we'll remember forever. >> i think it will live on with us for a long, long time. >> they are indeed fans for life. of luke combs as are we. that wraps up the hour for me. i'm jose diaz-balart. you can always reach me on twitter and instagram. you can watch highlights online. thank you for the privilege of your time. andrea mitchell picks up with more news right now. donald trump's legal struggles worsen as a new alleged co conspirator in the mar-a-lago documents case arrives for a scheduled arraignment today. this as he has already reportedly spent $40 million in legal fees out of the trump campaign legal action fund. and the former president awaits probable indictments from the special counsel and in

fulton county, georgia. also, ron desantis trying to stand the campaign slide in new hampshire today as "new york times" polling shows the florida governor even farther behind donald trump and rivals are slamming his florida education curriculum on slavery. plus, a desperate search for an american nurse and her daughter in haiti. and nyjer on the edge as the government trying to take advantage of the overturn and key u.s. ally for counterinsurgency in africa. courtney is the only correspondent during that uprising and joins us from there now. uprising a joins us from there now. good day, everyone. this morning, a mar-a-lago property manager for donald trump now under indictment for his alleged role in conspireing to try to destroy security videotapes reportedly showing

the movement of documents to avoid being discovered by the fbi. he was making his initial appearance in the miami courtroom before a magistrate judge today. his legal bills could be folded into the massive trump defect. with $40 million in legal fees paid by the former president's legal action committee. first reported by "the washington post." now today, "the new york times" is reporting trump will set up a separate legal defense fund for his alleged co conspirators. joining us now, garrett haake and katie. and "washington post" national security reporter. katie, first to you. there have been a lot of questions surrounding this court hearing today about whether or not he would have the arraignment. one of his lawyers said he didn't have a florida lawyer. we know he showed up. what is the judge going to do? >> the arraignment itself where

the defendant enters a plea of guilty or not guilty, we an tis pate a not guilty plea for carlos, that's been reset for next thursday at 10:00 a.m. in fort pierce before the judge there. as you just said, no local counsel appeared on his behalf. a d.c. based attorney that has represented him as well as others like peter navarro appeared. you can see him on the screen now standing next to him. they enter the courtroom. he was read the charges from the superseding indictment. ultimately, he is going to have to sign for something called a personal surety bond in the amount of $100,000. as you noted at the top of the show, where is the money going to come from? according to his lawyer, he doesn't have the money to post that. but the judge said he just has to sign for that bond and then he can go about his way. however, he has to turn in his

expired american passport to pretrial services. also, the head of the services division of the doj appeared in court with an attorney from here in florida. they appeared and said there was an agreement. no objection from the other side to be able to agree to a special condition that both trump and walt nauta have that they cannot have communications from a list of witnesses that the department of justice has provided to trump and nauta. what i found to be telling, mr. irving said specifically is mr. nauta's name on the list? the doj said no. their names did not appear so apparently, they, as in those defendants, can have conversations. the arraignment rescheduled for august 10th at 10:00 a.m. so he can finally get his hands on local counsel. >> thank you so much for that.

just to go on to glenn kirschner for a moment. how much more difficult is this superseding indictment make the case for the prosecutors or for trump? for trump because there's a lot more evidence. for the prosecutors because it could delay the trial day which was set for may which was already bumping into the calendar. what's your take on how this all balances out? >> yeah, there's a little something for everybody here. ordinarily when co defendants, co conspirators are added to a case by a superseding indictment, it tells us a couple of things. one, it tells us those co conspirators who are now indicted defendants like carlos apparently opted not to cooperate with prosecutors to avoid an indictment, right. he could have agreed to take responsibility for his own crimes that are being alleged against him. he could have agreed to plead

guilty perhaps to a reduced charge and cooperate with prosecutors against the other charged defendants. walt nauta and trump. he opted not to do it. often, when we approach people who are targets of an investigation before they get indicted and prosecutors try to persuade them to become cooperating witnesses, it's kind of theoretical. there's the sense they could be indicted but haven't been charged yet. once they are and they see their name listed as a marquee defendant together with co defendants, it becomes very real. it has a way of focusing the mind and attention of somebody who's now an indicted defendant and often in my experience, that tended to jump-start negotiations between prosecutors and the now indicted defendant on the possibility of cooperation. >> yeah. one quick point about that

