familiar, "the new york times" has now matched that back in february of this year, donald trump asked one of his lawyers to tell the national archives in an official statement that he had given back all of the documents and materials the government was asking for, but his lawyer said no. the reason according to the post is that cannon was not sure it was true. donald trump himself was the one who packed the 15 boxes given back to the archives in january after more than a year of requests. that's new. we didn't know that before. the post reports that people familiar say trump complained that they were just newspaper clippings in the boxes and the archives was being per snickty. cannon told other aides not to look either for fears if there were classified materials, they did not have the clearance to see them. we now know cannon was right on

both accounts. one, that there were multiple classified documents. some top secret. inside the boxes donald trump packed and two, that there were some more documents at mar-a-lago that had not been turned over. so our questions is what does this mean for the investigation? does it reveal donald trump's intent and does it make his lawyer, alex cannon, a witness himself? let us try to figure it out now. joining me is "washington post" political investigative reporter, josh. josh, we learned couple new things. donald trump himself packed those 15 boxes that were handed over first to the archives back in january? >> yeah, that's correct. the lawyer you've just been speaking about repeatedly told trump advisers at mar-a-lago both senior and junior that they should not touch the boxes. they should not be involved in the boxes and they asked the

former president himself to go through the boxes and what we're told before he retired at the end of the day, he did 15 of those boxes. put various things in the boxes, but obviously did not put a lot of the classified material, a lot of sensitive material, top secret material, in those boxes that went back to the national archives in january of this year. he was, what we're told is he packed them around the christmas holidays. they kept asking repeatedly, the archives are going to call the department of justice, they're going to notify congress if you don't do this soon. when there was a haphazard process where he put certain things back but obviously did not put some key materials back. >> so he packed his boxes. he according to reporting, complained these were just newspaper clippings. he also told alex cannon to issue two statements. one of them was to the press or the people, public and one was

to the archives. what did he say that alex should say? >> so he wanted alex cannon, who was a trump lawyer, started working there in 2015, worked on his campaign, close with his family, to tell the national archives in a private message that he had returned all of the relevant documents and given them all back. and cannon said he was not willing to do that because he said he wasn't sure if it was true or not. he spoke to a number of trump advisers who said you should not make a definitive statement. they kept asking, have you given everything back? can you attest to the fact that you've given everything back? he couldn't do that. separately, alex wanted his press team to put out a public statement that said quote, he had given everything back.

this is in response to a story i did in february, that trump drafted a statement, dictated it to aides himself saying i have returned everything and he asked his lawyers and others to review it and they had such concerns with the statement that they ended up not saying anything at all that day. but we know in one private channel, what he wanted to be a public channel. former president trump was conveying the message he had given everything back which we know was not true. >> josh, thank you very much. let's now get to the analysis of it. joining me now is the former chief of the department of justice's counterintelligence section. donald trump packed these boxes, told his lawyers to tell the national archives that was everything. they did not. does that get us closer to figuring out donald trump's intent here, david? >> this is an evident shooting

gallery and why prosecutors are so keen to move forward not only with respect to classified documents, but with respect to non-classified presidential records. if we take this back a few weeks, your viewers may recall there was a search warrant obtained for mar-a-lago and the basis for that was a magistrate judge's approval that there was probable cause that crimes had been committed in three categories and evidence would be found at mar-a-lago and all thee are consistent with the facts reported by josh and jackie because it goes to the heart of what's at the center of this case. willful retention of national defense information. obstruction of justice. concealment or removal of government records. all of those factors, all those statutes are implicated by this reporting of trump, for example, was personally involved in packing boxes. particularly they included classified information. it's just one more brick in the

wall that establishes or will help to establish willful retention of national retention information in violation of 793 e of the espionage act. if he is trying to get his attorney to lie to the national archives about whether he's turning over everything, he is creating further jeopardy for himself under the obstruction statute. the government's not going to have to prove trump new about a pending criminal investigation. just a matter before the national archives, which there was and trump knew about it and if he's concealing or removing information, government records, he's at risk for violating another statute. i think it's important to remind our viewers that among the penalties for conviction under 2071 is disqualification from holding office in the united states of america. >> so there are three crimes that were listed by the doj in

