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one term ex president could look like. how the speedy racketeering trials for trump acolytes sydney powell and kenneth chesbrough in georgia could set the stage for what could come for trump and the other codefendants. and later, tackling the top job. the first black woman to lead nfl team. sandra douglas morgan, the president of the las vegas raiders, joined us live later to talk about her journey from the courtroom to the football field. all of that and more is coming up. and a good saturday morning to you all, i am katie phang. we begin today with a showdown over a looming government shutdown. no, it is not groundhog day, but at this all sounds familiar, it should. lawmakers should have only two weeks left to pass a spending bill and tensions are high. those backroom deals that republican house speaker kevin mccarthy made to the far-right faction of his party to win the

speakership, they are coming back to haunt him. members of his own party attempting to hold all americans hostage by vowing to let the government run out of money and threatening to oust him if illicit mans is not math. in the contentious closed-door meeting this week, mccarthy dared the republican for tractors to take action, saying quote, if you want to file a motion to vacate, then file the effing motion, according to two sources in the room. and that meeting comes just days after mccarthy already made one huge concession. in a big about-face, he caved to marjorie taylor greene and others by announcing an impeachment inquiry into president biden. nbc news correspondent julie tsirkin joins me live from capitol hill. julie, president biden is dealing with a one-two punch right now. first, an impeachment inquiry. baseless. no evidence, but he's going to have to address it. and his son hunter biden has been federally indicted on gun charges. and so what is the reaction

that you're hearing from d.c. right? now >> katie, good morning. look, if there's one thing republicans and democrats agree on, at least on capitol hill, it's that these gun charges don't tie the president to his son, and that is exactly what republicans in the house are trying to prove when they launched this impeachment inquiry. they have courts are looking at other potential charges, which is tax filing, tax evasion. if hunter biden's business dealings benefited his father directly. of course as you pointed out, there was no evidence of that and they've been at this for quite some time now. but, look president biden was asked about this this week at a fund-raiser in virginia. he actually said that he is focused on the job he is doing. he blamed republicans in the house for pursuing the impeachment inquiry because they quote, want to shut the government down. but that of course, republicans in the house are continuing their investigation. when these charges came down this week, democrats said they have nothing to do with the president. republican said that it is suspicious that david weiss did not charge hunter biden of other matters as well. of course as you, know there's a statue of limitations coming up in october, and that is of

course one the reasons why we saw this so quickly. but again, not stopping house republicans from trying to prove this very big burden that they have to prove in order to get impeachment inquiry really going. >> yeah, but julie, look. congress, if it doesn't pass the funding bills, let's talk about the important most important stuff that affects all republicans. the gop republicans may be chasing that something could have snow evidence, but the government looking like it might shut down at midnight on september 30th. are there any signs that you are picking up on the new deal is going to get done before that deadline? >> i was outside that room. the house gop conference meeting where mccarthy got really frustrated with some members of his own party because of course they are not really giving him a lot to work with here. we are less than two weeks until the government shuts down. they really have three options here. for our viewers at home wondering, especially those who work for the federal government, if they're gonna get a paycheck. and we had this all the time, but this one really is worth paying close attention to because you have republicans who are unhappy with the spending levels that mccarthy struck with president biden. they already agreed to it months ago. now republicans are trying to go back on that. they really have three options

to avoid a government shutdown. the first is passing a stopgap measure. short term government funding bill that basically cuts the problem until later in the year down the road. the second is all -- somehow miraculously in the next two weeks. we don't think that's going to happen. there's way too much tension going on with this, in the 30s that they do absolutely nothing in the government shutdown. and that seems most likely. mccarthy said he's going to keep his members and starting next week until they figure it out. we will see if they do. >> americans will have a memory on the snow, julie tsirkin, thank you for getting the show started. and not turning to a historic first for american labor. both sides are expected to go back at it. the bargaining table today. more than 24 hours after thousands of auto workers went on a simultaneous strike against all big three automakers in missouri, michigan, and ohio. nbc news correspondent shaquille brewster joins me live from outside the stellantis plant and toledo, ohio. shaq, auto workers are on strike against three companies. general motors, ford, and

