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"chris jansing reports." the skating report from the justice department watchdog, on child sexual abuse cases, including some that sat dormant on their desk. what the bureau is saying now after three years of being called out for failures in a case of a convicted sex predator, u.s. gymnastics team doctor, larry nassar. many rallies and one interview, kamala harris and tim walz are taping one of the biggest interviews of their careers. what to expect when it airs tonight. plus, cutting into her coalition, donald trump makes a bold play to drive a wedge between kamala harris and some of her key supporters, black women. and the suspected killer behind the deaths of four university of idaho students now looking into change of venue for his trial after results from a survey conducted by the defense says the town will, quote, burn the courthouse to the ground if he's acquitted. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest

developments, but first to that scathing new doj report warning that the fbi is failing to protect children who have been sexually abused. ryan reilly is following this story for us. what more can you tell us about this report? >> it's a really troubling report, and damming for the fbi, and really, essentially what the internal watchdog is saying here, the fbi really needs to step it up. examples is where the fbi was informed about a sexual predator who went on to sexually abuse a child during this time frame that could have been prevented had the fbi taken more action. essentially what the inspector general did is take a sampling of the cases the fbi was hand eling and identify broader problems. typically they are focused on broader issues, and the reports

often take times but the inspector general found the responsibility to move forward and take immediate action on some of these cases at the moment because of the seriousness of some of the allegations. three years after this report on larry nassar came out are saying that the fbi does need to step up its game and do more to prevent the sexual abuse of children, after getting these troubling reports, chris. >> ryan reilly, thank you. now to msnbc's mike memoli in savannah in the big moment for kamala harris, sitting down for her first major tv interview following her getting the nomination. mike, harris has a rally this afternoon, this interview is something a lot of folks have been waiting for. what can you tell us? >> you're absolutely right about that, chris. we have seen the vice president take questions from reporters over the last few weeks. she has not had an extensive sit-down of this kind since she's become the democratic nominee. one consequence of not doing interviews on a regular basis is it puts that much more of a

spotlight, raises the stakes for when you do. the vice president just arrived in the last ten minutes at a black-owned restaurant where she will be conducting the interview. one indication of what the vice president wants the focus to be is what the message is the entire day on the campaign trail. she's going to be visiting a few other local small businesses, wants to talk about the economy, and here at this big rally where the crowd is filling in. you can hear the music, the excitement behind me, she wants to contrast the positive, as they're putting it, forward-looking vision of the democratic ticket with project 2025 and what they consider a very dark outlook on the part of the republican campaign. now, this interview will also help serve as potentially a little bit of debate prep for the vice president, this ongoing debate is continuing at this moment, but for the focus for the democrats continuing to go on offense, showing they're making end roads in rural and

republican leaning areas. former president trump is hitting two battleground states as his campaign makes a push to win over black women voters. nbc's vaughn hillyard is in one of those states in pottersville, michigan, vaughn, what's trump doing here? >> reporter: he's actually going to be speaking here momentarily at a steel plant here in potterville, michigan, before making his way to la crosse, wisconsin, of course two key battleground states. for donald trump, this is very much so about building a coalition or at least parts of a coalition. donald trump, in order to win here in november, he is going to have to juice his particularly white rural support. numbers that he reached in 2020 while also trying to attract a larger number of voters of color. now, in 2020, nationally, he won about 12% of black voters. and this campaign believes that they can make even greater gains despite kamala harris now being at the top of the ticket, and they have a new ad where they're

trying to build on some of that support that they were able to garner in 2020. and they're trying to cut into kamala harris's solid support among the black community. take a listen to the new ad from the trump campaign. >> i am not with kamala harris. >> i am not with her. >> i am not with kamala harris. >> i'm not with kamala. >> i am not for kamala. i am for donald trump. >> i am not with her because she is not with me. >> i support president trump and the economic policies our country experienced under his leadership as our 45th president. >> reporter: of course we are going to expect to see the democratic ticket as well as the republican ticket continue to make their way across these battleground states. let's be clear here, especially in a place like georgia, a third of the electorate are black voters. if you look at north carolina, these are places here where the

