right now on "ana cabrera reports," the trials of donald trump, a hearing today in florida at the mar-a-lago documents case. how trump's co-defendants are aiming to have their charges thrown out. plus, the countdown to trump's hush money case. it starts on monday, and we got our hands on the list of potential prosecution witnesses. also ahead, a meeting at mar-a-lago, why the house speaker is headed to florida to

talk, of all things, election integrity with the former president. and later, new fallout over a revived 1864 ban on abortion, as the vice president prepares to, quote, take the gloves off in arizona. ♪♪ welcome to friday. it is 10:00 eastern. thanks for being here. i'm ana cabrera reporting from new york. we begin in florida, and that hearing today in the mar-a-lago classified documents case. the judge will hear arguments from two of donald trump's co-defendants, walt nauta and carlos de oliveira on several motions including the bid to get the charges against them thrown out. ken dilanian is outside the courthouse in fort pierce, florida. also with us paul butler former federal prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst. ken, what else do we know about today's hearing and these two co-defendants? >> reporter: ana, good morning

from sunny fort pierce where normally donald trump is the star of the show. he's been attending these hearings, and when he does, the street behind me is usually packed with throngs of his supporters. today is about the supporting cast, the two co-defendants, his employees, his valet, walt nauta and carlos de oliveira accused of conspiring to obstruct justice and to destroy video surveillance footage. their lawyers are going to argue that the charges should be dismissed because they weren't aware of the criminal investigation and they weren't cognizant of exactly what was in those boxes so they couldn't have obstructed justice. jack smith's team is going to argue that's a question for the jury in this case. it's a fact question, no at legal question. motions to dismiss are supposed to be about whether the law applies to the facts. they're really hard to win normally and when a criminal case has progressed this far, but judge aileen cannon in this case has shown herself to be

unusually sympathetic to some rather esoteric arguments from the defense. we'll have to wait and see what happens. one of the things i found interesting is last night mr. nauta's attorneys released a transcript of his voluntary interview with the fbi, and during that interview the fbi tried to explain to him why it was important that they get to the bottom of what happened to these classified documents. they said that they want to tell the agencies involved whether lives are on the line, whether, for example, foreign adversaries learned about the capabilities of our ships. remember mr. nauta was a navy person. ana, it's not clear to this day whether the intelligence community has gotten to the bottom of the question of whether any foreign adversaries saw some of these highly classified documents at mar-a-lago. >> so paul, walt nauta and carlos de oliveira want the indictments dropped. do you see that happening? >> i don't. so prosecutors say they know exactly what they were doing. they know that the documents were sensitive and that trump

didn't want the fbi to find them. so it's just a question of he said, he said, and that's always an issue for the jury rather than the judge. >> ken, when can we expect this case, then, to get closer to trial? >> that's anybody's guess, ana. the judge asked both sides to set nominal trial dates and they both agreed this could happen before the election, but since then the judge hasn't said a word about setting a potential trial date. it's one of the big mysteries in this case, when will it go to . >> judge aileen cannon did grant, how does this protection impact the case moving forward? >> so the defendant's team already knows who the witnesses are, but they wanted to make them public, and it's really unclear why. having the witnesses names all over the media would not advance their defense, but it certainly could expose these people to threats and intimidation.

so legally speaking this was an easy case but it took judge cannon a long time to come to the right decision. but ana, this is a win for jack smith. >> ken dilanian, thank you. paul butler, please stay with us. we are just three days away now from donald trump's first criminal trial. jury selection begins monday in the new york hush money case, and we just got a look at the prosecution's potential witness list. it includes more than a dozen people who could take the stand from stormy daniels and michael cohen to former trump white house aides and trump organization employees. msnbc's yasmin vossoughian has more on the key players. >> reporter: the trump hush money case is the first of four criminal cases to move to trial. former president donald trump was charged with 34 counts of falsifying records in the first degree, but trump is not the only one involved. michael cohen will likely be the star witness in the hush money case. he was donald trump's lawyer and fixer and on august 21st, 2018,

