not so much about the allegations, which were then fresh, about the allegations of the crime, but that his overall character and the life he had led was being defamed, and somehow he thought that someone who was his friend as well as his colleague could perhaps in effect act as a character witness. and what i didn't bother to tell him since it was a moot point that if he had gotten through to me and in he had agreed to go on the air, then i would have had to ask him some very pointed questions. >> it's been almost 30 years since that chase. what an interview with bob costas today who of course knew o.j. simpson well. that will do it on this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." you can follow the show on mitchell reports. i'll see you tomorrow morning on "weekend today." my friend chris jansing and "chris jansing reports" begins right now. ♪♪ good day. i'm chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city.

showdown in a florida courtroom. special counsel jack smith's team heading into court just an hour from now to defend charges in the classified documents case. will the growing tension between the government and judge aileen cannon spill over into today's proceedings? plus, democrats today honing their message on abortion down to a razor's edge, just two words, blame trump. the vice president taking that message today to arizona, the state now at the heart of the debate. and we could be entering into the most dangerous and fraught 72-hour period the middle east has seen in decades. with an attack from iran believed to be imminent, is there anything the u.s. can do to keep things from spiraling out of control? a lot to get to on this friday. we begin in florida where tensions are high and decisions critical in donald trump's classified documents case. special counsel jack smith's team will be face to face with judge aileen cannon today for the first time since smith signaled that he might use what

has been euphemistically known as the nuclear button to try to get her thrown off the case. well, today his prosecutors will fight attempts by two of trump's co-defendants to get the charges against them thrown out, but big picture, it's clear from scathing court filings that smith is increasingly frustrated with judge cannon over her handling of the trial. from trump, meanwhile, the opposite. he's been praising the judge on social media as respected, fair, and impartial. nbc's ken dilanian is outside the courthouse in fort pierce, florida, renato marriotti with "politico." ken, what can you tell us about this? explain what the hearing is all about, and could there be some fireworks considering what we've seen in filings? >> chris, first, i think you're right to say that the sub text here is the frosty relationship, increasingly frosty between jack smith's office and judge aileen cannon, but today's hearing is

not about the main character, donald trump. it's about the supporting cast whose two co-defendants, walt nauta, and carlos de oliveira who are accused of obstructing justice by destroying video surveillance evidence of mr. nauta moving boxes, something prosecutors say he lied about. what the lawyers for both men are arguing today is that the prosecution hasn't met its burden here to prove that they acted corruptly because the lawyers say, they didn't really understand that there was a criminal investigation. they didn't understand the implications of these documents being subpoenaed. they didn't know the extent to which it was clatsz classified documents. all of that disputed by the special counsel's office that will argue in response these are questions for the jury. they are fact questions, not legal questions, which are the kind of thing that normally are raised in a motion to dismiss. it's supposed to be about how

the law applies to the case. all of that said as you rightfully pointed out, judge aileen cannon has shown herself to be quite responsive to some rather interesting arguments by the defense in this case, and that's really the drama here. will she give any credence to what normally would be a very long shot, a motion to dismiss an indictment at this stage. >> so renato, we did get the transcript of walt nauta's interview with the fbi. the thing that caught all our eyes is he thought the documents removed from mar-a-lago had newspaper clippings, hair spray, shampoo, not classified documents. do you think the transcript backs up his and de oliveira's efforts to get the charges thrown out? >> i don't think so. i actually -- i agree with ken, but i'm going to go further. i think long shot understates how high of a climb these co-defendants have to get these charges dismissed. essentially what is happening at

this stage is the judge has to presume that everything that jack smith put in the indictment is true. he has to essentially assume that he's right about every fact and find that nonetheless he made such a mistake when he was writing it that he didn't even assert what he needed to assert to allege a crime. that's very unlikely that that's the case, or that the statutes of which other people have been charged across the country are somehow unconstitutionally vague. in other words, they're so -- it's so hard to contemplate that obstructing justice is something that might be against the law that it's something that he wasn't on notice that this could potentially be a crime. very, very steep and i think even judge cannon's going to know that if she rules for the defendants and against jack smith as to these motions, she would expect to get reversed by the court of appeals. >> so let me ask you about that

