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reports, the supreme court is just moments away from handing down another batch of decisions. major rulings on abortion restrictions and donald trump's presidential immunity still in the balance. we have live updates. plus, as president biden is making final preps for tomorrow's debate, former president trump may be making final preps to unveil a running mate. will his vp announcement come before tomorrow's face-off? also ahead, he's been behind bars in russia now for over a year, now american journalist evan gershkovich is on trial behind closed doors. what we're learning about the kremlin's secret proceedings on spy charges. and then coming up, thousands still fleeing as devastating floods swamped the midwest. we will take you on the ground where a key dam is at risk of collapse. thanks so much for being with us, it is 10:00 eastern, i'm ana cabrera reporting from

new york. all eyes are on the supreme court. today is the first of three decision days this week, 14 cases remain, including highly anticipated decisions on abortion and presidential immunity, and two rulings that could have outsized political impact, of course, as the 2024 campaign kicks into high gear. we have nbc's ryan reilly outside the supreme court, along with our expert panel msnbc correspondent lisa rubin, former acting u.s. solicitor general neal katia and law professor leah litman. first to ryan. 14 cases left, ryan, what do we know so far this morning? >> reporter: there's one box of opinions coming, which typically means one or two decisions, possibly three, probably more one or two. the big case that everyone is looking for is the question of presidential immunity. there's also the joseph fisher case, a january 6th case which could have an impact on donald trump's case on two of the charges against him. the big question is immunity and

what exactly the supreme court will decide and whether or not donald trump is able to starve off these charges that have been brought against him in d.c. in connection with the attack on the u.s. capitol just across the street from me here. that's the one that's going to impact the race here, what everyone is sort of waiting on. we should be hearing soon what decisions exactly the court is going to be coming back with. as you hear behind me a lot of interested parties me protesting outside the court, ana. >> ryan, justice alito, the center of controversy recently, he was absent from court a couple days last week. any insight into that or his status today? >> reporter: we don't have any insight into exactly why in regards to the absence, we are not sure exactly, but obviously samuel alito has been caught up in controversies recently, a lot of reporting about the upside down flag outside of his home, he has refused to recuse from any of the cases involving january 6 even though that flag was something that protesters carried outside of the capitol on january 6, an upside down

flag. that was something that you see in a number of these january 6 cases and that flag was in january of 2021 during this period where donald trump was trying to stop the peaceful transfer of power flown upside down outside of justice alito's home. >> stand by with us, ryan. we hear the protesters there at the supreme court anticipating these big decisions. lisa, i understand we did get one decision so far today, not one of those really big ones, but this one is interesting dealing with social media and misinformation, right? >> yeah, and it deals with standing as well which is what doomed the face on mifepristone. the court finding here that states and five individual social media users had no standing to sue the u.s. surgeon general and others for allegedly coercing social media companies to tamp down on posts that they found to be disinformation with respect to covid and other policies. >> okay. so that is what's come so far today. we are expecting at least one more today because they haven't said that's it, so, neal, we are

getting some signals perhaps decisions could extend into next week, especially given the shear number of cases. would it be unusual for the court to extend the term and is it likely do you think? >> it would be very unusual. the court really does take their summer recesses very seriously and end by june 30th. in recent years it hasn't gone past that. of course, in recent years it hasn't had 14 opinions outstanding with only a couple days to go in june. so it's certainly possible but at this point i don't think it's likely. we basically know the protocol for the court. the court on the penultimate day the chief justice will say the next day is the last day, so we may know as soon as tomorrow whether friday is the last day. i do want to say a word about this decision that was just handed down, it's a 6-3 decision in a case called murthy, i actually argued the companion case called national rifle association versus vulo. so i was in the courtroom that

day. it was striking. i don't think this result is at all unpredictable, basically as lisa says, six justices led by justice barrett are saying the challengers had no standing, no legal ability to raise their claim before the court. what is surprising is that there are three dissenters, alito, thomas and gorsuch, and they found standing. these are three justices who generally have a very narrow view of standing, of who can bring a lawsuit, but here they appear to have blown past their prior limits on standing and the courthouse doors to open them up to entertain challenges such as this. looking at this dissent it's only been a minute or so but it looks like a pretty striking opinion coming from the far conservative wing so-called of the supreme court. >> and we know at least i learned that when it's dismissed on standing or put down because of standing, that still leaves open the door for another decision or challenge similar to

