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competitively that republicans flipped four seats, ultimately handing the republican party the majority in the house, and kevin mccarthy, the gavel, we're going to work on the lights. now, democrats have a chance to try once more. a state appellate court threw out the maps again. a major win for the party. we're going to explain what happened because if that ruling stands, the democratic party has a serious shot at retaking the house next year. especially since the needs of front line republicans, the moderate ones who won, like toes here in new york are being sacrificed by kevin mccarthy to appease the conservative wing of the party. the amendments added to the defense version of the budget focusing on culture war issues like abortion, diversity, critical race theory, transgender medicine and covid vaccines. what does the democratic party do now, and what does kevin

mccarthy do now? let's bring in nbc news senior capitol hill correspondent garrett haake and msnbc legal analyst, lisa rubin. so lisa, explain this court's ruling throughout out the maps once again? >> the court, katy, has basically decided that the solution that the new york court of appeals, the solution they reached before the 2022 election was never meant to be a permanent solution. it was only meant to be temporary, and therefore they threw it back to the mechanism established in new york state's constitution. that's a bipartisan redistricting commission that not only gets one bite at the apple, but two bites at the apple before it reverts to new york's legislature to draw its own map. however, in 2022, that redistricting commission deadlocked and that's what allowed the legislature to step in and overreach in a way that the court of appeals said, your

maps are no good either, and we're going to give it to a neutral expert. this gives the commission an opportunity to draw the maps before what experts think is really going to happen. the legislature is going to get the ultimate opportunity to draw the maps itself. that obviously depends on new york's highest court agreeing with today's decision. >> they'll have to learn their lesson, and be a little bit more careful about how they redraw their maps. what is the likelihood, republicans are appealing this. what's the likelihood of a successful appeal? >> i actually think the likelihood of a successful appeal is high, and that's because the composition of new york's court of appeals has changed. since the last time this was before the court, the court has a new chief justice, rowen wilson, considered to be far more aggressive than his predecessor and a new judge or justice as well. previously new york solicitor general and an obama nominee to the d.c. circuit before she was

fill bustered by republicans. the odds are good it has took back to the bipartisan redistricting commission and if they fail, it goes back to the legislature itself, katy. >> garrett, the political significance of this, what is it? >> reporter: it's huge potentially. the reality is if you were looking at a 2024 election with donald trump on the ballot, he's a turn out machine for democrats, democrats might have been able to win back lost seats anyway in new york fairly easy. in maps that would be more favorable, you're looking at a potential pickup of perhaps all four of those seats that democrats lost, depending on how they draw the maps, maybe more. you can basically reverse the house republican majority on new york state alone, if you imagine a situation where a mike lawler, deesposito, george santos, three members who could all of a sudden see their districts much changed in democrats' favor. there's a potential to be a big

deal here. this isn't the only state this is happening. there's liable to be much more democrat friendly districts in louisiana and alabama that could change the maps, although there's going to be more republican friendly districts in north carolina. the reality here is the house just so narrowly divided, all of these at the margin kind of toss up districts could end up being make or break for the party in power in the next cycle. every little bit of this matters, and who draws the maps and essentially the politicians selecting their voters here will have a big say on who then selects politicians until the next cycle. >> talk to me about what happened yesterday with the ndaa in the house, the defense bill, and all of those amendments that were added. but explain to me the stakes just within the party. i mentioned it's sacrificing the needs of the front liners for the needs or wants and desires of the conservatives. explain. >> yeah, these are related

issues. so basically yesterday the rules committee and with the speaker's agreement, they allowed for several hundred amendments to be attached to the national defense authorization bill. the amendment votes are going to get started later today. originally it was mostly noncontroversial amendments that were added, but some of these more controversial amendments were agreed to to be added to vote on in the rules committee meeting last night. these are amendments that have to deal with abortion policy at the pentagon, renaming of bases for confederate generals. stopping that effort. it has to deal with money for ukraine. it has to deal with diversity and inclusion initiatives, and transgender health care initiatives, stuff that will almost certainly not be in the version of the ndaa signed by president biden, why? eventually the bill has to pass the house and senate. there's going to be a conference committee that has to take the

