going to be really interesting moving forward, do those republican officials, some of whom have been loyal to trump, i'm thinking of a handful of u.s. senators in particular, if in fact what comes out as we learn more and more, if in fact it was clear that it wasn't a close call and they had every reason to go in and what they discovered was damning, then could you potentially see the first real rupture between trump and elected republicans at the highest levels in the u.s. government where they actually -- maybe not turn on him, so to speak, but where they say to his voters, listen, whatever he's telling you, some of these republicans are telling you, they are wrong. they're lying thank you. in fact, what the fbi did was appropriate, it was called for, no man is above the law, and what federal law enforcement is doing here pertaining to donald trump is entirely appropriate. if in fact that were to happen, joe, because it's not a close

call, i think that could represent a real watershed. >> "the atlantic's" tim alberta, thank you very much for your analysis this morning. that does it for us this morning. jose diaz-balart picks up live coverage right now. 7:00 a.m. pacific, i'm jose diaz-balart. we begin with the ongoing repercussions from the search of former president donald trump's mar-a-lago club, one week ago today. two senior law enforcement officials tell nbc news the fbi and the homeland security department are warning of a spike in threats against federal law enforcement officers and their families in the wake of that search. the fbi responded to the threats by putting ground control barriers and crowd control barriers in front of its washington headquarters. it's also bolstering security at offices across the country. this comes days after a federal

judge unsealed the search warrant and property receipt from the search of trump's florida residence. they show the items federal agents seized include 11 sets of classified documents, including some labeled secret and top secret. "the new york times" reports one of donald trump's lawyers signed a written statement in june asserting that all material marked as classified had been returned to the government. that's according to four people with knowledge of the document. nbc news has been not been able to independently see or confirm that document. the revelations also prompted the leaders of the senate intelligence committee and the house intelligence and oversight committees to ask the director of national intelligence for a review and damage assessment from the documents found at mar-a-lago. the former president and his allies claim the material seized from mar-a-lago was already

declassified and there was a standing order to declassify materials trump wanted to keep. former security adviser john bolton disputed those claims. >> it would have to be documented what they were, each document, so that people would know what had been declassified. and i know of no paper train at all that says what's declassified and what's not. >> joining us to start off our coverage this hour, nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent, ken dilanian, mark caputo for nbc news digital, peter baker, "new york times" chief white house correspondent, and a former special agent in the fbi's counterintelligence division. now a senior lecturer and assistant dean at the jackson school of global affairs. ken, what more do we know about those 11 sets of classified documents taken from mar-a-lago? >> good morning, jose. within those 11 sets were 5 sets

of documents marked top secret. that means if disclosed, that information would pose exceptionally grave damage to u.s. national security. one is marked top secret sensitive information and that designates some of the most closely guarded secrets in the u.s. government. we don't know exactly what this is, but the information would include things like the names of cia sources in foreign countries or photos from the most advanced u.s. spy satellites or communications. so really closely guarded information. the kind of information that when the fbi seized these documents at mar-a-lago, they would have had to take it directly to a special secure facility. if they're flying it back to washington, there would be special handling instructions on how to do that in a locked briefcase and they have to be accompanied. the stakes don't get higher. it's just unimaginable to the security professionals i've

talked to that something marked ts/sci could be sitting at mar-a-lago. >> it is remarkable all the way around. so what does the fbi do with these documents once it gets them out of wherever they may have been being kept at mar-a-lago? >> yes, jose, they are going to have to identify the agencies that might be affected by this intelligence and the intelligence community is going to conduct a damage assessment. they're going to have to assess if there were unauthorized access to these documents by third parties, what that could mean. it could mean things like having to potentially do things like exfiltrate sources we have if there's people that are in danger. it might have to look at sources of signals intelligence, make sure they're not drying up. this is incredibly serious and,

