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breaking news in the 2024 race, president biden just calling into msnbc exclusively minutes ago doubling down on the words he sent to congress this morning. he is firmly committed to staying in this race. >> the bottom line here is that we're not going anywhere. i am not going anywhere. i wouldn't be running if i didn't absolutely believe that i am the best candidate to beat donald trump in 2024. >> both comments even as lawmakers return to congress and more democrats question whether he should step aside from the 2024 campaign. we'll have the highlights of that interview. we're also following breaking news in texas this morning. hurricane beryl making landfall in the u.s. the storm lashing the lone star state this morning as a cat 1

after devastating parents of the caribbean. ill very the latest on this storm. president biden calling into msnbc minutes ago as he faces a pivotal work preparing to host world leaders in washington and simultaneously aiming to keep a potential mutiny within his party from gaining steam. to that end, we just sent a lengthy letter to congressional democrats this morning saying he is firmly committed to staying in the race and beating donald trump. again, just moments ago he called in to msnbc's "morning joe." his first step at trying to right the ship this week. we'll get you to our white house and capitol hill reporters in just a second. first, here is the case president biden just made here on msnbc.

>> how will you feel after your lost, and you said as long as i did the best i could do, that's the most important thing. that's caused democrats concern who believe that losing is not an option. what would you say to those who are concerned by that answer? >> it's not an on shun. i haven't lost. i beat him last time. i'll beat him this time. this is a guy -- we talk about the base. look eight his performance at debates. trump had 50 lies. this is a guy who says 10% of -- he's just a liar. riding around in a golf cart for ten days in mar-a-lago talking with his wealthy friends. i'm not running for these guy, joe. i ran because i never bought in in the trickle economic theer richlt i never bought into the notion that we have to walk away

from the rest of the world and cave to putin or anybody else. i've never believed any of that. i'm confident that's who the american people are. what i did is i went out and wanted to make sure there wasn't any slippage at all with the average voter. i don't care what the millionaires say. we have the largest contingent ever in history, not positive of that, but i think that's true. i'm not running on what they think and what they care about. you don't see a lot of ceos flocking to trump. you see the major economists out there talking about what i have been able to do. i don't hear anybody talking about his economic plan like he's bringing america around and keeping america first. by the way, here is trump talk about all he's done and trump at

his debate night, he's a pathological liar. he lied about roe. he refused to accept the outcome of the election. refused to condemn january 6th. he claimed he spoke with putin before he invaded. what the hell are we doing, joe? what are we doing? >> that was the president just moments ago. we have nbc's aaron gilchrist live at the white house and ryan nobles getting reaction on capitol hill for us. aaron, this is looking like a full-court press from president biden this morning. what is in the letter to congress and what else did he say this morning on "morning joe"? >> i think if you watch that roughly 18-minute interview, i think somebody referred yesterday when the president was in philadelphia, a volunteer said to him that they wanted to see dark branding again, a reference to a fighter joe biden, a fiery joe biden. i think that's what you got today. the president said dark branding

is coming back in philadelphia. this interview which was roughly 18 minutes long, i think you heard that fiery, defiant, testy even joe biden saying that he's finished with this conversation about the debate and some of the things that came after that. he said it drives me nuts that people are talking about this. he is ready to move on, and that is largely what we saw from president biden over the course of the weekend, making stops in wisconsin, making several stops in pennsylvania. i was in harrisburg with him when he met with a crowd of supporters there largely. he spoke for a few minutes. he didn't talk about the debate night. he didn't talk about the abc interview last week. he talked about the policy accomplishments he said he's had over the last 3 1/2 years, the things he wants to do in the future. he talked about donald trump and then he spent about 48 minutes working the crowd, shaking hands, kissing babies, the whole nine yards you would expect to

