good to be with you. i'm filling in at 11:00 a.m. do not hold your breath. we got news from the judge in south florida as he considers whether to release the mar-a-lago search warrant affidavit. in a new written order posted this morning, judge bruce reinhart says he is not likely to release anything in that document. he says the redactions may render the document, quote, meaningless jibberish. he'll see what the justice department does decide to redact on thursday. that is the deadline he imposed on the justice department last week. and as this plays out, our new nbc news polling shows that not only are the american public paying attention to the multitude of investigations into former president trump, that they support those investigations as well. a clear majority of voters, 57%, have told nbc news the various

investigations into donald trump should continue. that does include a majority of independents, also even some republicans. but despite those numbers and all of those investigations, the big question this morning still isn't will trump run again, because it sure sounds like he's going to, but, rather, is he going to jump in before the midterms or after? we have new reporting on why some in his circle are telling him to wait. joining me now is nbc news justice reporter ryan riley, our senior national political reporter mark caputo, josh dossey, political reporter for "the washington post," and lisa ruben, an msnbc legal analyst. ryan, i want to begin with you. this document posted by the judge this morning, walk us through the reasoning and what that means. >> yeah, he laid out a lot of what he said in court last week. i think one of the big things i really notice about it, which isn't surprising coming from a judge who signed the actual

search warrant and said this is legit knowing the stakes of this investigation, but reconfirms again there's a good basis for this. the information the fbi provided was reliable, that he was essentially standing by his decision to authorize this -- what he notes is an unprecedented and historic search of the president's estate in mar-a-lago. so, i think what you can take away from this is he's very competent if this were to be public, that he's standing by that decision, that this is a good decision that was based on the facts that were laid out to him and he did find probable cause that there would be evidence of federal crimes at trump's mar-a-lago facility down in florida. >> lisa, give us a lawyer's read into this. >> what i read about this is lawyers and sometimes judges think twice when they have to reduce it to writing. i saw a more measured judge reinhart in this document ban they heard from last week in

court. you have a judge here saying, look, the government tells me that the redactions may be so extensive as to prevent any truly meaningful disclosure to the public, and i might reach the same conclusion when i review the documents in full. so, by thursday not only does the government have to give me its proposed redactions, but i'm going to give them essentially a second bite at the apple. make more legal arguments to me, present me with new facts that might cause me to change my mind. i don't recall whether the judge told the doj specifically last week they would have that opportunity, but here he's reducing it to writing in his order saying, okay, give it your best shot again. >> do we know where trump world stands on this? in one breath donald trump was saying he wanted the affidavit released. last week his lawyers were only in court to observe, not to file any motions themselves. they weren't actively participating in the request to release this affidavit. how does trump world feel about

this? >> well, i'm sorry for chuckling because trump world is like that joke with lawyers. in trump world you have all of these freelancers out there. christina bobb hasn't be been paid as attorney. she was custodian of records in this case. she showed up at the court. josh and i were there together. we tried to ask her afterwards her opinion on what happened and she refused to comment. next thing you know she's on fox and raising a whole set of new issues. there's this sort of ad hoc lawyer committee that periodically pops up in right wing media and says stuff and they they don't quite follow through with it. it's difficult to say awhat their legal strategy is. one person in trump world told me, one person, strategy? you think we have a strategy? that's not how we operate. that seems to be the guiding principle the trump legal team is operating under. which is there isn't uch of a team approaching this in a

coherent faction. >> josh, let's talk about law enforcement. you've recently been writing about doj and the concerns surrounding the threats towards law enforcement. do they feel that releasing a part of this affidavit, obviously not stuff that would harm an investigation, but even releasing some information would do more harm than damage to individual law enforcement officers or are -- is there debate in that world? >> well, you saw the justice department's position last week in the case. it would still feature investigative steps, reveal grand jury material and could put people under threat if any names were out there. we saw an uptick in threats. you have fbi and doj officials who are pretty concerned about the safety right now. you have two tracks in the republican party.

