everything we've been doing, andrea, since the 8th of october has been meant for two things. one, to make sure israel can defend itself. and two, that we're not broadening this war, we're not deepening it. >> before i lose you, quickly, we now know that there was a threat from iran against donald trump's life and that they've interfered and hacked. what is your message to iran about that? >> we have talked very plainly about iran's election interference and -- >> and what about the threat to his life? >> this is something we've been monitoring for quite a while. and it's not just the former president but it's other former officials in his administration. this is something that the iranians have expressed interest in, and it's stuff -- we're monitoring it closely. >> we're out of time. thank you. thank you so much. and that does it for us. jose diaz-balart picks up the coverage right now.

good day. i am jose diaz-balart, in for chris jansing. foreseeable and preventable mistakes. a brand new bipartisan report lays out secret service failures ahead of the attempt on donald trump's life in july. the errors at the heart of the report and what it means for the agency moving forward. plus, an unprecedented attack appears to be sparking a new phase of war. israel launching a wave of strikes in lebanon after intercepting a missile fired at tel aviv in hezbollah's deepest strike yet. what the idf just said that could signal a ground invasion could be coming. and florida bracing for impact as helene intensifies into a hurricane. millions of people are now under a state of emergency as they prepare to grapple with life-threatening storm surge, damaging winds and heavy rain. we'll talk to the head of fema about how they are preparing. and we begin with new details emerging from a bipartisan

report on the security failures that led to the first assassination attempt on former president donald trump. the findings are striking. the secret service was made aware of a suspicious person with a range finder 27 minutes prior to the shooting. and their command center knew two minutes before shots were fired that there was a man on the roof, which wasn't communicated to trump's detail. while the secret service has acknowledged ultimate responsibility for its failure to prevent the attack on trump at the july 13th rally in butler, pennsylvania, the interim report paints a picture of individuals deflecting blame. >> what we have here really is an accumulation of errors that produced a perfect storm of stunning failure. there was no chain of command, no pinpointing of responsibility, which i think is at the core of these failures. >> nbc's ryan nobles is reporting on capitol hill. nbc's ken dilanian reporting

from washington, d.c. also joining us, jim cavanaugh, retired atf special agent in charge, former hostage negotiator for atf and an msnbc contributor. so ken, what else are we learning from this report? >> you know, jose, it's important to say the secret service director has already acknowledged some of these failures and he has said that agents will face disciplinary action. but this report paints a much more disturbing picture than he was willing to do the other day. it says that agents and officials who were interviewed pointed fingers, couldn't say who was in charge of advance planning, and didn't acknowledge how badly they mishandled this. big picture of the report says the secret service didn't communicate to local law enforcement that they needed to secure that roof that the sniper used to fire and that the secret service knew it was unsecured when trump took the stage. and then because of a series of astonishing communication failures the secret service agents protecting trump did not learn key information about the threat as local police were discovering it. the report says the secret service leadership denied some assets requested by trump's detail for the butler rally

including a countersurveillance team that may well have discovered the shooter before he got on that roof. and the report confirmed that local police and the secret service were not in radio communication. it said the secret service was notified, as you said, about an individual on the roof of the building two minutes before the shooter opened fire but that information was not relaid to the team protecting trump, who could have rushed him off the stage. the secret service had counter drone technology that might have spotted crooks flying his drone before the rally. but the senate investigators found that the agent in charge of that system on site really didn't know how to operate it and spent hours on the phone with tech support trying to get it to work. it's really a cascade of errors. the secret service acknowledging some of this and saying that they will work to fix some of it. and this is really one of several investigations. we're going to hear more about this in the coming weeks, jose. >> so ryan, how are lawmakers reacting to this? >> jose, the overwhelming sense that you get from these lawmakers, both republican and democrat, is a sense of frustration. this really wasn't a resources issue. yes, there were some