you know, i think that we're going to have to see what the full scope of the damage is. >> mark, at the center of this is trump's handling of classified information. what have we learned about how he dealt with this material when he was president and then after, the final days of his presidency? >> well, what we've learned is that he approached classified information the way he approached most norms and rules, he did basically whatever the hell he wanted. there were times he had copies of speeches and kind of regular documents, right? when he was done with them, he would just rip them up and throw them in the trash. you're not supposed to do that. they had an aide in charge of taping stuff back up. john bolton, with whom we spoke, he had also told us that god knows what he would do with things. he would grab documents at different times. some of them secret or classified. they wouldn't really know what happened to them. bolton described one time where he and john kelly, the then chief of staff, had to kind

of -- i wouldn't say manipulate, but kind of go around trump to get a copy of a document that should have been classified and held in more of a classified setting. he was just leaving them willy-nilly about. it was a really complicated, chaotic slap-dash process, and then you add on top of that at the very end of his administration, where it finally dawned on him, you're not going to be president, you've got to leave the white house, he hadn't really packed. some aides and advisers have described this final chaotic scene where they're throwing stuff into boxes and a claim, some of the stuff in the boxes might have been classified and then he might have declassified it by verbal fiat. the problem is that is, some people say -- a lot of people say that's not the way in which you handle documents, declassify documents. some of the laws are mentioned in the search warrant, and don't really address the classified issue. it's more about handling of government-owned secret documents. that's going to be an issue that's going to be potentially

litigated and discussed more and more. >> what's supposed to happen with presidential documents, and then there's a separate issue of top secret and secret documents. but let's talk about that. once a president leaves office, he has a lot of documents that have been produced during his administration, but there's a difference there. >> mark is exactly right. there are two issues here. there is the issue of whether something is top secret or classified in some way and what you're supposed to do with it, then documents in general. let's say he did declassify him and the government considers it a proper use of declassification power, that doesn't mean he gets to take them with him. these belong to the government. when a president leaves office, the papers and documents and email chains and all things that were produced during his or her four years in office, maybe eight years in office, belong to the national archives. they're stored, kept, processed, reviewed, and only after a long

period of time some of those eventually are released to the public under certain circumstances. it's a very laborious and methodical process that's been worked out over the last really about 40 some years since the nixon case, and the nixon case, when he left office, showed us these do not belong to a president. once again, they belong to the taxpayers for whom these documents were generated. he couldn't walk off with them even if they were declassified. >> that's interesting, peter. because i presume that there are documents, papers that a president has during his existence in office that are personal, or does everything, everything that is produced within that white house during that administration not belong to the president once he leaves office? >> in theory it all belongs to the government. look, in reality a lot of white house officials over the years have walked away with at least copies of things they did.

they made copies of notes they made because they want to write memoirs or keep some diary or log or what have you, things they thought were important. not classified information traditionally, but things they thought would be -- maybe even souvenirs. not the originals. the originals have to stay with the government. but copies have been made over the years and left the white house, it's probably not allowed in a lot of cases but it does tend to happen. this is a different circumstance. a president is basically to uphold the law more than anybody else and he's not supposed to walk off with documents that belong to the government. the president has access to them through the archives if they want to go through them for their own purposes for writing a memoir, for instance, but there's a process then. you have to ask for permission and you don't walk out of the oval office still holding the power of a president. you don't have the power at that point to control, and you're a private citizen with former rights as an official, but not the power to declare this

document is mine, this document is not. >> it's tough to try to figure out why he had these specific documents. mark, i know that he also had some papers that are unusual. >> roger stone, for instance, whose sentence he commuted, he had the original commutation of the sentence there. guess who is puzzled by that? roger stone. when you ask him, why did he have the commutation original document, stone has no idea. there's a lot of weird behavior and mysteries as to exactly why did donald trump do it this way, why did he keep so many different types of documents stored in the storage room at mar-a-lago, and then why, apparently, did it take so long for it to develop to this point, and apparently necessitated the federal government, the fbi, to file a search warrant affidavit in order to raid or search his premises, which is just totally

alien to -- it's totally unprecedented. we've just never seen it before. >> "the new york times" also reports a trump lawyer signed a document in june saying there were no more classified documents at mar-a-lago. what do we know about that situation? >> well, i think that that adds another layer to trump's legal problems and potentially to his lawyers' legal problems. that's a certification that they made to the department of justice. if these lawyers knowingly lied to the fbi and to the department of justice, that's potentially false statements and obstruction of justice by the lawyers. now, if they did that unknowingly, if they truly believed that, then at that point they've been lied to by their client and they are going to need to distance themselves from their client, and trump will be on the hook for that. so this is why we see that 1519 charge in the justification for the search warrant, because it appears that they were already aware that some

