wildfire. andrea mitchell reports begins right now. right now on "andrea mitchell reports" former president trump and his supporters escalating judges and prosecutors are alarming officials in several states along with disturbing incidents. in texas a woman held without bail for alleged death threats over the judge presiding over special counsel's jack smith's case in d.c. while trump supporters have listed the purported names and addresses of the grand jury on a fringe website. a core decision on the most widely used medical abortion drug sets up another supreme court showdown over reproductive rights. and in maui the official death toll rising as exhausted rescue crews keep trying to look for the missing and identify victims. while investigators zero in on the possible cause of the

devastating outbreak of wildfires. with us today fema administrator dee ann griswald. good day, everyone. i'm andrea mitchell in washington. donald trump is out fund-raising this hour in nashville as his legal bills have mounted and he faces a deadline to surrender to the fulton county jail in georgia before noon next friday, but his unrelenting attacks over prosecutors over his cases are troubling. on wednesday a texas woman was charged with transmitting a threat to injure a person by an interstate commerce after leaving expletive-laden racist email for d.c. district drug tanya chutkan. we are coming to kill you and that chutkan will be targeted personally, your family, all of it. we're leaving all of the expletives out. nbc news has learned that the

reported names of the georgia grand jury who handed out the latest indictment have been posted on a fringe website that often features violent rhetoric. nbc's garrett haake in atlanta, grant kushner, robert james and new york times white house correspondent peter baker. garrett, take us through these latest developmentses as we are playing a waiting game. we have defendants expected and all expected to turn themselves in before friday at noon to that fulton county jail. >> that's right, andrea. we have teams outside that jail waiting to see if anyone takes up the offer to show up. the sheriff has made the point that the jail's open 24/7 and with all these defendants know what the deadline is, noon on friday. of course, the most-watched defendant in this case will be relatively close to atlanta today fund-raising in tennessee, instead. we've heard no definitive plans from the trump team about when

he might turn himself in to be booked in fulton county or whether or not that event that he promised for early next week in bedminster which he said he would present exculpatory evidence exonerating him in this case is even going to happen. all of this is going on while we are awaiting filings from his legal team on the other interference case in federal court and a plan for basically how this campaign is going to juggle those legal challenges with the fact that he is still running for president and may or may not be showing up at a debate next wednesday. a lot of balls in the air, andrea, for team trump and very little clarity on how they'll handle any of it going forward. >> let's talk about judge chutkan. we know that the security has been ramped up and it has been noticed by correspondents in the courthouse. how much is needed to guarantee her safety? how -- does this influence any judge, any person facing these kinds of threats?

>> andrea, first and foremost the united states marshal service is the organization responsible for protecting judges. i've dealt with them for decades when i was a federal prosecutor. they have always been up to the task of protecting judges and providing courtroom security during particularly highly volatile trials, but you know, judge tanya chutkan should not have to suffer this. she should not be in this position. i don't believe it will impact the way she presides over the case. i don't think it impacts any judges when they receive threat, but she is a lifelong, dedicated public servant. i tried murder cases against her back when she was a public defender with the d.c. public defender service. she and her family have now been threatened. i tried cases against her husband when he was a public defender. he's a recently retired judge himself. first and foremost, andrea, we

need to place blame where it should be placed and that is on the woman who issued this threat, who made this phone call, somebody named abigail jo shry. i was alarmed to see that she has done this before. she has two prior convicts for similar conduct and she is on release for a third incident of communicating threats and here she has done it again. at some point it feels like this is institutions of government failure because you have donald trump continuing to fan the flames every day including most recently telling a witness that he said he knew was about to testify before the grand jury down in georgia, jeff dunk in, he told him expressly not to testify. he shouldn't testify. at some point, the institutions of government need to do what would have been done to any other pre-trial defendant, sanction him for his continued dangerous conduct.

