good day. this is "andrea mitchell reports" in new york. the defense department has been told that the department has not proposed enough evidence to redact the whole affidavit. trump lawyers did not present any argument in court, leaving that to attorneys representing a

consortium of news organizations. ukraine's president zelenskyy is on "the verge of disaster" with ukrainian and russian forces saying the other is about to stage a nuclear incident at zaporizhzhia with russia telling its operators today not to report to work. and we'll look at the surprising senate race in pennsylvania. one of a handful of match-ups, key match-ups where democrat candidates are beating expectations in recent polls and republican leaders suggesting it's donald trump's fault for backing unqualified contenders. >> i think there's there's probably a greater likelihood that the house flips than the senate. the senate races are just different. they're statewide. candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome. we begin with nbc justice

and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian, and david loftman, chief of counterintelligence at the justice department's national security department. many legal experts were quite surprised by the judge's ruling and that trump's lawyers did not even argue to release the affidavit after making it such a major issue on social media and on fund-raising appeals. >> that's right. and because they didn't make an argument, they will have no say in the proposed redactions. you're right. this is a huge surprise. this is not normal. the judge in this case clearly decided that there's some portion of this affidavit that could shed some light that the public needs to know about. the judge has read the whole thing. he signed it. but the justice department is very concerned about this. they're going to propose, you know, a number of redactions of everything they think is sensitive from the names of witnesses to investigative

techniques. grand jury information is secret by law. that can't be exposed or disclosed. we're a long way from seeing anything. the justice department has a week to propose redactions, then the judge will decide if he agrees. he may change some of it. he'll put the whole thing under seal and give the justice department a chance to appeal. those appeals could go to the supreme court. this process could go on for some time unless the justice department and the judge agree on a set of redactions. and i should add, the judge said whether the final product means anything to the product or news media is not his concern. he acknowledged you could end up with a blacked out sheet of paper that in his words was meaningless gibberish. >> the former president has not said anything personally since the judge's decision. he's fund-raising big time on it. >> that's right. they're raising a lot of money off of this.

the president and his team send out multiple emails a day, dozens of them seeking donations and they're getting them. the money is flowing in. and so, what we've seen is that the support that the president feels that he's getting from his base, even those who maybe were on the fence about him in recent months, that it's pouring in. the belief among the president and his team is that republicans are rallying around him. that this is something that he likes, it's a fight, they like to see him in a fight. they like to see him fighting particularly washington institutions. this goes back to the reason why they supported president trump in the first place back in 2016. so, what you're seeing is a number of republicans who support the president, former president, coming out and saying they back him and showing that they do with this money he's been raising. >> david, were you at all

surprised that the judge ruled this way? his experience is as a prosecutor, he knows what it means to be dealing with national security issues, and that the trump legal team stayed completely on the sidelines? >> it's somewhat surprising. he's a former federal prosecutor. he has worked with agents to write search warrant affidavits. he knows the kinds of sensitive information that goes into them. he recalls from his own experience how rare, if ever, a judge would release a search warrant affidavit while an investigation is still pending. he's a judge now. he's not a prosecutor anymore. he knows he has to balance competing interests here and the public interest in a case like this could not be higher. he'll try to thread the needle. he'll try to reach some accommodation that accommodates the government's legitimate law enforcement interests while providing some additional information to the public in the

redactions he orders. >> with all your experience dealing with classified information in these kinds of cases, there's never been a search of a former president's house, are you surprised that after more than a week of reporting that it even took place? and the reaction to it, the fierce reaction against the fbi? >> no. this is a man who defended the united states capitol during a perilous moment during our democracy on january 6th. he's doing it again. he's amoral. he clearly believes the law does not apply to him. he chose other weapons at his disposal to galvanize supporters, to put pressure on the department and the fbi. it's one reason why the fbi and department will fight like hell from releasing information about law enforcement or witnesses. this is a president who, according to reports, called a

