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he tests attack lines. this as the vp could get the endorsement of all endorsements. passing the torch, president biden's historic address to the nation, including an emotional plea to protect our democracy. high stakes sit-down, the challenges of today's meeting between president biden and israel's prime minister as benjamin netanyahu's controversial visit to washington prompts thousands to protest leading to arrests in our nation's capital. ♪♪ good morning, it is 10:00 eastern, i'm ana cabrera reporting from new york, and first this morning, the race for the white house, vice president kamala harris set to rally teachers in texas today as former president donald trump tests out new attack lines against his new opponent. this after president biden delivered a stirring prime time

address from the oval office last night appealing to americans to preserve our democracy. >> i revere this office. i love my country more. but i've decided the best way forward is to pass the torch to a new generation. that's the best way to unite our nation. >> joining us now nbc news chief white house correspondent peter alexander, nbc's allie raffa in houston with the vice president, our garrett haake covering the trump campaign, and april ryan, washington bureau chief for the grio. an emotional address from president biden speaking about his personal decision but also setting the stakes for this election moving forward. >> reporter: yeah, i think that's exactly right. in a lot of ways last night's address from behind the resolute desk in the oval office represented the beginning of what is going to be an extended farewell for this president. he'll speak again at the dnc, no longer as his party's nominee but as a man endorsing a soon to be former president endorsing

kamala harris. he'll also have a farewell address in the future. the focus was not so much on why he decided to get out of the race. he didn't say if it was his health or bad poll numbers in recent months but the focus on the urgency of this moment. his priority would be uniting the country, putting what's best for democracy over his desire for a second term. talking about the stakes of the election this fall. the great thing about america, he said, is that here kings and dictators do not rule. the people do. history, he said, is in your hands. clearly a veiled swipe at former president trump, and again, he talked about passing the torch, again, endorsing kamala harris. listen. >> i want to thank our great vice president kamala harris. she's experienced, she's tough. she's capable. she's been an incredible partner to me and a leader for our country. now the choice is up to you, the american people.

>> reporter: and just one other point i would note in a conversation with my colleague kelly o'donnell made this point, i think it's an important one to share. the striking difference here at this white house where on the biden side within biden world, there is sort of a sense of pride but also grief. you can almost see the pain in the president's face as he was greeted by his family members in the oval office last night after his address, and then in the harris world, there is sort of this exuberance and this exhilaration, this sense that there is the beginning of a new cam wane and what they believe is a real possibility to beat former president trump coming up just a few months from now. it's an interesting thing to keep an eye on as we go forward, although they share a mission, which is to win and to maintain and i guess to protect, preserve president biden's agenda going forward, ana. >> peter alexander at the white house, thanks. april, we heard the president say the choice is up to you now, the american people and also saying i made my choice, a nod to his vp kamala harris calling her tough, capable, an incredible partner.

we're also learning former president obama's endorsement could be coming shortly. talk about the power of these two presidential endorsements for harris. >> well, president obama, the first black president in this nation is an historic figure no matter what you, how you look at it, and for this, kamala harris, the first black and southeast asian vice president. this is a resounding endorsement that she needs. he is the last person with a weighty resume to give this endorsement, and this is a much needed endorsement because people have been waiting to hear from him, and this president, former president barack obama has been very concerned about the democracy and the threat of donald trump, and authoritarianism and dictatorship and being a potential king who will never leave the white house, and he has really been concerned about this, and now to see these two

coming together, it is the last piece of the puzzle to really send her off into the stratosphere on the democratic party side. >> we can't know the precise timing of that endorsement to come, but one source telling us that president obama didn't want to overshadow president biden's moment and particularly that oval office address, so we'll keep an eye on that. meanwhile, former president trump held his first rally since the democratic shake-up, and garrett, walk us through what we're hearing from him, these lines of attack he's trying out against his new opponent. >> it's been interesting to watch, ana, i think that trump and the trump campaign have been slow to pivot all the way off of joe biden and on to attacking kamala harris who does appear to be by all rights the person who they'll be running against this fall. last night we started to hear more from the former president attacking kamala harris not just on policy, in which he tried to paint her as more liberal than joe biden, but also responsible for anything you might not like about the biden administration's agenda, but also going after her in starkly personal terms, undermining her character and

