that wraps up the hour for me, i'm jose diaz-balart. you can always reach me on social media @jdbalert. "andrea mitchell reports" right now. now on "andrea mitchell reports" a face-off in washington for special counsel jack smith and donald trump's lawyers for what is usually a rue 19 the d.c. circuit. the judge to overturn the 2020 elections orders both sides to a hearing this friday at the latest. plus, another bump in the road for the prosecution for the mar-a-lago documents case as the florida trial judge orders a hearing over why jack smith is

also hearing testimony on that case before a second grand jury in d.c. and this hour in ohio, voters are voting on a state constitutional amendment that could make it harder to pass ballot issues including the right to an abortion. a big test in a critical election state. and it's too darn hot for millions of americans continuing to feel the impact of blazing summer heat causing severe summer storms, storm damage. flight cancellations across the midwest and again on the east coast. and good day, everyone. i'm andrea mitchell in washington where u.s. district judge tanya chutkan has ordered a hearing no later than this friday on what is usually a standard order in the d.c.

circuit against the exposure of grand jury testimony once they receive it from prosecutors. in a filing monday afternoon, attorneys for mr. trump objecting to what as i say is usually a standard usually agreed upon agreement in the circuit. writing the government requests the court assume the role of censor and impose content based regulates on president trump's political speech that would forbid him from publicly discussing or disclosing all nonpublic documents produced by the government. jack smith's team pushed back writing the defendant instead proposed an order designed to allow him to try this case in the media rather than in the courtroom. to safe guard privacy and integrity of these proceedings, the court should enter the government proposed protective

order. all of that in washington, there are new developments in the mar-a-lago classified documents criminal trial. florida district judge aileen cannon, according to a legal filing first obtained by the daily beast, judge cannon now taking action on the d.c. judge's order outlined in a superseding order. throughout all of this, mr. trump remains defiant and aggressive on social media as he headed to new hampshire for a campaign event. nbc's vaughn hillyard is in windham, new hampshire, vaughn, what is mr. trump saying about all of this? >> reporter: for donald trump, andrea, there's so much legal time to be had before this legal counsel actually have to go into a courtroom and actually defend him in front of a jury. so for donald trump he has the benefit he has the department of justice, the special counsel's office, technically a communications department.

but it's not like they're taking the microphone and making the case publicly to the millions of americans that they lay out in their court filings, as we saw yesterday. donald trump, on the other hand, he is doing exactly that. not only here at campaign events. his rally is slated to win in just 2 1/2 hours. folks are beginning to make their way through the new hampshire rain to come inside here. but he's also making a case on the social media post about the protective order that ultimately a judge will determine whether or not to grant here this week. take a look at one social media posts here at 1:00 a.m., let's see, my political point crooked joe biden tells merrick garland and the doj to indict me on bogus charges but that wasn't enough. he now wants deprosecutor deranged jack smith to file for a court order taking away my first amendment rights, speech. andrea, i think it's important

context, i was speaking to new hampshire voters outside of this event here, as one woman finally told me, they are trying to silence donald trump. of course, i will get into a letter that legal experts get into exactly what the protective order would prevent donald trump from saying, but donald trump is making a case to his bastion of followers that they're trying to silence him in the middle of the presidential campaign. i asked her, come next year, what if a jury of peers were potentially to find him guilty, she said that would amount to a civil war type moment here in this country because it's predicated for the very idea that donald trump should be in office. because he's not in office, now joe biden's department of justice is now unfairly coming to prosecute him for donald trump we should expect them to continue to be on the campaign trail, not only making his political argument but also his own legal defense. >> vaughn hillyard, thank you for starting us off in new

hampshire let's bring in our panel, justice correspondent ken dilanian, former federal prosecutor paul butler. ken, starting with you, let's talk about the d.c. case. describe the protective order, what is normal in the circuit? i heard chuck rosenberg saying this morning in all of his cases, he always had a protect order and it's usually agreed to at arraignment by the defense. >> that's right, paul can speak to this as well, this is standard procedure in a criminal trial because there's a lot of sensitive information that the prosecution must turn over to the defense, including transcripts of witness interviews, phone records, text messages, things taken under subpoena or search warrant. and the judge does not want the defense making it public. and in this case, donald trump and his lawyers are asking for essentially permission to make some of that information public. and jack smith responding in a filing saying, look, they just

