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it is good to be back with you on this second hour of "chris jansing reports." at this hour, iran's interference game, what the fbi is revealing about hackers who tried but failed to interest joe biden's team in documents stolen from the trump campaign. plus, what will the former president is saying about it. and it's the blue dot in an ocean of red, but now a fight is brewing over a nebraska district with a single electoral vote, so critical it could decide the presidential election. we have new reporting. plus, a possible mass tragedy averted, how police track down a missouri teenager who allegedly had a fully loaded handgun with an extended magazine right outside a school. and are we witnessing a new phase of the war? israel and hezbollah trade fire

after a series of pager and walkie-talkie explosions that left the entire region on the brink. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. we begin with nbc's ryan nobles covering these new revelations about iranian interference in the presidential election. ryan, what more do we know? >> reporter: we have known for some time that the fbi had discovered that iranian cyber criminals had hacked in to the donald trump campaign's infrastructure, their digital infrastructure, and stolen what they described as non-public materials. what the fbi and the intelligence community revealed yesterday is that they were actually peddling this information to members of the then biden campaign, attempting to get them to use this material and take it and use it against donald trump, what the fbi said is there's no evidence that anyone from the biden campaign took advantage of that material. and in fact, the harris campaign, which is now running the same campaign infrastructure put out a statement saying that they acknowledge that some of the folks that work for the

campaign received this material to their personal e-mail addresses, but they thought it was spam, and didn't do anything with it, that they didn't engage with this, and they went on to say they condemn any support of foreign interference in the campaign. donald trump taking a completely different tactic. he put out a statement on his social media platform last night, claiming that this is evidence that the harris campaign is spying on his campaign. that's obviously not based in any level of fact. the fbi has said specifically that they do not believe there's any evidence that this material was used in any way, shape or form by the biden campaign. but, what's important to keep in mind about all of this, chris, is that the fbi, the intelligence community, believes that these efforts by these iranian cyber criminals is ongoing. in fact, they believe that they still have material that they are still attempting to get out to others in the united states including u.s. media outlets, they're e-mailing this content to them, trying to get someone to bite and report it out. so far though, at this point,

there doesn't appear to be anyone that's actually used this material and made a part of the campaign. chris. >> ryan nobles, thank you. now to new nbc news reporting about senator lindsey graham and a visit he made to a critical congressional district in nebraska. vaughn hillyard is reporting. most people will say nebraska? tell us about it. >> reporter: this all comes down to the scenario where nebraska's congressional district around the greater omaha area, could potentially be the consequential electoral college vote that decides this presidential election. there are just two states, chris, where it is not a winner take all for electoral college votes. that is nebraska and the state of maine. that's where you see that map there. back in 2020, joe biden narrowly won that congressional district, cd2, right around omaha. this is what has led over the course of the last several months the trump campaign to hone their attention on

potentially trying to change the state law in nebraska with the republican governor and republican members of the legislature to make a last-minute effort to change the law to make nebraska a winner take all. so effectively, in the scenario, it's 269 electoral college votes for kamala harris to 268 for donald trump, well, instead of that extra one going to kamala harris and giving her the election with 270, it would make it a 269-269 tie, which would then toss the presidential election to the u.s. house of representatives to be decided by the state delegations, which currently are favored among republicans. and so that's where i want to let you listen to lindsey graham, the senator from south carolina, who was in nebraska yesterday, and while he said that he was there for discussion

around foreign policy and domestic affairs, he did acknowledge that some conversations focused on the potential of nebraska making a last minute law change in the state to make it winner take all. take a listen to part of his conversation a bit ago with our julie tsirkin up on the hill. >> i hope they will allow winner take all. this was created in, i think, '92 to help clinton. trump's going to win the state by 20 points. that members of congress and the two senators urged the change. it will be up to nebraska. we'll see what they do. rickets and the governor asked me to come out. >> reporter: so it wasn't the trump campaign? >> the federal delegation, senators and house members are urging the government and the legislature to make the last minute state election, yes, we're 47 days away from the general election, and this would require the republican governor calling the special session, and so far over the course of the summer, they have struggled to garner enough of the legislative

