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good morning. 10:00 a.m. ooerns, 7: 00 pacific. the redacted affidavit will be unsealed. we'll break down what to expect. this hour jerome powell is delivering a speech on the economy amid a report that shows inflation may be easing. when it means for you and the high prices we've been seeing. president biden back in campaign mode using stark language calling the maga fa -- philosophy semi fascism. california making big moves to address climate change
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banning sales of new gas powered cars by 2035. how that will work ahead. we begin this morning with our top story. at any moment a redacted version of the affidavit used to justify the fbi's august 8th search at former president trump's florida home will be unsealed to the american public. "the new york times" summarized the ruling as a significant legal mile post in an investigation that has swiftly emerged as a major threat to mr. trump, whose lawyers offered a confused and at times stumbling response. the judge's order to release the document comes after the doj submitted its proposed redactions in an effort to protect the safety and privacy of witnesses in the on going investigation. the doj has noon 9:00 eastern,
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noon pacific to unseal it. the fbi seized 11 sets of classified documents, some labeled top secret. trump said he's as innocent as a person can be and slammed it as politically motivated. joining us is ken, phil rutter, deputy national editor and msnbc political analyst and former u.s. attorney george vance and betsey swan a national correspondent at politico. ken, how is this going to play out today? do we know what the timeline is right now? >> good morning, jose. we don't have exact information on that. obviously sometime between now and noon. this document will be posted on the federal court's electronic system. we'll get it to you as soon as we learn anything.
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there is reason to believe, jose, there will be things in this document that will shed some light on this nature of this investigation. at least the back and forth between the trump team and federal government officials who spent the last year and a half trying to get some documents back. obviously, what we will not see is anything related to witnesses, a road map of the investigation going forward, strategies, investigative techniques will be blacked out. there will be obviously significant and huge redactions in this document, jose, but i'm thinking we'll see something meaningful to us. >> so joyce, how unusual is it that this redacted version of an affidavit for a high profile search be released this soon after those redactions were submitted? >> this process has moved very promptly but the most surprising aspect of it is doj is apparently going to agree to release redacted information rather than appealing the magistrate judge's ruling and that is likely because they
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found some reasonable carveout in the affidavit, information that can be provided without impacting the integrity of the investigation. most likely, that means that we'll learn a little bit more this morning about the former president's willful resistance to returning these documents even after repeated requests and that could turn out to be quite interesting. >> yeah, and just joyce, just give us an idea what normally is included in an affidavit like this. >> so, your whole goal as a prosecutor in the search warrant affidavit is to convince the judge who you're asking to issue the search warrant that you've got plenty of probable cause to go ahead and do the search. although, the legal standard is technically just probable cause, a reason to believe that a crime has be committed and that you'll find evidence. prosecutors are more careful than that. judges can be very hesitant to sign off on a search warrant, which when you think about it is a very intrusive sort of measure
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permitting you to go in and search someone's home. that means prosecutors like to tell the full story. they like to put the evidence into the affidavit. you have an agent who can recite as hearsay a lot of information that's been obtained during the investigation to paint a compelling picture of why you can only get the evidence you need to move forward by searching the premises that you're seeking the warrant for. that means these affidavits are chalked full of highly sensitive information. doj's argument early on is it couldn't reveal the affidavit because it would have provided a road map to the continuing investigation. i expect that whatever we see today will not release that sort of a road map of where doj is headed next. >> and joyce, you mention that the doj has decided not to appeal the judge's decision that this document, you know, must be released even in part. why do you think that is?
