second world war. my father was studying electrical engineering at the university of minnesota when he was summarily dragooned into the army, eight weeks from graduation. sent off to the pacific to fight in the -- with the army in new fwin y guinea in the philippines. hated getting dragged out of school, hated the army, hated getting shot at, got out of the army, the instant he could when the war was over, and yet when he got to be my age, all he would talk about was how proud he was in having saved the world. >> having saved the world. >> he and his generation had done exactly that. >> and so now today, president biden calling on this generation, the next generation to uphold what those generations before did, dating back 80 years ago, d-day, the turning point in world war ii. that's going to do it for us today. thank you so much for being part of our coverage this morning. jose diaz-balart picks up our coverage right now.

>> good morning. 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific. i'm jose diaz-balart. just moments ago, you saw it here on msnbc, president biden delivering an address defending democracy and freedom at the pointe du hoc ranger monument in normandy, france. 80 years ago there at pointe du hoc, u.s. army rangers scaled the 100 foot cliffs overlooking omaha and utah beaches on d-day. it is about seven miles west of the normandy american cemetery, also where in 1984 then president ronald reagan delivered one of his moment memorable speeches. before the speech today, president biden met with ukrainian president zelenskyy, announcing a new $225 million military assistance package for ukraine. joining us now, richard haass, president emeritus of the council on foreign relations and

elise labbott. wondering your thoughts on this speech the day it was delivered, what it means for the history of the world, what we witnessed there 80 years ago. >> well, jose, what happened 80 years ago, in no small part account for this extraordinary run of history ever since. i think historians will look back on the last three quarters of the century as something of a golden age. the way world war ii was finally resolved, the triumph of the democratic allies, and then much of the post world war ii era is quite extraordinary in what was accomplished and what was avoided. president gave a fine speech today, the problem is whether he is now speaking for the united states. and this country could change more after november, so as

welcome as his words were in the ears of the europeans and others gathered at this extraordinary site, also going on in their mind is just who is president biden speaking for and can we count on the united states in the same way that we used to 80 years ago? i think that's the -- that's the issue. that's not the president's fault. but it is simply the reality in which he finds himself. >> that reality is that, for example, elise, president biden didn't name donald trump, but he highlighted the importance of the nato alliance, which trump has repeatedly attacked. was he successful in bringing out a contrast, a sufficient contrast? >> i mean, look, president biden has two audiences. the world audience and certainly nato allies and he met with president zelenskyy and he has that audience on that -- that is helping ukraine fight russia. and then he has the domestic

audience, you know, evoking the same type of speech and the same message that president reagan did with this boys of pont du hoc speech in 1984. i think that what is very interesting here is that while everybody certainly in the audience today, and certainly those who listen are very moved by all this, as richard said. a, it is not clear who he's speaking for, because we don't know the president. it will be a much different message if president trump takes over. secondly, i really think that while everyone is -- has this wonderful rhetoric over the last couple of days, you know, evoking d-day when we're fighting for ukraine, i'm not sure if you're talking about an enemy such as hitler was during world war ii if they're comparing that to putin, are they really giving the resources

needed to defeat vladimir putin or helping the ukrainians not lose. that wasn't really the goal in world war ii. and then if you're listening to the message here in the united states, i'm -- i think it might have been lost on the audience. you have people that aren't really watching this full speech. they might catch a couple. seconds and say, that's very nice. but i think president biden over the campaign, while these type of speeches are wonderful, how is he going to get this message to the american people, 45% of the electorate or gen z and millennials who a type of speech in this sense is really kind of lost. >> i do say though that, you know, words matter and that eventually i think people will hear it and, you know, that the president would name some of those heroes, you know, and the experiences that they went through 80 years ago.

and, richard, just thinking about and what was, you know, kind of struck me when president biden says that he's the first president of the united states to be speaking there, where there are no survivors, veterans of that battle, right? when reagan gave his speech, 40 years after and 40 years ago, there were 62 rangers, who had survived that mission time is something that, you know, i'm wondering and bringing in what we were just thinking about, about how people will take this, understand it and those who ignore history maybe are condemned to really, real problems, i'm wonder, richard, do you have hope?

