It is good to be back with you on this second hour of Chris Jansing reports. At this hour, irans interference game, what the fbi is revealing about hackers who tried but failed to interest Joe Bidens Team in documents stolen from the Trump Campaign. Plus, what will the former president is saying about it. And its the Blue Dot in an ocean of red, but now a fight is brewing over a Nebraska District with a single electoral vote, so critical it could decide the president ial election. We have new reporting. Plus, a possible Mass Tragedy averted, how police track down a Missouri Teenager who allegedly had a fully loaded handgun with an extended magazine right outside a school. And are we witnessing a new phase of the war . Israel and hezbollah Trade Fire after a series of Pager And Walkietalkie explosions that left the entire region on the brink. Our Nbc News reporters are following all of the latest developments. We begin with nbcs Ryan Nobles covering these new revelations about iranian interference in the president ial election. Ryan, what more do we know . Reporter we have known for some time that the fbi had discovered that iranian Cyber Criminals had hacked in to the donald Trump Campaigns infrastructure, their digital infrastructure, and stolen what they described as nonpublic materials. What the fbi and the Intelligence Community revealed yesterday is that they were actually peddling this information to members of the then Biden Campaign, attempting to get them to use this material and take it and use it against Donald Trump, what the fbi said is theres no evidence that anyone from the Biden Campaign took advantage of that material. And in fact, the Harris Campaign, which is now running the same Campaign Infrastructure put out a Statement Saying that they acknowledge that some of the folks that work for the campaign received this material to their personal email addresses, but they thought it was spam, and didnt do anything with it, that they didnt engage with this, and they went on to say they condemn any support of foreign interference in the campaign. Donald trump taking a completely different tactic. He put out a statement on his social Media Platform last night, claiming that this is evidence that the Harris Campaign is spying on his campaign. Thats obviously not based in any level of fact. The fbi has said specifically that they do not believe theres any evidence that this material was used in any way, Shape Or Form by the Biden Campaign. But, whats important to keep in mind about all of this, chris, is that the fbi, the Intelligence Community, believes that these efforts by these iranian Cyber Criminals is ongoing. In fact, they believe that they still have material that they are still attempting to get out to others in the united states including u. S. Media outlets, theyre emailing this content to them, trying to get someone to bite and report it out. So far though, at this point, there doesnt appear to be anyone thats actually used this material and made a part of the campaign. Chris. Ryan nobles, Thank You. Now to new Nbc News reporting about Senator Lindsey Graham and a visit he made to a critical Congressional District in nebraska. Vaughn hillyard Is Reporting. Most people will say nebraska . Tell us about it. Reporter this all comes down to the scenario where nebraskas Congressional District around the Greater Omaha area, could potentially be the consequential electoral College Vote that decides this president ial election. There are just two states, chris, where it is not a Winner Take All for electoral College Votes. That is nebraska and the state of maine. Thats where you see that map there. Back in 2020, Joe Biden narrowly won that Congressional District, cd2, right around omaha. This is what has led over the course of the last several months the Trump Campaign to hone their attention on potentially trying to change the State Law in nebraska with the republican governor and republican members of the legislature to make a Lastminute Effort to change the law to make nebraska a Winner Take All. So effectively, in the scenario, its 269 electoral College Votes for Kamala Harris to 268 for Donald Trump, well, instead of that extra one going to Kamala Harris and giving her the election with 270, it would make it a 269269 tie, which would then toss the president ial election to the u. S. House of representatives to be decided by the state delegations, which currently are favored among republicans. And so thats where i want to let you listen to Lindsey Graham, the senator from south carolina, who was in nebraska yesterday, and while he said that he was there for discussion around Foreign Policy and domestic affairs, he did acknowledge that some conversations focused on the potential of nebraska making a last Minute Law Change in the state to make it Winner Take All. Take a listen to part of his conversation a bit ago with our Julie Tsirkin up on the hill. I hope they will allow Winner Take All. This was created in, i think, 92 to help clinton. Trumps going to win the state by 20 points. That members of congress and the two senators urged the change. It will be up to nebraska. Well see what they do. Rickets and the governor asked me to come out. Reporter so it wasnt the Trump Campaign . The federal delegation, senators and House Members are urging the government and the legislature to make the last minute state election, yes, were 47 days away from the general election, and this would require the republican governor calling the special