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 years for a second shot at

taking trump down. today, he gets it. so will his campaign be more focused on the presidency or the former president. and the destruction of a major dam in southern ukraine floods the front lines. releasing millions of gallons of water and turning entire towns into lakes. as bad as it is, the worst may be yet to come. we'll have a live report from ukraine in just a minute. but we start with an intriging mystery surrounding the investigation into donald trump and his handling of classified documents. we're now learning that a second grand jury has been hard at work down in florida in addition to the one in d.c. according to "the new york times," they already heard from one witness, with at least one more slated for later this week. but we don't know who the witnesses are, who the target might be or why that second grand jury was empanelled. and we'll still learning new details about the high stakes, highly unusual meeting between

special counsel jack smith and trump's three attorneys, a meeting that trump's legal team had been pushing for, but reportedly didn't think they were likely to get. once they did, the guardian reports they spent their time not defending trump's actions, but complaining about perceived misconduct. i want to bring in ken dilanian who has been following all this. angela weizman served as the fbi's general counsel, an msnbc legal analyst. great to have you here. ken, let's start with this florida grand jury. what do we know about it? >> at nbc news, we're report, the grand jury is going to take testimony from one witness this week. as you mentioned, we don't know the nature of the witness. there is a range of possibilities here as to why they're using a second grand jury. by the way, we don't know this grand jury was empanelled specifically for this investigation. it could just be a sitting grand

jury, down there, that they are using to take testimony in this case. the range of possibilities goes from they're intending to bring the entire case in a southern district of florida including any potential indictment of donald trump, to this is merely a matter of convenience. there is a particular witness they needed to hear from who couldn't make arrangements to come to washington to testify. and the possibilities in between include there is a particular individual named walt nada who was donald trump's butler and body man who appears to be in some jeopardy of being charged with make a false statement to investigators. they would have to bring this case in florida, so that's possible that they're hearing testimony on that, in front of this grand jury. it is also possible they're bifurcating this investigation. there is some charges they intend to bring in florida and other charges they intend to bring in washington if, in fact, they bring the charges. we saw a similar dynamic in the mueller investigation, with paul manafort, which andrew weizman knows a lot about. those are the possibilities. we're doing more reporting. we don't have explicit answers,

but it feels like the larger context here is we're getting to the end of this classified documents investigation. >> andrew, that's a lot of possibilities based on your experience. do you think that some things are more likely than others? >> well, i think the thing that is most likely is that donald trump is going to be charged. there is an open issue about whether it will be in d.c. or in florida, but for those people who have been anxiously awaiting accountability, i think that day has come. i think that the defense lawyers saying they weren't sure they were going to be heard bydoj is a lot of bluster. it is common for them to hear from defense counsel. i routinely did that. you give them an opportunity to be heard, factual or legal or discretionary arguments as to why you shouldn't go forward and you assess that. so that is a standard thing. and it is standard to have that at the very end of the investigation. we saw that as well in the

manhattan brag case where the state does that as well. so those are all signs that we're going to be seeing charges, but as ken noted, it is not clear exactly where they will be and it is not exactly clear if anyone else in addition to donald trump will be charged, and if so, where. >> well, devlin, can i say i watched you and you were nodding along with both of these guys, so obviously you agree with what they say. you had a lot of your own reporting. let's talk specifically about what we know, what you learned about what happened in that meeting between jack smith and trump's lawyers. >> so, according to people i've spoken to, the meeting did not go well from the point of view of the defense lawyers. to be honest, these meetings rarely -- defense lawyers rarely leave those types of meetings satisfied. it is rare for a prosecutor to change their mind based on one of these presentations. but as andrew says this is part of the process, and you are as a

typical practice supposed to give them a full and open hearing. i think what is particularly interesting about that meeting, though, is that they are arguing something that would only apply to a special counsel case, which is that the practices and policies of the justice department weren't followed here. that's important because the only way under the regs that attorney general merrick garland can overrule a jack smith decision is if he finds such wild deviants from the justice department practice. i think that's what they're going for here. but that's a long shot. >> so, in parlance that most people understand who followed normal court cases, but not special counsel cases, are they essentially setting up the possibility of an appeal or what is their endgame here? >> well, the problem for them is that in making this argument they actually are not well positioned because of the way the special counsel is quasi independent, they're not well

