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live in san francisco, christie smith, nbc bay area news. >> intense to see that. >>> up next, where is that otter? the aggressive sea otter causing a stir in santa cruz. we head to the coast for an update. >>> the hot temperatures are triggering action by cal osha to try to make the workplace more safe for those who work in the sun. >>> the temperatures heat up tomorrow. we will have unhealthy air. who gets up to 107? i'm back with that. >>> right now, a suspect arrested after a decade-long hunt in a notorious serial murder case. the clues that helped track him down. >>> our look at the new barriers to keep migrants from crossing to keep migrants from crossing the southern (♪♪) feel thehe power of osteo b bi-flex®.. taken n every day,y, it's c clinically y shown to i improve joioint comfort in 7 d days, withth significacant improvevt ovover time. (♪)) >>> this is tough and potentially dangerous when we are in the heat wave, the risk for people who work outside in the hot sun. tonight, cal osha is warning employers to make sure to protect their employees. cal osha inspectors could be

live in san francisco, christie smith, nbc bay area news. >>> let's go across the bay to oakland. check out this water geyser. police say it happened after a car sheered a fire hydrant. water started spewing at 1,500 gallons a minute. aside from localized flooding, it caused traffic jams as people tried to detour. it went on for 15 minutes before they could shut it off. >>> san francisco health leaders are intensifying their fight against the fentanyl crisis that's growing into a local and national tragedy. the city's director of health says this year, nearly 80% of overdose deaths in san francisco are due to fentanyl. last month, alone, 53 people died from overdoses. traffickers with mixing fentanyl with other drugs like heroin, cocaine and meth to drive addiction and attract repeat buyers. there response to this crisis, city health leaders are expanding their supply of medications like methadone to treat drug addicts. >> we have been working directly with people on the streets, helping them to stand and maintain on the medications. we are also reviewing all the research to evolv

here is nbc bay area's christie smith. >> richmond police department, search warrant. open the door! >> reporter: today richmond police shared new video showing officers executing a search warrant at a home on june 28th. after multiple knocks and shouting announcements they entered the home. >> the officers made entry through a garage door due to the front door being inaccessible. the officers slowly and methodically cleared the residence continually announcing their presence. >> richmond police department. can you hear me? >> reporter: police can be heard calling out for a resident by name with no response. after several minutes police reach a final door inside the home and as they open it a deadly confrontation begins. >> hold on. >> richmond police. show me your hands. over your head! gun! gun! >> reporter: here is the police chief explaining what officers say happened. >> as they entered the last bedroom of the residence they encountered 66-year-old kevin mcdonald, seated on a bed, armed with an ar-15 style rifle. mr. mcdonald pointed the rifle at the officers and

a day they won't forget. >> it is a heartfelt day. >> reporter: christie smith, "nbc bay area news".honor well deserved. >>> new hope and treatment for veterans facing increased risk of cancer following their military servivice. u.s.s. departmenent off v veter afaffairs announceded it plans team upp withshstand forwaward medicall expertsts to buildd a state-ofof-the-art c cancer card researchch center. it wilill be buiuilt at vaa p po campusus. the va s says m more thahan 50 cancer cases r related to o mily duty are r reported e each year. researchers say many face a higher risk of cancer after being exposed to things like burn pitits and other toxic chemicals. >> that has led to significant number of conditions that our veterans are facing every day, from minor, more common conditions to deadly cancers. every single veteran who wore the uniform, who wore the cloth of our country deserves the best and most state-of-ththe-art car. >> ththe va says vetss often fa worsrse healthh oututcomes fromr diagagnosis compapared to civil patients. no word on when construction of the new cancer ce

nbc bay area's christie smith spoke to passengers on board when it happened. >> reporter: this picture is shared by someone on board. passengers ready to embark on the latest cruise to alaska today were already hearing something happened. >> i heard second hand that the boat hit the dock coming in. >> reporter: vichard is from redwood city >> i was just hoping it won't impact our cruise. i still want to go. our family has been waiting all year for this. we are excited. >> reporter: in a statement princess crusade in part ruby princess made unexpected contact with the dock at pier 27 while docking. there were no injuries and at no time were crew or guests endangered. the coast guard is investigating. >> there is damage to the pier and the ruby princess. the coast guard sent two teams, investigations division team and inspections team to the vessel to conduct assessments. >> reporter: we reached out to the san francisco bar pilots. a representative confirmed a pilot was involved in an incident at pier 27 adding it is cooperating with all necessary agencies. >> we just thought it was chop

