have this long standing rivalry and have even talked about fighting each other. of having a physical battle. >> all right. julia boorstin for us. thank you, appreciate it. that does it for us today, everybody. tune into "chris jansing reports" every weekday at 1:00 to 3:00, our coverage continues right now with "katy tur reports." good to be with you. i'm katy tur. donald trump's personal aide and valet was finally arraigned today after he finally secured a local lawyer. walt nauta pleaded not guilty to the charges related to alleged mishandling of classified documents, and on that specific subject we have news. as promised yesterday, more of the affidavit to search mar-a-lago was unsealed. in it, new details about what walt nauta did along with hints about what prosecutors knew and when they knew it. we'll explain that in a moment.

we have updates in the other special counsel's investigation. jack smith issuing more subpoenas in the january 6th investigation. this time, focusing on arizona. so let's get to it. joining me now is nbc news investigative correspondent, tom winter and nbc news justice reporter, ryan reilly. let's start with the top. walt nauta, finally getting a lawyer. finally pleading not guilty. walk us through what happened. >> it was a short hearing. the big news is he did get this lawyer, and essentially one of the reasons i think it's more difficult to find someone is because, you know, donald trump hasn't been known to pay his bills. that's something you're on the hook for down the line if, you know, no matter where this goes, once you're on the case you're stuck with it no matter what, even if there's a dispute about payment or what have you. whoever signed on for that is in

for the long haul. with donald trump, a significant retainer agreement, cash up front in order to take on that case. i think in this case, you have to find someone who's willing to take that on. obviously it would be interesting to find out the details of exactly what the deal was on the finances behind that because walt nauta, right now is firmly in trump's camp. he's still employed by donald trump, his legal bills are being paid for by the broader trump universe, so, you know, right now it seems like he's pretty heavily aligned, so we don't anticipate any departures from that, necessarily going forward. >> let's talk about that not guilty plea, and what prosecutors say he did. why they believe he is guilty, and not guilty, we learned a little bit more in the unsealing, more unsealing of the affidavit, the partial unsealing we got. as promised yesterday, tom. tell us what prosecutors believe

they know about nauta? >> as we talked 24 hours ago, this unsealing of a less redacted document. still, approximately 50% of this remains completely redacted or redacted in part when you look at each paragraph in the search warrant affidavit. but what we did see yesterday is exactly what was promised, which is more granular detail as to what nauta was up to on those surveillance tapes. we know there was a series of back and forths with trump's lawyers and the justice department. that's been well reported on. what was new and interesting in this document is in probably frankly a road map to the potential trial against the former president and nauta was what it showed on the surveillance tapes, the back and forth and shuttling of boxes between rooms at mar-a-lago, the involvement of one of trump's attorneys and so when you look at this, you say, okay, if you're the fbi and people are making representations to you, you get a grand jury subpoena, and get that surveillance tape,

and it shows something totally different, according to the fbi's affidavit, that would certainly lead them down a course of, hey, maybe we've got a criminal conspiracy or something going on here that we need to look into. obviously that search occurred, that's the reason we're still talking about it, and it's highly likely, based on the affidavit, and this video will be shown at a potential trial. it is a public video. something that should be shared with the press. at some point in the future, we will actually see this video that was discussed in detail in this less redacted version of the search warrant affidavit. >> certainly curious what the defense will be. let's talk about arizona. as we said, jack smith is issuing more subpoenas in that state. ryan, who are they going to? >> so rusty bowers indicated that he has interviewed with authorities, and it just shows again how wide this separate investigation which is being run out of a grand jury here in d.c.

really is because they really are focused on those fake electors, and you know, we spotted just a couple of weeks ago, some of the fake electors at the grand jury. this is clearly a really wide ranging investigation that's talked to a lot of people, and i think it's something that certainly the people in trump's circumstance really concerned about going forward. arizona is another one of those states where there is a lot of focus on representing that, you know, there are trump electors who weren't legitimate and essentially trying to overturn the election. while we refer to this as the january 6th grand jury, it has a much longer range of activity that they're looking at. it's really about the peaceful transfer of power, which is one of the assignments that is interrupting the peaceful transfer of the power, one of the assignments we saw coming out of jack smith, the assignment he was given by the directive of merrick garland. >> joining me now is msnbc legal analyst, lisa rubin, i know you