the search warrant and you mentioned all three of them. 2071 makes it a felony punishable by up to three years in prison to conceal, remove or destroy a u.s. government document. that's one of them. 1519 makes it a felony punishable by 20 years in prison to conceal any record, document or tangible object with the intent to impede or obstruct a federal investigation. questions about that now. then the espionage act which you mentioned as well. applies to anyone who was unauthorized possession of information relating to the national defense and who willfully retains that information and fails to deliver it to the officer employee of the united states entitled to receive it. all right. alex cannon, this lawyer who said i don't feel comfortable with this. i'm not going to do it. is he now, could he now be considered a witness? >> absolutely. he has direct contemporaneous

presip yent knowledge of potential criminal activity. the attorney client privilege does not protect communications between an attorney and their client that the client is making statements in further evidence of a crime or concealment of a crime. whether the department of justice goes the next step and tries to interview cannon remains to be seen, but i think they'd be leaving a lot of stff on the table not to pursue that. ultimately, he could try to litigate a grand jury. we'll see how the courts deal with it. the governor will have to make its case. what's called the crime fraud exception applies here, but mr. cannon certainly has the potential to become a witness as do mr. trump's other attorneys, evan, christina bob. any attorneys that were involved or had specific personal knowledge of things trump was involved in, said to them, told them to do, i think are at risk of receiving a missive from my former colleagues. >> at risk.

let's just temper all this right now because this is evidence of, that we're piling up and we're going through it. what would give the government pause in pursuing an indictment against trump even with all we know right now? >> look, i know there's a haste and a passion for bringing this case sooner rather than later. with the midterms coming up, everybody knows trump's strategy is to cause havoc and delay. we need to make sure the department of justice has the time and space to complete this investigation in the way it deems appropriate. that means being able to make a fully informed charging decision and that means being able to assess what litigation risks may accompany bringing criminal charges. what defenses or privileges could be asserted. is there potential exculpatory information? there's a lot of factors and variables that go into that ultimate critical exercise of prosecutorial discretion. even after all is said and done

and a prosecution is assembled that lays out these variables, it will then fall to the attorney general of the united states to decide essentially as a policy matter whether this is the first time it's appropriate to bring criminal charges against a former president of the united states and that will be a weighty consideration. >> david, thank you very much. from the espionage act to the insurrection act, after opening statements concluded yesterday, the government called its first witness in the oath keepers trial. michael palion is still on the stand today. he is testifying to a coordinated effort by the oath keepers to get sbot capitol. you can see what he's referring to in this now infamous video of the so-called stack marching their way up toward the capitol. the government also played for the jury and had him comment on a call that was recorded and sent to the fbi by a tipster. it was a go to meeting two days after the election was called for joe biden where oath keeper

leadership addressed more than 100 members including those the government says were in that stack you just saw. you need to go in there and just be ready to fight, rhodes told members on the call, and if the fight comes, let the fight come. if things go kinetic, good, if they blow bombs and shoot us, great. because that brings the president his reason and rationale for dropping the insurrection act. the defense attorney for stewart rhodes is expected to argue that the oath keepers were acting as an extension of law enforcement acting on orders from then president trump. joining us now, david rode. also an msnbc contributor. this is a consequential case. biggest one yet for the government. when stewart rhodes is talking about the insurrection act, what is he talking about?

what's he saying they were waiting for? >> it's this large, badly worded law that's an amal gam of different laws. it's claiming presidents have the power to declare a militia of their choosing. essentially declare the oath keepers a legal, federal law enforcement force, which is crazy. that's like the president declaring his own army. and that's what he was sort of urging trump to do and that's what he was saying in the call you talked about. there's fighting between antifa and oath keepers, donald trump can make us a legal force and that's frightening. they're outside the military chain of command. they're like a pretor yam guard for a president. it's a frightening defense he's mounting. >> that's what the defense is saying. they were an extension of law enforcement. just waiting, standing by on what they believed were orders.

