right now, is a third indictment imminent for donald trump? new revelations today about the special counsel's election interference probe as the former president lashes out after learning that he is a target in that investigation. >> what they are doing like with the department of justice, they totally weaponized it. like we never had this before. >> plus 16 michigan republicans

now charged in a fake electors scheme in that state. what that means for them and the wider probe. and later, what we're learning about the american soldier detained in north korea including an account that he ran over the border at, quote, full gas. thanks for joining us. i'm anna cabrera reporting from new york. and we begin with a deluge of news about the special counsel election interference investigation as donald trump is told that he is a target of that probe. this morning we're learning that trump has reached out to leading congressional republicans to strategize. here with us now, vaughn hillyard and lisa rubin and also jane trimm and also a committee spokesperson. and also barbara mcquaid.

and so vaughn first talk to us about what trump is saying. what do we know about these conversations that he is having with republicans on capitol hill as well as these events he's had since the announcement of the target letter? >> he made multiple stops in iowa yesterday including sitting down for an hour with sean hannity on fox in front of a couple thousand iowans. but it is important to note the conversations that he had with kevin mccarthy and elise stefanik. this is so reminiscent of what the january 6 committee lived through and that is donald trump urging other lawmakers and allies to come to his defense. hard part for republicans is that it will be defending will imon pair merits of prosecution. he has not denied that he pressured mike pence to send back the certifications. he has not denied that he did

not place calls to pence or the pentagon for help. he has not denied that they tried to fund raise off of these false election claims. i'll let you hear from donald trump yesterday because this is more than a defense of him. legally it is a defense politically of the movement that he has overseen the last year, at least that is what he is telling the voters. take a listen. >> if you say something about an election, they want to put in you jail the rest of your life. it is a disgrace. but if somebody wants to question the cheating, they want to call you a conspiracy theorist and all these other things. >> and politics is directly attached to whatever comes legally for donald trump. because in the year ahead if in fact he is the general election nominee for the republican party, he can make the case that his potential freedom is on the line. this is more than the white house, this is freedom of the leader of the maga movement. >> and republicans are quick to defend when they don't even know what the charges may be that he could be accused of.

what do you expect to happen from here now? because we've seen this once before with the federal special counsel and charges involving the mar-a-lago classified documents case. is this -- do you think is this going to follow the same path? >> i think that it will be quicker. last time we went through this, trump was notified that he was a target of the investigation and we know this from public filings on may 19. he wasn't charged in the indictment until june 8. this time i think it may go quicker. trump is required to let the special counsel's office know whether he will come into the grand jury. we expect he won't. by the end of the day. thursday was the outside deadline for his actually doing so. i expect the next steps will be to see his lawyers, meet with folks from the special counsel office if they will take that meeting, and/or request an audience with senior leadership with the department of justice. i don't expect merrick garland or his political appointees to want to have that conversation because as they keep saying, this is not about us, this is about the special counsel's office. we appointed the special counsel

purposefully to insulate this from the politics that kevin mccarthy and his friends keep insinuating is driving this and it is not. >> and proper attorneys with direct knowledge of the target letter sent to donald trump are telling nbc news that within the letter there are three federal statutes mentioned. deprivation of rights under color of law, conspiracy to defraud the u.s., and tampering with a witness. barb mcquaid, what does that telling you? >> that is very interesting. so conspiracy to defraud the united states strikes me as the big one, that would be one that would be sort of from beginning to end saying that the election was stolen, the fake electors, pressuring mike pence, pressuring states to submit clean slates. and now the conspiracy to defraud the united states. basically using the lie to try to interfere with a function of government, here the lawful of presidential power.

