at the end of this month at the u.s. open, right here in new york city. bravo, serena williams, and a brilliant career and extraordinary life! on that note, i wish you all a very, very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late with us. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> thank you at-home for joining us this hour, we're happy to have you with us, and in normal times this is not what you'd expect to see. emblazoned across the front page of the new york times. a headline, in all caps, that a former presidents home was just searched by the fbi in south florida. then again, normal went out the window a long time ago. the times adds that the focus is said to be on white house files, a sign that inquiries are widening. here is the washington post today. quote, fbi agents urged trump

safe in documents probe. unusual move handily -- under scrutiny. win the past 24 hours have been a doozy. it was yesterday evening when the former president, donald trump, put out a rambling, chest, pounding feet stomping statement, announcing to the world that the fbi had raided, his words, his florida home. a so-called law and order president decried the search, and called it a witch, out and even gave a shout out to hillary clinton. but her emails! he did let the world know a fascinating detail, that the fbi got into his safe as part of their search. so, let's take a step back, now it's been 24 hours, technology seriousness about happiest day. justice department officials didn't just wake up yesterday and say, hey, let's send some federal agents to search the past presidents home, because we think a crime is committed there. but this hour as long as search

means, is that law enforcement had to convince a federal judge that there is probable cause that a crime was committed there. federal prosecutors had to present evidence, and make their case, and they obviously succeeded in convincing a judge, and were able to obtain a search warrant that they executed yesterday on trump's florida state. now, let's go back in time. we, learned in february, thanks to some intrepid reporters at the washington post, that the national archives retrieved 15 boxes of documents, some including highly classified and sensitive material from trump's mar-a-lago home. in the following months, we learned that the justice department was investigating the handling of that material, and that investigation took a dramatic turn yesterday, when federal agents were dressed in plain clothes, so is not to garner attention, descended on trump's home.

nbc news reports the fbi notified trump's secret service details before the search, and showed agents a copy of the search warrant. and you absolutely know and surprise, the fbi search warrant was met by his republicans coming, out one by one, falling in line to defend the former president, while along with right-wing media, denouncing the federal search as a deep state plot to stop trump from running for office in 2024. we will have much more on the bombastic responses from the right later in the show. but while on the one hand it is shocking that fbi agents executed a search warrant on a former presidents home, it's not particularly surprising. let's take a trip down memory lane. remember these blurry cell phone photos? they were taken less than one month into donald trump's presidency by a mar-a-lago club visitor? you can see trump sitting next to the japanese leader, shinzo abe, in another, someone is shining a light over shinzo abe

's shoulder onto what appears to be some documents. we soon learned that trump had turned his clubs terrorism to a sort of situation room. the two leaders were reacting to north korea launching a ballistic missile in the middle of a crowded country club. then the resists meeting inside the oval office, with trump hosting and being chummy with russia's foreign minister, and the russian ambassador. this is the meeting where trump barred u.s. press, but allowed russian photographers to bring equipment inside the oval office, prompting a flurry of security concerns. but, there is more. we soon learned that trump had divulged highly classified information to the russian officials. information that was so sensitive that it was not even shared with u.s. allies. and then there is trump's meetings with putin, where in one instance trump seized the notes from his interpreter, while also instructing the interpreter not to discuss what transpired during the meeting with anyone. this is the same president that revealed the sensitive information, of the locations of two nuclear submarines to

the authoritative leader of the philippines. and tweeted out a high resolution satellite photo, of what is not to be a classified image of a -- in iran. he ignored repeated calls from aids to stop using his personal cell phone, despite reporting that foreign spies would listen in from time to time. we first heard report that trump had a habit of ripping up notes in 2018. this is not a one-off. he did this, including ripping up sensitive memos, despite repeated warnings from two chiefs of staff, and the white house counsel. trump did this so often, that staffers put the ripped up papers into burn bags to destroy them. he also, reportedly, had a habit of flushing documents down the toilet. all of those instances took place while trump was president. now, it's entirely different matter to have a former officeholder potentially compromising national security material. given that it's perhaps not really all that surprising that the justice department has ramped up its investigation into donald trump's removal of documents from the white house. by taking the aggressive action of executing a search warrant

