the lockdown at the southern border. president biden's crack down on illegal immigration officially in effect this morning after an executive order right out of his

predecessor's playbook. we're live in d.c. with how it aims to stem the flow of migrants, and why it's coming under fire from both parties. attorney general merrick garland fires back telling house republicans he won't be intimidated. his heated defense for the justice department. it was the military operation that changed the course of history. we're live in normandy with how the world is commemorating the 80th anniversary of d-day this week. a pandemic fraud trial with a mob movie bribery twist. jurors off the case after one got a bag filled with over a hundred grand in cash. and national doughnut day is right around the corner. we're cooking uh thp the best d, dollars to doughnuts. it's wednesday, june 5th. "early today" starts right now. glad you're with me this morning. i'm frances rivera. at the stroke of midnight, much of our southern border was shut down. president biden signed an

executive order, side-stepping congress and taking drastic action to try to stop a surge in illegal border crossings. alice barr joins us now. what does this new directive mean for the border? >> reporter: frances, the new restrictions are triggered when unlawful migrant border crossings top 2500 a day. lawful points of entry are still open, but migrants who cross illegally outside of those points will not receive asylum. the directive stays in place until crossings drop below 1500 a day. the last time border encounters dropped below that level was in july of 2020. there are exceptions to these restrictions, including for unaccompanied children. president biden says this move was necessary after republicans blocked a bipartisan border security bill. >> we must face the simple truth to protect america as a land that welcomes immigrants. we must first secure the border and secure it now.

>> reporter: a trump campaign spokesperson responded to the order, saying the exception for unaccompanied children gives a green light to child traffickers. and republican lawmakers are calling this an election year stunt. >> why did you wait until now if you were serious about doing it? the simple answer is, he's not serious about securing the border. >> mr. president, joe biden, this is too little. this is too late. and the american public knows it's too late. this stunt is not going to save your political life. >> reporter: some immigration advocacy groups are threatening to sue the biden administration. they say this takes away a legal right to claim asylum. frances? >> alice barr for us, thank you. the senate today is set to vote on a bill to protect access to contraception. chuck schumer saying that the vote is vital for presenotectin

reproductive freedoms. house democrats are expected to force a vote on an identical item in the chamber. but both face uphill battles, it's part of a push to put republicans on the record on reproductive rights going into the november election. it was big primary night in new jersey. current house representative, andy kim has won the democratic primary for senate. speaking to lawrence o'donnell last night, he described the stakes ahead of the general election. >> i'm running against both an indicted sitting senator as well as someone whose first action in politics is to endorse a convicted felon. and i think that's the dynamics of this race here in new jersey that i'm facing for the general election in november. >> kim was referring to his republican opponent curtis bashaw and incumbent bob menendez under federal indictment and will run as an

independent. menendez' son rob won for the eighth district. attorney general merrick garland mounting a fiery defense of the justice system at a combative house hearing. he fought back against republican attacks, including the false accusation that the justice department was behind the manhattan prosecution of donald trump. hallie jackson has the fireworks on capitol hill. >> reporter: a message both blunt and sharp from the attorney general. >> i will not be intimidated. and the justice department will not be intimidated. >> reporter: a full-throated defense from the typically-soft-spoken a.g. slamming suggestions the doj had a hand in former president trump's state felony conviction last week as mr. trump falsfalsely claimed. >> that is an attack on the judicial process itself. >> reporter: but many insist the biden doj is playing politics.

>> many believe there is a double standard because there is. >> reporter: the house gop looking to hold merrick garland in contempt of congress for defying a subpoena for the audio between president biden and robert hur who ultimately declined to prosecute the president over his handling of classified documents, suggesting the jury would be unlikely to convict a well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory. republicans want more. >> we haven't heard the tapes. we don't know if they match up. if you have audio or video, that is better than a transcript. >> substantively, the transcript may be accurate, but, you know what? the audio would tell us so much more. >> reporter: but the white house exerted executive privilege at the request of garland who says he would be concerned about a chilling effect. >> it would affect witnesses answers if they thought their answers would be broadcast to congress and the public. >> reporter: and with the house speaker rolling out a new

three-part plan today to go after the justice department, the gop fight is clearly not over yet. back to you. >> okay, hallie, thank you. testimony has begun in the federal gun trial of hunter biden. during opening statements, the prosecutors accused the president's son of choosing to lie on a government form about drug use when purchasing a weapon. they played audio clips from biden's memoir for the jury. >> by now, i possess add new super power, the ability to find crack in any town, at any time, no matter how unfamiliar the terrain. >> biden's defense attorney says hunter did not knowingly lie on the form when he bought the gun and disputed that his client was using drugs during that window of time. today we expect to hear testimony from hunter biden's ex-wife. turning to a shocking twist in a major fraud trial in minneapolis. a juror suddenly dismissed after someone allegedly tried to bribe her with a bag of cash. nbc's maura barrett explains.

>> reporter: something a prosecutor called the stuff that happens in mob movies, as a minneapolis jury heads into deliberations without two jurors after someone tried to bribe one ba and a second was asked about it by her family. a bag decorated with butterflies and $120,000 in cash on the inside. a woman showed up at the doorstep of juror 52 on sunday night with the bag, handing it to the juror's relative, saying it was a present for the juror, referencing her first name. she was told to say not guilty tomorrow and there would be more of that present. juror 52 immediately called 911 to report the incident. police finding 100, 50 and 20 dollar bills. >> when we have someone interfering with the jury process, that is supposed to be sacrosanct, something that is not touched throughout the

trial. and this is really an interference in that. >> reporter: the judge saying it is a troubling and upsetting accusation. a wild development after the seven-week-long trial over the alleged theft of covid funds, the first of a chain of expected trials, and now a possible new crime under investigation. >> our thanks to mara for that report. millions from texas to california are sweltering under a dangerous heat wave. temperatures soaring into the triple digits much earlier than usual for this time of year. the heat also increasing the risk for fires. on tuesday, firefighters in sacramento contained a brush fire that threatened homes. meanwhile, in tracy, crews there have managed to get control of the massive corral fire. they have contained 92% of it since it first started on saturday. and it's going to be another scorcher in the southwest. let's turn to nbc meteorologist angie angie lassman, who's keeping an eye on the forecast for us u >> a dr. c cranked up across th

south. we've got an area of high pressure that's really leaving us with some temperatures running way above normal for this time of year. the warmest temperatures we've seen so far this year, coming in 5, 10, even 20 and 25 degrees above where we should be for this point in june. remember, it is meteorological summer after all. that started on june 1st. but we've got potential record highs happening here across a good chunk of this area as we get into specifically phetomorr and the end of the week. las vegas and phoenix included in that. temperatures into the triple digits for a couple spots. las vegas, tucson, albuquerque into the low 90s. denver into the low 90s. by tomorrow, though, concerning temperatures for las vegas, phoenix, 112. we're running 10, 15 degrees above normal. and we'll likely see some of those records as we get into the end of the workweek. 110 for palm springs. phoeni

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