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andrea mitchell picks up with news right now. right now on "andrea mitchell reports," the debt ceiling legislation clears the house with a bipartisan vote. a showdown in the senate starting today. a handful of senators in both parties demanding amendments that could delay final passage past monday's default did the line unless leaders can win agreement to overcome their objections. >> time is a luxury the senate does not have. if we want to prevent default. any needless delay or last-minute holdups could be an unnecessary and even dangerous risk. >> i will be joined by a senator who will vote against the bill. former treasury secretary larry summers with his take on the economic fallout. the special prosecutor has an audio recording where former president trump says he kept a classified defense plan related to iran after leaving office, according to a source familiar with the matter. this as mr. trump hits the

campaign trail this hour in iowa to continue his unrelenting political attacks against ron desantis who is campaigning in new hampshire. we are in both states. >> make america great again. that's a simple statement. we will do it fast. we don't need eight years. we need five months. good day, everyone. i'm andrea mitchell. negotiations are ramping up. they are trying to pass the debt ceiling legislation before the june 5th deadline to avert a default. ryan nobles joins me now. there's urgency, but there's optimism from senators and leaders that they will get an agreement to get this done before monday, even sooner. >> reporter: that's right. we are getting some signals that the negotiations are going so

well that there's a scenario that they could vote on this legislation as early as tonight. we are being cautioned that a lot has to happen before they get to that point. there is the expectation that they are going to come to an agreement to pass this legislation with more than enough time to prevent any kind of catastrophic economic default and give the government the opportunity to raise the debt that they need to in order to continue to fund the government. it's not going to come without hand wringing. there are democrats and conservative republicans like we saw on the house side who are unhappy with the parameters of the negotiations. they are making it clear how unhappy they are. this is senator mike lee talking about what he doesn't like in this bill. >> a lot of people disagree with janet yellen as to june 5 being the x date. even if it were, it's days away

when we with will get more receipts. i've been saying, we should get on this now. it doesn't mean we should pass this just because this happens to be on the table. >> reporter: that is senator lee saying he doesn't believe that monday is the true deadline. that there's flexibility there. as a result, the sides should get back to the table and try to come up with a deal that's more conservative. to be clear, that's not going to happen. no one is messing with that june 5th date. it is becoming increasingly clear that there are the 60 votes necessary to get over the threshold. what's going to happen here is that both sides will work out a list of amendments. none can pass, because if one passes, then the bill has to go back to the house. they will crash through the deadline. they are trying to find the sweet spot where the opposition can have their voice hard

without endangering the passage of the final bill. >> ryan, we heard from bernie sanders. he will vote against it. anyone else who declared on either side that they will vote against it? >> reporter: a couple more conservative republicans who have said that they are going to be no votes. i have not heard of any democrats as of yet. i will check our whip count. not enough to endanger the bill in any way, shape or form. what's interesting, you point out bernie sanders. i talked to him about his opposition to the package. he made it clear this is better than what the house bill originally looked like. from his mind, he can't, in good conscience, support anything that makes cuts to social programs that he believes are very important to the american people. >> ryan nobles, thank you. it's been a long, long

negotiation. you have been there every step of the way. approaching the finish line. thank you. caught on tape, the audio recording that could determine donald trump's fate in the classified documents case. that's next when "andrea mitchell reports" is back in 60 seconds. stay with us. you are watching msnbc. because you can take alfa romeo out of italy. but you best believe, you can't take the italy out of an alfa romeo.

federal prosecutors have obtained an audio recording of a meeting in which president trump acknowledges he kept a classified pentagon document about a potential attack on iran, first reported by cnn, and confirmed by nbc news. neither news organization has listened to the recording. it's been described to them. his comments on the tape suggest he was aware of the legal and security concerns of keeping and disclosing secret documents, contrary to his continuing claim that as president he could declassify anything he wanted to. the meeting was held at mr.

