major. >> major garrett: janet shamlian, thank you.e expanding into the midwest and northeast. cbs's nicole sganga reports that phoenix topped 110 degrees for the 25th straight day, and there's no relief in sight. >> reporter: the heat is relentless and dangerous. >> it is miserable, actually. >> reporter: phoenix is now on pace to become the first major u.s. city ever to average over 100 degrees for an entire month. at this high school in tempe, arizona, classes started last week. the hotter environment for students means what? >> we have required several cooldown spaces at all of our campuses especially this year. >> reporter: while athletic fields are empty during the hottest hours of the day, the teams still practice. >> the athletes are drinking a gallon or two of water before they go outside. >> reporter: outside the risks are everywhere, extreme heat is magnifying surface temperatures. even quick contact can cause first-degree burns at 118 degrees. blisters can occur at 131 and skin tissue can be destroyed instantly at 162. in a

major. >> major garrett: david barton, thank you.ael, the intensified today after lawmakers voted to take power away from the supreme court, a plan pushed by prime minister benjamin netanyahu, elizabeth palmer reports from israel that opponents claim this move a grave threat to demococracy. >> reporter: fury erupted after the boat and then chaos. outside tel aviv, into the crowd slamming into protesters, injuring three. the people who took to the streets were devastated by parliaments vote on judicial reform that passed technically unopposed after the opposition walked out. that gave prime minister benton met benjamin yet now he was -- a clear victory, but a hollow one. showing the majority of israelis were against the change. >> we are angry at people trying to change the country, trying to create a democratic backslide. >> reporter: in a country with no constitution or upper a legislative chamber, israel supreme court had been a crucial check on the power. no more. >> and the supreme court does not have the tools to be independent,

>> i think we are, garrett. having both a chief of state and head of government, king and prime minister, it's almost like a belt and suspenders. great britain has had poor prime ministers in the last four years. at the same time, there have been two chiefs of state. charles and his mother, and the long relationship with president biden between him and the once prince charles is something that helps here. you know, the images we're seeing of the president and the king, it really harks back to other moments in history when the world was in crisis. for instance, 1939 when roosevelt had king george to the united states for a visit to prepare the united states for the possibility we may have to fight to defend britain in a war. or the 1980s when reagan had a surprisingly close relationship with the queen, queen elizabeth, based not least on their love of horse back riding. then a few years later, the queen came back, elizabeth. 1991. and saw president george bush on the south lawn of the white house as we can see in

back with us is nbc's garrett haake. garrett, what do we know?nd political calendar. now we have something being removed from it, this settlement, if, indeed, that's what comes to pass as a source with direct knowledge tells us, to avert a trial that would have started on monday. michael cohen, former trump attorney, central in the stormy daniels case, was suing the trump organization for what he said was $1.3 million in unpaid legal fees. he was expected to be paid for testimony he gave to various congressional committees in 2017, 2018. he filed that lawsuit the following year in 2019 but only now with it set to go to trial on monday do we see this settlement news. having covered cohen for quite some time and trump, i expect we'll probably hear from both party in the not-too-distant future and get more detail on this. for now, it looks like this trial scheduled for monday will not go forward. instead, we have a settlement with details still unknown. >> garrett haake in washington, thank you so much. >>> up next, the world of soccer is on fire he

garrett, garrett, the grand jury met for over seven hours yesterday.o things stant in that case? >> >> when we spoke yesterday, donald trump's attorneys were leaving the special counsel's office after having a meeting with them that our sources say was mostly about that other case, if not entirely about that other case. the election interference case. trump would go on to describe that meeting as productive. but there is no indication from any of our sources, either on the record or on background that that meeting changed the trajectory of this case, which is that donald trump is still likely to ultimately be he indicted. he was the recipient of a target letter related to that case, more than a week ago, and we know since that time, the grand jury has spoken to another witness, continued to work and as you point out, they're in for a long time yesterday, about seven hours. they weren't in on tuesday when they typically do meet. that could come out in the watch in terms of the hours spent behind closed doors. that investigation is very much active and t

garrett has to say too. think that probably the biggest thing if i was a big content creator and i was watching this hollywood strike of down i would say awesome. this is going to create opportunities forom me while hollywood is in disarray, might digital creator economy is going to have new inroads for me too make more money and have more notoriety. but also, like you said we've already seen there's a great headline from her colleague the other month saying the sick content creator a dollar week for ai generated version of yourself to be your girlfriend that critters making money but you can also see the flipside of that or a situation where you're not getting the money you were expecting to get because in ai i model soon something that you could do. >> garrett your take? >> a lot of it has to do streaming and how much that has changed the industry which is also big tech topic. there is a huge quick question hangover the entire ai industry the entire tech industry right now what's it okay for them to go and