see from a politician who is campaigning. today, of course, we heard from him, this vigorous pushback on the calls for him to drop out of the race. i do want to share with you part of the letter he sent to congressional democrats we believe today, up on your screen here, where he said i feel a deep obligation to the faith and the trust the voters of the democratic party have placed in me to run this year. it was their decision to make. not the press, not the pundits, not the big donors, not any selected group of individuals no matter how well intentioned. the voters and the voters alone decide the nominee of the democratic party. how can we stand for democracy in our nation if we ignore our own party? a reference really to the primary elections that happened across this country and the president making the point that he won the primaries. there were other people for whom votes were cast during the primaries. if you look at just those numbers, joe biden is the nominee and he intends to, he say, continue to november and win. ana. >> so what else can you tell us about then his strategy and his

personal role in the campaign's effort to bounce back? >> the strategy is to push forward. clearly we saw the president make these campaign stops over the course of the last week. we've gotten an idea of what his schedule will look like going forward. he'll engage with leaders with more than 30 nations at the nato conference in d.c. this week. he's right back on the campaign trail on friday before heading to michigan, at the nc afrnltap conference in vegas. so the campaign has said they're going to continue to do what they have been doing, speak to voters, ignore what they might describe as the noise coming from inside the beltway and politicos and try to move forward by convincing voters that president biden is the person to be in the white house for the next four years and is the person to beat donald trump. >> ryan, will all this outreach from president biden, the new interviews that he's doing, the letter to congress, will it shut

down a potential revolt or should we expect the number of democratic lawmakers asking him to step aside, currently at nine, do we expect that to go up? >> reporter: the growing group of democrats in congress that have real anxiety about joe biden remaining on the ticket. it's important to keep in mind that nine members out of more than 230 or so members of the house and senate and democratic party is not a very big number. the bigger problem for joe biden is what he eve been hearing behind the scenes. there's a growing number of congressional democrats that have continued to show that they're very concerned about biden's current state in this race, and they're afraid he cannot beat donald trump in a general election. what the president has done here by this very public stance that he is not getting out of the race, he's going to force these members who have these real concerns out of the shadows and force them on the record. this is the first time since the debate took place on thursday that we're going to see

lawmakers back here on capitol hill where they'll be forced to answer these questions in front of our cameras, in front of reporters and on the record. this is not something that congress democrats wanted to see happen. even those that are worried about joe biden's role in this presidential race, they were hoping that the pressure campaign can be done by the scenes, that there could be a family conversation where they could bring joe biden to this decision on his own and that he would recognize that he didn't have a path forward and step away and allow someone like kamala harris or someone else to step in instead. that's clearly not what's happening right now. in order for this pressure campaign to work, there's going to have to be some sort of public standoff between the democrats that are worried and the president, and that may not be a fight that some of these congressional leaders want to have. the next 24 to 48 hours, ana, is going to be very important in seeing how the democratic party intends to move forward in this race for president. >> i know you will be trying to

catch up with all those lawmakers as they return to the hill this morning. ryan nobles and aaron gilchrist, thank you very much for the reporting. susan glasser staff writer at "the new yorker" and former democratic congressman max rose currently senior advisor to vote bets. let me start with your reaction to what we're hearing from president biden this morning. >> that's what everyone wants to see. i'm not sure that interview was planned. they weren't announcing that interview several hours ago, came on the phone. the question is, behind the scenes, are there members of the president's staff who have for the past two or three years saying that's not a good idea. that was quintessential joe biden and that was great politics, and they should be doing more of it. joe biden is the nominee. joe biden is not going to blink in this game of chicken. so if any further democrats come out against joe biden, they are part of the problem, not the

president. it's time that everyone gets together, gets disciplined and focuses on the actual challenge, the actual problem, the existential threat to the future of this country which is donald trump. they've had a week to get their act together and mount whatever type of insurgency they're thinking about. that is done. it's over. the president ended it with that interview and hopefully we see more of it. >> so, susan, marks seems to think this is a game-changer, that interview this morning. what was your reaction? >> well, it is a remarkable moment, isn't it, when the incumbent president of the united states is spending the summer of his re-election year focusing on shoring up waefrg members of his own party rather than being able to join the fight with donald trump which he's framed himself as an existential threat to american democracy. i think when you're playing defense in politics like this, the general view is you're not