>> i always have hope. it is just when i get out of bed in the morning, jose. i think there is a warning in this. and the warning is not to do -- not to be sanguine. we don't teach history well in this country. what the president was talking about for a lot of younger americans, he might as well have been talking about the war. we're not systematic about keeping our story, whether it is our domestic story or international story, we're seeing a resurgence of isolationism. americans don't see how the world mattered, they don't see how what the united states does or doesn't do in the world matters. and that's the lesson we should take from this. it is not to be sanguine. just because we openly did the right thing 80 years ago doesn't mean we'll do the right thing now. we didn't do the right thing recently for months in ukraine. we refused to give ukraine the support it deserved, support that was very much not just good

for them. that's another warning. so, yes, i'm hopeful, but i'm not sanguine. and no one should be -- just assume we'll do the right thing. churchill saw that americans can be counted on to do the right thing but only after they tried everything else. well, one, i'm not sure it is true, but, second of all, while we try everything else, the passage of time, that can be expensive. >> yeah. nbc's kelly o'donnell joins us from paris. good morning. what is the message that the president was hoping to give to all of us with this speech? >> reporter: jose, i think the president wanted to connect history to people's everyday lives today. so by naming some of the individual rangers who did heroic things 80 years ago and to describe how they came from homes that didn't have wealth or power, they came from farms, they came from all around the country, to have americans today

hear something of themselves in that and for the president to then call on modern day americans to recognize that there is an individual role in preserving democracy and standing up for the values of the united states, and there is a call to action. now, it is not as urgent perhaps, it is not in a combat situation. although we have seen that in our country, you know, as recently as 20 years ago with 9/11. but to make it more personable. and certainly in terms of the president not mentioning donald trump, that is entirely expected because he is in a world leader mode, he's outside the united states, it would not be in his sort of wheel house to inject domestic politics that overtly. that is not to say that the themes aren't there, but that it is done with a bit of distance. and, also, these sorts of big speeches, the fact that we have been talking about ronald reagan 40 years ago, when is the last time we were talking about a ronald reagan speech extensively on cable news?

it is because these moments of important political rhetoric and leadership are enduring, they do matter, and even if it is in history, even if it is something people sort of access, pull up, bring up a youtube, it is still there, it still tells the story of the american people, american leadership, and the moment in time in which it occurred. so joe biden is creating one of those moments for himself. it will likely be used as points during the campaign, where they want to tap into his statesmanship, something that has been a comfortable place for him. he arguably has been very, very involved and instrumental along with emmanuel macron and other european leaders in standing for ukraine. and certainly there is dissension, there is weariness among the american people about the wars, and resources going to those wars. he's trying to make that connection that americans as individuals stand for something, and putting that call out, and seeing how they respond.

>> jose? >> yeah, i mean, elise, it has been more than two years since russia launched full scale invasion of ukraine. what is the international support for ukraine today? >> well, i think certainly in europe it is still very strong because it is in europe's backyard. i think the majority of americans, if you look at polls, do support, i mean, clearly there are some republicans, more on the donald trump hard core supporters, the maga crowd, if you will, that, you know, have trouble with the funding of ukraine. but i do think on the whole people think that russia is, you know, a very big threat, russia, along with china, but really one of the biggest threats to the west and to the world order. i think what you're going to see on the back half of today and going forward, this is a big moment as kelly has said, as you have said, and the administration is trying to make clear what is at stake here by weaving, you know, what was at

