happened in the past in our history. >> totally agree, and i think all the issues that we're discussing pertaining to this election, it comes down to our rights and it comes down to democracy, and for what a lot of people fought for and died for. something absolutely to think about this memorial day weekend, and in the months and weeks and days leading up to the election. it's only wednesday, though. we've got two more days to get through. alex reminds me, why is it not friday? >> it definitely feels like it should be friday. >> it does. this has been a very long week. >> that does it for us this morning after four hours. oh, four hours and 17 long years on "morning joe." that does it for us this morning, ana cabrera picks up the coverage right now. right now on "ana cabrera reports," twin hearings on

donald trump's classified documents case, the first since the judge put the trial on hold indefinitely. we are live out of florida where the trial hurtles toward a dramatic conclusion. deadly tornadoes rip through iowa, a single town bearing the brunt of this devastation. where the threat remains today. also ahead, louisiana is the new front line in the fight over abortion rights. details of the bill just passed by the state's house, making abortion pills a controlled substance. and later, one dead, dozens injured after severe turbulence on a singapore airlines flight. what we are hearing now from the airline's ceo. hello, it is 10:00 eastern. thanks for being here, i'm ana cabrera reporting from new york. we begin with breaking news. the first hearing in donald

trump's classified documents case, since the judge postponed this trial indefinitely, and today the court in florida is hearing two different bids to dismiss this case, one right now from trump valley, walt nauta and a second from all three defendants. new timing shows trump had classified documents in his home after that fbi search of mar-a-lago. let's bring in nbc's dasha burns in fort pierce, florida, and former florida prosecutor and former chief of the fdny criminal division, kristy greenberg. walk us through what the court is considering? >> reporter: first we have the motion to dismiss when it comes to the charges against walt nauta. the decision was quote, selective and vindictive, basically saying it was a form of retaliation aimed at punishing nauta for not fully cooperating with the investigation. then later this afternoon, we're

going to hear a motion to dismiss charges against all three of the defendants, nauta, former president trump himself. this one is alleges there were procedural failures here, that the indictment fails to comprehensively set forth in plain language distinct violations of criminal law, instead presenting a personal and political attack against former president trump. basically saying that all of this is political persecution, weaponization of the justice system, as we have heard former president trump allege against all of the charges that he's facing, and all of the indictments in front of him right now, ana. >> this morning's motion to dismiss is over, what the defendant claims is selective and vindictive prosecution, this afternoon's hearing has to do with the claim of the indictment for insufficient pleading. bottom line, do either of these motions have a chance of being granted? >> no.

what i think the prosecutors have laid forth in their briefing is just how cautious they were in their approach here. remember, just going back to this time line, this started with multiple requests from the national archives in 2021 to try to get these documents by asking nicely. and that didn't work. and then once they got 15 boxes in january of 2022 that contained roughly 180 classified documents, only then did this get referred to the criminal division and the national security division of department of justice. then, again, there were requests for this information. that didn't turn up in anything, so then they went to a subpoena. and then when they found evidence that even after certain documents, i think it was roughly 38 or so documents had been produced in response to the subpoena, when the government uncovered evidence that there had been obstruction and deceit, including security footage, so

trump's lawyer didn't have access to everything, once the government uncovered that, they had to execute a search warrant. they had to go about the steps that they took. they didn't just jump straight to that approach. they took a very measured approach. once they uncovered all of this obstruction and blatant deceit, only then did they pierce attorney general privilege, talk to lawyers about what the search process was, and once they had really concrete evidence that there was not just his unlawful retention of the documents but there was obstruction of the government's investigation. only then did the government actually charge this case. here donald trump has no one to blame but himself. this was not vindictive prosecution, this was a very careful approach that led to what is, i think, a very, you know, worthy prosecution. >> and we're learning a little bit more about the evidence that they have now in their possession. dasha, tell us about these filings that were just unsealed.

