either a 15-week ban or more restrictive. that is a contrast for voters. elections are decided by contrast, it's a good one for democrats to take in the next -- >> that's all we have time for today, to be continued. follow us online on facebook and twitter @mitchellreports. yasmin vossoughian starts right now. ♪♪ hey, everybody, good afternoon to you. i'm yasmin vossoughian in for chris jansing here at msnbc headquarters in new york city. another piece of the puzzle, authorities unsealed additional portions of the affidavit used to get permission to search donald trump's florida home last summer. and part of that newly disclosed evidence is this surveillance footage with walt nauta, the co-defendant in the classified documents case moving boxes just as he appeared in court today for his arraignment pleading not guilty. so what does this reveal about

the bigger picture of jack smith's case? we're going to get into all of that coming up? also this hour, belarus, russia, where exactly is yevgeny prigozhin? the mystery surrounding the fate of russia's wagner group deepened after the president of belarus in a rare news conference said he was still in his hometown of st. petersburg more than a week after the rebellion that shocked moscow and the world as wechlt. and long-time gop megadonors launching ads to try to prevent the former republican leader are from retaking the white house in 2024. we begin this hour with the former president and walt nauta, his aide, in court. after two delays, trump's co-defendant in the classified documents case finally arraigned in court a few hours ago, pleading not guilty nearly a month after his boss. he faces charges of obstructs the investigation into the retention of classified documents. it's been a whirlwind 24 hours. on wednesday authorities unsealing new portions of the

warrant that led to the search of mar-a-lago with fresh details of camera footage showing him moving boxes. the surveillance footage providing -- provided, i should say, by the trump organization gives us this breakdown of a potentially significant few days at mar-a-lago back in 2022. on may 24th, witness number five later identified as walt nauta seen here exiting the doorway with three boxes, two days later, the fbi interviewed nauta where a significant subject of that conversation was classified documents. nauta has claimed he did not know the location of those boxes. but then just four days later, nauta was seen on camera carrying out approximately 50 boxes. i want to bring in nbc justice reporter r ryan reilly to talk with us. "washington post" deputy national editor phil rucker as well. ryan, start us off. it's been an eventful 24 hours to say the least when it comes

to the investigation into the former president along with his aide walt nauta appearing in court today finally after a few different delays of that arraignment. talk us through what happened. >> yeah, it was sort of up to the last minute a question of whether or not walt nauta would have a local lawyer in florida. he now does, as someone representing him who will be able to sort of introduce his lawyer, his long-time lawyer who has been representing him for a while, stanley woodward, and he will be able to be inducted, into this case. essentially it was a pretty short hearing over the course of about five minutes. not a ton of substance there. as you said there is this new information coming out that we're learning about this incident and how this all sort of came about. it's a little bit of the pulling back of the curtain about how exactly -- or why the fbi thought that basically they were being misled by the trump camp about these documents in this room and seeing walt nauta bring that on the surveillance video. the surveillance video is obviously playing a very significant role here in

accessing that surveillance video that showed the contrast between what the trump campaign -- or what the trump team was representing to the government and what actually happened i think has been an important piece of this puzzle in moving it forward and actually, you know, what ended up resulting in nearly a year ago now in august of 2022, that raid on mar-a-lago that ultimately turned up all these additional classified documents. so it sort of does show how all of this sort of came aboutand continues to move this case forward. we now have another step in this procedure happening with walt nauta as this case continues to come to fruition. >> paul butler weigh in for me. ryan just talked about it. we talked through some of the key dates there, the days that transpired between when he was interviewed by the fbi to when he was subsequently seen on that surveillance footage actually taking boxes right out of that room. and in that interview he said he didn't even know location of some of these classified documents. what does this mean for this investigation, for this case? how damning is this for nauta?