stake during world war ii. what is at stake now? you know, russia this week has just said vladimir putin just said, you know, yesterday, that he's very upset about new regulations that the u.s. will allow the ukrainians to shoot inside of russia, so now he's threatening to attack the west, he's evoking nuclear weapons again. i think this message of what is at stake is really one that president biden is trying to hit today, but he's going to continue to make clear to the american public what is at stake here in terms of not just supporting ukraine, but supporting europe, supporting the transatlantic alliance, and supporting the west and the liberal world order. and that's what i think president biden was trying to do today, with this very evocative powerful speech, that background, i think we'll see a lot more of this in the days

ahead. >> the statement those who forget history are condemned to repeat it i think is an important thing to wrap up our conversation with. thank you so much for being with us this morning. up next, the government just rested its case against hunter biden. now the big question is will he testify in his own defense? plus, former president trump gives a hint about when he'll announce his vice president pick. and extreme heat smashing records across the country. what you need to know next. we're back in 90 seconds. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. ds you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. (aaron) i own a lot of businesses... so my tech and my network need to keep up. thank you verizon business. (kevin) now our businesses get fast and reliable internet from the same network that powers our phones. (aaron) so whatever's next... we're cooking with fire. (vo) switch to the partner businesses rely on. (restaurant noise) [announcer] introducing allison's

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who testified about finding cocaine residue on the brown leather pouch where hunter biden stored that handgun. and from a former -- from a dea agent who is interpreting for the jury coded drug language in some of the texts between hunter biden and other people. and then after that, after the prosecution rested, hunter's defense lawyer abbe lowell made a motion for acquittal, asked the judge to step in and acquit hunter biden, something unlikely to happen and hasn't happened. now, the defense begins its case. and one of the witnesses we're expecting is president biden's brother james biden, who we saw walk in the courthouse not long ago, also naomi biden, hunter biden's oldest daughter, we saw her walk into the courthouse, she may be a defense witness as well. and first lady jill biden is in the courtroom, having flown back from france where she was with president biden for the normandy commemoration. >> and what about the

vulnerabilities in the prosecution's case that the defense might seize on as they make their case today and what are the biggest challenges the defense had? >> i think the defense has really been focusing on the timing issue here. because the question on the form that hunter biden completed, that is allegedly false, is are you addicted to drugs and are you a drug -- a user of illegal drugs. and he's trying to point out, abbe lowell, the defense attorney, that nobody actually knew whether hunter biden was using and addicted to drugs on the day in question or around that day. and i think the theory is that in hunter biden's mind, he was a recovering addict at that point. so, in fact, he did not lie. i think it is a little bit of an uphill battle in light of some of the other evidence. it is why this evidence of the cocaine residue in the pouch where the gun was stored can be very important because it suggests that cocaine was being used then, but that powder may

have been there for some period of time. but it is why we're also seeing cross examination, some of these text messages about even though hunter biden may have been saying things about using drugs on those particular days, no one was with him to be able to confirm whether that was true. so, i think it is an uphill battle. that seems to be the strategy that the defense is pursuing here. >> yeah, barbara, has there been talk on why the gun was thrown away in the first place? >> well, i think we had testimony from hallie biden, who was at the time involved in a romantic relationship with hunter biden, that she discovered it in the -- his vehicle and was concerned that he would use it to hurt someone else or himself and so she took it to a garbage can at the grocery store and got rid of it, where it was later found by someone who was just sort of rummaging through garbage cans looking for bottles that were returnable. and so, i think he acknowledged

he bought the gun. i don't think that's really in any question. the question really is whether he, in his mind, believed at the time he was filling out that form that he was, in fact, using illegal drugs and addicted to using illegal drugs. difficult to refute the facts of what happened here. the acts. but i think what is in someone's mind is difficult to prove. we can't read other people's minds. it is often the area that the defense tries to rebut in their defense case. >> amy, first lady as we heard from ken flew back from france to be in court today in a show of support. the president was asked on abc news about his son's trial. here's what he said. >> let me ask you, will you accept the jury's outcome, their verdict, no matter what it is? >> yes. >> and have you ruled out a pardon for your son? >> yes. >> there are so many embarrassing things that have been brought up in this trial. how does the president and his family handle that while

