into perspective how challenging these trials are, we've got about a thousand athletes we're told that are competing here over a nine-day stretch. that group of a thousand people only turned into around 50 american swimmers who will actually be olympians representing the usa in paris. you can hear the crowds starting to get into it here. the meets are about to begin. >> jesse kirsch, thank you, that does it for us. thank you for joining us. i'll be back at 1:00 p.m. eastern filling in for chris jansing. you can catch our show around the clock on youtube and other platforms. i'm ana cabrera reporting from new york. josé diaz-balart picks up our coverage right now. ♪♪ good morning, 11:00 a.m. eastern. 8:00 a.m. pacific, i'm josé diaz-balart, we begin this morning with the intensifying 2024 race for the white house

and in just a couple of hours, house speaker mike johnson is going to be meeting with the presumptive gop nominee, former president trump at mar-a-lago as part of trump's efforts to rally republican support and unite his party. meanwhile, president biden attended a star-studded hollywood fundraiser over the weekend where his campaign says it raised over $30 million. at the event, the president was asked what another trump administration would mean for the nation's highest court. >> the next president is likely to have two new supreme court nominees, two more, two more. he's already appointed two that have been very negative in terms of the rights of individuals. the idea that if he's reelected he's going to appoint two more flags upside down is really -- i really mean it. >> joining us now nbc news correspondent vaughn hillyard

and nbc news washington correspondent yamiche alcindor. so vaughn, trump and speaker johnson met just last week in d.c. what do we know about today's meeting? >> right, this is a mutual interest relationship for both of these men here. house republicans are holding on to a razor thin majority, and with just four and a half months not only if the presidential election, but also those very house seats being up for grabs, it is going to be crucial, if donald trump were to win this election in november to have a republican majority and maintain that republican majority in the u.s. house. that is why here within about the next two hours, we expect speaker mike johnson as well as the chair of the nrcc to meet with donald trump, the presumptive republican nominee at his mar-a-lago estate. you noted not only did donald trump travel to d.c. to meet with speaker johnson and house republicans behind closed doors last week, but also two months ago you'll recall that speaker johnson made the trek down to florida and ended up holding a press conference along donald

trump's side. that was coming around the time the congresswoman marjorie taylor greene was threatening to go forward with a motion to vacate and remove johnson from the speakership. much like what happened with kevin mccarthy just a few months before that, and ultimately you saw donald trump come out in solidarity with mike johnson, and he has stood by him over the last two months since, and as a result you have seen speaker johnson suggest that the u.s. supreme court should intervene in the appeals process to overturn his guilty verdict stemming from the new york criminal trial. you of course saw speaker johnson travel to lower manhattan and go inside of that courtroom and come out and address cameras and call this a political persecution of donald trump, but you've also seen in return two key allies of donald trump be placed just last week on the house intelligence committee, and you have seen mike johnson also help push back against key immigration reforms at donald trump's request, and so for these two men they have

clearly decided to work in tandem over the course of the next four and a half months to pursue what they believe is the best path forward for winning not only republican majorities in the congress but also to take back the white house, jose. >> and yamiche, meanwhile, president biden is taking aim at trump's legal troubles in a new $50 million ad campaign calling trump a convicted felon. what's behind this? >> what you really see here is the biden campaign trying to lean in in contrast with what they see as the character flaws of donald trump with the accomplishments of president biden, and in ad it's really interesting, they don't just talk about the 34 convictions, the felony convictions that of course made former president trump the first former president to be convicted after a criminal trial, they also lean in on the idea that he's been found liable of sexual assault, and they've also leaned into the idea that he also has committed financial fraud. so this is really an all-out

look at donald trump's legal problems and then of course the ad leans in and president biden has accomplish add lot. especially on the economic front. in talking to voters, it sort of goes to what voters who are picking president biden or independents who are leaning towards president biden talk about when they talk about the choices they're making. most of the time when i talk to voters, especially the ones that aren't really excited about this rematch, they go to the fact that while donald trump is not somebody they can vote for, if they are leaning towards biden they think he has so many flaws in his past. so this ad really gets at that too. >> and yamiche, you saw new reporting with exclusive details about the biden campaign's plan to focus on reproductive rights heading into the election. what did you learn? >> that's right, i got exclusive details on what the biden campaign is going to be doing before and on the anniversary of the dobbs decision, which of course was the supreme court decision that overturned roe v. wade and revoked the federal right to abortion. they're going to be holding something like 30 events around the country focusing on battleground cities. they're also going to be rolling