>> yasmin, jack smith had that speaking indictment that revealed a lot of this evidence, but these new details are especially incriminating. at the same time, that trump's people are claiming all of the documents have been handed over, investigators are watching video with their own eyes with walt nauta moving boxes back and forth. this is the same walt nauta who told investigators he didn't know where the boxes were. jack smith thinks that while donald trump put nauta up to this, up to these lies, which are the basis of the conspiracy charge, these new details seem to corroborate that trump was also trying to use his attorney evan corcoran to keep these documents hidden. cork ran says he'd been told there were no more classified documents anywhere at mar-a-lago, and that strengthens the case for the crime-fraud exception that will allow corcoran to testify against

trump, even though corcoran is still representing trump. >> especially one that comes to fund-raising, it seems, he's not really slow walking this thing. >> not at all. he is trying to leverage his criminal charges here for maximum political gain, and what we saw trump doing throughout this investigation is try to raise money off of it, and then when the indictments actually hit, he went into turbo charge with his fund-raising, raising millions of dollars from small dollar contributors around the country who, you know, are loyal to him, who are hearing messages from him and his supporters claiming that this was a witch hunt, claiming that he's been unfairly persecuted by the government, and it's paying off. he -- you know, we're still waiting to hear from all of the other presidential candidates how much money they've raised in

this second quarter of this calendar year, but trump has reported or his advisers say he has raised $35 million, which is a very large sum of money and probably on the strength of opposition to the doj's charges. >> paul, when you look at this affidavit, right, much of the information that we learned in this affidavit we already knew, not only from of course the 49 page indictment, but along with much of the reporting that many of our colleagues have done over the last year or so. that being said, if you take a look at it, much of it is is still fairly redacted. what does that mean to you? >> it means that prosecutors still have important evidence that has not yet been revealed. it could also mean that prosecutors have concerns about witness tampering, so they want to protect their sources from recrimination from people like donald trump. >> what does that mean, though, when it comes to the

restrictions on conversations happening between -- if we're thinking about nauta between the prosecution, between the former president as well, go ahead. >> yeah, such a great question, yasmin. this order that donald trump and walt nauta should not talk about the case is virtually impossible to enforce. why? because it depends on the good faith of donald trump and walt nauta, two people who federal prosecutors think are not just criminals but liars who have no respect for the legal process, which is why they're charged with crimes like false statements and obstruction. >> quickly, paul, here, what do you see when it comes timing here? initially we saw this august date. we know that's not going to happen. are we even going to get inside this year when it comes to this

trial? >> almost certainly not. the judge said she wanted the trial in august. then jack smith said that he could do it in december. next week we'll hear from donald trump where he is on timing almost certainly he will want to delay the trial until after the election. yasmin, i don't know if he'll get away with that. extremely unlikely it will be this year, though. in part because the defense attorneys haven't even gotten all of the evidence yet. their security clearances, even if they applied on the first day they were eligible, won't be done until the end of the month. so they can't even start the heart of their investigation until august. >> phil rutger, while i have you, i quickly want to touch on some other news that we were getting in. that is some updates on the 2020 election probe when it comes to the special counsel as well. rusty bowers giving insight into the conversation that was had. want to take a listen to that

and then we'll talk. >> i'm hesitant to talk about any subpoenas, et cetera, but i have been interviewed by the fbi. it was four hours of a discussion that they had with me. they seemed to have a goodgrasp on all of the testimony that i've given. >> how significant is this, phil? >> well, it shows that jack smith's probe into the fake electors scheme and that the broader efforts by trump and his allies to overturn the election results is looking deeply at a number of states. we've known they've been doing this investigative work so far, but we're getting increasing reporting the last few weeks about activity in arizona, both what you saw right there from rusty bowers. my colleagues at "the washington post" reported a few days ago that the former arizona governor, doug ducey came under pressure in his conversations after the election with trump, with trump wanting him to take action as the governor to try to overturn the election results. you've got to imagine that that

effort by trump will figure into the broader -- the broader investigation that smith is leading. we should just keep in mind the special counsel jack smith and his office have been pursuing two investigations into trump, the classified documents case that we've been talking about at mar-a-lago, but also the january 6th probe, which includes the fake elector scheme and the broader efforts by trump to overturn the election. >> paul butler, phil rucker, thank you. ryan, stay with me for a moment, we do have some breaking news we're following. new reporting on the small baggie of cocaine found in the white house. what more can you tell us about this, ryan? >> yeah, kelly o'donnell reports that it's possible we might not even get to learn who actually brought this small baggie is. i'm sure that's a sigh of relief to whoever made the bone headed move of bringing a bag of cocaine in the white house. because this was in a -- not an area that, you know, is highly trafficked but wasn't necessarily covered by cameras all that well, you know, it's an

area that a decent amount of people had access to. it just makes that investigation a little bit difficult. this could all end without necessarily anyone being named as the person who was responsible for bringing that bag of cocaine to the white house. >> bone headed is putting it lightly, ryan reilly, thank you, appreciate it. coming up next, where in the world is yevgeny prigozhin, the mixed messages from minsk to moscow as we see brand new images appearing to show russian police raiding his home e. what they found when we're back in just 60 seconds. we're back in just 60 seconds.

