(soft music) as we come on the air, another big announcement from the white house. the pentagon just announcing a new round of cash is on its way to ukraine's war chest. the new aid package is valued at nearly $800 million. we'll tell you what ukraine is going to do with that money and we'll have an update on that nuclear standoff threatening all of europe. also this hour the latest on the investigation into former president trump. and the scramble at the doj to redact portions of that affidavit used to obtain the mar-a-lago search warrant. plus kobe bryant's widow appearing in a los angeles courtroom this afternoon. her emotional testimony in the federal trial over photos from the crash that killed her husband and her daughter. why the prime minister of a

european powerhouse is revealing she has taken a drug test, giving in to calls from fellow lawmakers after online videos showed her partying. i'm joe fryer in for hallie jackson. with me this hour is nbc news correspondent josh lederman in dnipro, ukraine, and a member of the council on foreign relations, former state department adviser and author of "nuclear nightmares." josh, let's talk about this aid and what's happening in ukraine, what can you tell us about this latest round of funding as tensions skyrocket around that nuclear plant? >> this latest batch of funding, joe, will be a little under 800,000, including a thousand javelin antitank missiles as well as more ammunition as well as additional howitzers for the ukrainians to use. perhaps the object that get the

most attention is more than a done eagle drones, the first time the united states has provided those spy drones to the ukrainians. they're made by boeing and can fly at low altitude to avoid detection by russian antiaircraft capabilities. tension could not feel much higher particularly where we are, not far from zaporizhzhia, where there are real concerns about a provocation at the largest nuclear plant in europe after both russia and ukraine said they were expecting something to take place today. so far we haven't heard anything, there hasn't been any reports of explosions. but in the past the attacks that have occurred at the zaporizhzhia plant have taken place after nightfall. so now that we're getting into those hours, there is a lot of

concern about what might take place as the state-run energy company in ukraine is saying that russia may shut the nuclear plant down, detach it from the ukrainian energy grid, many while pregnant women and children are being urged to leave the area immediately because they would be at the highest risk for radiation that could spread potentially beyond ukraine into other parts of europe. >> joe, this is your area of expertise, that's why we wanted you on. the ukrainians say russia is planning to stage a false flag attack at the plant. help us understand just how dangerous any military action against or even near this plant could be. >> this is the largest nuclear power plant in europe. there are six reactors there. there are 3,000 spent fuel rods. that's a lot of radioactive material. what you're worried about is an artillery shell or a rocket or even heavy caliber machine gunfire coming in and destroying the integrity of the containment, concrete

con tainment. if the power is cut off, if the water supply is cut off, if there's operating error due to the duress they're operating under, there could be a major release on the fukushima scale that could extend to russia or europe itself depending on which way the wind is blowing. >> the russians in their readout of a call between putin and french president macron said that nuclear inspectors would be welcomed as soon as possible. do you think russia will actually give those inspectors the access they need? >> we'll have to see if putin commits to implementing his pledge. he said he would let them in at the beginning of september but he's violated his pledges in the

past. this is the key demand that's been demanded by the director general of the iaea. he says the plant is already out of control, even without further attacks on it, and he wants inspectors there to reinforce what they call the seven pillars of nuclear safety. staff can operate without duress, there's secure power lines, there's secure supply lines, et cetera. that's a critical first step. as the u.n. secretary general has emphasized, though, there are two other steps. there has to be immediate cease-fire in the area and russia should withdraw its military forces from the plant. then and only then will this crisis end. >> so joe, you have the worries about attacks at the plant. on top of this now ukraine says moscow is planning to disconnect the plant from the power grid, as josh just mentioned. what does that process entail? how dangerous is just that process alone? and on top of that, what would be the impact if ukrainians do lose power with a cold winter ahead? >> reporter: you know, there are a half dozen ways this plant

