at this hour, the indictment watch in washington as former president trump braces for charges in the special counsel election interference probe. he is fundraising off the investigation. plus inside white house efforts to expand access to mental health care, making sure they say that it is as easy as being treated for a broken bone. and wildfires continue their rampage across popular vacation spots in greece. thousands forced to flee historic numbers with american tourists among those leaving everything behind. and our nbc news exclusive, a look at the war on terror in west africa. how the u.s. military is training special forces to fight off the next threat. our reporters are following all of the latest developments, but we start with former president trump keeping busy as he awaits a possible third indictment. garrett haake is following this for us.

i know that he is on the trail today, but what else can you tell us. >> reporter: former president is attempting to run a frontrunner's campaign here despite the possibility of this looming indictment. today he's in new orleans where he is have an old fashioned style campaign fundraiser at the home -- or hosted i should say by a wealthy donor there. friday he will be headed to iowa. and in between, he is making full use of his social media platform and his email list. he has been pumping out fundraising appeals. he just posted a video through his campaign on twitter calling for congress to get involved in the cases against him. he has been doing his best to let the pending third indictment here if indeed that is what is coming do the work of rallying his base for him. he has made it such a heavy focus of his fundraising appeals on his social media platform and email list, that is the main driver right now of clicks basically and those online

donations that the campaign is hoping to rack up before they find themselves in another expensive legal fight. >> clicks equal cash. garrett haake, thank you so much. now to the white house where president biden is pushing to expand access to mental health care. mike memoli is here with the details. what more do we know about this policy? i know the president is unveiling it in the next hour. >> reporter: yeah, what the president is doing today falls under the umbrella of the unity agenda he outlined in the state of the union address. what he is trying to do through regulation is give more teeth to a bipartisan law passed by congress a few years ago that seeks to have greater parity between access to physical health care and mental health care. according to the white house too many private insurers have higher burdens in terms of access in network to mental health care. and out of network often means you have to pay out of pocket. and so that means many are not getting the coverage they need. 21% of adults with mental health

illness, fewer than half are getting the care they need. so the regulations that the president is moving the ball forward on today would try to make it clearer to insurers that they have to provide more in network options and have fewer sort of caveats attached to being assess to mental health services. it also will try to close a loophole that makes it harder for state and local government employees to get access to mental health care as well. again, this is something that the president is putting under that bipartisan umbrella as we are in very partisan times. >> mike memoli, thank you so much. we'll talk to you again in a bit. and in greece, the race is on to evacuate tourists as the wildfires continue to spread on a popular vacation island. josh letterman is on that's land of rhodes with more. what have you been seeing on the ground today, josh? >> reporter: it is really up and down. early this morning fire officials said that they felt like the situation was under much better control, much of the

fire had been put out. but then the winds picked up, it got about 100 degrees farenheit today. and suddenly much of the island was once again in flames. and you can see just how windy it is here. it is difficult for me to stand straight. and that is such a huge part of the problem because that really just whips the flames up, makes them move in unpredictable directions, makes it hard for the firefighters to fight. we saw some of the most devastating scenes today that we've seen since we arrived, including air so thick with black smoke that it blocked out the sun and as well as in one area we saw multiple fires starting to crop up almost out of nowhere. a desperate residence police officers trying to put it out by beating it with a stick before it spread too far. and while we're learning from fire officials that they discovered on the mainland of greece in one of the other fires that is burning, an elderly woman dead in a home that was

burning. we also learned that one of the military aircraft that has been fighting these fires crashed in the mainland of greece today. a 34-year-old and 27-year-old pilot aboard that airplane now dead. >> josh, take care. thank you for that. now to west africa and our nbc news exclusive look at a new and urgent war on terror. courtney kube is in niger. you got an inside look at the work by the special forces there. what did you see? >> reporter: yeah, that's right. we had a really rare opportunity to see two different pieces of the u.s. military mission here in west africa. you mentioned we're in niger. here we were able to see u.s. military special operations forces who were training the nigerien special operators here. and they have two main threats. one is an al qaeda affiliate jnim, but the other is an isis