members to vote in support of changing this law. obviously you just heard lindsey graham going, and donald trump this spring, he publicly endorsed the idea of changing the law. we could potentially be looking for a dramatic week or two ahead if they were to try to move forward. until the scenario that kamala harris wins pennsylvania, wisconsin, michigan, donald trump wins nevada, arizona, georgia. instead of it being a 270 electoral college win with the omaha victory in that congressional district, you could be looking at a potential 269-269 tie. we're in for a wild one potentially here, chris. >> vaughn hillyard, please not that scenario. but thank you. now to missouri where police say they arrested an armed teenager just outside of his former high school. nbc investigative correspondent tom winter is following this for us. first of all, how did they even know he was there? >> reporter: that's the big question, chris. how often after one of these unfortunate and tragic school shootings have we talked about

either, one, where students or school administrators or parents knew that the shooter was somebody who was either threatening the school or had some serious problems and was a threat to a school or that somebody did know that, and, in fact, relayed that information to school officials and law enforcement then only to find out that because of whatever restrictions there are, because of laws or the school, that it couldn't be acted upon in time. this scenario appears to be much different. it appears, potentially, to have avoided a very serious situation. you're looking at the juvenile there. and because they have been charged as a juvenile, and under the age of 16, we're not showing their face. you're clearly seeing their social media posts with these weapons, with these guns, and apparently what happened here, it was a group of alert students, chris, that can take the credit for the reason this was stopped. let's take a listen. >> i want to thank our students that saw it. they saw it out on social media. we had a number of students that came directly forward and notified administrators.

ritner high school is located in st. lewis county. the police chief for st. anne said it was the deputy chief, once they were alerted to heroes -- these social media posts, that he started to chase him down once he arrived at the school. at some point, according to the video, he dumps the gun, and they are able to arrest him, tie the gun back to him and it certainly appears, chris, based on everything law enforcement has said, based on what school officials have said, this individual was going to that school to perhaps conduct a shooting, and that is a big reason why today i think a lot of people are thankful these kids spoke up and alerted law enforcement. a trend we hope continues, not only do people spot a potential threat but able to alert law enforcement in time, to obviously stop what could have been a bad day.

to lebanon where the israeli military launched air strikes against hezbollah, reeling from two days of deadly device explosions. nbc's josh lederman is following that story for us. what's the latest? >> reporter: for those who hoped this was a periodic short-term operation by the israelis over two days, it would calm down. that is not what we have seen. it has escalated through the barrage of air strikes and artillery. they have not crossed the border on the ground into the lebanese border. it is not a ground incursion into lebanon. as the leader was giving a speech threatening retaliation against israel, the booms were heard over beirut of israeli airplanes flying allow over beirut breaking the sound

barrier, trying to signal to hezbollah there could be more to come. the israeli defense minister in the last couple of hours gave a briefing where he said as much. the israeli pace of operations will continue. now, hezbollah is now threatening to punish israel at a time and place of its choosing, and in fact, the iranians are getting in on that as well, saying there will be a staunch reaction to this israeli operation over the last few days, and so the concern level, very high right now. it's still not totally clear what strategically israel may have been trying to accomplish, why the timing of doing this right now, but certainly this has brought the situation much closer to the potential that everyone has been fearing really since the beginning of this war in october, chris, of a second all-out war on israel's northern border with hezbollah and lebanon. >> josh lederman, thank you. in 90 seconds, donald trump's promises to visit the ohio city now at the center of wild conspiracy theories he

