yet been released. the question is when will they come home, and what are we giving iran in return. joining me now, national security counsel coordinator for strategic communications, john kirby. admiral, thank you very much for being with us. i know that we believe, the united states believes those imprisonments and trials and charges were not true. and we're happy to have these individuals back. when will they be on a plane back and out of iran? >> i don't really know right now. we're still working out the details and parameters here about eventually securing their freedom, and when that will be, what that will look like. but we don't really know right now. we're just really happy that they're out of evan prison because the conditions there were just intolerable. they're in house arrest, but still in iran. they're not home yet, and we still have a lot of work to do to get them there. >> have we been in touch with them directly? do we know what condition they're? >> we have been in touch with them through the swiss, i think, as you know, katy, we don't have diplomatic relations in teheran, so we work through the swiss. the representative did have an opportunity to meet once they were out of prison, see them physically, talk to them, and we know that they're out and generally okay! what are we giving iran in return? >> again, this is an ongoing process, katy. we're at a very first step. it's an encouraging first step but it is just that. i think you can understand why we wouldn't want too much detail until we can get them secured, home with their families, we have to be careful on what we say about the negotiation process. >> there's reporting coming out, sourcing attributed to officials in the government about a potential prisoner swap, with iranian prisoners here in this country. there's also talk about releasing $6 billion in frozen funds and allowing iran to access that for humanitarian needs. >> yeah, look, again, i've seen the press reporting, i'm just not going to speculate or comment on the negotiation process while it's really still ongoing. this is a good first step, but it is just that first step. what i can tell you, what's not going to happen is there's not going to be ransom paid out of taxpayer dollars to iran. there's not going to be sanctions relief, and we're going to continue to put the pressure on iran for all of their destabilizing activities and behaviors as we always have, and we'll continue to do. we're focused on getting these americans home. that's first and foremost, and i'm just not going to speculate publicly about what that's going to look like. >> let's talk about what it's not going to look like as you began there. is it going to look like iran getting money they can use for narrow nuclear program potentially? >> no taxpayer dollars involved here. you know, no ransom, no sanctions relief. we are working through a set of steps, to see what can we do to finally secure their freedom, and that's what we're focused on. i'm not going further than that. >> i know the negotiations have been ongoing since february on and off. can you say that this is going to result in any movement potentially for another version of the iran nuclear deal? >> we're focused on these individuals and getting them home. that's what this is about. this isn't about linking it to nuclear negotiations or anything else. as i said, we're going to continue to put pressure on iran in the region. we just added military resources in the iranian gulf for that purpose, and we're going to continue to do that. we are not in negotiations with iran over their nuclear program at this time. it's not the focus of the administration given what iran is doing to support russia, given what they're doing against their own people, so it's just not part of the agenda right now, and i just don't want to speculate beyond that. >> the last prisoner swap with iran was under president obama and it got a lot of criticism, heavy criticism from republicans. if this does happen and the reporting is correct, that $6 billion will be released, even if it's only for humanitarian purposes and it won't just be handed over to them, it will be sanctioned or divvied out by a third party, if that's true and maybe there's a prisoner swap, if that is true, what is the white house's response going to be to republicans who will criticize the administration? >> i think there will be criticism no matter what we decide to do, unfortunately, that's just a reality here, but i hope that people will remember that these are five americans that were wrongfully detained, had no business being detained in the first place, on sham charges and we're trying to get them home. they don't belong in iran. they belong home with their families. and i hope at the end of the day, a, we can secure that release, and b, people will realize that getting them home, that's the paramount concern by president biden, and this administration, and we're just not going to stop. we're not going to feel good about this. we're not going to feel safe until they're safe at home. >> i know you don't have a time frame, but do you have a general time frame, is it going to be a year, six months, any sort of idea? >> look, best guess i could give you would be a matter of weeks, i think is again, this is iran. they can be fairly unpredictable. this is a good first step. hopefully it will lead to their freedom in a matter of weeks. again, we're right in the middle of this, katy. these are active, ongoing negotiations, and we just got to make sure that we hue to that