wow. frightening. back to politics before we go. we'll get some final thoughts. jen palmieri, where do you think the presidential race goes from here? >> oh, man, i mean, it is so -- you know, it is so minute to minute. and, you know, it is, i think people will -- i think everyone including the president, everybody is approaching this with a lot of integrity. what is the best thing to do here? and until -- it is just an uncomfortable situation, but he is the nominee, he's the president of the united states, and until there's just more information that suggests that either he shouldn't continue or there is polling that suggests it is a problem, just where we are. >> if the polling remains close, mika, the president will stay in. he still believes he's the guy who can beat trump. >> correct. all right. that does it for us this morning. katy tur picks up the coverage right now.

right now on msnbc, we are witnessing history in real time after the supreme court's decision to give president sweeping immunity. president biden slammed the ruling and donald trump in a rare speech attacking the high court, just hours after that decision was handed down. >> the american people must decide if trump's embrace of violence to preserve his power is acceptable. >> opposite reaction on the other side of the aisle, it was elation, trump's lawyers hoping it can be applied retroactively to get his 34 felonies in new york tossed. if he's immune from that case as well. also ahead, we're tracking hurricane beryl, which is already setting a record as the earliest category 5 storm ever in hurricane season. we'll tell you where it is headed next. good to be with you.

it is 10:00 a.m. here in new york. i'm katy tur in for ana cabrera. it is a new day in america, one where the president has broad immunity to act, an immunity to broad, his decisions and motivations while acting in, quote, official capacity, can't be legally questioned. even if those motivations are corrupt. yesterday supreme court ruling dropped a bomb in our system of government and we're only just starting to feel the ripples. first up, of course, is what happens to jack smith's election interference case, which appears to be severely hampered. next is every other case involving donald trump. his allies are taking a victory lap and his legal team is already trying to get the hush money conviction tossed on immunity grounds. but after that is the election itself. as the conservative justices on this court are now asking the american public to shoulder an even heavier burden of making sure their choice for president

is somebody who won't be tempted to abuse the authority of that office. which, president biden told americans last night, he believes donald trump would do in a second term. >> any president including donald trump will now be free to ignore the law. i concur with justice sotomayor's dissent today, she said in every use of official power, the president is now a king above the law. with fear for our democracy i dissent, end of quote. so should the american people, dissent. i dissent. >> monica alba joins us at the white house and nbc's vaughn hillyard is in new york. monica, the president said the stakes got even higher. tell us more. >> reporter: yeah, these were brief remarks, but forceful in the message that the president delivered saying it will ultimately be up to the american

people to decide in november's election whether they want to support in his words the assault on democracy and the threat that donald trump presents here. and, remember that these were added late in the day, they were not on the president's schedule, but we were told that he really wanted to come out and speak on this. though he did not offer during his speech a path forward in terms of what four more years for joe biden might look like, if he were to win re-election in terms of what he might do with the court. and we know that early on in his term, he had assembled an advisory committee of experts to try to study this issue, to see if there should be sweeping changes to how the bench currently operates, and ultimately there was a nonrecommendation recommendation of keep things status quo. but we know it is something that the president has continued to think about and talk about, though he hasn't committed to making any of those changes. but i think that may be a question going forward today from americans and from voters

who would say if joe biden is going to be the nominee, what is he talking about presenting for another term in terms of his position on this, or would things remain the same? and it was notable there, as well, that the president tried to put this into context that no one should be above the law, and he continued to talk about the starkest contrast that he views between himself and donald trump, all while the backdrop to this conversation is this really huge looming cloud about whether he will be the one facing donald trump in november. he has pledged to continue with his candidacy, but when he wrapped up those remarks, there were reporters there who asked questions about whether he is pledging to stay in the race, or what his thinking is on that. and he ignored all shouted questions and people are also, of course, noting that these were remarks that he gave on teleprompter and that's the only way he has spoken since thursday

night's very poor debate performance and we have yet to see him in a different setting, off of those prepared remarks. and that was another thing that added to the weight of this very newsy day. >> the campaign keeps saying they're going to have him in more situations, sitting down for an interview with a journalist. we have not seen that in the days after that debate. donald trump's team, vaughn, is trying to take a victory lap on this. saying that this is a legal win for them. how are they currently trying to use it and what is the expectation for how they might use this broad immunity ruling if donald trump manages to be elected again? >> reporter: there is multiple fronts to this. of course, they're claiming this is a victory for america and the executive branch. specifically the question is for the three pending criminal trials in front of him, how much of those indictments and those criminal charges are ultimately going to be tossed out. of course, front and center is the election interference case. and in a social media post, just