session, and so far over the course of the summer, they have struggled to garner enough of the legislative members to vote in support of changing this law. Obviously you just heard Lindsey Graham going, and Donald Trump this spring, he publicly endorsed the idea of changing the law. We could potentially be looking for a dramatic week or two ahead if they were to try to move forward. Until the scenario that Kamala Harris wins pennsylvania, wisconsin, michigan, Donald Trump wins nevada, arizona, georgia. Instead of it being a 270 electoral College Win with the Omaha Victory in that Congressional District, you could be looking at a potential 269269 tie. Were in for a Wild One potentially here, chris. Vaughn hillyard, please not that scenario. But Thank You. Now to missouri where police say they arrested an armed teenager just outside of his former High School. Nbc investigative Correspondent Tom Winter is following this for us. First of all, how did they even know he was there . Reporter thats the big question, chris. How often after one of these unfortunate and tragic School Shootings have we talked about either, one, where students or School Administrators or parents knew that the shooter was somebody who was either threatening the school or had some serious problems and was a threat to a school or that somebody did know that, and, in fact, relayed that information to School Officials and Law Enforcement then only to find out that because of whatever restrictions there are, because of laws or the school, that it couldnt be acted upon in time. This scenario appears to be much different. It appears, potentially, to have avoided a very serious situation. Youre looking at the juvenile there. And because they have been charged as a juvenile, and under the age of 16, were not showing their face. Youre clearly seeing their Social Media posts with these weapons, with these guns, and apparently what happened here, it was a group of alert students, chris, that can take the credit for the reason this was stopped. Lets take a listen. I want to thank our students that saw it. They saw it out on Social Media. We had a number of students that came directly forward and notified administrators. Ritner High School is located in st. Lewis county. The Police Chief for st. Anne said it was the deputy chief, once they were alerted to heroes these Social Media posts, that he started to chase him down once he arrived at the school. At some point, according to the video, he dumps the gun, and they are able to arrest him, tie the gun back to him and it certainly appears, chris, based on everything Law Enforcement has said, based on what School Officials have said, this individual was going to that school to perhaps conduct a shooting, and that is a big reason why today i think a lot of people are thankful these kids spoke up and alerted Law Enforcement. A Trend We Hope continues, not only do people spot a potential threat but able to alert Law Enforcement in time, to obviously stop what could have been a bad day. To lebanon where the israeli military launched Air Strikes against hezbollah, reeling from two days of deadly device explosions. Nbcs Josh Lederman is following that story for us. Whats the latest . Reporter for those who hoped this was a periodic shortterm operation by the israelis over two days, it would calm down. That is not what we have seen. It has escalated through the barrage of Air Strikes and artillery. They have not crossed the border on the ground into the lebanese border. It is not a Ground Incursion into lebanon. As the leader was giving a speech threatening retaliation against israel, the booms were heard Over Beirut of israeli airplanes flying allow Over Beirut breaking the sound barrier, trying to signal to hezbollah there could be more to come. The israeli Defense Minister in the last couple of hours gave a briefing where he said as much. The israeli pace of operations will continue. Now, hezbollah is now threatening to punish israel at a time and place of its choosing, and in fact, the iranians are getting in on that as well, saying there will be a staunch reaction to this israeli operation over the last few days, and so the concern level, very high right now. Its still not totally clear what strategically israel may have been trying to accomplish, why the timing of doing this right now, but certainly this has brought the situation much closer to the potential that everyone has been fearing really since the beginning of this war in october, chris, of a second allout war on israels northern border with hezbollah and lebanon. Josh lederman, Thank You. In 90 seconds, Donald Trumps promises to visit the Ohio City now at the center of wild Conspiracy Theories he helped spread. So how do the people there feel about it . Well take you live to springfield, next. Eld, next. I got the cabin for three days. Its gonna be sweet what . Im 12 hours short. Have a fun weekend. Unnecessary Action Hero unnecessary. Was that necessary . No. Neither is a blown weekend. With paycom, employees do their own payroll so you can fix problems before they become problems. Hmm get paycom and make the unnecessary, unnecessary. See you down the line. 