though, glenn. in this case, oliveira is a long time employee. the property manager. essentially loyal to donald trump personally as walt nauta is. long time aide. they see their whole lives wrapped up in whether or not he will take care of them financially with their lawyers and everything else and after whatever happens in this trial, will he take care of them and their families and if the nomination gets elected, then he could just end the case. >> what a great point. who will be carlos oliveira's lawyer? somebody provided by trump? it's important to know everyone has a sixth amendment right to counsel. however, the supreme court said it's not just any old counsel. it has to be a counsel that

zealously represents the interests of the client. not zealously represents the interest of the people who might be paying the lawyers' fees. a defendant under the sixth amendment has the right to conflict-free counsel. that's going to be the next challenge to see whether de oliveira can get himself counsel that has his interests at heart. not donald trump's interests at heart. >> garrett, let's talk about the election and primary rivals. you had certainly chris christie and asa hutchison and now will herd as well making this part of their argument. but now nikki haley's jumped in. let's take a look at over the weekend, chris christie and nikki haley. >> i think what our voters need to begin to think about is we have a front-runner right now who when he gets on the stage for the fox news debate on august 23rd, will be out on bail.

in at least two different jurisdictions if not three. >> we can't have a general election where we are handing it over to kamala harris because we're dealing with indictments and court cases and legal issues of president trump. >> so garrett, talk to me about this and how you see this politically. so far, we do not see a negative effect in, after these indictments. no one has polled since the additional indictment on thursday night. in these indictments and all these legal cases, we've only seen it help him. his fund raising. >> none of this has broken through thus far and the candidates making this argument come in at a fraction of the support donald trump has. in a national poll we have seen, even people who don't support trump are telling pollsters they think it's important to defend him. so it's a very difficult argument to make politically. does that change as the indictments continue to add up and grow in seriousness of the various crimes that former

president's being accused of? that may be the case. but we haven't seen it yet. now as for the looming third indictment that everybody assumes is coming, i say everybody because donald trump assumes it, too. he posted it on social media before i came in here to talk to you, that he thinks it could be coming any day now. he's making that a core part of his argument. he's really leaning into this which is making it hard for his rivals. he's not shying away from this. he's saying yeah, they're coming for me because i'm the strongest guy. >> also turning it against both the justice department and the president of the united states. >> language that every other republican has impressed. >> with the money, recording with "the washington post" team. more than $40 million now spent on trump's legal fees by his political action committee in 2023. this is the last filing. and he's been helping pay for the lawyers of walt nauta and now potentially others as well.

>> that's right. and you're seeing how that has both significant monetary consequences for the campaign. it's their largest single expense for the donald trump pac but also it has real consequences for the investigation itself. one of the key witnesses in the last month basically changed lawyers and you can see the concern that prosecutors have. the suspicious that prosecutors have that there may be something untoward about the way donald trump's pac is arranging payment for these lawyers. >> and we saw what happened with casey hutchison. she felt pressured. she was not being well defended by the attorney to the january 6th committee. so she decided to stand up and be independent and get her own attorney, right? >> right. and there have been some individuals in the documents case and in the january 6th investigation who have been offered you know, to have their lawyer paid for by the pac and

declined. and basically went out and got their own lawyer. i think you can see a level of concern and distrust among these things. that's not unique to this particular investigation. that happens in investigations. what's different here, the stakes are so high and there's such a game of chicken going on between some of these potential witnesses and whether they become criminal defendants. >> that was cassidy hutchison. i was thinking of katie because i wanted to ask you about the fact there's nothing legally improper about this. correct? about you know, many companies help their employees be defended for some reason. in this case, there have been pressure tactics reported to the january 6th committee. >> your point is well taken. of course, sometimes we have an employer employee relationship where the fees are covered but this is usual as a pac. i also want to note there's been reporting that the january 6th grand jury has issued subpoenas

to people that work for the pac, for employees, and also for records. because there's a suspicious they are exploring, right, that there was fraud used to be able to obtain these contributions that exceeded $250 million to the pac to float these fees. i will note because the superseding indictment also alleges andrea, that trump told de oliveira item going to get you an attorney, that raises a lot of eyebrows. trump employee four -- said the boss wants the server deleted. taveras was represented by nauta's attorney who withdrew and once taveras got his own lawyer, i guess he found jesus, he sat down with the investigators and said this is what i want to tell you. we'll see who ends up coming in as local counsel for de oliveira. >> thank you so much for being with us today. garrett haake, of course, and

devin. and glenn kirschner. thanks to all. and ready to go. the fulton county d.a. in georgia saying her investigation into the 2020 election interference, the alleged interference, is nearly complete. what it means for the former president coming up next. that and a lot more when andrea mitchell returns in just 60 seconds. only on msnbc. only on msnbc. 60 seconds. only on msnbc. >> been working for two and a half years. we're ready to go. r two d ana half years we're ready to go. (♪♪) astepro allergy, steroid free allergy relief that starts working in 30 minutes, while other allergy sprays take hours. with astepro's unbeatably fast allergy relief you can astepro and go!

