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headquarters in new york city. go ahead, challenge me at the convention. a feisty president joe biden fighting for his political future with a warning to his fellow democrats. not only does he intend to stay in the race, but if they don't get behind him now, quote, it helps trump and hurts us. we've got reaction as more members of congress call for biden to bow out and as they return to d.c. plus, right now beryl is carving a path of destruction through texas after making landfall as a category 1 hane killing at least two people. and while it's now a tropical storm, there are new warnings of life-threatening storm surge and massive power outages. does the punishment fit the crime? boeing agrees to plead guilty to a charge connected to two deadly plane crashes. why the victims' families want a judge to reject the entire deal. a lot to get to, but we begin with 48 hours. the next two days critical for

determining joe biden's future. with more members of congress calling for him to step down, biden punched back like a prize fighter in an exclusive interview on msnbc, defiant, fiery and frustrated. >> the night of that debate i went out. i was out till 2:00 in the morning that very night, that very night. it drives me nuts people talking about this. that very night i was talking to large crowds. look at the crowds we've gathered from atlanta to north carolina to pennsylvania. look at the enthusiasm. it was right after. where the hell has trump been? what has trump said or done? >> the same tone in a letter sent just before that interview to congressional democrats, arguing we have one job, and that is to beat donald trump. we have 42 days to the democratic convention and 119 days to the general election.

any weakening of resolve or lack of clarity about the task ahead only helps trump and hurts us. i'm time to come together, move forward as a unified party and defeat donald trump. that message aimed at the nine members of the house calling on biden to step down including key senior members of power. committees. in private, even more are expressing doubts. one house democratic privately saying, quote, we're doomed. and as nbc news reports, there's an overwhelming sense among members that kamala harris would be a better nominee. senate democrats are planning to meet tomorrow. but key to all the conversations on both sides is whether staying on the ticket would kill democrats' chances to control congress. there will be more tests for biden this week as he leads the nato summit and he and his campaign execute an aggressive battle plan that includes ramping up his appearances while donald trump has been nowhere to be seen. nbc's ryan nobles is reporting

on capitol hill. aaron gilchrist is covering the white house. also with us, jake sherman, co-founder of punchbowl news and an msnbc contributor, and michael steele, co-heft of msnbc's "the weekend." great to have you guys. what is the president's plan to win back support and confidence, and how is it taking shape? >> well, chris, i keep thinking back to the volunteer in philadelphia yesterday who told president biden that she wanted to see dark branded again. he responded dark branded is coming back. that's the person we heard on the call with msnbc this morning. the fighter joe biden. talking about the reality behind what he believes he still has the support of voters. he obviously feels like he needs to be back out in front of voters shoring up that support, but he feels as though the push for him to get out of the race is something that's been coming

from inside the beltway, if you will, for the politicals and washington' elites, and he expressed conversation that continues to happen around his debate performance while he's out pressing the flesh, quite literally, with voters. i was with him in harrisburg yesterday where he spent a few minutes talking and worked the crowd for about 45 minutes or so in the hot sun. i want you to hear more from his interview this morning and what he had to say about democrats, in particular lawmakers, donors, other supporters of the party getting behind him in his bid for re-election. >> all this talk about how i don't have the black support. come on. give me a break. come with me. watch. watch. i'm getting so frustrated by the elites. i'm not talking about you guys, 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. on europe the polls were wrong in france, they're also right -- there's no right wave or tide here in america either. by the way, in case you're wondering whether there is one, have you ever seen trump run away so fast from what he's nor? >> reporter: president biden also said he believes he is the person who can land beat donald trump in november. he said he won the support of democratic voters during the primaries around the country and it would be wrong for him to go against the will of those voters who voted for him by a margin of 87% over some of the other people on ballots around the country. chris, i think we can expect to see president biden, obviously have world leaders here in washington this week and then back on the campaign trail on friday, headed to michigan before he goes to texas and nevada in the days to come, chris. >> all right, ryan. today is the day congress comes