. >> nbc's bay area christie smith spoke with firefighters joining us now from walnut creek. how hot has it got? >> reporter: well, you know, it does feel hot today. doesn't feel quite as warm as yesterday. this is one of the gauges if you're in walnut creek you can look at to get an idea of what kind of heat you're dealing with. at one point i saw 97 degrees. people are out and about, but they tell us they've been keeping it brief or their whole day was about cooling off. the cool waters at six flags hurricane harbor in concord was a big draw today. when the park opened up, people were ready to go. >> we were here yesterday, too. >> reporter: for jared it was good during saturday's scorcher, they came back. >> my plan was to stay cool. >> good day to bring the kids out. >> reporter: dominique came for a birthday celebration and thought the concord weather would offer relief from what she felt at home in elk grove. >> i thought i was getting away from the heat at home but i came to more heat. i said, let's go to the water park. let's have fun. >> it's much cooler there. this

we are trying to get out of the heat. >> reporter: christie smith, nbc bay area news. >>> today's heat slow down the commute for trains. they ran slower speeds because of the high temperatures. the slowdown added at least 10 minutes to travel time for most people coming into or out of the east bay. >> it's a little bit of a delay. we had a wedding to go to. >> trains started running at normal speed about two hours ago as the temperatures cooled down. >>> there are predictions this four day fourth of july weekend will set travel records. delays and cancellations are improving, that's good news, after a week of chaos and cancellations nationwide. so far today at sfo there have been 147 delays and nine cancellations according to flight aware. there is a jump from our last update at 5:00 p.m. they say it's much slower than what they have been seeing the last couple of days. cancellations are spread out across multiple airlines and not as concentrated with united airlines as we saw earlier in the week. united is apologizing for those mass disruptions. it announced today it would give 30,000

christie smith. >>> oakland reactivating to o t reparations report. the public was invited to a virtual report held by the allen temple public ministry, naacp and the african-american chamber of commerce. christian watson chaired the task force. he stressed this is just the beginning toward realizing landmark reparations suggested. >> we are raising awareness and building support for reparations. and we are preparing for what is coming next, what will be the countries and the first ever state-level reparations task force bill and law into 2020 board. >> the task force released its report and excluded a direct payment plan and addresses racial discrimination. >>> homicide investigators are looking into the case of a body found in a church parking lot. officers and paramedics were called to the 600 block of elma avenue for the evangelical lutheran church just couple blocks east. police say there was trauma to his head. anyone with information please call the tip line. >>> two people dead and two people hurt after wrong way crash in close alto. it was sp

christie smith has the story. >> reporter: it is hot out here. people we spoke with around the east bay say they had made plans to avoid being out at the hottest part of the day, finding i conditioning or another way. in brentwood a trip to the pool was one way to cool off and people had plenty of company. >> keep your self hydrated. >> you got some portable chairs. >> reporter: and livermore , a restaurant downtown is that they are ready for the hot temperatures. >> we offer fans with misters. we try to keep them as comfortable as they can be. >> reporter: and the heat, people seem to have a preferred time. >> yesterday we open up at 3:00 others people here throughout the day. you are right, around 7:00, we were flooded. >> reporter: emma jones was downtown but not for long. >> afternoon we will be inside with air conditioning. >> power went off around 8:45 in the morning. >> reporter: just under 2000 customers in one neighborhood lost power for a few hours. pg&e told them it would be back on before noon. >> it will be tough to stay cool. if the

reporting live in brentwood, christie smith, nbc bay area news. >> thank you. let's bring in cynthia. how long and hot this will be around. >> we are in the thick of it, this build up to the heat, the hottest day of the weekend. at least until tomorrow night. we have a long way to go unfortunate news for you this afternoon. let's take a look at what's happening at this hour. livermore, 104 degrees. the high pressure trapping the ozone right at the unhealthy air level. let's take it out for a better air quality but still 95 degrees at 5:03 this afternoon. san francisco typical base area evening. it'll be a comfortable night for the immediate a as we see that brees to relieve us from that heat but it is still very hot and will be uncomfortable for people in the east bay. 105 in fairfield, 101 in dublin, 100 and san martin and these temperatures are going to continue with us tomorrow. we are seeing that heat remain inland. a foggy start and we are talking a little bit of a change. a chance for a thunderstorm with the change in the wind pattern. i will explain what

