continues our coverage now. >> and very good afternoon to, you i'm richard louis in for yasmin vossoughian this sunday. a warning from donald trump to his fellow republicans. >> any republican that doesn't act on democrat fraud should be immediately primaried and get out. >> that's where we start, a stunning new tactic from the embattled former president as he appears to call but order his allies in the house to impeach president biden. it comes right before tomorrow's arraignment of another trump employee, now charged in the classified documents case which now includes allegations have a scheme to tamper with evidence. also this hour for you, and your reaction from republican presidential candidate will hurd, who found out and i well what happens when you try to take on trump in front of a republican crowd.

breaking news from pakistan as well, dozens dead, more than 100 injured in a bomb attack on the political rally. we are also following the extreme weather, major storms in the northeast of washington, d.c., area, as they leave at least one person dead, while dangerously high temperatures, those continue to be down on millions of americans. we will tell you where some relief is being seen this week. all that plus the new video from lebron james's son, brawny, and what appears to be a remarkable recovery after suffering cardiac arrest this week. we will have the latest on that and look at the heart health risks for young athletes. all that coming up. we will start with the former president on the campaign trail this weekend, as he faces a growing list of legal issues. trump now unleashing a barrage of attacks on his own republicans in congress. as i mentioned, he is challenging their loyalty by threatening to primary gop lawmakers who did not pursue investigations into the current

president, president biden and his family. i want to bring in nbc's -- in erie, pennsylvania. marissa, great to see you, the former president sticking to a highly aggressive approach to this campaign. walk us through what his tactics, are what his hope is in terms of outcomes. >> hey, richard. yeah, it was a bombastic speech and what we heard was kind of more or less the same rhetoric we've seen before, attacking his rivals and gop contenders, particularly focusing on desantis. even former president -- vice president mike pence, that was met with boos when he brought up his name. asa hutchins in talking about the wide gap of the polling numbers, even needling desantis further by saying his own donors, desantis's own donors, are calling trump. but even with some words of caution, saying to those who rival him, saying that he is really saying that if they are loyal to the party, that they need to sort of get in line

when it comes to fighting what he calls democrat fraud. listen for yourself, some of his words from that almost two-hour speech last night here in erie, pennsylvania. >> and the republicans just don't by the way -- they are good people -- but they don't fight the way they are supposed to fight. the others are dirty, sick players and the republicans are very high class. they've got to be a little bit lower class, i suspect. they sit back and they say, they have other priorities, we have to look at other things. any republican and that doesn't act on democrat fraud should be immediately primaried and get out, out. >> richard, i have to get to another huge headline from last. night obviously, all of this coming just days after that new wave of charges dropped against the former president. and of course, ahead of more legal woes on the horizon. he had a lot of strong words.

he called the special counsel, jack smith, deranged, a deranged lunatic. of course, this morning coming out on truth social, calling the people who work for the doj and smith himself thugs. what he did is he also offered without any proof that this is all in attempt to rig the next election. and of course, remember, this is all happening as the former president himself is under investigation for his own role to play in possible efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, now already suggesting that there are efforts to overturn the next election. so, richard, more or less, we are just seeing the same when it comes to playing offense, here trying to set the agenda and some really strong, very difficult political minefield for his contenders -- i will leave you with this one thing. we talked about how former texas congressman will hurd was met with boos on friday. we saw how much of a strong reaction that got from the

audience. nikki haley this morning, with more cautious words, just saying that if we elect former president trump once again, that this whole general election is going to be filled with more legal battles on the horizon. richard? >> nikki haley saying this will be bad for republicans if this continues. thank you so much, marissa, a great setup for us. let's get over now to nbc senior national politics reporter, jonathan allen. jonathan, we've seen this before. the more he's put on, defense the more offense he takes, right? is this what we are seeing right now as he is trying to, if you will, attack his own? threatening to -- eat his own if you will? >> absolutely, richard. we know from president trump over the course of the last six years or so, basically believes anybody who is not loyal to him is disloyal to him, disloyal to the, party disloyal to the country. you hear that in his comments and is basically issuing a call to the republican party and his base in particular to make life miserable for any republican

