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good morning it is 10:00 a.m. eastern, 7:00 a.m. pacific i'm jose diaz-balart i'll be joined by the next two hours by yasmin vossoughian live outside the manhattan da's office in new york city where we're facing a week certain to go down in history about two hours from now former president donald trump is set to leave florida for new york city where tomorrow he will become the first former president arraigned on criminal charges. this, of course, centers on the alleged hush money payment to adult film actress stormy daniels who says she had sex with trump which he denies sources tell nbc news the former president faces about 30 related to documents fraud the major security prep is under way in follower manhattan has authorities gear up for the unprecedented arrest of a former president. trump's former fixer, michael cohen, making his own prediction over the weekend

>> mayhem. i expect complete and total mayhem we begin in manhattan with my colleague, yasmin vossoughian ahead of the former president's arraignment tomorrow yasmin, history in the making, uncharted waters this morning. you're at the epicenter of where it's all going to happen tomorrow >> this certainly is a moment in history, something our nation has never faced before, a former president of the united states indicted, arrested the next 24 hours will play out in a way that we don't necessarily know right behind me, this is where we'll see the former president walking in what we know at this point -- tomorrow morning, we've seen

many image, many photos of the manhattan da walking in those doors. he did this morning as well. we're being told tenting is going to be put up whether or not we'll get shots and videos of the former president tomorrow morning is still in question. that is where it's all going to be taking place. a historic moment really for this nation as we watch what plays out here in manhattan. i want to bring in, if i can, nbc news senior capitol hill correspondent garrick headache and vaughn hillyard as well from palm beach, florida. first, let's talk about what's going to take place over the next 24 hours. will we see the former president of the united states walking in those doors? >> we may. the word unprecedented gets thrown around all the time this is true right now t. secret service, nypd have to do something incredibly complex, get the former president through

a media spectacle. it starts today around noon when we expect him to depart palm beach. we'll see supporters along the route. vaughn can talk about that a little more. this will be a moment where you'll have two competing things happening, the former president trying to produce this up for his political benefit to show what he calls a political persecution and the secret service and nypd trying to turn the temperature down to keep it from becoming a security situation. i've been on this corner more or less non-stop for the last two weeks. we've seen the security apparatus ebb and flow depending on what the projected news was going to be. between that and the protests we're expecting to see tomorrow with trump supporters, we will see this area basically locked down while the former z goes through the processing that would face any inmate in the courthouse. >> you've been here for the last couple days, and we'll talk about the security that's in place here in just a couple

minutes or so, but we're hearing protests behind me right now have you seen that ramped up over the last couple days? >> to be honest, not really. early on there was a lot of concern we'd see large-scale protests people talking about the prospect of something like january 6th. i've seen nothing in the weeks i've been out here that that's likely on the first day before mr. trump predicted the arrest, there was really only a few dozen people most of what we've seen since then are single-issue attention grabbers more than i would call them organized protesters. folks like to take advantage of the media circus that comes with mr. trump when he's in new york city whether that changes tomorrow remains to be seen every indication we've had in new york and across the country is we're not going to see some kind of widespread protest movement that the former president had initially called for that's never really gotten off the ground. >> within last thing

will they or won't they be taking a mugshot >> this remains an open question some of it is an equipment question in an era of digital phones, that's hard to believe this is the single most famous person on the planet probably right now. do we need a mugshot or does that become a piece of campaign merchandise? still an active conversation inside the d.a.'s office. >> garrett, thank you very much. let's go to palm beach vaughn, thanks for standing by for us take us there, if you will, the president departing palm beach for the next few hours or so, around noon eastern. talk to us >> reporter: yasmin, that's the anticipated departure time, getting in his motorcade at his mar-a-lago compound. it's about a five-mile span between palm beach and his residence to palm beach international airport. we saw supporters out there,