positioned to argue there is no case he shouldn't be charged. the only real chance they have to stop a charge because of the special counsel regulations is to say that the justice department acted inappropriately. it is a much higher bar to reach, and it doesn't seem so far as if they were very successful yesterday. >> is there anything about that reporting that surprises you, andrew, or is this what you would expect from a team of trump lawyers? >> it is the latter and just to build on what devlin said, even if the department of justice thought that jack smith had not been scrupulous in following every rule, there is no court that has the power to change that. these are just internal doj rules. this special counsel rules are not law. they're just department of justice internal policies. so there is no sort of endgame where they get to go to court

and say, oh, wait a second, they didn't follow these rules it would really only be merrick garland who would have that ability or, you know, somebody reporting to him and as devlin said, it is extremely unlikely that that is going to be anything that they can hang their hat on. so, again, i think this is relatively -- something that happens, you hear them out, but this is standard practice, but before a charge is brought. >> even before all this new reporting came out and i'm convinced that neither devlin or frankly anybody on our nbc team ever sleeps because they're always posting things and i get up 4:00, 5:00 in the morning and they posted overnight, but you posted on monday before this that you believe trump will be indicted, in d.c., this week. what leads you to that conclusion? >> it is a combination of

things. one is just how much proof that we have seen just over and over again, this is such an overwhelming case. two, as soon as jack smith feels like he has sufficient proof, he, i think, is going to feel that it is time to not as we used to say boil the ocean, meaning don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good, this is a case that should be brought, he will feel internal pressure to get this to trial and have the american public be able to see the evidence, and a jury to decide one way or the other so the electorate gets to know that information. and, finally, i do think that when you see defense making a presentation, an appeal, that is a sign of the very last stages of the case. so if you put that all together, i just don't see any reason that this would be delayed. where i could be wrong, i'm given the most recent reporting,

is whether anything will be in d.c. or not. so it is conceivable that the charges would be brought in florida versus d.c. but i think that those people thinking is there going to be a charge, i think the answer to that is yes. >> andrew weizman, always great to have your expertise. ken dilanian and devlin barrett, thank you, both very much. the way to win is to beat the guy who is ahead. that's from former new jersey governor chris christie, who is ready to take on trump full force and he's launching his campaign tonight. will meeting trump attack for attack separate them from the pack? we're going to go live to manchester in 60 seconds. live t manchester in 60 seconds power e*trade's award-winning trading app makes trading easier. with its customizable options chain, easy-to-use tools and paper trading to help sharpen your skills, you can stay on top of the market from wherever you are. e*trade from morgan stanley.

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strategy that clearly differentiates him from the field. ready to mount as he puts it a direct frontal challenge against donald trump. now, he comes to the battle with hard won experience because in 2016, along with the rest of competitors, his campaign was buried by trump. and the former president is promising to do it again. sending out a warning to christie and other vocal opponents that he will, quote, put them in their place. all this and yet still 518 days until the election. nbc's shaquille brewster is in manchester, new hampshire, covering the campaign launch. jonathan lemire, msnbc political analyst, jennifer horn, former chair of the republican presidential party. what are we expecting from the campaign as it moves forward. >> the event will be a town hall style meeting. you can expect that interaction

between former governor christie and new hampshire voters. and any issues can really come up. when you ask about the theory of his campaign and the style of his campaign, you can see him work as a bulldog, especially against former president donald trump. that's not just coming from campaign sources, but you also heard governor christie preview that when he was last here in new hampshire. telling voters are he made a strategic error in 2016 with that failed presidential run, he ended up in sixth place in new hampshire by not taking on donald trump directly. he was an ally right after 2016 into the 2020 campaign, but now he's a sharp trump critic and you can expect to hear a lot of that criticism on the campaign trail and that's going to be a lot of his strategy. i want you to listen to what he told voters back in march about why he shifted his view on former president. >> i worked all the way through election night 2020 for him.

