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we've got a lot to cover in our second hour of "chris jansing reports." let's get right to it. at this hour, breaking news, a date has been set for donald trump's classified documents trial. a judge announcing it will get underway in may, deep into the republican primary race, and months earlier than team trump wanted. so how will the former president respond? plus a top republican senator releasing a report with a wild and unverified claim against president biden. the move drawing a sharp public rebuke from the fbi. we have new details about the american soldier detained in north korea. why travis king spent 48 days in prison before he made that move to bolt across the dmz. and football fever, the soccer kind. from lionel messi in miami to the u.s. women's team at the

world's cup, fans are in a frenzy and both debut today. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. we begin with that trial date, and it's brought implications for the 2024 race. nbc justice report ryan reilly joins me now. a may trial date. was not exactly what team trump had hoped for. tell us what's happening, ryan? >> reporter: yeah, so the special counsel had originally wanted something in december, but ultimately they landed on a may date. the trump team is considering this a victory. they said, quote, today's order by judge cannon is a major setback to the doj's attempt to deny trump a fair process. that extra time was important to them, those extra few months, and we're talking about the calendar, the presidential calendar. if this happens in may, that's basically right before the actual republican national convention by the time that trial would be over, and he has a lot of these other legal

things on the calendar, and other trials. of course there's this pending potential case coming also out of jack smith's office, involving efforts to stop a peaceful transfer of power, expected to come up with a decision on very shortly. so this is really getting complicated and getting very mixed into just the general 2024 calendar year, chris. >> ryan reilly, thank you for that. to capitol hill where democrats and the fbi are blocking uncorroborated allegations against president biden. ali vitali is covering this for us. take us through what happened. >> reporter: this was a document that we saw republicans in both the house and senate really trying very hard to get from the fbi. of course this is something that oversight chairman james comer had subpoenaed for. now of course wer seeing the somewhat redacted versions of this publicized by senator

grassley now releasing this publicly for the first time so in his words, everyone can see what's in it. what's important about this so-called 1023 document is that it involves previously debunked claims about business that hunter biden was doing with ba barisma and the role vice president joe biden has had in the dealings. they are claims that have been debunked. they're claims that democrats found not to be true, and nevertheless, it's what republicans are using on the house and senate side to make the point that they have a reason to continue digging into now president biden's family. one of the things that's in this document, for example, that stuck out to me is the idea that this person is saying that he didn't want to pay the bidens and was pushed to pay them. that's one of the quotes that this informant included in this unverified document that's been

made public. this is going to be a document that we end up hearing a lot about in the senate investigations and the house oversight investigations. we saw the house oversight committee bring before them irs whistleblowers who talked about the financial probes into hunter biden and why they felt they were mishandled or politically handled. this is another version of that, even as the white house and democrats, you're right, lash out at republicans for continuing to push forward on things that have been debunk. >> now to the details about the troubled legal history of the u.s. soldier being held in north korea. nbc's matt bradley joins us live from seoul, south korea. what more can you tell us about how king spent his last few months there before all of this happened? >> reporter: it's kind of a complicated story, and i hope you'll bear with me. basically he was not necessarily arrested but he was detained for two different assaults last fall. both of them seemed to take

place at bars or nightclubs in seoul where he was a serving soldier. one of those incidents he was put in a police car. he essentially started making disparaging swear word remarks at korean people, at the korean police. he started kicking the car. he did about $500 in damage to the police car. seoul police decided to fine him $5,000 for that crime. they didn't charge him for the assault, but instead of paying the $5,000, he either elected to or was compelled to spend time in jail. you can do that here. instead of paying the fine, he spent 48 days in jail. that takes us right up to july 10th. that's when he was released and a week later, he was supposed to be going back to the states, i guess, we assume, to meet more justice at the hands of the military, possibly some kind of discharge from the military at fort bliss in texas. instead, he decided to join a guided tour, based here in seoul

or from somewhere, went to the north korean border, and that's where he made that really shocking dash across the border that has just surprised the world and sent america into a diplomatic tail spin trying to deal with north korea. so we still don't know his motives. we haven't heard from the north koreans. we don't know if he was trying to evade justice in the states, he has jumped from the frying pan into the fire because now he's in north korea, widely considered to be one of the largest open air presence in the world. >> matt bradley, thank you for that update, appreciate it. now to the sport dominating headlines today. nbc's marissa parra is in florida, covering messi. right around the corner from my apartment is a soccer bar, which is going to be crazy tonight. you're not going to be able to walk down the streets.