want to try their case in the media. not only should you not ale allow it, judge, but local d.c. criminal rules don't like-a allow that. the judge didn't do that the judge asked both sides come in for a hearing. >> perhaps the judge is trying to protect herself and the record to make sure both sides have an opportunity to discuss it to brief on it, and to, you know, argue it in court for any potential appeal. there will be a lot of appeals in this case for sure. and i just referred to chuck rosenberg who, you know, paul, like, you has tried a lot of cases here. here's what he had to say this morning on "morning joe." >> i don't think i ever prosecuted a indicate where i didn't have a discovery order and a protective order. and by the way, i never had an issue with it. and the folks on the other side abided by it and it helped to streamline the process. that's a key thing to understand here. mr. trump's attorneys don't want to the help streamline the process. >> so, they aren't getting more

time here because it's taken a couple of days although she's not postponed the hearing date which was august 28th. what's your take on this, paul, as a constitutional lawyer, law professor and former prosecutor? >> yeah, a criminal prosecutor has the right to the see the evidence against them. it's very common in these cases for a judge to restrict how the defendant can use the evidence. we're going to see a lot more of these dustups. what's really revealing is the dispatch with which judge cannon files the motion on friday. on saturday, judge chutkan orders trump's team to respond. they have to respond by monday. they said, judge, can i have more time? when she said monday, i meant monday. and now she is going to have a

hearing this week. that's a judge that wants to get the case tried. >> and in the d.c. circuit, there are rules for defense lawyers for trial lawyer, i guess on both sides. and does going on television and making this as public a case as they are, is that against the rules? or is this is special case? the man is running for president of the united states and there are all kinds of reasons for not interfering with his freedom of speech. >> yeah, so, it's not against the rules but it's interesting that jack smith and the trump defense team they're not that far apart on these issues. trump's defense team concedes there needs to be some restrictions, and part of it is kind of performance by trump's defense team that is really more for cable tv and trump's political base than judge chutkan. >> and also the fact that he's being censored, the first amendment is a key part of his

defense, even though many legal experts say that shouldn't be the case, is not for the court of law? >> that's right, the conspiracy is not protected by the first amendment but i think this is setting up another fight down the road which is at what point do donald trump's lawyers and judges and witnesses cross the line for a criminal defendant. the d.c. rules do impose restrictions on what lawyers from both sides can say about the evidence. they're really not supposed to go on tv and describe the in evidence detail. but as you said, he's running for president so he's got a right to a first amendment right to speak. and then at what point does the judge say hey there's a line and if she crosses that, of course, there's appeal. >> the lawyers did say here, roger stone, the previous defendant so close to donald trump had crossed it when he put a target, like a bull's-eye on the judge's face, superimposed on it.

he went too far. but not in this case. this will be really inflammatory on the campaign trail. we just saw how people in new hampshire collected people, people around the trump rally reacting to it. let me ask you about aileen cannon, there's conversation what she has done in the documents case. the prosecution filed a motion regarding conflict of interest among lawyers, just to get it on the record. because one lawyer was representing some some seven defendants, walt nauta and others. and they had to have an open hearing. i think that's called a garcia procedure, if my tv work is coming into play here. but as a part of that, they filed in that motion, that they do have a grand jury sitting here in d.c., also on the obstruction charges which were actually raised in the superseding indictment. that said off her wanting them to respond, not just to the

conflict of interest issue when they appealed on -- or, you know, wanted to bring up, but they explained why they have another grand jury in another jurisdiction. >> sure. >> is that a big deal? >> i don't think so. i think she's the judge supervising the grand is jury. they're not supposed to use a grand jury investigating a case that's already indicted but if they're using it for charges, that's okay. and the judge wants to know the answers here. >> what if the people they're talking about in the superseding indictment is also witnesses in the case? is that a no-no? >> again, grand juries have jurisdiction to investigate where the crime went down. so the judge is asking how can this grand jury investigate in both d.c. and florida, while the indictment alleges obstruction of justice in both of those places. and ken is absolutely right, jack smith has indicated that the mar-a-lago investigation is

