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let's get right to it. at this hour, adding to the horrific humanitarian crisis in ukraine, filthy water putting people at risk. plus, in just under 60 minutes, john durham set to testify in front of the house intelligence committee. expect a lot of questions about his scathing report on the fbi and doj's handling of the trump russia probe. the judge sets a date for former president's trial in his classified documents case. and the breaking news that charges filed against the president's son, hunter biden, mean he'll plead guilty to federal tax charges as part of a plea deal with prosecutors. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest

developments. we begin with that plea deal for hunter biden. ken dilanian joins us now. my understanding, ken, is the judge still needs to approve this so what happens next and what more can you tell us about the terms of this deal? >> that's right. we expect hunter biden to appear in the coming days at this courthouse behind me to be processed by the federal marshals then enter this plea. we'll see whether the judge accepts it. no reason to believe he wouldn't. he's pleading guilty to two misdemeanor counts of not paying the irs in 2017 and 2018. the documents don't specify his tax bill, but in $2021, he made more than a million in an effort to settle this case. there's also a felony charge related to a gun he purchased

while addicted to drugs. if he enters a program, he will not be charged. this plea agreement calls for probation. it appears to cap the end of a five-year intensive investigation into hunter biden's dealings overseas, millions of dollars paid to him by ukrainian and chinese business interests and his failings to pay taxes on some of that income. there's no evidence that the fbi found any wrong doing with regard to the business relationships but he is admitting to crimes for failing to pay taxes. >> thank you for that. and former president trump's classified documents case now has a federal trial date. august 14th. i want to bring in senior capitol hill correspondent, garrett haake. and judge cannon also said the trial is likely to last two weeks. the question is will that hold. >> yeah. unlikely, chris, is the short answer. judge cannon has a tendency of scheduling trial dates very

kwekly then seeing them pushed back by delays. that's not unusual in the federal system. it's part of her practice. but also the elements of this case in particular make it unlikely they'll be able to go to trial in just a couple of months. first of all, donald trump's defense attorneys need to get security clearances. that process alone could take a couple of months before they'd be able to view in discovery the evidence against their client. then there's the pretrial motions you might see here and mr. trump's own known history of trying to delay legal proceedings against him both in public and private life. all of that adds up i think to the likelihood this trial won't start in mid august like the judge would prefer but will likely come later, perhaps smack dab in the middle of the republican primary season that gets kicked off august 23rd, i believe, with the first debate. >> oh, boy. thank you for that. now to capitol hill where john

durham is about to testify behind closed doors about his probe into the origins of the trump russia investigation. i want to bring in sahil. this is the first of two appearances for him this week. give us the rundown. >> correct. he is expected to testify in the next hour in a closed door session before the house intelligence committee. that is today and tomorrow he's expected to testify in an open session before the house judiciary committee. tomorrow morning. just as a refresher, he was the special counsel appointed in 2019 to investigate that trump russia investigation. that probe is now over. he failed to deliver when it comes to prosecutions. he couldn't prove crimes committed by the clinton campaign and he didn't find this widespread political conspiresy against donald trump but what he did do was leave us with a 300-page report that further highlighted flaws in the system. were they using unreliable or

biased investigation. how do you prevent that for for instance, fisa wiretap applications. that's according to the house intel chairman. >> we're pulling him in to our committee to say, okay, now that we've seen there were abuses, this was wrong and there are problems with fisa itself, what are the recommendations that you think we should pursue? here are some things we're looking at. what do you think of these? >> and that's the legislative angle here in congress. tomorrow before the judiciary committee, i would expect political firework. that panel is led by jim jordan, a staunch trump ally. one theme we can be watching for it is likely to be used as a venue for republicans to continue advancing many of their criticism against federal law enforcement. >> it will be shocking if there

aren't political fireworks. thank you so much for that. we want to go to ukraine now because russian forces have been striking back against the counteroffensive launching a wave of attack drones on kyiv overnight. even as ukrainians are facing yet another humanitarian crisis. raf sanchez is reporting from kharkiv. the devastation from that dam collapse continues to grow. pollution, disease, now becoming a major concern because of the contaminated water. what more can you tell us? >> reporter: this is not just a humanitarian disaster. also a major environmental one. while the dam exploded in zaporizhzhia, we are feeling the impact all across southern ukraine. so in odesa, residents there have been told they cannot swim on the city's famous beaches. the water is no longer considered safe. restaurants, markets have been told they can no longer sell fish unless they can clearly identify where it came from. the concern is that the fish may have come from this contaminated