frosty relationship in ken's words, between the judge and the special prosecutor and his team. the motions are piling up, right? including a number of them that deal with procedural issues that could or maybe should have been easily resolved. what's your take on the pace here and the way judge cannon is haning things? >> there's no question whatsoever that she is no hurry to move this case forward as to trump. you know, we're here talking today about motions that were filed by the co-defendants. trump also filed motions. she scheduled hearings on the motions by the co-defendants but not trump's motions. there have been numerous opportunities like this one where she has sort of let time lapse that could otherwise be used to move forward trump's case. i think that's unmistakable. regarding her handling of some of the issues here, i mean, her jury instruction question posed to the parties was a head

scratcher. she certainly made a number of bizarre moves, and you know, some of them are just real head scratchers because, for example, if she was really trying to tank things for trump or whatever a lot of people believe, tipping her hand in those jury instructions maybe wouldn't be the most savvy way to do it. on the other hand, there's no question she's favorably inclined towards trump's views. i do agree with ken that the anger and frustration from smith's team is becoming more and more evident in the filings, which is dangerous because obviously she has a lot of power in her hands and the standard to get, for example, recusal motion granted is extraordinarily high. >> renato mariotti, ken dilanian, thank you both so much. and by the way, that's not all the trump legal drama today. new york is gearing up for the hush money case.

one of course of the most consequential trials in american history and now less than 72 hours away. today the u.s. secret service and the nypd insists they are ready. they've got plenty of experience handling high profile trials, even though no one has ever seen anything quite like this. i want to bring in msnbc legal correspondent lisa rubin, elise jo r dan is here, former white house and an msnbc political analyst. lisa, monday is the start of jury selection. what are you going to be watching for? >> i'm going to be watching to see how often the defense tries to use challenges for cause, so chris, let me just lay out for you and your viewers, there are two types of ways to get rid of potential jurors. one is called a preemptory challenge. you can exercise it for any reason, no questions asked. the other is a challenge for cause where you have reason to believe that somebody should be excused because there's no way they can be fair and impartial.

that's where the answers to that 42 question and multiple sub parts of questions, jury questionnaire comes in. i'll be looking to see how difficult are the trump lawyers going to make it to select a jury by pointing to somebody's media diet or the fact that they have attended a rally or are they going to sit back and try and build a composite. in other words, there will have to be multiple factors to have to excuse someone. most of those questions on that juror questionnaire in and of themselves are not disqualifying by themselves, but that doesn't mean trump's lawyers won't try to make them that way. >> there will be no cameras in the courtroom, so it's going to be a case of just reporting what we're hearing from inside. we'll have our teams in the overflow room, for example. trump then has the opportunity, though, to go outside every day, hold a press conference, every day if he likes and call the whole thing a sham, complain he's being railroaded, those are

things he's done before, right? politically speaking, how do you think the public would absorb that? >> chris, this is the trial that the public is just pretty meh on. even, you know, republicans say even if he's found guilty, they don't care, and they would still keep voting based on, you know, whatever happens with this trial. it's an old story. everyone's been hearing about it for years. this stormy daniels saga and michael cohen, and it's just politically the optics of it, it actually helps trump, i think, because he is pursuing his martyr complex and victim hood, and so he gets to say, oh, look at me. this is so terrible. they're persecuting me. in a case that's been frankly going on a long, long time, and so he gets to pursue that and fund-raise off of it. we've seen his success going into the courtroom and emerging afterwards and being able to spin and raise his own support. >> you know, it's interesting you say that. there was an article in

bloomberg today, and i'm going to read part of it for you. you led me right to it. in 2020, trump saw big fund-raising bumps in the areas where he held rallies. but that's no longer the case, according to campaign finance data crunched by reporters at bloomberg. instead, the money flows this year get triggered when he goes to court for his civil and criminal trials. so even if -- and a lot of folks have argued this -- it really only helps him with his base, financially it could be a boon. >> and we know how much he kneads money, so we know that donald trump is really struggling when it comes to fund-raising so if he gets a fund-raising bump from grass roots donors when he don't into the courtroom, that's a win for him. especially when it's a case where he's not running the risk of necessarily jail, i think, right, lisa? i don't believe this is a case where he's probably facing a lot of time behind bars. >> and meantime, lisa, michael cohen did an interview with "politico" in which he said, people are going to be surprised