but i got off the train when he stood up in the west wing of the white house behind the seal of the president and told us the election was stolen when he didn't have one fact to back it up. i'm sorry. that's where i get off. to me, that's the defining moment, when you put yourself ahead of our democracy as president of the united states, it's over. >> reporter: by the way, in that exact town hall, as he was teasing this presidential run, he also went after governor desantis, at one point saying that he was naive for some comments he made about foreign policy. you also heard him mention vice president pence at one point, suggesting that he should go after former president trump a little bit more aggressively. but christie has a lot of room to make up here. if you look at polling, he's polling at 1% nationally, plenty of time. you look at his favorability rating, you have about 27% of republican voters saying that

they view him in a favorable way. so, it is clear that he wants to go after trump, it is clear that he with will have those contrasts and he'll draw those contrasts but he needs to pull some people into his camp and build the constituency. and it is not super clear how he'll do that and we'll watch to get hints of that tonight. >> it was interesting, jennifer, "the wall street journal" did their editorial board wrote that christie could be doing a public service by running and they cited his history of public smackdowns of political opponents. i wonder if his smackdowns of trump are exactly the reason he's polling at 1% and his favorability is 27%. do you think it will be received any differently this time by folks in new hampshire, which you know well, than it was back in '16. >> the problem is that donald trump has more support than he's ever had before at this point, right? we know he's got that 33% that is never going to leave him, that's going -- no matter what

he says or does. he's recently polling over 50%. what this race is missing is somebody who is taking him on directly. there is nobody in the race who is doing what chris christie is set up to do, so it will be interesting to find out if there are folks out there who have been waiting for the person who is willing to take on trump. it seems unlikely, but i think he's uniquely positioned. and the one thing christie has that nobody else in the race has is he did run in 2016, he does know donald trump, you know, as an opponent, as a candidate, and on the ground in new hampshire, there are going to be at least a few people from his previous race that are ready to kind of create a foundation for him to build on. so he's in kind of a unique situation there. and it will be interesting to see what new hampshire says. >> jonathan, your website, politico, has this big headline, and they didn't go small, they went big. 55 things you need to know about chris christie.

i'm going to ask you about number four, which says one of the most intriguing political figures in america, the most interesting person in american politics to cover said one of his biographers. he's demanding, he's loyal, he's combative, he's entertaining, he's mouthy, but never boring, said two more. you could argue that trump won by never being boring, always ready, right, with a sound bite, with a quick retort, and like chris christie, combative. but christie was also a governor. i mean, could that be enough to make him a real threat? >> it doesn't seem that way, candidly. we're a long way before voters start casting ballots, things can change, but trump actually is the one in 2016 who filled the lane many thought christie would occupy of being that bombastic loud, entertaining, truth teller.

though trump mixed in many falsehoods and lies along the way. and christie feels like he missed his opportunity at 2012 at the height of his popularity is when he should have run for the presidency. by the time 2016 rolled around, he was badly damaged by the bridgegate scandal. and also these days he's frankly out of step on a lot of issues with the republican party. he's not as conservative as where the gop is now on a number of issues. and it is hard to see what his role here will be. even his closest allies suggest that he's probably just playing spoiler. he has to do really, really well in new hampshire to have any shot at all. it helps some that new hampshire's governor chris sununu opted against a run, but there does seem to be this thought he would provide the most service to the field if he's the one who goes as pure attack dog, particularly on trump, maybe on desantis too. we'll see if that plays. we know that other candidates that are reluctant to do so for fear of alienating trump's voters, time will tell if he

throws caution to the wind. >> if he can pull votes away from trump, even not enough, jennifer, to win the nomination, i wonder if chris christie does it by -- in the way trump gave voice to people who felt unseen in 2016, christie gives voice to frustrated republicans who are exhausted by trump or worried that as many controversies will hand another four years to joe biden. is there a way to consolidate that vote? >> well, you know, one of the things we all keep saying is that really it looks like trump is going to be the nominee. i think as of this moment it would be hard to argue that. at the same time we also keep saying unless something really dramatic happens. so what if jack smith comes out with something that is really dramatic? and how will that impact the way the -- those sort of trump voters are responding to him. i think that's where chris christie will likely have the best opportunity, you know, if

any, to start consolidating votes. but the most important thing i think is that if he's going to be the attack guy, he's got to go for it 100% and he's got to stay with it no matter what trump comes back with because that's where, you know, you remember larry hogan decided he wouldn't get in the race as people started pushing him about trump, and nikki haley and mike pence, none of these guys are willing to really differentiate themselves in the way that they speak about trump. i think if christie has any chance to consolidate any kind of support, that's where it is going to be. >> so, jonathan, as she just enumerated, lots of folks on the republican side and joe biden has another challenger, robert kennedy jr. who hit 20% in a recent poll, despite the fact that he spewed a lot of misinformation and right wing comments during his announcement elon musk, politico puts it this way, let's be real, kennedy poses no direct danger to biden's nomination, what he is

