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Missing after that Apartment Building partially collapsed. This hour officials are set to give an update on the search for survivors and caught on tape, new reporting this morning on a recording of former President Trump talking about classified documents he kept after leaving the white house. In iran, a trial is under way for two Women Journalists who are among the first to report the death of massa amini. And on this first day of pride month, why some events across the country are coming under fire especially in one state. And we begin this hour on capitol hill with another major test on the horizon for the Debt Ceiling Bill to avert an economic catastrophe. The senate will now take up the legislation one day after the deal negotiated by President Biden and House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy was overwhelmingly approved by the house, and the house needs to act and act quickly. There are a few days to go before the government says it will run out of money and will be unable to pay its bills. 60 senators will have to sign off on the deal and just like the house, senators on both sides are unhappy with the agreement and Bernie Sanders is among them. We have more incoming Wealth Inequality than we have people on top doing phenomenally well, middle class struggling and lower income people really facing desperate times and you dont do Deficit Reduction in any moral sense on the backs of some of the people in this country who are barely making it right now. With us now to talk more about this, nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitale and mike menially. How quickly can we expect the senate to take up this bill . Its a good question, but you know the answer is as quickly as they can because they know and Chuck Schumer said this this morning, time is of the essence for a body that can go as quickly as they want and it tends to go more slowly and heres Chuck Schumer laying out the stakes. Time is a luxury the senate does not have if we want to prevent default. June 5th is less than four days away. At this point, any needless delay or any lastminute holdups would be an unnecessary and even dangerous risk and any change to this bill that forces us to send it back to the house would be entirely unacceptable. It would almost guarantee default. So what schumer is saying there is that as the senate entertains an Amendment Process which might be what some of the senators were threatening to slow this process down, want in order to get their agreement that they can go more quickly, any amendment that actually passes means that the bill is fundamentally changed and then would have to go back to the house. They would like to avoid that. Nevertheless, we are likely to see some announcement of amendment votes at some point today. Were hearing at this point some rosier pictures. Senator john thune, the Number Two Senate republican saying members may be able to catch a flight out tomorrow morning and that would be good news for both members and people cheering for the deadline to be met here, but at the same time we wont know anything on the firm timing of this probably until around after lunchtime and thats when we expect a lot of these senators will talk about it on their Caucus Lunches and then get onboard with the actual plan, but again, if all hundred senators come to the table and say all right, we want to do this as quickly as possible, they can decide to do that, and theyll probably have to do votes on amendments in order to get there and were not sure what the timetable looks like yet. Mike, President Biden and the white house made a big effort to get House Democrats onboard, what are they going to do on the senate. It is a president the knows very well and weve seen a situation where the white house was managing different blocks of votes in the house, progressives, moderates and some immediate rats and one of the big ones coming from virginia tim kaine who has been a close ally, and very unhappy with the process and a permanent process, and also virginia that he says he was only informed about after the bill was posted publicly. This speaks to the efforts that are supposed to be under way with the sirens around me, jose, that the white house is undertaking at the moment and weve been stressed by white house officials the degree to where theres been oneonone outreach to white house officials to members of the senate. The number of calls reaching out to senators has been rather minimal, but we do know as the president is in colorado this morning speaking at the Air Force Academy commencement, hes also been very closely monitoring developments at home and likely making some momentum and the senate can come to a quicker resolution if possible to help speed that process along. Ali, the passage in the house is a victory for both the president and speaker mccarthy. Getting more than 300 yes votes is a huge deal, but there are republicans not negotiating with democrats . Yes. Its the same republicans that were unhappy with the debt deal and frankly, a lot of the republicans during the speaker Battle In January are now once again coming to the fore because those detractors remain some of mccarthys toughest critics after the debt battle. Mccarthy is calling this a win. It passed in bipartisan fashion. We watched mccarthy trumpet those victories last night as the bill now goes to the senate, but this was always going to be