stuff out. what you're having here are house conservatives that want to have these votes to show their base voters, they're fighting for the issues they care about. you have house moderates, the same folks we were talking about in places like new york state who would rather not be on the record by issues, not be asked about them by reporters especially on something that will never become law. here you have the house republicans not really protecting their most vulnerable members from difficult votes. they're all going to take these votes. they're going to see them used against them in campaign ads in the future for stuff that's never going to become law. >> the campaign ads will come up from the democratic party or allies in those races. garrett, i wonder, does a ruling like this weigh on kevin mccarthy's mind at all? does it urge him to change his calculus here? >> it's a good question. i think for mccarthy, all of this is a moving target. i mean, mccarthy has been in kind of survive and advance mode

in the ncaa tournament. every day you just try to win so you can keep playing the next day. i don't know that where he stands right now, this changes kind of longer term strategic thinking except on this. mccarthy has raised a ton of money, both for members directly and for the super pacs that support republican lawmakers on those issues he may have to, and may have an opportunity to redouble his efforts because you will need that money to defend seats in very expensive media markets like new york state. >> garrett haake, lisa rubin, thank you for jumping on this. i think it's a significant story, and it could have major consequences as we just laid out. appreciate it. we're never going to know apparently who left their baggy of cocaine at the white house, not unless someone comes forward and admits it was them. the secret service says despite what they call advanced testing for dna and finger prints and a thorough review of footage, they

weren't able to determine who brought the drugs, according to three sources familiar with today's briefing. with no other evidence and that large of a group, it's very unlikely they will be able to narrow it down to the responsible party. joining me now is nbc news senior white house correspondent kelly o'donnell. this is a briefing given to congress, right? >> reporter: it was a classified briefing today from representatives of the secret service. when you talk about a list of 500 individuals, i'm told investigators combed the log for entry into the area, as well as surveillance video and came up over a period of several days leading up to sunday night, july 2nd, when the little packet was found, and so that's a big number of people because they don't know when off what is a working entrance on the ground

level to the white house west wing, in a space that people store electronic devices and so forth. at the moment, traffic is restricts because they're doing renovations on the situation room, and that secure area is sort of relocated to a building across the way so you have visitors, someone who is an employee of the white house who might bring friends or family in, not the public tours that come through a different entrance. that happens a lot on the weekends. this was a holiday weekend. and so those were happening friday night, saturday and sunday before this packet was found. the difficulty now is taking the small packet, testing it through the fbi crime lab, also at fort dietrich where they do sophisticated testing to make sure there was no biological agent, like anthrax in it. they have no signature dna to

tell them who belongs to the sample and the list of 500 or so, unless you have physical evidence, you can't put the two together, and while there is video of the comings and goings, there isn't video that shows the cubbies where the storage takes place, unless you catch it at the moment, they don't have it. it's a frustrating answer, certainly not satisfactory to house republicans who don't buy it, frankly, and think there should have been a way to figure this out. >> i think you would assume the white house probably has cameras everywhere, but you're saying that's not entirely the case? >> well, think about it in this way, the situation room is a place where e into -

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arizona's top prosecutor is now also investigating fake electors, a source familiar with the investigation tells nbc news, arizona's attorney general is focused on whether donald trump's allies in that state committed a crime when they signalled, i'm sorry, when they signed and transmitted paperwork falsely declaring donald trump

the winner. "the washington post" was first on this news reporting the state's attorney general has also asked about evidence collected by both the doj and a georgia district attorney in similar probes. joining me now is nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian. i had to read this a couple of times. i was surprised arizona hadn't already started investigating this, since it was one of the areas this fake elector scheme seemed so prevalent. >> one big piece of context there, katy, is that the attorney general's office changed hands last year from a republican to a democrat, so the democratic elected attorney general, chris mayes has decided to open an investigation. some stays where this happened, like michigan and wisconsin, simply referred this conduct to the justice department, so jack smith is investigating there. but arizona has decided to investigate under state law, and we're reporting that the attorney general has reached out to some of the 22 people who put

