senate expert ira shapiro gets the last word. the 11th hour starts now. tonight the biden campaign calls out donald trump's comments on race. the fallout from benjamin netanyahu's video slamming the biden administration. and louisiana has a new law the ten commandments must be posted in all school classrooms, the constitutional showdown as "the 11th hour" gets underway on this wednesday

night. >> good ■çevening once again. i'm stephanie ruhle and we are now, get ready for it, 139 days away from the election. today marks 159 years since the last black slaves were given their freedom in galveston, texas, a day recognized as juneteenth. today millions of americans coast to coast celebrated with parades, concerts, and speeches and this is the fourth year juneteenth has been designated a federal holiday. president biden signed it into law in 2021 and today his campaign is out with a very powerful new ad. >> this juneteenth we salute those who built this country, those who sacrificed, those who suffered and refused to be defined by pain or silenced by oppression. we celebrate freedom, ■çfreedom to live, breath, play, choose, marry, vote and with joe biden and kamala harris, we're ready

to face the future together. we can't stop now. >> what did donald trump do to celebrate this day that is so important to so many americans? the man himself, he didn't do anything. he did make at least 18 posts on truth social today and not a single one mentioned the holiday. remember, on juneteenth four years ago trump tried to hold a campaign rally in tulsa, oklahoma, the site of one of the worst racial attacks in american history when the area known as black wall street was burned to the ground. according to multiple reports at the time, trump had no idea what juneteenth even was. today a trump campaign spokesperson did manage to put out ■ça five-line statement saying that, "freedom has always been at the foundation of the republican party." this is referencing something that you often hear from the gop, that they are the party of lincoln. yes, president lincoln was, in

fact, a republican, but for facts sake, abraham lincoln would not even recognize today's republican party. in fact, he might say republicans in name only. let's get smarter with the help of our leadoff panel. nbc news correspondent vaughn hillyard who has covered all three trump white house campaigns, molly john fast, special correspondent for van it's vanity fair and co-host of the the morning show. the trump campaign has been claiming they're having success winning over black voters. if that were the case, wouldn't juneteenth be a key day to make a big push for those votes? >> you know, i think there's a fundamental misunderstanding as one of my former bosses bernie sanders would say by the trump campaign on what outreach and

engagement is when it comes to black voters. we've seen gold sneakers. we have seen him claiming he'll being a convicted 34 time felon make him palatable and interesting to black voters. we haven't seen much policy, talking about the economy and black businesses and marking juneteenth today. i want to remind folks about 8 to 10% of ■çblack voters usuall do in a presidential election break for the republican presidential candidate. donald trump and his campaign claim they are going to win a majority of black votes. the gap is large and the work to close that gap seems nonexistent. >> molly, today dnc chair jamie harrison said donald trump is a lot of things, but he certainly isn't subtle. all of the cities he denigrates have one important thing in common, significant black populations. >> yeah. this has been his story ever

since 2016. remember he went to war with baltimore? >> i do. >> this is his trope and he is trying to say i'm not as çracis as you think i am. that's really what this is about. >> some think he's that racist and they're down with it. >> for sure, but there's some permission structure stuff going on here. this is the man who announced his presidency on the idea that mexicans were rapists and some of them were very good people. this is where this comes from. >> vaughn, his 2016 entire pitch to black voters was basically what do you have to lose? give me a shot. he doesn't seem to be trying much harder than that at this point. you're on the trail with him. what is he doing? >> with every passing year that message for him only becomes

more cemented, right? what do you have to lose? back in 2020 he received the most black support for any ■ç republican nominee in decades and for him that's affirmation he was making progress whether folks want to believe that that's the case or not. donald trump engrained in his head he is the best for everybody. we're referencing baltimore -- >> he's the grievance candidate. he's saying you've got stuff to be mad about? i'm your guy. >> eight years ago he went on the attack against john lewis saying atlanta's falling apart and he should spend more time focusing on his own district. to what extent does donald trump suffer repercussions of comments like that or does he feel like he can go into a place like the bronx and go in his hearts of hearts, believe if you articulate a message you guys are doomed. you guys don't have great lives because of the democrats, for donald tru

