good day, everyone. this is "andrea mitchell reports" in washington. we are getting ready for a courtroom showdown in florida. in an hour, over the classified documes seized from donald trump's mar-a-lago home, to see if a special master should be appointed. in a combative response overnight, trump's legal team argued that he is being criminalized for possessing his own presidential records and the justice department spread the material across the floor for dramatic affect for the photo. the government says appointing an independent review is not necessary because it has already filtered out of the seized material anything that would be attorney/client privilege and that the trump team was concealing and threatening to move the documents, which were not trump's to keep.

a u.n. inspection team arrived today at europe's largest nuclear power plant to assess damage and shelling. this is vladimir putin. laying flowers at the casket of mikhail gorbachev. he will not attend the funeral. i will speak to senator jack reed coming up shortly. in alaska, crossover appeal beats out star power. the first alaskan native to win statewide and the first woman to win the seat. one of five races moving in democratic favor. a state of emergency continuing in jackson, mississippi. 180,000 people still without drinkable water with no word about when it's going to come back. first, the classified documents at mar-a-lago. joining us is ken dilanian,

yamiche alcindor, and also with us former prosecutor in the robert mueller russia probe andrew weissmann and former communication advisor brandon buck. what do we expect about the special master hearing? didn't the trump lawyers stumble into opening pandora's box for the government to show the documents, spread them out on the floor, take a picture, raise all kinds of issue of obstruction of justice? >> that's very clear, andrea, that trump's lawyers paved the way for the justice department to deal a devastating public blow as they laid out the backdrop of the case. in terms of what might happen today, you never know what a judge might do. whether she grants a special master, adheres to the doj's conditions that they asked in the event she does do that.

they would like it to go more quickly than it normally does. that's really a side show. the fbi reviewed the documents they seized at mar-a-lago. this case, as much as it's about documents, classified documents, it's also about witnesses. what are witnesses telling the fbi about who handled those documents? who saw them? where they got them and what was donald trump's mindset about them? it's interesting that in the trump lawyers' filing, they did not argue trump declassified the documents. they argued it's normal to have sensitive information and presidential records which is 180 from what trump said. it's hard to know what his legal defense is. >> ken, we should point out that nbc's crack digital team tracked down who has been in trump's office. here they said they affirmed to the justice department that whatever he had had was being held in a safe place. safe place. then they find them in trump's

office, in his desk. then we can see digitally, if we can show some of that -- who has been in that office. pictures where he poses with visitors. michael flynn, former disgraced national security advisor who pled guilty to lying to the fbi. andrew weissmann, what stands out to you in the court of public opinion, the former president, his followers are making much of the photo, that they staged it, through the documents on the floor, it was cover sheets with the red and the yellow marks classified and top secret. it's notable that republican -- elected republicans, most of them are less noisy since they saw all of this. >> there's no question that the photo, which is damning, isn't supposed to be the state of the records as they were found. this is to document what was found and the location.

you can be sure there are many, many other photos to document what they were doing. it's really just a sideshow. the issue is, that's where they were. they weren't supposed to be there. the former president hasn't in any way given a defense, not one word of an actual legal defense to why he had them and why he didn't return them and why he lied about it. i do think to follow up on ken's point, for today, it's useful to focus on two different types of documents that are at issue before the judge. there are documents that are allegedly covered by the executive privilege. those are the ones where i think it's highly unlikely that the judge is going to do anything there if she follows the law. the executive privilege claim by the former president is just a non-starter. it wouldn't lead to returning documents to the former president since they are not his. the second claim is an attorney/client privilege claim.