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wheatties this morning? what's going on? >> reporter: we talk a lot about polls. we know every demographic, racial group, age group, you have it, shows that voters think the economy is the number one issue in this election. white house advisers think that yesterday's fed interest rate decision was a significant validation for the president's economic vision and record over the last 3 1/2 years in office. he made several arguments, taking a historical view of what he inherited and what the economy looks like. take a look at arguments the president put out? >> interest rates are going to be coming down, and they're expected to go down further, and that's a good place for us to be. unlike my predecessor, i respect the federal reserve's independence. they don't know women in america. income is up for women workers. women should be paid equally for

equal work. there's not a job that a woman can't do that a man can do, including being president of the united states of america. >> reporter: obviously a campaign sub text to this speech. you heard the president say this is not necessarily a declaration of victory, but a declaration of progress. the president thinks, and tried to remind people in the speech, he inherited an economy in free fall. a major strain for americans but had global causes, supply chain disruptions. he talked about the new economic playbook, one that differed from past republicans, all arguments that he thinks will be helpful to vice president harris out there. >> mike memoli, thanks for that. appreciate it. two american cities now at the center of a national conversation about immigration will soon be getting a visitor. >> i'm going to go there in the next two weeks. i'm going to springfield and i'm going to aurora.

[ applause ] you may never see me again, but that's okay. got to do what i got to do. whatever happened to trump? well, he never got out of springfield. >> springfield, of course, is where donald trump has falsely claimed that haitian immigrants are abducting and eating pets, and about aurora, trump also said falsely that venezuelan gangs have taken over. nbc's shaquille brewster is reporting from springfield. also with us, matthew dowd, a senior msnbc political analyst. shaq, the city has been dealing with this for more than ten days now since j.d. vance first tweeted out that lie. i know you spoke with some residents today who continue to deal with the fallout. what are they telling you? >> reporter: you're really feeling this chilling effect it's having on folks in springfield. what we saw earlier this month, those false debunked rumors were amplified on the debate stage, and what's followed are these

wave of threats that have targeted schools, that are targeted city buildings, that have targeted yesterday a walmart and a grocery store, and what people here are telling me is that they're feeling scared. that's the word that you continue to hear over and over again. and that fear is making its way down to the youngest of people in this town. i want you to listen to some of the conversations we had with parents, dropping off their elementary school students at one of the schools that was evacuated last week, start with the parent who said his 6-year-old didn't know what a bomb threat was but felt the tension and started crying. listen here. >> it was a very terrifying feeling, but i was also enraged because i know that a lot of it's rooted in lies against the community that has shown me a lot of love. >> all this activity with the bombing threats and stuff, it has a little bit of an impact on the kids.

they're kind of scared. >> what's going on right now is really chaotic and hectic, everybody has a right to live in peace, and this is just disrupting our peace, and these people are nice people. they're good people. >> reporter: as for those threats, the governor, mike dewine has deployed dozens of state troopers to schools to literally go through schools every morning and sweep for explosives, and then just kind of stay there to make sure that people feel safe. we can expect to hear from the governor in about an hour or so at a press conference. and meanwhile, you know, as city officials continue to say, resources are strained. these threats, they require a lot of attention, they require a lot of focus. and they say that frankly, a visit from former president trump or from any leader, any national leader at this point, is only going to add to that strain that they are so desperately feeling right now, chris. >> shaquille brewster, thank you, shaq. well, matthew, the mayor of

springfield said this week, and by the way, he's a republican, that a visit from trump would burden the city's already strained resources. last hour, i spoke with a pastor from springfield, and this is what he told me. >> the truth is if he were to retract his story, everything would calm down. and i think he has great influence on some of the people who have come to our community to do harm, and i know they respect him, and if he would just ask them to go home, that would be a great help. >> if he would just retract his story, speaking of donald trump, the pastor also told me there have been more bomb threats yet today. is there any amount of pressure, do you think, on donald trump to do that? or not to visit in the first place? >> i mean, there's a tremendous amount of pressure, but i don't think it will have any influence because donald trump doesn't seem to care. he's already been told numerous