official who opposes him, who doesn't line up behind him, who doesn't fight what he calls the fraud that he is being subjected to. >> he's been successful at, this? right he's been very successful at primary eating those in the gop, at least in the last 4 to 8 years. will this work again? >> it's working right, now richard. if you look at the republican primary voting, donald trump is standing alone in first place in mostly national polls, he's over 50%. his main rival, ron desantis, is seeing his numbers not only drop four months but a little bit more even in the last couple of weeks, to the point where trump basically has a 30-point lead over desantis across the country. and then everybody else is in single digits. it is something that is working for trump right now. i think he understands that he's got to fight to make sure that he continues to work. i think he believes the only way anybody else will get into this race if he doesn't take that hard tech. >> he's not moderating, at

least not at this point, jonathan. will hurd -- >> i'm not familiar with the word, richard. >> i don't believe it's not in his dictionary, very well said, jonathan. one republican who is trying to go middle or moderately, will hurd, who spoke with our colleague on meet the press earlier today about being booed at a gop campaign event in iowa for saying donald trump is running in order to stay out of jail. listen to that and then we will get your reaction. >> i was there to talk to the people that believe in personal responsibility, that believe character matters, that believe service matters, that believes the united states has a role in the world and it's important to us back here at home. those were the people i was trying to speak to. and also to prove to the rest of the field that we are running for an election, if you are afraid to talk about donald trump or talk about his baggage, then you are not ready to be president of the united states. >> jonathan, will that work from herd? >> i think as you saw in iowa

earlier this week, some people may have heard congressman hurd but they certainly don't agree with him within the -- at least the majority of them don't. what he is doing is a political kamikaze mission. he's not going to win the republican primary. i don't think he's under any illusion that he will. he sees value in speaking up for what he sees as republican values that aren't being served by president trump and trying to hurt trump. >> jonathan allen, thank you so much. nbc senior national politics reporter. appreciated as always. coming up later this hour for, you former federal prosecutor cynthia alksne and criminal defense attorney danny civilize joined me for a -- former president trump's biggest legal issues, you want to miss that and then up next breaking news out of pakistan where dozens are dead after a bomb went off at a political rally. the latest on the deadly blast coming up in just about 60 seconds. conds. wayfair has nice prices, so you can have nice things.

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breaking news right now. dozens are dead in pakistan today after a suicide bomber attacked a political rally. it happened in the northwestern part of the country. nbc's matt bradley is tracking the developments for us. matt, what we know so far? >> richard, we heard in the last ten minutes that the death toll from this blast has increased from 30 to 55, there are now more than 135 injured. as you can imagine, with leaps like that in the casualty numbers, we probably haven't heard the last and there's probably going to be some sort of increase in the casualty numbers going forward as the bodies are counted. and the wounded are being taken care of, hospitals are apparently overwhelmed with the wounded and some of the more critical cases are being flown faraway to push our. no one has claimed responsibility for this attack. that is rather typical. in the hours this has happened, but this was a political party --

that is pro taliban. it has a nationwide presence but this was a local rally. one of the local leading politicians of this party was among those 55 who are dead. this party actually is part of the ruling coalition. so it's a powerful group, but it is pro taliban. they are in favor of the taliban next door in afghanistan. this particular part of pakistan has seen a spike in islamic and terrorist activity over the past year or two. that really highlights how the security situation there has been deteriorating after the taliban took control of all of afghanistan. this is part of a pattern we've been seeing of militancy increasing. one of the things that the group that is opposed, one of the strongest groups opposed to the taliban still in afghanistan, is islamic state. you remember that they have a franchise in afghanistan. they have been targeting the taliban. that's why officials suspicion is likely to fall on islamic

state elements for targeting this particular political party in neighboring pakistan. one of the other issues here, richard, one of the things a lot of pakistanis are worried about, when we see an increase in militant activity targeting politicians, targeting political groups like today, it raises concerns that there could be an increase in islamic state divvy or terrorist activity ahead of a general election this fall. that is a big issue for pakistanis. this could be a decisive vote. this particular political rally was aimed at rallying voters ahead of this election in the fall and it could keep voters from going to the polls, richard? >> nbc's matt bradley, thank you for that. also more breaking news on this. we are getting a new look at what russia claims was part of a drone strike on moscow. you are about to see and hear a large explosion captured earlier today. russian officials say they shot

