and here is that also typical photo with the president. after that, travis kelce took advantage of the empty podium to address the crowd. >> so i've been waiting for this moment. sorry, sorry. >> as you can see, quarterback patrick mahomes stepped in steering kelce away from the mic drawing laughs from the crowd. just like hey, i see an empty podium, i'm taking it. and there you see them taking the podium away for another opportunity at a photo with president biden. and that wraps up the hour for me. you can always reach me on twitter, instagram and you can watch highlights from today's show online@jd balart msnbc. andrea mitchell picks it up with more news right now. right now on andrea mitchell

reports, president trump lashing out at jack smith today trying to portray the investigation as an attempt to rig the 2024 election calling on his supporters to fight against the justice department and fbi in a series of fiery social media posts. as the potential for indictments grows by the day. despite a direct appeal this week from trump's legal team. the special counsel in new video obtained exclusively by nbc news is not ready to show his cards. >> is an indictment coming soon, sir? is an investigation wrapping up, sir? also today, former new jersey governor chris christie is entering the republican contest kicking off a string of announcements this week from candidates trying to catch donald trump in the polls. and i'll be joined by maryland governor wes moore on the culture wars being waged by top

republicans as a wedge issue against democrats. plus a disaster in ukraine, a major dam and electric power plant blown up, thousands are being evacuated from rising floodwaters and europe's largest nuclear plant could be in jeopardy. is russia responsible as the kremlin blames ukraine. good day, everyone. i'm andrea mitchell. with the special counsel leading the investigation into former president trump's alleged mishandling of classified documents is nearing the end of his probe after meeting face-to-face with the trump legal team. there are also new developments in florida where a separate federal grand jury will convene this week and is expected to hear testimony in the special counsel's investigation. but at this point it is not clear how the proceedings in florida in any way impact the grand jury investigation in washington. this morning mr. trump labeling special counsel smith a trump

hater while repeating claims that he did nothing wrong. and in a new nbc exclusive video, jack smith here in washington today refusing to comment on the investigation. joining me now, justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian, harry litman and also peter bark. so ken, set the stage for us. the special counsel certainly not talking. there are multiple developments at the justice department and now in florida. >> that's right. and taken together, it paints the picture of an investigation that appears to have reached its end and poised for a charging decision and certainly that meeting between the trump lawyers and jack smith and senior career officials at the justice department was a harbinger of that, that is the kind of meeting that happens at the end 6 an investigation when lawyers are trying to argue their case to upper levels of the justice department. of course merrick garland was not involved in that meeting consistent with his hands off

policy. so this reporting that we have that there is testimony happening at a florida grand jury, it could mean a number of different things ranging from they intend to bring an entire case in florida to, that there is a witness that they need to get before a grand jury who can't make it up to washington, d.c. and everything in between, including charges in multiple jurisdictions. of course there is a man who is sort of trump's body man who has told a couple different stories about whether he moved documents at trump's urging at mar-a-lago and may be liable now for a false statement case. that would have to be brought in florida. so that is one possible explanation of what is going on in florida. but just overall big picture, we are expecting that this case is reaching a decision point and we're essentially on indictment watch at this moment. >> and harry, take us through jack smith's strategy here including sitting down with trump's legal team just

yesterday. >> that is something that is routine when it is asked for, but normally a savvy defense lawyer will try to propose some kind of deal, some kind of actualdy actualdy minute nugs of the charges. and they went in guns blazing. and i agree with ken, it may be a smidgeon farther, i think a charging decision before that meeting would have occurred, it would have all gone up to the attorney general, there would be a draft indictment, there would be a selection of which charges to bring because there are possible ones. and now once that meeting happens, i think that the only move left is go to the grand jury and ask them to present a true bill. i just want to say about florida, i think that ken is probably right, i think that it is an individual action against either someone who either him or

another who helped with the search. >> and donald trump is ramping up his attacks against jack smith calling him a fascist and other terrible names all in caps on social media. it is a lot like what we saw in the days leading up to the manhattan d.a. a alvin bragg announcing indictments. hard to tell what is happening here, it is all a secret process, but as harry pointed out, some of the last stages that the defense lawyers come in and they clearly brief their client and now he is just exploding on social media. >> it does suggest that he knows something may be coming and certainly trying to prepare the ground for it, prepare the ground with his base, his republican voters as he seeks the nomination for next year. trying to discredit any indictment that might come, saying this is just one more part of the elaborate witch hunt. and i haven't met anybody yet who liked the prosecutor and

said nice things about the prosecutor, but a tried and true strategy for former president trump at least politically to try to make clear that anything that ever is alleged about him has nothing to do with him, all that people are out to get him, he needs the victimization narrative and it has been successful for him. the whether is whether it will continue to be successful. his numbers went up after the alvin bragg investigation. you have to wonder after a certain number of indictments if it turns on the that there are more than this one, does it begin to weigh him down. because at a certain point trump voters say yeah, i like him, but this is an awful lot of baggage here. >> and so ken dilanian, when do we expect to hear anything more definitive? tomorrow perhaps? >> we're taking it day by day.

