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i'm yasmin vossoughian in for another busy hour. this morning we're tracking major developments in each of the three -- yes three -- separate investigations related to the 2020 election and the big lie spread by the former president and his allies. first in the justice department investigation. a source telling nbc news mark short, former chief of staff to mike pence appeared before a federal grand jury on friday to discuss what? we'll get into that. second n the house january 6th committee investigation, the panel revealing in crucial deposition clips how the former president was reluctant to condemn the capitol rioters the day after the attack. third, the investigation in fulton county, georgia and the setback for the da probing the former president and his allies' attempts to overturn the 2020 election. we want to bring in nbc knew capitol hill correspondent ali vitali is joining us, michael

schmidt, msnbc contributor, and glenn kirschner, msnbc legal analyst. glenn, let me start with you on this one. talk to me first about the significance of mark short appearing before a federal grand jury. >> it's hugely consequential. this is as high up as i think the department of justice has gone when it comes to subpoenaing and presenting the the federal grand jury that has the power to indict impeachment for their crimes unlike the january 6th committee. it's as high up as they've found in the political food chain. it seems based on the reporting that the only way we stumbled upon this is some investigative reporter may have caught him coming out of the federal courthouse in downtown d.c. then it was learned he appeared before the grand jury. that i think begs the question how many other potentially high

government officials have been presented to the grand jury? we know doj does its business quietly and behind closed doors without telling us about it and hoping it doesn't leak out. this it looks like may have leaked out. it's a hopeful sign that doj really is working their way up the criminal ladder. >> if you would, glenn, talk to us about the process, the thinking inside the doj as to put to put before a grand jury. >> i tell you, there's no witness that federal prosecutors don't want to put before the grand jury. one of the things i always told my agents and detectives and investigators f you have three witnesses, i'd like for you to bring me four. if you have four, i want five. that's a little bit of an overstatement, but the key to a successful prosecution is in the investigation. i might present 100 people to the grand jury in a cal investigation, ask the grand jury to return an indictment.

when i went to trial, yasmin, i might only call 10 or 12 or 15 of those people. the key is to investigate broadly, as broadly as possible, casting the widest net as possible so you can capture all relevant information and winnow it down to what you think you need to actually present to and persuade a jury at trial. >> michael, with that in mind, can you share with us any of your reporting, what you know about what marc short was actually called in to talk about? >> well, we know that short was called in as part of the larger investigation into the pressure campaign, the efforts to overturn the election. we know that short was a witness to the efforts by john eastman and trump to put pressure on pence to essentially take the election into his hands. short was right by pence's side throughout all of this. obviously a lot of attention is given to the fact that short was

with the vice president in the capitol on january 6th. but in terms of what the department would look at about charges, to bring charges against individuals, it would be related to the efforts to overturn the election, and the efforts to try to get pence to do what trump wanted. short was certainly there for that. mark jacobs, the top lawyer in the white house for pence at the time, has also testified before the grand jury. similarly, he was around and witness to this pressure campaign. he had testified himself before the january 6th investigation talking about the conversations that trump and john eastman, the little known conservative lawyer who was trying to help trump overturn the election had when they were trying to figure out ways to keep trump in power and pushing this bogus legal scheme. so this is a significant development because it shows

that the department is investigating and has pierced the level closer to the president and is talking to senior white house officials and people that were literally in the room for this pressure campaign. >> i want to read, michael, a part of your latest piece for "the new york times" kind of contrasting these three separate investigations. you put it brilliantly here and i want folks to hear it. you say the contrast between if public urgency and aggressiveness of the investigations being carried out by the georgia prosecutors and the congressional committee on the one hand and the quiet and apparently plotting and methodical approach being taken by the justice department on the other is so striking that it has become an issue for mr. garland, even as federal prosecutors quietly grind forward on the case. can you talk more about this, michael, and also how it's become an issue for the attorney general? >> so what's happened through

the january 6th committee is that on national television on a near weekly basis for the past several weeks, the committee has come out and provided a very clean authoritative narrative that has implicated trump and painted him in pretty damning brush strokes, and the committee has raised questions of chris criminality, explicitly saying they think he was being a criminal in what he did. that has heightened public questions about what is going to go on. americans sit at home and watch the hearings and they say, well, if liz cheney can put all of this out here and provide this narrative which i think looks pretty bad, where is the justice department? now, the justice department is a slow-moving entity. it's kind of like a tank, as once once said to me. it takes a long time to move its gaze, but once it does, it really unleashes on something.