in georgia, security's been increased in the courthouse workers are being told to work from home starting today as the fulton county d.a. willis signals she is ready for her case against donald trump for alleged election interference. >> i made a commitment to the american people but most importantly, the citizens of fulton county, that we were going to be making some big decisions regarding the election investigation and that i would

do that before september the 1st of 2023 and i'm going to hold true to that commitment. we've been working for two and a half years and we're ready to go. >> ready to go. joining me now, nbc's blaine alexander in georgia and tim, former lead investigator for the january 6th committee. blaine, this is all ahead of what could be a big announcement from the d.a. >> reporter: absolutely, andrea. so this is the first day of a three-week waiting period. as you know, we've been watching the fulton county courthouse closely over the past two and a half years but we're going to be watching it especially closely over the next three weeks. that's because willis has made it clear, giving the strongest indication yet, she expects to announce her charging decisions in this three-week period. she put out a letter to law enforcement this year saying be ready for these three weeks. i'm having most employees work from home and she's asking judges not to schedule any

in-person hearings during this time. that's our closest indication that along with the fact we have orange barricades that have been lined up in front of the fulton county courthouse they're preparing for an announcement in the next few weeks. this comes as we get a bit of breaking news today. as we've been getting closer to any announcement, the former president and his legal team have been pushing back, really trying to disqualify this process. well, a judge today knocked down yet another attempt that his legal team made to do so. so they've made, filed three motions essentially the quash the grand jury report and to disqualify the fulton county d.a. the supreme court shot down attempt number one a few days ago. number two was shot down this morning and that could likely possibly nullify attempt number three so a hit for the trump legal team. what this means is that the judge rules that if she makes her decisions when she makes her

announcements, there's nothing standing in the way of that. what's interesting is that the trump team tried to get in and tried to discredit the entire process. in their file and they pointed to a number of media appearances, they pointed to the interview that aired here on msnbc that nearly 45-minute interview i did with the special grand jury foreperson saying the fact that so many people were speaking publicly about this discredits this, but a judge shot that down. i want to read what you he wrote. he said the district attorney's office has been doing a fairly routine and legally unobjectionable job of public relations in a case that's anything but routine. in the sense that trump's attorneys tried to point to her media appearances here on msnbc and elsewhere saying that shows she should be disqualified, the judge made it clear he has no problem with this. >> and i want to play parts of that call between former

president trump and brad raffensperger because it was as you know, after your investigation. >> the ballots with corrupt and you're going to find they are, which is totally illegal. it's more illegal for you than it is for them because you know what they did and you're not reporting it. that's a criminal, that's a criminal offense. so, look. all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes. which is one more than we have. because we won the state. >> so, tim, you know, how difficult is that recording for trump's legal defense team as they prepare for this possible indictment? >> yeah, andrea. i've heard that recording dozens, maybe hundreds of times and it just continues to be

shocking. right there, the president of the united states is essentially threatening the secretary of state of georgia with some sort of obstruction charge, which is again, just like the election fraud claims, completely baseless. there's so much audio tape in this case, the documents case that look as a former prosecutor, you almost never have. the words of the lead defendant in a case on tape in recording in an unguarded moment really, really powerful evidence. and what we're seeing on that tape is what we saw not just in georgia but all over the country. rusty bowers in arizona. very similar testimony about calls from the president encouraging him to do something for which he had no legal authority. so what you'll see potentially as an indictment in georgia, will be not just indicative of what happened in that state, but a pattern that happened around the country as our work on select committee showed. >> do you think by the way they will try to challenge the

admissibility of that audio tape? >> very difficult to do when you have a participant who will authenticate it. is it authentic? you likely have raffensperger as a witness who will say that to me and that's the former president. i don't really see a legal basis to exclude that audio tape. >> and i assume that in georgia, unlike in other jurisdictions, you don't have to have both parties to agree to the audio tape. >> no. absolutely not. all it takes for admissibility is authentication. >> one question is about you know, the two georgia election workers and do they play a part in this? would you expect to see them as witnesses on the effects it had on them? >> i would, andrea. it sounds to me from what i've read from the d.a. has given several of them immunity. you can only give someone immunity if they have exposure