this one to come back through the court system. leah, clearly the electoral calendar is not factored into the court's timing, you've been critical of the slow pace, but proponents might say maybe it's a good thing they aren't catering to outside pressure. when to comes to cases, though, that could impact the election like abortion or immunity specifically, should they consider whether they're leaving voters hanging? do they have the ability to really prioritize or fast track certain things? >> so we know that they absolutely do have that ability and that they've exercised it before. when the supreme court agreed to hear the decision out of colorado, the colorado supreme court initially ordered donald trump off the ballot finding that the 14th amendment disqualified him, the supreme court acted quite quickly and opted to release a decision within 50 some days of when they agreed to hear the case and they also released the decision before super tuesday so that voters could go to the voting booth and know whether one of the candidates was actually disqualified from office. we know years ago in bush versus

gore the supreme court acted extremely quickly and issued a decision basically one day after oral argument in the case. the court has acted quickly when an electoral timeline has suggested that acting quickly would be in the nation's best interest. so i do think it's telling that they have apparently declined to do so in the trump immunity case. >> that is really interesting when you just look at how quickly, 59 days from when the court took up the colorado ballot issue to when they issued a decision. it has been 118 days and counting right now on the trump immunity case. you will recall jack smith had asked the supreme court to expedite this case, to take it on way back in december. so it's been a long process all along the way. lisa, on the issue of presidential immunity, what are the potential outcomes we could see here? >> a number of outcomes that we could see here. one is that the court -- and this is perhaps the least likely outcome -- is that the court says there is no presidential immunity in criminal cases. that based on the oral argument

is not an outside that i expect. another outcome, the court could see there are certain circumstances in which the president is entitled to immunity in criminal cases but based on the allegations in this indictment none of those circumstances are present there. they would send the case down to judge chutkan for further pretrial proceedings. the outcome that is the most likely is the court says, yes, there are circumstances in which a former president can be criminally immune from prosecution, but the court needs to do some more fact-finding to determine which of the allegations in this indictment talk about purely private conduct versus official conduct, and that is the outcome that would result in the greatest elongation of the case before judge chutkan because it would first require her to determine which allegations from the indictment or which charges from the indictment have to come out before she can proceed to put the case back on track and bring it toward trial. >> joining us as well is msnbc

legal analyst melissa murray. melissa, on this question about potential immunity, your thoughts on the outcome of this case and how long it's taking for the justices to deliver a decision. >> well, i think that, ana that the fact that they've taken so long suggests that there's a lot of infighting here. i think the chief justice will likely be pushing for unanimous opinion, that's going to be very hard to get. we've seen in the last couple of weeks that even in situations where the court has been relatively aligned, there have been a number of unanimous decisions and decisions where there is a strong majority there is still dissent. they're splitting hairs about certain things and that deliberation can take some time. i did want to go back to this murthy case that neal mentioned. justice alito is in the dissent here and he's joined by crust is thomas and gorsuch. it's incredibly critical of the biden administration. so this was a case about the biden administration's efforts to get social media platforms to stop highlighting information

that might be considered disinformation about the covid-19 pandemic. i think it's a really remarkable separate writing from justice alito because it goes into such incredible detail in criticizing the administration and the efforts that were made during the heat of the pandemic to deal with that and it comes to a conclusion that the plaintiff here should have been able to sue the white house and the administration and that, in fact, she did have standing and he notes that they made a decision a few weeks earlier on mifepristone where it was determined that standing wasn't available. they should have applied the same rules, justice alito says, and should have done so even-handedly here and that would have led on this woman being able to proceed on the merits of her claim. it is a startling separate opinion and one that, again, is deeply critical and that may tell us a little something about where immunity may go and where some of these other cases involving the biden administration may go. >> what do you think about that, neal? the fact that the conservative justices in today's decision that was released, murthy v.

