good afternoon, i'm andrea mitchells sitting in for chris jansing today. a judge set a dead daedline of tomorrow for the doj so tile a response to the request for the appointment of a special master. but even before hearing the government's argument, the judge indicated she was incline agree to a request. a hearing is scheduled for thursday. meanwhile, the country's intelligence chief has ordered a damage assessment to determine the national security risk posed by the former president's handling of the highly

classified material in the first 15 boxes that were returned to the national archives. and a member of the january 6th committee has revealed a new thread of the panel's investigation, the money behind the january 6th riot. all this while the former legal team struggles to define a defense argument. >> if there's a prosecution of donald trump for mishandling classified afternoon after the clinton debacle, there will be riots in the streets. >> let's dig into this with ryan riley and ali vitali, along with glen kushner, a former prosecutor, and robert gibbs, press secretary from the obama white house. "the washington post" is reporting that the filter team has already gone through these documents and taken out what was

lawyer/client privilege. >> that's all they should have to go through. @ job should be done for them. the doj did go through this very quickly over the course of essentially two or three weeks. that's according to the latest filing this morning from doj. it said that they were able to complete this audit of the information and find anything that was attorney-client privilege and set this aside. they did this job that a special master would do. we're going to see the trump team arguing that the special master should do more than just attorney-client privilege documents. they are going to argue that executive privilege should be applied for whatever trump's view of that's in the hands of the current president. >> there's plenty of precedent on that. even before this hearing, though, the do jux just that

unusual and would that special mast investigator to get the highest security clearance to knows what's relevant and not relevant? >> i was surprised to see the judge announce a tentative ruling after donald trump and husband legal team denied the appointment of a special master, but before the department of justice had any opportunity to make their position known. this is not the way litigation is supposed to work. i was searching my memory in the 30 years i was a federal prosecutor. i couldn't recall any instance where a judge asked the defense their position and tentatively ruled in the defense's favor before the judge ever turned to me and asked the position of the united states. i think there's a risk that that can call a judge's impartiality into question. as you say, now there will be this issue of whether a special

master is appointed. that person would have to have a background investigation down, receive some of our nation's highest security clearances before they would be allowed to begin reviewing classified materials. >> one of the reasons it was so surprising is the judge preliminarily had chided the trump lawyers for improperly filing, not showing they had standing. she took them to task in her initial response to that master request, right? >> it was a really strange about face that the judge did. she set out a in a summary order that she drops on the public docket for all to see a request that they, quote, elaborate on the following five points, which was a nice way of saying your brief is a mess and you need to clear some things up to my satisfaction. then she says i'm tentatively ruling i'm going to appoint a special master. as you said, the government has

already filed its own initial response. they staid, look, the privilege review team has, quote, completed its review of potentially privileged documents. this is the department of justice saying, we understand you're going to try to decide whether to close the barn door, but the horse is already out and galloping around in the evidentiary field at this point. >> so robert, what goes through your mind when you hear ranking member on senate judiciary warning about riots in the street, just what we saw in cincinnati and tried to get into fbi headquarters in chicago and all these threats. the highest level of threats against law enforcement against judges and the agents who served the search warrant. >> i think we have to make it not just a warning, but i think it's a threat from senator graham. and the threat is outrageous. as mentioned, he's a senior

member of the judiciary committee. to be calling on or give an invitation that if the judicial system decides and the justice department decides to indict former president trump for mishandling classified information, he's inviting people to get into the streets and riot. it's outjous. the question that has to be asked of senator graham, you didn't believe -- you walked away from at least temporarily this idea of donald trump the last time we had a riot because his followers didn't like the outcome of of the decision and that was the election. we watched them riot inside of the capitol. that was abhorrent at that moment to senator graham. why does he think this would be any different? >> he's a senior member, not the ranking. i stand corrected on that. but he's a former jag officer.