before 1:00 a.m. this morning, donald trump put quite specifically, quote, a really bad day for deranged jack smith, the whacko prosecutor used for crooked joe biden's attack on his political opponent. today as in the past the supreme court gave the deranged one a high level spanking. this is now going to go down to the district court and judge chutkan to determine the extent to which the acts that were engaged in by donald trump were official and private and what he is immune from and just how much of a case jack smith has left to prosecute against donald trump. the second part of this is the july 11th sentencing in the new york hush money payment verdict. that is next thursday and lawyers for donald trump have already sent a letter last night to judge merchan asking him to adjourn the july 11th sentencing, making the case that much of the evidence that was brought forward by the district attorney's office including tweets and public statements by donald trump, that hit at the motive of the hush money scheme

that they alleged against donald trump and a jury found him guilty on was outside the bounds in protected by presidential immunity because it was in his official capacity within the white house. we will wait to hear from judge merchan on that front. and the third front is how this could potentially impact a second trump administration. just yesterday, donald trump in the social media post called for military tribunal of liz cheney. also reposted an image of individuals including his own former vice president, mike pence, mitch mccconnell, with te comment from an individual that these are the individuals who should be going to jail. so, for donald trump, the question in a potential second term is how much leeway could he have to order his department of justice to go and investigate and attempt to prosecute individuals who he deems to be his political enemies? >> vaughn and monica, thank you very much. now let's turn to the legal fallout here. joining us now, former chief spokesman for attorney general

merrick garland, anthony colie, and christie greenburg, former federal prosecutor. he will try to say his hush money case should be tossed out on immunity grounds. does he have grounds? christie? >> i don't believe he does. he's never actually focused on the charges and made a defense of immunity as to the charged conduct. that all happen when he was candidate, not president. even the signing of the checks he does to reimburse michael cohen for making the hush money payments, hard to see how that could, even under this test from the supreme court, be considered an official act. then there is the separate question about the evidence that some of those tweets that he made in 2018 about michael cohen seeming to both pressure him into cooperating and after the fact kind of slamming him for the fact that he pled guilty, are those official acts? and the white house had said that tweets for presidential statements at the time, the supreme court called into

question what he would say and they even brought up some of the tweets in the decision. i'm hard pressed to see how that's an official act. i'm not looking at this through a legal lens like you are. >> the supreme court said any of the statements, if it is a matter of public concern, that's a really tortured and strained argument as far as i can tell, but the biggest thing is this was brought up earlier and basically the court didn't get into the details of whether it was official or personal, the judge said this is untimely. you first raised this issue two and a half weeks before the trial was going to start. you needed to raise it a lot earlier under the criminal rules and that was the basis why he said that evidence can come in, he didn't raise it sooner. do i think the judge will maybe look at it now, now there is a supreme court case on it, perhaps. i don't think it will ultimately change the outcome. >> i think we're all kind of

scratching our heads now because the opinion of how the supreme court might handle this was different from how they actually did handle it. and the idea that they were going to give some immunity for official acts, i think people understood that might happen. but this went a lot farther than that. you can't even question a motivation, you can't bring that into evidence, you can't probe it at all because that could potentially hamper a president's ability to act quickly. i mean, it is broad immunity. >> it is very broad. so big picture, this ruling did three things. number one, it practically ensured that donald trump will not face legal -- criminal accountability for his efforts to steal the last election before this upcoming election. the second thing is that it vastly expanded the powers of the presidency with little accountability. and thirdly, this goes to something that vaughn hillyard was talking about, it reversed decades of norms and practices at the justice department, that

were put in place to keep doj from being weaponized. so -- >> this glues the justice department to the president very, very tightly. >> absolutely. >> you can't question the president's interactions with his doj any longer according to the supreme court. >> right. and kristy knows this as a prosecutor, right now, fbi agents, investigators, prosecutors, they follow the facts. the facts tell them where to go in criminal investigations. under this ruling, a president can pick up the phone and call his attorney general, without any justification, and say, investigate this person. prosecute this person. and that person has no legal recourse. and that's what makes this so chilling to us. >> i want to push back on that. because we always have been told, yeah, you can investigate somebody, but you can't prosecute them unless you have the evidence. >> you got a grand jury, right?