he pled guilty to eight counts in manhattan federal court. and cohen alleged in a court of law donald trump directed him to make illegal payments to influence the 2016 election, which trump denies. >> i did it at the direction of and for the benefit of donald j. trump. >> reporter: cohen was sentenced to three years in prison. cohen alleges he orchestrated payoffs to two women who said they had affairs with donald trump, including stormy daniels. he says he sought reimbursement from trump and even recorded one of their conversations about it. the fbi seized that tape during a raid on cohen's residence and office. cohen's attorney released it to the media. adult film actress stormy daniels also known as stephanie clifford says she met donald trump in 2006 at a celebrity golf tournament when he was the host of "the apprentice". >> who loves "the apprentice"? >> stormy says they had sex that night and he offered to cast her

in the apprentice, which trump denies. in 2011, the story leaked, stormy says she gave an interview to a tabloid magazine for $15,000. it remained unpublish until 2018. but two years earlier when donald trump was running for president, a tape from access hollywood -- >> we're ready, let's go. >> leaked, which prosecutors say caused panic within the trump campaign. two weeks later stormy daniels was paid $130,000 by trump's attorney, michael cohen. karen mcdougal is an ex-playboy model and says she had an affair with donald trump. they allegedly met in 2006 at the playboy mansion, and she says they dated for nearly a year. donald trump denies they had a relationship. in 2016 when donald trump received the republican nomination, mcdougal's story leaked. ami, the owner of the national inquirer offered her $150,000. >> they wanted to squash the story. >> reporter: michael cohen says

he orchestrated the deal for ami to buy mcdougal's story, but never publish it to help trump in the 2016 election. allegations trump denies. allen weisselberg was the trump organization's chief financial officer. he was mentioned several times in michael cohen's recording as being a part of the hush money plot. >> i've spoken to allen weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up. >> reporter: in july of 2021, allen weisselberg and the trump corporation were indicted for scheming to defraud tax authorities at the federal, state, and local level. he was sentenced to five months in prison and agreed to plead guilty and be a witness against the trump organization. >> they're looking to squeeze him again, still to possibly get to donald trump. >> reporter: on march 4th, 2024, allen weisselberg pled guilty to perjury and lying under oath in the trump civil fraud case, a deal that sends him back to prison but does not require him

to testify in the hush money case. he's not been charged in that case. he's currently serving five months in prison. manhattan district attorney alvin bragg and his team are the prosecutors in the trial. bragg is a harvard educated democrat and former assistant attorney general of new york. on december 6th, 2022, d.a. bragg secured the conviction of the trump corporation and the payroll corporation for conspiracy, criminal tax fraud, and falsifying business records. >> the focus in the last 24 hours has been almost exclusively on trump. >> reporter: then on march 30th, 2023, donald trump was indicted by d.a. alvin bragg in a manhattan court. days later, he was arraigned. >> our yasmin vossoughian with that reporting. thanks. back with us now, paul butler, and joining us someone you just saw in that piece, "new york times" investigative reporter suzanne craig. welcome, suzanne. paul, let me start with you and your legal expertise.

we just went through the key players in this case. we mentioned some of the witnesses that could be called by the prosecution. who could have the biggest impact? >> i think hope hicks could be a star witness as she was involved in calls with michael cohen and donald trump and ami. she doesn't have michael cohen's baggage. it's just the opposite. she was team trump all the way during the period that's the subject of this indictment, so that makes her especially credible, and she will be able to connect the hush money payments to trump's presidential ambitions. >> hope hicks, ronna graph, michael cohen, serious trump insiders or former insiders in the case of michael cohen, suzanne. what's your sense of the trump team's mind-set and how concerned trump might be about some of these people taking the stand? >> i have to say when i looked at that lineup, i think they're all going to be a strong supporting cast. i think michael cohen is kind of

considered the main narrator, he's in the middle of all of it. you look, hope hicks is one that's definitely going to be powerful. david pecker was running the national inquirer and had an arrangement with donald trump. they were friends, and he had offered to be sort of the eyes and ears of the campaign. and how that works when you're sitting at the national inquirer is a lot of stories come into the national inquirer where somebody like stormy daniels wants a payment for their story. normally the national inquirer will buy it and run it. a lot of people know this term now, a catch and kill. he was in the middle of some of those payments, either in the case of one of them that made the payment and other ones was going back and forth with the trump organization. he's already paid a fine in this case regarding the karen mcdougal payment. he's cooperating, right? >> he's going to be one of the government witnesses. i think when you look at a lot