to participation in a criminal episode and if they have provided information about what they were told to do, asked to do by trump campaign officials, they could end up being important witnesses. in any conspiracy, some of the most important evidence comes from insiders. and if the d.a. has that here, that could be really important and powerful evidence. >> when the indictment does get handed up, blaine, do you expect it to be limited to georgia? or do you think they will also look at arizona, some of the other states where there were fake electors, michigan, to try to show a pattern? >> reporter: well, we certainly know she has been looking at activity beyond the bounds of georgia. we know that she has been calling in witnesses because of knowledge that they have outside of the bounds of georgia. one thing that she said is that nothing's off the table when it comes to potential charges and something that she has hinted

toward in the past are potential racketeering charges which would need to show some conspiracy. we know she's casting a wide net when it comes to her investigation as far as people, activities and timeline. that will be taken into account. >> thank you so much. blaine and tim, thanks to both of you. kidnapped. an american nurse and her daughter abducted in haiti. the latest on the efforts to bring them home safely. that's next. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports." this is msnbc. msnbc. y unstopabls in-wash scent boosters keep your laundry smelling fresh waaaay longer than detergent alone. if you want laundry to smell fresh for weeks, make sure you have downy unstopables in-wash scent boosters.

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a desperate search is now underway for a young american relief nurse and her daughter reportedly kidnapped in haiti amid escalating violence there. the u.n. says kidnappings have risen dramatically since armed took control of 80% of haiti's cities. security has deteriorated dramatically since the assassination of their president two years ago. kristen dahlgren is in their hometown of middletown, new hampshire. has her family heard anything from the reported captors? >> reporter: hi, andrea. so both her family here in the united states as well as her husband in haiti have declined to comment. her husband is the one who

founded elroy, the aid organization she was working for as a nurse. what the organization will say is that it's working with its trusted haitian partners to try and secure hers and their young daughter's release. they say they are keeping a lot of the details surrounding the reported kidnapping close to the vest for her safety as well as the safety of that child. we do know that the state department and the white house as well know about the reports of the kidnapping and say they've been in touch frequently with haitian authorities. people that know her today are remembering her as someone who really dedicated her life to service and has this love for haiti and the people of haiti. >> alex was very compassionate and cared very much for people who had great need. she was definitely a very special young woman.

>> reporter: you know, in her own words, she talked about the work she was doing there and how much she loved the children and loved her life there. she considered while she grew up here in new hampshire, she considered haiti her home at this point. it's interesting as you mentioned, the situation deteriorating in haiti. the reports of kidnapping came on the same day that the state department had urged all nonessential personnel to exit that country and really warning for u.s. citizens not to travel there. in that warning, they did say that they would be limited in the type of help they could offer to u.s. citizens at this time if there were an emergency. so it's unclear what channels they're using right now to try and talk to whoever is in charge. whoever might have this young woman and her daughter, but we know those efforts are ongoing, andrea. >> kristen dahlgren, thank you so much. thank you very much for being

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the first "new york times" college poll of the primary cycle is out and in line with previous polls showing donald trump commanding the gop field. he leads ron desantis by 37

percentage points. no other candidate scores above 3% despite the growing legal troubles for the twice indicted former president. trump was delivering this message to supporters saturday on the trail. >> every time the radical left democrats, communists and fascists indict me, i consider it a great badge of honor. i do. it's a great badge of honor. because i'm being indicted for you. >> i'm being indicted for you. joining us now, real clear politics associate editor, a.b. stoddard, michael steel, and of course in recent weeks, mj as well. so a.b., let's talk about this. the base seems to be shrugging off trump's legal trouble.

you heard chris christie, nikki haley, using the indictments against him and exclusive nbc news reporting showing that out of the dozens who served in trump's cabinet, only four saying he should be re-elected. i don't think any of those four were from the national security cabinet which organized while he was still in office to try to protect him and the country from abuses. it's the base that will decide. right? 71% of republicans in that "new york times" poll today say they need to stand behind donald trump. >> you're right, andrea. the elites in washington, the electeds in the establishment, they were hoping all along there would be a critical mass in the republican coalition that would come out against trump that after january 6th, that would be the end of it and those voices in the establishment who served in the trump administration coming out saying they could not