i think that is some of what we're seeing here, where the department is much more plotting. it has far different restrictions on it than the committee does. it can't just throw evidence out there. it can't openly talk about an ongoing investigation. it's discouraged from doing so. the committee can put hearsay in their hearings. they can put it out, release whatever information they want. they just put more evidence out yesterday to tell the narrative that they're trying to tell. obviously in a courtroom the ability to present evidence like that is far more challenging. there are far more hurdles that a prosecutor would have to overcome. so there's a disconnect between the public's expectations about, well, what's really going on here. the committee has painted this picture, what is the justice department doing, and garland was forced to con front those questions last week. >> it's interesting, ali vitali,

michael brings up entering points talking about this doj investigation and members of the panel, of the committee, have been talking more and more about this. it seems like they're kind of trying to draw it out, right, to coax them further into this investigation. talk to us more about what they are saying and the real strategy that you're learning from your own reporting behind it. >> yeah, this committee has continuously put forward their information into the court of public opinion and then turned around and kept the pressure on the department of justice in trying to make sure that that investigation is functioning along the same lines and focusing on the same things. of course, they are separate entities as all of us have teased out. the fact these are happening on parallel tracks cannot be ignored. especially since chairman bennie thompson was talking to me about where they are in terms of sharing the transcripts and testimonies that the jilgt committee has gotten with the

department of justice who wants to take a look at those. thompson was saying he wanted to finish public hearings before opening those books to the doj. they are very much still, as of a week ago, in conversations about how they're going to look at how the committee has been able to gather. it has felt at several points throughout this like the committee is further ahead of the department of justice. the committee works publicly while the doj works quietly behind closed doors. nevertheless, what the committee is teasing out, in addition to looking over at doj and making sure they're on the case, so to speak, the committee is trying to tease ahead to what we could end up seeing in september. congresswoman elaine luria making clear that while we've already seen a lot, there's still more to see. >> there's so much more that we've heard from witnesses, so much more of the story to tell.

over the course of eight hearings, probably 18 to 20 hours that weave had an opportunity to present information to the public, we wanted to make sure to share that information because it provides amplifying details on what we shared in the hearing. >> reporter: all of us know, because we've all had to fact-gather and present what we find, that there are things that get left on the cutting room floor. that's what congresswoman luria is talking about, the fact that they have so much information and they're not able to put it all into a 2 or 2 1/2 hour hearing. in part, that's why we expect these hearings to keep going. it pushes ahead to their final report expected to come at some point in the fall. at the same time, they're still actively fact-gathering. we've watched them put that information in in realtime. what we saw yesterday with what they released on twitter, they have more information about what former president trump's thinking was of what he would and wouldn't say after january

6th. that's illuminating, too, and could give us roadmap as they put the teaser out there, while they might be down publicly for the month of august, when they come back in september, they could drive at the narrative they've been talking about this whole time which was, yes, january 6th was a day and moment in our history that was dangerous to democracy, but as they said all along, this is an ongoing threat. >> ali vitali, thank you. michael schmidt, glenn kirschner, thank you as well. let's talk about these growing concerns about the state of the economy in this country currently. earlier this morning the international monetary fund said it is, in fact, cutting its global economic growth projections for 2022 and 2023 saying the world's economic outlook is, quote, gloomy and more uncertain. this is coming as new figures show that u.s. consumer confidence fell for the third straight month. the first of a series of key economic reports and decisions coming this week. tomorrow, the fed is likely going to announce its fourth

interest rate hike this year alone. on thursday we'll get an initial reading of economic growth between april and june. and on friday we'll get a look at where things stand with inflation. all of this as the president says he's hopeful the united states will be able to avoid a recession. watch this. >> the employment rate is still one of the lowest we've had in the history, in the 3.6 area. we still find ourselves with people investing. my hope is we go from this rapid growth to steady growth, so we'll see some coming down. i don't think we're going to -- god willing, i don't think we're going to see a recession. >> joining us from the white house to talk more about this is cecelia rouse, chair of the council of economic advisers. cecelia, thank you for joining us on this. we appreciate it. it's confusing for a lot of americans. you got really good, positive numbers as you look at the