orders that were going to come from the president of the united states. stewart rhodes, who is he in the world of militias? in the world of extremism? what is it that he would say that he believes he could be an extension of law enforcement? >> so, mike giglios wrote a lot about this. he's probably the most prominent militia leader in the country. he was in the military, injured nd a parachute jump then went to yale law school. been very aggressive in trying to play roles on defense. he wants to take the stand here. his dream, according to defense lawyers, is to somehow turn this oath keepers trial into the right wing equivalent of a chicago seven. he thinks he can sway american public opinion to support what he did on january 6th. i think that's going to be a real stretch. one specific thing in the insurrection act, there's a

recording of him that prosecutors have talked about where he says in a separate meeting, we're going to say we're there waiting on the insurrection act. that's our official position and we need that because it's legal cover and prosecutors will use that to say you know, again, this is all just a ruse to carry out violence and to violently block the transfer of power. >> there's a lot riding on this trial for the government. >> yes. and then what's interesting is that there are some kind of good government groups. the brennan center. the project on government oversight. that are actually calling on congress, they're asking the january 6th commission to revise the insurrection act. it's like a badly worded 18th century law and it gives the president tremendous power influenced by the sieve civil w call up the military if needed, these other forces. militias don't exist in the united states anymore. founding fathers had them and they fought the revolution with them. in 1907, they returned to the national guard.

that is a, you know, a force controlled by a governor. an elected leader. we need to control our armed forces. so all of this is crazy, but what the brennan center and other groups are saying is that congress needs to tighten this law because a would be autocrat could use it to deputize their buddies to use force. >> militias may even turn into the national guard, but there are a lot of independent militias out there that believe they have a right to exist because of laws like that. thanks for being here. good to see you in person, finally. >> thank you. and still ahead, a florida town in ruins. we're going to go live to fort myers beach where nearly a week after hurricane ian hit, rescue crews are still searching for survivors and the october surprise in georgia with senate candidate herschel walker's own son is saying about abortion. walker allegedly paid for more than a decade ago. we've got audio. later, a democracy in dak

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sanibel island is all but deserted. almost a week after landfall, the island looks just as it did after hurricane ian tore through it. nothing is where it should be. homes are in trees. cars are smashed up in living rooms. boats are on roads or pushed up from the corners of the harbor. with such force, they are now stacked on top of each other. look at that. it looks much the same in fort myers beach where more than 1,000 people are helping with the rescue and recovery effort. fema officials say they have only hours left. that they are on the edge of the survival window. joining me now from fort myers beach is jesse kirsch.

what does it look like out there? can you walk us around? >> reporter: i'm going to give you context. the true beach front is that way. i'm on a middle island and the mainland is that way. so we are getting about as far over as eck now because the police and sheriffs department have the roadway on to the rest of the beach front still blocked off. so this is about as far off as i can get of fort myers beach. this is just scratching the surface. you can see this wall looks like a hurricane came through here and that's obviously exactly what's happened. you can see this boat behind me. on land. it should hopefully be in the water. there are structures off in the distance we're going to push in on including this massive structure. when you look at the scale of that compared to the people standing in front of it and vehicles on the ground, all of this torn apart by hurricane ian's fury. we see scenes like this all over the place and i just want to say

having covered recently that horrible flooding in eastern kentucky, i think one of the things that has struck me covering this natural disaster is we're seeing the force of water. but we're seeing it in a condensed area, in a highly populated area as opposed to some of the parts of kentucky that i was in where homes were more spread out throughout those communities. so it's just to see so many homes in such a condensed space pushed around and these boats, there are so many around here because we're on the waterfront, to see all these boats that have been tossed around as if they're little toys, but they're massive boats. much larger than the cars and cars have been picked up and moved as well. >> thank you very much. and joining me now is the mayor of fort myers beach. thanks for being with us. fema says it's on the edge of the survival window to find folks that still may be trapped. what is going on on the ground and what is your expectation of who might still be out there?