their names on what are now known as fake elector doctors. remember that biden was the first democrat to win arizona in 24 years, and arizona became one of the epicenters of trump's efforts to overturn the election. the republican speaker of the house told the january 6th committee that trump and rudy giuliani pressured him personally to try to overturn the results. he refused. now the attorney general is looking to see whether anyone committed crimes in that effort, katy. >> when they're looking at evidence collected by both georgia and the doj, are they ask for that evidence or how does that fold into their investigation? >> my interpretation is that they're all looking at the same legal theories because it's a similar pattern of conduct. and so they're all grappling with this question of how do they prove criminal intent because it's not enough for people to have believed there was fraud in the election and acted on it and have been wrong. the prosecutor just needed to show that they knew that their

claims of fraud were bogus. that's the way that they would be guilty of crimes, and so i in intuit to say the attorney general in arizona is looking to see what other prosecutors do. her investigation is focused on other conduct. >> who has legal exposure. we reached out to the lawyer of the kelly ward, the chair who created that fake slate of electors. we haven't had a response from her yet, but is donald trump potentially in the legal cross hairs, much in the same way that he is in georgia? >> so, i mean, in theory, yes. i don't think we have any indication that this investigation has led to trump's doorstep yet, but as i mentioned, he was personally involved in pressuring arizona state officials. the question in this investigation and all of them, can prosecutors prove that trump was doing something he knew was a fraud, he was advancing bogus claims where he had been told they were bogus.

there's evidence in the january 6th record of transcripts. we'll have to see whether it holds up in court, and whether any of these prosecutors make a criminal case against donald trump. >> ken dilanian, thank you very much. the former president's legal team requested the classified documents trial that he's facing in south florida be pushed back indefinitely. joining me is florida defense attorney john sales. he served as a special assistant prosecutor on the watergate team, turned down the opportunity to join donald trump's defense team last year. john, i know you wanted to specifically discuss this request to put this trial on hold. what is your reading of that? >> hi, katy, when i first read about it, i thought that really -- that request to put it off undefinitely, took, what i can say on television is nerve, but when you look at it, it

contains a political argument and a legal argument. you have to put the political argument aside. when you continue cases for political arguments, you could say it could interfere with the iowa caucuses, then the debate, then the south carolina primary, and i don't think we can go down that path. those are jury selection issues. the legal arguments are not that crazy. if you do the math, they are really saying until after the election, which seems like forever, but it's 17 months as i count it. right now, judge cannon, is trying a case. it's that complicated medicare fraud case that was indicted 18 months ago, so we're not the rocket docket like virginia. every judge is different. but i think judge cannon, the whole world is watching, and i think she's going to hold both parties' feet to the fire, and i think the first thing that has to be dealt with is the cipa issues, and that to the media's

disappointment may be closed next tuesday, but the court has to appoint a court security officer who will help with sorting out the classified documents, seeing where they'll be stored, the clearances and determine how long that review will take. some of the legal arguments, for example, they ask for -- they need a lot of time because there are hundreds of thousands of documents to review. well, that doesn't take 17 months. i mean, a lot of the cases i'm involved with, we have that volume of documents. it's not like the old days, there are vendors, search terms. those are reviewed every day. it's the classified documents that are the problem. and i think what judge cannon needs to do is determine what motions are going to be made. which ones require evidence hearings. i think she will probably set another status conference and determine what's a realistic

trial date. >> you know, when we were talking about this the last time, you were talking about this trial happening in the fall. i know jack smith wants december, which is just the end of the fall, the date that he's looking for. are you still thinking that that's a likelihood or a possibility or is your gut telling you now that this is going to be much later? >> i was afraid you were going to ask that. the fall is before, i think, december 21st, by the authoritative source in the world, the farmers almanac, but i don't think that that question can realistically be answered. here i go hedging as a lawyer, but until the question of classified documents is sorted out. so the government says we have 31 classified documents. so that shouldn't take beyond december. but the defense is going to say, hey, wait a minute, you have picked out 31. we need to review in many more so you didn't take things out of

