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MORE "MEET THE PRESS NOW." THE NEWS CONTINUES WITH HALLIE JACKSON NOW. >>> I'M HALLIE JACKSON WITH A BREAKING NEWS SPECIAL REPORT. DONALD TRUMP ON TRIAL WITH COURT JUST WRAPPING UP IN THE LAST HOUR. TESTIMONY PUSHING US INTO THE NITTY GRIDE OF THE SUIT AT THE CENTER OF WHAT IS HAPPENING IN COURT. THE HEADLINE OR SHADOW LOOMING OVER MR. TRUMP NOW AND THE THING THAT WE HEARD HIM TALK ABOUT IN THE HALLWAY, THE WARNING FROM THE JUDGE THAT THE FORMER PRESIDENT, SOMEBODY THAT CAN MAYBE BE THE FUTURE ONE, COULD END UP IN A JAIL CELL IF HE IS NOT MORE CAREFUL ON WHAT HE SAYS. WE HEARD TRUMP SOUNDING MORE OPEN TO THE IDEA, PERHAPS, OF BEING BEHIND BARS THAN THE IDEA OF HOLDING HIS TONGUE. LISTEN TO THIS. >> THIS JUDGE IS GIVING ME A GAG ORDER AND SAID YOU WILL GO TO JAIL IF YOU VIOLATE IT. AND FRANKLY, YOU KNOW WHAT? OUR CONSTITUTION IS MUCH MORE IMPORTANT THAN JAIL. IT IS NOT EVEN CLOSE. I WILL DO THAT SACRIFICE AND DAY. >> SO THAT IS MR. TRUMP THERE AFTER THE JUDGE, JUDGE MERCHAN SEEMED AT THE END OF THE ROPE. THE LAST THING THAT I WANT TO DO IS PUT YOU IN JAIL. YOU ARE THE FORMER PRESIDENT BUT HE WILL IF NECESSARY. THAT WAS THE RARE FIREWORK IN A DAY THAT HONESTLY CONSISTED MOSTLY OF WHAT YOU COULD CALL NECESSARY SLOGGING. TWO NEW WITNESSES, CAREFULLY LAYING OUT THE PAINSTAKING PROCESS OF REIMBURSING MICHAEL COHEN TO THE TUNE OF $130,000 AND TRUMP'S PARTICIPATION THAT WAS PAID TO KEEP TWO WOMEN QUIET, TWO WOMEN WHO CLAIM TO HAVE AFFAIRS WITH TRUMP, AFFAIRS THAT HE DENIES. TODAY THE JURY GOT THE FIRST LOOK AT THE CHECKS IN QUESTION ALLEGEDLY USED TO REIMBURSE COHEN FOR A RETAINER. THAT IS WHY THIS TRIAL IS HAPPENING AND PLEADING NOT GUILTY TO 35 COUNTS OF FALSIFYING BUSINESS RECORDS. WE ARE IN THE BUSINESS RECORDS PORTION OF THE WHOLE THING. FOR THE NEXT 20 MINUTES, RIGHT HERE, WE WILL EXPLAIN WHY ALL THAT YOU JUST HEARD MATTERS SO IF YOU WERE NOT GLUED TO EVERY NOTE, EVERY WORD COMING OUT OF COURT. IF YOU HAD OTHER THINGS TO DO, WE DIDN'T, THIS REPORT IS ALL YOU NEED WITH OUR TEAM OF REPORTERS, ANALYSTS READY TO BREAK DOWN EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW IN THIS SPECIAL LOOK INSIDE OF THE TRUMP TRIAL. I WANT TO START WITH YASMINE OUTSIDE IN COURT. A COUPLE BUCKETS HERE TODAY. LET'S START WITH THE PARTIAL GAG ORDER AND THE THREAT, THE WARNING FROM THE JUDGE THAT HE FACES MORE CONSEQUENCES IN HE KEEPS VIOLATING IT. TALK US THROUGH IT. >> Reporter: THE FORMER PRESIDENT SAYING THIS JUDGE IS OUT TO GET HIM, THAT HE HAS A GAG ORDER ON HIM, HE CAN NOT SAY THINGS, HE WANTS TO DEFEND HIMSELF PUBLICLY, HE IS BEING ATTACKED, SO ON AND SO FORTH. THE SAME THING -- WE HAVE BEEN HEARING FROM THE PRESIDENT. BUT THE MOMENT OF SOME OF WHAT YOU JUST READ BETWEEN THE FORMER PRESIDENT ALONG WITH HIS ATTORNEYS AND THE JUDGE SITTING ON THAT STAND AND TALKING ABOUT THE VIOLATIONS OF THE GAG ORDERS, NOW THE FORMER PRESIDENT OWING AN ADDITIONAL $1,000, SAYING 99% OF THE JURY IS DEMOCRATS. HE SAID HE DID NOT WANT TO DO IT, THE LAST THING HE WANTED TO DO. THIS IS THE FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, POSSIBLY THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, THERE ARE SO MANY COMPLICATIONS IN THEY DECIDE TO IMPRISON A FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. SECRET SERVICE BEING ONE OF THEM. AT ONE POINT HE GOES ON AS WELL AND I WANT TO READ THIS IF I CAN. IT IS APPARENT MONETARY FINES WILL NOT DO SO IF APPROPRIATE AND WARRANTED FUTURE VIOLATIONS AND LAWFUL ORDERS WILL BE PUNISHABLE BY INCARCERATION, IT SEEMS AT THIS POINT THE FORMER PRESIDENT, HIS ATTORNEYS, THEY HAVE GOTTEN THE MESSAGE. I SAY THAT BECAUSE OF WHAT HAPPENED AT THE END OF LAST WEEK. ONE OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT'S ATTORNEY SAYING HE WOULD LIKE TO POST OR REPOST SOMETHING PUT OUT THERE BY A LEGAL ANALYST TO DEFEND HIMSELF, CAN HE DO THIS? THE JUDGE SAID IF YOU FEEL LIKE IT IS A BAD IDEA YOUR INSTINCT IS PROBABLY RIGHT, DON'T POST IT. I AM NOT IN THE BUSINESS OF WHAT YOU CAN AND NOT POST. WE WILL HAVE TO WAIT AND SEE IF THE FORMER PRESIDENT IS GOING TO CONTINUE TO VIOLATE THE GAG ORDERS OR NOT. ONE OTHER THING, HAL, WE DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO PUT YOU IN JAIL THAT WILL DELAY THE TRIAL. THEY DON'T WANT HIM TO GO TO JAIL HERE. >> YOU HAVE TO WONDER WHAT THE ATTORNEYS ARE TELLING HIM. WE WILL GET TO THAT IN JUST A BIT. LET ME ASK YOU ABOUT A BIT OF THE REALISTIC SLOG IN COURT TODAY. NECESSARIARY FOR THE PROSECUTORS. WE MOVED AWAY FROM THE LURED STORIES INVOLVING THE ALLEGED SEX SCANDALS NOW WE ARE IN LIKE THE CROSSING OF THE T'S AND DOTTING OF THE EYES, LAY OUT THE GROUNDWORK THAT THEY FEEL LIKE THEY HAVE TO PUT IN FRONT OF THE JURY RIGHT NOW. >> Reporter: IT WAS THE SLOG T. SEEMS LIKE IT IS THE DOCUMENTATION. WE SAW ALL 34 COUNTS IN EVIDENCE. INVOICES, CHECKS, LEGGERS, WE SAW IT ALL LAID OUT, PAINTING THE PICTURE OF $35,000 A MONTH PAID TO MICHAEL COHEN, LAYING OUT. HOW IT IS THEY WERE ABLE TO PAY IT OFF UP TO $420,000. THE TOTAL PAYOUT, SPLIT OUT BETWEEN $130,000 THAT WENT TO DAVIDSON, STORMY DANIELS ATTORNEY, $50,000 TO A TECH FILM, $60,000 IN BONUSES TO MICHAEL COHEN AND THE REST PAYING OFF MICHAEL COHEN FOR TAXES, DOUBLING THAT $180,000. AS YOU SAID IT WAS A SLOG OF A DAY. BUT IMPORTANT TO THE PROSECUTION'S CASE TODAY. >> LET'S PICK IT UP, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, LIVE FOR NUS DOWNTOWN MANHATTAN. LET'S PICK IT UP WITH OUR LEGAL ANALYSTS, A FORMER MANHATTAN DA. TO YOU, FIRST, HERE, TO HER POINT THE PROSECUTION FEELS THEY HAVE TO LAY IT OUT. DID THEY ACCOMPLISH IT? >> THEY ACCOMPLISHED IT. LET'S TALK ABOUT THE SLOG. THAT IS THE CASE. THOSE ARE THE 34 COUNTS. WE CAN TALK ABOUT PORN STARS AND ELECTION FRAUD AND PLAYBOY MODELS BUT THIS IS A FALSIFYING BUSINESS CASE. EACH ONE OF THE INVOICES, CHECKS, LEGGER ENTRIES ARE THE CRIMES IN THIS CASE. AND, THE PROSECUTION HAS TO PROVE BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT THAT DONALD TRUMP MADE OR CAUSED TO BE MADE A FALSE ENTRY IN HIS BUSINESS RECORDS OF HIS COMPANY AND IT WAS DONE WITH THE INTENT TO DEFRAUD, INCLUDING AN INTENT TO COMMIT OR CONCEAL ANOTHER CRIME. SO IT IS BORING, TEDIOUS BUT IT WAS IMPORTANT TESTIMONY TODAY. AND ALSO THESE ACCOUNTS PAYABLE PERSON AND THE CONTROLLER, THEY WERE IMPORTANT BECAUSE THEY WENT THROUGH THE ACCOUNTING PROCEDURES OF THE TRUMP ORGANIZATION. THEY WERE VERY IMPORTANT WITNESSES. >> DEBRA, SHE IS AN EMPLOYEE IN THE ACCOUNTING ORGANIZATION, WE GOT INTO SOME OF THE, QUOTE UNQUOTE RECEIPTS, SOME OF THE DOCUMENTATION, SHE SAID THAT IT WAS ONLY THE FORMER PRESIDENT, IT WAS ONLY DONALD TRUMP WHO SIGNED ANY TRUMPS IT WAS ONLY HIM. IF HE SAYS HE DID NOT KNOW OR WAS NOT INVOLVED DOES IT MATTER THAT IT IS HIS SIGNATURE THERE? >> IT DOES MATTER. NOT CONCLUSIVE PROOF BUT IT IS SIGNIFICANT. NUMBER ONE NOT JUST HIS SIGNATURE IS ON THERE, A LOT OF BUSINESSMEN, BOSSES, SIGN CHECKS ON MASS WHEN THEY ARE HANDED THEM AND MAY NOT PAY ALLOT OF ATTENTION, THAT IS WHY YOU SAW TESTIMONY FOR ANYTHING OVER $10,000 HAD TO BE PERSONALLY APPROVED. IS IT PROOF? NO, THEY CAN ARGUE SAYING LOOK JUST BECAUSE HE WAS HAVING STUFF SENT TO HIM AT THE WHITE HOUSE AND HE IS SIGNING IT, DOES NOT MEAN HE IS NEGOTIATING OR LOOKING AT THE BILLS. IF HE IS GETTING IT FEDEX AND SIGNING IT TO HIM HE DOES NOT HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO ANYTHING OTHER THAN JUST SIGN IT WITH HIS BIG SHARPIE AND SEND IT BACK. BUT, THE PROSECUTION. >> WELL, THE SHARPIE, DANNY, IF THERE WAS PERHAPS A STAR OF THE COURT PROCEEDINGS IT MAY HAVE BEEN THAT SHARPIE, CATHERINE? [ LAUGHTER ] >> YES, I THINK IT WAS MRS. TARASOFF SHE RECOGNIZED THE SIGNATURE BECAUSE IT WAS A BLACK SHARPIE, THAT IS HOW HE DID IT. THE CASE IS NOT OVER, IT HAS NOT BEEN PROCH BECAUSE NEITHER WITNESS SAID N FACT ONE OF THEM SAID DONALD TRUMP DID NOT DIRECT HIM TO DO ANYTHING. SO, NEITHER WITNESS PLACED TRUMP AT THE SCENE OF THE ACTION SO TO SPEAK. SO IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT MICHAEL COHEN BE FOUND CREDIBLE. THE WITNESSES CO TO WHAT MICHAEL COHEN DID. BUT HE HAS TO BE TRUSTED BY THE JURY THAT HE WAS TOLD TO DO IT >> COURT WILL PROCEED THERE IS TYPICALLY NO COURT ON WEDNESDAYS. THE SHADOW OVER IT, THE THING HANGING OVER IT. HEARING WHAT THE FORMER PRESIDENT WAS TALKING ABOUT ON HIS WAY OUT OF COURT. THAT IS THE VIOLATIONS THAT THE JUDGE DECIDED HE CONDUCTED AGAINST THAT PARTIAL GAG ORDER IN PLACE HERE. CATHERINE, THE JUDGE ONLY AGREED ON ONE NEW VIOLATION TODAY, THERE WERE NINE OTHERS ALREADY. ANOTHER $1,000 FINE. WE LAID IT OUT AT THE TOP OF THIS SPECIAL REPORT THE JUDGE SEEMS AT THE END OF HIS ROPE HERE WITH FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP. IS IT? JUST GUT CHECK, RIGHT, THE JUDGE SAID CLEARLY I DON'T WANT TO PUT YOU IN A JAIL CELL, I WILL IF I HAVE TO. IS THAT WHAT HAPPENS, HE PUTS HIM IN TIME-OUT, HOLDING AREA, WHAT REALLY COULD HAPPEN HERE, HONESTLY? >> AND THE JUDGE GAVE THEMSELVES WIGGLE ROOM. IF IT IS NECESSARY AND APPROPRIATE UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES I WILL DO THIS AND HE EMPLOYED, SPOKE TO TRUMP. HE DOES NOT WANT TO DO THAT. IT WILL BE A LOGISTICAL NIGHTMARE AND IT IS INTERESTING, IT WAS POINTED OUT. TRUMP HAS NOT BEEN VIOLATING THE GAG ORDER SINCE LAST WEEK. YES, HE IS IS ALOWED TO TRASH THE JUDGE AND DOES DISTRICT ATTORNEY AND IT IS A WITCH-HUNT BUT STAY AWAY FROM JURY AND JURORS AND STAFF AND THEIR FAMILIES. DESPITE WHAT HE SAID ABOUT JAIL, THERE IS NO WAY IN THE WORLD TRUMP WANTS TO GO TO JAIL. SO, YOU KNOW, THE JUDGE WILL NOT DO IT UNLESS HE IS FORCED TO DO IT. >> IS THAT A SMIRK THAT I SEE ON YOUR FACE? WHAT IS HIS ATTORNEYS SAYING TO HIM. THEY ARE SAYING NOTHING. AT THIS POINT, THEY KNOW THE SCORE. THERE IS NOT, LOOK, SOMETIMES YOU HAVE A CLIENT WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO, YELL AT THEM? IT DOES NOT WORK. THE BIGGEST PROBLEM FOR DEFENSE ATTORNEYS IN ESPECIALLY THE WHITE COLLAR CASES IS THE CLIENT. THE CLIENT THINKS THEY KNOW HOW THE WORLD WORKS AND EXPLAIN EVERYTHING AWAY. THEY DON'T REALIZE DOING THINGS THEIR WAY IS WHY THEY ARE IN CRIMINAL COURT IN THE FIRST PLAY. THE WAY IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN. THE PROSECUTION SUGGESTED TWO WEEKS FROM TOMORROW IS WHEN THEY ANTICIPATE WRAPPING UP THE BULK OF THEIR CASE. HOW LONG DO YOU ANTICIPATE THE DEFENSE GOING IN OTHER WORDS WHEN MIGHT THE JURY GET THIS CASE? >> IT WILL BE SHORTER THAN ANTICIPATED. TO ECHO WHAT CATHERINE SAID, I THINK THE PROSECUTION DOES NOT NEED WITNESSES LIKE KAREN McDOUGAL. MAY NOT NEED STORMY DANIELS. MAYBE I AM BEING TOO MINIMALIST BUT THE DEFENSE CASE IS ALMOST ALWAYS SHORTER. LOOK AT THEM TO CALL A FEW WITNESSES BUT, IT WILL GENERALLY BE SHORTER. WE DON'T HAVE THE BURDEN ON THE DEFENSE SO WE DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO PROVE. WE CAN STAND ON THAT ALONE. >> DANNY, CATHERINE, GREAT TO SEE BOTH OF YOU BACK AGAIN IN OUR SPECIAL COVERAGE, THANK YOU. >>> LET ME BRING IN INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER FROM "NEW YORK TIMES" THAT SCOOPED THE ACCESS HOLLYWOOD TAPE. GOOD