waving flags, playing music, showing solidarity around him. there's only about a dozen folks now at this hour for donald trump, this is a moment in which he's going to be getting on his trump-branded plane and heading to new york city donald trump has a history of trying to undercut those who have questioned him or tried to work against him, whether it be republicans in congress, whether it be republican governors, whether it be the media, whether it be robert mueller, whether it be those who are leading the impeachment proceedings against him or whether it was even his own vice president what you're seeing now is social media posts over the last 24 hours, one particularly overnight in which he suggested the manhattan district attorney alvin bragg should be removed from the case. that can't happen without a formal proceeding initiated by the democratic governor of new york, kathy hochul he also called the judge a trump hating judge, which there's no evidence to show that. this is the same judge that

oversaw the plea deal agreement of allan weisselberg the former trump organization cfo. this is going to be a moment that will likely bring several witnesses for marred, including stormy daniels who just this weekend in an interview with "the times of london" said she'd be willing to take the stand also, likely, michael cohen. i want you to hear from what michael cohen anticipates is going through his former bosses head >> this is his worst fear, being mugshoted, fingerprinted, referred to as a felon >> trump keeps projected confidence, but you sense fear >> oh, yeah. not fear he's petrified >> reporter: at this point, trump's lawyer also suggested they had not had internal deliberations about whether they'll request the judge to move the case out of mrn, suggesting their focus is on getting the charges read to them and understanding of what their

legal path forward looks like. yasmin >> vaughn hillyard, thank you. jose, we'll be watching the tarmac, the split screen you saw there with vaughn as it's likely that the plane is going to be taking off in just a couple hours or so. for now, i'll send it back to you. >> yasmin, thank you so very much we are, of course, keeping a very close watch on that airplane in south florida. i want to bring in glenn kirschner, former federal prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst. good morning vaughn was talking about the team, trump's legal team trying to determine what their next steps are in this case what are the legal steps that this team is looking to carry out? >> well, the first legal battle they will likely take up will involve whatever conditions the judge might set on donald trump once he is released pending trial. i think the most robust argument

that we may see tomorrow, legal argument in court, jose, is if the judge decides he needs to put some restrictions on donald trump's speech or on his posts, and i think that's a discussion that should be had because in recent days, we have seen donald trump throw these disinformation bombs into the public square about the very judge who will be presiding over his case. that is something that a defendant ordinarily wouldn't do, and it's something a court can order a defendant not to do. donald trump says judge marshon, the presiding judge, hates me. that is very likely untrue he then said that alvin bragg hand picked judge marshon to preside over my case that's absolutely untrue that's not the way judicial assignments are made he said what is perhaps the most damaging, that judge marshon, quote, railroaded allan weisselberg, my chief financial

officer into pleading guilty by inf indeferentially taking a guilty plea a defendant cannot be saying these things to try to poison the jury pool that will sit in judgment of him, donald trump. so i think this is what we're going hear a lot of discussion about in court tomorrow, the first legal battle that will be waged. >> glenn, according to our sources, that the former president has said that publicly, that after he goes to manhattan and is arraigned, indicted and goes through the process, he goes back to mar-a-lago where tomorrow night he's going to be giving a speech is that something that tomorrow in the afternoon the judge in this case could deal with it >> yeah. what a great question. i think if the judge chooses to put narrowly tailored limitations on what donald trump

can and can't say, that certainly will not preclude or prevent him from giving, for example, campaign speeches he will also be allowed to say things like i'm innocent of the charges. i'm going to defend myself vigorously, i will be found not guilty all of that i think is protect theed by his free speech rights, his first amendment free speech guarantees and protections what i suspect, jose, is if the judge puts some narrowly tailored restrictions in place, do we really expect donald trump to abide by them or violate them if he violates them, i suspect he'll be back in front of the judge promptly to see if the judge needs to ratchet up the conditions on his speech >> what would a ratcheting up of conditions look like in other words, what are the repercussions if he decides not to follow that judge's orders? >> you know, a judge could place greaterrestrictions.