after the redacted search warrant was released, "the wall street journal" published an editorial where they argued if you're going to indict a former president, you better have him dead to rights on something bigger than mishandling documents. the editorial board said it's not defending his behavior, but what are your thoughts on this? the headline was is that all there is? and looking through that affidavit, the way i studied it having covered intelligence for years, there was a lot. >> not only was there a lot, there's a lot that we don't know because there was so much redacted. so i don't know how it can be a fully informed opinion at this point that there's no there there when we haven't even had an opportunity to see what is there. and we shouldn't. the government should closely guard its ongoing investigation. they should protect the witnesses, who have already sort of stepped out and cooperated

with law enforcement with the fbi, with the federal prosecutors at significant risk to themselves. we just saw lindsey graham not only saying there will be riots in the streets, but almost giving permission for the trump supporters to behave that way. so yes, the doj needs to protect not only ilts sources and its methods, but the security of the witnesses who have already cooperated and hopefully to i want spire other witnesses to cooperate in the future. >> and ali vitali, up on the hill, the january 6th committee is continuing its work during the recession. one of the committee members yesterday revealing a new angle of their investigation. what more can you tell us? >> reporter: a new angle that those of us who have been watching the committee hearings were waiting to see if we would hear more of. this general idea of following the money, specifically as it relates to the stop the steal rally and any fundraising that was done around that specific

effort. here's kinzinger yesterday giving us more information on what we might see when hearings return. listen. >> i think one of the more intriguing thing is going to be some of the financing. the fact that a vast majority of this money was raised under stop the steal with no intention of doing anything to stop a steal it was just about raising money. >> so that's one of the threats that we're going to hear about. kinzinger also saying when the hearings resume, we're going to get more information about those missing text messages from the secret service. so much concern about why they were missing, if it they were able to be recovered. it's one of those memts where in the midst of figuring out what happened, you wish congress wasn't on recess because i would love to ask the members of the committee about this, but that's one of the things that they are expected to tease out, even though they are working quietly and in private right now, we do still expect them to come back

with hearings, at least two of them, according to my reporting, in the month of september. and you'll remember where they left us off. they did eight hearings throughout the summer. all of them detailing on a chronological timeline, the pathway up to january 6th itself. now based on the interviews we know they have been doing behind closed doors with people like elaine chow, robert o'brian, all of those lend to the idea they are trying to tease out the money on stop the steal, more information ab the text messages, but more information about what the conversations were at the highest levels of the trump administration after january 6th, before president biden was inaugurated. >> and robert, president biden is largely avoided talking about the trump investigation trying to show the separation with the justice department that did not exist for the four years of trump. on friday he was asked whether he's concerned about national security being compromised.

here's how he responded. >> we'll let the justice department determine that. we'll see what happens. >> when asked further about national security and about the declassification, he said sarcastically, i always declassified everything. is the best course to stay out of this as much as he can? >> absolutely. he's done this well, and i think quite frankly, the justice department has done extraordinarily well. they are going to have to get comfortable being more transparent about the reasons why. even as they fulfill the rules and obligations to protect all of those involved, including those who might be accused. so i think they have threaded this needle quite well. the one thing that joe biden likely understands is he's benefitting politically from the

chaos that is donald trump. i have no doubt that people making up their minds thinking about how they want to control, looking at the candidates that donald trump advocated for, the types of actions that donald trump has undertaken since leaving office. and will come to a con conclusion they don't want that chaos in their lives. >> thank you all. and grounded, technical troubles delaying nasa's return to the moon, but for how long? you're watching "chris jansing reports," only on msnbc. g "chrig reports," only on msnbc. what goes on it. usually. and in it. mostly. here to meet those high standards is the walgreens health and wellness brand. over 2000 high quality products. rigorously tested by us. real world tested by you.

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nasa's renewed ambition to send a rocket to the moon facing a setback today after a last-minute problem with one of the rockets four engines before today's scheduled launch. engineers are working to fix it before the next launch

opportunity on friday. joining us now is jake ward from the kennedy space center in florida and also with us former nasa astronaut may jen son, who made history as the first african-american woman in space. so good to have you here. first to jake at the kennedy space center. what needs to happen between now and the next launch date opportunity on friday to have liftoff? >> reporter: nasa administrator bill nelson says this is part of the process. the process of certified a rocket like this, getting it ready to potentially carry human beings to the surface of the moon requires these careful steps. that's why they had to scrub the mission. they could not get high tro gent flowing through one of the engines properly and they did not want to risk it. now between now and friday, there's a lunar eclipse. and that wipes out the solar power that the o'ryan capsule requires in order to make its journey and calculations. sos they have to wait for friday