whipping. i think that's the problem for democrats right now and the problem for joe biden. he's shoring up wavering core members of the democratic electorate. my question is what has happened to the independents, the democratic leaning independents, maybe even the republicans who voted for joe biden in 2020 because they couldn't stomach the thought of more donald trump who have not come back to biden for this re-election campaign. they're the ones that democrats need to be worried about because right now the polls are very clear that the reason that biden isn't winning is because he has not locked down the coalition that brought him to office in 2020. and i think the worry for democrats is that all the effort to bring wavering core members of the democratic electorate back in line, what is that doing to the people that biden needs to actually defeat donald trump? i don't know the answer to that, but i feel like he's not speaking to those people now when he's trying to speak to his own core democratic members. >> we saw in that interview, we

saw in the letter to congress, he kept talking about the voter, that the voter wants him to be the nominee and he is the choice of the average voter, not the elites. let's listen to more of his interview. >> i'm getting so frustrated by the elites. i'm not talking about you guys, but by the elites in the party who they know so much more. any of these guys that don't think i should run, run against me. announce for president. challenge me at the convention. >> look, congressman, the polls aren't exactly backing up this sentiment that the average voter definitely wants joe biden. the polls have been close. he's not overwhelmingly beating donald trump right now. the polls keep showing that the majority of americans do have concerns about his age. >> i think polls are showing that there's that concern, but polls are also showing that this race is a dead even race. >> should it be that close? >> this is a divided country.

the polls have not shifted in weeks, if not months. but we may look back and look at this debate and the next six days at that interview as the market shift, the catalyst that this campaign needed. now, joe biden is a scrappy insurgent waging war on the elites. there's one person that is unhappy with joe biden being in that position, and that's donald trump. that's been the lane that he's always wanted. they're ignoring you but i'm on your side. that's where joe biden is right now. look, what he's saying -- and he's going direct to the american people and he needs to keep going direct to the consumer here. i don't need any filter. i don't need any elite platforms. i don't need any other elected officials because i'm fighting for you. my only hope is now he doesn't go back into a six-day silence yet again and overplan for a press conference or go back up to camp david and act like they're prepping for the s.a.t.s

or a mckenzie interview. let the guy be who he is. that was a phenomenal interview. >> he said he's starting to focus on attacking trump. hasn't there all been a big distraction about talking from trump, and is that something that should shift strategy? >> well, ana, to your point, i do think, again, when you're playing defense, it's very hard to prosecute the campaign against donald trump, number one. number two, the point about the elites is that obviously both parties have decided that it's good politics to be bashing the elites and lining up with the common person and that is trump's populist strategy and it is biden's populist strategy. i would point out with many surveys suggesting as many as three-quarters of americans believe biden is too old to serve as president for another term in office, when you say only the elites have concerns about president biden and his age and his performance in the debate, what you're doing is

insulting a large chunk of your own party at this point that is concerned that you are either too old for office or that that problem is such that you are not able to defeat donald trump. so the question i have is, is it really good politics to insult a large chunk of your own electorate that thinks that this is a problem, and to call them bed wetters, as the president's advisers have done, to say it's not legitimate or it's some media narrative and some fantasy. it's obviously not a fantasy. let's be clear about that. these are legitimate questions that have been raised by people who consider themselves to be loyal democrats far their entire career and their concern is beating donald trump. no one knows the answer to whether biden is in the best position to defeat donald trump or someone else. but it is a risky strategy, it seems to me, to attack this chunk of your own base and to say that they're simply elites who don't know what they're

talking about. >> i see you shaking your head, congressman. i'm looking at the list of nine democrats who have come out and said it's time for our par iity to go with a different nominee. adam smith of washington, jerry nadler of new york, mark takano of california, and that's on top of the others that came before him. people like mike quigley, seth moulton. from across the country, in some key states, if you're a democratic who is in a purple state or a purple district, how do you handle this right now? >> first of all, it's not nine. that's false reporting. five came out publicly, four did so on a private phone call and have not made the mistake of the last 24 hours to come out and publicly establish where they actually are. >> they haven't shut it down, though, to say it's not accurate. >> five have publicly said it. no one can discount that, only one of which is from a