zone. there are still thousands and thousands of people in the area around kherson who do not have access to drinking water and the tests that they've been able to do on both sea water and river water are showing a whole slew of worrying signs including evidence of salmonella and cholera. there is a lot of oil in the water that has been washed down river and entered into the sea there. it is showing up on the beaches of odesa and other coastal communities and chris, there are land mines which were planted on either the western bank controlled by ukraine or the eastern bank controlled by the russians then swept out to sea and showing up all over the place. ukrainian officials very, very concerned that they have no maps at this point now that can reliably tell them where these land mines are. families in kyiv this morning jolted out of their beds by yet another drove attack.

ukrainian officials say 35 were launched across the country. most targeting the ukrainian capital. fortunately, no injuries reported there and the ukrainian air force says it was able to shoot down some 32 out of those total 35 drones. but this ended what had been a relative lull in kyiv. back in may, there were attacks pretty much every 48 hours. residents there had pe spite for some two weeks but now looks like the sky is once again full of drones. >> thank you for that. and the race against the clock for those aboard that titanic submersible. the daunting challenges of trying to rescue the crew before their remaining oxygen runs out. i'll talk with an underwater exploration expert in just 60 seconds. what do we always say, son? liberty mutual customizes your car insurance... so you only pay for what you need. that's my boy. ♪ stay off the freeways! only pay for what you need.

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board a submersible that vanished while trying to reach the titanic wreckage on sunday. u.s. coast guard acknowledging last hour the intense timeline for rescuing those passengers who have a dwindling oxygen supply. >> we know there's about 40 hours of breathable hour left based on that initial report. this is a very complex search and unified team is working around the clock to bring all available assets and expertise to bear as quickly as possible in an effort to solve this very complex problem. >> here with me now in studio, ocean expert, tim taylor. thank you for being with us. he said 40 hours. that was an hour ago so now we're looking at maybe 39. what needs to be done next and can you quantify the difficulty of what they're trying to do? >> everything's ten times more difficult under water or on the ocean. it's just by nature is more

difficult. they need to locate these men as soon as possible. and then assess the situation then act. i fully believe that if they're on the bottom and still alive or if they're on the surface and still alive, they still have that same clock ticking. they still have, they have inside the submarine from the outside so even if they got to the surface, they can't self-rescue. they're going to have to be found. >> so, tom costello, our correspondent there, asked how they would reach the submersible if they found it. so let's start with finding it. down below. maybe in the area of the titanic but we don't know where they were or how far they may have gone. right now, they said they don't know. they're just focused on finding it. they have the best experts available but is this unlike anything we've ever seen before in terms of a rescue? >> yes, if this is a rescue, it

will be the deepest rescue ever made. it is, it is a situation if it was me, i would start looking exactly where they were lost. if there was a failure and equipment failed, they would not be far from the bottom unless they ditched weights and floated and that's a whole different story. immediately with the rovs onsite, you would get a search pattern. if you had the time, you could launch a sonar autonomous vehicle, come back with data and locate possible targets. they don't have that time. they need to put the equipment on the bottom and start looking. >> if it's on the surface, they made it clear, we're going to find it. the question is can they find it in time. the weather seems to be more cooperative today than yesterday but having said that, then what would that rescue look like? >> obviously they would get a ship on it. pull it on board the ship and

open that hatch. that shouldn't take long. >> if they can get the ship there in time. >> and ships don't travel like planes. ten knots, 15. doing the work in the water. this is a submersible and it's underwater. even when it's on the surface, it barely sticks out of the water. 99% of it is under water. it's not like a boat. doesn't float on the top. >> the oceangate ceo who did the same trip told us about the mechanics involved and it seemed to me, working here, a fairly simple operating system. >> we can use these off the shelf components. got these from camper world. we run the whole thing with this game control. >> come on! >> is that standard and, honestly, when i heard that, i thought, wow. >> there are a lot of questions on this.