>> reporter: yeah, these newly unsealed court documents are giving us a lot of new information to go through. first, i want you to take a look at some of the photos that were exhibits in those documents. these are pictures of walt nauta on june 1st, 2022, moving boxes. this was right before trump's lawyers were set to review documents in a storage room at mar-a-lago, looking for documents with classified materials to return to the federal government. now, the prosecution is alleging that these images show that nauta was part of a conspiracy to conceal classified documents from the government. another piece of information we're learning from these unsealed court documents is that there were additional documents marked classified that were found in former president trump's bedroom in mar-a-lago months after the fbi raid. and the judge overseeing those proceedings, a district court judge said, quote, there's no

excuse provided as to how the former president could miss classified marked documents in his own bedroom in mar-a-lago. the other piece that we're learning is how the defense has been fighting this. so they are asking to actually suppress the information that was found. those documents that were found by the fbi. they're alleging the entire search was unconstitutional and illegal. that it was part of a conspiracy between the biden administration and the national archives to target trump. that is their argument trying to get all of that evidence suppressed in this case. we're not hearing that today. but this is part of why this has been so slow going. the judge is hearing each of these motions separately, individually. we thought that this trial was going to start today. that's clearly not happening. instead, we may not see it again until after the november election. >> and dasha just laid out a lot there from these recently

unsealed court filings. i want to focus on a couple of things she mentioned, how the defense team is claiming prosecutorial misconduct, in part, saying jack smith had charges to create maximum political damage. "the new york times" also reporting that in a separate motion, the defense asks the judge to exclude from evidence the more than 100 classified documents that were found during the search at mar-a-lago, and the private audio notes, central to the obstruction charges, which a previous judge said were allowable because of the crime fraud exception, so jack smith dismissed these claims, saying they have followed the facts and followed the law. these filings were from february, just unsealed. why is it taking the judge so long to rule on these. >> well, and also why is it taking so long to become public. they had to make some redactions, but in reviewing those briefings, there was

plenty that was not redacted, so it's a little hard to understand why it would have taken so long for these to become public, and also why it's taking so long to rule on these. yes, there are a number of motions. these kinds of motions, regarding suppression of evidence obtained via search warrants, prosecutorial misconduct, they're fairly common from defense attorneys, so, again, there are facts here that are complicated, but, again, this isn't something that the judge, you know, is so complicated that she shouldn't be able to rule on it in a timely manner, and it really does seem like she's slow walking. as to some of these allegations, they really are baseless. you know, this argument that the timing of the indictment in june of 2023 was done purposely to, you know, to somehow affect the election. i think that's plainly bogus. the prosecutor's point to the fact that, yes, between the time

of the search warrant and the ten months until we charged, we were were doing a lot of things. interviewing witnesses, obtaining additional search warrants to make sure that we could actually show that this was, in fact, willful unlawful retention classified documents by president trump. so it's not like they were sitting on their hands. they were working to make sure they got this right. as to suppressing evidence, this appears to be a lawful and valid search warrant signed off on by a federal judge, and walked through all of the steps before they got to the search warrant trying to obtain documents throw other means. once it became clear there was destruction and deceit involved from president trump, they had no other alternative other than the search warrant. i expect if judge cannon is following the law that she will not suppress the evidence and not find that there was any prejudicial pre-indictment here.

>> kristy greenberg, dasha burns, thank you very much. closing arguments in donald trump's criminal hush money trial are slated for next tuesday. judge merchan is weighing what the jury instructions will look like. a legally dense part of any criminal trial. one that will play a crucial role in deciding trump's fate. joining us are three women who have been inside the courthouse this week. msnbc's legal correspondent, lisa rubin, investigative correspondent, suzanne craig, and host of the katie phang show, katie phang. the latest in the courthouse was on the all important jury instructions. any clues as to what the judge will or won't allow? >> there were a number of issues where he reserved judgment. i should note for you and our viewers, the charging conference, the conference where the judge is weighing the jury

instructions was difficult to follow because we don't have the draft proposed instructions that each side submitted to judge merchan. that's a failing of the new york court system which has a very of the public access. that said, i'll give you a couple of hints where things are going. each of the prosecution and the defense won on big issues yesterday. the big win for the prosecution is that they don't have to have all of the jurors agree on what the unlawful means were through which donald trump, david pecker, and michael cohen tried to orchestrate their conspiracy to promote donald trump's election. in other words, you can think that the unlawful means was the "national enquirer" payment to karen mcdougal. katie would think it's michael cohen's payment, setting up the account through which he paid

stormy daniels. and all of you could have that opinion and still find that donald trump committed the underlying felony crime of falsifying business records in the end. that's a win for the prosecution in that there doesn't have to be unanimity about what that underlying theory is. here's the big win for the defense. the prosecution has to prove that donald trump either falsified business records himself or caused other people to do it, and that of course puts a lot of emphasis on the meaning of the word cause. the prosecution wants that to be cause means if you set events into motion that make it reasonable foreseeable to you that katie will falsify business records, you've caused an event. the defense wants it to be that donald trump had to personally instruct something to do that. given that, the fact that the judge found and basically said that he's leaning toward not giving that reasonably foreseeable instruction the prosecution wants, that's a win for the defense. >> so much for the jurors to mull over during the week-long