by the things they hear at this trial. when asked if people knew what this case was all about, in fact, most people don't really know anything. they only know what the headlines have been. as you know very, very well, headlines do not necessarily tell the story. is he often right about that in cases, especially high profile cases that you know about, and how do you think prosecutors then will approach this story, which a lot of people think they already know. >> a lot of people think they know the story. what i would say is they know the first part of the story or at least they think they do. they understand that michael cohen aided by some folks at american media which owns the national inquiry and keith davidson who represented two women, stormy daniels and karen mcdougal negotiated and executed a set of settlements designed to keep their respective affairs with donald trump buried in the leadup to the election. what people don't know is what came after it and what really has been charged here, which is the cover-up. how did they then paper over those repayments of the

settlement with stormy daniels when trump was in the white house. michael cohen is going to be the tour guide to this, but he's not the whole landscape, and he's not even the main show. and i think that's what he's trying to illustrate is that there's lots of evidence here in the form of documents and also in the form of other people who were part of this journey along the way. it takes a lot of people to ensure that a current president, for example, signs nine checks. back to michael cohen, when he's in the white house, he's not exactly opening a drawer, taking out his personal check and writing a check for $9,000 to michael cohen. we're going to hear from those people, michael cohen will be a key player but certainly not the only one. >> lisa rubin, thank you so much. be sure to tune in to our special coverage.

it gets started monday morning 10:00 a.m. eastern right here on msnbc. in 60 seconds, the message from democrats, make trump's synonymous with arizona's near total ban on abortion. how vice president harris will try to make that message land in arizona today. that's next. y. that's next. type 2 diabetes? discover the ozempic® tri-zone. ♪ ♪ i got the power of 3. i lowered my a1c, cv risk, and lost some weight. in studies, the majority of people reached an a1c under 7 and maintained it. i'm under 7. ozempic® lowers the risk of major cardiovascular events such as stroke, heart attack, or death in adults also with known heart disease. i'm lowering my risk. adults lost up to 14 pounds. i lost some weight. ozempic® isn't for people with type 1 diabetes. don't share needles or pens, or reuse needles. don't take ozempic® if you or your family ever had medullary thyroid cancer, or have multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2, or if allergic to it. stop ozempic® and get medical help right away if you get a lump or swelling in your neck, severe stomach pain, or an allergic reaction.

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trump is the architect of this health care crisis, and that's not a fact he hides. in fact, he brags about it. nbc's yamiche alcindor is reporting from tucson, arizona. back with us, elise jordan. yamiche, what more can we expect from vice president harris today, and what are you hearing from folks in arizona about it? >> well, vice president harris is going to aggressively go after former president donald trump. she officially wanted this to be a campaign stop and not an official event. she wanted to make sure she could go after him and not be limited by the hatch act. i want to read parts of her speech that her campaign has released. she's going to say here in arizona they have turned the clock back more than a century on women's rights and freedoms. the overturning of roe was a seismic event and this ban in arizona is one of the biggest aftershocks yet. she's also going to say as much harm as he has already caused, a second trump term would be even worse. if donald trump gets the chance,

he will sign a national abortion ban, and how do we know? look at his record. congress tried to pass a national abortion ban before in 2017, and then president trump endorsed it. you're going to have vice president harris say don't believe donald trump when he's vowing not to sign federal ban on abortion. instead look at what he's said in the past, which was that he would sign an abortion ban. i also want to point out that there are people on the ground here who are reacting including during a one on one interview to say the attorney general had some strong words against this abortion ban that would be a near total abortion ban. here's what she told me. >> just unbelievable, and i didn't think that it would ever get to this point. i am shocked by it. we're going to fight like hell to prevent this 1864 ban from being implemented. this is going to have, you know, an earthquake sized effect in november for republicans. former president trump is responsible for this 1864 ban.