trump's golf club and summer residence in new jersey, with two people walking on the autobiography of mark meadows. one of his aides taped the interview, which he routinely did for interviews that he was giving to authors of books written about him that year. prosecutors are looking into the handling of documents he took from the white house. it would be particularly interesting to them as to whether he shared secret material with people not authorized to see it. in a statement to nbc news, a spokesman wrote, this is more proof there are absolutely no depths to which they will not sink as they pursue their witch hunt. joining me now, peter baker, jonathan lemire and former u.s. attorney paul charlton. paul, talk about the legal implications of this as it reported. does this new information about a recording indicate something to you that would be of real

interest to jack smith? he has taken testimony apparently. >> andrea, we can't know all of the evidence that jack smith has in his possession right now. if this recording is a capturing of former president trump's voice admitting he has a classified document at his country club, at his golf club, that it is probably among the best, most important, most weighty pieces of evidence jack smith has. intent. what it is the president knew is one of the most difficult aspects of any prosecution. anyprosecutor has to know, how do we prove what the person knew? these are my very words. a tape played before a jury is powerful evidence. it doesn't forget and it doesn't lie. as we know, the president has a

buffet of facts which he has choosing from in the past. multiple explanations or defenses for why he had these documents. chief among them, he says he could simply think about declassifying the documents and they were declassified, or that he had a standing order that they be declassified. if the tape is what the reports say, he is admitting he has a classified document, it's going to be a key piece of evidence for the federal prosecutors. >> peter, your newspaper confirmed this reporting, as have we. it centers around reporting about the president being very put out, very angry about an article written by susan glosser. she wrote that in the months following the election, joint chief chairman milley argued against striking iran and was concerned about trump's state of mind, that he might set in motion a full-scale conflict

that was not justified and was taking steps to prevent that from happening with other members of the national security team. that's the background, the context. talk to me about the significance of this that you see, regarding the investigation, as you have been reporting it. >> yeah. i think that's exactly right. what paul said is important. the issue is trump's claim that he can declassify anything. the reporting isn't just that he acknowledges he has a classified document, but he says, i would love to get it out there but i can't because it's classified. that would indicate he knows it wasn't declassified. he has not created a different situation where the document could be released. it's important to remember that there's no evidence whatsoever by the way that he did declassify anything. there's no order that anybody has found, no memo, nobody who has come forward with a specific testimony saying, yes,

declassified these documents or had a standing order to declassify. it's important to remember that even, by the way, unclassified documents still belong to the government under the presidential records act. you are not entitled to take them because you may have declassified them. that doesn't give you the right to take official presidential papers when you leave. there's a process to get access if you want to have access to them for instance as writin a -- writin a memoir. that's not what happened. >> paul, weigh in as a lawyer. it's my understanding this being a defense document also meant that if he showed it to anyone, it could trigger the espionage act. it doesn't have to be classified, just being a defense document, because the espionage act was written and put into law before the classification system that president truman put into law. >> precisely correct.

the department of justice will not have to prove that the document president trump had in his hand is a classified document to show a violation of the espionage act. there would be other charges that may well meet that definition if this was a classified document and kept, by the way, as we said many times, in an unsecure location. holding classified documents at a country club is inappropriate. that's a violation of the law as well. the prosecutors here will undoubtedly be looking at a host of possible federal violations. andrea, this prosecution team is a team with extraordinary resources. while president trump faces a state charge now, may face future state charges in the future, one thing that president trump will have to contend to that's different from the state charges are the extraordinary resources that federal

prosecutors have here with the federal grand jury and the reach that they have to capture all of this various evidence. >> jonathan lemire, let me bring you in. as peter was moving to president trump has claimed that the -- that he could declassify documents, even through a thought process, his power as president. here is what he said so recently during the cnn town hall with caitlyn collins last month. >> why did you take those documents with you when you left? >> i had every right to under the presidential records act. i was there. i took what i took. it gets declassified. >> did you show those to anyone? >> not really. i would have the right to. they were declassified after -- >> what do you mean? >> not that i can think of. i have the right to do whatever i want with them. >> so, jonathan, respond to that.