technological problems. yes, the secret service advance team had asked for more support to aid them in their protection of donald trump. but really at the fundamental core here this was a breakdown in communication and human error that led to these vulnerabilities and their security posture. and it's something that these senators want to see fixed immediately. take a listen. >> there needs to be accountability for what happened because there were a series of failures and all of the failures could have been prevented. >> the buck definitely stops with the head of the agency, the department of homeland security, alexander mayorkas has to take charge, clean house, replace this leadership and provide full disclosure. >> all of these failures we found were human failures. you don't fix human failures by giving the humans more money. you fix human failures by -- >> so if there's any good news that came out of this report,

jose, it's that this is not going to require a multibillion-dollar investment to fix many of these problems that the senate team were able to discover over the course of their investigation. it really just means policy changes. it means a simple fix like making sure local law enforcement and secret service are on the same radio channel when they're working together to protect either the president of the united states or one of the main candidates for president of the united states. the senators are really encouraging the secret service to make those changes immediately. and as you heard from these senators, if they're unwilling to do so, maybe if they are even willing to do so, there needs to be serious changes at all levels within the secret service. jose. >> and jim, as we're showing pictures, these live pictures of the former president in mint hill, north carolina where he is just starting a campaign stop focused on the economy, but that is the images that we're getting live from north carolina at this hour. jim, and you heard what senator

paul had to say, more money won't fix human errors. also what senator blumenthal says, the chain of command is at the core of these failures. what challenges could there be in fixing all of these problems? >> well, jose, it's a complete structural leadership failure when you read this preliminary report from the senate. it's unbelievable to see that a special agent in charge -- i mean, that's the title. i held that title. it's the highest field command position in the federal service. it's the senior executive service of the government. for example, in the atf there's only 25 in the united states. the special agent in charge is the field commander. and the special agent in charge of this instance says i wasn't in charge, i was a liaison person. but the secret service has a structural problem here because when they come in with their detail the detail has a special agent in charge. the most prestigious one of course is they call ppd,

presidential protection detail, and there's a special agent in charge. and he's usually the guy you see right behind the president. they often go on to be the director because they get to know the president and they get appointed later or get, you know, an appointment as the director somewhere else. but that's the special agent in charge of the detail. well, when they go into a city, pittsburgh or dallas or wherever, there's a special agent in charge there. and what secret service is not doing is they're not placing the commander, the on-scene commander at the site, the special agent in charge, over the joint operations center. and we learned these lessons in law enforcement 40 and 50 years ago. crisis management. we did it in atf. we did it in the fbi. we got a structure for it. it's an on-scene command, joint operations center. they need to have the person at the joint operations center, which would have been on site in butler, state police, local police, all their chiefs and commanders, the special agent in charge there is the guy in charge.

and he's getting all the information and calling the shots. and he's saying move the principal off the stage, we have a person we can't locate that has i arraignage finder. we've got somebody on the roof, move him back. we don't have even a person doing that. we have the person supposed to be doing that saying they're liaison. this is a really terrible failure. the service has to fix this immediately. and just to close, jose -- >> yeah, yeah, please go ahead. >> just to close, i drummed into my people in all these crisis thirngsz we dealt with bombings, snipers, killers, we set up these joint f joint operations centers with the police. and i drummed into everybody all the time, info, flow and go. you get information, you flow information 360 and then you do your task. and when i read this report i saw that failure everywhere. the sniper gets information, he doesn't flow it anywhere. he sees cops running to the roof of the barn but he doesn't flow the information. he fails. you've got to -- info, flow and then you go. and that's repeatedly happening

in that instance. you've got to inculcate your people with that mindset. at every level, the commanders to the special agents has to know that. they have to fix their structural leadership. you have to have the special agent in charge. if you're not going to be in charge, then you don't get the title in charge. you have to do something else there. >> one thing of course is the massive series of communication failures you talk about. then there's the issue, just thinking of what ken was telling us, about the fact that there was only one drone accessible to the officials there and then this person was on the phone for tech support for hours trying to get the drone to work? i mean, this is the kind of stuff -- in a way you're like this is what we all go through on a daily basis anytime you want to reach tech support, you're going to be on hours. but that the secret service