the government has conceded there were a limited number of documents that are potentially covered by the attorney/client privilege. a logical thing for the judge to do is say to the parties, have you discussed these? is there an actual dispute? if there is, brief it and present it to me. that would be, i think, a very warranted solution and would be one that is in keeping with the law. it would not require a special master since we are not talking about lots of documents. the judge can do her job, which is deciding a dispute between the parties. >> let me follow up, andrew. could the president's team come back and say, how do we know they have given us everything that is privileged? that would require a master. that would require someone with top security clearance. if it's not someone, as the government suggested in a fallback argument, she's going to do it, do it with someone who has that clearance, which takes a long time to get as we know. >> i think i would push back on that and say, what is the proof

that there's classified documents that would be covered by the attorney/client privilege? it would only be with respect to his private counsel, not white house counsel. white house counsel doesn't represent the president or the former president of the united states. they represent the office of the president. we have to talk about it, by definition, non-classified information. the former president in his papers notably doesn't actually identify any document that he is claiming is protected by the attorney/client privilege. while in theory, andrea, you could have that argument, it hasn't been made. it seems highly unlikely it would be classified information that would be with his private counsel since they don't have clearance. >> mitch mcconnell was asked yesterday to react to the classified documents that were seized and displayed.

let's watch how the republican leader responded. >> i didn't know if you had a chance to review anything from this morning, the doj's report -- >> i don't have any observations about that. >> i don't have any observations about that. he had a clear opportunity to say it was outrageous and they staged it and follow the trump line and chose not to. >> yeah. it's one of mitch mcconnell's favorite lines when it comes to being asked about donald trump. he doesn't want to talk about him. i don't think anybody wants to be a character witness for donald trump in this situation. republicans, a lot of them rushed out to attack the fbi or defend donald trump in the beginning. it doesn't take long to stop and think, is this someone who may have done something like this? i think a lot of republicans are coming to the conclusion, yeah, it's possible he has classified documents at his home. what you are seeing, people who have some self-respect, like

mitch mcconnell not wanting to talk about it, there are republicans defending him. those are the ones who i think are more tied to the republican base for their political future. it's not about defending donald trump. it's about attacking the fbi. there have been years of groundwork laid by donald trump suggesting that the fbi is corrupt, that people in doj are coming after him. in the republican base, that is taken as fact. nobody is interested in defending him on the merits. i don't think as we have seen, the more time goes on, the more bad things leak out, you never know what's going to come with him. you can't have confidence in his legal defense. they're not going to get in front of this. >> it's also notable, yamiche, that neither the man running for michigan governor or anyone campaigning for him mentioned donald trump.

>> you had the michigan gop convention. as you mentioned, republicans -- no one mentioned him by name. the only person was the michigan gop co-chair. with that being said, it gives you a look into whether or not there are people trying to distance themselves, republicans who are running for office in a battleground state like michigan, trying to distance themselves from the president. also notable was that there was trump paraphernalia everywhere. the base is still for donald trump. the base is very much looking for him for guidance. it's important to note there are polls that are showing time and time again that even after this search, republicans are rallying around him. even if mitch mcconnell doesn't was a full-throated defense, you have someone like lindsey graham saying if he is indicted, there

will be riots in the streets. the republican base are saying they are with the former president. i had breakfast with a republican who said when you see leaders who are more cautious, they are following the fact their voters are with trump. that's where the heart of the republican party still remains. >> that's interesting. same time, the former president's white house attorneys, pat cipollone, pat philpin will appear before a grand jury. >> there's another federal investigation that we haven't been paying as close attention to because we are consumed with the mar-a-lago case. the january 6 case is percolating along. there are people -- i think andrew weissmann speculated if they decide to indict trump, they may wrap it all together if there's potential criminal liability in both cases. we're a long way from that. that grand jury remains a very dangerous thing for donald trump. >> andrew, can you combine all these cases?