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prigozhin, the wagner group leader who until today was believed to be in belarus after calling off his armed march in moscow. belarus president aleksandr lukashenko said prigozhin is not in his country at all, he's back in russia surprisingly. that's despite the kremlin maintaining that prigozhin had been effectively banished. nbc news has not been able to independently verify either claim, and the kremlin has yet to comment. also today, new pictures, new videos published by pro-kremlin newspaper, which appear to show police raiding prigozhin's palace and office. russian security services saying they found guns, gold, fake passports, a cupboard full of wigs and cash and various currency. keir simmons is reporting from minsk belarus where he attended that press conference. it's always great to talk to you. what else did he have to say about prigozhin and the wagner

group? >> reporter: well, it was stunning, wasn't it? nbc news one of the few international news organizations invited to ask questions at that news conference at the presidential palace here in minsk, belarus. and from the outset it was kind of whiplash because as far as we understood, president lukashenko here of belarus had offered yevgeny prigozhin to come here in order for him to stand down on his insurrection. now he says he's not here, that he's in russia as a free man, that he and his wagner group fighters may never come here to belarus, so his answers really simply raised more questions about exactly what is happening, and i tried to get more detail. take a listen. >> thank you very much for the conversation. can i encourage you as a conversation to give us more

detail. what have you discussed with yevgeny prigozhin and with president putin about what happens next? have you reached any conclusions? people will be surprised and mystified that a man who you say could have caused a civil war in russia is still in russia. >> translator: when we meet with putin, we will discuss this topic, but i'll give you my point of view. i'll share this point of view with putin as well. in order to redeem himself and to redeem the misdeeds of pmc wagner, i would send them to the hardest battle points, go and redeem yourself. >> reporter: so yasmin, what i think you're seeing here is president lukashenko here of belarus distancing himself from yevgeny prigozhin, and overnight, as you mentioned, we saw pictures of that police raid, and the gold bars, the

stashes of dollar bills, i don't think we would see that without the kremlin approval. a number of russian state television have been running reports overnight talking about p prigozhin's criminal past. remember, they lauded him as a successful mercenary on the front lines of ukraine. that is changing. and i think it's a sign that having reestablished or tried to reestablish president putin's authority, there is now a push to discredit prigozhin. >> keir simmons for us, as always, my friend, thank you. you're going to be joining us again in the next hour from belarus. we'll talk to you again then. want to bring in admiral james detective ree dis. you got a lot of reactions there as we were watching that take place. what is going on here? >> i can answer that question definitively in three words, i

don't know. nobody knows except maybe vladimir putin. i was really taken with the fact that prigozhin has wigs. i think as someone who would need wigs to make a clean escape, that's pretty smart thinking on his part. >> you think that's a good idea? >> i do. >> but what i don't think is a good idea for prigozhin is to go back into russia, and he is there because putin wants him back, and i suspect what we're going to see is building case against yevgeny prigozhin. you know, his great friend lieu lukashenko says go to the battle, go to the hard spots. i think the hard spot he's heading for is la fortoe prison. that is going to enhance putin, putin wants to show the world he was not humiliated by this guy. watch for the humiliation of prigozhin. >> that seems to be a more optimistic end than we initially thought his end would be with p prigozhin, if you think he may be headed to prison, even building a case against him,

that's not what vladimir putin necessarily does to his adversaries. >> not necessarily, but i think in this case he will want to lay it all out and kind of be el duche on the balcony, kind of showing the world he is in complete control, and a way to do that is to lay out a case. and believe me, there's plenty of dirt on yevgeny. >> what do you make of this nbc reporting that we were getting in overnight here. u.s. national security officials holding secret talks, the prominent russian officials believed to be close to the kremlin. what is this about? do you think this is with the green light from the russian president himself? and is this a real kind of moment, a doorway of a way in which putin can kind of exercise his powers, show the world and also show his own people that he's still in control but also gain an exit ramp out of this war with ukraine? >> i think that's smart analysis, and what putin will seek to do -- and yes, i think

any high level contacts with the kremlin are done with putin's concurrence at a minimum, if not encouragement. what he'll seek to do is to show that however this ends, it was all part of his plan. and by the way, i've seen the reporting. i know a couple of the u.s. figures who are named, notably our good friend richard haass who appears on nbc with us. listen, he is a safe pair of hands in this kind of track to diplomacy. he will get more out of that conversation than the russians will, and i hope he's feeding that back, and i'm reasonably sure he is, to the administration. >> do you also think putin is operating from a place in which he sees that the administration and also intelligence officials here in the united states see this as a vulnerability he has in the ranks of both possibly the fsb for all we know, the russian military, right, they haven't performed the way they were expected to perform inside this war. right? he has to save face. >> he does.