missouri split. it was a 6-3 decision, it was three conservative justices that broke off to dissent here and yet we have amy coney barrett, we have the chief justice john roberts apparently joining the three more liberal justices in the majority decision. does that give you any kind of insight into how things may fall in these more controversial cases we're waiting on? >> well, in a lot of the politically-charged cases when i'm there i tend to think about it as three blocks of the court. there's the three so-called liberals sotomayor, kagan and jackson, the three much more die hard conservatives, gorsuch, alito and thomas as melissa points out, and then there are the three justices in the middle of the court, not in the middle of american public opinion, these three are far to the right i think of mainstream public american opinion but on the

court justice kavanaugh and justice barrett and the chief justice play that role. melissa is absolutely right, you see that same lineup happening with the three more moderate conservative justices joining the three so-called liberal justices for that alignment there. i don't know that it necessarily tells us much about where the immunity case is going or any other case. these are pretty stable blocks across one case to another. it wouldn't surprise me if we saw something like that in the immunity case, but, you know, i think as melissa says, it's just a tiny tea leaf of what might be to come. >> everybody, stay with me. let me bring back lisa. we've got another decision today, again, it wasn't the big one or one of these more high-profile cases, which one was this? >> this is snyder versus united states. it is justice kavanaugh for, again, a 6-3 majority but a differently constituted one, narrowing a federal anti-corruption statute. and the three liberals here in

dissent, justices sotomayor, kagan and brown jackson. and my understanding on a more importantly perhaps that's it for today. and so we live to see another day on all of the eagerly anticipated decisions whether it's the one concerning idaho's abortion statute or the presidential immunity case and a related case having to do with the obstruction charge in many of the january 6th cases a statute also brought against former president trump, the fischer versus united states case deals with the meaning of that statute and could meaningfully change not only the prosecution against the former president but could change what recommend niece about sought and what charges can be brought, what sentences can be dolled out to a number of january 6 defendants as ryan reilly knows well. >> those, in fact, have been hundreds of january 6 defendants facing similar charges. leah, we know this conservative court was somewhat surprising in decisions when it came to the

abortion pill, a 9-0 decision. they also upheld the ban on domestic abusers owning guns, an 8-1 decision. so some unity it appears there. is there back room dealing among the justices to get to outcomes like that? i know you used to clerk at the court. >> there's always some negotiations that is happening between the justices after an argument and until a decision is released, the justices will be exchanging drafts, they will be talking to one another about the outcome in the case and whether any justice is open to changing their mind, but i'm not sure that i would describe, for example, the medication abortion ruling as that surprising. the fifth circuit, the court of appeals where that decision came from is also the court of appeals where the social media case from today came from and that court is really out there. it has an astonishingly poor record before the supreme court which underscores not the supreme court's moderation as neal was saying, but rather how far out there the fifth circuit has become. that's the court that ordered the social media companies to

effectively stop talking to the white house, the same court of appeals that ordered the fda to impose a bunch of additional restrictions on mifepristone that they had deemed medically unwarranted. it's not that surprising to see that course reversed in these kinds of cases. >> and, melissa, i'm thinking about back to the big case we got, the last big one we got on friday its u.s. versus rahimi the gun rights case dealing with domestic abusers and restraining orders and the ban on them being able to have guns. it seemed union need on the surface, it was an 8-1 decision, but does the multitude of separate writings in that decision suggest this is a deeply divided court? >> i think that's a really great point, ana. it was an 8-1 decision with justice thomas who had written the earlier decision from 2022 bruin which had blown open the second amendment. he was the only dissenter. even among those eight justices there were real questions among the eight about how to best do

this history and tradition method that the court announced in 2022 in bruin. we had amy coney barrett talking about the contours of originalism. we have sotomayor and jackson being der ris sieve about the idea that we should look back to 1787 to determine which gun laws should be allowed to be in use today. a lot of tensions here. this case just announced, snyder is an important one and not one i think many court watchers will be talking about but i think it's worthwhile for your listeners to hear about it. this case narrows an anti-corruption statute and it's part of a larger pattern of this court narrowing the statutes that can call government officials to account for corruption and, again, part of a larger pattern that began with a case mcdonald involving the governor of virginia. kelly versus united states which involves chris christie's bridge

gate. the court narrows it and makes it okay to be corrupt if you are in government again. another major trend from this court. >> ryan reilly, lisa rubin, neal katyal, so grateful to have your expert minds and legal analysis. two more still in the hopper this week, thursday and friday. i look forward to seeing you both and all again. just one day left, meantime, until the most critical presidential debate in years, but is trump hoping to steal the headlines with a vice presidential announcement? plus the covert trial of american journalist evan gershkovich begins in russia. the serious charges he's facing after being detained for more than a year already. and later, extreme weather turns roads into rivers. the dangerous conditions in the midwest. when we're back in 90 seconds. plaque psoriasis. she thinks her flaky gray patches are all people see.

