If it's Friday, power, pressure, and peril, Donald Trump's lawyer has to testify before

a grand jury in Washington as the former president warns now of, quote, potential death

and destruction if he's indicted by a grand jury in Manhattan.

Plus U.S. forces have to launch retaliatory airstrikes against Iran-backed targets in Syria,

just after a pair of Iranian strikes on U.S. troops, including a drone attack that killed

an American contractor and injured five U.S. service members.

And U.S. officials say President Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have

made a deal on asylum seekers as both leaders face a surge in migrants, not a lot of cooperation

from Mexico and escalating political pressure to manage the issue.

Welcome to Meet the Press.

Now I'm Chuck Todd reporting in Washington, where today a federal grand jury has now heard

testimony from an attorney for Donald Trump.

After a judge ruled that the special counsel's office investigating the former president's

mishandling of classified information had presented sufficient evidence to establish

that Trump may have committed a crime using his attorneys to do it.

It comes as the former president is lashing out about a different criminal case, that one

in Manhattan.

It's the one where he incorrectly predicted his own arrest earlier this week while calling

for protests.

NBC News has now learned from law enforcement sources that the FBI and NYPD are now at

the scene of what may be a potential crime at the Manhattan DA's office after it found

a letter addressed to Alvin Bragg threatening to kill him.

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