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voters in alaska and wyoming are heading to the polls tomorrow to cast their ballot in primary elections. in alaska, senator lisa murkowski is attempting to hold off a challenger after voting to impeach former president trump. secondly, sarah palin is looking to secure her nomination for a congressional seat. in wyoming, republican congresswoman liz cheney, vice chair of the january 6th and vocal critic of trump, is in a highly contested race to keep her seat. joining us, ali vitali in anchorage, alaska. author of the new book "electable, why america hasn't put a woman in the white house yet". vaughn hillyard and dean of the clinton school of public service at the university of arkansas

and an nbc news analyst. ali, what are voters there telling you today? >> reporter: here in alaska, the question is, who will ultimately come out of these primaries, and then also how they're conducting the primaries in the first place. but, look, looming over all of this is the question of the role that donald trump will play. we know this is a big referendum that's coming. we're seeing trump play in a few different primaries in a few different ways. in the house primary to replace the late congressman don young, we know that trump has endorsed sarah palin, someone who endorsed his presidential bid in 2016, giving him a lot of conservative legitimacy at the time, and in the senate race, senator lisa murkowski, no stranger to speaking against the former president and also voting to convict him of impeachment charges. she is on the primary ballot here as well for her re-election.

look, the question is, what role trump will play. this is what voters told me. >> i think people, a lot of people like trump a lot, so i think it carries some weight, yeah. and it's weird because of all the politics right now with the fbi and the search warrant, it's giving them a lot of momentum, and so some people are supporting him all the more, which i find really scary. >> reporter: and so, look, again, this is a place that went for trump in 2020 by ten points. that voter that i spoke to not a trump fan but referencing the larger landscape here, that as we see all these things happening with the department of justice at mar-a-lago, it is galvanizing people here who she talks to who may be trump supporters and that's going to play a roll here. >> voters will be using a new voting system. how does it work? >> reporter: that's exactly right. they're using a ranked choice voting system, something that's gained steam in races across the

country over the last few decades. most recently we saw it in maine's gubernatorial, as well as new york's mayoral race. candidates in the alaska senate primary, for example, the first four candidates, the top four vote earners are going to advance, and then of course what we're going to see is as these voters, whoever is the least vote earner gets eliminated out of those four, and then voters are reassigned, divvied up based on second choice. what advocates tell me is in this kind of a system, women candidates tend to do well, candidates who can build consensus and maybe not be so vitriolic in their rhetoric, but it also allows people to have their vote go further. you're not just picking one candidate and that's it, you're ranking. so it's a new system, the first time they're using it here. by and large, voters i've talked to are excited about it. >> and let's go to wyoming. liz cheney's race, how is it

playing out? >> reporter: this is it, we talked about these races around the country here and the impact that donald trump is ultimately going to have on ousting these republicans who he perceives to be political opponents. liz cheney is at the top of that list. he was here earlier this summer and he called it the most important race politically. he called her a symbol of everything the republican party should not be. you can go and tell folks here across wyoming, republican voters, didn't liz cheney vote 93% of the time with donald trump, and it's rejection because ultimately, not only her vote to impeach, but the decision over the last year and a half to helm as the vice chair of the january 6th select committee. donald trump, in turn, endorsed harriet hageman, a long-time gop activist and there is a fundraising operation around here. kevin mccarthy, the house minority leader is here in jackson over the next 48 hours

