consider possible criminal charges against former president trump, his company, and its executives pete williams is following this for us. pete, what do we know? >> reporter: lester, this is the next step that prosecutors would take in pursuing possible criminal charges. it doesn't mean charges will be filed. it does mean the case is entering a new and not unexpected phase the d.a. is investigating a host of issues involving the trump organization's taxes, how it reported its assets to get loans, and how top executives were paid. this development reported by "the washington post" suggests the d.a. believes there's evidence of a crime, but it will likely be months before we find out whether this results in any actual charges. lester. >> all right pete williams in washington tonight, thank you. >>> in just 60 seconds, we'll have details on the biden/putin summit just announced and the manhunt in a new road rage shooting. >>> high tension likely next month as president biden announced he'll meet with russian president vladimir putin for the first time kristen welker has details. >> reporter: the hi

our pete williams is following it pete, what's this case all about? >> reporter: lester, this involves a mississippi law that would ban nearly all abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy for nearly five decades the u.s. supreme court has said states cannot ban abortion before the fetus is viable around 23 weeks now the court has agreed to take another look at that very issue. the core of roe v. wade two justices who upheld roe in the past are gone, anthony kennedy and ruth bader ginsburg, replaced by trump appointees brett kavanaugh and amy coney barrett. the court will hear the case in the fall with a decision about a year from now. lester >> all right pete williams tonight in washington. thanks >>> in just 60 seconds, an associate of florida congressman matt gaetz pleads guilty here in orlando to charges including sex trafficking of a minor. >>> heavy rain along the gulf coast causing flash floods homes and vehicles underwater in lake charles, louisiana video of customers inside a flooded diner. the city getting over 11 inches just today >>> also here

lester >> pete williams, thank you. >>> a dismal day on wall street. the dow dropping nearly 700 points after consumer prices rose to their highest level in 13 years. stephanie ruhle explains why. >> reporter: as the economy recovers and americans return to work they are noticing something. >> food has gone up a little bit. i noticed that >> gas prices have hurt my pocket food prices going up has hurt my pocket. my whole family's pocket >> reporter: prices are higher than they remember last month inflation rose at the fastest pace in nearly 13 years. prices for used cars and trucks soared 21%. airfares are also up along with furniture prices and the daily staples like coffee, lunch and parking. for the last year americans have been at home spending less and saving more. many have extra money from stimulus checks. >> people have money in their pockets and they are feeling good about the reopening of the economy. >> reporter: while demand is up, supply is down after the pandemic caused disruptions in manufacturing, farming, and shipping. that led to shor

government being blamed on russia our pete williams has the latest on the investigation. >> reporter: the latest attack hit the state department's agency for international development, usaid, which distributes america's foreign aid. the hackers inserted malware that sent what appeared to be genuine usaid emails to more than 150 recipients including human rights groups and other organizations that have been critical of russia's president vladimir putin in a blog post microsoft says the attack came from a threat actor called nobelium, originating from russia. the same group behind the huge solarwind attack that targeted the departments of homeland security, energy, commerce, defense, treasury and state and thousands of america's businesses the u.s. government has said nobelium's hacking is the work of russia's foreign intelligence service this time microsoft says automated systems blocked most of the malicious emails and marked them as spam. but the russian attack comes less than three weeks before president biden is scheduled to meet putin in geneva >> we need clear rules of nation-sta

>> i think pete williams is right. by the way, there isn't anything on the planet that i can explain better than pete can. it's the logical and incremental next step. the grand jury has been obtaining documents. they have been doing it through subpoenas to financial institutions and the like. that's logical. that's what happens in investigations. it would make sense to me, craig, that they are at a new phase where they would use a grand jury to lock in witnesses. let me explain that if i may. make believe that it was important that the light was green and you are a witness to the fact that the light was green. when an fbi agent interviews you, you tell her the lie was green. you repeat that story over and over. but we think you might change your story. so we put new the grand jury. we ask you what color the light was. you say green. we now have that testimony under oath. fast forward to a trial. if anyone is indicted and if they go to trial and if we call you as a witness, and we ask what color the light was and you sa