witness before the house select committee on january 6th who worked at the white house, which influenced the individual's testimony before the committee. they will stop at nothing to try to subvert the rule of law and the justice process. >> ken dilanian, at this stage, what should we be looking for next? we'll have to wait a week at least to see what kind of redactions, there will be arguments over those, and they we are waiting to hear from trump world about the guilty plea yesterday from the most important person in the organization. >> so many moving parts in terms of investigating touching on the former president. one thing in the short-term we're looking to see is whether the trump family follows through on its threat to release the surveillance video that they say they took of the fbi agents

searching the property. the fbi is concerned about that because they don't want the faces of their agents to be broadcast. they asked news organizations to blur those faces in the event that happens. what i'm getting from the trump team is what may their defense be? they said the president declassified these documents, but that doesn't explain why government records would be taken to mar-a-lago, why that's okay. i would be interested in anything that the lawyers have for why it was okay for the president to have all these presidential records that most experts say and the government clearly says should have been at the national archives. >> speaking of that, david, the whole experience that you've had with presidents taking classified or unclassified national security home, any documents home that are supposed to be stored in the national archives? >> i can't think of any circumstance in our history

where a president took national documents home. they can have access to classified information, but this is extraordinary. it's without precedent. there is no circumstance under law where it was proper or lawful for him to have classified material, let alone top-secret code word material at his home in florida, period. they sought to conceal it. the false representations made to the national archives by trump or his representatives almost exposes him and his representatives to further jeopardy by misrepresenting there were no longer classified documents at mar-a-lago. he doesn't get to wave a magic wand about whether he declassified this stuff. the government will go about its investigative business of confirming these were, in fact, properly classified documents there, they had not been

declassified, and consider whether to criminally charge mr. trump or people close to him. >> though the two potential crimes cited in the search warrant, the three actually, do not require the documents to be classified, what his broad claim that he had a standing order to declassify documents when he went upstairs at night and bringing papers with him? >> that's just nutty. first of all, we know that's a complete post hoc fabrication. this president is accustomed to fabrication. and a bevy of officials around him had no contemporaneous knowledge of such things. there are customs and practices about how executive branch officials declassify documents. it's true he had declassify authority, but he had to take real action memorialized in writing. nothing like that will exist.

>> ken, i understand there's been a sentencing of one of the so-called beatles, one of the british members of isis in syria. he beheaded americans, including, of course, james foley. >> that's right. he was sentenced today in federal court to life in prison. life in prison for each of the eight counts he was accused of and convicted of in april in virginia. the judge declined sending him to the super max prison in florence, colorado. this is obviously one of the most -- highest profile or the highest profile isis figure to stand trial in the united states. in one of the most horrific episodes of terrorism we can remember. diane foley was in the courtroom today and mentioned it's the

eighth anniversary of her son's beheading. just very emotional moment there. he is the second so-called beatle to be tried and convicted in u.s. courts. the man who wielded the knife was killed in a u.s. air strike in syria in 2015. >> we do have a bit of -- diane foley, we know well, they created the james foley foundation. she's been such an advocate for her son and others held hostage by these terrorists. let's watch. >> we must have accountability. we must have justice. with today's verdict, we finally have a bit of justice. let this sentencing make clear to all who dare to kidnap, torture or kill any american citizen abroad, that u.s.

justice will find you wherever you are. and that our government will hold you accountable for your crimes against our citizens. >> diane foley, who has been so heroic. thank you, ken. ken, carol, david, thank you very much for being here. a potential nuclear disaster in europe. a ukraine power plant in the middle of a high-stakes feud that could send radioactive materials sweeping across europe and the rest of the world. what's being done to prevent that from happening. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports." stay with us. ith us largest and fastest 5g network. but, they don't. they only cover select cities with 5g. so, for me and the hundreds of drivers in my fleet, staying connected, cutting downtime, and delivering on time depends on t-mobile 5g. and with coverage of over 96% of interstate highway miles, they've got us covered. (vo) unconventional thinking delivers four times the 5g coverage of