this is his fault because he appointed a united states supreme court that overturned roe versus wade. >> now, you're, of course going to also hear the vice president echo that language. it's important to note that the state attorney general says she's working with other states like california to possibly have to help women travel if this near total abortion ban gets put into effect. she told me if people are going to try to go after her for legal challenges for not prosecuting abortion bans or not prosecuting abortion violations, that she told them they can bring it on. you really have the state attorney general really leaning in on this idea that she's going to try her best to not prosecute people and also work with other states to get women the reproductive care she believes they deserve. >> elise, that message, donald trump did this. how effective can it be for the democrats? >> well, look at how it already has been effective in every ballot referendum, voters, it helps democrats to win if they

have an abortion referendum on the ballot, and this is a winning message for democrats. they get to tie it to donald trump that they're trying to paint as extreme. this is how extreme he is. he's done this. women can't get basic health care, basic medical procedures, life saving in some cases, because of donald trump, and so they can tie to abortion his other extremism, his other craziness, frankly, and just pain the picture of this is a guy who can't be trusted. he is a nut. >> you know, arizona's republican senate candidate kari lake was confronted about her change in stance over abortion, which a lot of politicians obviously are being asked about this, but she is running for senate in arizona, and she has changed her position. she's now lobbying for repeal of that abortion ban that she once called great. this is what happened at a town hall. >> we thought that when you said you supported the 1864 ban you

mentioned -- why are you against that miracle. >> first of all, i am pro-life. i want to save as many babies as possible, but you do realize that that law is not going to surf -- >> there's a new op-ed that says her shift is the clearest signal yet that lake and her fellow republicans have gotten the near total abortion ban they wanted. now in full flat out panic mode. is that what you're seeing here? >> this is not a great issue. there's no way that they can spin this to placate the far right or moderate voters who are repulsed by this, the majority of the country that does not want a federal ban on abortion and doesn't want these draconian restrictions. so it's really lose-lose. and i almost thought that donald trump would have more political sense than to wade in head first

this week and just try and keep avoiding, avoiding, avoiding, but the fact that he has delved into it and that he is completely confused in his messaging, and it's just a great political attack for democrats to seize. >> elise jordan, yamiche alcindor, we thank you both. much appreciated. we've got some breaking news now, the house has just passed a bill to reauthorize a key u.s. spy program known as fisa in a rare win for house speaker mike johnson. nbc's ryan nobles is on capitol hill for us. ryan, tell us exactly what this bill does and what it means for speaker johnson. >> reporter: well, the number one thing it does, chris, is it expands the foreign international surveillance act, which national security officials believe is a key tool that they have in their efforts to prevent terror attacks here in the united states, and the bill that they ultimately pass did not coincide with an amendment that would expand the warrant restrictions around this

surveillance activity, and that was something that white house officials, members of the department of justice and national security officials made a last minute push because there were both republicans and democrats who believe that the warrant requirement needed to be a part of this reauthorization. it ended up as a tie vote, that amendment, a tie does not pass so that warrant specification will not be part of this ultimate package, but there is still a little bit of drama associated with this, chris. the bill passed, and ultimately passed by a pretty wide marngs margin, but at the last minute, conservative republicans filed what's called a motion to reconsider, which would bring the bill back up for another vote. everybody left because they assumed that this was the last vote of the week, so they're not going to be able to address that motion to reconsider, and there's also been a subsequent motion to table the motion to reconsider, not to get too far into the weeds here. they're not going to be able to take that up until next week now because everybody has gone home for the weekend.

that means that the senate is not going to be able to act on this immediately at the beginning of next week as we had anticipated. it's probably going to delay it by a day or two. regardless, this is huge sigh of relief for the biden administration that was concerned that there was a world where this fisa reauthorization would not happen at all. so the fact that they were able to get it over the finish line without this warrant requirement, which national security officials believe could gut the program is something that the biden administration considered a priority. and then to your previous question about how it affects mike johnson, while this is a win, he was able to get this legislation passed, and he voted no on the amendment that would require the warrant attachment to this bill and also i'm not sure if he voted for the final package because often speakers of the house do not vote for it. but regardless he was supportive of it, that's something that, again, is going to have him run afoul of conservative republicans who are looking to perhaps boot him from office.

in fact, marjorie taylor greene went out on the house steps after this vote and specifically accused johnson of being the one orchestrating the effort to prevent the war requirement for being part of the final bill. he got this short-term win today, but obviously, chris, he's headed down to mar-a-lago to try and shore up the conservative wing of the party by appearing with donald trump, which may be a necessity for him to keep his job. chris. >> ryan nobles, thank you. and coming up, how the u.s. is working to protect american diplomats in israel from a potential retaliatory attack by iran. you're watching "chris jansing reports" only on msnbc. ansing reports" only on msnbc