an annoyance and potentially a dangerous one. is he dangerous or is he out of the face of worry of many in the democratic party who don't want biden to run again? >> the last name is appealing. today is the anniversary of robert kennedy, his father's death after being shot by an assassin's bullet yesterday all those decades ago. he is someone people like, the kennedys, the democratic party, they don't like much about this particular kennedy when he starts talking about things like vaccines and other conspiracy theories that he's embraced. the biden white house certainly is not in campaign, not concerned about him, whatsoever. that said, to your point, it does reflect perhaps just as growing worry among democrats that just that as much as they like joe biden, polls overwhelmingly show that democrats do like president biden, they think he's done a good job, but a lot of them are

just really not sure they want him to run again and they point to his age as the biggest reason why. there is no real alternative here. it is not going to be robert f. kennedy jr. it is not going to be the academic cornell west who announced he's running as a third party candidate. it is going to be president biden. he'll be the democratic nominee probably from a position of strength. without really being challenged within the party. he's got plenty of time to raise money here. he won't start campaigning in earnest until next year, which is customary for a president seeking re-election. and they'll let the republicans beat themselves up for a while here. they're happy to cede that spotlight, and the president will focus on doing what he is, doing the job of the chief executive. >> jonathan lemire, shaquille brewster, jennifer horn, great having all of you on, thank you very much. former president trump's lawyers are asking a judge to throw out that expanded defamation case he still faces from writer e. jean carroll. trump's argument hinges on last month's verdict in the manhattan

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new developments in that devastating dam explosion in southern ukraine. u.s. intelligence now believes russia was likely behind that attack according to three different officials. we're also learning the biden administration is working to declassify some of that intel and share it as early as today. the dam destruction has unleashed flooding across southern ukraine, potentially undermining the safety of europe's largest nuclear plant and scrambling the front lines. sky news alex crawford is reporting from kherson. how serious is this? >> we are talking as you said about 18 cubic kilometers of

water, which has been unleashed and the floodwaters have been washing down, slowly but surely, swallowing up about 100 villages and towns including kherson city, the capital of kherson region, which is on the ukrainian-controlled side of the territory. the dnipro river cuts through and over which the dam traverses is cut in two with the ukrainians on the southwest bank and the russians have occupied the southeast bank. now, we understand there has been a torrent of comments on social media and twitter and any other post that you can imagine including ukrainian, even as we're standing here, the waters are rising and getting deeper. blaming russia for this, calling it active -- the most -- the

strongest and the biggest environmental disaster in europe for decades. president zelenskyy has been not only very active on his own twitter handle, but also addressing the bucharest nine, his east european partners, calling on them once again, calling on the world to back ukraine, to back the entry to join nato and very firmly saying that russia is responsible for this, calling it a terrorist act, saying it is equivalent to deploying a weapon of mass destruction and saying quite categorically that there is no doubt in his mind and in the minds of the ukrainians that the russians were responsible for laying mines and the explosion went off inside the dam structure. that contravenes key articles of the geneva convention and international law and would

constitute as a war crime, destroying a structure which supplies water to millions of people, drinking water, as i say, on both sides of ukraine-controlled territory and russian-controlled territory, but also it was identified very early on by president zelenskyy that the dam was seized by russia right at the start of the war, in february, and they have maintained possession of it up until now. president zelenskyy warned in october and urged the west to take action to try and protect the dam because he warned then that he feared it would be used to -- as a weapon against civilians. >> that's sky news alex crawford. thank you for that. russia has denied any responsibility for the dam explosion. with both sides po fingers, are we at a tipping

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in less than 48 hours, the house oversight committee will start a process the fbi says is unprecedented to hold agency

director christopher wray in contempt of congress. the republican oversight chair james comer says the fbi is withholding information after it briefed him on a document he says describes an allegation that joe biden accepted a bribe as vice president. nbc's ryan nobles is live with the latest from washington. so, ryan, the ranking member of oversight, james raskin, jamie raskin, was also briefed on this document. he now says comer is weaponizing the committee's power, but what has he said about the document itself? >> comer and raskin have the opportunity to review this document. and both left the secure room in the house of representatives where they were able to look at the document and they came out with a completely different version of what they saw. comer believes that this is a significant piece of evidence that would lead him to believe that the current president was involved in what at least amounts to the beginnings of a bribery scandal where jamie raskin looked at the same