you've brought indictments. >> that's the striking thing about reading this opinion is it seems like what the supreme court justices took out of january 6th with the prosecutors are the bad guys for prosecuting donald trump, not that donald trump did anything wrong in what he did, and there is a lot of language about an enterprising prosecutor can make a case come out of nowhere. that's not how it works. donald trump tried this exactly what you were saying, my old boss picked up the phone multiple times to try and call him and talk to him about various investigations, cases and he didn't want to pick up the phone because that's not what you do. you're supposed to be independent. and this really turns that on its head. >> there was always a presumption of separation. i was struck by in reading through the decision how the justices treated this more as a hypothetical, as a case for what might happen in the future, rather than treating it based on the facts that were presented to them, donald trump tried to overturn the election. they're using the constitution and this implied, they believe,

immunity of the prosecution grants on an executive too allow that executive to use those powers to try to violate the constitution. >> yeah, so, i worked on the board campaign. december 13th, 2000, the supreme court ruled in bush v. gore. i was ruled against gore. i was -- my campaign co-workers were crushed, millions of americans were crushed, that did not give us license to try to burn it down. that's why donald trump and his supporters tried to do with this case. january 6th, on the ellipse, almost a verbatim quote, fight like hell or you won't have a country to fight for. and they take their zip ties and their tactical vests and their weapons and they march down to the capitol and they only stop until donald trump gives them -- tells them to eventually. five law enforcement officers lost their lives that day. and the fact that this supreme

court with this extremist opinion will not allow this man to face criminal accountability for those actions, that is chilling. >> i was looking at my phone, i have the numbers on the number of weapons that were seized on the ellipse and during that day. okay. he ad-libbed the word fight 18 times and sat on his hands, this is from the january 6th commission. the secret service collected 269 blades or knives, 18 brass knuckles, 18 tasers and 30 batons or blunt instruments. on the ellipse. these are the people trying to go through the metal detectors, not the people who didn't go through the metal detectors who decided to walk away when they saw the metal detectors. i have one question on the nitty-gritty here. what happens with the january 6th overturning case? jack smith does still have a case or does he still have a case? there is an evidentiary hearing. what evidence will he be allowed to present and how elucidating

will that be for the american public if it happens before the election? >> one, it should happen before the election. jack smith should get moving. two, i think it should be very elucidating. i think he should hold nothing back. there are four buckets of conduct that are still very much on the table. and frankly it was very surprising that the supreme court didn't just say it is private conduct. you got the conversations between president -- former president trump and mike pence. which are about his role, not as an executive branch function, but as the vice presidents of the senate and the certification of counting electoral votes -- >> presumed immunity, though. >> they gave it presumed immunity. there is a really good argument here there is no way to say this would hurt the executive authority, which is the test that they have to use. then you go to his conversations with private parties, state officials, and none of that, again, deals with the president

doesn't have any role with how the states decide their electors. i think jack smith is going to come out swinging here. i think he's going to present witnesses, present documentary evidence and all of that part of the supreme court opinion that deals with, well, the evidence can't come in if it is official, that does not apply to an evidentiary hearing, that applies to a trial. loose rules and evidentiary rules apply to hearings. we should going to see a mini trial here. we should get to see the evidence before the election, the american people should learn what happened. >> we don't have much time. >> timing here matters. these are not one or two days of hearings. we're talking multiple days over weeks and very likely soon after labor day. would you say? >> yes. >> will we be able to see that evidence or is that only -- >> we'll be able to hear it, but it will be open press, and, yeah, reporters and the public will be in the room. >> all right. thank you, guys, very much. there is a lot more conversations to be had about this very sweeping ruling. coming up next, the biden

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last night in a zoom with top donors, the biden campaign tried to convince them to keep investing in the president's re-election bid. that is terrible debate performance was a one-off. here are portions of the audio from the meeting obtained by nbc news through a participant. >> everyone just needs to breathe through the nose for a minute and take a deep breath. >> the media has spent a ton of time blowing this out of proportion. >> he's probably in better health than most of us. >> a donor on that call audibly groaned when the last part was said about president biden's health and another told me they were gulled by the campaign's efforts to blame bad polling on the media, calling it trumpian. they say it is getting harder to trust the campaign's judgment. joining us now, jeremy peters and max rose.