it could happen this week, we could hear something this week, it could push but it really does feel like the next couple weeks are very important, we're getting a lot of signals. you know how it works in washington. wiks and nods that we should stay close to our phones and to the camera. >> and obviously be watching msnbc. thanks to all of you. into the breach. destruction of a major dam in ukraine unleashing massive flooding forcing people to evacuate. this is all near the frontlines. the latest in a live report coming next. who is responsible. u.s. intelligence working feverishly to confirm the latest. o confirm the latest

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endangering the nuclear power plant. kyiv accuses moscow of blowing up this dam which is currently under russian control and russian officials blame ukraine. this video showing big chunks of the dam, the reservoir roughly the same size as the great salt lake. thousands of residents are being evacuated with half a million people potentially impacted. molly hunter has been covering this. what can you tell us about just what president zelenskyy is saying and what the evacuation possibilities are because people are in the firing line, russian forces right on the other side of that river. >> reporter: yeah, that's right. it is a horrifying chaotic scene and certainly even harder to figure out when we're not actually physically in kherson. so as you mentioned, russian forces are on the east bank and

that river, that dam and reservoir were basically the frontlines. so ukrainian officials what is happening on the west bank where people are living, they say tens of thousands of ukrainian civilians are in kind of the danger flood zone and the floodwaters are rising. we do have from ukrainian officials some new numbers. they expect the peak water levels to be reached tomorrow morning. the level will then stabilize after four or five days and then the water will recede, so that may allow for more evacuations. we understand right now given tens of thousands of people are in that danger zone, they have only managed to evacuate 1300 people because of russian shelling. one analyst i spoke with earlier today, as you mentioned 500,000 people he expects will be affected by power losses and flooding, but he expects by tonight, by sun down tonight, 300,000 people will be without safe drinking water in that area. >> and talk about zaporizhzhia, the power plant.

it has been at risk various times during shelling. we know that they need cooling water for the nuclear rods, the spent fuel. >> reporter: that's right. and actually just in the last hour, i wrapped an interview with the head of the state nuclear energy company here and i asked him just that, to run a nuclear power plant, you need water and power and both were coming from the reservoir attached to this dam. he says right now he is not in kind of a full-scale 24 hour panic because all six of those reactors are currently off. an as we know, zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, europe's biggest nuclear power plant, is controlled by russia. so he says there is a real uncertainty what they may do. at the moment all six reactors are off and that means that the water levels in the cooling pools are adequate and he says as long as there is not additional power being required, as long as there is not additional water being required and those six reactors stay off,

he is not terribly nervous about that plant right this send kind of in the immediate future. what he did say is what he says and what we've heard from officials like president zelenskyy is that today showed for ukrainians that russia would target this major infrastructure. and he says nothing really feels off the table after they have done this given the effect and the long term effects that today's attack will have. as you mentioned, president zelenskyy has reaction aed of course multiple times. he called an emergency meeting this morning. he calls it a terrorist act and a war crime. >> molly hunter, thank you. two more getting ready to get in the presidential race, that is next. that is next

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the republican attacks against donald trump are likely to ramp up in a big way as former new jersey governor chris christie once a trump ally but since january 6 a sharp critic, officially joining the 2024 primary race today after his failed run in 2016. christie arguing that candidates in a primary need to take trump on head on. >> they kind of cozy up to him, they hope he implodes and if they are nice to him, they will inherit his voters which i think

is a losing proposition. >> and joining me now, shaq brewster in manchester, new hampshire. and also steve kornacki is at the big board. and charlie sykes editor at large and also susan page also joining us. and so shaq, why is chris christie jumping in now, what does it mean for trump? he didn't to well in new hampshire last time around. but chris christie is battle ready and as a former prosecutor he might have a certain extra edge this time around? >> reporter: right, i mean, if you listen to what governor christie has said in the past, he has been clear that he will have that attempt to at least start some fireworks, start some sparks about the former president donald trump. it was back in march when governor christie was here in new hampshire at a town hall meeting teasing a potential presidential run. and he said back in 2016 he made