out new ads featuring personal stories of women who have had adverse effects because of the changing abortion laws. in particular, they're also going to be having story telling training. they're going to be not just telling stories of women but empowering women to tell other stories that may not have been told about how they've been impacted by these health issues related to abortions or miscarriages. it's also interesting, i talked to a woman named caitlin cash who had to flee the state of texas. she told me she had to flee the state because she needed to get an abortion because she had a fatal birth defect. she really wants federal protection here and thinks that women in hearing her story and learning how to find their own voices that that will help elect joe biden. we should also note that donald trump has said he wants to leave this issue to the states. the biden campaign in this messaging push is going to say that really he can't be trusted and that if reelected, he would enact a national abortion ban, jose. >> vaughn hillyard and yamiche alcindor, thank you both very

much. joining us with more is victoria defrancesco soto, the dean of the clinton school of public service at the university of arkansas. she is an msnbc contributor, and tim miller, writer at large at the bulwark and former communications director for jeb bush's 2016 campaign. he is an msnbc political analyst, so victoria, the issue of reproductive rights is now expanded beyond just abortion, things like ivf and contraception are now part of the national political debate. how big of a role do you think had is going to play in november? >> i think it's going to play a huge role, jose. in terms of abortion, we know that, you know, a clear majority of americans support a woman's right to an abortion, but when you start looking at ivf in particular, that majority grows to a super majority. you have rates of, you know, 85 to 90% of folks stating that ivf should be allowed. so when you think about that difference of the 20%, the 15% of folks who may be leaning a

little bit more pro-life, but when it comes to thinking about, well, access to conception, access to ivf, you know what, i'm going to perk up at this point. i think that that's really important in terms of mobilizing folks who otherwise would not have been mobilized just with the core piece of allowing for reproductive rights in terms of abortion access. >> and tim, it was interesting that in that campaign, you know, fundraiser that the president had over the weekend in los angeles, we heard the president talk about what's on the line this november in terms of the supreme court. it was clearly a question asked during this event. how much do you think the supreme court could play a part, same question to victoria about reproductive rights, but on the supreme court issue? >> i think that the democrats have to make it become a big issue. look, this is back when i was doing republican campaigns, this

was core to republican messaging. it was core to trump's campaign in 2016, which obviously i didn't support. it was core to romney and bush, '4 and 2000. this notion that it is important to advance conservative principles through the courts. it was a way that these republicans mobilized them. historically the democrats have not been quite as focused on that. i think the overturn of roe and the dobbs decision could potentially change that. we've seen some of that in the midterms. i've noticed that president biden for the first time took a little dig at samuel alito for the upside down american flag. he hadn't weighed in on that before. i think it's good for him to do so. i think the democrats should take back this mantle of patriotism and talk about how it's the republicans that have been trying to overturn the system and it's republicans that are, you know, debasing the american flag, and i also think that democrats, it should be a key argument to their progressive base, not so much to the swing voters, but to the progressive base that might be upset with biden about gaza and other issues that like this

election is too important for the future of the supreme court for them to take a pass, and for them to vote third degree just because of the stakes when it comes to abortion rights and other issues before the court. >> and victoria, former president trump campaigned in detroit over the weekend, once again attacking immigrants accusing them of taking people's jobs away. what do you make of that? is that something that he's -- you know, 2015 that's what he started with. do you think that he thinks this is an effective line everywhere? >> it worked for him in his first presidential run, but beyond that, jose, he's taking a historical note that immigrants has always been regrettably an effective mechanism. why, it cues fear, anxiety, you think about your own livelihood being threatened by those newcomers. those different people.