some folks being explicitly critical of the fbi. the marjorie taylor greens, and folks like mike pence who are saying, you know, let's make a differentiation between the rank and file members, the agents and the political leadership. but you are seeing a significant uptick in concern among law enforcement folks after this raid of the former president's house. just of the projected threats of violence they received and the fears that this could only get worse as this continues to play out. >> i hesitate to put too much credence into this. i've been in a position where donald trump has threatened to release surveillance video of an interview i never did with him. even though that video never exists. there's talk among trump world about this surveillance video they'll release of the fbi raid. does the surveillance video exist? is this a real thing, josh? >> well, they certainly say this. i mean, what we were told is the

fbi folks wanted the cameras turned off during the search and that trump world would not watch it -- would not do that. they kept the cameras on. a number of his advisers have said to me, i'm sure marc and others, things they've seen on the videos. when you say, why haven't you put the videos out? they say, we're deciding, while continuing to argue relentlessly it will help us. but it's hard to know if that's true or not when they won't put the video out of whatever is happening. so, whether video exists, we're told by many people there are videos that do exist of mar-a-lago, but i haven't seen it. i think skepticism is appropriate. >> so, there is some new reporting and some new polling from nbc news about these investigations, marc, nbc news polling shows the majority of the public want to see these investigations continue. it's a lot of democrats. also includes some independents and some republicans. what more can you tell us? >> well, i think you summed it

up pretty well. i think we have to look at the entire picture of where donald trump is now. in part because he likes to fight a very court actions against him. you've now got a situation where some previous investigations are coming to fruition now and new investigations are starting to nag at him. in a span of two weeks, think about this, you had the fbi executing a search warrant at mar-a-lago. that's huge news. two days later he's pleading the fifth 440 times in a new york state investigation concerning his finances. and then you have his close friend and some time legal adviser rudy giuliani getting a target letter and yet another investigation concerning alleged election interference in georgia, which also swirls around the former president. and then his former cfo at his organization, the trump organization, pleads guilty to tax fraud charges and agrees that he is going to give evidence in an upcoming trial in new york. i mean, those are just four big things. that's not to list some of the

other problems he has like truth social, his social media platform and various other civil lawsuits nagging at him. when the public asks, do you think there should be more investigations and when you look at polling, people want to look at his taxes, which he mromsed to release in 2015. >> there was so much out there. his son, eric, was on fox saying because of all this, he should announce he's running for president. what's the talk inside -- and i know i'm asking this again, trump world. i'm sure he's getting all sorts of information, about whether he should run. what do we know about donald trump's thinking himself? we know that's the only thing that matters. >> what we know is what people tell us that he's telling them. so, the folks i spoke to recently about six people had spoken to him. they said he actually sounded remarkably, to some of them, strangely okay. that is, he was sort of at the center of a storm that was swirling around him, a storm in great part of his own making. he feels good because he's been looking at this politically.

he was worried about a gop presidential primary. now in one poll, he's increased his lead, potential lead over florida governor desantis in the 2024 primary by 10 percentage points. there was a florida race where he was essentially tied in polling of a congressional race, testing the presidential prospects of desantis and trump. before the mar-a-lago search, tied 38, 37, after the search he's up 52-20. his fund-raising is bonkers. he had $2 million days. liz cheney went down in a fiery defeat and he's been gloating about that. they say, you know, the former president is feeling pretty good and the pressure is off him. he doesn't feel like he has to announce before -- or imminently because he was worried about some of these other folks getting in. now he's once again at the center of the storm, center of the attention, center of the universe and he feels pretty good about that. >> josh, does the republican party feel as good about donald trump? i mean, he lost the 2020

election in great part because of the fatigue around donald trump. the desire just to have something fresh and something new is, perhaps, the democrats' greatest asset that donald trump was running. >> a lot of these folks have to ride along with whatever he is doing at this point. there are some folks in the party, liz cheney most prominently, you have chris christie and various other figures who say they want to cut into his political coalition to stop him from running, to block him from becoming the nominee. there isn't any evidence that anyone has the capability of doing that because he has a great command of the political base, of the republican party. as marc said, it seems in some ways it's strengthened in some bit. i've talked to other advisers of candidates who would love to run and they would love to see donald trump fall out of being number one and they don't see it happening either. you have some figures in the republican party who think this -- these various