a strategic error by trying to avoid the former president. but he's no longer that ally and january 6 fundamentally changed how he viewed the former president and he says he will take the former president head-on. and his campaign is being very clear that is the strategy. they want to be a counterpunch to former president trump. they want chris christie to do in their words what he did to marco rubio back in 2016, they want him to do that to donald trump this time around. but we have to also be honest that governor christie has serious headwinds coming into this race. it is early, but you look at polls, he is polling at about 1% nationally. when you look at his unfavorable rating just among republican voters, only 27% of republican voters view him in a favorable way. so he has a challenge here. but he is making it very clear that he wants to take on former

president trump and he wants to do that directly. and by the way, it is not just trump. he already went after governor desantis suggesting that he is naive for some foreign policy comments that he made. he also went after vice president pence here in new hampshire saying that he has been weak in the way that he has been handling trump. so you can expect to see a very aggressive governor christie once he hits the campaign trail officially. >> thank you for your reporting. and steve kornacki, let's talk about is there room in the republican party for someone who is going to go after donald trump, even someone as loyal as mike pence? he was booed at a conservative gathering this spring just for the fact that he had not gone along with what the president wanted him to do on january 6 two years ago. >>s it is a real interesting question especially as it pertains to christie. shaq was taking you through the numbers. this is monmouth last week,

christie didn't even register in it. trump far ahead, desantis a distant second. you can see favorable/unfavorable among republicans. there is christie. no one else is even remotely close when it comes to 21% favor only, 47% unfavorable. so the market for a christy candidacy among republicans is questionable whether that really exists and whether he can really change it. that is a heck of a challenge for him. but what shaq was just saying about that christie style on the debate stage, that is a variable that i think is interesting. because he mentions in 2016 when christie got on the debate stage with marco rubio, put yourself back in that moment if you can remember it. donald trump had just lost iowa. the viability of his candidacy was in question. he needed a bounceback win in new hampshire. marco rubio was surging in the polls. christie was going flat nowhere at that point. but christie used that moment on

that debate stage to absolutely dismantle marco rubio. and it resulted in trump winning new hampshire and arguably putting him on the path to win the nomination. so christie never tried that game against donald trump. we saw a lot of other republicans at varying times in '16 try to force or stage moments where they stood up to trump. they generally ended up looking weak, slinking off. if christie can make the debate stage, if donald trump shows up for it and if christie does what he is telegraphing that he will do, it could be a variable we haven't seen in '16. i don't know if it elevates christie at all in terms of his standing, but could it land a punch against trump that nobody in nearly a decade now of watching trump interact with the

republican party, that nobody has managed to land. >> and charlie sykes, i'm told mike pence when he announces tomorrow in iowa, he is going to be more -- a this people close to him feels as former vice president, obviously very loyal to the end until of course january 6 happened, that he can be a fact checker on what donald trump really was like. now, how does that play, how does he do that after having been the loyal wing man for so long remains to be seen. but that is mike pence elaine. >> yeah, there is perhaps a normy lane. but to steve's points about all the ifs about chris christie, i want to mention, first of all, donald trump is never going to get on a debate stage with chris christie. s it is just not going to happen. christie will have to find a way to punch back.

chris christie is a deeply flaw flawed candidate but also fundamentallital evented. mike pence will be playing to the evangelical base. and earlier this week, we did see something that i thought was interesting. maybe a roadmap for mike pence where you had the republican candidates who have been reluctant to go after donald trump were very open in criticizing his praise for kim jung-un. and i thought that was interesting. donald trump has been praising dictators for a long time and most of the republicas hadn't said anything. but maybe they sensed a moment that it was all right to go after donald trump on something like that, a penlg that perhaps they can drive. and i think that mike pence will try to look for those shots, the areas where he can separate donald trump's image from the

reality of donald trump with the very, very conservative evangelical electorate. that hasn't happened so far, but that is about his only lane. >> interestingly except for members of the senate, a lot of base didn't even mind when he cozied up to vladimir putin, although some of the republican senators clearly spoke out about that. but kim jung-un really didn't seem like a bridge too far. you know, you are right. they are both tick at a time dictators, murderer, kirls. one arguably worse i don't know if you can even argue about who is the worst dictator between the two. susan, former governor nikki haley -- excuse me, susan page, former governor nikki haley is another candidate who also chimed in about kim jung-un and she is also former u.n. ambassador of course.

