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later this hour, when he stopped at a campaign event in las vegas, he is short to continue his attacks, and that might explain this. according to the new nbc news poll among gop voters, to 70% have a positive view of the fbi. 56% have a negative view. that is all by design. and it has real life consequences. prosecutors are working trump's case and now face new threats. the washington post reports, but quote, far right trump supporters posting the names of prosecutors and government workers online and yelling them at demonstrations. threatening them, sometimes revealing details about their personal lives. that is according to experts and political extremism. joining us now to discuss -- msnbc political analyst and former florida congressman david jolly. an msnbc legal analyst lisa reuben von. i wonder, you are on the trail right now. how is trump talking about his indictments onstage in front of

his supporters? >> right, alicia, look he has taken his legal peril on the road. he is not running from this. he is not trying to mask the fact that he has been criminally charged and is facing pending trials. instead he is using the stages and the microphone that millions of viewers not only on his social media accounts but also on right-wing outlets to try to galvanize support for him, not only on the legal front but the political one too. yesterday i was in iowa with him, he is about to take

>> it shows a majority >> before the gop primaries, and the general election. talk to me, lisa, about just the timing here, actually getting the ducks in a row,

that, and the chances that any of the various investigations and indictments result in a trial this year. >> i think, alicia, the most important these criminal investigations, and the one that has matured, for the federal indictment is the records investigation. and the good news is the department of justice is prepared to try that case on the timeline that the majority of the american people live alike. they have asked, judging the cannon, who was signaled that she would look to try the case this august. they've asked her to continue to postpone the trial to the summer of 2023. on monday, donald trump and, walt nauta, is codefendant's personal aide, have their response to the court depending on the timing of the trial. it will be interesting to see if they are the ones to suggest pushing it beyond that primary counter and even beyond the general election or whether they're in agreement with the doj that this case, for all this complexities, given the classified information, nonetheless can be tried. before the end of this year. >> that's kind of an interesting political question.

right david? if the base is, like, let's get this thing done before the election and that it is trump himself and his team that comes forward and says, like, why don't we get this kick this can down the road. how he begins to message and remessage that to his followers? >> yeah, look, the sober counsel here would be to get the trial after march when the republican primary is largely decided. because right now what we have learned is an indictment has strengthened donald trump's hand. but we don't yet know what would happen if he faces conviction, or a loss of liberty -- if you are the front-runner by 30 points, play it safe, don't deal with that dynamic until you have the republican nomination. put the question among the american people. do you want donald trump to lose his freedom or not? because as president you know that he would engage in some type of hijinx that would test

the constitution, would stress the courts, but would somehow alleviate whatever conviction he suffered? i don't know at this point. look, donald trump could also think everything thus far that is thrown at me in a court of law and in the criminal justice system helps my political chances. so let's have the trial. i don't know? i think they still tried to land it after march when donald trump has wrapped up the republican nomination. . >> von, so we have all of that timeline laid out. if you could hold it in your mind, i would prefer to see it on paper. and we learned today that the iowa caucus or republican is gonna be on january 15th. reminder for everyone that time is a flat circle, it's over six months now. i wonder how gop candidates try to pull iowa voters away from donald trump and if they understand the urgency of, like, they have six months, they have less time than that if we are being honest. but if we are being super generous they have six months to get her done, and they don't seem to be inching closer to any theory of the case for how they are going to supersede him?

91 days >> [inaudible] it's really nothing. he especially when you look at the fact that so many of them pass up opportunities. especially last year. to really try to break in with this republican base. this republican electorate that has continue to follow donald trump ever since january 6th, 2021. you know? it was liz cheney and adam kinzinger, tom rice. there were a couple that spoke out last year against donald trump's election fraud claims. and spoke out against him being the future of the republican party. but you didn't see the likes of mike pence or nikki haley or tim scott go out and campaign for them in primaries against trump backed opponents. instead, they let them go out there, those folks, tom rice, liz cheney, largely campaigned by themselves and who received little backing. now it is the likes of mike pence and nikki haley who are out there on the campaign trail themselves and we saw this. with that voter who confronted mike pence. that he let down the country by not putting donald trump in the white house for another four

years. it's very tough to, after two and a half years of not pushing back in a very forceful way, to try to convince the major share of this republican electorate that in fact they are the ones in the right. and that is what mike pence is now going to be hearing from voters day after day. and, you know, this is sort of the tough part. can any of them really crack donald trump? it is going to be very difficult because donald trump also has a heck of a campaign operation. they have phone numbers, emails, voters that voted for them in the past. they just have to keep a plurality of them in their corner in the likes of iowa, new hampshire, here in nevada, south carolina, in order to pull off the nomination. this is gonna be tough for others especially because, frankly, outside of ron desantis, they don't have the resources anywhere close to that of donald trump and the super pac that's aligned with them. >> and i'm so glad to bring that back to that because it's easy to get lost in this cult of personality. a lot of campaigns come down to the infrastructure and the money behind them. lisa, i also want to talk about something.