on a former presidents home. but, i've got questions. remember that boxes of documents were eventually retrieved from trump's estate. so, why would a federal magistrate, a judge in west palm beach sign off on a search warrant? what else did they think was being held by trump? we know that the judge agreed with the doj that there is probable cause of potential crime. but what is a crime, exactly? earlier today, cnn was first to report that federal officials visited trump's palm beach home in june to discuss those materials. including, some potential classified materials that were found there. according to multiple outlets, one of those justice department officials, who was a counter intelligence official, visited trump's home and met with two of his lawyers and in the spring. tonight, the wall street journal was one of the first to report that federal agents executed that search warrant,

in part, because they were concerned the classified materials remained at mar-a-lago, after 15 boxes had been retrieved earlier this year. the washington post also has new reporting on the search warrant tonight, here is a lead, in the months before the fbi's dramatic move to executed a search warrant and former president donald trump's florida home. federal authorities grew increasingly concerned that trump or his lawyers and aides had not, in fact, returned all the documents and other material that we are government property. officials became suspicious that when trump gave back items to the national archives, about seven months ago, either the former president or people close to him held on two key records. trump's lawyer, christina bond, confirmed tonight to nbc news that federal agents took roughly a dozen boxes from mar-a-lago yesterday. this is in addition to the 15 boxes they recovered in january. the new york times reports that this justice department investigation into trump's handling of the alleged classified documents, is separate from the department's january 6th inquiry. so, we certainly have an awful lot to unpack.

joining us now is the perfect person to go to. katie better, she covers a justice department for the new york times. it's good to see you, thanks for being with us today. i've tried to sort of laid out, it's a bit confusing, because there's the mechanics of the search warrant, and then there is the one of the looking for, and what do they think the crime is? to the best of your knowledge at this point, one of the answers to those questions? >> right, so this, point the search warrant was for documents related to the national archives matter, and really nothing more. now, that said, we have spoken to many experts who say that, if, in obtaining information from mar-a-lago, investigators find items for documents, or anything else they couldn't pertain to other investigations, they are a large use that information. in terms of the actual search warrant itself with -- a lead out for the judge. we understand this to be the issue of whether or not trump returned all the documents you

should've to the national archives. interestingly, the person who has the answer to this question is donald trump himself, because we know that when federal agents execute the search warrant, they'll even from somebody's propery where they have taken. the person they could answer the question for us today is donald trump. >> so, this is always been a tricky one. how to know what's should be with the archives, and should've stayed with trump, right? have we always known what we were looking for here, because there were those 15 boxes that were taken out in january, now they're 12 more boxes, does somebody have a list of this is the stuff i needed is not where it supposed, to be important to either national security or the january 6th investigation, or just isn't supposed to be with donald trump? >> so initially the national archives, they felt they were

not getting everything they should have, we after he left the residence. and partially, we are doing an archival project, so they can tell but documents are discussed, they are cross referencing documents. they heard about documents. so, they knew they were there was some material they were getting, and they asked for those documents. that's when they receive those 15 boxes the beginning of this year. what's interesting is that the archives was not confident that don trump had given them absolutely everything. you see in their communications with congress in february, the national archives said that we have asked donald trump to please turn over anything more he may or may not find. so they were not confident those 15 boxes with the last word. they're also notified the justice department at that time and said, of what we have obtained, of these 15 boxes, we do think there is classified material here you might want to investigate and understand, because mishandling of classified information can be criminally charged. so, the justice department then began to look into it. >> you reported today that the fbi's search of mar-a-lago is not related to the justice department's probe of january 6th. there are two separate matters.

