From your local County Office to the hallowed halls of capitol hill, conversations are right now underway about something that was a few years ago unthinkable here in the united states of america, the stuff we thought happens in struggling, fledgling democracies, not here. Officials today everywhere bracing for the possibility of chaos around the 2024 president ial election. Thanks to an expresident who launched a Coup Attempt that ended in violence instead of conceding his defeat last time and is now priming his supporters to be shocked, shocked if he loses to a candidate whose entry in the race has thrown him for a loop. A candidate beating him in levels of enthusiasm, crowd size, most polls, basically any significant metric for a president ial campaign. The Associated Press reports that one suburban Atlanta County is deploying local sheriffs at early voting locations and Panic Buttons that connect Poll Managers to 911. More from that reporting, quote, californias Los Angeles County
welcome back to the weekend everyone. this morning, the world is reacting to new round of airstrikes from the united states and the middle east. last night, the united states and united kingdom targeted houthi rebels and iran-backed militant group in yemen. the government says they struck 36 targets and 13 locations across the country. all of this comes just one day after a separate series of very consequential strikes by the united states targeting iran- backed militias militants in iraq and in syria. let s get right to an msnbc news correspondent, matt riley, in tel aviv. thank you for being with us this morning. matt, these airstrikes and these retaliatory met, these airstrikes and retaliatory strikes, how do they complicate things for secretary blinken as he heads to the region? well, i think that this is a perfect timing for secretary blinken. and what he will be doing, he ll be coming here to israel. he ll also be going to places like egypt, saudi arabia. these
i m yasmin vossoughian in for ana cabrera. today a man who felt direct heat from donald trump to overturn the 2020 election will speak to the department of justice. the special counsel s team meeting with georgia s secretary of state brad raffensperger. this happening as we learn that a close trump ally, rudy giuliani also had a sit-down with jack smith s team. what all of this means for that investigation and for the former president as well. plus, a double dose of wild, wild weather, storms snarling travel as canadian wildfire smoke prompts new air alerts here in the united states. also ahead, was there help from the inside? reporting from the new york times that a russian general knew about the recent rebellion before it even happened. and later on, malaria in the united states. dr. natalie azar joins us with more cases of the illness not seen here in two decades. we begin with the new legal developments surrounding the former president. at some point today georg
deep sea robot. right now, officials are unsure if those reported underwater banking noises we reported n were a sign of life. with respect to the noises specifically, we don t know what they are to be frank with you. but i can tell you that it s is not sure. obviously we have a bunch of people over there, a bunch of nations looking for them, the coast guard has a bunch of cutters out there. i think recovering it will be easy. finding it is the problem. my guess is that the stress levels are pretty high in there, as the oxygen depletes, their functionality is going to decrease. so i mean, i can t think of a more miserable death, personally. we are also learning more about the history of oceangate expeditions, technical issues on six prior trips. one passenger claiming he was on the submersible and lost contact two hours, forcing an early end to the journey. and 2018 safety report detailing safety concerns, whether it met industry safety standards, claiming the company h
But first, were going to go live to texas where fox is. Griff jenkins is standing by. Griff, what can you tell us tonight . Hey, laura , good evening. I can tell you there is a sigh of relief in a lot of Pride Running through Border Patrol agents from coast to coast because oropesa was brought into custody by Bortac Agents. They are the elite units of. The Border Patrol. Theyre a unit hav based out ofl paso, but they have agents all over the place. Weector, i in the rgv sector, In Brownsville, about five hours soute clh of where cleveland, texas, where the murders happened and they werencerne concerned that oropesa initially was trying to get back to mexico. Obviously, having been deported some four or five times, being mexican nationals illegally present in the u. S. But what woe know about how it went down,n th im getting some details and well find out at the press conference. But what my sources are tellingl me is that about tim 615 local a in texas, they got a tip abouttm a residen