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thank you, pete williams, our justice correspondent.innesota attorney general keith ellison released a statement and that statement said in part, federal prosecution for the violation of george floyd's civil rights is entirely appropriate, particularly now that derek chauvin has been convicted of murder. >>> we are following breaking news in the race to get the covid vaccine to as many people as possible. pfizer has now applied for full fda approval for their covid vaccine. if approved, pfizer would be the first covid vaccine choice in the united states to hold that distinction. pfizer was given emergency authorization in december. so far, more than 134 million pfizer doses have gone into the arms of americans. i'm joined by the founding director of the national center for disaster preparedness. walk us through what this news from pfizer means from a practical standpoint. >> well, craig, it's actually big news, because it is the first manufacturer that will be the first to get full approval. it doesn't have that much practical implicati

>> i'm joined by nbc news justice correspondent pete williams.for an update for the arrests of those who participated in the attack. where does the investigation stand right now? >> well, first of all, i want to say congressman clyde is right about one thing. at the very beginning, when people got into the capitol, the first shots that we saw did look like people, tourists walking through statuary hall, but that didn't last long. to answer your question, the justice department has now arrested more than 450 people, and it says in court documents that government lawyers will probably still make cases against at least 500, and maybe more. yesterday, during the hearing, at which congress clyde made that comment, the police chief in washington says he thinks more than 1,000 people got in there. now, clearly, there are two distinct groups of people. there are those folks who just came in and sort of stood around and grinned into their phones and took selfies and left. but there's a smaller group of people that did damage to the capitol, ransacked offi

for more, i'm joined by pete williams. federal charges mean what?o from here with that legal fight? when would that trial begin? >> well, let me answer the second one first. it's the easiest. whenever the government does this, whenever it comes into a state case that's proceeding, it usually stays in the background and waits to see what the outcome is in the state case to see whether or not there should be a second subsequent federal trial or whether the interest the federal government has been vindicated by the state conviction. chauvin has been convicted and will be sentences. the other three will go on trial soon. my guess here -- the government hasn't said. but my guess is the justice department will wait to see what happens on the state charges. it's a separate matter on the incident involving the 14-year-old in 2017 when the government says that he struck this child with his flashlight and state court documents said chauvin put his knee on young man's back for 17 minutes. that's a separate case. the government could go ahead with that if it wa

joining us now is nbc news justice correspondent pete williams. pete, what more do we know about this investigation? >> i think the best way to understand it is this: and then there were two. we've known that cy vance's people, the district attorney in manhattan, has been looking into this very issue. the question is did employees of the trump organization pay taxes on gifts they were given by trump or other trump officials. lavish gifts are supposed to be taxable. they're considered part of your compensation. were taxes paid on that? we know that vance's people were looking at it, and now our understanding is that the attorney general of new york, letitia james, is also looking at the same question. it's part of a much, much broader investigation into the trump organization. we learned earlier this week that some of james' lawyers are also looking at other aspects of the trump organization, too. what we don't fully know, because these are grand jury investigations, is exactly what the attorney general is now looking at that vance's people either a

pete williams joins us now. ighting full release and what have we learned from what they did put out? >> two issues, the freedom of legal information act which is what was used. they said predecisional documents meant to advise are exempt. they said how could it be unconstitutional. they said no, what the attorney general was to decide, if the president could be indicted, would the information support the indictment. the first part explains the purpose, but the rest of it is still blacked out. that's what the government is appealing. what the judge says -- she has seen the whole thing -- said the memo was meant to guide why the justice department wouldn't indict the president. and the government says that's not what we are fighting. >> don mcgann will be interviewed. >> we won't be able to see it. the ruling was he would appear before the committee in a closed session and answer questions about what the mueller report says about the back and forth, over whether he should continue his work, so forth. then the tran