back. i don't know how many have been in the halls of congress yet. who and what are you watching for? >> reporter: it's been pretty quiet up to this point, chris. i do think the big target we have this morning is trying to figure out where senate democrats are. we know that there's an unbelievable amount of anxiety among house democrats, and they voiced that to us either through private conversations or many of them, nine members publicly stating they want to see the president step down. there's yet to be one senate democratic who has said they believe there should be a new nominee at the top of the democratic party. there's been a few senators that have come out and reaffirmed their support for president biden including john fetterman of pennsylvania, bob casey up for re-election in pennsylvania. senator cortez masto of nevada expressing her support for president biden. that doesn't mean there isn't the same level of concern among senate democrats. they're just being a plot more quiet about those conversations than their house counterparts.

there's going to be a much different conversation taking place here on capitol hill than what we've seen play out since that debate took place a couple of thursdays ago. they're now going to be face-to-face. they'll be in private rooms. house democrats will meet tomorrow morning in a location where they're told they cannot bring their phones so they can have a honest conversation about what takes place. when that's emerge from these might tinges, that's when we may get a better sense of where the future of the party is headed. one thing is for sure, chris, they're not interested in a public spat with president biden. they would prefer to not get to the point where they have to stand up and call on him publicly to step down. at least the vast majority of them, and the leaders in both the house and the senate. if they get to a point where they believe he needs to step down, they want to have a private conversation with him and hopes he makes that decision on his own. we're a long way away from that, chris. the next 48 hours will go a long way telling us where the party is headed. >> jake, you point out in

punchbowl the democratic party is split. where do you see this heading and what are you watching for over these next 48 hours? >> well, first of all, i want to say one thing about what biden said on "morning joe" which is a great interview. he was ragging on the elites. it's difficult to make that argument. he's been in the senator the white house or the vice presidency since 1972 for all but four years. listen, i don't know -- it's not my job specifically to say whether he should not be on the ticket. i can tell you i have found very few, very, very few house democrats who either don't want him go or don't -- question whether he's up for the task. i think it's -- if you had a private ballot or private counting, it would probably be more than half don't think he can win the presidency. whether they want him to step

down or think he should step down is a different matter. what am i looking for? number one, every democratic front-runner, running in districts that biden will struggle in, will have to make the calculation whether they'd be better off with a different ticket. whether kamala harris is at the top of that ticket, i'd say that's probably most likely. i agree with ryan that the leadership is going to be key here. hakim refugees and chuck schumer will have to make a decision probably together about how they want to present the public nas of hill democrats, vis-a-vis biden. i agree that they don't want a public spat, but they have a public spat right now. they have a dozen democrats who have said that they don't believe the party's nominee should be the party's nominee. that is obviously something they would like to avoid. biden put them in this position, and now they have to live with it. i'll close by saying this one thing. every single house and senate democratic are thinking about what one thing and foremost more

than the presidency, is whether they will be re-elected to serve another term in the house and senate. their calculation on whether biden should remain on the ticket is going to be at least informed by the idea about whether they could win another term with joe biden on the ticket. >> so elites versus i guess everyday -- the joe biden, scranton voter, michael steele. our aaron gilchrist spoke with a number of voters at kind of a harris -- biden/harris picnic in harrisburg, pennsylvania, yesterday. i want to play a representative sampling of what they had to say. >> there is no other alternative, so i'm going to be supporting joe biden all the way. >> i just don't think that we can deal with his health -- and it's no fault of his own. >> i think we need to have opportunities to hear him like

today and make that decision based on what facts and not noise, what everyone says. >> i'm committed to voting for joe biden. >> so granted they're at a biden/harris picnic, michael. i think, look, maybe this is the question. is joe biden right when he says he's listening to the voters, not to the elites? >> yeah. because guess what? they vote. so, yeah, i'm listening to the voters. joe biden can talk about the elites having been among them and being part of them himself. he knows of what he speaks. when he says what he says about the elites, he knows where they're coming from because we've seen this narrative play out again. this is just a pathetic conversation. we've taken one event and turned it into a week and a half to two weeks of noise. so you've made the bad thing worse, democrats, by the way you've responded to it publicly,