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now to that extreme weather many of you are experiencing. more than 75 million americans are under heat alerts today. that is a big drop, though, from this time yesterday. severe storms have caused serious damage and claimed at least one life so far. aaron gilchrist is live in washington and lee, see. what are you seeing? it doesn't look good. >> yeah, richard. a tremendous amount of damage. you see that this tree which has ripped up the roots from the ground, torn up the sidewalk here. i can tell you this isn't unique. we've seen scenes just like this over and over again. in this particular community, the damage that often comes with a sort of storm tore down power lines block after block after block. you can see the wires mangled together across different yards in this area. we can show you some of the video we shot earlier today. the storm that came through here last night took down the

trees and power lines. we saw cars that had been smashed in instance after instance. so many people are out today trying to survey the damage. the roads have been blocked off. they can't get around as much as they might like to. we talk to folks who said they thought it was just a simple rainstorm that they had to deal with yesterday. suddenly, they heard loud noises. there were windows that were broken on homes in this particular community in upper northwest d.c.. we heard from one father who was at home with two of his children when the storms started to come through here last night. >> i saw the tree had fallen on our car. i looked out the window and saw these three trees had fallen on our neighbor's house. we texted them to make sure they were okay. they were in there. they were safe. it was pretty scary because it was a lot of damage to their house. >> we saw that house where those three trees fell.

it was an amazing sight to see. at this point, you might be able to hear chainsaws in the distance. those crews had been hired in many cases by individual homeowners to come and cut off the street so they could access their cars or get out into the streets. they have a lot of work ahead of them in terms of getting these powerlines out of the street. many power poles have been snapped in half. it will be a wire all before the power is back on. you mentioned the deaths that happened in virginia. we understand from our affiliate nbc that a family member told them that the man may have been in the shower when a tree fell on the house and police are still investigating to figure out exactly what happened. richard? >> a lot of tough recovery work. we heard it on a very hot day. the work is very important. aaron gilchrist for us in washington, d.c.. former president donald trump for the fourth time in four months is asking congress the same thing regarding his legal woes.

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threatening congressional republicans to move forward on a biden impeachment or they might risk a primary challenge and those who experienced similar retribution in the past no it's not an idle threat. joining us now, congressional correspondent julie tsirkin and steve bannon, political contributor and editor of the maddow blog on msnbc.com. let's start with you on this, julie. how are lawmakers reacting to trump's comments, his threats that they have heard before? >> we have heard from perhaps the most important lawmaker this week, how speaker kevin mccarthy, intentionally opening the door to a potential impeachment inquiry against president joe biden, sort of heating to the calls of the former president who has certainly been in his ear all summer if not all year. speaker mccarthy knows he has to walk a very tight tightrope when managing in the gavel between the far-right of his party and the moderates who helped him get to this place which is a five seat majority that he has to work with.

as we have seen, two impeachments just in the last few years of the former president. when a door like this is open, it doesn't often get shut. many people who i spoke to privately on both sides of the aisle, republican and democrats, do believe this is something that is going to move forward. the timing of this is interesting. mccarthy is getting ready for a heated battle to fund the government and keep it open at the end of september. he has to appease many on the heart rate. he is extending this by putting this into the ether. is this going to backfire on him as we get closer and closer to the 2024 election and one in which he is willing to keep the house and republicans? here is chrissy new speaking on this today and also on the flip side. you will hear from democrat chris coons reacting to this as well. >> if found guilty, yeah, i think congress should definitely take something up. i think they are really far

from figuring out what the realities there are. those are serious accusations which after we followed up. >> if the republicans want a sharp contrast that joe biden is delivering on infrastructure, on high quality manufacturing and making a stronger on the world stage, and they want to engage in political theater, an impeachment increases probably the best thing they could do to hurt their chances next fall. >> there certainly a gap here among republicans. i spoke to senate republicans who kicked this idea back to the house. they would be jurors in the senate. they are trying to keep their cards close to their vast. i spoke to trump supporters who were curious to answer the question on this. they said it will be bad for the country. they are using their resources to investigate biden and investigate the biden family. mccarthy argued that pursuing an impeachment theory would grant the more investigative powers to do just that. >> i appreciate that.