i want to bring in pete williams who is following this. ns sub committee that we're seeing on the left side of our screens. what do you expect to hear and see over the course of the morning for the attorney general today. >> this is one of those virtual hearings, the attorney general is looking at the fifth floor of the justice department. his proposed budget reflects this administration and his priorities. he is asking $45 million for the fbi for domestic terrorism investigations and a parallel 30 million for u.s. attorneys to manage the increased case loads of handling the domestic terrorism case loads. a lot of that will be related to the exceptional size of the investigation. that is already resulting in about 450 cases filed and they think it will go to 500. in terms of civil rights enforcement, he is asking for more division on the justice department. we have seen concrete changes based on the new policy, they are much more willing to launch these pattern investigations into local police departments. that had been the practice for the

joining me now is nbc news justice correspondent pete williams. do we know about this case? >> here's why it's a direct challenge to roe v. wade, because the supreme court has consistently, since that decision in 1973, said that women have a constitutional right to seek abortion services before viability, which is generously considered to be 15 weeks. they passed this law after 15 weeks with very few exceptions, saying states need the flexibility to decide if that viability date has changed because of medical advancements. so that's the argument here. so it really does get into the core of roe v. wade, and that's why it's so important that the supreme court has agreed to take it up, because in taking it up, it said it would limit itself to the question of whether states can ban abortions during the pre-viability period. that's the whole ball game, and that's the question the supreme court has agreed to hear. now, the fact that it has agreed to hear it is telling in and of itself. because the supreme court has had this case on the docket since last

pete williams. ing to see this memo? >> yes, we might. the justice department has decided to resist this order from the judge and fight it in court, but remember, this was the trump administration's decision to hold this memo. now it's the biden administration that has to decide whether to fight the judge's order. they will be looking at are there institutional reasons they want to keep this away so they don't set any type of legal precedent. this is a freedom of information lawsuit called by a group called crew, a watchdog association for the president, that he made this decision after consulting with justice department lawyers and the office of legal counsel. so for that reason the government said, no, we're not going to release this loc memo because it comes under the exceptions for predecisional advisory memos. the judge said basically, i've seen this memo. it doesn't do that. a part of it is sort of strategic advice on how to announce the decision, but she says the decision was already made at t

. >> charles coleman, pete williams, thank you very much for bringing us that breaking news.st in the last couple of minutes here, we'll talk more about it later on in the show. we also have breaking news happening right now in atlanta where the mayor is holding a news conference to announce that she will not run for another term. we'll explain why. plus, new details on how congresswoman elise stefanik is auditions for a top job. and why one college is can complaining about a premature coronation. we'll be live on the ground in austin with what happens from here. m here oh, it was terrible. i was totally stranded. no tp? nope, empty roll. so what happened? well... we started buying charmin super mega roll. whoa! that's huge! charmin super mega roll is 6 rolls in 1 and lasts so much longer you don't always have to worry about the roll running out. i'm glad you were rescued, dad. me too. it was a huge relief. enjoy the go with charmin. guaranteed to fit or your money back. ♪ you come and go ♪ ♪ karma-karma-karma- karma-karma chameleon ♪ ♪ you come and go ♪ ♪ you come and go-o-o

nbc news justice correspondent pete williams now. of precedent on the line here. >> very much so, shep, and here's why, for nearly those 50 years, ever since deciding roe v. wade in 1973, the supreme court has said that states cannot ban abortion before the fetus is viable, and that's generally considered to be about 23 weeks into the pregnancy, and under a consistent line of rulings since then, the court has said that states can impose restrictions on access to abortion services but only if they don't create an undue burden on the abortion right carlton reeves said this in his ruling, the state chose to pass a law it knew it was unconstitutional to endorse a decades long campaign fueled by national interest groups to ask the supreme court to overturn roe v. wade, so now the court has agreed to take a very look at that very issue, the core of roe, and as you know, the mississippi law would ban nearly all abortions after 15 weeks, so the question is can the states ban abortion before viability without violating the constitution you men