so this has gone back to the late 1700s, and trump has been especially adept at using it. but the deal is and what democrats need to push forward is that we have record low unemployment and in addition to that, we need immigration. we are not reproducing ourselves in this country. our birthrate keeps going down and down and down. we're not going to be able to sustain our social security system. we're not going to be able to take care of our older generation. so really we need to see a proactive flip on immigration. it's not something that threatens you. it's actually something that's going to enrich your life and make for a more robust american experience. >> and tim, i mean, you know the republicans have been very effective in using the issue of, for example, asylum and immigration in these last couple of years against the president and democrats. as early as tomorrow, president biden is expected to unveil a new executive action that would

protect about 500,000 undocumented spouses from deportations. do you think this could be a solid thing that could help the president? >> you know, i think it might be a little late for the president on the executive actions. i'm happy that he's been doing them, but to me, putting my old campaign strategist hat back on, i'd like to see the democrats go more on offense on the threat of trump in a second term and what the mass deportation regime would look like, and what these camps that they have discussed would look like. i think that americans, i think victoria's absolutely right. you know, scapegoating immigrants is something that has worked for politicians in the past. you've got to fight fire with fire, and i think that right now president biden isn't at the numbers he's traditionally been with latino voters, and i think that maybe an ad campaign talking about these jack booted thugs coming into quinceaneras and coming into neighborhoods

deporting people, the american people want to secure the borders. i think the democrats need to paint a a picture of what that will look like. use trump's own words where he says you might have to get rid of some mothers who are sympathetic who may or may not have done anything. trump said that. i think that the democrats need to go on offense on this as well as in addition to the executive orders. >> victoria defrancesco soto and tim miller, thank you both so very much. appreciate it. up next, a new phase of israel's operation in rafah is underway as the war cabinet there comes to an end. plus, an international summit for peace in ukraine ends with almost 80 countries signing an agreement, but two major players were not there. and here at home, more than 70 million people under threat of extreme heat, what you need to know next. we're back in 90 seconds. you're watching "josé diaz-balart reports on msnbc. s c (aaron) i own a lot of businesses... so i wear a lot of hats.

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the temporary suspension is meant to allow humanitarian aid into the area. nbc's raf sanchez is with us today from tel aviv with the very latest. raf, thank you for being with us. what more do we know about this shake-up? >> well, jose, for the last eight months, the israeli war cabinet has been managing not just the war effort, but most of the major decisions inside of this country, and you'll remember, jose, it was something of a team of rivals. prime minister benjamin netanyahu's political opponents from the center grounds agreed to join the israeli government one week after the october 7th attack in a sort of sign of recognition of the national emergency that israel was facing, but last week those centrists led by benny gantz resigned from the israeli government with some pretty harsh words for the prime minister saying that he was playing politics with the war, that he was failing to plan for the future of gaza and so today, prime minister netanyahu is

dissolving the war cabinet saying it was only ever a temporary body designed to create the space for those political rivals to work together. what is notable, jose, is that he has decided to scrap the war cabinet altogether, rather than allow the far right cabinet min ministers who sit in his government to join it. it is likely going forward decision-making will be concentrated in prime minister netanyahu and the israeli defense minister who is on the right but is a relative moderate, and those same far right cabinet ministers today are absolutely blasting the israeli military for this decision to suspend fighting for 11 hours every day in the area near the kerem shalom crossing in order to get more humanitarian aid into gaza. the far right national security minister saying the fool who made that decision should not be allowed to keep their job. now, netanyahu according to an

israeli official speaking anonymously apparently only found out about this decision on sunday and apparently believes that it is unacceptable. the prime minister's office saying that the fighting will continue in rafah in other areas, but this pause in the eastern part of the area will continue. jose. >> raf sanchez in tel aviv, thank you so very much. we are also following several developments in russia's war against ukraine at this hour. just this morning, we've learned russia's vladimir putin will be heading to north korea tomorrow for a two-day visit. the trip comes after this weekend's conference in switzerland where 80 countries called for the territorial integrity of ukraine to be the basis for any peace agreement to end the war. additionally, vice president harris held a bilateral meeting with ukrainian president zelenskyy at the conference announcing more than $1.5 billion for ukraine.