i can't imagine what it's going to be like where you are. >> reporter: we're already feeling the excitement here, and, chris, don't forget we're having a heat wave in miami. it is hot. we've had 41 consecutive days of triple digit temperatures. what does it tell you that drive pink stadium that normally seats 18,000 people, they had to add an additional 3,000 seats. it was completely sold out. this is a completely packed stadium, even though it is hot, it is muggy. people are excited and they have been for a while. i mean, we've got bus stops with his name on it. people wearing his shirts. we know that those jerseys, those pink jerseys have been such high demand, going for high, high prices. everybody trying to figure out how to get their hands on one. so people have been getting crafty. i have seen people make their own messy shirts. the long and short of it, as you're about to hear from fans, people are excited. listen in.

>> we haven't had a big huge soccer star since david beckham. it's huge for miami, and the united states. he's done everything he could over there. he's coming here to start a new resurgence of soccer in the u.s. i think everyone's really excited about it. >> reporter: so keep in mind, football, or soccer, is known as the world's most popular sport. soccer in the u.s. has taken a while for this to take off the same way it has in the rest of the world. this is a big day. messi drove up ticket prices 500%. we have the women's world cup happening tonight. you have the u.s. women's team playing one hour after the game starts here. take a listen to what the head coach said about the women's team? >> what do you expect tomorrow, and are you going to crush us like against thailand four years

ago? >> we do have a lot of respect for the team and the coach. we expect nothing less than they will fight and they will put a battle and they will make it as hard as possible for us. >> reporter: so between the watch parties happening for the women's team tonight and of course people traveling from all over to be here tonight because, chris, it's not just soccer fanatics who are coming, a lot of people have said they have never seen a game of soccer in their life, and they want to see what the fuss and hubbub is about. that's what's exciting is the idea that the internationally loved sport might finally, could be taking off in the u.s. that's at least what the hope is among the lot of people. >> please tell me you have a press pass to get into the stadium, so i can live vicariously through you. >> i do. >> reporter: i don't want to make you too jealous, but i'll be inside. >> i don't like you anymore. >> i'll see myself out.

meantime, former president trump's trial, let's talk about that. the date officially less than a year away now, right in the middle of the 2024 election season, and with all the other cases he's facing, how does his team divvy it all up. we'll talk about that and more in 60 seconds. ll up. we'll talk about that and more in 60 seconds. rsv could cut it short. ♪ rsv is a contagious virus that usually causes mild symptoms but can cause more severe infections that may lead to hospitalizations... ...in adults 60 and older... ...and adults with certain underlying conditions, like copd, asthma, or congestive heart failure. talk to your doctor and visit cutshortrsv.com.

it's been described as a collision course, a logistical beast and a toxic mix, unprecedented in the american experiment. it's the historic convergence of the 2024 primary calendar with donald trump's classified documents case, now the trial set for may 24th, 2024. a major case amid a voluminous set of cases and lawsuits. susan glasser says the prospect of this ending is an existential test for american democracy.