as part of fundraising for the republican party at large. when you look at liz cheney, this is the final political stand. i'm told that she views this race as just one part of a greater effort here, in order to push back within this republican party and make the case that loyalty to donald trump is not everything here. and ultimately when you're looking at polling, it would suggest that liz cheney is heading toward a likely defeat tomorrow, but at the same time they're working to get democrats here to re-register as republicans at the polls tomorrow at the same time. i was talking with hageman aides last night and they suggested even if every democrat in the state of wyoming changed their party registration, they still don't believe it would be enough to eclipse hageman, the challenger. >> victoria, what are you going to be looking at in wyoming and alaska tomorrow? >> i'm fascinated by the fact

that we're seeing this intraparty division of the republican party play out with very strong female candidates. in alaska, for example, we have sarah palin, very much the face of the trump wing. but sarah palin, if you think back to 2008 and 2010, was what laid the groundwork for trump to come about. so we have this wing, but at the same time we have lisa murkowski, the more moderate, traditional republican party. we go to wyoming and see the same thing play out with liz cheney and harriet hageman. it's fascinating to see because we think traditionally the democratic party was the party where we saw more female candidates. but recently we've seen the republican party grow and within that we see the struggle of the two wings of the party. >> victoria, so the main issues, you think, that are going to be front and center in voters'

minds come november? >> kitchen table. we're seeing gas prices come down, for example, so that's something that affects our day-to-day lives. we're also seeing the issue of inflation, but as ali was reporting earlier, we also have in the background the january 6th, the fbi raid, so i think it's going to be a combination of the two. especially for those base voters on the republican side who cling very strongly to donald trump, the fbi raid, january 6th, is going to mobilize them, i believe. but i think the counterpoint is the pocketbook. at the end of the day, can you make ends meet, and i think that's going to give the democrats a little bit of an edge in what is traditionally in the midterm election, after a presidential election, a very hard time for the white house's party. >> we just got news out of georgia regarding the investigation into interference

of the 2020 election. what's the latest there? >> reporter: jose, a judge in georgia saying that senator lindsey graham will have to testify before fulton county in their investigation of what happened around the 2020 election. graham now saying that his lawyers are reviewing it and saying over the weekend that he will go as far as he needs to go and do whatever needs to be done to make sure that people like him can do their jobs without fear of some county prosecutor coming after you. those are graham's words. at this point what it looks like is that graham is going to have to testify in fulton county even as his spokesperson tells us that his lawyers are reviewing this and that they will appeal this decision. >> ali vitali with maybe the coolest backdrop of the morning, vaughn hillyard, victoria, i thank you all for being with us this morning. tragedy in pennsylvania after a man drove through a crowd of people at a fundraiser,

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iran speaking out for the first time since the violent attack against author salman rushdie, who was stabbed multiple times at a speaking engagement on friday in new york. iran is denying involvement saying today rushdie's supporters are to be blamed for the attack. his novel "the satanic verses" called for the leader to call for his killing. the suspect was inspired by iran-related extremism. as for rushdie's condition, the family says he is off the ventilator and on the mend. we're following new developments in two other violent incidents over the weekend. an investigation is under way in washington, d.c. after an armed man died after driving his car into a vehicle barricade near the supreme court early sunday morning. authorities say he got out of the car, which caught fire, and began shooting in the air before he shot himself.

and in pennsylvania, police say a man killed one person and injured 17 others when he ran his car into a crowded fundraising event for families affected by a recent fire, then violently killed his own mother. george, you're at a medical center there. what are you hearing this morning? >> reporter: good morning, jose. we do know that five people are still in critical condition here at the hospital. others, we can report, have been released and are now recovering at home. but the trauma is still fresh in the minds of many in this community. here's what we know. the 24-year-old suspect, adrian reyes, was arrested over the weekend. he's been denied bail. in court documents obtained by nbc news, it reveals when he sat down with investigators, he said he left home in his car after getting into a fight with his mother. he says he drove past that charity event you mentioned -- the charity event, by the way, was trying to raise money to