. >> nbc's pete williams joins me now. he watched the entire thing. at we saw sitting attorney general actually show up to house hearing this seemed to be something worth following today, particularly he had his doing when the democrats were put in charge. the biggest takeaway for you, and it seems as if domestic terrorism is the headline, but what did you learn? >> domestic terrorism and civil rights, asking for $85 million more on domestic terrorism, about half between the u.s. attorneys and fbi, asking for about $33 million more on civil rights, especially parts of the justice department he wanted to build back up. he did request 21% increase for immigration judges and that's the justice department's part of this whole thing. they don't really enforce. they are, of course, facing a huge back log and he said they hope to hire 100 new immigration judges. he was asked why don't you hire more? and he said there's only so much the system can absorb at any one time. on guns that came up, he said if it's problematic to ask people to show a photo i.d. at th

>> pete williams is with us now. pete, i understand you have new information about the gunman. tell us what you've learned. >> several layoffs officials told nbc news that the person who carried out the shooting today was a vta employee. the santa clara sheriff's office has said that much, but the name we're given is samuel cassidy. we're told he is a fairly long-time employee of this facility. another thing that emerged from the news conference was clearly this was not some spontaneous event if it turns out that explosive devices were planted before this shooting happened. then there's the question of the fire at the other facility, which apparently was set before the shooting. at least, that's the information we have from the initial calls to the fire department. now, why this happened and specifically where on the facility it happened, we don't know. there had been some reports that there was a union meeting this morning and that that's where this started. that might account for the large number of people who were shot if they were all in a confined space. the other thing we

and pete williams is joining me now. always good to see you.erstand why the statement was put out when it was and i also have some questions about latisha james talked about this when she was running for the office that she now holds? >> here is our understanding of what is happening here. in the course of the civil investigation by the state attorney general's office, there was some evidence uncovered that could suggest possible evidence of a crime. so two lawyers from the attorney general he'll office, two assistant attorneys general have been cross designated to work with cy vance's office in the criminal investigation. and so it is not that there are two parallel investigations both criminal investigations, it is really more that part of the a.g.'s investigation has sort of been peeled off and now part of the d.a.'s investigation. and whether that increases exposure for donald trump, we're not sure because we don't know precisely what they are looking at, whether it was something that they were already aware of or something new. and so it i

pete williams is on this one for us. , tell us about this particular case and what it could mean for abortion restrictions in this country. >> this is a mississippi law called the gestational age act. it was passed in 2018. it basically said, no abortions after 15 weeks except in medical emergencies or cases of fetal abnormality. it was immediately challenged. the lower courts put it on hold saying it was beyond the protections of roe versus wade. up with court said, you are trying to get the supreme court to overturn roe v. wade. you can't do that. the supreme court said abortions are constitutional before the age of viability. the question here is, what is that age? mississippi says it's roughly 15 weeks. the longstanding case law says, no, it's almost twice that. that's the issue that's coming to the supreme court. this is one of those -- i think it was the first of the wave of the laws passed primarily in the southern states intended to tee up a direct challenge to roe v. wade before the more conservative supreme cour

nbc justice correspondent pete williams joins me now. the focus is on legal fees and why is all of this about? why is gordon sondland suing? >> you're right. he's a former trump administration official who said the u.s. told ukraine that the u.s. would resume military aid to ukraine if ukraine would launch an investigation of an energy company which included hunter biden on its board of directors. in the new lawsuit says he had no choice to testify because he was served with a subpoena. government lawyers would not represent him, but he says the man who was secretary of state at the time mike pompeo and other senior officials told him at least four times that the government would reimburse him for the full cost he incurred when hiring lawyers on his own. that changed when fired by trump and pompeo. the government reimbursed him $86,000 and his legal fees are more than 20 times that, $1.8 million. he has a couple of claims. first of all, pompeo's repeated promises amount to a legally binding contract which the government must honor, but h