and this vehicle is a prototype. this vehicle is experimental. it is not, in my understanding, from their own website and through other people in the industry, this vehicle is not registered or certified to carry passengers. they can carry crew and scientists. elon musk launches rockets,blows them up and fixes it. does another one. the pressure on these people to take tourists and fulfill their needs underwater, why don't they have painters on board. like every piece of equipment i own has and any plane has on a black box, pingers to locate them. why don't they have it on board? >> is a pinger that expensive or complicated a piece of equipment? you have to pay $250,000 if you want to go on this trip but people who have been on it including one who was there

again just maybe about a year ago say they know what they're getting into. take a listen. >> to even get on the boat that takes you to the titanic, you sign a massive waiver that lists one way after another that you could die on the trip. they mention death three times on page one. and so it's never far from your mind. you try and put it out, but as i was getting on to the sub, i mean that was my thought, well, this could be the end. so you know, nobody who's in this situation was caught off guard. >> i mean, is it okay to say you know what, people are grown ups. they're going to take risks. civilians have gone into space. so maybe -- >> human nature to explore. they want to take the risk. i get that. you go scuba diving on vacation,

you sign a waiver. >> we've signed waivers before that say this is dangerous. >> generally if you take a boat out, it's a coast guard certified boat. it's equipment that has been built and certified. if you take a ship out, it's allowed to carry passengers by license by the coast guard or whatever agency of that country. so this is a prototype vehicle that is not certified for passenger carrying tourism. my understanding. and the people that were on it were taking that risk and they knew it. again, that's, this is a much bigger question for today. we should be focusing on finding these people hopefully finding them alive but it does raise a lot of questions of why and why they're in the situation in the first place. >> do you believe giving the resources that have been to bear on this and that they are international, canadian, the united states. they're naval resources, air. every kind of possible help and

expert is being brought to bear if this can be a mission impossible that ends successfully. do you believe that what's in place could do it? >> yes. the issue with equipment could go down and find them, it's there. it exists. it just takes time to put it together. if you have to mobilize this equipment, it has to be flown in, it has to be put on the boat. sometimes could take a week to put this gear on and integrate it into a boat. that needs to be thought out way before you put a submarine in the water. they need to be standing by or you need to have a contract with the company. not call after the fact. again, not pointing any fingers here, but if i was running this expedition, i would not put anybody in the water unless i had assets to be able to save them. >> tim taylor, appreciate your expertise. we're just going to keep a good thought for those folks.

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a torrent of reaction from republicans consistently calling a hunter biden plea deal a sweetheart deal, an example of a two tiered system of justice and the weaponization of doj. democrats have largely remained quiet with a few exceptions. the lone senate democrat to

comment so far is chris coons. he is a close ally of president biden. he points out that the five-year investigation into the president's son was conducted by a prosecutor who was appointed by donald trump. >> in terms of the much larger questions that republicans have tried over and over to pin on to hunter biden or to blow up into a broader investigation, i have confidence that trump appointed u.s. attorney for delaware was given the independence and resources he needed to fully consider all the different allegations that had been raised and the fact this is all that is appearing in federal court with regards to hunter biden is a reassuring conclusion to what has been a broad, thorough and long federal investigation. >> this afternoon, democratic congressman, jim mcgovern, refuted that system of two tiered justice, comparing the hunter biden case to donald

trump's classified documents case. >> cooperated with the justice department, he might have avoided the situation he's in now. he chose not to because he's arrogant and doesn't care about the law. i don't think it's a two tiered justice system. i think this is equal justice under the law. >> for more, i want to bring in kayla tauchy and basil. kayla, anything new from the white house? >> the white house for years has been seeking to put distance between it and this investigation noting that it's been a personal and a private matter and today after today's plea agreement was announced, the white house put out this very brief statement standing alone as the official commentary from the administration saying the president and first lady love their son and support him as he continues to rebuild his life. we will have no further comment. last month in an interview with msnbc's stephanie rule, the

president said he believed his son did nothing wrong and despite the announcement, he -- i think you can pretty well encapsulate the democrats' messaging in what you heard from the senator there, who is as close to a surrogate from the white house in a biden campaign as you can get at this point. pointing out the fact that the prosecutor who reached this conclusion was appointed by president trump. the former president. and trying to establish some fairness here. expect to see and hear more of that from democrats. we expect to see the president on camera from just a couple of hours from california. we expect reporters to lob questions at him although he'll probably maintain his silence. >> basil, do you think this is tricky for the president and democrats? >> very tricky for biden and the democrats. this is his son. he's also president of the united states.