the case, jose when mccarthy made a deal that only one member needed to trigger it and that was always going to be something that loomed over every major moment of mccarthys speakership and this was the major moment that many of us were watching for, though. The debt battle was always going to be one of mccarthys toughest challenges and he succeeded when it came to passing something of substance from the debt and on the spending front and now he has to deal with the ramifications of that from his own conference and i will say in talking to moderate democrats last night, some of them may seem willing to help mccarthy keep his speakership. Its a little premature to be having those conversations in a real way, but we are watching some members of the Freedom Caucus including one ken buck of colorado who were saying there needs to be some kind of reckoning from mccarthy after this deal, but again, it hasnt come to a fever pitch at least not yet and it could be when mccarthy is trying to defend his job and this could be after the initial vote. This comes as we learn more about how that deal came together in the first place. What more can you tell us about the process . Agree. This is a reporting effort across our white house and capitol hill teams held by our colleague peter nicholas, and some really important moments to identify along this process and it starts with the fact that you may remember this with the state of the Union Address and the president trying to draw republicans out and challenging them to put out a budget to match his own, but then the reveal among capitol hill democrats, that once democrats did pass their version of the debt ceiling increase, the white house response seemed flat footed and that was the meetings and calls over the last 30 days for the resolution and we see the individual negotiators especially shelonda young, in order to bond and help reach the agreement with the shared louisiana roots and appreciation for gumbo. Ultimately, the development of that Negotiating Strategy especially by the white house which had been focused in the first two years of the administration especially managing the aggressive caucus and identifying the new Democratic Coalition and a group of moderates primarily and the senate Left Democrats who were able to power this over the finish line from the white house perspective. Ali vitale and mike memoli, undeterred by any sound effects. I thank you both for being with us this morning. Right now officials in davenport, iowa, are giving an update on the partial building collapse. Lets go right to some of the details. Nbcs maggie vespa joins us from davenport. Maggie, what are they saying and what more are we learning about the concerns with the apartment . Yeah, so, jose, at this point officials are giving insight into a number of things. Number one, theyre giving reporters in the room an update on the site surveillance and were awaiting details on that and they have Laser Scanning Drones over this property yesterday that can among other things build a 3d model of the site and what they were trying to do with that was determine a timeline as to when this site may come down. We learned this a couple of days ago. Officials now believe there could be two people trapped inside that trouble. Ryan hitchcock and brandon coleman. We talked to their families in the last couple of days and they have not heard from these men and brandon was in one of the top four apartments that basically collapsed on sunday. So were hearing about that. We also just heard that there is a third person who they say is still unaccounted for and was basically listed as a potential tenant in this building. The concern is they may have an old tenants list and theyre working to track this person down in particular working with the local Veterans Affairs and local agencies in the area who may have had contact with him, but basically, we have one unaccounted for at this point and two likely still in that building. Thats what officials are working with right now. At the same time weve also just in the last couple of days heard from the buildings owner andrew rold, not at the Press Conference and just releasing a statement only saying that he is thankful for first responders, thankful for the work that theyve been doing and also keeping the tenants and families who have been at this building and the tenants here and the families in his prayers. This comes as the city is taking andrew wold to court citing him for keeping this building in an unsafe, sanitary condition. That citation begins on sunday. Its a technical thing, and this is a long investigation and it is potential and theyre not ruling out criminal charges in this case and there could be a long, Long Court Battle tied to this. Keep in mind, this is just the first step, but the fine amount has gotten people caught off guard. Basically, they said that this citation that theyve issued comes with a fine of 300. And so a lot of people obviously, bristled to say the least, when they hear the fine amount when you see the destruction and tragedy that you see behind us. City engineers, and the mayor is speaking and weve not heard updates about finding brandon, finding ryan. This is a procedural update on the search and adding that the third person is now still unaccounted for amid all of this chaos here in davenport. Jose . Maggie vespa in davenport, iowa. Thank you so much. Up next, former President Donald Trump once said he could