tell me again cause you hinted at this before if there is something they find -- which is the overlap if there is any between what happened yesterday, and the department of justice separate investigation into january 6th. >> so far, as we, know there is no overlap. they executed a search warrant related to whether or not donald trump had given back everything he should've to the national archives, and whether or not he had improperly mishandled classified information. there could be overlap in the future, i say, could because we don't know whether this could happen, and it may not happen. but there could be overlap in the future, in looking through the materials obtained, the justice department finds any documents related to its ongoing information, or any documents that look like they point to criminal activity. >> earlier tonight, the republican congressman scott perry of pennsylvania released a statement saying that the fbi had confiscated his cell phone. we heard at a previous january six hearing that congressman

perry allegedly sought a pardon from donald trump after the capitol attack. are these matters related? is it a coincidence that fbi got his cell phone, a talk about, yesterday -- are they related or unrelated, as far as you know? >> i'd say that these matters are related, per se, it's interesting to me that congressman perry wants to intertwined them together, once them to be related. because we've seen the really strong republican reaction to the trump search warrant on mar-a-lago. we've seen republicans coalesce around donald trump, even those who had been sort of moving away from him, really in lockstep move to defend him, and show that he is the leader of the republican party. so politicaslly it really behooves scott perry to say that these things are one of the same. however, we know that congressman perry could have information that is important to other ongoing justice department investigations. particularly, the plan to the fake electors, scheme which is submitting alternate slates of electors, saying that trump falsely one swing states, as

well as the investigation into jeffrey clark who was working with president trump to try to undo the election. and their liaison was congressman scott perry. >> katie, no one better than you to break this all down, this is a complicated matter, and we're grateful you to come to join us. at the new york times justice department, the reporter katie benner, we appreciate you katie. i wanna bring in andrew weizmann, he previously served as the fbi general counsel, and was former senior member of councillor robert mueller's investigation team. -- >> good evening, it's always good to follow katie benner. >> sheila lays it out very well. and allows me to ask you about your sort of top line reactions to everything we learned in the last 24, hours in the last 13 minutes. and what you think prompted this, the doj to execute and issue this search warrant.

>> my intuition is that merrick garland was given information that there was national security information, of such importance and so sensitive, and that he could not troughs that donald trump will simply turn it back over to the government. they had to have information that is still extent in mar-a-lago. and considering the national security concerns, that's the kind of thing that i could see merrick garland and lisa monaco, and christopher wray, and frankly the entire intelligence community thinking is so important to the national security of the united states that it warrants this kind of step. that is my gut, but that is the kind of thing that would warrant this kind of action. my other reaction is, we should not be distracted by the,

search, as stunning as it is, and as unique as it is in american history, as katie alluded to, this is very separate from the january 6th investigation. i think, if there were to be charges against the former president, it's going to emanate from the january 6th investigation, and i could see merrick garland being fairly reluctant to bring a technical records act case, that are not often prosecuted. they are, at times, but it seems like that would be the kind of thing that might get added to a criminal case made with respect to january six but it's hard for me to see that would be a stand-alone criminal case. having said that we don't know what they will find in mar-a-lago, and i could be totally wrong because they could find information that really makes it beyond the pale but the former president did, terrain criminal prosecution of some of those warrants. >> so help me out with this non lawyer question, because i know you prosecuted a lot of baddies

in your time. people went into mar-a-lago, got these 15 boxes in january. i would point, the president folks around him should've been aware that someone is looking for documents, that shouldn't have been in mar-a-lago. i can't believe those 12 more boxes of stuff. i don't know if they organize the 12 boxes, but if there is bad incriminating stuff in your house and you know that the department of justice is on to you, why would that be more about an incriminating's thus? >> so, i used to say this when i was summing up to a jury, when the defense lawyers would say why would a defendant do this i would generally say that the jury the defendant here is not accused of being smart. he's accused of committing a crime. and a lot of defendants and certainly you've seen this with the former president, have a lot of hubris. and think they're above the law. and frankly in the former presidents case he's managed to dodge quite a few bullets in