stellantis. some of the key union demands include a 40% hourly pay increase, reduced weekly hours in pension reform. do you think that we are going to expect to see a resolution soon as these negotiations continue? >> good morning. you see the energy, i'm sure you hear the energy behind me, but it of course does not appear as if any deal is eminent at this point. what we do know is that the uaw offered what they call a comprehensive counterfeit puzzle to the big three automakers because we are experiencing the strike. that means essentially that they did not accept that proposal. and so we do know that negotiations will begin again today. we can expect to see both sides engaging and exchanging some of those offers back and forth. and you know, you mentioned some of those demands. the big sticky one that you keep hearing the automakers go back onto the increase in wages. the 40% increases that the uaw is asking for. i want to dig into that a little bit, because it's also the wages, but also what they

call the tears. the idea that you have people going into the plant doing the same job, but getting paid drastically different amounts of money. i talk to workers about that just yesterday. listen to one of my conversations i had about why the wage part is not the full picture. >> you know, there was just a 20%. there were things they can go wrong with drop security and things like that. it's not just the money job securing all that. from the outside looking in, they think we're greedy and we want more money. that's not what it is. we want drops a clarity. we want health insurance, we won all that good stuff. we want all the good stuff. >> we know the latest offer from the automakers has been about 20% wage increases over the course of four years. it's still a lot of room to make up. automakers are saying that they can't meet the demands that the uaw is making. that is not sustainable for them, that would drive up labor costs when they say they are

already paying more in labor than their competitors. one other part of this, and one of the factor of this, is that as this continues, you can see a drastic and rippling effect on the u.s. economy. we already know that ford for example layoff about 600 employees separate from the strike, but said that they were caused because of the strike. gm saying that our plan with some 2000 employees is -- and so you can see a ripple effect not just on suffered action, but also on labor here in the nine states, katie? >> shaquille brewster, my fingers are crossed that some type of resolution is reached and soon. but thanks for getting us started, i appreciate it. and in an extraordinary move by special counsel jack smith's office, found trump may soon be on the campaign trail, but under a gag order. the doj's 19 page motion sent a federal court judge tanya chutkan said the former president's repeated attacks against election workers ruby freeman. former cybersecurity aide chris krebs, former georgia

lieutenant governor jeff duncan, as well as just check on herself and special counsel jack smith. prosecutors arguing quote, the defendant has an established practice of issuing inflammatory public statements targeted at individuals or situations that present an obstacle or challenge to him. and as if on cue, trump took to social media to cry the gag order request, calling jack smith quote, deranged. joining me now is fulton county correspondent at [inaudible] anna bower. anna, it's so good to see you, thank you for joining us. let's start very quickly on this narrow gag order. the doj is seeking one that would be narrowly tailored. it would keep trump from making statements about the identity of the testimony of witnesses that are going to come up in this case in front of judge chutkan. also, he couldn't make any remarks about anyone involved in that proceeding that would be considered to be disparaging and inflammatory or intimidating. let's stop right here and, because that is kind of his m.o.. that is trump's m.o.. so is there is a concern but there's going to be a first amendment issue that might kick

up vis-à-vis this gag order that's been set up by the doj at this time? >> look, i don't think that there will be a first amendment issue. i certainly think that john lauro and trump's team is going to argue that, but as you said, it is narrowly tailored. and so i don't foresee there being an issue with that. i think that it is a smart move on the special counsel's part. what if judge chutkan is, for some reason, concerned about a potential first amendment challenge and this going up on appeal, she may just decide instead of choosing to grant the gag order, it may be that she decides for example to move the trial date up. that is something that she has said before that she will, the more the trump kind of uses this inflammatory rhetoric, the more inclined she will be too change the trial date or to make sure that trial happens as