investigations, all these problems may further hurt him but a lot -- i'm sure you've heard for years, people say, this is going to be the thing that takes him down, this is where it ends, this will be the one final thing and it never has been. there's concern about this doj investigation into his documents. i haven't seen in a long time in trump world. you also have j6 prosecutors subpoenaing a lot of these lawyers, his allies, folks in georgia, as marc said, who are going after his team and going after a lot of his folks for what they did there. you have new york problems. i mean, you have this whole litany of problems for him. and they just don't seem to be deterring him or denting him politically right now. >> what i've heard from my sources in that world, yes, he is teflon but at some point there's a belief his luck is going to run out. lisa, if donald trump does announce he's running for president, does that do anything to the investigations? >> i don't think so. i think merrick garland has been

anticipating this for a long time. and was reported initially, there was a memo merrick garland sent out in may that talked about what kinds of approvals would be needed if an investigation were to be started into certain types of political candidates, including declared presidential candidates. merrick garland has also made clear that he's already abiding essentially by that policy. he made clear that the search warrant was approved all the way up to him. that's exactly what he would have had to do if trump already were a declared presidential candidate. i think the doj is treating this with the utmost of seriousness. i can't imagine there's anything further that they would do or could do to increase the amount of scrutiny internally on everything from their filings to the execution of the fbi search warrant if donald trump were declared candidate. >> lisa ruben, thank you very much. thank you, everyone. coming up, extreme weather. flash flooding wreaks havoc

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it has been the honor of his lifetime to have led the institute, which he called a, quote, extraordinary institution. also in a statement, president biden said, quote, i extend my deepest thanks for his public service. the united states of america is stronger, more resilient and healthier because of him. voters in florida and new york are heading to the polls tomorrow for primary elections in both of those states. in florida the big race to watch is the bid to take on republican governor ron desantis. charlie crist, is facing off against nicky freed. desantis has made headlines and for democrats this race is not just about the governor seat, but it has potential 2024 implications as well. as one florida voter told "the new york times," quote, desantis is running for president is a foregone conclusion. this morning we're getting

new insight into what issues are top of mind for voters as we head closer to this fall's midterm elections. nbc shaq brewster is in miami ahead of the primary there and steve kornacki is at the big board taking a look at new nbc news national poll. steve, i want to start with you. walk us through all of our numbers. >> a couple of findings here in this the new nbc poll. bottom line question we're always looking at in midterm election years, the president's job approval rating. you see joe biden in our new poll, 42% approve, 55% disapprove. it's been a few months since the last nbc poll in may. biden's approval rating the same at the end of the summer as it was the summer beginning. the key to this, obviously, usually, historically has been a pretty strong link between a president's job approval rating and how his party does during

midterm elections. the only two times in modern history that a white house party has actually picked up seats in midterm elections was bill clinton in '98, george w.h. bush in '92. their approval rates were well above 60%. biden in this range have typically lost seats. this is the generic ballot, which party would you like to see control congress. you see republicans in our poll with a two-point advantage on this question. statistically not much different than the 46-46 tie we found back in may. we've seen this in a number of other polls recently, too. a tightening of that generic ballot. if you think back to the republican landslide year in the 2010 midterm elections when barack obama was president, by this point republicans were starting to run away with the generic ballot. we're not seeing that yet in the polling. although in 2014 another good midterm year for republicans, barack obama's second midterm. at this point democrats were

actually about a point ahead on the midterm generic ballot. we'll see how this one shakes out. democrats hope it could stay somewhere close to where it is now and democrats are encouraged about this. we asked folks their interest in midterm elections. on a scale of one to ten, how is your interest, folks say nine or ten, the most interested, the most activated. 68% of republicans fall into that category, 66% democrats. there's been a change in enthusiasm throughout the year. you can see democrats had a big gap on enthusiasm for the midterms back in march. got a little tighter in may and now they've drawn almost even with the republicans when it comes to enthusiasm. it's interesting here. what is animating the electorate, what is driving this campaign? overall we asked the question, what is the most important issue facing the country? threats to democracy coming in, at number one.