so, jeremy, tell me more about what you're hearing among democrats regarding president biden. that donor call and the conversations i had around it was elucidating. >> right. and i think that it displays this level of dismissiveness that the biden campaign has long acted with, with regard to the president's health and his cognitive abilities or seeming lack thereof after we watched this debate. the campaign has known about concerns over president biden's mental fitness since the 2020 race. and back then they were dismissing them. they have dismissed them up until last thursday night, basically telling voters to cover their ears and eyes and pretend that they're not seeing what they can plainly see. and that's that president biden is not the man he was four years ago, not the man he was eight years ago when he was -- or even before then, when he was vice

president to barack obama. but now they're being forced to confront the fact that they can no longer deny this, but they're doing this in such a dismissive way, katy, as you correctly point out, donors are pretty aggrieved by this, pretty insulted that they're just being told, oh, nothing to see here. being told to breathe deeply through your nose, you know, this isn't a yoga class. the american democracy is at stake here. >> the donors fund the campaigns, they fund the get out the vote efforts, they matter to campaigns, very much matter. democratic voices like max rose here obviously matter. when we're talking about who is really going to matter in november, it is the voters, the voters have consistently said that they don't believe joe biden should be the nominee. and more and more of them are now saying they worry about his ability to govern, that he's not going to be well enough to govern over the next four years. and these numbers haven't gotten better, they have gotten worse for the campaign. we can put up some of the

polling, i believe we have some of that on hand. but congressman, as you see it, as you see it right now, do you think the president should stay in this race? >> yeah. yeah. >> why? >> i think when this comes down to it, right, we need to look at what the data says in a couple of weeks. >> doesn't the data say voters don't want him? >> i care about what the head to head says. let's just talk about straight up winning. right? that's what every democrat wants to do. right now probably in the day after the debate happened, a poll went out. that poll will take about three to four days to complete, it will take another three days for the analysis to be completed. let's see what that data says. i'm certain they're starting to poll what other people are looking at head to head with trump. let's look at what that data says. that's what this is going to come down to. but there is no doubt right now

that the biden campaign is in a very different place than where it was a week ago and it has new responsibilities and new obligations and has to shift. >> devil's advocate here. why the believe is that there cannot be another candidate, there is not enough time to have another candidate? you have the majority of the american people saying they don't like either one of these guys. you also have the evidence that we can use from the last election between the president and donald trump was that enthusiasm was what the election hinged on and the enthusiasm for biden was just a little bit better, just a little bit better than the enthusiasm for donald trump. the enthusiasm numbers are not great today. so, if you're looking at somebody who -- i mean, donald trump enjoys a broad enthusiasm among his supporters. joe biden enjoys enthusiasm among people who hate donald trump. but there are people who, you know, need to be convinced to come out and those are the ones that are going to decide the election. if they are not enthusiastic, then joe biden's going to lose. >> well, so, what you just

described in many ways is what the 2020 election looked like. now, i'm not here as a surrogate, paid or otherwise, of the biden campaign. so, you know, totally unvarnished opinion, right, the -- you have two questions, right, would democrats prefer biden be younger? of course. there is another question, though, would they prefer someone else to be running? and the second that you explore that lane, then it's who? and what we have yet to really understand as we tally that out is who would that person be, could they build an operation this quickly, could they raise the funds, and secondly, could there be a realistic scenario where it is someone else, but not kamala harris? and the logistics of that are absolutely nearly impossible. so, it is a massively complicated -- >> i'm not giving voters and the democratic party credit enough in its ability to organize last

minute? if biden had -- if something forced biden to drop out, say there was an accident or some sort of health emergency, he would have to go. you don't think the democratic party could get it together and still win? >> it is absolutely -- it is absolutely possible. what i don't think they could get together right now, and this is what no one is talking about, is i don't know how they could possibly skip over kamala harris. and i don't think you can answer that, i don't think any of those fancy donors could answer that. and so they're all saying, open convention, pick someone else, pick someone else and just skip over kamala harris, the president's number two, the person who stood right by the president, who represents not only a leader in and of her own right, who actually has a legal right to that $220 million that they have sitting in that campaign account, but also as a woman of color, that's a pillar of the democratic base. you just skip right over her? that's something that no one in the party as they seek to continue to be unified in the face of trump wants to actually

deal with and no one is talking about it. >> jump in on this. what does your reporting tell you about the democratic party's preparations and what does it tell you about vice president kamala harris and whether she would be the one to take up this mantle if joe biden stepped aside? >> i disagree with max. i think plenty of people are talking about ways to skip over kamala harris. if you listen to democratic leaders, democratic donors, when they're speaking anonymously, privately, they say that she is by far the weakest of the candidates who are mentioned most frequently as possible biden replacements. now, of course, she and her team are going to make it very difficult, should the situation come to that, to skip over her because you can already see in some of the quotes that they're ceding stories with anonymously that they are going to point to the fact that she is a woman of color, and people are saying no, next, please.