>> hi, katy. you're right. the fema folks, search and rescue teams are out there. they're getting close to wrapping it up here. i'd say they have a few more days left to go. but you know, at this point, while still hopeful to finding survivors, that window is rapidly narrowing i would say. >> do you have a number of how many people might still be missing? >> i don't have that exact number right off the top of my head here. it's, you know, anecdotally what i'm hearing telling me, this and that, it might be, i don't know. i wouldn't even venture a guess. it might be 20, 30 people. might not be that high either. >> let's hope it's not that high. we're seeing some of the work that's being done to clear the rubble. we were just showing it a second

ago. what's your expectation for how long this clean up is going to take and when people are going to get back to fort myers beach? >> the clean up is going to take a long time. there's no doubt about that. we're just, of course the roads were cleared right away as soon as we came back in the next day, but as i say, the search and rescue teams are out there doing their work and so forth. there's just a lot more to do. we're trying to, we're working on the water trying to get hat up and running. that's a slow process. we're starting to get that going. the electric, the electric grids are being worked on at pnl. florida power and light has people down here so they're surveying the situation. getting a handle on it. that's really the big question though is when can people get back to their homes. unfortunately, it will still be a few days i think, but we're getting much closer. we're really, really, that's our

number one goal, really, is to get the people back down here to at least see what their homes look like. what they have to do and how they can start planning their lives. >> might be able to salvage. i know it's still very raw. so i know this question may be hard to answer, but have you considered what should be rebuilt there? i mean with these hurricanes that are becoming stronger and more frequent. are there thoughts about whether it's a good idea? >> no doubt about it. there are always risks involved naturally of living on a barrier island. some people may say you're crazy, but there are a lot of islands in this country where people absolutely love living on them. but i have talked about it with different people about how to rebuild. a lot of this old building stock down here went back to the 1930s and 1940s and 1950s when they built these cottages and things

out of wood. out of two by fours and so forth. that's just not the way construction is done these days on barrier islands. everything's built up and the buildings that were built to the new codes and built up in the air with concrete and were designed to have their bottoms blow out during these events that's exactly what happened. there's all kinds of buildings up and down the island here where that indeed happened. where the storm orders came in, they rushed to the bottom, blew it out and the rest of the house is fine. and they stood. so it's all according to going to the new codes. and we can envision that. we can, i see a lot of opportunity. a lot of ways to rebrand the town and a lot of ways to make improvements in the building stock down here. >> mayor ray murphy, thank you very much for being with us and good luck out there.

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signed personal check from him to this woman. he's denying it all. he slammed the report almost immediately on twitter calling it a flat out lie. but his own son seems to believe the story. christian walker, an outspoken conservative on social media who has joined his father on the campaign trial in the past, put out a string of tweets slamming his father shortly after the article drop and now, here's this video. >> family values people, he has four kids, four different women. wasn't in the house raising one of them. he was out having sex with other women. do you care about family values? lie after lie after lie, the abortion part drops yesterday. it's literally his handwriting. he gets on twitter, he lies about it. >> we should note that christian has not offered any evidence toward these claims. this is the first time he's spoken out against his father on this issue.

joining me now, mark caputo. and also with me is the atlanta journal constitution's shannon mccaffrey. shannon, i'm going to start with you. how is georgia going to respond? there are two parts. one, that he allegedly paid for an abortion when he's campaigning on denying all abortions and two, that his son is coming out against him? >> yeah, i think these two things will have different reactions in georgia to be honest. i think the initial allegation in "the daily beast," there will be, it would be easy for supporters of herschel walker to really dismiss that as journalism, as another smear, another attack. there have been a lot of attacks on him this campaign. especially since the source is anonymous. i think it would be fairly simple for them to dismiss that as yet another smear against him. the allegations from his son are

more difficult. that is his son making claims against him. he is obviously emotional. he has never spoken out against him before. walker said he has a close relationship with his son. so i think it's going to really, we're going to see how that plays out because that is just a lot more personal. we're seeing sort of a family meltdown play out in realtime. >> it's not just his son. his ex-wife has come out and said she feared for his life because he put a gun to her head. there have been a lot of allegations from his family about his own behavior. >> yeah, his wife's claims were made back in 2008. she has not really spoken out publicly since then. those interviewed were made in 2008 after his memoir came out. and she's really been silent since then. so christian's remarks are really sort of the first recent confirmation we have heard of those charges. his ex-wives claims are a little older. >> it is a very close race in georgia and it's one is that

could determine who controls the senate, mark. there are a lot of prominent republicans who are standing by herschel walker. the former president released a statement saying this is all fake new, but mitch mcconnell who has not aligned himself closely with trump controversial candidates is still standing behind walker. right? >> right. they say this is having no choice. in their view, if they can keep it focused on the abortion issue, they think it's more containable. the problem as mentioned a minute ago, there's this extra dimension of his son. now in talking to republicans, both in trump's orbit in the more kind of mainstream or the rest of the republican party, those affiliated with the national public senatorial committee and republicans in georgia.