>> and robert james, former d.a., in dekalb county. you're a state prosecutor. we have the purported names and addresses of grand jurors. these are citizens who respond to a subpoena to show up at some great inconvenience to their jobs and families and they show up and being good citizens and now they have to be harassed this way, potentially? >> well, it's harassing. it's intimidating and it's just terrible behavior. unfortunately, it is not illegal in georgia to transmit those names. i don't know where they got the addresses from. those would be in state files. in this era you can pull someone's address off the internet and it is pretty easy. in georgia, grand jurors happen to be listed on the indictment.

if the indictment is in fact, defective under georgia statute. it's something that our state legislature perhaps needs to reconsider in the way that business is done here to protect grand jurors, but unfortunately, there's not a lot that can be done about simply transmitting those names and addresses. now, we get to a place where it's a threat or it's done specifically to cause a crime, but that's something different, but the mere fact that those names have been published perhaps with addresses off the internet and it is intimidating and harassing. >> and peter baker, this is not the first time we've seen president trump use rhetoric. he's got a history of this that ends up congratulating or inspiring people, you know, who -- don't monitor themselves and in charlotte, good people on both sides. we saw how many hours it took

him to come out and say something about january 6th and then saying that he loved them at the end. and now he's facing four different jurisdictions. >> you're right. this is a pattern with him. he doesn't seem to think about the consequences of his rhetoric. he's done it time and time again. he's been at rallies and talked about roughing up a protester, and go ahead and take care of him and he met with the police once in his first year of presidency, he told them not to be too nice to the suspects as they put them in the squad car. time and time again, he has employed the rhetoric of, you know, violence, and he says it's just the way he talk, but he doesn't seem to understand that there are consequences. i remember being in the oval office with him once and i was there with my publisher who came specifically to make the point to him that his rhetoric about journalists was endangering

journalists around the world, not just in the united states, but around the world because it encouraged that kind of danger and at the time he was president and he took it in and basically within using the enemy of the people's line. it's not something that occurs to him and what's more striking is now becoming more and more common in the marketplace. you heard ron desantis about slitting the throat of public servants when he took office. he said we'll slit their throats as soon as we get in there. this rhetoric used to be beyond the pale when it came to our leaders and now, of course, seems to be more common place. >> and garrett haake, the calendar here is going to collide with the election calendar as well. you've got the deadline for friday for them to appear, but you've got the debate next week. >> yeah. that's right, and how to juggle the appearance at the debate if donald trump wants to go and his

legally mandated appearance in georgia by noon next friday as best i can tell from my reporting still an open discussion in his campaign, but if he decides not to go the idea of using his appearance either on the day of the debate or the day after as the spectacle that might stomp out headlines that might be generated by the candidates, is the kind of thing that tends to appeal to donald trump and that's a problem that could be turned to an opportunity. as you get into the calendar, and the trial dates and court hearing dates start to stack up around election days in the early part of 2024 and that's a sprit kettle of fish here all together. in term of next week, the opportunity to generate sun light blocking media event in georgia may be appealing to the former president as he considers whether or not to go into milwaukee. >> robert james in dekalb county next to fulton county, you've got a march 4th date that's an

aspirational date from fani willis and that's the day before super tuesday on the election calendar. how realistic is it to get 19 defendants assuming some don't plead before then and drop out. 19 defendants right now on paper, to a trial on march 4th. >> well it's extraordinarily ambitious to think that you will have 19 defendants in a rico case with at least three, perhaps four, censoring incidents. you have the incident at the capitol with the fake electors. you've got the phone call. you have the voting machines and every one of these incidents they have their own witnesses and they're central figures and there's also documentary evidence. defendants are going to need time to prepare for trial, right? the court will need time to prepare for trial. she may be ready for trial on

march 19th. >> maybe it was march 4th. >> before super tuesday. >> so garrett haake, thank you so much, glen kisher in, robert james, we thank all of you. the future of the abortion pill once again in question as the issue appears to be headed to the nation's highest court. that's coming up next when "andrea mitchell reports" is back in 60 seconds. don't go away. right here on msnbc. away. right here on msnbc. tion. one dose works fast to eliminate migraine pain. treat it anytime, anywhere without worrying where you are or if it's too late. do not take with strong cyp3a4 inhibitors. allergic reactions to ubrelvy can happen. most common side effects were nausea and sleepiness. migraine pain relief starts with u. ask about ubrelvy. learn how abbvie could help you save. (vo) ninety-two percent of students in high-needs schools can't

