i want to bring in ken dilanian, nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent.t's becoming increasingly clear that there was major concerns about robert card's mental health this summer and in recent weeks from military commanders and members of his family. two senior law enforcement officials tell me that card's army reserve commanders referred him to in-patient psychiatric treatment over the summer after they became concerned about his comments he had been hearing voices and about threats he made to the base. we're told he spent about two weeks inside a psychiatric facility, was treated there, released. it's unclear what happened after that. but his sister-in-law said his family was raising concerns with the army reserve about what they viewed as card's increasingly concerning mental status. she said we reached out to make sure everyone was on the same page because he is someone who does gun training. we were concerned about his mental state. she said her husband went back and forth with the army, but it's unclear what actions were taken. she said they were fo

baltimore, where five young people were shot and wounded during homecoming celebrations nbc's ken dilanian is there. >> reporter: chaos on a college campus with heavily armed police pointing rifles at frightened students in their dorm rooms. >> turn around. >> reporter: while searching door to door after a shooting at baltimore's morgan state university late last night. >> they were just, like, basically pointing the guns at anybody that they seen first. it was kind of scary. >> reporter: students packing up and heading home today as the university canceled classes and homecoming events. even postponing its football game >> we're all going home going home to safety all our parents are not letting us stay. >> reporter: five people, four of them students, were shot and wounded. >> she's hit. >> reporter: when gunmen opened fire in the direction of a crowd in front of a campus dorm treated in the hospital for nonlife-threatening injuries, police saying they were unintended targets in a dispute between two groups and that the gunfire came from more than one shooter. >> it was crazy. just seein

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ken dilanian, we don't usually see him in court. he said he's going to show up in the past but he hasn't done so, at least in new york. what did it mean today to have him in that courtroom? >> that's right, katy, and he's not required to be here. it's a civil trial, but he chose to be here. for one thing, he got a moment that was broadcast widely where he got to denounce the proceedings and get his point of view across as only donald trump can do, saying things that have been refuted by a judge in his partial summary judgment ruling last week. it's important to remember. most of the contested issues in this trial have been decided. the judge has ruled that donald trump committed massive fraud. the real question in the trial is going to be the damages and the remedies, whether he will have to pay $250 million as the attorney general is seeking. for trump, it almost appears this is as much about politics and image making as it is about the law because he may be figuring that, look, he's already lost with this judge. the judge has made

. >> joining us now is ken dilanian. n in nevada and with the fbi director had to say? >> this las vegas man has charged. among the threats was a vow to finish what hitler started. symptomatic of what we are seeing and what the fbi director said is a heightened threat environment. he said that the situation, the ahamas attack raised it to another level. the actions of hamas and their allies could serve as an inspiration the likes of which we haven't seen since i.s.i.s. launched its so-called caliphate several years ago. the biggest risk is from homegrown individual extremisted who are radicalized online. take a listen. >> the jewish community is uniquely targeted by pretty much every terrorist organization across the spectrum. when you look at a group that makes up 2.4% roughly of the american population, it should be jarring to everyone that that same population accounts for something like 60% of all religious-based hate crimes. they need our help. >> in terms of what are they doing about it? he said there are several in

nbc justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian is outside the courthouse for us. n? >> reporter: this is the most consequential pretrial hearing in the case because it could affect how donald trump can campaign for president. we heard a forceful argument from prosecutors that there needs to be restrictions on what p is say to disparage the prosecutors, witnesses, the judge. he's called jack smith a deranged luna accused judge tanya chutkan of being an baem hack. his lawyers are arguing this would impede his first amendment rights. what judge chutkan has said as a baseline is, look, he is a criminal defendant and can't just say and do what he pleases. she raised the question of, if i do impose a gag order, how do i enforce it? the prosecution said you could fine him, bring him to court. the ultimate sanction is jailing a defendant, revoking his n conditions of release. that would pose huge complications when you have a former president with secret service protection who is running for president. the stakes are high here. whatever happens, guys, how ever this judge r