have a lot of thoughts, and what we learned in the unsealing of the affidavit. let's start with nauta and talk about plea of not guilty. he has a lawyer. what's going to happen next? what's the next step here? because i know the trial is still set for august. >> it is, but as you know, the government has moved to continue the trial. that means to postpone the trial. they've asked for a december date. the papers that nauta and trump as defendants here have in response are due on the 10th and now that nauta has finally been arraigned that, response can go forward we're looking to july 10th to see what does donald trump and walt nauta have to say about the date of the trial. do they believe it should be tried in august or like the government, do they think they need additional time because of classified information and the procedures that need to take place. >> that's four days from now. the judge can decide on here own, judge aileen cannon, which

it sure is at this moment. she doesn't have to grant every motion that's put before her to delay a trial? >> she doesn't, and she will have to balance the speedy trial rights of the two defendants against the practicalities of trying a case against classified information is so important, and so aileen cannon, definitely taking this motion seriously, but just because she's ordered a briefing doesn't mean she's going to grant it. it's possible she'll go halfway in between. >> do we have any indication of where we are on the discovery process, handing over documents and information from the prosecution to donald trump, et cetera. >> we know of a filing from the government, how much they have turned over, and i think the big revelation was that they turned over grand jury transcripts, one belonging to wallet walt nauta on june 21st.

june 22nd, plays so prominently not only in the indictment but the search warrant affidavit. >> that tells us what the prosecutors knew when they were interviewing him because if they did it, and got a search warrant right afterwards, something he said must not have sounded right to them. >> that wasn't the first they interviewed him either. yesterday's affidavit talks about the fact that four days after their first interview, they caught him on surveillance tape moving boxes. of course they didn't know that at the point of the first interview, but when he talked to them on the 21st of june, he must have triggered some suspicion and said some things they thought, that's right not right, and that's when they drew up that subpoena, looking for surveillance footage from the trump organization, early july, four different cameras all in the basement. the surveillance footage shows people coming in and out of the storage room. it doesn't show us where they like i will went. one of the things i thought was significant about yesterday's affidavit was that it tells us that by august, the department

of justice not only knew that walt nauta was moving boxes in and out of the storage room, but they knew where they ended up. that's not likely the surveillance footage but other evidence, text or e-mails or more likely other witnesses. in yesterday's affidavit, he's referred to as witness number five. i asked a former prosecutor that we work with here at the network, does that mean one through four are also talked about in the sealed portions of this affidavit, and indeed, the answer, katy, was yes. >> i wonder who those witnesses are. let's talk about lawyers and what might be going on with jack smith, and donald trump's lawyers, the ones that are currently being considered as witnesses in this case. >> well, i think evan corcoran is absolutely an essential witness here. at the time they drew up the search warrant affidavit, it's unclear if he was knowingly or

unknowingly representing what happened. we know now on the indictment that he was not privy to the fact that walt nauta and donald trump were moving boxes in and out. he was used as what prosecutors call an instrumentality of the crime of fraud. >> we know that because he wasn't indicted himself? >> and we also know that because of the narrative of the indictment they talked that he had been deceived by donald trump and others as to where the boxes were and where he should be looking. >> the arizona subpoenas, and the investigation, we had subpoenas out of georgia, and arizona, we know the fake electors have spoken to the grand jury. we have seen a lot of movement in the grand jury. does that give us any indication about where this investigation is going? are there any loose ends that we can think of that jack smith may not have tied up yet? >> i think jack smith is looking for further that donald trump knew that the election was not fraudulent, at least not fraud in the kind of scope needed to

overturn the results of the election. so by subpoenaing these state elected officials in their offices, what he's looking for is contacts between the trump campaign and these offices, as well as rauda that necessary to show that when they were litigating these things, they knew the real truth of what was happening. >> we learned so much in the january 6th hearings that congress conducted about fake electors rusty bowers, is there anything more that the justice department would need to learn that isn't already out there in order to make this a stronger case? >> i think what's behind some of those communications, right, you think about rusty bowers as sort of the star of the arizona episode, there are a lot of other actors underneath him. people communicating with lower level people in the trump campaign or the white house. people involved in the apparatus of the administration of the election in arizona. that's the kind of information that i think the special counsel's office wants now.