joining me now, nbc news justice correspondent, pete williams, nbc news capitol hill correspondent, garrettkehaa and dave aaronberg, good to have you all here. pete, what exactly are the charges that joel greenberg has according to these court papers agreed to plead to? >> yeah, you've put it exactly right. he's agreed to plead guilty. he won't actually do it until monday. but according to the court documents, he will plead guilty to six charges. now, that's six of the original 33. so that says something about what the government thinks his value is as a potential cooperator. but he admits in these documents to using a website to identify women that he later paid to engage in commercial sex acts with him and others. the others are not named, but the documents say from for roughly two years, from december to december of 2016 to 2018, he paid more than $70,000 in 150 transactions to pay women for sex. and one of them was under 18 for part of that time. the documents say greenberg paid her for sex acts with him and others. she had an account on the website in which she represented that she was

i want to bring in pete williams on this. let me take this in a couple chunks here.ut the response and where the lawsuit goes? >> the former president's response mirrors the comment in response a couple days ago. trump says he was acting in his official capacity when he urged congress not to declare biden the winner of the election. that he did not incite people at the rally. the violence and his statements are a protected expression. giuliani says there was no conspiracy to try to get people to attack the capitol. nobody was trying to encourage that. his response says, quote, the conspiracy theory defies all plausibility and believability on its face. in fact, it makes all the theories of election fraud look tame by comparison. and his lawyer says the use of the phrase trial by combat which is something giuliani said during the rally referred to the future legal challenges, not to what was happening at the capitol. now, also the oath keepers also named in one of the lawsuits, their lawyer makes this novel argument. he says the constitution and federal law don't spec

i want to bring in pete williams, our chief justice correspondent.ve you have some reporting that indicates we know who the shooter is. >> several law enforcement officials have told my colleagues andy and john that the person that they believe carried out the shooting is an employee of the company where the shooting happened names samuel cassidy. apparently, a fairly longtime employee there. it's been reported that the shooting began at a union meeting this morning. but we don't know yet what weapon was used or whether the shooting began inside. if it did begin inside a room, that may explain why the number of people shot here is going to be fairly high in terms of people wounded or dead. but we don't have any confirmed numbers on that. and the second part of this is, i know you have been reporting about a fire nearby this morning. santa clara county sheriff's deputies are at the scene of that apparent house that may be cassidy's residence or connected to him. and that house caught fire this morning. so they're investigating whether the fire was set

i know you will, pete williams, thank you so much. the campaign trail with his republican colleague, marjorie taylor green, who the house stripped of her assigns an supporting qanon, questioning whether plane hit the world trade center on 9/11, this time questioning the presidential election. >> the democrats that say they won the presidential race -- [ boos ] >> say they won, and yet yesterday house republican leader kevin mac carthy said this -- >> i don't think anybody is questioning the legitimacy of the presidential election. i think that is all over with. we're sitting here with the president today. >> joining me now, the chair of the house democratic caucus, congressman hakeem jeffries of new york. lots to talk about. thanks for coming on. i want to get your analysis of what we've seen unfold over the last 24 to 48 hours including what's happened with liz cheney. i mean, one way to think about it might be that it's bad for democracy and maybe good for the democratic party if there's a war within the republican party. how do you

miller defended his response and his timing about sending in the national guard our pete williams has>> reporter: a defiant former acting defense secretary said he approved sending national guard troops about two hours after becoming aware that rioters were storming the capitol though it would take another two hours for them to get there. chris miller defended that pace saying he was aware of the backlash over the role guard troops played in pushing protesters away from the white house in june and in killing four civilians in demonstrations at kent state university in 1970 he wanted to make sure the guard was fully prepared at this time. >> this isn't a video game where you can move forces with a thick of a thumb or a movie that glosses over logistical challenges in the time to coordinate other entities involved. >> that didn't satisfy some democrats. >> will you at the very least apologize to the american public for what happened on your watch? >> reporter: many questions remain unanswered about the intelligence leading up to january 6th and the time line of what happened in the capi

joining me now is pete williams. ave a minute or maybe less before the president comes out, but give us the highlights from today. >> for one thing, none of the things you talked about in the beginning, the self rights prosecutions and so forth that he was asked about, he was not asked about the durham investigation or the capitol riot investigation, so there was lots he didn't talk about, but what he did say, he wants more money to expand the civil rights department and the community relations service has withered since he has been around that department, and republicans pressed him about why you want more money, and the attorney general said there's only so many we can get in there at a time and there's a limit to how many you can push in, but he hoped more immigration judges on the order would help produce the backlog for hearings for people that applied for asylum. you're right, his focus was on domestic terrorism especially and shoring up civil rights. e >> what was the response he got? >> congress agrees there s