easier message to communicate than actual substantive policy arguments in a lot of ways i think the democrats struggle oftentimes to articulate because it's, frankly, a little bit more complex than donald trump's message to black and brown communities of you'd be better with me. >> what do you think of that because trump goes to aggrieved communities whoever they are and say doesn't this suck and they say yeah, it does, but he doesn't deliver a policy solution to make it not suck. i'm being very articulate. >> there's very little policy in trump's stuff. the republican party basically gave up policy in 2020 when they said they weren't going to have a policy platform. even like with republican policies on the larger? they want to keep tax cuts for the wealthy. cut the corpora tariffs possibly, larger tariffs? this doesn't benefit anyone but the very, very wealthy. >> our colleague chuck todd wrote today about sort of this

trump amnesia, how it has set in in the country, that all sorts of voters have forgot what about trump's first term was like and they might not be afraid anymore of a second term. vaughn, when you're out on the trail with the campaign, do you pick up on that? >> it's not just donald trump. yes to answer your question. it's not just donald trump that says wouldn't you like life to be like it was four or five years ago, it's also voters that articulate that message. i think a large number of them are echoing donald trump, but for folks there is a prepandemic life and post pandemic leaf. take politics out of it. a lot of us have lived experiences outside of who is in the white house. i think that is what donald trump ■çand his campaign are trying to herald folks' minds back to. i think amnesia when we're talking about it politically here is that donald trump, there is a base of support he has been able to effectively galvanize through events over the years since the january 6th

attack. that is four different indictments. those were 2022 primaries when he went around the country. in a lot of ways he has been able to give folks fodder that extends beyond what has happened politically in terms of policy from the biden administration and focus more on the grievances towards him that i think that amnesia part really becomes relevant because for him he is able to oftentimes just say ignore what happened between 2017, 2020. think about 2021 to 2024. >> symone, ■çcampaigns are abou looking forward. how much should biden be reminding voters about what life was like in a trump white house? >> i think there's a fine like to walk, but they do have to note. i mean donald trump and a lot of republicans that i've spoken to have said what about four years ago? wasn't life better off? we were literally in the midst of a pandemic and people were dying and the president of the united states at the time,

donald trump, stood before the american people at the white house podium and said drink bleach to cure covid. take all these other kinds of drugs that were unproven and we know there are people who believed him, who listened to him and who died because of that. yes, they do need to remind the american people when donald trump says it was so great when i was president, this ■çthing over here, i.e., the pandemic we all lived through, he cannot x that out of his presidency, but also they have to and i believe they have on the campaign trail been talking about the future, specifics, though, like housing dealing directly with folks' current economic condition. you talk to people, housing is the biggest issue for them. the rent is too high. it is utterly out of reach to purchase a home right now because of interest rates, even the thought of it. you have heard the biden/harris campaign when they're out in communities. they don't do it on television which i don't know why because

i feel like they need to do a little more on tv what they do in the streets, but out talking to voters they're talking about these very specific issues, policies for black voters, black businesses, what the administration has done, the gaps and what they'd like to do. those people hear more of is a message coupled with their organizing efforts that can move people to the polls. >> new topic, our own ken delaneyian is dilanian saying the feds don't have a plan in place about deep fakes inside the u.s. the fbi is not in the truth detection business one source says, but if they aren't alerting people that this fake stuff is out there and influencing us, who else is going to do it? >> i mean you're correct. look, i think the folks that work at the justice department are very hard working patriots, people putting their lives on

the line, career civil servants doing this duty over a number ■ç of presidencies. however, i do believe there is a hesitancy to look as if in any way they're picking sides or playing favorites in this election. when it comes to deep fakes and disinformation, it is real and if people are not being confronted with the facts that there's not an active campaign to root out these operations, we're going to see things similar to what we've seen in every election in the last two presidential elections, misinformation, disinformation. it's played a role. it's happening now and the deepfakes are new technology that the fbi and justice department do have the ability to put together a task force, warn folks about and i absolutely think is necessary. >> here's something ■çreal alarming. youtube is now a growing share of where americans get their news and there's a new study

out that shows its algorithm prioritizes right wing and christian content. does this show how little we understand about these mysterious algorithms and how they might be influencing us, molly? >> yeah. there's no algorithm transparencies and all these sites are asked to police themselves. do you think elon musk is policing x? facebook and all these type of platforms are really on the honor code, which is insane. i do think there's a place for the doj to get more aggressive to try to moderate content and also for there ■çto be some legislation from congress. >> youtube is nearly 10% of what we watch on tv. s

ymone, how big of a deal is this? >> i think it's a huge deal. i'm sure this is setting off fire alarms at the tip top of this particular organization because youtube recognizes their biggest growth opportunity is in the content creation, is, in fact, with the networks and the news. they know people are coming to their platform to find information and the stories like this are not helpful to the business bottom line and it definitely calls into question what is going on. it might probe some congressional committees to want to ■çpeel back the layers. we know what happens when folks go before the committees, as the ceo of boeing. >> vaughn, this week we saw two key trump legal advisers, not just like campaign associates, actual legal advisers plead not guilty in the arizona fake