>> i said justice department, i should have said special counsel's office since they operate under the department of justice but separate. thank you so much, lisa rubin, for joining us, appreciate it. where in the world is yevgeny prigozhin, what belarus's president told keir simmons about the wagner chief's whereabouts and what that could mean for vladimir putin. plus an nbc news exclusive what a group of former senior national security officials including a friend of the show are doing in secret talks with russian foreign minister, sergey lavrov. and what a first of its kind medicine will mean for the estimated million people with early forms of the disease. we're back in 60 seconds. we're back in 60 seconds

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yevgeny prigozhin. it depends who you ask. according to the kremlin, he's in belarus. but according to belarus, he's in russia. according to social media he's in disguise. joining me from minsk in belarus, is nbc news chief international correspondent keir simmons to try to sort it all out. here's what lukashenko, the president of belarus said about prigozhin's whereabouts today. >> translator: yevgeny prigozhin, he is located in st. petersburg. where is he this morning? he could have gone to moscow or somewhere else but he's not on the territory of belarus. >> forgive me, keir, i'm very confused. i thought lukashenko said last week that prigozhin was in belarus. >> reporter: yeah, and maybe he was at that point. it is hard to get your head around, something of whiplash for everybody.

one of international news organizations invited to the presidential palace here in minsk, the capital of belarus to question the autocrat, president lukashenko to find out a little bit more. he surprised us with the answer because remember, he's the one who did the deal to end the insurrection with the agreement that yevgeny prigozhin would come here to belarus. now he says he's not here. he says he's a free man in russia, and even suggests that prigozhin and his fighters may never come here as you can imagine, we try 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, 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 hottest battle points, go and redeem yourself. >> reporter: here's what i think is happening, katy, that is president lukashenko distancing himself from yevgeny prigozhin and what we have seen overnight from russian television are images of a police raid showing, and it hasn't been verified by nbc news, gold bars and dollar bills in the home of prigozhin, wigs for disguise, weapons on the wall, and on a number of state channels in russia,

digging into criminal history, he's led life with his children, having a great life, in other words, the kremlin has words to reinforce the authority of president putin, now it appears there's an effort to blacken the name of prigozhin. what happens next with prigozhin, that's a question that's difficult to answer. >> what about what happens next with vladimir putin? didn't we also see him yesterday for the first time out and about in a crowd, and interacting with people when we've seen the past few years, he's had crazy strict covid protocols. nobody has been able to get near him. >> yeah, things have been changing quickly, haven't they? we have another image of president putin has been accepting flowers from an 8-year-old girl inside the kremlin. it's president putin, the powerful, the man of the people, trying to reestablish that image because plainly in the kremlin, they will believe what happened

with the 24-hour mutiny, it rocked the kremlin, rocked russia, and frankly they will be worried they did damage so they're trying to reestablish that. again, the second part of this, the next chapter of this appears to be what happens with prigozhin and whether there is an effort to discredit him and what happens next. i think you mentioned, prigozhin has said he will be winning victories again with his wagner fight ergs. -- fighters. maybe that's the plan. so many things are unpredictable in russia right now. this is one of them. a quick programming note, nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel is going to show us how prigozhin became a would be leader of a rebellion. engel investigates how putin's protege turned on him and tried to launch a mutiny inside

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now to an nbc news exclusive, josh lederman reports, in talks with russian leaders to lay the ground work for negotiations to end the war in ukraine. a number of current and former officials briefed on the discussions tell us at one point the talks even included foreign minister sergey lavrov who met with the group here in new york back in april. joining me now is nbc news correspondent josh lederman, first off, congratulations on the scoop. tell me who was involved. i believe it's a familiar face

on this show. >> reporter: that's right, one of the people who was involved in this meeting with lavrov was richard haass, the outgoing president of the counsel on foreign relations, someone well known to fans of this show. he was joined by other former white house and state department officials who have a lot of expertise on russia, and have been keeping the door open to communications with not only the russian government, via lavrov, but also the others who are in the foreign policy sphere in russia, the heads of their major think tanks, academics, research institutes, people who talk to the kremlin about foreign policy. we should say, this is not a substitute for actual peace negotiations involving the ukrainians, the americans, and the russians but that's not happening right now, and so this is an effort by these former officials to at least start to feel out potential solutions to some of the trickiest solutions that can be solved.

