thank you so much and thanks to harry litman and kara scannell as well. well, for her excellent reporting and following this case, as we follow this breaking news, senator menendez found guilty of this 16 federal charges. in this bribery and corruption case that he was facing. and now the senate majority leader, chuck schumer, calling on him to resign as the senator from new jersey shows no indication patient that he is going to comply with that. we're going to take a quick break next, we're going to go live to milwaukee and the republican national convention, where my co-anchor boris for sanchez is they are now following all of the twists and turns and moments ago spoke with georgia governor brian kemp. so we're going to bring that to you next. stay with us my father, shows me to succeed him. no matter the consequences house of, the dragon, streaming exclusively on max your skin is ever changing. take care of it with goldman's healing formulations of seven moisturizers and three vitamins for all your skin cold bond if you have generalized myasthenia grav

attorney harry litman. he served in that position in western pennsylvania where the shooting happened, and back with us is chief psychologist marisa randazzo. harry, merrick garland listed off all the departments involved in the investigation. it's all hands on deck. what does it look like for an investigation of this magnitude? >> it looks a little bit like oklahoma, city. i was there when merrick garland cleared his schedule, took it by its throat, and worked it personally. the fbi stepped up and said we have an investigation. this now means the attorney general who's the chief federal law enforcement for the country is in charge of fbi. atf explosives are found in crooks' car. all involved are going to be reporting to him. how could you have an investigation when the shooter is dead? a file is opened and a file will be closed. that means they'll be digging deep into motive, into plan, how he could have done it, into training, into exactly second-by-second how it transpired, and under the personal focus,

andrew weissmann a former senior member of the mueller probe and now a law professor at nyu, harry litman, former u.s. attorney. susan glasser, staff writer for the new yorker. andrew, what does this mean for jack smith's election interference case against trump? there's lots of reaction but level it for us. >> sure. small picture. the big picture, by the way, is the decision in terms of what it means for the presidency and checks and balances. this could not be a worst decision in terms of our country. in terms of what it means for the case, one, there will not be a trial before the general election. there is no way for that to happen. there's too much that we need to happen in too many appeals. two, there likely will be a hearing that judge chutkan has been called on by the supreme court to have to decide what is official conduct and what is an official conduct. at that hearing, although i think there will be lots of disputes about what evidence can be used, a lot of witnesses can be called so you could have a mini trial. that is sort of a small silver lining that there may be that vehi

thank you so much, harry litman, for joining us. >> thank you. >>> and while donald trump's legal drama, the little drama for the democratic side is front and center in the 2024 race. the question over whether to replace joe biden after his debate performance or go all in is dividing the democratic party. but this is hardly the first time democrats have been divided weeks before a presidential convention. in fact, as nbc news chuck todd reports, it is far more common than americans realize. >> reporter: for most of american history, the primary process didn't play a big role in how we picked presidents. the convention picked the candidate. >> the delegates chose john w. davis of west virginia. >> for the first 150 years of political conventions, that's all there was, was conflict, it could go to 100 -- >> reporter: healthy conflict. >> healthy conflict, sometimes not. >> reporter: in 1952, republicans nominated dwight eisenhower for president. two weeks late, democrats met in chicago without a clear nominee. earlier in the year, president harry truman tried to lobby then illinois govern

christopher o'leary and harry litman, please do stay with me, we have much more head on this special report about the attempted assassination of former president, donald trump. we will hear from an eyewitness right after this. stay with us. >>> this is an nbc news special report. >>> thank you for staying with us, i am anna cabrera in new york as we continue our breaking news coverage of the assassination attempt on former president, donald trump, during his rally in pennsylvania. saturday afternoon. here's what we know at this hour, the former president is doing well, after a bullet pierced the upper part of his right here. according to him and his son, we are getting that readout on how he is doing this morning, one rally attendee however, has died, two others critically injured according to law enforcement the shooter is now deceased, and has been identified as 20-year-old, thomas matthew crooks. so far, we know he was outside that secret service perimeter, in this event, we know he is a registered republican, we don't know the motive, we don't know the specific weapon, but we wil

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