>> actually, the answer is, i don't think you can. in order to combine cases, you have to comply with rule 8 and rule 14 of the federal rules of criminal procedure. not to be a total legal nerd, what that means is that the crimes have to really relate to each other. i think that if you tried to combine the mar-a-lago crimes with the january 6 ones, i think that a judge would separate them into two separate cases absent the defendant agreeing that they could be charged together. i don't think they -- i know we are way ahead of ourselves. but i don't think they could at least properly without consent be brought all together in the same indictment. >> andrew, what about the argument that if merrick garland is going to go and indict a former president of the united states, especially one who is such a lightning rod at donald trump, it has to be something really big and serious, it can't

be like going after al capone for income tax evasion. what would be the most serious charge? >> that's right. remember, given garland's background as a federal judge for decades, he is going to be looking very closely at department of justice precedent to see how other people were treated and making sure that he is treating donald trump fairly and consistently with other defendants. in both sets of crimes, the january 6 investigation and in mar-a-lago, i don't think it will be hard for him to find that kind of precedent. keeping reams of top secret, highly classified, compartmentalized information for 18 months and then also the evidence of obstruction i think greatly makes this greatly worse

than other cases that have been brought. obviously, undermining the democratic election is off the charts in terms of seriousness. there's nothing more fundamental to a democracy than the crimes that are being investigated in the january 6 case. you are seeing lower level people being prosecuted in washington, d.c. the idea if they could make a case against the leader of that kind of crime, that the leader would get off seems unfathomable and untenable for merrick garland to reach that conclusion. >> thanks to all of you. joining me now is democratic senator jack reed, intelligence committee member and chairman of the armed services committee. senator reed, thank you very much for being with us. >> thank you. >> i want to ask you about a number of military and intelligence issues. your reaction to the disclosures, trump's latest

filing, but the government's filing showing just the array of top secret compartmentalized documents, stored some in his desk, in his office, some in the basement in the storage area, not guarded, in a country club, basically. the president's argument that these are his to keep. he can declassify. his lawyers didn't make that case but he did. that presidential papers are his. >> well, i think the president's arguments are completely unfounded. he has a sense that he owns everything. he clearly doesn't control classified information in the sense of owning it. as your previous guest pointed out, his lawyers are not claiming that the documents were declassified. trump has said that. one of the elements of

declassification and one of the rules is notifying the agencies that produce the documents they are declassified. even after they are declassified, they have to be properly maintained and stored. that's not the case at all here. you are looking at a situation in which the president not only removed these documents without any authority, but then over many, many months he and his staff insisted they didn't have them, they reluctantly surrendered some of them and finally they made a categorical statement they had given them all back. all of this adds up to, i think, a serious, serious misconduct. one of the things that president trump said in the 2016 campaign was that he would do all he could to protect classified documents. then he added, and no one is above the law. so applying the trump rule to this case, i think he has to

answer for what he has done. >> you serve on the intelligence committee. you have dealt with sensitive documents. how concerned are you about the damage? this is where a chinese suspected spy who was convicted and eventually served time and was deported for trying to penetrate the place. >> i think there's a serious issue here. those documents, the classifications, top scret and special compartmentalized information, special access information are very, very serious. they are closely controlled. i have individuals on my staff who have secret clearances. but they cannot see them because they don't have that level of clearance. this is something that is extremely serious. regardless of the classification, classified documents must be maintained in safe, secure facilities in a safe, literally.

your point is extremely well taken. not just the chinese. i am confident, just general feeling, that every significant intelligence service in the world has been floating in and out of mar-a-lago all through his presidency and beyond, because he has been known to conduct business in the open with foreign leaders, maing statements that could, in fact, indicate the direction and implicate sensitive information. yeah, this is a situation where there's no excuse. it's fundamental lesson anyone learns who deals with classified information is you can't talk about it, you have to secure it and certainly, you can't take it with you. >> i want to switch to the situation in ukraine where that u.n. inspection team, they

arrived, they assessed the damage that they could see. they are leaving a team there. the lead inspectors are on their way back to vienna. they are on their way out. is it your hope that at least they can figure out how secure that facility is? if there isn't any hope of getting vladimir putin to pull his troops out of there. >> i hope the international inspectors cannot only certify that the facility is still operational and uncompromised, but also to lay out the conditions that have to be met in order to maintain it. frankly, i think it is extraordinarily dangerous that the russians are attacking near that site, close to that site. that should be a situation where both sides, through intermediaries, agree that there