that's going to be very difficult for a lot of democrats to get past. but, that is the strategic move that kamala harris' camp seems to be turning to right now. i think the biden campaign and a lot of democrats who are saying they still want him to be the nominee point to a lot of hypotheticals we don't really know the answer to of course. and that's how would, you know, a brokered convention look like, how messy would that be, how divided would it make the party, is it even logistically possible to replace him? those are all hypotheticals. i'll give you another one, if president biden has another slipup that makes him look mentally diminished. if that happens, all bets are off. and the likelihood of something like that happening again, i would say between now and november is quite high. >> jeremy peters, max rose, gentlemen, thank you very much. coming up next, hurricane beryl strengthens into a

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hurricane season just started and it is already bad. overnight hurricane beryl strengthened into a category 5 storm, the earliest point in a hurricane season that a cat 5 has been recorded. here is video of beryl's eye from the international space station, just hours before it made landfall in the caribbean. officials are warning of dangerous winds and storm surge reporting four deaths already. joining us now, nbc's guad venegas and meteorologist angie lassman. what can you tell us about the effects so far? >> we have seen some of the images coming in, the storm made landfall yesterday in grenada,

in and the situation there is grim. the prime minister has only been able to communicate with local authorities with the use of satellite phone. he says there is no power, the roads are unpassable and many families have been left without a home. they're looking for temporary housing for these families as they try to clear the roads. grenada is reporting three of those deaths. and then just north of grenada, there is also st. vincent and the grenadines where they suffered extensive damage as well, the same type of damage according to authorities, windows, doors and roofs were blown off of structures, many families have also been displaced and they're reporting at least one death nearby in the barbados. we also have reports of damage. in fact, the images we just saw were from barbados. a lot of the damage is still being assessed today. one thing authorities have been talking about during the press conferences today is that these islands and the southwest -- southeast part of the caribbean

are not used to getting these types of storms. normally these storms, the powerful ones, go further north in the caribbean, so they just aren't used to having this type of destruction as they do what they can trying to clear roads in these affected areas and find housing for all of the families that have been displaced. >> guad, thank you very much. angie, walk us through where this storm is headed next, what is the forthcoming risk? >> we're far from done with this system. the good news is we are going to see a weakening trend over the next day or so, it is going to remain a major hurricane over at least today and tomorrow. here is the latest details, we have 165 miles per hour wind speeds at this time, it is moving at a good clip of 22 miles per hour. that's a positive. when it is a fast mover, you don't see those impacts happening as long as they could, if this was a slow moving system. massive system that is expected to weaken, but moved just to the south of jamaica. we have some watches and warnings in effect across portions of this area.

specifically jamaica with the hurricane warning as we gear up for those winds and the storm surge up to 5 to even 8 feet expected here as we get into tomorrow and thursday. and additional rainfall. now, notice as it approaches the yucatan, we'll start to see it weaken category 1. we'll have to be monitoring it as we get into the gulf of mexico, by the time we get to saturday and sunday. right now we are seeing a little bit of a northerly shift. that makes a difference, way down the line when it comes to impacts to the united states. down the line, say late this weekend, does that mean the texas coast could be dealing with potentially heavy rain. sure. we have a long time until we get there. we're watching specifically jamaica, parts of hispaniola and the cayman islands to see some of the impacts over the next day or so. >> thank you very much. and the days long mission in space has turned into a weeks long stay for two nasa astronauts who traveled at the start of june to the international space station. they were scheduled to return home two weeks ago after completing a test flight of

boeing starliner spacecraft. but now nasa says their return could be weeks away as engineers continue troubleshooting a problem with the ship's thrusters. joining us now, nbc news correspondent tom costello. tom, what's happening? >> well, this is a problem. nasa astronauts butch wilmore and suni williams thought they would be home already. but now they will remain on station for several more weeks, potentially even longer, as engineers work the problem with these engine thrusters. but nasa is pushing back on any claim that the crew is stuck or stranded and there is no talk of a rescue mission. >> let's go forward into starliner. >> reporter: on board the international space station, astronauts suni williams and butch wilmore are still waiting to learn when they might return home. >> everything's been fantastic. the spacecraft had handled remarkably well. >> reporter: two weeks ago, they