times that this whole story is a lie. he has been told by officials in springfield. he has been told by the governor who's a republican to stop it, this is all a lie. quit doing this, you're endangering people's lives. he and his vice presidential nominee, j.d. vance, continue to do it and continue to fan the flames and continue to put people's lives at risk in this town over a total lie that's been pushed and pushed and pushed by him. i don't think he cares what happens to that community. i don't think he cares what happens to those people there. he's doing whatever he wants -- he thinks serves his interest. it's deplorable knowing it's a lie, and you've been told it's a lie, and you continue to do it. >> springfield has gotten the lion's share of attention, but aurora, colorado, is grappling with misinformation. the aurora sentinel editorial board said quote, crucial facts

about venezuelan gangs can't come from trump. it's a lie created and propelled by republican extremists to advance an antiimmigrant and white nationalist agenda in hopes of swaying scared and distracted voters with what amounts to domestic terrorism. but, i mean, here you have two people in these two communities, essentially talking about the power of donald trump in both a negative, and potentially calming way. but in the meantime, what's a local official to do? it's already costing springfield millions of dollars. money they don't have. >> i mean, yeah, it's incredibly upsetting, i think, to anybody. those people in those communities, and anybody around the country. chris, as you know, we have seen this pattern in our history of immigrant groups being targeted and then immigrant groups being hurt and violence being aimed at immigrant groups by people

fanning the flames of white nationalist. it happened to asian americans. it happened to my ancestors, italian americans, jewish americans, it happened to latino americans, it's happened throughout our history, and you would think, chris, that we've gotten to the 21st century that we no longer do this, but for some reason, donald trump and j.d. vance cannot seem to help themselves and continue to sort of divide america, and in areas of the country that are republican. they're trying to serve a broader political purpose, which is their own personal power. >> matthew dowd, thanks for coming on the show, appreciate it. one of the most powerful men in music is sitting in one of new york city's most notorious jails. a former warden there will tell us what life's like behind bars. . t

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metropolitan detention center, and msnbc legal correspondent lisa rubin. let's talk about the court papers first. what did we learn about the alleged witness tampering? >> we learned, chris, yesterday, that while the federal government was taking grand jury testimony, sean combs reached out to at least two witnesses, both before and after he understood that they had been given grand jury subpoenas. in one particular case, he told one of the individuals, essentially, first of all, i want to say one of the individuals was someone he had not spoken to according to the government, for several years, and after that person testified to the grand jury, he is continuing to contact that person on and on again. but the other thing that we've learned is as you noted in your setup that sean combs after his ex-girlfriend cassie ventura filed her civil suit last november reached out to someone that was also one of his alleged

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biggest city in the united states. it has a lot of moving parts, there are inmates that are being moved in and out of the facility every day. it is a very dynamic and complicated facility. >> so does the dynamism make it more complicated or how does it impact the fact that people are constantly coming and going, many of them as we know, from the past, are, indeed, like combs, high profile? >> yes, well, because it serves mainly as a jail facility, that means inmates that are being charged, prosecuted in the eastern district of new york, they're being transferred in and out to court on a daily basis, and also the mdc houses inmates from the southern district as well, out of manhattan. as you know, the metropolitan correction center, the mcc closed a while back. i'm sure that brooklyn is taking

on some southern district inmates as well. what really makes it complicated, in my mind, is the fact that it is very difficult to hire and then perhaps more importantly retain quality staff. when you have the competition that you have in the city of new york, oftentimes the bureau of prisons has a very difficult time recruiting really good, competent, well trained people. i will say that the vast majority of staff at the mdc are salt of the earth, hard working, good people, competent, well-trained. however, there has been a disproportionate element of corruption within that facility. all of these things lead to problems. to me, the most important thing is the staffing levels. the staffing levels are consistently down, not only throughout the agency, but in particular at mdc brooklyn. i recently heard that they were staffed at 55%, and that is just

going to cause an array of problems. >> 55%? just about half of their staffing level. >> that is my understanding. i cannot validate that, but that is my understanding based on my contacts, and that's a problem. clearly that's going to lead to forced or mandated overtime, burnout, cynicism, apathy, all of the things that you don't want within a correctional facility. so they've got a lot of really severe challenges there. >> so let me take you back, if i can, to sean combs, what his day-to-day life is going to be like inside there, and frankly, the question that has been raised because they've been talking about keeping him away from the general population in a special unit, if you have such low staffing levels, can you keep him safe? >> well, they should be able to as long as everybody does their