his lifetime. so you can imagine him thinking, i complied enough, but not completely. we and, so again, i think time will tell, but whatever his circumstance is they would leave him not simply to comply and return government documents. it's pretty clear the government at least has evidence that he did not do that, and they must have presented it to court which is why they got the search warrant. >> so this is another question, where it's helpful, given your experience both of the fbi and the doj to help us understand this. there's some reporting today that in the spring a small team from the department of justice, including the head of its counterintelligence and export control office, went to mar-a-lago to meet with trump's lawyers about the documents that were taken to mar-a-lago. i don't know when any of that possibly could mean, do you?

>> yeah, so i know jay bratt he is a career official in the national security division. it appears to me that that was, by all accounts, an effort to try and obtain, from the former president, will -- the classified documents, whether classified or not that would belong to the government. we question about what formal officials are allowed to take. the answer is nothing. when i worked in the government, the number of documents i took from my office was zero. and that's because, those are not personal documents, those are government documents. so i think that effort in june with jay bryant and his colleagues, it was an effort to see if all of documents were being returned, and i think that we don't know, but there must be evidence we tumeric our land in the court, is that they have information that in fact the former president did not return information and

documents to the government, and for this kind of action to have been taken, the information has to be about seriously national security information that with the justice department and the intelligence community are very we concerned about. >> thank you for your expertise and your analysis today, andrew weizmann, he's a former fbi general counsel, and a former senior member of robert mueller's investigative team. we thank you for time. after the storm, trump supporters on the worst parts of the internet started murmerings of a, quote, civil war. now, i would love to write that kind of top off as typical internet hot air. but, after january 6th, i don't know if we have that luxury. more on that story, next.

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the fbi has conducted a search of president trump's florida home. republicans and conservative media have responded, about the way you'd expect them to. by rallying around donald trump, and castigating the fbi. the republican house leader kevin mccarthy, has vowed investigations into the attorney general merrick garland, if republicans retake the house. and after managing to stay silent on the issue for nearly 24 hours. mitch mcconnell issued a statement saying, quote, this country deserves a thorough and immediate explanation of what led to the events of monday. attorney general garland and the department of justice should already have provided answers to the american people, and must do so immediately. several members of congress

have, without a hint of irony, called for the hunt funding the federal law enforcement. trump's political action committee, and the republican national committee have already started trying to fund-raise off the news of the fbi's search. even mike pence has popped back into public life, to defend the man who once inspired an angry mob to try to hang him. all of this is what we have come to expect from the modern republican party, when faced with a potential criminal behavior of its de facto leader. but beneath the service, we are also seeing a more alarming and dangerous reaction from trump's far-right supporters. according to a new report from ben collins and ryan reilly, users on far-right social media sites in messaging for his have responded to the fbi searched by advocating for civil war. well, in the minutes after news of the search broke, users on pro trump forums like the, donald urged immediate violence. asking, when does the shooting start? and calling on trump to colin

militias. -- telegram, adding that the fbi's bidens can this gestapo, in civil, or is imminent. users of pro trump extremist forums, also urged supporters to stage a rally outside of trump's florida home. just after news of the search first broke, when far-right youtube star with over 5 million followers right on twitter, tomorrow's war. sleep well. all of that alone is cause for concern, but it is increasingly clear that donald trump intends to keep fanning these flames. politicos meredith mcgraw reports today that donald trump 's team and allies, are moving quickly to -- at the former presidents mar-a-lago home on monday. including by keeping tabs on republicans who aren't, in their view, sufficiently rushing to his defense, and quote. one person close of the trump operation told politico, they are going to drastically use