you have trump on the stump on social media testing out new attacks. and that is particularly interesting to me in juxtaposition with this reporting from the new york times. in a court, filing john kelly who was the chief of staff under donald trump said the former president had asked about having the tax agency look into peter struck and lisa page. so here you have him claiming that democrats are weaponizing the u.s. government when there is reporting, this is the newest reporting, but reporting that he was attempting to do the very thing that he is accusing democrats of doing? >> that is exactly right. and alicia, according to the new york times reporting but also according to publicly filed documents which i attached to my twitter page and anyone else can find as well,

john kelly also took contemporaneous notes of at least two conversations in which donald trump suggested retaliatory actions against peter struck and lisa page. not only did he ask to have an investigated by federal agencies, including the irs, but he asked to have their security clearances revoked. and indeed the lawsuit in which this was filed is all about the retaliation against the two of them for their role in the russia investigation. so you are right to say that donald trump is sort of on the other side of that i know you are but what am i, right? accusing democrats of weaponizing law enforcement. when he as president there is hard evidence that he did exactly the same. and now he will be forced to testify through a two-hour deposition and their civil lawsuit. >> vaughn, david, lisa, as always thank you so much for getting us started. next, president biden approves a new weapon for ukraine. the russians are not happy about it. former ambassador william taylor explains what's next for putin. and later the freedom caucus

says it has voted to oust congresswoman marjorie taylor greene. i talk to congressman robert garcia about that. and why he wants to rethink the rules on marijuana use by military recruits. but first richard louis is standing by with a look at the other big stories we are watching this hour at msnbc. richard? >> alicia, a very good evening to you. congressman jamie raskin saying he is not running for maryland's open senate seat in 2024. senator ben cardin is retiring and so far there's at least people that announced bids for the seat, including representative david -- manson family follower leslie van houten, now 73, will be released on parole. she was convicted of murdering two people in los angeles in 1971. and spent more than 50 years in prison. california's governor repeatedly blocked efforts for her parole in this high-profile case. but recently dropped the fight. and no winners in last night's mega millions jackpot. it has had a staggering $480 million. the 14th largest prize in that lotteries history, the next drawing is tuesday.

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war on ukraine for 500 days. no end in sight, the u.s. is getting ready to send ukrainians more weapons. on friday the pentagon announced that it will provide cluster ammunitions to ukraine. leaders in ukraine up and asking the u.s. for those weapons since last year, human rights groups are concerned that the expanded use of ammunition in ukraine will lead to more civilian casualties in the country. the announcement comes days before president biden travels to europe for the annual nato summit. allie raffa is in rehoboth beach with more. >> felicia, the president is facing backlash from members of his own party after making the decision to send cluster munitions -- considering the controversy over these weapons for a long time now.

just for some context here back in 2008 more than 100 countries including several nato allies signed on to an international treaty to ban the use of these cluster munitions because of the threat that they pose to civilians. these munitions releasing smaller bombs when they explode and some of which may not explode for weeks or months or sometimes even years. sometimes obviously very dangerous in areas where civilians can stumble upon them. now administration officials are acknowledging that threat to civilians but they are still defending this decision, saying it was a difficult one to make they postponed it for as long as they could but it was necessary. as ukraine was running out of munitions and its counteroffensive against russia. the president saying that he made this decision after speaking with allies and lawmakers on capitol hill. and all of this is happening just days before the president heads to lithuania for the next nato summit. no doubt there will be lots of

ice, lots of attention on whether he faced backlash from the leaders of those nato allied countries that had originally started signed on to these -- >> allie raffa for us in delaware, ali, thank you. i want to bring in ambassador william taylor, he is a former u.s. ambassador to ukraine and vice president of russian and european affairs at the u.s. institute of peace. ambassador thank you. i wonder what you make of the pentagon's decision to send cluster munitions to ukraine. and the russians objections to it? >> so alicia this is as your reporter just set a hard decision by the administration. and i thought long and hard about this. the know the pros in the commons. the real problem is that both the ukrainians and the united states and allies are trying now their stocks of these ammunitions of the unitarian munition.