i appreciate julie tsirkin for that report. trump has been pressuring republicans in congress to stop these investigations is april in. the letters of the house intelligence committee, he said, quote, the justice department should be ordered to stand down. he released a video asking congress to investigate the political witch hunts against him. does he not realize congress doesn't have this power in the constitution? >> it is no secret that he is in the midst of some difficulties, having been impeached twice. there have been more indictments on the road. from the former presidents perspective, here there is a certain degree of desperation. they could throw him a lifeline. as part of this effort, he keeps reaching out to congress, saying, figure out something to do to get me out of this jam. to your question, the answer is no. i don't think the former president understands that

congress has no role here. there is nothing that congress can do to intervene in these criminal cases to rescue him from whatever he is now facing. he would think that at some point when there are layers or someone on fox, someone would tell him that it can happen. here we are. >> is it the power of the purse? >> i am glad you asked that. one of the efforts involved asking him to defund the special counsel's office. they would have no money. such a bill would have to pass the house and senate and be signed by the democratic president. going out on a limb, i guess the democrats are not going to go to that. we are right back to where we were. congress has no real authority. >> i want to move to what has been going on and what we have seen in recent years. the republican party is fraction since donald trump came into the picture, even

more so since he came into the picture, if i'm a sick. mccarthy seems to open the door for an impeachment inquiry into president biden, as you have footed here. i will quote you. the house speaker saw a divided party and deliberately chose to make matters worse. you also say that mccarthy may be doing it because he feels he has to hear. he is pressured. >> that's right. stepping back and looking at the wider context, a good congressional leader unites the allies and divides the opponents. mccarthy is doing the opposite. he unites his opponents and divides his allies. this is just part of the larger pattern where on issue after issue we are finding that the house republicans are splintered further and further in a greater severity. to your question specifically, does mccarthy have a choice? that is the real question. why is he doing this? is the party forcing his hand? is donald trump forcing his hand? i think the answer is probably yes. >> how is mccarthy doing at the

moment in terms of being able to play both parts, if you will, at the same time? we are listening to the pressure coming from donald trump and those who are mcgarrigle iken's versus those who are establishment. >> that's a good question. i wish i had an equally good answer. at this point, we take stock. kevin mccarthy's very few accomplishments to speak of. he's leading a divided caucus. he has very few legislative prospects coming up in the coming months. he's facing a real possibility of government shutdown at the end of september. he has no real plan on how to avoid that. taking stock, given all of these divisions within the caucus, giving the circumstances, kevin mccarthy is not in a position to look back and think that he is a success. he is clearly not. >> steve bannon, always good talking with the. i appreciate your time. >> thank you. >> tomorrow, we could get our first look at carlos de oliveira, the third defendant

in the superseded documents indictment. he's the mar-a-lago property manager who is now facing four charges including conspiracy to obstruct justice. he is alleged to be part of an attempted scheme to delete subpoenaed a security footage at mar-a-lago on behalf of, quote, the boss. joining us now is former federal prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst cynthia alksne and criminal defense attorney and msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos. what are we going to do? we are going to set up a mock, if you, will prosecution versus defense on trump's legal issues with you both. starting with the classified occupants indictment, cynthia, lay out for us the prosecution's strongest evidence and how they might likely argue their case. >> well, in the documents case, they are big issue it is a nullification case. nullification, the factual evidence is so strong. because it is in this ruby red

district in florida, whoever is the prosecutor wants to make sure that the jury becomes engaged in the case and is willing to be voting guilty. they need to figure out how the president has violated their trust and the sacred trust to take care of the country. he has lied and lied and lied about it. that align component is very important. it's important in overcoming a nullification issue in all kinds of cases and particularly in this one. what we know is that when the president left the white house in january of 21 he was not allowed to take any documents with him and certainly not any national defense documents. they belong to the american people. they belong to you, the members of the jury. he went ahead and took them in violation of that. he took documents on nuclear weapons. he took documents on our defense plans.