nbc's chief foreign correspondent, richard engel is in kyiv this morning. richard, thank you. i'm just wondering what impact do you think these developments at the swiss conference could have in helping ukraine? >> reporter: so they got some extra money, and they received quite a bit of international support in solidarity. this was really the west's response to vladimir putin's proposal that the way to end the war is ukraine to give up four provinces, very large provinces, about the size of american states plus crimea. if you remember last week, that's what vladimir putin did in a kind of offhanded way. he spoke to diplomats, foreign diplomats, russian diplomats at the foreign ministry and said that going forward, that should be russia's official position, that the way to end the war is for the border region between ukraine and russia to be given

to russia permanently and for that area to be demilitarize z. then just a few days later, we had this conference at a resort in switzerland, and as you said, 80 countries led by the united states and of course switzerland as the host. we're talking about parameters for peace. this wasn't a peace conference, and they said that the parameters must be based on ukraine's territorial integrity. they didn't get very specific. that doesn't rule out that in a future peace deal that ukraine might have to give up some land, but they're trying to base it on this principal that ukraine remains as an autonomous country, it can defend itself, it can sustain itself, it can deter russia, and its territorial integrity should be preserved. but we'll see if it does have to have some compromises when a -- if and when there's ever a real peace negotiation with russia and china likely present to get

down to the nitty-gritty so to speak. >> and richard, what do we know about putin's two-day trip to north korea? >> that is very interesting. so a year ago it was kim jong-un who went to russia and he went on his train and actually stayed on an extended trip visiting russian military facilities, and russia needs help to continue its war in ukraine. it has been looking to north korea mostly to supply artillery shells because north korea doesn't make very much, doesn't make a lot of food, has periods of mass starvation, but it is a highly militarized society, and it produces a lot of artillery shells and a lot of soviet era artillery shells that fit right into russian weapons, and that has been something that the ukrainians have been dealing with because the ukrainians have soviet era weapons, and they also have nato weapons, and nato weapons, and soviet era weapons

don't fire the same kind of ammunition. so here in ukraine, the army is in a difficult position, the government's in a difficult position looking around the world for both kinds of ammunition whereas vladimir putin found a very large reservoir of soviet era shelves, millions of them in north korea, millions of them according to a recent bloomberg study have already been making their way to moscow. so russia as the most sanctioned country in the world, north korea, those are the two most sanctioned countries in the world are already finding ways where they can cooperate with russia able to give north korea legitimacy, able to give it an open market, able to supply it a food supply, hard currency and north korea providing weapons and ammunition. it's only vladimir putin's second trip to north korea, the first one nearly 20 years ago at

the start of his presidency, first time with kim jong-un as -- as he's in power, and by the way, putin in february just got him a big russian limousine, so hopefully it seems that their personal rapport could also help this trip, jose. >> richard engel in kyiv, thank you so very much. i want to bring in former supreme allied commander at nato, retired four-star navy admiral, james stavridis. it's also a pleasure to see you. he is nbc's chief international analyst. just thinking, you know, what are your thoughts on -- let's talk about, for example, putin heading to north korea. why do you think he'd be going there now? >> for exactly the reasons that all of us are feeling pretty good at the moment, and that is because the massive tranche of aid from the united states about 60 billion, jose, as you know, matched and even a little bit more from the europeans, all of that weaponry is now hitting the

battlefield. you're already seeing russia having to give up some of the gains they've made in the course of this spring, so putin recognizes that although he was on the front foot through the spring, now with the new aid flowing in, he's going to have to find additional sources of weaponry. that's problem number one for him, and then problem number two is manpower. he is chewing up his army, losing a lot of troops. he won't get troops from north korea, but he will find the weapons to put in the hands that might reduce his troop losses. that's why he is really working it with north korea right now. >> you know, admiral talking about his need for additional, you know, weaponry and manpower and assistance for that manpower, we're also following the big issue of a russian nuclear-powered submarine and surface to warships are in cuba after arriving there last week.