also raising eyebrows for criticizing transgender athletes and saying this is the women's issue of our time. let's take a watch. >> the idea that we have biological boys playing in girls' sports, it is the women's issue of our time. how are we supposed to get used to the fact that biological boys are in their locker rooms and then we wonder why a third of our teenage girls seriously contemplated suicide last year. >> that was obviously the town hall with jake tapper on cnn. but there is absolutely no data that trans athletes are causing suicides among teen girls or has any kind of effect like that. to say that that is the women's issue of the year? >> well, you know, transgender issues have become a big wedge in the republican party.

it has been useful as a cultural issue for several of the candidates. but if you want to talk about women's issue of the next presidential campaign, it is more likely the access to abortion. and that is an issue that republican candidates including nikki haley have had trouble talking because the issue has been turned on its head since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade. but whatever the power of the transgender issue among republicans, among conservative voters, culture warriors, it is unlikely to propel i think a presidential campaign. nikki haley trying to get her up numbers up. we'll see if she can do that. >> and also fundraising, she has to get her numbers up in terms of the polling and fundraising, right? >> yes, the rnc has worked out a reasonably high bar to get into the debates, a little higher

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attack that brought down a major dam in ukraine. courtney kube has been working sources. people were saying that it was leaning towards an indication that russia was responsible. what have you found out? >> yeah, that is exactly it. the u.s. intelligence is leaning towards, so they have information that is pointing towards russia being behind this attack on the dam. and according to two u.s. officials, we expect that the u.s. is trying to declassify some of that information so that they can make it public and show some of the information that they have that would point to russia being behind this. and we've been talking about it all day here on msnbc and nbc news about just the significance of this attack. you can see there the water flowing through that dam. it is not only going to present a potentially tremendous humanitarian challenge to ukraine, but there is also a real danger to it. so the reservoir for this dam, the water from there was used to

cool the six soviet era reactors at the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant nearby. as you well know, if the reactors are to overheat, it could cause a meltdown and a humanitarian problem for miles and miles around that area. so in addition to just what we're seeing there, just the flow of water and the potentially tens of thousands of people who may be in that path there, there is a real danger to that nuclear power plant nearby. >> exactly right. molly hunter was reporting earlier that right now reactors are down, so the energy chief she spoke to said that there is no immediate danger but that can't last for long. and of course the loss of power and clean water is another huge problem. thank you so much, courtney kube. and back to domestic politics. efforts to ban books at american libraries and schools have nearly doubled in between un-2. culture wars, more than 2500

books are targeted, heist number in 20 years. and the common theme involves lgbtq issues and books written bynumber in 20 years. and the common theme involves lgbtq issues and books written by or about people of color. governor wes moore is calling on publishers not to censor books. you took on this issue. we're seeing textbooks being banned, not just florida and texas, but a lot of red states. and textbooks involving commonly heralded authors, many black authors and other historians of black history. >> and there is a reason why myself and these other governors have stepped up on this issue. it is not just because banning the bluest eye or banning beloved or banning books about stonewall or january need internment that it is not consistent with our values, but it is a danger because our

history is our strength. you have to be able to know where you are coming from if you want an understanding of where we're going. and i think of what we're all hoping to achieve and accomplish because when people say, well, we are pulling back or curtailing of curriculum because we don't want people to feel bad owe or we don't want people to feel disgruntled about their past, that is not true. this has nothing to do about making people feel bad. it is about making sure that people don't understand their strength. the reason that i move the way that i do is because i know my history. i know where i come from, both my family and my history and my culture. and so that gets me the power to know that nothing is impossible. and that is why it is important to make sure that our history is protected and that people have a chance to be able to understand just how powerful our history and our national arc has been in order for people to feel empowered about what they can get done in the future. >> it is as important to educate

white people as people of color about their own history. >> that's right. and to show the arc of our country's history has been uneven. and in many cases it has been brutal. yet at the same time, we're still here. and we still continue to advance together. and that is the power of understanding our own collective history. >> i'll give you a small personal example. he was talking about this issue with a colleague just in the last day who said that she was a history major, her husband was a history major. very well educated people. and is ashamed that she did not they about tulsa until the 100th anniversary and there was so much coverage about what happened in tulsa, oklahoma. the entire community wiped out with an aerial attack from the united states of america. >> and if we don't understand that history, as is said, you are doomed to repeat it, you are doomed to not take away the lessons learned and now how