that is the normal 155 artillery ammunition that just has one missile, one explosion. the clustered munitions that you just reported to have multiple explosions. have multiple little bomblets. and they have not been used. the others have. the unitary have, and they are running short. both the ukrainians and our stocks. so we don't want the ukrainians to run out of ammunition. we want them to be able to continue to defend themselves we want them to be able to succeed on the battlefield where they are trying to push the russians out of their country. that is the moral high ground. it is the moral concern about civilian casualties. it's exactly right. the russians have no problem killing civilians. and that is what the ukrainians are trying to defend against. so we need them to be able to push the russians out. that is the rationale for providing these weapons. because the other ones are just not available. >> it comes as u.s. next week's nato summit into the first time,

villa madero fudged member of -- a lot of talk about adding more numbers. of course including ukraine. your sense of how close that is to a reality? >> i think it is very close actually, i think it is very close. there is a near consensus, almost all of the allies support giving ukraine an invitation. they all support giving sweden an invitation with the possible exception of turkey and turkey will probably come around. so sweden will be there to make it -- >> can i put a pin in that, ambassador, because as you know this week president zelenskyy he met with turkish president erdogan inestimable, erdogan says he fully supports ukraine becoming a part of nato. can you just dive in a little bit there on turkey's role? how pivotal it is? >> it is important. it is very important. turkey has supported finland and turkey is holding the swedish accession. but turkey has just indicated that they are supporting the ukrainian accession.

no one including turkey, including the ukrainians talking, no one is talking about ukraine coming in right now. but what they are talking about, what the turks are talking, about what the others are talking about, is giving an invitation to the ukrainians to join at some point soon in the future. not now while there is active fighting going on. no one wants that. no one thinks that is possible. but what most of the allies want, and what the united states has not yet signed on to, is an invitation to ukraine at this forum next week. >> i will ask you about yevgeny prigozhin, the leader of the wagner group. he sat here and talked a lot about prigozhin. there are new reports that prigozhin can return to russia to recover cash, to recover personal weapons. what do you make of that?

>> it shows, i think, alyssa, that putin is weak. putin hammered, smashed, was horrified by what prigozhin did. two weeks ago. called him a traitor, called him a stab in the back for the russian nation. here is prigozhin talking to some of putin's own generals. so president putin can't trust his own generals. he clearly can't trust his previous chef who was very close to him. prigozhin was very close to putin. so putin doesn't know who can he now trust. so he is now executing a purge. he is wearing, putin is worried that he can trust prigozhin, can trust one of his generals who was associated with prigozhin, who can you trust. and this cannot help president putin actually execute this war. >> yesterday marked the 100 today since wall street journal --

detained in russia. the u.s. also revealed it was in talks with russia about it was a prisoner swap for evan. are you hope for that those negotiations will pay off. >> very hopeful, of course it is not just, amateur is not around paul whelan, there is also there. there are discussions about a swap. we have seen how this works before. it's gonna happen. i know that the administration and the state department particular is very focused on this and on all of the people that are held in various jails. but in particular in russia. so there is a lot of effort going into this. yes i am hopeful the swab can take place. >> ambassador william taylor, as always thank you for talking us through this. next, marijuana is becoming legal in more and more states and now a group of lawmakers wants to use rules for military recruits. one of them joins us to explain. plus, we just experienced three of the hottest days unearthed history. summer is just getting started. to try any subway footlong for free. like the subway series menu.

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it's just another example of that. obviously the freedom caucus kicking out marjorie taylor greene who is usually even more extreme than they are. it's just an addition to all the craziness of congress. the truth is, kevin mccarthy has empowered marjorie taylor greene. [inaudible] it's part of their party. that's a huge concern for us. i think marjorie taylor greene, unfortunately, has incredibly damaging views. radical views that need to be stopped. so i think this is just another example of kevin mccarthy not controlling his caucus. it's another example of marjorie taylor greene not being able to get along with anybody in the congress. not even her own colleagues who aren't as extreme as she is. and i think we have to really focus on trying to get stuff done. on the republican side while they do is fight argue, multiple votes for speaker, supporting votes for george santos. and unfortunately in this case fighting against your most extreme members. >> brad it would seem that if the interest is getting things done there have to be enough republicans in the caucus who