TO SEE YOU HERE. LET ME START, A PERSON WHO KNOWS A THING OR TWO AND THE PRACTICES, WHAT STOOD OUT TO YOU TODAY? >> THE THING THAT STRUCK ME WAS, WE TALKED SO MUCH DURING THIS TRIAL AND IN THE PAST ABOUT HOW TRUMP KEEPS A LITTLE BIT OF DISTANCE BETWEEN HIMSELF AND THE THINGS DONE ON HIS BEHALF. A WINK AND A NOD AS A PRESIDENT AND IN THE TRUMP ORGANIZATION, HE SORT OF PUT OUT A HINT AND PEOPLE CARRY FORTH IT. >> IMPLICATION NOT A COMMAND. >> EXACTLY. ALWAYS A LITTLE BIT OF IT. AN EMAIL THAT MAKES IT HARDER TO TRACE INDIVIDUAL DECISIONS BACK TO HIM. THIS IS THE ONE PLACE, MONEY, ALL THAT HE HAS TO SIGN. $10,000 AND ABOVE. ONE CASE IN WHICH SORT OF THE THEORY OR HARD TO TRACE DECISION-MAKING HE IS DIRECTLY INVOLVED IN THE DECISIONS. THAT IS WHAT IS INTERESTING ABOUT THE CASE. CHECKS AND TRANSACTIONS BROUGHT UP TODAY. >> THERE IS ALSO A PIECE OF VICTIM THAT WAS REVEALED TODAY THAT MAY NOT HAVE MADE A HUGE SPLASH AT THE MOMENT BUT COULD BE DOWN THE ROAD WHICH IS THIS. FORMER CONTROL OF THE TRUMP, THE CONTRACTOR HANDLED THE PERSONAL ACCOUNT. WHICH SEEMS OUT OF THE ORDINARY? >> IT, I MEAN, FROM MY REPORTING ON CHARITY, THE ACCOUNTING THEY WROTE OUT THE CHARITY, TRUMP ORGANIZATION AS DIFFERENT POCKETS OF HIS WALLET. PAYING OUT MONEY FROM ALL OF THE FUNDS, THIS IS SORT OF A MOMENT WHEN IT IS ALL CENTRALIZED TO HIM. HE IS THE BOTTLENECK. HE SIGNS THE CHECKS FOR ALL OF IT. THAT IS WHY THEY ARE CONNECTING HIM TO THE TRANSACTIONS. LET'S LOOK AHEAD HERE. DANNY TEED US UP WELL FOR THIS. COUPLE MORE WEEKS AND THEN THE DEFENSE WILL GO. WHO WILL WE SEE BEFORE THE DEFENSE TAKES IT, WE WILL SEE MICHAEL COHEN HERE, HOW IMPORTANT IS THAT DO YOU THINK, WHY IS THAT IMPACTFUL? >> COHEN IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE TRUMP TRIED TO LIMIT THE NUMBER OF THE PEOPLE IN THE DECISIONS WITH HIM. THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO ARE IN THE ROOM THAT ARE NOT BLOOD RELATIVES, ONE OF THEM IS IN JAIL RAFFENSPERGER, HE IS IN JAIL. WE HEARD A LOT OF PEOPLE BOLSTERING THE CASE THAT HE IS GOING TO MAKE. ONLY HE WILL BE ABLE TO SAY I WAS IN THE ROOM, MADE THE PAYMENTS, THIS IS WHY I DID IT. IT IS IMPORTANT. I THINK WE WILL SEE STORMY DANIELS, NOT ONLY BECAUSE SHE IS AT THE CENTER OF ALL OF THE ALLEGATIONS BUT SHE CAN SAY THIS IS WHAT I UNDERSTOOD ABOUT WHERE THE MONEY WAS COMING FROM AND WHAT I WAS SUPPOSED TO DO AND NOT DO AS A RESULT OF GETTING THE MONEY. >> IS THAT THE BIGGEST THING YOU ARE LOOKING TO IF OR WHEN STORMY DANIELS WILL TAKE THE STANDS >> AND HOW BOTH SIDES HANDLE MICHAEL COHEN, A KEY WITNESS. I BET YOU WILL HEAR A THING OR TWO ABOUT HIS BOOK CALLED "REVENGE." IT BRINGS US TO THE POLITICS OF IT. WE KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING IN COURT IS COLLISION OF WHAT IS HAPPENING ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL. DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST IS WITH US AS WELL. OUR POLITICAL PROS, THANK YOU FOR JOINING US, FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP MAY BE UNDER THE THREAT OF SERVING TIME IN A JAIL CELL, HOW DO YOU THINK THAT IS SITTING WITH HIM? >> PROBABLY NOT WELL. HE TESTED BOUNDARIES, BROKEN EVERY NORM WE CAN THINK ABOUT, BUSINESS OR PRESIDENTIAL. I AM NOT SURPRISED HE IS CHALLENGING IT AND A STRONG CASE. VOTERS SAY IT FEELS UNFAIR THAT OTHER WITNESSES IN THE CASE CAN SAY NEGATIVE THINGS ABOUT PRESIDENT TRUMP BUT HE IS RESTRAINT FROM RESPONDING TO THAT. I THINK HE IS CHALLENGING HIMSELF, HE HATES BEING RESTRAINED BUT THAT IS THE NECESSARIARY EVIL. >> IT IS PARTIAL, HE CAN GO AFTER THE JUDGE. WE TALK ABOUT IT BEYOND JUST THE 12 JURORS IN COURT. THERE IS SOME, THERE IS NOT A TON OF POLLING BUT NEW POLLING OUT FROM ABC NEWS SHOWING ONE IN FIVE OF HIS CURRENT SUPPORTERS, PEOPLE WITH HIM NOW. YOU SEE IT ON THE SCREEN WITH YOU RECONSIDER VOTING FOR HIM OR NO LONGER SUPPORT HIM IF HE WERE CONVICTED. IS THAT THE SOUND OF ALARM BELLS AT TRUMP H IMRKS OR NOT? >> WE HEARD IT FOR EIGHT YEARS. THIS WILL BE THE THING >> BUT WE ARE IN A HISTORIC TRIAL NOW, RIGHT? >> Y EVERYTHING THAT TRUMP DOES IS HISTORIC. SO YOU SORT OF CAN NOT POINT TO THE POLLING AND SAY TELL HAVE THAT IMPACT. WHAT WE ARE SEEING HISTORICALLY OVER THE YEARS IS POLLING IS INACCURATE. JOE BIDEN MADE PROMISES AND THEY ARE DISSATISFIED WITH THE PROMISES AND THAT IS WHY YOU WILL SEE TRUMP DOING WELL IN THE POLLS. 1 OUT OF 5 SUPPORT, EVERYONE POLLED THAT. WE HAVE SEEN IT BEFORE. >> CONSISTENT. >> WHEN YOU LOOK DEEPER AND FOCUS GROUPS, IT SAYS OBVIOUSLY THE FEDERAL FELONIES MATTERS MORE THAN THE STATE FELONIES. IF YOU LOOK AT MORE, NO ONE TAKES IT, NO ONE THINKS ALAN BRAGG IS ABIDING BY THE LAW, THEY CHANGED THE LAW, MAYBE CHARGE HIM, THESE THINGS ARE BREAKING THROUGH AND WE WILL SEE WHAT THE PRESIDENT DOES AT THE END OF THIS. HE HAS DONE A GOOD JOB OF TRAILERING THE MESSAGE THAT PUTS HIM IN A WINNABLE POSITION, WHY CHANGE IT NOW. >> JOE BIDEN IS TRYING TO MAKE A REFERENDUM ON TRUMP. >> Reporter: ABSOLUTELY. THE MORE HE TRIES TO ARGUE THAT JANUARY 6th WAS NOT A BIG DEAL AND WANTS TO, YOU KNOW, ISSUE PARDONS FOR THE INDIVIDUALS WHO PARTICIPATED IN THAT DISRUPTIVE PROCESS, TRYING TO STEAL THE ELECTION AND OVERTURN THE VOTING PROCESS, I THINK THAT, THAT HURTS HIM, BUT, UNBELIEVABLY OR BELIEVABLY, I DON'T THINK A TRUMP CONVICTION WOULD MOVE A LOT OF PEOPLE FROM HIS CAMP. THEY ARE ABSOLUTELY BAKED IN. AND ASIDE FROM THOSE THAT ARE ALREADY KIND OF ON THE FENCE WHICH IS A SMALLER GROUPING AT THIS POINT. MOST PEOPLE DECIDED WHERE THEIR CAMPS ARE GOING TO BE. THEY WILL BE NOT MOVED BY A CONVICTION THEY WILL ARGUE LIKE THEY HAVE BEEN THIS ENTIRE TIME THAT ALL OF THESE FORCES HAVE BEEN WEAPONIZED AGAINST HIM AND IT WAS DESIGNED BY THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION. WE ALL KNOW THAT IS NOT FACTUAL HE HAS DONE A STRONG JOB OF MESSAGING THAT, FUNDRAISIN SAYING THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED >> THERE IS A SEGMENT OF THE REPUBLICAN ELECTRIC. IT IS NOT A BIG SEGMENT, MIGHT BE WHAT YOU CALL A SLIVER OF IT, IT IS REPRESENTED PEOPLE LIKE JEFF DUNCAN OUT TODAY WITH AN INTERESTING ENDORSEMENT OF PRESIDENT BIDEN IN THE ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSTITUTION. I THINK WITH CAN SHOW IT HERE. TRUMP'S BEHAVIOR AND LEGAL ISSUES DISQUALIFIED HIM FROM SERVING IN THE WHITE HOUSE, ESSENTIALLY, WE HEARD FROM THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN THEY ARE ACTIVELY REACHING OUT TO AMERICANS LIKE GEOFF DUNCAN. SHOULD THEY BE DOING MORE? >> Reporter: THEY SHOULD. AND IT IS A DOUBLE EDGE SWORD HERE. ON THE ONE HAND A LOT OF THE HIGH PROFILE WANT TO RUN FOR A HIGHER OFFICE. THEY RECOGNIZE THAT THE TRUMP NAME AND BRAND CARRYING IN THE GENERAL REPUBLICAN SIDE SO THEY WILL NOT PUT THEIR NAME ON IT BUT FOR THE EXCEPTION OF PEOPLE THAT HAVE COME OUT AND TESTIFIED DURING JANUARY 6th OR ON THE COMMITTEE. ASIDE FROM THOSE PEOPLE HE RUNS A STRONG RISK. WE KNOW THAT THE GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA WHO, YOU KNOW, HAS SPOKEN AGAINST HIM CLAIMING ELECTION FRAUD IN THAT STATE HAS NOT COME OUT AND SUPPORTED BIDEN OR TALKED TO THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN ABOUT ANYTHING. I THINK WHAT WE ARE SAYING IS PEOPLE WHO HAVE AMBITION ON THE REPUBLICAN SIDE EVEN IF THEY DISAGREE WITH TRUMP, THEY ARE NOT WILLING TO PUT THEIR NAME AND STAKE OUT THERE FOR SOMETHING THAT MIGHT RUIN THEIR POLITICAL FUTURES. >> IT IS POLITICS. DEMOCRATS THAT WILL BE TRUE BLUE TO WHATEVER JOE BIDEN SAYS AND DOES AND REPUBLICANS WHO WILL BE THE SAME THING THAT IS WHAT BASE POLITICS IS. MAKING THE DECISION AND THAT IS WHERE WE ARE. TRIBALISM. POLITICALLISM, IT IS TRIBELIZED TODAY AND TOMORROW IF IT WAS NOT JOE BIDEN IT WOULD BE HARRIS OR THEY WOULD BE SPLITTING WITH IT TRUMP AS IT IS. THE CHALLENGES ARE THAT EVERYONE MADE A DECISION ON THIS. >> IT WILL BE THE MARGINS. >> YOU KNOW THIS. >> YES. MARGINS DO NOT HELP BIDEN. HE BUILT THIS COALITION IN 2020 WITH THE HELP OF THE MEDIA. >> TAKE EXCEPTION TO THAT. >> WOMEN'S REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS BUT I DON'T THINK THESE CASES OR THE CRIMINAL COURT IS WHAT PEOPLE ARE VOTING ON. THEY ARE MORE INTERESTEDDED IN WHERE THE POLICY MEETS THE ROAD. WITH WHERE THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT IMMIGRATION, IF WE ARE TALKING ABOUT WOMEN REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS, TALKING ABOUT THE ISSUES RELATING TO HOUSING AND HOUSING AFFORDABILITY AND THE ECONOMY. >> YES. INFLATION AND BORDER SECURITY. >> YES, THEY HAVE TRUMP IN THE LEAD, AGAIN. >> SOME OF THE POLLING HAS SHOWN IT IS A VERY CLOSE RACE. TRUMP IN THE RECENT POLL HAS THE LEAD WITHIN THE MARGIN OF ERROR. >> THE QUESTION IS, TOO, WE DON'T HAVE 16 HOURS BUT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU EXPAND IT. WE WILL TALK ABOUT IT MORE. COME BACK, WE HAVE PLENTY OF DAYS FOR THIS TRIAL TO CONTINUE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR BEING WITH US. WE HAVE A LOT OF OTHER BIG HEADLINES, WE WILL CATCH UP ON ALL OF IT SOCIAL MEDIA TO BE A SAFER PLACE? . >>> BREAKING NEWS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AT THIS CRITICAL MOMENT. NEW STRIKES IN RAFAH AT THE SAME TIME THAT ISRAEL IS CONSIDERING A CEASEFIRE DEAL. WHAT WE ARE JUST HEARING FROM THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT LITERALLY IN THE LAST 5-10 MINUTES. WE ARE LIVE IN TEL AVIV. >>> PLUS, MILLIONS ACROSS THE U.S. GETTING A RARE WARNING, THE RISK FOR SUPER POWERFUL TORNADOES, MAYBE DOZENS OF THEM. WE ARE LIVE ON THE GROUND IN THE PATH OF THE POTENTIAL DANGER ZONE. BREAKING NOWS, NBC IS LEARNING ABOUT EXCLUSIVELY, AMERICAN SOLDIER DETAINED IN RUSSIA, THE LATEST ON WHAT HE IS ACCUSED OF DOING. AND THEN STARBUCKS EX-CEO. WHY THE COMPANY MIGHT WANT TO LISTEN LATER ON IN THE SHOW. >>> HEY, THERE, I'M HALLIE. RIGHT NOW IT IS AFTER MIDNIGHT IN THE MIDDLE EAST. IT IS 12:27 IN ISRAEL AT THIS KEY MOMENT. THE ISRAELIS LAUNCHING NEW STRIKES IN A MAJOR CITY FROM GAZA. AT THE SAME TIME IT IS CONSIDERING TO ACCEPT OR COUNTEROR REJECT A HAMAS CEASEFIRE. WE CAN CROSS ONE OF THEM OUT RIGHT AWAY. ISRAEL IS CERTAINLY NOT GOING TO ACCEPT THIS DEAL. THEY ARE NOT, IT IS STILL A POTENTIAL TURNING POINT, EMPHASIS ON THE WORD "POTENTIAL" THIS IS THE FIRST DEAL HAMAS AGREED TO. INSIDE GAZA. YOU CAN SEE PEOPLE CELEBRATING, CHEERING IN THE MINUTES AFTER THE NEWS BROKE. A SENIOR DIPLOMAT TELLS OUR TEAM, HAMAS IS TRYING TO PRESSURE ISRAEL INTO THIS PROPOSAL. EXCHANGE OF 1 ISRAELI HOSTAGE FOR 33 PRISONERS AND A PERMANENT END TO THE CEASE, TO THE FIGHTING. A PERMANENT CEASEFIRE. THEREAT IS WHERE THINGS HIT THE BRAKES. ISRAEL SAID IT IS NEVER GOING TO AGREE TO THAT. THE ISRAELI WILL SEND DELEGATES. THEY ARE FEELING THE PRESSURE FROM FAMILIES OF HOSTAGES THAT ARE SAYING NOW IS THE TIME TO GET A DEAL ON THE TABLE. THE LAST HOSTAGES WERE RELEASED BAY WACK IN NOVEMBER. UNFORGETTABLE EMOTIONAL SCENES. PEOPLE RELEASED. PEOPLE REUNITING WITH THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS, BEFORE THAT TEMPORARY TRUCE ENDED ABRUPTLY. 