for example, a judge can say, listen, you obviously can't be trusted to abide by the conditions set for you by the court, so now i'm going to prohibit you from making any public comments about your case at all or posting anything on the internet about your case at all. now, where is the final stop on ratcheting up conditions for a defendant who steadfastly refuses to abide by the conditions set for him by the judge? it is pretrial detention now, i don't know that anybody expects we'll ever get there but the other thing that's in play, jose, if donald trump repeatedly violates conditions set by the judge, it would be contempt of court. >> glenn kirschner, always a pleasure thank you very much for your time much more when we're back in just 60 seconds including how new york city law enforcement is stepping up security as the former president gets ready to turn himself in. plus there are other legal risks donald trump is facing

the case his former attorney general bill barr thinks is most dangerous and what barr thinks about the former president potentially testifying. >> generally i think it's a bad idea to go on the stand, and i think it's a particularly bad idea for trump because he lacks self-control it would be very difficult to prepare him. we're just passing through on our way to the jazz jamboree. [ imitates trumpet playing ] and we wanted to thank america's number-one motorcycle insurer -for saving us money. -thank you. [ laughs ] mara, your parents are -- exactly like me? i know, right? well, cherish your friends and loved ones. let's roll, daddio! let's boogie-woogie! (cecily) it's probably gonna take us a while to move this sign. (vo) let's roll, daddio! time to get moving, because this offer won't last. switch to verizon and get welcome unlimited for just $25 a line. (seth) i love that it's guaranteed for 3 years. (cecily) yeah, get an awesome network and save money doing it. (seth) not bad. (cecily) you get to keep your phone. more savings.

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experienced before in this counted, in this city specifically nypd usually very well prepared for circumstances like this, as well as the secret service again, this is the former president of the united states who, in fact, will be arrested tomorrow and booked. i want to bring in gabe gutierrez onset with me and mark praks ton as well. obviously the folks can see barricades up behind me, lots of nypd presence. talk us through what we know >> it will be incredibly challenges lower manhattan on a good day is extremely busy now we can see with all the barricades that have been in place now for several weeks, but this will be ramping up through out the day. we have been here for the last several weeks as the security preparations have been unfolding. now, nypd is monitoring what they're calling a peaceful

protest, what the organizers are calling a peaceful protest in this park, organized by a young republicans group, headlined by marjorie taylor greene we have indication that is going to be a huge protest they're publicizing the protest as opposed to several weeks ago when the turnout was very sparse while there haven't been major protests here, there have been a lot of threats against the da's office two weeks ago there was that white powder found in the mail room that turned out to be harmless still, that's something the nypd is looking at carefully. we're also monitoring developments out of the courthouse today related to security the judge in this case, any moment now, potentially earlier today, set to rule on whether there might be cameras allowed in the courtroom so certainly a lot of things still up in the air as we head into this arraignment tomorrow. >> any chatter that we're going

see the president -- the proud boys, any of those white nationalist groups >> there is the potential for that the nypd is monitoring that as well we don't have confirmation that any of these groups are planning any full-on protest or anything like that. as of now, there seems to be the smaller protests we don't know the exact size of it but this park isn't very large thousands of officers will be on hand throughout the city to be able to make sure the former president of the united states, as he travels south from trump tower getting here there's still a lot of things up in the air whether we will be able to actually see him or brought up through another elevator, will the mugshot be taken or not? so the unprecedented nature of this -- i know we keep saying that, but it is something that the nypd has never had to deal

with before. they've been discussing with the former president trump's legal team to be able to make sure that this goes off without a hitch. you can see it's getting busier here we have visibly noticed a larger security presence as the indictment was handed down. >> gabe, thanks so much. appreciate it. mark, i think specifically about the coordination nypd has to have, of course, with the secret service, the former president of the united states being booked here tomorrow talk about that coordination and how this moment is so different than other moments that we've seen, specifically with a lot of press coverage >> i think it's important for everyone to understand that the preparations for tomorrow have been significant, and they involve that collaborative effort between the nypd and state and federal partners

specifically, as far as gathering and assessing intelligence information, some threats in determining which threats need additional resources or investigation and which threats are not credible and preparing in that way, so they're not taken by surprise by, as you mentioned, proud boys, oath keepers or any of the other groups there is a deep collaborative effort between the nypd and the federal authority. let's be clear about something this may be unprecedented for so many people, for many people surrounding mr. trump's indictment for the nypd, these large-scale demonstrations, if that's what they turn into, crowd control of this type of magnitude, tomorrow will be a busier-than-normal tuesday. >> i spoke with dermot shea