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out bottled water, but congressman bennie thompson who represents jackson, on msnbc last night, pleading for additional help. >> we need help. our water system is antiquated. there's no doubt about it. in order to do it and get it right, we have to have help. president biden, as you know, signed a disaster declaration that will help us tremendously. he won't fix the -- it won't fix the entire problem. >> how are people coping? >> reporter: andrea, i should mention the congressman says they need help because of the system issues, because there's two things happening here. people are trying to cope with the day to day needs. there's distribution centers where the state is helping sending out more water. the national guard is expected to begin those operations today. we saw them line up the vehicles yesterday, including tankers.

that's to get the immediate needs taken care of. imagine how difficult it is to bring in water for an entire city. drinking water and non-potable water for things around the house. that's what they are focusing on. the state government helping the city government. at the same time, they need to repair this water treatment plant. this is the root of the problem. this is the treatment plant that provides most of the water for jackson. it's the plant that's had issues for years. they were having issues with the quality of the water before the flooding even happened. now they are having issues with the water going out because of the pressure. we know the federal government is involved. the white house said the epa is working with partners to try to get some essential equipment that they need. the state now has their experts helping out the city, because it's the city that manages the plant. the mayor said that they haven't had the proper resources for years. there is a lot going on. essentially, as the congressman said, the only solution is to

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president biden travels to philadelphia tonight to deliver a prime time address warning of the dangers facing american democracy. mr. biden is expected to return to the main theme of his 2020 campaign kickoff. >> folks, we saw hate in

charlottesville, in pittsburgh, on a jewish community. we are reminded that we are in a battle. we are in a battle for america's soul. i believe that. we have to restore it. >> for more on what we can expect from the president tonight, we are joined by the white house senior advisor for public engagement. it's good to see you. thank you for being with us. >> nice to see you. thank you for having me. >> it's good to have you to talk about the president's speech, what he is hoping to accomplish here. we saw him more combative in wilkes-barre where he talked about the maga republicans. i presume since this is a white house presidential non-political speech, it won't be that combative. he will not be name checking people. he is trying to increase the contrasts, sharpen the contrasts, if you will, between the two parties as we approach

the midterms, is he not? >> what the president wants to do is to remind people of how important our democracy is. the president will be very clear once again that maga republicans are a threat to our democracy. we know the president has long been able to get many things accomplished as a senator and now as president in a bipartisan fashion. but he has been very clear that maga republicans are a threat to our democracy. when you have a group of people who attack our nation's capitol, our democracy, when you have people who are attempting to disrupt elections, who are threatening law enforcement, this is a threat to our democracy and, quite frankly, nothing that i have seen in my lifetime. you see these things in other countries but not in america. the president will remind the nation of that. this is going to be a very optimistic speech. but the president is going to

remind us of how important our democracy is and that it continues to be something that we have to be thoughtful about, because we know that democracies are fragile. >> the republican national committee chair has put out a very tough statement calling this joe biden's retched attacks on millions of americans, fuelling attacks on pregnancy centers, republican offices and an assassination attempt on a supreme court justice. she does not mention the attacks on law enforcement like the fbi, of course. what do you say to those who say that he is turning on half of the country when he criticizes republicans this way? shouldn't he try to reach out to independents and republicans? >> absolutely not. there's a term that we use in the south. a hit dog will holler. by that i mean that he is speaking specifically to maga republicans. the president very much has been able to get things done in a boy

partisan fashion. he continues to do that. that's what our democracy is all about. it's about having the ability to disagree, to be able to go to polls to cast a ballot in free and fair elections and then there are winners and losers. who we have seen with this maga republican movement is not what our democracy was built upon. it's not what democracies last with. the president is going to remind the nation of that. again, this is going to be an optimistic speech. he is speaking to republicans. he is speaking to democrats. he is speaking to independents. as a leader of our country, it's his obligation to continue to remind us of who we are as a country. and we are a democracy. what we have seen coming from maga republicans is a threat to our democracy. when it's a threat to american democracy, we know that that's a threat to the world as a whole. >> finally, we have a few seconds left.

turning to alaska. what is your hope now for the midterms after this second in a row special election went democratic? sarah palin lost. >> we have seen it in kansas. we have seen it now in alaska. we know that roe will be on the ballot. people have been motivated in a way we don't see. >> thank you so much. warning signs. one year ago, a preview of what was to come in abortion rights. new data showing the impact of similar bans across the country. this is "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc.