for the sun to come back. if it doesn't work out then, they have to try again monday and then could slip into mid-september, mid-october perhaps. at this point, we aren't going to know before tomorrow what the plan is. 3:00 p.m. eastern, administrators will meet together and make a decision as to whether they have to roll this thing back to the enormous vehicle assembly building behind me. whether they can fix it on the platform and try again on friday. all that remains to be seen at the this hour. >> jake ward, thank you so much. and may, vice president kamala harris was there. she spoke briefly today about how this is really pushing the boundaries this mission, take a listen. >> today is very much on that path. about showing the great work that happens here with these exceptional public servants, these exceptional skilled professionals.

who had the ability to see what possible and what has never been done before. how exciting is that. >> she was supposed to be celebrating the launch, a successful launch. how serious is this hiccup or delay, whatever it is? >> i think as jake mentioned, it's really difficult to understand until the misss tell a little bit more about what's happening. i think what we should really understand though is that whenever you have a new vehicle, it's not just pieces of the vehicle. it's the whole dress rehearsal, whole process that has to be worked through. so finding out that something is not quite right with one of the instrumentations or is it the actual engine itself is really important, but that's part of the reason everything is so instrumented. we pay so much attention to everything that happens.

if you think of it as a dress rehearsal where you go through the way through, this is important. >> they have just said that friday's definitely in play. so they are not ruling out the friday potential launch. this is so big also for women in the industry. they have the first female launch director, significant to see a male-dominated industry, profession, i should say, really changing over the years. you were certainly part of that. how important is this? >> i think what it is is that there's always been the talent. there's always been the capabilities. but at some point in time, we started recognizing that we had to include and use so much more of the talent that we have available to us. and i think it really nasa has led the way in pushing that talent to the forefront. that is pushing it in a sense of allowing it to emerge. there's still a long way to go.

i think the recognition is really important. when you start to look at the purposeful idea that the astronaut classes have changed since the apollo days, when this were no women in the astronaut core, and then when you think about the fact that there were no people of color until 1978, when we look at this, it was-wait a minutewomen. and there were a number of people in it. it really is important that we're using the full talent that's capable to make this happen. and something that vice president kamala harris mentioned about the talented people who are working there, i want us to remember that it's not just thes and the four-year engineers. it's also the skilled

technicians, who we relied on to do the work. so that's the reason why it's critically important that we do a tremendous job recognizing the talent and recognizing that we have contributions from people across the educational and technical spectrum. >> we only very belatedly after a motion picture the contributions decades ago of two mathematicians who were helping launch the trajectory of the original apollo missions. there's also a major national security issue here. with the escalating pressure from china, the space race, so how does this impact the u.s. government? should there be a delay in this mission? 12k34r i don't think china is in a position to put people in space, but where when we start

to look at this, i think what's remarkable about this mission and about the mission is there's so many international partners part of of it. so not only do we have the vehicles that have been developed from the u.s., but we also have participating in vehicles. so it's really incredible. the other part of this is i know we talk about it in terms of a steppingstone to mars. but it really is part of our journey as we establish a permanent moon base. so it's much more than just art we in a race against someone else. it's really about how do we develop technologies, how do we make sure they benefit like here earth. when i think -- i want to mention one thing. people have talked about the vehicle that is art muscle. it has a real pedigree that starts from apollo. one of the engines that is

having a problem is one that was used and modified from the shuttle. buts that was an engine that was modified from the first of 450u78s to the moon. so what we're seeing is a continuation and an evolution of the knowledge we have, of the capacities that we have. i'm struck by the fact that i lived in a house that was built by jim irwin, who was one of the astronauts when i came down to houston. and it's one of those things that there's this continuity. watching the o'poll low folks when i was a little girl on the south side of chicago, being a part of the space shuttle, which was foundational for creating these vehicles, learn so much more, international space station, now we're continuing forward. >> you have been an important part of that. and all to the good. thank you very much. good to see you.