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concern is so high right now, the u.s. is making moves to protect diplomats and their families in israel ahead of an expected attack by iran. the state department has barred its staff from traveling to large parts of that country out of an abundance of caution. it is the first time the u.s. government has restricted the movements of its employees in israel since the war in gaza broke out six months ago. nbc's hala gorani is reporting from tel aviv. retired admiral james stavridis is msnbc's chief international analyst and former supreme allied commander of nato. good to see both of you. iran's supreme leader vowed that israel must be punished and will be for the deadly strike on the iranian consulate in syria. that's one of many threats from

iran. what is the u.s. and israel expecting, and how are they preparing? >> reporter: iran's supreme leader, in fact, said that an attack on an embassy or a consulate is akin to an attack on iranian territory and is vowing, as you mentioned, chris, to retaliate. the u.s. is standing by publicly with israel, the commander was meeting today with gallant, the defense minister for israel in a very public show of support at an air base for a photo op there. and israel was saying that it is ready. it is ready in terms of how it's preparing its ground forces. it's ready as well to protect its air space, and this comes after what was really quite a brazen attack attributed to israel on a consular building in damascus, the syrian capital in a pretty busy civilian area right next to the canadian embassy that killed two very

high level senior iranian commanders. so really, the region is on high alert, and the big question is when will iran respond its promise to ask how. those are the two big questions. >> we know defense general secretary austin has been on -- the commander is in israel today. talk about the kinds of conversations they're likely having. >> i think hala's final comment there is the center piece for the conversations between general ka ril la, who is the head of u.s. central command and his counterpart, the head of the israeli defense forces as well as their minister of defense, yoav gallant, you see him there in the video. he's also a former head of the israeli defense forces. and oh, by the way, in the war cabinet is general benny gantz, someone i've worked with very closely during my time in

uniform. so that whole group will be discussing when do we think the strike is coming and where is it going to go and the short answer is nobody knows. but i think as i read the commentary coming from the ayatollahs, yes, they are very determined to strike israel. on the other hand, i think this strike is going to be fairly precise, and they're going to try to avoid turning this into a wider war. iran really doesn't want that at this point because they believe correctly, it would drag the united states into the conflict. iran ultimately wouldn't do well in that exchange. so look for something fairly precise. i think it will be against the israelis, not against the americans, but a closing thought here, i think the state department is exactly right to really look at all the aspects

of danger to americans in the region as well. >> general, "the washington post" reports that those -- that three u.s. officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity told them that the pentagon was frustrated that israel didn't warn them before the strike in syria. should israel have warned the u.s.? and if so, why didn't they? >> in my view -- by the way, i'm an admiral, not a general. i reject that demotion -- >> admiral stavridis, i did not mean to demote you. >> not at all. the israel in my view should have alerted the united states because when a strike like that occurs, it puts our troops in iraq, syria, our ships at sea, off the red sea at risk from iranian retaliations. so in my view, they should have let us know that. i suppose the reason they did not, perhaps it was time

sensitive, and they needed to go now, now, now, or alternatively, they wanted to hold that back from the united states because, frankly, this administration probably would have counseled israel not to do this because of the risk of expanding the war that hala and i are discussing with you right now. >> one of the conversations that has been had and really now for weeks if not months is whether the u.s. should put conditions on aid to israel. obviously the president is waiting to see whether the conversations that he has had with prime minister netanyahu come to fruition, but do you think that right now president biden could put conditions on israeli aid in the face of these iranian threats? >> i think it would be very difficult for him to put conditions on defensive systems. however, i think given the level of famine, the level of hardship

on 2.2 million gazans, half of them children, i don't think the president has many tools left in his tool kit beyond pulling back on offensive weapons. again, that would be a very difficult thing for any american president to do given our long history of backing israel up, but the conditions in gaza are so horrific it's got to be on the table. i'm sure it was part of the conversations at the highest levels. hopefully israel will open the aid to get in there, and i think in terms of defending against an iranian strike, israel's pretty capable of doing that. defensive weapons are going to be the key there. the antiballistic missile systems like iron dome. >> hala gorani and james stavridis, thank you both so much. and coming up, the big news from the white house today on student loan debt, will it help president biden with young