declassify documents just by thinking about it. What he apparently said on tape that could turn his own argument upside down. Were back in 60 seconds. Youre watching Jose Diaz Balart reports on msnbc. Balart reports on msnbc permission to dig in . Granted. Breyers carbsmart is so rich, so creamy, it tastes totally offlimits. But with only 4 grams of net carbs in every delicious serving, youve got the green light. Better starts with breyers. tap, tap listen, your deodorant just has to work. I use secret aluminum free. Just swipe and it lasts all day. Secret helps eliminate odor, instead of just masking it. And hours later i still smell fresh. Secret works. Ohhh yesss. Now to a Major Development in the investigation into Donald Trumps handling of classified information. A source directly familiar with the matter confirms to nbc news the special counsels office has a recording made in 2021 of trump discussing a classified document he kept from his time in the white house, and acknowledging it was still classified. Trumps spokesperson told nbc news in a statement, quote, leaks from radical partisans behind this political persecution are designed to inflame tensions. Former president has denied any wrongdoing and the mishandling of classified documents. If youre the president of the United States you can declassify just by saying its declassified and even by thinking about it because youre sending it to maralago or wherever youre sending it and it doesnt have to be a process. There can be a process, but there doesnt have to be. I was there, and i took what i took and it gets declassified. I had every right to do it. I didnt make a secret of it. With us now to talk more about this, nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken delanian and joyce vance, a former attorney in alabama who is now a professor in alabama and cohost of the sisters in law in alabama. This tells me this was a recording of a meeting that took place at trumps club in bedminster, new jersey, in 2021, the summer of 2021, and it was about helping mark meadows write a memoir. Trump was being interviewed and he was discussing a secret document about Military Options to strike iran, and he made clear on the tape, we are told, that he knew the document was secret which is why he couldnt share it more explicitly with the people on the in the meeting, and the reason thats deeply significant because it refutes the statements from trump where he said he declassified everything which by the way, its not true that he can declassify things from his mind, it is incredibly significant evidence for prosecutors who would need to prove that trump intended to keep classified documents, that he knew he was doing it and that he knew he was Keeping Documents that he shouldnt have had when he was president. You cant overstate the significance of that evidence. Well, and joyce, how big a deal is this . Its incredibly important, and i think ken identifies the reason. Trump, in essence, is confessing on tape here and that tape will be available to prosecutors and they can play it to a jury. It would be, i think, admissible generally in connection with this entire notion of Trump Retaining Documents at maralago and now we have this intriguing new possibility that there could be a separate count, a separate charge against trump because of this document itself. Its classified and he retained it and he acknowledges that he knows that and this is what prosecutors would call a goldilocks document. This is the sort of thing that the reporting that classified as secret pulls up, that might be something that the Intelligence Community might be willing to be declassified and it might be used as evidence and typically something thats at the top, secret level and that could be difficult for them to let go up and something with the lower classification level might not have the significance and the Compelling Force that would convince a jury to convicts. Hearing documents about an iranian battle plan could be very compelling as part of an indictment. Joyce, this comes as trumps attorneys are trying to get the judge in the New York City Hush Money Trial trying to recuse himself from serious conflicts. What would it take for a judge to recuse himself from this. These issues are largely up to the discretion of the judge in the case. If the judge declines to recuse himself it could go on appeal and a panel of appellate judges may ultimately make the call. Judges are supposed to stay on cases unless theres a conflict or the appearance of impropriety. Here the allegation involves a very small, diminimus donation to the Political Campaign that the judges daughter was working on. I think it is unlikely that he will be forced to recuse here. Ken delanian and joyce vance, thank you very much. Coming up, donald trump takes a swing through iowa today as his former vp prepares a lunch, a bid against him. Well get an update from the Campaign Trail next. Om the Campaign Trail next. Can count o. And now shes got myplan. The Game Changing new plan that lets her pick exactly what she wants, and save on every perk. Sadies getting her plan ready for a big trip. Travel pass, on. Nice iphone 14 pro cute couple. Trips dont last forever. Neither does summer love. So, sadies moving on. Apple music . Check. Introducing myplan. The first and only unlimited plan to give you exactly what you want, so you only pay for what you need. 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