he took documents on our neighbors and our allies. he was cavalier with it. he did not respect that sacred trust to keep our country safe. he stuffed them in ball rooms and bathrooms and places anyone could get them at mar-a-lago. when the government try to get them back, he began a series of laws. he lied to his lawyers. he lied to the department of justice. he lied to the fbi. he lied to his administrative staff. he refused to return them. he refused to return them to the grand jury. he caused his lawyers to go ahead and line. he had a problem. it had to do with security cameras. i can go into that a length. i think we are starting to run out of time. >> yeah, if we had a real case, we could keep on going on this for sure. over to you, danny. cynthia makes it that argument. you are going to make great defense arguments here as well

alluding to what she was finishing with, which was the footage. it was not deleted. respond to that as well as him alluding to you as the boss, not specifically arnold trump, and the other comments. how do you respond to the? >> first, i'm going to take my defense off for a second to respond to the whole footage thing. the mere fact that trump said, hey, the footage was never actually deleted. that won't be a very helpful defense. inchoate crimes, incomplete crimes, things like conspiracy and attempt. and attempt. et crimesnspithey don't require a d act. conspiracy just requires an agreement and usually some overt act. it could be a phone call. you don't need to complete or finish or be successful in the object of a conspiracy. the other thing and resign prosecutors love conspiracy is that you can hold every member of the conspiracy responsible for everything that other coconspirators did.

that is why they love it. that's why it was invented. in responding to other points of defense, and cynthia was spot on with her facts, and when the facts are bad for the defense, focus on something other than the facts. here is the best defense for donald trump. get elected. if you get elected and the case is still finding, you don't even need to deal with pardoning yourself. you just appoint an attorney general who is your body and who will see things your way and get rid of the entire case, just completely put in people who will dismiss the case outright. lots of motions to suppress the evidence, lots of motions to dismiss the presidential records act or selective prosecution. the last one is almost never successful. the others are not likely to be successful. here's the -- thing to any degree that you can put issues of law in front of this judge, the defense is going to do so to take it away from a jury or a judge. even if it is a field, you then

go up to a circuit court of appeals which has plenty of judges that might be favorable. if all roads lead to the supreme court, the president would have a fantastic opportunity to argue issues of law before a supreme court which is the last resort and shows leanings towards the president. i've given you defenses which have virtually nothing to do with the facts. they have a lot to do with other strategies. >> procedural, just stretch it out. let's move on to this. the special counsel's election interference investigation -- cynthia, the d.c. grand jury is expected to make that decision or gather them on tuesday. the target letter mentions that three federal statutes including conspiracy to defraud the united states and tampering with a witness. what do you think the special counsel's top arguments there might be? >> well, i think it is a sprawling case. it's very different from the case in florida. it's very complicated. you need to have an organizing

principle on how to present it to the jury. this is like a bagel will. there are different spokes in the will. the hub of the will is donald trump. what we know is that some of the spokes are disinformation. it goes back to trump at the hub with johnny and ellis and sidney powell. there is the corruption of the doj with moving his buddies into power. it didn't work because he said to the apartment of justice to just say the election was corrupt and my republican panned fans will take care of it. my state pressure with the six states that had the fake electors, the michigan one that was just indicted. there is the attempt to try to get the governors to get legislators involved. that brings in the raffensperger case. he threatens criminal

prosecution of raffensperger. a pressuring of pence's another spoken a will. the insurrection and the loss of life and injury. i will try to figure out a way to unify it for the members of the jury. >> a lot of arrows in your quiver, cynthia, it appears. danny, would you use the same tactic if you are representing the trump team, procedural stretching of the clock? >> yes, richard. i would incorporate all of my other defenses from the first one and -- look, as a defense attorney, there's not even an indictment. you're putting the burden on me to disprove something that hasn't even been indicted. the reason i say that is, just like cynthia pointed out, this is such a sprawling investigation. it's everything from inciting the riot at the capitol to all of these false slates of electors. the reason that is especially jermaine now this week is a state of michigan just went

after false electors. those electors and that part of the investigation are totally in plano. i think michigan is an indicator that they might have been more at play than we thought. a lot of folks thought the electors, oh, well, maybe they were duped. the state of michigan does not seem to think so. look, until we know more about this, the general defenses, and i need to equal time here, this is only fair -- >> give the judge more way. >> absolutely immunity as president, advice of counsel, bad idea. maybe there is good faith about the lack of knowledge. you need to try everything you can do in front of a judge or jury. >> this may actually help donald trump in the end. they are going to be so many details that you can counter. is that a fair statement? >> sure. until we know more, we just don't know enough yet. >> okay, thank you so much. cynthia, thank you so much as well. great conversation.