information and determined that this was a one piece of evidence that was not supported by any other information and that a trump-led department of justice chose to pass on the investigation and took it no further. now, what this ends up meaning is that you have two differing opinions here and it comes into question just how much oversight responsibility the oversight committee has in terms of the balance of powers. and comer strongly believes that he has the right to access that document and do whatever he wants with that document in terms of the congressional investigation into biden's ties to foreign business interests, while raskin believes that piece of information will be used as a political weapon designed to beat up president trump or president biden ahead of the 2024 election and won't glean any type of significant information. what this amounts to, though, is a very important confrontation that is going to happen in the oversight committee later this week, that you alluded to. they're going to vote to hold

the current fbi director in contempt of congress. that will then lead to a vote on the full house floor, chris, and the possibility of a criminal referral to the department of justice. it seems very unlikely that merrick garland will despite the current fbi director for contempt of congress, but the house of representatives seems poised to go through with this process because they believe they should have full access to this document and to do whatever they want with it in terms of their investigation. chris? >> ryan nobles, the first part of what will be an ongoing saga, thank you for that. embattled new york congressman george santos says he would go to jail before giving up the names of people who put up the $500,000 that secured his bail. a new york judge has ordered the unsealing of those names and santos has until friday to appeal. his lawyers argue that the unsealing would put the people in a position to, quote, suffer great distress, lose their jobs or suffer physical injury. now as for santos himself, he's

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fastsigns. make your statement. breaking news from sources that include two u.s. officials and secretary blinken is expected to travel to china in the coming weeks for talks. you might remember he was scheduled to go to beijing in february and then that got called off because of that alleged chinese spy balloon that was flying over the united states. now there is even more to talk about because in recent days you heard all about this just yesterday during this hour. there have been a couple of flashpoints, couple of close calls, a chinese fighter jet coming too close to a u.s. plane in the air and that chinese warship that came too close to an american ship in the taiwan straits. so, again, secretary blinken will be traveling to china within the next couple of weeks,

a trip that was originally scheduled in february. in the meantime, the white house is challenging the american people to follow their money. launching a new website this week that tracks more than 32,000 infrastructure projects that are unfolding right now nationwide. you see the map, it is covered with blue and green dots showing the locations of nearly half a trillion dollars worth of projects from new broadband service to airport renovations. joining me now, transportation secretary pete buttigieg. good to see you, mr. secretary. this is kind of a cool tool, if you want to see exactly where the money is, where you live. but what it doesn't tell you, for example, is when is the work going to start or how far along is it, how about the disruptions. so for critics who would say this is more a political tool than a practical one, what would you say? >> this is about proviing even more information to the american public about where the tax dollars are going and the economic opportunity it unlocks.

there are certainly other tools that have more information and details about projects, the permitting dashboard, tools we have at our department of transportation website, that we certainly invite people to take a look at. what is exciting to me about invest.gov, this tool, it is the first time i've seen in one view the ability to look at both the public sector projects that we're making possible with the infrastructure law or the american rescue plan or the inflation reduction act or some of the direct investments. and also the private investments that they're helping to unlock. if you look at the story of the extraordinary economic recovery post covid under this president's leadership, and the steps that are helping make sure that the 2020s unfold in a way that has america leading the world's economy, it is a story not just about those public sector investments that are so important, but about how they are unlocking the kind of private sector activity that helps to fuel the economy. and at invest.gov, you see both.

in addition to over $200 billion that have already happened in terms of those federal investments, there have been over $400 billion of private investments, part of how we have seen that 13 million jobs created under this president, a record for any president. we're talking about these kinds of -- what used to be called green collar jobs that now are more commonly just understood as the future of blue collar jobs, the good paying manufacturing jobs in places ranging from desoto, kansas, or glendale, kentucky, where i've been able to see ev-related battery facilities, millions of square feet that are going to be creating thousands of jobs to the semiconductor facilities that are bringing that high tech investment and the high tech jobs and the high paying jobs that come with them right here to american soil. this is about showing in ways that the american people can access transparently how that money is moving and more importantly than the big numbers, those dots on the map giving you a sense of what this