job, and there's no shortcutting. it's my understanding, and i can't validate this, but it's my understanding that mr. combs is in the special housing unit. the special housing unit known as the hole or the lockup. >> that doesn't sound good. >> well, it is a lockdown unit. the majority -- >> so he doesn't get to come and go? there's not like a central area where he can move about during the day? >> oh, gosh, no, he's in the special housing unit, a 24-hour lockdown unit. he will be in lockdown 23 hours a day, one hour of recreation, three showers per week, but anytime that he moves from his cell, he will be completely restrained. leg irons, handcuffs, belly chain. no inmate moves in the special housing unit unless it's under these very controlled and strict circumstances. so he's going to have a lot of time on his hand.

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tomorrow kamala harris will return to battleground georgia for an abortion rights speech. the campaign says it will highlight the stories of two women who died under the state's abortion ban. let's bring back nbc news white house correspondent mike memoli. what more do we know about this speech that she's planning to make? >> reporter: chris, it's quite interesting that the vice president is making this trip. it was not originally something that was part of her campaign plan for the week, but after this incredible reporting from pro publica that detailed these two disturbing cases of women, one a 28-year-old mother of one, another a 41-year-old mother of three who took abortion pills but had various complications and ultimately died as a result of those complications. a state medical board in both cases said the deaths were preventable but happened because of the state's very strict abortion ban. and so the harris campaign obviously has seen reproductive rights as a galvanizing issue.

we remember what an important moment it was in the debate between her and former president trump, and they're now seizing on this to have her speak directly about this case, to talk about what is a very motivating issue. >> we're also hearing from the second gentleman, doug emhoff, defending his wife following the jab from sarah huckabee sanders. give us the latest on that. >> reporter: another example of the campaign adapting in realtime, and trying to respond to these incidents. obviously we heard from arkansas governor sarah huckabee sanders talking about she has children that keep her humble, but the vice president because she is not the birth mother of her stepchildren doesn't have that. doug emhoff took quick action and called cameras to his event so he could respond. take a look at what the second gentleman said in this case. >> they said that somehow because cole and ella aren't kamala's quote unquote, biological children, she doesn't have anything in her life to keep her humble.

as if keeping women humble, whether you have children or not, is something we should strive for. it is not. >> reporter: and we also, of course, saw doug emhoff's first wife talk about this as well on social media, the fact of that blended family was one we saw spotlighted at the democratic convention, and they are very quick to respond in this case to what they see as really an attack on all women. >> what is the old cat skills joke, i am proud of my humility. mike memoli, thank you for that. i don't think mike got that. okay. a little delayed in the laugh there. there's going to be some extra star power on hand tonight for kamala harris in michigan. oprah winfrey will headline a virtual event live streaming across social media, and aimed at getting people to register to vote. it's part of a packed september calendar of celebrity appearances for the democratic ticket, including high priced

fundraisers with lin-manuel mir randall and shonda rhimes, receptions with matt damon and molly ringwald, and cooking with kamala events. joining me now, is teddy and former ceo of the dnc, and former executive director of emily's list. teddy, you have been covering this for "the times" for a while now. i wonder if you think the harris campaign is unique or ahead of how they have been using heroes celebrity endorsements, or is it just that they have so many a-list endorsers, what do you make of the way they're using them? >> what kamala harris does not have is time. that is the resource diminishing every second that we're on right now, and she needs people who can draw a crowd. there are the principles, kamala harris, doug emhoff, tim and