interesting about deprivation of civil rights. i don't know if that is directed at the voters. or it could be directed to mike pence, efforts there to pressure him to abuse the power that he had. and witness tampering is interesting. it may be that there was some witnesses who were pressured by trump or some member of his campaign to tell lies, or destroying evidence. so an interesting collection. so it sounds interesting. >> and let's take a look at some of the big names that we know of who have testified before jack smith and the grand jury there in d.c. these are the ones that may look familiar to our viewers of course. former vice president, mike pence, trump's son-in-law, jared kushner, former trump aide hope hicks. there were dozens of others we

know. hannah, how sprawling do you think this investigation is given how close to trump jack smith has managed to get? >> yeah, the select committee was able to interview hundreds of witnesses. and we had even fewer mechanisms to do that than jack smith has. we already know of individuals that jack smith has spoken to that the select committee could not speak to. think mark meadows. we received documents from mark meadows but we never spoke to him. mike pence who you named there. even folks like pat cipollone, white house counsel, he was more freely able to speak to jack smith because of some of the rulings that said executive privilege, you don't have to worry about that here. so we know jack smith has even more information than the information the select committee presented to the american people and more levers to get that with the stronger power of subpoena than a congressional subpoena is. so we can expect a lot more information even than the select

committee showed to the american people from jack smith and his team. >> and we just saw new charges in michigan related to the fake electors scheme there. 16 people now facing forgery charges. jane, this is something that you have been reporting on. >> yeah, the michigan attorney general brought charges against 16 michigan republicans who send knowingly falsely forged certificates claiming that donald trump had won the 2020 election and imposing as michigan's electors to the kree electoral college. this is part of the scheme to try to give mike pence something else to count on january 6. of course we know biden won michigan in that election. these people face eight felony counts, some are party sort of leaders in michigan. you see the rnc committee woman, and also a former co-chair of the state gop party. and they face eight counts each.

and these are the first false electors to face charges across the country. other states have so far declined to prosecution. >> and barb, we know jack smith's team has reached out to officials in a number of states with fake elector schemes including in wisconsin, pennsylvania, nevada, and of course the georgia investigation where the d.a. gave fake electors immunity in her probe. so there are obviously a lot of layers between the state level actors and the president of the united states. i have to one didder how difficult could it be to prove trump was directly involved in this is the alleged criminal activities smith is referencing. >> i think that he would want to see if anyone was coordinating this effort. we heard in the january 6 hearings that ronnie mcdaniel received calls from donald trump and john eastman to discuss this

and she didn't want anything to do with it. the fact that all accept states -- seven states came up with the same plan suggests that somebody was organizing it. i know in michigan some declined to sign the fake slate of electors because they knew what they were signing was false and a lie. so the mere fact that they have been charged in michigan does not preclude jack smith from charging them federally. although he may prefer to focus on the leaders and the organizers of the scheme and leave for the states to prosecute the individuals who knowingly signed these false slates of electors for the purpose of defrauding voters. >> easier to prosecute somebody whose signature is on the line, right? but how do you connect that to donald trump? >> yeah, exactly. and that is what jack smith will have to look for. there is nothing that would prevent the states from charging

the individuals. but i imagine one of the things that jack smith will examine is whether he can make that link. and that is important. you can do that with witness testimony. it may be a name that we've never heard. so that will be something that we'll be looking for in the indictment to see if it connects donald trump to the fake electors or even to connect donald trump to the violence that occurred at the capitol. >> hannah, you mentioned that the january 6 committee wasn't able to talk to everybody that jack smith's team has been able to call before the grand jury. pence being one of them. he was directly involved in the events of january 6. he talked to the special counsel grand jury. listen. >> president trump's words that day were reckless. i had no right to overturn the election. with regard to an indictment, i

hope it doesn't come to that. i'm not convinced that the president acting on bad advice of a group of crank lawyers that came into the white house in the days before january 6 is actually criminal. >> and that part, trying to claim trump may have just been led as stray by as he called it crank lawyers, what do you make of that? >> yeah, the select committee was very deliberate in speaking to campaign advisers, senior advisors respect the white house counsel, all the folks around trump who told him that he lost the election and also we have testimony that shows that he knew he lost the election. he both said it and took actions that showed that he knew he lost that election. when it comes to the former vice president's words about him not knowing about mike pence's role in january 6, we also know that to be not true because john eastman said that he