means, wherever you live in the united states. >> so let me ask you specifically, because everybody has to deal with this, bad roads, bad bridges, and if you look at the most recent report card, you know this, on the nation's infrastructure, not so great, lots of cs and ds. acknowledging that the infrastructure bill was historic in its investment in america's infrastructure, how much of this problem can be addressed through these new projects, can they turn those grades from cs and ds to as and bs? >> we're contending with 40 years of underinvestment and so many public goods including our transportation and infrastructure. it is how we started getting tough report cards from engineers we fought so hard to get the infrastructure package through. here is part of how i think of the time line of what we've been doing here. year one was largely about just getting the bill passed. and the president's leadership and bipartisan cooperation got us there. that created more than i think 46 new programs just in the

department of transportation alone, some multibillion-dollar programs to fix roads and bridges and improve our airports, programs like the railroad crossing elimination grant. and so if year two is launching the program, rear three is where we're moving the money so we can also increasingly see the dirt flying. these changes are not going to happen overnight. this is an infrastructure decade. some of the grants that we announced can be done in one construction season, some are going to take years because we're talking about massive efforts like replacing a tunnel that has needed replace mgt for decades, rconstruction of an airport terminal. rebuilding a bridge. it doesn't happen overnight. but there are other projects, these neighborhood backyard projects that are no less significant to the people who

will be impacted by then. again, yesterday i was in grand forks, north dakota, fwhaechb trying to get rid of a railroad crossing there since 1991. they have had dozens of crashes related to it, it is a huge quality of life issue if you are trying to get in and out of the university of north dakota area. the fire chief was talking about the concerns they have with response time. that may not be something that will command national headlines, but the $30 million that we're able to bring in short order thanks to that infrastructure funding will mean safety improvements and qualify of life improvements that have literally been 30 years in the making for the people of that north dakota community. these are the kinds of communities that we're making with the infrastructure funding under the president's leadership. no, it won't happen overnight, but it is already beginning to make a difference. >> and i know you have to go, but this is pride month and just this morning the human rights campaign declared a state of emergency, first in its 40 year history. they cited more than 75 lgbtq laws signed this year, double

last year's record. as you know just last month homeland security put out a report saying threats of violence against the lgbtlgbtga plus community is rising. what is going on here? >> our country is at real risk of back sliding on freedom and equality, but that is why we continue to push. there has been extraordinary work that has been done just in this president city, certainly the president being able to sign the respect for marriage act. and if you zoom out for the progress in the last 10 or 15 year, including the ability of somebody like me to be standing here doing this job, it is extraordinary. and yet now you see the attacks on the lgbtq community and especially the trans community and what they are going through. and i think that it is done out of a perception that is politically convenient to target vulnerable groups. honestly, i think where it largely comes from is folks who

don't want to talk about why they were against the infrastructure law that is building roads and bridges, they don't want to talk about why they were against $35 insulin that the president delivered for medicare recipients. they don't want to explain why they were for these radical positions that speak to what most people worry about in their everyday lives. so they focus on targeting some of the people who already do not have a very easy time hurt by everyday life. think about how hard it is to be a teen to begin with and now think about how hard it is to be a teen when you realize that you are coming to terms with your gender identity or realizing that you are gay or lesbian. the last thing that you need in your life is politicians trying to score political points by making things worse for you. we'll stand together whether it is pride or any given day and say no, we're going to expand, not withdraw the freedoms and equalities that have been won in this country and build on them. >> secretary pete buttigieg,

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after what prince harry says has been a lifetime of harassment, he is taking his case to court against a tabloid industry that he believes is responsible for the death of his mother and he is not pulling any punches. megan fitzgerald has more from london for us. what is happening there? >> reporter: good to be with you. what we saw today was a defensive prince harry. this is certainly as suspected. speaking with legal experts, they suspected that the attorney for mgn would go after harry's credibility and that is most certainly what we saw this morning. really practically right off the bat. there are 33 articles that are in question, that prince harry

alleges were able to be written by obtaining information unlawfully. and so we saw this morning the attorney for mgn, andrew green, asking prince harry if he actually read all 33 of those articles to which prince harry responded he couldn't remember. so then of course that opens the door for the attorney mr. green to ask, well, then how is it these articles impacted you so much if you don't even remember them. and prince harry went on to say that every single article written about him caused him distress. we heard from the attorney really honing in on prince harry and asking him what evidence do you have to suggest that these articles were written unlawful. and prince harry pushed back and said look, that is a question that you will have to ask the journalist who wrote them. and he also went on to say that, you know, he is a witness and it is not his job to really deconstruct those articles. it was certainly a difficult day for prince harry. he will be back again tomorrow. the judge tells u