another way of looking at this is cost of living, jobs, economy, a lot of overlap, i think, between those concerns combined, that gets you to 30% on those two. i think what's really interesting, though, break this down by party because it's two different universes in terms of what they care about. when it comes to abortion, 15% of democrats say that's the number one issue facing the country. that's the second biggest issue to democratic voters. 3% of republicans say abortion is the top issue facing the country. meanwhile, 30% of republicans,ing almost one in three say it's immigration or the border. top issue facing -- 2% of democrats rank that as number one issue. each party looking at the issues facing the country, very different. >> two different universes because those are two different information universes they're being fed. shaq brewster down in florida, this race to unseat governor

desantis. it's interesting because if desantis does run for president in 2024, it could feel like a moot issue. can he keep the governor seat while he runs? it's an open question for me. and then what about these two candidates that are vying for the role? how do floridans see them? >> reporter: well, i had conversations with both of the candidates. they acknowledge their main message, their closing message to democratic voters here is centering around ron desantis. they know he's a foremidable opponent, someone who polls above 50% in approval ratings, who have $130 million war chest to take on the winner of tomorrow's primary. so, they know they have a challenge ahead. they believe the path to defeating him is different on both ends. so, you have charlie crist, the former republican governor here in this state. he says that he can pull over independents and moderates because folks here trust him. he came into this race ahead in much of the polling, but things

have tightened. he secured a lot of support among democratic elected officials here in the state of florida. but then you have nikki fried, the agricultural commissioner who says voters here want something new. she wants to excite democrats. she says she's the only democrat to win in the state on a state wide level. both of their priorities are to beat desantis but the path is a little different. >> i'm ready for this fight, ready to take him on and will make sure we have a winning message. we'll pull over republican women, independent women and they're going to vote to have the first female governor of the state of florida. >> we've got to beat ron desantis. and i can beat him. i've been the governor, i've been the attorney general, fought for civil rights. i've been the elected commissioner of education, fought for our teachers. that's the difference. electability and experience. i offer both and a good heart. that's what florida needs and deserves.

>> reporter: another common thread you hear from the candidates that connects to what steve was just mentioning with those poll numbers, they say abortion, they think, is one way they have a path to defeating ron desantis come november. >> you can run for president and remain governor of that state. shaq brewster, thank you very much. steve kornacki, thank you as well. and happy birthday, my friend. >> thank you. idaho is the latest state to land in the middle of the fight over abortion rights. oral arguments start in a case challenging idaho's near total abortion ban. the justice department is suing to block the ban from taking effect this thursday. it would criminalize all abortions in idaho with the exception for rape, incest and to save the life of the pregnant woman. coming up next, violent arrests and an investigation under way after video shows a suspect being beaten by police in arkansas. plus, flash flooding in dallas swamps cars, forcing

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respond and announce the suspension of these three officers. two of them are sheriff's officers from crawford county. the other one, local police in mulberry. we don't have images of what happened before, but our local affiliate reports that local police said they had been called because a report of a man making threats to the employee of a local convenience store, this happened outside of that convenience store. now, of the suspect, we now know that the man has been identified as randall ray worcester, 27-year-old from south carolina. we know that he's been -- he's been charged with seven different things. this is where it gets interesting. he's being charged with battery, assault and even a terrorism charge. terroristic threat in the first degree. authorities say he was taken to a hospital. and after he was checked out at a hospital, he was booked at a local jail. that's the information on that suspect. as this investigation continues

by local authorities, just like i mentioned, it's going to be a few hours until the governor gives more details. these are the images we have found on social media of the man identified by local authorities as randall ray worcester. the mayor in mulberry did release a statement saying he was shocked and sickened by the images that we have all seen that, again, began circulating on social media and eventually got the attention of the authorities that began with this investigation. >> thank you very much. and heavy rain and slow-moving storms are creating life-threatening conditions across a large part of the southwest. from arizona through texas. in dallas, rescuers had to swim through floodwaters on interstate 30 to get to people trapped in their cars. in arizona, children needed to be carried to safety after a school bus was trapped by flooding in that area. and in new mexico, hundreds of visitors at carlsbad cavern national park were trapped for

