. now, i will say municipal governments, companies, and businesses, many of them purchase insurance against cybersecurity attacks to deal with this exact problem, but chris, you know, this whole prosecutor shutters when i think of criminal investigations and prosecutions being compromised and having information revealed or put up on the dark web. that could compromise with this security, it could compromise

grand jury secret materials like transcripts of the testimony behind closed doors of witnesses and if that information gets compromised, that can spell real damage potentially to ongoing criminal prosecutions. >> thank you both so much. here in new york, jury selection is underway in the drug trafficking trial of a former president of honduras tied to tons and tons of cocaine coming into the u.s. juan orlando hernandez known as joh led that central american country from 2014 until 2022, but the doj said he ran it as a narco state while taking millions in bribes from cartels. guad venegas has more. >> reporter: he is accused of working with drug organizations. some of the details shared by the justice department accuse him of working with cartels as

the loa one which in 2013 was led by el chappo guzman. back then when hernandez was running for president, he spent him a million dollars that he would protect his drug shipment. he's also accused of using the police to protect those drug shipments. this is the same time during which he was president and honduras received aid from the united states to fight the drug traffickers. now, he's facing three different charges for weapons possessions and drug trafficking. if found guilty, he could face 40 years as a minimum but up to a life sentence. now, his brother has already been found guilty of drug trafficking and a police chief that has been accused with him was expected to face trial with him but that police chief has

now pleaded guilty so the ex-president will face this trial by himself. so we have the jury selection that began today and it's going to be difficult for both the defense and prosecutors to find those jurors that would be impartial because this is a famous individual. this is an ex-president, but it will be really interesting to see as the trial moves forward how the information of his brother who's serving a life sentence and also guzman and others will be brought into the case. also, what type of evidence could be presented by prosecutors. the ex-president's wife has been speaking to the media, indicating that she believes prosecutors are relying on the testimony of drug dealers that have spoken to the government and that she says cannot be trusted. so there will be a lot of attention on any possible evidence that could be brought forward by the prosecutors, chris. >> fascinating stuff. thank you. in haiti, a truly shocking development. the country's former first lady

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is an unconscionable attack on a free press. this comes weeks after putin in an interview with tucker carlson said he was open to a prisoner exchange without specifying any demands. in ukraine meantime, officials are raising new concerns about the largest nuclear power plant in europe, which is currently under russian control. the ukrainian military on sunday said it beat back waves of russian attacks on zaporizhzhia. not far from that plant, which is now considered the most dangerous nuclear facility on earth. it comes as russian forces report their biggest battlefield gain in months, forcing ukraine to retreat from territory it fought for months to reclaim. nbc's richard engel is reporting from ukraine for us. tell us more about the situation around the nuclear plant and this new momentum for russia's military, richard. >> reporter: so first i'll start with the nuclear plant. so the zaporizhzhia nuclear

power plant is right on the front line. it is outside the city of zaporizhzhia on the river and one side of the river bank, the side where the plant is, is controlled by russian troops. and the other side, so really not far away, just a river separating them, are ukrainian forces. this nuclear power plant, which is large, it is semi shutdown right now. in a kind of safe mode, but it is still full of nuclear material and the iaea, ukrainian officials, have all been sounding the alarm saying that it is effectively a ticking time bomb and they point to three main reasons. we spoke to the director general of the iaea who says this is his most concerning nuclear facility in the world. so more than anything in iran or north korea, it is this facility here in ukraine. it was when active, the biggest in all of europe. they pointed to three main areas

of concern. one, the fact that it's in a war zone and they're all related to the war, but the fact that it's close to the front line means that something could hit. a deliberate attack, a saab sabotage attack, and any attack on a nuclear facility comes with risk. two, staffing crisis. when the russians took it over, they brought in their own management and they according to ukrainian scientists who worked at the plant, administrators who worked at the plant who we interviewed, when the russians came in, they came in taking over the plant. so the ukrainian staff, loyal to the ukrainian government, some of them didn't want to cooperate. some didn't want to work. system didn't want to collaborate. others decided they should stay at the plant in order to keep it safe and functioning. there was this real moral dilemma for the ukrainian staff and they say that when they

refused to cooperate, the russians abused them, pressured them. in some cases, tortured them. and many of the ukrainians left. so russia was forced to bring in more personnel and it's an extraordinary situation where you had before, around 11,000 people working at the plant and now, only around 4,000 and some of them are working under the threat of violence. so, not an ideal working environment for a nuclear power plant under any circumstances. not enough people and some of them working under the threat of torture. the third, which i think is probably the most acute concern, is power cut. there have been eight blackouts to this power plant recently. it still needs electricity to cool the uranium reactors and it is depending on outside electricity. there are four main powerlines coming from outside of the plant