empowered you are. when we had our inauguration, i started it at the docks which is one of the oldest slave ports. and a couple hundred people marched from the docks up to the statehouse where i was sworn into become the 63rd governor. and immediately people said that he is starting his inauguration, his governorship with indoctrination, that is not indoctrination, it is history. and it wasn't done to make people feel bad, it was done in a way of making all of us feel empowered about look where we've come from and look where we are now. >> weren't you sworn in on frederick douglass' historic bible? >> i was. and another intentional thing. one bible was my grandfather's bible and he was the first black minister in the history of the dutch reformed church. and second was bible of

frederick douglass who was also a mayor lander. marylander. and i was honored that the family allowed me to use his bible. >> and he was imprisoned for trying to run away and wrote about it. >> and that is history. >> i want to talk about the campaign in this context then. tim scott has an extraordinary history and running partly on his biography and partly on the optimism that he projects, almost a reagan type republican optimism. and he had a very interesting conversation on "the view" about his belief that there is no such thing as systemic racism. let's watch. >> you have indicated that you don't believe in systemic racism. what is your definition of systemic racism? >> let me answer the question that you've asked -- >> or does it even exist in your mind. >> let me answer the question this way. one of the things that i think about and one of the reasons why i'm on the show is because of the comments that were made on this so that the only way for a

young african-american kid to be successful in this country is to be the exception and not the rule. that is a dangerous offensive disgusting message to send to our young people today that the only way to succeed is by being the exception. >> i know senator scott and i know how he is very popular with his colleagues and i think that he had an extraordinary launch of his campaign. but that is one of his big theories, one of his beliefs i should say. how would you respond to that? >> i'd respond to -- while i understand his point, his thesis is not true. we are existing in a framework where you can understand the kournt -- you can't understand the current situation if we don't understand our past. in the state of maryland, we have an 8:1 racial wealth gap. that is not because one group worked eight times harder. that is not what happened.

you can't understand why there is a wealth gap unless you understand things like red lining and where you had literally people being separated on where they were living and where they could live and where they could buy property depending on their skin color. you can't understand the racial wealth gap if you don't understand transportation lines that were put in place to separate people and create access and mobility for certain groups and a lack of access and no mobility for other groups. you can't understand a racial wealth gap unless you understand educational systems that were intentionally used to create measurements of separation. if we're not willing to acknowledge our past, we're not going to be able to have a productive conversation about the future. there are measures of intentionality that have created the type of social systems that we exist in into this day. so we need a measure of intentionality to unearth those systems and create a measurement where you can have economic and societal growth for all and not just some people. >> obviously ron desantis in

using these issues in florida and now in his national campaign has weaponized it and feels that it is very effective against democrats. >> i just don't see how it is going to be a political win to separate people. i don't see how it will be a political win to tell certain people that your history is less relevance or less important, your history has less of a context to the larger mosaic of this beautiful tapestry which is the united states. i know in the state of maryland, we are very clear that we are not going to be a state that thinks that we're going to build a model based on going after our largest corporations, based on a model of telling women that difficult decision between them and their there now should involve delegates and state senators and we're not going to be a state that will focus on telling people that learning about the holocaust oral better toe clemente or hank aaron is

somehow detrimental to the educational success of our children. we believe all people must be heard and acknowledged and that is what we think will be not just the right thing for us in the state of maryland but i think it is also the way that they should focus on trying to win political elections as well. >> governor wes moore of maryland, always great to see you. i know you have a busy schedule, but come back soon. >> i sure will. thank you. and a plane of undocumented migrants landing in california, who sent them there. [bones cracking] ♪ (tense music) ♪ one aleve works all day so i can keep working my magic. just one aleve. 12 hours of uninterrupted pain relief. aleve. who do you take it for?

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response from governor desantis or officials in florida. joining me now, homeland security correspondent julia ainsley. these chartered flights were conducted by the same company that shuttled migrants to martha's vineyard last year. do the sacramento arrivals follow a similar pattern? >> they absolutely to. and this is the latest escalation as these two states red and blue are using migrants to make political points. this is desantis actually taking migrants from texas and sending them to california just like he did last summer when migrants went from texas to martha's vineyard on buses paid for by florida taxpayers. this is not migrants that came in through florida, they came through texas, were transported through mexico and over to california. this is according of course to the california attorney general who says that they have evidence that they followed that pattern and that the same company