>> it's the calendar that is really freaking me out. you know, there's no possible way that this is going to be resolved before the primaries are well underway, and i just think that's a disaster for democracy that we can watch unfolding. >> i want to bring in nbc's vaughn hillyard, and also with us, msnbc legal analyst, and former assistant district attorney to the manhattan d.a.'s office, katherine christian. let me start with the logistics of this, when you look at the existing cases, the possible cases that could still be coming, how complex some of them are. how do you even, as a legal team, do this? all separate legal teams? are they talking? what happens here? >> some of the attorneys are on multiple cases. todd blanche, for instance, represents mr. trump in the manhattan d.a. case, and represents him on the classified documents, mar-a-lago case, and if there is an indictment on election interference, he might be representing him on that. so what you do, if you're a

defense attorney, you actually use it as an excuse why you can't be ready for one trial because i'm preparing for the other. so it will be a mess for the attorneys, particularly the ones who are actually on all of the cases because you're human. you can only handle so much at one time. >> can we go back to a closer look at the trump legal calendar. october, the ag civil fraud, you have e. jean carroll on january 15th next year, the federal class action lawsuit. hush money case, before you even get to the classified documents case. and that's not to mention what could come. how does everybody coordinator -- coordinate everything. >> the ag of new york said a month ago that she would stand down, and quite frankly, i think the manhattan d.a. and the manhattan judge on that case, which should be happening the end of march should probably stand down too. you know what i mean by that, you don't try a shoplifting case

before an armed robbery. i can imagine that todd blanche is going to say our trial judge in march, that's two months, and i'm supposed to immediately on may 20th start the other case, so maybe the judge will, the federal judge, judge cannon will call the state judge, but the way it works in the real world of trials is you don't try the shoplifting before the armed robbery. you do the most serious case first. >> one case that's out there, obviously, that's a big one and the grand jury is operating right now, the special prosecutor's grand jury, which has been generally referred to as the january 6th case, but a broad case about election interference, and i know, vaughn, you have new reporting on the trump aide who testified in front of that grand jury. what did you find out? >> to my understanding, what i'm told is william russell who was the white house trip director but also worked as an informal personal aide to donald trump there in november, december 2020, and into january 2021, including on the day of the attack, you can see him there standing next to mark meadows,

the chief of staff, and donald trump, just before the president took the stage to speak at the ellipse of that event. i'm told the questions to will russell were not about his actions that day or even the planning of the january 6th event, but instead, the questions to him from prosecutors and special counsel's office had to do with donald trump's state of mind, his thinking. the conversations that existed around him, not only there at the time of the election but in those, we should be clear here, right, literally two months that followed that led up to january 6th. the big question that is still outstanding, was anybody privy to donald trump acknowledging that he lost, in fact, lost the 2020 presidential election. we are not sure at this hour, whether mark meadows, the chief of staff has spoken with the special counsels office. will russell being brought in late in the game could suggest that perhaps the doj has new testimony and they could have turned to him to corroborate any

conversations he may have heard on trump's plane, the west wing or the oval office. >> i have watched you nod, catherine, as he has been doing his great reporting. whenever i hear state of mind, i think, as a non lawyer, that's tough. what do you make of that reporting? >> those of us old enough to remember watergate remember the question that senator howard baker said, what did the president know and when did he know it. that's the same question we're going to ask here, what did the president say and when did he say it. you saw the photo of mr. russell right at mr. trump's shoulder, and he's been with him, and he's heard things, and i'm sure he was asked about, what did you hear the president say about the election. what did you hear him say about january 6th, what did you hear other people tell him? so that's going to be very important because, you know, jared kushner has said he believes his father-in-law truly believed that he didn't lose the

election. well, they're going to have, they meaning the special counsel, witnesses who will rebut that, who will say he was told he lost. there was a meeting where he was told he lost nevada. he even said, i can't believe i lost to that guy biden, so there will be evidence about that. >> vaughn hillyard, thank you for your reporting. catherine, you're going to stay with me. still ahead, alabama scrambling to redo its congressional map after a surprise supreme court ruling but is the new one being proposed biassed against black voters. former alabama senator doug jones is here after this. s is hs h versus 16 grams in ensure® high protein. boost® high protein. now available in cinnabon® bakery-inspired flavor. learn more at boost.com/tv

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today, alabama's republican controlled legislature faces a deadline to approve a new congressional district map. critics say the one being proposed flies in the face of the supreme court ruling that forced them to redo it in the first place. that original ruling found the old congressional map was biassed against black voters and needed to be redrawn to make up two districts where they make up the voting age majority. republicans were poised to pass a map with one majority black district. catherine christianson is back with me and doug jones. you're from alabama, 27% of the population is black. why did the gop-led legislature draw the map this way?