electors case. >> boris epshteyn is still an adviser. for donald trump in his 2024 campaign or outside his campaign has been the one coordinating his legal counsel for his various cases. boris epshteyn pleading not guilty rounds out all 18 individuals who are co- defendants from that in violate stemming from the arizona attorney general's investigation into the fake electors scheme in 2020, all 18 pleading not guilty. the one interesting person, jenna ■çellis, also pled not guilty after pleading guilty to our georgia indictment in fulton county, but suspended her law license in colorado and was part of the agreement struck with the colorado court she issued an apology there like she did in georgia saying she regretted representing donald j. trump and ultimately she asked for apology for propagating the election fraud conspiracy theories which she said she did not know the basis

of. the question is whether prosecutors offer plea agreements. one of the prosecutors suggested they had not done so yet, but they could. will they begin to try to get some cooperators like a jenna ellis? will she change her plea to guilty and they try to move this case forward? there's no indication it will take place before ■çthe 2024 election. >> thank you so, so much. when you're not on the campaign trail, you're welcome to join us here. when we return, while republicans raged over immigration, we'll take a close look about how it's actually helping our economy. later we're talking project 2025, the far right playbook for a second trump term, what you need to know about where exactly it comes from. "the 11th hour" just getting underway on an important wednesday night. oquel. the trusted number one treatment for allergic itch is now available in a tasty chewable that works in a day. do not use in dogs with serious infections. may cause worsening of existing

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[ gasps ] [ chuckling ] good job, junior. way to go. [ chuckling ] [ speaking minionese ] we got ■çan open border. it's completely open. >> they have ripped our border wide open. >> if you have people coming in your country flooding in in record numbers, you need somebody standing at the border saying stop. >> lies. we do not have open borders. donald trump, though, is not the only republican spreading fear about immigration at the border. right there his allies are wasting no time echoing the former president, but there is a new report out. they're not talking about it. it tells a very different story

about immigration and most specifically, our economy. according to the latest data from the congressional budget office, increased immigration to the u.s. is expected to drive economic growth, boost federal revenues and shrink deficits over the next decade, something republicans traditionally would like. let's discuss. i ■çwant to bring in victoria defrancesco-soto, dean at university of arkansas and msnbc analyst. immigration has become a lightning rod issue. americans across the political spectrum are angry about illegal immigration. should the biden campaign be using this report to turn the conversation to immigration is good, but we have to fix it? >> stephanie, this report and hundreds of other reports, just last month the federal reserve bank of kansas city came out

with pretty much an identical report that had it not been for immigration, we would have not seen that ■çslight cooling down we've seen within the economy, right? this is critical to seeing that recovery and beyond that i want to step back and paint a demographic picture. since 1971 the united states fertility rate has been going down and it is currently at a record low. there was a slight bump during the pandemic, but we're back to that downward spiral. we are at a 1.6 replacement rate. you need two. essentially every family needs to have two children to replace themselves. we're not doing that. what does that look like in our job market? what does that look like in terms of those paying into social security, medicare, medicaid? what is it going to look like in terms of ■çpeople taking car

of us when we age because we're living really long? when you bring this frame to immigration, it's a whole different story. it's not one about oh, no, they're at the border. it's like oh, my god thank you. we need to incorporate you to bring new life and blood into our economy. >> tim, do you think this is an opportunity for democrats to try and shift the narrative on the issue and make a case for expanding legal immigration? >> well, look, the democrats need to divide the republicans on this and need to gain ground. i think it's more of a challenging issue for democrats because they have to have a more nuanced message. these republicans can say immigration bad. migrants are violent. the border's open. that's an easy and simple message. the joe biden message ■çis sayi yes, we need reasonable restrictions at the border. yes, we also need to be decent to the dreamers who came to this country at age 3. we're

not going to put them into camps or deport them like donald trump wants to do and yes, also legal immigration and even loosening some of the rules at the border helps our economy. i think ever since i left the republican party, on some issues i think i'm not going to change my view and on other issues it's like no. you guys have gone crazy. where are the pro growth republicans, the chamber of commerce republicans? there are other people that were like we need immigrants to help our country grow. they're good for our country. they're good for our demographics, but they're also just good ■çfor the economy as victoria said. >> chamber of commerce, entire fortune 500 ceo universe know where our labor shortage resides. politico is reporting there are some folks in the biden campaign they're hoping his new