virtual systems that took migrants to martha's vineyard last summer are now taking migrants to california. and they say migrants were misled, they thought they had a better chance of getting a job and claiming asylum if they left the state of texas. desantis is not commenting but last summer he did comment on why he sent immigrants to martha's vineyard, part of his employ to show that he wants blue states and blue cities to take the brunt of what he thinks is a red state problem with more migrants coming in. but we should point out the actual number of border crossings are 70% less than what they were in early may. >> and you also have new border crossing numbers since the end of title it shows a noticeable decline in the number of crossings. >> that's right. it is a 70% decrease. we saw that drop off as i was stating at the border, when title 42 lifted, we expected numbers to go from 11,000 a day up to maybe 14, 15,000 a day and instead they fell. now they're averaging about 3400

crossings a day. many more people are using apps to claim asylum set up appointment to come in, also more people taking a wait and see approach trying to see if it is harder now to get across. because since title 42 lifted there is a five-year ban, if you're caught crossing the border illegally and deported, it is harder to get back in. before there were no such consequences. perhaps that's what's happening this decrease impact here, andrea. >> julia ainsley, thank you so much. and robert hanssen, the fbi agent convicted of one of the worst spying episodes in u.s. history, has died in a colorado supermax prison. he was convicted of spying on russia's behalf both during and after the cold war for more than two decades. hanssen, seen here being taken into custody after making his final dead drop for the russians in february of 2001 was serving a life sentence, labeled the most damaging spy in bureau history. during his years spying for moscow, he outed several

undercover russians, working for the u.s. who were then executed. and then also was responsible for revealing to moscow that the cia had built a tunnel under the russian embassy in d.c. for eavesdropping. robert hanssen was 79 years old. and making his case, prince harry in court, taking the stand against the british tabloids. what he had to say coming up next. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. ♪ ♪ - why are these so bad?

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royal history was made in a london courtroom today as prince harry became the first royal to testify in 130 years. taking the stand in a lawsuit accusing britain's mirror group of phone hacking for stories. harry was cross-examined about the tabloid group hacked his cell phone more than a decade ago. he and his wife meghan accusing the tabloid media outlet of invaing their privacy. the mirror group said it used documents, public statements and sources to legally report on the prince. nbc's meagan fitzgerald joins us now from outside the courthouse in london. so, tell us about his testimony and cross examination. extraordinary. >> reporter: well, absolutely. as expected, because we have been speaking with legal experts, we saw defense of prince harry today. the suspicion by these attorneys was that his credibility would

be attacked and that's most certainly what we saw today. we're talking about 33 articles in question that prince harry alleges were written through information that was unlawfully obtained. and so we saw pretty much off the bat, in the beginning of the morning, the attorney for mgn, andrew green, asking prince harry if he read all 33 of those articles to which prince harry responded that he couldn't remember. so then, of course, that opens the door for the attorney to then follow up and say, well, if you can't remember, then how is it that you have been impacted by those articles and prince harry then responded that every single article that was written about him has caused him distress. we also saw the posture of the attorney asking him about the evidence that he could present, that suggests that there were unlawful tactics used to produce these articles and he said, look, that's a question that you need to ask the journalists. he says as a witness, it is not my position to deconstruct how

these journalists got their information. a tough day, certainly, for prince harry today. on his quest on his life's mission as he said to try and change the landscape here in the uk and certainly around the world of the tabloid press. andrea? >> meagan fitzgerald in london, thank you so much. big news in the sports world today where the year long standoff between the pga tour and the saudi-backed liv golf has ended with a blockbuster merger between the two. the deal is going to end all pending lawsuits between the two parties, and usher in a new era for professional golf. a big money era, in fact. the liv tour gained strength by signing a number of top golfers away from the pga with enormous multimillion dollar contracts, drawing criticism from some traditional golfers as well as a lot of human rights advocates being run by the saudi government. former president trump, whose golf course hosts liv events, hailed the merger in a social

media post as a big, beautiful and glamorous deal. at this hour, by the way, secretary of state blinken is just landing in saudi arabia to try to repair relations that have been strained for quite a while, meeting with mohammad bin salman, we expect tonight or tomorrow. that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." chris jansing reports starts right now. tchell reports." chris jansing reports starts right now. good day, everybody. i'm chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. for the first time since he became special counsel, jack smith is pressed on camera just as we're learning that a second grand jury is operating a thousand miles away from his home base in d.c. what multiple new reports tell us about the investigation into donald trump. plus, new jersey tough guy chris christie has waited seven long