>> because they can. it's a super majority in both the house and the senate. and they get more like themselves every day. they could not help themselves. this is an incumbent protection plan for the six republican congressmen that we have right now. it is not that much different than what the court rejected. it defines the black belt which the supreme court of the united states and the three-judge panel said was a community of interest, and that's as much a community interest as mobile which is in the first district in that southern part that you see there, the second district, which is known as the wire grass area, so i really think that this is not going to fly at all with the three-judge panel, and ultimately when it goes to the 11th circuit court of appeals in the supreme court, it's not going to fly there either. i think the supreme court decision was pretty clear that we need to have a two majority, minority districts or one that was a lot closer than 60% or

40%. >> the thing, catherine, and i have covered a lot of stories for a long time is just how blatant gerrymandering is. what happens now, the former senator touched on it, but there's a bunch of legal hurdles half to be jumped over. >> the lower court will have a hearing about this. it's not shocking that after brown v. board of education, there was massive resistance, what's interesting about this case, justice roberts and brett kavanaugh joined this majority so voting rights advocates consider waiting on baited breath. they assumed they would louis, it was going to be 6-3 the other way. this court said this one district where you basically pack the majority of black

residents in it violates the voting rights act of 1965. >> were you surprised by the ruling? >> i was. i thought, well, it's going to be 6-3, we're going to lose. it was shocking in a good way, but, you know, the voting rights act for people who aren't familiar in 1965 was enacted to protect black people in the south mainly, their rights to vote because jim crow law was saying we don't care about the 15th amendment, saying you can't deny someone the right to vote because of their race. it's happening in 2023. it's shocking. >> there was talk about the wider implications of this. how high are the stakes as we get closer to 2024. there are a handful of seats that will decide control of the house. >> you know, chris, this is extremely important. people don't fully appreciate the fact that the minority populations in the south are growing as fast if not faster than any other area in the country. so the redistricting and giving

minority communities more ability to elect members of congress can have an absolute dramatic effect. and what's so shocking about this ruling, and i don't think people fully appreciate the fact of what this kind of gerrymandering does. across this country, people complain about the partisanship, but when you have this kind of gerrymandering, and people only have to vote, have a small number of people in their own right or left party, vote for them in a primary, and that's tantamount to the election, it creates that partisanship. so this is really an opportunity for the south to lead the way in redistricting that will give more voices, more control of congress for a longer period of time. >> do you have confidence it will get done? >> i have confidence in the court. now, i was pleasantly surprised. it should not have been a shock to us because it was so obvious that that was the law and

precedent, but it was. and now i have a great deal of confidence in that three-judge panel. it was a wonderful opinion that they wrote. which was, by the way, two trump appointees, district court appointee, and now i have confidence that that court is going to do what the supreme court will ultimately approve. and that has an effect on alabama, it has an effect on louisiana, it could have an effect on georgia, and south carolina. this has long-term implications that i think are a good, good thing. >> former senator doug jones, always great to have you on the program. catherine, so good to have you in studio. we appreciate it. a growing humanitarian crisis amid russia's attacks on ukraine's grain supply. and is russia alienating the few remaining partners it has left? plus, putin's propaganda, what's it like to watch russian tv in a hotel room for five straight days. i'll ask someone who did just that next. days i'll ask someone who did just that next. by this champ.