lashing out against the president and shifting the argument away from the real threat who is standing opposite joe biden. so now the democrats have to figure out after this morning's conversation on "morning joe" what they're going to do. what they're going to do is what those voters at that picnic said. they're going to have to stand behind the guy. you literally have two weeks to get this done. joe is right. okay. you want to challenge me? put someone in the race. show me a poll of a democratic who is beating donald trump right now or is competitive with donald trump. that person, get in the race. run against me because i'm not going anywhere. so what are you going to do with that. all the hand-wringing and the mind-numbing conversation around joe biden getting out of the race really has to stop if you want to be in the game the rest of the way. because what they've done since thursday is made it worse, not

better. >> michael, all the way folks have talked about the fact that the strongest strategy that joe biden has is to make this race about donald trump and the dangers that democrats believe he poses. can they -- let's say joe biden is staying in. how does he get that narrative back to be about donald trump and not about him? this isn't just the elites who are having these concerns. >> donald trump is 78 years old and can't string a sentence together. did you hear the man talk about electric batteries and sharks? seriously. i mean, come on. donald trump has shown us everything he's incapable of doing and it boggles my mind that that is not part of this conversation at the same time. all right? these are the two men. so what joe biden has to do is make the case that he can make. project 2025. that's the new format, the new

formatting of america is laid out there, make that argument, which he started to do and others have as well. talk about our global position in the world. he'll have a perfect chance to do that with the 30 nato allies in his back yard. so there are a lot of opportunities for joe biden to do his thing. is he going to make mistakes? yeah, he will. but i'm trying to figure out when democrats realized that joe biden was old. the guy was 77 when you nominated him. you thought he'd be 73 four years later? so 14 million americans, democrats, voted for him in a primary. so i don't understand why we're having this conversation right now. the people at that picnic and across this country told you who you wanted. if they wanted someone else, they would have chosen someone else, and they didn't. so you can't blame joe biden. you can't blame his age. you've just got to go forward with where the people have positioned him.

and if the elites and others in the media as wealthy they're going to swap out a president and stick some rando democratic in in the next few weeks, good luck with that. >> i think even, jake, if these house democrats want him out, maybe even most of them, although they're not saying it publicly, what leverage do they have? senator chris murphy said clearly yesterday the clock is ticking. i guess what clock are you hearing? is it two days, is it two weeks? is it 42 days until the convention? >> a house democrat put it to me this way today, this is him saying it, not me, i don't think he'll survive the week, that's biden. if he does, we need to be quiet and just go forward with him. i think that's true. they don't have much leverage. to michael's point they've put biden in a very, very difficult position if he does stay on the

ballot. his debate weakened him tremendously. their rhetoric post debate has weakened him to an alarming degree. yesterday you had don buyer of virginia say on a democratic leadership call he could barely string two sentences together, about joe biden. so the fact that people are levelling these incredibly harsh criticisms, coming out and saying he shouldn't be a nominee, the fact that the leadership is holing calls and giving people a stage to criticize the president is incredibly damaging to him if he does stay on the ballot. you could tell there's obviously an effort, whether it's organized or not, at least semi organized to push him off the ballot to say we don't want you, we could win with somebody else, you're putting the party at risk. >> ryan nobles, aaron gilchrist, jake sherman and michael steele. you can catch michael steele on "the weekend" every saturday and sunday at 8:00 a.m. eastern. if you think he's feisty with me, you should see him with