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turning to restrictive reproductive rights across the country. texas has some of the toughest laws on the books after a trigger law went into affect last week maing performing an abortion criminal. today is a full year since the implementation of that texas heartbeat act, banning abortions after six weeks and creating a bounty system where any civilian could sue someone who provided or helped someone ak social security abortion. joining me now alexis ma gill johnson the president and ceo of planned parenthood. how is the new law impacting abortions on top of what you have been experiences? i know you have new data. >> yes, absolutely. thank you for having me on the anniversary of sb-8 going into

affect. it has been devastating, as you can imagine. planned parenthood health centers in surrounding states saw a 550% increase in abortion patients with a texas zip code over the last year compared to the year before. on average, what that means is that texas patients have been traveling more than 400 miles to access care. they have gone as far as california, new jersey, arizona, new mexico, illinois and florida for their care and returning home as we have seen from some of our providers in cities like houston that have been there to support them when they return. if you can just imagine what that means for someone to take that long abortion journey. often, one that has been lonely because of the bounty hunting provision, because they have been afraid to tell and share the information about where they are going and one that is required additional resources, a

burden on top of already needing to get the abortion care they need. >> what options do women in texas have? >> at this point, as you said, it's now a felony to provide abortion in texas, which means that the abortion providers are no longer providing. they now have to travel upwards of 400 to 1,000 miles. it's incredibly horrific to see what they are experiencing right now. >> all this data shows is that now one in three american women have already lost abortion access in their home states. other women have to travel if they have the money, if they have the time, ability for childcare, which is a big if. how worried about -- are you about more restrictive laws going into affect? >> you are right. we are a little over two months into roe being overturned and

nearly one-third of states in this country have abortion bans in effect. this problem is going to get compounded. we have seen texas has been the test case here over this last year. to see the extraordinary lengths people have to go to travel and those are the people that can travel. there are people who are not able to get access. there are patients in texas who need abortion care. i know you have seen these stories. the providers in hospitals are afraid to give them the care even in the instances of the life of the mother. what we will see is this crisis and it's a public health care crisis, get compounded as these additional restrictions and bans take affect over the next year. >> alexis, thank you so much. a year after the chaotic withdrawal from afghanistan of

u.s. forces, 50% of americans say that the u.s. made a mistake in sending troops to the country in the first place. 46% say they did not. this as 160,000 afghans who worked for the u.s. and their families are still stranded in the country. people eligible to leave if they could get the visas. many of them working as translators to the american military and the state department during the war and providing critical intelligence and cultural information. joining us now is massachusetts congressman seth molton, a former marine corps member. thank you so much. i know you have been leading the way in the house side to get help to these local translators. we have been doing interviews with some, one who just got here july 2nd with four children and his wife and still can't find a job, can't find any way to support his family. there are no benefits. he worked for 12 years. at the end was the deputy program manager for the state

department. had visa application and couldn't get past -- got past the taliban but couldn't get past the gate to get into the airport last august. >> thank god he is here. he and his family are safe. 100,000 of our allies are being hunted down by the taliban as we speak. this is personal for veterans. also for the press who served in afghanistan and used many of the translators as well. the aid workers who put their lives in the hands of the afghan allies. the deal we made with them was that they could put their lives in our hands. we would have their backs and get them out to safety if the time came. we have yet to live up to that promise. >> in your service in iraq, how important would the translators be to you? did you have personal experience where they may have literally