executive action to prevent deportation of undocumented spouses will help him win over voters who hated trump's family separation policy. is there still a significant voting block who could be motivated by talking about family separation? i'm not saying it wasn't terrible, but are there these biden holdouts saying this is the thing i'm going to turn out for? >> i think it's a lot simpler than that in terms of trying to tap into a raw emotion. i don't know if the biden campaign is going to be able to do that. sure, ■çwe have the clips, but remember, stephanie, you were at the border. i was at the border. seeing what happened was something that just rips you inside. we may be able to replicate that feeling with throwbacks to the 2017 separation. i'm not sure. i think it's going to be a very difficult needle to thread, but i think within that is coming back to the idea of family

values, families. immigration is part of our american values. i think he needs to couch it within this frame and then be able to harness those emotions of the separation. >> tim, i especially like to give you super hard questions at 11:27 at night to mess with you. here it goes. new topic. virginia congressman bob good, chair of ■çthe far right house freedom caucus is in a super tight race with challenger john maguire backed by donald trump. how do you think it's going to end? >> it's only 10:27 in new orleans. i think the more important thing is it's unbelievable this guy bob good is getting pushed out literally for only endorsing ron desantis. that's all he did. bob good is one of the most

extreme tea party maga republicans out there. he's not being primaried like a centrist middle of the road republican. it's for not being loyal enough to trump. we're really in a cultish crazy place where bob good came ■çint congress by beating our friend whose crime was he officiating a gay wedding. now good's getting pushed out for endorsing desantis. the party just keeps getting crazier and crazier with each one of these primary results. if maguire wins, that will be the latest example. >> my goodness, tim, victoria, great to see you both. it's only 10:28. tim, you could still go out tonight. >> i might. watch out. when we come back, americans who do not like the separation of church and state got a very big win today in louisiana, but it's just the beginning of a far right playbook if trump wins. my next guest is breaking down

project 2025 when "the 11th hour" continues.

on this program we have talked a lot about project 2020 five and christian 2025 and christian nationalism.

critics are saying this louisiana law is unconstitutional and are promising to challenge it. make no mistake, though. this is the right wing playbook to use every branch of government at any level to impose their will ■çon the majority of the country. earlier i spoke to an expert who is studying this trend and the startling history behind it. joiningme tonight, heather cox richardson, professor of american history at boston college. she writes the popular newsletter "letters from an american" and is the author of "the new york times" best selling book "democracy awakening notes on the state of america." heather, i'm so glad you're here because we talk a lot about project 2025 on this show, the playbook for the next republican president, but you have written about how what is in project 2025 isn't a new idea. it reaches back decades in our country. how so? >> specifically because the mindset that is embraced by the

project 2025 is one that was ■to overthrow the new deal. really what's behind project 2025 is a very traditional american idea that runs as far back as our idea of equality. that is some people are better than others and have the right to rule. at the end of the day project 2025 calls for an extraordinarily strong president. it calls for getting rid of the nonpartisan civil service that we've had since 1883 and replacing it with loyalists to the president. it calls for turning the department of justice into a political operation. it calls for turning the military into a political operation and it really pushes home the idea that politics is personnel as people like those who wrote project 2025 said. what it really says is we know we can't push our extremist theological ideas on ■çthe majority of the american people because they don't like them.

we can't push them through the polls. instead we'll have to impose them on people. so at the end of the day project 2025 is really about minority rule. >> looking at this election, donald trump has a chance to build his base by trying to win over nikki haley voters, but he doesn't seem interested. what do you make of that? >> i think that's the most interesting thing about this election. if you watch trump, you can see he's really not trying to win voters. you can look at the biden campaign and they're trying very hard to reach out to college students. they've got a full campaign running in florida. they're really doing a heavy ground game. trump is not. trump isn't reaching out to voters. what he is doing is trying to solidify his base, trying to convince his base that ■çthey a not only his people, that they are this unit, but that they should commit violence. one of the things i find fascinating about that is if you look where they're spending money, they're spending money on lawyers to challenge the

outcome of an election. it looks pretty clear they expect to lose. they're spending a lot of energy on trying to create a really angry whipped up base with i think what they're hoping for is that that base will create enough confusion in the big states and in the states that the biden campaign needs for him to make it to 270 electoral votes in order to throw that counting into the house of representatives where every state gets a single vote. so republican-dominated states should be able to outvote the democrat-dominated states. it's a really ■çinteresting ground game. >> the first debate is next week. what are you expecting? >> i'm still not expecting it to happen, to be honest. if you were trump, why on earth -- >> you and james carville. >> yeah. is that funny? think about it. trump and his people expected biden did not want to debate because they convinced themselves he was not good in a