economy. job growth, low employment. wage growth isn't necessarily keeping up with inflation right now. consumer confidence, as we just learned in the last hour or so is down. it has been down over the last couple of months. despite that the president still seems optimistic. we're not headed towards a recession. how is the white house seeing it right now? >> well, thank you for having me. there's no question these are challenging economic times. the president has acknowledged as such. he recognizes that we're addressing high inflation, and he understand the cost that has for families. this economy that we're facing is the result of a pandemic. this pandemic that remains with us as well as russia's war on ukraine, and we know that has disrupted our economic system. it's disrupted global markets as well. but what we know in the united states is that we had an aggressive fiscal response, an

aggressive monetary response to the pandemic which gave households and businesses the resources to get through the pandemic. that's what fueled the record growth last year, and that's what continues to give -- fuel the record labor market we have. we've got a strong labor market. that's why household balance sheets -- i know they're struggling and inflation is a problem, balance sheets addressing inflation are higher than they were at the beginning of the pandemic. we see business spending and investment continue. we have a buffer for the fed to raise interest rates. they will be trying to cool down the economy. we already see their attempts to do so are in the mix. we're seeing some signs of cooling. and what the president was voicing is that given our buffer, given that we come into this from a position of strong economic growth, that the fed can cool the economy without causing us to have the hard landing that many people are fearing. >> so talking about spending, talking about investing. we're looking at these fed hikes

as well. i think the question so many americans are having is when are we going to see the results of all these actions taken by the white house and the fed as well. i know we're seeing some prices come down when it comes to gas prices, result of the actions the white house has taken. when you look at food prices and other things, the prices are still sky high. when are we going to see those things come down? >> again, completely understand the struggle that inflation poses which is why the president really is focused on that. it's why he's giving the federal reserve the independence and latitude to exercise its monetary policy tools to bring inflation under control. he's also focused on getting as much oil onto the market as possible. that's what will bring down the price of oil. it's priced on a global market. it's why he's done historic releases from the strategic petroleum reserve in partnership with partners and allies as well.

it's why he was in the middle east to celebrate opec plus's decision to increase production and encourage them to produce even more. secretary brown has been working with refiners to say what can we do to help you increase capacity to refine more product. he's working to get more product on the market. that's how prices come down. the war in ukraine is a challenge. we're trying to address food supplies so, again, we can bring down the global prices there. so we all expect that these factors will work themselves out. i appreciate that we want it to be sooner than later, but we are already seeing signs that the federal reserve's monetary policy making is starting to slow down the economy. so far it's been in the gentle way that we would hope. let's face it, we're getting a lot of data this week, as you highlighted. and we'll learn more about where we stand. >> we certainly will and we'll be watching it. if i could, i'll ask you on the air if you could come back after we get some more of that data so

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welcome back. texans are used to feeling scorching weather this time of year, but right now the brutal heat wave is breaking records and bringing more dangerous conditions. i want you to take a look at this video out of northeast dallas. more than a dozen homes went up in flames after a grass fire spread through a neighborhood when workers struck debris while mowing in a dry field.

nbc's antonio hilton is live from dallas where they saw their 30th 100th-degree day, and triple digits expected this week as well. antonia, some of the devastation we see because of this heat, i can't even imagine losing your house amidst all of this and folks trying to stay cool and safe, as you see the temperatures peaking day after day. >> reporter: absolutely, yasmin. in response, people are coming out to public parks like this one, clyde warren park where there's a splash pad, tables, shade for families to get away from the intense heat for just a little while. you mentioned this devastating fire in the northeast dallas suburbs. that fire has completely destroyed nine homes and it has damaged dozens of others. this city is under a heat advisory until 8:00 p.m. tonight. the triple digits are expected

until about friday when people here are praying for the temperature to go down just a little bit and for there to be a little bit of rain here. in nearby ft. worth, the med star ems reporting a 132% increase in heat-related responses over last year. texans are used to the heat but this summer has been something different. listen to a conversation we had with one man, part of a construction crew, who had to be out here working in the heat early this morning. >> you come out here at 7:00 a.m. and guys are already drenched in sweat. it's definitely a way of life for sure. you have to have that in mind when you're watching out for everybody, making sure everyone is staying safe. >> reporter: they've developed a buddy system where guys in the crew are keeping an eye out for each other throughout the day to make sure they're safe in this intense heat. that's the advice the city is giving to everyone else, too, keep an eye on your family, keep an eye on your neighbors, especially the elderly.