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russia has now attacked ukraine's grain facilities for a fourth day in a row, this time, destroying 100 tons of peas, and 100 tons of barley. that's according to ukrainian officials. russia has also been doing practice runs for seizing ships in the black sea as tensions build over the collapsed grain deal, and the latest attempts are escalating a global food crisis, leaving the world on high alert. joining me now, retired u.s.

army general, and msnbc legal analyst, general barry mccaffrey. always good to see you. how concerned are you about the russia's attacks on the ukrainian grain, and the humanitarian impact? >> i think it's a huge pending catastrophe, not only in food, but also the notion of a declared blockade of the coast of ukraine in violation of national law. the question is what are we going to do about it? what will this provoke nato into responding. the turkish navy is the dominant naval force in the black sea. will they accept this kind of restriction? and finally ukraine said, okay, if you are going to declare any ship headed into our ports and potential military cargo, we're doing the same thing to you. and they have gotten some

anti-ship missiles that are potential threats of the russian navy. this could escalate rapidly, and it will have 5% o. grain. it's going to be an impact on food prices, particularly in the middle east and africa. >> yeah, so the question becomes what do we do about it. russian president vladimir putin, has had his goal pulling out of the grain deal is to force western countries to lift sanctions on russia's agricultural exports to avoid a global food crisis. do you see that happening? what are the other options? >> well, first of all, i think ukraine has moved in a major way to try and get a lot of their grain out on land routes through the european union and to some extent, it's already working. i think we're also to see russian interests are ill-served by this kind of josh military escalation of the conflict.

we're going to respond in some way. we don't have u.s. naval or nato forces in the black sea, but the turks do, and they are a nato country. what will they respond? so i think putin's making another misjudgment. his economy is in desperate straits. it's going to get worse. internationally isolated, a pariah among the global actors. he's now becoming subservient to china, one of its few remaining allies, so he's digging himself deeper into a hole. there will be a military escalation of some sort if putin persists in this latest effort. >> let me ask you about another story because the cia director, william burns, spoke about russian president putin's reaction to prigozhin's rebellion. here's what he had to say. >> putin is trying to buy time. as he considers what to do with wagner and prigozhin himself, putin is someone who generally

thinks that revenge is a dish best served cold so he's going to try to settle the situation to the extent he can, but, again, in my experience, putin is the ultimate apostle of payback. i wouldn't be surprised if prigozhin escapes further retribution for this. >> do you agree with that, if prigozhin is smart, is he still sleeping with one eye open? >> clearly the cia director, bill burns, one of the best we've had in 30 years, he's very wise, and experienced, a lot of experience dealing with the russian's former ambassador. i thought 90 days it would take for putin to figure out who he can trust, the gru, military intelligence, national guard, the army itself, he's going to sort out who's going to respond to his questions, but he's got to eliminate prigozhin at some

point. the words that can be never unsaid were this invasion of ukraine was not provoked by nato, it was not against gnat-- nazis, it was for corrupt purposes. putin has got to act. the question is how will he do it. right now he doesn't think he's got the power. >> general barry mccaffrey, happy friday to you. thank you for coming on the program. always good to see you. while we're seeing images of russia's relentless assault on ukraine, one officer wanted to know how the war was being per -- perceived for russia. joining me now, look, i can't imagine it. you write at the end of the five

days you felt quote, overwhelming disgust as if there's a sick layer of dirt behind my shirt collar. talk to me about this experience. >> yes, i mean, i started seriously drinking about halfway through. it was a disconcerting thing because what i told "the atlantic" was i wasn't going to shut off any of the three monitors. they were on all the time. the level of propaganda, a lot of it genocide propaganda. there was a cartoon in the middle of the day of a drunk ukrainian rolling around with a pig or something like that, and the purpose of that is to have russian people think that ukrainians are subhuman, and there are ripe for genocide. all of that stuff was very depressing. >> i want to ask you about other things that you saw, one was, and this was one of the first things you noticed, how often swastikas appear on screen. explain that. >> the idea that russia has is