democratic ticket believes they're going to be able to make significant gains, and when you look at north carolina, it's a place that donald trump won in 2016 and 2020, but this is also an acknowledgment from the trump campaign that they cannot lose support among, even if, yes, 12% went for him in 2020. they understand that they cannot afford, understanding that this is likely going to come down to thousands of votes, lose support among communities of color. chris. >> vaughn hillyard, thank you. let's go to idaho and the high stakes hearing into changing courtrooms for bryan kohberger, accused of murdering four university of idaho students. nbc news dana griffin is following this case for us. this case could move 3,000 miles away. what can you tell us? >> there's a social psychologist on the witness stand describing a bias that this community now has because, remember, back when the university of idaho murders

occurred, it was about six weeks before a suspect was arrested and there was this overwhelming sigh of relief once kohberger was arrested. you saw his name and his photo in the media, and this particular witness says that regardless, because this community has faced so much fear, and then this sort of collective relief, they are automatically going to connect him to such a horrific crime, making it uncapable for them to seat a fair and impartial jury. they are going through the science behind bias, and why this presents an issue in this particular county. that's why they want to move it to ada county. there's about 40,000 residents but only 25,000 of them are eligible to be jurors. but if move it 300 miles away, you've got 300,000 potential jurors. they also talked about media coverage and how the media

doubled the ability to see the media coverage surrounding this case was more than double in the county. media is inexplicable, it doesn't matter where it is held. they also said it would present an undue hardship for them because they would have to travel every day, and they want to be in the courtroom, so it's a very complicated issue, and this has been going on now for more than a year and a half. so obviously both sides want to resolve it. it's unclear if the large will keep it in latta or move. kohberger is expected to go to trial in june 2025 and if convicted, he faces the death penalty. chris. >> dana griffin, thank you. in 90 seconds, former president trump doubling down on crude attacks against kamala harris. how does this fit into his

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it will hurt his chances with women, blacks and swing state voters generally, but without success. harris, she's letting the comments speak for themselves. i want to bring in the university of arkansas dean for the clinton school of public service and msnbc analyst, victoria defrancesco soto. and former republican congressman and msnbc political analyst, carlos curbelo. good to have both of you. victoria, "the new york times" points out this is the second time in ten days that trump has reshared a sexual, crude remark about harris. her campaign has decided she's not saying anything. there's no direct response. is that the right strategy? >> absolutely. this merits no response whatsoever. i think ultimately the messages that donald trump is putting out are clear enough in and of themselves and regrettably, this is something that women have been contending with, you know, throughout the course of history, both republicans and

democrats, regrettably, the sexist frames, implicit, explicit, dog whistle or in the case of donald trump, are something we have had to contend with. i think this is something that will hurt donald trump as we have seen, that women not only grow in terms of their electoral might in getting elected to positions of power. women have been out voting men for over 40 years. we go to the ballot boxes. this is not a constituency that you want to denigrate. this is not a constituency that you want to shame and make feel less. >> congressman, there may be nothing that donald trump hates more than being ignored, and when he posted this most recent crude attack, it was one of 30 reposts in half an hour. do you think harris's refusal to respond to these crude, misogynistic suggestions are getting under his skin? >> yeah, chris, when donald

trump doesn't get the type of engagement that he really thrives off of, when he doesn't get attention, when he's not in the spotlight, when people aren't willing to go low the way middle east willing to go, he does get frustrated and he tries to ramp up and increase the volume. i think in this case, i mean, this attack is so just beneath a campaign, especially a presidential campaign that it does make sense for the harris campaign to ignore it and allow it to speak for itself, and that will probably cause donald trump to become even more agitated and to try to stoop even lower. ultimately this ends up hurting him with the types of swing voters that will decide this election. >> in a new fox poll of swing states, arizona, georgia, nevada, north carolina, there's a 22 point gender gap. harris has an 11 point advantage