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turning now to ukraine where inspectors are heading to the largest nuclear power plant. new satellite photos out today show the damage on the roof of that power plant after being caught in the cross hairs of shelling between ukraine and russia. escalating fears over the stability of the separation occupied by russia led to local authorities giving iodine tablets to residents to prevent some of the worst possible consequences if there were a radiation leak. josh letterman is in ukraine. so josh, where this area is located has seen some of the most intensing. you have been there. what can the inspectors do to make the situation any safer? >> reporter: part of this is a fact-finding mission. they want to assess how much damage has been done to this

power plant. and which parts of this sprawling facility, the largest in europe, have been affected. beyond that, they also want to assess whether the safety and backup power systems that are traditionally kept intact at power plants like this are actually working right now. they want to know if something were to go wrong, whether those fail saves are still in place or whether they have been knocked out by the shelling and other fighting that's been done around this plant. they also want to speak with the ukrainian nuclear workers who have been working there for months now under duress, according to many accounts. they have a claim they have been tortured there perhaps being held against their will, in some cases by the russians who are now in charge of that plant. but the key question is given that russia does control that site, whether they are going to actually get a fair and transparent look at what's

happening there or whether the russians may try to hide some of what's going on there. i spoke with the expert on ukraine's nuclear systems at harvard university. this is what she told me about her concerns about the visit. watch. >> because the russians control the plan, they can stage a village there. they can remove the military equipment that they have deployed there. we have seen that from satellite photos fpz they can take that away for the duration of the mission and redeploy it and perhaps they can use the good standing to pedal their propaganda. >> reporter: in fact, the state run nuclear energy company here has claimed that in the run-up to the visit, some of the workers at the plant have been tortured by the russians so that they will not talk to the iaea

inspectors that are about to show up. russian has not kmenlted on those claims. >> josh letterman, thank you. get out now. that's what the people of jackson, mississippi, are being told as the city braces for extreme flooding. the city's mayor is urging anyone to get out and evacuate now. the pearl river crested this morning at a level of 36 feet. mississippi's governor issuing a state of emergency. the floods adding to the water on the fwround from last week's excessive rainfall. is this it? nearly 36-foot crest or more rain coming? it looks like a nice day today. >> the latest report indicates the crest in the north part of town was reached at less than 36 feet. which is good news.

now the mayor is here with me. we were just discussing the latist information. things are looking good, but there's a few things that residents have to keep in mind. >> absolutely. in terms of the initial projections and water actually entering homes, we were blessed that that came below projections. so we're fortunate for that. but we're still concerned with the fact that the water may sit around for some time and that may delay residents being able to return to their homes. but a more significant threat has -- >> the quality of the water come ing into the homes. >> absolutely. because the river is higher than what it normally is in terms of our surface water treatment facility, bad water is coming into our system. and it's messing with the chemical composition of how they treat water. so they had to reduce pressure of what they are putting out. so that's causing system wide challenges to thousands upon thousands of residents and our tanks are bottoming out because they are unable to refill the tanks with quality water.

>> reporter: they are asking people to boil water whenever they use the tap water and to be patient. we're looking at one of the areas that was flooded. we have seen it gone down. is this the the worst of what happened? did we see damage in homes? >> this is around consistent with what we're seeing. just north of where we are now, there are other homes that are surrounded by water. but this is nowhere near where it was in 2020. so we're grateful for that. we're blessed that it hasn't amounted to water entering into as many homes. for the residents that are impacted, that's one or two homes too many. or whatever the handful of homes there are. >> i understand dish spoke with the national weather service that you guys have a reservoir. it's not there to protect the city. it's for reck nalgs purposes, but it's been holding that water. that is still putting out 40,000 cubic feet of water, which is a

lot more than usually we have. so there's still a lot of challenges to deal with. >> the reservoir, you're correct. it's not a flood mitigation red voir. it's a drinking water reservoir. so that's the pod of water to provide drinking water to the city of jackson. but right now based on what is being released, it's creating kple indications there as well. there's been efforts and discussions about mitigating the flooding in this area for some time. more than 30 years. so prayerfully, we can get past the point to find solutions to our residents. >> thank you for taking the time to talk to us. i know you have a press conference coming up to inform the media of the latest. good luck. hopefully it doesn't rain anymore and things continue to improve here in jackson, mississippi. back to you. >> our thanks to the mayor for taking time to give us all that briefing. that was really helpful. thank you so much. and school daze, parents and students working to get a handle