this, as reported, contradicts that. he had knowledge that he didn't have that right or that power. >> first of all, an easy fact check here. donald trump has the presidential records act wrong. peter baker has it correct in terms of what he is allowed to have or not have. he does seem to suggest, almost admit in that town hall, that he took the documents with him. he doesn't rule out the fact he may have showed them to people. also the interview with sean hannity, a friendly interview. hannity said, you would never take documents. he said, i have every right. he seems to be confessing all along that he has done this. he can't admit any sort of mistake. this is real legal jeopardy here. setting aside the espionage act or not -- we don't know if they will go that route. at the least, he didn't have a right to this government property. he obstructed their return. that's why so many analysts

believe that's where jack smith could end up on obstruction. that's why this is so different than, say, the documents that turned up at joe biden's house or mike pence's house. as soon as they were discovered, they were returned to the government, which is the way this is supposed to go. as a final note, this is another moment where trump may be on the verge of being tripped up by his own words. we recall the "access hollywood" tape confessing to sexually assaulting women and the case in georgia, the phone call with brad raffensperger in which he urges him to find votes. it may be his own doing that could lead him into real legal trouble. >> thank you all so very much. trail mix. donald trump and ron desantis holding rallies. you are watching "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc.

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the race for the republican presidential nomination growing more competitive by the way. nbc news reporting that mike pence is set to launch his presidential campaign next week with a campaign video and a kickoff speech in des moines, iowa, following an anticipated campaign kickoff by former new jersey governor chris christie a day earlier. today, donald trump in iowa taking swipes at his leading

challenger, ron desantis, who campaigned there yesterday. desantis moved on to new hampshire. joining me now, vaughn hillyard and gabe gutierrez and eugene daniels. gabe, to you. what can you tell us about the desantis campaign strategy on the road today? >> good afternoon. as you said, we were in iowa yesterday. the governor was barnstorming through that state. he is in new hampshire. we are outside his event. as it a small venue. he is speaking right now. we didn't want to drawn him out because it's a small venue, so we are out here. there's this merchandise. i want to show you one of those says desantis land. they are doubling down in the fight with disney that desantis has been touting on the road. some of the conservative voters in new hampshire and iowa, a strong response to that. they see it as an attack on indoctrinating children as they

see it. the desantis campaign feels that will play well with some of the conservative voters. i will say, the governor this week has been trying to establish a contrast between himself and former president trump. he has not done it on the stump. he was asked about something former president trump put on social media blasting the governor for, quote, not nailing his name. there is inconsistency in how he pronounced his name. the governor was asked about that in a radio interview. take a listen. >> what's your reaction to attacks on your name? do you think that's beneath the former president? is that what you expect? >> i think it's petty. it's juvenile. i don't think that's what voters want. honestly, i think his conduct, which he has been doing for years, i think that's one of the

reasons he is not in the white house now. i think he alienated too many voters for things that really don't matter. i don't get in the gutter on any of that. >> reporter: there are questions about how this increasingly crowded gop field will affect the desantis campaign. the campaign thinks that there is -- these more moderate established candidates will eventually cancel each other out and desantis has a path. he heads to south carolina tomorrow. >> gabe, vaughn is in iowa. trump has a few events there today. he is taking questions from the audience right now? vaughn, what's going on? >> reporter: right. as gabe and ron desantis were flying out, donald trump and myself were flying in here to the state. this is really going to be on donald trump to make the case here to iowa to not defect from the movement that he has created over the last eight years. he is here just outside of des moines in which he told the

crowd, why would you want to wait for ron desantis to make change in eight years when in his own words it would take him six months to do most everything. that's the contrast he is trying to paint to the voters here. i want to let you hear from two voters who i talked to, steve and carol, who said they plan to caucus next february for donald trump. i asked them about the classified documents investigation and the potential indictment of donald trump that you were talking about in the last segment. i want to let you hear from them and what they said. >> leave him alone. >> i don't want to go there. the stuff we are seeing is so silly. this is child play. we voted for him. we go to mar-a-lago. he was the president. he has the right to take things and declassify them. >> reporter: one of the questions, if, in fact, the

special counsel indicts donald trump, is it going to turn voters off? are ron desantis and other candidates going to use these multiple charges against donald trump, the civil and criminal ones, to try to create a wedge here in this republican primary? since ron desantis' announcement, donald trump has maintained his lead. donald trump, as i'm told by a close ally of his, is taking iowa seriously and is going to spend a lot of time here over the course of the summer. >> it's interesting and you have spent so much time in iowa, it's interesting to see him in a small venue like that and taking questions. he is getting down to what you have to do in iowa and new hampshire. eugene, let's talk about mike pence. he is joining a fireside chat in grand rapids, michigan. that was yesterday. he made this jab at donald trump. he is beginning to ramp that up.