ongoing. which means that the grand jury has the power to continue to investigate, even as we seem to bring an indictment, not supposed to do catch-up with the charges that have already been filed. but so far, we've seen no evidence that's what jack smith is doing. >> importantly, what they came out in the superseding indictment was evidence of an attempt, alleged attempt, to get rid of the video entrance from the surveillance cameras? >> extraordinary charge to even talk about because we're on to the next thing. >> and the political fallout already, ken, i know you're here, but what we've seen this has residence and the prosecution has to worry about it. i know we'll have voir dire and jury selection. that's a very important part of this case in florida and d.c. >> jack goldsmith has had

article in "the new york times" arguing that the whole prosecution is a bad idea. it's bad for the country and republicans just aren't convinced of the legitimacy of it. i think that's the latter point certainly bears up by the evidence. >> country is more divided than i think i've seen anytime over this issue. and it's going to dominate the campaign. >> paul, thank you, and ken, invaluable. and election day in ohio, voters heading to polls to cast their ballots in a rare election for abortion access in the state. and could be intimidated in other states. that's next when "andrea mitchell reports" is back in just 60 seconds. stay with us. you're watching msnbc.

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legislature called today's single issue special election they want to increase the threshold and signature requirements for the constitution. activists gains enough support to put a constitutional amendment on the fall ballot. and now republicans are trying to change the rules ahead of the game. looking at early turnout, it could be a big disappointment. it's hard to read, not get too ahead of ourselves. nbc's ali vitali is on the ground and knows a lot more in columbus, ohio. so, ali, the early voting was massive, they say. but is there any way to really know which side is turning out? and it's a little mottled because it's not a fewer abortion vote as in kansas, it's a two-step process, but that's certainly under the context

here. >> reporter: yeah, that's exactly right. even though, technically, voters are going to the polls today to vote on the rules how they change their constitution, in theory, they're actually voting ahead to the november amendment vote that you're talking about right there about abortion protections. this is something that ohio republican legislators had initially said we're good, no more august special elections. then when reproductive rights groups were able to get the requisite number of signatures that they needed to get the abortion right on the ballot in november, they said we're going to do one more special election and that's here today about the rules of changing a constitution. right now, all it takes is a majority. a 60% threshold. republicans, though, are not uniformly decided that this is the best strategy, though. but it is clear for all of them, abortion is the underpinning here. i want to pull up what the secretary of state himself, a republican, also running for

senate said. he said this is 100% about keeping a radical pro-abortion amendment out of our constitution. going on to say, the left wants to jam it in there coming november so yes, it's abortion. and a handful of protesters to my side deterred him from doing a press today. when you talk about voters and the reaction they're having, i just had a phone bank yesterday with an abortion advocacy group and this is what they're hearing, watch. >> there's a lot of anger when people find out the details in issue 1. i hear a lot of anger than i have since the beginning. and i've heard that around the state. and people do connect it to the november election with the freedom amendment. >> reporter: in a red state? >> oh yes, oh, yes. >> reporter: so everyone here is

really saying the quiet part out loud, republicans and democrats alike, andrea. it's really worth underscoring, you and i know, august special election, this is dog days of summer. people have better things to do with their time as their kids are out of school and summer numbers are waning. and this has topped sort of last minute with timing how long to plan out going to voting places and said up infrastructure. the fact that we're seeing greater turnout now than we saw, for example in last year's competitive republican primaries, it does say there's enthusiasm for something. well see which side had the enthusiasm, though, come tonight and tomorrow morning. >> yeah. they were standing on the line, i heard, over the weekend, on the last day of in-person voting. that's pretty unusual in this heat. anyway, ali vitali, we'll, of course, be talking to you tomorrow about all of the results. thank you so much.

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today. the president declaring a new national monument preserving land around grand canyon national park in arizona. a state he barely won, 0.3% in 2020. joining me now, sam stein, and kim boller and sam, this arizona visital allows the president to tout his agenda and give native-americans a critical voting bloc in arizona. what he's been asking for, pleading for, he's had quite an interesting record, we should say on land and the environment with a lot of concert and some drilling where some people say they shouldn't be drilling. >> right. but he wants to tout what will he's achieved in the i.r.a. and things that they're not getting enough credit for. >> yeah, first of all, he has not gone out west that much as president. he's had a few trips, mostly for