ken dilanian, how important is what she has to offer?ms of a witness, mika, but you see the pattern developing in the georgia case, and a lot of defendants are saying, what am i doing here? why do i need to risk time in prison especially when there's a deal on the table requiring no prison time. interesting, though, the prosecutor is requiring each of the defendants to pen a letter of apology to the people of georgia, which is a stroke of genius by the prosecutor. we could see it coming a few weeks ago when jenna ellis was asking trump to cover her legal bills and made it clear she doesn't have the money to pay for the legal defense. a trial like this can cost as much as $7,000 a day for some of these folks, and they don't have the money to do that. and fani willis, the d.a. is cleverly offering the deals for many to maintain their law licenses if they comply with the terms of the deal, and they can become witnesses against donald trump. this case appears to be firming up around donald trump. >> tim, let's go back to your experience and

ken dilanian is there at the courthouse. what do we know so far?: andrea, minutes ago, judge chutkan announced that she will impose a partial gag order on former president donald trump. specifically, she will prohibit all parties in the case, including mr. trump, from making or reposting any statements publically targeting the special counsel, his staff, the judge's staff or court personnel and also will prohibit statements about potential witnesses and the subject of their testimony. for example, mr. trump will be able to criticize former vice president mike pence who is running for president against in the republican primary, but he won't be able to talk about mr. pence's potential testimony in this election case in which mr. pence is a key witness. this came after a two-hour hearing that really put on stark display the clash between the first amendment and donald trump's ability to speak as he is running for president and a judge's interest in keeping an ordinarily courtroom, preventing witnesses and participants from being intimidated and preve

. >> joining me now, nbc's ken dilanian, nbc's blayne alexander, and former federal prosecutor and msnbcal analyst, carol lam. thanks for all of you being here. ken, what more do we know about this deal? >> as you heard there, chris, she pled guilty to six misdemeanor counts, much reduced from the felony racketeering charges that she was facing and the sentence that's called for here in this plea agreement is six years of probation, a $6,000 fine, restitution of $2,700, and a letter of apology to the citizens of georgia and most importantly, that she's agreeing to testify truthfully in any of these trials in which she's required to testify, and of course that could spell real trouble for former president donald trump. she was in the room when they discussed making allegations of election fraud, and the implications are not just this georgia case, but they're implications for the jack smith federal election interference case because what she's doing by pleading guilty is implicating herself in election fraud conspiracy. she is an unindicted co-conspirator in the federal case, and there's

our colleague ken dilanian, his advanced reporting citing two senior law enforcement officials saying that apparently this summer it was his military unit commanders recommended him for psychiatric treatment after they became concerned that he had claims that he was hearing voices and threats he made to the base. so he spent some time getting treatment for that. and the question is whether or not this would have violated maine's yellow flag law, a type of law where somebody who receives mental health treatment would have their weapons temporarily taken away from them, and more reporting needs to be done. but certainly does raise questions about. that's the type of thing they'll go back -- >> we're going to explain the yellow flag laws, and were they followed, but i want to ask again about his history with guns. there has been some conflicting or confusing reporting about whether he was a firearms instructor? can you tell me what we know? >> we're trying to get to the bottom of what did that mean, was he a firearm's instructor on the base, in his private life, what does that all go to.

also with us nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian, and glen kir issue ner a formereral prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst. what's happening right now inside the trial? >> reporter: right, so everybody knows we do not have camera access to these live trial proceedings here. we are relying on our great producer adam reiss who is inside, i'm looking down at my computer as all of us are tracking his notes he's sending from inside the courtroom. a camera was allowed in before the trial began for about two minutes there. you're looking at donald trump sitting next to chris kise his lead attorney, as well as alina haba who is another one of his attorneys and a legal spokeswoman, and you see letitia james who through her office is bringing this case against donald trump as well as the judge who is overseeing this process over the course of the last two years as the attorney general's office worked to compel the turning over of financial bank real estate records and forced donald trump and his children to sit down for depositions, and is now overseeing this case that culmina