one time i know you were in charge of southern command. what are your thoughts on that? >> i'm sort of split in my view here, on the one hand, russian ships passing through the americas, notably through the caribbean, fairly routine, jose. you know that. we'll see them in and out of cuban ports. they'll probably jump down and see the dictator nicolas maduro in venezuela. they might come over to central america and pay a port call. it's only three ships. we have a whole fleet there, the u.s. navy's fourth fleet. we'll track them. we'll follow them. on the other hand, we ought to recognize this is putin responding to the u.s. saying to the ukrainians use our weapons, u.s. weapons, inside russia. so putin is sending a little bit of a signal here that, hey, i've got friends near you. i could use weapons from their

bases in cuba, so it's a bit of a mixed signal. final thought, jose, back to manpower, as you probably know, putin is recruiting cubans to join the russian army and go fight on the front lines in ukraine. i hope the cuban people are smart enough to reject that. >> the only issue is admiral, the cuban people don't have the right to reject or not reject anything when they have a system in place for 63 plus years. it doesn't give them voice in anything they do. meanwhile, admiral, and again, you know this better than anybody else, we're monitoring this shake-up in israel's government. what do you see there? >> yeah. i think without question this is bad news for netanyahu because he's lost the two most capable members of that cabinet, only had five people in it. the two who left are former general benny gantz, the head of

the israeli defense forces and former general, gadies ka not who also was head of the israeli defense force. all of that uniformed experience, which i think was helping guide the military side of this campaign is departing in frustration with netanyahu. he had to dissolve it because his far right, which is the very dangerous side of his coalition to any kind of peace effort or cease fire would have demanded those seats. so this is bad news not only for netanyahu but in my view bad news for the already slim chances of a cease fire. >> admiral james stavridis, always a pleasure. thank you so much. it's always great seeing you. up next, new developments in l.a. county's fastest moving wildfire that could force more evacuations in a moment's notice. plus, it could be the longest heat wave in decades for some areas.

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joining us now, nbc's steve patterson from california. what are the conditions like there today? >> reporter: conditions are a little bit more faorable than the windy, blustery conditions we saw over the weekend that allowed this fire to grow so fast. the first thing you think about when you think of this fire is the fact that it's june. we already have a 15,000 acre fire at the very beginning of the season, and it's so early in the season. not that it's unheard of. when we do hear about it, it precedes a very volatile dangerous season. this fire growing to nearly 15,000 acres. crews here are battling as hard as they can. they are taking this very seriously. i'm surrounded by the calvary cal fire, l.a. fire department, hot shots behind me, they are battling this hot and heavy. they're trying to get as much containment on this as possible. the good news, you mentioned 2%. that was overnight. we just got an update, it's now 8% containment. they are trying to push this

away from a very close by interstate, i-5, trying to contain it in the woods near pyramid lake where they're hoping they can drown it out over time. that effort has been going very well, but the winds are the primary concern. we are still in red flag warnings here, if they shift, if they change, it could blow back right on the crews that are working on this, and then they'll have to contain a whole new area of the fire. they're hoping to knock this out as soon as they can. jose. >> thank you so very much. today extreme heat is going to be felt across much of the country. 150 million people will experience temperatures above 90 degrees and for 9 million of them, it would be over 100 degrees. joining us now is nbc's maggie vespa from detroit, one of the cities expected to see high temps today. maggie, good morning. how are people dealing with this heat there? >> reporter: well, jose, effectively they're bracing for it right now. today is day one here in detroit of this stubborn heat wave that's expected to last throughout pretty much the

entire week. if you look at those numbers, it points to the idea that this is what we're feeling across the country. major swaths of the great plains, the midwest, and up and down the east coast are hovering in the mid-90s if not close to triple digits. and we've been talking about this throughout the morning, and someone tweeted at us, okay, otherwise known as summer, we're talking about heat in june, almost july. first of all, the summer solstice is on thursday. that's the official start to the season. regardless of any official benchmarks, though, this is markedly early scientists tell us in the year to see heat this intense. it's coming on really quickly. something that can make it all the more dangerous for people who really just -- we haven't acclimated, as humans to the growing heat, the kind of slower steadier pace we tend to see in years past, and that's something that's really on the minds of people here in the detroit area. it was like one of the first things that they pointed out to us. take a listen to some of the conversations that we had about this. >> i thought that's unusual for michigan this time of the year this early to be so hot.

