Suicide. And the investor immortalizing The Big Short for predicting the Housing Bubble would burst is back at it again. Why hes betting 1. 6 billion that the stock market will crash. Our nbc News Reporters are following all of the latest developments. We begin in hawaii with the growing questions about the role downed power lines may have played in those deadly wildfires. Nbcs dana griffin is live from maui. Some hawaiian residents are suing the Utility Company as videos emerge of what happened to the power lines during the high winds. Dana, what can you tell us . Reporter well, chris, i can tell you, we have seen a lot of videos on social media, one in particular that purports to show downed power lines and smoke, and that could have been the reignition of that fire after it was contained. Nbc news has not independently verified those videos yet. Were hearing reports from several people including one guy who says that fire started behind his home, and now there are concerns that that
When . Weeks and still has not ruled. Nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian. Where do things stand after todays arguments . Reporter judge Aileen Cannon said she would rule promptly on these two motions to dismiss and seemed skeptical this afternoon of the argument about the president ial records act. Remember, what donald trump is saying under the president ial records act he could deem any record in the white house whether classified document about Nuclear Secrets or identity of the cia officer, foreign asset, he could deem that a personal record, take it home and store it in his bathroom. Special counsel jack smith says than an absurd argument and eastern the judge said i dont see how that gets dismissal of the indictment. That one. Another argument, motion to dismiss on the grounds the Espionage Act is unconstitutionally vague. Argued that this morning. A long shot. A law used hundreds of times to prosecute people who have taken home or leaked classified docu
but i want to start by looking at the bigger picture and ask why we absolutely need to hold everyone involved in this gargantuan anti-democratic efforts to account. it s bad enough that it happened. and but for a few good people doing the right thing at the right time, it could have succeeded. but this is not a past tense discussion. this crime against democracy remains in progress. donald trump is still lying about the election results. he is now attacking, on a daily and sometimes hourly basis, jack smith, prosecutors across the country, the men and women of the fbi, and the justice department. federal judges, the whole united states government, and the rule of law and the republicans in congress who could have washed their hands of trump, after he lost, we ll, take kevin mccarthy, who, in the immediate aftermath of january 6th, laid the blame squarely and accurately with donald trump. that same guy, in order to win over trump s insurrectionist supporters in congress, agr
secretary of state, some of it heard on the infamous phone call. so, look, all i want to do is this i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. now, trump is desperate to derail the investigation, because he knows what might be coming. a final decision on criminal charges from the georgia grand jury is expected before the end of the summer. all of this as special counsel jack smith s probe into january 6th is heating up, now faithful trading trump s inner circle, interviewing dozens of witnesses, people like trump s former attorney general, rudy giuliani, mark maddows and former vice president mike pence, who was one of the targets of the violent mob at the capitol that day. growing list of witnesses including hope hicks, and his son-in-law jared kushner, who were reportedly asked pointed questions about trump s criminal intent. they also spoke to the january 6th committee. jared, are you aware of instances where pat cipollone threatened to resig
donald trump. that same guy, in order to win over trump s insurrectionist supporters in congress, agreed to a series of concessions, including the so-called weaponization of government subcommittee, which is, itself, the weaponization of government. donald trump held a fund-raiser for january 6th felons at his golf club three weeks ago. the michigan secretary of state, jocelyn benson, said on this program last night, that the threats posed by election denier still persists, and noted the election denier that she beat out the ballot box was rewarded with a job as the head of michigan s republican party. so, yeah, the repercussions of donald trump s lie about the 2020 election have a long tale, all the way to the present day. it s not about making trump and his allies pay for the past. it is about making sure this does not happen again in the future. and to make that case, the only person i wanted to talk to was congressman jamie raskin. he s the ranking member of the house ove