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"chris jansing reports." at this hour, two debates that could shake the final months of the race for the white house. donald trump and joe biden agree to go one on one with a moderator no audience. our brand new reporting at the back channel conversations that took place between the campaigns. where is rudy giuliani? prosecutors say they're trying to serve him with an arizona indictment but they can't find him, and it's not for lack of trying. we'll explain. plus we've got new details about the ship that caused the baltimore bridge collapse. what we're learning about power blackouts on board the day before the accident. and markets rising to all time highs after the u.s. releases a key inflation report. what it all means for your bottom line. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments and we start with the date. at least tentatively set for the first biden/trump debate of 2024. nbc's mike memoli is at the white house.

we just learned there have been these back channel discussions between campaigns about these debates. what do we know about how all of this came about? >> well, chris, this came together pretty quickly. maybe a little too quickly. it turns out that the teams for both the president and the former president have been having some informal conversations over the last few weeks about getting to this point. you know what kicked it off. it was out of all things howard stern. president biden did that interview with the talk radio host when he was in new york just a few weeks ago. it was there for the first time that the president committed that he would be willing to debate donald trump. that kicked off the biden team, the impetus to get the conversation going. we saw the biden campaign putting out the memo, laying out the terms earlier than the commission on presidential debates composed. we saw things fall into place. cnn agreeing to host the first debate. abc on september 10th.

we're seeing the emergence of debates over debate. donald trump posing another debate hosted by fox news in october. we expect to hear from the biden team on that. the biden team's criteria ruled out fox as a media sponsor because they did not sponsor a debate in 2020. when you look at the stakes, it couldn't be higher. the biden team did want to seize on this day, a day where donald trump would not be facing his trial. they have the media spotlight to themselves. so they proposed this, and they really want to accelerate, chris, this choice for voters as a binary choice between joe biden and donald trump. what better way than to have them on a debate stage together to crystallize for voters that this is the choice this november. >> mike, let me ask you a question, and i'm going to ask the control room to put that graphic back up. not decided yet, it says moderators, does that mean it could be more than one moderator or we don't know who the person is? >> we don't know yet. this is why, when we see the

terms have been agreed to for these two debates, there's more room for maneuvering here, chris. i wouldn't necessarily put this into stone. there will be opportunities, potentially, for both campaigns to object to certain parameters here. at least we have the broad contours of these discussions. cnn putting out some of the terms, interestingly, which would rule out rfk jr., a third party spoiler. one of the criteria for the june debate, you have to be on enough state ballots to qualify to have 270 electoral votes. rfk might not get there by june. that puts him out of the running and we have seen the campaign responding, this is an effort to put him on the sidelines. >> mike memoli, more to come. thank you so much. arizona prosecutors are having a tough time tracking down rudy giuliani. they want to serve him with papers that he has been indicted. vaughn hillyard covering this story for us. what's going on here? >> there's a lengthy list of

individuals who were indicted three weeks ago, stemming from the alleged efforts to overturn arizona's 2020 election, and send a fake slate of electors to be counted on june 26th, 2021. one of the defendants, rudy giuliani, the former new york mayor. i'm told by an aide inside the arizona attorney general's office, they have been unable to serve rudy giuliani his indictment to appear for his arraignment hearing next week. this, again, was an indictment that came down three weeks ago, just in the last ten minutes, chris, i got off the phone with an aide to rudy giuliani himself who said he is one of the most famous men in america, how can they not find him. he's in florida, he's in new york, and if they want to claim they were able to count all of the ballots fairly in 2020 election, they should be able to track down rudy giuliani himself. of course next week is that arraignment hearing and they are still looking to issue him that indictment. chris. >> vaughn hillyard, keep us

posted, thank you. we are also learning more about what happened in the hours before a ship plowed into that bridge in baltimore, causing the collapse. nbc's ryan nobles is reporting from capitol hill where all of this is the subject of a hearing today. what did we learn, ryan? >> reporter: well, we learned that power failure is likely the most important cause to this accident that took place in baltimore 49 days ago, but that the investigation is still very much ongoing. and one of the areas that investigators are zeroing in on is a separate power failure that took place ten hours before the accident itself. listen to how the ntsb chair responded to questions about that new development that was released in a report yesterday. take a listen. . >> the ship had an emergency generator, however, the generator only powers systems like emergency lying, navigation. radio equipment, alarms and a steering pump that allowed for