we're fighting this nazi power, ukraine, and they actually call zelenskyy, who is jewish, the kyiv fuhrer, but they show propaganda about how the west is a nazi power, and how russia won against nazi germany in world war ii, which is true. russia and ukraine, and all the other parts of the soviet union. in doing so, they constantly flash the swastika on the screen. you almost can't turn on the television without finding the swastika. i think subliminally is the idea that strength is important to them, and fascism, they are performing actions against ukraine, and this is a way to soften public opinion. >> violence, and stories about broken and abusive families, and you think there's a reason finish that, right? >> i do think that. you have to remember that so many russian men have been involved one way or another in

either the penal system, huge in russia, we also have a huge penal system in america. but also in the army system which has some of the worst if not the worst hazing in the world. violence is, i think, a part of russian life, and during these shows, what you see is that these women and children are primarily the victim of that kind of abuse, and in a sense, if you want to look at it a little bit psychologically, it's almost as if the domestic violence that is so much a part of russian daily life is projected in this geopolitical sense, in this horrible war against ukraine. all of this starts to make a lot more sense when you see the topics that russian tv covers, even when it's not dealing with ukraine. >> one of the things you wrote that maybe made a little bit of sense to me is that a lot of the shows you watched were obsessed with the west, but what did surprise me was that you said they were obsessed with our

clinton, and the soroses, and van der layens, what's that about? >> there are entire hours still devoted to hillary clinton, you know. >> hours? >> hours. there was a show about how, you know, is hillary clinton a lesbian, a lot of stuff is anti-gay, anti-transgender kind of stuff, so is hillary a lesbian, all of this kind of stuff is ripe for discussion. it's also a lot of stuff about george soros, which is actually, as we know, true also on the american far right, but in russia it takes on this very anti-semitic quality, and it does in america as well. there's no sort of -- it's not even a dog whistle, it's a dog siren. imagery of george soros as a spider, with we said coming out of his fingers, and that's a very antisemitic trope, the idea of a jew as a spider or german.

a lot of stuff, though it pretends like russia is against nazi germany, it's congruent with what the russians intended to do. >> we often ask on the program what russians are seeing. this is such a fascinating look at that. i can't even tell you how fascinating it is. gary, i recommend the article for folks. thank you so much for coming on the program. >> thank you. and intense heat is continuing to batter europe at the peak of summer tourism, including dangerous wildfires that have been ripping through greece. we've got the latest on that from athens, next. with 20 gramsn for muscle health versus 16 grams in ensure® high protein. boost® high protein. now available in cinnabon® bakery-inspired flavor. learn more at boost.com/tv

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talk to your doctor and visit cutshortrsv.com. globally, the extreme heat, if you can believe it, is reaching higher heights. in europe, emergency hospitalizations are way up. they have been skyrocketing. italy reporting droves of patients arriving with heat-related illnesses and temperatures there are hovering around 100. in the balkans, more heat, coincides with storms that killed six people and demolished infrastructure. and greece, keeping tourists from visiting during the hottest parts of the day, but also folks who work there said we don' want this. nbc's josh lederman is live where the heat has sparked wildfires. talk a little bit more how those fires are doing, but also what's happening in the rest of europe? when i hear people say it's too

hot in italy to eat pasta, you know it's bad. >> reporter: and all of those tourists flocking to europe finding a lot more than they bargained for. here in greece, the fires are truly a game of whac-a-mole. we spent a day driving through the region west of athens, you could see every couple of miles or so, these little fires igniting and that is a result of the fact that every time the greek firefighters are able to put out one of these fires, the heats pick up, winds pick up in areas that had previously burned, they are reignited officials saying there were 52 new fires that erupted just today. they are bringing in help from neighboring countries like italy, as well as france and israel to try to get ahold of this, but there's really no end to the problem in sight, with heat expected to continue to rise up until about 113 degrees anticipated on sunday, and yet another heat wave set to hit