are interested in getting things done that they actually say enough with these folks we are going at it for the democrats. that is of course a very farfetched possibility. but congressional republicans also seem to be very excited this week to learn that cocaine was found at the white house. and i wonder given the committees you serve on and the fact that you very often have a seat to these things that they want to investigate. sort of how you imagine this all, how you suspect it is gonna play out? >> sure, i mean, look, let's be honest. chairman comer who has made comments already about this incident wants to investigate everything but actually making things better for the american people. who wants to investigate, laptops wants to investigate hunter biden. he wants to investigate obviously this cocaine incident. and they are not really interested in getting anything done. it is just their focus on distractions and scandals. it is already been made very

clear by the white house that this is clearly being investigated. at least some issues with staff or visitors. the biden family of course -- that's really really unfortunate -- some type of briefing on this issue. because quite frankly james comer has nothing else to talk about. he doesn't want to make government better go actually doesn't want to cut taxes for real people. he doesn't want to ensure that we get america working or in a better place. he is focused on scandals. i think that is something that has been true for security klobuchar began. >> let's talk about, as you said, policy and some of the things you are actually trying to get done specifically. efforts to loosen the rules around past marijuana use for military recruits and applicants for security clearances. the goal is to increase the number of defense personnel -- found that 54% of u.s. adults say they have used marijuana in their lifetime. i am curious about how this issue sort of ended up at your

desk, and why this strikes you as something such an important priority. >> i think first i will take to the city of california my, state marijuana is legal here in the state of california. it is something that voters took on. and the idea that someone from california or one of the 21 states in the united states that have legalized cannabis in some way but folks are unable to get past federal security clearance. it's not right. and i think we are past that time. there are 155 million americans that live in these states. they could have a few security clearance could have issues with serving in the military. could have issues in working in places like the justice department. or any of our agencies because of cannabis use. that is actually legal in their state. and so this is legislation that we are putting forward, it is time that we right this wrong.

this damage that we have caused is hurting so many people in this country. and these were talented people. we need talented folks, our state produces incredible folks. and these folks deserve a chance to serve in the federal government and pass the security clearance for these jobs. >> i will be honest with you, congressman. part of the reason the story ended up on our desk and being talked about in our production meeting is that there is also amendments on this being offered by congressman gaetz. it's very rare that you see sort of similar concepts and ideas moving in tandem from members of the two major political parties. i wonder if you any degree that signals to you that there is the possibility of bipartisanship on this issue? >> i think there is a possibility of bipartisanship. i know that congressman gaetz specifically deals with the military and our is broader, along all federal agencies. so certainly i think both are

they can be bipartisan support. i think at the end the day this is an issue that most americans believe needs to get fixed and i think it is shameful that we have folks that want to be part of the military and we have folks in all these stages where marijuana cannabis is legal. they can't get past security clearance. we have opportunity this upcoming week to fix these wrongs and hopeful that folks on both sides of the aisle would vote for these amendments. >> california congressman robert garcia as always thank you for spending some time with us. us. but first, severe weather and extreme he'd impacting millions of americans. we'll get an update on your forecast after the break. woman: coarse hair, thin skin. down there requires a special kind of care. venus for pubic hair and skin. uniquely made to prep, protect, and maintain. whether i'm smoother than smooth or au naturale. this is skin care for down there.

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and washington. meanwhile 11 million people from the high plains down to the lower mississippi valley were facing severe storms today. all of this capping off what has been a tough week. phoenix topped 110 degrees for seven days in a row. as of yesterday el paso had recorded triple digit temperatures every day for more than three weeks straight. and for monday to thursday we saw a new estimated record for the hottest global average temperature multiple times. meanwhile some parts of the country have seen severe weather. look at this roughly baseball sized hail in colorado from the past few days. cars were caught up in floodwaters near washington d. c. yesterday. and there was a mudslide hitting vermont. and we are not of the woods yet. 37 million people face severe storm risks tomorrow. back to you. >> nbc's jesse kirsch, thank you, jessie. now as you may or may not know, i did not know this. with higher temps comes the

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living with alzheimer's. the fda approved a drug this week known as leqembi which could slow progression of the disease. patients already using look nba it can be a game-changer. my colleague kate snow spoke to one of those patients and his wife. >> we get that it is not a cure but there was nothing when we got our diagnosis, nothing. now there is something that we can do.