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they attacked the perimeter, burned one of the doors, and burned perimeter fencing. they broke windows before security forces moved them out. most of the protests that we have seen here since the coup began on wednesday have been largely peaceful. today's protesters were actually in favor of the military leaders who led the coup on wednesday. this began when the democratically elected president was taken into custody by his own security forces on wednesday morning. he still being held in the presidential residence tonight. u.s. officials are calling on the coup leaders to release him. he still being held there tonight. as you mentioned, richard, a group of regional leaders met today in neighboring nigeria in abuja holding an emergency summit to discuss the situation here. they came out of that summit announcing they were cutting ties with niger, closing their

borders to this nation, and critically calling on the coup leaders to release the president and even issuing a warning that if he is not released in the next week they could take further action that could involve some sort of military action here. richard? >> watching closely there. courtney kube for us in niger, thank you so much of this evening. we take you from niger over to haiti. the state department is watching this. it's aware of the kidnapping of a u.s. nurse and her young daughter on the island nation of haiti. a nonprofit group said alex dorseyville of new hampshire and her child were taken thursday morning while she served in community ministry near the capital of port-au-prince. the state department added it is now working with haitian authorities on this. they kidnapping happened at the same day that the state department ordered nonemergency u.s. government employees and families to leave haiti because of what was happening. gangs now rule most of port-au-prince's streets.

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of lebron james, had gone into cardiac arrest during a practice at the university of southern california. that incident came less than six months after buffalo bills damar hamlin collapsed in cardiac arrest during a monday night football game. this high profile case that we are talking about has led to an increased focus on the heart health of a young athlete. dr. jon torres has more. >> he is known as king james. lebron, one of the best to ever play the game. >> hold on, give you comes. >> his son brawny, an incoming freshman usc, hoping to follow in his father's footsteps. the 18 year old is one of the hottest college prospects in the country. this week, the 9-1-1 call every parent dreads. >> listen, listen, listen to me. get an ambulance here now. >> bronny james suffered a sudden cardiac arrest and was rushed to the hospital.

amazingly, he was out of the icu within a day. he went to dinner with his family in a los angeles on friday night. on saturday morning, his dad posted a video on instagram of bronny playing the piano. the frightening episode put a spotlight on the health of school and college athletes. >> it's very difficult to see someone who is young and looks out really healthy have a sudden cardiac arrest. it really highlights the fact that there can be underlying cardiovascular disease which goes undiagnosed. >> another player suffered a similar cardiac arrest arrest event, collapsing at practice last summer. the world was watching when buffalo bills defensive back tomorrow hamlin went into cardiac arrest on the field last january after making a tackle. hamlin tweeted his support for bronny this week. >> research shows that basketball and football are the two that are most associated with the sudden cardiac arrest. we do see the highest numbers

of sudden cardiac arrest in male african american basketball players. >> according to the american heart association, one in 300 young people are at risk for sudden cardiac arrest. approximately 2000 athletes die east ear. ar >> medical experts believe that that is the tip of the iceberg. >> she lost her own son sean to cardiac arrest. she now advocates for increased awareness and training around cardiac emergencies. >> a lot of times, parents assume that their school or their child's sports team is prepared. what i can tell parents is to not assume. make sure. ask. >> alongside increased heart waiting for young people, she recommends parents also check the schools and sports facilities have workable working aeds or automated

external to form later, that there is a clear cardiac emergency response fan, and that teachers, coaches, and parents themselves know cpr. >> everyone, everyone should be empowered with life-saving skills, that is the only way we are really going to change the paradigm of sudden cardiac arrest in the country. >> health experts agree. they say if and when a cardiac arrest event does occur, those first few minutes are crucial. >> that immediate treatment is everything. we know that cpr can triple or double someone's chances of survival. early bystander cpr and defibrillator use can save lives. we've seen it in the case of damar hamlin and now with bronny james. >> our thanks to dr. torres for that report. we have a lot more coming up. you're watching msnbc. our second hour starts right now. now. r starts right now. thank you for staying with us. i'm richard louis, in for yasmin of seguin.

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