task. >> as you said, the united states does not currently have diplomatic relations with iran. is this a step toward dethawing our relationship? >> this is about getting wrongfully detained americans home. pure and simple. nobody is under any illusion that by doing this there's going to be some sort of reproachment with iran. iran is supporting putin's ability to kill innocent ukrainians. they're harassing maritime shipping. i don't think anybody thinks for a moment if we're able to secure their release, it's going to fix all of our problems with iran. >> any update on paul wheeler in russia and what's going on with the negotiations there? >> sadly no, other than to say we are actively working on those two cases as well. >> paul whelan, admiral john kirby, thank you so much, we appreciate it. and it is a little after 9:00 a.m. in hawaii right now. and this morning's dawn did not bring good news. though the winds have died down, day break revealed massive devastation. lahaina town is basically gone. the flames raising hundreds of homes alongside businesses. nearly 11,000 people are still without power. cell and internet service is spotty at best. mandatory evacuations zones have expanded and at least 36 people are dead. at least. with devastation like this, officials fear it is only a matter of time before the death toll rises. joining me now from one of the shelters on maui is nbc news correspondent dana griffin. dana, it's good to have you. what can you tell me about what you're seeing out there? >> reporter: well, katy, i can tell you i'm seeing some very resilient people here in maui, people who have lost their homes, walking out of here still smiling, grateful to be alive. about 300 to 400 people spent the night here at this evacuation center. we're at maui high school. they tell me they have plenty of supplies inside. they're getting water, food, shelter, clothing, and they say that, you know, the volunteers are doing a really great job. but many of them have seen some devastating images escaping the flames in lahaina, which as you mentioned is a very historic town which has been obliterated. 36 people we know of so far have died. this is not including the pets. you know, maui is home to endangered species. that could be a concerning thing as crews are working to assess the damage. it's still unclear how much they have been able to contain the three fires currently burning on the island. we have heard some harrowing stories of survival, take a listen. >> it's been a super intense couple of days. i mean, the fire or the power went out yesterday, like 4:30 or 5:00 a.m. and then the gas station blew up at like 3:00 and since then, we have been trying to outrun a fire. my mom's place is gone. my place is gone. i'm like a chef restaurant operator in kanaopali, and my gm's place is gone. pretty much everybody i know lost everything that we have. >> reporter: and we're hearing similar stories to that, including people who have lost homes. one couple i spoke with, they had to walk 15 miles to escape the flames, and it was a neighbor that had to text them to let them know that their home is no longer standing. the roads that lead to the active fire zone have been closed. so it's unclear what time they'll reopen that road so that people can go into their neighborhoods, and katy, many of them will not have a home to return to. >> dana griffin, it's just so hard. thank you very much. and a couple of moments ago, i spoke with maui resident daniel sullivan about what the last four hours have been like for him and his family. >> it's completely surreal, nothing i have ever seen. we had really high winds in the morning. and the trees started to, you know, lose branchs and things started falling down, and then by the evening, we started having these fires that spread all over the island. on the volcano and lahaina, all over, and these fires with the wind, just got stronger and stronger until we were just completely engulfed, the whole island, there was nowhere to go. we lost a lot of homes, and some people died. it's been really crazy here on maui. >> have you been able to get back down to lahaina to see what's left? >> i've just seen photos. it's been closed off. they haven't been letting people go in because it's still really dangerous there. there were boats on fire yesterday, which could have exploded, so they had it all rubbed off barricaded off, so you couldn't get close to it. the photos i have seen, it looks just apocalyptic. it's completely destroyed. i photographed in afghanistan and syria, and it looks like that. i mean, it's just completely destroyed. >> and what happened with you? you were inside your home when the winds started blowing, were you able to get out? >> we were actually stuck in our home. the roads were blocked by the trees, and then there was fire. there was three fires actually around us at the time, so there was nowhere to get out. i stayed up on my roof watching the fire, and our kids were asleep down below, and we had the car all packed up and ready to go if we needed to. >> i'm so happy to hear that you're okay and your kids are okay, and i understand that your home is certainly okay right now, but are you expecting to be able to go back and to live your life again here or is this causing you to think about the future? >> yeah, i think tourism is going to be really impacted here. losing the historic lahaina, that's a 200-year-old town. so much history, right now, they're in the process of evacuating 14,000 tourists on maui, so, yeah, it's definitely going to change