let's listen. >> i'm not a big tweeter. i've been around bigger tweeters in my time. >> poking fun, i guess, at the trump strategy of tweeting so much and being on social media so much. how does pence now go after trump after embracing him so fully in his campaign? what's the strategy there? >> at this point, calling him a big tweeter is not enough to differentiate himself and donald trump. that much is clear. it isn't -- to many of us paying attention, it doesn't seem clear how he plans to do that. he talks about -- he talked about the difference between him and donald trump and other republicans running at this

point is abortion. talking about how much he would do to chip away at abortion rights in the country after roe v. wade came down. he is in this evangelical lane and hoping to take that over. at the end of the day, you are right. he has to at some point take donald trump on. if you were his vice president and a loyal vice president until the very bitter end, you have to at some point say why you are better than donald trump. what is the difference? all of the people -- all of the candidates will have that issue, but pence will have the biggest one. >> thanks to you, eugene. vaughn and gabe. the grave error. that's how one expert explains

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right now, president biden is about to give the commencement address at the u.s. air force academy in colorado. this is his third time speaking at an air force academy graduation. it is his first as president. the school says this class has the highest percentage of women and minority students to ever graduate from the academy.

democratic and republican leaders in the senate are confident they can overcome objections and get that debt ceiling passed by tomorrow. the president could sign it and avoid a catastrophic default. what is the impact? joining us is larry summers, former treasury secretary in the clinton administration. let's talk about some of your concerns, such as the cuts in irs funding. >> look, the biggest story is that we are putting this problem in the rearview mirror. the country is not going to default. we are not going to have the kind of economic catastrophe that looked like a real risk. we had an outbreak of adulthood in washington with a compromise being reached. that's a good thing. most of the elements in that compromise are broadly reasonable, from my point of view.

where i have a grave concern is with the cutback in the resources for the irs. the irs has been profoundly underfunded for a decade. that's meant they haven't been able to answer the phones. at one point, there were 25 million returns stacked up in cafeterias with the return unopened. so refund checks are delayed. we weren't enforcing a law against people who were cheating. some significant number of people, 100 or so, who had incomes over $10 million and had not filed a tax return, weren't even audited or looked at within the three year statute of limitations. one of the best things the biden administration had done was put in place a program to over a

decade fix all of that, start collecting the taxes that are owed. every expect agreed it would reduce the budget deficit, that it would create a more morally and legally legitimate tax code by particularly going after wealthy taxpayers who, frankly, were cheating on their taxes. it would raise revenue at a time when that is something we very much need given the scale of the budget deficit. unfortunately, this agreement takes away 25% of that much needed funding. hopefully, after a few years, that funding can be restored. but that's an aspect of this agreement that i think was profoundly irresponsible. i wish the republicans had not pushed for it so hard and not been so insistent on it. frankly, had not been like

demagogues are the irs. i wish president biden and his team had not exceeded to it. overall, this is a good agreement. >> you are right about the demonization of the irs over the last couple of years has been striking. without any kind of substantive explanation for it. >> look, andrea, on the irs building was inscribed a quotation, taxes are what we pay for civilization. if we expect the vast majority of law abiding americans, vast majority of people who get their taxes withheld from their paychecks, to meet their obligations, we owe it to them to make sure that the wealthiest and most fortunate of our

citizens, who don't get withheld on their income, because it's not coming in wages, that they meet their obligations as well. yet less than 1% of people reporting over $1 million in income were audited last year. we really have to do better as a country. it was a start and it's a tragedy that it has been cut back. >> on the debt ceiling, it looks as though they are coming together, that the senate leaders think they can get this thing through. do you think despite the warning from one of the three major rating agencies, do you think that the u.s. can avoid a downgrade, which would be more expensive because of the messiness of the process leading up to this? >> i would guess we will avoid a downgrade. if we don't avoid a downgrade, it will say more about the