low speed, limited rutter movements. they were essentially drifting. investigators have been on scene consistently since this accident. in fact, they are on board the vessel as i testify today. it is unprecedented to be there that long. >> when she described that situation with the power loss, the second power loss took place when the ship was only 350 yards away from the base of the key bridge. not nearly enough time to drop an anchor that would stop the massive vessel or for tug boats to get there this time to steer it out of the way of the ship. one other revealing note from the report that was released was the harrowing experience for the people on scene, including a member of the ship's crew that had to run from the bow as he was dropping the ship's anchor to avoid being hit by a piece of steel that was falling from the bridge, and a maintenance worker

that was on the bridge at the time of the collapse that had to sprint to a span on the bridge that wasn't involved in the collapse. he barely escaped with his life. chris. >> ryan nobles, thank you for that. meantime, there's a brand new report out in the battle against stubborn inflation, brian cheung has the story. >> prices are going up in america. 3.4%, that's how much prices rose between april of this year and april of last year. that's slower than 3.5 figure we had seen in the march-to-march period. we need to look at what components are underlying the report, gasoline prices went up between march and april by 1.1%. we saw shelter costs go up. how much does it cost to you before the mortgage on your

home, going up by .4%. the one bright spot, little good news we got from the report is food prices went basically sideways between march and april. essentially no change by going up .1% between february and march. one other point is food prices are different, depending on whether you're buying groceries at home or dining out. the costs of dining out are more expensive than buying groceries and cooking at home. the green line is the yearly price of groceries, the blue line, how much it costs to dine out. it's a lot cheaper to cook at home. that's a big reason why you have companies like mcdonald's saying people are choosing to cook at home to save on money. inflation remains a big household issue. >> spending a lot of time in your kitchen, are you, brian? >> a little bit. >> good for you. >> i cook a little bit myself. >> brian cheung, always appreciate you coming in. in 90 seconds, they're the swing dancing, swing state

voters. what people in battleground michigan think about the criminal trial of a former president. >> when you're going to people's houses, when you're knocking on doors, is trump's trial coming up at all in those conversations? >> i haven't heard it yet. >> reporter: not once? >> we have been doing this now for three weeks. have been doingw for three weeks. work. like when it needs to be a big, soft shoulder to cry on. which is why downy does more to make clothes softer, fresher, and better. downy. breathe life into your laundry. (vo) you've had thyroid eye disease for a long time. and you've lived with the damage it caused. to make clothes softer, fresher, and better. but even after all these years, restoration is still possible. learn how at tedhelp.com. from pep in their step to shine in their coats, when people switch their dog's food to the farmer's dog, the effects can seem like magic. but there's no magic involved. (dog bark) it's just smarter, healthier pet food.

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brand new polling from yahoo you goff. falsify business records. that is the charge at the center of his hush money trial, a 7% increase from last year. we should note the polls surveyed u.s. adults as opposed to just voters, but it's the first time we have seen that number in a majority. joining us now, jennifer palmieri, communications director in the obama white house, and the hillary clinton 2016 campaign, and cohost of msnbc's how to win 2024 podcast. and tim miller, former communications director for jeb bush's campaign, writer at large for the bulwark. both are msnbc political analysts. tim, when you see that poll number, does it make you think, yeah, maybe a trump conviction could sway the outcome of the election? >> well, anything could sway the outcome of the election, chris. >> anything could happen right

now. okay. maybe i should have phrased that differently. is likely to? >> i think it's probably not likely. i don't want to be nalistic about this. how big is that group, probably not that big. the more interesting thing as you look at this number, i'm doing quick math in my head, a quarter of the folks didn't have an opinion at all. when you said 7% had decided now, had learned, they feel like he had committed these crimes. that's interesting because when you look at the group that's going to matter in this election, it's the people kind of disengaged and aren't watching this all day-to-day. that is different from the past. a traditional swing voter from the past was a moderate person, sometimes votes democrat, sometimes votes republican. this time the key electorate aren't going to be engaged in