could turn into a disaster, and that's one of them. as i say, one of the pillars of nuclear safety is to make sure the plant has secure connections to power lines. there are five power lines going into this plant. as far as i understand, three of them have already been damaged. so you're worried about damage to the other two. if putin disconnects it from the external power line, i mean, you're really then depending on backup generators or some kind of jury-rigged systems when you get electricity from russian stories. that in itself is an extremely dangerous move. part of this is he wants to basically steal this plant, take the largest nuclear power plant in europe and connect it to the russian power grid, to turn this into a russian power plant, basically trying to annex it as he's trying to annex the territory in unique. >> we'll keep an eye on this in the coming weeks. thank you for kicking us off this hour, we appreciate it. it's now a waiting game, a

florida judge is waiting to get the justice department's redacted affidavit for the search warrant. the doj has until next thursday to submit its redaction proposals which the judge will review and decide if the affidavit is ready for public viewing. the government argued none of it should be released, saying it would jeopardize an ongoing investigation. thank you both for joining us. julia, what comes next here, how long before we could see at least some of this affidavit? >> it might be a while. we shouldn't even think of thursday as the deadline for us, joe. it could be that's the time when the judge is able to look at what the government is smith, see their redactions, and see if he agrees with that. if he thinks it's overly

redacted, he'll submit what he thinks it should be and go forward with making that public. the justice department is preparing their arguments, trying to show why they want to redact so much. they said look, we can release a little bit, the cover sheet, maybe some inconsequential details. they made the argument to judge reinhart that everything else they were doing to protect witnesses and to protect an ongoing investigation that they said has national security implications. so they're going back to see how they can play ball after they've already dug their heels in so hard on this. so in terms of what we might see, it could be that we get a little less news from the legal side of this. but often when there's silence on that side, we know that trump and his team have a way of trying to fill that vacuum and make their own news. i think that's what we're looking to next, to see if they may be releasing surveillance video from inside mar-a-lago on that day, as we wait to hear about what we might learn from that affidavit, joe. >> carol, whether it's thursday or well after next thursday,

realistically what can we expect to learn from this affidavit given that many portions will be redacted? >> i'm not particularly optimistic that as journalists and members of the public we're going to learn a lot from this affidavit. there may be some important timeline elements of like the fbi or the justice department saying on this date we learned "x," on this date we searched xyz, on this date we discovered that there was very likely to be classified information still retained despite the trump lawyers' assertion to us that all classified materials had been returned. the reason i'm not optimistic is because there are very few judges that are going to release anything at this stage that imperils a criminal investigation or puts witnesses in jeopardy. we already know some line

prosecutors and agents have been personally threatened, their lives, their families, there have been all sorts of doxing instances. and in this case, you may remember, when some of the documents were released, the names of the fbi agent involved was redacted. so i think the level of concern on the part of the justice department is going to be something that the judge, despite being inclined to release some of this affidavit, is going to defer to. he's going to, i would imagine, defer to a lot of black boxes being put on a lot of important information that you, me, and julia, would like to see. >> you were on the by-line of a "washington post" piece that

talked about the silence at the trump team at the hearing. >> the lack of a voice was probably irrelevant. there wasn't really a place for the trump lawyers to make an argument. this is a battle between media organizations and lawyers for them saying this is of public interest, a former president under investigation, we need this information. and prosecutors who said, sorry but no, we need to keep a lot of this secret. however, on the legal front, we have heard from numerous people inside the trump world and some people on the record, former ally alan dershowitz, for example, saying the trump team and the former president really should have had a leading star power white collar defense lawyer before this moment. they have known for months now that this was brewing, and there

will be more to tell about that, but they've known for months in mar-a-lago that the fbi was interested in this information and that the president, the former president, was resisting turning it over. so it's not like this should have caught them by surprise, that they were going to need lawyers. and there are so many areas where donald trump is exposed in the sense of being a subject of an investigation. let's not even stop with mar-a-lago. let's begin with january 6th and the active criminal investigation that the former president and his allies' role in spreading a lie and essentially defrauding the u.s. government. >> you say more to tell, that is definitely the case here. carol leonnig and julia ainsley, thank you. ahead, women veterans say the va health clinics can't meet their basic needs. how they say the roe v. wade

