Welcome to tuesday. It is meet the Press Daily and im Chuck Todd on a very busy day here in washington despite the fact the calendar says june. New developments from the White House, the Justice Department and congress all focusing on the rising threat of domestic terrorism and violent political extremism. Today the White House is rolling out its strategy to tackle the issue. We just heard Attorney General Merrick Garland Talk about the challenges facing to address the domestic Terrorism Threat in part because it comes in so many forms. It does challenge some of our key constitutional protections. Speaking about the new strategy. Garland mentioned the Church Shooting of 2015 and the congressional Baseball Shooting that same year and the tragedy at the tree of Life Synagogue in 2018 and the 2019 shooting in El Paso just to name a few. Such attacks are not only unspeakable tragedies for the victims loved ones, but a tragedy for our country and an attack on our core ideals as a society. W
long. the city has brought in refrigerated containers fearing a surge in heat-related deaths. we ll talk to a doctor there. and nbc news gets rare access to what is happening behind the scenes at the southern border amid fears the humanitarian crisis is about to get a whole lot worse. we begin we begin this hour with the new charges against former president donald trump over his alleged mishandling of classified information. special counsel jack smith filed a new indictment against trump last night, adding three additional counts to the 37 he already faces in the classified documents case. one count of willful retention of national defense information and two charges related to altering, destroying, mutilating or concealing an object. the new indictment also includes a new defendant, mar-a-lago property manager carlos de his oliveira. his lawyer declined to comment on the new indictment. he joins trump and trump aide and body man walt nauta in facing charges. trump and
tonight. if there s one thing journalist have learned from donald trump s many legal ordeals, it s always to have a camera ready. that came in handy today when members of our nbc team spotted this guy leaving a federal courthouse in washington, d. c.. the same courthouse where a grand jury has been hearing testimony about efforts from trump and others to deny joe biden the presidency in 2020. this guy that you re looking at right here, his name is gary michael brown. i think it s gee michael brown at the moment. that s relevant. the former deputy director of election day operations for trump s 2020 campaign. a very important figure in the fake elector plot that put together to stop congress from certifying the election on january the 6th. mr. brown made it to the final report of the january six committee, specifically to a section this further explains the multi state plot. quote, by early january, most of the fake elector votes had arrived in washington, except those from mi
the same courthouse where a grand jury has been hearing testimony about efforts from trump and others to deny joe biden the presidency in 2020. this guy that you re looking at right here, his name is gary michael brown. i think it s gee michael brown at the moment. that s relevant. the former deputy director of election day operations for trump s 2020 campaign. a very important figure in the fake elector plot that put together to stop congress from certifying the election on january the 6th. mr. brown made it to the final report of the january six committee, specifically to a section this further explains the multi state plot. quote, by early january, most of the fake elector votes had arrived in washington, except those from michigan and wisconsin. undeterred, the trump team arranged to fly them to washington and hand deliver them to congress for the vice president himself. quote, freaking trump idiots want someone to fly a original elector papers to the senate president. wi
nope. going to have to correct you there, donald. that is in fact not the law, which is how you ended up in a court of law just yesterday. plus, gaslighting efforts kick into high gear on the right with false equivalencies flying fast and furious all over fox. and later, the great rachel maddow joins me to talk about her amazing new podcast that takes us back in time eerily similar to those we are experiencing today. we begin tonight on donald trump s birthday. he turned 77 years old today. happy birthday you twice indicted, twice impeached found liable for sexual abuse former president! i m sure it s been an interesting one. a day of reflection perhaps on what matters in life like family, good health, community, or not. i mean, this is donald trump we re talking about. so what matters in life are things, gold toilets, celebrity tchotchke collections, gold stuff on the walls in the gold ballroom or the shaquille o neal sneak he bragged about to a wall street journal