what's going to happen to the areas like crimea and parts of the donbas that have been under russian control or even ukraine's most staunch supporters are not going to be able to liberate. trying to figure out if there are areas for compromise, some type of middle ground that all sides could potentially accept. the hope is that will create some fodder for actual peace negotiations with which the biden administration, other allies hope will start by the end of the year. >> what has president zelenskyy said about this, and what's the biden administration's position on these back door talks? >> reporter: the biden administration is not directing these talks but they certainly know about them. not only are they aware of them, but after this lavrov meeting, americans briefed the national security council about what was discussed. we posed that question to the ukrainian presidency, given the

fact that the biden administration's whole mantra has been nothing about ukraine without ukraine. the ukrainians, that was their response too. they said the fate of their country is going to be decided by ukraine, not by americans and russians in some back room or anyone else for that matter. >> did you get a sense from your conversations about what the sticking points were? >> reporter: some of the sticking points certainly have to do with these areas that have been under russian control for so long that the russians are really entrenched there, and it's going to be really hard for ukraine to really liberate them, and so some of the ideas that have been tossed around have to do with potentially finding some type of middle ground. can you have a demilitarized zone that maybe the u.n. or someone else is overseeing for a period of time, maybe you can eventually have referenda or elections, basically trying to figure out something in between ukraine fully liberating the territory and russia annexing it and turning it into part of his

country. >> that's interesting, the dmz, josh, thank you again and congratulations on the reporting. joining me is military analyst, and retired four-star general, barry mccaffrey. this back door diplomacy, what's your take on it? >> well, i think it's encouraging, to some extent normal. richard haass, of course, was a brilliant experienced diplomat. his 20 plus years at the council on foreign relations, given global contacts. i think the fact that there is a dialogue to include the russian foreign minister is a pretty positive thing. the problem, of course, is when these kind of discussions leak out, it makes what hesitant ukrainians and their gauges of u.s. long-term support for their struggle. this war eventually will be decided on the battlefield, and if the ukrainians are successful in a major counter offensive, we

should hope that a political diplomatic solution will soon follow, and it might well indeed not involve the return of crimea or the eastern donbas of the ukrainian control. maybe a period in which they will eventually hold referendum, u.n. peace keepers, who knows. the battlefield is pending an important aspect of the ukraine opposition that's criminal invasion by russia. >> you said that the ukrainians could see this and it would make them hesitate about our commitment to supporting them. explain that. >> well, i think the whole notion that they're not in a room, and these discussions are going on, and they're obviously semiofficial to the extent that richard haass apparently debriefed a national security council, so even though they're not directed u.s. government policy, they'd be sure to make ukrainians uneasy. the great question is that putin

is counting upon the europeans and the u.s. to give up on long-term support. and so i think every ukrainian, to include those in the front lines is apprehensive about losing solid backing by the united states in particular. and of course, that then bleeds into the whole notion of why hasn't the u.s. and nato provided more of a modern set of technology to allow the ukrainians to have a much higher likelihood of winning on the battlefield in a dramatic fashion this summer. why haven't we provided 300 kilometer attack missiles, why haven't we provided duel purpose, improved conventional, the so called dcpim cluster bombs. why haven't we started training on f-16 fighter aircraft. why isn't there a more tactical air defense in the areas of the ukrainian army. why haven't we given a more

sophisticated counter mine technology, so these questions, there's a lot at stake this summer and this fall, and i think zelenskyy is right to be apprehensive about the level of continued support from the united states. >> general barry mccaffrey, thank you very much, really interesting points. coming up, the first drug proven to slow the progression of alzheimer's is set for full fda approval. who will have access to it, and who will not? plus, first he said it to a voter's face. now he's out with a new ad, what mike pence is doing to define himself against donald trump. g himself against donald trump (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

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first that will be widely available we anticipate with fda approval. we have to wait and see, but that's widely expected today, that will be available, that changes the course of the disease. we haven't had that yet, and perhaps the last major disease when we speak of alzheimer's that has to reach this important milestone. >> what does this drug do? what does it target? how does it work? what are the results? give me everything. >> you bet. happy to do so. what this drug does is it clears something called beta amyloid from the brain, these are clumps that are thought to be very important in the progression of the disease, and why this matters so much is that for those who are likely to be appropriate for use of this drug, those in the early stage of alzheimer's, it will slow the progression, and this is what matters most to the millions of americans who go through alzheimer's is to be able to hold on to their independence just as long as they can. there's a reason why alzheimer's