gwen walz, and there are people who can show up for a dinner and pay $50,000 a seat. and harris wants to spend time in michigan, and then you have this tension, what are you going to do? who's going to draw them to pay 50 k for their chicken dinner and, that leaves you with surrogates, and surrogate fundraising is nothing new. i think the harris campaign is using them in a very very concentrated amount over a short amount of time, given that her entire campaign is only a three or four month endeavor. she's going to crop these people out so she can do high dollar fundraising while hitting the campaign trail. >> i wonder if it's unique to run against donald trump, no matter how many celebrity endorsements you may have because he is a celebrity in his own right. >> he is a celebrity in his own head. i think these celebrities are

important because of the condensed time frame. people have to get to know kamala harris quickly in order to make this decision and show up and get out there and vote. celebrities and the surrogates we're going to see being deployed in the next few weeks, it's about a couple of things they're doing. obviously raising money, which was mentioned, that's really going to be important. messaging, you know, people feel like they know and they trust some of these celebrities, and so they can reach more people with more messaging, and also there's a momentum factor here. kamala harris from the beginning, since she got into this race has had a lot of momentum, hit the mark on everything that we're watching, everything that we have been seeing around fundraising, the convention, the debate, all of these things, coalescing, and now she's getting culture involved across all of these people and different industries. it creates excitement, and also makes donald trump a little bit jealous and mad, and that's not a bad thing for them either. >> and obviously, teddy, trump has fewer star endorsements than

harris. i wonder if it could lean up with his anti-elite narrative. we know republicans have this anti-hollywood narrative. how is that all playing out? >> yeah, sure, we at the "times accounts did polling about what democrats and republicans think about taylor swift, which is a question that has not been asked much in public opinion research. there's a wide public split, you see lots of republicans see these celebrities as you know, more hollywood elites, and that has been the trump campaign's messaging about the star power at the dnc for instance. look, trump has his own surrogates of sorts. his family has headlined fundraisers. j.d. vance has taken the lion's share of the burden for campaign fundraising events. trump himself, and harris herself are not really doing that much finance events, and i know that's been a source of some frustration, at least for republicans that trump's fundraising events are usually

at trump properties. you know, it's come to mar-a-lago, come to bedminster. trump has a couple of events upcoming, and harris has a couple of events in california this weekend, but there's not a lot of time for, you know, spending three hours coaxing the richest people in cincinnati out of 3,300 bucks. these surrogates matter to the few people who have the time to go to cincinnati. >> i'm looking again at this lineup of the celebrities who are coming out just in september, and we have to add to that, obviously, the presence, just that overriding presence of taylor swift. you notice a couple of things. you notice their diversity, the age diversity. i don't know how many years between robert de niro and taylor swift, but it's more than a couple of decades, and you also notice sort of the diversity in who they are and what they do. you have people who cook like kamala harris does. you have people largely in the theater world. you have writers. you have obviously movie and tv

stars. does that help, too, i wonder? because they're trying to get people out to give money, but if you're talking about getting people to register to vote, i remember it would have been eight years ago because four years ago we had covid, a bunch of broadway stars were making calls in new york city where their names are actually known, whereas they might not necessarily be known in the rest of the country. can you micro target with these folks? >> yeah, of course. look, i think this is micro targeting. it's also macro. the reality is it's exactly what you said, chris, multiracial, multigenerational, multigender, you are seeing a full swath of america. people forget, these celebrities come from places. they come from some of these states that are going to decide this election. they can home, have these conversations. it's not nothing. every vote is going to count and matter in this election. you mentioned taylor swift a few times. taylor swift, i was lucky enough

to go to one of her concerts this last summer. you know, those stadiums that she has packed not just across the united states but around the world and the message she brings around women and girls and what's happening, that is relevant to so many people right now, and i think that's why you saw this surge in voter registration right after she made her endorsement. i think it was over 300,000 people registered to vote. when you're talking about margins in states that could be won by less than 10,000 votes, that's game changing numbers, and i think when you put all of those celebrities that you're putting here, and other surrogates from other industries, business and sports, and all of these things, everybody is impacted, i think what you see from kamala harris is a wide swath of people that support her, and that she will support no matter what. >> jess o connell, teddy sleefer, thank you so much. the blue plaid sprayer taking a plea agreement with the

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