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garrett haake, thank you, vaughn hillyard get to the plane on time, thank you as well. i can't promise it will take off on time. joining me now is barbara mcquade to talk about this. as always, great to talk to you my friend. a couple of things to tick through, we're getting this breaking news from garrett haake as well. let's start with that, former new york city police commissioner, bernard kerrick handing over thousands of pages to the special counsel, what do you make of that? >> two things are interesting. one is bernard kerik, was part of the willard hotel war room, very interesting and close to donald trump, and part of the group that could be linked to oat keepers and proud boys who led the attack on the capitol. if there's a link there, that could lead to charges of incitement of insurrection. the other thing is it could delay the ultimate filing of an indictment. we have been thinking it's coming any day because we got that target letter and trump had a deadline of last thursday, which made me think maybe the indictment is coming this week. if they're collecti

garrett, this is an extraordinary development. it's very rare that a plea deal is rejected by a judge. the handwriting was on the wall in the press release, which we were asking about at the time that this was an ongoing investigation. we were saying what is the ongo ongoing investigation about? the republicans seized on the fact that there are business dealings they want to investigate. they are trying to connect it to the president. >> yeah, that's right. congressional republicans and the republican presidential candidates are going to be tripping over themselves to be talking about this plea deal falling apart and continuing to highlight hunter biden's issues as a way to damage joe biden. there was a lot of frustration in republican circles the initial announcement of the plea deal didn't get much coverage, a deep dive treatment in the fact that it is now falling apart, element certainly will. i expect to hear about this from donald trump on social media. i suspect this will add fuel to that impeachment inquiry push that we are

nbc's garrett haake joins us. he covers the trump campaign. katie benner, pulitzer prize -winning justice department reporter for the new york times. former u.s. attorney joyce vance who spent 25 years as a federal prosecutor. and tonight, tonight we needed to former federal prosecutors because there was so much legal news. glenn kirschner is here as well. katie, i turn to you first. jack smith began this investigation in november. what does it tell us that trump is getting this letter nine months later? >> well, it tells us a couple of things, first of all that a tremendous amount of work did happen for jack smith walking the building. and we know this in part because of some of the witnesses that were coming in, speaking before the grand jury, some of them have come in before jack smith even got there. he's the kind of prosecutors who want to hear from the witnesses. he loves knowing what had happened before. he wants to get a sense of them. who wants to know what it would be like from their stand. he wants to know what they're weaknesses ar

i'm garrett haake. andrea is headed back from the nato summit in lithuania. here in washington, house republicans on the judiciary committee are hammering the fbi director for what donald trump and some conservatives have repeatedly claimed to be the so-called weaponization of the bureau and of the justice department as a whole. republican lawmakers are ramping up their public defense of the former president while going on offense against the biden administration and the president's family. >> i'm sitting here with my father. i will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction. i am sitting here waiting for call with my father. sounds like a shakedown, doesn't it? >> i'm not going to get into commenting on that. >> you seem deeply uncurious about it. don't you? almost suspiciously uncurious. are you protecting the bidens? >> absolutely not. >> joining me now, ali vitali and frank figliuzzi, former fbi assistant director for counterintellig

garrett, he says he has no plans to go to d.c.? >> well, he hasn't said that, katy, but sources familiar with his thinking tell us he's not going to show up here and testify. not planning to avail himself of four days basically that he says this target letter allowed him to come and tell his side of the story before a grand jury, and most defense lawyers you talk to say that's a pretty good strategy. he's in bedminster, new jersey, a screening of a movie there with supporters, and basically he's been focused on the campaign strategy element of the response to this at least publicly. we saw him on the stump in iowa yesterday, and in a town hall talking about this pending perhaps indictment, the same way he's talked about the two indictments he faces as election interference, purely political trying to continue to use his legal troubles as rocket fuel for his presidential campaign. >> who's william russell, garrett? >> refs a white house aide when donald trump was president. he works for donald trump in a campaign aide role. he's not