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since hitting the texas coast as a category 1, beryl has killed at least two people, knocked out power to more than 2.5 million homes and made travel nearly impossible with dangerous winds and torrential rain. it's also brought tornado risk. reports that one may have ripped through homes in galveston early this morning. in rosenberg, local police posted images of emergency rescuerers in knee-deep waters, urging people to stay inside. the two people that died a few hours ago were doing just that, sheltering from the storm in their homes when they were crushed by trees. harris county officials sharing pictures of one of those tragic scenes. that tree crashed into a 74-year-old woman's roof and killed her. texas's acting governor dan patrick says officials are concerned not enough for people evacuate friday the 81 counties currently under an active disaster declaration. today, as 70-mile-per-hour winds

rip through neighborhood streets, anyone still left is stuck with no choice now but to wait out the storm. nbc's jay gray is live in rosenberg, texas. i'm also joined by nbc meteorologist bill karins. what's the situation on the ground, jay? >> reporter: chris, as you described so well, rosenberg took a tough hit. take a look behind me, this home scattered with huge limbs and branches. talk a walk with me here. you'll see another tree that went across the road here, uprooted by not only the strong winds here, but the soaking rains that continued and left to some of those high water rescues. you can see where it was just pulled from its roots right here, a huge pecan tree laying across the roadway here. and there are scenes like this playing out across the entire area. we want to introduce you to the homeowner here, a man who has

lived here since he was born. luke deshea who you can see is pulling one of the limbs from this tree right now. luke, thanks for taking the time to talk with us. sorry for what you're going through here. you've lived here your whole life. >> i have. >> have you seen it like this? >> we had a big oak tree about ten times that size, lightning fell it and fell in the street. took about two days to get it up and out of here. >> you're out here working, the rain hasn't fully stopped. you're out here chainsaw in hand tearing this up and stacking stuff up. that's true. somebody has got to do it. the city came by earlier and said it's going to take them a while to get to it. i told them i'll use the pecan wood anyway, so i'll do it myself. >> they're special, your dad planted the trees all around the house. >> before i was even born he had

them planted and grafted. producing good. last year was the best day ever, they all produced. now we lost one. but we've still got plenty. >> these trees could have gone the other way and they surround your house. somehow they didn't. >> right, that's correct. he planted them here to surround the house, basically like a fence, and the one that fell got hit many years ago when i was a little kid by a drunk driver. it actually produced the little hole where you can see it kind of collapsed at. that might have been a weak point. yes, we're lucky it fell away from the house. otherwise, it would have been an insurance claim. >> or worse. >> or worse. >> i'm slowing you down. thank you for taking the time. we appreciate it. >> reporter: chris, you heard. that's the response you're seeing across the area. the water has gone down. folks can get out and start to assess things.

you saw with luke, getting to work, cutting this tree to be repairing it. he did tell us he's going to save some of this wood. he likes to barbecue with the pecan wood. so a good end to what was a disastrous overnight into the morning here. >> you've got to admire his resilience and his attitude. jay gray, thank you. let me bring in bill karins. he also has a little perspective. it could have been worse. for some people it was a lot worse. what's beryl up to right now? >> the power outages and the downed trees, that's been the legacy of this storm. we have 2.5 million people wondering when their power is going to come back on. when you have scenes like that, a lot of trees and power lines to be cleaned up. of course, it's summertime, too. it's extremely humid. could be difficult sleeping nights ahead. this one did pack a punch. now racing away in the houston area. rainfall was the biggest problem, especially in downtown houston, almost a foot of rain

in downtown. now the storm system is racing away. we're starting the have tornado problems. we had report of a tornado in jasper, texas. hit a condominium complex. there was considerable damage and debris in the air. we're still waiting to get the pictures. search and rescue operations are under way. these are flash flood warnings. a lot of the bayous in downtown houston over flooded their banks. those mostly flooded the highways. they're waiting for the water levels to continue coming down. tonight into tomorrow morning, the storm, as it moves its way into areas of arkansas, it looks like it will be north into the ozarks here, southern missouri and southern illinois along the ohio river, these areas are hilly. if we get six inches in the hilly areas, that's where we can see flash flooding. that's why the flood watches have been issued to the north. with winds down to 65 miles per hour, chris, i'm not expecting a