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>> well, because frankly, the pleadings filed by the news agencies make a compelling point that as a matter of law, there is a strong public interest and doj isn't in the position of being able to ignore the public's interest in information but they are entitled to balance it against their interest in protecting the integrity of an ongoing criminal investigation. it looks like what happened here was that doj behaved very respectfully of the news agency's interest and public's interest in this case and agreed to find a way to balance those interests and release parts of the affidavit. but i would still this expect this to be a pretty heavily redacted document. i think ken pointed out this morning there might be newsroom printers going a little light on toner as they printout the big black blocks in the affidavit. we'll learn something and it will be interesting this morning. >> and phil, donald trump's legal team hasn't opposed
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efforts to unseal the document. he's called for the release of the materials in full. what explains this? >> well, jose, donald trump public recalled for the release of the affidavit but his legal team has not official recalled for it. i think trump is trying to play this to a political advantage and he wanted people to think he's in favor of transparency and somehow been persecuted by federal law enforcement and this affidavit, if it came out would show the witch hunt as he likes to call it but it might paint a different kind of picture. i suspect the affidavit will detail what led up to the fbi's decision they had to go in and search mar-a-lago and that's what this type of document ordinarily would show and depending how heavily redacted it is, it could have information that's damaging to trump or layout a set of facts that
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reveal just how dangerous him withholding these documents at ma mar-a-lago was for the interest of national security. >> you would think when this redacted or heavily redacted document is released, trump could probably use that fact it's so redacted to i don't know, claim there is a coverup? >> sure. i mean, he could use anything like that in his sort of p.r. spin war and we'll have to see what the document looks like and how he reacts to it and certainly, he's going to try to spin this in his favor to use it as further evidence in the minds of his supporters that he's been unfairly targeted by the justice department and by the fbi in this investigation and particularly, with the search of march -- mar-a-lago on march
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8th. >> betty, you reported part of the reason chris wray got his job is because he's quote boring and stays out of the spotlight. how could the release of this affidavit change that? >> there is no question that it's already put a massively increased level of focus on the burro, not just from sort of your typical political observers but also, extreme hostility from trump supporters on the very far right. the fbi itself has warned its law enforcement partners that violent threats from that particular cohort could escalate as there is further law enforcement activity related to the people mixed-up in the mar-a-lago search warrant being executed. that's part of the reason that this affidavit could, could, could, could, not necessarily will be so interesting this morning. not only are we hoping to get more information about the materials the fbi wanted to get back and contents of the boxes
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but also we're hoping it will cast light on why the fbi and the doj concluded that the only way to get all this stuff was by using such an intrusive tool as joyce put it by using one of the most aggressive steps that federal law enforcement can take. why did they conclude another subpoena wouldn't work? why did they conclude asking nicely once again wouldn't work? why was there this conviction on the part of the fbi, strong enough to persuade a federal judge that they needed to take a step that without question would result in president trump responding pretty much the way he did and it's also worth noting until chris wray would not have been surprised by trump's response or the violence that ensued. he's been dealing with extreme levels of hostility from trump supporters for the entirety of his time as fbi director, even though, of course, he was nominated for that post by
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president trump. there aren't a ton of people in the federal government who are as intimately familiar with the impact of trump's rage as fbi director chris wray was. he would have been, of course, horrified and disappointed, especially by the violence attempted to be played out in cincinnati on the part of an extremist but the fact that trump responded the way he did, the fact his supporters responded the way they did without question is not something wray would find surprising. >> so in that affidavit, the reasoning behind the need for the fbi to step in and go to mar-a-lago would be in this affidavit and that's something that presumably isn't of a sensitive nature, right? >> you know, the best answer i can give you is it depends. it depends on what steps they took and what led them to the
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conclusion that a search was their only option at this point. it's possible that the justification for the search involves grand jury material and of course, our viewers now it's a federal felony to release information obtained via a grand jury, prosecutors and agents are very careful not to release grand jury material because they're prohibited by law from doing that. what we learned today in the affidavit won't include any information gathered through a ground jury and that could possibly be testimony from folks around the former president or folks with knowledge of his actions indicating that this information was being stored in securely, these classified documents stored insecurery and per -- being treated in a cavalier manner and people not authorized to see them. it very difficult i think to predict what we will see.