intelligence. it's a full-throated attack from a candidate who a week ago was preaching a more unifying message. here's what he had to say in charlotte last night. >> so now we have a new victim to defeat, lying kamala harris, l-y-i-n apostrophe. for three and a half years, lying kamala harris has been the ultraliberal driving force. >> the former president jokingly polled his crowd whether they wanted the nice trump of last week or a not nice trump going forward. i think you can probably tell which version won, the former president very much on the attack last night. >> we're also seeing new backlash to remarks made by trump's running mate, j.d. vance back in 2021. let's listen to that. >> we're effectively run in this country via the democrats, via our corporate oligarchs by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they've made, and so they want to make the rest of the country

miserable too. it's just a basic fact. you look at kamala harris, pete buttigieg, aoc, the entire future of the democrats is controlled by people without children, and how does it make any sense that we've turned our country over to people who don't really have a direct stake in it? >> childless cat ladies. there is growing criticism online right now to those comments including from actress jennifer aniston. april, if your problem in the last election was suburban women, is this what you want voters to be hearing right now? >> no, this is not what you want voters to be hearing, and the problem is it's very offensive to women, cat ladies. i mean, there are a lot of people who love cats, and cat ladies are very nice. i'm just a dog woman, but you know, these -- he is falling into the line of donald trump, offending women, offending minorities. this is not going to help j.d.

vance or donald trump win an election where they had a large portion of women over 51%, about 53% of white married women voted for donald trump in that last election that he won. this may kind of turn the tide if this is what they're feeling about those who are supporting them. this is offensive, and women are the strongest electorate, and to say that, to say that, it's just offensive, and i'm not a cat lady. i'm a dog lady, i'm even offended. >> vp harris is there in texas to speak to a national teach's convention this morning. we're also seeing harris campaign's first ad. let's take a look. >> there are some people who think we should be a country of chaos, of fear, of hate, but us? we choose something different. we choose freedom. >> and i understand there's news on the veep stakes too, including the timing of a

potential decision? >> yeah, ana, that video you just watched really the first crack by the harris campaign at reintroducing vice president harris to the country, debuting her as the presumptive democratic nominee, trying to build off of the momentum that they built over the past four days as the president passed the torch down on to her. the vice president already campaigning in milwaukee and indianapolis, and today as you mentioned, she's in houston preparing to deliver the keynote address at the annual conversation of the american federation of teachers, and this was the largest union, the first union to formally endorse her campaign over the last four days, and a white house official this morning is previewing a bit of her speech saying this is going to build on the work she's done in this administration, advocating for workers' rights as chair of the white house task force on workers organization and empowerment. they provided a list of the places she's gone in that role

and expect her to lean in on the pro-union message of the biden/harris administration and now the harris campaign and try to really set the ground for what we could see next as she tries to court the endorsements and the support of other labor unions, prominent ones that in the past had made president biden work and wait very long, very hard for that endorsement. for example, the united autoworkers union. that of course is just one of her jobs over the next 104 days until election day. her first and foremost priority, of course, trying to find a running mate in this race. that historically fast vetting process is now underway for potential candidates like -- i'll read you a few right now, north carolina governor roy cooper, arizona senator mark kelly, pennsylvania governor josh shapiro, michigan governor gretchen whitmer and several others. all candidates who could help her in this campaign in different areas with different

voting blocks. the harris campaign is planning to pick a running mate by august 7th, of course giving them enough time to build off of that momentum, to build even more before the democrats' convention on august 19th in chicago. >> august 7th, just a couple of weeks away. could come any day. thank you so much, allie raffa, garrett haake, and april ryan, really appreciate your reporting. just ahead, we will tap into the voice of the voters in key battlegrounds. plus, what the fbi director revealed about the trump shooter just before the assassination attempt. also ahead, a major moment in uvalde as families look for justice in the deadly school shooting at robb elementary. and when we're back in just 90 seconds, prime minister netanyahu's address to congress, coming up reaction from a family member of an israeli hostage still being held in gaza. you're watching "ana cabrera reports." stay close. inspire? no mask?