supporting hunter? >> well, it is a tricky dance to do, jose, i think that you're seeing a lot of support obviously from the family. the mere fact that the first lady is flying back and forth and back and forth between france and wilmington is evidence of how much this case means to the first family and how committed they are to helping their son. the timing is a little bit weird for them, because it is coming at a time when people are starting to tune in a little more, they're starting to pay attention, this is a guy who has gone through a lot obviously in his life. it is going to bring a lot of empathy from some people and from some people they'll say what's going on here with this first family. but i think, you know, you're seeing the campaign kind of stay, keep its distance from this case and yet i think it is a very important thing. i know the president is keeping an eye on it from france. and i think they'll continue to

kind of show, this is a big contrast from what they did in 2020, which was keep a distance from hunter biden at a time when he was struggling, but now you're seeing a full court kind of press support for their son and i think that will continue going forward. >> so, barbara, based on how the prosecution laid out its case, would it be in hunter's interest to testify? >> i think not. you know, it is always kind of the hail mary for the defense. i suppose if you he were to get on the stand and testify and say, i was in recovery at the time, i didn't believe i was an addict, or i was using, i suppose that is enough to create reasonable doubt. but i think it also opens him up to an awful lot of cross examination, confrontation with the text messages where he admits to using, confrontation with some of the other misconduct that he has been accused of including tax violations, which would be used to undermine his credibility.

it is certainly an important question that his lawyer will no doubt discuss with him. but when one testifies in one's own defense, it exposes them to allowing the jury to find out even more bad facts about the person that they could ultimately hold against them. >> ken dilanian, amy parnes, barbara mcquaid, thank you. coming up, a better than expected, a much better than expected jobs report, released just this morning. what it tells us about the shape of our economy. plus, heat advisories for close to 30 million people nationwide, including here in miami, where it is not only hot, is there any relief in sight? we got your forecast next. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. . you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. (dad) we never thought that with verizon, saving on the the best in entertainment was gonna be so easy before... we had to pretend we had seen all these shows... now that we have verizon, we can stop pretending. (vo) disney+, hulu, espn+, netflix and max.

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26 past the hour. this morning, a strong u.s. jobs report showing employers hired significantly more people in may than economists had expected. 272,000 jobs added last month. the unemployment rate, now at 4% overall, barely changing from 3.9% last month. joining us now, cnbc's dominic chu. dom, good morning. these are incredible numbers. >> they are, jose. but the devil is in the details, there is something for the optimists and the pessimists here as well. the headline you mentioned, 272, better than the estimates that

economists were forecasting. but the gains were revised lower by 15,000 jobs. the unemployment rate ticking higher as you point out to 4% from 3.9%. now, that can happen with more participation in the labor force as more people come off the sidelines to look for a job. but in may's case, the labor force participation rate actually fell to 62.5%, but .2% lower than it was before, indicating that some people had become more discouraged and moved to the sidelines. now, also, the survey of households that is used to calculate that unemployment rate showed that the number of americans saying they held a job fell by actually 408,000. then there is the data from the household survey on full time versus part time employment which isn't also all that positive, but it is generally so, it did show the number of americans working full time jobs fell by 625,000, while the number who hold part time positions increased by 286,000.

as for where the jobs strength was, we saw the biggest gains in industries like healthcare, government, leisure and hospitality, those three, by the way, together, accounted for more than half the gains in the headline number. on the wages front, jose, we did see average hourly earnings increase by a higher than expected amount, .4%, higher than on a month over month basis, which is 4.1% higher than a year ago. on balance, generally positive report, which does mean the fed may not be having the ability to lower interest rates anytime soon. i'll send things back over to you. >> dominic chu, thank you very much. well, this morning, extreme heat gripping the west and parts of the south with millions bracing for high temperatures above 100 degrees. bill karins joins us now. bill, how hot is it going to get? >> hopefully it will cool off, jose. it is too early. this is like -- it is only june. we got months to go.