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doj has to really walk a tight rope here to avoid disclosing information that they're prohibited disclosing by law or information that will make it difficult for them to bring this investigation to a conclusion and reach the truth of the matter. >> yeah, ken -- let's talk about that tight rope. what are the ricks for the doj and attorney general merrick garland? >> i mean, the risks are they inadvertently disclose something that compromises the invest gages number one but some of the best minds in the criminal justice system have been working furiously to make sure that doesn't happen and the risks include the political backlash that we've seen. there was another person yesterday was detained after throwing rocks at an fbi field office in chicago. i mean, this is a climate of threats to federal law enforcement officers worse than anything anyone seen in years and so one thing that some
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people i'm talking to are hoping is that this document can perhaps better explain the foundation, how we got here, why this search was not a judicial over reach or rash of abuse of power like trump and allies are portraying but a carefully considered process where the government including cautious chris wray as betsey laid out bent over backwards to give donald trump every opportunity and his allies to turnover these highly classified documents before they took the extraordinary step of getting a search warrant, jose. >> of course, we're standing by for the release of this affidavit any second now and when it is released, we will all see it together right here live on msnbc but ken, phil, joyce vance and betsey swan. we're on stand by for the moment that document is released and following breaking news for you on another front. moderna is suing pfizer and
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19 past the hour. moments ago federal reserve chair jerome powell gave a highly anticipated update on the
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economy at 2022 jackson hole convention. he expects the central bank to continue to raise interest rates and could cause pain to the u.s. economy. his comments come as government reporting shows inflation could be easing. consumers are still facing high prices at the grocery store and beyond paying 6.3% more for goods and services compared to last year, but that number is down .1% month over month. meaning price increases slowed leaving some experts to believe inflation peaked and consumer spending rose steadily rising just .1% in july. joining us is cnbc senior analyst, ron, a pleasure to see you. let's talk about powell's comments. what did he say and what are you
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hearing? >> a couple things, jose. one another large three-quarter point rate hike is not off the table yet. it will depend on incoming data but possible they will need one one, too. there will be pain for households and businesses and the economy could slow as a result of the fed's raising interest rates and three, the fed will likely keep rates higher for an extended period of time until it's sure inflation is coming back down to the target of 2%. >> what does it tell you about the state of our economy. when you look at it, you're a great analyst of things. what do you see going forward? >> we're seeing slowness. clearly in the most interest rate sensitive sectors of the economy like housing, we're seeing a near collapse in demand. we're seeing more houses coming to market. we're seeing sellers lowering asking prices. we're seeing a buildup of inventories in things like apparel and as you mentioned, with personal income and spending up modestly in the last month a slowdown in the economy,
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which the fed has acknowledged but won't necessarily act on or stop raising rates because of. i think we're in this spot right now where it's uncertain what the rest of the year looks like. the fed is going to keep raising rates. it wants inflation back at 2% and will risk a recession of some sort, mild or otherwise to get where it says it needs to go and i think that's what we have to pay attention to. as the data weakens, if the data weak ens, the federal reserve will start to slow the pace and the size of the rate increases. >> so ron, i'm wondering because go to the market and the prices of food are so high and even just a basic, you know, necessity for a family to be able to survive are just going up and up and up. what causes that general increase in the price of these critical food supplies and how do those things end up going down eventually?
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>> well, couple ways. number one is the fed is actively trying to reduce demand and drive down demand so prices fall and two, because we've seen supply disruptions in food and energy as a result of covid, as a result of the war in ukraine, eventually as supply is restored, prices will start to come back down and so this is a process, not a point in time and it's going to take sometime for that to happen. the fed is getting near the point where those things are starting to fall in place but it's worried about the 1970s experience where the fed raised rates and then stopped and raised rates again and inflation became an entrenched part of consumer psychology. they're saying they're not going to let that happen again and drive inflation down no matter the cost. >> ron, always a pleasure. thank you for explaining things in an easy to understand way. with just over two months to go before the midterm election, president biden had an attack on
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republicans during a fundraiser last night. the president said quote, what we're seeing now is the beginning or the death knell of an extreme maga philosophy that under pins the i'm going to say something, it's like semi fascism. that's a quote. in a campaign event before his fundraiser, biden pointed his attack squarely on former president trump. >> in 2020 you and 81 million americans voted to save our democracy. that's why donald trump isn't just a former president, he is a defeated former president. >> joining us now nbc news senior white house corespondent kelly o'donnell. what more can you tell us about the president's message? >> important to point out there are two kinds of campaign events for the president. the first one you played just -- you gave the quote, there was no camera there but they do allow