of people talk about this case and they talk about michael cohen being the star witness, all of these people that are there are going to have -- they're corroborating witnesses. there's either going to be documents or there's going to be other people backing up michael cohen's, you know, version of events. >> do you think trump will take the stand in his own defense and who else might we see on the defense witness list? >> he's on the defense witness list, i don't know. and i think anything can happen. i think he's often advised not to, but he does it against his lawyer's advice. i think the worry if donald trump does take the stand is just how that will go. he's often his own worst enemy. >> we saw it in the e. jean carroll case, right? >> we've seen it in depositions over the years. he often will say things that hurt him. >> so paul, trump sent out a fund-raising email this morning, and i quote, 72 hours until all

hell breaks loose, he writes. my first thought was this sounds like language we heard before january 6th. your reaction? >> yeah, that's right. so we think of trump's two big occasions in his public life right now, his campaign for president and his four criminal prosecutions but trump doesn't think of those as separate incidents. he blends his campaign and his criminal prosecutions. when he uses that kind of rhetoric, again, he just invites gag orders and explains judges are trying to set him up. once again, that furthers his presidential ambitions because it plays into this sense of him and some of his supporters that he's being persecuted, including by the biden administration, which he has said about this case, the hush money case, that's absurd. this is a state case.

alvin bragg does not report to the attorney general or to the president, but again, the facts don't get in the way in terms of the campaign, but it's going to be quite different on monday in that courtroom, ana. judge merchan runs a tough courtroom. >> suzanne, let's talk about the manhattan district attorney at the center of this, alvin bragg who brought the charges. there was this fascinating profile that the "new york times" magazine did on him and his approach to this case. they write in part, after the indictment, a chorus of critics, some but not all on the right question the legal reasoning, and winnability of the hush money case. many believe that bragg's strategy looks stronger. what do we know about his mind-set, his preparation going into the first criminal trial against a former president and the man who is the presumptive republican nominee for 2024? >> it's interesting this case was not considered to be even

going forward when he first took office. the previous district attorney had decided not to move forward with it, so there's been a lot of back and forth about it. it's definitely the least consequential criminally of the cases. but alvin bragg decided this was the case he was going to go forward with. it's an interesting one, he's got to tie a lesser charge, this falsifying of business records with a felony in order to sort of make it work. it's going to be interesting. i think in one hand i see the sort of critics have said this is -- there's just been a lot of questions about it, i guess, but you can see also from a jury's point of view, this is going to be a case that i think will be easy for them to grasp. it involves a payment, a hush money payment to an adult film star in the final days of an election. there's a lot of theater around it, and i think that it will be appealing to a jury and i think that was probably one of the reasons it was appealing to the d.a.'s office when they decided to go forward with it.

>> and i know you brought the jury questionnaire, we talked a little bit about that earlier this week. as we look forward to the jury selection come monday, what stands out to you on that jury liks, and of course the big question, can they get somebody, a full jury panel that is fair and impartial? >> right, i'm thinking back to the jury selection that i've sat through for the trump organization criminal trial. a lot of jurors came in and said, you know, they hate donald trump or they like donald trump. it was a real mixed bag, but felt that they could set their feelings aside, and the question for -- for both sides when they're listening to the jurors is just sort of how many people, you know, deliberately wanted to be there and aren't being truthful and they're going to have to parse through that. there's going to be 42 questions that they're asking. it's everything from the standard stuff you would see on, you know, law and order, a movie, what do you do? what tv shows do you catch watch? there's a list from everything from "the new york times," do you watch msnbc or fox or news

max, and then they get into questions like have you attended a trump rally, and then go from there. do you know any of the players? have you read michael cohen's book "disloyal," very granular stuff. they're not going to be asked how they vote, but i think at the end we're going to be able to ascertain that. >> thank you for coming in, offering your insights and reporting. paul butler as always, thank you for your expertise. up next, donald trump and speaker johnson meeting at mar-a-lago to talk, quote, election integrity. but do their grievances match up with reality? plus, how vice president harris is taking the battle over abortion rights directly to arizona. also, a missouri teen talks to nbc news about being shot in the head after ringing the wrong doorbell. and later, more than 90 million people have already filed their taxes. if you haven't, we'll have what you need to know with the deadline now just days away. wi deadline now just days away. we're still going for that nice catch.