would have that problem when it's the security of a former president of the united states? >> and you're exactly right. and the biggest then, ken and i talked about this the other day, and here's the biggest thing the senators left out of their report, but we should all understand. crooks in butler broke the aura of impenetrable security around a secret service protectee. he broke the aura. and that's why we got the shooter in west palm. because he saw oh, these guys aren't impenetrable. i can do this, i can get through this. the problem is other people are seeing that too around the country, disaffected people, political terrorists. foreign nations, iran. they're seeing this weakness. and when they see this weakness they think they can exploit it. and that's a bad thing for the country and this service. there's the greatest threat i think is coming from drone attacks. they're ubiquitous in the ukraine war with explosives and firearms. and i know the service is trying

to prepare for that. but i'm telling you, that's a great fear. but they've got to back those perimeters up and bring in all the agents and officers you need to do it. i don't care if you've got to bring in 30 border patrol to secure the golf course at mar-a-lago. guess what? trump's going to play golf there next time he's down there. so get ready. and you need to secure it because we've got four months until the inauguration and it's a critical, critical time for america. >> those drone attacks you refer to in ukraine used by the russians are made in iran. let's not forget that. ryan nobles, ken dilanian, jim cavanaugh, thank you all so very much. up next, hezbollah fires a missile deep into israel as tensions mount in the region. why israel is now saying it is preparing for a potential ground invasion. we're back in 90 seconds. ds you know, when i take the bike out like this, all my stresses just melt away. i hear that. this bad boy can fix anything. yep, tough day at work,

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hit by rocket fire by the iranian-backed group. explosions are seen in the sky from above the intersepgs of more rockets, blocked by the iron dome. i want to bring in nbc's matt bradley is in beirut today. former spokesperson for the u.s. mission to the u.n. and former syria and lebanon director at the white house hagar shemali. also with us retired four-star general and msnbc military analyst barry mccaffrey. so matt, a top israeli commander now saying the campaign is entering a, quote, new phase. what does that look like and how are things in beirut right now? >> for all of these days we've been seeing this, the better part of the past week, we haven't actually seen any indication that the israelis are preparing a ground invasion even though they've been pummeling hezbollah targets in southern lebanon. now for the first time today we've been hearing from generals, from top-level israelis saying to prepare for a ground invasion. we haven't heard yet resolute word that there will be a ground

invasion. that's important to note. but as you mentioned, we heard from the idf chief of staff, and he said, as you said, they're preparing the process of a maneuver. and he went on to say to prepare your military boots. he's speaking to his troops here. prepare your maneuver boots. and he said we'll show them what it means to face a professional, highly skilled and battle-experienced force. and he said you're coming in much stronger and far more experienced than they are. you will go in, destroy the enemy there, and decisively destroy their infrastructure. well, the israelis have spent the past week destroying hezbollah infrastructure and killing and maiming hezbollah fighters. we've seen the death toll spike. of course last week we saw that very unusual and unprecedented incident where there were -- looked like thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies that blew up across lebanon, especially in hezbollah strongholds in the south of the country. the bekaa valley in the east and the southern neighborhood of

dahia here in beirut. here in beirut as you asked, jose, the situation hasn't quite reached the level that it has in the south. we've been hearing bombardments for the past several days increasingly frequent. they've been quite loud. and i've been here with some regularity for much of the past year. this has been the most frequent and the loudest that we've been hearing ever since the latest offensive, the latest round of fighting started all the way back on october 7th. it looks as though the israelis are very much preparing for a ground invasion. but like i said, we haven't yet gotten resolute word that they're going to be doing that. jose? >> so general, as this news was developing today i was thinking back over the conversations you and i have had for the last couple of days, weeks on what a ground invasion would look like. and general, what the consequences of a ground invasion could look like.

>> well, look, i think at the end of the day the israelis have made an irrevocable decision, they're going to push the hezbollah threat back from the border, they're going to stop the rocket fire. hezbollah's fired some 9,000 rockets and drones at israel since they initiated attacks on israel on the day after the 7 october massacre. the israelis are going to stop this one way or the other. they're not going to pay much attention to outside influences such as the u.s. talking about two-state solutions. they're not yet ready to go in on the ground, calling up two reserve brigades isn't nearly enough. this will require a force of a quarter of a million troops to actually go in and eliminate 150,000 hezbollah rockets and the sites. but the israelis have hit 1,600--some-odd targets.

