the combat symptoms and boosts immunity. biovanta really works. it is good to be back with you on this second hour of chris jansing reports. ahead for us, the breaking news in iran. more than 100 killed, after explosions. israel was not behind the attack. growing concerns about american hostages in gaza as israel prepares for many months of war. battle at the border, a whole lot of republicans at the u.s.-mexico line taking aim the president for a growing number of migrant crossings which are slowing down. in the count down to iowa, the ad wars are heating up and it is getting nasty early. the new lines of attack from ron desantis and nikki haley. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. we begin with those deadly blasts in iran with nbc s teheran bureau chief ally ali arouzi. reporter: wounded 210 others near a cemetery in iran where a ceremony was being held to mark the 2020 death of country s top commander, in a u.s. drone attack. one bl
iowans are seeing on their tvs. ron desantis is lying because he s losing. desantis called china florida s most important trading partner. desantis even allowed a chinese military contractor to expand just miles from a u.s. naval base. phony ron desantis, too lame to lead, too weak to win. as governor, she let institutes. we just can t trust tricky nikki. reporter: yeah, so if you re an iowan, and watching your sitcoms, soap operas, newscasts, that is what yoir seeing in you re seeing in between your content that you re trying to watch. the reality is, look at the polling, former president trump is still far ahead. the question is does any of this move the needle or make an impact. earlier in the race, candidates
and donald himself getting to underreport or misreport their income? and we just haven t seen those yet? david k. johnston, thank you so much for joining us tonight. thank you. rebecca roy, former manhattan assistant district attorney. she worked out of the same charges that brought these charges. she s now a professor of law at new york law school, and she joins me now. rebecca, i want to start with what yoir legal advise would be if you were retained by the trump family about how much you should be talking about the case, slash essentially conceding the underlying facts and violation of law in public utterances? you know, i would try. i would try to tell them to not speak out publicly on these issues. i think part of the problem is that trump and his family have done very well in the public at spinning things so that there s a legal case and there s a case
your congressman. senator. yoir concerned. they went to the ballot boxes. and hoping that we stand up and do what s right. we can protect mueller and insist documents are preserved. and insist he step aside on the russia investigation because of the conflict. leader pelosi is asking he recuse himself. is that what you want? will that happen? yes. he should ask for a opinion and get a public response from the ethics department. they will find he s conflicted. when i speak of the frustration that you had during the investigation. remember your investigation you felt it was shut down by republicans. obstructed. shut down. looked the other way. free passes. you reopen that now? we ll fill in the gaps. we want to be productive. look forward. make sure the upcoming election is protected. russians will seek to enteer
anything we haven t seen anything mueller has. we were surprised by the george papadopoulos. the 13 indictments to the russians. we continue to be surprised. it s not just collusion. it s obstruction of justice. it s not just a sole piece of this. and possible financial crimes. why. what motivates them. follow the money. they have a top money laundering attorney. it reminds when manafort was desperate to get onto the trump campaign and not be paid money. why that? there are questions that come up. the fact is we have no idea. we re guessing about what mueller has. what he s shown is he ll surprise us. chase this until the ends. if yoir indicted you maybe indicted again. if anything it s the tail is much longer than we thought it was. what we know what we already