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>> reporter: donald trump had been suggesting for quite a long time that he would be more likely to make his announcement just before the convention in milwaukee which starts on july 15th or even make the announcement from the convention floor itself. multiple sources are telling nbc news that the decision could come as soon as this week and multiple campaign advisers saying on social media the fact that donald trump could make the announcement today or tomorrow or right before the debate it's on donald trump's own timeline. last night he was asked on news max, a right wing outlet by corey lewandowski who is his long time formal and informal adviser who was hosting the show asked him about that vp selection and he said that he has a lot of good options from the bench to still make the selection from. now, we do not expect the former president to be here in atlanta until tomorrow ahead of the debate. he is currently at his mar-a-lago estate. at this point in time it's a matter of how is donald trump actually preparing?

publicly his campaign team and donald trump himself are suggesting they are not going through mock debate performances or taking this all too seriously frankly. donald trump again on that program last night saying that he has been preparing for this debate his whole life and there's only so much you can do to get ready in the manner of one or two weeks by sitting in a room. those were the words of donald trump himself. we do not expect the presumptive republican nominee here in the city of atlanta until tomorrow before that debate. >> vaughn hillyard, keep us posted. joining us now tara sent meyer former communications director on capitol hill and zerlina maxwell. she interviews activists, politicians and influencers. we are reporting that doug burgum, j.d. vance and marco rubio those three senators -- two senators and a governor are high on trump's vp list and that the person will be in attendance for the debate tomorrow.

what do you make about the timing of an announcement potentially coming before the debate? >> the timing is the tell, ana, and i want to remind everyone watching at home that the only reason why donald trump needs to pick a vice president is because his former vice president was one of the folks who had to run for their lives on january 6th. mike pence did not retire. the reason why he is not on the ticket this time is because of the erosion of democratic norms that donald trump has been engaged in this entire time. so this three list of folks on his short list for vp, they're all loyalists to donald trump, that's the litmus test that he is working under and i think the big picture is about the fact that he may be setting up a poor debate performance and needs to distract from that poor debate performance by diverting our attention by announcing who his veep will be. >> tara, senator j.d. vance of

ohio was on fox this morning saying he's in the mix. watch this. >> i think they reach out to a lot of people, i'm among that basically said, hey, send us some information. my best guess is they're looking at me and other people, too. they'll ask me if they ask me. if not that's true. i'm human, when you know this is a possibility if it doesn't happen there will be a little bit of disappointment. >> is he hoping trump sees this? >> of course, that's why he's on fox and friends. this is a calculated strategy. it's "the apprentice" meets "the bachelor" of vp competitions here. he's auditioning all of them. i find it ironic that you have people like j.:vance and doug burgum, marco rubio we all know who used to be very anti-trump and now he has become a sycophant, but people like j.d. vance who for the moderate

particularly women out there who trump needs to appeal to, he thinks he has a chance at winning, j.d. vance is someone who looks like a family man who during his senate campaign said that women should stay in marriages for the sake of the kids even if they are unhappy or violent. he's also made some pretty outrageous comments about abortion in cases of rape and incest as it being an inconvenience. these are extreme positions that are in line with the maga extreme positions that trump has taken. they want a national abortion ban. people like j.d. vance and doug burgum who also signed into law one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the country making it a class c felony if you perform an abortion after six weeks except for cases of rape and incest these are extreme positions and trump is considering these guys to be his vp tells you how he feels about women rights in this country. is it going to appeal to the

moderate women in the swing states? the people who trump needs to win? i don't think so. by announcing this now it's to take away and distract from the possibility of trump have been a terrible debate. we all know that donald trump is not a great debater. this is another way of distracting another shiny object if case donald trump blows it at the debate they can have this as a backup plan to try to change the news cycle. that's why he's doing this. this is all just a ploy. >> i see you nodding along there, zerlina. let me ask you about president biden and what we're learning of his debate preps. ron klain his former chief of staff is a member of the debate team and we have some reporting that he studies gop candidates the way an nfl coach might look for patterns and weaknesses to exploit. klain who wrote in a memo he will research what the opponent