rating agency than about the credit worthiness of the united states. we managed this in a way where our problem is not going to be this political crisis. our problem is going to be our problem, which is that if you project forward revenues and you project forward expenditures, expenditures are greater than revenues. that's even on really optimistic assumptions. by 2033, the deficit is going to reach 7% of gdp. they assume that defense spending is a share of gdp will fall by a lot. you and i looking at russia, what's happening in china, around the world, would expect defense spending to rise. cbo thinks the one year treasury

is going to average 2.3 over the next decade. right now, it's running at 5. it may come down from 5, but i don't think it's coming anything like all the way down to 2.3 on average over the next decade. i think the tax cuts that are scheduled in the current law to phase out in 2025, i wouldn't assume that all of that will happen. i think we're looking at a pretty significant debt accumulation deficit issue at the federal level. we're going to have to deal with it in the next several years. >> that's quite a warning. larry summers, thank you for being with us today. >> thank you. straight ahead, one of the senate democrats who is a no vote on the deal. that's next. stay with us. you are watching "andrea mitchell reports." this is msnbc. "andrea mitchell reports." this is msnbc.

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future debt ceiling votes by not holding out any of the possible executive actions he could have taken. the second is that this doesn't fit with what americans are telling us across the country or back home. i have held more than two dozen town halls since january. we need help with mental health, taking on fentanyl and taking on affordable housing. all of those programs will be diminished by this deal. furthermore, this is a climate catastrophe. this bill sets precedents that are terrible for the future. one of those is that by legislation, we will exempt massive projects from any environmental accountability. if a powerful corporation wants their venue moved for the courts, we will move it. it's a huge attack on the integrity of our judiciary. third, they changed a series of

words that are in our bedrock environmental laws allowing things now, for example, like corporations to write their own environmental impact statements and to do things of that nature. changed -- it's a standard for data and science that needs to be brought to bear. that damage will be with us into the future. >> the president's argument is that he protected the climate -- some of the climate initiatives from the ira, which would have been removed completely if the house bill had won the day. >> the house bill was never a threat of any kind. it had no chance in the senate. that's a side piece. we can set that one out. >> at least that was the bottom line, the going in argument for house republican caucus. does the president deserve some credit for having moved it more in the direction of where democrats felt they could live with it, many of the democrats? >> the president approached this with a vision that there were

two windows. one is the republicans run the economy off the cliff or second of all that he accept a series of proposals out of sync with the democratic party. he is claiming victory by diminishing the size of the impacts out of sync with our party. nonetheless, it was majors that came out of the republican agenda. it was not a negotiation where you say, for example, the biggest contributor to our deficits were the bush tax cuts and trump tax cuts and, therefore, some of addressing the deficit has to come from tax fairness. that didn't happen. nothing out of our side. it was out of programs that are going to affect the foundations for families to thrive with health care, housing and education. >> i want to ask you about your feelings about the executive actions he could have taken. i guess you are referring to the 14th amendment. won't it have taken so long to

get through the courts that you would have blown past the deadline and that could have created a recession, joblessness and other terrible consequences that all of us would have hated to have seen? >> the president could have acted earlier. he also had probably a better tool even, an ability to mint and deposit funds into the federal reserve, which can be done on short notice. from all counts, more immune to potential challenge. >> senator, you assume this is going to pass despite your objections? >> yes. it's going to pass. we saw what happened in the house. members are very afraid of attack ads. what we end up doing in this great irony is the majority of the votes are coming from democrats for an agenda that's a republican agenda. republicans are scratching their heads over how this came to be. it comes from democrats wanting to back up the president.

i certainly have that instinct most of the time. but this time, because of the significant impact on everything my constituents in oregon across my state are saying they need, and this undermines that, in addition the significant impact of these on fighting climate, which is the biggest issue fating humanity, i cannot let it go. >> i appreciate your being with us today, senator. it's an important point of view. thank you very much. >> thank you. what's causing the in hazin the air quality alert up the coast. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports." this is msnbc. msnbc. they may be missing vaccination for meningitis b. although uncommon, up to 1 in 5 survivors of meningitis will have long term consequences.