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planning provocation. ukraine's state nuclear company said today that russia is planning to disconnect the plant from the power grid. this as ukraine's military, officials tell nbc news, russia told its own employees at the plant to stay home today. nbc has video that appears to show russian military vehicles inside of the plant using it as a fortress. it's unclear when that was taken. ukrainians on the ground not taking any chances conducting response drills. joining me now is josh letterman in dnipro, ukraine. josh, what's the latest about an attack. you've been in constant touch with the international atomic agency inspectors who so far have not been able to get in. >> that's right. so far no indications of an explosion or any attacks at the site today, which is the good

news, though in the past, when the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has been shelled, it's happened after dark. everyone is bracing for what could happen this evening. i have to tell you, it's really tough not only for us but for the international community to know exactly what is happening at any point in time at that plant. we were in zaporizhzhia yesterday. the radiation levels were fine. people were still on the streets. we've pulled back to dnipro. but the only people who know what's happening at that plant are the russian troops who are there, the ukrainian nuclear officials who are there working under harrowing conditions that some officials say include torture and members of the russian state run nuclear agency, which according to one official, were told not to come to work today. so ukrainians wonder what is going to take place there.

that brings the need to have iaea inspectors there. president putin did agree to allow inspectors to come in, but it's unclear when. >> we heard promises from putin about this before. at this point, there's a number of things to worry about. ukraine being cut off from power. europe being cut off from power. a major play by russia. worst case, a power outage where the cooling waters would not cover spent fuel. and then there's, of course, you know, a full meltdown possibility if there's some attack and counterattack and artillery somehow, you know, hitting the plant. these plants, as i understand the design, and i used to cover nuclear energy full time as an energy correspondent for nbc, these plants are not as well designed in the containment. they are not as well protected

as in france, america and other places. >> yeah. you've outlined the dangers perfectly. i would simply add a little underline on the spent fuel. there's 200 good-sized containers of spent fuel, which is highly dangerous. if that were to be accidentally shelled or deliberately opened, you could see a lot of mischief coming out of this. you have to analyze where russia is on this. point one, this is strategic terrain for them, where it's located and the entrance to the crimea and near kherson. so they like having troops in that area. number two, you mentioned it, they want to pull the power grid of the ukrainians down as much as possible. this is the largest of the ukrainian nuclear plants. number three, they want to square the europe pens, frighten the united states, they want us to feel as though we're living

on the edge of three mile island or chernobyl. here's the bad news. we are. this one actually screams for international engagement. you have the iaea poised to go in there. macron doing the right thing talking to putin. the other thing that could be helpful here is president erdogan of turkey who creatively put together the agreement between ukraine and russia. this is much more important. we ought to be seeing if erdogan would be interesting in reprising his role in that regard. this is a crisis. >> and, you know, josh, picking up on what the admiral said, you also have new reporting today that pro ukrainian saboteurs have also been involved in recent explosions at russian military sites in crimea.

>> there's questions on how they were involved or if they were involved in those attacks in crimea. they wanted to leave it open for question. according to a ukrainian government official, there was the involvement of pro-ukrainian, anti-putin members who conducted acts of sabotage. this official is not saying whether they were directed by ukrainian special forces, but there's questions about whether the ukrainians can use u.s. weapons in crimea. whether that would violate ukraine's pledge to the united states not to use american weapons targeting russia. given the fact that ukraine is still part of -- crimea is part of ukraine, the u.s. tells me there's no restrictions. they can use those weapons in crimea and more of those weapons will be headed to ukraine. in the last few minutes,

according to our colleague, the pentagon announced just $800 million more u.s. security assistance to the ukrainians, which brings the total to well over $10 billion. it includes about 1,000 javelin missiles, more ammunition, and it includes new capabilities such as about 15 new drones to be used for surveillance. >> i know it's a pivotal time now, how quickly can they get up to speed, get delivered and trained? that still would be about a month away at least. >> we're six months into this process of putting increasingly high-end weapons in the hands of ukrainians. the short answer is under the exigencies of come pat, we know how to do this, the ukrainians know how to do this, i think those rocket systems will be on a rocket ride to the front