context, and that's what the court security officer will figure out. we can determine that party after next tuesday. i think it's significant. so former president trump is obviously not above the law, and i believe that very very firmly. but he's not beneath the law either. that's what i pointed out in the beginning, judge cannon is trying another case. there was continuance of continuance, and it's 18 months, and that case happens to also involve that other case, crime fraud exceptions. all of that has to be sorted out, and what she'll probably do is hear the parties at this conference on tuesday and set another status conference, maybe a month from then when they can talk about motions and trial date. >> if there's anything more complicated than classified documents, it's insurance and medicare, as someone who has had to deal with an insurance company in her life, it's very

complicated. >> i'm so sorry, if you can deal with that, you can deal with anything. >> jon sales, thank you so much. >> always a pleasure. we told you about an arizona man considering filing a defamation suit against the network. we learned he did. ray epps, a pro trump, says both fox news and tucker carlson defamed him, by peddling a fantastical story that he was an undercover government agent who instigated the violence. epps argues that the 21 segments tucker carlson did on him over 18 months, name mentioned at congressional hearings, printed in t-shirts and resulted in online death threats that forced him and his wife to flee their home. joining me now is jeremy peters. now that it's filed, what have we learned about this suit?

>> one of the more interesting aspects of the suit is how it paints a picture of ray epps as somebody who was not just a two-time trump voter, but a loyal fox news viewer who believed it when anchors like tucker carlson told them that there was something fishy about the 2020 election, so ray epps, very much in his lawyer's telling went along with the conspiracy theories because fox told him that they were true, that there was validity to them, and that's, i think, just an interesting a point as the points that the suit itself makes about the 20 or so instances in which tucker is alleged to have defamed ray epps over the course of 18 months that tucker went on and on about this supposed conspiracy theory because he and other trump supporters needed a way to explain away, to make seem

irrelevant, to down play the january 6th attacks. so they come up with ray epps as a scapegoat by saying, look, this is a guy who worked for the government. he was a secret agent, a double agent, and he incited the attack because he wanted to embarrass trump and his movement. >> has fox news responded to this? has tucker carlson responded? >> they have not. i reached out to tucker carlson before we first wrote about this this week, when we had an inkling that a lawsuit was coming. he declined to comment. although i think it's relevant to note that his posture all along, even when faced with the various facts that disproved the conspiracy theories, tucker's posture continues to be that ray epps is somehow a secret double agent. >> ray epps, the amount of money, the damages that he is seeking have not been disclosed. jeremy peter, thank you very

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finnish president, what president biden makes of the fact that senator tommy tuberville is holding up 250 or so key military promotions and confirmations. whenever you have an american president overseas asked about something making headlines back home, that signifies how serious this is. and the president said he felt tuberville's position on this is ridiculous, this is truly about national security, and this is a little bit of a political issue. we certainly can't ignore that in terms of what senator tuberville claims he is making this holdout decision over, when it comes to these certain abortion policies. you also have to look at the big picture here, according to white house officials who say that the president is going to continue to call this out, and that's just one example of, to your point, the republican potential issues here, and it's not just senator tuberville, but others who are questioning certain policies that even president biden, who asked by finnish

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lights, camera, strike. it is official. sag-aftra has just voted to join the writers on the picket line, shutting down hollywood and a multibillion dollar industry. joining me now is puck founding partner, matthew bellamy, good to have you back. let's talk about what's going to happen next. >> well, right now this is the call to action. the guild has said we are on strike, the picketing will probably start tomorrow and film and activity, scripted film and television are going to shut down. it is a catastrophic moment for the industry. everything is going to shut down. they will be able to do broadway still. there will be other things. what people don't realize is this means actors are not allowed to promote the work they already made. red carpets that would have been filled with stars for the film festivals, no stars, no social

media posts promoting the trailers or other things coming out. comic con is likely to be impacted. actors won't go out there. people not in the business are going to feel the strike pretty soon. >> the oppenheimer stars, according to abc, walked out of the premiere, the bbc, excuse me, walked out of the premier in london when the strike was announced. it happens immediately. and that's a giant movie that's supposed to, if you're the producers, break box office records. >> and that's the key thing here. the "barbie" premiere, the final big movies of the summer very strategically scheduled their premiers right before the date so they can get in the promotion before they have to go home. that's right now. when we get into the fall movies, there are big movies coming in the fall, they're not