lot more in the way of wind damage. the highest wind report was saw around freeport, 190-mile-per-hour winds. that's why we have beach problems down there with roofing that has been damaged, especially surfside beach. we'll show you those pictures when they get them in. >> bill karins, thank you. about weeks of testimony that senator bob menendez traded political favors for gold cars and cash, the case could soon be in the hands of the jury. the terms of boeing's deal with the justice department. why victims' families say it's a sweetheart deal. you're watching "chris jansing reports" only on msnbc. you're watching "chris jansing reports" only on msnbc pickle! yeah, aw! whoo! ♪♪ these guys are intense. we got nothing to worry about. with e*trade from morgan stanley, we're ready for whatever gets served up. dude, you gotta work on your trash talk. i'd rather work on saving for retirement.

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closing arguments with about to get under way in new jersey senator bob menendez's corruption trial after weeks of jurors seeing secret videos, gold bars, piles of cash, all examples of what prosecutors say were lucrative bribes the powerful senator exchanged for favors. menendez is facing some of the most serious charges ever brought against a sitting senator. after deciding against testifying in his own defense, his fate could be in the hands of the jury as soon as wednesday. joining me msnbc legal analyst glenn kirschner and nbc's rehema ellis. what's the latest we know from the courtroom? >> from the courtroom this

morning the defense put back on the stand their last witness. after that -- that ended a short while ago. we know the jurors are having lunch. the expectation is they will come back in less than an hour and the prosecution will begin closing arguments, on this case you pointed out has taken nearly seven weeks. soon the six men and six women will have a chance to decide who they believe in this case. this is a case with 18 charges against the new jersey senator bob menendez. those charges include bribery, extortion, obstruction of justice and acting as a foreign agent. they allege that he acted as a foreign agent accepting payoffs to help egypt get more military aid and abusing his position a former powerful chair of the foreign relations committee. for his part, he says the 12 gold bars plus found in his home, that more than $450,000 they found in his closet, in clothes, even shoes, this was

all part of the culture of coming from cuba. his sister testified that you will see this in many cuban american homes because they were afraid of castro and things could be taken from them in a moment's notice. she testified, interestingly enough, the senator did not. he, however, has maintained his evidence in this as has his wife who was also accused of bribery in this. and they say that she received a car as a part of the bribery, a mercedes-benz, but she's being tried separately because now she's undergoing treatment for breast cancer. >> let's talk about the closing arguments, glenn. we just got word that the prosecution says they expect their closing arguments to take five hours. what are they going to talk about for that period of time, and what is their strongest argument? >> yeah. that is a lengthy closing argument, chris. i tried some rico cases that lasted six months, one lasted three months and i don't know

that we pushed five hours, but we did go several hours in our closing and rebuttal arguments. they're going to focus on the mountain of evidence introduced against senator menendez over the course of the seven-week trial. it may be true that in some cultures people keep lots of cash and valuables around. nothing wrong with that. the problem is, among other sharply incriminating evidence, one of the co-conspirators, a businessman who was paying these bribes, youssef uribe provided damaging evidence against the senator and his wife who rehema says is being tried separately, and i'd love to talk about that in a minute. there is some really compelling evidence, when you find gold bars, you find hundreds of thousands of dollars hidden away throughout your own home coupled with much of the other testimony and evidence that was adduced, the prosecutors will have lots of evidentiary ground to cover

during closing arguments. hopefully five hours, they don't overstay their welcome and lose the jury's interest. there is a lot of evidence to cover. >> so what about the defense? do you think it was right for menendez not to testify? >> in the overwhelming majority of criminal cases defendants do not take the stand. that's especially true in federal prosecutions. a little less so in state prosecutions. but i think the best thing the defense has going for it is winning the legal ruling that the two cases would be tried separately, that senator menendez's wife nadine will be severed out and her case would be tried later. that gives senator menendez the opportunity -- and i've seen it and had to confront it -- is to argue the empty chair defense. he will argue through his lawyers in their closing arguments, ladies and gentlemen, if anybody did anything wrong,