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philadelphia school district region. many are excited to get back to school, a sense of normalcy they haven't felt in just about two years. others okay with the mask mandate for ten days. that's more than enough time to get back after the summer break. others think it's silly saying what good is ten days going to do, especially when you have fall and winter right around the corner when we have seen some of those spikes in the surge of the virus. but right now, what we do know is that a lot of people are waiting to see what pfizer and moderna will do with the boosters to see if they are going to release the updated boosters for the sub variants of omicron. which we know make up a lot of the infections in the country right now. as for students, they are excited to get back to the classroom. many of us telling us they are not learning remotely. so a lot of school districts are doing away with remote learning allowing students to isolate at home and live stream sessions to minimize interruptions. earlier today we heard from some teachers and the new superintendent here in

philadelphia about some of the challenges and some of the questions that some parents have with regard to the ten-day masking policy. take a listen. >> our plan is to start the school year running as strategically as possible the first day. we have an after school program, we have incentives lined up. we have mentors assigned to kids. >> the pandemic has had a linger effect on us and may present some challenges. today marks an opportunity to steer our students towards a brand new beginning. >> reporter: the superintendent making it clear he's not interested in what other districts are doing saying this is going to work best for our school. they are monitoring the transmission level. so right now, letting and allowing for that ten-day policy. if things transition to the high, then they may have to reevaluate the mask mandate and that could create a lot more controversy. >> thank you so much, george. i saw the mayor was out there

with the superintendent. they were really welcoming those kids back to school. so there's a lot of excitement everywhere. masks or no masks. doctor, what concerns do you have about the return to school and what prevention methods do you suggest? >> thank you so much for having me. it's preface with i have two school-aged children who will be returning to new york city public schools next week. and i would say i'm concerned because most areas of the country have substantial to high transmission levels right now. so we are basically returning teachers, staff and students back to school with many of the covid protections lifted. so no more surveillance testing, no tests to exit. so if a child is infected and comes out of isolation, they don't have to repeat a test. we know people are usually infectious for more than five days. and also many districts do not even have mask policies.

so this policy that even philadelphia has of a mask for the first ten day, i don't know what the evidence is behind that. i would say that if most areas of the country are essential to high transmission, students and staff and teachers should be masking. we know that schools are not inherently safe, but they are safe when a layer of mitigation strategy is used. that's masking. that is testing. but also paying attention to air and clean air and that is something that although schools receive congressional funding, i have not seen it being invested into ensuring that there's an infrastructure in place to make sure that there's clean air in our schools for children. >> because republicans in congress have blocked covid funding, the administration announced they are no longer going to provide those free tests that they need to save them in case there's another surge. so that's another area where there's going to be a lot less surveillance. >> absolutely.

so we have a more contagious varpt. we're heading into cold weather where people will be indoors more and we have relaxed covid guidance. so the guidelines have been relaxed. i'm concerned we're going to see a spike in cases and people are not going to have the tools that the the administration has discussed available to their use. those rapid tests are incredibly helpful to tell you whether or not a person is infectious, meaning whetherer they are able to transmit the virus and infect somebody else. heading into the winter, that's a tool that every american should have readily available and accessible to them. >> especially with the kids back in school and bringing things home as well. doctor, thank you so much. good to see you. >> thank you. rinse and repeat, an old idea for how to reform social security gets revived by republicans ahead of the midterms. this is "chris jansing reports," stay with us on msnbc. is jansin" stay with us on msnbc. ies menu. twelve irresistible new subs.