semi-contested district. what the president is coming out and saying right now is why he would love everyone's support and deeply cares about their opinion, what matters is two things. one, he won the nomination, and, two, he has an extraordinary record that he is reedy to continue to build upon. with all respect to the 75,000 people that pay for their annual subscription to "the new yorker," they are not representative of the fundamental democratic base, and that is the base that he is listening to, whether it is african american communities, whether it is union halls, whether it's people who each and every day are working their hearts out, that is who the president is speaking directly to. you know what those folks really don't want? those folks really don't want 90 minutes to define their loyalty to someone who has been their tirelessly for them for a half century. they believe in loyalty and commitment and they believe in standing up to what is an actual evil and an actual threat to the

future of this country. it's unfortunate that susan's readers disagree with that. i understand you've got to go with the person buttering your toast, but that's not where the american people are. >> okay. we'll see what happens next. there could be more twists and turns before this is over. former congressman max rose, susan glasser, thank you very much for the smart conversation. now, hurricane winds slamming texas this morning. what's next as beryl hits the u.s.? also, the national weather service's highest alert for excessive heat. how it's making perfect conditions for wildfires. pelosi illegal concessions that could brand an american icon a felon. what boeing just admitted to in a plea deal. we're back in 90 seconds. we're back in 90 seconds en. you have to make it. and if you want a successful business, all it takes is an idea, and now becomes the future where you grew a dream into a reality. the all new godaddy airo. put your business online in minutes with the power of ai.

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we are back with breaking news in texas this morning where hurricane beryl made landfall along the gulf coast as a category 1 storm just hours ago. beryl bringing relentless rain, 80-mile-per-hour gusts and the risk of flash floods and tornadoes to texas after it left at least nine people dead in the caribbean. there has been one confirmed death in texas so far. more than a million texans have already lost power as the storm barrels towards houston. nbc's jay gray is in texas and meteorologist angie lassman standing by with the forecast.

jay, what is the latest where you are? >> reporter: to pull back the curtain a little bit, we're surveying some of the damage. it's cleared up enough that we can look. that's why i'm in the car. power lines down, standing water in a lot of areas here and a lot of concern over wtsz whang to continue to be rain in some of these areas that can't take much more. here in lavaca, we know more than 100,000 people are without power. this is a storm that's had some staying power. i know you guys will talk about that. it's been across two land masses, got into the gulf. that warm water sfuling it. then as it made landfall this morning as a category 1 hurricane, stilt had quite a punch. it's continuing to move to the north. you talked about tornadoes. that's always a concern with these storms. we've had tornado warnings across the region this morning. we expect that to continue.

some areas have already seen 6-8 inches of rain. they could get 2 to 4 more before the storm clears if there's any good news at all. it's moving rather quickly. ten miles an hour is the last i saw. that will get it through the state, but it won't be the end of the problems associated with beryl. it's going to continue. >> all right, thank you so much, jay gray. stay safe, my friend. angie, beryl sounds like a monster. walk us through what we can expect in the next 24 hours. >> you heard jay just say we've still got some impacts to go with this system. we're far from done with it. actually houston is in the worst of what they'll see with the hurricane force winds possible as well as the potential for really difficult flooding over the next three to four hours. we still strnt maintained category 1 strength. it has some staying power. if this system spent any more time over the gulf of mexico, we likely would be looking at a much different situation, a much stronger storm system. either way it is moving north at

12 miles per hour. notice the center of it, the core of that system right to the west of houston. that means that houston is in that inner eyewall in dealing with the heavy rain that comes with that as well as the potential for isolated tornadoes across much of the region to the east of that and north of that. you see some of these tornado warnings that have already popped up in the past couple minutes. we've got a tornado watch that's going to be in effect through this area through at least mid to late morning. we'll likely see the potential for more tornadoes as we get into the afternoon hours. the heavy rain is one of our main concerns, especially as the center starts to move north. we've seen 9 inches of rain in some of these spots, ana. we have the potential to see more of that. this threat will last into parts of the midwest as well. we'll be watching the system well through midweek. much weaker by then, but still impactful nonetheless. >> thank you, keep us posted. millions of people are baking across the u.s. in dangerous heat this morning. the temperatures turned ugly in