provided a tour of their spaceship. >> and liftoff of starliner and atlas 5 carrying two american heroes. >> reporter: built by boeing, starliner launched on june 5th, five years behind schedule, after a series of engineering setbacks. then once in space, more problems. five helium leaks which nasa says are not a major concern. but more concerning, five engine thrusters shut down as starliner prepared to dock with the space station. while four came back online, nasa wants to understand the problem before starliner leaves the station. this is their only chance because that section of the ship that contains the thrusters, the service module, is designed to burn up on re-entry. so astronauts williams and wilmore's ten-day visit is turning into a weeks long stay. >> i want to make it very clear that butch and suni are not stranded in space. our plan is to continue to

return them on starliner and return them home at the right time. >> there is plenty of food. there is plenty of resources up there, there is plenty of clothing. they will be absolutely fine for an extended period of time. >> reporter: i asked the crew if they were confident in their ship. >> does this spaceship feel like it is ready for primetime? >> yes, that's the short answer. absolutely yes, that's the long answer. >> reporter: for now, nasa engineers will begin replicating the thruster problems, but on the ground in new mexico. that's expected to take two weeks, leaving a return date up in the air. you know, the starliner mission is a test flight, and they need to understand this problem before the crew departs because they need those thrusters to return to earth, but also before the next crew flies on to -- on a boeing starliner to the station. meanwhile, spacex, they continue flying astronauts to and from the station despite boeing's problems here. >> tom costello, thank you very

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israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu told military officials yesterday that the idf is near, the end stages of eliminating hamas' army. it comes amid a new mass evacuation order for people who returned to khan younis. operations there ended nearly

three months ago, but a barrage of rockets forced israel to re-engage the city. joining us now, matt bradley in tel aviv. matt, tell me more about this declaration that they believe they're almost done with hamas. >> reporter: yeah, we're hearing from -- we have been hearing this for the past couple of weeks. benjamin netanyahu saying they're listening to a less intensive phase of the fighting. we look at situations like we're seeing in khan younis, a city or area of gaza that had already seen an israeli ground invasion and now it looks like they're preparing for yet another, there were 20 projectiles according to the idf fired from khan younis, just yesterday. and now it looks as though there has been an evacuation order, by the idf, telling civilians to leave that area. and they also -- the idf has been responding to the projectiles with their own ammunition with their own firing into khan younis. it looks like in everything but

word, in all deed, they are preparing to invade khan younis again. this shows it undermines a lot of what we're hearing from the top military brass in israel and benjamin netanyahu himself, that hamas is badly weakened. the fight looks like it is still continuing, and it looks like it is going to continue for quite a while. >> matt bradley, thank you very much. and riot police in kenya are trying to hold back protesters in nairobi who are demanding the president step down. protests set fires on the main road in the center of the capital city. it follows a week of deadly clashes sparked by tax hikes and soaring costs of living. the president william ruto says the country will have to borrow billions, with a b, to tackle the country's overwhelming debt. the kenya commission on human rights says 39 people have been killed in the protests, twice the number president ruto previously acknowledged. coming up next, what brought

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place -- i would not say where the dream started but where i believed the dream was possible. novak djokovic in action today weeks after a knee operation. nadal skipping the grass to concentrate on the olympic games. princess kate attended nearly every year since 2011, hapblding outro fees, with daughter, princess charlotte and george, and meghan markle. last year the princess practiced her serve with the king of tennis, federer. organizers are hopeful. >> it's something that she cares about such a great deal. she's patron of the club. she's a huge tennis supporter. >> her appearance would be a

welcome sight for fans. >> it would be a last-minute announcement like for the king's birthday. tommy paul is through to the second round, and so is naomi osaka, back for the first time in five years. she said it feels like a dream. also back as a mom. her kid turned one around this time. the other day i was on the subway and i looked over and there was a woman sitting across from me who had a 12-sided rubik's cube. 12. 12-sided. she finished it. today we are celebrating a six-sided birthday. the rubik's cube is turning 50. it was designed by a professor from hungry in 1974, and it was

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