garrett haake now with more on mr. trump's reaction >> reporter: former president trump on the attack tonight against prosecutors and those three new federal charges against him. >> they're trying to intimidate people so that people go out and make up lies about me, because i did nothing wrong. >> reporter: in the new charges, the special counsel alleging mr. trump sought a cover-up to conceal classified documents at his mar-a-lago home by deleting surveillance video, now charging a new defendant, mar-a-lago property manager, carlos de oliveira, with two obstruction counts and with making false statements to the fbi. in the indictment, prosecutors say, on june 23rd last year, the day after the government subpoenaed surveillance video from his home, the former president spoke by phone with de oliveira for 24 minutes. the next day mr. trump's personal aide, walt nauta, who has also been charged, allegedly changed his travel to go to florida. on june 25th, prosecutors say nauta and de oliveira looked at surveillance video

i'm major garrett. we begin with the phrase, heated exchanges. it's a diplomatic term that conveys hard choices and big stakes. fr president biden will wrestle with both as he hopes to maintain european unity as the war in ukraine marks the $500 day mark. and janet yellen's efforts to calm tensions with china. but the phrase heated exchanges also applies to worrisome global weather patterns and spinoff effects here at home. scorching temperatures and dangerous flooding. oklahoma saw flooding that required several swift-water rescues, and the week ahead could be among the hottest america has ever seen. all of this on the president's plate as he arrives in london. >> reporter: good evening, president biden did not attend king charles' coronation back in may, but he promised that the two would see each other soon. their visit tomorrow just one of several high-profile events on a trip that will likely shape the future of nato. tonight, president biden arrived in london, ahead of monday meetings with king charles and the british prime minister. when t

garrett haake.tice and intelligence reporter ken dilanian, who is in florida where, by the way, trump's legal team has a hearing in his other federal case involving the classified documents. also with us, danielle cohen higgins, county commissioner in dade county. garrett, what more do we know about this post by donald trump about being informed that he is a target of the january 6th probe by the special counsel? >> reporter: ana, this kicks off a familiar pattern here for donald trump, where he essentially scoops the justice system, announcing ahead of time in the new york case, he was to be indicted, in the documents case, that he had been indicted, in this case, that he is the target of an investigation in which he believes he will be indicted. the former president posting two lengthy posts on truth social, laying out the fact he says he received this target letter on sunday night after a weekend spent at a conservative conference in florida. telling him he has four days to report to the grand ju

garrett haake is in florida with the latest garrett? >> reporter: kate, the desantis campaign has axed roughly a dozen staffers in a cost-cutting move. the shake-up is a red flag for the campaign that remains mr. trump's biggest rival for the gop nomination he appears to find it tough to keep enough money to keep his campaign afloat. the former president and former gop front-runner is attacking desantis relentlessly on the stump, including last night, suggesting that the governor should return here to focus on florida in an interview this morning, mr. desantis denied any problems internally with his campaign, suggesting instead he is the target of a consistent media narrative meant to undermine him ahead of a potential general election against president biden. kate >> garrett haake, thank you. >>> still ahead tonight, the mystery deepens after a missing alabama woman returns home safely. her family members had feared she was abducted >>> plusus, the retuturn of the summer cold why y it's roariring back. >>> we're back with a new mystery

>> lisa michel garrett was interviewed by knbc, over one week after recording that video.hat she said. about sheriff's deputy, who she recorded. >> the gentleman must have a mother, that's how we all get here. he's got a mother. and a grandmother, family members, females, -- >> when we rode away from the incidence, i was crying because very emotional. >> joining us now is joanne schwartz, professor of law at ucla school of law. she's the author of shielded, how the police became untouchable. professor schwartz, thank you very much for joining us tonight. what do you see in that video? >> i see much of what you've described, a woman who was exercising her constitutionally protected rights to record the police, being assaulted with no justification, with no indication that she was at risk, interfering with what the officers were doing. the amount of force used is very hard to possibly justify, in my view, putting -- an officer putting his knee on her, neck pepper spraying her, when all she was doing was exercising her right to record what was happening. >> and of course, the