fundraising. but this is going to be one of those seminole campaign swings that goes for a criminal battleground state out west. and ahead, he's got a relatively mixed record when it comes to land preservation. it's reminiscent to a degree what barack obama had where there was some drilling but conservation, too. what i found interesting about this trip, showing what the media is going to be doing tomorrow, he's scheduled to do an interview with the weather channel which is called "platform for the president. "it's quite an interesting tradition of presidents including obama using alternative media, in obama's case bear grylls doing an interview in a glacier. this is to really get a message out around climate change and progressive heat. and arizona hit particularly

hard. this is for the president geographically and from an outreach perspective. >> and, just, sam, one thought is that the ukraine war interfered with some of his ways to combat fossil fuels. because they had to ramp up with the gas and people are worried about the gas prices again on the rise with the heat wave. >> exactly. >> and just a whole lot of cross-currents. >> exactly. i will say, as you noticed very well, they are particularly obsessed inside the white house with the price of gas, they were in light of the 2022 elections. obviously, the war in ukraine worsened the situation. i know this is top of mind for the president and his team. at the same time, they do have to balance what is a huge constituency in the party. environmentalists and people who are deeply concerned about climate change. >> including a lot of young voter which is is a key bloc they need. gas prices always, first thing

that ron klain the chief of staff said he looked at in the worth. ron desantis now replacing his chief of staff, this is the second shake-up after a major shake-up, firing a whole bunch of staff. and a lot of this is in response to donor complaints. >> that's right. it's a shake-up, instead of the drip, drip, drip of campaign relaunches for mr. desantis, i've had some experience with you, as sam will tell you, on presidential campaigns, having to get leaner, usually the rule of thumb is you try to do it once and get the bad news out and move after. desantis struggled to do that. i was following him in iowa this weekend. very small crowds for him. and right now, he's just looking

for anything to give himself a boost and bring in somebody that he has a lot of experience with. and some past with, somebody that he trusts. even though, they don't have a ton of campaign experience. it's also worth noting it'skind of a super pac. there were super events, quote-unquote, he was a guest. and it shows you that is where the money is. so, you know, as he struggles to kind of revamp his campaign, he has some limits there, a lot of limits there. >> they're not supposed to have cross-over and he hasn't had as many small donors as others have. and donald trump with all of his legal troubles, kim, he's expanding his lead. he's making nerves. on "morning joe," chris christie who has been so outspoken who is

just back from ukraine which is a significant break with a lot of the other candidates on that issue. he was asked about donald trump's legal troubles, specifically, the classified documents investigate. i want to get your reaction on the other side when he was asked whether or not he thought that donald trump had nothing anything that was criminal. >> i believe the keeping of those documents was a crime and the obstruction was clearly a crime. and now the superseding indictment where he was ordering folks, allegedly, to delete the surveillance cameras. you know, it reminded me of like what may be abbott and costello meets the corleones would look like. >> yeah. >> all of a sudden, walt ngata as fredo down there -- >> yeah, yeah. >> -- to eliminate the server. >> okay. it's a shame we're not going to vote beyond the debate stage.

clearly, donald trump is not going to be there, in any case, we don't know that for sure. >> yeah. >> but in any case, what's your take on the continuing popularity, expanding popularity, as he said the other day to an audience, the former president, one more indictment, and i'll be elected. >> yeah, although chris christie has assumed the position in the gop race as somebody who is going to take every single indictment and try to hit donald trump over the head with it, often to comic effect, it doesn't seem to be having an effect on moving the needle, at least when it comes to polling. for a lost reasons that vaughn hillyard pointed out earlier in the show that donald trump is really effectively, to his supporters, anyway, making this message that this indictment is purely political. he's falsely saying that is being done by joe biden. and his supporters were showing up to the events that he's still packing in, many more people than ron desantis or chris

christie or anyone else. they're buying it. i mean, it's a political boom for donald trump. i think it's also important to know he's tearing down the democratic institutions and making this claim. and it's incredibly dangerous to our democracy. and attacking the democracy is exactly what he's charged with. so this is a problem not just for donald trump's republican opponents. it's a problem for the democrats and it's a problem for americans as we move between now and november. >> you're going to have to leave there for today. but it's obviously the running issue of the whole campaign so far. sam stein, kimberly atkins stohr, tim, thank you. uncovered ukrainian officials say they caught a would-be assassin in an alleged plot to kill president zelenskyy. as russia is also at the same time, stepping up the overnight missile attacks.