politics at all. some of them are learning new things about this trial. and i think it's a little bit early to judge what impact it might have on people who aren't following this minute by minute like we are. >> is that, jennifer, the basis of the new piece you wrote for msnbc's "how to win 2024" news letter. whatever the polls say, democrats shouldn't freak out about them yet. >> what i said about this one, and there's been a lot of things about "the new york times" poll. in particular, one thing that was odd is 20% of the people who they considered to be likely voters, did not participate in the last election. that's a high number to think it's going to be new to the electorate. probably unprecedented numbers. i don't think it's likely to be that, but one thing that i saw that was surprising to me was that 74% of the people said that they were satisfied with how their life was going. that's a right track, wrong

track number, that's the question, and that's a really high number. it doesn't suggest that people are necessarily looking for a change, but they might need to know more about what biden has done that contributed to making their life better, and to be credible to lay down the ground work that he can get more done in the second term. in terms of how the trial could affect swing voters, you know, i'm looking at the republican primary where last night in maryland, nikki haley continued to get about 20% of the vote. that suggests to me that those voters, these are republicans who are unhappy with trump. they're likely to be, i would suspect those voters would probably be unhappy with the conviction of trump as well. not all of them, but some of those voters are going to be open to voting for biden too. in addition to getting the 2020 coalition back, there are other

voters open to voting for him. >> tim, the zombie vote, her campaign is dead but there are supporters out there. nikki haley, that's a significant number, what was it, exactly, 20% in maryland's primary. nearly 18% in nebraska. is it clear where the vote goes? >> it's not. i think the maryland one is interesting. we're doing a little bit of a political science experiment with the zombie vote. biden voters that are my people, former republicans or independents that are crossing over because they dislike trump so much to turn out. we have seen that in a lot of states. that wasn't helping in maryland. maryland had a competitive senate primary on the democratic side. if you are, you know, somebody that is a joe biden voter that's part of the democratic coalition, you probably wanted to have your voice heard in that race in your home state and it's a closed primary. so i think that we are really looking at a clean group of one

in five maryland republicans that are upset with donald trump, and i think that some of those people aren't going to vote. some will go home to trump. some will vote for joe biden, and i think it's a core audience that joe biden is trying to reach aggressively, going ahead to november. >> i have to ask about the big news. biden and trump have agreed, june 27th, atlanta, they're going to debate. right now, the devil's in the details, right, they still apparently are having some conversations about things like moderators, rfk jr., tell me what it's like to be in the middle of those kinds of conversations and where you think joe biden needs to sort of hold the line? >> it's super scary to be part of the conversations. the choice you think is going to work out for you, you're never really sure. the commission on presidential

debates, very well meaning group, but when we dealt with them in 2016, they were woefully unprepared to deal with the sort of disruption candidate of trump. i think the biden team was right to go on their own. i think you want a clean stake of just trump and biden. if you got to deal with rfk, you got to deal with rfk. i think what's really smart, chris, is having it as early as june. because, first of all, people start voting in cement, so we have to sort of advance everything two months, but also, you really want to define the race in june. i think we were very successful in the 2012 campaign with obama, and what the stakes were, defining our opponent, nice mitt romney, sort of quaint now, and what obama had accomplished. you just kind of want that set by june. so i think it's really smart to get this going soon. >> i'm going to get in trouble, tim miller, but i'm going to ask

you anyway. our friend matt dowd said in the last hour, he thinks this could be the most watched presidential debate ever, especially given trump has not debated at all through the primary. do you agree with him? >> it's going to be highly watched, and i'm happy the biden campaign is doing it this way. he has to debate donald trump. we'll all be tuning in. >> tim miller, jennifer palmieri, thank you both. you can scan the qr code on the screen right now. that will get you expert analysis delivered right to your inbox, jennifer, other analysts, folks you know and trust, there it is, scan to sign up. as donald trump's hush money trial speeds to its conclusion, what, if any, effect is that having on critical battleground states. i want to go to nbc's shaquille brewster in kent county, michigan, part of our ongoing series the deciders we were just

talking about that small piece of the electorate that will decide this election. i know you talked to a number of moderate republicans. what did they tell you? >> reporter: many of them told me that they are familiar there is a trial. some of them are keeping up with the updates and testimony in the trial, but the overwhelming amount of people told me this trial will not be a determining factor in how they vote. let me step back a little bit. kent county, the reason we are focused on this county is this is an area that was a traditionally republican stronghold. donald trump in 2016 won it by a narrow margin, and in 2020, you saw joe biden flip it. we went to an event, a community swing dance lesson we were having downtown, brought together people across this swing county. i want you to listen to what they told me about the impact the trial is having on how they viewed this election. does the trial impact at all how you view donald trump as a

