democrat dechlic precinctses. the plan as outlined by a republican national committee staffer in michigan includes utilizing rules to provide political balance among poll workers to install party-trained volunteers prepared to challenge voters at democratic majority polling places to connect a website in establishing a network of party-friendly district attorneys who can intervene to block vote counts at certain precincts. here is a clip of an rnc official in michigan making his pitch to potential recruits in october 2021. that is what we are here tonight for. to show the program that we are creating to create that safety net on the polls before election day, after election day to make sure that fraud does not happen again. i understand that we are upset with the 2020 result, but we cannot just look at the 2020 results or else the exact same thing will happen in 2022. we need volunteers on the ground on election day ahead of election day working so that that fraud does not
right now on ana cabrera reports breaking news at a u.s. embassy overseas, a gunman attacking the u.s. embassy at lebanon overnight, injuring a security guard. what we know at this hour as israel says it s prepared for, quote, strong action. plus, day three of hunter biden s federal gun trial, witness testimony resuming this morning as we learn of new drama outside the com. also ahead, political retribution? what donald trump is saying now about potential payback against his opponents including prison. and later, the new space race, boeing preparing to launch its star liner into orbit this hour. can boeing prove third time s the charm. good morning, it s great to have you with us. it is 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. we begin with that breaking news at a u.s. embassy overseas, an attacker opening fire at the embassy in beirut early this morning injuring one lebanese guard. the gunman has been captured and is being treated for injuries. now,
troops, but this comes at a moment when there is a widespread anger across the middle east directed at the united states because of americans support for israel during the war in gaza. and, ana, it s worth remembering the u.s. embassy in beirut is outside the center of the city. it s in a mountainous area to the north, and that is because in 1983 it was targeted with a major car bomb killing dozens of people. peter, has president biden been briefed on this situation in beirut? ana, we ve had a series of conversations with white house officials right now. we know that they are meeting with the president as they speak, preparing them for the remarks he will deliver a speech in commemoration of the d day landings tomorrow. we do know from jake sullivan the white house is well aware and monitoring the situation there. here is part of what he told our colleague savannah guthrie earlier this morning. we ve been in realtime contact with nbc beirut.
this reporting that you think are most problematic if you re like the rest of us who care about democracy in america. i encourage everyone to go to the website and read because there is so much in there they can t share in one live hit, but i will boil it down for you here which is that the goal here is to recruit and place a lot of election deniers into the actual architecture of the election administration system. these folks are being trained in what are called work shops by the rnc on how to contest voters, how to contest voting processes and they re being given new tools that they haven t had before including, john, a hotline as well as a website that s being developed by a company named zen desk. you may be familiar with it and if you wanted a live chat with a live operator on the site and they re working with that company for the folks in the centers could be in realtime
not always the case. we ve seen in a number of situations, particularly with barricaded suspects, where they eschew any type of communication with law enforcement and these things drag on and on and on, but the very notion that they re in realtime contact with the about the is a good thing and the crisis negotiators can do what they do best and that is to understand what is motivating this person, to relay that the best resolution right now is for that in the to let the people go and they will have a conversation later on on, with what is going to happen next but that suspect is in the driver s seat right now, that is what this crisis negotiator is almost certainly telling them, that look, you control your own destiny here, and for all of us, for the suspects, for law enforcement, for the suspect himself, and the hostages, rather, the best course is for that suspect to choose the course of action that is peaceful and that resolves this peacefully, and that s the realtime communication