going to get the promotion, and all the shows, the late night shows and other things are shut down due to the writers strike already. we haven't had a situation where writers and actors are on strike in 63 years. last time it happened in 1960, ronald reagan was the president of the screen president of the screen actors guild. it is unprecedented territory here in terms of what the strike is going to look like to the modern entertainment economy. >> so talks broke down last night between the actors and the studios. i want to play two sound bites. one of them is bob iger, the president of disney. the other is fran drescher who represents the actors. let's play them both at the same time. >> there's a level of expectation they have that is just not realistic. they are adding to a set of challenges that this business is already facing that is quite frankly very disruptive. >> they're not being realistic. >> no, they're not. >> privately they all say we're the center of the wheel. everybody else tinkers around

our artistry, but actions speak louder than words, and there was nothing there. it was insulting! so we came together in strength and solidarity and unity with the largest strike authorization vote in our union's history! >> what do the actors want that the studios are refusing to give? >> well, there are a couple things. there are the traditional money issues which is basic wages and residual payments which are royalties on work that you do that you get paid after the fact. they want hefty increases. they feel the streaming economy has really left them behind. these streaming companies, they pay a lot of money up front, but they don't pay in residuals. they want to increase that. then there are some more existential questions that are not money-based. they want transparency in who is

watching what shows. currently the actors and writers do not get a lot of information about how they're doing and they're not paid on a success metric. if you do a show for netflix, you get the same amount of money if the show is a flop as you do if it's a hit. they really want to change that so these artists can share in the success of programs that are successful. then you get into the ai issue, where writers and actors -- they're subtly different in how they're impacted, but ai is coming for a lot of these talent people. they know that they want to protect themselves against an ai version of an actor starring in a sequel to a movie or a writer being hired to punch up a script that's been made by a computer. they want to prevent that from happening or at least get compensated if that happens. >> the story about the night manager becoming the most watched show ever. and calling up his agent saying how many private jets can i buy

now. the agent says you can't buy any, you're not making any more no matter how successful it was. it could have gotten 20 million billion views, it's forever. >> far many of these stars, netflix will own it forever. >> you have to understand what they're talking about when they're saying, hey, listen. this is not set up to be fair for us. if we've created something successful that is being seen by so many people, there should be better incentives there. matt, i have to leave it there. i'm being yelled at in my ear. we'll talk about it i'm sure tomorrow and the coming days. unbearable heat, historic floods and deadly fires. what is next? locusts? a weather forecast you won't like but you do need to prepare for. ve become top targets for ransomware attacks. but there's never been a reported ransomware attack on a chromebook. which is why thousands of schools like the fairfield-suisun unified school district

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>> help me understand why we're in such pain. >> when you picture summer, what do you think of? >> cape cod. >> beaches, going to the pool. our vision of summer is changing because in the southern half of the country, you can't be outdoors in the middle of the day. you have to plan your day, do stuff in the morning or late in the day. in the middle of the day you're inside in the air conditioning. hopefully you have it, cross your fingers. that's the case from texas all the way through the southwest. a picture of a playground in arizona, southern california, no one is at them at this time of day. 110 in phoenix, 14th day in the record. el paso, your record was 23. you're somewhere in the 30s. del rio at 104. a lot of these locations on pace for their hottest summer ever recorded. this heat dome, big high pressure sinking air, pushing down on you, that's where we get the extreme heat, it expands this weekend and actually gets

worse in a few spots. so we're going to challenge some all-time records. the 117 in vegas, we've done that twice, 2013, 2021. the record street for 110-degree days in phoenix is 18. we just hit 14. let's look at the forecast in vegas. this has gone up a little bit. we're predicting to tie the record on sunday. look how brutal this step is, the warmest three days ever in las vegas, by the way, saturday, sunday and monday. how about phoenix? are we going to get relief there? not really. saturday 117, 116 on sunday. it looks like in phoenix, we'll tie that streak of 110-degree days. we'll break it on tuesday. wednesday about 114. we may get a tiny bit of relief, maybe 105 or so, 110 by the end of next week. how about our friends in vermont? you're under a severe thunderstorm watch. all the thunderstorms over western and central new york are heading your way this weekend. the ground is super saturated.

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