is programs the most feared disease among seniors, and it's loss of independence, and this drug has been proven to slow that progression, making independence last longer. >> is there going to be an eligibility requirement? is medicare going to cover this? is insurance going to cover it? if it's not covering it, how expensive is it? >> when it comes to coverage, that's one of the major concerns we've had. we believe coverage based on fda's accelerated approval should have been available for some time, but effectively for the last six months, this drug has been out of reach to all but a few americans. that could change in the coming hours as cms, the agency of the federal government that oversees medicare rolls out new rules that could make this under medicare available to many people, and beyond that, when medicare moves, many private insurers follow behind medicare, so this can be a very important step forward in terms of being able to access this treatment, which is so important because at

this early stage, every day matters in terms of access. >> what are the risks with this drug because there are some? >> there are risks with this drug, and like many drugs that are directed at terminal diseases, fatal diseases, it's important to have patients discuss this with their clinicians to reach the right decisions, and that's going to be a conversation that's going to include what the benefits may be to them based on the evidence we have, and also about the risks. and there are risks with this treatment, just like many others but it's going to be important that doctors have a good understanding. basically the risks with this drug relate to what could happen in your brain, and it's very rare, but it's important to people understand this so they have the right kind of mantra in place so that clinicians can really manage this actively with patients who receive it. >> 13% of patients developed

brain swelling, 17% experienced brain bleeds, three patients died. it seems like there are some issues with certain patients on this drug, certain patients who are maybe not clotting, patients on blood thinners, am i correct in saying that? >> the stats you mentioned, in terms of where it's detectable, it's a smaller number than that. that's not to minimize the importance of dealing with these issues and making sure that clinicians who work with patients understand the full range of considerations they need to have in mind, and how it applies to each patient, of course, and then talk about that very thoroughly with them so they can make the right decision for themselves. >> this is a really scary disease, and people worry about it as they get older, they worry about it for their parents. i mean, this is certainly a first step. it's slowing the progression of the disease. it's not a cure. do you believe that this when it gets out there the in public and doctors can track it, it's going

to open the door to other more effective drugs? >> yeah, we absolutely think so. if you look at so many chronic diseases, what's happened to make, where we are today so different from ten years ago is there's been a combination approach of treatments like this one that can be built upon in different ways. we expect that same progression to happen here, and this will be looked back on as an important milestone in its own right, and unlocking effective combinations of therapies in the future. >> thank you very much for coming on. it's an exciting time. appreciate it. coming up, quote, trump was wrong. what mike pence said to a voter's face in iowa. what mike pence said to a voter's face in iowa

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my authority that day, and he's still wrong. >> in further sharpening the line between himself and the man he served under, pence is out with a new ad, using donald trump to tell voters who 2024 candidate mike pence is not. >> america doesn't stand with thugs and dictators. we confront them or at least we used to. there can be no room in the leadership of the republican party for apologists for putin. there can only be room for champions of freedom. >> joining me now is nbc news correspondent ali vitali, talk to me about mike pence. he's gone from being tepid around criticizing donald trump to getting a bit sharper. >> and what choice does he have, really, katy, because he's running in this primary where the person consistently at the top of the pack is the former president. pence now has to answer the question, and frankly, it's a tough question for all of the

republican contenders who actually served in the trump administration but it was also the trump/pence administration so he has to make the case for why he is running and of course january 6th was such a seminole moment of course for the country and also until the relationship between pence and trump and the relationship that pence would forever have with trump supporters, i think what's important about this moment is the fact that he's being asked about it on the campaign trail. january 6th is something that, of course, in washington and media circles we keep a very consistent focus on for obvious reasons. it's also important to note, though, that this is something that voters themselves are talking to the candidates about and the level of mis and disinformation that exists among a large swath of trump supporters who think pence had a constitutional right to do something, and he very clearly did not have a constitutional right to do. i think when you look at the way some of these contenders, and i would say that nikki haley is another one here who have been talking about trump and the