affiliate. both moving across borders in many of the areas around here, moving in some cases with immunity across the borders, forcing local populations out of their home and spreading their terror networks and growing it throughout this area. so we saw that training mission here, very rare opportunity to travel to north of the capital here in niger and see the u.s. military working with the forces preparing them for missions that are ongoing even as we speak. on the other side of that, we saw one of the other countries right near here, a neighboring country, where we saw the other side of the military mission here. and this is u.s. special operations forces who are working with the local military there and around the more rural parts of the country, helping them to gain the trust of the local population with the goal of the locals seeing more trust in the government and turning away from some of the terror networks that are trying to spread through the area. we were able to see in one case

how they are training the local military and helping them provide medical care to some of the local population there. >> courtney kube, fascinating stuff. thank you. be sure to check out more of her exclusive reporting tonight on "nightly news" at 6:30 p.m. eastern. and still ahead, president biden honors emmett till whose brutal death inspiring a movement on this what would have been his 82nd birthday. how far has the country really come. we'll discuss that in 60 seconds. you can't leave without cuddles. but, you also can't leave covered in hair. with bounce pet, you can cuddle and brush that hair off. bounce. it's the sheet.

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right now. >> back then when there was fear of certain death in the darkness of a thousand midnights. in a pitch black house on what some have called dark fero, back then i could never imagine a moment like this, standing in the light of wisdom, grace and deliverance. >> the pain never goes away. it just hides. it hides under the rocks. given a little bit of oxygen like bad people, it comes roaring out again. it is up to all of us to deal with that, up to all of us to stop it, up to all of us. best way is with the truth. >> president biden established a national monument at three sites connected to till's story. the church where his funeral was held, the spot where his body was recovered from th river,

and the courthouse where his attackers were acquitted. and they remember till and his mother whose insistence on giving her son an open casket helped bring national attention to the brutality of the jim crow south and in turn helped galvanize the civil rights movement. i want to bring in our political analyst and also princeton university professor of african-american studies. it still gives you pause to say the name emmett till why is it important to put his name back in the headlines right now? >> well, first, as a mississippian, emmett till is critical, his sacrifice, his mom's courage made everything that i do responsible. i think it is important in this moment because we have the forces in our society that are actively trying to forget in

order to absolve themselves of responsibility for racial inequality. it is a monument that is important. we learn race via space. you just move about the country and you learn about the meaning of the value of people. so this is important to a counter of what we've been experiencing. whether banning books or curricular nonsense and the like. but to put in the built-in environment the moment of extraordinary cruelty, to remind us what we're capable of as a country. >> and we're in a time where issues of race have been dominating the headlines. we saw it with school books being rewritten on the history of slavery, alabama lawmakers defiling the supreme court in order to restrict the power black voters. even jason aldean's song is

number two on billboard and in that video the backdrop is the site of another lynching. and i was wondering what would maybe till mobley think now. >> and we have to be better people. the way our society looks, of course there are structural forces, but there is something at the heart of the nation that is rotten. that doesn't mean that we're rotten, but there is something that is corroding the spirit, the soul, and it is hatred, it is greed, it is selfishness. if we're going to be better, chris, we have to be better people. if i work to be a better human being oig, i'm talking about characters, virtue, if i work to be a better human being, i can be better with you and then together we can be better with others and we can build a better world. so i think that the ugliness of our past by trying to ignore it

is a ritual of absolution. we want to deny our sins. and move forward. it is always the case that we do this when we're at a moment of contradiction where the reality of who we are shall we say run smack into the lie of who we take ourselves to be. so then we engage in these rituals as it were. so we have to be a better people is the -- at least my answer i think. >> i think if you have a list of better people, right, emmett till's mother would have to be near the top. i mean, she was the one who said let people see what i've seen. first by demanding that open casket, and then she asked jet magazine to take pictures of emmett till's body so it could be seen worldwide. the emotional price that she paid not just through the death of her son, but to make it mean

something more. it boggles the mind. when you say better people, what do the rest of us do? >> she exhibited the fact that courage can come from the most unexpected places. that decency, power, is evident in every day ordinary people. history just calls you to do it. president biden said today silence equals complicity. it is those of us who just go about our lives content with the world as it is as it is burning. so what till mobley exemplifies is the ability of everyday people to be the heros, to be the champions of democracy. and this is really important because if it was just a monument about emmett till, it would be black folk as objects of violence. just beingacted upon. by having till mobley there, we're also active, actively