130 HOSTAGES ARE STILL BELIEVED TO BE IN GAZA. AT THE MOMENT, STILL A SPLIT SCREEN. ISRAELI MILITARY TELLS THEM IN GAZA TO GET OUT OF THE CITY THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO BE TO BE SAFE AS STRIKES ESCALATE. PEOPLE THERE, PACKING UP EVERYTHING THEY OWN. YOU CAN SEE THEM TRYING TO GET OUT. IN THIS DESPERATE RACE. WE HAVE TEAM COVERAGE. I WANT TO START IN TEL AVIV. A LOT OF NEWS COMING INTO US WITH THE TWO ISSUES CONNECTED. RAFAH STRIKES AND CEASEFIRE TALKS, THE THREAT OF ONE IS DRIVING THE URGENCY OF THE OTHER? >> Reporter: TOTALLY CONNECTED. YOU CAN SEE IT IN THE STATEMENT THAT CAME FROM THE WAR CABINET. DOING TWO THINGS, ONE, CONTINUE THE MILITARY OPERATION IN RAFAH. THERE IS INTENSE BOMBING IN THAT SOUTHERN CITY, EVEN AS WE SPEAK AND AT THE SAME TIME THEY SAY THAT THEY ARE NOT SENDING NEGOTIATORS TO CAIRO TO CONTINUE THESE TALKS OFF OF THE BACK OF THIS PROPOSAL THAT HAMAS SAID IT ACCEPTED EARLIER AS YOU LAID OUT, WE HAVE A DISCREPANCY HERE. WHAT HAMAS AND ISRAEL AGREED TO. THE KEY TASK IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS IS GOING TO BE TO SEE IF THEY CAN CLOSE THE GAPS BETWEEN THESE TWO UNDERSTANDINGS THAT ISRAEL AND HAMAS HAVE. AS YOU SAID, ONE OF THE KEY STICKING POINTS IS IF THEY ARE NEGOTIATING HERE FOR A TEMPORARY PAUSE IN THE FIGHTING WITH THE FIGHTING TO RESUME ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CEASEFIRE DEAL THAT IS WHAT ISRAEL WANTS, IF THEY ARE NEGOTIATING TO END THE WAR ALL TOGETHER THAT IS WHAT HAMMAS WANTS, THERE MAY BE OTHER DISCREPE SENSIES. DISCREPENCIES. >> DO YOU THINK IT IS THE BIGGEST, THIS IS IT? >> IT IS LIKELY TO BE TH BIGGEST. I GIVE YOU ANOTHER EXAMPLE, HOW QUICKLY THE HOSTAGES WILL BE RELEASED. THE SEQUENCING OF THE RELEASES THAT IS A BIG, BIG ISSUE. IT MATTERS A LOT. OUR SENSE IS THAT ISRAEL AND HAMAS ARE NOT ON THE SAME PAGE HERE. SOME REPORTING COMING OUT OF THE ARAB MEDIA, NOT CONFIRMED BY NBC NEWS WHEN HAMAS PREPARES THEY ARE GOING TO RELEASE 33 HOSTAGES THEY ARE NOT SPECIFYING ALIVE OR DEAD. ONLY A DEAL FOR HOSTAGES ALIVE. WE KNOW THERE ARE 132 HOSTAGES IN GAZA ALL TOGETHER. AROUND 35 OF THEM ARE CONFIRMED DEAD BY ISRAEL. THE SUSPICION IS THE OVERALL NUMBER IS HIGHER. WHILE ISRAEL IS INTERESTED IN RETURNING THE BODIES OF THOSE DEAD HOSTAGES THE PRIORITY IS THE LIVING ONES AND THE PRIORITY OF THE PRIORITY ARE PEOPLE FROM THE SO-CALLED HUMANITARIAN, IT IS WOMEN, CHILDREN, ELDERLY AND PEOPLE WITH SERIOUS MEDICAL CONDITIONS. >> YOU TALKED ABOUT ALL OF THIS CONNECTED TO THE SCENES THAT WE ARE SEEING COMING OUT OF RAFAH TONIGHT, THAT CRITICAL LOCATION WHERE MONTHS AGO, INNOCENT CIVILIANS WERE TOLD TO GO THERE. IT COULD BE SAFER. NOW, WHAT IS THE SCENE LIKE ON THE GROUND AND WHERE DO PEOPLE GO? >> A LOT OF TERRIFIED PEOPLE IN RAFAH TONIGHT, INCLUDING HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN. PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN DISPLACED MANY, MANY TIMES. THEY FLED TO RAFAH, BELIEVING IT WOULD BE SAFE. MANY CASES IT HAS NOT PROVED TO BE SAFE. ISRAEL CONTINUED TO STRIKE THERE. THE EVACUATION ZONE RIGHT NOW IS IN THE EAST OF RAFAH. THERE IS 100,000 PEOPLE SHELTERING THERE. THEY HAVE BEEN TOLD TO HEAD TO THE COAST. BUT, HUMANITARIAN AGENCIES ARE SAYING THERE IS NOTHING LIKE THE KIND OF INFRASTRUCTURE YOU NEED THERE, FOOD, WATER, MEDICINE, HOSPITALS IN THAT COASTAL AREA. THE IDF SAYS IT WILL BE SAFER BUT NOT GUARANTEEING THEY WILL NOT STRIKE THERE. HALLIE? >> WHAT ABOUT THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION AND THEIR SENSE OF WHERE THEY STAND. >> WE ARE AT A CRITICAL STAGE RIGHT NOW. WE HAVE A RESPONSE, NOW DIRECTOR BURNS IS WORKING THROUGH THAT. MY GOODNESS, FOLKS, I DON'T KNOW IF IT GETS MORE SENSITIVE THAN RIGHT NOW. >> YOU HEARD IT THERE FROM JOHN KIRBY, TOP OFFICIAL WORKING WITH THE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNSEL LAYING OUT HOW SENSITIVE THIS MOMENT IS. THAT IS RIGHT, HALLIE. THE WHITE HOUSE IS BEING CAUTIOUS ABOUT WHAT THEY ARE SAYING ABOUT THIS PROPOSAL. AS YOU SAW THE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNSEL SAYING THEY ARE REVIEWING THE RESPONSE TO IT. THEY WILL BE SPEAKING WITH MIDDLE EASTERN LEADERS THE REST OF THE DAY ABOUT THE RESPONSE BUT NOT OFFERING TOO MUCH MORE JUST HOW SENSITIVE AND CRITICAL THESE TALKS ARE RIGHT NOW. HE DID NOT WANT TO JEOPARDIZE ANYTHING MENTIONED IN THE DEAL. ANOTHER THING THAT KIRBY TALKED ABOUT, THE PROGRESS THAT HAS BEEN MADE ON THE CEASEFIRE TALKS LARGELY WAS IN PART DUE TO THE EFFORTS OF THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION, MOST SPECIFICALLY AND RECENTLY BY CIA DIRECTOR BILL BURNS WHO WAS OUT THERE FOR DAYS WHO HAS BEEN WORKING ON THE PROPOSAL FOR TWO DAYS AND NOW HE IS IN ISRAEL. A LARGE PART OF HIS ROLE WILL BE ADDING PRESSURE ON THE ISRAELIS TO, AS YOU HEARD RAF MENTION, COME UP WITH A BRIDGE, AN AGREEMENT WITH HAMAS TO THIS AND PRESSURE THEM NOT TO GO FORWARD WITH THE FULL BLOWN GROUND OFFENSIVE INTO RAFAH. OBVIOUSLY THIS NEWS TODAY OF THE EVACUATION ORDERS ADDING TO THE URGENCY OF THAT. WE KNOW THAT THE PRESIDENT REPORTEDLY STRESSED THAT TO PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU MOST RECENTLY ON A CALL THEY SHARED THIS MORNING TALKING ABOUT HOW THE U.S. WOULD NOT SUPPORT ANY GROUND OFFENSIVE IN RAFAH WITHOUT A ROBUST PLAN TO PROTECT THE CIVILIANS SHELTERING THERE. THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE ARE CONTINUING TO WATCH AS THESE MOVEMENTS INTO RAFAH CONTINUE. REALLY, THE POSITION THE PRESIDENT IS PUT IN AS WE SEE BENJAMIN NETANYAHU DEFY, CLEARLY, HIS WISHES, HALLIE. >> LIVE FOR US THERE OUTSIDE OF THE WHITE HOUSE, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. >>> TO THE CENTRAL PART OF THE COUNTRY NOW. 18 MILLION PEOPLE ACROSS TEXAS, KANSAS AND OKLAHOMA, UNDER THE HIGHEST TORNADO LEVEL WARNING EXIST. RARE TO HIT A LEVEL FIVE ON THAT. A LEVEL FIVE FOR THOSE FOLKS. THE LAST TIME THEY PUT OUT A WARNING LIKE THAT, 131 TORNADOES HIT 11 STATES. THIS IS ANOTHER POTENTIAL PUNCH AFTER A ROUND OF SEVERE STORMS SLAMMED EXAS NEARLY 600 PEOPLE HAD TO BE RESCUED OR EVACUATED BY FIRST RESPONDERS AFTER DEADLY FLOODING THERE. YOU ARE LOOKING AT SOME OF THE IMAGES T IS UNBELIEVABLE. PEOPLE WERE TRAPPED IN THEIR HOMES OR STRANDED ON THE ROOFS. THERE IS A TRAILER, EMPTY, FLOATING AWAY. OTHER HIS TO BE RESCUED ON JETSKIS ESSENTIALLY. A 4-YEAR-OLD BOY WAS KILLED AFTER HE WAS SWEPT AWAY AFTER HIS CAR GOT CAUGHT IN THE FLOODING. MORE DEVASTATING FLOODING ON THE WAY. BILL KARINS STANDING BY WITH THE FORECAST. BUT WE GO LIVE TO TEXAS WHERE THERE IS A LOT OF DAMAGE. LOOK LIKE FROM WHAT I SEEN FROM YOU TODAY THE FLOOD WATER STARTED TO GO DOWN BUT WHAT IS NEXT? >> Reporter: HALLIE, THE FLOOD WATER HAS GONE DOWN SIGNIFICANTLY IN TERMS OF THE ROADS BACK OPEN. WE ARE HERE ABOUT 50 YARDS AWAY FROM A RIVER. SO, AS YOU CAN SEE THAT WATER IS MAKING ITS WAY BACK INTO THE RIVER'S AND THE LAKES HERE SO THAT PEOPLE ARE ABLE TO GET BACK INTO THEIR HOMES AND SURVEY THE DAMAGE. AND, THAT IS WHAT IS GOING TO BE THE NEXT PART OF THIS FOR FOLKS IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS. IT WILL BE SURVEYING THAT DAMAGE AND FIGURING OUT HOW TO BEGIN TO REBUILD. AT THE SAME TIME AS YOU MENTION THERE IS SEVERE WEATHER THREAT THAT IS IMPACTING PARTS OF NORTH TEXAS WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR TORNADOES AND SOME SEVERE WEATHER THERE. MOVING ON INTO OKLAHOMA AND UP INTO NEBRASKA. BUT, THANKFULLY FOR FOLKS HERE, THE WATER IS RECEDING ISSUE THE SUN IS OUT. THAT IS HELPING TO DRY THINGS OUT. THERE ARE NOT MORE THAN 90 COUNTIES THAT HAD, THAT ARE UNDER A STATE OF EMERGENCY RIGHT NOW. DISASTER DECLARATION HAS BEEN DECLARED AND THAT IS ACCORDING TO THE GOVERNOR. WE ARE LEARNING THAT IT WAS TWO PEOPLE, AT LEAST TWO PEOPLE WHO DIED AS A RESULT OF THIS FLOODING AND THIS RAIN. WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE AMOUNT OF AREA THAT WAS TOUCHED BY THIS, LOOKING AT THE AMOUNT OF RESCUES NOW UP TO 600 AND EVACUATIONS THAT FIRST RESPONDER HIS TO RESPOND TO. IT IS REMARKABLE THAT THERE WERE NOT MORE LIVES LOST AND SERIOUS INJURIES, LOTS OF FOLKS COUNTING THEIR BLESSINGS AS THEY TRY TO MOVE FORWARD. HALLIE? >> BILL KARIN, LET ME BRING YOU IN HERE. THE LAST HALF-HOUR REPORTS OF MORE ACTIVITY BUT DON'T KNOW HOW BAD IT IS WITH THE WORST YET TO COME? >> YES, JUST AT THE BEGINNING OF THE TORNADO OUTBREAK. WE ONLY GET A SITUATION LIKE THIS ONCE OR TWICE A YEAR. THOUSANDS OF TORNADO CHASERS OUT IN THE PLAINS, SO, IF WE GET A TORNADO WE WILL KNOW IT INSTANTLY. OF COURSE, ONCE THE SUNSETS AND IT IS DARK IT IS A DIFFERENT STORY. YOU CAN SEE HOW THIS BULL'S-EYE GOES HERE, THIS IS THE AREA OF GREATEST CONCERN. THE HIGHER RISK. RARE, WHEN WE GET THAT PINK COLOR, OKLAHOMA CITY, JUST ABOUT UP TO WICHITA. STRONG TORNADOES THAT IS WHERE THEY ARE LIKELY TO OCCUR IN THE NEXT SIX HOURS, LATER, THE LINE OF STORMS WILL HIT BY MIDNIGHT, SPRINGFIELD, ARKANSAS, 1:00 OR 2:00 A.M. KEEPING A LOT OF PEOPLE UP. MONITORING THE SITUATION TO GET IN THE STORM SHELTERS, NOT A NIGHT TO FALL ASLEEP OR ALERTS OR WARNINGS IF YOU NEED BE. THIS IS A PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION. SO, ALL OF THE TIME WE ARE LIKE HAVE A TORNADO WATCH OR A THUNDERSTORM, IT IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION. NOT ONLY EXPECTING TORNADOES BUT STRONG ONES. >> THAT IS THE WORST ONE? IF YOU SEE A PDS THAT IS THE REAL DEAL. >> MAKE SURE YOU HAVE YOUR FAMILY PLAN TO GET TO SAFETY IF YOU NEED IT. JUST NOTICING THE FIRST TORNADO WARNING OF THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING COMING IN NOW OUTSIDE OF WOODWARD. ONE STRONG STORM HERE IN CENTRAL KANSAS. I WILL GO BACK DOWN TO THE NEW TORNADO WARNING, STARTING TO GET THE HOOK ITSES ON THESE, WE WILL WORK. IF IT DEVELOPS A TORNADO WE WILL LIKELY BE TRACKING IT FOR THE NEXT TWO HOURS, THREE HOURS WITH IT STRAIGHT ON THE GROUND. THAT IS WHAT WE ARE PAYING ATTENTION TO. TORNADO SIRENS GOING OFF IN THESE AREAS. THESE PEOPLE ARE ALL GETTING TO THEIR SHELTERS IMMEDIATELY. WE WILL CONTINUE TO TRACK IT THROUGH THE NIGHT. >> BILL KARINS YOU HAVE A BUSY NIGHT. WE WILL CHECK BACK NUMBER WITH YOU, APPRECIATE IT. >>> LET'S GET YOU TO THE FIVE THINGS, NUMBER ONE, I-95 IN CONNECTICUT IS BACK OPEN AND GOOD TO GO AFTER A FOUL TRUCK COLLIDED WITH TWO OTHER CARS AND BURST INTO FLAMES. CREWS ALSO HAD TO TEAR DOWN A BRIDGE BECAUSE OF HEAT DAMAGE FROM THE CRASH. >>> NUMBER 2, PLANTERS NUTS ARE RECALLED TODAY BECAUSE OF A POTENTIAL LISTERIA CONTAMINATION. NO REPORTS OF ANYBODY GETS SICK. THE MANUFACTURE SAYS THEY ARE RECALLING THEM OUT OF CAUTION. >>> DAILY DOSE OF OLIVE OIL YOU ONLY NEED A COUPLE TEASPOONS A DAY LINKED TO A 30% DECREASE IN YOUR RISK. RESEARCHERS THINK IT MAY BE BECAUSE OF ANTE OX ANTOXIDENTS. IT IS JUST STARTING. A BIRD AND A CAPE THING, I GUESS, THERE, THE THEME IS SLEEPING BEAUTY REAWAKENING. THE DRESS CODE IS GARDEN OF TIME. THIS YEAR, INCLUDING JENNIFER LOPEZ. THAT IS A LIVE PICTURE. THE ACTION IS BEGINNING ON FASHION'S BIGGEST NIGHT. BIRDS. >>> NUMBER 5, BREAD. WE GOT IT ALL ON THIS SHOW TONIGHT, FOLKS. FRENCH BAKERS BREAKING THE RECORD FOR THE WORLD'S LONGEST BAGUETTE. THE ITALIANS WERE THE LAST RECORD HOLDERS IN 2019. IT IS A WIDE RANGE OF NEWS