and three of them are not working. the fourth is defective. when there have been these eight power blackouts, the generators, and there are 20 diesel generators at the facility, have kicked in. that's the last line of defense. officials are very concerned of what happens if they don't kick in next time and you could have a meltdown similar to what happened in fukushima. >> terrifying. while we have you, the mother of alexei navalny is appealing dregtly to putin to release her son's body. there we're seeing the video of that plea. where does that stand? >> reporter: well, the russian government says that yes, it does have alexei navalny's body and it is carrying out normal tests to determine his cause of death. the mother does not believe that. the widow, his wife, does not

believe that. his supporters don't believe that. they believe that russia is still holding on to the body and not releasing it to the family in order to cover up what happened and they believe that navalny was assassinated in jail. they don't accept this idea that it was the long-term pressure of being in prison. although that is still a possibility, but they are at this stage, seem to be suggesting some sort of active measure was taken. even though he was in a penal colony in siberia. he had been held in other locations. he spent about 300 days in solitary confinement, given little food, access to medical care. so harsh conditions. but his, his inner circle believe that something even more sinister happened than just keeping him in dungeon like conditions. they believe that special

operations, intelligence operatives, went to the prison and carried out some sort of assassination plot, which russia denies and which the navalny camp says it is working very hard to try and nail down. to try and solve this what is still a mystery. >> richard engel, thank you. while navalny's mysterious death in prison continues to stoke global controversy including here in the u.s., where some notable conservatives were inclined to condemn. former president trump instead comparing himself to navalny yesterday, saying his own legal troubles are tantamount to political persecution. joining us now, a "washington post" national investigative reporter and msnbc contributor. you know, joe biden, nikki haley, many others have harshly criticized trump for at least not condemning navalny's death, let alone saying anything about

putin. as your paper points out, avoiding this is something donald trump has consistently avoided, right? including while president. >> absolutely, chris. i can think of a few examples. one that sticks out is when the british government recognized there had been an attempted assassination with novichok on a former kgb spy that putin had taken um bridge at his defection and had wanted for a long time to quote unquote get him. and the attempted assassination of that spy on british soil really offended our ally, like how could this have happened? that the government send in a special ops force to kill someone who's living here. they looked to the united states for support and did not find it in donald trump, who did nothing

to condemn that action against our ally and on their soil. and in this case, what i find so fascinating is that you know, president trump wakes up every morning, former president trump wakes up every morning, thinking about the news cycle. he did that to great effect while president. he wakes up and sees that the news is all about navalny and he finds a way to connect himself to that news as unpleasant the connection may be to critics of putin and people are concerned about the likelihood that navalny was assassinated on his orders. so donald trump again like sort of inserting himself into the news by saying yeah, this guy's death is a lot like my political persecution. which is offensive probably to anybody who's related to navalny and cares about his cause. >> and democrats are arguing i think any observer would argue watching this, you couldn't get two people more apart who are

running for president than joe biden and donald trump are on this. president biden gave that forceful speech from the white house after navalny's death, hailing him as a hero. very bluntly blaming putin, tieing all that directly to the necessity for ukraine aid. you've written as we often talk about, multiple books on former president trump. what's his play with putin and what is his success in convincing his supporters that he's on the right side of this? >> well, chris, find that question a really good one but also really hard to answer. there's never been a sort of guiding principle with donald trump about why he is in favor of whatever putin pulls around the globe. the only thing that we know is his own sons saying before donald trump became president that we rely a lot on russian funding. a lot of our deals have russian

money inside or behind them. we've never understood there's any logical platform that sort of knits donald trump to putin's autocratic ways. we know donald trump really likes autocrats. had sort of a bromance with many of them while president. but i know that there's some strategy here other than him liking people who are forceful and who do exactly what they want via criticism be damned. then of course the tip off that his sons gave, which is that a lot of the trump organization deals relied on russian financing. >> carol, always so good to have you on the program. thank you. coming up, prominent election deniers are running in 2024. they could be on your local ballot, but you might have a harder time figuring out who they are. we'll explain after this. who they are we'll explain after this