yesterday, former nypd commissioner you think back to the black lives matter protests. nypd certainly had missteps there, especially when it came to colliding with protesters how do you approach this moment differently, especially when we really don't know what is going to happen, even with, of course, the monitoring of threats in anticipation of tomorrow >> well, the police officers will approach it by taking whatever necessary intelligence information that is provided to them and doing the basic job, which is protecting and preserving human life, a priority, and working around that there are always constitutional issues, for example, when you talk about demonstrations or peaceful protests or even protests that aren't necessarily as peaceful as you would hope. but you just have to be -- as professionals, behave in a way consist stent with the constitutional protections, but

prioritize preservation of human life that includes even donald trump. that includes people who participate in demonstrations, the people that may be just observers and all the law enforcement personnel as well. >> marq claxton, as always, thank you for spending time with us jose, as you and i have been talking the last 20 minutes or so -- of course, we'll be here until the noon hour, the security presence has been ramping up despite all the monitoring that seems is going on as we spoke about with gabe, i think no one really knows what will be happening here over the next 24. it's really a wait-and-see moment in this nation's history. >> that's why it's so important, and it's great that you are there when it is occurring yasmin, thank you so very much we'll continue our conversation. the massive recovery efforts are under way after more than 50 tornadoes touched down in 14 states over the weekend killing

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saw a band of severe storms sweep across the country more than 50 confirmed tornadoes touched down in 14 states killing at least 32 people this ferocious funnel in iowa ripping across a roadway >> oh, my god! >> while a tornado in belvedere, illinois, left nearly 50 injured and one dead concert goers helped free people trapped beneath a collapsed roof as the system moved east, rare twisters formed in new jersey and delaware which saw its first tornado-related fatality in nearly 40 years. >> go, go, go! >> in arkansas, harrowing moments caught on camera from the monster storm that flipped cars and threat ended homes. kimberly shaw was at a dentist office in little rock when a tornado knocked her off her feet.

>> if your husband hadn't held on to you, what would have happened >> i would have been sucked out the door and taken by the tornado. he saved my life >> remarkable survival stories from residents now left to pick up so many pieces. >> the roof is completely blown off. >> about half of it is, yes. >> faced with so much destruction, members of the church coming together and gathering outside a shell of what once was for a sunday service. >> the idea of being here in the midst of our building being damaged seemed like the right thing to do. >> reporter: from churches to homes, to schools, the damage in this neighborhood touches just about everywhere so widespread even school in wynn arkansas at least through this week has been canceled. in nearby tennessee the death toll continues to climb. right now at least 15 people have been killed there this region could see a one-two

punch with another severe storm system making its way to the area tomorrow that could bring more potential tornadoes and damaging winds jose >> emilie ikeda in wynne, arkansas i want to bring in nbc meteorologist michelle grossman to talk about about what could be another deadly storm system on the way there, michelle >> hi there, jose. i wish i could bring better news but we're watching another powerful system as early as tomorrow where we'll see the chance for very strong tornadoes. as emilie mentioned, in the same spot we saw over the weekend we have a cold side, a winter side where we're looking at blizzard-like conditions over the next couple days 7 million people impacted by winter weather 38 million people impacted by wind alerts. that's going to increase the fire danger in the southwest the wind is gusty, the ground is

very dry on the warm side, a chance for more severe storms this is what it looks like on radar. out to the west where you see the blue, that's the storm take shape. we have rain, storms in portions of the gulf coast and into southeast. that's a separate system but still bringing strong thunderstorms this morning we have the threat for tornadoes there as we go throughout the afternoon hours. so where you see the pink, that's the chance for tornadoes. that's a tornado watch over the next hour and a half or so this is the storm system we're concerned about for the next few days, it will bring feet of snow in portions of the rockies, portions of the dakotas, the upper midwest. we'll be measuring feet of snow there, blizzard conditions looking for chance of severe storms in the ohio valley down into the deep south. texas to ohio blizzard like conditions this is a strong, strong storm lots of electricity. jose, we'll keep our eyes on this over the next 24 hours.