with women, trump, an 11 point advantage with men. what's donald trump doing here? >> i think he's trying to figure out a way to get attention, and to carlos's point, this is an individual who has been used to dominating the headlines for essentially the past decade, and over the last couple of weeks, we have seen the page turn and the political narrative. we have seen a very energized democratic party, and donald trump trying to get the limelight back, but i believe that not all publicity is good publicity. perhaps he's trying to do that, just get back into the attention. ultimately, you need women to win elections, and especially in these swing states and especially in these swing states, where we're talking about minority women. where we're talking about latinos. where we're talking about african-american women. it's really important that his campaign finds a way to connect

with them. if they want to win those swing states, if they want to keep the small edge they have, these are the demographics they have to focus on. >> i wonder, victoria, if this could be motivating on the other side. these attacks could be triggering for women, who have faced similar attacks on their own qualifications. people overtly, or slyly trying to suggest they did not earn their place in the world. do you think it could be motivating? >> i think flipping it around for the democratic side, absolutely. women have been contending with these things for a very long time, pretty much throughout the course of history. but here where we're seeing an incredibly qualified woman at the top of the ticket, being targeted in this way, it doesn't make you just angry about her, but it can trigger, to your point, chris, things we have all individually experienced. so i think that this is something, if the democratic party is able to frame it, maybe

not explicitly right now, but remind women, this struggle is your struggle. go out and do something about it. vote. get mobilized. get your friends to get out and vote. >> congressman, it was a month ago, i think. when was the rnc and post assassination attempt, right, where trump was deciding the time for harsh rhetoric was over. take a listen. >> i think our disagreements make us stronger. and my message to my fellow americans, those across the country, shouldn't we be governed by a party that's unafraid to debate ideas and come to the best solution. that's the republican party of the next four years, united in our love for this country, and committed to free speech and the open exchange of ideas. >> i mean, the fact that it didn't actually even last through donald trump's convention speech and has only seemed to amp up, since then,

did they not, you know, make the rhetoric less harsh because they never actually meant to do it? they didn't think it was working? this is simply who they are. what do you see? because obviously the polls don't suggest it's working. >> well, chris, this is who donald trump is. a lot of people, myself included, held some hope that surviving an assassination attempt might help him reflect and really change course, and at least shift a little bit to try to bring the country together. but he has proven that he just can't do it. and this is the culture that donald trump has instilled in the republican party, one of personal attacks, of nasty rhetoric, and by the way, chris, it's the reason why donald trump loses elections. it's not on policy. if you look at some of his policies, people support his policies. it's on style, but donald trump

loses. that's why the maga movement was rejected in 2018, in 2020, and 2022, a lot of swing states when republicans were supposed to have a red wave and didn't. why? because of donald trump's style, because of the toxic nature of his rhetoric, that swing voters end up rejecting. >> carlos curbelo, always good to see you. thank you. and victoria, you're staying with me. coming up, the new gop crackdown that's causing major voting rights concerns. are they trying to stop newly naturalized citizens from legally casting their ballots. you're watching "chris jansing reports" only on msnbc. reports" only on msnbc ew somethg was wrong. then i saw my doctor and found out i have afib, and that means there's about a 5 times greater risk of stroke. symptoms like irregular heartbeat, heart racing, chest pain, shortness of breath, fatigue, or light-headedness, can come and go. but if you have afib, the risk of stroke is always there. if you have one or more symptoms, get checked out. making that appointment can help you get