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the justice department plans to appeal to the supreme court while the pill remains available for now. joining me now is nbc senior correspondent laura jaret and dr. patel senior policy adviser in the obama white house. welcome to you. laura, first to you. what does this ruling mean by this three-judge panel legally and practically and what are the options in terms of the supreme court waiting for arguments or jumping in as they can, i assume. >> right. >> lifting the stay and changing everything. >> so practically in the short term everyone should understand nothing has changed. it is status quo as normal. if you want to get the pill, you still can, but the justice department is worried about what the 5th circuit has done here because even though they didn't say we will take the pill off the market immediately, they did uphold a number of very significant restrictions as you laid out, andrea, people who want to get the pill by mail and people who don't want to travel

to the doctor's office and using the pill for a lengthier time into your pregnancy and all of that is in jeopardy and that's yet justice department is going to appeal and why abortion opponents have been heralding this decision even though nothing has changed right now, they know if the supreme court doesn't weigh in and saying we're not going to take the case then this becomes operative and that's why it's so critical. >> dr. patel, i am so glad to have your expertise. it was done on a decision came down on a technical round that the fda did not consider all of the potential side effects at the time, but there was a judge at the time, judge james hoe who also said this about the fda's approvalmore than 20 years ago, current judge. scientists have contributed an enormous amount to improving our lives, but scientists are human beings, just like the rest of us. they're not perfect. none of us are, and the fda has

made plenty. what do you make of that? >> andrea, what's disturbing is the language they used around the fda's original decision doesn't take into account. it makes it sound like this was a group of scientists in a closed room without transparency deciding on the flip of a coin and that could hardly be anywhere near the truth. this is not just a group of scientists, by the way. these are advisors looking at peer-reviewed literature. they didn't say here's my opinion and here's what i think about it. they were looking at two decades of science and also to be clear, what is also -- andrea, you and i have talked about covid and how there have been a lot of claims made about drugs that have no role in taking patients with covid. there are codes forcing doctors like me to use codes that have no basis on covid and here are two decades of peer-reviewed evidence and safety monitoring.

not just evidence. this isn't just scientists in a room and this is decades of safety monitoring for patients to whom we write prescriptions. to say that that is irresponsible for the food and drug administration opens an incredibly dangerous pathway for what that agency has done and maintained its rigor and integrity. it goes far beyond reproductive injustice and it's a disturbing trend that hopefully the supreme court will weigh in on. >> laura, say that the supreme court were to lift the stay, would that apply everywhere in this country? >> yeah. >> or just in states where the pill can't be dispensed. >> it's nationwide and the reason for that is how the texas judge originally structured that order, he actually did a nationwide order and it affects everyone, not just in texas we'll have to see how they style it so people have a sense.

the supreme court is not in session and they do sit in september to decide whether to hear certain cases and you can imagine that might be one of the times whether to take up this case, and perhaps some time this fall we'll hear whether they'll take it up and win. >> laura jaret and dr. kavita patel, such important information. thanks to both of you for your expertise. i appreciate it. the search for answers. new video shows how the wildfires in hawaii might have started, but why couldn't more people escape? you're watching "andrea mitchell reports," this is msnbc. reports. ♪ ♪ huh, huh, so did their dog roger. ♪ ♪ gain scent beads keep even the stinkiest stuff smelling fresh.

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online and the forest is on fire. >> while the official cause of the island's blazes is still being investigated, data from whisker labs shows 34 major electrical incidents on the power lines around lahaina that same night. there is video evidence of the very first fire starting in the middle of the island, and we literally have coincident data, simultaneous data that shows an explosion on the grid. >> hawaiian electric didn't specifically address that data or the multiple lawsuits, but said in part, we know there is speculation about what started the fire, but the causes haven't been determined. >> and joining me now is dee ann, chriswell, the fema administrator. thank you so much. i know you're so busy, but thank you for taking the time to be with us. we appreciate it. >> you just saw this new video. do you have any information possibly connecting these electrical incidents to how some of these wildfires might have been ignited?

>> hi, andrea. we don't have any of that information, and i would certainly defer you back to the state or hawaiian electric as they continue their investigation. where we are focused right now is continuing to search for and identify anybody that's missing through the search area as well as helping to support all of those families that have been displaced by this tragic event. >> and with the reporting that still only 38% of the affected area has been searched, there were so many reasons why access was so difficult, is this argably the most difficult search area that you've had to deal with? >> this is certainly a very complicated search environment. there's obviously a lot of debris. there's a lot of glass and still hot spots around the search area. one of the primary means that we're using is our k-9 teams and

this is very difficult on them which is why we've sent additional dogs in and we have over 40 k-9 teams on the island that are assisting with this search process. we are working very closely with maui and their local officials. we want to do this as quickly as possible, but we also need to make sure that we are accurate and that we are going through everything to ensure that we have identified any of the remains that might still be there in lahaina. >> we hear that a thousand or more people might still be missing. is that possibly hopefully because of bad communications and people are staying in shelters who are not communicating or elderly in camp. can you give us any update on what you think might be the universe here? >> yeah. i mean, i don't have an accurate number on how many total are missing, but i think that your point is accurate. some of those that are