it will be rough tomorrow as we watch the chance for strong tornadoes once again. >> michelle grossman, thank you very much. a lot of caution to our friends there. i want to send it back to yasmin in new york city. yasmin unbelievable how these storms are continuing to wreak havoc across the country, even here on the east coast here in manhattan, up next, we're digging deeper into the other investigation donald trump is facing, including new details about the case involving classified materials found at mar-a-lago plus, how this historic indictment is already impacting the dynamics of the 2024 primary. >> if trump is acquitted or he gets the case dismissed because it's not legally sufficient or for whatever reason, that will be rocket fuel because he can say, i told you it was a political prosecution.

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35 past the hour back with my colleague yasmin vossoughian as we continue our coverage ahead of donald trump's expected departure today from florida to new york. this morning most republicans are firmly in former president trump's corner, blasting this indictment by the manhattan da as politically motivated there are growing signs of a divide in the gop with some high-profile members of the party including minority leader

mitch mcconnell staying silent about the driemt now a 2024 rival has said trump should leave the race. former arkansas governor asa hutchinson announced yesterday he is running in the 2024 presidential election. here is what he said about trump. >> now that he's been indicted, should he drop out >> i do. first of all, the office is more important than any individual person so for the sake of the office of the presidency, i do think that's too much of a sideshow and distraction. >> joining us from capitol hill nbc's ali vitali also with us, former florida republican dock man carlos curbelo. what's the reaction you're seeing in the republican base and even on capitol hill >> reporter: there is a range in terms of the fact that there are some republicans who are not marching in lockstep with the former president i have to tell you, those numbers are pretty small, especially when you compare it

to the outside reaction we've seen from potential rivals on the 2024 campaign trail and also republican allies here in congress who have come to the former president's aid nevertheless, when you talk about the range, the spectrum of reaction, this is kind of what it looked like over the weekend on the sunday shows. watch. >> no one should be above the law, but no one should be a target of the law. >> we have to let the criminal process play out i do think this is politically motivated. it's one thing when you have a cancel culture, another when you have a cal sell criminal justice system. >> i don't think he should be the nominee. he can't be the nominee. he can't win in 2024 this builds a lot of empathy, solidifies his base. >> those last comments from new hampshire governor chris sununu are interesting in that there are republicans who could directly take on trump in 2024 who want to make this a litmus test issue at the same time we're seeing

more people who are silent through the lens of people like mitch mcconnell and others as opposed to the people who want to come out and say at least the process run its course that's what democrats are mostly saying you're not hearing a lot of celebration from elected democrats in congress. from the republican side, really, i think this is another reminder of the power that trump still has over his party, in large part because there's still that 30-some-odd percent of his base that will always remain loyal to him lawmakers here know that >> congressman, let me ask you about asa hutchinson if i can for a moment i was speaking to sources last night about this announcement from hutchinson. they said, look, good for him, for paving this path away from the president of the united states, asking him to step aside. he doesn't really a chance this is what these sources are telling me what do you make of the timing of this announcement and also the declaration of asking donald trump to step away from the election?

>> yasmin, asa hutchinson is playing his lane he thinks there's maybe 30% to 40% of republicans who end up designing trump is too toxic, that even if they like him and his policies, that he just won't be able to win that's what he's counting on it is an interesting strategy given that there might be a number of other trump-like candidates in the race what we've seen from people like governor ron desantis and others thus far, they want to kind of have it both ways. they want to run against donald trump but at the same time praise and defend donald trump asa hutchinson is making a different bet, that you can't beat donald trump by just following him and praising him you kind of have to chart your own path and convince a sufficient number of republican primary voters, not even the majority of them, but maybe 30 to 35%, that the party should take a different direction look, it seems unlikely right