. >> and andrew, let's bring in nbc's garrett haake to the conversation.rett, to that point, we saw in the previous case, involving one of the president's closest allies, the federal judge really coming down hard on him when he actually tweeted something with a bull's-eye that could be threatening to her. >> yeah, i don't think the former president's going to be backed off of the way he's been describing these cases on social media and on the campaign trail with anything less than a contempt order maybe from a judge. he has made -- the idea that the justice department is going after him for being president biden's chief rival essential part of this campaign message. this is not an afterthought. it's what's driving his social media post. the campaign has videos on it. he's made it a regular part of the stump speech. and it's working add least in the republican party context by forcing other republicans to pick sides is, you're either with the weaponized justice department or hour with him, and the indictments thus far have to be political i have a very hard

garrett, who is william russell? why is his testimony important? >> reporter: well, russell was a trip director and special assistant to the president during the trump presidency, and more to the point, he was considered a personal aide. he was someone who would have been around donald trump a good bit. not a senior person in the trump white house or campaign, but someone who would have potentially privy to a lot of conversations he may have overheard, including on january 6th itself where pictures exist of him standing with the former president around that rally on the ellipse. so someone who had been close to the action on the day of january 6th itself, although it's not clear right now whether that's specifically what smith and the special counsel's office wanted to talk to him about or perhaps even some of his continuing work with trump's campaign. so we're continuing to figure out exactly whether this is the first appearance that he's made, whether there's additional appearances and the kinds of information he may have, but it's pretty clear,

>> garrett, thank you. i want to bring back catherine christian, former assistant district attorney at the manhattan d.a.'s office, msnbc legal analyst. just hearing this, this confirmation now by garrett haake, what does it tell you? >> well, as you said, sort of a last minute please don't indict my client meeting. i'm surprised it didn't happen earlier, right after he received he, meaning donald trump, a target letter. typically, that's when you -- you know, you try to plead your case on behalf of your client. so, you know, this is -- they should have done this, they're doing it now because you want to make sure as a defense attorney you can tell your client that you have done everything you could to prevent, you know, the inevitable from happening and it didn't work. so i think the inevitable will happen in this case, but it hasn't happened yet, so i don't want to, you know, make a prediction, but i think this is the last-minute attempt. >> and so, catherine, we don't know if necessarily the -- any of th

garrett and ryan, thank you very much. again, south florida documents case. judge aileen cannon is holding a hearing on a trial date, among other motions. what might she rule? >>> news out of fulton county, georgia. what the state supreme court ruled on d.a. fani willis and why did a u.s. soldier seemingly run away to north korea? what happened at the dmz and what our pentagon sources are telling us about this soldier. we're back in 60 seconds. we're back in s60econds my frequent heartburn had me taking antacid after antacid all day long but with prilosec otc just one pill a day blocks heartburn for a full 24 hours. for one and done heartburn relief, prilosec otc. one pill a day, 24 hours, zero heartburn. subway refreshed everything. and now, they're slicing their meats fresh. that's why this pro proffers the new grand slam ham. so does this pro. i just love a grand slam... ham. and if we proffer it, we know you'll proffer it too. i knew he'd love that sandwich. >>> from january 6th to classified documents, a hearing on a trial date, among other things, for t

i want to put up the fox news poll, to garrett's point, donald trump at 56%. the nearest contender, 22%, ron desantis. before you respond there, al, garrett, i do want the point out, you know, we have these indictments coming, that have come for the former president and possibly more on the way. this latest one out of mar-a-lago, it's not nothing. >> that's right. >> certainly, i think if you look at here there's a clear double standard here, right? joe biden had documents in his garage in his time as vice president and senator. presidential records act did not apply to him, he had no declassification authority. i think the clear case is a 2010 case by judge berman with the clinton sock drawer case here, and it was about the presidential records act. president clinton the had eight years of recordings stored in his drawer talking military strategy and national security. that judge ruled that he had the authority to have that. and so you're seeing a double standard with joe biden, with hillary clinton and, again, donald trump under the presidential records act,

let me bring garrett into this conversation. we know the president already has tried to frame this as election interference. he just posted moments ago saying this is a witch hunt. what are you hearing from those around his circle, including from him right now? >> donald trump has a well-worn playbook for how to deal with this sort of thing. he just posted a more graphic friendly version of his longer post, calling it a witch hunt, election interference, arguing that he's being targeted because he is president biden's chief rival for the nomination. we're even hearing a version of it from his rivals on the campaign trail, suggesting that this is a political indictment pending, perhaps. this has become built in with republican voters and it makes it easy for donald trump to use his indictments to rally support, to raise money. the question here, the theory that i think many of his rivals have operated under all this time is that eventually the weight of all of this gets to be too much for donald trump. but for right now his campa