this island, i think, for the foreseeable future, which is really difficult. >> when you think about hawaii, you think about a tropical island that's very wet. i know the construction there is very open, it's mostly all wood to accommodate all of that wet weather. why were the fires able to take such hold? you think of california in a drought with all the dry brush. >> yeah, so i live -- maui actually has a win ward and leeward side. we have a wet side of the island and a dry side, separated by a 10,000 foot volcano, so the dry side had been in a drought. everybody thinks of the rain forest and east maui, but the dry side of the island had been in a drought for quite some time. up where i live on the volcano, it has been incredibly dry. they were telling us to limit water before this happened, and then this hurricane dora came south of us, and the winds just churned up, you know, the fires and made everything just so much more intense. >> what will you do now? >> well, right now we don't have water, so we're just trying to get by without having water. we're realizing all of the things that water is important for, from washing clothes to cooking, and we don't know when we're going to get water back. they used so much of the water to fight these fires, and we were already limited, and, you know, when we called the county and asked them, you know, when are we going to get our water back. the answer is like, well, it's going to be a while, and my friend who's lived here his whole life, in hawaii, a while can mean five years, so we're hoping it's not five years. but, yeah, it's -- we didn't expect this, you know, we just thought this storm was going to pass and we were going to get a little bit of wind, but it just -- with the climate change and how everything's gotten so much hotter these past few years, it was just so dry, and it was the perfect storm. >> our thanks to daniel there. coming up next, breaking news, special counsel jack smith is asking for a trial date in the election interference case against donald trump. we're going to tell you when he wants it. plus, all 16 michigan fake electors pleaded not guilty. what they are now saying about their involvement in the plot to keep president biden out of office. later on, though, inflation is down, wages are up, and we're not really worried about a recession anymore, so when does the white house think that that news will translate into higher approval ratings? 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>> we won't. and here's why. trump's team has until august 17th to submit their own brief, not only on a proposed trial date but all of those intervening deadline, and then we'll probably have an argument about that on august 28th. that's the first real conference in the case. >> i imagine we're not going to hear a second before that deadline date from the trump team, given that they appear to be wanting to push this down the line as much as we can. >> we see, delay, delay, delay, is their motus. let's talk about south florida, the pleadings, why was only one of the coconspirators able to plead. nauta pleaded, the other gentleman did not. >> it's ground hog's day, everybody in the case has to retain local counsel as well as their chosen counsel. they need a south florida lawyer, somebody who's licensed to practice in the southern district of florida to represent them and serve as lead counsel. carlos came to court today with somebody he intends to retain but has not been formally retained. >> is that strategy, slow it down, slow it down, slow it down. >> it could be. and clearly because save america is paying for legal fees, they may want approval over not only who the main counsel is but the local counsel too. on the other hand, there is significant financial and reputational risk for those associated with the case. it may make it harder for people to find a south florida lawyer who wants to be involved. >> the superceding indictment, what charges does it add? >> two charges against each defendant with respect to obstructing the subpoena over surveillance footage. the allegations say that nauta de oliveira, and trump conspired together to try to get him to erase the footage. >> donald trump moving on from the arraignments to a request that the legal team is making that can on the face of it look hypocritical. he wants to make mar-a-lago a skiff so he can review classified documents. he's accused of retaining classified documents irresponsibly and illegally at mar-a-lago, that's what the whole case is about. that being said, he's the former president of the united states, he travels with security, it's a big deal for him to go places, it's disruptive. does his legal team have an argument in the disruption element of this to kind of get past the hypocritical aspect of wanting a skiff at mar-a-lago. >> if donald trump continued to have the ability to see classified documents, again, that was taken away from him after he left the presidency, we might be in a different position. but given the allegations against him as well as the fact that there is no skiff at mar-a-lago, had there been, we would not be in this position to speak of i'm not sure that a judge will grant that request. judge aileen cannon who basically put into an order, tell me about x issue that nobody else had raised, almost suggesting to them, i see a problem that you should see too. >> when you were young and in school, i bet you didn't think you would need pop quizzes in your life to be up to date on all the pop quizes and wouldn't have to do them when you're older, i feel like sometimes coming on this show could be a pop quiz, i ask you so many questions, and you're prepared for every facet of every case. >> you're a hot bench. >> there's a myriad cases to discuss. lisa, thank you very much. >> thanks for having me. from a search warrant to a fatal shooting. what happened when the fbi showed up at the home of a self-proclaimed maga trumper accused of making violent threats against the president. plus, a presidential candidate in ecuador is assassinated. who's behind it, and what happened? 