california's death valley. a motorcyclist died saturday of suspected heat exposure. the temperature in that area a record 128 degrees. all this as emergency workers fight to contain wild fires blazing across the west, the flames fueled by the dry terrain and punishing heat. nbc's steve patterson is joining us from los angeles. steve, tell us mauer about this heat and the dangers that come with it. >> reporter: with the dangers, you can talk about hyperthermia, dehydration, but you have to be focused what we talk about coming in to me, death. this amount of heat, this extreme heat for this long causes people to die. every year we talk about the hurricane that makes landfall and the tornado that touches down and the flood that overwhelms communities. you have to remember extreme heat kills more people than all of those combined every year. some of the temperatures we're seeing, 120 in las vegas, that's a record.

all of these communities, over 110 degrees. death valley at 129. the numbers that we're not showing you are places that are 98 degrees and 100 degrees and 101 degrees, just as bad because of the length of time it's projected in some of these places. six to seven to 10 to 12 days of this kind of extreme heat, we're starting to learn this is a public health crisis and should be an emergency declaration in some places and will end up killing more people. it is very, very dangerous. this prolonged heat extremely dangerous moving forward. >> give us an update on the wildfires in california there? >> reporter: more than 20 across the west, eight in california. the heat exacerbates everything. on a human level, firefighters in pounds of gear trying to push back the flames spread out all over the state, spread out all

over the west. they're baking in their own gear. meanwhile, what it does to the ecology of a wildfire. weave had years of doubt. we saw how bad the wildfires got in 2020 because of that. then we had years of record rainfall, it grows back all the vegetation that burns because we're now in this heat dome. it saps all the moisture from all the new vegetation which basically makes runways of dry brush all over the west creating the images you're seeing on screen. it's incredibly difficult to battle a fire in this sort of heat. >> those flames are incredible. we know wildfires create their own storm systems within. steve patterson, thank you for bringing us those updates. up next on "ana cabrera reports," what boeing is pleading guilty to in a new plea deal and how many hundreds of millions they know owe. france's far right fails, but it's not all good news for emmanuel macron. stay with us. us at visionworks!

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welcome back. a guilty plea for boeing. over criminal fraud charges related to two deadly 737 max crashes. the guilty plea now brands boeing, the corporation, as a felon and could make it difficult for the company to sell products to the u.s. government. nbc news senior correspondent tom costello joins us with more on this.

tom, what exactly is boeing pleading guilty to, and what happens next? >> bottom line is this is pleading guilty to a fraud charge related to the two overseas max crashes. back in 2021 the justice department agreed to defeffer charges for misleading the faa if it agreed to undertake serious reforms and report honestly to regulators. now the doj says boeing's track record shows it violated that agreement. now boeing has agreed to a guilty plea. more than five years after two fatal max crashes overseas killed 346 people, this morning boeing agreed to plead guilty to a single felony charge related to the crashes. that charge, conspiring to defraud the federal government. boeing confirmed overnight it had reached the plea deal with the justice department, the deal already drawing reaction. >> victim families feel like boeing is getting off easy.

>> court documents indicate boeing would pay an additional $235 million fine and be required to invest more than $455 million in compliance and safety programs. what the plea deal does not demand is legal accountability for the many lives lost. a faulty flight control system called mcas was implicated in both deadly crashes. a multibillion dollar settlement in 2021 allowed boeing to avoid prosecution. last month prosecutors accused the company of breaching that agreement. overnight pushback came swiftly from the victims' families who chanted shame at the ceo and the lawyers blasting what they called a sweetheart deal. >> 346 people died in those two crashes. therefore, a plea of manslaughter would be more fitting. >> reporter: boeing has come under increased scrutiny following a series of mishaps including a door panel that

blew mid flight. >> we have tried to look at literal everything we do to make certain that that can never happen again. >> reporter: those promises ring hollow for the grieving relatives who are calling for even more action. >> i think that when people are not held accountable, you're setting a standard of what you can get away with. >> the families of those who died have filed an objection with the court that overseas this case. they want the judge in this case, ana, to completely reflect the plea deal. they still want criminal charges brought and a trial for the company and individual executives. back to you. >> tom costello, thank you. up next ots "ana cabrera reports," a loss for france's far right. are conservatives losing their grip on power in the uk? what it means for europe and the u.s. for europe and the u.s. lighting, and other thoughtful pieces