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frustration in israel and friction in washington as israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu's highly scrutinized u.s. visit barrels ahead today. yesterday netanyahu delivered a polarizing address to the u.s. congress. it drew thousands of protesters including some arrested inside the chamber, but it also garnered standing ovations from wide swaths of lawmakers, along with boycotts and stark rebukes from some democrats. now, in just a few hours, netanyahu meets with president

biden, and then the two leaders will sit down with hostage families as many of those relatives question the prime minister's priorities and prepare to grill him. we have nbc news international correspondent raf sanchez on the ground in tel aviv, israel, and monica alba is at the white house. let's focus on president biden's calculation going into this meeting. his party is split on this issue. he's in this sort of lame duck phase of his presidency, so could he end up driving a harder bargain with netanyahu today? >> reporter: i think he will continue to push for this deal certainly, ana. it's one that he has certainly been advocating for publicly, privately for months, and we know that there have been some really difficult conversations between president biden and prime minister netanyahu in that context over many disagreements and emerging gaps on how they view this war in gaza ending. all of that is definitely the backdrop to this meeting, but today because both of them after they meet individually together, they're then going to be meeting with the american hostage

families, so i think the larger context to today will really be about them and will be about trying to close the remaining gaps in this critical negotiation period, and we know from the white house, ana, that at least in the coming week or so there could be some more critical travel from the people who have been really intimately involved in these negotiations like cia director bill burns and the white house middle east adviser brett mcgurk. we expect they will be announcing potentially some more travel going back to the table, again, trying to really secure this deal that has been so elusive for so long! and netanyahu will also meet with the vice president and likely democratic nominee kamala harris today. what are those expectations for that meeting? >> and remember in some of those really complicated and at times kind of adversarial conversations between president biden and prime minister netanyahu, vice president harris was on the phone for them as well. she participated in several of the key ones, so she has

also been even if a little more behind the scenes, a critical person in terms of how the administration has framed this from a messaging standpoint, and at times she has even gone a little further than others in the administration on her belief that there needed to be more consideration for the sifl yans in gaza and that there really needed to be more aid pushed into gaza, which is something that the white house has talked about. but at times she went just a little beyond that, so expect her to similarly push those messages, but it is notable, ana, that she takes on this new meaning and significance in this meeting. it's her first sit-down with a world leader in the context of being the de facto democratic nominee. so that adds to it as well. >> to be a flee on the wall in that conversation, i think so many people are curious. raf, give us a sense of the political calculation netanyahu's making with this trip as he's facing serious skepticism over his handling of the hostage negotiations. >> reporter: so ana, prime minister netanyahu has won many elections over many years here

in israel by presenting himself as really the only israeli political leader with the stature to command respect in washington, the only one capable of giving a speech in perfect english in front of the house of representatives for an hour, and also as the only one capable of standing up to democratic presidents who are in the minds of many in the israeli right trying to impose a two-state solution on them. so that is a big part of what we saw yesterday. netanyahu is in deep political trouble here this israel, he is widely blamed even by my right wing voters for the failures that led to the october 7th terror attack, and netanyahu also facing intense criticism from the families of those israeli hostages who really wanted to hear him yesterday announce that a deal was at hand to bring their loved ones home after nearly 300 days in captivity. not only did he not do that, he really gave almost no detail at all about any sort of process

towards a deal to end the war, to bring the hostages home, and today the hostage family forum, which represents those families is saying there is a crisis of trust between the hostage families and the israeli government. i want to read you a little bit of this statement. they say this foot dragon by prime minister netanyahu is a deliberate sabotage of the chance to bring our loved ones back. itundermines the negotiations and indicates a serious moral failure. israeli negotiators were supposed to head to qatar today to continue those talks. they are now going to go next week after that meeting between president biden and prime minister netanyahu, and the hope is to get those talks back on track. >> raf sanchez and monica alba, thank you, both. ahead we'll talk with a family member of an israeli hostage still being held in gaza, and get their reaction to netanyahu's speech. new details about the

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primary and you know, maybe decided who we want to replace him, rather than just all flocking to kamala harris. >> i think by trying to clear the field and ensure that it was going to be biden and make sure that there wasn't -- not allowing to have an actual democratic primary process -- i'm not saying that i think kamala harris is going to lose, but i do think that we would have been benefited significantly if he had figured out -- like, figured this out far sooner, so there could have actually been more time to have internal debate, have internal democracy within the party. >> well, i want to hear what y'all think of vice president harris as the nominee. are you excited? >> i am. >> i am too. >> i'll own it. >> i'm fine with her, yeah. >> i don't feel like i know a lot about her, and i agree that i wish biden had come to this decision sooner, but now that we are where we are, i think that's the best option for the party. >> do you feel more activated by the shift of the candidates?