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>> what you have just said, that idea of people saying that the fbi assassinated somebody is almost a direct quote to what somebody replied to one of my twitter posts this morning. that's absolutely occurring. we have asked the fbi for a little bit more detail about what happened, a lot more detail about what happened yesterday, specifically the time line of events so people understand how this occurred, what happened, and what was the order of events. the loud bang you referenced in that video, was that a flash back, did they attempt to speak with him. it appears based on the video and discussions we have had, there was an effort to speak to this individual. you don't see them charging the house initially. you see them hanging out by the armored vehicle. the specifically time line, what were the attempts to talk to him, doesn't appear they immediately rushed the house. did they try to tell him, we have a lawful warrant for your arrest. it's time to come out. a judge signed off on this. the specific tictoc of this is something we need to get into detail on. and hopefully we have that today. >> it's surprising because in the absence of information, conspiracies, especially with social media, could flourish, and you would think they would want to get ahead of that. what more do we know about this man, craig robertson? >> a lot of the details in the investigation have stayed the same since we first talked about this yesterday, which was just moments after we got the court documents. with time, we're able to actually read them a little bit more closely, see if there's any sort of clues that are in the filings that can help us out. one thing i mentioned, social media company, apparently, according to the documents alerted the fbi that there was some disturbing posts by this individual. we tried to find this account yesterday, and couldn't. but if you look closely in the document, there are a number of different things that are included on what the fbi says it received. over here, it says the amount of truths that were posted. well, there's only one social media account or company, rather, that i know of that refers to their postings as truth, which would be truth social, which would be the company that was controlled or has a connection to the trump orbit. we're trying to confirm whether or not they were the ones that alerted the fbi to this individual statement. so, again, more reporting to be done, and hopefully we'll hear from the fbi today. >> tom winter, thank you very much for the update or lack of update, i should say. coming up next, breaking down the latest inflation report and what it signals about another rate hike. and he's calling elected officials cowards and saying our nation's young people are under attack. what david hog says he's doing to replace lawmakers and who host targeting. he joins me, as you can see, in just moment. he joins me, as you casen e, in just moment. 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joining me now is nbc news business and data reporter, brian cheung. before we get to how they might respond, walk us through the numbers. >> as is the case with economic data there's a lot to contextualize. 3.2%, that's the figure that tells us how much prices rose in america july of this year compared to july of last year, and this is an up tick from the 3% that we saw in the june to june period. this is the first uptick that we've seen in over a year. when it comes to the reasons why, well, think about it like this, we were at peak inflation in june of last year. because we're no longer comparing it year over year to the worst part of inflation, that's perhaps one reason why the numbers ticked up, at least according to economists looking at the numbers. on a main street level, we have seen there are price increases for categories. food going up by .2% on a monthly basis. energy, gasoline prices have been going up in the last two months but shelter, this is the biggest component for most americans. rent and mortgage payments remaining high, up .4%, just between june and july. these are the threats we're going to have to watch in the inflation reports to come. >> what do we expect the fed to do with this? didn't i see the other day that the philly fed chair was saying that he didn't believe that any more rates were coming? >> the challenge is that there are fed officials who get to vote on whether or not they ultimately raise interest rates. the philly fed saying they're don't see the case for an interest rate hike. this overall figure, 3.2%, a lot of economists would like to see this figure close to 2%, which is why you have heard of other fed officials like mickey bowman saying she sees the case for more interest rate hikes. the next meeting in september, whether they raise interest rates, because it's wall street, bets showing traders expect the fed to hold pat on interest rates. that's not cutting interest rates. so mortgage rates, credit card rates, all the