>> it gives you hope? >> yes sure. >> yes, unbelievably. and we had none. >> to say that look can becomes without risks, over 12% of those who participated in clinical trial developed brain swelling, 17% experienced brain bleeds -- what can be cost $26,000 here. medicare says it will provide coverage for the drug but only if doctors agreed to collect from former state on a. for more let's bring in msnbc medical contributor doctor patel. she's a former policy director in the obama white house and is now a professor at stanford school of medicine. doctor patel it is always good to see you. talk to us about this fda approval, about this drug. what it could mean for the 6 million americans who are living with alzheimer's? >> yeah, alicia, i think the first thing to put out about this drug, as you heard from this piece, there was really nothing else for alzheimer's patients -- so i think that that is the first thing, however comes of caveats not just the side

effects that you potentially mentioned, those are not trivial, but we really also find that this drug works the best in people who are kind of earlier in their disease. mild cognitive impairment. they are words that you are gonna hear a lot about the struggle. because that is exactly who was in the trial. people who were not late stage in alzheimer's but earlier. what we know is that we can pick up mild cognitive decline in people by checking them in their primary care offices. and also doing brain scans and looking for those and lloyd flats and proteins that you can see on mris or pet scans. and see someone in that phase that would fit this trial. it is 18 months of iv therapy every two weeks, alicia so this is not an easy pill or an easy injection that you can do at home. and many doctors will have to do monitoring green exams and tests and some detailed exams of the brain that you heard about to prevent or watch for

that brain swelling. so this isn't something to do without having a very informed conversation -- this is the only thing that is available, right? that there has been sort of a -- and you will tell me where i am wrong there. because you deal in public health, to me this just seems like it opens the possibility of having a conversation about the moment we find ourselves in, one of america's largest generations becoming older and older. you have a disease that they are is still no cure for. very fuel tools available. and that is both relevant to people who are diagnosed with alzheimer's or mild cognitive impairment, it is also really important to all of the caretakers, to the families, to an american system that is not built for the possibility of long term care. for that many americans. and through that lens the

emergence of this drug seems particularly critical and timely? >> it does. and i hope that what this does is force our health care system and our system of access and general to your point to really knowledge caregivers, to acknowledge that we do not prepare, not even just for aging, we don't prepare for anything related to long term care, to your point. we even took away at the possibility that we had of having some sort of longer insurance, as a mandatory or guaranteed benefit for americans. which possibility away because of the budget. and so this was over a decade ago when i work in policy. so i think we all of this is why i think this is why you hear those voices crying for something. because what hope this does is that it reminds me of the 90s when i was in medical school. and we had our first -- cancer treatment come out. there were new drugs at the time.

new breakthrough drugs, but they were the first of decades of what would be advancement. and also learning how to better give care for cancer patients. i hope we can do this, not just for alzheimer's, but for any aging related illnesses. and i can't stress enough that we still in this country don't acknowledge the role of a caregiver. i think that that is just as important as somebody to think about in front of you as i do the patient in front of me. so that is all those factors that need to be considered. the alzheimer's association and others are really trying to do everything to educate the public about resources available. so i encourage people to have these conversations with your doctor, but also to ask about financial resources. because going to and from these infusion centers, especially if you are in rural america, you are not close to one of these hospitals, alicia, that is going to be its own access crisis of its own. popularity. have >> i have less than a minute left, dr. patel. to the point i want to ask you about medicare providing coverage and that caveat into medicare coverage? >>, he had this happened before -- i don't think it will be as much of a barrier as this axis barrier.

getting infusion shares for people that every two weeks. having to three hours a month of monitoring that -- a population that does have no options. for 6 million and counting. even more in the next decade. that is a law that our system was not been able to bear. and many of those medicare costs to public okay. so don't forget that. it is not all in. people will have out of pocket costs. >> still a glimmer of good news here, dr. aviva patel, as always, thank you so much dr. patel. that is it for this hour, but a special third live hour of american voices ahead. we are gonna dive into the new allegations against former president trump. and how he handled classified documents while he wasn't office. analysis of -- david ehrenberg, jennifer ford, and more, or just moments away, stay with us. ♪ ♪ ♪ one prilosec otc each morning blocks heartburn all day and all night. prilosec otc reduces excess acid for 24 hours, blocking heartburn before it starts. one pill a day. 24 hours. zero heartburn.

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