acknowledged his plans were not constitutional and he acknowledged that he had told the president that. so donald trump, like the big lie that he was propagating, was continuing to bring that through his plan, his multipronged plan, that ended with mike pence on january 6. >> so many more questions i'd love to ask each of you. got it leave it there. thank you all so much, hannah, barbara, lisa, vaughn and jane. my appreciation to you all. and when we're back, new details about the u.s. soldier now detained in north korea. what we've learned about the moments before he bolted over the border. and steve kornacki will be here with new polling. and the scramble to make the debate stage. and also ahead, how many ways are left to say it is way too hot. you may be one of the millions at risk of this relentless summer scorcher. and later, an incredible story

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back with new details about the american soldier who bolted in to north korea essentially handing himself over to kim jung-un's regime. he has now been identified as 23-year-old army private travis king. a senior administration official tells nbc news that king had been recently released from a south korean prison and had been escorted by military police to a seoul area airport to head back to the u.s. but instead, he joined a tour group apparently headed for the demilitarized zone and he took off leaving soldiers on a chase toward the north korea side at, quote, full gas. let's bring in matt bradley now. matt, tell us what else you are learning about king and what is

happening right now to try to get him home from north korea. >> reporter: well, to answer the second question,s it not clear what is happening. we understand the united states is working through the swedish embassy in pyongyang because of course the united states not only doesn't have formal embassy representation or a mission in pyongyang or in north korea, they really don't have much in the way of diplomatic ties or negotiations. it has been a while since the americans have been able to truly reach out and speak to somebody in north korea and the pandemic the past couple of years hasn't helped in those discussions. so i am hearing a a bit more here from people who were on that tour. i spoke with one new zealand tourist who was there on the same tour as private king. and she said that he wasn't really talking with anybody. he seemed kind of alone. the one thing that he did that

was interesting is that he bought a hat from the dmz tourist shop, but before that, he wasn't really engaged with anybody. and suddenly he made a run for it. here is what she told me. >> my initial thought was that he was doing it as like a tiktok stunt. and why would you ever want to do that. but he didn't stop and soldiers reacted and chased after him. but he was really flying. >> reporter: and so there is also some other information that is coming into sharp, and the arrest record, it looks as though he was arrested at least twice, possibly three times. at least one of those for assault and one of those for damaging a south korean police car. he was released from south korean prison as a serving uniformed u.s. soldier just a couple months ago. he was on his way back to the

united states when he basically absconded. and it is unclear what he had in mind because i don't think that he will find much of a happy welcome or anything in the way of refuge in north korea. >> matt bradley, we know you are still digging on this, thank you so much. i want to bring in a former cia senior analyst on korea issues. north korea obviously not talking this morning, not in communication with the u.s. how much danger could king be in? >> well, i don't think that he is in danger that is a life threatening situation because he defected to north korea. but north korea is one gigantic prison of 25 million people. so i think that he will regret being there. but washington and pyongyang have not been in talks. they are at an empass the last several years. beyond covid after the hanoi summit fell apart, north koreans and americans have not been

talking. and north korea has just been continuing with their police still program, they are doing testing, they are modern i'ding their arsenal, diversifying their capability. so no talks between the united states and north korea. >> and so they are acting in a more aggressive way when it comes to the nuclear capabilities. how difficult will it be to resolve this? >> st. louis take -- it will take a while. north koreans are paranoid about covid and so they will guarantee this person. and this comes at an unfortunate timing. right now we have nuclear submarine docking in south korea for the first time in four decades. south koreans and american officials just met for a nuclear group to talk about strengthening the deterrents.

