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lindsey reiser picks up with more news right now. >>> good friday morning.ntdown is on. six days, that's how much time the justice department has to submit its proposed redactions to the affidavit used to secure the fbi's search of donald trump's mar-a-lago estate. how much of it will we actually see and what could it reveal about the broader investigation. we'll talk to experts about the details investigators would want to keep secret. also this hour, a political jolt from senator mitch mcconnell.

i'm lindsey reiser in for jose diaz-balart.t in the trilt of wnba start brittney griner held in amos cow prison for nearly six months. we'll play for you what she just told the courtroom this morning. >>> on capitol hill, all eyes are on senator kyrsten sinema and whether she'll support the reconciliation bill as democrats try to get it passed before the august recess. we'll ask senator tim kaine where things stand. >>> following speaker pelosi's high-level visit to taiwan, china has carried out military exercises off the

i'm lindsey reiser. right now the republican party and donald trump's allies feeling the full impact of being in the former president's orbit. as we speak, in a georgia courthouse, his personal attorney, rudy giuliani, is testifying before a grand jury. giuliani's attorney tells nbc news that is a target to alter the outcome of the 2020 election in that state. we're also learning from "the new york times" that according to three people familiar, trump's white house counsel pat cipollone and deputy patrick philbin were both interviewed by the fbi about sensitive documents stored at mar-a-lago. this as the fallout from the fbi's mar-a-lago search becomes a -- comes to a critical juncture tomorrow. a judge will hear arguments about whether to release the affidavit behind the search, something donald trump wants and the doj opposes. even now, as donald trump's legal troubles mount, his grip on the republican party is tightening. and he just purged one of his high-profile critics. republican liz cheney lost h

i'm lindsey reiser at msnbc headquarters in new york. two major trump world legal sagas reaches a crescendo right now. not far from where i am, court just adjourned ten minutes ago in the case of former trump organization ceo allen weisselberg. this is him leading just moments ago. he just pleaded guilty to criminal charges in a tax case brought by the manhattan d.a. he's expected to serve a five-month sentence. and as part of his plea, he would be expected to testify against the trump organization, if called, when the company goes on trial in the fall. so what's in store for trump's namesake company? and is this a win for the former president? also today, the former president is looking for a legal win a thousand miles away from new york in florida. two hours from now, the judge who approved the fbi's search warrant of mar-a-lago will hear arguments over whether to release the affidavit behind it. it's arguably the most important part of that warrant. the doj is fighting its release, citing highly sensitive information tied to a nationa

i'm lindsey reiser.king news right now. >> and good morning. i'm andrea mitchell in washington, kicking off this special two-hour edition of "andrea mitchell reports." as you've heard the breaking news, we are watching that russian court, you see wnba star brittney griner. she has just received the guilty verdict. a guilty verdict on drug possession and smuggling. it's a critical step that had to take place before any chance of getting her home. there was a long shot of acquittal, but that wa

i'm lindsey reiser at msnbc headquarters in new york.not far from where i am, court just adjourned ten minutes ago in the case of former trump organization ceo allen weisselberg. this is him leading just moments ago. he just pleaded guilty to criminal charges in a tax case brought by the manhattan d.a. he's expected to serve a five-month sentence. and as part of his plea, he would be expected to testify against the trump organization, if called, when the company goes on trial in the fall. so what's in store for trump's namesake company? and is this a win for the former president? also today, the former president is looking for a legal win a thousand miles away from new york in florida. two hours from now, the judge who approved

welcome back, and lindsey reiser. i'm in for yasmin vossoughian. federal law enforcement in the wake of the mar-a-lago search and the targeting as some of their own agents. this is the political fallout from the seizure of top secret documents continuing in full force. these documents are not only containing our nation's top secret, but because our country would do us harm, do harm to our own citizens. we don't want them to get a hold of them in any way, take photos of them, anything, because they can reverse engineer them and figure out who the sources are, what's the confidential confirmation. is that's why it's so important that these documents remain in safe locations. mar-a-lago, you can check out croquet sets and china's rockets and golf clubs, that's not one of them. >> i am hoping that if they actually did this and if they recognized how serious this was they did have their act together before they went in and did this and then