this to rally their allies. gop leaders on capitol hill, and use for his political agenda agenda, and run for 2024. if there was a 99% chance, it's 100 percent now. he makes it part of his platform, going after the fbi. joining us now is the reporter on that story, merrick mcgraw, the reporter who wrote. it thanks for being with us. let's talk about this, an fbi investigation to hillary clinton for potentially mishandling classified information, by some account, was enough to tank her campaign in 2016. the trump team seems to be thinking this is good for them. why? >> well, they see this as a galvanizing political force. and, as we saw yesterday after the news broke, republicans from every corner of the party of seems, gathered around trump to support him, and to express outrage over the fbi's search warrant there at mar-a-lago. and, in talking to allies and aides of the former president,

he has been getting calls from his allies on capitol hill, encouraging him to expedite potential 24 announcement. and for a lot of people in the right, they've seen this as a kind of unifying force for them, especially as they move into the midterms. >> so, if donald trump sees this as a nascent focus for his campaign for president, are you aware of anyone around him in the circle of advisers who are suggesting maybe this isn't the hill to dial? >> i think in some ways, this makes him talk about some things that aren't the 2020 election. talking about the corruption of the federal government, as something that has been a theme of republicans for years now, especially under the trump

administration, has been something that has gotten a lot of support, and has been popularized on the right. this talk of us gradual f, and the quote, weaponization of the bureaucracy, has been a popular idea on the right, and something that they feel like they can get their arms around, and uses momentum. >> let's talk about the republicans who didn't rush to donald trump's defense, and then ultimately came out, mitch mcconnell for instance released a statement tonight, after staying silent for most of the day, and his statement was, how this needs to be explained. i just saw news of another republican senator who said the same thing. they talk to the fbi director, and this is got to be explained. tonight the thinking is here. >> well, there have been republicans who have come to trump's defense, i know at the house republican conference call today, it was talked about, and then trump's meeting with the republican committee at --

where i'm sure they will talk about this fbi raid, and more there have been some republicans who have said hold on, let's wait a minute we -- [inaudible] among those who have done that, of course have been mitch mcconnell who is criticized for taking so long to come to trump 's defense, senator rick scott who has been talked about and buzzed about as a potential vice president candidate, and even 2024 contender. they were among the ones who said, let's wait a, minute let's pause, and lasting cr things play out. and actually got them a lot of criticism from the right, and especially from people in trump world who said that it wasn't sufficient enough, and that they should be taking it a step further in going after the fbi for their actions. what's the level of concern that trump and his responses and actions could lead to another january 6th ish type of violent event?

we've seen some talking about that some of it showing up on right-wing media, right-wing social media at the moment. is there any concern in republican or trump circles of this escalating? >> well, it hasn't seemed to be the case with a lot of the language we've seen today. i'm kevin mccarthy, and senator rick scott compared the fbi's actions to the gestapo. we've seen a lot of that come from the heated rhetoric come from the leaders of the party. but it is really concerning to see some of the far-right factions being showcased in far-right corners of the web using violent terms over their outrage towards this raid. i would hope in the coming days will be some cooling of the temperatures here, because right now republicans have really been united over their outrage for what happened in mar-a-lago. thank you for joining us, political reporter meredith mcgraw has been reporting over the last 24.

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case it's officially out of her hands and she avoids any conflict of interest. but if deperno wins in november, it's not relitigating the election of 2020 we have to worry about, he would then be in charge of any such investigations in the future like this. what is truly nuts is that deperno is just one of the multiple republicans running for important statewide office won't currently under investigation for their efforts to overturn elections. just today pennsylvania's republican nominee for governor doug mastriano appeared virtually before the january house six ounce can investigation. he was the point person for pennsylvania in the fake scheme to overturn election in that state. he was in the crowd himself on january 6th. today he reportedly would not answer a single question that

the committee asked. the whole thing lasted about 15 minutes. again, this is the republican candidate for governor of pennsylvania who if elected would appoint the state secretary of state to oversee elections. he also told radio show back in march he would quote, decertify every voting machine in the state with a stroke of a pen by the secretary of state. so that's fun. and then of course, there's the former president himself. president trump's former secretary of state mike pompeo was interviewed by the january 6th investigation today after trump's personal lawyer rudy giuliani was supposed to testify before a grand jury in fulton county, georgia today. he managed to get that pushback at least a week. not to mention that just last week the justice department has started reaching out to trump's lawyers directly as part of its investigation into january 6th. and of trump is not formally announced his candidacy for 2024 yet, but the fact that he's a center of multiple investigations might be the push he needs to make that announcement. and that's in addition to the