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We know every demographic, racial group, age group, you have it, shows that voters think the economy is the number one issue in this election. White house advisers think that yesterdays fed Interest Rate decision was a significant validation for the president s economic Vision And Record over the last 3 1 2 years in office. He made several arguments, taking a historical view of what he inherited and what the economy looks like. Take a look at arguments the president put out . Interest rates are going to be coming down, and theyre expected to go down further, and thats a good place for us to be. Unlike my predecessor, i respect the federal reserves independence. They dont know women in america. Income is up for women workers. Women should be paid equally for equal work. Theres not a job that a Woman Cant do that a man can do, including being president of the united states of america. Reporter obviously a Campaign Sub Text to this speech. You heard the president say this is not necessarily a declaration of victory, but a declaration of progress. The president thinks, and tried to remind people in the speech, he inherited an economy in free fall. A major strain for americans but had global causes, Supply Chain disruptions. He talked about the new economic playbook, one that differed from past republicans, all arguments that he thinks will be helpful to Vice President harris out there. Mike memoli, thanks for that. Appreciate it. Two american cities now at the center of a national conversation about immigration will soon be getting a visitor. Im going to go there in the next two weeks. Im going to springfield and im going to aurora. [ applause ] you may never see me again, but thats okay. Got to do what i got to do. Whatever happened to trump . Well, he never got out of springfield. Springfield, of course, is where Donald Trump has falsely claimed that haitian immigrants are abducting and eating pets, and about aurora, trump also said falsely that venezuelan gangs have taken over. Nbcs Shaquille Brewster Is Reporting from springfield. Also with us, matthew dowd, a senior msnbc political analyst. Shaq, the city has been dealing with this for more than ten days now since j. D. Vance first tweeted out that lie. I know you spoke with some Residents Today who continue to deal with the fallout. What are they telling you . Reporter youre really feeling this chilling effect its having on folks in springfield. What we saw earlier this month, those false debunked rumors were amplified on the debate stage, and whats followed are these wave of threats that have targeted schools, that are targeted city buildings, that have targeted yesterday a walmart and a grocery store, and what people here are telling me is that theyre feeling scared. Thats the word that you continue to hear over and over again. And that fear is making its way down to the youngest of people in this town. I want you to listen to some of the conversations we had with parents, dropping off their Elementary School students at one of the schools that was evacuated last week, start with the parent who said his 6yearold didnt know what a Bomb Threat was but felt the tension and started crying. Listen here. It was a very terrifying feeling, but i was also enraged because i know that a lot of its rooted in lies against the community that has shown me a lot of love. All this activity with the bombing threats and stuff, it has A Little Bit of an impact on the kids. Theyre kind of scared. Whats going on right now is really chaotic and hectic, everybody has a right to live in peace, and this is just disrupting our peace, and these people are nice people. Theyre good people. Reporter as for those threats, the governor, Mike Dewine has deployed dozens of State Troopers to schools to literally go through schools every Morning And Sweep for explosives, and then just kind of stay there to make sure that people feel safe. We can expect to hear from the governor in about an hour or so at a press conference. And meanwhile, you know, as City Officials continue to say, resources are strained. These threats, they require a lot of attention, they require a lot of focus. And they say that frankly, a visit from former President Trump or from any leader, any national leader at this point, is only going to add to that strain that they are so desperately feeling right now, chris. Shaquille brewster, Thank You, shaq. Well, matthew, the mayor of springfield said this week, and by the way, hes a republican, that a visit from trump would burden the citys already strained resources. Last hour, i spoke with a pastor from springfield, and this is what he told me. The truth is if he were to retract his story, everything would calm down. And i think he has great influence on some of the people who have come to our community to do harm, and i know they respect him, and if he would just ask them to go home, that would be a great help. If he would just retract his story, speaking of Donald Trump, the pastor also told me there have been more Bomb Threats yet today. Is there any amount of pressure, do you think, on Donald Trump to do that . Or not to visit in the first place . I mean, theres a tremendous amount of pressure, but i dont think it will have any influence because Donald Trump doesnt seem to care. Hes already been told numerous times that this whole story is a lie. He has been told by officials in springfield. He has been told by the governor whos a republican to stop it, this is all a lie. Quit doing this, youre endangering peoples lives. He and his Vice President ial nominee, j. D. Vance, continue to do it and continue to fan the flames and continue to put peoples lives at risk in this town over a total lie thats been pushed and pushed and pushed by him. I dont think he cares what happens to