now. trumpis such a strong and dominant force in the party which is why you see all these republicans rush to his defense, even in the middle of this scandal and controversy. it's a con stra strategy we'll see if it works out for asa hutchinson chris sununu might try to take that lane as well. >> carlos, in many ways so far it's been actually positive for trump. the trump campaign said they've raised more than $5 million since his indictment news broke. desantis says he's raised $30 million in the last month. is this a situation where with every single day going forward all -- 100% of the political oxygen is taken by trump >> jose, this is when donald trump is at his best whether you love donald trump, whether you hate him or despise him, you have to recognize that when he is making headlines, when he's the center of attention, he exploits those opportunities. he relies on the intensity of

that base, which isn't a majority of the american people, but it is a good 20 to 35% of the american people, and those people contribute and speak to their friends and participate in social media so while for most people the day you get indicted and the day you get arraigned is a tough day, a sad day, in some ways for donald trump, this is what he relishes. this is what he likes. certainly there's some legal risk involved. but in the meantime, he's going to make as much political hay as possible and makes sure he gets as many republicans as possible on the record defending him. >> ali vitali and former congressman carlos curbelo, thank you so much. there has been so much focus, obviously, on the manhattan da's case against the former president it could be easy to lose sight of the other legal investigations as well, all that

are currently swirling around donald trump including georgia's investigation into alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election results and the justice department's two-pronged probe into trump's role in the january 6th attack on the capitol and improper handling of classified documents at mar-a-lago as well. "the washington post" has new reporting the justice department is said to have more evidence of possible trump obstruction at mar-a-lago in that documents case i want to bring in lisa ruben, msnbc legal analyst to talk in more about this. i want to read from "the washington post" reporting and have you talk about it, if i can, saying, quote, people familiar with the matter stress a major thrust of the investigation has been the question of obstruction and whether trump sought to deliberately prevent officials from gathering all the classified materials at

mar-a-lago i want to note that nbc news has not confirmed that report and the justice department is not commenting on it hearing that, lisa, how crucial could that obstruction factor be in that case >> i've always thought that the obstruction factor is the most crucial component of the records ration, not a question of whether he took classified information, but this is the epitome of the cover-up being worse than the crime donald trump undertake an 18-month-long process to conceal information from the national archives and then the department of justice that just gets you through august of last year. now we're increasingly getting more information indicating that maybe we're not even done yet, that the department of justice still has concerns, remaining concerns about whether all those classified documents have been recovered. i have always thought that this is a case where the obstruction is going to be the thing that bites you in what my kids would

call their tushy. >> former attorney general bill barr interviewed by fox news of course, he was attorney general under then president donald trump, commenting on the mar-a-lago documents i want you to take a listen to what he had to say, and then we'll chat >> as i've said preerepeatedly, think the documents case is the most serious case. i don't think they went after those documents to get trump, i think they wanted the documents back what's at issue in that case is not the taking of the documents, it's what the government did after they subpoenaed them and whether there was any obstruction. >> what do you make of that, lisa is that the most important case of the three that are swirling, one of them right behind me? >> yasmin, on one hand it's hard to say, right? we don't have the charges from the manhattan d.a. in front of us certainly, if trump is charged in the january 6th investigation, some of the potential charges he could be

facing there, obstruction of an official government proceeding, conspiracy to defraud the united states, even a seditious conspiracy charge are among the most serious that have emanated and could be among the most serious crimes facing him. that said, when i look at the combination of the facts as we know them now and the seriousness of the crimes being contemplated, i agree with attorney general bill barr, maybe the only time i agree with him, about the seriousness of the records investigation and how much legal risk it poses to former president trump >> lisa rubin, thank you that's the incredible thing, jose, right? in the next 24 we'll find out what that indictment says, 30-plus counts here. we still haven't heard from fulton county d.a. fanny williams and special counsel jack smith as well three investigations, a lot that the former president is facing in the pipeline. >> indeed, in many ways, just