help victims of a fire tragedy. he sees the event, turns around, speeds up -- this is what he tells investigators, and then decides to ram his car into the crowd of people, telling them he deliberately sped up. there's video that supports this, according to investigators. he then confesses to the crime telling investigators, quote, i didn't ram them, i just ran them over. again, didn't ram them, just ran them over. he wasn't done there. he crosses over the bridge where his mother was, telling investigators that he sees her, speeds up, and then strikes her. he's not done there. he apparently goes into his car, grabs a hammer, bludgeons here. this community is still reeling from this tragedy and more details that come out, even more harrowing. >> george salis, thank you so much. up next, how democrats plan to turn their recent legislative wins into midterm votes. it's a pleasure to see you.

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36 past the hour. president biden will interrupt his vacation this week to sign the inflation reduction act into law. this comes days after the house passed the climate change, health care and tax legislation with a party line vote. starting today, several cabinet secretaries and other top administration officials are going to hit the road to tout the measure, as well as other major legislation, including the infrastructure law, chips act, the new law to help veterans exposed to toxins in burn pits. with us to talk about this is washington congresswoman pramila jayapal. always a pleasure to see you. how do you sell the inflation reduction act to people who are seeing the price of food go up and up and seeing the bills

come in? how do you sell this bill to those folks? >> well, good morning. it's always great to see you. i think the first thing is that the bill really will in many ways sell itself because what we are talking about is a bill that will reduce energy costs by 1,000 bucks a year for the average american family. a bill that will continue the health care subsidies instead of allowing them to expire and having families see their costs go up. and a bill that will cap the price of insulin at 35 bucks, albeit not for a couple of months, and for the first time start to allow medicare to negotiate drug prices. so i think that there are cost reduction measures in here, but probably one of the biggest selling points is the giant investment in taking on climate change. i think there isn't a community across america that hasn't seen floods and wildfires and the roads buckling and electricity

wires coming down because of massive weather fluctuations that are due to climate change. and i think being able to talk to americans about how we are finally, for the first time in history, putting in a historic investment that will not only allow people to buy electric vehicles and solar panels and heat pumps for their own homes, but will also reduce carbon emissions by 40% by the year 2030. so i think there's a lot to tell the american people, while at the same time acknowledging that we're not done yet. we know the cost of housing is so high. we know the cost of child care is so high. that's the remaining part of the president's build back better agenda that we are going to get done as soon as we get a couple more democrat seats in the senate so that we can pass that, again, as a reconciliation bill. >> there are a lot of democratic priorities that are not in this bill, congresswoman, and you've been talking about this. paid family leave, child tax

credit payments, universal pre-k, immigration reform. none of these issues have been discussed or dealt with. what do you and your colleagues do to try and address these issues? >> that's where i think we have to tell people that we actually have the american people with us on every one of the things that was on your list. and we did a lot in putting them into the build back better bill, and i'm proud of the progressive caucus because there wouldn't have even been a piece of legislation where we hashed out the details of what universal child care, universal pre-k, pieces of immigration reform we could get done, what would those look like. now we have that. but, unfortunately, we're missing just a couple of senators in the senate to be able to pass it. we just don't have quite enough votes. but we've made a massive step forward in really articulating these priorities as the mainstream priorities for not

just democrats, but also independents and some republicans who also want to have child care and pre-k and housing and all of these other things on the list. so we're going to keep pushing, but, jose, you and i both know that immigration reform is so overdue and if we don't get rid of the filibuster in the senate, the jim crow legacy filibuster, we are not going to be able to do what we need to do to reform the immigration system. and that, again, is something where, with a couple more democratic senators who understand the consequences and are willing to overturn the filibuster, we can move forward on that. and of course the house has moved forward on so much of this but the block is in the senate. >> congresswoman, i think you're absolutely spot-on on the issue of immigration reform and the blocks that have existed. the border patrol says 187 cubans were picked up after landing in the florida keys over

the weekend. you talk about the number of haitians that have been leaving the island on boats, many have died trying to get out of haiti. venezuela continues to have thousands of people leave that country, almost on a daily basis, looking for a better life. the fact is that there is a humanitarian crisis on the border. i'm just wondering, congresswoman, is there anything -- you know, title 42 is still in place, mpp has been removed, but there's still no movement on that. is there something that could be done to address these specific issues now? >> well, you know, you know how i feel about this. title 42 should not be in place. it is a public health law. it should not be used to stop people in these desperate humanitarian situations from crossing into the united states and for us to be the refuge that we have been for so long to so many of us that are here today.