so this is a very sensitive period when unfortunately this soldier defected to the north. >> and as matt was telling us, sounds like that he was able to join this tour in an area that is called the joint security area. there have been tours that have happened in this area since the 1960s is my understanding. i wonder what is the security like in this area and how was he able to get so far off the radar? >> first of all, it is very curious that he was able to just join that same day. i've been there maybe 12 times. january of this year i took a delegation out. usually you have to do it days and weeks in advance, you have to give your passport information, your -- they want to know who is going to join the tour. but it is a place where people do go to see because there is no place like it in the world. it is a place that shows that there are still two koreas at war. it is a popular place wher

there have been filming. so there are tours. but i'm curious how he was able to just go from the airport to the dmz area and just join that day. but you can cross. first of all, north koreans are not there. since covid, they have scaled back. but south korean side, they are not armed and they just say don't cross. this is very unusual thing to happen. but you can cross. i can absolutely see that. >> and we're out of time, but i have to ask, how do you think that he will be treated by the north koreans? because he defected to them, maybe he is not in so much danger. but i can't help but think about otto warmbier. >> and north koreans will soon find out if this person has no intelligence value, so we'll see. but i mean, this is a very, very bad decision by the soldier. >> great to have your insights. thank you so much. up next on anna cabrera

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state and donald trump holds a commanding lead over the rivals. even as his legal troubles keep brewing. and steve kornacki is joining us to break down the latest numbers. so steve, walk us through what you are seeing. >> let's start with the big picture 30,000 foot view. this is just nationally if you average together, this is the real clear average here. nationally if you ask folks in the republican side who do you want to be your party's nominee, a commanding lead for donald trump. 34 points ahead of ron desantis. trump with an outright majority on average among republicans. that has pretty much been the case for just about all of this year. so the real question becomes nationally trump has the commanding lead. is it any different in the early states. because the theory of the case for anybody who is chasing donald trump is that they win in iowa, they win new hampshire, they get on a roll and it changes the national picture. so a new poll out of new

hampshire, they typically go second, and the story is a little different here. you see remember trump was at 54% nationally. he is still leading in new hampshire, but here the margin over desantis is only 14 points. 37-23. and a couple other interesting things. you see tim scott jumping up now to close to 10%. 8% for tim scott. and chris christie is up to 6%. and governor of north dakota is he spending on advertising. and it seems to be paying off for him in terms of qualifying for the debate. and what is interesting, you ask republicans do you have a favorable or unfavorable view of

the different gi candidates her. trump at 49%-26%. and most popular republican in new hampshire just in terms of favorable rating is timvivek ra. christie has 6% support in the poll, but 64%, two-thirds of republicans in new hampshire saying an unfavorable view of him. so christie may be close to his ceiling in new hampshire. but when you see scott and desantis, those favorable numbers for them in new hampshire, that is the scenario that each has in mind. if new hampshire comes after iowa, which is typically does, can one win iowa. this would be the theory for both a scott and desantis. it would be win iowa, beat trump there. remember, trump lost iowa this 2016 to ted cruz. and then turn around and deliver a one-two punch. take an iowa win and parlay it

into a new hampshire win. and when i see the favorable numbers for scott and desantis, you see that they are at least in theory it could be there in new hampshire, but trump never lost two key con zettss, two major contests in a row. he always had the bounceback win. if scott or desantis could win two states, that would be trump in a position that he's never been in. >> and joining us now is david jolly who is no longer affiliated with the gop. congressman, what are your thoughts on the latest polling? >> well, i think kornacki is

right. long term strategy of everybody but donald trump has been a delicate slog. you have to start adding up numbers. after the early states are south carolina and florida where donald trump still continues to lead strongly. i don't think that any of the legal news, indictments around donald trump ultimately hurt him in the primary. the only question would be what if he faces as will loss of liberty, what if there is a trial and he faces conviction. but trial and conviction likely would happen well past march.wh faces conviction. but trial and conviction likely would happen well past march. >> and there was an update yesterday, there was a hearing and the judge did signal that having a trial start this year in 2023 seemed a little too soon. so certainly indicating it won't get under way in that case until 2024. i want to listen right now to some of trump's republican 2024 rivals responding to this news