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a 42-year-old from the philippines has been excited to vote in her first presidential election as a new u.s. citizen. she just found out that her voter registration has been deactivated. the alabama secretary of state says she's been flagged as a noncitizen. but here she is at her naturalization ceremony back in 2022, montgomery, alabama, she's wearing a green dress and a big smile. turns out her registration was made inactive because she, at least at one time, had a noncitizen i.d. number, something voting rights groups say every single naturalized citizen in alabama has. back with me, victoria defrancesco soto, and the reporter who brought esther's

story, jane tim. good to have you here. it's not just happening in alabama. texas, north carolina, louisiana, ohio, virginia, officials trying the same thing. tell us more about your reporting? >> so many states have different processes, but what we saw in alabama was a particularly good example of it where essentially the secretary of state said since he didn't have a list of noncitizens in his state, he was going to flag every one with a noncitizen identification number, which as you said, everyone who is naturalized had that. it was part of the process to become naturalized. >> presumably it also says you are going through the proper process. just to have that number. >> and legal noncitizen, you know what i mean. this is the legal process that has to go through to naturalize and become a citizen. between a thousand and 4,000 people in alabama become naturalized. this is a routine process that

doesn't make sense, it doesn't have correct data to apply to your voter rolls, and it adds extra burdens and violates federal law because it could be discriminatory, by making them show their i.d. and prove their citizenship again. >> there's a couple of things that strike me about this victoria. look, the system is complicated. if you don't know how to navigate it, which a lot of people wouldn't, fair to say, if someone in a position of authority says you can't vote, people like esther don't necessarily know where to go, who to turn to for help. >> yeah, especially with these first time voters. this is literally their first rodeo. they don't know exactly how the process works, and there's some fear involved, given what we have seen in the media, that, you know, folks who try to vote illegally will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, and fear can set in. what if they assume i'm trying

to break the law. what's going to happen to me? what's going to happen to my family. it's a delicate situation. i want to take five steps back and really focus on civic engagement, and civic health. the problem that we have in this country is that we have low voter participation. in our presidential elections, which are the ones with the most turnout, we're still only at about 60% aggregate, and for some groups, even lower. what we need to be focusing on is how do we help americans vote. how do we make the process easier? we have this patch work system, you know, some places we've got same day voter registration, and in other places you have to register several weeks in advance. while voter fraud is a very serious offense, it is one that statistically is so low. let's micro target those instances, but not take a butcher knife to this, and then potentially disenfranchise american citizens who need their

right to vote. exercise that right to vote. >> it seems to be one part of this, as maybe you don't know what the next step is. another part of it. this is from jane's great reporting. she found that esther was uncomfortable with a letter she got from the secretary of state, saying it felt like something political was going on, and she wasn't sure she wanted to register again. so speak to the chilling effect that this can have to exactly what you're talking about, what we have in this country, which is a low turnout, compared to many many other countries. >> low turnout, and i would wager to guess that many of these individuals who are newly naturalized, may be in mixed status families. not only is it fear, am i going to be accused of doing something wrong, will this then affect my family. there's a lot of fear, and we know one thing about voting, that once you vote, you're more likely to do it. so if we stop people in their tracks before they start that

cycle of engagement and voting, that could have long-term effects, not just one electoral cycle, but several. that's the danger. it's not just a short-term danger. it's a long-term danger. >> jane timm, people should go to nbcnews.com and read more about the story. victoria, you are going to stay with me. we showed you a graphic in which the numbers were transposed. i want to show you the correct numbers from the fox news poll of arizona, georgia, nevada, and north carolina, women voters prefer vice president kamala harris by 11 points. male voters prefer donald trump by 11 points. we said it correctly. we showed the wrong graphic. i want to make sure it's clear who's leading with which group we apologize for that graphic error. coming up, the harris campaign launches a massive college campus frenzy to mobilize young voters. what they're doing to ensure they show up at the polls.