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a major electoral shakeup nor america's oldest ally. a coalition of leftist political parties pulled off an upset victory in france's parliamentary elections last night. pollsters predicted a win for the far right national rally party and it came after it was in the first round of voting. but a coalition of leftists and centrists worked together to block that national rally from taking power. nbc news international

correspondent josh lederman is joining us live from paris. a week ago pollsters were predicting this unprecedented takeover of the far right of the government. what happened? >> reporter: well, the pollsters were clearly wrong, for one thing, ana. the other thing that happened is centrists and leftists teamed up at the last minute to form a firewall to keep the far right out of power. in the first round of voting, the vote in many districts was split essentially between a far right candidate, a centrist candidate and someone on the left n. between the first and the second round, many of the leftist and centrists candidates dropped out. essentially they consolidated their vote around one non-far right candidate which allowed them to keep the far right from gaining as many seats as had been predicted. the upshot here which is on the minds of a lot of french citizens today is the fact that france now heads into an unprecedented period of a hung parliament, no clear majority. they will have divided government between the prime minister and the president, and

the prospect of a lot of paralysis and deadlock within the government. i want you to hear from one french voter i spoke to today about what he thinks will happen next. take a listen. >> it's still not stable, it's still unsure how the next few weeks and months will be. nothing is sure in my opinion. >> reporter: are you worried about so much instability right when france is about to host the olympics? >> it was a problem before, and now even more. >> reporter: one of the problems is that key government ministries such as the interior ministry which is responsible for security at the olympics, it's unclear who is going to be in those positions within just a few weeks when the olympic games are set to take place. the olympic committee and other french leaders are saying, look, we have been preparing for the olympics for a long time. all the security preparations are in place. the city is ready to go. they are hoping that this

political turmoil is not going to have any effect on the ground as those olympic games get under way in just under three weeks. >> josh lederman reporting live in paris. ukrainian officials say at least 31 people are dead and more than 100 injured in a major new russian missile attack which included a strike on a children's hospital in kyiv. according to president zelenskyy, russians hit apartment buildings and public infrastructure. kyiv's mayor says at least two people including a doctor were killed in the strike at the hospital. in a statement, russia denies targeting civilians in the attack blaming ukraine's air defense system for some of the damage. new signs of progress this morning in negotiations for a cease-fire and hostage deal in gaza. nbc news has learned hamas has softened one key demand for a deal, signaling it may free some hostages without a permanent

cease-fire, something it had previously demanded. that change comes as a group of hostage families is urging prime minister benjamin netanyahu to delay his speech before the u.s. congress until a deal is signed. back to our top story this morning here at home, president biden ramping up his defense to stay in the 2024 race as lawmakers are back on the hill for the first time since the debate. here was the president just last hour in an exclusive msnbc interview. >> how can you assure the american people that you won't have another night like the one you did in atlanta? >> look at my career. i've not had many of those nights. it was a terrible night, and i really regret it happened. but the fact of the matter is, how can you assure you're going to be -- on your way to go to work tomorrow. age, age wasn't -- the idea i'm

too old. created over 15 million jobs, beat big pharma, relieved student debt for 5 million people, first black woman on the court. i think i've had a significant run. that's how i'd measure me. measure me by what i've done. by the way, in terms of my neurological capacity, i had a physical, neurological physical as well in february, released. i released all my records, all of them, all of them. and i have a neurological test every single day. try sitting behind this desk and making these decisions. you know it. both of you know it. they know it. i'm not bad at what i do. it doesn't mean i never make a mistake. i do. but i'm making those decisions. >> nbc's gabe gutierrez is with us now from the white house. gabe, this interview last hour, press conference coming on thursday, is there a sense there at the white house and within the campaign that they're going to take off the reins and let