lines. they have the ability to reach behind russian lines. this is all good news josh has just shared with us. >> thank you both. be safe over there. on a brighter note, a group of ukrainian musicians arrived in the u.s. this week. newly formed this summer as the ukrainian freedom orchestra to preserve and promote the country's music and culture in the midst of the horrific war. rehearsing at lincoln center and in an amphitheater for a performance last night and tonight, before going to the kennedy center in washington tomorrow for a grand finale. having already played in warsaw, amsterdam, paris and rome, many of these players who never met before, many of them are refugees, others are still living in ukraine. others had left just before the invasion. most of their family is back in the country including relatives fighting in donbas and other battlegrounds there, checking

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another chaotic week in trump world with the former president lashing out at the fbi and the justice department this week after the search of his florida home but not having his lawyers to take part in the appeal to disclose the affidavit after raising such a fuss. the trump organization's chief financial officer pleading guilty to tax fraud and getting five months jail time at rikers island. joining me now is jonathan and david. david knows more about trump's money than anything. jonathan, what is your take on the political and legal strategy that he's employing here? >> well, we've seen this before, andrea, where he and his team

just throw a lot of stuff against the wall and hope something sticks in terms of seeing the shifting explanations for the documents that he had at his home in mar-a-lago. we can run through them. there's quite a bit. and then, of course, now the legal strategy as well where they say one thing outside the courtroom and something entirely different inside. reminiscent of those days after the 2020 election when they would rant and rave outside a courtroom alleging fraud and inside the courtroom in front of a judge sings a different tune. we're seeing that here now. they're trying to cast as much doubt as they can on the search warrant as to the motivations of the justice department, claiming it is a political witch hunt. that's being amplified by their friends in the conservative media. it worked for them before. trump skated out of trouble previously, but these are serious charges and accusations.

we don't know if they will lead to charges, but there's growing concern about his current predicament. >> david, who followed the paper trail on trump's exaggerated philanthropic claims and he's using the same style and attitude in his public approach to these documents. >> i think you're right. he often makes grand claims about things and often gives multiple claims. as jonathan said, in the hopes that something will stick with somebody. that was the case with his charitable contributions. he would make all kinds of claims about giving to this or that, and almost all of it wasn't true. i see that as an approach of his, if not to win the argument but to confuse the argument enough that people are not sure what to believe. i hope your viewer the and generals are used to this playbook now and it's not shockingly as new and hard to process as when trump first came on the political scene. >> talk about allen weisselberg

and why he's so important, even though his plea deal said he would not testify against donald trump per se, he's going to testify against the trump organization in a trial that's supposed to start next month. and that has to make certain other officers of the corporation and the trump children concerned. >> allen weisselberg is basically the indispensable man of the organization. it's trump's name on the front, but there was no one more indispensable to the actions of this company and the financial aspects of this company that allen weiselberg. the thing that is important here is that the trump organization is also charged as an entity, not trump himself, but as a corporate entity is charged in this case in new york for the same crimes that weisselberg was. long-term tax evasion by keeping two sets of books and hiding compensation from the u.s. the trump organization had a

chance to plead guilty and it would have saved weisselberg some jail time if they pled guilty, but they have not, so they will go to trial with their cfo testifying against them. if they're convicted, there may be some financial penalties. so there's no criminal liability here, but it could be a huge blow against the company that this whole family depends on. >> a company that has difficulty with getting credit, dealing with banks, invest. banks will not want to invest in the company if they do face a conviction. what is the real -- jonathan what is the real political impact of weisselberg? >> certainly it adds another dent in trump's armor, a dent in his feeling of invulnerability.

there's a sense that he always gets away with it. he has gotten away with quite a bit. but weisselberg was close to him. his first pitch when he was a candidate in 2015 and 2016 was that he was a successful businessman who was the right person to steer america's economy. now we know that business was committing degrees of fraud. and now his right-hand man, who knew the books better than anyone is going to jail, pleading guilty to 15 felonies. at this point, those who made up their minds, those trump supporters won't suddenly stop supporting him because of this, but if he were to launch another candidacy and shrug off those scandals, it would defeat some of those arguments that he could be the business man who could steer america through inflation, if that's happening through 2024 and whatever economic hardship may come. >> thank you both so much. the cooldown in the housing