working to change our world. and here she is, the embodiment of the courage of everyday ordinary people, the faith of everyday ordinary people. if she can do it, we can do it. and that is the question, will you choose to be on the right side or will you choose to simply be silent and complicit. >> perfect thought to leave us on. it is always such a pleasure to have you on the program. thank you. let us all remember emmett till. we'll be right back. (vo) if you have graves' disease, your eye symptoms could mean something more. that gritty feeling can't be brushed away. even a little blurry vision can distort things. and something serious may be behind those itchy eyes. up to 50% of people with graves' could develop a different condition called thyroid eye disease, which should be treated by a different doctor.

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republican house speaker kevin mccarthy is now making his most direct threat of impeachment against president biden yet. here is what he told fox news about gop-led investigations into business dealings by the biden family. >> rising to the level of impeachment inquiry, which provides congress the strongest power to get the rest of the knowledge and information needed. i believe that we will follow this all the way to the end and this is going to rise to an impeachment inquiry the way the constitution tells us to do this and we have to get the answers to these questions. >> i want to bring in capitol hill correspondent ryan nobles and also with me politico bureau chief and host of msnbc "way too early" jonathan lemire.

so ryan, the house hasn't shown anything that i've seen that there was wrongdoing oig here. how likely is it here that kevin mccarthy will see this threat through? >> we've had the opportunity in the last 20 minutes to press the house speaker on what he means by approaching the level of an impeachment inquiry. he is not talking about bringing an impeachment vote to the floor. what he is talking about is opening the door to another investigation that would be under the banner of an impeachment inquiry. and his argument is that by launching an impeachment inquiry, it would give the congress the maximum amount of investigative power to get to the bottom of these questions that they have about the president and his son's business dealings and whether or not they are intertwined. listen to what mccarthy told me. >> what an impeachment inquiry does, it gives us the apex of the power of congress for republicans and democrats to gather the information that they

need. congress has a responsibility for investigation. all i'm saying is, i'm sure you'd probably ask the same question, what is the truth? >> reporter: so to your point about these questions about hard evidence, mccarthy's arguing that because there are questions, they need to launch this investigation to see if that hard evidence exists. he is not actually suggesting that the hard evidence is there, just that there are indications that it may exist. the democratic national committee of course is pouncing on this saying that this is mccarthy taking things a step too far. they say it is clear that donald trump is the real speaker of the house, he has made sure that the house majority is a little more than just an arm of his 2024 campaign. but to be clear, mccarthy is not launching anything just yesterday, he's just saying that he is open to that happening in the near future. >> i guess the bigger question here, jonathan, and i heard you pose a question this morning on

so i'll ask you, does that take us to a place where every president could face impeachment? something says something or thinks something, i don't know, where are we with this? >> it is hard to imagine, but that might be where we're going. let's remember of course that republicans have worked themselves up into a frenzy protesting donald trump's two impeachments. hard to see that those weren't warranted. one of course about january 6 and the other about efforts to extort ukraine. but mccarthy has taken up trump's crusade to get those impeachments stricken from the official record of the house. potentially not even possible, but it shows that impeachments has become front and center. people behind me that i've talked to in the white house, they are not taking this too seriously just yet. ian s ian sams put out a statement

blasting it last night. and i think voters would find this unwarranted. there is no evidence at all yet for an impeachment inquiry of president biden. maybe some in the west wing believe that they will terrick merrick garland instead. but to your broader point, impeachment should be rare. it is serious, something only invoked a few times in our nation's history. so it would not be a good thing if something that nearly every president would face. >> since jonathan brought it up, what have you heard about the possibility of expunging the impeachments of president trump? >> the speaker himself told me that he is supportive of it, that he wants to bring it to the floor. whether or not it has the 218 votes necessary to pass is still an open question. it would be a very tough vote for some of these more moderate republicans that won in biden held districts particularly new york state and california.