msnbc's lindsey reiser is joining us now from -- with the details. lindsay, our resident expert on!details of? this >> yasmin, the goals here in addition to getting a man women back on the moon are to build a lunar base camp on the south pole. gateway, which is a spaceship in orbit. this is a big test along the way. let's go ahead and take a look at what we are going to see. the rocket weighs nearly 6 million pounds. it stands 32 stories tall. the boosters generate more thrust, each one, then 14 commercial jumbo airliners. the engines gobble up enough propellant drain a swimming pool in a minute. in an hour and a half after launch orion's been on a lunar trajectory. it will go into distant retrograde around the moon. it will travel nearly 1000 times farther than the distance between the international space station and earth. the return is really a big test to. a test for the heat shield and its ability to protect ryan from nearly 5000 degrees fahrenheit. we are going to see two initial pair shoots deploy. in less than 20 minutes iran is gonna go from mock 32 to 0. >> i also know nas

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lindsey reiser picks up with more news right now. >>> good friday morning. i'm lindsey reiser, live from msnbc headquarters in new york. right now, the countdown is on. six days, that's how much time the justice department has to submit its proposed redactions to the affidavit used to secure the fbi's search of donald trump's mar-a-lago estate. how much of it will we actually see and what could it reveal about the broader investigation. we'll talk to experts about the details investigators would want to keep secret. also this hour, a political jolt from senator mitch mcconnell. >> i think there's probably a greater likelihood the house flips than the senate. >> he blames candidate quality. but who's to blame for that? we're going to look at the key races where warning signs are flashing for the gop. >>> plus, when americans think of the irs, accountants come to mind, but some republicans are now portraying the agency as an armed strike force. the potentially dangerous implications of the party's escalating rhetoric. >>> we're going to start, though, with tha

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i'm lindsey reiser. in the former president's orbit. as we speak, in a georgia courthouse, his personal attorney, rudy giuliani, is testifying before a grand jury. giuliani's attorney tells nbc news that is a target to alter the outcome of the 2020 election in that state. we're also learning from "the new york times" that according to three people familiar,

i'm lindsey reiser at msnbc headquarters in new york.omeone in trump world may have teed off the fbi search at mar-a-lago. first the deposition we're learning from his attorney that trump sat for more than four s

i'm lindsey reiser at msnbc headquarters in new york. new developments on donald trump's mounting legal troubles. from his deposition under oath in new york to reports that someone in trump world may have teed off the fbi search at mar-a-lago. first the deposition we're learning from his attorney that trump sat for more than four hours of questioning by the new york attorney general's office, he invoked his fifth amendment right more than 440 people. he did answer one question, though, his name. in moments, the line of questioning he faced and what it indicates about the civil case the attorney general is building. >>> plus, new reporting about why the fbi search of mar-a-lago may have happened even after more than a dozen boxes were retrieved by the national archives earlier in the year. "the wall street journal" reports someone familiar with the stored papers told investigators there may still be more classified documents at the private club after the national archives retrieved 15 boxes earlier in the year. people familiar with the ma

msnbc's lindsey reiser is joining me here in the studio. huge, it is a first time nasa has gone back in 50 years, tell us more about this. mission >> you mentioned some of the lofty goals, nasa is also trying to build a lunar camp up on the moon in the south pole, and also build an orbiting base camp around the moon. let's go ahead and start with ryan. let's take a look at the rendering about this launch is going to look like. it raised nearly 6 million pounds in stands 32 stories tall. those boosters, each one generates more thrust than 14 commercial jumbo airliners. the sentience consume enough propellant to drain a sorting pool in a mere minutes. an hour to half after the launch the ryan capsule is on a lunar trajectory, and ryan is going to go into distant retrograde around the moon, traveling nearly 1000 times farther than the distance between the international space station and earth. the return is a big task, is a test for the heat shield. and its ability to protect or ryan for nearly 5000 degrees fahrenheit. then we will see the par