that he is now a target in that other probe of jack smith's, the federal election interference investigation. listen. >> you have a situation where the department of justice, fbi, have been weaponized. i want to focus on looking forward. i don't want to look back. i don't want to see him, i hope he doesn't get charged. >> i still believe that the doj is in fact weaponizing the tools of our country against their political opponents. >> i'm not convinced that the president acting on bad advice of a group of crank lawyers that came into the white house in the days before january 6 is actually criminal. >> is now the time for the candidates to speak up or does it serve them better to sit back and wait and see where the chips fall? >> i think for many viewers, if you were to apply a moral test or patriotic test, it is long

past time for them to speak up. what you are seeing is republican candidates, you recognize that the party still believes that january 6 was a catalyzing event, that donald trump wasn't wrong. so all these other candidate z fear crossing trump. ron desantis earlier in the day said trump should have done more and then had to walk it back when you see his statement saying he shouldn't have been charged. i think these candidates are making statements that forge their own profiles not trying to draw a profile of donald trump because they know it is emresponsible to take e take a christie route in this primary and actually succeed. >> and desantis has been losing i don't understand in the polls and cutting staff. tuesday he unveiled a plan to, quote, rip the woke out of military. we had max rose on earlier this week and he said he believes desantis' problem is that he is trying to run a campaign even further to the right of trump. do you agree, is that why desantis doesn't seem ton connecting as well with voters?

>> i'd say where trump is engaged in economic populism, desantis is hitting a brick wall with culture rap populism. he is learning that america doesn't want to be florida. they want to hear a bit about the economy. but in florida, ron desantis is struggling under the weight of an economy that is at risk of catering due to owners insurance crisis that he has done nothing about. if he does not find a reset soon, i think that he could fall to third by labor day depending how the debates go in august. >> you are look into that crystal ball which is always dangerous. david jolly, great to have you. thank you very much. and now back to our top story and more breaking news this morning in the criminal investigation into alleged 2020

election interference. we're just learning that special counsel jack smith subpoenaed georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger's office for surveillance video, surveillance video from election day in 2020 from the state farm arena. and you might remember that arena was being used to count votes for the election. this news was first reported by the atlanta journal constitution. and according to them the vote count has become one of election deniers' go-to examples of election fraud. but federal and state level investigators interviewed election workers and reviewed hours of footage determining that the video showed normal ballot counting at state farm. the secretary of state's office tells nbc that they have com complied with the subpoena. up next, imagine 19 days in a row of more than 110 degree temps. that is the reality in phoenix. more on the extreme heat gripping three continents now.

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an intense line of storms is prompting a flash flood emergency in western kentucky. this as the dangerous heatwave continues to break records. tens of millions of people right now under heat alerts from california to florida. with more heat records expected to be one across the four corner states through the end of the workweek. joining us now from atlanta is blayne alexander. i think that we're running out of ways to say, geez, it is hot. >> reporter: and we're trying to come up with new days every day. you're right, and listen the heatwave does not seem like it is showing any sign of cooling down anytime soon. this really has kind of become a

trademark of summer so far when we talk about the record-breaking high temperatures but also air quality. and in some parts of the country it is letting up, but many places are still being plagued by the smoke from those canadian wildfires, all of this developing or serving a rather dangerous one-two punch. with the heat dome covering the entire south from coast to coast, at least 11 states saw triple digit temperatures tuesday with five hitting record highs. phoenix has already made heat history shattering a nearly 50 year record of consecutive days topping 110 degrees. today will mark day 20 and the number is only expected to grow. 74-year-old george jett is a bartender in phoenix and says he's never felt a summer this hot this long. and says that it is not only uncomfortable, but increasingly unnerving. >> i think everybody should be concerned about what is going on right now. it is certainly an aberration.