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new information is emerging about an alleged assassination attempt on ukraine's president zelenskyy according to ukrainian intelligence. ukrainian intelligence arrested this woman, an alleged informant from russia in connection with the plot. ukrainian officials claims she was collecting information about zelenskyy's trips to mykolaiv last month.

overnight, russia fired a missile launched at an apartment building full of civilians in eastern ukraine and then struck it again in order to kill first responders. seven people were killed including rescue workers. joining me, nbc chief foreign correspondent richard engel. richard, great to see you. there's so many in washington, that the counteroffensive is bogged down. we're not take off. this is being discussed very openly in political sections. and now this suspected assassination of zelenskyy, who has been consistent about nightly addresses, going to the front lines what do you know about it? >> so, first about this assassination plot which was uncovered, revealed by ukrainian intelligence yesterday. so far, they're the only people talking about it. they're putting out some degree of detail. they put out a statement, they

put out that video. and there's been no comment from the kremlin, but what the ukrainians are saying is that this was an informant who was involved in an assassination plot. she was hiding in plain sight. she was a local woman, she would living near the community, she was living near mykolaiv, a highly militarized zone in southern ukraine and that she was in close contact with soldiers. she's living in this militarized front line community. when you go to mykolaiv, and towns around it, these days, you don't see many civilians left. you see mostly soldiers and people servicing the soldiers. so you might see one restaurant open or one shop. and she apparently worked in a military supply shop that would be the kind of place where soldiers would come to buy things they need. an extra uniform or a knife or a flash light. there are a lost of shops like

that because it is -- they're servicing the people in the area. that while using this job apparently as cover, she was also collecting information about the troops. about her own customers. and passing on information to moscow to use for targeting. and that one of the most important things she was gathering, or attempting to gather, was president zelenskyy's itinerary. for a place he took late last month to mykolaiv. and according to the ukrainians, the intention was to get this information, get his schedule, figure out his movements, pass that information to russia so that moscow could kill him with an air strike. and the ukrainians said they let it go forward. they were aware of it but they allowed for the plot to unravel to a degree so they could watch her, see who she was communicating with and they say they arrested her red handed.

>> richard, let me ask you about the escalating attacks both sides because ukraine is expanding its attacks against moscow in ways that were very embarrassing. and the kremlin, embarrassing to vladimir putin in the aftermath in rebellion. >> exactly. >> yeah. >> this goes to the original question, i believe the assassination plot is, as you're suggesting, all linked. because the front line, the traditional front line, we've been describing the ukrainian war for a year and a half as a trench war, where you have the french side, along the east, and two sides fiing arartillery, an are the front line is rather

deadlocked right now. the counteroffensive is under way, it's very difficult to attack dug-in forces and so what we've been seeing instead as the ukrainians and the russians, but primarily the ukrainians because they seem to be taking an issue in these kind of attacks is to try to change the battlefield dynamics in other ways. like the attacks in moscow which have an embarrassing in effect and sea drones attacking russian ports. and perhaps from the ukrainian intelligence side, moscow is also looking at unconventional ways to change the battlefield dynamic. >> richard engel, on top of all of it as always. thank you so much, good to see you, richard. >> you too. a threat assessment, what is the biggest threat today? you're watching "andrea mitchell reports."

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not been previously reported. joining me now is sean henry, chief security officer at crowdstrike and former assistant direct at the fbi. i want to ask you about your report, the hackers continue to look for anything they can get their hands on. this sounds highly dangerous. >> yeah. you know, i think this is indicative of china's collection operation. china has been involved in the intelligence game through digital exploitation of networks for multiple decades. regarding japan, they've had territorial disputes and economic disputes going back to world war ii. and we know china has been actively collecting from governments worldwide, regarding their positions on taiwan, that's another source of concern between japan and china. but this is indicative. sometimes, the target is very, very specific.