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. a big move today by the biden administration that could impact a key part of the president's electoral coalition. young voters. the white house says that 277,000 people will receive emails today saying that their student loan debts have been canceled, a total of $7.4 billion in debt wiped away.

nbc's monica alba is at the white house. eugene daniels is the white house correspondent for "politico" and an msnbc political contributor. okay, monica, explain how this plan works and i guess most important for people who are listening, who can expect to get that email today? >> reporter: so this is a new plan, but it's really under existing student loan programs in terms of that forgiveness for that debt. we're talking about a couple of different things. the president tried to put into place a more sweeping forgiveness plan that of course then was challenged by the supreme court, so they had to go back to the drawing board in some ways with the department of education and do this under a different regulation to try to get this across the finish line, and they were able to do that with what's known as the save program. and so that now has been taking place in different phases, and now we expect it will actually go into full effect in july, and so even more people who were

eligible could be receiving that kind of good news. some of the folks that might be getting an email like that are public sector workers, teachers, disabled workers and also those who have been defrauded by for profit colleges. all of those kinds of categories and groups of people are now el i didn't believe to try to apply to that and be a part of this program to be eligible for that kind of forgiveness of their debt. but in total, the biden administration is really touting the fact that they have been able to now forgive debt for more than 4 million people, but of course the president has vowed that he wants to do that for many more millions who would like to see that kind of debt forgiven. and again, he's going to try to do that, and we know that they're still working on some other rules and regulations that could go into effect by the fall, but that isn't ironclad yet, they're still working at this. they do know it's a huge issue for young voters and they want to make sure they're making progress ahead of november. >> we do know that. young voters are a critical part

of the coalition. in 2020 our nbc news exit poll showed that between the ages of 18 and 29, voters preferred biden to trump by 24 points. 60 to 36%. that group made up 70% of the electorate. that's huge. could this deaf relief plan help shore up that vote? >> it could. what we have heard from young voters, not just from that first category, and don't forget about -- that has a lot of that debt, what we have been hearing from voters is they wanted to see the administration fight to try to continue to get rid of student debt, right? they knew what happened with the supreme court, but what they wanted to see was the administration try to be creative like they're doing now. monica just talked about the many people, the many people. $153 billion in student debt, the administration is saying that they have figured out a way to forgive.

and then other ways that they're trying to make payments much, much lower for people, make people -- make it easier to pay back some of those things that they can get rid of. the question how do you teach this to people who maybe aren't paying attention right now, just a few minutes ago the white house released a video with the vice president and the cast of a different world, very iconic, african american, tv show that was at hillman college talking about and touting these kinds of numbers, touting all the student debt relief that they have worked on and so you can see them trying to do to make sure that they're reaching people that maybe aren't always paying attention to cable news, to play book to the "new york times," those kinds of things to let them know, hey, we are doing this and look at these folks from hillman college, they're signing on as well. >> that's one of the key groups. earlier this week a poll

suggested that black men in particular are turning away from joe biden. i know our folks have gone into barbershops and talked to black men who have said, you know, i voted for joe biden, but i don't think he's keeping his promises. does the white house see that they have a messaging problem that maybe folks don't realize what's in certain areas, what exactly is going on? >> yeah, i think they do. the white house is the campaign, it's the democratic party writ large. when you talk across the board, they know they have this problem. how to fix it is the real big question. vice president harris has done round tables with young black men who were small business owners, for example, talking about access to capital, hearing from them. you have the campaign that has a whole entire arm to reach out to black voters. they know they have the issue, but the thing is the democratic party has for years watched as

they have seen black men who typically vote for democrats move a little bit away. it's not that they're all going to go and vote for donald trump, right? they're not worried about that. what the white house or this campaign is worried about is that those black men and maybe even some of those black women are actually going to just stay home and not vote at all, right? and in an election as close as we're expecting, every single vote counts, especially from the people that you are usually counting on to vote for you. >> eugene daniels, monica alba, thank you both. a week later, scientists have yet to pinpoint the exact fault that ruptured in new jersey and led to the strongest earthquake to hit the new york metro area in more than 200 years. so now researchers are in the process of installing brand new monitoring equipment to better measure aftershocks hoping that they can solve the mystery. a researcher at the u.s. geological survey tells nbc news this new equipment will, quote,

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