>> hopeful. >> i feel activated. i don't like the process either. this whole, we started the conversation with like, there are people behind closed doors and curtains making the decision for us and we're supposed to be a process, we're supposed to be a part of it. so that part i don't like on principle. that being said, she's the vice president and we're late in the game and therefore, we would have elected her into office by electing biden and therefore she's, you know, there, she would have been president had he went to office and something happened, god forbid. i think what she brings is fresh. she was in office for four years, so she might not have the network, but she knows the network. she knows who the players are. >> it just gives us a chance. >> yeah. >> like, she can win. i'm convinced that she has at least a 50/50 shot against trump. and yeah, i would love for the democrats to nominate aoc or mark bowcan or something like that, but i live in the real world. and again, in this election, democracy is on the line.

>> do you think vice president harris has a much better shot of defeating donald trump? >> absolutely. absolutely. >> i thought joe biden had a 0% chance. >> i didn't want to vote for him, but i needed to. now i want to vote for kamala. >> and she is -- her arrival on the scene is -- i think is well timed. because trump's camp has strategized solely around biden for so long, and this, this kink has been thrown into their whole program. they have a history of flailing for a long time and doing all kinds of crazy stuff. and it's going to be interesting, watching how they respond to her appearance on the scene, as such a viable candidate. >> okay. let's bring in msnbc political analyst, maria hinojosa, founder of futuro media group, and susan del percio, a republican strategist.

maria, these were progressive voters. their reactions kind of ran the gamut. what'd you make of what we just heard? >> fascinating. i love that they're so deeply engaged in the political process that they're like, well, we would have loved to have had this on the table and had more time to think about it. it's just like, life happens quickly. on the other hand, wisconsin is such an important state. and i think the fact that you chose to kind of focus on wisconsin, let me just tell you that latinas in wisconsin are very important part of the election, too. so i'm watching them very closely, because that's kind of what i'm tapping into it right now. what is a latino/latina reaction to what's happening? and i would say just a quick takeaway is that my sense is that latinos and latinas right now are feeling kind of much more invigorated than this group of people that were like, we like her, but. there's kind of like this moment of like, let's do this, and let's do it now. >> and i want to talk about that in just a second. but coming back to what we heard there, i think the other takeaway i got from listening

there susan is that, one of them said they feel uninformed about kamala harris. even though she has been the vice president of this country for the past three and a half years. does that surprise you? and what can her campaign do now to overcome that? >> it doesn't surprise me, but in a weird way, it's great news. because she gets to introduce herself to the public. she's been working with the base since january. so it's not surprising that we see base voters, you know, nevada, hispanics, people of color in wisconsin -- wherever she goes, she's been working that base. so some people know her. but she gets to define herself now. and not necessarily -- yes, she'll own a lot of the biden administration, but people are going to just get to know her. and when you get to ride that in such a short period of time, 100 days, like, there's not a lot of time for the pushback on it. i think it's one of the best things that could have happened in a weird kind of way. >> it feels like there's a sense

of urgency in her campaign to reach out to a different group of folks. we know that a number of groups have had organizing calls in support of harris. black men, lgbtq plus groups, wall street allies, and i know, maria, you were on a call just last night, a kamala latina zoom call with some big names. what was that like and what was your takeaway? >> rosy perez, rosario dawson, organized very quickly, raised over 100,000. they were like, we didn't get the link going until we were able to do the call. and you know, i'm a journalist. so i'm not telling people who to vote for. i'm interested in the democratic sense of thing. how democracy feels at the grassroots, which is why i jumped into the car. they asked me to make some statements, and i just said, the real question here is, what are latina and latino voters going

to do around the question who was asked of barack obama, will they vote for a black man? will they vote for a black woman? the energy on that call, that included latinos from hawaii to miami, right, was, we're in this, we're going to organize, we're going to take the lead from black women. we're going to understand that they've been organizing for months. now we've got to jump in and do this quickly. but the energy was something else. i want to temper that by saying, as a journalist, i'm also very worried, because kamala is kamala. she's a human being. she can't change everything. she's rescuing this moment in history for many people. but she's won person who has a lot of experience in politics. it's not that she's going to be the savior for all. but the energy is there now. >> but to that point, what's really interesting to me is that she's -- i don't want to say a different woman, but she campaigns differently, she speaks differently than she did in 2019. so anyone who thought they got to know her in 2019 and sees her