moral fiber he showed on the world stage, that's something where it's a pretty easy line of criticism because america has never been a nation that praised putin or dictators, and certainly that's something that trump has done repeatedly, so we're watching people, not just pence, but nikki haley as well making that argument and using that as a contrast point too. >> ali vitali, thank you very much. and monday was the hottest day ever recorded on our planet, then tuesday was, now wednesday is as well. what will tomorrow be? and what weather phenomenon is keeping it so steamy? joining me now is nbc news meteorologist bill karins, i'm not sure why we got that one shot of that guy topless hiking, but we got it in. >> he's getting exercise in the hot climate. >> is he the weather phenomenon keeping everything so steamy? >> no, but a lot of people are seeing these headlines. as far as meteorologists go and climatologists, we knew this was

happening. i can tell you this july will be the warmest july recorded on the globe, and next year will be the hottest year recorded on planet. most records go back to 1940. why do i know that? we have a strong el nino developing. right now with our oceans, we have the warmest we've ever measured as far as the globe, 70% of our globe is covered by water. water absorbs heat really well. so we've obviously been warming our climate, us humans because of greenhouse gases and 90% of the heat is trapped in our oceanings and right now, the atlantic ocean is the warmest we have seen it recorded. colorado state came up with the hurricane forecast saying they have increased it. the water is so warm. that's the fuel for the hurricanes. the el nino, the dark red off the coast of south america, that's getting stronger. the oceans are as warm this has they have been, a lot of land, it's no shock that we're getting one day after another that's warmer than the next. this will go on for the next

three or four weeks, and hit our peak at the end of july or early august. the old record was in 2016. it took seven years to break the daily record temperature of globe because that was the last strong el nino. el nino is a much stronger, and la nina, a much stronger influence influence on climate than what we have done as a planet. once we get to el nino, you super charge that with climate change and that's when you get the warmest. all these little lines are every year since 1940. this is where we just hit. you can see that big jump here in the last couple days. this is the old record. we could easily see maybe 10, 20 more times if we break the record. the other thing is that june was the warmest june on record. everywhere you see the dark red is where we measured the warmest june. the lower 48 of the united states, we actually had a relatively cool june compared to the rest of the globe and compared to other years. just because it happens in your

back yard doesn't mean it's happening on the whole globe. here's like a little plot. each plot is a june temperature for the globe. this was this past june, all the way up here. that's how much higher it was than any other june that we've had and i also put a little red dot here on whenever we've had el ninos. when we have el nino, our planet is warmer and then climate change on top of that, that's why july will be the warmest july we've ever had and we'll keep doing this cycle throughout the winter and next year. a lot of climatologists people say they have been listened to have been waiting for a strong el nino. now people are going to start listening when they see these headlines about how warm and how the plan the changed. >> it's nice to get into a warmer ocean but you can't help but feeling like the frog who thinks he's just getting into the pot to talk a nice warm bath. coming up, what private equity is doing to make yet another

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landlords in the united states. >> reporter: jamari brown moved into this house in 2020. she showed us busted locks, where the basement leaks after it snows and crumbling walls. she said she complained but her landlord, progress residential brushed her off. the nonprofit has been fighting to improve living conditions for some of the 600 renters in minnesota. tenants have won repairs, compensation, one had much year rent and a chance for her to move into a new home. inside? >> they had mold in the

basement, probably about two inches sick that set in on the walls from the window and everything. >> reporter: the mother of four says she is finally at peace in her new home with progress. >> it's everything i can ever imagine. i can see this being my forever home, even though i am still a renter. but my family is safe. >> reporter: progress residential is operating in several states. serious problems were either inadequately addressed or ignored altogether. >> we cannot let a company, a

hedge fund or private equity firm, get to a point where they can move the market. >> his lawsuit also included the private equity firm tied to haven brook and progress. >> owners and operators, all of them are responsible and they will be held responsible. so it's not going to be good enough to say i get the profits from it. woe expect everybody to operate ethically and within the law. >> reporter: in a statement, "progress did not address the issues raised by minneapolis tenants but told nbc news many millions have been invested in the homes. but now henderson hopes her success inspires other progress renters. >> i want to put power into these families to let them know, stand up, speak up for injuries,

helping tenants like jamari brown find her forever home. >> you have to push for better conditions. and that right there is going to do it for me today. "deadline white house" starts right now. hi there, everyone. it's 4:00 in the east. facts are a stubborn little thing for those who sought to frame the search of mar-a-lago as somehow political or unfair to donald trump. it turns out there were always tapes, lots of them and the tapes themselves told a damning story. the more relearn in trump's elaborate conspiracy to keep them and hide them, the worse things look for the ex-president and those who spun those stories on his