fast as possible. she has a lot of discretion in that area. and so that may be a alternative to go down that route instead of granting this motion. but again, i do think because of his narrowly tailored, i do not foresee there being a first amendment issue here. >> yeah, so anna, let's stay on this for just a little bit longer. so is there a possibility that you can see where judge chutkan can actually enter the gag order, make it as narrowly tailored as humanly possible where it stays within any type of boundary, so not as to come near impinging or infringing on a first amendment issue for donald trump, but also haste in the trial date as well. >> and that is another possibility as well. as i said, this is something that she has pointed out before, that the more inflammatory rhetoric the trump uses, the more inclined she will be to move up or haste and that trial

date. and so it could be something that she chooses to do both. and we will see, but i do know from following this case and observing judge chutkan, that she's going to write a airtight order on this. i think she's going to be very thoughtful about it. and so we will see the big question is whether or not trump can actually follow a gag order if it is imposed. i do not see, based on his past conduct, him following that, and what happens if he doesn't do that is going to get very interesting. >> and so anna, it just really quickly before we have to go to a break, i did want to ask you. there's a pending motion to recuse judge chutkan. it's about the fact that the doj is taking the skagway guns trump work in tandem with or against in some way trump's motion to recuse judge chutkan. >> well, look so it's important

to note that this motion to recuse was -- excuse me, the motion to recuse was filed after the motion for a gag order. the special counsel had filed that motion previously under seal. i believe it was september 5th. but it only became public yesterday because of the order by judge chutkan. so even though there have been allegations about this motion for a gag order coming in just as trump seeks to recuse judge chutkan, those two things happened at very different points. so there is really not a relationship there in terms of the timing of it all. and i think that certainly judge chutkan will have in the back of her mind the fact that there is this pending motion to recuse, but to be honest, i find it to be a really frivolous motion, and judge chutkan has you know a lot of discretion again about whether or not to recuse.

i do not see it as something, if it goes up on appeal, i do not see a appellate court saying, you know, that she should have recused. and so i won't really see there being a huge relationship between these two because that motion to recuse is so frivolous. >> now i'm glad you brought up the timing of these motions, anna, because there's a lot going on the on scenes of which we don't know about that happens with the doj in this case. anna bower, stay with me. we are going to continue this conversation on the other side of the break, and later, and the show, 20 foot high walls of water washing through libya, leaving more than 11,000 people dead. the latest on the recovery from the worst flooding in the country's history still ahead. we will be right back. l be right back. ommate to save money - is that the plan? (dad) well we gotta find some way to save. so say hi to glen. from work. (glen) hey. that's my mom. (mom) i think i have a much better plan. we switch to myplan from verizon. we get exactly what we want and save big. all on the network we can count on. (daughter) it's a good plan

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first off, i want to know has my viewers want to know, how are the recovery efforts going there? how are the survivors doing? >> it's going very well. the survivors are so resilient. we are so proud of them. it's amazing to see what they're able to do 36 days after the fire. president biden and his team have been here day and night. we are so grateful for that support. just yesterday or two days ago the secretary of energy helped us rebuild some of our infrastructure. she brought us 95 million dollar grant to do that. people are traumatized. they are going through the faces and stages of grief, as you would imagine. we'll be doing that for sometime. nothing is being rebuilt right. now we are in the cleanup environmental phase. epa folks are there during about three months of cleanup. people will go back to the properties in the next couple of days to see if there's anything left from what they lost.