has been saying in a run up to the debate, that the opponent may repeat the same lines on the stage, apparently had real success with hillary clinton. someone saying ron is able to predict how an opponent will react in particular situations and in hillary's case in 2016 she was able to trigger trump multiple times during their debate. what does that insight tell you about what we might see from president biden tomorrow night? >> i think president biden has the benefit of being underestimated. you know, you have republicans saying two things at the same time, which can't be true. one, that he's old and feeble and doesn't know where he is and won't be able to stand up, and other that he's on some performance enhancing drugs like bradley cooper in "limitless." if he was on performance enhancing drugs i expect president biden would take that every single day. but, again, i think their critique of biden ahead of the debate shows that they're scared that he is going to show up and

be the seasoned debater that he has demonstrated he is in every debate he has participated in going back decades. ron klain's preparation of the president for this debate is going to focus on substance. he has to do a couple of different things. he needs to speak to the base of the party that's frustrated over certain policies and also needs to speak to his vision for the future. he has to remind the american people that when he took over we were in the middle of a global pandemic that tanked the economy and he has taken a number of steps to bring us back from the brink. so he has a tough job tomorrow, but i think that he's up to the challenge and it is critically important to include someone like ron klain who has that debate prep experience. >> meantime, tara, today former gop congressman adam kinzinger who served on the january 6 committee endorsed president biden saying it is in part because of my unwavering support for democracy. would an endorsement like this do much, do you think, to get

republicans on independents? >> i think that the congressman's endorsement is important. as we all know we really need to get those moderate republicans who are uncomfortable with donald trump and the direction that the party is going in, they need a permission structure to vote for joe biden. when people like congressman kinzinger come out and say this it's taking the next step. there are a lot of republicans out there who are unhappy and frustrated with the way the party is going, that are still unwilling to take that step and say, forget partisanship, i am voting for president biden because of preserving our democracy. trump is an existential threat to our freedom and way of life in this country, he's indecent, he is incapable and he's unfit. we are waiting for more republicans to follow in his steps, partially why we started the seneca project, it's bipartisan, targeting moderate women, right of center women, to give them that permission structure. it's okay to vote for president biden this time if you care

about freedom in this country, women rights in this country and partisanship does not matter. this is bigger than partisanship and someone like adam kinzinger and other republicans we encourage them please come out and do this because our democracy is at stake as a result of it. good for him for doing it. >> ladies, thank you very much for your analysis. i enjoyed the conversation. be sure to tune into msnbc tomorrow night when rachel maddow and team will lead special coverage and analysis of this first presidential debate hosted by cnn. watch thursday right here beginning at 7:00 p.m. eastern on msnbc. and turning now to some significant primary election results, progressive democratic congressman jamaal bowman lost his primary to moderate george latimer in new york's 16th district. this was an expensive race with ad spending over $25 million. party divisions over the israel-hamas war played a big role in this particular race.

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secretive trial of american journalist evan gershkovich got under way in russia. the 32-year-old giving a small smile to the cameras, allowed in for moments, just a few moments there at the start of these closed-door proceedings where there will be no family, no friends and no fellow journalists to cover what's happening. this trial beginning 455 days after the "wall street journal" reporter was arrested on charges of spying, charges he, his employer and the white house flatly deny. nbc's kelly cobiella is joining us live from london. what do we know about this morning's proceedings, kelly? >> reporter: ana, we know that the hearing only lasted a couple of hours. this was the start of his trial on alleged espionage charges. the media was brought in for about 15 minutes before the proceedings began, you saw that video already. evan gershkovich, you can see him there in the defendant's cage, a gold padlock on the door, with reporters taking pictures of him, getting video

of him. we're seeing him with his head shaved for the first time. he did smile a bit before the cameras were then led out because russia has declared that this trial which they say is for espionage is top secret, no one allowed in, not reporters, family, friends. we don't know what actually happened during those two hours of the proceeding. the trial is being held in the same city where gershkovich was detained in march of last year. he was there on assignment at the time, he was fully accredited by the russian government, but they now accuse him of spying for the cia. as you said, his employer, the biden administration, have both strenuously denied these charges. they've called them completely false. the state department declaring him wrongfully detained. now, today embassy staff say that they had requested to see him at that courtroom. they said that they were trying to get that request granted. they've once again condemned