break they have from court. this is week six of the hush money trial. the jury heard from 22 total witnesses, 20 from the prosecution, two from the defense, 20 days in court with 80 hours of testimony. it's been 414 days for those keeping track of all the numbers since the indictment came down. of all the witnesses, of the mountains of evidence that has come out during this trial, what stands out most to you? >> i am going to be one of the jurors and i'm going to say it's robert costello. you may have thought i was going to say michael cohen or stormy daniels or maybe even david pecker. >> costello being the defense witness and the last person they heard from. >> for exactly that reason. they are on break for seven days. as your numbers have shown, they have been in trial for six weeks. that has gone faster than we thought it was going to. we thought this trial was going to be a lot longer. feels longer but the reason why i say, you know, robert costello is his performance, and i'll say performance because that's

really what it was on the witness stand was so poor for the defense, it left such a lasting memory on the jurors' minds of how much of a liar he was, and how much he was pandering and only catering to donald trump, despite his protestations that he was the lawyer for michael cohen, his impeachment by susan hoffinger the prosecutor was so profoundly bad for him that the jury left like, hmm. if this man was willing to sell his client out and throw him under the bus for the service of donald trump, then michael cohen was being railroaded when it came time for him to meet with prosecutors and tell the truth. that's why i think robert costello is actually the most important one because no matter what value the defense thought they could get out of him by saying, quote, michael cohen didn't have any goods on donald trump, the rest of costello and the truth of his e-mails how they spoke for themselves shows that michael cohen was telling the truth. >> sue, did you get a sense that

there's anything for the defense to feel good about going into closings? >> i do. but i also want to say one more thing about costello. if you don't put on a defense, and you say the prosecution hasn't met their burden, that's one thing. but once you start bringing witnesses up, you're mounting a defense, and really their defense was costello, so i think there's even another edge to what they did, which is they presented a defense in the best they had was robert costello, which did not go well for them. i think there's two things left for the jury. you know, i get it if there's just, okay, no witnesses, and they didn't meet the burden, and they don't call donald trump. i think from the defense's point of view to your question, i do think michael cohen, they got some good hits in. and i think the jury is left with the thought that they heard about a liar, somebody who's lied to congress, who's lied on his taxes, stole from his

employer, and now they're supposed to believe him about some really crucial scenes, and michael cohen is the only one who can speak directly to the criminal disguise of the documents he had. the key meetings with donald trump. there are other people who can corroborate some of what he said. it's crucial they believe him. and this isn't a situation where you believe everything or you just think he's a liar. you can believe some of what he said. i think they have got to also, in the long weekend, they're thinking about michael cohen and what they heard, and can they believe him on some of the key points, and the jury instruction is going to be very important as they thread that. how they're supposed to interpret this is going to be laid out. it's going to take the judge about an hour, and they're going to go into closing. i think that's going to be key. i think both things, costello is sticking in their head and cohen, and what do they make of him? >> and what about the missing people whose names came up over

again, allen weisselberg, keith schiller, dylan howard, talked a lot about, but didn't hear them. the jurors never saw them take the stand. is that an issue, do you think? >> i think it's particularly an issue with allen weisselberg, in keith schiller's case, he is a figure that plays into key moments but he's not ultimately a very important figure. dylan howard is a more important figure but you have david pecker and keith davidson and michael cohen talking about various conversations with him, and they're well documented in e-mails and also in phone records and texts. the person they are probably thinking about is allen weisselberg for one of the reasons sue said. there's a key meeting in january of 2017 that's memorialized on a paper that features allen weisselberg's handwriting on one side, and donald trump on the other side. the meeting they take to trump, the only person who testified

about that is michael cohen. >> they only have heard from one person in the meeting. a lightning round here, ladies, what you're watching for in closing arguments, i'm watching for how much does the prosecution and defense call each other out on opening statements. the jury has been paying closely attention since day one. fiercely taking nets. the defense put themselves in a serious corner by saying there was nothing illegal that went on here. it wasn't like there was a mistake made on the general ledger, it was just an accident. they have committed themselves to one particular position and they made really bad promises to the jury about what the evidence was going to show and to all of our collective point, that was never done. and so i want to hear in closings, how much are people calling each other out for the openings. >> what about you, sue? >> michael cohen is their biggest weapon and biggest liability, and i'm going to watch how they thread him through the lies but then you should believe him on all of these things, and how they lay that out is going to be