candidate? >> no, no. >> reporter: not a little bit? >> other things have, but this, no. >> reporter: you're considering voting for him again? >> we'll have to see what happens. >> reporter: does the trial impact whether or not you would support him? >> yeah, he could be in jail. >> reporter: you're between voting for donald trump and staying home. would a conviction impact that decision for you? >> no. >> reporter: it wouldn't be a factor at all? >> no. >> reporter: why not? >> i feel like he's been hunted down. >> reporter: and, chris, look, it's not just on the republican side. i spoke to the head of an organization that goes out into some of the lowest voter turnout precincts in this area. a lot of them, she said, are black and latino neighborhoods, and she said that in the past couple of weeks, as they have been registering voters, teaching voters about the new

voting laws in the state of michigan, not once, she said, has donald trump's criminal trial come up as a reason why folks are engaging in this election. there's attention being paid but the impact is not clear. >> there are a lot of people out there who are not tuned in, and those are the people who will help decide this election. that looked like fun, actually, as conversations go for voters, they did some good dancing. appreciate it. coming up, the debates are scheduled, the hard work begins to hammer out the ground rules. a senior spokesperson for the biden/harris reelection team is standing by next. "chris jansing reports" is only here on msnbc. ansingep rorts" i here on msnbc. graves' disease... ...gritty eyes could be more than a rough patch. people with graves' could also get thyroid eye disease, or t-e-d, which may need a different doctor. find a t-e-d eye specialist at isitted.com.

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you graduated either the lowest or almost the lowest in your class. don't ever use the word smart with me. don't ever use that word. because you know what, there's nothing smart about you, joe. >> i'm joined right now by adrienne elrod, senior spokesperson for the biden/harris 2020 campaign. after that debate people suggested not a lot was necessarily learned from that debate, but this debate would be the earliest general election debate in modern history, so why next month? why does your campaign think having it early is a good idea? >> thanks for having me today. donald trump has consistently said he will debate president biden at anywhere, at any time, any place, our campaign made it clear we will debate donald trump three times, one in june, early voting starts obviously in september, but we want to make

sure the american people who are starting to tune in this summer can have a chance to watch a one-on-one debate with the two nominees of their respective parties who one of whom will be president. i think it's going to be president biden, but we want to make sure that that debate happens sooner rather than later when voters are tuned in. of course we want to have a second debate in september, which has been locked in by abc news so that we, again, can make sure before voters go to the polls early and start voting, that they can see the direct contrast in choice that they have in this election. chris, we want to make sure this is a one on one debate. as you just laid out, the debate commission, the way the rules were instituted in 2020, the american people didn't always get a fair understanding of what the difference was between these two candidates, so we believe that a one-on-one debate in a network without an audience with moderators who are going to follow and stick to the rules that we have put forward will be the best chance for the american

people to truly get an understanding of what's at stake in this election cycle. >> we know, we have watched it. donald trump feeds off an audience. he has used it very effectively in the past. is that a win for you guys? >> well, i think what's a win for us is to make sure that the american people have a firm understanding of where president biden stands on the issues in contrast to donald trump who is focusing on himself. >> so you think an audience keeps that from happening? >> i think an audience can be distracting sometimes because oftentimes, chris, you know, you hear the audience making noises. you hear, you know, the audience distracting donald trump. he tends to feed off the audience. we want to make sure that, again, the american people get the most out of this conversation and having the kind of spectacle that we saw in 2020 in these debates doesn't always work out the best way for the american people. we believe that the way to make sure the american people truly understands what's at stake and the difference between these two candidates joe biden is fighting

for the american people, donald trump is fighting for himself is to have a one-on-one debate in a studio, moderated by debate moderators who will follow the rules and stick to the rules we laid out. >> donald trump says the real way to get the information out to the american people is debate, debate, debate, debate, debate, debate, he wants to do a debate every month. in fact, he sent out a message saying he has agreed to a fox news debate. now, that does not meet the criteria that we know your campaign has out there. does it have to be two? could it be three, four, is more better for the american people understanding what they're voting for? >> i think what we believe here and what our posture is that donald trump and joe biden are effectively debating each other every single day on the issues. you have joe biden going on the campaign trail talking to voters -- >> you know this is different. getting them on the stage, seeing how quick they are, both of them, their questions about their ability to serve, polls