make sure people are hydrated, they have the resources they need, and if they don't, the city has designated cooling centers. if you don't have the resources, you can't stay cool, you can go to one of those sites to get a little respite. yasmin. >> antonia hylton, thank you. a grizzly discovery, human remains found at lake meade, the third time since may that human remains were found at the lake. not clear if the body was discovered because of low water levels. lake meet is at its lowest levels since the 1930s. last week the reservoir was just at 27% capacity. earlier this month nasa released satellite images showing how much drought and climate change has impacted water levels over the last two decades. unbelievable to see that from that vantage point. four parents separated from their kids at the u.s./mexico

border are now suing the u.s. government for damages. they say the trump administration separated them from their children for weeks without notice, giving no updates on their well-being. with us, nbc's julia ainsley who broke the story. tell us about these families. >> three mothers and one father all from guatemala suing the u.s. government in a civil suit in arizona for damages they say they deserve because of the trauma they endured when they were separated from their children unexpectedly at the u.s. southern border in 2018. that was under president trump's zero tolerance policy where he separated over 5,000 families, families that did not expect this punishment when they decided to cross the u.s. border. i interviewed one mother who went by her initials of m.se, she said she was separated from her son and told she would never

see him again. she said, i thought i was never going to see my son again. i would ask for information about him and they would ignore me. they would tell me to forget about him. she was even told he would be put up for adoption. she talked about being in a cell when customs and border protection let him outside. hard to imagine this as a mother. she then watched her son be loaded onto a van and driven away. the two went two months without seeing each other. she did not have information about his whereabouts. she thought she was going to be deported. instead she was brought to a detention facility where she was in the end reunited with her son. now she's in the united states living with him trying to get some kind of compensation and trying to get legal status here. now she's running up against obstacles from the biden administration. we know last december biden officials at the justice department walked away from settlement negotiation talks with families like this that

would have given them over $400,000 for the experience they went through. now each family has to get lawyers and sue individually for these claims. so this is the first group we've seen do this, yasmin. it's something to watch going forward to see how much these families will get in the end and also get the important details of the stories and what they went through. >> my gosh, julia, how devastating. how much trauma for those parents and those children, and the ptsd they likely have after an experience like that, being separated for the person they trust and love the most for those children. julia ainsley, thank you for your incredible reporting on these stories. this morning, more abortion rights protests expected in indiana as state lawmakers consider a near total ban on abortions. that would send more patients looking for options out of state. up next, we'll take a closer look at a clinic in southern illinois that is taking patients

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welcome back. new developments this morning in the fallout after the school shooting in uvalde, texas. an monday the district superintendent put the principal of robb elementary on administrative leave. she will still be paid. the district has not confirmed the reason for the suspension, but a texas house committee had criticized the school administrators for not repairing a broken lock. meanwhile, according to "the washington post," the uvalde school board voted to urge texas governor greg abbott to hold a special legislative session to raise the minimum age to buy assault weapons from 18 to 21. more abortion rights protests expected today in indiana as republicans review whether to ban all abortions across the state. the vote is the first electoral test of its kind since the supreme court overturned roe. as more states ban or restrict

the procedures, states where abortion is still legal are becoming havens for women including one small-town illinois clinic, now the only option for so many. nbc news' kristen dahlgren has more. >> reporter: at granite city, illinois's hope clinic for women. >> we are booked out to august. >> reporter: calls have tripled since the dobbs decision. illinois surrounded by a growing number of states where the procedure is illegal or restricted. >> we have patients from texas traveling nine, ten hours by car. >> reporter: with missouri just across the river, they were used to treating patients from outside illinois. but scheduled women now have 16 different states. the clinic says 86% of its patients come from out of state. >> we've increased the number of nurses, clinical staff, patient educators and really importantly, front desk staff. >> reporter: they help patients navigate what is becoming a confusing landscape of laws across state lines.