i don't mind it, but i'm not super excited. i mean, it's going to be hot. >> reporter: i'm not super excited. the little girl that was down there at the bottom of the screen, she said i like the heat, but it gets in my eyes when i don't use sunglasses. good advice there from a 6-year-old who's already bracing for this heat wave too. one thing to keep in mind, a lot of times during heat waves we wend to get relief overnight. that won't be happening either. overnight lows tending to hover around 80 degrees as well. something to keep in mind, especially when keeping an eye on those who don't have air-conditioning. we'll send it back to you. >> maggie vespa, thank you so very much. appreciate it. up next, dozens of people are, well, recovering this morning after multiple mass shootings across the country, including at a splash pad. marjory stoneman high school, the scene of a deadly mass

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41 past the hour, this morning cities across the country reeling after a wave of gun violence this father's day weekend, at least five people were killed. 55 others injured and nine

different mass shootings between saturday and sunday according to the gun violence archive. nbc's erin mclaughlin joins us now. good morning, what more do we know about this? >> jose, we are now just learning of two additional mass shootings recorded by the gun violence archive. today those shootings out of chicago injuring a dozen, and then over the weekend there were a number of victims, children as young as 4, an 8-year-old was shot in the head at a splash pad. the summer is beginning with heartbreak across the country. this morning friends and families across the country are grieving, after multiple mass shootings this weekend. >> multiple victims from an active shooter, deputies aren't on scene yet. >> reporter: in rochester hills, michigan, a man opened fire at a splash pad unleashing 28 rounds. the attack left nine injured including children.

some seriously wounded. >> the 8-year-old boy who has a gunshot wound to the head. >> reporter: police say the suspect later shot himself and are investigating his motive. >> it was heartbreakening, saddening, devastating. nothing like this has ever happened around this area. >> reporter: while in round rock, texas, police are searching for a shooter who killed two and injured more than a dozen others at a juneteenth celebration. >> these folks could care less about someone's life and took someone's life on a day we're here to celebrate community. >> and at least eight people were injured by shooting at a pop-up party in meth win, massachusetts, with two victims in critical condition. >> here we see gun violence striking at the heart of a community. >> reporter: so far this year there have been 225 mass shootings in the u.s., according to the gun violence archive. the weekend shootings come just days after the supreme court

struck down a trump era ban on bump stocks. the gun accessories used to modify semiautomatic weapons so that they can fire faster. but this morning, many are just searching for answers. >> our hearts go out to the victims and their families. these acts of senseless violence do not represent the values of our community. >> reporter: now to our knowledge, no bump stocks were used in any of the shootings over the weekend, but experts say if they had, those shootings would have been so much worse. jose. >> erin mclaughlin, thank you so very much. as thee mass shootings erupted across the country over the weekend, and as erin was telling us as recently as today, fred guttenberg was remembering his daughter jamie. in a social media post fred writes we don't move on. we move forward as i now face the reality of my seventh father's day without jamie, these words are resonating with me more than ever.

fred guttenberg who's also a senior adviser at brady joins us today. thank you, fred, for spending time. >> good morning. >> it is always a difficult thing to ask you just because it's, you know, jamie is always going to be 14 and this july 13th, she would have been 21 years old. >> yeah. >> fred, how do you -- how are you and your family, you know, your son jesse and your wife, how are you today? >> you know, i'm glad you asked. the these moments don't get easier. you mentioned jamie should be turning 21, all of her beautiful friends that she grew up with. they're all doing these incredible summer vacations and trips as they grow into these amazing young women.