there's a specific political policy issue, you're trying to get information on. a new economic policy, a new weapons system. but sometimes, it's just opportunistic. it's get in maintain a foothold, and collect intelligence to see where it leads us. in this particular case, andrea, one other thing important, we've seen china in the past target both physical and digital. in fact, governments have said they're physically coercing them for evidence of china. we see collection of emails and collection of personally identifiable information that would be a component. >> we just had the two sailors arrested last week here. tokyo has strengthened its defenses in the intervening years, this is 2020. but would there have been concerns, sufficiently alarming,

being that the u.s. would not be willing to share all its military secrets with japan, in japan built up its defenses? >> well, you know, there a variety of factors that go into cooperation between governments. japan is clearly a very very strategic ally of the united states. it is important for us as a nation to share intelligence with our allies so that they share back to give us a better visibility into what adversaries are doing, et cetera. our government has been breached as well by multiple nation states over the years. and there are nations that have raised concern about that. i think that overall it is critically important for us to share intelligence with our allies because this is not going to be us against the world. the u.s. against the world. it has to be us as a coordinated group, partnership with our allies to go up against these very -- adversaries. >> you have a new thread hunting report out today. so it is a big report.

gone through some of it. what did you learn? >> i think what it shows is just the continued ampification and adversary tactics. there are more and more groups taking a page out of the playbook of china, russia and some of these organized crime groups that are recognizing the incredible value of the use of digital exploitation. and quite honestly, there is not a nation now that isn't incorporating digital exploitation as a part of any physical incursion that they may have put in place. we have seen a 40% increase year over year in interactive intrusions, meaning adversaries who got fingers on the keyboard, actually inside the network, they're issuing commands, they're moving throughout the environment, they're identifying the critical important information and ex-filtrating it. this increase capability and this increase use of the technology just demonstrates how important it is for companies and governments to pay attention

and be proactive in identifying and disrupting these types of attacks, andrea. >> well, this is really incredible reporting. you're on the front lines of the defense. and i hope you'll come back and drill down on them -- other aspects of this report as we continue to dig through a major issue. shawn henry, thank you. we have breaking news from the supreme court. a narrow a5-4 decision with an unusual alignment, allowing the biden administration to keep enforcing its regulations clamping down on at home ghost guns on the firearm kits. that order putting on hold a texas federal judge's ruling blocking the regulations immediately nationwide. the justices will now weigh the full scale of the decision during oral arguments in october. unusual alignment and victory for the biden administration. and the deadly outbreak and

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at the peak, 11 million people were without power in the august heat. and the faa ordered ground stops for more than half a dozen airports. joining us now is michelle grossman. when will it end? >> i know. >> a tornado watch here, people went home early from the federal government. >> yeah. yesterday was a tough day, andrea. we had weather that was indicative of april, may. that would be a really busy april and may too. we're looking at -- we're on the heels of most severe weather ever in july, the hottest record of july on earth. so, august is probably going to repeat that with 600 storm reports we saw yesterday. today, we're looking at quieter weather. we had radar lit up all day yesterday, from 1:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. and we had all those storms all day long. really electric. baseball-sized hail, winds gusting, hurricane-force winds. we're still looking at the chance for really big hail.

these are big, powerful storms that we're seeing. also winds gusting over 60 miles per hour. could see a few tornadoes, but we're not expecting an outbreak like we saw yesterday. really heavy rain too. we saw this all summer long. a lot of moisture in the atmosphere. we're seeing that heavy rain that is undeniably connected to climate change. we look back to the west, the plains, the rockies, the threat for severe weather there. we're looking at the southeast, jackson, montgomery, mobile, strong storms as we go throughout this afternoon and we're concerned for the chance of really heavy rain. not just in the south, but also in portions of new england. this is the same storm system that came through yesterday. it is getting hung up in new england and we're seeing some really heavy rainfall there. as we go throughout wednesday, notice this number grows to 15 million. we're looking at winds gusting over 60 miles per hour. that alone could bring down some trees and power lines and in d.c. we're really worried about the very gusty winds yesterday, brought all sorts of power lines down. and then we're looking at little rock for some of the storms. looking at dangerous heat contained in the south.

andrea? >> michelle grossman, thanks to you. that does it for a busy edition of "andrea mitchell reports." thank you being with us. lindsey reiser is in for "chris jansing reports" right now. i'm lindsey reiser in for chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. right now new action at the d.c. courthouse where the federal grand jury that returned the indictment against former president donald trump a week ago is meeting once again, suggesting jack smith's investigation isn't over. at the same time, though his team and the trump team are on the clock, with hours left for them to come up with a hearing date to hash out what kind of limits should be placed on disclosing government evidence. plus, mother nature showing no mercy. take a look at these pictures out of delaware. one of the ten states that just got slammed by powerful thunderstorms overnight. uprooting trees, damaging homes. and leaving at least two people