already 101 two days ago in punta gorda, florida, southwest, florida. we broke record highs in phoenix and vegas. and, today, it is going to be equally hot in many areas. everywhere you see in red here will be 90 plus. that's 86 million people. we have roughly about 330 million people or so in this country. about one out of every four people is experiencing these extreme temperatures. and about 14 million people are going to be 100 plus today. even a few spots like phoenix, vegas, close to 110. it is early in the season, i know the middle of the summer, you're used to this, but the first real significant heat takes your body a while to get used to it. over the weekend, temperatures drop off kind of close to normal, maybe slightly above. we should drop some of these warnings. and, florida has just been baking. the water around florida is incredibly warm. at night, it doesn't cool off, which makes it worse. then during the day, we're roasting, we could have record highs from west palm beach to gainesville. and with the humidity added in,

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former president donald trump returned to the campaign trail for the first time since his conviction last week in the new york hush money trial. trump went to the battleground state of arizona, where he spoke to a large crowd at a phoenix megachurch. trump also railed against his conviction. >> we have to change the system. we have to straighten out what's going on in these courts. we got a rigged deal going, this whole country. and we got to do it and those appellate courts have to step up

and straighten things out or we're not going to have a country any longer. >> vaughn hillyard joins us from scottsdale, arizona. good morning. so what was the atmosphere like there last night? >> reporter: good morning, jose. this was his first public campaign event since his guilty conviction in new york. and there was about 2,000 folks inside of this megachurch. it was sponsored by charlie kirk's organization, turning point usa that is a key ally of donald trump's political organization. and so for donald trump last night, of course, you heard him talk about the trial, his conviction, passing it off as a rigged trial, but then you also heard him tell the crowd very specifically that if there was no such thing as election fraud, that this election -- the general election would be all but over and he wouldn't need to do any campaigning. and so they need to get a win so big that it is going to protect them from any rigging that may take place. this is the type of messaging

that donald trump brought into this battleground state here with now less than five months left. this is less than three weeks now until that first presidential debate at the end of the month in atlanta with joe biden. we talked to a few of the folks about what they want to see from donald trump in that debate. take a listen. >> i think we're going to hear a lot of truth from president trump. i always love hearing him be very direct. obviously his approach has been a little unorthodox because he's different from other candidates that we have had before. >> i'm expecting to see president donald trump be able to tell us how well the country was run during his administration and i'm not expecting a thing out of joe biden. >> if the focus is on trump, we don't do so well. he needs to focus on here is biden's failed strategy and here is how we should move forward as a country. >> reporter: after that event here in phoenix, he went to san francisco for a fund-raiser in

silicon valley that brought in nearly $12 million, we're told, jose. >> and, vaughn, meanwhile, former white house chief of staff mark meadows is expected to meet in a courtroom moments from now. what is that case about? >> reporter: arizona is an active place. mark meadows and mark roman, the election day operations director for trump's 2020 campaign, both of them are coming for a virtual arraignment here today ahead of their official mug shot and booking. they are one of 18 -- two of 18 co-defendants stemming from that indictment from the arizona attorney general back in april over the alleged alternate electors scheme here. we are still awaiting three other co-defendants to go through their arraignment here later this month. at that point in time, this trial process will begin to proceed here. but, again, we're talking about this alleged alternate elector scheme, not only are there charges that they're facing here in arizona, georgia, michigan and wisconsin this week, jose. >> vaughn hillyard in

scottsdale, thank you very much. with us to talk about this and more is brendan buck, former press secretary to former house speaker john boehner and former press secretary to paul ryan, also an msnbc political analyst. so, trump was once again asked about whether he will target political opponents if he were to be re-elected. here is what he told sean hannity last night. >> people are claiming you want retribution. people are claiming you want what has happened to you done to democrats. would you do that, ever? >> look what has happened to me has never happened in this country before. and it has to stop. because -- >> wait a minute, i want to hear that again. it has to stop. >> it does have to stop. we're not going to have a country. >> the former president made a number of different comments on this issue in recent days. have you been able to figure out what trump's position on retribution actually is? >> well, what i do know is there