STORIES. WHEN WE COME BACK WE WILL TAKE YOU TO ANOTHER ONE. THIS ONE OUT OF THE PENTAGON. AN AMERICAN SOLDIER HAS BEEN DETAINED IN RUSSIA. JUST GETTING NEW DETAILS. WE WILL TELL YOU WHAT HE IS ACCUSED OF DOING. >>> THIS VIDEO, IT IS VERY SCARY, LOOK AT THAT. A DEACON HAVING A GUN PULLED ON HIM IN CHURCH. WHAT WAS CAUGHT ON CONCERNED ABOUT THE SAFETY OF FLYING TODAY? >>> GOOD NEWS FIRST INTO NBC NEWS. AN AMERICAN SOLDIER DETAINED IN RUSSIA. THERE IS SOMEBODY WHO APPARENTLY STATIONED IN KOREA AND TRAVELED TO RUSSIA ON HIS OWN. ACCUSED OF THEFT. WHAT ELSE DO WE KNOW? >> Reporter: WE JUST LEARNED HIS NAME. HIS NAME IS STAFF SERGEANT GORDAN BLACK. HE WAS DEPLOYED THERE HE WAS COMING BACK TO THE UNITED STATES WHEN HE MADE A SIDESTEP. TO GO TO RUSSIA. HE WAS THERE TO VISIT A WOMAN HAD HE WAS ROMANTICALLY LINKED TO. DURING THIS TRIP, NOT APPROVED BY HIS SUPERIORS, DID NOT GET CLEARANCE OR APPROVAL TO TRAVEL TO RUSSIA. AT SOME POINT ON THURSDAY HE WAS DETAINED BY RUSSIAN AUTHORITIES, THEY ARE SAYING HE WAS INVOLVED IN CRIMINAL MISCONDUCT. OFFICIALS SAY IT HAD TO DO WITH STEALING FROM THIS WOMAN WHO THEY WENT TO VISIT, HALLIE. HE IS IN PRETRIAL CONVINEMENT, THAT IS ALL WE KNOW. THE STATE DEPARTMENT, THEY ARE ACTIVELY SEEKING TO GET ACCESS TO HIM NOW, HALLIE? >> MIGHT BE SIX STEPS TOO FAR NOW, RIGHT? IN THE PROCESS OF WHAT HAPPENS, HOW DO YOU GET THIS PERSON OUT OF DETENTION IN RUSSIA. I THINK EVERYBODY THINKS OF DETENTION IN RUSSIA AND THINKS OF EVAN GERSHKOVICH. DIFFERENT BECAUSE THE U.S. MADE THE ASSESSMENT THAT GERSHKOVICH THAT IS WRONGLY DETAINED. DO THINGS CHANGE WHEN IT IS AN ACTIVE MILITARY PERSON? >> Reporter: YES, YES. IT HAS TO, RIGHT? THAT BEING SAID WE DON'T KNOW IF IT, WE DON'T KNOW IN WHAT DIRECTION IT IS GOING TO CHANGE. EVERY ONE OF THE CASES THAT WE HAVE SEEN IS ITS OWN INDIVIDUAL CASE AND HAS NOT PLAYED OUT THE SAME AS OTHERS. THAT IS A GREAT QUESTION. I THINK WHAT WE ARE WAITING FOR IS JUST TO SEE WHERE IS HE HELD AND IN WHAT CONDITIONS, THE STATE DEPARTMENT HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO TALK TO HIM. AT THIS POINT, OFFICIALS ARE CONCERNED THAT HE IS HELD IN PRETRIAL CONFINEMENT BEFORE THEY HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK TO HIM. >> THANK YOU, LIVE THERE AT THE PENTAGON COURT, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR WATCHING ALL OF THAT FOR US TONIGHT, APPRECIATE IT. >>> NBC NEWS COVERS HUNDREDS OF STORIES EVERY DAY. IT CAN BE TOUGH TO READ OR WATCH OR LISTEN TO THEM ALL OUR BUREAU TEAMS HAVE DONE IT FOR YOU. THIS IS A SEGMENT WE CALL THE LOCAL. THE POLICE ARRESTING A MAN IN PENNSYLVANIA AFTER THIS TERRIFYING MOMENT, YOU SEE THAT? HE HOLDS UP A GUN TO A PASTOR IN THE MIDDLE OF A SERMON. THE GUN DID NOT GO OFF, A DEACON RUNS OVER, TACKLES HIM. IT IS SO SCARY TO LOOK AT. THIS IS ALL CAPTURED OFF OF HIS LIVE STREAM THERE. THE PASTOR SAYS THE MAN APOLOGIZED TO HIM LATER. HOURS LATER THE POLICE FOUND RELATIVE OF THE SUSPECT DEAD AT HOME. >>> FALLING 30 FEET INTO AN ABANDONED SILO. HE AND OTHER TEENAGERS WENT IN THERE. THE TEEN WAS AIRLIFTED TO A LOCAL HOSPITAL IN SERIOUS CONDITION. >>> A COUPLE DRIVING ALONG THE HIGHWAY WHEN THEY NOTICED AN EXTRA PASSENGER. A LITTLE SNAKE CLIMBING UP THERE. TUCKED INSIDE OF THE WINDSHIELD. HOW DID THEY HANDLE IT? THEY PULLED OFF AT THE NEXT EXIT AND THE SNAKE TOOK OFF ON ITS OWN. ALL RIGHT. COMING UP, MUCH MORE TO GET TO INCLUDING OUR LIVE AT THE KENNEDY SPACE STATION BECAUSE BOEING IS DOING SOMETHING IT HAS NEVER DONE BEFORE. LAUNCHING ASTRONAUTS INTO SPACE. HOW MUCH IS RIDING ON THIS TEST AFTER A SERIES OF SETBACKS, DELAYS, NEW INVESTIGATION BE THE NUMBER ONE ISSUE IN 2024? >>> IF IT IS SUNDAY, IT IS "MEET THE PRESS." >>> THE FAA LATE TODAY ROLLING OUT A NEW INVESTIGATION INTO BOEING AFTER THE COMPANY ACKNOWLEDGED SOME OF ITS EMPLOYEES SKIPPED CERTAIN SAFETY INSPECTIONS ON THE 787 DREAM LINER PLANES. THAT NEWS DROPPING JUST HOURS BEFORE A MOMENT THAT BOEING HOPES WILL BE A REASON TO CELEBRATE. THAT IS BECAUSE LATER TONIGHT, THE COMPANY IS GOING TO LAUNCH TWO ASTRONAUTS TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION ON THE STARLINER SPACECRAFT. LISTEN, BOEING WANTS THIS TO WORK. RIGHT, THEY NEED IT TO WORK. OBVIOUSLY NOT JUST FROM A SAFETY PERSPECTIVE, THERE ARE LIVES ON THE LINE HERE. BUT PERCEPTION REASONS, TOO. AT A TIME WHEN THE COMPANY HAS TAKEN DEADLY HITS, THE CRASHES ON THE PLANES SEVERAL YEARS AGO, THIS YEAR, THE DOOR PLUG, AND THE CEO WILL STEP DOWN AS THEY ARE NAVIGATING COURT. AND TOM COSTELLO IS JOINING US FROM THE SPACE STATION, I WANT TO GET TO THE LAUNCH IN A SECOND BECAUSE IT IS A HUGE DEAL FOR BOWING AND A BIG DEAL FOR SPACE -- BOEING AND BIG DEAL FOR SPACE TRAVEL GENERALLY. WHAT SHOULD WE KNOW? >> Reporter: BOTTOM LINE HERE, THE FAA SAYS BOEING CAME FORWARD AND AN EMPLOYEE SAW SOMETHING AND SAID SOMETHING. THAT EMPLOYEE SAID I THINK EMPLOYEES MAY HAVE SIGNED OFF ON PAPERWORK PLEDGING INSPECTIONS OCCURRED WHEN THEY HAD NOT OCCURRED. SPECIFICALLY, LOOKING AT IF THE WINGS WERE PROPERLY ATTACHES TO THE FUSELAGE. THAT IS A SERIOUS PROBLEM F THEY SAID INSPECTIONS WERE DONE AND THEY WERE NOT DONE, THAT IS FALSIFYING AIRLINE RECORDS, INVOLVE AN FAA AND CRIM NATION INVESTIGATION, THE FAA SAYS IT IS NOW LOOKING AT THIS, BOEING SAYS IT CAME FORWARD, IT RAISED A FLAG AND SELF-REPORTED AND AT THE SAME TIME NOW, BOEING HAS A BIGGER PROBLEM WITH ANOTHER PLANE. NOW THEY GOT TO TRY TO INSPECT EVEN 787 ON THE PRODUCTION LINE AND DECIDE WHAT THEY DO ABOUT THE PLANES FLYING ALREADY. BOEING SAYS THERE IS NO REASON TO BELIEVE THAT IT IS A SAFETY OF FLIGHT ISSUE. BUT THIS IS, YET AGAIN, BOEING IN THE SPOTLIGHT FOR QUALITY CONTROL. >> SO, THAT IS THE BACKDROP TO THIS MOMENT, THE REASON WHY YOU ARE DOWN SOUTH FOR US RIGHT NOW WITH THIS LIVE SHOT. BOEING WANTS A WIN HERE. THIS STARLINER THING COULD BE IT FOR BOEING, HOW ARE FOLKS THERE FEELING? NERVOUS? EXCITED? ALL OF THE ABOVE? >> Reporter: YEAH, ALL OF THE ABOVE. ABSOLUTELY. BUT, LET'S NOT FORGET TWO LIVES ARE ON THE LINE HERE. TWO VETERAN ASTRONAUTS, WILLIAMS AND WILMOR. VETERAN NASA ASTRONAUTS, THEY WILL CLIMB IN FOR A 10:30 P.M. LIFT OFF. AND ALL SYSTEMS ARE GO RIGHT NOW. BUT, TO YOUR POINT ABOUT THE TROUBLED HISTORY HERE, IT WAS BACK IN 2019, I WAS HERE, WE HAD THE FIRST UNCREWED TEST FLIGHT FOR STARLINER AND IT LIFTED OFF AND THEN THEY HAD A MAJOR MALFUNCTION, ABOARD. THEY FOUND OUT THAT SOFTWARE ERRORS ALLOWED THE COMPUTERS INSIDE THE SPACE SHIP TO BE OFF BY 11 HOURS. THE CLOCKS WERE OFF BY 11 HOURS. FAST FORWARD, THEY HAD ANOTHER PROBLEM. THEY REALIZED THAT IN FACT THEY WERE NOT READY TO FLY IN 2022. AND THEN THEY ALSO DISCOVERED IN 2023 LAST JUNE THAT THEY HAD FLAMMABLE TAPED IN OF THE SPACE SHIP, FLAMMABLE, REMEMBER, APOLLO 1 WHERE ASTRONAUTS BURNED TO DEATH. AND STRAPS, SO THEY DELAYED AGAIN, NOW THEY ARE CONVINCED IT IS READY TO GO AND GO UP AT 10:34 P.M. EASTERN TIME. EVERYBODY HERE IS WATCHING, EVERYBODY WANTS IT TO GO OFF WELL >> YOU KNOW WHO ELSE IS WATCHING, COMPETITORS AT SPACE X, FAIR? >> Reporter: 100%. LISTEN, WHO WOULD OF THOUGHT. IF YOU WOULD OF ASKED ME FIVE YEARS AGO WHO WILL BE THE FIRST TO GET TO THE SPACE STATION, BOEING OR SPACE X, I WOULD OF SAID BOEING, BY FAR, THEY WERE BEHIND APOLLO, AND THEY HAVE NOT GOTTEN A CREW TO THE SPACE STATION AND SPACE X FLOWN 11 TO THE SPACE STATION, THEY LOST A TON OF MONEY, OVERBUDGET, OVERDUE, THE PRESSURE IS SO. THEY HAVE TO DELIVER TONIGHT. MOST IMPORTANTLY THEY HAVE TO MAKE SURE THESE ASTRONAUTS LIVES ARE PROTECTED. THEY GET THERE AND GET HOME SAFELY. >> TOM, AT THE SPACE CENTER, NBC NEWS WILL HAVE IT AT 10:34, 10:30 EASTERN TIME. TOM, WE WILL BE TALKING AGAIN. THANK YOU, FRIEND. >>> A LOT MORE TO COME INCLUDING THE FORMER LEADER OF STARBUCKS, THE EXPERIENCE AT THE STORES THESE DAYS STINKS. WE WILL EXPLAIN WHAT HAD TO JUM OCEAN. >>> NEWS FOR THE GENERATION OF NOW IS NBC NEWS NOW. >>> NEW FALLOUT TONIGHT FROM WHAT EXPERTS SAY IS AN EXTRAORDINARY LETTER FROM THE FORMER HEAD OF STARBUCKS, BLASTING HIS OWN COMPANY, SAYING THEY GOT TO GET BACK TO BASICS, GOOD COFFEE, GOOD SERVICE. HE IS HAVING TO HAVE A FOCUS ON THE CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE, ANOTHER DING AT STARBUCKS WHO IS GETTING HIT. STOCKS DOWN. YOU CAN GO ANYWHERE AND FIND A STARBUCKS, THEY ARE HUGE. BUT HE IS SAYING, ON OR ABOUT, INSTEAD OF LIKE SPICY LEMONADE, FOCUS MORE ON LIKE ELIMINATING LONG LINES. YOU HAVE JIM KRAMER AT FOLKS AT OUR FRIENDS AT CNBC, HE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE WHAT HE IS DOING, WHY NOW. >> HE HAD TO INTERVIEW WITH THE CEO OUR COLLEAGUES, PRESSING HIM ON THE EARNINGS RESULTS, STARBUCKS THE COMPANY REPORTING LAST WEEK THAT THEIR REVENUE AND THEIR BOTTOM LINE EARNINGS WERE BELOW WHAT WALL STREET ECONOMY OR ANALYSTS WERE EXPECTING. MORE OVER, THEY HAD GUIDANCE, PROJECTION FOR HOW MUCH MONEY THEY ARE GOING TO MAKE IN THE FUTURE, THAT WAS SLASHED COMPARED TO THE LAST TIME THEY OFFERED THEM THREE MONTHS AGO. ONE BIG STORY BEHIND ALL OF IT APPEARS THAT CUSTOMERS THAT ONLY GO ON A CASUAL BASIS ARE NOT GOING THERE ANY MORE. LOYAL CUSTOMER THAT GOES DAY AFTER DAY AFTER DAY YOU ARE PROBABLY STILL GOING, CASUAL CONSUMERS THEY RELY ON FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE REVENUE THAT ARE NOT COMING IN THE STORE AS MUCH. HOW DO THEY GET IT BACK UP? IT WILL BE BASED ON THE APP, PUSH MORE PROMO. DO YOU SEE CORNER OFFICE CEO DRAMA HERE? >> Reporter: YES, HOWARD HAS HAD CASES WHERE HE LEFT STARBUCKS AND COME BACK AND STAYED WITHIN THE COMPANY AND CAME BACK DURING THE FINANCIAL CRISIS IN 2008 AND THEN CAME BACK, HE RETURNED BRIEFLY IN 2022 ON A INTERIM BASIS TRYING TO FIND A SUCCESSOR WHICH THEY FOUND A FEW MONTHS AFTER THAT. THE NORTH STAR FOR THE COMPANY. HE IS DIALED INTO THIS COMPANY, STILL, COULD IT BE SOMETHING THAT THE BOARD SAYS, ALL RIGHT, HOWARD HAS THOUGHTS, GIVE HIM A RING AND BRING HIM BACK AGAIN, THAT IS PART OF THE SPECULATION TODAY. >>> THEY ARE PREMIUM PRODUCT, RIGHT? THEY'RE GETTING MORE BANG FOR THE BUCK BY GETTING A COFFEE AND A DONUT SOMEWHERE ELSE, MAYBE. >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. APPRECIATE IT. THAT DOES IT FOR US FOR THIS HOUR. MORE COVERAGE PICKING UP RIGHT NOW. ♪ >>> WERE COMING ON THE AIR WITH A LOT DEVELOPING IN THE MIDDLE EAST TONIGHT. NEW STRIKES IN GAZA AT THE SAME TIME ISRAEL IS CONSIDERING A CEASE-FIRE DEAL. WE ARE LIVE IN TEL AVIV WITH WHAT COULD HAPPEN NEXT AND WHAT IS HAPPENING AS WE SPEAK. PLUS, BACK HERE AT HOME MILLIONS AGAINST THE CENTRAL U.S. GETTING A RARE WARNING TONIGHT. THE RISK FOR SUPERPOWERFUL TORNADOES, MAYBE DOZENS OF THEM FOR WHAT'S MAKING TONIGHT WHETHER SOME OF THE MOST DANGEROUS ALL YEAR. A BIG HEADLINE OUT OF FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP'S CRIMINAL TRIAL TONIGHT. POTENTIAL JAIL TIME IF HE DOES NOT GET A HANDLE ON WHAT HE IS SAYING. WHAT -- WHY THE FORMER PRESIDENT SEEMS UNFAZED. >>> PLUS, AN AMERICAN SOLDIER DETAINED IN RUSSIA. WE WILL TELL YOU WHAT HE IS BEING ACCUSED OF DOING. >>> PLUS, THE MOMENT A SUNDAY AFTERNOON SERVICE WAS DRAMATICALLY INTERRUPTED BY A MAN WITH A GUN. POINTING IT RIGHT AT THE PASTOR. WE WILL TELL YOU HOW