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we're getting our first look at the harris campaign blitz aimed at young people as students return for fall semesters. the back-to-school tour will cover 150 campuses across 11 states. its messengers are harris young allies, including maxwell frost,

the first gen z member of congress. >> i got involved in politics when i was 15 years old because i didn't want to get shot. requires us to organize with love and grace. what we have to do is show people and tell people our truth. whatever spaces you're in, use that to organize. >> joining me now, jasmine wright who covers the harris/walz campaign. jasmine, we have seen historic digital investment in this campaign, now the back-to-school blitz. what do we know about how they hope to fire up young voters which can be sometimes great, and sometimes not such great turnout, right? >> yeah, chris, we know they are barn storming the country. obviously we saw representative maxwell frost there, other people like the leader of planned parenthood going across the country into enclaves where they know that young voters are going to be trying to talk up the harris and walz campaign.

this is an extension of what we have seen the vice president do in the last year and a half. when biden was leading the ticket, something that the campaign talked to her about was leading their efforts with young voters, understanding that she more so than biden at the time had more popularity with youth voters and also more relatability with youth voters. this is something that the vice president has been focused on for a couple of months now, and now it's different at the top of the ticket. even back then, she did a college tour last fall. i was there on one of the stops in florida at a university where she talked about issues like gun rights, issues like climate change, and reproductive rights, obviously a huge pillar of what makes up her campaign now. they're going to go across the country, really trying to go into colleges and other places where those young voters are trying to talk to them. obviously they're putting money behind an assortment of ads. some of the vice president speaking direct to camera, talking about people going back to school, and why they should

vote for her. that's going to be a continuation of things to see. even if you look back to last week, chris, the focus on content creators at the dnc knowing that that for them is the best avenue to get their message out to folks who get their news from tiktok or other social media. this has been a prolonged continuation of what happens under still the biden campaign, but obviously now the harris campaign is adopting and even stepping it up in some regards. >> i don't want to go out too far on a limb, but that was maxwell frost on drums, so not only is he providing a message, but he's providing the musical entertainment. let me talk, though, about what the polls show. it's pretty dramatic. this is the usa today poll. voters 18 to 34 move from supporting trump by 11 to harris by 13 points. the question becomes, it's one thing to say i support them. it's another thing to actually go to the polls, so how do they

keep that momentum going? >> yeah, and when it comes to youth voting, the bad news is that youth are usually the least likely to turn out compared to other age cohorts. the good news, though, chris, in the last couple of electoral cycles, we have seen some record breaking turnout. in the 2020 election, we saw youth voter turnout top the 50% mark. set a new record for presidential turnout, even more than 2008 with barack obama, and then in the last, 2018, presidential, i'm sorry, midterm election, we saw another record set. so there is momentum. what is going to be important is to keep that momentum going in terms of taking words into action, and to getting that desire to want to see one's voice reflected in politics, and getting registered to vote. figuring out a plan to get to

the polls. this can be tricky for youth in college. it's difficult to figure out, do i register where i got to school? the devil is in the details. as much as campaigns can do to help youth in those logistical details, that's really going to help move the needle. >> and jasmine, one of the things that congressman frost when he was talking, not drumming, emphasized and we heard a little bit of it. gun violence. that was a big motivator to run for office. harris posted a letter from a student named tucker, who, by the way, has excellent penmanship. he wrote that he's conservative and doesn't agree with her on most things but he thanked her for working on gun regulationings. -- regulations. >> i think the harris campaign sees this as a huge motivator, something the vice president did on the college tour last fall a

little bit earlier as well is she would go into these rooms. i was with her in chicago when she was at an every town gun violence conference, and she said, raise your hand if you have had to hide in a closet or you have been trained to hide from a potential school shooter, and so many hands in that room shot up. that's something that she's taken not just there but across the country, really asking young people, trying to tie in what she feels about gun violence, and gun control into their own experiences. so i think that they believe this is a huge issue for the campaign, a huge motivator for young people to come to the campaign, particularly because of the contrast between the harris and walz campaign and the trump and vance campaign. this is something they continue to talk about. yes, also in relation to youth voters, but also across the country, people who want more gun control, something that this campaign, the harris campaign is trying to offer voters. >> polls show people want what they call common sense reform. jasmine wright, victoria defran

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. a platform that's embraced by proud boys, the patriot front, and other extremist groups who have been banned from virtually every other form of social media is at the center of a criminal case now over who exactly is responsible for what goes on online. the app is called telegram. it might not be familiar to many folks, but it is massively popular overseas. 950 million active users worldwide. yesterday in france, prosecutors indicted telegram ceo on charges of being complicit in the distribution of child pornography. aiding organized crime, and more. all stemming from the company's lax moderation of content. joining us now is sarah fryer who runs big tech coverage for bloomberg. it's good to see you. so let me start with the basics, for people who have never heard of telegram, explain what it is.