the remain in mexico policy, i'm glad the biden administration has now decided they're moving forward. everything in my mind is moving too slowly, even from the biden administration. i just have to say that, because i think that trump did a massive disaster on all of our agencies. he cut all of the staff of agencies that are doing good processing, you know, he really eviscerated all of our systems for processing people. we're trying to rebuild them, but it is slow work and republicans have continued to use this as a political football, which prevents us from even being able to do some of the things that i think we should be doing in terms of staffing, quicker ways to process people, making sure that we're providing humanitarian relief, tps where we can do it. i think there are so many places where the administration could be moving forward, but because so much of this is being used as

a political football against democrats when we try to do these things, it is still stalled and it's a criticism that i have about immigration specifically of the republicans, but also sometimes of democrats for being too timid in moving forward on what really needs to be done. >> political football that is affecting those that are the most affected, the people that have no voice, and that have dreams and aspirations, but very little support. congresswoman jayapal, it's always a pleasure to see you. i thank you so much for your time. >> thank you so much. up next, how life has drastically changed in just one year for the people of afghanistan, one year after the taliban took back power, today one year ago. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports." thanks, dad. that's right, robert. and it's never too early to learn you could save with america's number one motorcycle insurer.

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activists protested the taliban takeover in the capital, chanting words like "work" and "freedom" on the streets. the protest broke up when the taliban began firing warning shots into the air. joining us, msnbc international affairs analyst and matt zeller, senior adviser at iava and advisory board chair, also former cia analyst and afghanistan combat vet. what's it been like a year later for, for example, women in afghanistan, girls in afghanistan? >> well, jose, basically the dark cloud of war has been replaced with a dark cloud of starvation, uncertainty and hopelessness. 50% of the population, females, women, girls from all over the country who had hope, who had a future, whose families could hope for them, that's completely disappeared. we're seeing these women coming

out, protesting. these are brave women. these are incredibly brave women to go out there, to know that their faces are going to be seen. and i guarantee we might not see this on american television in the coming weeks, but on afghan tv we'll see see those women being taken in by the taliban, being showed on state television and being forced to say that they had to do it, they didn't want to do it. one thing i will say, in all my time i spent in afg as a journalist, one thing that was amazing about the afghan people, no matter what was going on in that country, the violence that they experienced, the heartache that they experienced, they always had hope. what crushes me now is every time that i talk to the afghan people, whether it be the women or the men, is that hope is fading fast. and it's, honestly, it's heart-wrenching. >> it certainly is. and you talk about starvation and dire circumstances that many are living in.

matt, your organization just released a report that shows that 96% of special visa applicants were left behind in afghanistan. according to your survey, 92% of afghans say they lost a job or economic opportunity due to the u.s. evacuation. 87% have has to skip necessary medical care this month because of the cost or fear. and 78% say they have personally witnessed violence towards people who supported the u.s. mission. and that's just the people that were strong enough to respond to a poll. what's the reality for people on the ground there like matt every day? >> it's hell on earth. i, again, we abandoned these people to a modern-day equivalent of the nazis. there's no place in a taliban hell in afghanistan for women. as your correspondent has so eloquently put. that hope that she talked about, which was just -- i kept telling anybody who would listen to me about my time in afghanistan.