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workers. a mother says the victims' families 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. >> joining me now, nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian. so ken, this is the highest profile isis fighter to face a trial in the u.s. now he's sentenced to life in prison. tell us what happened today and what's next here. >> joe, judge t.s. ellis sentenced the suspect to eight concurrent life sentences without the possibility of parole. the judge called his actions horrific, barbaric, brutal and callous. he spoke after a number of family members gave statements, including diane foley who noted

today is the eighth anniversary of the beheading death of her son james foley, a journalist. the defendant offered no reaction. he will likely spend the rest of his life alone, locked in a small cell. the justice department took the death penalty off the table in this case to obtain crucial evidence from the british government. his trial featured the testimony of 12 former captives who detailed relentless beatings, sexual abuse, water boardings and killings by the beatles. another beatles was convicted in april and a third was arrested in london after being released from prison in turkey. the man believed to have wielded the knife, known as jihadi john, was killed in a drone strike in syria in 2015. >> ken dilanian, thank you so much, appreciate it. ahead, kobe bryant's widow

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we were able to obtain exclusive footage from inside the poultry plant. it's very rare, joe, that you ever see footage of immigration raids. unlike a lot of police interactions that's caught by americans on their cellphones, that's not very common in immigration, especially because so many people have a fear of retaliation or deportation if they report on the authorities who are arresting them. so what we're seeing here is two i.c.e. agents now chasing this man. they pull him to the ground, look at the far right of the screen. you'll see they're pinning him down, he is not resisting at this point. but you'll see in just a second here, one officer is going to stand up, here it is, watch the foot, his foot will go on the back of the neck of this man. you can just watch this piece, this is critical, right here. there. with force. i've spoken to frank figliuzzi, our law enforcement expert, who

has reviewed cases like this in the past. he says this is completely unnecessary, if you're not fighting for your life, this is incredible dangerous, it puts pressure on the air passages for this man. we understand this man has now been deported to honduras. this is now part of a civil lawsuit on behalf of the migrants in this raid. we understand the agent who just got up and left, his name is john witsel, he's now part of a professional responsibility investigation. the lawyers in this case are trying to get that testimony to hear more about what happened. that's really the end of john's interaction there. he does later walk off and leave the camera, the migrant there. but really, what we're seeing here and what lawyers are saying is this was and he was force and not necessary. this is the video again on repeat here. so sometimes it's hard for us to see exactly how much weight is on his neck, but as we understand, lawyers in this case are arguing that this was

excessive force because this man was not pushing back. so now we have this going before a federal court in the eastern district of tennessee. and this judge just made this footage released to the public today, because he deemed it was necessary for the public to see this. and we were the first to obtain it, joe. and you're seeing it right here on msnbc for the first time. >> and julia, it appears that the foot is on the neck for 25 seconds, right? >> that's right. when i ran the video, i looked and it looks like 25 seconds. what lawyers are also alleging, you don't see this on camera, but in the lawsuit they say this agent here, witsel, left the camera and later hit a migrant in the face just after leaving here, he apparently was running off for that. most of the surveillance video i reviewed, they show migrants lining up, being arrested, taken out. there isn't a lot of altercation. but clearly this one agent did get involved with this one, and

lawyers also now allege two incidents, using force against these migrants. >> thanks for bringing us this exclusive report, we appreciate it. concerns are growing that the window of opportunity to contain the spread of monkeypox might be closing. the world health organization says cases are up 20% in 92 countries last week alone. this as the uk says it expects to run out of its first 50,000 doses of the monkeypox vaccine within the next two weeks. and they're not sure when they're going to be able to get more. here in the u.s., the federal government is still struggling to roll out enough vaccines as cases rise. new data also shows racial disparities and access to vaccines in new york, with black men receiving the shot at a far lower rate than other racial groups. the white house's national monkeypox deputy response coordinator spoke to chris jansing earlier today on msnbc. he said doses the u.s. is getting on monday will help