are a lot of people around donald trump who think this is completely inbounds and something they should be doing. it is hard to know what donald trump is fanning the flames just for attention or whether he actually believes it. but there has been a dramatic shift in the republican party around these issues. the word lawfair is thrown around a lot right now. it is accepted by a lot of people that not only was he treated unfairly, that there is a payback that is due. now, i think there is real questions of whether he could actually execute that. there are systems in place, you know, you have to have a judge, a jury, and a whole bunch of people in your administration, career officials, willing to go beyond norms to do such a thing. but i wouldn't put it past them to try it and i think it is something we need to pay a lot of attention to, it has serious impacts for the people he's targeting, but our entire system of government. >> and trump also said last night that he will announce his vice presidential pick at the

republican national convention in milwaukee next month. nbc news is reporting that trump's four top prospects are doug burgum, senators marco rubio of florida, tim scott of south carolina and vance of ohio. and nbc news was first to report the vp contenders recently received vetting material. your press secretary for paul ryan, who was mitt romney's running mate in 2012, what does the vetting process look like normally at this point? >> yeah, it is interesting. this all feels very conventional. the campaigns are going to be asking for every piece of financial information you ever had, they're going to want to dig into all of your personal background, it runs your entire life. when paul ryan was named vp, i was -- the one person on the campaign sort of answering questions about it. and you can't imagine not only, you know, their taxes, but every vote they ever took, if you're a governor, every bill you ever

signed, everything you ever have done, they're going to want to scrutinize. the last thing you want for your vp is to become a distraction. you want a vp who -- >> who does that vetting? who does that vetting on a campaign? >> there should be somebody who is put in charge of that. and usually they are going to -- and probably some forensic accountants to look into the financials. so there is a whole team that is devoted to digging into these things so you're prepared and you don't name somebody who has some skeleton in their closet that you didn't know about. >> brandon buck, thank you very much. appreciate it. up next, what israel is saying about its strike on a u.n.-run school in gaza, killing at least 40 people. and here at home, how frustration over the border is playing out for some latino voters living in nogales, arizona. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. a. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. - so this is pickleball? - pickle! ah, these guys are intense.

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investigation into an israeli air strike in central gaza at a u.n. school complex that had become a shelter for displaced palestinians. raf sanchez joins us from tel aviv. what more is israel saying about the strike on the school in gaza? >> reporter: well, jose, they continue to stand behind the decision to strike that school. they say that a number of hamas and palestinian islamic jihad operatives, some of whom were directly involved in the october 7th attack, were sheltering in classrooms in that school, and they say that they used precision weapons to strike them. they are not acknowledging that any civilians were killed, they say that they don't trust reports coming out of gaza, but our team was there at the al aqsa hospital as wounded children were being brought in from this strike. they saw bodies on the grounds there. so, this is another situation where it does appear that an israeli strike killed a

significant number of innocent people, israel says that it twice delayed the strike to avoid civilian casualties when the state department was asked about this yesterday, they said israel has the right to pursue hamas, but clearly if 14 children were killed, then something went wrong here. as you mentioned, the united nations is calling for an investigation and the israeli military actually striking at a different u.n. school earlier today. they say they struck a shipping container that hamas operators operatives were using. it was outside of the school building but on the school grounds. the government office in hamas-run gaza says three people were killed. it's not clear at this point whether those were militants or civilians. >> raf sanchez, thank you very much. up next, president biden's border policies appear to be threatening his support among