unaccounted for are those that are staying with friends and family that just haven't reported back in or perhaps left the island. we'll work with the state and the county to help work on connecting people that have moved to other places or are sheltering in other places so we can get a better idea of what the truly number of people missing might be. >> what about the fire responders, fire teams telling us that they didn't have water in the hydrants. they couldn't get water. have officials explained that? do you have an update on that? >> i know some of the local first responders, i heard them talking about this. i would have to defer you to the county and the specifics and we'll have a lot of time to go through and the county and the state will have a lot of time to go through and analyze what the lessons learned and the cause and the origin are and we always want to make sure that we

understand all of the contributing factors so that we as a profession can continue to improve and make sure that our communities are safe. we do want to make sure that we are focused on what we're doing today which is going through that search area, and identifying any remains that might still be in there and helping all of those families that have been displaced so they can move into some interim shelter outside of the congregant shelters that are on lahaina island right now. >> there was a lot of anger over the difficulty to getting back, and the main road was blocked. i know it's been cleared now, but also that people couldn't escape because electric utility companies were blocking access. have you been able to get in where you need to go or are there still places you can't get? >> absolutely. our search teams certainly have been on the ground in the main area doing their search and recovery missions. once they opened up that access road and it also allowed us to start getting our teams into the

community and going door to door and seeing who needs help and who hasn't registered for assistance yet. i know that we've had a disaster declaration just about a week ago, right? it was last thursday that the president declared this a major disaster. since then, we've already given out over $3 million in financial assistance to families that have registered with fema. i appreciate the opportunity to come on here because we want to make sure everyone can register and as we go door to door we want to reach everyone that we haven't reached yet and bring our services to them. >> and is there anything that fema can do to help with temporary housing? i remember after katrina in mississippi, partly through the governor then, haley barber, they brought if double wide trailers for people and trailer communities were created. i know it's a lot more difficult on an island to get supplies in and ship things in, but what can fema do, what can the government

do to help the state? >> the long-term housing mission is certainly one of the things that falls within our area of coordination responsibility. the governor already had done assessment to better understand what the housing needs were and how they can expand some of the affordable housing on the island. this gives us a really good jumping off point to work with the governor and his team to come up with solutions to find longer term transitional housing or even in some cases, new, permanent housing for some of the residents. we will bring in the entire federal family. we met yesterday to talk about create of solutions. we will continue to meet because, you know, the temporary housing units that you mentioned are one of the tools in our tool box and all of these tools are on the table for us, but we have to understand what is on the table to help us expedite into longer term transitional housing.

>> we know the president and first lady will be going on monday. obviously, you know, care and comfort is very, very important, but is there something that the president needs to learn by seeing it first hand? >> absolutely. i'm going to be traveling on monday and what the president is going to see is what i saw when i went into lahaina and he's going to see how devastating this fire was to this community. he's going to have an opportunity to talk to families that have been impacted and provide that level of reassurance that he has directed the entire federal government to provide every resource available to help this community recover, and i think that level of reassurement will be well received within the community. >> deeann kriswell, thank you for your work and good luck in this extraordinary challenge. >> thank you, andrea. and base hit. how is georgia's indictment of

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reimagining public education. and a brand new national poll from the associated press is shedding new light on voters' feelings about donald trump's legal troubles. more than 50% of respondents saying that the former president's actions were illegal in the mar-a-lago classified documents probe and in the georgia case. when it comes to special counsel jack smith's election

interference case, 47% believe mr. trump's actions were illegal while 21% think he did nothing wrong. and the hush money case more than a third said his actions were unethical. joining me is kimberly atkins stohr, sam stein and tim miller of the bullwork writer at large and former director for jeb bush in 2016. so those are the poll number, but i want to talk to you about breaking news from "the new york times" just ahead of the republican presidential debate next week and it is potentially more problems for the problem-plagued desantis campaign. a firm linked to the super pac that has effectively taken over desantis' presidential campaign posted hundreds of pages of very blunt advice to the governor online as to what to do in the debate. the material includes debate, advice, debate prep for desantis including first attack joe biden and the media, three to five