. ♪♪ ♪♪ >>> good afternoon, i'm lindsey reiser in for chris jansing.ew level with wide implications. all because of that doj bombshell that dropped just before midnight. now his defense team faces an imminent deadline to respond. and this photo right here tells a story, it's the first glimpse inside mar-a-lago where agents found these top secret documents and it shows clearly how this highly sensitive information was labeled with gold red font. the photo is part of that new 36-page doj filing about the former president's handling of highly classified material. it lays out the actions the doj says the trump team took to withhold subpoenaed information. in total more than 100 classified records were seized in the search, including

i'm lindsey reiser. andrea mitchell picks up with more breaking news right now. >> and good morning. i'm andrea mitchell in washington, kicking off this special two-hour edition of "andrea mitchell reports." as you've heard the breaking news, we are watching that russian court, you see wnba star brittney griner. she has just received the guilty verdict. a guilty verdict on drug possession and smuggling. it's a critical step that had to take place before any chance of getting her home. there was a long shot of acquittal, but that was such a long shot. only 1% of those facing trials in russia are acquitted. 99% are found guilty. reaction from a few moments from the executive director of the women's national basketball player's association, who has been fighting for her return. plus, any moment, we're expecting a civil rights announcement from attorney general merrick garland at the department of justice. but we begin this hour, of course, with the brittney griner drug trial in in russia. the russian court

♪♪ ♪♪ >>> good afternoon, i'm lindsey reiser in for chris jansing.ome on the air the legal pressure on former donald trump is hit ago new level with wide implications. all because of that doj bombshell that dropped just before midnight. now his defense team faces an imminent deadline to respond. and this photo right here tells a story, it's the first glimpse inside mar-a-lago where agents found these top secret documents and it shows clearly how this highly sensitive information was labeled with gold red font. the photo is part of that new 36-page doj filing about the former president's handling of highly classified material. it lays out the actions the doj says the trump team took to withhold subpoenaed information. in total more than 100 classified records were seized in the search, including information classified at the highest levels. for context that's more than twice the amount that had been handed over in june after a grand jury subpoena. some documents were so sensitive government officials needed a higher level of security clearance just to

i'm lindsey reiser in new york. in for hallie jackson. and with me right now is nbc justice and intelligence correspondent, ken dilanian, tom winter, chief foreign affairs correspondent, andrea mitchell. former u.s. attorney and senior fbi official, chuck rosenberg, now an msnbc contributor. former assistant u.s. attorney and associate independent counsel for the white water investigation, kim whaley, and clint watts, now an msnbc national security analyst. so, ken, what are we learning here about the case that the doj laid out in this affidavit? >> lindsey, a couple of pig takeaways. one, the doj saying that there are multiple civilian witnesses whose identities they want to protect in this case. not one single informant or confidential source, but many, many people, and that's why they've asked for all of those names and identities to be redacted. secondly, we're learning new details about the extent of how classified some of the documents were that were found in the origin 15 boxes that were turned over by the trump folks to the archiv

lindsey reiser if for katy tur. developments overseas on two front. in russia officials now say they're willing to talk prisoner exchange following the nine-year sentencing of brittney griner on drug charges. here at home a stunning jobs report and the lowest unemployment numbers in almost 50 years. we're going to get more into the numbers and what they mean for the economy later on in the hour. we're going to begin in washington where senate democrats are prepared to work through the weekend to advance their key spending bill after finally clearing a major hurdle last night. senator kyrsten sinema is in, but a plan to close one major tax loophole is out. chuck schumer says all 50 members of the caucus are now on board and the final senate vote on the package could come as soon as next week. joining me is ali vitali. senator sinema has officially signed on. walk us through how the deal came together and some of the changes she got. >> reporter: lindsey, what it means to have sinema on board,