saved you from danger? >> oh, my gosh, it felt like almost every day. they were critical elements of our team. they became like brothers and sisters to us. everywhere we went, we relied on them not to literally translate so we could communicate with iraqis, afghans we were working with, but to give us the intelligence to understand the situation, to understand the dangers, to tell us the risks we might encounter in a new village, new town around the corner. this is something we have to ask of allies in the future. why it's so important to live up to this promise today is because future young american troops across the globe will have to ask foreigners to be our allies in other conflicts in the future. we will continue to put our hands in the lives of others. we need to be able to prove to

them that they can trust us. >> there's new reporting that the biden administration is changing the resettlement policy. with a few exceptions that the temporary relocation of afghans to the u.s. is going to change and they will focus on reuniting immediate family members with pathways to permanent residency. is this an improvement? will this leave some more people stranded? i'm not clear exactly how it's going to play out. >> this is breaking news. we're still trying to understand the details. from everything i have seen so far, this is a step backwards. the administration is throwing up a new bureaucratic roadblock when they can't get their existing bureaucracy to work fast enough to save lives. so many afghans are still stuck. two family members of one of my constituents were embassy employees. they worked for the embassy itself. it took the state department four months to simply prove that

fact, to simply approve their visas. they are still stuck there. they are still stuck there getting hunt down by the taliban today. throwing up new bureaucratic roadblocks is not going to help. >> part of the problem, i'm told, is that the siv program was not set up for this kind of emergency evacuation. then it was completely dismantled under donald trump. it never had the infrastructure to deal with this. they are still using that rather than trying to adjust. this new -- on the surface of what i am reading here and what you just spoke to, it does sound like they are going to make it harder to get out. these are people with targets on their back. we will follow up with you. thank you so much, congressman. we get back into the details -- deeper into the doe tails. >> thank you, andrea. >> you bet. not holding back. serena williams dominating in what could be her last u.s.

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tennis legend serena williams dazzling the u.s. open crowd last night standing-room only. another spectacular win keeping her quest to win her 24th grand slam total incredibly alive. the thousands of fans who showed up adding such energy to the game helping one of the greatest rails yet to the another victory. >> reporter: a spectacular second-round win for serena williams. the tenet legend celebrating with her iconic twirl after rallying through a third set for the upset at the u.s. open. defeating the number two ranked player in the world. >> just looking at it as a bonus. i don't have anything to prove, i don't have anything to win, and -- i have absolutely nothing to lose. >> reporter: serena showing she's not ready to evolve away from the sport just yet. >> there's no rush here. there's still a little left in me. we'll see. >> reporter: the tennis icon's

daughter olympia giving her mom a big hug after wednesday's victory. >> i'm just serena. you know? so -- >> reporter: serena bringing out the stars at arthur ashe stadium including big sister seine is and singer zendaya and golfing great tiger woods. after the match, woods tweeting, it was a privilege to watch greatness. other sports stars glued to the match. lebron james paying tribute to the g.o.a.t. >> baaah, baaah. >> reporter: and thousanding cheering her on in the big apple. >> i just wanted to see her on her farewell. >> reporter: at the 23-time grand slam singles winner seeks her 24th. serena is aiming to win her 15th grand slam women's double it's title with venus t. was serena's idea. she's the boss. so --

do whatever she tells me to do. >> reporter: this morning, some fans wondering if serena is really stepping away from the game after this tournament. >> who knows? tom brady came back. >> do whatever she wants to do. >> reporter: for many, her main focus just enjoy her time or the court. >> i feel like i've already won. you know? figuratively, mentally. you know? it's just pretty awesome, the things that i've done. >> reporter: and serena joins her big sister venus tonight tshs will be a historic first primetime doubles match here at the u.s. open, and the first time that the sisters will be playing together since the french open in 2018. andrea? >> yeah. she has already won. rehema, so true, and playing singles again tomorrow in the third round and anya temyanovic

from australia. never met before. i know she'll do better on the court than i did with the name, but it's all just spellbounding. i can't believe she won't get enough rest after the doubles that we'll be watching. rehema, thank you so much. best assignment at nbc news. and that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." remember, follow us online and on facebook and twitter @mitchellreports. and yasmine vossoughian is up next. ossoughian is up next.

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