and so on a separate track, he is gathering all of the information, all the cell phone intercepts, what was on everybody's computer screen during the, quote, rebellion. he's watching that, and he will cull the herd and get rid of any whose loyalty he doubts. he'll humiliate prigozhin, and he'll continue to do everything he can to show the international world that he's in charge, but he's not. >> but he's not. admiral james stavridis, thank you. great to see you in person. come back more often, please. coming up next -- >> also maybe i can give you some recommendations on wigs or something -- january 6th impact on the campaign trail, everybody. the new ads launched against former president trump in key early states targeting trump's quote, unquote baggage as the former vice president campaigns in iowa. you are watching msnbc. we'll be right back. bc we'll be right back.

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primary states, new evidence showing that donald trump's election denials are taking a serious toll on gop finances. a reuters analysis showing that the former president's false election claims are leaving swing state republicans, quote, effectively broke as the party bleeds donors and cash. and the political network financed by a deep pocketed gop donor who has vowed to, quote, unquote sink trump is out a new digital ad in the early states. watch this. >> instead of making biden answer for his reckless progressive agenda, trump makes the debate about indictments, personal grievances, and the election he lost. sure, he did some good things as president, but the reality is republicans lose if trump is our nominee. leave trump's baggage in the past and nominate a new leader to make biden answer for his failures. >> whoa, i want to bring in michael steele and an msnbc news

political analyst and our friend. good to see you after the fourth of july holiday. >> we were the best, yeah. >> lovely. >> how effective is it when you have someone like charles cook putting out an ad like that one? major republican donor, but anti-trumper. >> it stirs some anxieties in the donor class, those who are sort of straddling between that word with the koch brothers and other interests and the trump community, if you will. so you have that sort of tension. in terms of the base, this ad will mean very little. it will do very little. if nothing else, it solidifies more around trump. it sets up what a lot of those maga heads believe is this sort of anti-establishment us versus them kind of mind-set. this, you know, furthers that thinking, and you'll see it play out as the lead-in says where,

you know, candidates out there trying to get cash and support and it's fractured and spread out, and it's not as concentrated as it once was. and so now they have to work harder to find those dollars. >> it's interesting because in the same respect as we're having this conversation about swing state voters essentially or swing state republicans, i should say, being left effectively broke as they're reporting, right, we are also having conversations about the former president fund-raising in record numbers after multiple indictments. how do you actually even reconcile this? how do you square this? >> his base support of 40 some percent of the republican party, those are small dollar donors. and they set up their accounts, take $50, $100, $250 a month off my credit card. so they just lock and load it in and go. trump meanwhile has other major donors in the party who still support him and still will help

fund on the back end a lot of those operations for him. so he's able to do his. the problem which will be interesting to see is how are the other candidates running against him doing financially? >> yeah. >> where are they getting their money? how easy is it for them to raise the dollars they need, particularly given the arbitrary and capricious kind of bar that the rnc said, oh, you know, you need 40,000 individual donors and, you know, all of this other crazy and signing a pledge. >> are they getting behind one or coalesing behind one candidate? >> they're not cocoalescing. >> i'm the one, i'm the guy who can beat trump or i'm the gal who can beat trump. there's not this sense that, you know, as they had a chance in 2016, they have a chance right now. once you do that first debate, it becomes even more problematic, particularly if trump isn't there. >> i want to play for you some sound former vice president mike pence getting some kickback, i believe, in iowa about his break

from the former president when it comes to january 6th. >> yeah. >> if it wasn't for your vote, we would not have joe biden in the white house. do you ever second guess yourself? >> no vice president in american history ever asserted the authority that you have been convinced that i have. president trump is wrong about my authority that day, and he's still wrong. >> it reminds me somewhat of that moment when john mccain many years ago as he was asked about a different scenario, of course, when it came to president obama. but what do you make of that kind of statement from the former vice president and how he's handling it? i applaud it, thank you. kind of late, but okay. you know. >> thank you for the truth? >> thank you for the truth. but look, the truth matters in the moment when you first are challenged, and you know, the