critical. >> lisa. >> the people learn in different ways. they have been hearing evidence, now they need to see it. how does this come together chronologically. if i'm the prosecution i'm paying a lot of attention to what kind of visual aids and tools i'm going to give the jury in closing. >> thank you so much, lisa rubin, suzanne craig and katie phang. next, devastating storms turning deadly in iowa. we are on the ground with a firsthand look at the damage. also, what caused the rnc to go into lockdown this morning. plus, terrifying midair turn -- turbulence, claiming one life and injuring others. could elvis's family lose the estate?

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two viles of blood were sent in a package to the building. i was there, while a lot of different police vehicles were around the premises, trying to figure out exactly what happened, and what was sent to the rnc a couple of moments ago. the capitol police clearing the area, saying staff were allowed to go inside. they are investigating the specific contents, monitoring the viles of blood. the package was cleared by the hazardous incident response division. it contained the two viles of blood. the source of the package will be further investigated. no word on whether there was a suspect, whether any arrests were made as well. you can imagine this is obviously a scary time, especially as we have seen politics and violence just continue to play out around this capitol complex. >> please keep us posted. >> and now to more breaking news, and heartbreak in the heartland this morning. multiple people dead after nearly 20 tornadoes touched down in iowa. with the small town of greenfield, home to about 2,000

people bearing the brunt of it. iowa governor kim reynolds signing a disaster emergency proclamation for 15 counties in iowa, and she plans to visit greenfield today. shaquille brewster is just outside of greenfield, iowa, shaq, that community was hit so hard. what are you seeing? >> reporter: yeah, ana, the damage so bad in greenfield that law enforcement is keeping members of the media and anyone who's not a resident out of the town right now as they continue to do their searches and continue to begin to start that clean up. look at some of the video that our team has shot both last night and this morning where you see block after block, full of devastation. you see homes completely destroyed, cars completely toppled over. there was so much damage that people who were sent to the hospital had to then be moved to other areas because even the hospital sustained damage. i want you to listen to what we heard from people who rode out that storm and survived that

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only path to a sustainable peace is a two-state solution with every indicator going the wrong way with all of this violence, israeli settlements and the occupied west bank expanding. these european states are saying they believe the best way to keep that possibility of two states alive is to go ahead and recognize an independent state of palestine right now, and i do think, ana, that this adds to pressure on the united states. the american position is it would like to see an independent palestinian state but it has to come through peace talks with israel, but we may get to a point where a number of america's european allies have all said they are recognizing a state. and the u.s. looking increasingly isolated diplomatically. >> raf, let's talk about that pier to get aid into gaza that the u.s. had set up. we're learning that aid still isn't getting delivered. what exactly is going on? >> reporter: so in the north,

ana, you basically have chaos. israel has smashed hamas as the governing entity in northern gaza, and they have not fully taken control of the north themselves, so it is chaos, and what you are hearing is that the trucks are landing on this temporary pier. they're reaching the coast of gaza, but then there's no way to safely distribute them to people on the other side. a lot of trucks being looted. people doing the looting are desperate, hungry families. in southern gaza, you have a situation where the fighting remains very very intense after israel launches that offensive, and so the united nations is now saying that it is basically unable to distribute food across the south of gaza right now, partly because food supplies are so low. partly because it's so dangerous, and it comes after the international criminal court accusing prime minister netanyahu of deliberately

starving the people of gaza, an allegation he denies. ana. >> raf sanchez, thank you for that reporting. meantime, iran held official funeral services for the late president raisi. tens of thousands of mourners lined the streets as the coffin moved through teheran. the supreme leader leading the prayer in this funeral and dozens of foreign officials in attendance. raisi is set to be buried tomorrow. next on "ana cabrera reports" the state that passed a bill to make abortion pills a dangerous substance. >> and the fallout of the video by trump mentioning a unified reich. reich.