. >> reporter: christie smith nbc bay area news. >>> after a killing in oakland's korea town police made an arrest in chicago. oakland police today announced the arrest of eric losavia after a deadly shooting after delivery man. surveillance video shows a couple walking their dogs. they pass by a deliveryman. a brief exchange quickly escalates to shooting. neighbors say he lived nearby and regularly walked his dogs while armed. police say they tracked him down and arrested him in chicago. >>> 4th of july celebrations are basically over but in the south bay police have not stopped their crackdown on illegal fireworks. in the last few minutes we've learned they issued 11 tickets. in about an hour one neighborhood group will be meeting with local leaders to talk about the illegal explosions. nbc bay area's robert handa reports on the problem and the big bust by san jose police. >> reporter: it was a busy holiday full of illegal fireworks in san jose. these home surveillance videos from the roosevelt park neighborhood association shows why police responded to around 180 illegal fireworks cal

christie smith in oakland with more. >> reporter: just before noon today oakland police responded to a deadly shooting near 106th avenue in ban craft. they found a person shot inside a car that had crashed. it was the fourth person to die by gun violence in the city in less than a day. >> the city of oakland experienced four homicides, two in one incident. at this time we do not believe any are connect ready i the first deadly shooting happened 1:30 this morning. police arrived at 89th avenue and d street and found a man and woman shot to death inside a home. then before 5:00 this morning a second deadly shooting near 18th avenue and international. >> officers on routine patrol saw a person laying in the street. they drive over to assess what's going on with this person and they realized that it's a female that is laying in the street and she is suffering from gunshot wounds. >> reporter: police say while they were investigating, a second person showed up at a hospital with gunshot wounds. today as the city tries to figure out how to cut down on the violence, the interim police chief

nbc bay area's christie smith has more. >> we spoke with passengers who say they felt something this morning but weren't sure what and later learned what happened. this was as another group of passengers arrived today ready to depart again. this is some of the damage to the ruby princess docked at pier 27. this woman was on board wrapping up an enjoyable cruise to alaska when it docked back in san francisco this morning >> i felt like the room was rocking back and forth a little more violently than usual. but nothing extreme or sudden. >> reporter: they were sleeping and thought it might be choppy water. she says they didn't hear any announcements that raised concern. >> even if it is superficial i hope it doesn't deter the next group of people from beginning their vacation. that would be a real shame. i don't see how you can carry on though. >> reporter: in a statement princess cruises said in part the ruby princess made unexpected contact with the dock

christy smith is at the scene. she will bring us a live update at 5:00. >>> the other breaking stories, along our coast a man was rushed to the hospital after his car flew off a cliff, landing on a beach 300 feet below the road. it happened on highway 1. the driver was the only person inside the car. he is being treated for critical injuries. the cause is under investigation. scott budman is talking to crews. he will bring us the latest also at 5:00. >>> our other top story at 4:30 this friday, that's hot, hot, hot. temperatures soaring across the bay area ahead of an excessive heat warning this weekend. good afternoon. i'm audrey asistio. we will tell you where it's going to be hitting triple digits there weekend. we are tracking other stories on this friday, including 40 cars with their windows broken into in one neighborhood. as you can imagine, all the frustration. >>> she was told she wasn't ready to give birth at the hospital. then she ended up delivering her baby at her home. a woman describes the chaotic sc

nbc bay area's christie smith will have more tonight at 5:00. this afternoon more than 24 hours after the ruby princess cruise ship hit a san francisco dock it is still waiting to be cleared to leave the city. it is not leaving any time soon. let's take a live look at the cruise ship right now. docked at pier 27 you see it right there. some of the more than 3,000 passengers on board the ship are getting frustrated and restless. the cruise line told passengers it expects to depart some point on sunday. still a couple days here. the ship cannot leave the terminal until the coast guard inspected and signed off on repairs. this morning our camera spotted crews working really hard to prepare the ship. meanwhile passengers on board, thousands, still able to enjoy the ship's amenities including zumba classes, trivia night, time at the pool, meals at the restaurants, but one couple tells us they feel left in the dark about the status of the trip and the safety of the ship. >> if we don't sail out today i don't know the plan. the worst part is not knowin

nbc bay area's christie smith spoke with him about what the loss means. >> the van would be angled like this. >> reporter: les edw is describing where he parked his van outside of his antioch home, now the van is gone. >> i looked at my neighbor and said, my van is gone. that's when it hits me -- >> reporter: he is a musician who's been entertaining at fisherman's wharf near pier 45. his equipment was in the van. >> i had all my drums, all the drum hardware, two computers, one i just bought, everything to do my show. everything i do and work with that i need to make money and a living is in that van. everything. >> reporter: video shows the van backing up out of the driveway and then heading that way towards a busier street. a neighbor's security camera caught what happened overnight thursday on the street. >> this is heartbreaking. this is devastating. >> he's been around the wharf longer than i have. he's a fixture there. people -- you know, people actually come just to listen to him. so, it's a sad day forles and a sad day for the war. >> reporter: randall scott is executive director