there is a feeling that look, a lot of the stuff is baked in, but the problem walker faces is this. georgia's a swing state. yes, midterm elections are base elections but you still need to get that little sliver of the middle or that median sliver of the middle and this allegation and these allegations and his son coming out does nothing to help him grow in a tight race against warnock, who's a likable candidate and is doing the things that an incumbent needs to do in a midterm election. this focuses all the attention on walker and none on warnock and goes to the core of the problems that the republican party has had with middle of the road voters. especially women. suburban women. swing voters. all of that. this is at the very at least not helpful to herschel walker and republicans know that. >> charity bly put.

thank you very much. shannon, thank you as well. the supreme court heard oral arguments in a redistricting case out of alabama with broad implications for voting rights and race. it centers on the redistricting map redrawn by the legislature which condenses the state's minority population into just one out of seven districts. even though african americans make up almost a third of the state's population. with me now is kelly o'donnell outside the supreme court. so kelly, what should we expect? >> reporter: well certainly we have seen in recent years how the supreme court has taken a kind of an ax to the voting rights act of 1965 and rolled back some of its provisions. that's part of the reason this case is going to be watched so closely. and the liberal justice today brought a lot of passion to this. talking about the rational history in the south, the concerns they have about the fact that race should be a

factor in looking at how these districts are drawn and as you point out, one out of seven congressional districts are drawn where the minority population is the majority in that district and therefore able to choose candidates that they would most want to see in office. the state of alabama argues that it redrew the maps after the census of 2020 in a race neutral way and says that there wasn't a reasonable way to draw another congressional district that would resulted in a majority minority congressional district. they say they followed the law, the constitution, and that the case being brought against them simply puts too much pressure to use race as the number one factor, effectively putting alabama having to make race a reason to change the 3457 map and they argue they shouldn't have to do that. there may be some sympathetic voices on the conservative side.

we got some of that from justice alito today. some other conservatives weren't in the questioning today. the passion came from the newest justice who talked about the importance of race fixing some of the wrongs of the past and how race needs to be one of the considerations and justice kagan also talked about the fact that when you look at some of the factors of the voting rights act, she said this should be a slam dunk in favor of those who brought this case. this will be closely watched in the weeks and months ahead when the justices render their opinion. >> thank you very much. and yesterday, we told you about the standoff at iran's most prestigious university. today, we have new images. we are live in tehran with the latest. plus, last stand. what election workers are warning about the future of our democracy ahead of the 2022 my terms. a new story by tim alberta and

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the midterms and the great threat is no longer voting machines malfunctioning according to our next guest. it is a theft of election. the brazen abuse of power that requires not only bad actors in high places, but the consent of the voters who put them there. it could be as one long-term election worker tells tim alberta in his latest piece for the atlantic, democracy's last stand. joining me now, tim alberta. his new piece is titled bad losers. it's a really interesting piece as all of them are, but before we go deep into it, can we start in 2000 and the election of george bush. what happened in bush v. gore. what was the aftermath of that in terms of hardening up our

elections? >> it's hard to remember now, feels like an eternity ago, but in the aftermath of bush v. gore, there was a consensus among people who run elections in this country that serious changes needed to be made. that systems needed to be modernized. that workers needed to be trained more properly. there was just an understanding all the way around that this could not happen again and there were a lot of gains made. there were some try on error and not everything worked, but by and large, a lot of results that came out of the attempts including the big one was that congress passed a law that funneled a ton of resources to states and localities to modernize their equipment, better train workers, et cetera, et cetera. there were really a lot of positive outcomes out there. in fact, florida, which of course was the poster child for dysfunction in 2000, florida now

arguably has the most efficient vote counting operation in the country. you recall on almost any given election night, florida is the first out of the gate to report all of their results. so we have seen some positives come out of those efforts that were form nd the past. >> so the infrastructure and machines got better, but did our trust in the system get better? >> yeah, well that's the other side of the coin because you have on the one hand, again, bipartisan and nonpartisan efforts to reform the system and yet what you also saw in the aftermath of bush v. gore was really a sharp rise in election litigation. you saw democratic side in you know, big smaller races. you know, state legislative races, even city council races.