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pro-kremlin blogger to the cafe that then exploded killing him, injuring many more she doesn't say whether she knew that that bus contained explosives, and we also don't know whether that video was made under duress, whether it was a forced confession. in the meantime, as you point out, russian authorities have pointed the finger at ukrainian special forces as well as at the organization linked to kremlin cre critic alexei navalny who's in prison navalny's group said that is ridiculous and there is speculation both outside of russia and specifically within ukraine that this actually may have more to do with internal power struggles within russia. this pro-kremlin blogger who was killed was someone who was vehemently supportive of russia's war in ukraine, but he had also been outspokenly critical on many occasions of the russian military's handling of this war and their many

failures on the battlefield so far, and so a lot more questions than there are answers right now about why this blogger was killed and who might have been behind it. >> josh lederman, thank you so very much. next, new reporting, exclusive from our team about the chinese spy balloon and despite all efforts to block it from collecting intelligence, what it did manage to get after all. you're watching "josé diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. for less than all this. i made a horrible mistake. ♪ go to your happy price ♪ ♪ priceline ♪ there's a different way to treat hiv. it's every-other-month, injectable cabenuva. for adults who are undetectable, cabenuva is the only complete, long-acting hiv treatment you can get every other month. cabenuva helps keep me undetectable. it's two injections, given by my healthcare provider, every other month. it's one less thing to think about while traveling. hiv pills aren't on my mind. a quick change in my plans is no big deal. don't receive cabenuva if you're allergic

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. 56 past the hour, a disturbing development this morning in the investigation into chinese spy balloon that traversed american skies earlier this year. nbc news has learned that china was able to collect and transmit home intelligence from several sensitive american military sites. that's according to two senior u.s. officials and one former senior administration official nbc's carol lee helped to break that story a couple of hours ago. good morning i thought that they were able to block that spy balloon from sending intelligence beaack to china, but no? >> well, jose, what we're told from officials is that they were able to block some of that but not everything so according to officials it could have been a lot worse, but what we do know now is that china was able to gather intelligence from multiple sensitive military sites, and they did that, jose, by making multiple passes over these

sites, at times doing figure 8 formationingss over the sites ad then transmitting what information they were collecting back to china. mostly the balloon was able to collect signals, electronic signals on the ground, so what they call signals intelligence, and the u.s. did try, they moved things around. they tried to obscure those electro electronic signals from emitting, but china was able to gather some intelligence as it sent that balloon across the u.s. the other thing that we learned, jose, is that the balloon was equipped with a self-destruct mechanism. so that china could have activated at any time remotely, and obviously they chose not to do that and the u.s. doesn't know whether that self-destruct mechanism malfunctioned or china just opted not to do that so they could try to gather some of this intelligence. >> just wondering, carol, how much dangerous information do the chinese get out of those

figure 8s over and over again going over sensitive military bases. >> look, there is concern about it, obviously. anytime that china and an adversary gathers intelligence from a sensitive site that's concerning for u.s. officials. the one thing that the u.s. points to is that effort that it could have been a lot worse, that effort to block china from doing this, and also, jose, they gained a lot, the u.s. said by just observing this balloon as it was traveling across the united states. and then not to mention that they also then were able to collect the remnants of that balloon after it was shot down over the coast of south carolina so a little bit of a two-way street here. >> carol lee reporting on some exclusive details. i thank you so very much i want to send it back to yasmin in new york city yasmin >> thank you, jose we have much more ahead, everybody, in our next hour, special coverage including two presidents in focus. president biden heading to minnesota any minute now to discuss his economic agenda,

while we are still watching, of course, florida where former president donald trump is gearing up to fly to new york for his arraignment. a second hour of team coverage starting right now ♪ good morning it is 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific, i'm josé diaz-balart, in just about an hour, former president donald trump expected to leave mar-a-lago for new york city ahead of his arraignment tomorrow in the high profile hush money case sending shock waves through the political universe i'll be joined by my colleague yasmin vossoughian who is outside the manhattan d.a.'s office where police are ramping up security ahead of tomorrow's historic day. also this morning, at least 32 dead across the south and the midwest after yet another string of wild storms ripped through the country over the weekend decimating entire communities. we'll take you live to indiana,