DEACON ENDED UP SAVING THE DAY AND HOW THE WHOLE THING ENDED LATER IN THE SHOW. >>> HEY THERE, IT'S JUST AFTER 1:00 A.M. IN THE MIDDLE EAST. 1:01, AT A CRITICAL MOMENT IN THE WAR BETWEEN ISRAEL AND HAMAS. THE ISRAELI STACKING UP ATTACKS IN ONE MAJOR GAZA CITY. AT THE SAME TIME, IT CONSIDERS WHETHER TO COUNTER OR REJECT A CEASE-FIRE PROPOSAL. WE CAN CROSS ONE OF THOSE OPTIONS OUT BASICALLY RIGHT AWAY, OKAY? THAT IS THE ACCEPT OPTION. CROSS IT OFF THE LIST BECAUSE ISRAEL IS ALMOST CERTAINLY NOT GOING TO ACCEPT THIS DEAL. THIS MOMENT IS STILL A POTENTIAL TURNING POINT. EMPHASIS ON THE WORD POTENTIAL. THIS IS THE FIRST ONE THAT THEY'VE AGREED TO A NEARLY SIX MONTHS. YOU CAN SEE THE REACTION INSIDE GAZA. PEOPLE CELEBRATING, CHEERING AS THE BAD NEWS CAME OUT. DIPLOMAT TELLS THE TEAM HAMAS IS TRYING TO PRESSURE THEM INTO THE PROPOSAL. THE EXCHANGE OF ONE IS REALLY HOSTAGE FOR 33 PRISONERS AND A PERMANENT STOP TO THE FIGHTING IN GAZA. LOOK AT THIS WORD PERMANENTLY. THAT IS A STICKING POINT. THAT'S WHERE THINGS HIT THE BRAKES. ISRAEL HAS SAID IT WOULD NEVER AGREE TO THAT. THE ISRAELIS SAY THEY WILL SEND A DELEGATION TO KEEP CEASE-FIRE TALKS GOING AND IT'S INCREASING A LOT OF PRESSURE NOT JUST INTERNATIONALLY BUT ALSO FOR FAMILIES OF HOSTAGES WHO SAY NOW IS THE TIME TO GET A DEAL ON THE TABLE. THE LAST HOSTAGES WERE RELEASED IN NOVEMBER. UNFORGETTABLE EMOTIONAL SCENES, PEOPLE GETTING RELEASED, PEOPLE REUNITING WITH FAMILY MEMBERS. BEFORE THAT TEMPORARY CEASE- FIRE ENDED PRETTY SUDDENLY. MORE THAN 130 HOSTAGES IN GAZA RIGHT NOW. THE ISRAELI MILITARY TELLS CIVILIANS IN GAZA TO GET OUT OF THE CITY THEY WERE INITIALLY SUPPOSED TO GO TO TO BE SAVED BUT STRIKES THEIR ESCALATING AGAIN. WE'VE SEEN SOME OF THOSE STRIKES THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT AND A FEW PEOPLE PACKING UP TRYING TO GET EVERYTHING THEY OWN OUT. LIFE FOR US IN TEL AVIV, WE KNOW THESE THINGS ARE CONNECTED. THE STRIKES PLUS THE CEASE-FIRE TALKS. THE THREAT OF ONE HAS BEEN DRIVING THE URGENCY OF THE OTHER. WE WERE WAITING TO HEAR WHAT THE WAR CABINET WOULD DO AND THAT WE HAVE SOME SIGNALS. TELL US MORE. >> THEY ARE ABSOLUTELY CONNECTED AND YOU CAN SEE THE CONNECTION IN THE STATEMENT THAT CAME OUT OF THE ISRAELI WAR CABINET. EARLIER SAID THEY WOULD DO TWO THINGS SIMULTANEOUSLY. ONE, THEY WILL CONTINUE THIS MILITARY OPERATION IN THE CITY OF ROFF A AND TONIGHT WE ARE SEEING REPORTS OF WIDESPREAD ISRAELI STRIKES ACROSS THAT CITY. THEY SAID AT THE SAME TIME THAT THEY WOULD SEND NEGOTIATORS BACK TO THE CEASE-FIRE TALKS IN CAIRO AFTER THEY GET RESPONSES FROM HAMAS TO SEE IF THE GAP CAN BE BRIDGED AND SEE IF A FINAL DEAL CAN BE REACHED. THE ISRAELIS HAVE BEEN REALLY CLEAR, THEY BELIEVE THAT PUTTING PRESSURE ON HAMAS, ON THE BATTLEFIELD IS A WAY TO GET RESULTS AT THE NEGOTIATING TABLE. WHAT WE HAVE AT THIS POINT IS A DISCREPANCY BETWEEN WHAT HAMAS HAS AGREED TO AND WHAT ISRAEL HAS AGREED TO AND THE TASK FOR THE MEDIATORS OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS IS GOING TO BE FIGURING OUT HOW BIG ARE THOSE GAPS? CAN THEY BE BRIDGED? AND THAT'S GOING TO FALL TO THE EGYPTIANS AND THE CIA DIRECTOR BILL WHO HAS BEEN CRISSCROSSING THE MIDDLE EAST OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS. >> WHERE SHOWING SOME OF THE DETAILS, THE FRAMEWORK THAT HAMAS HAS AGREED TO. AS YOU POINT OUT THERE IS A QUESTION OF WHAT ISRAEL WILL AGREE TO AND IN THE MEANTIME THEY SEEM TO BE MOVING FORWARD WITH THE TASK. THIS IS COMPLICATED BECAUSE IT'S A PLACE WHERE MONTHS AGO CIVILIANS, INNOCENT PEOPLE WERE TOLD TO HEAD TO IF THEY WANTED TO TRY TO GET OUT OF THE LINE OF FIRE. >> THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT. THERE ARE 1 MILLION PALESTINIAN CIVILIANS SHELTERING, MOST OF THEM DISPLACED FROM THEIR HOMES FURTHER NORTH IN GAZA. THEY WANT TO RUFFLE BELIEVING IT WOULD BE SAFE AND TONIGHT IT IS THE SCENE OF INTENSE IS REALLY BOMBING. THERE ARE REPORTS ON SOCIAL MEDIA FROM PEOPLE ON THE GROUND THAT ISRAELI GROUND FORCES HAVE ENTERED INTO RUFFLE. WE ASKED THE ISRAELI MILITARY ABOUT THAT EARLIER. THEY WOULD NEITHER CONFIRM NOR DENY THAT EARLIER ON TODAY THEY DROPPED THOUSANDS OF LEAFLETS FROM THE SKY WITH THE STARK MESSAGE FOR PALESTINIAN CIVILIANS, GET OUT OF THE AREA, WE ARE GOING TO ATTACK. 100,000 PEOPLE IN THE AREA, ISRAEL IS ORDERING TO EVACUATE. THEY'VE BEEN TOLD TO GO TO THE LOCAL HUMANITARIAN ZONE ON THE MEDITERRANEAN COAST BUT HUMANITARIAN GROUPS HAVE BEEN REALLY CLEAR, THERE IS NOT THE LEVEL OF INFRASTRUCTURE THERE ON THE BEACH IN TERMS OF FOOD, IN TERMS OF WATER, IN TERMS OF MEDICINE, IN TERMS OF HOSPITALS, THE SUPPORT, YOU SEEN THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION CONSISTENTLY SAYING IT IS OPPOSED ANY LARGE-SCALE IS REALLY GROUND OFFENSIVES IN ROFF. YOU SEEN THE U.N. WARNINGS THAT THE ISRAELI ATTACK WOULD BE EXACERBATED IN TERMS OF THE LOSS OF INNOCENT LIVES BUT ALSO DISRUPTIONS TO THE FLOW OF HUMANITARIAN AID THROUGH THE CRITICAL PROCESS THERE IS FIGHTING GOING ON TONIGHT. WHETHER THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF A LARGE-SCALE OPERATION OR WHETHER THIS IS SOMETHING MORE SURGICAL, IT'S LIKELY WHERE WE WILL FIND OUT WHEN THE SUN COMES UP. >> ASKING YOU TO LEAN ON YOUR MANY YEARS OF REPORTING IN THE REGION AND YOUR EXPERTISE AND REPORTING ON THIS ISSUE, IT'S 1:00 THERE WHERE YOU ARE, IT'S BEEN A LONG DAY, LONG NIGHT FOR ISRAELIS, FOR THOSE IN GAZA, IS THERE SOMETHING WE SHOULD BE TALKING ABOUT THAT HASN'T BEEN TALKED ABOUT ENOUGH IN YOUR VIEW? >> IS THERE SOMETHING WE SHOULD BE TALKING ABOUT? I MEAN, JUST THE DESPERATION OF THE PALESTINIAN CIVILIANS IN GAZA WHO HAVE MOVED AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN TRYING TO GET SOMEWHERE SAFE. MANY OF THEM ARE FLEEING ON THE BACK OF DONKEY DRAWN CARTS. MANY ARE GOING ON FOOT. THEY HAVE TENTS THAT THEY BUILT WITH BARE HANDS AND NOT FAR FROM WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW EARLIER TONIGHT'S FAMILY ISRAELI OR HOSTAGES WERE BLOCKING THE HIGHWAY IN TEL AVIV, JUST PLEADING WITH THEIR OWN GOVERNMENTS SEVEN MONTHS INTO THIS TO BRING THEIR LOVED ONES HOME. >> THANK YOU. WE WILL SEE WHAT THE MORNING BRINGS. APPRECIATE IT. POSTED UP IN THE WHITE HOUSE. GIVE US PERSPECTIVE FROM AT HOME THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION ON THIS. >> WELL, THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION IS BEING CAUTIOUS WHEN TALKING ABOUT THIS. HAMAS IS STILL REVIEWING THAT U.S. OFFICIALS ARE STILL REVIEWING. THEY SAY THEY DO NOT WANT TO SPECULATE AS TO WHAT ARE IN THIS AS THEY CONTINUE SPEAKING WITH ARAB LEADERS, MIDDLE EASTERN LEADERS ABOUT THIS PROPOSAL. WHAT WE DO KNOW TODAY, SOME NEWS THAT WAS MADE IS THAT THERE IS A LARGE WEAPONS SHIPMENT. THE DELIVERIES TO ISRAEL BY THE U.S. HAS BEEN PAUSED AND WE UNDERSTAND THAT BARRING ANY TECHNICAL ISSUES IN THE PAST THAT HAVE PREVENTED THESE WEAPONS DELIVERIES THAT THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THAT HAS HAPPENED AND WE KNOW THAT U.S. OFFICIALS HAVE BEEN CONSIDERING SHUTTING DOWN WEAPONS DELIVERIES FOR MONTHS NOW BUT HAVEN'T MADE AN OFFICIAL MOVE. THE WHITE HOUSE IS NOT CONFIRMING THAT THIS IS HAPPENED. THEY ARE NOT TALKING ABOUT WHY IT HAS HAPPENED. THEY ARE ALSO DENYING THAT IT'S INDICATIVE OF ANY POLICY CHANGE. THE TIMING OF THIS IS, AS YOU HEARD MENTIONED THAT THE IDF IS PREPARING FOR THIS LOOMING GROUND DEFENSE IN ROFF APPEARED THAT SOMETHING THAT PRESIDENT BIDEN HAS REPEATEDLY TOLD PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU THAT HE WOULD NOT SUPPORT UNLESS THE ISRAELIS HAVE A ROBUST PLAN TO PROTECT THE MORE THAN 1 MILLION PALESTINIANS HAVE BEEN SHELTERING IN THAT AREA AND A SPOKESPERSON GAVE AN UPDATE ON THIS TODAY. >> WE HAVE NOT SEEN HUMANITARIAN PLANS THAT ARE CREDIBLE AND LAMENTABLE AND WE BELIEVE IN MILITARY OPERATIONS IN ROFF ARE RIGHT NOW WOULD DRAMATICALLY INCREASE THE SUFFERING OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE. WE'VE MADE CLEAR THAT WE DO NOT SUPPORT ISRAEL LAUNCHING A FULL- SCALE MILITARY OPERATION. >> YOUR MEMBER THAT THE PRESIDENT ON THE HIGH-STAKES CALL THEY SHARED A MONTH AGO THAT HE SAID U.S. POLICY FOR ISRAEL WOULD CHANGE IF NETANYAHU DID NOT DO MORE IN DEFENSE OF THE CIVILIANS IN GAZA. THERE'S REALLY NO DETAILS AS TO WHAT HE MEANT BY THAT POLICY CHANGE BUT WE ARE TOLD HE'S FAMILIAR AND THAT COULD INCLUDE CONDITIONING U.S. WEAPONS DELIVERIES M.O. WE KNOW THAT THIS WAS MEANT TO COMPLETELY PREVENT GROUND INVASION OF GAZA, THE WEAPONS WERE INTENDED TO BE SHIPPED WOULD HAVE MADE A DIFFERENCE IN BACKGROUND DEFENSE. >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THA . OUTSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE, APPRECIATED. CENTER OF THE COUNTRY, SOME 18 MILLION PEOPLE ACROSS TEXAS, KANSAS AND OKLAHOMA UNDER THE HIGHEST LEVEL TORNADO RISK WARNING THAT EXISTS. THIS IS AS BAD AS IT GETS. VERY RARE. LEVEL FIVE. THAT'S WHAT HAPPENING AS WE SPEAK. THE LAST TIME THE WEATHER SERVICE PUT OUT A WARNING LIKE THIS, 131 TORNADOES HIT 11. ANOTHER POTENTIAL PUNCH AFTER ROUND OF SEVERE STORMS HIT TEXAS. FOR THE AFTERMATH THERE. DON IS GETTING RESCUED ON A JET SKI AND IT WASN'T JUST DOGS. PEOPLE TOO. NEARLY 600 THAT HAD TO BE RESCUED OR EVACUATED THROUGH DEADLY FLOODING. YOU ARE SEEING THE EMPTY TRAILER FLOATING AWAY. YET SOME FOLKS TRAPPED IN THEIR HOMES, STRANDED ON THEIR ROOFS. LOOK AT THAT. YOU SEE SOME OF THESE RESCUES. A FOUR-YEAR-OLD BOY WAS KILLED AFTER HIS CAR GOT CAUGHT UP IN THE FLOODING OF THE CAR HE WAS IN. NOW THERE'S MORE DEVASTATING WEATHER ON THE WAY. WE HAVE TEAM COVERAGE. LET ME START WITH YOU. YOU HAVE AN ACTIVE TORNADO WARNING ON THE GROUND RIGHT NOW IN THE CENTRAL PART OF THE COUNTRY. TALK IS THROUGH WHAT'S HAPPENING. HOW BAD IS IT AND WHERE DOES IT GO? >> ABOUT SEVEN HOURS AGO IN THE TORNADO THREAD ZONE, ONLY ONE OR TWO HOURS IN. TWO TORNADOES REPORTED, NO DAMAGE WHATSOEVER. NOW WE'RE WATCHING THE STORMS GETTING INTO THE HIGH RISK. FIVE OUT OF FIVE WHERE THERE COULD BE STRONG TORNADOES ON THE GROUND FOR A LONG PERIOD OF TIME. HERE'S ONE OF THE TORNADO WARNINGS WE'RE WATCHING HERE. THIS HAS NOT BEEN CONFIRMED. RADAR INDICATED AN RADAR SHOWING THAT THE STORM IS SPINNING AND COULD DROP A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. FURTHER TO THE SOUTH, THE STORM IS LOOKING MORE MENACING. THIS IS RADAR INDICATED BUT YOU CAN SEE THIS BIG PINK BLOB. THAT'S THE HAIL. THE TORNADO IS TRYING TO FORM. ONE THING THAT'S PRETTY COOL IS WE CAN SLICE THE STORM IN HALF AND I COULD SHOW YOU WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE. THIS IS THE HAIL IN THE STORM. IT GOES UP TO ABOUT 30,000 FEET. IF THERE'S AN AIRLINER PLANE ACROSS THE COUNTRY, TYPICALLY ABOUT 30,000 FEET RIGHT HERE. THIS IS ONE OF THE STORMS IT'S SO BIG AND HIGH IN THE ATMOSPHERE THAT THE AIRLINES ARE FLYING AROUND AND IT WOULD BE A LOT OF TURBULENCE ANYWHERE NEAR ANYWAYS. AS FAR AS THE REST OF TODAY, THIS IS HEATING UP TO WHERE THE STORMS ARE. IT JUST SHOWED YOU A POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS SITUATION. NOT YOUR TYPICAL TORNADO WATCH. LIFE-THREATENING TORNADOES ARE EXPECTED, NOT JUST A CHANCE BUT EXPECTED IN THE NEXT