it was my wife. he already pulled that out through the course of the trial and before the trial started, trying to blame any misconduct on his wife. he'll argue, listen, i didn't know what was going on with this money pouring into our household. this is a product of whatever my wife did. the problem becomes, once his wife is tried later on, i can see her and her attorneys arguing, wait a minute, wait a minute, i had nothing to do with it. this was all my husband's doing. so the empty chair defense is not always a winning defense, but that's probably the best angle that menendez has going for him, and i expect that's what they'll focus on in their closing arguments. >> glenn kirschner, rehema ellis, thank you both very much. up next, scenes of devastation from a rare daytime missile barrage across ukraine including on a key children's hospital. cease-fire talks between israel and hamas, the key demand

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rescue teams are searching through the rubble of ukraine's largest chirp's hospital for survivors of a russian missile attack. at least two people were killed there and seven people injured. that ghastly scene one of many across ukraine today.

nbc's danielle him man general is following the story for us. what more do we know about the fallout here? >> reporter: this happened around rush hour this morning when ukrainians were on their way to work. this is one of the biggest attacks on the capital since the war began in 2022. this is the largest hospital, babies were being operated on when this happened this morning. obviously frantic scenes as parents rushed to the bung to protect their children. the ukraine air force saying russia used a hypersonic missile, one of the most advanced weapons in russia's possession, in its arsenal. it travels at ten times the speed of sound and it's very hard to intercept. officials are saying the death count is expected to rise as the day progresses because still, as you mentioned, they are still

digging up victims under the rubble. having spent time in kyiv, any journalist who has spent time covering the war in the capital has certainly stepped foot in the hospital. i can tell you, when i was there i thought this must be one of the safist places in the capital. russia is denying it ever targets civilians. today is no exception. it launch long-range precision weapons at industrial and military targets. it says in retaliation to a previous ukrainian strike. it says ukrainian fired an antiaircraft missile to stop the attack and that's what caused the damage in the capital today, despite the pictures you are seeing on your screen. now, in reaction to this, volodymyr zelenskyy, the ukrainian president, has said there will be retaliation n. the meantime, there will be a meeting of the u.n. security council tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. over this attack which the president is calling a war

crime. >> danielle, thank you very much. let's go to gaza now where nbc news got rare access inside rafah, the city where more than a million palestinians once sought shelter. rafah is now a ruined ghost town after months of intensive operations by israeli forces. today there is growing hope for peace. nbc's matt bradley is here with word of hamas dropping one of its key demands. matt, what can you tell us? >> reporter: hostage negotiations with back on, a senior administration official tells nbc news, the head of the cia is headed to cairo and dohar this week for more talks. today a renewed burst of optimism, hamas has softened its stance signaling it may free some hostages without a permanent cease-fire, something it had adamantly demanded. american diplomats told nbc news that hamas compromised after israel invaded the southern city of rafah. last week the israeli military

brought a group of foreign reporters to rafah. israeli censures reviewed all this footage. rafah is now a ghost town, leveled by fighting and reclaimed by sand. this city is completely unrecognizable. it was only a couple months ago where this was considered the last safe haven for palestinians. here, there's still a lot of shooting going on here. the idf showed us videos of what they said were booby-trapped homes, saying these barrels were filled with explosives triggered by remote control. nbc news has not verified their authenticity. they highlighted extensive tunnels the idf says it helped supply hamas for years. >> where all the tunnels were, all the booby-trapped houses, this area looks more destruction because of hamas. >> reporter: for months israel's military says they've entered a new less intensive phase of the fight here, that they would focus on surgical strikes instead of expansive assaults.