christy, jack smith's been very busy here. he was also filing a reply memo to donald trump and walt nauta's request to delay this criminal trial, the mar-a-lago document trial until after the 2024 election. is this going to be the first real test that we have of eileen cannon's chops as a judge over a major criminal case? >> so, it's a really strong reply from jack smith saying that there's no basis here in the law to delay this trial and have no trial date. criminal defendants all the time, most of them have jobs, and most of them have other professional schedules and lives, and that is not a basis to delay a trial and not have a trial date. similarly, one of the arguments that he really eviscerated in his reply was the argument that, well, under the presidential records act donald trump was entitled to these documents -- this is a novel theory. it's not novel. it's baseless. when it's baseless it means it's going to be that much easier for the judge to dispose an it. the discovery, that was another issue he took apart in his

the republican presidential candidates, except for chris christie, perhaps, have largely defended donald trump, and criticized jack smith be the opening, perhaps , for some of the republicans to change their tune on this? guest: we could ask them, but unfortunately, they are not here. so let's talk about the record today. remember, it's not just the case of trump being under indictment. i mean, the fact is that the trump organization was convicted in 2022 in new york state over business malpractice. there are pending cases in new york state regarding fraud. ed tax matters associated with trump. and of course, there was the conviction on sexual assault of e. jean carroll in the 1990's, with trump being ordered to pay out $5 million. so that is a lengthy, lengthy, lengthy legal record that he's compiled. that said, what you have seen so far from the republican candidates, you have seen ron desantis, the florida governor, who is trying to ouout-trump trump. he is trying to take up fairly extreme positions and went over the trump voters. so he's probably not going to go after trump. folly: why are they so reluctant? why is

christie greenberg, what do you make of jack smith apparently still in the process of collecting evidence that may be relevant to a trump indictment which may be revealed any day now before that grand jury and jack smith have assembled all of the evidence? >> i'm not surprised that he is continuing to investigate regardless of what charges and what defendants are in this indictment that we think may be coming as soon as thursday. there may be other charges there may be other defendants that he's investigating. it's not surprising to see documents and talk to witnesses both to firm up the presentation for this indictment as well as any superseding indictment that may come down the road. >> and harry littman, georgia is moving steadily towards the first two weeks of august which was the indication fani willis gave a while ago as the likely time for indictments there and of course what's emerging at this point is what we thought all along which is an indictment of a least a dozen people that's what the grand jury foreperson said and even more powerful set of indictments when they come out. >

let's talk about chris christie, because you've got anthony scaramucci, you've got stephen a smith fromactually telling people and encouraging people, donate, so you can get chris christie on that primary debate stage. do you think chris christie knows and has acknowledged that perhaps, he is being offered about a sacrificial lamb, if anything, to be able to take out donald trump a little bit at the knees? >> i don't think there's any question of that. chris christie is the gop candidate slugger terminator. he did it to marco rubio, but this idea he's going to be able to take down donald trump in a party which is a personality cult around donald trump, i think it's just wishful for almanacs. not going to happen. chris christie has zero chance of being but nominee, and as the congressman said earlier, it's not even a question of how can you distinguish yourself by not imitating and criticizing the maga movement? all of these republicans come out of the maga movement. ron desantis, the quote unquote alternative to trump, is a trump created clone out of the maga movement. so, i just don't

in advance, so if they say something different through the trial, jack smith can charge them with perjury. >> what about you christy miami grandeur east all being active? >> i agree with paul, it is not surprising that they would continue to investigate. it does not look like his codefendant is going to cooperate, he is not even been arraigned yet, and really there is a real question as to why he does not even have a lawyer who has filed a notice of appearance for him. there is some reporting that part of the reason for that is that he is looking for a defense attorney that is not a former prosecutor, which makes it all the more likely that he is not going to cooperate on donald trump, and that he actually needs a lawyer who has trump's blessing, and that his lawyer is going to be paid for by trump. trump wants to delay, there has now been two attempts to rein his co defendant, and that has not happened yet. so it does seem that the delay tactics are already starting. if you cannot rely on the codefendant to flip, you certainly are going to continue to investigate and look for other witnesses, look for additional d

corcoran, might be a prosecution witness for jack smith at the same time that he is defending trump and other criminal investigations. >> paul butler, christieboth very much. that's tonight's last word, but i hope you will stay with us because up next we are going back to where we started at the hour. we will spend the final hour of pride month, 2023, defending pride after the republican appointed justices on the supreme court decided to allow discrimination against lgbtq customers. we will have live reaction from rashad robinson, president of color of change, and jennifer pies are, the chief legal officer of land of the legal, plus much, much more. i do hope that you stay with us. defending pride starts right after this short break. >> it would make the prosecution even stronger than it already is, so susie miles, the new york times report says that she is the person who trump displayed a classified map, she is a representative of his political action committee. so she would be a prosecution witness at the same time that she is trying to get trump reelected. trump's lawyer, evan corcoran, might be a prosecution witness for jack smith at the