they've had a devastating impact on the chain of command of hezbollah, particularly with the pagers and walkie booby trap operation, wounded or killed over 3,000 hezbollah leadership. so we're on the edge of an all-out ground invasion, which would be extremely tough, not just on the civilian population but on both hezbollah and the idf. this would be a high-casualty operation. >> general, how quickly can one -- or can israel ramp up to 250,000 troops? >> pretty quick. they called up 400,000-some-odd troops for the initial operations against gaza. they largely destroyed most of hamas along with 60% to 70% of the infrastructure in gaza. so they've got a very active reserve force, well trained,

well led. tlal come up instantaneously. but there's an economic consequence to israel doing just that. and their equipment's getting worn out and they're expending munitions at a faster rate than they can replace them. so an all-out war with hezbollah is not in israel's interest. but i think they're headed deliberately in that direction, hoping hezbollah will crack. i don't think they will. so the situation looks pretty grim. >> and hagar, so meanwhile, if you're, i don't know, in the biden administration, what conversations are you having and what could possibly the united states do or have any influence on? >> well, the u.s. is focused on two main points at this point in time, and the first is about they're still focused on trying to achieve a cease-fire. and i know that sounds a little bit, you know, not on the same page as where the israeli government is for the moment or hamas for that matter. but that said, the u.s. is still

focused on trying to prepare a new proposal as secretary blinken said earlier today, i believe. he said there were 18 paragraphs and there were three left, that both sides hadn't come to an agreement to. that does not mean-i want to clarify, that they're close to an agreement. in fact, most israeli-palestinian agreements over the years, whether it's cease-fire or peace agreements, always boil down to the tiny 10% that remain and often don't finish across the finish line. but it would be -- it wouldn't be responsible of the united states not to work with its partners like egypt and qatar to try and bring both sides, the israeli side and hamas, even if they're kicking and screaming, drag them to the table to try to reach a cease-fire. there are still hostages there, seven of whom are american, four of whom, of those are presumed to be alive. and so the u.s. has to remain focused on that. on the other side the u.s. remains focused on not letting this escalate. he with hear this talking point over and over again. not letting this escalate to a

regional -- full-scale regional war. but the definition of that, how that looks is a little bit unclear because arguably we are maybe not in a full-scale regional war but in a regional war. iran is fighting this through its proxies, and it's not just through hezbollah, it's through hamas, it's through the houthis as well. and what we're seeing now i expect to last a long time. and the last point i would make about this is the israeli government actually has been saying very clearly in plain english since the summer what their plans have been. and sometimes it doesn't really feel like washington is listening very closely. but -- and that's because our influence over the netanyahu government might be waning a little bit. >> and matt, i'm just thinking israel has -- at least in the recent times, since 1982, done two massive war -- you know, ground invasions into lebanon, which lasted decades. >> that's right.

and when you speak to people here in lebanon, everything we talk about now, it always goes back in their minds, in their conversation to what happened back in 2006. and the people that i've been speaking to here say that this is worse, the bombardments they were seeing in the south at least, worse than what they saw in 2006 already, and we haven't even seen a ground invasion yet. and the numbers are there. we're seeing there are more than 600 people who have been killed just in the past two days, since monday. to give you a sense of that, over the one-month period of the fighting between hezbollah and israel back in 2006, there were a little more than 1,000 people who were killed. most of them lebanese civilians. and that is over a 30-day period. this is over a two-day period that we've seen already about half. so you know, this is a really, really acute memory for so many lebanese people. the way that the israelis moved in and laid waste to southern lebanon. and that's the overriding anxiety here in lebanon. >> matt bradley, hagar chemali,

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reached hurricane level. collides with the coast of florida. the tallahassee democrat reports helene is rapidly gaining speed. it's already causing problems in mexico. those powerful winds could be moving in more than 125 miles an hour by the time the hurricane hits florida. possibly as a category 3 or even higher. who knows? across the panhandle in the big bend people are boarding up their homes and loading up on sandbags. at least 19 counties are under evacuation warnings. helene is expected to make landfall at night. officials say power outages could stop rescues until the sun comes up. nbc's jesse kirsch is on the ground in cedar key. nbc meteorologist bill karins is with us. so jesse, how can concerned are people there and what kind of preparations are they undergoing? >> yeah, jose, you might remember this is one of the areas that got hit by hurricane debbie over the summer. i spoke to someone who was boarding up this building. he told me that the water came to about there. that was a category 1 storm.