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million that julian is is now on the hook for. shortly after, he filed for bankruptcy in new york. but now f he wants to appeal that original verdict, this judge is saying he's going to have to use someone else's funds. he has set up two separate legal entities to sort of raise money for this, but what the judge is saying essentially here is that these fees for the appeal should not be coming out of his existing assets. in other words, he shouldn't be spending money that basically he owes to shaye moss and ruby freeman in order to appeal this verdict. so he's going to have to raise money from these outside entities in order to appeal that going forward. ultimately, this is going to take a while to play out, but basically his funds are frozen up because of this ongoing bankruptcy proceeding here. so you can expect him to try to fund raise for some of these expenditures going forward to appeal this finding. and he's going to have to get that moving because right now,

he's on that hook for $146 million, chris. >> ryan riley, thank you for that. while election deniers could be on the ballot in your state and you might not realize it. nbc news reporting finds that at least 17 republican candidates who put false claims about the 2020 election at the center of their campaigns in 2022 or '23 are running for office again this year. but this time, most of them are avoiding harsher rhetoric in favor of ideas like election security or integrity. garrett haake is following this for us. eugene daniels is here as well. all right, garrett, tell us more about this new messaging and who exactly is using it? >> reporter: i think there are two factors at play here. first, the idea that the election was stolen has become orthodoxy within the republican party. so directly talking about this issue as much in 2024 as

candidates did in 2022 isn't seen as necessary. you can kind of use these code phrases like election integrity or election security. the other thing many of these candidates, folks like kari lake and some other candidates down ballot in arizona, even someone like doug mastriano who lost in pennsylvania running for a state senate seat there, have found that making your campaign expressley about a stolen election or the perception of a stolen election several years ago is an electoral loser in a general election. so to the degree that these candidates still find this issue appealing, they're finding it more appealing in a primary and less so in big, statewide races like arizona. that maybe why someone like kari lake doesn't have anything about this topic on her campaign website. >> interesting. eugene, what do you think is behind this let's call it a shift in messaging? >> that's right. it was very clear in 2022 that

it's not actually something you can run on and win. with any issue, you tweak it. you change it to try to make it more palatable to voters. whether it be how you talk about abortion or how you talk about voting rights when you're running for office. they know that they have to in some way talk about it to be in donald trump's good graces. you have him at the top of the likely top of this ticket come november who's going to be talking about 2020, lying and saying that the election was stolen over and over and over again. and so the rest of them have to figure out a way to make it palatable for people that are moderate. when you say something like election security, election integrity, when someone hears that, they don't think like they do, oh, they are clearly talking about 2020 and this lie that the election is stolen. they weren't really talking about election security before that because our elections were

secure in 2020. i will say for democrats, this is kind of a gift, right? obviously, they don't want election deniers running for office but if they're going to do it, this is something that democrats and the biden campaign, the dnc, have been using to bludgeon republicans all across the country. saying they're a danger to democracy, that they want to do things to our democracy that have never been done before. as they head into this and talk about election security, democrats have a chance to make these code words easily discernible for voters as we move closer to november. >> especially eugene when you consider that many of those 17 republican candidates are in swing states and i mean, democrats can definitely talk about it but something tells me in the back of my long decades experience of covering political campaigns we're going to see a proliferation of ads with videos from previous campaigns.

of these folks not using the code term like you know, election integrity, but saying the 2020 election was stolen. >> yeah. that's exactly right. i was just in south carolina at my grandmother's house and over and over and over again, it's a reminder in d.c., we don't get those ads, but in states like south carolina, you continue to get those over and over again. voters are going to get hit over the head for months and months and the dnc has gotten better at that. at sticking to a message and making sure voters see it over and over again. they're going to see it this digital ads. ads on television. candidates are going to talk about it up and down the ballot. candidates will say this is what they're saying now, but this is what they mean. that's what voters are going to continue to hear over and over again. >> when you say grandmother, house, south carolina, my brain doesn't go to politics.

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investigating how a u.s. reaper drone fell out of the sky. the houthis claimed they shot it down showing flashes of light in the night sky then drone wreckage washing up on shore. courtney is reporting to us from the pentagon. this would be the latest in a series of attacks by the houthis. what more do we know about this? >> reporter: that's right, chris. the deputy press secretary just moments ago at the briefing said that in fact, the u.s. does believe that a houthi surface to air missile shut down that reaper drone yesterday near the port city. now this isn't the first time that the houthis have been able to down a u.s. drone. several months ago, they shot another one down but as you can see from the video released by the houthis, they are claiming not only did they shoot it down, but they now have position of it, saying they still have not recovered it. you're right to say there has really been a back and forth between the u.s. and the houthis

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