>> well, it's a chat app like whatsapp, where people have one-on-one conversations but they also participate in groups of like minded people. they share stories. it is a way for information to spread very quickly, and its leaders have been very open about the fact that they care about letting anything happen on the app. in part that's because they have wanted to be a place for government protests, for, you know, people who feel afraid to speak out publicly, they can do so on the app without fear that telegram will share their information with the government. but that goes, too, for activity that is undesirable like organizing extremism, child pornography, terrorism, drug sales. those are other types of content that telegram has come under fire for. and they have been a lot less collaborative with governments

on taking that content down, on helping the government fine criminals who are using the app to do their work. and that just really came to a head this week in france. >> this is really very rare where the owner of a social media platform could go to prison for what users are doing after the ceo was arrested saturday, telegram said in a statement, it is absurd to claim that a platform or its owner are responsible for abuse of that platform. but talk about the implications of whatever happens here. >> well, look, these platforms present themselves as neutral conduits of human conversation, but they're not. they are creating a place for that information to spread more rapidly, for it to reach people who may be interested in it in ways that you would use al goe -- algorithms. social media companies say they

want to have free speech, they do also tend to say they don't want anything illegal to occur. telegram has said that they don't allow anything illegal to occur. when you are a user generated content app, there's no way you can screen every bit of content before it appears, before it's shared, before it has the ability to reach millions of people. so this is just the usual tension between governments and social apps. but telegram is really in a category of its own here. they have little to no government relations to speak of. they have a history of being a place where this kind of content is hosted and that really came to a head. in other countries we have seen apps get banned. we have not seen the ceo of those apps get held accountable for what authorities say is abetting illegal content. >> the indictment is brand new, but researchers have observed

for years, right, that telegram has become critical to far right extremist groups. i mentioned ones like the proud boys who have been kicked off of most other apps, and that gives them space, being on telegram, to organize, to recruit. what would a conviction potentially mean for these kinds of groups? >> well, i think it would be a wake-up call for the app. you can't just say we are all about free speech with nothing else, right? there is a lot of -- i think most people would agree that if you have terrorism being organized on your app, if you have child pornography being shared with your app, you have a way, a route to do something about it, and if you could, why wouldn't you? and i think if you're talking about an app like facebook, instagram, even x, there is elon musk going out there and saying,

he's all about free speech. he's really been a defender on his network. however, he still, on his own app, will draw the line at content that is illegal. i think that that's something that social media companies have had long standing policies about, even if you are pro free speech, you have to adhere to the laws in the country you operate. >> a really important case. and sarah fryer, thank you for helping us understand it. much appreciated. still to come, it was almost like a hurricane, new outrage in texas after a destructive water main break left a street flooded and several homes under water. that's after this. his. with schwab investing themes™, it's easy to invest in ideas you believe in. spot a trend in electric vehicles? have a passion for online gaming? or want to explore the space economy? choose from over 40 themes,

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on strike. they're demanding more pay. they're also demanding more scheduling flexibility, and united airlines has said they are eager to reach an agreement, but continuing to say they do not expect this to impact travel and just some context here, it is quite a federal process to get to the point where flight attendants walk off the job, and that would require mediation. it could be sometime before we're even at that point. good news there. as you laid out, there have been some travel headaches already in the past 24 hours. that plane that had to make the emergency landing in memphis after the severe turbulence, one person was hospitalized after that. six were treated on scene. all flight and passengers on board are expected to be okay. we also saw some issues overnight at denver international airport after the train that takes folks to the different concourses had a mechanical failure, and so there were just crowds of people everywhere, which was a lot of

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