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some representatives, some reporters to be inside a fundraiser with the big dollar donors to be aware what the is the president communicating to donors and a separate public event and sometimes, what the president says matches up and sometimes it's a little different and that can be very much planning of what does this president and the democratic party want to do waging the battle ahead for the midterms and so clearly, president biden has given this a lot of thought and a lot of time. this was his first one into midterm politics and wants to make the argument certain elements of the republican party. careful to say republicans are people he works with and has respect for but those who have gone the maga route and election denier route and arguing for a restriction of rights is where he wants to draw the lane and -- line and make it about freedom versus autocrats and
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argue democrats must show up and we know that midterm elections, it's harder to draw the base to turn out and vote and this is historically a difficult election for a party like the democrats who hold the presidency and both chambers of commerce statistically, historically, that can be difficult but democrats have had some positive developments of late. the reaction to overturning roe v. wade and legislative victories for the president give them some encouragement and that's the kind of marker president biden wants to put down, a freedom versus turning things backward. expect to hear a lot more of that, jose. >> kelly o'donnell, thank you so very much. up next, why the risk of a nuclear disaster at europe's largest power plant is on the rise. plus, any moment now, the affidavit used to justify the former president trump's mar-a-lago estate will be released. we'll bring it to you as soon as it is released. you're watching "jose diaz
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time in history on thursday. the plant was taken offline yesterday after shelling sparked fires according to ukraine's national emergency company. in a statement, president zelenskyy warned that russia put the world one step away from nuclear disaster. joining us now from kyiv, nbc news josh letterman. what's the latest on the ground there? >> reporter: the state run energy company says that one of the six nuclear reactors has now been reconnected to ukraine's electricity grid. they are ramping up capacity from the reactor a day after a fire damaged the last remaining transmission line out of four. there are typically four transmission lines to the plant, three damaged early in the war than yesterday the last one was damaged and they were able to repair that and get it back online but in the meantime according to president zelenskyy, the nuclear plant had to rely on backup power because a lot of people don't realize a nuclear plant can't operate in a
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vaccine it needs energy to power the cooling systems. while this crisis was averted, suffice to say, jose, the nuclear energy agency is scrambling to get inspectors on the ground here in ukraine to get stability to the situation that has really been spiraling out of control. here the iaea has been a hangup over ukraine insisting the nuclear inspectors come through ukraine to get to the plant while russia wants them to come through russian held territory and no russian nuclear experts part of the delegation but the head of the iaea is ready to personally lead a mission. he says it's absolutely pivotal u.n. inspectors get on the
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ground because the situation is dangerous for the world community, jose. >> josh letterman in kyiv, thank you so much. joining us is admiral former supreme ally commander at nato and chief international. it's always a pleasure to see you. i'm wondering what do you think russia's goal is by continuing to put that nuclear power plant in some danger, certainly they're involved in the ends and outs and fires, et cetera. what is the logic behind this? >> first point, jose, the u.s. navy operates many, many nuclear reactors, i had eight of them on the carrier "enterprise" under my command at one time. this is not though ris not eore fukushima japan and ukraine have experienced exactly the kind of catastrophe we need to avoid here. so why is russia doing this? jose, three things.
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number one, they want to scare the europeans, kind of rattle them and make them lean toward press sure pressuring ukrainians to back down. that's not going to happen. number two, this is very strategic ground where this plant is located and the russians believe the ukrainians won't launch major attacks against it so they're using it as a sanctuary and number three it they would like to take 20% electricity away from ukrainians. it's a trifecta for the russians. >> with the history of the russians, you know, it's just been disastrous if things don't turn out the same way as they did in ukraine. putin is expanding the military
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by 137,000. what does it tell you about how he is dealing with these six months plus with the war against ukraine? >> let's start with the most obvious thing, which is that the russians have lost somewhere between 70 and 80,000 troops either killed or wounded in this conflict. the short answer to why is he trying to raise more troops because the ukrainians have killed or wounded almost 100,000 so he's got to make that up in someway. so it's -- i wouldn't call it quite desperation but certainly going to be central for putin if he'll continue to have a functioning army and the second point to be made, jose, this is going to be hard. it's going to be hard for putin to convince people to go to the front lines. he is already opening the prisons and allowing convicts to suddenly enlist.