>> they're worried it's illegal where we are. it's taking a lot of reassurance. we're also seeing a lot of relief, kind of this, i finally got here. >> reporter: there are also organizations that help with logistics and cost of travel, something mary elizabeth coleman wants to see penalize zbld activity crosses the line from i'm just talking about it with you to i'm actually helping you carry out an illegal act. >> if the activity is legal in i'm know, you still think it should be illegal to book an appointment from missouri? >> for the business to, they're running basically shadow clinics in the state of missouri. that's what i take issue with. >> reporter: crossing borders for abortion isn't true. last year lori was 20 weeks pregnant when doctors saw severe abnormalities. >> most babies that have this disorder either die during childbirth or shortly after.

>> reporter: her family went from posting a baby announcement to making a choice. >> i could, you know, kind of carry to term -- sorry. >> reporter: or she could travel eight hours from oklahoma to new mexico for an abortion. >> to not be able to just do something like that here was really, really difficult. >> reporter: back in granite city -- >> my only job as the mayor of this city is to make sure that everybody stays safe. those that are coming to the clinic, but also for the other side of it that protest. >> reporter: as states and small towns navigate the changing landscape. kristen dahlgren, nbc news, granite city, illinois. >> our thanks to nbc's kristen dahlgren for that report. coming up, the president's covid recovery, how he's doing

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right, fairly well, especially with the help of paxlovid and his vaccines. it speaks to kind of how far we've come with this pandemic and with covid. >> exactly. think ability when the last president got covid-19, hospitalized, experimental therapies. people were very worried about the last president. this president vaccinated, boosted, paxlovid, has done very well. i think it speaks to how the hollywood has progressed. >> we know it's oftentimes a consequence of taking paxlovid. some folks choose not to take it because of that. what can the president possibly look forward to if, in fact, his

symptoms rebound after he's done with his treatment. >> the first thing we have to recognized, we don't know all the answers to rebound. some individuals anecdote cli experience getting better on paxlovid, getting symptoms again and then -- whether this is more common with paxlovid or omicron i think are open questions. it's not something that could be thought about as a setback. people who get the rebound still do fairly well. it's not something that should make someone not want to take paxlovid. paxlovid can be lifesaving for high-risk individuals. the president fits in that category. it's appropriate he got this. and appropriate other people at high risk ask their doctors to prescribe them paxlovid. >> we're talking a lot about monkeypox, the world health organization declaring it a

health emergency. we have over 3,40 cases in this country alone. have we learned anything about the lack of preparedness from covid and now dealing with where we are from monkeypox? >> it's very discouraging, on the wake of the covid-19 pandemic we're seeing some of that, and the same mistakes being repeated, not just proactively, not an aggressive approach to contain an outbreak. i think the fact that vaccines sat in denmark because the fda hadn't gotten around to inspecting the plant is inexcusable. you look at covid-19, there was a failure, federal governments, state governments, local governments. it's not confidence-building to see these same mistakes being made. it calls for a lot of soul searching about how to get our government able to respond to infectious disease emergencies.

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he apologized yesterday for indigenous people in canada for the abuse thousands of children suffered for decades at the hands of the row roman catholic church. >> translator: i beg forgiveness for the evil committed by so many christians against the indigenous people. >> the pope prayed at a cemetery at one school site. they pulled children from families and tried to wipe out their culture. all 150,000 children went through the system and 6,000 died. anne thompson is covering the visit. talk to me first -- i know this mass is beginning soon. talk to me first about the rest of the day, what else the pope has planned, and how people there are reacting. >> reporter: after this mass this afternoon, the pope will go

to a place called lack st. ann. it's a place of pilgrimage. today is the feast day of st. ann. they are the grandparents of the blessed mother who is the mother of jesus christ. it is a big day on both sides of this issue, as you will. when the pope came into the stadium a few minutes ago, this is the first time we have seen him in his element, as it were, in the trip. he had the pope mobile stopped. he blessed at least five children on the ride. it looked like your typical papal trip. this is no typical papal trip. he is here to apologize for the catholic church's role in the residential schools where so many indigenous children were abused. the pope's apology is getting mixed reaction. some people are very comfortable

with it saying it's a very good thing. many people want much more. they want the records released of what happened in those schools. they want reparations. they want artifacts returned. they want most of all to feel like human beings. they want their dignity back. they say a papal decree centers old that allowed the collinization of land and people took that away. >> thank you, anne thompson. tonight's mega millions jackpot is quite big. a mind blowing $810 million. it's the fourth largest ever in the country. the winner can take annual payments over 30 years. i would take annual payments. or receive a one-time payout of just about $470 million. that will do right after taxes. the chance of winning, one in

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