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say they had nothing to do with this. of course, russia is blaming ukraine, but ukraine says russia is living in a fictional world. what we know about this investigation is darya dugina was leaving a cultural festival on saturday evening she attended with her father. she was on her way back to moscow when this explosion happened. there was a bomb strapped to the driver's side of this suv and russian state media is citing witnesses who say her father was supposed to be in that suv with her. he was allegedly supposed to be the intended target here. but that there was a split-second decision where he decided not to get into that vehicle. again, russia blaming ukraine. ukraine is insistent they had nothing to do with this, but there is absolutely concern that russia could retaliate on the ukrainians. >> so, what is going on there today? there's been concern about odesa, but it's been pretty

quiet in kyiv, hasn't it? >> reporter: yeah, you're absolutely right. it has been pretty quiet. and the concern here is in a few days from now, on wednesday, ukraine will celebrate its independence. that's also the six-month anniversary of this war. and so i had an opportunity to speak with a member of ukraine's parliament here, who says, look, we are on edge. you know, there is a concern that russia could do this large-scale attack. we know ukraine has been on the offense over the last two weeks, firing targets at crimea. so, they just don't know what the russians are going to do. out of an abundance of caution, they are making sure that people here in the capital city know they cannot do mass gatherings heading into independence day. then you take a look at what's happening in places like kharkiv in the east of the country. folks are told to stay inside starting tonight and not coming out until thursday morning because, again, there is this feeling, there is a concern that

russia could attack. >> thank you very much. let's bring in nina, professor of international affairs at the new school and great granddaughter of nikita khrushchev. thanks for being here. this car bomb, your knowledge of russia, what is it saying to you? are you suspicious of the aspersions, i should say, that russia is now casting on ukraine, who they're blaming? >> but also it could be ukraine. the fact that ukrainians are saying it's not them. what, they're going to come out and say, oh, we did it? of course they say they didn't. in fact, one of their very important people in administrative internal affairs at the end of july said ukraine is not as good as the mossad, the israeli security but we'll be as good as mossad and we're going to have targets in --

inside enemy lines. so, it is possible. what really gives me pause is the russians first of all blame ukraine immediately. and they already found a culprit. they have movements coming in, living in the same building where darya dugina lived, the woman who got killed, leaving ukraine -- sorry, leaving russia, going to estonia, so on and so forth. whoever did it, and it's also entirely possible that one of the things we know about the states that kind of use violence as a form of politics, then violence gets back to them. so, now when they're protests, opponents of putin have no other way of protesting, violence will probably become an increasing method. so, it can be played by the kremlin in any way possible.

so for now, ukraine is an important and convenient target. further on they may change their mind and blame somebody else or make the woman who's accused of this somebody who is with some other people. it may be some russian opposition. >> could you so he this giving russia a reason to start attacking -- they've been pretty brutal so far. i don't want to say they haven't been. been sending rockets back to kyiv, rockets back to highly populated places, or even doing something worse in zaporizhzhia, where the nuclear power plant is, which there has been a lot of tension surrounding the last few weeks and a lot of concern about what would happen there if the fighting increased. >> well, i don't believe zaporizhzhia is going to be the russian target because they're as afraid of a nuclear disaster as the next guy. so, i actually don't believe that that's -- that could be the issue.