close this gap. watch. >> i think supply and demand are going to be matched now. i think we are optimistic that we're going to have control of this outbreak. the first step in achieving equity is to actually increase supply. >> joining me now, dr. kavita patel, former white house health policy director in the obama administration and an msnbc medical contributor. doctor, good to have you with us. so the white house says the right thing to do right now is increase vaccine supply. do you think the window is closing, is the biden administration boosting supply fast enough to get the outbreak under control and limit some of these disparities in access we're talking about? >> three things, joe. number one, i think the window definitely is closing, and really because if you look at kind of the countering information, including misinformation, that is achieving far more progress, because people are so confused. i've seen people who don't want to touch surfaces, doorknobs, they're trying to find some clarity about how to protect themselves. meanwhile you do have some smooth vaccine clinics that are

getting people in and out pretty quickly. but those 2 million doses, joe, second point i want to make, is assuming those 400,000 doses are divided one dose into five doses equally, and not all jurisdictions are comfortable in doing that at the flip of a switch. it's not necessarily something they can do overnight. so we should be cautious that it's not going to practically be 2 million doses right away. third point, very quickly, we're seeing some promising signs that could help with that, actually narrowing that gap in disparities, outreach from the administration, and i think also activation of many community advocacy groups. we've learned a lot from covid on how to close some of these disparities, we should apply those to monkeypox and we're seeing signs of that. >> so there's not enough vaccines in the u.s., the uk says they're going to run out soon. there are some questions about how effective the vaccine even is. so right now, what's your advice to people to try and stay safe? >> common sense actually applies in this case, much like it did with covid, with just hand

hygiene. again, if you are sick or you're around someone in your household and friend network that is sick and has even a suspicious of monkeypox or being evaluated for it, that's a call for helping them get isolated, for you to wash down surfaces and make sure common household items aren't shared, and then for you to wash your hands. we have not seen that kind of transmission being an important driver in these cases, but even in those cases, we can have people, including children going back to school, focus on hand washing. if people are sick, staying at home or putting on a mask. there are a lot of things we can do to prevent any of this illness spreading. >> and you mentioned surfaces, which is a huge concern right now. quickly, i know there's new cdc report out on surface transmission. what's that telling us? >> briefly, one case report looking at a household or two, both household members were

diagnosed with monkeypox. they took samplings of common household surfaces. think of how much you and another person in your household would share surfaces, countertops, et cetera. they did pick up evidence of virus on countertops and common household areas. but they did not grow in a culture. they also were in much lower levels, which is promising, and shows you that you would have to really use the space a lot with someone who is infected in order to even have a possibility of transmission and even in that case, joe, with hand washing and isolation, they didn't have any cases outside that household. and that speaks to how much we can do to prevent it, even when we know the key is getting diagnosis and the key is getting vaccinated and also preventing it when you can. >> we've become experts at hand washing and isolation over the last couple of years. >> we have. >> dr. kavita patel, thank you so much, as always. have a good weekend. soccer star megan rapinoe

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what we heard from reporters in the courtroom is heart-wrenching. we're hearing vanessa bryant was emotionally sobbing through most of her testimony, so hard that she's visibly shaking, not only at recalling the moment she learned her husband and her daughter had died, but also learning that the people that she says she placed her trust in, the sheriff's department, the fire department, first responders on scene, had not only taken photos at the scene but had shared them over and over and over again. and we heard in testimony one deputy admitting he shared them during an online videogame. another deputy seen on camera sharing them with a bartender and a fire official admitting he shared them at the cocktail hour of an awards ceremony. so we have a statement from the plaintiffs. it's in the lawsuit. we can read it for you. it says, the sheriff's and fire department's outrageous actions have caused mrs. bryant severe emotional distress and compounded the trauma of losing kobe and gianna.

