it is good to be back with you in this second hour of chris jansing reports. at this hour, breaking news. a supreme court document on a closely watched abortion case gets posted early by mistake. what it says about procedures when the life of the mother is at risk. the destructive flooding sweeping through south dakota and other parts of the midwest. entire neighborhoods under water after record rain. in minnesota, a home teetering at the edge of a failing dam collapses into a river. unbelievable footage there. also ahead, an nbc news investigation. the search here in the u.s. for more than 50 migrants with ties to an isis smuggling network. and a legal saga that began more than a decade ago. wikileaks founder julian assange with a clenched fist to clears as he steps off the plane a free man. our nbc reporters are following all the latest developments. we start with the supreme court and this document that was not supposed to be posted today on emergency abortions. msnbc legal correspondent lisa rubin is here. we don't know if this will be the decision the supreme court will ultimately issue. if it holds, what could it mean going forward? >> if this decision ends up, if this document ends up being close to or exactly the decision of the court, chris, this is a 6-3 decision where six justices are saying the decision to even hear the case out of idaho regarding the collision between idaho's very restrictive abortion statute and the treatment and labor act which allows for abortion care necessary to stabilize a patient, that decision would be that the, reviewing the case was not something even that the supreme court should have done. that would kick it back down to the ninth circuit court of appeal. the injunction would still be in place meaning idaho's law could not be in effect as it conflicts with federal law demanding treatment for women who need emergency abortion care. could it live to see another day? absolutely. all the court would be saying was, we did wrong in deciding that we were going to skip the emergency -- the interim appellate court and take the case ourselves. we'll go back down. start over again. you can go through the ordinary appellate process and that is what the document that bloomberg has obtained, they say, shows. >> thank you. turning now to the devastating flooding wreaking havoc across the midwest right now, what do you see in there, shaq? >> reporter: we do know that the water here in south dakota and iowa is receding. so somewhat good news. we're getting a better picture of the extent of the damage and just how widespread it is. you see the house over there. it is pretty much collapsed there. take a look at this video from the air. when you see how widespread it is, the entire community completely devastated. i spoke to a gentleman who said he was one of the last people to be rescued from that neighborhood. just listen to what he described his experience was. >> i heard, i had power until 12:20 when i heard the first house collapse into the lake. then the power went out and i laid there all night hearing the houses collapse into the lake. >> reporter: what was that like in. >> it was insane. it sounded like a war zone. i woke up at 10:00. there was an air boat and i looked to the left and a quarter of my yard, a big sinkhole was forming. >> reporter: he's describing what he faced in those overnight hours between sunday into monday. look at some cell phone video that he shot of what he saw in front of his house. his street looking like a river. look how fast that water is. how quickly that is moving there. that is what so many people thought could be happening. we talk about the historic levels of flooding. meanwhile, officials in minnesota are still watching that rapidam dam. the dam at risk of complete failure. officials are saying that it is unlikely at this point that you have that kind of catastrophic failure, they're not making plans for massive evacuations. they're saying the soil around the dam continues to erode. we saw that collapse of a house just yesterday. there is the potential of a business there to fall into the river. officials are just waiting for that water to slow down. then they can go clean up the debris. when you look at the forecast as we get into tomorrow and friday, there is more rain on the way. the heaviest of it further south from where we are right now. any rain could have an impact on these rivers when they're already still swollen to those historic levels, chris. >> thank you. now to our nbc news investigation. dozens of migrants with potential ties to an isis-linked smuggling network released into the u.s. nbc's julia ainslie is following this for us. there's still a search to find some of them. what can you tell us? >> we're learning more by the hour, this is something the fbi and dhs have been concerned about. either isis-linked overseas in central asia in countries like uzbekistan, tajikistan. they will eventually get across the border. because more than 400 migrants came to the u.s. with the help of that network with isis affiliations, isis now looking to arrest many of them out of an abundance of caution. it's not known why those people came here. they say as far as the more than 150 that they've arrested, they have not found anyone who had a terror plot or came to the united states with the intent of carrying out a terror operation. but there are more than 50 where their whereabouts are unknown. i.c.e. doesn't know where they are. and to point out the immigration charges, not terrorism charges, that's