. >> nbc's ken dilanian is following this for us. tell us more. >> simply put, chris, these lawsuits by 41 states and the district of columbia accuse meta of knowingly damaging the mental health of american teens for profit. the lawsuits say that meta's facebook and instagram have profoundly altered, i'm quoting here, the psychological and social realities of a generation of young americans and have, quote, harnessed powerful and unprecedented technologies to entice, engage and ultimately ensnare youths and teens. the lawsuits say meta has misled the public about the dangers of its platforms and has tailored features such as likes and alerts to stimulate dopamine reactions and keep kids coming back. the lawsuits cite research showing that young people's use of facebook and instagram is associated with depression, anxiety and insomnia and say meta has continued to deny and down play these harmful effects and prompt its platforms as safe for young users. meta said te company shares the attorney general he is commitment to providing tee

ken dilanian. walk us through this, ken. >> it's not clear whether mark meadows is cooperating.order for his lawyer to allow him to speak to fbi agents or testify in front of a grand jury, he would have to have some kind of limited immunity, otherwise he would take the fifth amendment. that would be the purpose of jack smith granting him immunity. it doesn't mean he can't be prosecuted. whatever he was saying cannot be used against him. what he said, according to abc news, undisputed by anyone in trump world, he has never to this day seen any evidence of fraud that would have overturned the election, and indicated that donald trump won the election, despite him saying that in his book and other places, and then he told donald trump at the time that there wasn't enough evidence to keep pursuing those bogus claims of fraud, and that's somewhat important because he would be a powerful witness. there are a few people who are closer to donald trump in any more meetings and rooms with donald trump, while all of this was going on than mark meadows. prosecutors need to prove that donald

ken dilanian looking into the lawsuit for us. , at lot of states here, what are they alleging? >> huge deal, kate, these lawsuits accuse meta of knowingly harming the mental health of american teens to make more money. california's attorney general accused meta in a statement of quote, cultivating addiction to boost corporate profits. the lawsuit said the facebook and instagram have profoundly altered the psychological realities of a generation. the lawsuit goes on to say meta has misled the public about the use of its platforms. the lawsuit cite research showing that the use of facebook and instagram is associated with depression, anxiety, insomnia in young people and they say meta has continued to deny and down play these harmful effects and to promote its platforms as safe for young users. >> something the surgeon general has talked about as well. any response from meta. >> reporter: in statement, the company, quotes share the attorney general's commitment with providing teens with safe positive experiences online and have intr

joining us now, ken dilanian. welcome. so let's talk about the warning signs.as card allowed access to guns and even to purchase new weapons in the interim? >> there were so many warning signs here. it's hard to know where to begin. the family first flagged concerns in may and we know his military commanders became so concerned by his behavior in july that they called new york state police who took for him two weeks of inpatient mental health treatment. then an army spokesperson told us that the army at that time directed the service member should not have a weapon, handle ammunition, should not participate in live fire activity. we also know that this september, his main army colleagues because concerned again because he was exhibiting paranoid behavior. one was worried he could commit a mass shooting. a local sheriff sent out an alert and tried to find him but failed. we were also told that co-workers at a recycling center where he worked said he was exhibiting aggressive behavior and talked about guns. three montds ago, a gun shop refused to let him by a sil

. >> joining us now, ken dilanian, laura jarrett and paul butler. l us about this plea deal. was it a big surprise? >> not a huge surprise because it had been reported that she and her co-defendant kenneth chesebro had been offered plea deals as long as ten days ago. they waited until the last minute, the moment of leverage before the trial. it's a significant blow to former president trump. we all remember that she was the lawyer who was making some of the most outlandish claims of fraud in the 2020 election. she blamed george soros, the governments of cuba and venezuela. she became known as the kraken. in a television appearance, she said she was going to release the kraken in terms of election fraud lawsuits which she did. none of those were successful. she can come in and testify about meetings that she had with former president trump discussing these allegations of fraud. that could be very powerful evidence. she's now the second person of the 19 defendants in georgia to have pleaded guilty. >> laura, talk to us about the conversation within the