times. state governor desantis' positive vision two to three times. hammer vivek ramaswamy who is rising in the polls and defend donald trump in absentia in response to a chris christie attack. it goes on from there and this is from, you know, the super pac jeff roe, very well known. the super pacs are not supposed to advise campaigns specifically because they are supposed to be separate so they -- tim, as you know, they often post them online in a hidden website, but this was out very much in public and "the new york times" got it all. so what is the impact of this? >> i mean, this is not that normal. super pacs posting certain things to use b-roll footage, video, that's pretty common. posting very specific and i might say, condescending advice to the candidates and nicknames

for vivek ram swammy and responding if they're criticized and it is pathetic and makes desantis seem small, and you need to contrast donald trump by 40 points and just the fact that the super pac would do this makes desantis look very weak and it gift wraps vivek ram swammy and now if he criticizes them. we saw in "the new york times" your puppet masters told you to do that. you're not your own man. overall a disastrous leak from the desantis super pac. >> sam stein, what is donald trump going to do about this? >> well, it depends if he shows up at the debate or not. >> he doesn't have to. he can do it on social media. >> true. i'm with tim, all trump has to do is wait for desantis to offer

a line at the debate and they're telling you what to do and you're just parenting the talking points. this leak is so weird and so problematic that i'm having trouble thinking that it's actually a leak. i'm trying to wrap my head around whether or not it was done deliberately, but i will say there is one thing that's notable about what was posted on this website. there is no dossier at all about what to do about donald trump if he's there which goes to the conundrum that desantis and other candidates are minus chris christie. he does not have a game plan for contrasting himself with trump. he does not have a game plan for how to respond to trump's attacks, and if you're running 30% to 40% behind the front-runner, you probably need that. you probably should prepare for going after the front-runner. he's preparing to be the last man standing who tim knows in

2016 is not a winning strategy. >> kim, i know this is not giving advice to a campaign if you do it online in something that was misplaced in a very public way because the super pacs are supposed to be separate from the campaigns legally. >> they are supposed to legally act differently, but yes, they have the ability to post things publicly if they so choose. i'm with sam in wondering if this was orchestrated in some way perhaps to try to get the other candidates to let their guard down and desantis may say something different on the debate stage, but at worse this is a clear evidence that the people in desantis' own camp are unhappy and at this point, we've been talking a lot about how the campaign has been flailing and desantis has been denying this and it does seem disastrous coming up in this last leg when he had a good position to at

least try to distinguish himself from trump and take a swipe at trump when trump is very focused on his criminal convictions right now. i'm not sure how much energy he has to fight desantis at this moment and that could have been an advantage and it seeps like that's been blown. >> kim atkins-stohr, tim stein, thank you very much. the long road home. i'll be talking to the families of two of the five imprisoned in iran as they await the return of their loved ones. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports." this is msnbc. reports. this is msnbc. and you realize you're in love... steve? with a laundry detergent. (♪♪) gain flings. seriously good scent. have fun, sis! ( ♪♪ ) ( ♪♪ ) can't stop adding stuff to your cart? get the bank of america customized cash rewards card, choose the online shopping category

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shargi, and tabas's daughter. to see you under much better circumstances, not home yet on u.s. soil, but first of all, when you heard that they were out of prison, tell me about that. >> i mean, i think that you can never prepare for these moments. this was a time that often felt very far out of reach so you're flooded with every emotion and being able to see that first video call, i just was ecstatic and a sense of relief and also fear of what happens next. we don't know what happens next and it's nice to see my dad on the other side of the phone. >> how did he look to you? >> i think, you know, at the end of the day he was a dad just smiling and saying hello to his daughter and reassuring me he's there. he's okay. he's safe. i think he had a lot of hope in his eyes and understandably, a lot of fear. this is a big step, but they're not home yet.

they're not free yet. they're still in custody and we don't know what's going to happen next. we have to be optimistically hopeful and wait until we can hug them on u.s. soil. >> it's been years for both of you, your loved ones in 2018, we're talking a long time, your brother. how did he look to you? >> he'll give me a hard time for saying this, he looked older and his hair receded and we need to feed him a lot when he comes home, but he had a big smile on his face, and he asked about all of us. he was, you know, stepping into big brother role and wanted to make sure we were all okay, and he wanted us to know that he's okay and that he will come home soon and be with us hopefully. >> and your conversation with the secretary of state, tell me about that. >> it was a private call with