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earlier today joe biden signed a major manufacturing bill into law, and the ceremony on the white house south lawn praising house speaker nancy pelosi and senate leader chuck schumer for getting it passed. the 280 billion dollar that includes tens of billions of dollars to bolster the semiconductor industry here in the states, an investment that will go a long way in helping u.s. manufacturers build chips that will help power everything from smartphones to cars. few hours later, president biden was signing documents that will bring feet finland and sweden closer to nato. this is a vote that helps finland and sweden get closer to nato membership. and a victory lap isn't over yet as brian pointed out earlier today. >> i hope to be signing the inflation reduction act that could be lowering the cost of health care and energy and make historic investments in tackle climate issues. >> that bill could head to the presidents desk as early as friday. that historical legislation is

a smaller version of the presidents build back better bill. that legislation was result the result of hard negotiations of the league of the progressive caucus, she held the line when monumental parts of that legislation more on the chopping block. so it's worth hearing from her about what she thinks of the inflation reduction act and what is being left out of it. oining us now is congressman pramila jayapal from washington. thank you for being here good to see you again. >> ali, it's always great to be with you thank you for having me. >> you have long struggled to get progressive priorities into the sort of bill back when it was the other bill we were talking about and now this one. some of your progressive colleagues have argued that this is baby steps, it's not 100 percent of where you wanted to be in any particular place. how do you characterize it? >> well ali, first of all i am very proud of the progressive

caucus for holding the line as you said. if you remember when the infrastructure bill came over to us, there was no build back better and there is no negotiations and there was no legislation -- passed through the house, and what you are seeing today in the inflation reduction act is significant -- in this bill and i will tell you that while i am heartbroken for the pieces that aren't in it, this is a massive step forward. it is a massive step forward in a couple of ways. first, it is really the biggest investment we've ever had in reducing carbon emissions. 40% by 2030 that is net of some bad provisions that we don't particularly like that are in the bill. second, it is a really cost cutting measure because not only are we bringing energy costs down about 1000 bucks a year for the average american family on energy cost reduction, but also health care costs. we are continuing to health

care subsidies and for the first time ali, not enough for me but we are going to get a toe in the door of taking on big pharma and price gouging and allowing medicare to negotiate a small set of drugs admittedly but still it's a beginning to really taking on big pharma. and third, this is about finally getting the wealthiest corporations and the wealthiest individuals to pay their fair share. it's the beginning. 15% minimum tax including for large corporations like amazon right here in my home district. everyone should pay their fair share, so i think on all three of those counts, this is lowering costs, investing and bringing us forward on addressing climate change. 60 billion by the way in environmental justice in this bill and of course in making the wealthiest pay their fair share. all big progressive priorities. >> now you managed to get the two democratic senators to not

only sign on not only in the case of joe manchin but be active in the formation of this bill, obviously in exchange for things he wanted done and kyrsten sinema wanted done. but when you look at the exam below that, the politics of getting this bill done in the months it took to get done. are there some things that you are not happy about, is there's some likelihood about building consensus to get more of that done during your term? >> well, i think it is probably unlikely we are going to get more legislation done as much as i would like to get to see that happen. the pieces of the bill that i'm heartbroken about the we are not passing are of course the investments in the care economy which would help bring women back in the economy and the workforce. but when i want to say to people who are impatient that we haven't got that done, is that we took a giant step forward in drafting the language and getting that consensus for 99% of the democratic party to be on board for universal child care, universal pre-k, investments in housing, improving dental and hearing benefits for medicare.