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mayo♪ ♪nic. home sales were down last month indicating a slowing economy. sales of existing homes fell by nearly 6% in july, overall they're down 20% compared to last year as americans are paying higher interest rates to borrow money and rent and food prices remain sky high. joining us now is douglas holtzigen. he is president of the american action forum. so, how troubling is the 20% drop in home sales over the past year? >> it shouldn't be terribly surprising. when the fed tighten, a lot of the impacts of the economy work

through the housing market. mortgages get more expensive, people don't buy as many houses, build as many houses, and it feeds through the economy and it's how the fed cools the economy and fights inflation. it's not surprising that we see it hit housing first. in these circumstances, housing is coming down from a high level. we saw a red hot housing market in 2021. to come down from that again, i think it's not surprising to see that. the real question is will it spread quickly to the broader economy and take on an inflation problem that is really troubling. even though we got good numbers on gas prices last month, everything else was more of the same. food prices up. just for perspective, if shelter is at 6%, everything else has to be at zero for the fed to hit it's target. the fed will have to stay the

course and we'll see more slowing in this housing market. >> i want your reaction to what some sledding republicans including senator grassley are doing, attacking the irs, pushing lies that armed agents, armed irs agents will come every day for average americans. the reality is that democrats just approved additional irs funding to go after very wealthy tax cheats. aren't they creating a very dangerous climate in the midst of this anti-government, anti-law enforcement rhetoric? >> i certainly don't think it's wise to demagogue the fbi, the irs, or any of our other federal agencies at this point in time. that seems unwise. i also think it's unrealistic to think that the irs is simply going to go after wealthy tax cheats. the irs will staff up and it will try to collect taxes that are owed. they'll go to the place where they can get it most easily. it's often hard to get money

from an individual who has a tax preparer and tax lawyers. small businesses will probably see audits go up. so this won't be focused on a set of individuals. this is about collecting more of the legally owed taxes. >> what do you think about the messaging coming out of the white house on the inflation, the so-called inflation reduction act which doesn't have much to do with reducing inflation in the short-term, but it does create incentives to buy more fuel-efficient cars and for businesses and others to go into better climate-conscious mode. >> well, honestly, the titling seems desperate to me. there's very little that this administration can do now that inflation is entrenched in the u.s. economy. it's going to be up to the fed to take the steps necessary to get back towards price stability, which is the best thing for continued employment

and growth. this bill is not inflation. it's not going to have any impact on inflation in my view. it's about the health provisions, the climate provisions, and probably should have been titled more in line with those objectives to begin with. >> and some legitimate deficit reduction at least. >> the deficit reduction is really quite minimal. it's $300 billion over ten years. most of it back-loaded in the final five years. that's not a lot of deficit reduction. while they were passing the ira, they passed the chips and science act, the pact act. what matters to the deficit is everything that congress does, not single bill. they continue to do what they've been doing for years, spend now, promise to may for it later. >> doug, thank you very much. have a great weekend. >> thank you. a major ultimatum to airlines as we start the final push of the summer travel season. fix customer service or the government is going to.

tom costello has the details. >> good day. hundreds of thousands of people this last summer have experienced this firsthand. delays, cancellations, missing weddings and businessneedings. now the department of transportation says the airlines have to up their game. stop overpromising on flights, they need to meet the schedules they promise, they need to offer clarity on passengers on what policies are and take care of passengers. pete buttigieg says if they don't do it, he'll do it for them. >> reporter: if you've flown this summer, there's a chance you have a story and complaint. >> chaos. i hope people have a better time than we're having. >> reporter: in the first six months of the year, 24% of flights were delayed. 3.2% canceled. the department of transportation says the airlines bear most of the blame. for overscheduling flights despite not having enough pilots

