If it's Wednesday, we have new details on the target letter Donald Trump received from

special counsel Jack Smith, including the potential criminal charges he could be facing tied

to the investigation into the 2020 election interference and January 6th.

Plus, Trump's allies zero in on testimony this afternoon from a pair of IRS whistleblowers

who alleged misconduct and preferential treatment of the government's investigation into the

president's son, Hunter Biden, and a severe summer heatwave breaking records and threatening

lives worldwide as U.S. and Chinese officials meet in Beijing to talk climate cooperation.

And welcome to Meet the Press. Now I'm Ryan Noble's in for Chuck Todd here in Washington.

And that's where the House Oversight Committee is hearing right now from two IRS whistleblowers

who alleged political interference in the Justice Department's investigation of Hunter Biden.

Those allegations have been a focus of House Republicans continued investigations of the current

president. And it comes as we learn more about the latest possible indictment facing former

president Donald Trump and his efforts to rally Republicans to his defense. NBC has confirmed that

the special counsel's target letter to Trump in its investigation into January 6th and interference

in the 2020 election specifically cited three federal statutes in play. Deprivation of rights

under color of law, conspiracy to defraud the U.S. and tampering with a witness.

Those statutes suggest a potential roadmap for what the president could be charged with

and what charges he may not face. Sitting on social media, the former president continued to

attack the special counsel's investigation, claiming it was a form of, quote, election interference

to derail his candidacy. This is what he told supporters in Iowa last night.

If you say something about an election they want to put you in jail for the rest of your life,

it's a disgrace. So they can cheat on an election. But if somebody wants to question the cheating,

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