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he's recruiting men from the age of 18 to the age of 60. now think about that for a minute bringing 60-year-olds into active combat situation. you don't do that as a normal course of business and thirdly, russia has significantly declining demographics losing people every year. this will be a tough live for putin. >> admiral, i want to ask you about afghanistan. what are your thoughts today as we mark one year after that attack on the airport and the u.s. withdrawal of 13 members of the united states armed forces that we lost? >> above all i say a prayer for the brave 13 marines that died with a suicide bomb as they were conducting a humanitarian mission trying to get our afghan partners out of afghanistan and that mission succeeded in many ways ultimately but this was a very dark moment and it cost us
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13 brave marines. we all ought to stop and recognize that this mission did not end the way any of us wanted to see it end and it came at a real cost to our brave u.s. marines. >> admiral james, thank you so much for your time. always a pleasure to see you. >> gracias. any minute we're expected to get our first look at the affidavit used to obtain a search warrant at trump's mar-a-lago estate, we'll bring it live as soon as published. first, traffic deaths on the rise. why communities of color are more likely to be affected, next. you're watching "jose diaz balart reports." reports." “so a”" ♪♪ aleve - who do you take it for? a monster was attacking but the team remained calm. because with miro, they could problem solve together, and find the answer that was right under their nose.
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♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ 41 past the hour. california is taking an aggressive step fighting climate change planning to phase out the sell of gas powered vehicles in just over ten years. state regulators voted on a plan with a first goal of having 35%
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of new cars sold producing zero emissions by 2026, 68% by 2030 and 100% by 2035. nbc steve patterson joins us from los angeles. steve, good morning. how does the state plan to reach these goals? >> reporter: i think in a few ways, jose, first is a culture shift. you have to garner interest. you have to get people on board and reduce the cost of electric vehicles which in some cases are more expensive than the regular gas guzzling car. that's one. two would be infrastructure improvements. there has to be a better system for chargers in this state. there is only 80,000 or so right now. there have to be over a million by 2030 for this to sustainably work. three would be enforcement for every auto maker that's not on board with this, they could be charged about $20,000 per vehicle that is not up to snuff. they want to wean us away from
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gas powered cars and relying on oil. 16% of the market, zero emissions now to 100% in 13 years. a lot of work has to be done to meet that but they say the rewards are worth it. state regulators, the governor's office, they want to make this work. they say that, you know, greenhouse gas is 40% come from vehicles in this state. one of the largest producers of greenhouse gases in the state of california, if they do this they say it will cut down on that greenhouse gas from cars, from exhaust by about 50% by the year 2040. again, big hurdles but they say the aspirational goal of doing it is well worth it and they expect other states to fall in line. you know, generally when california does something like this because they control the air quality standards, states like washington state, like new york state, like massachusetts
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tend to follow in line. if you have more than a dozen states, maybe 15 to 17 also doing the same thing, that is a huge chunk now of the country that is not relying on oil. jose? >> that includes trucks, pickup trucks and transportation trucks in that, steve? >> reporter: no, it does not. it does not include the used car market. it wouldn't include cars purchased out of state and if you have a gas powered car in your driveway and it's 2028, they won't remove it from you in the year of 2032 but the diesel powered large trucks are not going to have their own similar law until 2040. so lag but those lags are in place to account for people to transition to get use to our new future. jose? >> steve patterson in los angeles, thank you so much. good seeing you.
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the u.s. is experiencing an alarming increase in car deaths. more than 115 american haves been dying on the roads on average every day this year. more than 115. and the toll is falling disproportionately on lower income americans, as well as black and latino families. joining us now is calvin, president and ceo of smart growth america, calvin, thank you for being with us this morning. millions of us drive. why is there such a disproportionate amount of deaths when it comes to our communities? >> that's a good question. thanks for having me, jose. well, my organization smart growth america actually just released a report last month, a national analysis of pedestrian fatalities called dangerous by design. and it shows a particular epidemic of traffic deaths, pedestrian fatalities in this country and it's unique to the united states.