and as you mentioned we're talking about something that could be substantially bigger and stronger in hurricane helene. i can talk a look at the building here that's being boarded up, got the sandbags in place but the reality is this time around this might not be enough fortification because with the projected storm surge we could be having more than double the storm surge here in cedar key compared to hurricane debbie over the summer and that means the water level in this community could be over my head, feet over my head, if you can imagine that, jose. so we've seen buildings like this boarded up. we spoke with people who were grabbing sandbags in preparation for protecting their homes and then evacuating, and in particular i spoke with one woman who said that compared to the run-up to hurricane debbie looking at the storm surge forecast and the potential damage that could be coming here she was more concerned about this storm that is forthcoming. i also spoke with someone who actually rode out debbie at home and said that hearing the wind whipping things around he said he's not taking chances moving forward with the hurricane, he is leaving town as well.

and officials say you hide from the wind, you run from the water because if you get storm surge and you're caught in it, again, feet of water above your head, there's very little you can do in a moment like that, jose. >> absolutely. so important, jesse. i thank you very much. so bill, let's go into this. where is helene now and what are the next 30 hours going to look like? >> so jose, now we're getting to the point we can kind of pinpoint where we think the worst of the devastation is going to be from the wirngsd the rain and the storm surge and those are the residents that need to rush their preparations. if you're told to evacuate, get out. it will begin to restrengthen maybe even rapidly again this evening. we do think later on tonight it will start to ramp up possibly

to a category 2 and then tomorrow up to maybe a category 3 by this time. and still possibly intensifying all the way up until landfall. this cone only shows you where the eye's going to be. that's it. doesn't show you how far and how wide the tropical storm force winds will be. but this does take it up to tallahassee fm tallahassee's kind of in the bullseye for 48 hours. near atlanta by the time the sun comes up friday morning still with winds strong enough for power outages all the way in north georgia and then finally by friday evening it's weak enough that continuities going to cause many problems in tennessee. so the hurricane impacts, this is mostly the wind area that's going to be the worst. tallahassee to albany, georgia, cedar key. this area here including the town of perry. everywhere else has a chance for tropical storm gusts that could do minor damages with isolated power outages. and of course to the right of that landfall is where that 10 to 15-foot storm surge is likely. and hopefully it will occur at low tide and not high tide. the tides only differ by two feet on the west coast of florida. it doesn't make that much of a difference. but i'm sure everyone would love

to take two feet off of some of these numbers. tampa area, sarasota still five to eight feet is possible. it looks to occur more toward low tide. hopefully it's more that five to six-foot range. but there will be water on the west coast of florida that people haven't seen and it is already pouring with flash flood warnings in the southern appalachians and that's well ahead of the storm tomorrow. it's going to pour, some areas here under a high risk, jose. this has never happened in this region. two days in a row under a high risk of flash flooding. that's when the most lives are lost when we're in what we call a high risk. and we're expecting over a foot of rain in the mountains here. so that's a whole other story. besides the landfall. >> yeah, bill. you know, and i know i focus on this a lot but just are all the forecast models kind of in agreement here? because you're always looking for well, maybe this one, the european one is showing it a little bit. are all the models kind of agreeing on this? >> they do and they have been and it hasn't changed. everything is still pointing to that landfall up just south of

tallahassee in the studying it a and there is no forecast, reasoning or changes. when we get the 5:00 p.m. advisory inre from the hurrican center do not expect any change of that cone. it's going to go straight towards tallahassee. and all the residents there. it's been 150 years since tallahassee's had a major hurricane. no one alive has ever seen anything like this. so that's what you're preparing for. you're preparing for something you never experienced. do not think this isr.om going e like kate back in the '80s for all our friends in tallahassee. this will be a storm unfortunately that probably does more devastation to tal haas heee than any storm previous on record. >> bill karins, thank you very much. and joining me now is fema administrator deane chriswell. administrator, thank you so much for being with us. let's talk about first of all what is fema doing to prepare