in 2024, especially at that first rally she held, you're seeing -- basically, a new person. and that's a good thing. i hope i changed in the last three and a half years and learned a couple of things. >> well, we all are gaining experience, as we go. obviously, continuing to grow. i want to try to squeeze in a couple of more questions here. but quickly, a follow-up to your comments of the voting group of latinos, latinas. obviously, that's a key constituency for any democratic candidate. there had been some slippage for democrats with latinos moving towards former president trump in this election. do you see that changing because of kamala being -- kamala harris being perhaps the presumptive nominee. we haven't quite got there yet, but it looks like she's on track. >> there is an opening. there's absolutely an opening. and when you talk about latino and latina voters, and you know it's true. in my reporting, i was seeing a lot of latinos kind of tending towards trump, just kind of saying, we've got to get control

of the border. it's like, what's happening here. this opening right now with kamala, the energy, the fact that you have some immigrant rights organizations who are kind of falling into formation, talking about the fact that she's the daughter of immigrants, with just a little bit of space, if you can get 5% of that latino vote back, 10%, it changes the election for kamala harris. >> well, conversation to be continued, ladies. thank you both so much. i should note, too, we're seeing even some republicans now throw their support behind kamala harris, with lieutenant governor jeff duncan, the former georgia lieutenant governor. susan, i will have you back, because i want to talk about that piece another day, thank you. now i want to head back to the other big story we are following today with benjamin netanyahu getting ready to sit down with president biden and after their meeting today, they'll be meeting with hostage families, as frustration mounts among some of those relatives and inside the white house over the pace of hostage talks under netanyahu's

leadership. we're joined now by maya roman. her relative, carmel got, was taken hostage on october 7th, and is still being held in gaza. maya, my heart goes out to you. thank you for joining us. i want to revisit part of prime minister netanyahu's speech to congress yesterday. listen. >> the war in gaza could end tomorrow if hamas surrenders, disarms, and returns all the hostages. if they don't, israel will fight until we destroy hamas' military capabilities and its rule in gaza, and bring all of our hostages home. [ applause ] that's what total victory means and we will settle for nothing less! >> what is your reaction to what we heard there from the prime

minister and just his, in general, message during that address yesterday? >> it makes me sad. it makes me very sad. you know, we had high hopes that prime minister netanyahu would mention the deal, would maybe even announce that he is signing a deal during his speech. that is why a lot of the hostage families back home asked not to give the speech before we can announce the hostage deal. and i think what we heard from him, for starters, he did not mention the hostage deal during his entire speech. he didn't mention it once. another, the claim here that we can possibly get the hostages out via military operations is just wrong. we know it's wrong. the operation to release the four hostages that were released in june took two months to plan. at that rate, we would never

seen the remaining 120 hostages back home if we had to rely only on military operations. furthermore, we know that the heads of the military, the heads of intelligence, everyone have already stated that now is the best time to move forward with a deal that we know is on the table. that hamas has been sufficiently hit, and that they are now willing to make a deal. and so this idea that we can continue on hitting them more and more and more and somehow get a better deal or somehow reach, i don't know, whatever picture it means to the prime minister is just wrong. there is a very clear victory here. and that victory would be to bring back the hostages that are alive and those that are dead. and that is the only thing that can truly be considered a victory in this situation. and now there is an actual opportunity to do that. and our prime minister is delaying it at the cost of

possibly the lives of our loved ones. and to hear that, to be there during his speech and to hear the members of congress applauding him over and over. it was a really, really hard experience. you could see all the hostage families in the gallery, not moving, most of them not applauding. you can see in their faces, they were having just a terrible experience. some of my family members were arrested because they wore shirts that said "seal the deal" and stood up and displayed them during the speech. it was a very hard experience. >> and i'm sorry for what you're going through. and i know how frustrated you must be. we can hear it in how you describe what you've been experiencing. we did hear in that same speech yesterday prime minister netanyahu saying, quote, i will not rest until all of their loved ones are home. all of them.

do you feel like he understands you and your family members? >> i feel we're not his top priority. i am -- again, i'm glad that he is committed to bringing everyone back. i'm sure that he does want to bring everyone back. i don't think he wishes harm on our families, but i think he is prioritizing other things, possibly his own political survival and agenda. and he's not doing the necessary steps to make sure that our loved ones are back. they can already be back. palmel, my cousin's sister-in-law, who was also kidnapped, he was released during the first humanitarian deal. pal mel was supposed to be released during that deal. it was for all the women and children. and the deal fell through before we could get her home.