smith into doing something later in life. >> we'll talk to former new jersey governor and republican candidate chris christie about that, andossible third indictment facing president trump. >>> finally, the facts surrounding gender-affirming care with the head of the organization that sets the guidelines for treatment, dr. marci bowers. it's all just ahead on "face the nation." ♪ >>> good morning and welcome to "face the nation." the excruciating heat and severe weather continues here in washington, and more than 75 million americans are under a hot weather watch today. here is our mark strassmann. >> reporter: phoenix wilting in the valley of the sun stroke, dehydration, dizziness and delirium, today's forecast, a record 24th straight day with temperatures hitting 110 degrees or more. >> i've been sweating all over my body. >> reporter: people wither in weather this hot. july is poised to become earth's hottest month in at least the last 6,500 years. ask palm springs, california and our carter evans. >> reporter: no kids on the flay ground today. you can understand why. the temperature here on the slide is 171 degrees. >>

smith, the prosecutor who charged him with 31 federal crimes, including mishandling classified documents and obstruction of justice. joining us is republican candidate and former new jersey governor, chris christierney for new jersey. and now donald trump is calling special counsel jack smith a deranged man who, quote, looks like a crack head, beyond the proprietary of that, from a legal point of view, do statements like that affect the case? >>ing no, not really. the only argument you can make is it potentially affects the jury pool who's in many south florida reading this stuff wondering what the hell is he talking about. i did a lot of drug cases when i was in new jersey i can guarantee people there isn't one particular type of crack head. there isn't anyone who looks like a crack head, necessarily. this is what makes donald trump an unacceptable nominee for our party because he says things like this without any regard for truth or falsity. without any regard for the proprietary of it. but worse yet what does it do to help anyone other than him. my argument all along this race for 2024 for donald trump is all about donald trump not the american people. he doesn't give adamn about the american

but do you see grounds for insurrection, for sedition, any evidence jack smith might be leaning that way? >> it's nice to see christiel a little truth. better late than never. i think it's a bit of a copout. he knows, just as i know as a former career federal prosecutor, that the evidence we've seen publicly reported makes out a case of both insurrection and seditious con spear see. there is a second allowable theory of liability. it's that if you by force resist or delay or prevent the execution of any law of the united states like the electoral counteract, that is undeniably what donald trump and others did. now, we can't say he will be convicted, but i think chris christie would have to agree based on the evidence there is enough to charge him. that s there's probable cause which is a fairly low standard. and then you have to build the evidence to beyond a reasonable doubt which is the standard to convict someone at trial. >> so to indict or not to indict, that is the question we're all waiting the have answered, garrett. what are your sources telling you? >> chris, it's a mixed bag. what i have not heard is any i

smith and his team. but in the past, chris christie has said, has tweeted this about trump's vicious -- what do we call themver. he said, "what kind of person calls a federal prosecutor a crackhead? sound like a president to you? someone you trust with the nuke codes? get real. jack smith is just doing his job, and trump can't handle it because he's scared and only cares about himself." i wish i had a medal to give chris christie because it was the only defense of these prosecutors that we could find. >> he's created a command climate in this country over the last few years that weaponizes languages, that directs his supporters to take violence in furtherance of their political objectives. i've called it an american insurgent si. it is far reaching, national, millions of people with guns who are being directed with language from people like kari lake, who's extremely effective and persuasive and dangerous. we all have friends who work in elected office. they've all increased their security. they all have threats on a regular basis. there are so many more direct threats we know about in the public sphere. th

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team are scrambling now to figure out what evidence jack smith has and which witnesses he's spoken with. one of trump's 2024 gop rivals chris christiehe target letter if i was not completely sure i had put enough in front of the grand jury for them to return an indictment. >> and back with us elie honig and also with us cnn senior political analyst john avlon. so john, this is obviously a moment of extreme legal peril for donald trump, but at the same time, he is pursuing the same political strategy that he has all along, fund-raising off of his potential indictment i should say. >> yes. >> and using this to squeeze his opponents in the 2024 race. >> yes, and in the primary, in the short run, he may be successful at fund-raising all of this. he may be successful at getting folks to rally around the race. i would posit that that doesn't matter at the end of the day, that doing this analysis through the short-term horse race politics, yes, you need to take that, but it distracts tfrom th larger issue. donald trump has added inducement, which is trying to stay out of prison essentially. that's a factor in a presidential campaign of thi