support him again would matter. nothing matters to the hard core of the base, the 37% that are going to stick with trump no matter what. but the idea that 17% of the republican primary electorate, only 17, believes he has committed serious federal crimes. we know from other surveys, focus groups, when they believed he committed these crimes, they don't care. so i think this is a devastating poll for desantis. i don't see how. >> so michael, desantis is back on the trail in new hampshire today after restructuring his campaign, firing a lot of people trying to cut costs. he gave an economic speech this morning in new hampshire. his rivals are not giving him a pass on his comments about slavery and black history. >> desantis started this fire with the bill that he signed and now he doesn't want to take

responsibility for whatever is done in the aftermath of it. >> obviously we should be teaching kids about the awful legacy of slavery. >> we can all agree that there was no, there were no positives that came out of slavery. he should just say no positives came out of slavery. >> slavery was really about separating families, about mutilating humans and raping their wives. devastating. i would hope that every person in our country and certainly running for president would appreciate that. >> i mean, michael, you know, slavery wasn't a jobs program. >> no, it was not. no, it was not. and there's so much. there's so much to unpack here so i'll do it quick. number one, to a.b.'s point, the news isn't that donald trump is at 54%. the news is going to be when donald trump is at 37% and there's someone else who's eating into that number. so all of the noise around donald trump and polling right now is just a waste of time because we all know how this

ends. two. these candidates can find a voice to go after ron desantis, right? but they don't find the voice to go after the guy who's in their way. ron desantis isn't the guy to beat in the republican primary. so all this bravado on race is laughable because what do you think about donald trump when he says they're fine people on both sides when he embracing the proud boys. when he tells them to stand back and stand by. hear your voice on that. i didn't hear the criticisms coming out on that. so spare me this sanctity moan yous clap back at desantis who's at 17% in this poll. right? he's not your target but they won't go after the guy who should be because they're afraid of him. they're afraid of his base. they're afraid of becoming, being ridiculed by him.

until that changes, none of this matters. we can just call this race and move on to something else because this thing is toast for these candidates if they cannot find the where with all between now and getting on that stage to go after donald trump on everything. not just, you know, pick and choose a little bit here and there. >> donald trump today is posting let them debate so i can see who i might consider for vice president. adding fuel to reports that he's planning to skip the august 23rd debate. the debate though do or die for ron desantis. >> yeah, it's certainly a big moment for the rest of the candidates. i guess tip your cap to donald trump there. he remains exquisite internet troll, putting everyone else down with that tweet. making it clear that he's not going to participate in that debate and b, that everyone else is playing for second. playing for vp.

but the stakes will be high. i think you're right to highlight desantis in particular whose campaign has been struggling so much in recent months. he's fired staff. cut back on expenses. donors are having second thoughts and he continues to slide in the polls trying to find a new message but the risk that he runs with trump not being there and frankly other candidates reluctant to criticize trump with the exception of christie and hutchison, who's the next biggest target on the stage? desantis. he'll be the guy in the middle and he's likely to take the brunt of the attacks, particularly from christie, who's already been hammering him. that may not reverse the slide. >> trump now on truth social saying he expects the indictment from jack smith to be imminent. but jonathan, hunter biden's former business partner is sitting for a transcribed interview with the house oversight committee today after -- tried to spin a request

by the doj into something more. explain this. >> to your point, the grand jury in washington hearing the jack smith case for trump meets on tuesdays and thursdays so perhaps we'll have the answer in the coming days. archer is a former hunter biden business partner. the latest play by the republicans investigating biden. they're trying to claim biden helped enrich himself. no one has proved they're illegal. that now president biden benefitted from them. archer is someone who has just been sentenced to prison for a year for unrelated fraud charge and the republicans over the weekend jumped this up on this idea that that was the biden department of justice putting their finger on the thumb, the

thumb on the scale of justice i should say, and pushing him to prison to get him from talking. archer's attorney made clear that was not the case saying the two things are not related. archer is reportedly in prison. he knows he has to do that. that has nothing to do with his testimony he's giving. it's the latest attempt to criticize the president and his son. >> jonathan, thank you so much for that. a.b., michael. thanks to all of you. the danger zone. world leaders are demanding aung end to the coup in nyjer. nbc news is the only american network there. we'll go live for an update. that's next here on "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. ext mitchell reports" on msnbc r antg but with prilosec otc just one pill a day blocks heartburn for a full 24 hours. for one and done heartburn relief, prilosec otc. one pill a day, 24 hours, zero heartburn.