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welcome back. house speaker mike johnson is headed to florida today. this meeting expected to boost johnson with the gop as he faces new threats to his speakership and struggled to get members of his own party to vote for key legislation this week. the big complication, the former president is the one who told republicans to vote no. joining us now from west palm beach, florida, is nbc's ali vitali. good to see you. what should we expect today? >> it's less a rocky moment in their relationship and more in the relationships that johnson has with his own colleagues up on capitol hill on the republican side. i mean, this is the story of every speaker that we've seen over the course of this conference, and it's rare to have more than one over the course of one congress, but here

we are with mike johnson just a few months into his term, and already facing the same problems that former speaker kevin mccarthy faced, which is that one vote motion to vacate, any one republican member can trigger it, and that's what marjorie taylor greene is threatening to do, whether it's over that fisa issue you just referenced or the pending ukraine battle. it's partly why as i've been talking to republican members, many of them see johnson coming down now to mar-a-lago, proximity to power, the epicenter of the republican party as the likely next standard bearer of it, the former president, donald trump. they're allies. it's going to be interesting to see how trump himself navigating this moment, especially if they take questions. is trump forced to grapple with the threats of marjorie taylor greene, and the chaos that would put forward from a congress that has already seen its fair share of chaos, and would be facing it in an election year now.

>> trump and johnson aren't aligned on everything, i'm thinking about the fisa legislation we have been talking about, but they are definitely aligned on the election issue going back to 2020 before johnson was speaker. he was involved in trump's so-called stop the steal efforts. remind us of his role in that. >> reporter: yeah, which is why it makes sense that he's now coming down here to do this on a trump pet issue like election integrity. a, the thing that they're talking about here according to my sources is around mono-citizen voting, ana, and this is something that is already illegal and in the cases, the very rare cases that it still happens, it's pretty easy to prosecute. i mean, i'll put up a study that was done from the 2016 general, and we're talking about 0.0001% of votes in that general election. nevertheless, this is all part and parcel to trump's continued claims about fraud in the 2020 election that he lost. for johnson, though, we look back to 2020 as instructive about the speaker. not only because he's going to

be the one to have a pivotal role in certifying whatever are. he was one of the chief architects of an argument that would have invalidated slates of electors in four key states. it's something over 100 of his colleagues had signed onto. it was a central feature in the battle over who would replace mccarthy. and it's central in the way johnson thinks about electoral politics. >> thank you for bringing us the background. thank you facts when it comes to non-citizens voting. thank you, ali vitali. speaking of that surveillance bill that trump initially helped to tank, the house is expected to take another crack at passing it with changing lobbied for by a group of conservatives and progressive democrats as well, including shortening their reauthorization period from five years to two. that section 702 is just a

powerful tool that allows the government to conduct targeted surveillance of foreign nationals living outside the u.s. without a warrant. critics worry those powers are too broad. still with the new changes our capitol hill team reports house leadership is more confident the reauthorization will pass this time. it did already clear a key procedural test today, and we'll keep you posted on the final outcome. next, vice president harris is taking off the gloves, according to "politico," as she highlights arizona's revived civil war era abortion restrictions. how republicans in the state are scrambling to address the issue ahead of november. ana cabrera reports is back after a short break. stay with us. k after a short break. stay with us (restaurant noise) introducing allison's plaque psoriasis. she thinks her flaky gray patches are all people see. otezla is the #1 prescribed pill to treat plaque psoriasis allison! over here!

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vice president kamala harris is headed to arizona today where she'll push for abortion rights. just days after the state supreme court ruled to reinstate a near total abortion ban dating back to the civil war. the ruling has prompted protests

across arizona. it's caused confusion in clinics and sparked a new campaign slogan for democrats, donald trump did this. nbc's yamiche alcindor is joining us now in tucson, arizona, and also with us former democratic senator doug jones of alabama and republican political strategist and former gop congressional adviser rina shah. yamiche, what should we expect from the vice president's event there today, and what does it mean to have this trip there at this moment? >> reporter: well, vice president kamala harris is expected to deliver a fiery speech here denouncing that 1864 law and that an arizona supreme court is saying this near total ban on abortion can go into effect. she's going to be saying that she really blames donald trump in particular for this situation in arizona as well as the patchwork of abortion laws across the country. now, the campaign has put out a number of parts of her speeches that are really going to be talking about how aggressively she wants to go after donald