for gazan civilians, the death toll is still climbing. despite all that optimism from washington, stril prime minister boounl is facing a lot of pressure from right wing cabinet members, some who say they'll quit the government if he doesn't completely destroy hamas. could an iconic american brand be branded a felon. what boeing just agreed to in a plea deal connected to two deadly plane crashes. in our next hour, looking for a phone call. just one week away from the republican national convention, two of donald trump's top vp contenders say they haven't heard any updates. so when will he announce his pick? you're watching "chris jansing reports" only on msnbc. you're wg reports" only on msnbc (aaron) i own a lot of businesses... so my tech and my network need to keep up. thank you, verizon business. (kevin) now our businesses get fast and reliable internet from the same network that powers our phones.

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going through? >> reporter: yeah, chris that is a good question. we know they have filed an objection to this case, to the federal judge overseeing it. they're doing whatever they can to get the plea deal thrown out. whether they have the power to do so, it's come down to the objection that's been filed. keep in mind they've already called this publicly a sweetheart deal here. they have had staunch opposition to this throughout years of its legal proceedings, and even though it was announced late last night, families already coming out and sharing their thoughts through their attorneys. i want you to hear what one attorney has to say on behalf of the victims' families that were killed in the fatal 737 max crashes. take a listen. >> victim families feel like boeing is getting off easy. 346 people died in those two crashes. therefore, a plea of manslaughter would be more fitting. >> reporter: so the big question

is, now that boeing is branded a felon, why have they agreed to this deal? the main answer to that, chris, is it allows them to somewhat control their own fate and not go to a criminal trial where that would rest in someone else's hands. that is what the families continue to fight for. in the meantime, as a result of this deal, boeing has an additional, as you mentioned, that $235 million fine. they have a $455 million that they're pledging to a compliance program and for the next three years, chris, they agreed to an independent compliance monitor to oversee compliance of boeing during what's being labeled a probation narrow period, and finally, the board of boeing has agreed to meet with the families of those victims, although i cannot imagine at this point in time that that would change their tune as their continue to file for a criminal trial in this ongoing legal situation here. chris. >> morgan chesky, thank you. a veteran comedian with

roles on arrested development and "anchor man" has pleaded guilty to a federal charge for his actions on january 6th. prosecutors say jay johnston assaulted officers protecting the lower part of the capitol. what more do we know? >> jay johnston has been on "mr. show" on hbo with bob odenkirk and including the epic scene in "anchorman" in 2004 where they have battling the main team. he has been a part of some of these great comedies over the years. what happened after january 6th is that the fbi posted this photo, and he very quickly had people say, hey, that looks like that character actor that i recognize in a lot of movies. former colleagues said he was indeed at the capitol, and he was identified. it wasn't until last year he was charged. just today he walked into a federal courtroom in washington

and pleaded guilty to a felony charge in connection with his actions that day. the sentencing has been set for october 7th. the maximum he could face is five years in prison for the felony civil disorder charge. he's unlikely to get that maximum. he could end up with prison time after pleading guilty to the charge. it's a tail end to the epic career he's had over these years, chris. >> ryan reilly, thank you for that. in the next hour, joe biden bringing the fire, fighting back as pressure piles on him to step aside. the two big tests he's facing this week. stay close, more "chris jansing reports" after this. reports" after this. welcome to the wayborhood. with wayfair, finding your style is fun. [ music playing ] yes! when the music stops grab any chair, it doesn't matter if it's your outdoor style or not. [ music stops ] i'm sorry, carl. this is me in chair form. i don't see you. -oh, come on. this one's perfect for you. but you. love it.

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it is good to be back with you on this second hour of "chris jansing reports." at this hour, president biden working the phones, trying to stem democratic defections after his fiery and unequivocal interview on msnbc saying he is staying in this race. and his new letter to the party with the same message after more lawmakers said he should step aside. plus, the bipartisan calls for biden to undergo cognitive testing. the president's response, he doesn't need one because his record running the world is a daily test. battered by