the democrats will probably give him space and grace to deal with this in the way he sees fit probably in exchange for coming out a little harder on donald trump and the republicans during the same period of time because there was been some criticism where the white house has not been hard enough in going after donald trump through these indictments. so maybe they're going to want to see him do more of that so the biden issue doesn't get entangled with the trump issue. try to differentiate those things. republicans will say the two tiered system as you mentioned. donald trump will say the president's son got off easier than i did. those two things are not the same but they're going to try that tactic. >> joe biden has been consistent throughout this. let the legal system take its course. he traveled with the president to his high profile visit to ireland in april.

is this the kind of thing frankly that's just built into voters consciousness, if you don't like joe biden, you're going to think there's something amiss here. if you're in the middle or you like him, you're going to look at him and say look, he's a dad. he's somebody who's going to support his son and we all have people in our lives who make mistakes. some bigger than others. >> i think the voters will be more forgiving than republicans in washington, d.c. so with that said, i do think that voters will not leave joe biden as a result of this. they may not come out in droves to vote and that's my concern. that the numbers for joe, for president biden, excuse me, i said joe. numbers were a little soft. >> he was joe to you before he was president. the numbers for president biden were a little soft. this may make some dent in that. however, the concern going forward is this doesn't tamp down voter enthusiasm for what

the democrats writ large have done. on the flip side, we also see former president trump's numbers start to slip a little bit and that's important because what that says is what democrats have done thus far with the help of gop challengers to donald trump is kind of chip away at that teflon jacket he's been wearing. so i think those things in combination mean it's a net positive for democrats down the line. >> thank you both so much. hunter biden's attorney will join katy tur next hour for his first interview since the plea deal announcement. still ahead, america after roe. the growing calls to protect the personal data of women seeking abortion as democrats bank on this as a winning issue for them in 2024. n this as a winning issue fothr em in 2024. ♪ shelves. shelves that know what taste buds want. shelves smart enough to see, sense, react, restock.

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republican colleagues. i'm joined by anne thompson and ryan nobles is live for us on capitol hill. walk us through, ryan, the calculus among democrats right now on this anniversary, well i guess it's saturday. >> there's no doubt a political calculation, a political reality for democrats that it is unlikely that any sort of legislation that would enshrine or product abortion rights across the country would ever get over the finish line. republicans control the house. it would require 60 votes in the senate. that's just not happening. so what democrats are doing instead is messaging around the issue aimed at 2024, trying to point out as often as possible where they sit on this issue as opposed to where republicans sit on this issue. that is really the only option that they have right now. they saw as you point out, that it was a winning issue for them in the 2022 midterms or it looked as though republicans were going to easily take back the house and senate.

democrats with many of them running on a stance to protect abortion rights were able to beat back republican challengers to make the margins very narrow in the house and hold off republicans taking back the senate. so at this point, it's all a messaging game, chris, with the hope that if they're able to take back the house and perhaps increase gains in the senate, meaningful legislation could be passed down the road. >> meantime, that legislation is in the states the day dobbs was decided. i was talking to a lot of antiabortion activists who said to me we are lined up in multiple states to take action asap. what has happened between now and then? >> i think the big thing that's happened, chris, is that they're not just trying to ban abortion in states. as you said those anti abortion activists hold sway. they're also going after the

people who help women seek abortions in states like texas and idaho and as a result in democratically held states such as illinois where i was last week, the house and senate there, both democratic controlled, passed a bill that would prohibit anyone from getting the license plate information of women seeking reproductive healthcare because the fear is that you would have activists from a state where abortion is banned and they would try to get this information to pursue women going to a state where abortion is legal like illinois. >> there are real freedom and privacy issues there. >> there are. that is how the secretary of state for illinois characterized this. this is not necessarily an issue about choice. it's an issue about privacy. and who has access to your information and you know, there are license plate readers i thought just the government had put up license plate readers.