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soldiers in nyjer led by the head of the presidential security guard there claim they have overthrown the country's democratically elected leader, a key u.s. military ally in the region. the first time since the coup, we are seeing nyjer's president. thousands of demonstrators who supported the coup took to the streets on sunday. the protests then turned violent as crowds attacked the outside of the french embassy, hurling stones at the windows but it did not breach the walls.

nyjer got dependence in 1950 and there are still 1500 french soldiers in the country. neighbors held an emergency summit added they are cutting ties. courtney is the president. nbc's courtney kube joining us now from the country's capital where she's been doing amazing reporting. courtney, we've seen niger's president now for the first time since the attempted coup. what else do we know? >> reporter: that's right. as you mentioned, he met with the president of chad. the president of chad was actually dispatched here as a result of the emergency summit in nigeria. that was a meeting of the regional leaders in west africa to discuss the security atio an military coup in niger. the hope was they would come out of the meeting with a peaceful solution to move forward.

instead, as you mentioned, they had a pretty stark warning for the military coup lueders saying if they don't release the president in the next week, they could take military action. for the first time since last wednesday, when he was taken into detention by his own security forces, we saw him on camera with the president of chad. he also went to meet with the military junta leaders, the military coup leaders. the question is the president of chad able to somehow broker some sort of a peace deal that will end this political turmoil? that's what we're watching and waiting to hear. >> the secretary of state tony blinken called for the immediate release of niger's president. he was speaking saturday in australia. >> our economic and security partnership with niger, which is significant, hundreds of millions of dollars, depends on the continuation of the democratic governance and constitutional order that has been disrupted by the actions in

the last few days. so that assistance, that support is in clear jeopardy as a result of these actions which is another reason why they need to be immediately reversed. >> courtney, the warning he gave is the same military and economic warning that the chewed -- leader from chad gave, that the other countries are not going to recognize these military people who have token over. that's why they're calling it an attempted queue because there's a law that says if there's no way -- if they recognize this as a coup, then they would have to take away that military aid. and courtney can't continue to

cover from there. hold on. she may be back. internet issues. nothing to worry about. courtney kube has been valued there has her team with her. we just want to say our thanks to her for everything she's doing. just to say, the backdrop here is a superpower struggle with russia. russia has made inroads with the wagner group through a lot of the countries in the surrounding region, but not niger. this was a democratically elected president with u.s. backing and backing from the region and very much russia has an interest in trying to get their hands on niger and its valuable uranium. we'll be back in just a moment as usa women's soccer prepare for the next big match, do or die against portugal. the latest from new zealand next.

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at the world cup with a ticket to the next round on the line. the world cup reigning champs are taking on portugal overnight in a game that could decide whether the teams will continue their quest for a record fifth world cup win. nbc's molly hunter has the latest from auckland, new zealand. >> reporter: we are back in auckland, back at eden park stadium. pretty quiet right now. it will not be quiet tuesday evening local time. that is 3:00 a.m. monday into tuesday. it will test the loyalty of u.s. soccer fans. we had the chance to talk with megan rapinoe about what she expects from this team about the portugal game but how badly she wants to win it all. >> the thing i'm most proud of is i'm a winner. it takes a lot to win, takes a lot of different people in different holes to be able to do that, and every single one of

them is important. i look back at the times i've been a starter and some of the most important people to me have been players on the bench that haven't even seen the field at all. i think it takes all of us and takes all the energy and everybody doing everything they can do to prepare the team to win and ultimately going out and finishing the job. >> reporter: she also said she had conversations with the u.s. coach about when and if he needs her. she will always be ready. that is the experience, the standing readiness posture of everyone on the bench. we also heard from him. he gave a press conference earlier. he was asked where would you put portugal in the fifa rankings is. he was talking about how competitive this world cup is, that ranks don't mean as much. he said i put portugal at number two. that's how seriously the u.s. is taking this portugal game. we know they advance with a draw. because of the tie with the netherlands and the netherlands plays vietnam at exactly the

same time, because of that tie, it may come down to a goal difference. i'll send it back to you. >> our thanks to molly. as molly mentioned, team usa faces portugal tomorrow morning at 3:00 a.m. eastern. you can see the match live on telemundo and peacock. lots of thanks to molly for covering all the games. that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." "chris jansing reports" right now. good day. i'm chris janson live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. in a week that could be packed with historic legal developments the first shoe dropped this morning in florida. carlos de oliveira, a man largely unknown in trump world, made his first appearance before a federal judge. with additional indictments still looming, could today's floored headline end up just a