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we have an update on hunter biden's gun trial unfolding right now in a delaware courtroom. want to bring back ken dilanian. good morning. what's the latest? >> reporter: jose, our team has confirmed that hunter biden's uncle, james biden, and hunter's oldest daughter will testify as defense witnesses this afternoon. it's not -- we don't know what they're going to say. we can speculate they will offer testimony about hunter biden's state of mind and his drug use and whether or not he was using drugs during the time in question when he bought and owned that gun. his defense is that he was not, or at least there's doubts about that despite text messages

suggesting that he was buying drugs during that time. right now on the stand is an employee of the gun store that sold hunter biden the handgun, testifying about the background check form and how it was filled out. it appears hunter biden's lawyers are trying to raise doubts about whether that was an organized process and whether it made sense all the time, because to the extent they can do that, they can create reasonable doubt about whether hunter biden knew what he was filling out when he said he wasn't using drugs when he bought that gun. >> ken dilanian, thank you very much. new reaction today after president biden issued a new executive action at the border. we are hearing from latino voters about how they feel about it. david noriega spoke with voters. what did you find out? >> reporter: on the issue of immigration, democrats used to have a big and clear advantage over republicans of latino

voters. they still have that, but the gap is narrowing, especially in heavily latino swing states like arizona. that could be consequential. take a look. on arizona's border with mexico sits nogalis. republicans are hoping to use this. >> i'm against all this. >> i see a lot of people wanting a handout. >> reporter: this woman is a maga republican. the chairwoman for latinos for lake. >> we are see so many different people that don't speak english. >> reporter: the republicans seem to be winning the messaging war. they are starting to gain traction with some latino

voters, many of whom are immigrants were not part of the trump base. the question is whether they will reach enough of them to flip swing states like arizona back to trump. most latino voters in the southwest are mexican americans who have either lived in the borderlands for generations or were part of the a wave of immigration that started in the 1980s. hundreds of thousands of arizonians live in a household where someone is undocumented. fear that trump will deport their loved ones still pushes many to biden's side. >> obviously, compared to the trump administration, biden is better. i don't really live in that fear that i did when trump was in office. >> reporter: this is a race with tight margins. any erosion in support in a swing state like arizona could be a real blow to president biden. in the county where 60% of voters are registered democrats, some prefer to hide their face when confessing they are switching parties. have you always been a republican? >> no.

i was the opposite, democrat. >> reporter: he referred to keep his last name a secret. >> he changed everything. >> reporter: you voted for biden but you wish you hadn't? >> yeah. he failing in a lot of things. he is bringing people from all the countries around the world. >> reporter: biden took executive action to restrict asylum for migrants at the border. it's too early to tell whether that will win over voters like this retired chemical engineer. she's unhappy with the handling of the border, but that doesn't translate to a vote for trump. do you know who you will vote for? >> will not be trump, i can assure you for that. >> reporter: a number of liberal advocates say this goes back to a criticism they have had for a while, which is that the biden administration has allowed

republicans to define this issue and is following their lead on it rather than offering a coherent and compelling vision or narrative of their own. >> david noriega, thank you very much. appreciate it. before we go, tonight is the end of an era. pat sajak will appear in his final "wheel of fortune" episode. he spent 41 years at the helm, making him the longest running game show host in modern tv history. he has been through seven presidents, 50,000 puzzles. ryan seacrest will be the new host when it returns in september. that wraps up the hour for me. i'm jose diaz-balart. see you tomorrow night. you can always reach me on social media @jdbalart. watch clips from our show on youtube. thank you for the privilege of your time.

alex witt picks up with more news right now. right now on "andrea mitchell reports," speaking on hallowed ground, president biden defends democracy in a speech to a global audience after a face-to-face meeting with president zelenskyy as the war in ukraine reaches a critical moment. >> as we gather here today, it's not just to honor those who showed such remarkable bravery on that day, june 6, 1944. it's to listen to the echo, they are asking us to do our job, protect freedom in our time, to defend democracy, to stand up at aggression abroad and abroad. the defense is presenting their case in the hunter biden gun case. new jobs numbers supporting the strength of the u.s. job market. casting more