she was so close to us. since then, it's been five additional months, almost 300 days that carmela's over there. and once again, she is so close to us. we keep hearing from american officials, from israeli officials that a deal is on the table. is so close to being signed. and the person not signing is our prime minister. and i -- there are no words for someone that is stopping you from -- from getting your loved one back. of course, it's not, you know -- the situation requires both sides. we're dealing with a terrorist organization. and we can see that the military pressure applied during these past couple of months has been crucial in finally making thomas be willing to deal with us, and be willing to accept the deal. so i think the prime minister has been doing a lot of things right, but now is the time to end it, to seal the deal, to

make sure that we get to the finish line, to bring us the total victory that he has been working for. and i don't know what he's waiting for, what we're waiting for. >> well, maya roman, thank you so much for sharing your feelings with us and your thoughts. carmel looks like an absolutely beautiful, vibrant woman, and those pictures of her, her smile, you can just see that energy that she has radiating out of her. thank you very much. i sure hope she gets home to your family very soon. >> thank you so much. up next here on "ana cabrera reports," a school officer charged over his actions during the tragic uvalde school shooting, in court for the first time. his actions a lawyer calls unprecedented in the state of texas. actions a lawyer calls unprecedented in the state of texas. now i sleep with inspire. inspire? inspire is a sleep apnea treatment that works inside my body with just the click of this button. a button?

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turning now to uvalde, texas, where this morning a former police officer pleaded not guilty to the charges related to the mass shooting at

robb elementary. adrian gonzales was indicted last month on 29 counts of child endangerment. uvalde's former police was also charged. guad venegas is there. >> reporter: i want to note this is across the street from the town square where more than two years ago, thousands of people gathered after the shooting happened here in uvalde. in a very emotional place. you walk into the town square, you can see that memorial set up where they have crosses for victims of the shooting. so it's a small courtroom with about 60 people present. one side of the courtroom, where family members, many of which chose to wear a shirt, with photos and names of the victims and on the other side, members of the media. and a small group of people who appeared to have been there for

adrian gonzales. before it began, we saw the prosecutor come up and talk to the families, sort of explain to them what was going to happen during the arraignment. a few minutes later, mr. gonzales entered with his legal team. the judge appeared after mr. gonzales pled not guilty. this marrying was specifically an arraignment hearing, but also to set the next date for the pretrial which has already been set for september 16th. as you mentioned, these are 29 counts of endangering or abandoning a child. this is for the victims that died and others that were also in the school that day. now, the judge said if found guilty for these counts, mr. gonzales is facing up to two years in prison. after the hearing, we saw mr. gonzales walk out with his legal team. and his attorney spoke to the media. this is part of what his attorney said, after mr. gonzales pled not guilty.

>> no police officer has been charged under the statute based on the situation we're dealing with. so it's uncharted territory. all he did was show up to try to help the children. there is justifiable righteous anger in the situation. our justification is should that anger be directed to mr. gonzales. it should not. >> reporter: as the attorney was speaking to us on the left side, mr. gonzales was walking to his vehicle, and family members of the victims were yelling at him as we were hearing from the attorney. of course, some of those family members telling us how upset they were. one family member said he was surprised that two officers have been charged. he believed they could have stopped this and they did not. the last i think, ana, a lot of people asking if more officers could be charged. let's keep in mind hundreds were will there the day of the

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in the next hour, we're expecting an update from nasa on the two astronauts that have been waiting in space now for over a month. suni williams and butch wilmore flew up to the international

space station on boeing starliner on june 6th. they were originally scheduled to come back two weeks later. that didn't happen. jesse, are we about to find out when the astronauts will head home? >> that's the question, ana. they've been far up more than originally planned. nas asa was supposed to keep the astronauts on the iss for a week, if you check the calendar, they've been up there two months now. in a case of emergency, they believe the capsule is safe to return to earth. part of what they've been doing, using the iss almost as a hangar in space to observe and collect information on the issues with the space capsule. because once the starliner returns to earth, the part of the spacecraft that was having the issues, would burn up as planned on re-entry. essentially, you can't check on that once you get back to earth.

we know that nasa and boeing say the ground testing has completed and initial tests from the briefing coming up in half an hour. also make of this what you will, ana, this is supposed to be an briefing but an on-camera press conference from nasa and boeing. we'll be looking at that in 30 minutes. >> jesse, keep us posted. that does it for us today. i'll see you back here tomorrow same place same time. thank you for joining us, i'm ana cabrera reporting from new york. jose diaz-balart picks up our coverage right now. ♪♪ good morning. 11:00 a.m., 8:00 a.m. pacific. i'm jose diaz-balart. right now, we're keeping a close eye on houston where vice president harris is about to speak to the american federation of teachers, the nation's largest teachers' union. this speech comes just four days after president