>> garrett haake, starting us off. thanks. senior legal correspondent laura jarrett joins us. laura, does a target letter come and is followed typically by an indictment? >> lester, it substantially raises the likelihood of prosecutors seeking an eventual indictment. that's virtually certain now. before today, we knew they were interested in mr. trump's efforts to stay in office, but formally notifying his lawyers that the former president is actually a target means they have reason to believe that the former president committed a crime. >> so what crimes might they be looking at? do we get any clues today from the letter? >> well, we know various witnesses have been asked about all the various ways mr. trump and others have tried to block or delay the certification of the election on january 6th. he says he had every right to contest the election results. but until we see an actual indictment return from a grand jury, it remains to be seen what specific crimes prosecutors are going to allege. >> so how does this work? what happen next in all this? >> that's a great question.

was not -- >> why >> well, what criminal activity did he do he told people to be peaceful. >> and, garrett, this all playing out as the former president suffered another legal setback today. what can you tell us >> reporter: that's right, lester. a federal judge denied mr. trump's effort to move his hush money payment trial into a federal court. the judge ruling that the alleged crimes had nothing to do with his job as president and that the case belongs in state court where it's slated to go to trial in march lester. >> all right, garrett, thank you. >>> senior legal correspondent laura jarrett joins me now back to what we learned today about these statutes, does this kind of lay out a road map of where we go from here? >> exactly, lester all along we've been focused on the former president's efforts to block the certification of the election on january 6th, but we now know there's also a federal civil rights claim mentioned in that target letter mr. trump received. it's the one about depriving someone of their constitutional rights that's curious because it's typically a crime that's use

garrett tenney has the coverage live in chicago now.rett. >> so far crime in the windy city has not improved under new progressive mayor brandon johnson. in most cases it has gotten worse. as we often see this weekend many of the victims caught in the crossfire are children. on friday a 13-year-old boy was riding a bicycle on the south shore neighborhood and someone drove by shot him and sent him to the hospital. police found a 16-year-old boy shot multiple times in the chest. he ultimately passed away. heavy downtown area sees its share of crime as well. late friday one block from the famed michigan avenue a 40-year-old man ran into a hotel lobby to take cover after being shot in the stomach while walking on the sidewalk and later died at the hospital. so far no suspects are in custody in any of those shootings. city wide at least six people were killed this weekend and 27 injured in shootings. so far this year, the already-high number of shootings and murders are down compared to a year ago slightly. but crime in every other category

>> ana, i think garrett was correct. it shows probably that they found nothing. that is what we know they did because they didn't present any evidence to any court or to any public forum, so they obviously found none. this would eliminate the possibility that a trial you were surprised by some evidence that there was fraud that had been discovered, that would have justified anything that donald trump did. of course, nothing justifies asking for your people to pressure mike pence or to pressure state legislatures or to storm the capitol. so, even if there was some kind of fraud discovered, that wouldn't justify those criminal acts. but i really think that it is going to show support for the fact that there was no evidence and that donald trump knew exactly that he was lying to the public and to his supporters. >> michael, let's talk about the logistics of how this usually works, the special counsel already sent trump that target letter, it sounds like that happened before prosecutors have gone through all the evidence, before kerik interviewed. how do you make sen