. >> ken dilanian, catherine christian, thank you. >>> we have an update of the television group androup traveling with the secretary of state antony blinken being told to shelter in place, in a stairwell at their version of the pentagon. we can tell you now that there has been an all clear issued for that group, for that region. they're back to monitoring the meetings that still go on there in tel aviv. >>> still ahead, the search for hostages and those whose fate remains unknown. i'll talk to one man whose sister-in-law is missing after making an incredible sacrifice to save her little girl. >> my sister holding her little kid, transferring her to her husband to save her life so he can run faster with her, which he did, found shelter for 12 hours in the woods in darkness. hours in the woods in darkness if they're not nervous, then i'm not going to be nervous. financially, i'm the flight attendant in that situation. the relief that comes over people once they know they've got a guide to help them through, i definitely feel privileged to be in that position. ♪♪ >>> brand new question

in addition, our colleague ken dilanian, also had sources say -- who were able to confirm what we saw come out of a police bulletin yesterday which was information about the fact he may have spent time at a mental health facility over the summer was true and he actually was recommended by army commanders to spend time at that facility after alarms raised both by family members and people he worked with as reservists. this is all painting a broader picture. at all the press conferences yesterday reporters at nbc and elsewhere were hammering officials to get more information about how it was possible that someone who seemed to have such a clear undocumented history of mental health challenges recently was able to still have access to and possession of firearms like this. he was able to purchase the firearm used legally back in 2023. all of this is fueling the anger and outrage here and compounded by the fact people can't go to vigils right now and can't support each other. what we're seeing is people calling some of the local radio stations here to grieve and process how they feel about

and ken dilanian has been following this hearing, too, listening to the warnings from the experts. ken, the homeland security secretary did not mince words. he said this is not a moment to let our guards down. what else did you hear? >> that's right. he and chris wray said the ongoing war in the middle east has raised the threat of terrorist attacks on americans. wray said that the actions of hamas and its allies will serve as an inspiration the likes of which we haven't seen since isis launched its so-called calaphate. and pointed out al-qaeda has issued its most specific call to attack the united states in the last five years and that isis is urging followers to target jewish communities in the u.s. and europe. there was a really dramatic moment when senator hawley was questioning secretary mayorcas about the actions of a dhs asylum officer who praised the attack on israel in some really objectable language. >> is this typical of people who work at dhs? this is an asylum and immigration officer who is posting these frankly pro genocidal slogans and images on the day israelis are b

we have been reporting out with my colleagues josh lederman and ken dilanian on exactly what has happened to those hostage talks. what we've learned is that they broke down. they are ongoing, but they largely broke down. there was an evaporation of trust on friday. a former official with knowledge of the talks tell us they broke down over questions about supplying fuel and a lack of commitment from hamas to truly deliver a large group of hostages. so that former u.s. official telling nbc news hamas has been insistent on receiving fuel, and that the israel and u.s. side, plus other countries, wants a large batch of their citizens released. that former u.s. official, an israel official and diplomat with knowledge of the talks tells nbc news -- confirms the timing, that the talks broke down before the launch of what benjamin netanyahu has called the second phase, the second phase you were hearing behind richard's live shot there before he lost communication. that diplomat describing overnight thursday to friday, talks were going very well on thursday, and negotiators were hopeful a deal coul

