fellows, i need 11,000 votes, give me a break. so look, all i want to do is this, i just want to find 11,780 votes. which is one more than we have. because we won the state. there s nothing wrong with saying that, you know, that you ve recalculated. no, i mean, nothing wrong with it if you want to commit a federal crime and state crime. yeah, totally fine. donald trump made that phone call just over two years ago, and he could soon face criminal charges because of it. a special grand jury in georgia sent its final report on the former president s efforts to overturn the 2020 election to a judge in fulton county. we ll take you through what is next in that probe. also ahead, the department of justice is reviewing classified documents found at a personal office for president joe biden. this discovery appears to be very different from what happened at mar-a-lago. we ll explain. plus, after hundreds i m going to ask jonathan lemire, actually. we re going to go down this
cost of pens and papers and notebooks and all of that that went up. back to school sticker shock as inflation sent the price of school supplies soaring. the impact it is having not only on parents, but also on business owners and teachers. how some people in california are making money by having their front yards ripped out. it is sunday, august 21st, welcome to a new week. we re so grateful you re waking up with us. good morning, amara. good morning, boris. happy sunday. and we begin this morning with the extreme weather threat across the southwest and southern plains. more than 12 million people under flood watches. yeah yesterday s search and rescue crews were out looking for a missing person in utah s zion national park. rangers say hikers were being swept off their feet by flash flooding on the virgin river. rescue teams were out in the mojave county area of arizona after rushing water washed out roads and trapped vehicles across that region. cnn meteorologist
slowly meander its way across the southeastern tier of the u.s. here is a look at the system in question. you can already see a lot of that moisture bringing some pretty heavy thunderstorms to portions of northern texas, areas of oklahoma now starting to see some of that rain move into portions of arkansas as well as louisiana. you still have some rain in arizona and new mexico as well. but a lot of that is really going to begin to shift off to the east in the coming days. we do still have flood watches in effect for new mexico and texas and oklahoma and some into louisiana and southern arkansas as well. you also have some of that tropical moisture still surging from that potential tropical cyclone we had yesterday. it moved inland, but it is still pushing, that flow is still pushing the moisture from the gulf into the southeastern region. as that stationary front gradually starts to shift off to the east, you re going to see the water go with it. here is a look at where we f
dogs helping families and survivors of the parkland school shooting. you don t want to mess. it all of that and more is coming up. and the good sunday morning to you. i am katie fang. this morning, waiting to see if trump s legal team finally gets around to filing a motion calling for a special master to review the evidence that was seized from his mar-a-lago estate. trump s attorney said friday the neutral person is needed to help, quote, vindicate the fourth amendment rights of the president. this comes as and bc learned that trump is also considering releasing the surveillance footage of the fbi search. so far, though, none of that has happened. meanwhile, the doj has until thursday to propose redactions for the affidavit supporting the document seizure. for more on all of this, we turn to nbc news justice reporter ryan reilly. ryan, good to see you this morning. thanks for being here. give us the latest of what is going on. there is a call for the special master. and i
florida governor ron desantis and other possible republican presidential contenders should he choose to jump in the 2024 presidential race. as one gop strategist put it nbc news recently quote, the rally around trump effect israel. if you couldn t tell already, donald trump is a competitive man who seems to enjoy and even seems to thrive on chaos and he s not ready to walk away from this manner with the fbi play it. on friday, he posted on social media platform of truth social that quote a major motion pertaining to the fourth amendment will soon be filed concerning the illegal break in of my home, mar-a-lago, right before the midterm elections. i ve got my constitution here. i just want to read to the fourth amendment in the constitution is what protects americans from unreasonable searches and seizures by the u.s. government. reads in part, no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searche