place like that. in fact, biden's a perfectly good debater and is actually quite good on his feet. you can listen to what he did with howard stern over an hour live a few weeks ago. he's fine. they agreed to terms that were not terribly good for trump. that is the mics will be cut. there will be no audience. he can't carry in notes. at the end of the day it looks like he expected biden was going to back out. i wouldn't take ■ça bet right n that that debate's going to happen. >> it seems like republicans in congress do not want to get anything done, but at the same time the supreme court is giving the right win after win. do you see a connection there and what happens to our justice system if donald trump wins because he could get a couple more seats on that bench? >> i think it's really important what you just pointed out. that is if you think about the way our system is supposed to work, it is congress elected by

the people that makes our laws. what we've seen happen really since about 2007 when mitch mcconnell, a republican senator from kentucky, became senate minority leader is he recognized if you stopped congress from legislating by weaponizing the filibuster ■ç which would require any legislation needed 60 votes in the senate, not just 51 to pass, which is very difficult to get, you could stop congress from actually making laws. the laws that are popular right now, for example, are regulation of business and are common sense gun safety legislation and are codifying roe v. wade, things the radical right does not like. you can stop congress from actually doing work, what you can do instead is to throw law making into the courts, especially the federal courts. if you watch what the republicans under mcconnell did is they managed to put as many people into the federal courts as quickly as they possibly could. so what you're seeing now, for

example, is the radical right being able to judge shop to people like matthew kazmarek in texas who is handing them win after win they could not get if they were ■çtrying to work through the congress and vote of ordinary americans. we're in a period in which a small political minority managed to grab the levers of power in order to impose their will on the rest of us. that's a great example where you can see it happening. >> heather, thank you for making us smarter tonight. >> thanks for having me. >> that's a smart lady. when we come back, new tensions between israel's prime minister and the biden white house over weapons for the war in gaza when "the 11th hour" continues.

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notably spoken in english for an american audience. >> it's inconceivable that in the past few months the administration has ■çbeen withholding weapons and ammunitions to israel, israel, america's closest ally. >> reporter: israel says it must defeat hamas and secure the release of hostages. >> during world war ii churchill told the united states give us the tools. we'll do the job. i say give us the tools and we'll finish the job a lot faster. >> reporter: but his charge has been met with surprise at the white house. >> we generally do not know what he's talking about. >> reporter: the fallout was swift. a meeting expected tomorrow with israeli officials in washington is off for now. that session to discuss threats from iran is described as postponed. u.s. officials say they will not reward israel with such a meeting in response to the netanyahu video. in may the biden administration publicly acknowledged it paused delivery to isr1

shipment with 2,000-pound bombs. responding to netanyahu's message, secretary blinken disputed the prime minister's complaint and said that one arms shipment is being evaluated. >> because of our concerns about their use in a densely populated area like rafah, that remains under review, but everything else is moving as it normally would move. >> michael allen joins me now. he was senior director on the national security council and special assistant to the president in the george w. bush white house. michael, help us out because president biden stood shoulder to shoulder with netanyahu and made it clear that he, we, the united states, stands with israel after october 7th, but we know this relationship has been going downhill since then. how serious is thiqlatest accusation from netanyahu? >> well, i think it's pretty serious because at the end of the day israel's best friend

and ally is the united states. so he ought to treat this relationship with respect. if he has a legitimate beef with president biden, i think he needs to plead the specifics. is it just the 2,000-pound bomb that came up a couple months ago or are there other weapon systems, other munitions he thinks the biden administration is holding up? it wouldn't necessarily surprise me if they were holding certain things up because they want to achieve political objectives. first they wanted to limit how fast and how thorough they went into rafah and now israel wants to go into lebanon and really ?c go after in a full scale way hezbollah. so it's not perhaps the biden administration should be necessarily blamed for this, but netanyahu, i think the burden's on him to be specific about it and let us know what he's talking about. >> his video message was also