response of the vice president and others immediately after january 6th and certainly, you know, leading up to that moment was tepid, it wasn't as clarifying and as forceful as that. it was a gradual, yeah, yeah, i don't have that kind of authority and the reality of it is that's not necessarily being reinforced by others insides party. >> yeah. >> other leaders insides party. it has not been. so this horse is out of the barn, running wild with this idea that he had this authority that he didn't exercise. he's going to have to address this over and over again. remember, you're talking to the very same people who wanted to hang you, so there's that. >> there is that. michael steele, as always, good to see you. thank you. the president, everybody, just finishing giving remarks about his administration's big economic wins at a south carolina manufacturing facility. we want to go to allie raffa who's standing by in south

carolina. talk us through what we heard from the president there. >> reporter: yeah, yasmin, this san incredible special state for president biden. as you'll remember in 2020, it was support from voters in south carolina, the endorsement of congressman jim clyburn that allowed the biden campaign to essentially get off of life support and really re-strengthen. so we saw congressman jim clyburn here today at this flex foot manufacturing facility in columbia talking about really the improvements and the advances that have been made to south carolinians thanks to the president. the president even acknowledging that he wouldn't be on that stage today without the help of congressman jim clyburn. all of this is in an effort as we've seen white house officials talk about this phase two of their investing in america plan to get out to all of the areas of the country and talk about how legislation that president biden has signed into law, things that could sound abstract to many voters are helping them

in concrete ways. the president even acknowledging they are benefitting republicans who voted against these key pieces of legislation, things like the chips and science act, the inflation reduction act, the bipartisan infrastructure law. the president specifically acknowledging those republicans today thanking the ones that did support these pieces of legislation. all of this in an effort to really re-up a campaign message we heard from him in 2020, when he said that he will be a president for all americans from blue states, red states, he'll be able to work across the aisle. he stressed that again in this speech today making the argument as we've talked about, he's using the power of his platform to speak not only as president but also as a candidate for re-election to make the case for how much more he could do if reelected to a second term, yasmin. >> allie raffa for us, thank you. appreciate it. still ahead, everybody, a disturbing video of the moment an l.a. deputy throwing a woman to the ground and pepper sprayed her in the face.

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welcome back. in los angeles county, protesters are calling for a sheriff's deputy to be fired after viral witness videos and body cam footage showed him throw a woman to the ground in a grocery store parking lot. nbc's miguel almaguer has the report. a warning, it may be difficult to watch.

>> you can't touch me. >> stop. >> you can't touch me. >> stop. >> reporter: this violent takedown by a los angeles sheriff's deputy sparking a probe after an unidentified woman was tackled and pepper sprayed leaving witnesses in shock. >> oh, no. huh-uh. >> shortly after video of the arrest went viral, the l.a. sheriff's department released body camera footage. the sheriff calling the video disturbing and reassigning the two deputies involved pending an investigation. >> this investigation is to objectively -- and i do repeat objectively -- determine if the force used was reasonable, if it was necessary, if it was appropriate. >> reporter: both individuals described as seniors, are facing various charges including resisting arrest and assaulting an officer. >> no justice, no peace! >> reporter: at a rally in lancaster, activists called for the deputy who grabbed the woman by her neck to be fired.

>> we want those sheriff out of law enforcement. we want them out of our community. >> reporter: the incident happened late last month. deputies responding to the grocery store for a report of two customers assaulting security. after finding the couple who matched the description, officers detained this man, while the woman he called his wife recorded the encounter. >> you can't touch me. i can't breathe. you threw me down to the grown. >> reporter: as she was detained, the deputy warned he was going to strike her. >> stop or you're going to get punched in the face. turn around. >> get your neck off my -- i can't breathe. >> if they did what they said they did, it still doesn't justify the officer coming over to the lady and taking his arm to her neck and slamming her down on the ground. >> all right, a lot of disturbing stuff in there. thank you to miguel almaguer for that update. i want to bring back msnbc legal