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diplomats is extracting a half a billion dollars a year in gold, rare timber, and blood diamonds. the profits are extremely hard to trace. two western diplomats tell nbc news wagner helicopters fly right to the mine sites, collect the diamonds, mix them with documented stones, and send them to jewel hubs in the united arab emirates, israel, and belgium. from there they could end up on your wedding ring. gold is even easier. once melted down into bars, it's nearly impossible to track. wagner operates openly in bangi, the united states maintains a small embassy. i went to see the ambassador. >> now, the united states' position on the wagner group is very clear. the wagner group is a transnational criminal organization, and being instructed by a criminal organization is not a recipe for

success. >> reporter: nbc news has interviewed witnesses and reviewed testimony from the investigative group the sentry claiming wagner mercenaries use violence including rape, murder, and torture to scare residents away from the mines. i met one of the few local activists speaking out. >> has any wagner fighter been held accountable for anything in this country? >> never. never. >> never? >> i never saw an example of that. this is one of the problems. >> reporter: the government here refuses to accept any issues with wagner. a top adviser to the president and a big man here in every sense. >> wagner is bad in the other country, but in our country, they're good. they bring to us democracy, real democracy in this country. >> they bring you peace and quiet. >> peace and quiet.

>> and what about all the resources they take? >> it is from western opinion. >> reporter: with no pushback, wagner has discovered trading protection from minerals in africa is a lucrative business, and it's expanding. u.s. government and military officials tell nbc news wagner has spread from its base here to more than a dozen countries from mali to sudan, attempting to form a pirate empire across africa. >> nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel with that extraordinary reporting. and the wildfires blazing across canada's nova scotia province impacting air quality across large sections of north america, including the northeast and the mid-atlantic regions. just look at that haze and smoke. smoke from the fires have prompted air quality alerts in states from maine to wisconsin. officials say the wildfires

which have forced tens of thousands of evacuations are unprecedented. joining me is now is anne thompson. what is the end for this? we see it in the northeast. >> there's actually some good news for the people in the northeast who for the past couple of days have been dealing with the haze and smoke, and more importantly, the people in nova scotia who are just seeing their homes burn to the ground. they have to deal with one more hot day, andrea. there are 16 active fires, three of them are out of control, but tomorrow the temperature dips to the 60s and rain is forecast, so there might actually be a break, and there are firefighters who are going to nova scotia from new hampshire and new york. as for the air quality in this country, i'm very happy to tell you that today there are no air quality alerts in the northeast because of the smoke from the canadian wildfires, but it is something people have to pay

attention to because we expect to have this kind of situation. the scientists i've talked to said you can anticipate, you'll have this throughout the summer. you have to pay attention to those air quality alerts, particularly if you or someone you love has heart disease or lung disease, particularly if you suffer from asthma because those small particles that are in the air could irritate your lungs and do damage to you. so it's something to be aware of as we go forward in this summer. andrea. >> you know, it's e remarkable, i'm used to seeing this in colorado, wyoming, montana, the west coast, but never before in the northeast. but this is the effect of climate. >> what's amazing, in canada wildfire season has already started. earlier last month it was in alberta, and now it's in nova scotia, and it's because it was hot and dry, and that's climate change. >> anne thompson, thank you. and it is june 1st, and that

means pride celebrations are kicking off across the country. but this year many of those events are facing an increasingly hostile environment. nearly 500 anti-lgbtq bills have been introduced in state legislatures across the country, and some big businesses are facing calls from boycotts with target and bud light fighting backlash from their marketing and merchandise. tonight on "nightly news," nbc's stephanie gosk explores what's changed and why this could be the most consequential pride month in years. that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports," thanks for being with us, follow us online on facebook and twitter @mitchellreports. "chris jansing reports" starts right now. ♪♪ good day, i'm chris jansing live in washington, d.c. one down, one to go, after house lawmakers voted overwhelmingly for the debt deal, the spotlight now shifting to the senate where there's a major push to get this