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the third rail of american politics for decades. now some republican candidates are floating ideas for changing the program and democrats are hoping they will pay a big political price. this whole idea of privatization goes back to the ronald reagan years. joining me is senior sam stein. so sahill, you wrote about how democrats see this as a big opportunity. why are some republicans taking this on now with the midterms approaching? >> andrea, there's no master plan coming from the top of the republican party. these ideas have come about organically as many of these republican candidates campaign on tackling inflation by cutting government spending. when asked to get specific, many invariably mention the need to cut spending on retirement programs like social security and sometimes medicare, given how big a part of the federal government they are. there's blake masters, a senate nominee in arizona who recently made waves by calling for

privatization of private security. there's ron johnson, the senator from wisconsin facing reelection who has called for shifting social security from a mandatory program to a discretionary program. it means congress would have to reauthorize every year or the funding would go away. there's rick scott, who several months ago that would put the law on the chopping block every five years, including social security and then there's the republican study commit led by jim banks. it's a group of about a hundred influential house republicans. they proposed a budget in june that would reduce benefits over the long haul by indexing them to a slower rate of growth. now, there is a split within the party because many of the old guard republicans such as senate minority leader mitch mcconnell, who were around for the 2005 debacle when the bush administration tried partial privatization of social security, they're not touching

this. they know it could be politically lethal with voters and democrats are trying to exploit this issue, drive that wedge between the republican coalition with fiscal conservatives with the base that like social security who get spooked by cuts to that program. i want to put up with was said on the screen. blake's campaign spokesman told me blake masters is not backing off his support for private cultures but in the future he wants them to be optional and only for younger generations who are not currently getting social security, andrea. >> the whole theory behind social security and these other entitlement programs, they have to be mandatory because they'll never get renewed, especially now in a 50/50 senate. i remember james a. baker iii said this is the third rail and we're not going to touch it and

the republicans were then trying to do it. it just seems as though this is a really tough issue to be taking on. but if you want to deal with the deficit, the only way to go after the big money is to go after entitlements. that's why democrats have as you said it should be off the table. >> i mean, you can solidify social security by raising the threshold of payroll taxes so more people pay into it, it gets elongated as a program. there's other ways to stabilize these entitlements other than cutting them. what's interesting here to me is the new politics on the republican side of things. donald trump is unconventional in a lot of ways is he was the first republican presidential candidate in modern times who overtly was aligning himself with these traditional bedrock programs, he did not want to touch social security or medicare. he made it clear that he thought it was a political loser are the republican party and was hyper

critical of paul ryan's budget. with him out of the scene, a new generation of republicans come up, maybeless chastened by that possibility. i will say the fact that mitch mcconnell is not sneaking out and kevin mccarthy has not endorsed any of this stuff signals there's enough republicans out there who know this will rebound on them politically. >> it doesn't mean the democrats can't message on it. >> of course. >> switching gears, let's talk about the president's popularity. a new cbs poll showing his popularity is up from 42 to 45. what do you think? that's the abortion decision? >> i think it's a mix of things. so one obviously is dobbs and the decision has obviously generated a ton of interest in the election among progressives and even independents i should

say. i think it might be even more crude than that. it could just simply be that the price of gasoline has fallen for something like 50 to 60 straight days now and that is like the quintessential pocketbook issue. people literally are reminded of the price of gasoline as they drive down the road. that's coincided with biden's own approval rating coming up. i think it's democrats coming home after feeling down about the presidency and you see independent numbers rising, too. joe biden is roughly in the same spot that donald trump was in 2018 and barack obama in 2010. there is one other element that's different than those two situations, which is unlike those two situations, you do have donald trump, the ex-president lingering over the political discourse, very firmly in the political landscape, with respect to the mar-a-lago

seizing of records and the possibility that the january 6th committee comes back in september with new hearings and new information. we've never really had a situation like this and it is making the selection less of a referendum and more of a contest, which is exactly what democrats want. >> sam stein and sahill kapur, thank you very much. >> watch chris jansing and join me tomorrow. "katy tur reports" starts right after this. starts right after this stopables in-wash scent boosters keep your laundry smelling fresh waaaay longer than detergent alone. pour a cap of downy unstopables into your washing machine before each load. and enjoy fresher smelling laundry. if you want laundry to smell fresh for weeks make sure you have downy unstopables in-wash scent boosters. shop for downy unstopables online, including our lighter scent.

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