analyst paul butler. you watch that video, pretty disturbing, and then hearing the officer there say stop or i'm going to punch you in the face, and from our reporting understanding that she was, in fact, just filming the interaction between her husband and the officer? what's going on here? any justification for any of this force? >> not from what's on the video, yasmin. this woman's real crime seems to be what defense attorneys call contempt of cop. the officer is mad because she's recording their encounter. he tells the woman to get on the ground, even though he has already tackled her and thrown her to the ground. she doesn't appear to use force or threaten force. instead she says she's going to sue the officer, but he still says stop or you're going to get punched. so we've seen versions of this sick movie before, like when those memphis cops told tyre nichols to stop resisting even though he was lying helpless on

the ground. yasmin, that's a tactic of bad apple cops when they know their body cameras are on ask they're trying to create an alternate narrative. we can believe our own eyes. there's nothing in this video that justifies the level of force that the officer used, not the physical assault and not the pepper spray. >> paul butler, thank you. coming up next, everybody, under mother nature, hail, tornados and millions sweltering under extreme heat alerts. are we ever going to catch a break this summer? we'll be right back. >> it's too hot. i want to move out of florida. my body's not made for this type of weather. of weather

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but how uncomfortable is it going to be? this is my own scale i came up with. when your dew point is in the 60s, we call it -- it's noticeable. when it's mid to upper 60s, it's uncomfortable. once you get into the dew points of 70 and above, it gets oppressive. and once you're 75 and above, i'll just label that as miserable. you get like new york to buffalo, uncomfortable air. this morning, it was more in the 70s, very oppressive. the miserable stuff is in florida, along the gulf coast, this is air you could wear if you want to call it that. you step outside and almost instantly start sweating. we combine the dew point with the temperature. these are numbers all in the shade. when you see burlington, vermont, at 96, that's very uncomfortable for people in northern new england, you got kids at camps and stuff like that, they're not used to that. in the south where ac is more prevalent, 102, not exactly comfortable running from your car to the store, but usually

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jamari brown moved into this home. she showed us busted locks, where the basement leaks after it snows, and crumbling walls. brown said she complained but her landlord progress residential brushed her off and she can't afford to move elsewhere. >> what's it take for the landlord to fix the issues? >> for the house to explode and us to die. being honest. >> reporter: brown is getting help from united renters for justice. >> we need change now. >> reporter: the nonprofit has been fight to go improve living conditions for the roughly 600 progress renters in minnesota. tenants have won repairs, compensation, one year rent freezes and the chance to move into a newly renovated home. these pictures of her progress home show the poor conditions outside. and inside. >> it had mold in the basement, probably about this thick, about 2 inches thick that set in on the walls from the windows and

everything. >> reporter: the mother of four says she is finally at peace in her new home with progress. >> and it's everything that i ever imagined. i can see this being my forever home, even though i am still a renter, but my family is safe. >> reporter: progress residential is one of the largest providers of single family rental homes in the united states, operating with more than 85,000 homes in 22 states. renters of progress homes in other states have told nbc news about similar issues to those we saw in minneapolis, alleging that serious problems were either inadequately addressed or ignored entirely. in minnesota, attorney general keith ellison last year sued haven brook homes and progress residential, alleging a deliberate and calculated strategy to extract ever greater profits from tenants by severely under maintaining their homes. >> we cannot let a company, a hedge fund or a private equity firm get to a point where they can move the market. >> reporter: his lawsuit also

included pretium partners, tied to havn brook and progress. >> owners and operators, all of them are responsible, and they will be held responsible. it's not going to be good enough to say i just own the place and get the profits from it. i don't operate. no, so that's not going to work. we expect everybody to operate ethically and within the law. >> reporter: pretium declined to comment for the story. they did not address the issues raised by the minneapolis tenants but told nbc news many millions have been invested in the properties we manage in minnesota. in court, the company denies the allegation that tenants had to wait an inordinately long time for repairs. >> i want to put power into these families to let them know, stand up, speak out for yourself. >> helping tenants like jamari brown find her voice. >> we have to keep beating the door down on them. >> reporter: and push for better

conditions, one fix at a time, brian cheung, nbc news, minneapolis. we have a lot to cover in our second hour of "chris jansing reports," let's get right to it. ♪♪ at this hour, janet yellen's diplomatic test, the treasury secretary arriving in china for a high-stakes trip. can she ease tensions? plus, the search for a motive, new details about the mental state of the man accused of gunning down five people in philadelphia, including the posts that he made online. inside the basement of mar-a-lago, what fbi agents saw on a surveillance camera that led to a search of the former president's property, and guns, gold bars, even wigs, stunning images of what russian authorities found while regulated the home of the wagner group's boss. reporters are following the latest developments. we begin though, with a mystery