but this is something that is almost a necessary it i for mccarthy to placate the conservative wing of his party, the freedom caucus in particular, who is insistent that this is something that needs to be done. it is though dangerous territory for even donald trump because if mccarthy were to force the bill on to the floor and then it doesn't have the votes necessary and as jonathan rightly points out, it really doesn't mean all that much, it runs the risk of a political embarrassment for donald trump of which kevin mccarthy would certainly at least lay some of the blame -- meaning trump would lay the blame on him. so this is still very much an open question despite kevin mccarthy wants to do it. saying it and following through are two different things. >> so a couple events that we saw at the white house, jonathan, we saw the one with emmett till, there will be another one about this new push to get people more access to mental health care, having said that, are you sensing on the

ground, because if we're talking about political activity, are you sensing on the ground any kind of ramping up around the white house of what will be the 2024 more direct campaign, are they saving that more for 2024 itself? what is happening there? >> it has been slow though steady progress here. no, the real campaign is not going to ramp up until this fall or more likely even after the first of the year. those charged with getting the president reelected have made that clear. but they are starting to staff up. they put together the campaign headquarters which will be in wilmington, delaware, the president's hometown. they have added some staff in recent days including a finance director. that has been their focus has been fundraising in recent weeks. they are -- between the white house and dnc, the re-election campaign, i should say, are almost one in the same at this point. the president has control over it and although the campaign staff remains pretty small, the dnc does not and they have people in every state and they are doing the lion's share of

the work right now. but in terms of the president itself, focus is raising money, official events, doing work of the people. we won't see what you consider a full fledge campaign for a few months. >> jonathan lemire who still has a jacket on in the heat -- >> chris, it is so hot. >> ryan nobles is cool as a cucumber. but i appreciate you both coming on the program. still ahead, putin's war on europe's bread basket, new strikes and its ripple effect. w strikes and its ripple effect. yt you were on vacation? it's too expensive. use priceline, they've got deals no one else has. what about work? i got you. looking great you guys! ♪ go to your happy price ♪ ♪ priceline ♪

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a growing mystery in china after that country's foreign minister who has been missing with no explanation for a month was formally voted out of his role today. he was once one of xi jinping's most trusted loyalists and made foreign minister last december. state media announced who will be taking over, but did not give a reason for his sudden removal. joining me now, andrea mitchell. this is a high profile figure he is a former u.s. ambassador. what more do we know? >> this is the biggest shakeup in china that i can remember in years because he was personally

picked by president xi, really plucked from obscurity from a relatively unimportant job to leap frog over all these other people competing for not only the foreign minister job, but he also has a special state councilor job. so two very big posts in china. and with his removal, first of all, his disappearance, very suspicious, last seen publicly by a u.s. official which was in june by secretary of state antony blinken, he hasn't been seen publicly for a month, was in the apparently at the yellen visit, at the john kerry visit, with henry kissinger. so this is all a very big change. he is being replaced by wang yi who will now be holding three jobs and almost no one can do that, so this is considered a temporary fix. and i'm told that this has frozen bureaucratic decision making because he was such an

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please keep us posted. andrea mitchell, thank you. a russian fighter jet damaged a u.s. drone conducting a mission against isis in syria, the latest example of what the air force is calling russia's reckless behavior in the sky. it harassed it with flares, fired directly from overhead. one of those flares struck the drone severely damaging a propeller. the crew was able to keep the drone in the air and get it back to home base. in a statement of centcom says the russian fighter's blatant disregard for safety detracts from our mission. and russia is also escalating aerial assaults on grain infrastructure not far from a nato territory last night. russia launched similar attacks almost every day since it pulled out of the black sea grain initiative. a u.n. brokered deal allowing

ukraine known as the bread basket of europe to export its grain. those strikes pose a clear threat to global food security already pushed to the limit by the ever growing number of refugees half vanlged -- ravaged by climate change. your organization reports that climate fuel disasters have been the biggest single driver of internal displacement over the last decade, an estimated 32 million people force from their homes just last year. when you add in what is happening in ukraine, where does that leave refugees? >> it is inevitably going to make an awful situation worse, chris. the people we're talking about are the one out of ten people in the world who don't know where they are going to get their next meal. and they are concentrated in countries affected by climate change and also by armed