this proceeding as illegitimate. they say the charges are without evidence and an attempt by russia to achieve political goals. ana, this is a long process typically. his next hearing isn't until august 13th. >> kelly, thank you. keep us posted. more breaking news this morning on the plea deal of wikileaks founding julian assange. assange is now back in his home country of australia a free man arriving just hours ago and there you see him reuniting with his wife after pleading guilty to conspiracy overnight on a remote u.s.-controlled island in the pacific. nbc news international correspondent josh lederman has more on this. what more have we learned about the legal proceedings and is this officially the end? >> it was a very short stay for julian assange in the northern mariana islands, he arrived in the morning, appeared before the u.s. federal judge to plead guilty to one count under the espionage act and left the

island the same day. according to his lawyers that is how assange wanted it. he has now arrived in the australian capital where he has been reunited with his wife stella where he met while he was in london trying to avoid extradition. they have never gotten to live together before nor has his two young kids who will now have a chance to live with his father for the first time. his wife tweeting a photo of them kissing after his arrival in australia. she also spoke at a news conference without julian assange saying he needs a bit of time to readjust to his freedom before being ready to speak publicly. we know that assange did speak with australia's prime minister and he credited the australian government with securing his freedom by pushing the biden administration so hard for his release. listen to what the australian prime minister had to say about that conversation. >> as prime minister i have been very clear, that regardless of what you think of his

activities, mr. assange's case had dragged on for far too long. i have clearly and consistently at every opportunity and at every level advocated for mr. assange's case to be concluded. i'm very pleased. >> so now julian assange for the first time in 14 years face no, sir charges whatsoever. as far as what's next for him, his lawyer said that the work of wikileaks will continue and he has no doubt assange will be a powerful voice for transparency throughout government. >> thank you for that. back here at home powerful video of a minnesota house falling into a river. look at that. this is near that dam that's in danger of failure. the latest on the extreme weather that's crippling communities across the country. and later, the final preparations in paris with the olympics now just a month away. e olympics now just a month away

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the waters toppling this home overnight. residents on edge bracing for potential evacuation orders as more storms have their way. nbc's adrienne broaddus is near that dam in minnesota. adrian, what is the situation there this morning? how concerned are they that things are still going to get worse? >> reporter: ana, minute by minute things are changing here in mankato. overnight a family's worst fear became their reality, their childhood home where their father lived and a brother collapsed, falling into the river, flowing downstream. we spoke with that family around this time yesterday, but on the opposite side from where i'm standing right now. we sat in the park, that's no longer there today. yes, you heard me right. we were sitting on a bench that serves as a swing, next to us there was a beautiful slide. it all washed away. that's part of the big concern why officials are pleading for people to stay away from this area, especially the other side,

which they have taped off. they fear people getting too close may accidentally fall into the river and there's no way first responders can enter to even attempt a rescue because it's so dangerous. here the big concern has shifted from the dam collapsing to the erosion which we've been watching the dramatic changes throughout the morning. we've seen tree after tree fall into the river, and if you look behind me you will see there is this big -- you will call it a mountain of debris where you have dead tree limbs and most of the water is gushing around the other side. there's little to no flow through the gate here. but the good news is we've noticed at least on the three hours we've been on scene this morning the water is beginning to slow and receding. ana. >> wow. i mean, just looking at those images and your description, adrienne broaddus, thank you so much for that reporting from

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welcome back. it is 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific. i'm ana cabrera in for jose diaz-balart. and the stage is now set for the very first presidential debate of 2024. now just over 24 hours away. and new national polling finds there is a lot of interest in tomorrow's face-off. 57% of adults say they plan to follow the debate in some capacity, whether by watching it live or at least watching clips and commentary about it afterwards. we have team coverage this morning, with nbc's dasha burns live from west palm beach, florida. our senior white house correspondent gabe gutierrez live from atlanta. also with us, alencia johnson, senior adviser for president biden's 2020 campaign. and matthew dowd, msnbc senior political contributor and chief strategist for the