but i absolutely am not going to pass them that they are -- the violence in response to ukrainian attacks and attacks on crimea will increase. we don't know exactly how. i'm not a military expert so i can't talk about military part, but politically this death, which is a horrible, unfortunate event, is going to give kremlin a lot of cover for a lot of things. and it has happened many, many times in soviet history, russian history. the first thing when it happened, the first thing many of us thought when in 1934 one of stalin's opponent was killed and whether stalin was involved in it or not, he probably wasn't, but it then gave the whole opportunity for stalin to start the great purges and really eliminate the enemies,

foreign, domestic, all sorts. the fear is the kremlin will take this as an opportunity. >> what about the public sentiment towards the war in russia. we have so little insight as to how the public feels. there's been some polling a little earlier on, we were able to get some of our reporters in there to talk to people, but as the country has closed down, as speaking out has become more dangerous within the country, not just for citizens but for foreign journalists as well, do you have a sense of how things are going internally in russia? >> well, i am internally russia. i'm actually in moscow right now because i decided, unlike people who started leaving, i decided i'm going to go back and show i'm not afraid of this state and see what happens. so, i have been here for a month. so, nothing has happened, thank god. but what i do want to say is that the despair is indescribable. just sort of the feeling of

absolutely having had a cloud hanging on the country, in moscow as well as petersburg, where i went to talk to people. the amazing thing -- not amazing, actually, but one of the things that is just very tense and shocking to some degree is that those who even support the war, those who support the special operation say, well, russia had no other way otherwise nature to would have come on its doorsteps and so on. they hate the war. basically everybody hates the war, even those who support it. i am from the soviet union. i used to be a soviet. orwell was still a fiction and we believe we're living in this completely disstoepen universe where you hear something on tv and hear something entirely different. it's all everybody talks about, even in the beautiful

restaurants and terraces under the beautiful moscow sun. it is a remarkable relation. >> thank you very much for joining us. we wish you luck. please be safe. coming up next, new york state just reported its first known case of monkeypox in a minor. plus, a new warning from the cdc about just how long monkeypox can linger on your common household items. lily! welcome to our third bark-ery.

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tell me what's happening here in new york. >> reporter: the need for monkeypox vaccinations is intensifying as new york state continues to have the most cases in the country and the city struggles to have vaccinations and access to it. many new york city residents who had that first dose 28 days ago worried they don't know when and where to get that second dose. here's what some of them have to say. >> it's a little frustrating, but i'm trying to be understanding and supportive. but i do feel like it's odd that the state of new york has not prioritized a more densely populated area like manhattan, queens, brooklyn, the bronx ahead of long island. >> reporter: just an hour ago,

to address some of that frustration the governor's office did announce they're changing how they plan to administer the monkeypox vaccine using the intradermal method. health experts say it uses less vaccine but is equally effective. the need here is high. i'm standing in front of one of 13 vaccination sites here in the city. >> taking one dose and splitting into five, i know that was the plan. thank you. the way this has been approached, the virus itself, the getting of the vaccine, the way this administration, the way state governments have treated it, has it gone well? >> no. it's the opposite of well. it's concerning because this is happening on the heels of covid-19 when we saw continued government failures at multiple levels exacerbate the virus.

monkeypox should have been easy. this is a virus we've known since the 1950s for which we had off the shelf vaccines and anti-virals. the response has been haywire. this really calls into question the ability of the government to respond to an infectious disease emergency. >> what about the child who has contracted monkeypox here? how concerned should parents be? there's still a lot of confusion about how hard or easy it is to contract monkeypox. >> monkeypox is not a respiratory virus. it's not going to spread as easily as covid-19. it requires close contact. that could include a household member. if there's a child that's a household member of a person with monkeypox, they can acquire the infection. it's important to isolate individuals with monkeypox. i think it's important to remember that household contacts

are at risk for monkeypox. we have to be aggressive with getting vaccines to that at-risk group to stop this outbreak. >> vaccine to the at-risk group, is that the best plan of attack focusing on those most at risk and not distributing it widely? >> i do think we have to target the vaccine. i don't think we have a lot of it. we're diluting it now and that's going to give you more vaccine to put into people's arms. the vast majority of people getting infected are men having sex with men. you want the vaccine to go where it's going to be most impactful. i think we need to cover thos 1.6 million people we believe are at risk for monkeypox. >> thank you very much. that is going to do it for me on this 11:00 a.m. hour.

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