. >> pete williams, live for us there. pete, thank you.the breaking news from the facebook oversight board. that president trump is still banned for now. here is mark meadows on that and what it means for mr. trump's political future? >> it is a sad day for america and facebook. rallies will happen very soon. the vast majority of americans want him to throw his hat back in the ring. if i had to place a bet on it i would say he will do exactly that based on my conversations with him. >> but, any potential political come back would depend on facebook's final decision. they have within six months to decide whether or not which he get back on again. even though twitter, which he is still banned from was really the former president's megaphone, facebook is how he raised a lot of money. let's go to peter alexander with more on this. what else are you hearing and what does this mean, do you think, for the former president's political future? >> in terms of what we're hearing is again this anger and frustration directed and big tech arguing that b

pete williams is going through the document. pete, what is joel greenberg admitting to and what, if anything, could it mean for matt gaetz? >> he'll plead guilty on monday, and we have the court documents which outlines what he'll plead to. i think, number one, it shows the value the government thinks he may have. he was originally facing 33 separate counts. he has agreed to plead guilty to six of them. according to what he's agreed to plead guilty to, he used a website to identify women who he later paid to have sex with him and others, the documents say. they don't name who the others are. it says from december of 2016 to december of 2018 he paid more than $70,000 in 150 separate transactions for sex, and that one of them was under 18 for part of that time, part of the time that he paid her for sex acts, quote, with him and others, again others not named. it says that she had an account on the website in which she represented she was an adult, and the charging documents also say other men who greenberg introduced the minor to e

i'm with pete williams and cynthia oxney. me start with you and this dramatic development from overnight. new york's attorney general now pursuing a criminal investigation. the question is whether or not this will be significant from a legal perspective and so we're not not sure we fully understand here. that is not normally what he does and in the meantime they were conducting a criminal investigation. thousand the attorney general's office says it's informed the trump organization. here is the statement, we informed the rump organization that they are no longer purely civil in nature, but we are investigating them in a criminal capacity. so the da investigation is much further g. they got a big boost in figure when they said they could not duck the subpoenas from the trump organization. they brought in extra brain power to power. they are subpoenaing people, and we think this means that doing the civil investigation the attorney general's office came over some evidence that could suggest is a crime but is now being folded i

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. >> pete williams live for us in our washington news room, pete, thank you for that. >>> breaking news on capitol hill, this is interesting the top house republican, kevin mccarthy, is now condemning one of his fellow republican members of congress, marjorie taylor green after days of silence after her comments about covid rules compared to the holocaust. this is interesting, mccarthy to this point had not said anything publicly about her remarks. she tries to get, and she fundraises off of the attention she gets from saying very outrageous things. do you cover it and give it oxygen, do you not cover it? is it better to call them out when they happen? now you have kevin mccar think putting his thumb on it. >> i have been very reluctant to cover congresswoman green. she is a back bencher. everything she does is designed to draw attention to herself and raise money for herself. the latest reprehensible comments about wearing masks compared to jews wearing stars on their clothes during the holocaust. silence over the leadership in relationship to it became note worthy. thigh say her inten

our justice correspondent pete williams is with us. put this down. what does this mean? there will be a stay? walk us through the order. >> sure. so remember the history here. after congress passes the cares act, there is a moratorium on closures federally supported. then there was a second action by the cdc extending it to all rental properties. the congress allowed that to renew. then congress authority expired. so the cdc authority that is in effect now is based solely on the cdc's own interpretation of its legal authority under public health law and the judge said today, sorry, you don't have the authority to do this. the cdc said it was necessary to help prevent the spread of disease, to let governors better enforce stay at home orders, to keep people at home instead of gathering with others. but the judge said the law does not give the cdc to do this on its own. the government said if you're going to rule against us, limit your ruling only to the people who sued us here. a group of realtors and realtor associations. the judge sai