conflict. countries like sudan, like somalia, yemen. my colleagues are responding in these countries together with local partners, but especially with declining aid budgets. these are not problems that aid can solve. and so when a major supply of wheat or corn or other grain is interrupted into global markets, that is inevitably going to affect those who are most marginal on the global food system the hardest. >> it is such a complex problem and again, you know, this idea that people are living in places in the world that are too hot to even live in, that that according to a new report today will get even worse. is there a global solution in what do we do about this? when i see -- no one should suffer from not having food to eat, but when you see pictures

of emciated children who clearly are not getting food and they are in a hot place without any hope of any comfort, it breaks your heart. >> yeah, and ours too. and in east africa alone right now, we have about 8 million children under five that are acutely malnourished, that is roughly the entire population of switzerland. but there are solutions that are available to us, but they are not being pursued. in the immediate term we need arrangements like the black sea grain deal to come back on, we need governments to turn around aid budgets. and we need to rethink how aid is provided. local organizations are always on the ground and responding first. if they were offered more support and more trust, they could be much more effective in relieving some of the most enduring crises we see today. and then you have the global food system. it is scandalous that the world is dependent on a couple of

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of migrants from coming. we know migration numbers are down at the southern border and it was part of the administration's plan to make it harder to claim asylum. but groups like the aclu said it was too restrictive because it made anyone arriving ineligible unless they could prove a hire bar, like they could are tortured upon return or they could prove that they already tried to claim asylum in another country and were denied. but a big caveat here, nothing will be changed overnight because this judge in san francisco agreed with the biden administration and gave them a 14 day stay. in that period of time, we expect the biden administration to appeal to the ninth circuit and this will probably go all the way up to the supreme court and has stays on the lifting of that policy all along the way. so it will ultimately be up to the supreme court we imagine is how this will play out, but for now it is at least a legal blow to what the administration wanted to do here. >> julia, thank you.

and a story that may involve the supreme court as well, the justice department has now sued texas over a controversial floating barrier in the rio grande. governor greg a abbott placed the buoys in the river as part of the efforts to deter my grants from crossing in to the u.s. and he is digging in his heels warning he is ready to take the fight all the way to the supreme court. in a letter to biden, governor abbott writes texas will fully use its constitutional authority to deal with the crisis you have caused. joining me now is civil rights attorney, msnbc legal analyst, charles coleman. does he have a legal leg to stand on or is doj going to ultimately prevail here? >> well, i do think that this is going to be a situation where doj ultimately prevails. governor abbott is relying on a section of the constitution specifically article 1 section 10 clause 3 just off the top of my head that delineates the

special sovereign ability for texas to protect its borders. the issue is the stretch of land where these barriers have been constructed actually fall in international water and that is governed by congress. you can't enact some sort of barrier or border without approval of congress in international waters or international territory and that is what governor abbott has done. that is why the doj is likely going to prevail. but this is part of a larger conversation, chris. over the past two years, texas has had what is called operation lone star which has been roughly a $4.5 billion effort to try to curtail illegal immigration in the state. and it hasn't worked. and this is another example of how they have plenty of resources to try to solve the problem of a gunshot wound using a band-aid and it will backfire in my prediction in the courts. >> and when we say in the courts, will it end up in the supreme court? >> i don't know if it will go that far.

i think the level of appeal that they are talking about with respect to an injunction of this nature may not necessarily get to that degree or that level of appeal. i think that the injunction at some point will be granted. i think that there may be one or two appeals and i can't see a court not affirming the lower court's decision particularly once you identify the stretch of land and who governs it. that is really the only question here. and it does appear that the law is only the federal government's side. >> what facts play into that? i'm thinking that illegal border crossings are at their lowest level in the biden presidency. what texas has been trying to do haven't been working. and if we go back to that video, you can see how big it is. people have been going around it, right? so does a judge look at this and say, i don't know, this is nonsense or do they look at this and say okay, according to law, they have a sovereign right do this, to protect their border.