oh, no. private companies can do it and they can take that information and sell that. that is what they are trying to prevent in illinois. >> they could literally do it in a parking lot of a facility that provided abortion -- >> absolutely. >> even though they don't know who might be looking for those services. >> talk to any planned parenthood clinic. they do more than offer abortion services. they offer women's healthcare, breast exams, contraception. they will offer a suite of services. so just because you see someone's car in that parking lot does not mean that person has sought abortion services. >> so we know, ryan, that senate democrats, patty murray is in the lead. are planning to put forward any number of pieces of legislation. i think it is a bit of a wish list if you will. on the possibility that they feel they might win control of

congress next time. what are we talking about in terms of pieces of legislation they would like to see made into law? >> it's not a push to outright protection abortion rights across the county. they know that has no chance of passing. instead, it's provisions to kind of adapt to a post roe america. specifically what anne was talking about, about this patchwork of states where abortion is legal or illegal to a certain extent and it would protect the rights of women living in those states where it is legal. for instance, it would protect and strengthen access to birth control and contraception. it would protect the right of a woman from going from a state where abortion is illegal traveling to a state where it is legal to get those services. also related to data privacy. especially online. it would strengthen the rules related to the protect of that data and also location tracking so that perhaps a woman seeking an abortion going into a state where it is legal could be

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. president biden said the diplomat did a quote hell of a job on his trip to beijing. he's talking about blinken who sat down with xi discussing spy balloons to the dangerously close encounters between the two militaries near taiwan. now the question, whether it paves the way for xi to meet biden this year. i want to welcome david ignatius. also good to see you. janice talked with blinken about that potential meeting between the two presidents. i want to play that for you. >> ultimately, there's no substitute for the two leaders speaking to each other. something else that i shared with president xi as well as with my other counterparts. and that's especially true in china given the power that xi has. >> what would be the stakes of a

meeting like that and what kinds of considerations would the white house take into account when deciding when and how this could happen? >> so i think chris the first thing that's likely is a phone call between president biden and president xi. then xi is expected to come to the united states in november for an aipac summit meeting, the organization of states in asia that will be held this year in san francisco. biden is almost certain to meet xi there. xi has very much wanted that visit to go well. i think that's one reason for the thaw in relations that allowed secretary blinken to reschedule the trip that had been postponed. so i think there will be lots of preparations. this is a very carefully orchestrated dance between the united states and china but you have to say this latest encounter over the weekend, monday's meeting with president xi, went about as well as people in washington had hoped.

met their hopes and expectations. >> one of the things blinken wasn't able to get is reestablishing that direct military to military line of communication. beijing severing those ties last year, but talk a little bit about how important that is and do you think at least that conversation is open? >> the biggest issue between us and china is the potential at some point for direct military conflict. china is the only peer adversary we have that's technologically strong, advanced nuclear weapons. there's been a deep desire on the part of the biden administration to establish these military contacts but in a

deeper sense, language that will allow the united states and china to discuss potential conflict and potential nuclear risks in the way we did with the soviet union during the cold war. all during those years was continuous soviet dialogue about crisis. we have nothing like that with china and i think it really bothering the administration. there is a hope they can be resumed military to military contact. so far, the chinese aren't budging on that. they're being very careful but i think the key reason for the concern is with sharply di diverging views on taiwan, there's the danger of some crisis that gets us to the brink of real catastrophe. >> there's also a story in "the wall street journal" today. they report china and cuba are in negotiations to build a military base on the island and we know china has been spying on the u.s. from cuba for years. how concerning is that?

>> i would distinguish between two things. first, cuba has been and will probably be in an expanded sense intelligence gathering base for china. as you said, been known for three or four years. it's not something we welcome but it's not a radically new development. what would be different and destabilizing is a chinese military presence in cuba. what this training facility would be hard to say if it's simply a training cubans as opposed to stationing chinese military personnel. it would be less concerning. but the pure intelligent spying as pegt of this cuban operation is not new and i think is not a front burner issue.