joining us now, garrett haake and katie. and "washington post" national security reporter. katie, first to you. there have been a lot of questions surrounding this court hearing today about whether or not he would have the arraignment. one of his lawyers said he didn't have a florida lawyer. we know he showed up. what is the judge going to do? >> the arraignment itself where the defendant enters a plea of guilty or not guilty, we an tis pate a not guilty plea for carlos, that's been reset for next thursday at 10:00 a.m. in fort pierce before the judge there. as you just said, no local counsel appeared on his behalf. a d.c. based attorney that has represented him as well as others like peter navarro appeared. you can see him on the screen now standing next to him. they enter the courtroom. he was read the charges from the superseding indictment. ultimately, he is going to have to sign for something called a personal surety bond in the amount of $100,000. as you noted at the top of the show, where is the money going to come from? according to his lawyer, he doesn't have the m

lester >> yeah, difficult moment all right there, thank you, garrett >>> in new york today, terrifyingges as a crane more than 40 stories high caught fire and collapsed into a street below. the debris raining down sending bystanders fleeing nearly a dozen people were injured we get more from emilie ikeda >> reporter: it started as a fire roughly 45 stories up in midtown manhattan, but just as first responders were arriving on scene, an even more terrifying turn >> oh [ bleep ]. >> reporter: the boom of the crane collapsed sending pedestrians below scrambling to safety >> i thought it was another terrorist attack or something, because there was a loud bang. it sounded like a bomb >> reporter: the falling crane also struck and rattled a nearby high-rise apartment building where residents were evacuated. >> our whole floor, the front of the building, all the glass and debris, everything, it's mangled like godzilla took it and just crushed it in his hands. >> reporter: authorities say at least 11 people sustained nonlife-threatening injuries including two firefighters first responders clim

garrett, i wonder, does a ruling like this weigh on kevin mccarthy's mind at all? does it urge him to change his calculus here? >> it's a good question. i think for mccarthy, all of this is a moving target. i mean, mccarthy has been in kind of survive and advance mode in the ncaa tournament. every day you just try to win so you can keep playing the next day. i don't know that where he stands right now, this changes kind of longer term strategic thinking except on this. mccarthy has raised a ton of money, both for members directly and for the super pacs that support republican lawmakers on those issues he may have to, and may have an opportunity to redouble his efforts because you will need that money to defend seats in very expensive media markets like new york state. >> garrett haake, lisa rubin, thank you for jumping on this. i think it's a significant story, and it could have major consequences as we just laid out. appreciate it. >>> we're never going to know apparently who left their baggy of cocaine at the white house, not unless someone comes forward and admi

first of all, garrett's right. he'd lose this vote in all likelihood.of all, why do you want to be talking about january 6th in the middle of the summer and putting donald trump back in the spotlight? this is just a terrible political idea and a very weak speaker that doesn't control his own caucus should have killed. >> they hit president biden on investigation into his son, hunter biden. we heard from a pair of irs whistle-blowers who claimed the doj, justice department, had medaled in that. here's part of their testimony. >> it appeared to me based on what i experienced that the u.s. attorney in delaware in our investigation was constantly ham strung, limited and marginalized by doj officials as well as other u.s. attorneys. >> at every stage decisions were made that benefitted the subject of this investigation. >> so, jim, understanding that legally this has been resolved, is it still a political liability for joe biden heading into 2024, the situation surrounding his son? >> i don't think so. the reason i don't think so, american presidential elect

katherine christian, vaughn hillyard, garrett haake, thank you. >>> breaking news out of israel. the country's parliament just approved a key part of prime minister's benjamin netanyahu's plan to reshape the judicial system, specifically approving a decision that strikes gujs from striking down government decisions that they find unreasonable. this vote comes as hundreds of thousands have already taken to the streets to protest this plan, arguing it will be a massive blow to democracy. nbc's raf sanchez is live from jerusalem. how are people reacting the the vote? >> reporter: well, ana, you can see behind me thousands of protesters gathered here in front of israel's parliament. they were making a last-ditch effort to try to stop this legislation. it wasn't enough. this bill passed over an hour ago. there was a cry, a kind of anger and despair as the news reached the crowd here that this legislation has gone through. we spoke to one woman. she had tears in her eyes. she said she didn't know what she was going to tell her children tonight about the future of israeli democracy. alm