greece next week, chris. >> wow, josh lederman, get inside, get to the air-conditioning. thank you for this report. appreciate it. we want to get to the latest developments now into the investigation into the suspected gilgo beach serial killer. investigators now say they are expanding their probe, looking into unsolved murder cases nationwide for a possible heuermann.with the alleged nbc's stephanie gosk has been following all of this for us. now cold cases outside of new york? >> yeah, it's interesting. the three women who he's accused of murdering worked for escort services. okay, and they're looking at a case in atlantic city, and this is because it's close to long island and new york city. there was a case in 2006 called the eastbound strangler where four women who were prostitutes, worked in the sex trade, their bodies were found in a ditch in 2006, strangled. they never were able to solve the case. they have looked before to see if there are any connections to

the gilgo beach murders, but they are reopening that case. also in las vegas, because heuermann had a condo in las vegas and would go out there, so authorities will likely look at his travel patterns and see if they coincide with some unsolved cases there. also south carolina, we told you that police seized his chevrolet avalanche from that property that he shares with a family member. they're also looking into a cold case there. so there's no guarantee that it will expand, the charges, but it may. >> stephanie gosk, i have a feeling there's a lot more to come. thank you so much, have a good weekend. to an update to a story we brought you earlier this week, the israeli government, trying to recover antiquities, originally intended for a temporary white house exhibit in 2019 but somehow they reemerging at mar-a-lago. the "wall street journal"

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this weekend at the box office is all about explosive content, namely atomic bombs and blond bombs. barbenheimer, the duel release of barbie and oppenheimer that could give a giant jolt to the soft box office numbers. joining me now is morgan brennan for cnbc on msnbc. okay, usually when you get two different movies from different studios, it's like a big fight, but it's a little bit different this time. what's going on with "barbenheimer" opening weekend? >> i think just the fact that we have a name, chris, barbenheimer says it all. two movies that couldn't be any more opposite of each other. "barbie," a comedy, focused on the iconic doll made by mattel for decades now, and "oppenheimer" which comes from

universal, msnbc sister company, a drama about the lead scientist of the atomic bomb a number of decades ago. both have very strong reviews. so far 90% for "barbie," the 96% for "oppenheimer" on rotten tomatoes. you have reports that people are going to do double features. ticket sales are brisk and more shows have been added to accommodate all the demand. so far, chris, $22 million in thursday night preview tickets. that's the strongest start for a film this year, and 10 1/2 million for "oppenheimer." >> another big movie, "mission impossible" didn't meet expectations last weekend. there are such high expectations for this. how much of what happens at the box office, how important is it for the future of movie going? i mean, people are like framing this in apocalyptic terms. >> again, maybe not surprising

since we're talking about "barbenheimer", and we're talking about the early beginnings of the atomic bomb, the drama that's associated here. but really i'm being tongue in cheek, but $200 million is what is right now expected by analysts to be grossed in the box office this weekend if things go according to plan. that would make it one of the strongest weekends of the year, and why this is so important is because we have seen the box office and movie theaters really struggle to fully recover from the impacts of the pandemic. and the fact that so many people are now turning to streaming to engage in more of their content. i mentioned it before, but, chris, the other potential winner in all of this will be mattel, the toy maker that owns the barbie brand and has been making the dolls for a long time. even though we have this actors writers strike going on in hollywood and nobody is going out to do the markets, there is a very strong push, case in point, i'll show it right here, the barbies that were on display at the new york stock exchange

today. very pink on the trading floor. >> i actually saw "barbie", and in the theater there was a huge box and you could step into it and have your picture taken, which i declined to do. morgan brennan. thank you so much. that's going to do it for us. i did take a picture of my nieces. make sure to join us for "chris jansing reports" every weekday, 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. eastern on msnbc. our coverage continues with "katy tur reports" right now. good to be with you, i'm katy tur. the classified documents case now has a trial date. judge aileen cannon set it for may 20, 2024, near the end of the primary cycle meaning donald trump could be more than just a contender by then. he could be the republican nominee. if that happens, it will be a heady start to the general el