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treatment have impacted women's lives. julie, what all did they tell you? >> joe, i went to texas. it was an exclusive opportunity to embed with the house veterans affairs committee has they listened to harrowing personal accounts from women veterans. texas has the largest population of women veterans nationwide. >> you're a woman, i don't know what to do with you. >> reporter: that's what she said a va doctor told her when she sought care for a panic attack. texas' abortion restrictions spotlight the existing generator disparities within the va medical team, as some of them told congresswoman julia brownlee. >> we spent our whole lives assimilating into a male world. why should we have to assimilate into male health care? >> reporter: she says she had multiple miscarriages, requiring several surgeries that may be

illegal today. in 2016, amber turned to the san antonio va for severe pain in her stomach and back. at that time, she says, the clinic had one gynecologist and a single ultrasound machine. some clinics don't even have that. a 2020 inspector general report found the biggest va hospital in texas went several years without a gynecologist. and had inadequate women's facilities. >> the service that i received was naproxen. and "tough it up." >> reporter: this spring the 37-year-old had enough, she paid out of pocket to see a regular doctor who immediately scheduled an emergency hysterectomy. >> i suffered for four years with cyclical pain. i had no choice, the only solution was to have surgery. so i have one child and don't have the opportunity to have other children. >> reporter: other veterans

recounted similar experiences. the va doesn't provide abortion services, adding to growing concern among military women. nbc was denied multiple requests for interviews. instead they provided us with a statement, saying approximately 300,000 women veterans of childbearing age rely on us for health care including services such as contraception, fertility care, and maternity care, and we will continue to make sure they have timely access to the full suite of reproductive care. >> why is the va not doing women's health care for abortion? why is that not happening? >> reporter: congresswoman brownlee is hearing from women demanding better health care specific to their needs, especially in states,abortion is banned. democratic lawmakers say the va can expand services under existing law. >> the secretary has the authority to make that rule

change. he can do it tomorrow if he wanted to. >> reporter: unlike the va, the department of defense provides abortion services on military bases, where nearly one in four women say they were sexually harassed but most don't report it, according to a study from the nonpartisan rand corporation. lucy says was she raped while serving in the military in the early 1990s. >> my eldest is the product of my assault. >> reporter: lucy says she, not her abuser, was discharged after becoming pregnant. the military calling her unfit to serve. she lost her benefits, she says, experiencing homelessness while her mental health deteriorated. not only from military service but from the assault too. >> we raised our right hands. so we should get the services we rightly deserve. that's all we expect. we want to get the services that our male counterparts get when they go to the va. >> reporter: women are the fastest growing cohort in the veteran community. but there is worry among some of

them that abortion regulations on top of existing health care issues among women will further impact recruitment. >> this is fuel to the fire. >> reporter: what do you want people to know about women veterans, especially with these restrictions in place? >> we stood side by side, shoulder to shoulder when we served. there was not a problem. i was the most visible service member. now i'm the most invisible veteran. why? why is that? >> reporter: we pressed the va on why they aren't expanding their services today to include abortion care. but for now these women will continue to speak out, joe, and let everyone and the world know just what they experienced and how that needs to change. >> important to hear those stories, julie, thanks for traveling to texas and bringing us that story. now to growing outrage directed at the prime minister of finland. sanna marin now says she has taken a drug test for other own

legal protection. earlier this week a video of the 36-year-old pm landed on social media. it was leaked, and shows her partying. she says she did nothing illegal, adding, quote, i trust that people understand that leisure time and work time can be separately. this is actually the second time the prime minister has faced scrutiny for her private activities. she was seen clubbing back in december and didn't have her work phone on her so she missed a text telling her that she had been exposed to covid-19 and needed to isolate. joining me now with more is nbc news foreign correspondent matt bradley. matt, partying, as you know, is one of the reasons boris johnson was forced to step down as uk's prime minister. could this partying scandal impact the political future of finland's pm? >> reporter: yeah, you know, joe, i don't really know a lot of these things, it's hard to see how they pan out in the end. a lot of it has to do with how popular the prime minister is to

begin with. marin is popular. my guess is this won't hurt her at all, in many ways this might actually help her. she has gotten out in front of the issue, she immediately took a drug test. the only drugs involved in this were that some media outlets said that they thought they could hear in the finnish language a veiled reference to drugs mentioned on some of these videos. so it's not as though they're seeing people doing drugs or the prime minister herself seen doing drugs. it's kind of hard to see how this would really stick to her especially since as we said she's already gotten out way in front of this, but you mentioned the prime minister here boris johnson. he was not really taken down by the partygate scandal as they call it here, and that wasn't just about drugs and alcohol. that was about the prime minister partying with colleagues during the lockdown, violating the same rules that his office had made and that had