these were the most hopeful people i had ever met. they were truly inspiring with their belief in a better future and the gift that our presence gave towards that. we've now abandoned them to an abhorrent, you know, medieval force that is systemically hunting these people down. you know, some of the results that we found in our poll were staggering. this is the first time we teamed up with the iraq and afghanistan -- excuse me, the iraq and afghan veterans in america and veterans for american ideals to poll their membership, to learn, what was the extent of the veteran experience in the afghan afghanistan. because what we've learned over the last year, is that veterans have not let this mission go. we continue to help to try to get these people out. and what we learned was staggering. some 40.9% of the veterans who were assisting in afghan in the last year have reported that that afghan has gone dark. there's a couple of reasons for

that. it might be that they don't have access to information technology. it might be that they lost confidence in the person trying to assist them, but that really has not been the status quo for so many of us who have been involved in this effort for -- in my case, years. you know, when you assist somebody, you are their lifeline. they don't just stop talking to you. and so the -- you know, akram's razor, the logical conclusion is that they're dead. we have a ton of reporting that we're going to be releasing over the next month or two that shows that we believe that there's a systemic countrywide campaign to hunt down the people who served alongside u.s. forces and murder them. and that, by the way, is in line with what the taliban promised at the doha negotiations. they promised that there was reconciliation for everyone but those who served as interpreters and alongside u.s. forces. to them, they were deemed apostates, which in their perverted view of islam means, they have to be killed. simply put, you know, if you look at the pace at the siv

processing that the government has done in the last year, at the current rate of issuing visas, it's going to take 18 years to get through the backlog. these people don't have that time. so one of the things that i would like to really highlight is, we're calling out in our report, probably the most important recommendation anyone is going to give at this moment. simply put, the biden administration has to create a united for afghanistan program that is modeled after the uniting for ukraine program. we have helped over 100,000 ukrainians via humanitarian patrol into the united states since april of this year. in the last year alone, we have only welcomed 795 siv applicants. we have to do better, and we can. there's a model for it. we should be adopting it today. it doesn't require any congressional action. the president could order it right now. >> there needs to be some way that the afghan people can once again have hope. matt zeller and attiah abawi, i thank you so much for being with

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shelter in place on friday. that shelter warning has since been lifted, but the state department still warning americans that they should reconsider travel to baja california. joining us now, nbc news national correspondent, gabe gutierrez. gabe, you have been reporting on the ca, some really bad actors. >> we've been reporting on them for years. some violence erupted on friday night into saturday in tijuana. as you mentioned, americans were ordered to shelter in place. that order has since been lifted, but travel is still -- they're urging restrictions into that country. you see some of the video there. and there was a major music festival over the weekend, as well. this all went down in tijuana, where local authorities say that members of the cartel started burning vehicles and shut down public transportation.

and this comes, jose, after several days of violence elsewhere in the country. 11 people died in and around juarez earlier in the week. and this also comes after a high-ranking cjnj official was arrested. and local reports out of tijuana says that the cartel posted warnings on social media, essentially warning that residents needed to stay indoors. now, thankfully, the violence seems to have quieted later on in the weekend, but there are still thousands of mexican national guard members and police that are patrolling the streets of tijuana. as you well know, jose, that city is no stranger to cartel violence, but the nature of this eruption of violence on friday, it seemed so well coordinated and targeted, other civilians in that city, concerned local officials there, jose. >> gabe gutierrez, i thank you for that report. that wraps up the hour for me. i'm jose diaz-balart. you can always reach me on twitter and instagram at

jdbalart. be sure to follow the show online @jdbalart on msnbc. alex witt picks up with more news right now. a very good monday morning to all of you. i'm alex witt here at msnbc world headquarters in new york. as we come on the air, some new urgency around threats of violence towards federal law enforcement after the fbi search of donald trump's mar-a-lago home. two senior law enforcement officials tell nbc news the fbi and department of homeland security have issued a joint intelligence bulletin, warning of a spike in threats since the search. sent out of an abundance of caution, it calls on authorities to be vigilant and to be aware of issues surrounding domestic violence extremists. we have seen online forums explode with violent rhetoric since the search, and just last week, a man who was at the capitol on january 6th was killed in a