trump. i want to read to you part of the speeches that they put out. she's going to be saying, we all must understand who is to blame. donald trump is the architect of this health care crisis. if donald trump gets the chance, he will sign a national abortion ban. here's what a second trump term looks like, more bans, more suffering, less freedom. the respect is coming here while former president donald trump is trying to distance himself from this arizona state supreme court ruling. he's vowing he's not going to sign a federal abortion ban if he were to be elected. he's going to come here, talk to people that would have a ballot initiative, that would enshrine abortion rights into the state constitution. she wants to tell everyone don't believe donald trump when he says he's not going to sign an abortion ban. the vice president has become a vocal supporter of abortion rights. she's the most prominent voice in the biden administration. she's gone to wisconsin, michigan. she's coming to this as a

campaign event. harris aides tell me she really wanted to come here as a campaign event because she wanted to take the gloves off. she wanted to be as aggressive as possible instead of on the official side where she sometimes is limited by the hatch act. it's going to be an interesting scene as the vice president comes to community center behind me. >> yamiche alcindor, thank you so much. the biden campaign allies have really zeroed in on one message, and yamiche pointed it out in the remarks that have been prepared ahead of the vice president's visit there, but the bottom line is this message is blame donald trump. watch this. >> because of donald trump millions of women lost the fundamental freedom to control their own bodies. >> this is on donald trump. >> there's no one more responsible for the fact that we are here today than donald trump. >> so senator, trump has often

been the master of simple messaging that sticks. this is one message that democrats are trying to get stuck in voters' heads. who exactly is this messaging intended to target, and do you think it's effective? >> i think it's very effective. i think it's intended to target not just women, but i don't think it's targeted at families. i think it's targeted at all americans who believe in controlling their own bodies, in freedom. this is an issue where freedom has been taken away from folks, and i think the vice president going to arizona is sending a message to across america, this is the battle lines. this is what donald trump's vision of america is. look at florida, look at alabama, look at arizona. this is what we see in a second donald trump term, and everyone should be concerned. >> one republican legislator tells nbc news that gop senate candidate kari lake is now calling arizona house members. she's calling them, urging them to repeal this 1864 near total

ban on abortion. clearly a recognition of just how politically perilous this all could be, but will that be enough for candidates like lake? >> in this moment even extremist kari lake understands what's on the line here, an election that will have serious effects for those who are down ballot, and this is what happens when abortion ends up on the ballot. republicans take more than just a punch. they take losses, and i must say this to any republican listening anywhere, when women do not have bodily autonomy, they are not full, free, and equal citizens of this representative democracy. let those words sink in. women like me have come up within republican party circles hearing about liberty and freedom, and you want to take it all away from those of us who deserve it, who understand that abortion isn't just about terminating whether cells or a life or whatever it is, we have

separation of church and state here, and what i see increasingly is these republican-led state legislatures legislating with their holy book and going to extremes that not even super republican voters are okay with. in florida, in arizona you are going to see women mobilized who are independently minded and that should have republicans from coast to coast worried for years to come. >> and just a reminder, they're in arizona in the 2022 election, you talked about how this issue of abortion has been a motivating factor for so many voters. 62% in the exit polls there in arizona said that they believed abortion should be legal in most or all cases. democratic congressman ruben gallego has been accusing kari lake of back peddle on this abortion issue. on x last night he posted two videos of lake. watch. >> we are going to have a great law that's already on the books, so it will prohibit abortion in

arizona except to save the life of a mother. >> this total ban on abortion that the arizona supreme court just ruled on is out of line with where the people of this state are. the issue is less about banning abortion and more about saving babies. >> okay, so senator, we've seen this with donald trump and now kari lake. why can't republicans figure out how to talk about this issue without spinning themselves into knots? >> because when roe versus wade was the backstop, they could say and do anything that they wanted to do, and they don't think past the consequences. kari lake is literally becoming a caricature of her own self. she reminds me of the old french politician, that goes out every day and says, oh, there goes the people. let me follow them because i am their leader. that's how silly this has become for republican politicians these days, but it's based in part on 50 years of pandering to a base. and they did not anticipate