garrett is right. three crimes in the target letter didn't involve insurrection or seditious conspiracy. but everybody needs to know there's no legal requirement for a target letter in the first place. if one is delivered to a defendant, there's no requirement that every charge that could end up being indicted must be included in that target letter. i think of the most intense interest to me, chris, is will this first indictment that we're all expecting be against donald trump alone, or will we see co-conspirators in it? one way or another, i think it's going to be a very compelling read. >> michael, "the washington post" had another interesting article pointing out that as much as half of the money coming into the trump campaign is going to pay legal bills. the article says, quote, any distinction between the former president's white house bid and his criminal defense is vanishing as the charges against him mount. fighting those prosecutions is increasingly dominating his time, resources and messaging

joining me now is nbc news senior capitol hill correspondent garrett haake.ch bowl news cofounder and msnbc political contributor, jake sherman, and former rnc chairman and msnbc political analyst, michael steele. jake, as somebody who knows mccarthy best, can you give us a sense of why he has not endorsed the man who arguably put him in the position to be speaker of the house? >> well, garrett and i spend a lot of time chasing kevin mccarthy, probably more time than we would care to admit. a few thoughts here, number one, the speaker of the house on the republican side has typically stayed away from endorsing. paul ryan said he was the chairman of the convention in 2016, and did not endorse trump until closer to the election time. you'll remember that well, katy. that was a big to do. if i had to read the tea leaves without, you know, having spoken to mccarthy about this, we've been outside of washington where congress has been outside of washington for some time now. i think mccarthy doesn't want to put a lot of his members in a tough spot. there are a bunc

i'd also just emphasize something garrett referenced about the political calendar. you know, the department of justice and the fbi really only began investigating this in earnest 14 months after donald trump's pretty fraudulent, clearly fraudulent effort to claim fraud, to use it as a way to overturn the election results. his pressure points that he applied in every possible way as president using every lever available to him in the oval office, pressuring his department of justice to do something that was fraudulent, pressuring vice president pence to do something that was unconstitutional, pressuring state legislative leaders to claim fraud when they knew there was no fraud. all of these elements were not investigated for more than a year, and now jack smith, who's done an amazing job of catchup is at the place where he can send a target letter saying we're possibly going to indict you. we need you to come in and testify now and give your version of the story. that's what a target letter is in this instance is coming right in the middle of a cycle when it best sui

garrett haake is on capitol hill. an msnbc political analyst. good to see you guys. garrett, what more do we know about the breakup between greene and the house freedom caucus? i didn't see anything on page 6. >> reporter: this is a very kind of high school cafeteria story line, as it has been for the last week or so now. the freedom caucus doesn't publish their membership, and they have been trying to not talk about this too much. it's clear they have become fed up with some of the activities of marjorie taylor greene that frankly frustrated democrats in the last congress. i want to play for how ken buck, a freedom caucus member explains how we got to this point. here he is on "meet the press" now. >> she has consistently attacked other members of the freedom caucus in an irresponsible away and as a result of that, she was kicked out of the freedom caucus, and she should not be a member. we have diverse opinions in the freedom caucus. that's not monolithic, but in so far as attacking other members, it just shouldn't

which is where we find nbc news senior capitol hill correspondent garrett haake. garrett, the desantis campaign attacking trump for not showing up at friday's conservative summit in iowa. trump instead giving his time, his attention, to tonight's turning point actions conference. what are these two dueling events saying about the current state of the gop primary? >> well alicia, it's interesting, because donald trump's allies are attacking rhonda sanchez for not coming to this event here in florida. his home state. look, it's a of the republican field, the even iowa on friday was a very traditional, evangelical, what we call a cattle call event. every candidate getting basically the same amount of time, an opportunity to make their case to a sliver of the electorate there and iowa. this is a modern creation of the sort of mega republican party. this is a turning point which started as a group, it was focus on college republicans, now a much broader electorate, but a very mega friendly crowd. with several of the donald trump endorsing members of congress speaking h

garrett, what's happening behind the scenes in trump world? what are you hearing in terms of reaction? >> reporter: that analysis is exactly right. the trump campaign is never one to let a political or legal challenge prevent them from seizing a political opportunity. they've already sent out fund-raising emails on this point saying that once again, the former president's being targeted, they argue, for purely political reasons because he's the leading candidate in a republican primary, and they're asking their supporters to donate to his defense both legally and politically. you can see one of these fund-raising emails on your screen just now. it's been a pretty steady stream of similar sounding emails over the last couple days. now they're once again focused on the documents case. the former president was on the radio today trying to make the case this is an effort to do exactly as our other panelists were suggesting here. target those who work for him as a way to get to him. here's what he had to say this morning sfwlchlt they went after tw