smith investigation. >> yeah, i don't talk about anything. >> and he said that this morning. but here is chris christie, a former federal prosecutor, a former governor of new jersey, of bridgegate fame. this is what chris christie had to say about mr. meadows. >> what i will say in watching that video is that looks to me like somebody who is cooperating with the federal government. the witnesses told as they leave you don't have to answer any questions or talk about it, but you are free to do so if you like. the only time you can't do it is when the government has a cooperation agreement with you and they say no talking about this. the only time we want to hear you talking is on the witness stand. and that to me, mark meadows looks to me like a federal witness under cooperation agreement. and my guess is that's what we're going find out he is. >> if trump really scared s-less, is it to understand that mark meadows to save himself will probably turn on him? >> there is probably no one who is a bigger threat to donald in all of this than his chief of staff, mark meadows. chris christie's analysis is exac

described by his former ally and very close yearslong friend chris christie could be inching closer to a possibility. special counsel jack smithseeking an indictment of the already twice-indicted ex-president. trump broke the news this morning that he has been sent and has received a target letter in smith's probe into the efforts on trump's part to undo his 2020 defeat. we do not know what exact parts of smith's expansive investigation the target letter pertains to, but trump was told he had four days to report to a grand jury. over in michigan, the state's attorney general, dana nessel has announced felony charges against 16 fake electors, people who signed paperwork falsely claiming that trump won the 2020 election as part of a scheme to overturn the results there. today also marking the first pretrial hearing in jack smith's other criminal case against the ex-president when examining his role in withholding classified documents from the government and keeping them at his personal residence. it has already resulted in indictments. his co-conspirator, walt nauta, appeared before u.s. district judge aileen cannon in a hearing

smith. six candidates have met the polling and fundraising criteria laid out, that includes former president trump, desantis, ramaswamy, tim scott, and chris christie, nikki haley. >> john: mike pence has met the polling criteria but is short of the required donations. complete coverage now, juan williams and mary katherine here to break down the state of the race. >> jacqui: griff jenkins, new fox business polling shows the former president has a strong lead in the early states. do we expect to see trump on the debate stage? >> good afternoon, jacqui and john, and good question, jacqui. i mean, that's the burning question. will the front-runner, who has a commanding lead show up in less than a month, trump has not committed one way or another but one of his rivals is calling him out. >> i think i want trump in the debate and the reason is i think the american people deserve to know what their options are and it's offensive for a candidate to say they are not going to be on stage. you are basically trying to earn the support of the american people. you can't earn the support of the american people if you are absent. >> fox business latest polling,

christie, who's already been hammering him. that may not reverse the slide. >> trump now on truth social saying he expects the indictment from jack smithathan, hunter biden's former business partner is sitting for a transcribed interview with the house oversight committee today after -- tried to spin a request by the doj into something more. explain this. >> to your point, the grand jury in washington hearing the jack smith case for trump meets on tuesdays and thursdays so perhaps we'll have the answer in the coming days. archer is a former hunter biden business partner. the latest play by the republicans investigating biden. they're trying to claim biden helped enrich himself. no one has proved they're illegal. that now president biden benefitted from them. archer is someone who has just been sentenced to prison for a year for unrelated fraud charge and the republicans over the weekend jumped this up on this idea that that was the biden department of justice putting their finger on the thumb, the thumb on the scale of justice i should say, and pushing him to prison to get him from talking. archer's attorney made clear that was not the

presidential candidate chris christie speculating on why donald trump's former chief of staff was so tight-lipped yesterday. and that comes as special counsel jack smith's grand jury is expected to meet again today in washington, d.c. >>> meanwhile, a surprise yesterday in a delaware courtroom where hunter biden pleaded not guilty to federal charges after his plea deal fell apart. we'll explain what happened and what could happen next. >>> and also ahead, house speaker kevin mccarthy is called out by a member of his own party for putting far-right priorities ahead of actual legislative duties. >>> good morning and welcome to we're on this thursday, july 27th. i'm jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us and it likely will be a very busy day here in washington, d.c. the number of indictments against donald trump could soon eclipse the number of impeachments against him with special counsel jack smith's grand jury scheduled to reconvene today in the nation's capitol. according to three sources trump's legal and political teams are preparing for the possibility the panel will indeed vote today on whether to charge the former president for his

smith this tying up loose ends to get his case moving forward. >> there was the law, and then there is the politics, chris christie said this week that there is no silver bullet to take out trump. but that the collective weight of all of this legal troubles is having, instead, will make the voters weary of trump, get tired, and want to move on. i do not know about you. show me the evidence of that, because it seems to me that it with sea -- with each indictment, with each allegation, his numbers go, up not down. >> that's exactly right. aspirational thinking from chris christie, and probably quietly, from every other candidate from mike pence to rod desantis, tim scott, nikki haley, and other says that donald trump's legal travails are going to ultimately sink his campaign. we simply have not seen it, so, michael, i think where we see today, there is not a single legal fact to emerge in any of the donald trump madeleine from alvin bragg, to mar-a-lago, to j 6th, to fani willis, that will change the trajectory of the gop primary. i think the only political question that might have political impact is whether or not there is actually a trial at so