nbc's senior legal correspondent laura jarrett and nbc justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilaniane terms that powell agreed to in this? >> the most significant term in this entire deal is the fact that she now has to testify truthfully against other co-defendants, including the former president, and rudy giuliani, who are all part of this alleged scheme to try to overturn the last ection and to try to keep the former president in power. that's something that the judge reaffirmed today in court, something she said she understood. and if she goes back on that, that means the prosecutors can go back on this deal or she could be facing prison time. remember, this is what has allowed her to avoid time in prison and get probation, which is significantly lighter than what she had been facing there. >> and so, ken, of course, bigger picture, there are two election interference cases. what could this mean for the federal case against donald trump? >> that's a great question, ana. anything that sidney powell says in this state case could be used against her in the federal case where she's o

the suspect still at large ken dilanian is there for us hey, ken good morning >> reporter: good morning, hoda. yeah, here at morgan state university it is homecoming week it is supposed to s supposed to celebration for students, but that was interrupted by a terrifying shooting that brought police and s.w.a.t. teams to campus overnight. >> this morning the entire city of baltimore's heart aching for the community. >> reporter: in maryland this morning, a community reeling and students wounded but alive, and police still searching for a suspect after a shooting on homecoming week injured five people, including four students between the ages of 18 and 22. victims were taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. officers responding to gunshots on campus overnight. >> they heard discharges, responded to scene, located multiple victims, multiple windows shattered and made our officer believe possibly we had an active shooter. >> reporter: the campus of the historically black university put on lockdown for the next two and a half hours. >> we saw all the police cars and the ambu

trying to get custody of the hostages, but they don't have that yet. >> nbc news correspondent ken dilanian, thank you very much. we have a lot of other news to get to, including the fact that there's no speaker of the house. there's going to be another vote today at 11:00 a.m. but first today is president biden's second trip into an active war zone this year. in one minute, we're going to bring in historian john meacham. we're back in 60 seconds. meacha. we're back in 60 seconds >>> we're just standing by as we have a lot of moving parts this morning. we maybe jumping into a meeting between president biden and the israeli war cabinet. if that happens, we'll jump in. but let's bring in the american presidency of vanderbilt university john meacham. first of all, talk about overall, president biden's trip into this hot war zone. i mean, truly, so soon after the war has broken out, it's still raging and with many questions and mysteries as to who has done what. what do you make of the trip? how does it stand in history, but also what are some of the severe challenges he is facing? >> the presi

ken dilanian reported last hour i think it was a 308, which is a larger round of an ar-15 and what that means in addition to the great legalitity we saw last night when law enforcement is responding, they're responding to somebody who has training, who can be very lethal out to a very long-range. and so when you combine not only when i was up in boston and the fbi had jurisdiction over maine, spent some time up in maine, there's a lot of space and not a lot of people. and there's also a lot of coastline and islands. and there's some indication the subject may have had a boat as well. so if you look at the ways he may have moved after the shootings, whether he stayed on land, whether he took to a boat, there's access to canada, to the north and very quickly through new hampshire into massachusetts through the south, if he was able to access a car, he could move a great deal of places. now, from a manhunt perspective a lot of things are going on. logical things of scouring his social media, executing search warrants on his residents potential places of work, his car. there's some indicati

>> reporter: mika, we've been reporting this out with my colleagues, josh lederman and ken dilanian. what we are told is that there were real hopes overnight thursday into friday that these talks might lead to a humanitarian pause. in fact, john kirby at the white house said on friday that the white house was in favor of a humanitarian pause in order to get aid in, he said, and to get people out. then on friday morning, those talks stalled. as you mentioned, a former u.s. official with knowledge of the talks telling nbc news that hamas has been insistent on receiving fuel, while the israel and u.s. side, plus other countries, want a large batch of their citizens release and had that wasn't being guaranteed by hamas. meanwhile, a diplomat with knowledge of the talks describing to us how talks were going very well on thursday, and negotiators were hopeful for a deal to be reached over the weekend. then going on to say, differences emerged early friday which led to the talks stalling. that diplomat, as you mentioned, saying the talks are ongoing. hamas official, and there's a lot of rhe