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louisiana has become the latest front in the escalating fight over abortion access with the state house passing a bill to criminalize possession of two

commonly used abortion bills. nbc news senior washington correspondent hallie jackson has more. >> this is a controversial plan that hundreds of louisiana doctors say they oppose. if the governor does ultimately sign this bill into law and he's expected to, louisiana would be the first state in the country to criminalize these abortion drugs in this way. but critics fear it may not be the last. a new front line this morning in the battle over abortion access. >> the bill is finally passed. >> louisiana lawmakers moving forward with a plan to put two abortion drugs in the same category as so-called controlled dangerous substances like depress sants and stimulants, used to induce abortions for anyone without a prescription. >> when overutilized this drug can be harmful. his sister was given an abortion bill while pregnant without her consent. >> my goal is not to prevent women from getting access to

pills when they need them. it's to simply say when you're a bad actor in possession of these pills, that you should be held accountable. >> reporter: but critics question how the state could enforce the proposal and warn it may have a chilling effect. >> let me tell you something, 50th in maternal outcomes is not pro life. >> 280 louisiana doctors in a letter say reclassifying the drugs is not scientifically based and creates confusion and misinformation considering the drugs are also used after miscarriages and to induce labor. >> there's only a very small percentage of the time are they utilized for abortion care. >> louisiana has one of the most restrictive laws in the country, banning both medication and surgical abortions with no exceptions for rape or incest, only for the life of the mother. since the overturning of roe v. wade, more than a dozen states have put in place stricter abortion laws, raising the political stakes on reproductive

rights heading into november. former president trump in a new interview, first opening the door to restrictions on birth control. >> do you support any restrictions on a person's right to contraception? >> i'm going to have a policy on that very shortly. and i think it's something that you'll find interesting. >> but hours later backing off, making clear on his social media platform, he does not support a ban on birth control and will never advocate for one. the biden campaign seized on the trumps of mr. trump on birth control, given that access is widely popular among americans. in a sign of how politically motivating democrats think reproductive lights could be, senate democrats plan to press the case and put republicans on the spot by bringing a bill to the floor next month to protect access to contraception, according to a source familiar with the plan. >> thank you so much. joining us now, basil smikle, and mora gillespie, a former adviser to speaker

boehner and adviser to adam kinzinger. we saw trump backtracking on the issue of contraception restrictions. he keeps saying the abortion issue should be up to the states. what kind of political liability is this for him, for the republican party, and why don't republicans seem to have a coherent approach to the issue yet? >> republicans are still afraid of the far right pro life strict stance, you kno bloc of the party. it's not surprising to watch donald trump flounder in this regard, as far as being wishy washy yet again on this topic and saying i'm going to have an announcement coming out soon. it is going to be a problem for republicans, especially down ballot, when they come to november because this issue is largely seen as being one that should be protecting women's reproductive rights, putting women's health at the forefront, not restricting them baselessly. >> as hallie mentioned a source tells nbc news that chuck

schumer is planning a vote on contraception to put republicans on the record on this, smart move? >> very smart move, and biden is right to jump on it quickly as he did. don't mistake equivocation as him not necessarily being persuadable on this issue. the republicans are clear they want to push this to the states and enact the most draconian measures possible including what we saw in louisiana. what the biden team is doing or what senate democrats are doing is saying, look, we've got to now take some national leadership on this issue and do it before the republicans try to do it again. so it's a very smart move, and i do think it sends a message to all states that reproductive rights still very much on the ballot. >> let's switch to another heated issue here. former president trump, sharing a video that boasted of the creation of a, quote, unified reich. if he wins in november, that apparent reference to hitler's

third reich, it drew swift backlash. the trump campaign says trump was not aware that phrase was in it. guys, this isn't the first time that trump referenced nazi rhetoric and tried to play dumb afterwards. last year, he repeatedly said mi migrants were poisoning the blood of the country. he was unaware that echoed hitler's rhetoric and in the 2016 campaign, trump tweeted an of hillary clinton over a pile of cash, a six pointed star resembling the star of david. trump claimed it was a sheriff's star. why do these so called, i don't know if you can call them accidents, like they try to appear that's what it is. >> accident, coincidence, whatever you want to call it. even if some republicans try to distance themselves from it, it is clear that the trump team believes they need this population, this population that aligns with white supremacy to be elected. that is incredibly scary, but it speaks to why this keeps