SEVEN HOURS. THIS WILL BE A THREAT TOWARDS OKLAHOMA CITY. LATEST GUIDANCE, 10:00 P.M. TONIGHT. SCARY SITUATION FOR PEOPLE PUTTING THEIR KIDS TO BED. MAKE SURE YOUR LISTENING. YOU HAVE ALL THE PHONES ON, YOUR TV, RADIO, YOU GET YOUR WARNINGS AND GET INTO SHELTER. BECAUSE OF THE TORNADOES WE ARE EXPECTING THEY ARE THE KINDS AGAIN HEADED TOWN AND DESTROY A TOWN OR, IF WE'RE LUCKY, THEY WILL BE IN A FIELD AND DO NO DAMAGE AT ALL, JUST OF THE CROPS. THAT'S BEST CASE SCENARIO. WE KNOW WILL HAVE STRONG TORNADOES IN THIS AREA AND THIS AREA FROM KANSAS ALL THE WAY DOWN TO THE TEXAS BORDER, THIS IS FOR THE SUPER STRONG TORNADOES. WE ARE GOING TO DO THIS AGAIN TOMORROW UNFORTUNATELY. STRONG TORNADOES, INDIANA INTO AREAS OF OHIO AND THEN WILL GO ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE MIDDLE OF THE COUNTRY AGAIN ON WEDNESDAY. ALMOST 50 MILLION PEOPLE AT RISK FROM LITTLE ROCK TO ST. LOUIS. THIS WEEP ARRIVAL LAST WEEK WHICH WAS CRITICALLY ACTIVE, DESTRUCTIVE, AND DEADLY. WE'RE HOPING TO AVOID THAT TODAY. THE POTENTIAL IS THERE. WE'RE TRYING TO GIVE PEOPLE AS MUCH WARNING AHEAD. >> THAT'S IT. IT'S ALL ABOUT PAYING ATTENTION TO WARNINGS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. LONG NIGHT AHEAD FOR YOU. APPRECIATE IT. WHERE YOU ARE IT'S BEEN SEVERAL LONG NIGHTS FOR FOLKS DEALING WITH SO MUCH FLOODING AND NOW THE LONG ROAD TO RECOVERY. >> YES, SO, RIGHT NOW ALL THE WATER THAT WE SAW, SOME AREAS WERE THAN TWO FEET OVER THE PAST SEVERAL DAYS IS RECEDING. THE RIVERS AND LAKES ARE GOING DOWN QUICKER THAN THEY EVEN PREDICTED AND THAT IS GOOD NEWS BECAUSE IT IS ALLOWING FOR ROADS TO REOPEN, FOR PEOPLE TO GET BACK INTO THEIR HOMES AND BEGIN TO DO WHAT THEY NEED TO DO TO CLEAN UP AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT IS REALLY IMPORTANT AFTER FLOODING IF YOU WANT TO SAVE YOUR HOME, YOU NEED TO GET IN THERE, GET THE STANDING WATER OUT, TAKE OUT THE SHEET ROCK AND TRIED TO GET A HOLD ON ANY POTENTIAL FOR MOLD BEFORE THAT HAPPENS. THAT'S WHAT OFFICIALS ARE TELLING PEOPLE TO FOCUS ON. GUTTING THEIR HOMES, GETTING THE MUD OUT, GETTING ALL THE WEAPONS OUT AND GETTING THE STANDING WATER OUT IS A BIG ONE. THEY ARE CONCERNED ABOUT MOSQUITOES HERE. MOSQUITOES BREED IN THE STANDING WATER. THEY MOSQUITO TRUCKS THAT ARE GOING TO BE COMING OUT IS THAT IS ANOTHER POTENTIAL THREAT. RIGHT NOW THE THING ON PEOPLE'S MINDS IS CLEANING UP. WE SPOKE TO ONE MAN WHO LIVES UP THE STREET FROM HERE AS HE WAS TEARING UP FLOORBOARDS AND THROWING OUT COUCHES, I WANTED TO PLAY WHAT HE HAD TO SAY ABOUT WHAT IT HAPPENED HERE. >> WE GOT 18 INCHES OF WATER. WE ARE USED TO FLOODING IN THE PROCESS THAT COMES WITH THAT. IT'S NOT FUN BUT IT'S A BIG INCONVENIENCE BUT WHEN YOU HAVE MEMORIES AND YOU'VE LIVED YOUR WHOLE LIFE, IT'S JUST A PART OF IT. >> THAT'S WHAT WE'VE HEARD FROM A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT WE SPOKEN TO THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY. THEY DO PLAN TO REBUILD. THEY WANT TO KEEP THEIR MEMORIES HERE AND A LOT OF THEM, EVERYONE WE HAVE SPOKEN TO HAS SOME TYPE OF INSURANCE. THEY'RE NOT AS CONCERNED ABOUT HOW THEY WILL REBUILD, JUST A MATTER OF GETTING IT DONE SO THEY CAN GET BACK INTO THEIR HOMES. >> LIVE FROM TEXAS. THANK YOU. >>> LET'S TAKE YOU OVER TO MANHATTAN WITH COURT WRAPPING UP IN THE LAST 90 MINUTES OR SO AND FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP'S CRIMINAL TRIAL. THE TESTIMONY TODAY PUSHED US INTO THE NITTY-GRITTY OF THE ALLEGED HUSH MONEY SCHEME AT THE CENTER OF WHAT'S HAPPENING IN COURT. AT THE HEADLINES, A SHADOW LOOMING OVER MR. TRUMP NOW AND THE THING WE HEARD THEM TALKING ABOUT IN FALL, THE WARNING FROM THE JUDGE THAT THE FORMER PRESIDENT, MAYBE THE NEXT PRESIDENT COULD END UP IN A JAIL CELL OF THESE NOT MORE CAREFUL ABOUT WHAT HE SAYS. WE'RE HEARING MR. TRUMP SOUNDING, WELL, UNFAZED. >> THE JUDGE GAVE ME A GAG ORDER AND SAID YOU GO TO JAIL IF YOU VIOLATE IT AND, FRANKLY, YOU KNOW WHAT? THERE ARE THINGS THAT ARE MUCH MORE IMPORTANT THAN JAIL. I'LL TAKE THAT SACRIFICE ANY DAY. >> THE JUDGE SEEM TO BE AT THE END OF HIS ROPE. IT DOESN'T EVEN SOUND LIKE HE WANTS TO DO THIS. HE TOLD MR. TRUMP TO HIS FACE THE LAST THING I WANT TO DO IS PUT YOU IN JAIL. YOU ARE A FORMER PRESIDENT AND POSSIBLY THE NEXT PRESIDENT BUT IS MUCH AS I DO NOT WANT TO PROPOSE IT, I WILL IF NECESSARY. THAT WAS A RARE FIREWORK AND A DATA CONSISTED MOSTLY OF WHAT YOU COULD CALL LEGALLY NECESSARY SLOGGING FOR THE PROSECUTORS AT A COUPLE OF NEW WITNESSES CAREFULLY LAYING OUT THE PROCESS OF REIMBURSING MICHAEL: $130,000. MR. TRUMP'S PARTICIPATION IN THAT PROCESS, PROSECUTOR SAVED THE MONEY AND 130 GRAND WAS PAID TO KEEP TWO WOMEN WHO HAD AFFAIRS WITH MR. TRUMP QUITE. TODAY THE JURY IS GETTING THE FIRST LOOK AT THE CHECKS IN QUESTION ALLEGEDLY USED TO REIMBURSE FOR A RETAINER. THE PROSECUTORS SAY THE RETAINER NEVER EXISTED. IT'S THE REASON THE WHOLE TRIAL IS HAPPENING. 34 COUNTS OF FALSIFYING BUSINESS RECORDS. THE FORMER PRESIDENT HAS PLEADED NOT GUILTY. I WANT TO START WITH VON HILLIARD OUTSIDE THE COURT IN NEW YORK. LET'S START WITH THE ONE THAT WE HEARD FROM DONALD TRUMP TODAY AS HE WAS LEAVING COURT. THE WARNING FROM THE JUDGE THAT IF DONALD TRUMP DOES NOT ABIDE BY THE PARTIAL GAG ORDER THAT HE COULD FACE THE INSIDE OF A JAIL CELL. HE SAID IT'S A SACRIFICE HE WAS WILLING TO MAKE. GIVE US A GUT CHECK. >> RIGHT. THIS IS AN INTENSE VIOLATION OF THE GAG ORDER SINCE IT WAS PLACED AT THE BEGINNING OF THE TRIAL. WEEK FOR NOW AND CLEARLY THE WORDS OF THE JUDGE WERE DIRECT. YOU WANTED TO AVOID HAVING TO GO TO THOSE LENGTHS TO IMPRISON THE FORMER PRESIDENT AND POTENTIALLY THE FUTURE PRESIDENT. JUST LOOK AT THE GAG ORDER IN WHICH HE WAS SPECIFIC ABOUT WHY HE MAY HAVE TO TAKE THOSE STEPS. HE SAYS IN PART, QUOTE, IT'S APPARENT THAT MONETARY FINES WILL NOT SUFFICE. THE DEFENDANT IS HEREBY PUT ON NOTICE THAT IF APPROPRIATE UNWARRANTED, FUTURE VIOLATIONS OF THE LAWFUL ORDERS WILL BE PUNISHABLE BY INCARCERATION. THIS BEING MAY CLEARED BY THE JUDGE THAT HE'S WILLING TO DO IT IF IT WERE TO GET TO THAT POINT. THE CONCERNS FOR THE JUDGE AND THE COURT IS THAT WITNESSES ARE INTIMIDATED BUT ALSO THAT THE JURY COULD BEAR WILL BE TAINTED AS WELL IF YOU WERE TO FURTHER VIOLATE THE GAG ORDER. >> TALK ABOUT TODAY'S TESTIMONY. IT FELT LIKE A BIT OF A SHIFT NOW. LAST WEEK IT WAS ALL ABOUT THESE SALACIOUS LURID STORIES WE HAVE LIKE HULK HOGAN'S NAME CAME UP FOR VARIOUS REASONS. HE HAD HOPE HICKS, THE FORMER PRESIDENTS CONFIDANT TEARING UP ON THE STAND, RIGHT? THERE WERE FIREWORKS, IF YOU WILL. THIS IS PRUSSIC SHOOTERS SHIFTING TO THE MORE WEEDS PART OF THE CASE. THE DOTTING OF THE TEES WERE THE EYES, ET CETERA, ET CETERA. WHAT WAS IT LIKE IN COURT AND EXPLAIN WHY IT'S CRITICAL THAT WHAT THE PROSECUTION DOING IS LAYING THE STAKES FOR THE JURY. >> RIGHT. LAST WEEK WAS ADULT FILM STARS AND THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER. THIS WEEK COUNTS IS NOTHING AGAINST THAT. THEY'RE IN CHARGE OF KEEPING THE BOOKS FOR THE TRUMP ORGANIZATION. GUESS WHAT? EVERYONE WATCHING AND LISTENING TO THIS WOULD PROBABLY REPEAT EXACTLY WHAT JEFFREY AND THE INDIVIDUAL WHO IS ACTUALLY IN CHARGE OF EXECUTING THE CHECKS FOR THE TRUMP ORGANIZATION, THEY WERE THE TWO WITNESSES TODAY AND THEY WERE THE ONES THAT WERE OPENLY RESPONSIBLE FOR GETTING THOSE REIMBURSEMENT CHECKS FROM DONALD TRUMP TO GO BACK TO MICHAEL CULLEN. THIS IS WHERE YOU GET INTO THE NITTY-GRITTY AND IT WAS PART OF THE TESTIMONY THAT THE RECORD- KEEPING AND THE BOOKS ARE VERY IMPORTANT AND TAKEN VERY SERIOUSLY EVEN BY ALLIES OF DONALD TRUMP. IF YOU LOOK HERE ON WHAT WAS A PART OF THE TESTIMONY HERE TODAY, THERE WAS DISCUSSION WHEN IT CAME TO THE PROSECUTION ASKING JEFFREY WHO WAS THE CONTROLLER OVERSEEING THE DEPARTMENT FOR THE TRUMP ORGANIZATION THE QUESTION, WELL, DID YOU EVER SEE A RETAINER AGREEMENT? HE SAID, I DID NOT. WHY IS THAT IMPORTANT? WELL, DONALD TRUMP, IT SAID THAT HE WAS MAKING LEGAL AND HAD A RETAINER AGREEMENT WITH MICHAEL CULLEN. THE PROSECUTION WAS ALLEGING HE WAS REPAYING MICHAEL COHEN FOR THE HUSH MONEY TO STORMY DANIELS BEFORE THE 2016 ELECTION. HAVING HIS OWN EMPLOYEE TESTIFIED THAT THERE WAS NO LEGAL RETAINER ON FILE IS NOTABLE FOR THIS JURY HERE FOR DONALD TRUMP AND HIS DEFENSE TEAM. THEY MADE THE CASE THAT THAT'S WHAT THE PAYMENTS WERE FOR. >> EARLIER IN DOWNTOWN MANHATTAN, IF THERE WAS A STAR OF THE SHOW TODAY, IT WAS A SHARPIE. EXPLAIN THAT. >> THE SHARPIE WAS HOW DONALD TRUMP SIGNED HIS CHECKS WHICH IS LIKE ALL THINGS, TRUMPS SIGNATURES HUGE ALREADY AND THIS SHARPIE IS VERY GLARING. YOU COULD ARGUE NORMALLY YOU WOULD NEED EVIDENCE ABOUT AUTHENTICATING THINGS LIKE SIGNATURES BUT THERE'S AN ARGUMENT TO BE MADE THAT EVERYONE IN AMERICA IS FAMILIAR WITH DONALD TRUMP'S SIGNATURE. IT'S APPEARED ON SO MANY DOCUMENTS ON TV. BACK TO SOMETHING ELSE THAT'S BEEN SAID MANY TIMES, TODAY WAS ABOUT GETTING INTO THE WEEDS. THERE IS AN EXPECTATION IN THIS TRIAL THAT IF IT IS NOT STARS OR PLAYBOY MODELS THAT SOMEHOW IT IS NOT EXCITING. TODAY WAS -- >> THAT'S NOT OUR PERCEPTION BUT IT IS THE REALITY, RIGHT? IT IS NO LESS IMPORTANT, RIGHT? BUT IT IS LESS ELATION. IF ACTUALLY IS. >> RIGHT. IT'S NOT EVEN THAT DRY. WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THE CONTEXT OR THE SPECTRUM OF HOW BORING SOME WHITE-COLLAR CASES CAN GET, THIS ISN'T EVEN ALL THAT BAD. PEOPLE CAN UNDERSTAND A CHECK PAID TO SO-AND-SO. REGULAR FOLKS CAN FOLLOW THIS. A LOT OF TIMES IN THESE WHITE- COLLAR CASES WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT STRUCTURING AND THE COMPLEXITIES OF MONEY LAUNDERING, IT CAN GET CONFUSING AND REALLY, REALLY DULL, ESPECIALLY WITH BANKING RECORDS. SO FAR THERE HASN'T BEEN A PROBLEM. THE JURORS CAN FOLLOW A CHECK PAID TO: AND: A CHECK TO STORMY DANIELS. NOW, THEY LAYERED IT UP TO TRY TO MAKE IT CONFUSING BUT IRONICALLY ALL OF THIS EFFORT TO OBFUSCATE RESULTS IN A PAPER TRAIL THAT ISN'T THAT DIFFICULT TO FOLLOW. SO, YOU KNOW, ALL IN ALL, THIS IS THE KIND OF EVIDENCE THAT JURORS CAN DIGEST, EVEN AS YOU SAY, I AGREE, IT IS TECHNICALLY MORE WHEEZY BUT THIS IS A TRIAL WITH HULK HOGAN AND ALL KINDS OF CELEBRITIES GETTING NAME DROPPED. IN MY VIEW, MORE CRITICAL, MORE IMPORTANT PART OF THE CASE. >> THAT SAID, THAT'S ONE BUCKET, RIGHT? WHAT HAPPENED IN COURT WHICH YOU DESCRIBED IN COMPELLINGLY SO, KEY MOMENT IN THE CASE. THERE'S ANOTHER THREAT THAT WE TALKED ABOUT THAT WILL BE MORE OF A WARNING. MR. TRUMP COULD FACE TIME IN A JAIL CELL IF HE CONTINUES TO VIOLATE THE PARTIAL GAG ORDER THAT THE JUDGE PLACED ON HIM. THAT IS THE WARNING, RIGHT? BACK INTO THE GUT CHECK OF THE LIKELIHOOD OF IT ACTUALLY HAPPENING, IS THAT THE NEXT STEP ON THE LADDER? IS IT POSSIBLE THE JUDGE COULD STICK THEM IN A TIME-OUT IN A HOLDING AREA? WHAT REALLY COULD BE DONE HERE? THE JUDGE DID ACKNOWLEDGE SECRET SERVICE AND THE UNPRECEDENTED NATURE OF ALL THIS. HE'S CLEARLY THOUGHT IT THROUGH. >> IT WAS SO INTERESTING TO HEAR THE JUDGE SAY WHAT I'VE BEEN THINKING AND OTHERS LIKE ME HAVE BEEN THINKING FOR WEEKS NOW WHICH IS THAT NO JUDGE WANTS TO TRY TO PUT DONALD TRUMP IN JAIL. I ADMIRE THAT HE SAID IT. IT'S GOING TO BE AN ADMINISTRATIVE NIGHTMARE. I DON'T WANT TO DO IT. WHAT I ANTICIPATE HAPPENING IS I RATHER THINK TRUMP WILL REEL IT IN A LITTLE BIT. EVEN IF WE DO HAVE FURTHER GAG ORDER VIOLATION HEARINGS, THEY WILL BE CLOSER CALLED. I DON'T ANTICIPATE TRUMP WILL SAY SOMETHING ABOUT A JUROR BUT IF HE DOES, THE PATH IS CLEAR. HE CAN'T DARE THE JUDGE ANY LONGER AS THE NEXT STEPS, IT'S OBVIOUS AND BLATANT, POSSIBLY BE JAIL. IF IT IS A CLOSE CALL, LOOK FOR MORE $1000 FINES. >> THE PROSECUTION SAID TWO WEEKS FROM TOMORROW IS WHEN ANTICIPATE WRAPPING THIS PORTION OF THE PRESENTATION IN THIS PORTION OF THE CASE. ARE THOSE OF US LOOKING AT OUR CALENDARS AND WONDERING WHEN THE CASE MIGHT END UP IN THE HANDS OF THE JURY, WHAT IS YOUR BEST GUESS? >> BEST GUESS IS NO MORE THAN A WEEK FOR THAT OFFENSE. THE DEFENSE'S CASE IS ALWAYS MUCH LESS THAN THE PROSECUTION'S CASE AND THAT'S BECAUSE THE DEFENSE HAS NO BURDEN. YOU GENERALLY SPEAK, YOU DON'T WANT TO START CALLING WITNESSES UNLESS YOU NEED THEM, UNLESS THEY ARE PART OF THE AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSE OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. SO, I DON'T THINK THEIR CASE IS GOING TO BE AS LONG BUT SAFE BET, AT LEAST A WEEK OR MAYBE JUST ONE WEEK AFTER THE PROSECUTION CLOSES. I AGREE, THEY MOVE QUICKLY. I WOULD ARGUE THAT THEY REALLY DON'T NEED THAT MUCH MORE IN THIS CASE OTHER THAN MAYBE MICHAEL: IF HE'S GOING TO TESTIFY THE TRUMP TOLD ME TO DO THIS, THAT'S GOING TO BE KEY. I DON'T KNOW THAT YOU NEED A STORMY DANIELS. I DEFTLY DON'T THINK YOU NEED A KAREN McDOUGAL EVEN THOUGH EVERYONE WANTS TO SEE THOSE PEOPLE TESTIFY. >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. >>> BREAKING NEWS, WE LEARN THE NAME OF THE AMERICAN SOLDIER WHO OFFICIALS SAY IS BEING DETAINED IN RUSSIA. STAFF SERGEANT GORDON STATIONED IN KOREA HEADED TO RUSSIA ON HIS OWN WITH NO PERMISSION FROM THE SUPERVISOR AFTER HIS DEPLOYMENT ENDED. HE'S BEING HELD IN PRETRIAL CONFINEMENT DUE TO THEFT. COURTNEY'S ALL OVER THIS STORY. SHE'S JOINING US NOW. WHAT ELSE DO WE KNOW? >> WE JUST LEARNED HIS NAME. HIS NAME IS STAFF SERGEANT GORDON BLACK. AS YOU MENTIONED, HE HAS BEEN SERVING IN KOREA. HE WAS DEPLOYED THERE. HE WAS COMING BACK TO THE UNITED STATES WHEN HE MADE THIS TRIP TO RUSSIA AND WE WERE TOLD ACCORDING TO OFFICIALS HERE THAT HE WAS THERE TO VISIT A WOMAN HE MAY HAVE BEEN ROMANTICALLY LINKED TO. AT SOME POINT DURING THIS TRIP WHICH, BY THE WAY, WAS NOT APPROVED BY HIS SUPERIORS, HE DID NOT GET CLEARANCE OR APPROVAL TO TRAVEL TO RUSSIA, AT SOME POINT ON THURSDAY, HE WAS DETAINED BY RUSSIAN AUTHORITIES. THEY WERE SAYING HE WAS INVOLVED IN CRIMINAL MISCONDUCT. OFFICIALS STATED SOMETHING TO DO WITH STEALING FROM THIS WOMAN WHO WE WANT TO VISIT. AT THIS POINT, HE IS IN PRETRIAL CONFINEMENT BUT THAT IS ABOUT ALL WE KNOW. THE STATE DEPARTMENT IS SAYING THEY ARE ACTIVELY SEEKING TO GET CONSULAR ACCESS TO HIM NOW. >> OKAY, I MAY BE SIX STEPS TOO FAR IN THE PROCESS OF LOOKING AT WHAT HAPPENED, HOW DO YOU GET THIS PERSON OUT OF DETENTION IN RUSSIA? EVERYONE THINKS OF DETENTION IN RUSSIA AND PROBABLY THINKS THE PERSON THAT OBTAINED THE WALL STREET JOURNAL REPORTER. A DIFFERENT SITUATION FOR A COUPLE OF REASONS. THE U.S. MADE THE ASSESSMENT THAT HE HAS BEEN WRONGFULLY DETAINED. HE'S IN RUSSIA TOO. CIVILIANS, DO THINGS CHANGE WHEN IT'S AN ACTIVE MILITARY PERSON? >> YES. YES. IT HAS TO, RIGHT? THAT BEING SAID, WE DON'T KNOW WHAT DIRECTION IT'S GOING TO CHANGE. THE REALITY IS EVERYONE OF THESE CASES THAT WE HAVE SEEN HAS BEEN AN INDIVIDUAL CASE AND HASN'T PLAYED OUT THE SAME WAY. SO, THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION. I THINK THAT WE ARE WAITING FOR NOW IS TO SEE WHERE EXACTLY IS HE BEING HELD AND IN WHAT CONDITIONS? THE STATE DEPARTMENT HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO TALK TO HIM. THEY'VE NOTIFIED HIS FAMILY THAT HE'S BEEN DETAILED BUT THAT'S ABOUT IT. THEY'RE TRYING TO GET SOME KIND OF ACCESS TO HIM. AT THIS POINT, OFFICIALS ARE CONCERNED THAT HE WILL BE HELD IN PRETRIAL CONFINEMENTS FOR ANOTHER OF WEEKS BEFORE HE GETS AN OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK TO HIM. >> COURTNEY LIVE AT THE PENTAGON. THANK YOU FOR WATCHING ALL THIS TONIGHT. APPRECIATE IT. >>> COMING UP, MORE TO GET TO ON THE SHOW. TWO PEOPLE ARE DEAD AFTER A BUILDING COLLAPSED IN SOUTH AFRICA. WHAT CREWS ARE DOING TO TRY TO GET TO DOZENS OF IS THERE NOT MORE THAT ISRAEL CAN DO TO HELP THE HUMANITARIAN CRISIS? SHOULD ABORTION BE THE NUMBER ONE ISSUE IN 2024? IF IT IS SUNDAY, IT IS MEET THE PRESS. >>> A MAN IS BEHIND BARS AFTER PULLING A GUN ON A PASTOR WHO WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF A SERVICE. A TERRIFYING AND DRAMATIC SCENE CAUGHT ON CAMERA. LOOK AT THIS. YOU SEE THE MOMENT THE PASTOR IS STARING DOWN THE BARREL OF THE GUN. A DEACON COMES RUNNING UP, TACKLES THE MANNA GETS THE SITUATION UNDER CONTROL. LET ME EXPLAIN MORE. >> OUT OF NOWHERE, HE JUST TURNED AND, LIKE, PULLED OUT A GUN AND IT WAS CONCEALED ALL THE WAY UNTIL IT WAS IN MY FACE. >> A STUNNING AND TERRIFYING MOMENT FOR HIM. FOLLOWING THIS ONE AND HE'S NEVER ACTUALLY SEEN THIS BEFORE. TELL US MORE. >> THE POLICE IDENTIFIED THE SUSPECT THAT YOU SAW IN THE VIDEO AS 26-YEAR-OLD BERNARD AND WE KNOW FROM POLICE THAT HE LIVES WITHIN A MILE OF THE CHURCH. INTERESTINGLY, BOTH HE AND THE PASTOR SAY THEY NEVER KNEW EACH OTHER. THEY DID NOT KNOW EACH OTHER. SO MUCH SO THAT THE PASTOR SAID AS HE'S BEEN WALKING TOWARDS THE PULPIT HE THOUGHT MAYBE THE VISITORS WHO HAVE BEEN WANTING TO SEE HIS BROTHER WHO IS ALSO A PASTOR UNTIL HE WAS STARING DOWN THE BARREL OF THE GUN, FORTUNATELY, THE GUN HAD JAMMED. YOU CAN ACTUALLY HEAR A JAMMING IN THE VIDEO GIVING THE CHANCE FOR SOME CHURCHGOERS TO HELP THE DEACON AND WRANGLE THE GUN AWAY. I WANT YOU TO LISTEN TO A PIECE OF OUR EMOTIONAL INTERVIEW WITH PASTOR GERMANY ABOUT WHAT HE SAID AFTER THIS ALL PANNED OUT. >> WE APOLOGIZE AND HE SAID HE DOESN'T KNOW WHY HE DID IT. IN HIS MIND THERE WERE SPIRITS TALKING TO HIM TELLING HIM TO GO IN AND KILL THE PASTOR. HE SAID WHEN THOSE SPIRITS ARE IN YOUR MIND YOU DO WITH THE SPIRITS TELL YOU TO DO. >>> NEW DEVELOPMENTS, MORE ALARMING DEVELOPMENTS THROUGHOUT THE DAY INVOLVING INVESTIGATORS HOURS LATER HOURS AFTER THE CHURCH INCIDENT PANNED OUT. THE FAMILY OF THE SUSPECT HAD GONE AND DISCOVERED A COUSIN HAD BEEN SHOT AND KILLED AT THE HOUSE. THERE IS AN INVESTIGATION NOW UNDERWAY. I WILL POINT OUT INVESTIGATORS ARE NOT SAYING WHETHER OR NOT THEY'RE GOING TO DISCUSS THE CHURCH INCIDENT. AS OF RIGHT NOW, THEY'RE FACING AGGRAVATED ASSAULT, ATTEMPTED HOMICIDE AND RECKLESS ENDANGERMENT. THE FAMILY TELLS ME HAS A HISTORY OF MENTAL ILLNESS. THEY HAVE NOT SEEN ANY KIND OF ALARMING BEHAVIOR IN RECENT WEEKS IN THE PITTSBURGH AREA AND THEY ARE SHOCKED BY THE VIOLENCE. >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT. >>>'S TO POLITICS NOW. HERE'S A SENTENCE I DON'T KNOW THAT ANYBODY ON THIS PARTICULAR TIMELINE EVER THOUGHT WE MIGHT SAY. THE WHITE HOUSE ANNOUNCED TONIGHT A PRETTY STRONG CLASS ACT AGAINST THE GOVERNOR OF SOUTH DAKOTA SUGGESTING SHE SHOULD NOT DIGGING HERSELF IN A HOLE AFTER SHE SUGGESTED PRESIDENT BIDEN SHOULD CONSIDER SHOOTING HIS DOG, COMMANDER. LIKE SHE DID TO HER PUPPY, CRICKET. >> THIS IS A COMFY -- COUNTRY THAT LOVE DOGS AND YOU HAVE A LEADER TALKING ABOUT PUTTING DOGS DOWN, KILLING THEM AND THAT IS A DISTURBING STATEMENT. TO SAY. I WOULD SAY TO HER SHE SHOULD PROBABLY STOP DIGGING HERSELF IN A WHOLE. >> THAT IS THE LATEST FALLOUT FOR KRISTI NOEM AFTER THIS BIZARRO NEW CYCLE DRIVEN BY THE NOW INFAMOUS ANECDOTE THAT APPEARS IN HER NEW BOOK, OUT TOMORROW IN WHICH SHE DESCRIBES EXECUTING HER 14-MONTH-OLD PUPPY BECAUSE OF WHAT SHE DESCRIBES AS PROBLEMATIC BEHAVIOR. LISTEN TO WHAT SHE SAID IN AN INTERVIEW THIS WEEK AND WHEN SHE WAS PRESSED ABOUT THAT. >> BIDEN'S DOG HAS ATTACKED 24 SECRET SERVICE PEOPLE. HOW MANY PEOPLE IS ENOUGH PEOPLE TO BE ATTACKED AND DANGEROUSLY HURT BEFORE YOU MAKE A DECISION ON A DOG? >> HE'S NOT LIVING AT THE WHITE HOUSE ANYMORE. >> THAT'S SOMETHING THAT THE PRESIDENT SHOULD BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE TO. >> THE PRESIDENT'S DOG WAS MOVED FROM THE WHITE HOUSE AFTER A SERIES OF BITING INCIDENTS. THIS ACTUAL DISCUSSION HERE FOR SOMEBODY THAT WAS AT ONE POINT CONSIDERED A POSSIBLE VICE PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDER AFTER SHE DESCRIBED IN DETAIL IN THIS BOOK SHOOTING AND KILLING THIS PUPPY. SHE SAYS IT WAS AN ISSUE OF SAFETY CONCERNS THAT THE DOG WAS GOING AFTER CHICKENS, TRIED TO BITE AN INDIVIDUAL OR TWO. WHERE DOES THIS EVEN GO AND DO WE HAVE ANY REPORTING ON THE REACTION FROM INSIDE TRUMP WORLD CONSIDERING SHE WAS AT ONE POINT PERHAPS ON THE SEMI- SHORT LIST FOR VP? >> WELL, SHE IS CONTINUING TO KEEP IT GOING. WE JUST LEARNED FROM HER SOCIAL MEDIA THAT SHE'S GOING TO BE DOING ANOTHER NETWORK INTERVIEW TONIGHT. NO DOUBT WE WILL BE ASKED ABOUT THIS AGAIN. OVER THE WEEKEND WHAT BECAME THE EPICENTER OF REPUBLICAN POLITICS HERE, SHE DID ATTEND PART OF A MAJOR DONOR RETREAT FOR REPUBLICANS HERE. THE FORMER PRESIDENT DID ACTUALLY GIVE HER A BIT OF A SHOUT OUT DURING HIS 90 MINUTE SPEECH WITH A ROOM OF ABOUT 400 DONORS. SHE SAID -- SHE SAID SHE'S BEEN A SUPPORTER OF MINE FOR A LONG TIME. I'VE BEEN A SUPPORTER OF HERS. NOTABLY SHE DID NOT GET CALLED UP TO STAGE WITH HIM. WE ARE TOLD BY SOME SOURCES THAT SHE LEFT BEFORE THE FORMAL PROGRAM BEGAN. YES, I MEAN, THE SOURCES I HAVE BEEN TALKING TO, VERY MUCH A KNOCK ON HER CHANCES AT BECOMING TRUMP'S RUNNING MATE. HE DID SHOUT OUT A BUNCH OF OTHER NAMES INCLUDING, OF COURSE, AS WE KNOW, CONGRESSWOMAN ALISA, SENATOR VANCE, TIM SCOTT, MARCO RUBIO, ALL GETTING A LOT OF DIFFERENT KINDS OF PRAISE. KRISTI NOEM IS IN A TRICKY SPOT RIGHT NOW. >> LIFERS THEIR WEST PALM. THANK YOU. >>> LET'S GET YOU OVER TO THE FIVE THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT TONIGHT. NUMBER ONE, I-95 IN CONNECTICUT IS BACK OPEN AND GOOD TO GO. YOU CAN SEE THE CARS PASSING THROUGH THERE. A FUEL TRUCK COLLIDED WITH A FEW OF HER CARS AND BURST INTO FLAMES. LOOK AT THAT. CREWS HAD TO TEARED DOWN A BRIDGE BECAUSE OF HEAT DAMAGE. PLANTERS NUTS GETTING RECALLED BECAUSE OF A POTENTIAL LISTERIA CONTAMINATION. IT AFFECTS MIXED NUTS AND HONEY ROASTED PEANUTS. LISTERIA IS DANGEROUS. NO REPORTS OF ANYBODY GETTING SICK BUT THE MANUFACTURER SAYS THEY ARE DOING THIS OUT OF AN ABUNDANCE OF CAUTION. NUMBER THREE, NOW LAUNCHING A NEW GYM MEMBERSHIP. WE THOUSAND DOLLARS TO TRY TO HELP PEOPLE LIVE LONGER. IT'S CALLED OPTIMIZED BY EQUINOX. IT INCLUDES EVERYTHING FROM PERSONAL TRAINING TO NUTRITION PLANS, COACHING, MASSAGE THERAPY, THE COMPANY SAYS IT IS A HUMAN FIRST, HIGHLY LUXURY SERVICE. DATA MEETS COACHING PROGRAM. YOU'LL FIND IN THE END OF THE MUNCH BY NEW YORK CITY. WHAT YOU SEE RIGHT NOW IS MADE BY AI. AN INDIE ARTIST RELEASING THE FIRST ENTIRELY AI MUSIC VIDEO CREATED BY OPEN AI. IT CAN MAKE VIDEOS BASED ON IDEAS YOU TYPE INTO IT. IT LETS YOU EXPLORE AND DISCOVER NEW THINGS YOU MIGHT NEVER HAVE DREAMED OF. OPEN AI HAS NOT RESPONDED FOR COMMENT. >>> NUMBER FIVE, ALIVE LOOK AT FASHION'S BIGGEST NIGHT YET. THE MET GALA RED CARPET. I DON'T CONTROL THE CAMERA, FOLKS. HATE TO TELL YOU. THAT IS A BUS, NOT ADDRESS BUT WE WILL GET SOME GOOD COUNT SHOTS PRETTY SOON. BEAUTY IS REAWAKENING FASHION AND THE DRESS CODE IS SEEING SOME OF THE EARLIER ARRIVALS NOW. IT'S ALWAYS SO INTERESTING TO SEE HOW FOLKS INTERPRET THIS. GARDEN TAKEN LITERALLY, FLORAL, THE CO-CHAIRS INCLUDE BAD BUNNY, JENNIFER LOPEZ, ET CETERA. WHEN WE COME BACK, THE PROTEST >> NBC NEWS DAILY WEEKDAYS FROM 12:00 TO 4:00 ON NBC NEWS NOW. >>> AS WE'VE BEEN ON THE AIR WE JUST SHOWED YOU THE LIVE RED CARPET AT THE MET GALA, NOT TOO FAR AWAY THERE ARE NUMBER OF PROTESTERS. ALL PALESTINIANS DEMONSTRATORS HEADING THERE. STEPHEN, I BELIEVE YOU ARE COMING FROM HUNTER COLLEGE. YOU JOINING US NOW ON YOUR PHONE. TALK US THROUGH, WHAT ARE YOU SEEING? WHAT'S IT LIKE? >> [ INAUDIBLE ] [ INAUDIBLE ] CAUSES THEY ACTUALLY FEEL STRONG ABOUT. THEY ARE ENCOUNTERING NYPD. 10 BLOCKS AROUND THE MET GALA RIGHT NOW. THESE PROTESTERS ARE MAKING THEIR WAY OUT. WE ARE FOLLOWING SOME OF THEIR COLLEAGUES WHICH IS SEVERAL THOUSAND HERE. THEY MADE THEIR WAY UP TO GO THROUGH CENTRAL PARK TO TRY TO GET THEIR WAY AROUND EVENTUALLY FINDING THIS WAY THROUGH AND THAT TELLS US WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO GET. WE ARE TWO TO THREE BLOCKS AWAY FROM THE MET RIGHT NOW. WE JUST HEARD THE NYPD TELL US THAT THEY HAVE TO LEAVE THE ROADWAY. THEY'VE BEEN BLOCKING FROM THE STREETS AND THEY'VE CONTINUED MARCHING AND TRYING TO MAKE THEIR WAY THERE AND THEY'RE TELLING US EXACTLY WHAT THEY'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT. FOR THE BIG EVENT [ INAUDIBLE ]. ANOTHER REALLY TALKING ABOUT THE CEASE-FIRE WHICH THEY SAY SHOULD'VE GONE INTO EFFECT TODAY WHICH ACTUALLY DID NOT END UP HAPPENING. FEELING VERY PASSIONATE ABOUT THAT AND THEY'VE MADE IT ACROSS AND WE HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF KEEPING UP TO DO TO SEE WHERE THEY END UP. >> OBVIOUSLY, WITH THESE PROTEST LOOKING AT THE COMMENCEMENT'S, TONIGHT IS ALL ABOUT THE MET GALA. WHERE SHOWING THE SPLIT SCREEN THERE IS A PROSE TESTER'S ARE TRYING TO -- I'M GOING TO LET YOU CATCH UP WITH THEM AND YOUR CREW. THANK YOU SO MUCH. >>> NBC NEWS COVERS INTERNATIONAL STORIES EVERYDAY. BECAUSE IT CAN BE TOUGH TO READ OR WATCH OR LISTEN TO THE MALL OUR TEAM IS AROUND THE WORLD FOR YOU. HERE'S A LOOK AT WHAT'S THERE WATCHING. THE GLOBAL OUT OF SOUTH AFRICA TODAY, TWO WORKERS ARE DEAD AFTER AN APARTMENT BUILDING COLLAPSE. YOU CAN SEE THE CLOUD OF DUST, THAT'S THE BUILDING FALLING. ABOUT 20 PEOPLE HAVE ALREADY BEEN PULLED OUT OF THE RUBBLE. 20 WORKERS ARE NOW IN THE HOSPITAL. OUT OF FRANCE, THE CHINESE PRESIDENT IN PARIS WITH THE FRENCH LEADER TO TALK ABOUT THINGS LIKE TRADE. THE FIRST TRIP TO EUROPE IN FIVE YEARS COMES AT A TIME WHEN TENSIONS ARE HIGH. FRENCH PRESIDENT EMMANUEL ASKED THE TRADE WITH EUROPE TO BE MORE BALANCED AND TO PRESSURE RUSSIA TO END THE WAR IN UKRAINE. SHE SAYS THEY COULD TEAM UP FOR THE COLD WAR. >>> MADONNA PUTTING ON THE BIGGEST CONCERT EVER, 1.6 MILLION PEOPLE COMING OUT TO THE CONCERT IN RIO WHICH WAS FREE. SOME FANS WAITED FOR DAYS TO GET A GOOD SPOT. THIS IS THE LAST SHOW OF MADONNA CELEBRATION WORLD TOUR. YOU CAN SEE ALL THOSE FOLKS PACKED IN. COMING UP WE ARE JUST HOURS AWAY FROM A VERY HIGH-STAKES MOMENT FOR BOEING. HOW THE COMPANY IS GETTING READY FOR SOMETHING IT HAS NEVER DONE BEFORE. . >> THIS IS WHAT MY VOICE SOUNDS LIKE WHEN I CLOSED THAT. THAT WASN'T ME. YOU GOT TO SEE THIS. STAY TUNED NOW, WEEKNIGHTS ON NBC NEWS NOW. >>> THE FAA ROLLING OUT A NEW INVESTIGATION INTO BOEING AFTER THE COMPANY ACKNOWLEDGED SOME OF ITS EMPLOYEES SKIPPED CERTAIN SAFETY INSPECTIONS ON A 787 DREAM LINER PLANE. THAT NEWS DROPPING JUST HOURS BEFORE MOMENTS THAT BOEING'S HOPE WILL BE A REASON TO CELEBRATE. LATER TONIGHT THE COMPANY'S GOING TO TRY TO LAUNCH TWO ASTRONAUTS TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION ON IT STARLINER SPACECRAFT. LISTEN, BOEING WANTS THIS TO WORK. THEY NEED THIS TO WORK. OBVIOUSLY NOT JUST FROM A SAFETY PERSPECTIVE, THEIR LIVES ON THE LINE AND PERHAPS SOME PERCEPTION REASONS TOO. AT A TIME IN THE COMPANY'S REPUTATION IS TAKING A BUNCH OF HITS. GOING BACK TO THE DEADLY CRASHES SEVERAL YEARS AGO THIS YEAR THERE WAS THAT BLOWN OUT DOOR PLUG INCIDENT ON THE AIRLINES FIGHT. AND MUNCH THE COMPANY'S CEO SAYS HE WILL STEP DOWN AS CEO. SENATE HEARINGS INVESTIGATION INCLUDING THE ONE WE LEARNED ABOUT TODAY. JOINING US FROM FLORIDA'S KENNEDY SPACE STATION CENTER I WANT TO GET TO THE STARLINER LUNCHEON A SECOND BECAUSE THAT'S A HUGE DEAL FOR BOEING. IT'S A BIG DEAL FOR SPACE TRAVEL GENERALLY. LET ME QUICKLY START WITH AN FAA INVESTIGATION. WHAT SHOULD WE KNOW? >> BOTTOM LINE, THE FAA SAYS BOEING CAME FORWARD AND AN EMPLOYEE SAW SOMETHING AND SAID SOMETHING AND THAT EMPLOYEE SAID I THINK EMPLOYEES MAY HAVE SIGNED OFF ON PAPERWORK ALLEGING TO THE FACT THAT INSPECTIONS HAD OCCURRED WHEN THEY HADN'T OCCURRED. SPECIFICALLY LOOKING AT WHETHER THE WINGS WERE PROPERLY ATTACHED TO THE FUSELAGE. THE BONDING AS WELL AS THE WIRING. THAT IS A SERIOUS PROBLEM. IF THEY'VE SIGNED PAPERWORK SAYING INSPECTIONS WERE DONE AND THEY WEREN'T DONE, THAT IS FALSIFICATION OF AIRLINE RECORDS, THAT IMMEDIATELY INVOLVES AN FAA INVESTIGATION. COULD ALSO INVOLVE A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION. THE FAA SAYS IT IS NOW LOOKING AT THIS. BOEING SAYS IT CAME FORWARD. THEY RAISE THE FLAG AND SELF REPORTED. AT THE SAME TIME NOW, BOEING HAS AN EVEN BIGGER PROBLEM WITH ANOTHER PLANE. NOW THEY HAVE TO INSPECT EVERY 787 ON THE PRODUCTION LINE AND THEN DECIDE WHAT THEY DO ABOUT PLANES THAT ARE FLYING ALREADY. BOEING SAID THERE'S NO REASON TO BELIEVE THIS IS A SAFETY OR FLIGHT ISSUE BUT YET AGAIN BOEING IN THE SPOTLIGHT FOR QUALITY CONTROL. >> THAT'S THE BACKDROP AT THIS MOMENT. THE REASON YOU ARE DOWN SOUTH RIGHT NOW AT THIS LIVE SHOT, BOEING REALLY WANT TO WIN HERE AND THIS STARLINER COULD BE IT FOR BOEING. HOW ARE FOLKS THERE FEELING ABOUT IT? ARE THEY NERVOUS? ARE THEY EXCITED? ALL THE ABOVE? >> YES, ALL OF THE ABOVE. ABSOLUTELY. LET'S NOT FORGET, TWO LIVES ARE ON THE LINE. TWO VETERAN ASTRONAUTS. WILLIAMS AND BUTCH ARE VETERAN ASTRONAUTS. THEY ARE VETERAN TEST PILOTS. THEY WILL CLIMB INTO THE START LINER TONIGHT -- STARLINER TONIGHT FOR 10:30 P.M. LIFTOFF AND TO YOUR POINT ABOUT THE TROUBLED HISTORY HERE, IT WAS BACK IN 2019, I WAS HERE. WE HAVE THE FIRST ON CRUDE TEST FLIGHT FOR STARLINER. IT LIFTED OFF AND THEN THEY HAD A MAJOR MALFUNCTION. THEY FOUND OUT THAT SOFTWARE ERRORS HAVE ALLOWED THE COMPUTERS INSIDE THE SPACESHIP TO BE OFF BY 11 HOURS. THE CLOCKS WERE OFF BY 11 HOURS. FAST-FORWARD, THEY HAVE ANOTHER PROBLEM. THEY REALIZED THAT THEY WEREN'T READY TO FLY IN 2022 AND THEN THEY ALSO DISCOVERED IN 2023 LAST JUNE THAT THEY HAD FLAMMABLE TAPE INSIDE THE SPACESHIP. FLAMMABLE, REMEMBER APOLLO ONE WHERE THE ASTRONAUTS BURN TO DEATH? AND THEY HAD PARACHUTE STRAPS THAT MIGHT NOT BE STRONG ENOUGH. THEY DELAYED AGAIN UNTIL TODAY. NOW THEY SAY THEY'RE SPACESHIP IS READY TO GO AND IT'S GOING TO GO UP AT 10:34 P.M. EASTERN TIME AND EVERYBODY IS WATCHING TO GO OFF WELL. >> YOU KNOW WHO ELSE IS PROBABLY WATCHING? THEIR COMPETITORS AT SpaceX, FAIR? >> 100%. WHO WOULD'VE THOUGHT IF YOU'D ASKED ME FIVE YEARS AGO WHO IS GOING TO BE THE FIRST TO GET TO THE SPACE STATION, BOEING OR SpaceX, I WOULD'VE SAID OH, BOEING, BY FAR. THEY WERE BEHIND APOLLO. THEY HAVE STILL NOT GOTTEN THE CREW TO THE SPACE STATION. SpaceX HAS FLOWN 11 CRUDE MISSIONS TO THE SPACE STATION. BOEING HAS LOST A TON OF MONEY. IT'S OVER BUDGET, IT'S OVERDUE, AND THE PRESSURE IS ON. THEY HAVE GOT TO DELIVER. THEY HAVE GOT TO DELIVER TONIGHT. MOST IMPORTANTLY, THEY'VE GOT TO MAKE SURE THAT THESE ASTRONAUTS LIVES ARE PROTECTED AND THEY GET THERE AND GET HOME SAFELY. >> TOM COSTELLO AT THE KENNEDY SPACE CENTER. NBC DO NOW WILL HAVE THE LIVE COVERAGE TONIGHT AHEAD OF THE LAUNCH AT 10:34 EASTERN TIME. TOM? >> WE WILL BE TALKING AGAIN. I'M SURE. THANK YOU SO MUCH. APPRECIATE IT. LOTS MORE TO COME ON THE SHOW INCLUDING THE FORMER LEADER OF STARBUCKS SAYING THAT THE EXPERIENCE OF THE STORE THESE DAYS STINKS. THEY NEED TO GET BACK >>> NEW FALL TONIGHT FROM WHAT EXPERTS SAY IS A PRETTY EXTRAORDINARY OPEN LETTER FROM THE FORMER HEAD OF STARBUCKS BLASTING HIS OLD COMPANY SAYING THAT GOT TO GET BACK TO BASICS LIKE GOOD COFFEE AND GOOD SERVICE. HOWARD SCHULTZ NOW SINGS STORES HAVE TO HAVE, I'M QUOTING HERE, A MANIACAL FOCUS ON THE CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE. ANOTHER DAY AT STARBUCKS GETTING HAMMERED BY INVESTORS. DOWN SOMETHING LIKE 30% SINCE LAST MAY. BRIAN JOINING US NOW, ONE OF THE MOST ICONIC BRANDS IN THE WORLD. YOU CAN GO ANYWHERE AND FIND STARBUCKS. THEY'RE HUGE. HOWARD IS SAYING INSTEAD OF SPICY LEMONADE, FOCUS MORE ON ELIMINATING LONG LINES PARITY OF JIM CRAMER WHO HAS FRIENDS AT CNBC. HE SAID HE'S NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE WHAT SCHOLZ IS DOING. WHY NOW? >> HE HAD TO INTERVIEW WITH THE CEO, OUR COLLEAGUES AT CNBC ASKING AND PRESSING HIM ON THE EARNINGS RESULTS WHICH IS THE NEXUS FOR THIS ENTIRE CONVERSATION. STARBUCKS A COMPANY REPORTING LAST WEEK THAT THEIR REVENUE AND THEIR BOTTOM LINE EARNINGS WERE WELL BELOW WHAT WALL STREET ECONOMISTS OR ANALYSTS HAD BEEN EXPECTING. MOREOVER, THEY HAD GUIDANCE WHICH IS HOW MUCH MONEY THEY'RE GOING TO MAKE IN THE FUTURE. THAT'S COMPARED TO THE LAST TIME THEY OFFERED PROJECTIONS ABOUT THREE MONTHS AGO AND ONE BIG STORY BEHIND ALL THIS APPEARS TO BE THAT CUSTOMERS ONLY GO TO STARBUCKS ON A CASUAL BASIS ARE SIMPLY NOT GOING THERE ANYMORE. IF YOUR LOYAL CUSTOMER WHO GOES DAY AFTER DAY AFTER DAY, YOU'RE PROBABLY STILL GOING BUT IT'S A CASUAL CONSUMERS WHICH THEY RELY ON SO MUCH FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE REVENUE THAT DON'T APPEAR TO BE COMING INTO THE STORE AS MUCH. HOW DO THEY GET THAT BACKUP? THEY'RE SAYING IT'S GOING TO BE BASED OFF THE APP. THE PUSH MORE PROMOS AND WE WILL SEE IF THAT WORKS. >> YOU SEE ANY DEGREE OF CEO CORNER OFFICE DRAMA HERE? IS THAT WHAT HE MIGHT BE PLANNING? >> HE'S HAD INSTANCES WHERE HE LEFT STARBUCKS AND CAME BACK. HE LEFT THE CEO AND STAY WITHIN THE COMPANY AND CAME BACK TO THE FINANCIAL CRISIS IN 2008 AND THEN LEFT AGAIN LATER ON. HE THEN RETURNED BRIEFLY IN 2022 ON AN INTERIM BASIS WHILE THEY'RE TRYING TO FIND A CENTER WHICH I FOUND A FEW MONTHS AFTER THAT. HOWARD SCHULTZ HAS BEEN THE NORTH START FOR THIS COMPANY AND HIM POSTING SUGGESTING HE IS DIALED INTO THIS COMPANY. >> WHAT ARE PEOPLE SO ANNOYED ABOUT WITH STARBUCKS? WHAT IS THE ISSUE? >> IT DOES APPEAR TO BE ON ONE HAND A FUNCTION OF THE INFLATION ENVIRONMENT WE ARE IN. NOT MANY PEOPLE WANT TO GO TO STARBUCKS AND GET A COLD BREW WITH SWEET CREAM FORM AND END UP WITH SEVEN DOLLARS IN A WHOLE. -- PEOPLE ARE CHOOSING TO GET MORE BANG FOR THEIR BUCK. GETTING A COFFEE AND A DONUT SOMEWHERE ELSE. >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THAT DOES IT FOR US FOR THIS HOUR. WE HAVE MORE COVERAGE PICKING UP RIGHT NOW

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Published: Tue May 07 2024