delivered entirely in english. doesn't that make you ask yourself who exactly was it really for? >> it did make me believe netanyahu believes he's seen better in politics if he's seen standing up against joe biden. that is not a proper use of the u.s./israeli relationship. republicans and democrats need to be able to trust israel's leadership. i know a ■çlot of democrats and some republicans have a lot of problems with the way netanyahu operates, but he needs to be specific in what he's talking about and he needs to try to treat this relationship with care. if he has legitimate issues, i don't think it's a problem if he raises them first in diplomatic channels and then even maybe he can talk about them in congressional or public channels, but this did seem a

little off the cuff to me and made me wonder how much is behind it. >> then here's what else you could wonder about. netanyahu has a very, very special relationship with donald trump as well as jared kushner. could this speech be seen as netanyahu sowing doubt biden stands with israel and potentially putting his thumb on the scale for trump? >> that may ■çhave some -- that may be in his mind at some level. it may be a cue to donald trump to start beating up biden again on this, but trump has been out there in a big way saying that biden and the democratic party do not support israel. so yes, i think this is going to be a huge issue here in the 2024 elections and netanyahu may be trying to meddle a little bit and put this out there into the ether. >> then, of course, there are some democrats who think that president biden stands too much with israel. it is a difficult needle to

thread. what does all this signal to the rest of the middle east and the world about the relationship between america and israel? you said it. the u.s. is known as israel's best friend. >> yeah. well, before this episode i was generally a little bit worried i éhnught the biden administration had been too rough on israel. i know they need to be more careful in the humanitarian situation, but i thought they were sending a signal to hamas accidentally which was hey, not even the united states backs israel and so that was a disincentive for hamas to release the hostages by coming to a bigger, grander deal with the israelis. so i do worry a little bit that at times their hyper criticism of israel may have had unintended consequences, but when it comes down to this sort of dispute about weapons, most of these things should be handled in diplomatic private channels and only bring it out into the public if it is a

legitimate area or a policy dispute worthy of public discussion. >> well, i'm not letting you leave until ■çi ask you about something else. i suspect you might be worried about vladimir putin and kim jong un signing a mutual defense agreement. how alarming is this? what does it mean for us? >> well, what it means for us is this is just yet another brick in the wall of all of the different adversaries that the united states has that are interconnected. you have iran giving drones and ballistic missiles to russia and now we've seen a formalization of what north korea is doing to aid russia's war with ukraine. it's not only artillery pieces. it's also ballistic missiles and now they've formally gotten together and said we're going to be bosom buddies in the fight against the ■çwest.

it's iran, north korea, china, russia. they're all arrayed against us. the best thing we can do here is to continue to passes assistance for ukraine, taiwan and, of course, israel and we need to stand together this summer at the nato 75th anniversary, remind everyone that we have the biggest, baddest alliance in the world and we ought to stand also with japan, korea, and the philippines to send that message and asia as well. >> michael, thank you so much for joining us tonight. >> thank you. when we return, a historic flight honoring veterans on this juneteenth holiday when "the 11th hour" continues.

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will■ç storm and the last thinge do before go tonight, celebration of service. for the first time ever, the honor flight network hosted a juneteenth trip, bringing 26 black veterans to memorials across our nation's capital. nbc's has more. >> reporter: for rafe and ruth walker, celebrating juneteenth in the nation's capital is historic >> i feel honored and i feel appreciated today, as a vet. >> reporter: both served during the vietnam war. rodney is a combat veteran. the two married in 1971. earlier this morning, the couple started their day joining some of america's finest heroes on a trip from atlanta to washington, d.c. their trip, the first of its kind ■çin the honor flight network bringing together these 26 black veterans, paying

tribute to those who served and marking the end of slavery in the u.s. a warm welcome. >> what does it feel like to be her on juneteenth as part of this historic flight? >> i never would have imagined being here at all. let alone, juneteenth. i will cherish this moment for the rest of my life. >> reporter: since 2005, the honor flight network has flown nearly 300,000 veterans into d.c. today, the group visited a number of war memorials, making a stop in arlington national cemetery. laying a wreath with 100 one- year-old calvin kemp who served in world war ii. >> and i broke down in tears. >> for the walkers, reflection. >>■ç people like me who served their country. bravely and courageously and with honor. and now we are here and they are celebrating.

>> reporter: nbc news, washington. and on that very beautiful note, i wish you a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late with me, i will see you at the end of tomorrow. tonight on all in. >> and now hearing from the supreme court, president, any president must obey the law and the courts. >> it has already taken twice as long as the united states versus nixon. >> came with maximum impact■ç o decision come unanimous, by the chief justice. >> reporter: tonight, the inexcusable way for trump immunity decision from the supreme court. then. >> they are great people. great people with a great reputation, i have to say that. great reputation.