family, and you know, it was really for him to check in with us and make sure we're okay. he knows that we've been hearing a lot of things in the press and that we are obviously anxious. so it was great to have him sort of be soknow, be so committed to getting them home, and we were grateful for him and the administration, but andrea, they're not home yet, and so i made sure the secretary knew that my big thanks would come when they're all safely on american soil. >> and tara from what you could tell, his physical condition, your dad, did he seem -- >> i mean, he looks aged as anybody would who's gone through nearly six years of being wrongfully detained, but i think he was just trying to smile. i could only see his face on the video, but he definitely looks aged as well, and just hanging tightly and having a strong spirit until he's with us. >> i know it's still a very

nervous time for you, this money's being transferred and other things are happening, a whole other level, but for you it's all about family and, you know, fearing loss and not knowing what was going on. tara how has this been for you? how are you now? >> it's really overwhelming, i think that i -- there's a big sense of relief knowing that he's no longer in a prison. but as i mentioned, and neda's mentioned, they're not free until they're home with us. we'll be anxiously waiting until we actually get to embrace them and hold them, but so grateful that this step was taken. it's the furthest we've ever gotten to seeing hopefully the light at the end of the tunnel and having them back with us. >> these things are not connected but on a global scale we're told that there are separate negotiations, indirect conversations going on that this could be -- lead to a turning point on nuclear issues and other issues of tension? >> you know, these are details that i'm not privy to.

>> of course not. >> and i don't know. i just -- what i do know is that finally after five years, three months and 26 days, you know, my brother is probably having a regular night of sleep, and where we're very grateful for the administration for doing what they're doing to finally get them home. it's time to bring innocent american citizens home from iran. it really is time. they've been there too long, and i think everyone will celebrate when we get, you know, our citizens home again. >> where are you going to have the family reunion? is that a midpoint as they get checked? >> you know, i just -- i can't let my mind go there, andrea. they're not home yet. this is still -- this is still for us, you know, this middle ground of being very, very worried, so hopefully we'll get the call one day that they're on their way home, and then we can finally breathe. until then, it's constantly making sure we're advocating for

their release. again, you know, i want people to remember that ahmad is my brother, morad is her dad. these are american citizens that have been taken because they're american, and they need to come home to their families and to their country. >> we're going to keep the spotlight, the focus on it, and i know you have to sort of wait hopefully and prayerfully for this to come out exactly as we hope it all will. this is the first step back. tara thank you. >> thank you. >> it's very good to see you under these circumstances as i say. >> thank you. >> and it's lovely to meet you, neda. >> very nice. thank you for having us. and the breaking point, the battle between new york democrats is brewing over the governor slamming how new york city's mayor is handling the raging migrant crisis. that's next. you're watching "andrea mitchell

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. a stunning milestone for new york city, 100,000 asylum seekers most of whom are coming from the southern border have arrived in the last year alone. the multibillion dollar problem is leading to frustration and inviting among leading democrats in the state. -- infights among leading democrats in the state. there are tens of thousands of migrants in new york city. they're running out of shelters across the state to help with the overflow, huge budget issues and now you've got the democratic governor and mayor at loggerheads over it. >> more than 100,000 migrants since last year. you're looking at video from several weeks ago outside the roosevelt hotel in midtown manhattan. this iconic hotel that's housing hundreds of migrants, and mayor eric adams has been asking for more from the federal government.

just this week, a letter from governor kathy hochul's attorney to the city saying that basically the city has been slow to act, and today mayor eric adams says he's down playing any friction between himself and the governor. he says they're both trying to work together. as you said, this is a multibillion dollar problem. city officials here in new york estimate that it will cost taxpayers some $12 billion by 2025, there's growing outrage among some residents. we spoke with a business owner just this morning next to that hotel, who says that his business has been decimated. there's been a protest last night next to a new shelter that is set to open in queens. so this is an ongoing problem. the white house, for its part has been asked about this and says that it has given more than $100 million in aid to help new york city, but even though some of the crossing numbers down at the southern border have dropped a bit, other major cities like new york are dealing with this issue as it unfolds.

>> gabe gutierrez, thank you so much. that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." follow us on social media @mitchell reports. "chris jansing reports" starts right now. ♪♪ good day, i'm chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. troubling new details today about the sick and twisted threats being made in donald trump's name. are they just a sign of what's to come, and how might the judge on the receiving end respond including what it means for trump's chances of delaying his d.c. trial. plus, the heartache, new fury, and finger pointing on the island of maui as the death toll rises to 111. the governor admitting mistakes were made, little comfort to residents who say they had no warning and lost everything. and conservatives who never found proof of voter fraud in 2020 are now turning to an