essentially imprisoned this country for months in lockdown as many countries throughout the world have experienced. so really, he survived even that kind of hypocrisy, but it was another sort of booze-fueled scandal that really undid him and that was a couple of months later when it was a chief member of the tory party, the conservative party, boris johnson's party as was being tolerated by johnson even as he sexually assaulted other male politicians in the conservative party and this was something that was being investigated. he resigned and it was that scandal that really undid boris johnson and i would say in britain and in finland, the youngest prime minister and she's only a few years younger than the median age there is a wink at this sort of activity. politicians are seen as -- people want to see them getting away with a little bit and that was the same thing with boris johnson. it's when you start to see questions of hypocrisy, again, with the partygate where boris

johnson was making the rules about covid and then violating them and sexual assault which is, again, the real thing, that scandal that undid boris johnson just a couple of months ago when he had to step down as prime minister. for sanna marin, this young prime minister who was literally fighting for her right to party, i think she's going to survive this, and i think she might actually thrive beyond this. you know, joe, you and i, remember, we're old enough, back in the '90s, back a couple of years ago we were associated with people doing drugs, and times have changed and people are more tolerant of that kind of behavior. matt bradley, thank you very much for that reporting. we appreciate it. we are learning what happened in a phone call between megan rapinoe and the leader of the free world. politico revealed what --

multiple people said rapinoe asked him to do more to bring brittney griner back home to the u.s. from a russian prison. griner was sentenced to nine years to a russian prison with no indication yet that a prisoner swap is going to happen. joining me now the reporter with the politico white house beat with that story, max tauny and what can you tell us about the details of that phone call between the president and rapinoe? >> yeah, well, what i can tell you is essentially earlier this year joe biden called megan rapinoe personally to let her know that she would be receiving the medal of freedom which is the highest civilian honor that a president can bestow on anyone. during that call, rapinoe who is famously incredibly politically outspoken and active, rapinoe urged joe biden to take whatever steps were necessary to try to

secure the release of brittney griner who is the wnba superstar who has been detained in russia for several months now. what i am told is that joe biden basically told rapinoe that his administration was working incredibly hard to try and secure griner's release, and that his administration was also in touch with griner's family to try and provide whatever support was necessary. rapinoe has been incredibly outspoken on this issue specifically, among many others, actually, when she received the medal of freedom during the ceremony she wore a white blazer with the letters b.g. on the lapel which obviously stood for brittney griner. she's spoken about this at length in interviews, and media appearances and also at the espys and this is something she

cares deeply about and she has personal ties to griner herself and they're both representing by the staple sporting agency and both are incredibly dominant u.s. women athletes and gold medalists. so this is clearly an issue that she cares about personally, enough so that she even during what should have been a total celebratory call was asking the president for help on this. >> max, we have, like, 30 seconds here, but bottom line, do pressure campaigns like this one have an impact? >> i think, clearly, there is a lot of pressure being put by griner's camp and other allies of theirs on the president, and regardless of whether or not -- obviously, griner is still detained, but it clearly -- the pressure from, you know, from the family, from griner herself in the form of a letter and from superstars like lebron james and steph curry. clearly, the white house heard those messages and were on the call with griner's wife and wrote a letter to griner herself

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john heilemann is here in for nicole wallace for the last day. i know you're all relieved. after the unprecedented search at mar-a-lago and the retrieval of a boat load of sensitive and in some cases secret and top secret material from donald trump's residence in south florida, america is still grappling with the legal, political and national security implications of a series of developments that have taken us all into terra incognita. the last time i was in this chair it was back in the last week of february was when russia's invasion of ukraine began and we were all watching a world historical event unfold and carry us to a scary place. a totalitarian regime had just invaded a fledgling democracy in the heart of europe sparking the largest land war on the continent since world war ii. now today i have a distinct feeling of deja vu all over again with another potentially world historical development