so garrett, wray has been testifying for, what, four hours or so so far? how are things going? gotten pretty heated, chris, certainly generating more heat than light. wray has been trying to defend the men and women of the fbi and his own reputation, at one point commenting on the idea that he's leading a bureau that's biassed against conservatives, which is insane given his background as a lifelong republican, and someone put in the position he now holds by former president trump. just to give you a sampling, he's been pressed on a variety of issues, everything on the handling of investigations by donald trump and investigations of conservative activists, which led to this exchange with chip roy a short time ago. >> your job is to review what they do. your job is to protect the american people from the tyrannical fbi storming home of an american family. >> i could not disagree more with your description of the fbi as tyrannical. >> you don't believe it's tyrannical that fbi agents were part of storming a father's home in philadelphia. >> time has expired. witness may respond.

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nbc's garrett hague is joining me from west palm beach and garrett is good to see you again on the sundaye. you were there for trump's speech. are you detecting a new energy in this campaign attack on run desantis? >> yeah, alex. i do think it is the case. trump and his allies clearly smell blood in the water when it comes to ron desantis and they are not backing off. the speech last night was an hour and 40 minutes -- and it was mostly focused on education topics and culture war topics. he's speaking to a group of conservative activists who are currently doing asa hutchison pretty gusty behind me. it is not just -- on the stage it is a pretty pro trump bias. obviously anti trump, very critical of trump candidates. but donald trump is clearly directed the detected there is weakness in the desantis campaign and his poll numbers are going the wrong direction and he's putting gasoline on that fire. here's some of what he had to say about his chief rival onstage last night. >> we are totally dominating the sank disarray here in the state of florida. so we want him to get home and take care of

lauren and garrett, thank you so much for being with us this evening.hank you both >> now, the former first family is speaking out tonight after their personal chef was found dead after a paddle boarder incident near the obama's martha's vineyard home. correspondent marianne rafferty joins with us the latest on this tragic story. >> reporter: good evening jonathan. breaking tonight we're learning more about the identify i had the of that paddle border who drowned near obama's martha's vineyard estate and how he's being remembered fondly by the former first family. 45 year old tafari campbell served as a sous-chef when he was president and when he left office became his personal chef. he was paddle boarding on edgar town's great pond when officials believe he went underwater and never resurfaced. >> african-american male on a paddle board, no life preserver, last seen wearing all black. they have not had eye contact on him. they have recovered the board as well as the hat. no life pre server. >> reporter: and tonight ba rock and michelle obama say tafari

i'm major garrett in for norah, who is on assignment. showdown between the federal government and texas over the southern border. the department of justice has sued governor greg abbott after the state refused to remove large rolling buoys in the rio grande, installed in an effort to block migrants from crossing. the federal government says the barriers are dangerous and unlawful while the governor said he had a right to defend his state's border. last week an internal complaint from a state trooper obtained by cbs news called the state's response, quote, inhumane. the trooper claimed he and other law enforcement officers were told to push migrants back into the water. he called the buoys a trap. cbs's janet shamlian starts us off tonight. janet, good evening. >> reporter: major, good evening to you. these are the buoys in question here along the rio grande. and tonight it appears they are not going anywhere despite the threat from the justice department. this one is very likely headed to court. it's a proverbial line in the sand, this o

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. >> gillian: garrett points out in the polls trump may have not be younger than biden but people areot holding his age against him in the polls. what do you say? >> i have agree. president trump is clearly the person in the republican primary that certainly we expect to win the republican primary. as garrett said here in south carolina saturday people got up at 4:00 and 5:00 in the morning to stand in line to see him. he has a lot of support. so age is not an issue there. i would say from the democratic party side, you know, i agree with the press secretary. president biden is out there. he is doing the work. so, you know, the alleged gaffes or whatever, you know, that's why people love joe biden. he has always been the everyday person. he had gaffes when he was 50. i don't think that's an age issue. it is just him as a person and i think if they can focus on the work that he have is getting done and showing how active he is, i think we'll get past the primary and in the general election it won't be an issue. they're very close in age. >> gillian: to her point here, garrett, none of