to fly them. then offering conflicting and confusing rules on cash refunds and voucher policies. >> three times in the last few weeks i've been canceled. >> reporter: the d.o.t. secretary, pete buttigieg, says the confusion needs to end now. >> the message to the airlines is you have to make it easier for passengers to understand their rights and you've got to support passengers when they experience delays or cancellations. >> reporter: in a new letter to the airlines, secretary buttigieg writes the level of disruption americans have experienced this summer is unacceptable. he wants airlines to refund passengers money and offer meal vouchers if a domestic flight is delayed for more than three hours and provide hotels if passengers have to wait overnight. >> you are calling on the airlines to do this or you'll do it for them? >> i'm giving them the opportunity to raise the bar. >> reporter: the airline industry says its members comply

with laws and regulations concerning cash refunds. they say they're committed to working with travelers to address their individual circumstances. two weeks ahead of labor day, travel pros always suggest having a backup plan if things go wrong. >> know what's included in your ticket. if you can move your flight around, if you have a refundable ticket, a ticket with no change fees, move to earlier in the day, leave a day early. >> secretary buttigieg says the d.o.t. has been receiving record numbers of complaints against the airlines. one big concern, an area of confusion, every airline has a different policy on when flights are going to be canceled, whether you get your money back, what the refund policy is, the voucher policy is. as a result, the d.o.t. will roll out a website in two weeks. one-stop shopping explaining what each individual offers, what they're saying they will do and not do as it relates to

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where fetterman says dr. oz actually lives. >> i'm at wegner's, and my wife wants some vegetables for a crudite. >> here we call this a veggie tray. if it looks like anything other than a veggie tray, then i am not your candidate. >> i think there's a cultural shock there, a real contrast. oz is calling on fetterman to debate him five times. let's bring in sam stein. we're all enjoying the back-and-forth in this race. >> sure. >> but i think it was one of those cases that mitch mcconnell may have been referring to republicans not choosing quality candidates, but trump-backed candidates? >> we all know this race was going to whether you call it a veggie tray or crudite. to your point, andrea, you can't have talked to a number of

republican strategists during the primary, who would have told you that dr. oz was not the best person to run in pennsylvania in this cycle precisely for the reasons he's struggling now, one of which is he is from new jersey, and just recently moved to pennsylvania. this has been hammered a million times by the fetterman campaign, and then the other one is the wealth factor. fetterman has been in the state, obviously presents himself as a blue collar lieutenant governor, certainly dresses the part, and dr. oz is struggling to connect in that sense. the whole thing with whether he owns houses, i mean, that is a semantics game for owners. nobody knows what owning extent properties looks likes. it has a reminiscen to john mccain struggling in the 2008 general election, when asked

about how many properties he owned, and mitt romney, of course, with the issue of a car elevator became a big campaign issue. obviously not weighty, but these things do matter. >> they matter even more in the middle of a recession or approaching recession, where the economy or inflation is the biggest issue. the grocery deal was so funny, because he sort of combined the name of a grocery store that might be in pennsylvania, by isn't? with one that's in new jersey, and the residencies, of course. fetterman has some vulnerability, because he acknowledged he's not as healthy as he claimed to be after a stroke three day before the primary election, has not been seen except for one campaign event. >> right. so, you know, there are vulnerabilities on both sides. >> you know, this is obviously an issue the campaign has to address, the actual literal health of a candidate is one, if

not the most important issues for an electoral to consider. there have obviously been instances in the past where voters elected some into office, but to your point, andrea, one of the things hanging over the fetterman campaign is just how his recovery is going from that stroke. we have seen him limitedly. his campaign says he's getting out there, easing his way back into the campaign, but as this progresses, and we're getting into the fall, you can imagine that this is one of the things where voters will keep a close eye on, and is this man healthy enough to tackle the rigors of the office. >> thank you very much. sam stein, always great to see you, and a lovely backdrop, i hope you're in my second favorite state of new hampshire.

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