for areas that are most probably going to be directly affected? and i'm thinking the tallahassee area but all the way over pensacola and even huma and all wait down to even tampa, st. pete. >> yeah, jose. i think as you heard from bill we're actually preparing for a multistate event.ri you know, we know that we're going to see significant impacts in that tallahassee and big bend area. and we've been working with the state of florida, the emergency management director there, to to move resources in. been doing that over the last few days. we're talking about search and rescue teams,g hospital assessment teams, power restoration teams. and this is resources that we will have staged and ready to support the state ofea florida with whatever impacts that they might see. but we're also moving resources into georgia, into south carolina, north carolina because we know that they're also going to get significant rain, which could have somen, life-threateng implications for people in those communities as well. >> and so what kind of -- i'm so

glad that you're giving us the details of it. what kind and how much -- how many resources and what kinds of things are being moved in rightv now? >> yeah, so theed biggest thing that we're moving in is our search and rescue teams. florida has several search and rescue teams across the state, and we're moving additional urban search and rescue teams into the area. i don't have the exact number withn' me right now but we have several that are coming in not just again for florida but also search and rescue teams that are staged to support georgia, nort carolina, south carolina. we're moving the army corps of engineers and their pouft restoration teams, they're going to be on standby, they're going to be able to go right in afterwards, as soon as it's safe to do so to help us make sure we can either put generators on critical facilities or help support any of the power restoration efforts they have. one of our biggest partners is also the american red cross. i don't want to leaven them ou. they have brought in hundreds of personnel to make sure that they're supporting the

evacuation and the sheltering needs that these communities might have. >> you know, i've got to tell you something, in my experience over these lasts is so important because they actually get to -- almost immediately they get to areas that maybe other folks don't get to and even just thinking, administrator, on the communities that sometimes have a little bit of concern over the government coming in to help, when they see the red cross they know that they're safe and that they can go there and it's such an important role. i can't thank you enough for being here there are so much things pulling all of you just the fact that the resources that you all people are still accepting emergency fund applications, fema ais, from hurricane debbi.

howe stretched are you? >> so we have enough resources to support this. and what we need to do, and what we do after every event like y debbie, and as we prepare for this, you know, we look at where we can readjudicate some of the resources we have and move them into the area. the interesting thing is it's the life-saving resources that we're moving in now. and for something like debbie we're in the recovery phase and it's our recovery resources that are supporting that. all of our response resources, they're ready, they're postured, they're going to be able to go in and support'r any of these communities across multiple states that might be impacted by the storm. and then we'll bring in our recovery teams. we have teams that also go door to door. we partner with the american red cross. such a greatam partner. to make sure we know who's been the most impacted. >> and it's always great to remember, it'ss good to have people that habla espanol in there too. deanne criswell, thank you very much.

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democrats are making sure robinson's alleged antisemitic and racist comments on a porn website's message board from a decade ago will be remembered, putting up four billboards on major highways in the mint hill area. robinson continues to deny the allegations. nbc's garrett haake is following this for us. garrett, what has the former president been saying about this today? >> well, nothing about mark robinson, jose. in fact, he made a point to shout out several people running for congressional seats in the area where he is in north carolina and notably didn't mention robinson's name. he has outrun republican candidates for governor in beth of the last two elections where you had democrats win the governor's race in north carolina. donald trump himself winning the presidential race in that state. so the possibility that he could go one way and robinson could go another is there, although if the bottom falls out on robinson entirely that might be another story. in fact, this event today ostensibly focused on the

economy and manufacturing had some news at the top from trump not about either of those topics but about iran which he speculated, kind of floated for the first time i heard him do it, that iran might somehow have been involved in the two assassination attempts against him this year. something for which there's been no evidence. but he also talked about the fact that he knows he is being targeted by iran and what he thinks the current occupant of the white house should do about it. listen to this. >> i have been threatened very directly, and i appreciate the agencies that we've been meeting with. but we've been threatened very directly by iran. and i think you have to let them know, because the best way to do it is through the office of the president, that you do any attacks on former presidents or candidates for president your country gets blown to smithereens. >> so jose, obviously he's sort of adding a'll little bit to what has been a tense situation here geopolitically with iran, the middle east, the possible targeting of donald trump and other officials both in this