basically the lowest hanging fruit they can have to get these people off the streets. find out more information. in many cases, see that they're deported quickly. >> thank you. wikileaks founder julian assange is back in australia today and a free man. nbc's ryan riley has more for us. what's next for him after this plea deal? >> i think he'll have to raise a lot of money to fund what this operation took. the jet that brought him from london where he was released from the high security prison to the northern mariana islands for the brief hearing yesterday. they took him wednesday morning there, late last night for us on the eastern, on est time. he has now landed in australia. and after almost 15 years now, this is really the end of the saga. he was originally held because of charges that were later dropped involving sexual assault and then he, of course, was inside of the embassy, the ecuadorean embassy in london for a number of years. he was held in that london prison for the last five years after charges were brought during the trump administration against him. this is a case that will have wider implications because of the espionage charges and what the charges could exactly mean for publishers going forward. obviously, wikileaks has a lot of differences between wikileaks and the standard news organization. in the law, making the distinctions is a little bit difficult. where do you draw the lines? what is a legitimate news organization? what is an entity that is publishing the raw data as security officials would say, that puts lives at risk? that information that was released. the hundred or thousands of pages of documents that were released by wikileaks had to do with the war in afghanistan, iraq, and the documents in connection with the guantanamo bay detainee. so a lot of that was on the internet more than 15 years ago. now it's all wrapped up here. >> we see his reunion with his wife. they haven't spent much time together since they got married. thank you. coming up in 90 seconds, how donald trump really feels about doing a debate with no audience. stay right here. with no audien. stay right here. healthy diet... listen to your heart. talk to your doctor about repatha. repatha plus a statin lowers ldl-c (bad cholesterol) by 63%, and drops the risk of having a heart attack. do not take repatha if you are allergic to it. repatha can cause serious allergic reactions. signs include trouble breathing or swallowing or swelling of the face. most common side effects include runny nose, sore throat, common cold symptoms, flu or flu-like symptoms, back pain, high blood sugar, and redness, pain, or bruising at the injection site. talk to your doctor about repatha. 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the questions it may raise for some people? also, the timing. there is a debate tomorrow where abortion is a huge issue in this country and particularly for the biden white house. >> well, in raw political terms, chris, there are folks on the biden campaign that were hoping for a different decision out of idaho. they would never say it on the record because it puts people's lives at risk but there was certainly, it certainly makes the case they want to make a lot cleaner and easier when it come to judges and that issue. in some ways, this would take, if this ruling is indeed one that is released tomorrow morning, for all we know, maybe they were never planning on doing it tomorrow morning but they will now. given that they've already perhaps shown something we don't know for sure. but what i keep, i'm personally not surprised by this ruling. it seems to fit a new pattern we've seen throughout the last year and a half, i would argue, in this supreme court. that there is really a conservative majority but there is a 3-3-3 distinction between this court. you do have a center right group of conservatives, roberts, barrett, and kavanaugh, that do move back and forth. right? if you move, they don't vote with the harder right conservatives. they didn't in the missouri case. and we didn't get the full note but i'm willing to bet, it's a 6-3 in the idaho situation as well. >> yeah. and i wonder if it is not a situation where, again, if you are team biden and you're trying to put together something to say about this, the uncertainty that has been created in reality. they give example after example, versus what donald trump actually says has been the net result which is everybody was happy about this. this solves the problem. when in fact what we're seeing is what the court is facing, these questions that continue to come up. >> and it keeps coming back up. i don't know if this ruling at all changes that debate, right? it is still, the fact of the matter is, the second they ruled on dobbs, they thought they were washing their hands of reproductive rights issues. not at all. they've just made it so probably every supreme court term for the next ten years is going to have a case related to dobbs. >> okay. chuck, stick around. monica, thank you. we want to talk more about the debate. donald trump summing up his debate strategy in two words. >> i think i've been preparing for it for my whole life, if you want to know the truth. i'm not sure you can lock yourself into a room for two weeks or one week or two days and really learn what you have to know. i've been through it. he's practicing how the stand or something. standing. and let's see what happens. i hope everybody does well. i hope we all come out as a nation. but our nation's in trouble. >> von hilliard