smith is tying up the loose ends to bolster his case going forward. >> so, david, there is the law, right? and then there's the politics. chris christie said this week there is no silver bullet to take out trump. but that the collective weight of all of this legal troubles that he is having, instead, will make the voters weary og trump, get tired and want to move on. i don't know about you. show me the evidence about that. because it seems to me, with each indictment, with each new allegation, his numbers go up not down. >> that is exactly right. aspirational thinking from chris christie, and probably, quietly, from every other candidate, from mike pence to run, desantis, tim scott, nikki haley and others, that somehow donald trump's legal travails are ultimately going to sink his campaign. we simply haven't seen it. so, michael, i think where we sit today, there is not a single legal fact to emerge in any of the donald trump matters, from alvin bragg to mar-a-lago to j 6th to fani willis, that will change the trajectory of the gop primary. i think the only political question -- the only question that might have political impact -- is

christie tomorrow to weigh in on all of these investigations. that's tomorrow. here is "the five." ♪ ♪ >> jesse: hello, everybody. jesse watters la judge jeanine pirro, jessica tarlov, sandra smithd greg gutfeld. it is 5:00 in new york city and this is "the five." ♪ ♪ hunter biden getting slapped in the face again after the implosion of his sweetheart plea deal. the first son thought he would be popping the champagne with his bond-ripping sugar brother lawyer come after they count of the judge into giving t from future crimes. looks like hunter is not getting paled out by pops. >> or know mike is there any possibility the president would end up pardoning his son? >> no. >> jesse: fuming at the judge for daring to question the original plea deal. attacking her for being appointed by drug but even comparing the judge to lance ito, remember the guy from the o.j. simpson murder trial? the facts swirling around hunter are pretty damning so the liberal media's working overtime to cover for the first son. >> there weaponizing joe biden's son against him. speak only going to add more fuel to the political fire republicans are stoking on capitol hill as they move forward with the potenti

christie tomorrow to weigh in on all of these investigations. that's tomorrow. here is "the five." ♪ ♪ >> jesse: hello, everybody. jesse watters la judge jeanine pirro, jessica tarlov, sandra smither biden getting slapped in the face again after the implosion of his sweetheart plea deal. the first son thought he would be popping the champagne with his bond-ripping sugar brother lawyer come after they count of the judge into giving t

that jack smith is deeply committed to making sure that anyone who engages in wrongdoing, whether it's perjury, obstruction or substantive crimes, that they are held accountable for it. >> christy, expecting that there is a tactical aspect to this operation, but also if you discover interest occasion that is in line the grandeur, that's a big deal in itself. that seems to be, from reading the target letter, the impression that is being investigated. >> write that he perjured himself in front at the grand jury, and potentially was involved in the underlying obstruction. what's interesting is that according to the article, prosecutors are interested in this employees conversations with walt nauta. why not as attorney also represents this employee. that is a clear conflict of interest, so they are going to have to figure out whether or not he can represent both of them. if he actually does have information that could be adverse to walt nauta, he is going to have to decide which one of them is going to represent, he. can't represent put that? their interests at the same time it's their efforts to one another. >> here is the washington post on this. this is around the time the surro

smith, you see them lashing out at other people. you saw the video of mark meadows earlier, out of mark meadows is cooperating with the government or not. chris christie seems to be able to read into body language there, i guess. but one thing you can't be sure of is that the prosecutors care more about donald trump than they do about the people below him. whether they talk about valets, in mar-a-lago, or the federal white house chief of staff. i think they're gonna make every effort to turn everybody that they can, and they probably will be able to make a lot of immunity deals. >> they are trying to go for big. fish left face. it let's take a look at what the indictments has happened between june 22nd and 27th of 2022. june 22nd, trump gets a draft subpoena for surveillance video. june 20, third he calls carlos de oliveira, his maintenance, supervisor and they spoke for 24 minutes. june 20, for the final subpoena arrives, and we get a message that trump wants to see, him not touching just his plans in travels to mar-a-lago. june 20, fifth nauta's ledge to have met de oliveira and walk around pointing to different surveillance cameras. june 27th, de o