>> i think the factors that you named will come up in the judge's decisions. we're talking about roughly a quarter mile stretch barrier exists. and we're talking about people injured and in some cases really, really badly by the barriers. so i imagine that they will come up. the question is whether they will be used by the judge to say texas, you are fighting a losing battle, you are causing more harm than good, so knock it off, or is the judge going to use that to say, look, you know, the federal government is already enjoying the lowest illegal immigration rate we've seen in a long time with respect to border crossings, this won't necessarily change that one way or the other, so texas leave they will. that remains to be seen. but i think everything you've mentioned will be a factor in out judge makes their decision ultimately. >> charles, always good to have you on the program. thank you. elon musk's overhaul of

twitter to x.com is up ending the social media site's well-known brand. musk says it is part of his plan to rebrand twitter into an every app that will, quote, add comprehensive communications and ability to conduct your entire everything app. cnbc's christina parts nef liss is here on msnbc. such a small goal here, such an understatement. how do investors feel about this change? >> x is a private company and gets a little less attention from retail investors. it's hard to avoid elon musk's commentary and business endeavors. he's trying to completely wipe out the twitter brand which he bought for $44 billion last year in favor of x. twitter's corporate name was already changed to x corp. you can also shop for goods and services.

one web bush analyst argued to cnbc that the rebrand was a risky move from a branding perspective. that's because the twitter brand has been around for about 15 years. meta rebranded facebook, alphabet rebranded google. but they did keep the brands within the company. elon musk plans to, however, quote business ad efrmtsiu to the brand. he didn't tweet. >> we won't call them tweets anymore. the rebrand and a lot of people will chuckle out of this, didn't just hit roadblocks digitally. i understand there were problems with the actual makeover of the headquarters. >> bidding adieu to twitter means taking down the massive building logo in san francisco. but the san francisco police department put a stop to it on monday afternoon. officers attended to a complaint of a, quote, possible unpermitted street closure

because a lift was used to remove some of the twitter letters from the mass save sign. what remains now you're seeing on your screen is twitter on one side and the letters "er" on the other. >> christina, you can't make this stuff up. thank you so much. breaking news. ups and the teamsters union just reached an historic labor deal narrowly avoiding a strike set to start on july 31st. the union, representing about 340,000 ups workers says the deal includes wage increases for both full and part-time workers and new safety and health protections like air conditioning in those cars and ventilation. the ceo calls the agreement a, quote, win, win, win. but the deal is still pentive. it faces a key vote by the workers themselves. in the doghouse, the new report that shows president biden's dog commander attacked secret service agents far more

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the first dog is causing problems for the first family. according to internal emails, the biden's 2-year-old german shepherd commander bit or threatened members of the secret service at least ten times during a four-month period. one of the attacks actually sent an officer to the hospital. mike memoli is back with me with

details. what more do we know about these incidents? >> i want to underscore this point. this is just records over a four-month period. commander has been in the possession of the president and first lady for about a year and a half. it's potentially more incidents than we're talking about in this narrow case i. ranges from a soft biting, if such a thing exists, to a more severe case where an officer had to go on a hospital and put on restrict stad tus for three days. these incidents occurred both at the white house as well as at the president's home in wilmington, delaware. a couple of things stand out to me. one is that this is information that's coming to the public light because of a freedom of information request put out by a group known as judicial watch. they're a conservative-leaning group which perhaps suggests even the president's political opponents are trying to turn his puppy into a political liability. we also got a statement from the secret service in which they're indicating that there were other incidents over the years of

first pets also causing incidents like this, most of which we didn't know about. there was one very conspicuous one in which barney, president george w. bush's pet actually bit a reporter which caused quite a stir. this in addition to what we know about the biden's other german shepherd, major, their second -- he had another one during their time as vice president. it really does sort of present a question of whether there is an issue here with the president's pets. a spokesperson for the first lady in a statement acknowledging that the white house complex is a unique and often stressful environment for pets and that the secret service and the executive resident staff are working on leashing protocols and additional training as well. so just another headache for the white house even involving their pets now. >> anyone who has been around it can affirm the stressful fiermt part in any case. i'm rooting for them. mike memoli, thank you so much.

that's going to do it for us this hour. join us for "chris jansing reports" frr 1:00 to 3:00 eastern here on msnbc. our coverage continues with ana cabrera right now. hello. thanks for joining us. i'm ana cabrera in for katy tur this hour. any minute president biden is expected o to speak on expanding access to mental health care. we're also closely watching the federal courthouse in washington, d.c. and we're just learning the grand jury hearing evidence in jack smith's election interference probe has not met so far today. why is that? it's been exactly one week since the former president announced he was a target in the investigation, but he's not letting that threat of a potential indictment keep him from the campaign trail where he is right now and