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6,500 people died in 2020 walking being struck and killed. those numbers are a two-third increase over the last decade and as a matter of fact, 2021 data showing things are getting worse. but getting to your point, unfortunately, we see disproportionate deaths in black, latin x, latino and low income communities. as a matter of fact, blacks were two times as likely as non-white hispanics to die while walking in their neighborhoods. so it's an epidemic that is having disproportional effects on black and brown communities but a solvable one and we can talk about those solutions. >> yeah, i mean, look, when we look at the graphic, when you look at the disproportionate number of african americans, 8.21 per 100,000 compared to whites at 6.33. how can this be helped?
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how can we help fight this? >> yeah, it's tough. some of it goes back to history. i know as a person from fort lauderdale as i understand living in miami now. part of this has to do with the history of where we put highways in our country. the interstate highway system specially was built out through black and brown neighborhoods around the country in the '50s and '60s and these race-based or racist decisions often put high speed wide roads through black and brown communities. part of what we can do is probably two things we can do that are counter intuitive but really the answer and it's showing in our report. the first is the focus on street design. right now our streets are designed for speed, the speed of the car traveling but not the safety of anybody not in the car whether you're a pedestrian,
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whether you're a biker, or you're mama bear rolling a stroller and in black and brown communities, what you see which also has racist history to it is a lack of pedestrian infrastructure. so you don't see sidewalks, crosswalks, i hate to date myself because it's almost like that old atari game frogger where you see folks running across fast streets. there is a challenge in black and brown communities and urban areas and rural areas because of the street design and the culture of not really caring that there is this disproportionate affect in doing it. >> calvin, i thank you so much for being with us and shining a light on something that affects so many of us. appreciate you very much being with us this morning. we continue to keep our eye out for the release of the redacted affidavit used to justify the search of mar-a-lago and we'll break it as soon as we get it. you're watching "jose diaz balart reports." e diaz balart reports."
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there. and the crew member can turn their head in the helmet, be able to drink that, so they have the proper nutrition. >> how is it in there? is it hot? >> it feels good. nice and cool, sir. >> cool? >> yes, sir, i have a cooling garment underneath that keeps me nice and cool. >> even on a hot houston day. >> yes, sir. >> reporter: if this uncrewed artemis mission goes well, an astronaut mission will follow, then a lunar landing in 2025 and a moon base. returning from its mission, orion will reenter the earth's atmosphere even faster and hotter than the space shuttle. mach 32 and 5,000 degrees. a brand-new heat shield will protect future crews before parachuting into the pacific ocean. >> the main objective that we really want to get out of h test flight is that stressing that heat shield, getting a test to that new orion heat shield at lunar reentry velocity. >> mach 32 is 32 times the speed of sound, 5,000 degrees, that's half the temperature of the sun.
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so it's imperative that that heat shield holds, just like it held for the apollo mission, when they came splashing down and landing in the pacific ocean. this mission, again, uncrewed, but onboard will be four test dummies to gauge exactly all the impacts, if you will, all the strains and stresses that humans will feel when they're actually onboard this mission, maybe in another year and a half or so, and then eventually, landing on the moon. back to you. >> fascinating! tom costello, i thank you so very much. that wraps up the hour for me. i'm jose diaz-balart. you can always reach me on twitter and instagram @jdbalart. and be sure to follow the show online. jdbalartmsnbc. thank you for the privilege of your time. katy tur picks up with more news after a quick break. p with mores after a quick break. it absorbs an entire glass of water. it fit like a glove. it just felt like real underwear. game changer! it's the protection we deserve.
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good to be with you. i'm katy tur. we do not know what is in. we do not know how much more we will learn. but we do know at some point in the next 60 minutes, we will get our first glimpse of the affidavit used to justify the fbi search of mar-a-lago. the federal judge gave the justice department a deadline of noon today to make public a redacted copy of the affidavit. that means there will be blacked out portions that the doj wants to keep secret. details like witnesses and the names of fbi agents. in his ruling, judge bruce reinhart called the re

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