. >> pete williams, thanks so much, as always, for the update. >>> and now which way is the gop leaninglindsey graham saying president trump is still the party's future. >> i would say to my republican colleagues, can we move forward without president trump? the answer is no. i have always liked liz cheney, but she has made a determination that the republican party can't grow with president trump. i've determined we can't grow without him. >> it will be on full display today. matt gaetz and majorie taylor greene will make their first stop at the villages in florida. wow. thank you all for being here. i know i have been to several campaign events at the villages. it is a popular spot, especially for republicans. what brings gaetz and taylor greene there today? >> it's a rite of passage for any political reporter and for any politician as well. a must-stop for any conservative. there is a plethora of older voters, mostly republicans. so this is the america first tour which is a fund-raising tour for their joint fund-raising committee. what they are electing to do is show deep loyalty to t

. >>> joining us now is pete williams. what have you learned about what has gone on in san jose?all indications has been this is a workplace related shooting. about four out of every ten mass shootings in the united states are at a business like this. this is apparently fitting into a pattern. there are reports that this started at a union meeting. shots were fired about 6:30 this morning. we don't know anything about the shots other than it was someone connected to the rail yard, a current or former employee is the best information we have. in terms of the number of people killed, there is some preliminary information out there, but those preliminary reports are always wrong. less than ten it appears to be at this point, but precisely how many we don't know. >> pete, as you report this out, can you help us understand about how authorities will start looking into this. the fba, are they involved? >> the fbi may be involved to do some work with reconstructing the scene. there is no federal murder charge so the jurisdiction is for the local officials, santa clara sheriffs office, t

wade nbc's justice correspondent pete williams joins us from the high court this morning good morning >> reporter: good morning to you. nearly 50 years, the supreme court said states cannot ban abortions before a fetus is viable this case from mississippi is a direct challenge to those rulings, and it comes before one of the most conservative lineups of justices in decades the court will decide whether mississippi violated the constitution when it passed a law in 2018 to ban nearly all abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy, saying that advancements in medical knowledge have shifted the time when a fetus can feel pain. >> what we're hoping to see is with this case, the court will take the handcuffs off of the states and allow them to pass laws that reflect the values of the people that live there >> reporter: lower courts struck the law down, saying it ran counter to a string of the supreme court's abortion rights rulings since 1973, that said states cannot flat out ban abortion before fetus viability around 23 weeks of pregnancy but now, the supreme court says it will take anothe

nbc's pete williams reports fbi agents fired shots at the person who was then taken to the hospital theisturbed. no other details provided. >>> spacs, wall street bets, nonrefundable tokens it's full of roaring kitties and beoples. today we take on the meteoric rise of a new coin named after dog. it's up 16% just for today it's the latest financial head-scratcher thankfully here at cnbc, we have an explanation. >> first, let's start with how to pronounce this thing. doggy? dog coin it's dogecoin. it started as a joke between two software engineers in 2013 they were looking for a fun alternative to bitcoin, the world's first and biggest digital currency. >> dogecoin is like digital chuckie cheese tokens. >> i'm going to get the okay boomer for not understanding doggy coin. >> we're talking about dogecoin, of all things. >> dogecoin was inspired by this picture of a sheba' knew dog, already a popular internet mean. its name sick, cryptocurrency because the talk of online forums on reddit and twitter snoop dog, elon musk and guy fieri all tweeted about doge this year. mark cuban talked abo