biden be biden? was he too insulated before? >> that's the question, ana. over the last several days, it looks like the campaign has been letting biden be biden more so. over the weekend in pennsylvania he had several events there, and he spoke without a teleprompter. we'll see him in a couple days at the rare solo press conference. the interview you just played, ana, that was very significant. the president essentially dared any opponents in the democratic party to challenge him in the convention. we heard -- he had a much more populist tone than we've heard from him before. he was also saying that, you know, he wasn't concerned when given the list of prominent democrats. he said i'm getting so frustrated by the elites of the party. if these guys don't think i should run, run against me, he said. it comes hours after the president sent a letter to top leaders in congress, essentially calling them, asking them to stick by him, saying he's firmly

committed today in this race and the voters of the democratic party have voted. they have chosen me to be the democratic nominee. the biden campaign is also pointing out that he still has strong support, especially among the congressional black caucus and a senior biden campaign adviser says that july so far has been the strongest start yet to a month when it comes to grassroots fund-raising, ana. >> this week is another pivotal week there at the white house with the president hosting the nato leaders for the nato summit. do we have a sense of what the president is messaging to these world leaders will be as he prepares to host them amid all the speculation about his 2024 campaign. >> reporter: certainly a lot of eyes will be watching him on the world stage. we already mentioned the solo press conference on thursday. when meeting with world leaders, he was asked about this in the msnbc interview. he listed off his list of accomplishments on the world stage. said that in poland he was involved in shoring up an

alliance against russia and china. he also talked about his abilities around the world and how he has worked in the israel-hamas war to get prime minister netanyahu to pay attention to civilian casualties in gaza. ana, this is something the president feels is his strong point. he says foreign policy is something he wants to focus on. certainly going into the summit this week, such a critical week for the president as he tries to cut down any criticism within his own party, ana. >> the eyes of the world will be watching. gabe gutierrez, thank you. up next on "ana cabrera reports," delay deja vu, what the judge in donald trump's classified documents case just decided and what it means. plus, alec baldwin expected to stand trial for involuntary manslaughter charges in the deadly film set shooting.

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welcome back. more fallout this morning from the supreme court decision on presidential immunity. judge aileen cannon in florida is granting the president's request to postpone some deadlines in his class need documents case. to consider how the supreme court's rulings could impact the proceedings in florida. joining us, former district attorney catherine christian. the ripples from this decision keep coming. how big of a legal win is this

for the former president's team. >> it's a big win, not just florida but everything. in terms of the florida decision, let's make it clear. the supreme court did not say that jack smith was unconstitutionally appointed. justice thomas did in his concurrence. so that is not the law. but, of course, if i was the defense team, i'd do to same thing. they're seizing on that and asking judge cannon, even though they've already had a hearing on this to give more time to file briefs on this new decision which is a decision and, of course, because of judge cannon, she's granted that. we'll have much more delay and this case will never go to trial this year. obviously if donald trump is re-elected, it probably it's al impacted this immunity ruling has impacted many other cases including the hush money case, which we saw had to postpone sentencing. it's impacted the d.c. election interference case already as well. is there any mechanism at all to push these cases forward or is

it all on hold for the foreseeable future as the immunity impact is sorted? >> it's on hold because judge merchan, who is on the manhattan d.a. office's hush money case had to delay sentencing. it's a legitimate argument that we had to set aside a motion. he has to give the manhattan d.a.'s office time to respond, so therefore the sentencing had to be adjourned. i'm confident that judge merchan and the new york appellate courts will probably find that the motion should not be -- the verdict should not be set aside. i'm not confident if it makes its way b back to the supreme court they will agree. this is a very big decision. just for the future, future presidents who basically now can use doj, according to the decision to weaponize and go against opponents. if you read this decision, it makes it clear that presidents have a lot of power now, particularly they are in exclusive control of the

department of justice according to this decision. >> if it is considered an official action because of official communications with those players within their administration. everything had seemed to be going really poorly in the legal sphere for donald trump up and it to this point. he lost two defamation lawsuits against writer e. jean carroll, is ordered to pay her over $88 million in damages. he lost the civil fraud trial to his business empire owing $354 million in penalties. he became the first former president in history to be convicted in the hush money case and convicted of a felony, but following the supreme court decision, i mean, talk about a stunning reversal of fortunes. >> in a weird way, bizarre way, being indicted four times and being found guilty by a jury for crimes has helped donald trump. it's helped him in his polling numbers, which is very strange. normally if someone's been convicted of a crime, sort of