happening. if you add that, pair that with the reporting of justice alito and the upside down hanging of the american flag, you look at this, and you have to wonder whom do you trust here? how is it that we have the supreme court justice and the president of the united states aligning themselves with individuals that want to overthrow the country. that cannot be coincidental. >> and maybe aligning is more like not rejecting. there are more examples we can post to. trump hosting notorious white nationalist, nick fuentes. he wished his generals were more loyal. the list goes on, and yet, top republicans, many gop voters, keep giving trump a pass. why? >> if we had to comment on every

outlandish, offensive, horrible thing that donald trump has said or done, that would be a full-time job. i remember thinking that when i worked for congressman kinzinger, i can't possibly respond and comment on everything donald trump does and says. i would get nothing else done. my whole existence would be that. it's not going to move the needle away from his loyalists or those who worked for him in the white house. he wants to be a dictator, he has said it, he has shown us who he is and who he wants to be, he wants to have this power, this idea of power. i don't know that he wants to do the job the presidency requires of the person going into the oval office but he certainly wants to have the command and title. this is not a surprise. this is who he is, and who he continues to show us that he is, and it didn't dissuade people who worked for him in the first place. bragged about sexually assaulting women, mocked prisoners of war, people with disabilities. donald trump is not afraid to be who he is for worse, not for

better, and yet he continues to have support. he continues to dominate in the polls right now. i mean, that really should tell us everything, his loyalists aren't going to be moved. but the question on democracy, that's where he will lose people, and questions like abortion, he will lose people. those are the issues people should be focused on and not the ridiculous, horrible things he says. >> maura gillespie, and basil smikle, thanks for the conversation. voters hit the polls in a state that is key to trump legally and to the 2024 electoral map. we're talking about georgia, two people at the heart of the trump subversion case are up for reelection there. fani willis won her democratic primary and judge mcafee who's presiding over the case kept his seat in a nonpartisan race. also this man, who you can see on january 6th wading through tear gas at the capitol there, advanced to a republican runoff in georgia's second house

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welcome back. the fight over elvis' legacy is on all shook up. a judge a few moments ago halting a plan for closure auction of elvis' iconic home graceland was supposed to happen tomorrow. it happened after elvis' granddaughter sued to stop the sale. what is this fight all about exactly? what did the judge rule? >> reporter: that's right. essentially the judge ruled today to issue a continuation because he wanted to give the defense an opportunity to respond to these allegations from riley keo, elvis' granddaughter. she is saying the company behind the foreclosure plan used documents with forged signatures. the creditor's paper work allegedly show that laes marie

presley took out a 3.8 million dollar loan and used the graceland property as collateral and they allege she failed to repay that loan but the granddaughter said her mother took out that loan and those signatures were not her's. she submitted an affidavit that claimed the notary on those documents has never actually met lisa marie presley and never notarized those loan documents. we reached out to the investment company, the l.l.c. at the entire controversy for a request for comment. they haven't gone back to us. we got in touch with a man who was listed in those court documents and he corresponded with us via email. he is overseas right now. he said he had nothing to do with this. he left the firm in 2015 and he has absolutely no idea why his name is even listed on those court documents. so a lot of questions up in the air right now but the judge did say in court today that if riley

ko arbitration lawyers are able to prove that fraud did, in fact, occur he expects their side will be successful but at least for now, the graceland property has been saved and no auction will be taking place as scheduled tomorrow. >> talk to us about the significance of the graceland property in that area and if it were to go to auction. what could come of in? >> reporter: absolutely. you know, elvis bought this property in 1957 and he lived there for the last two decades of his life. he died there in 1977. he is currently buried on the 14-acre estate. this property, you know, it attracts 600,000 visitors from around the world every year. we the go on an opportunity to speak with people here in memphis and tourists from around the world who said they just can't imagine this property is not being open to the public to sort of celebrate elvis' legacy and his contributions to rock 'n' roll and music, so people

are concerned that, you know, if this property were to, in fact, go up for sale, who would buy it and would it still be accessible to people and fans of elvis? and all of those things have not been determined. we don't know when the next court date is scheduled to be but at least for now, it's going to remain the way it is in the hands of the elvis presley enterprises. >> thank you very much for your reporting. that does it for us today. see you back here tomorrow, same time, same place. you can always catch our show online around the clock on youtube and other platforms. thanks for being here. i'm ana cabrera reporting from new york. jose diaz-balart picks up our coverage after this.

it's 11:00 a.m. eastern and i'm jose diaz-balart. we begin with breaking news from the republican national committee in washington, d.c. that was placed on lockdown this morning aft