administration and the last administration by iranians. no comment that i'm aware of from the white house on that particular call for trump there to have biden's backing to threaten iran should anything happen to him. >> garrett haake, thank you so very much. appreciate it. meanwhile, in springfield, ohio the leader of a haitian non-profit community group has just filed criminal charges against former president trump and senator j.d. vance. they stem from these false claims about haitian immigrants eating people's pets in springfield. msnbc legal correspondent lisa rubin is with us this afternoon. lisa, great seeing you. so what exactly are these charges? >> well, jose, let's start with the fact that they're not quite charges yet. what it is is a civil affidavit under an ohio law that allows private citizens to make complaints about alleged criminal violations. and here this leader of the haitian group that you just noted has alleged that there are seven different crimes that have been committed by j.d. vance and

donald trump in making these allegations about the haitian migrants in springfield, ohio. they've submitted it to a municipal court in clark county, ohio and that judge has two options before him. one, either issue warrants for their arrest or refer it for prosecution to the clark county prosecutor. >> so it's an affidavit complaint that is filed in the court system but it could certainly have repercussions. >> it definitely could have repercussions. and jose, today i spoke with clark county ohio prosecutor dan driscoll, who didn't want to comment on the allegations lest this be referred to him for further investigation. he did not want to prejudice that investigation by making any public comment. that goes to your point, that this could materialize into something serious if it is referred to prosecution by the municipal judge. jose? >> lisa rubin, thank you so very much. always appreciate it. and just a couple of hours from now the house is set to vote on

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the 20th of december. ali vitali is reporting from capitol hill. this legislation already got some opposition from hard liners within johnson's own party. where do things stand here? >> reporter: i'm always happy to be on with you, whatever time of day you'll have me. i'll always check my schedule. keep it open for you, my friend. here in congress, it's a rare moment where we see that things are moving in the right direction and they're doing it ahead of deadlines. you talk about a schedule, all of these members want to get out of here and back home to their districts because they're leaving congress until after the election now. once they finish with government funding, they are out the door to campaign to keep their own seats. on the house side of the building, we saw them move up the time of the vote from 5:30 to around 4:30. again, they are eager to hit the road. what we're seeing in terms of the actual way they're avoiding a government shutdown is they're not doing it in the preferred mertd of conservatives or even

themselves. they had to come back to the drawing board with a bipartisan solution. that funds the government until december 20th. many of us are in fear of what that could mean for holiday plans. that's a plan for after the election. they're also doing it without the save act, the election integrity, that the republicans and president were so aggressive about trying to keep in, but ultimately were a poison pill that had to be taken out. the way they're doing this will require democrats to not only be on board but provide the bulk of the votes and that's something that hakeem jeffries when i spoke to him this morning was keenly aware of. watch. >> what is in front of us at the moment is a bipartisan, continuing resolution to keep the government open, meet the needs of the american people. this is not a complicated thing at this moment in time. the problem is that extreme maga republicans in the house have broken their own agreement,

which, by the way, was an agreement that they demanded we enter into in order to avoid a catastrophic default on our nation's debt. >> reporter: the house votes around 4:30. we expect it to pass. then of course the senate can take up to two hours of debate. the government will be funded. i think this is the first time they have done that ahead of schedule. elections can be very motivating as you and i both know. >> ali vitali, thank you so much, great seeing you my friend. >> you too. stephanie ruhle sits down for an interview with vice president harris, discussing the economy and the election. that wraps up the hour for me. i'm jose diaz-balart. thank you for the privilege of your time. katy tur picks up more news after a quick break. news after a quick break. fasenra is not for sudden breathing problems

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good to be with you. i'm katy tur in for chris jansing. everything that could go wrong did go wrong. that's one senator's take on the new congressional report into the secret service failures that nearly killed donald trump back in july. the security lapses, communication breakdowns and lack of leadership it uncovered. plus, the idf shoots down a