what's going on, and now they're struggling. they're struggling to reconcile their former self with their current self because it's all about the politics. >> and they're getting hit on this issue from both sides. lake was speaking at the university of arizona last night, she was confronted by voters on both sides of this abortion issue. take a look at that moment. >> but you do realize that that law -- we have to take a step back. i'm not even talking 30,000 foot level. i'm talking a step back. six months from now are you going to be okay? so she had sort of different answers to two different questions that were related to this issue coming from, again, different points of view. rina, your reaction to what we heard? >> well, you know, anytime you kick abortion back to the states, you're going to have unintended disastrous consequences, and we know that

who's going to sufficient those consequences largely is women of lower socioeconomic status, it's going to be black and brown women largely. so this whole dream of having states decide what we're seeing with these draconian bans is putting these lawmakers or people who seek to be in office in tough positions to have to articulate where they think life begins, and frankly, this is not where the republican party should be in an election year. we talked about years ago the 15 to 20-week sort of window being what was most palatable to even republican voters. now you see moderate republican voters, you know, being over 40 some percent of them are looking at these bans from state to state, and saying, we can't believe this. we are angry at the republican party. we don't know what that's going to lead to. i will say this, the hypocrisy here is so rich. back in 2008 when i was a senior staffer on capitol hill and the affordable care act was passing, we used to talk about we republicans used talk about how decisions need to be between a person and theirhypocritical.

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there's no evidence baseball's biggest star was aware of any of it. >> mr. ohtani is considered a victim in this case. >> reporter: authorities are calling it fraud on a massive scale, ippei mizuhara, the former interpreter and confidant for shhei ohtani accused of stealing $16 million from the baseball superstar, nearly four times the amount initially reported in order to pay for mounting illegal sports bets. >> mr. mizuhara used and abused that position of trust in order to take advantage of mr. ohtani. >> reporter: federal prosecutors say mizuhara used a bank account he had helped ohtani set up when ohtani first moved to the u.s. authorities say the translator then impersonated ohtani to convince banks to approve wire transfers. >> mizuhara spoke with bank employees, lied to them about being mr. ohtani. >> reporter: according to the criminal complaint from december 2021 until january 2024, mizuhara placed 19,000 bets

averaging 25 a day with an illegal bookmaker. the wagers, which were never made on baseball, ranged from 10 to $160,000 with ippei racking up more than $40 million in losses. >> but occasionally he would win. that money did not go to any account owned by mr. ohtani. that money would go to an account that was personally owned by mr. mizuhara. >> reporter: the stunning allegations stem from an ongoing federal investigation into an illegal gambling operation where ohtani's name surface z. the dodgers star told reporters through a new translaor he was duped by his friend. >> i'm very saddened and shocked. >> reporter: text messages obtained by prosecutors show mizuhara messaging with a bookie three weeks ago right after the story first broke, referring to ohtani, the bookmaker says obviously you didn't steal from him, to which mizuhara responds, technically i did steal from him. it's all over for me.

neither ohtani, the dodgers or mizuhara have commented on the federal charges. prosecutors say mizuhar is expected to turn himself in today. he'll appear in federal court, and if convicted he could face 30 years in prison. a former u.s. ambassador accused of spying on the u.s. for cuba for decades is expected to plead guilty today. victor manuel rocha could be sentenced as well this afternoon at his hearing. the terms of his plea deal aren't public yet, but in december he was charged with violations of the foreign agent's registration act, accused of failing to disclose he was working on behalf of cuba for at least 40 years including meeting with that country's intelligence operatives and providing false information to u.s. officials. next on "ana cabrera reports," a missouri teen shot in the head for ringing the wrong doorbell opens up to nbc news about his life changing trauma. his life changing trauma

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amazing how much ralph is able to do. he's back to playing music in his school and an all state band in missouri. he is doing all kinds of activities, able to exercise, go on long walks, but it is the invisible scar, the emotional scar that ralph says has yet to heal. take a look. >> reporter: one year ago ralph yarl was just 16 years old. he loved nature walks with family, jumping on trampolines and playing in his high school band. that was ralph before april 13th, 2023. this is ralph now. >> i try to keep like a sense of normalcy so that i can continue being the person that i am and that i used to be. >> reporter: forever changed when he rang the doorbell of the wrong home when trying to pick up his twin brothers, and andrew lester shot him twice in the head and arm. it's been deemed a miracle. >> would you say it's been harder to physically recover or mentally recover? >> definitely mentally.