all we need to do ali is get a couple more people, couple more democrats in the senate who are on the president's economic agenda and then we can pass it very quickly. in the meantime, we have an executive action slate that includes canceling student debt, includes raising the overtime threshold so that millions of workers can get a pay raise and many other things around abortion, the dobbs decision, and we are gonna push on the executive branch to make sure the president is using every tool in his tool box. >> what happened on insulin? i can't get my head around what happened there. there was legislation that made a lot of sense to limit how much people pay for insulin which is a very old drug upon which the patent has run out a long time ago. i don't understand that. >> this is absolute heresy in my mind.

because we had a provision, democrats did to cap the price of insulin at 35 bucks not only for medicare recipients but for anyone on private insurance as well. that of course is a much, much larger group of people who would see the cost of insulin come down, and the republicans refused to go along with the provision to extend that cap on insulin to a larger group of people. now of course i should remind everyone that not a single republican voted for any of this. not a single republican wants to cut health care costs for americans or energy costs for americans, or take on climate change, this was passed on the democratic only vote. but it is particularly galling to see republicans vote against and i should say there were seven, six or seven that voted with democrats on this, but the vast majority of republicans voted against capping the cost of insulin.

that was just cruel in my view to all the people out there who were suffering with this high cost of insulin and price gouging. >> millions and millions of people. it's one of the most common of inflections afflictions in the united states. washington congresswoman pramila jayapal is the chair of the progressive caucus, thank you for joining us. appreciate your. time >> thank you ali. >> there are key primary elections in four key states tonight. minnesota that could shrink them at democratic majority in the house. we're gonna get to those races next.

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voted to certify the election of 2020 i had major reservations and then when she voted for the impeachment of president trump after the riot on january 6th, i realized that she was not capable of defending our district and really our nation against the onslaught of what the radical left is doing to our country right now. >> one full week after the washington state primary race

the incumbent congrsswoman jaime herrera beutler has conceded her seat. she narrowly lost that to that man. he is a trump endorsed republican who believes the 2020 election was stolen from donald trump, and hired a member of the proud boys as a campaign consultant. he once told a white nationalist youth group quote, i don't think there's anything wrong being with there being a white peoples interest group. that person now has herrera beutler beat, and moving on to the november general election, even though he only beat her by half a percentage point. that's how last week's rounds of primaries went. big victories for election deniers far right trump candidates. today we get a fresh base of primaries. in wisconsin, connecticut, minnesota, the race is shaping up to be a microcosm of the dynamics we're seeing across the country. nbc has a projected winner for scott jansen, a physicist who

spent months criticizing governor tim walz for putting in measures to fight covid. he's also spoken out against vaccination and abortion. he said he will try to ban abortion in the state if he's elected governor, and like many republican candidates who won primaries last tuesday, jansen suggested that the 2020 election was fraudulent. he even called for the minnesota secretary of state to be thrown in jail. quote, steve simon you better check out to see if you look good in stripes because you've gotten away with too much, too long end quote. that's the man who according to nbc's predictions tonight has won today's republican primary and will square off against the incumbent minnesota tim walz. meanwhile some exciting news in vermont looks like the state will likely elect a woman to congress for the first time ever. vermont is the only state that has never elected a woman to the house or the senate. it will likely also be the

first time vermont elects an openly gay person to congress. that's because she just won with 59% of the vote and favored to win in november as well. votes are still trickling in in other races. that does it for us tonight we'll see you tomorrow. it's time now with the last word with lawrence o'donnell. one reason why it finally took a woman in the house of representatives in vermont, is because vermont only has one member of the house of representatives for the because of the population count their. it's gonna take an awful lot longer in a state with such a tiny congressional delegation. >> still a nice piece of history to savor tonight. have a great show my friend. >> thank you. >> well there is some very important news tonight from from my email, i just got an email from donald trump. it's from donald j trump,. it says it's from the official email official account of donald trump.