>> reporter: officials say it is important to take proactive steps to stay safe. take a cool shower, cover windows with drapes or shades, and don't rely on a fan as your primary cooling device. they can give a false sense of comfort without actually reducing body temperature. >> if your car breaks down, stay with the car especially if the air conditioning is working. because you just want to stay inside, stay cool until someone can help. >> reporter: meanwhile there is some relief for millions of americans who have been dealing with smoky air tainted by canadian wildfires. with exceptions for massachusetts and eastern virginia, air quality is expected to get better today. elsewhere, still more rain. another bout of flooding swept through new jersey tuesday, submerging cars and causing more damage. and back to that heat, it is actually also putting pressure on hospitals. workers say that more and more people are coming into be

treated for heat-related illnesses. bottom line experts say important to take it seriously and if at all possible to stay inside. >> some useful tips. thank you. turning now to an investigation into a 16-year-old who died after and on the job oig accident at a poultry plant. he was a middle schooler originally from guatemala. he arrived in the u.s. about six years ago. workers recount hearing him scream for help, but it was already too late. results of an autopsy are expected to be released today. this death comes as the labor department has documented a 69% increase in children employed in violation of child labor laws since 2018. julia ainsley is joining us with more on this. just 16 years old, how was he allowed to work at this plant? is it even legal? >> it is not legal. it is illegal under u.s. labor laws for anyone under the age of

18 to work in dangerous jobs like that. in fact we understand that he died because he was cleaning a machine that was still on. that is a major osha violation for anyone regardless of their age. now, how exactly he came to work at this plant, we're still trying to understand. we're going through documents now and we'll continue to report this story. so far the company not commenting on those details. but as you know, we've reported a lot on child labor specifically from the guatemalan community and seen a lot of migrants cross the border illegally and try to get jobs to be able to support themselves and repay their smugglers often by assuming another identity that says that they are a different person of an older age with a different name and with the ability to wor in the u.s. so we're still combing through the reports and even looking at the coroner reports and police reports which found that his body was on a conveyor belt. so we'll relay these details as we learn them even though we should tell viewers, they are pretty disturbing.

>> so sad but important for us to all be aware what is really happening. we've been reporting a lot on the southern border so i want to ask you about another recent incident, reports that texas troopers were told to push children into the rio grande and deny water to migrants. the houston chronicle was first to report this. what are you learning? >> yeah, the houston chronicle was the first to get the emails. and this was reported internally, it was a texas state trooper who went down to the border as part of texas governor greg abbott's push to try to get more of his own forces along the border. and he says that he was ordered to push migrants back into the water to deny water, he even saw a 4-year-old pass out from exhaustion. he saw a lot of injuries from people trying to get through the wire. even a case where a man had to pull his child off of a barrel in the middle of the river that was covered in that wire. a lot of the terrible conditions. and he described it as inhumane.

the texas department of public safety has described these allegations as outrageous, said that they would not be orders, but that they do tell their troopers to use common sense and really only to give water or intervene when medically necessary. that is different from what border patrol does which is really to try to accommodate people as they ross and make sure that they are hydrated. >> important reporting. thank you for joining us. up next, alabama police will speak today about the disappearance and return of a local woman, the growing questions about what happened. and 25 years after, the unsolved murder of tupac shakur, a new search by police. are there finally cracks in that cold case. y cracks in that cold case. my frequent heartburn had me taking antacid after antacid all day long but with prilosec otc just one pill a day blocks heartburn for a full 24 hours. for one and done heartburn relief, prilosec otc. one pill a day, 24 hours, zero heartburn.

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after the hoover police department described rampant misinformation and rumor. so presumably they will be clarifying some of that. yesterday we got information concerning surveillance video. you mentioned that reports of an abandoned toddler. what they said is that police reviewed footage of where the toddler was reported missing and numerous cars passed through the area and reported nothing. they also looked at video from her neighborhood and say that russell was returning alone that evening. and this is no doubt a tough week for her family, her parents sat down with priscilla thompson and here is what they told her about what they have been facing. >> there were just so many calls and textses from people who maliciously lied to us and claimed to either know where she was or pretend to be here and say come get me.

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