their life is ruined. this has helped donald trump and also just the delaying of the other cases, so it's worked for him in terms of all of the motions that his lawyers have filed. >> do you see it as delaying justice? >> it's delaying justice, you know. justice delayed is justice denied. so it's very serious this supreme court case. >> thank you so much for helping us understand it better, catherine christian. up next on "ana cabrera reports," the trial of hollywood actor alec baldwin tied to the "rust" movie set shooting is set to begin this week. what to expect. this week what to expect ♪ is why i'm dela♪ ♪ i heard i had a choice ♪ ♪ i know the name, that's what i'm saying ♪ -cologuard®? -cologuard. cologuard! -screen for colon cancer. -at home, like you want. -you the man! -actually, he's a box. cologuard is a one-of-a-kind way to screen for colon cancer that's effective and non-invasive. it's for people 45+ at average risk, not high risk. false positive and negative results may occur.

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welcome back. alec baldwin's criminal trial begins this week in new mexico. the actor charged with involuntary manslaughter for the 2021 killing of cinematographer halyna hutchins. baldwin faces up to 18 months in jail if convicted. nbc's chloe melas is in santa fe, new mexico, with more this morning. chloe, what should we expect when all this gets underway? >> hey there, ana. alec baldwin's criminal trial is expected to start tomorrow with jury selection, and it should take about two weeks, and prosecutors, they're going to be laying out why they believe that alec baldwin holds some responsibility for that prop gun in october of 2021 having a live round of ammunition, and that he never should have pointed the gun at halyna hutchins in the first place. >> reporter: nearly three years after the fatal shooting on the

set of "rust" the film's star and producer will face criminal charges in a santa fe, new mexico, court. >> are you doing okay? >> no, i'm not, actually. >> reporter: the case centers around baldwin who was hold ago prop gun that fired a live round of ammunition during a rehearsal on the western film set in 2021, the incident killing cinematographer halyna hutchins and wounding the director. the actor is charged with one count of involuntary manslaughter and faces up to 18 months in jail if found guilty. new mexico prosecutors will lay out how they believe baldwin was reckless with safety standards on the set. but in interviews, baldwin has maintained that the gun malfunctioned. >> the trigger wasn't pulled. i didn't pull the trigger. i feel that someone is responsible for what happened, and i can't say who that is. >> a subsequent gun analysis report that they commissioned found that the gun was functioning properly and could not have gone off without baldwin pulling the trigger.

hutchins' husband telling hoda in 2022 that he believes baldwin's actions led to her death. >> the idea that the person holding the gun causing it to discharge is not responsible is absurd to me. >> reporter: baldwin has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing. hutchins announced he settled a civil suit. >> we find the defendant hannah gutierrez guilty. >> reporter: baldwin's trial coming four months after the film's armorer was found guilty of the same charge and is serving her time behind bars. she is expected to be called to testify by the prosecution, although she said in a pretrial interview she did not want to cooperate and take the stand. so there's a pretrial hearing going on right now, ana, in the courthouse behind me. alec baldwin is seated inside. like i said, jury selection, that begins tomorrow, and the big question remains is will

alec baldwin take the stand in his own defense, and it looks like his legal team will be making a game time decision. >> chloe melas reporting again in new mexico. thanks. that does it for us today. hope you had a wonderful weekend. thank you for joining us. i'll see you back here tomorrow, same time, same place, and don't forget, you can catch our show around the clock online on youtube and other platforms. for now, i'm ana cabrera reporting from new york. josé diaz-balart picks up our coverage right now. ♪♪ good morning, 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific, i'm josé diaz-balart. this morning president biden on the offensive in the wake of growing calls urging him to step aside from the 2024 race. president biden is out in full force with his response. he is not going anywhere. this morning in an exclusive interview with msnbc, the president explained why he thinks he is the best candidate to