my daughter's not with them. my son, my wife and i, we all do okay in the process of moving forward, but i ain't going to lie to you, it's not easy. >> yeah. >> you know, i was just looking at some -- just some, you know, research that we do and the last time you and i spoke on the air was on the 2nd of may of 2023, so almost a year -- just a little over a year ago, and you know what we were talking about? about the wave of gun violence in our country. >> yeah. >> we could be having that -- and we are going to have that same conversation today. >> it's not -- you know, i'm chuckling when you say it that way, but it's not funny. jose, let's be clear. since jamie was killed, we've added over 100 million weapons to the american streets. this wave of gun violence is not surprising to anybody who tracks

that number. most of it happened through covid. the good news because of the safer communities act passed during the biden administration, because of the executive actions, because of the office of gun violence prevention, violent crime is down. gun violence is down. however, it's a never ending fight against things like a supreme court that wants to end any effort to do anything, against a republican congress who wants to end any effort to do anything, and lives are at stake. you know, you talked about a shooting this weekend at a pool where 28 rounds were fired. imagine a bump stock, imagine not, you know, talking about a mass shooting without casualties. imagine talking about hundreds killed because that's what is going to happen because of the supreme court ruling last week, and so i just want to tell

everybody listening to this interview right now, you have only one option. right now this morning, go check your voter registration. make sure it is accurate, up to date, and you are ready to vote and make sure you vote in this election. >> it is the fundamental requirement of a healthy democracy. >> yeah. >> you know, and if people just stand by and don't participate, then later complaining is really less relevant, i think, don't you think, fred? >> listen, complaining won't solve this. however, every day when i remind people of the importance of voting, i think of the dad who this -- you know, this past weekend is what is the nationals dance competition that my daughter used to be a part of, and i think of all the dads who are watching their daughters dance in competitions across this country this weekend, your

vote ensures or hopefully ensures you will play a role in making sure you get to watch your daughter dance next year as well. this is not hyperbole. this is not nonsense. i visited my daughter to start my father's day at a cemetery. take me seriously on this one. check your voter registration and make sure you vote. >> fred, are you taking care of the things that one as a father, as a committed human being that you are, are you taking care of the things that one lets pass by the side because they're not as important in your mind as they really are, which is are you doing that? >> not wells i should be. it's part of why i wrote the father's day post that i wrote yesterday about moving forward and doing a better job of

dedicating more of my time to my wife and my son. it's been completely dedicated to this fight to reduce gun violence now for years, and candidly, between now and the election, it's going to stay dedicated to this fight. nothing matters to me more than making sure my son gets to grow up in a world where he can have kids where this won't be his biggest concern. but after this election i'm going to commit more of my time to my wife and my son and to me. you know, i plan on -- as i said in my post yesterday, i'myest retiring. i'm going to start reliving. i want to do that safely. >> just as a father, fred, how do you deal with the july 13th? >> you know, listen. it's like all the other days that are these unique moments.

father's day, mother's day, holidays. unlike other homes where there are celebrations, for us, it's remembrance. thinking about jamie. for us, it's thinking about these incredible memories she gave us for her 14 years. for us, it's thinking about how we go forward making sure the world never forgets who she was. and for us, it's being together. for us, it's dealing with the sadness. but together. not apart. and you know, july 13th, it's just about a month away. >> yeah. >> it should be a celebration. my daughter should be turning 21 and she'll be forever 14. >> fred, you know, let's continue our conversation. it's important. >> absolutely, my friend. >> thank you.

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55 past the hour. this morning in new york, an indian national is appearing in a lower manhattan courthouse on federal charges after he was extradited to the u.s. asked in a murder for hire plot against a sikh separatist. tom winter has more for us on this story. tom, what exactly happened? >> well, jose, the person who you're referring to and the person appearing in federal court in manhattan is a 52-year-old identified as nakil gupta. a fellow senior field officer of

the indian government who is alleged to have contacted somebody presenting himself as a drug trafficker, in the international arms business, as somebody who needed to find somebody to carry out a murder for hire. unfortunately for him, he was talking to a dea source and the person he was set up with was in fact a dea agent and that's how these charges came up. he was charged in november. arrested in the czech republic then extradited over the weekend here. this is part of a concerning trend law enforcement officials say of individuals in the u.s. and canada being potentially targeted. in canada, a sikh separatist there and ties to the indian government is something they're very much tracking. >> thank you so very much. appreciate it. coming up in our next hour, the nation's surgeon general issues a warning about social media. why he says immediate action is needed to protect our children.

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