>> thank you. israeli officials say four israelis were killed in a t shooing near the west bank. that news coming just hours after the health ministry said six were killed and more than 90 injured during ten hours of gunfire and explosions when israeli forces raided a west bank refugee camp. molly hunter joins me now. what do we know about what happened here, molly? >> the last 24 hours have been violent in the occupied west bank and i think we're about to find out how much farther that violence or how much more of an escalation we're looking at tonight. prime minister netanyahu is in his security assessment so we should expect a statement of some kind in the next hour. backing up for the last 24 hours, earlier today, palestinian gunman killed four israeli outside the jewish settlement. the military said gunmen

arrived, they opened fire on a restaurant and gas station. there were four more israelis wounded. killed at least one of the gunmen right there. hamas has claimed that gunman as a member of the hamas military when the other gunman got away and was later according to the israeli military, neutralized in his car. backing up 24 more hours, this is all coming after an unbelievable day in north of the west bank yesterday. an israeli raid. the raids are not rare. what was different about yesterday is the israeli military went in with hundreds of troops an it clearly didn't go with the plan. so what happened according to witnesses and to accounts from both sides is as the israeli military was planning to pull out troops, this was where the major escalation happened. the military called in helicopters and started shooting down at the very armed palestinian militants who had

been waiting. that clearly was not part of the israeli plan. that's why we saw the death toll so high. what we are watching for tonight is how much prime minister netanyahu is willing to appease the right wing fringes of this supporters. the government has been calling for an all out incursion in the west bank. more hints after today that may be more likely. >> thank you for that. still ahead, a new report on convicted sex offender, jeffrey epstein and the years he spent as an adviser to a top executive at jpmorgan chase. top executive at jpmorgan chase. (vo) this is sadie, she's on verizon. the network she can count on. and now she has myplan, the game-changing new plan that lets her get exactly what she wants and save on every perk. sadie is moving to the big city and making moves on her plan, too. apple one, on. now she's got plenty of entertainment for the whole ride. finally there! hot spot, on. and she's fully connected before her internet is even installed. (sadie) hi, mom! (mom) how's the apartment? (vo) introducing myplan. get exactly what you want, only pay for what you need.

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a new court document made public today is giving us a look inside the complicated relationship between banking giant, jpmorgan, and convicted sex offender, jeffrey epstein. morgan brennan joins us now from cnbc on msnbc. this document is essentially a

timeline of the communications between epstein and a top jpmorgan executive. what are we learning? >> well, it adds a lot more detail. this is 22 pages. hundreds of e-mails. it's an internal report reviewing ties to epstein. it was conducted in 2019 after he was arrested on federal sex trafficking charges. we have this because jpmorgan submitted it alleging the bank ignored red flags about epstein's behavior as he brought wealthy clients to the company. report fines that a former executive who ran divisions until 2013 had regularly sought advice from epstein on a wide array of topics, everything from business deals to salary negotiations, helped over to get his daughter into graduate school. the convicted sex o nender invited stanley to meetings with foreign governments. there's talk of women, too.

and the report revealing a very personal nature to the relationship. i should say. stalely has repeatedly denied in court papers doing anything wrong or that epstein abused teenage girls an young women. also declining to comment about what has been said. more details in the report that we got our hands on today. >> thank you for that. french investigators today raided multiple locations including the headquarters of the 2024 paris organizing committee as part of a probe into alleged embezzlement of public funds. keir simmons is following this for us. tokyo in 2021, rio in 2016, but what's going on in paris right now? >> that's right. and paris 2024 is the first olympics to have an anticorruption policy. and yet it appears and this is a

bombshell so we don't know exactly what's going on with these raids. it appears there's the smell if you like of corruption surrounding the whole thing. again, we did have allegations already from the french anticorruption agency that there were risks of conflict of interest. the president of the french national olympic committee resigned last month after fighting that left that committee in turmoil and now we know about the opening of these two preliminary probes by the national financial prosecutors office hasn't been made clear. it's now been reported by a french newspaper looking into an embezzlement of funds and ordered the agency into suspected conflicts of interest. there is questions of favor itism. so what does this mean? listen, you and i have been covering olympics for long enough to know there is always

controversy and scandal before an olympic games then the games get going and it's forgotten about. still a year to go but for president macron, it's going to be a worry and he's going to look to these paris games to lift his presidency as it comes towards its final year. so he will be hoping, you imagine not -- it's led by the french police, that this goes away in the next 12 months. >> or the joy of victory overshadows it. i look forward to seeing you at many other olympics. that's going to do it for us. join us every weekday, 1:00 to 3:00 eastern here on msnbc. our coverage continues with katy tur reports right now. with katy tur reports right now. good to be with you. i'm katy tur. the investigation into the president's son