is there. and the white house press secretary. sarah, based on your time in the trump white house, do you think his comments suggest that he's confident or worried going into tomorrow night? >> it what we've seen from trump and his campaign shows that he actually is a little bit nervous about what will happen tomorrow. look. his campaign and him and his surrogates have been all out there saying joe biden will come out and be jacked up on drugs or mountain dew or energy drinks. i think that they know that biden had a really strong performance, particularly in 2020 during that very first debate. there was wide consensus that biden won. so they're trying to set the bar a little bit higher which is quite difficult, though, when it seem like they set the bar so low for biden when they constantly attacked him for his mental acutie. if biden shows up and looks engaged tomorrow night, he'll have a strong performance. i know that trump and his team are worried about that. >> there was an interview with byron york. here's what byron said about not having an audience for this debate. quote, you have no audience to read. to me, the the audience is easier because it's telling you what is going on indirectly with applause or not applause. this room is a sterile, dead room, which i guess is what they want. this is going to be interesting. we've all watched donald trump and how he feeds off a crowd reaction from people. even when i've seen him, and von, you know this when you're in a scrum with a bunch of people around him. he feeds off that energy of the crowd. i'm wondering what you make of his comments and what you're expecting from that tomorrow night. >> well, look, i sort of feel like he gave away how he, his version of populism which is, he waits to see what gets applause and then he doubles down and says it. like he needs an instant poll. in a weird way, that's what he's admitting. i need a poll to find out if that's a good line or a bad line, working or not working. so i think it says more about how he perhaps, how he views policy debates on that front. look. this to me is the real risk for team biden. they so want to have a different experience than the last debate they had with him or the first debate from the last cycle. ironically, that's the single best debate biden had, right? because trump's behavior really sort of almost cemented biden's lead by that point and it may have done trump in at that point. now here's the biden campaign trying to come up with a set of rule to make sure trump seems more presentable? when you sort of look at their motivation here, and given the experience they had four years ago, it's a head scratcher to me that they went so out of their way to try to create an environment that will make trump seem more presidential. >> yeah. all right. there's another wild card out there. nbc news reports that trump's vp announcement could come this week. what do we know about the thinking around the timing? is there any chance it happens before the debate? >> right. he's consistently suggested he would make this announcement closer to the convention which starts july 15th, less than three weeks from now, in milwaukee, wisconsin. sources are telling nbc news that decision could come at any moment. potentially today, tomorrow, who knows? at the debate. it's an open-ended question. for donald trump part of the successes suspense, of course, mike pence won't be his vice president for term number two. we refer to the list as the bench. in which he says there are plenty of good options. he had the conversation with his long-time adviser, corey lewandowski. it is that top tier. we're told that folks should be dismissing others including the likes of former secretary ben carson who is actually here in atlanta right now. he's with byron donalds, the congressman out of florida, at a black american's businessman's roundtable. and donald trump actually called the cell phone of byron donalds and talked to the crowd that was there for a couple minute over a speaker phone. for donald trump, i don't think it is worth closing the door on anybody. it has been clear, the ones making the tv rounds. when you're looking at what donald trump is looking for, somebody that will be loyal and fiercely defensive of him. so i think over the next three weeks, you will potentially see this come into stark contrast. >> we've seen what happens when people turn against him. and we have reported here at nbc that joe biden has been studying up on issues that will trigger trump. and i wonder what you think most likely will do that. will he be disciplined? or are there things that could end up going viral in the negative for donald trump? is it the 2020 election? is it abortion? what do you think? in terms of trying to get under his skin. >> i think probably the top two things, if i'm the biden campaign. i would be advising president biden on to target trump. it would be saying, going after him for the 2020 election if he accepts the results of it. obviously, trump has a hard time doing that. i think his ego, he can't accept it. the smarter move would be for trump to pivot away from it. i can see him taking the bait on that front. and then going after him for being a convicted felon. i can see trump taking the bait on that one and maybe lobbing against joe biden that list own son was convicted recently. and i think that that plays into biden's favor because it goes to show that there is an equal system. justice. and also, i think during the debates in 2020, trump attacked biden for