it's a constant uphill battle. >> reporter: ralph suffered splitting headaches, always an a student, he now struggles to study. in the last few months, he crashed his car twice. his mother and aunt say sometimes he can't sleep. other times he sleeps too much. >> when you have trauma initially there's the shock of all of it, but then when everything starts to simmer and then you start to realize how life is not what it used to be. >> reporter: ralph and his friends are struggling to process three shootings in their hometown over the last year. la. a classmate's killing and the kansas city chiefs parade shooting. >> like a constant nagging of watch your surroundings. >> going to houses, like this is the right address. i can't get it wrong. >> mr. lester is currently comfortable, enjoying his old age.

>> reporter: ralph has not considered forgiving the man who in an instant brought his childhood to an end. >> has he ever asked for your forgiveness? >> no. >> reporter: the family speaking out to remind the country we can't forget. we can't become desensitized. >> we are tired of people he saying that you are in my thoughts and prayers. we need to get out of the thoughts and your prayerit t ac. if not for their sake but the next child. he is going to be heading off to college in a few short months. and he is excited. he hopes to go out of missouri, see other parts of united states. but the trial with andrew lester coming up in october and his mom says that has added another layer of pain because it means that he will start his college, all the fun that comes with that experience, and then be dragged back and have to revisit all the memories. so he is trying how do you move

on and also revisit at the same time. >> and where do you go from here especially on the broader issue. and what he has gone through. i can't imagine. powerful piece. what a courageous young man. thank you for bringing that to us. turning now to what has been a wild weather week and it is not letting up. millions remain in the line of severe storms this morning. even several tornadoes including one that touched down this st. john's florida leaving one person dead. and in the northeast thunderstorms brought intense rain and wild wind up to 40 american in parts of new england. and good news if you are one of the 30,000 expected to run in the boston marathon on monday, it is looking like you will have warm and sunny weather there. good luck to everybody there. next tiktok on the taxes. the deadline is just days away. and we have pro tips. days away and we have pro tips

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the white house just announced it is canceling student loan debt for nearly 300,000 americans. according to the biden administration, this latest round amounts to about $7.4 billion in forgiveness for 277,000 borrowers all using existing debt relief programs. the white house says that it will send emails to those whose debt is being for given.

this is the latest move by the administration to reduce or forgive student debt many of which have faced challenges in the court and from republicans. thank goodness it is friday, right? but for millions of people who haven't filed yet, you're not going to have a chance to relax this weekend. your taxes are due monday, folks. let's turn to brian cheung. you've waited until the last minute. what is the best way to approach things? >> first of all, deadline again is april 15th, which is monday. that is doing to be the deadline for paying your taxes as well. if you owe the government money, there no wiggle room, you will have to pay that by monday. and this is for a federal taxes depending on your state you might be actually facing a deadline that is a few days after that, but of course double check before you get to monday because you want to make sure you file on time. >> any last minute continues on

breaks or deductions? >> we talk about side gigs. anything that is over $400, you will have to file and make sure that you add any sort of additional detail on those -- the nature of those side gigs. and also consider deductions for that because you can deduct home expenses if you do it remotely. maybe you bought a desk, that could be deductible. and also take evener to of all the life evens. did you get married respect have a kid, pick up another job.even the life evens. did you get married respect have a kid, pick up another job. so have all -- >> a colleague says her parents would start bagging up the donations for the last minute. you never know. so if you file this weekend, how soon might you see the tax rebate, what comes back? >> it depends on how you get

your refund. so if you are looking at a refund, if you do a direct deposit, that is quicker than if you wait for snail mail. so it could be a matter of weeks. >> all right. good luck to everybody who has waited until the last minute. we can check the box. brian, happy friday. and that does it for us. thank you so much for being here. have a wonderful weaken. i'll see you weak here on monday same time same place. and for now, i'll hand it over to josiaz-balart who i'll be having special coverage with on monday. have a great weekend. good morning and it is 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific.