a.m. pacific, i m josé diaz-balart. right now on msnbc, a michigan newspaper revealing details of never before heard audio of donald trump appearing to pressure officials in one county not to certify the 2020 election results. plus, who else the paper says was on that call. we re also following extreme weather, the storm drenching the west coast and how it could impact holiday travel across the country. also ahead, terror in prague, what more we know about a rare deadly mass shooting at a university in europe. and later, the new calls for a cease fire in the israel-hamas war, including the tense negotiations at the united nations to reach a resolution demanding a new pause in fighting. we begin this morning with new reporting about another instance of former president donald trump pressuring local officials to overturn the 2020 election results. the detroit news revealing there is an audio recording of then president donald trump and rnc chair ronna mcdaniel talking to
we ll keep a close eye on that. judge, thanks good to see you, judge michael luttig. that is all in on this thursday night. alex wagner tonight, nning, right now. good evening alex. thanks alex, great guest to have on at this juncture, at this critical moment for democracy. great show. thank you. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. his name is alexander butterfield. he was the deputy assistant to president richard nixon, and as the surprise witness during the watergate hearings in 1973, he changed the course of history with this moment. mr. butterfield, are you aware of the installation of any listening devices in the oval office of the president? i was aware of listening devices, yes sir. it was alexander butterfield, who told watergate investigators, and the world, about the existence of secret white house tapes that would, ultimately, expose nixon s involvement in the watergate plot, leading to his resignation. if there is a modern equivalent to w
pat cipollone will sit down for a deposition with the january 6th committee tomorrow. will he help connect the dots? and the georgia prosecutor makes it clear if her investigation uncovers crimes committed by former president trump, he will be held accountable. we ll have her exclusive interview with nbc news. plus, two former fbi directors spurned by trump get swept up in highly invasive and rare tax audits that are supposed to be random. targeted? the odds on that daily double pretty extraordinary, really, for that s a coincidence. yeah, it was a special audit that very few americans got. but somehow, somehow, right after donald trump was upset with james comey and mccabe, both of them hit the daily double, the odds, pretty extraordinary. we ll be talking to michael schmidt who broke that story, willie. that s a tough exacta, even for the two of us. i think the odds are something like 1 in 20,000, to be audited that way. purely by coincidence, the two of the
election and that trump himself could be next. also tonight, mary trump joins me as her uncle s constant demand for loyalty is severely tested. more people are coming forward to reveal what they know about the big lie including trump s former white house lawyer pat cipollone. as access to abortion gets more scarce by the day, we re asking the question tonight, how long before an american woman is prosecuted for having an abortion? we begin with unprecedented measures. today fulton county district attorney bonnie willis spoke out after a special grand jury sent a fresh round of subpoenas in her investigation into interference in georgia s 2020 vote. it s worth noting that one of the recipients is pretty extraordinary. among those summoned was sitting united states senator lindsey graham for information on his phone calls to georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger questioning legally cast mail-in ballots. it s not every day that a united states states senator is subpoen
richard nixon s enemies list. it just might be relevant today as we learn new details about how to the top fbi officials have been publicly targeted by donald trump. they found themselves on the business end of the audits. the end of roe could be followed by a cascade of other personal rights falling away. it looks like that is already beginning to happen. this is how alabama republicans are using the trump stacked supreme court language against vulnerable kids. i will talk to the director of one clinic who is finding a way to fight back against the states new abortion ban. good morning. it is saturday, july 9th. we are days away from the resumption of the january six committee is a story public hearings. we are less than 24 hours removed from when the committee s investigators heard testimony from one of the most sought after in vital witnesses to date. a person who was not only in the room, but was part of the conversation. nbc news has learned from a source familiar with