like are going to remain quite expensive. >> brian cheung, thank you very much. and reuters jeff mason, who we are so lucky to have in person today. let's talk about the economic numbers and long game for bidenomics as they call it, he's touring the west, trying to say here's what the ira, the inflation reduction act is doing. here's how it's helping people trying to run on economics. it's not translating into higher poll numbers. what is the long game? >> i think the long game is making sure people know what they see, what the administration sees as the benefits of the economy, and the numbers today sort of help them. as you said in your intro, it's not great news when inflation keeps going up. >> it's not bad news. >> and you can see wall street reacting positively to it because they think this means the fed isn't going to raise interest rates more. from a political perspective, the biden administration, the president, his people wants american people to feel like the economy is getting better, and that's been the challenge. >> unemployment is so low, we have been warding off a recession, inflation is easing, it's expensive at the grocery store, can be expensive for fuel. it's fluctuating. but the idea is things are bad. how do you combat that idea when everything seems to be going in the right direction. people don't feel like it's going in the right direction. is it about the economics of the world or there's so much negativity in general that it kind of seeps into everything. >> it's a feeling, and it's hard to a combat a feeling. that feeling has come from people being cooped up during the pandemic for a few years, and seeing inflation get really really high over the last couple of years, and now moderate, but still, you know, eggs are still expensive. beef is still expensive. cars are still expensive. the people around president biden and the president himself want to say or want to show, anyway, yes, we feel your pain, but look at the progress we've made, and that's what he's doing on these trips, and i think that's what he'll keep talking about. >> you showed the headlines from reuters. u.s. job growth, pay raises are finally beating inflation, after two years of falling behind. inflation cooled sharply in june. good news for consumers and the fed, markets appear convinced the fed can pull off a soft landing. economists see signs of a soft landing. these are great headlines for president biden, do they see themselves as running on the economy next year or are they going to focus more on, you know, it's me or donald trump? >> i think it's a lot of the latter, but i think that they want the former, the economy to be something that's a feather in their cap, and i think that's one reason why they're certainly very pleased to see headlines like a soft landing. there's been a lot of discussion, concern about a potential recession. if that doesn't happen, that's a real big win for this white house. >> jeff, thank you so much. really appreciate you coming in in person. jeff mason of reuters, thank you very much. and coming up next, what david hog is trying to do to get younger lawmakers elected to the house and senate, and replace those who he is calling cowards. stay with us. e those who he is calling cowards. ay with us (bobby) my store and my design business? we're exploding. but my old internet, was not letting me run the show. so, we switched to verizon business internet. they have business grade internet, nationwide. 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>> our entire focus is open blue seat primaries, predominantly primaries where somebody is moving on, similar to max well frost was in a race where val demings was running for senate and gave the opportunity for maxwell frost, a 25-year-old member and organizer with march for our lives to run for congress. many thought he couldn't win, but he did. we marched in washington, d.c., and people said you'll never get millions of people in washington, d.c. and thousands of people to register to vote and turn out for the country. march for our lives was the largest youth-led protest since the vietnam war, and that's why we're doing this. >> are you focusing on specific areas where there is a greater number of young people? because if you're looking at primaries, you're going to have to turn out a significant number of voters to change things over. so are there specific areas where you're like, well, here there's a lot of 20 to 30-year-olds, and we can find a way to get them out? >> yeah, obviously younger people voting is a critical coalition. also we know that older people support younger people in government, too. it's not that binary. working in places especially red states that right now like florida have a history being more purple, but more recently dawned red. long term going in the right direction, because our generation is angry about the don't say gay laws passed or about the fact school shootings continue to happen and our leaders refuse to do anything about it. we're trying to turn out young people to vote in places like that and give people like justin jones' on our advisory board, and maxwell on our board to show them there is hope. there are people that are like you in your government and you're represented there in the first place. if you want to join in that mission, help us by donating at leaders we deserve dot com and donate monthly. this has to start before election season. >> how do you go up against the established, the party establishment? 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