a nine-month cleanup to take out the debris will begin. we're going to do everything we can to get all the resources possible to our people who are struggling. including $30,000 for each family to bridge them into the next phase of long term housing. >> i was personally very pleased to see the immediate wake of the wildfires, you instructed the state attorney general to work towards a moratorium on the sale of property that was damaged or destroyed as a result of those fires. keeping the land and local peoples hands. you and i have had a brief conversation about climate vultures and climate re-gentrification. it is really troubling to. may i want to, know what is the status of that moratorium? what are you doing to protect the interests of the people from lahaina and on the island so they can come back and live where they have grown up. >> so, we took a storm position right off the bat. anyone who approaches any of the victims and tries to ban

the land from other and unsolicited ways will face a year in jail. 5000 dollar fines for each and every overture that is made. it puts a chilling effect on any voters that would come and take advantage of the people. that's the start. i -- who have lost everything including loved ones. that fund hopefully will also prevent a lot of that kind of legal vulture capitalism that might come to our shores. we want everyone to be made. whole the settlements they can get going to an attorney that doesn't have any real connection to why a. a lot of that is being undertaken now. people should know that it's already expensive to live in hawaii and maui. the median income is modest. the median cost of housing is enormous. usually over 1 million dollars a house. in order to build back for the

working, class this was a very working class community. about 40% of the community were filipino. another 20% were hawaiian. they're working at the hotels nearby. making a decent wage. but not a large wage. they have no chance to compete with someone who would come and take their property and build 3 million dollar house. i have to be strong as a governor to protect our people. i have to deal with the social media nonsense where people suggest we should take their land. i would never do anything of the sort. only protection for our local peoples what's on our mind. >> governor, the other thing, there's a lot of us that always want to help. we have been helping since this tragedy happens. one thing that's kind of been in social media but also a part of the discussions has been how do we help if we go there? is it time for us to go? there is it appropriate for people to restart the industry on the island?

these wild fires affected west maui. there is another portion of the island that operates and has tourism functioning. is there some sort of announcement or dates that you foresee to be the time when it's appropriate to have people come back and contribute to the tourism industry there? >> yes, if you come back, you should consider coming to any part of hawaii, including maui. the west now eye-opening is october 8th. everything else is open right. now if you want to come and spend time in kihei or in central now, eight you can come today. we of course are going to breathe and suffer. it was a tough call. i was the lead or port person during covid. ambiguity about travel to hawaii really harmed us for a time. i announced a couple of days ago that october 8th is the day you can go to any part of maui.

85% of the people i spoke to said they really want to people to come back now. it won't be a huge number in the month of october and early november. we will be contributing to peoples healing. he'll be contributing to jobs that will stay in place so those who lost everything, i have them in a long term, rental can be able to pay for their daughters tuitions are safe for the next house that they may build. we need that. tourism is the lifeblood of hawaii to a large degree. we do other things also. tourism is by far the number one industry. let me humbly say as the governor of hawaii, please come back to any part of maui starting on october 8th and. right now you can come to any place but wes maui. i hope i've been clear enough. this is how we will restore some hope for our people. >> governor, very quickly, i have to let you go. i want to make sure that this is. clear any of the fire victims

that are currently staying in the hotels that are on the island, they are not going to be displaced, right? they will get assistance to find somewhere to live while they're making it to the next stage in the recovery. >> that's absolutely right. we did move within two weeks 7282 people into hotel rooms. they will be moving as of september 29th into airbnb's who have been very generous. long term rentals. some people stay in hotel rooms. we will contents and consolidate what we used down to about five hotels total. that is an important thing to imagine. and we will not displace anybody. i will be quite surprised if we see more than 30% of base lined in west maui in the coming months. no one's going to be turning away. the people who are hotels are workers. it's a family experience. you will be helping them survive as we come back. >> the governor josh green,

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politico reported that months ahead the supreme court decision, jenny thomas, the wife of justice clarence thomas and they judicial activists leonard leo were working to gather to form an organization to benefit from the ruling. this movement was partially backed by harlan crow. you know who that is. he is the deep pocketed benefactor who doled out lavish vacations on yachts and -- these trips weren't disclosed until justice thomas was pressed on them this past year. joining me now is heidi, the investigative correspondent at politico. back in 2017, when presenting leonard leo within, award said the following of him. he, has, quote single-handedly -- he quote, has many hats he doesn't really tell all that he does. that's a loaded statements.