christy greenberg, former chief of the southern district of new york. welcome to both of you. >> thanks for having us. >> i turn to you, david, and say what does it mean when special counsel smith sends a letter like this? >> let me tell you from the perspective of a defense lawyer. the last thing you ever want in the world is to get a target letter. a target letter to you means you're done. means you're going to get indicted, and it doesn't get sent -- it's not like a subpoena. prosecutors can send subpoenas out like it's nothing. but a target letter is a big deal, and it's a big deal when they receive it in the trump camp. must have set off an awful lot of alarms, meaning, what do we do next, because i'm about to be indicted. >> from a prosecutorle perspective, you mentioned both sides, but is it a bigger deal to go at the conduct of a sitting president? i went through the distinctions. >> never having gone after a sitting president, it certainly is a historic moment. and it's a sad moment. from a prosecutor's standpoint, it's a sad moment that i have to do this. i have the make this type of history. it's a sad state of affairs, but we're going to do it dotting the is and cro

christie takes talking tough on trump to a new level there. we've got a lot to get to this morning. including new reporting on who in donald trump's inner circle is talking to special counsel jack smitht to politicize the political military crams its far-right agenda in. >>> plus, star power is coming to the picket lines. hollywood actors join the writers guild by going on strike. >>> and there are conflicting opinions from top scientists and health officials on an artificial sweetener that is in a lot of products from diet

smith is holding a very strong hand because of that strong intent evidence. >> well, and andrew weissmann, you have bill stepien there. he was chris christie's of that, i, quote, stepped away. it wasn't honest or professional at that point in time. before he left, though, i believe he produced a memo analyzing all of rudy giuliani's false claims of fraud and proved it out. so the campaign does its own research. and if that isn't enough, they hire not one but two firms. one is the berkeley group. "washington post" has done extraordinary reporting on this. the two firms go out looking and they don't find it. we focus on that at our peril, because something extraordinary happens before they do all that donald trump had bill barr's justice department looking for election fraud ahead of an election. that is unprecedented, and if not illegal, highly unethical, highly unusual. if there was fraud, bill barr's justice department or the two firms or the trump campaign would have found it. they all knew there wasn't any seems to color all of the conversations about intent. >> add to that that the senior leadership of the justice department met with the

christie takes talking tough on trump to a new level there. we've got a lot to get to this morning. including new reporting on who in donald trump's inner circle is talking to special counsel jack smith about efforts to overturn the 2020 election. >>> plus, the party who doesn't want to politicize the political military crams its far-right agenda in. >>> plus, star power is coming to the picket lines. hollywood actors join the writers guild by going on strike. >>> and there are conflicting opinions from top scientists and health officials on an artificial sweetener that is in a lot of products from diet sodas to cereals. we'll go through that debate, joe, you and your diet coke. good morning and welcome to "morning joe." >> well, let me say this, willie. let me say this, okay? yeah, i've had a few diet coke in my day. >> five a day. >> growing up, growing up, i think we all knew three things. number one, of course, willie, we knew you never eat a big dinner before you go swimming, right? just don't do it. >> sure. >> number two, never, ever, ever, and mcarthur taught us this, don't get engaged in a ground war in asia. number three, i think we all knew from the first sip of diet coke

attorney chris christie speculating on why donald trump's former chief of staff was tight lipped yesterday. this comes as special counsel jack smith'sis expected to meet again today in washington. we'll see if any news comes out of that. welcome back to "morning joe" on this july 27th, wednesday. i think it's thursday. jen palmieri and mike barnicle and jonathan lemire still with us. it's thursday. tim joining us at the table. also, former senator and msnbc and nbc analyst, claire mccaskill. tim, great to have you in new york. >> thanks for having me. >> we haven't talked to you since your senate race in ohio. you ran a hell of a race, great candidate. lost by six points. as you look back at it with distance, what do you take away from it? what does it tell us about the politics not just in ohio, but where things are in the country and what we should look for next year? >> we got a lot of crossover vote, i think 400,000 plus people who voted for the republican governor and voted for me. our democratic candidate was over 20 points. there's room for people to heal, to have unity. people are looking at that, and it's what it told me. d

christys gb news is . yeah, fiery final hour news is. yeah, fiery final hour gbviews@gbnews.com. now as your headunes. headlines. >> thank you very much patrick. i'm rory smitho put an end to universities taking advantage of people with low quality courses as the government plans to impose limits on courses that have high drop out rates or a low proportion of graduates getting a professional job. >> rishi sunak says the key message is that you don't have to go to university to succeed in life. speaking at a school in london earlier, mr sunak said the new measures will benefit taxpayers . taxpayers. >> now, for many people, university is the right answer and it does brilliantly . but and it does brilliantly. but actually there are a range of people who are being let down by the system. they're the current system. they're being of with being taken advantage of with low courses that don't low quality courses that don't lead to a job that makes it worth it leaves them financially worse off. that's what we're clamping down today , but at clamping down on today, but at the making sure that the same time, making sure that young have range of young people have a ran