show that. is that a way to show competence, vigor, command of the issues, the more times the better. >> look again, chris, in 2020, there were two debates between donald trump and joe biden, we believe two debates will suffice for what the american people need to see. if joe biden wants to continue to hit the campaign trail, travel the states, deliver his message to the american people, and i think what's the most important thing, chris, to keep in mind here is that when the american people tune in for these debates that there be a fair and equitable process, that the moderators stick to the rules that have been agreed upon so that the american people can truly get it from my understanding the differences in policy, the differences in the way these two candidates approach governance in the united states, and we think the way to do that is to have two very clear debates between two candidates, nobody else, one on one, where we can really get a firm understanding of where the two of them stand on the issues.

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ten hours and five minutes on the stand already. an hour and 53 of that on cross-examination. and donald trump's defense team says they have nearly a full day's worth of questions left for michael cohen. all of it playing out in front of a jury that includes two lawyers as well as someone who admits to being a viewer of cohen's mea culpa podcast. what's the difference between an conviction and an acquittal. does either side, defense or prosecution have much of a view right now into how the jury is taking all of this in? >> so anyone who says that they can read body language and guess what someone's saying or what they're thinking on the jury is either lying to themselves or

lying to someone else. like you really have no idea. now, what you do have an idea about is where do they get their news, what do they post on social media, and that kind of information will tell you what is their -- what's the bias that they're coming in with, which is going to tell you how they're filtering the information. >> and does that also tell you if you're the defense who's that one or maybe two jurors who could be a hold out that could stop you from a conviction. >> and so the -- the thing i was referencing before was confirmation bias, and confirmation bias a fundamental human bias to reject information that's inconsistent with how you view the world and make up or amplify information that's consistent with how you view the world or what you already believe, and so, yes, that tells you a lot in terms of who are the people that you're talking

to. >> so let's say that you're someone who has read donald trump's books, but you also listened to potentially michael cohen's podcast, someone who has been on that podcast, a heavy critic. how do you use that information? >> well, a lot of times, you know, what you're doing whenever you're either crafting your message in opening your case themes are also in witness preparation is trying to find, okay, what are some of the words that this kind of person would use. what are their core values. and how can i tie into those core values. and, you know, you mentioned that there are two lawyers on the jury. and of course it's like, okay, what kind of language to use, how sophisticated are you going to be whenever you testify. if you're in an area where there's a very low level of

education, you probably need to be very careful about the language that you use so it doesn't go over the jurors' heads, but with this panel, you can probably not worry too much about that. >> so we try to do, unfortunately, sitting in this chair, something that you're exactly telling us probably we shouldn't do, which is to ask people who are in the courtroom how they're reading the jury. but i want to read something that "the new york times" pointed out. not unfamiliar with legal methodology or courtrooms and it seems to show in his comportment thus far in his cross-examination, he, meaning michael cohen is giving short, basic answers for the most part, and is leaning on one response in particular, sound like something i would say is the phrase that leads some wiggle room. he has used it to respond to todd blanche, when he's asked about the insults he's drown at donald trump. he is not answering a direct

question that his may have lawyer may have said just answer yes or no. but do we over read that? do the jurors not pay quite as much attention or do they look at that and say here's a guy who's not fessing up? >> so here's what i say about that is that one of the things that jury consultants spend a lot of their time doing is preparing people to testify. helping lawyers make sure that not only are the words that are coming out of the person's mouth affected by how are they being, like, not just are you saying yes, sir, but are you saying yes, sir, and being sarcastic or are you being authentic and respectful. that's a big part of what we do. on big cases, what we'll do is a focus group or a mock trial, we will show video of the key witnesses, and see what the responses are. and more often than not, what will happen is that you will

have widely different views of whether or not someone is credible or not. now, that being said, there are some things that never work. being too talkative during cross-examination never works. being antagonistic to a lawyer never works. trying to get the better of someone cross examining you never works. and so someone has given him some good advice with regard to giving short answers. >> robert swafford, this is fascinating stuff. thank you so much. we appreciate you taking the time to talk to us. >> thank you. shares of game stock and amc slumped today after a wild rally driven by the surprise social media of a man known as roaring kitty. that man led an investment frenzy on gamestop in 2021 and had his story featured, in fact, in the movie dumb money about amateur investors sticking it to wall street pros. nbc's christine romans is here

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