what does it say about who leonard leo's? operating the behind the curtain like a wizard of oz to manipulate the levers of the ultra conservative movements. >> yes, katie, you have nailed the main thing here. we are not just talking about billionaires finding luxury vacations anymore. we are talking about the nation's most prolific supreme court conservative advocates organizing secret payments directly to the wife of the supreme court justice. these are payments via a group that became a juggernaut. seeking to influence the supreme court on key issues like abortion, and he issues they couldn't get done legislatively. a group that then came to be partially run by a former supreme court to clarence thomas. here are some key revelations. this collaboration like you pointed out just weeks before

the citizens united ruling. and, fact they sign the paperwork incorporating and putting lettered leo as a director on this in new years eve. it's hard to believe according to experts that clarence thomas was discussing about that ruling. of course, to be, fair advise widely expected the court might do this. even, so the timing of it is really auspicious. you can look at the timeline. what we have found is that when they created this, group it became public months after they did so, katie. they were forced to step away. this was a key revelation here. they had a plan b. that plan b was to use a separate dark money group. this was a group that went on to become a prolific filer of briefs before her husband. that group was used to secretly

pay her. collaborating to arrange payments. we were told by representatives that they would not tell us. this was over the span of several weeks. those groups are still in existence. she started her consulting business and that group started to receive payments right around the same time when their original experiment blew up. of course, by nature of dark money, they can't tell exactly who paid for what. what she was doing. there's all kinds of other ethics and legal issues here. that's basically the overview. >> i wanted to harp on something here. a reminder of the viewers. citizens united was a 54 decision. it was very close in terms of what the decision ended up being. the fact that this company, this organization, was formed just seven days before clarence thomas voted in favor of the

majority, i think it smacks of the reality that he needed to be recusing himself off of it. i do want to ask you. this is your piece is fascinating. it says in 2020, one leonard leo's fund, the 85 fund collected 100 and $73 million and anonymous funds. you mentioned it a minute ago about how there is a transparency about where the money is coming. the money flow is obscure. this dark money flow. why is the system built are structured in a way that law allows for this type of dark money? >> that's a great question. a lot of folks who responded said, well, it's time to rollback citizens united. unfortunately, it's not going to be that easy, even if there was support for doing that. it wasn't just citizens united that open the door to this, to all additional court rulings and new campaign finance laws. to answer your question about these in particular, it's because citizens united decided that corporations did not risk

cooperation by allowing cooperations and billionaires to have an equal voice to philadelphia housewife. them pouring all the money into the system without any accountability. -- as long as they are able to say what they're doing, not in support even though it is very political and definitely has a political agenda, they are able to do it without any -- that's becoming harder and harder. now what's happened is that around all of these, groups there is a whole ecosystem of other groups that they can washed the money through. it becomes harder and harder for us to track it. it's important to point out as well that the agenda for a lot of these groups is very at odds with the dobbs ruling.

where the majority of the american public. is these are a lot of these goals. these things they're advancing to the court. it could not get done through the legislative process. >> i have run out of. time i need you to come back. there are so many layers to investigate. there is the 1.6 billion dollars that they gave to leonard leo through this very elaborate system. and i think about someone having access to billions of dollars. it's a network. i need you to come back and talk about. this it's a network of businesses and organizations and funds that are behind the scenes and operating lovers. thank you so much for joining me today. >> that's what's coming next. you're wary right to focus on what's coming next. >> thank you what -- i urge everyone to read your reporting on politico.

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the raiders have had such a rich and diverse history with respect to leadership. coaches in general managers and now with presidents as well. i'm really proud to be part of this organization that believes in equity and inclusion before it was discussed more widely, whether it was having the first african american head coach and also tom flores. and initial first female ceo in the national football league. being a raider and have them part of the community and part of the culture is incredibly proud. it's an organization that believes in that. they talk the talk and walk the walk. hosting the super bowl in my hometown city is a dream come true. just seeing the evolution. what the raiders have been able to bring. >> so, i want to ask you a little bit on a personal level. your mom is korean. she's an immigrant from korea. she worked late night shifts in

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