the department of justice confirming to nbc's pete williams that it sought the phone records of threeing out russia's role in the 2016 election. according to the "post," the doj notified the three reporters involved, one of whom no longer works there. the doj was after phone records between april and july 2017 when the reporters had published stories about classified u.s. intelligence intercepts, indicating that then senator jeff sessions talked about the trump campaign with russia's ambassador to the u.s. the doj saying attorney general bill barr was not targeting the journalists when he signed off on seeking a subpoena for the call logs. "the washington post" says it is, quote, deeply troubled by this use of government power. joining me, msnbc contributor and former u.s. attorney joyce vance. she's a professor at the university of alabama school of law. joyce, good to see you. the justice department says it was looking into the leak of classified defense information and subpoenaing these reporters was a last resort. what do you make of doj's approach here? >> it will be important to

for some clarity, let me bring in pete williams. what does this mean if you're matt gaetz now? who were potentially involved in federal crime according to the government and the people we have talked to is about to be much higher in terms of his level of cooperation. couple of things to think about here. number up with, this is not a big surprise because this was pretty much signalled in april he was going to cooperate. his lawyer said to the judge, let's hold off on scheduled anything further. we might be able to work something out. that was a pretty strong tell. the government would not be prepared the move to this stage if they didn't know pretty much what matt gaetz was going to tell them and had not done some preliminary work to try to corroborate its voracity. what does the plea deal mean? he will cooperate. in return the government will file probably a reduced number of charges that he'll plead guilty to. he faces 33 counts now. i would be very surprised if that number isn't significantly reduced when we found out the terms of it on monday. the number of -- the extent to

let's go straight to pete williams. what have we learned?ake a very big abortion case it will hear next term. it's a ban on most abortions after 15 weeks with very few exceptions. this is the first in the wave of anti-abortion laws passed in the trump administration hoping to reach the the security. the surprising thing, steph, the supreme court has been decided whether to take this case for eight months, since las september. so today it said it will take the case. it will be argued next term. it is a big boost for opponents who hope the newly conservative court with 6-3 and conservative justices with three trump appointees would be favorable to something like this. miss is mississippi is hoping to revive its ban and very big deal, to be argued next term. >> very big. pete, thank you very much. please keep us updated. >>> and now america's mental health crisis for children and getting them back into the classroom may not reverse the damage from last year. last year. heart racing, chest pain, shortness of breath, fatigue or light-headedness,

. >> pete williams who covers justice department for us gave us some context today.ood the person with whom he had sex was underage. the federal law has a willful blindness doctrine, which means they don't have to prove gaetz actually knew the person was underage but there was a significant risk she was. tell me about this. >> that's exactly right. so a defense could not be, well, i didn't know for sure how old she was. what the cooperation agreement says stat mr. greenberg understood that there was a significant risk that this child was under the age of 17. and in fact, he learned that she was and continued to have sex with her. again, gaetz isn't named in the cooperation agreement, but there's a strong inference in the agreement that he was down and dirty with his colleague greenberg including in these sordid allegations about sex and drugs with minors. >> i want to just read an excerpt of the copy of the plea agreement, which it says greenberg acknowledges he acted in reckless disregard of the fact that the minor was less than 18 years old when he engaged in comme

as discussed, martha will go one-on-one with the transportation secretary pete buttigieg, plus an exclusive, cia director william burns gives his first tv interview since taking office. he'll talk about service and sacrifice ahead of memorial day. eva, over to you. >>> now to tulsa, this weekend marking 100 years since the city's race massacre. differences in opinion over how to handle the commemoration and reparations. marcus moore is in tulsa wh re good morning, marcus. >> reporter: eva, good morning. the desire for reparations and reconciliation runs very deep for a lot of people here in tulsa. many who speak of the lives lost and the generational wealth that was taken over those two horrific days in 1921. this morning, the people here in tulsa and across the nation remembering the lives lost in the 1921 tulsa race massacre in the city's greenwood district. >> oh, i'm trying not to really tear up because it's -- it's, you know, it's just -- it touches my heart, really. it really does because of what the peope went through. >> reporter: one of the events commemorating the ceenthblwat hi >> it's about bringing