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the bigger picture of jack smith s case? we re going to get into all of that coming up? also this hour, belarus, russia, where exactly is yevgeny prigozhin? the mystery surrounding the fate of russia s wagner group deepened after the president of belarus in a rare news conference said he was still in his hometown of st. petersburg more than a week after the rebellion that shocked moscow and the world as wechlt. and long-time gop megadonors launching ads to try to prevent the former republican leader are from retaking the white house in 2024. we begin this hour with the former president and walt nauta, his aide, in court. after two delays, trump s co-defendant in the classified documents case finally arraigned in court a few hours ago, pleading not guilty nearly a month after his boss. he faces charges of obstructs the investigation into the retention of classified documents. it s been a whirlwind 24 hours. on wednesday authorities unsealing new portions of the warrant t
unredacted statements add fresh detail for the legitimate basis of the fbi s suspicions. this latest release fills in some of the remaining blanks, particularly having to do with a key video that is referred to in the indictment. the newly available information suggests that people at the justice department suspected something was very much up after watching surveillance footage of trump s former valet, witness number five, moving boxes in and out of a storage area at the time he was being interviewed by the fbi. here s how authorities knew they were being lied to. on may 24th the footage shows him leaving with what the affidavit describes at an anterroom leaving with three boxes. and four days after the interview, witness number five, quote, is observed exiting the anteroom doorway with approximately 50 bankers boxes. if it all strikes you as suspects, moving boxes, missing boxes, basic problems with the math of what goes in and what comes out, you and the department of just
we have updates in the other special counsel s investigation. jack smith issuing more subpoenas in the january 6th investigation. this time, focusing on arizona. so let s get to it. joining me now is nbc news investigative correspondent, tom winter and nbc news justice reporter, ryan reilly. let s start with the top. walt nauta, finally getting a lawyer. finally pleading not guilty. walk us through what happened. it was a short hearing. the big news is he did get this lawyer, and essentially one of the reasons i think it s more difficult to find someone is because, you know, donald trump hasn t been known to pay his bills. that s something you re on the hook for down the line if, you know, no matter where this goes, once you re on the case you re stuck with it no matter what, even if there s a dispute about payment or what have you. whoever signed on for that is in for the long haul. with donald trump, a significant retainer agreement, cash up front in order to take on that
mayor, district attorney and police chief are joining forces to fight hate in the city and putting locals and visitors on notice, it won t be tolerated. grant:kron 4 s dan kerman is live city hall with more on what is planned reporter: san francisco has seen an uptick in hate crimes. now steps are being taken to reverse that. we have no tolerance for haight. not here, not now and not ever. stand together as one against hate, i guess messages of hate and ax of hate. against messages of hate and acts of hate. reporter: to reverse the police would use of undercover officers. we are going to do this and our neighborhoods if someone decides they want to attack them because of what they are wearing the may attack and onto the set francisco police officer. reporter: indicating since the election of donald trump there had been more than 700 hate crimes reported. for every one that reports we hear so many that haight on facebook and-dash to the hear the stories and po