you saw litigation sky rocket to unprecedented levels. what it did, you saw what rick hasson as ucla, one of the leading experts in the country on sort of election administration, election law, he writes about sort of the sore loser syndrome where basically, you see public confidence ebbing and flowing based on whether they're preferred candidate won the last election. this is really the key i think dichotomy here. even as our systems were getting hardened, becoming more efficient and accurate, at the same time, public confidence in the institution of the ballot box was on sort of a slow, long decline. >> in part because politicians started attacking all the systems and the sore loser syndrome, it really got to its most extreme with what happened in 2020. and so if we're going to fast forward to the election that's

35 days away, what is the concern? >> i think the concern plainly spoken is that you now have individuals running for offices including offices that will have direct influence, direct control over the certification and administration of elections. who are making no secret of their intention to put a thumb on the scales. to try to effect partisan outcomes. listen, i think we've all become somewhat desensitized to the rhetoric surrounding 2020 being stolen and the system is rigged. there's a deep state, et cetera, et cetera. as you said at the top, katy, i think we have to recognize the threat is no longer machines malfunctioning or lines snaking around the block. i mean, we have real problems with the way our elections are run. that's inevitable. they need to be addressed. but i think the real threat now

is that you have these individuals running for these extraordinarily powerful offices who are winking and nodding about their intention to potentially throw the next principle election in 2024. >> i said it quoting you, tim alberta. thanks for coming on. on a different day, this could have been our lead story where we talked about everything that's going on and i guess what people should watch out for is a much harder question and what you can individually do about it. thank you very much for being with us. appreciate it. >> sure. thanks. coming up next, we have new images showing us what is happening inside of iran. what authorities appear to be doing to students at a university in tehran. we're going to go live to the ground next. go live to the ground next. no, he's seizing the moment with merrill. moving his money into his investment account in real time and that's... how you collect coins. your money never stops working for you with merrill,

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we're getting new images of ongoing nationwide protests in iran which have spread from the streets to college campuses and now high schools. this footage which nbs news is independently verify was shar

ed by a group showing what they say is teen girls removing their head scarves while chanting and dancing. what's happening there? >> the crackdown has been severe. authorities have come down hard, heavy handed, but still pockets of protests continue, mostly students. as you mentioned, now teenage girls protesting in the classroom and on the streets. >> reporter: this morning, concern over renewed clashes in iran's universities. after two weeks of unrest and deadly protests sweeping across the country. on monday, iran's totechnology university was shot shuttered. the unrest ignited by the death of a young woman in the custody of the morality police.

flaring up for a third week despite government efforts to crack down. campuses a hotbed of dissent. resistance in high schools, too. footage shared by the new york-based center for human rights in iran but that nbc news was able to independently verify, the group says shows young iranian girls removing their hijab while chanting from their schools. a stunning act of defiance and another sign of young women leading the way in these historic protests. addressing the latest violence for the first time, ayatollah khamenei condemned the riots on monday calling them a bitter incident and accusing the united states and israel of orchestrating the disturbances. the latest harsh crackdown by security forces drawing widespread international condemnation.

president biden issuing a statement overnight saying i remain gravely concerned about the reports of the intensifying violent crackdown on peaceful protesters in iran. including students and women who are demanding their equal rights and basic human dignity. elsewhere the protests that engulfed the country following the death of mahsa amini subsiding over the last week due to the security presence, arrests and blackouts. women across iran continue to defy the compulsory hijab, walking on the streets nationwide with their heads uncovered, waving their head scarves in the air. the crackdown has not stopped students and groups of defiant young women continuing to challenge authorities. in tehran and other cities, there's still women refusing to wear the compulsory hijab.

you see young women standing on the sidewalk or weaving through traffic chanting women, life, freedom. the slogan of these protests. >> thank you very much for bringing us that. that is going to do it for me today. hallie jackson picks up her coverage next. verage next. no, he's seizing the moment with merrill. moving his money into his investment account in real time and that's... how you collect coins. your money never stops working for you with merrill, a bank of america company.

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