this was a targeted attack he meant to do what he did today. in addition to the shotgun he brought smoke grenades with him. police tonight are being credited with responding to the scene in 60 seconds. they captured the gunman alive. he was apparently found hiding under a desk. the newspaper is the long time voice of the annapolis community. owned by the baltimore sun, and importantlily the capital gazette foam is planning to the suspected gunman who opened fire at a maryland newspaper has been charged with five counts of first degree murder. plus, a plits colitical battle g up over the supreme court. it could end up being a very close vote. and a tense hearing for deputy a.g. rod rosenstein. christopher wray as house republicans dig for answers in the russia probe.

good morning, everybody. it is friday, june 29th. 'em' yasmin vossoughian alongside louis burgdorf. we're going to begin with that deadly shooting that happened at the "capital gazette." three senior law enforcement officials tell nbc news the suspect has been identified add jared ramos. he was charged with five counts of first degree murder. a bail hearing has been set for later this morning. ramos sued the "capital gazette" for defamation. a court ruled in the "capital gazette's" favor and an appeals court upheld that ruling. police were note fided about an active shooter yesterday. phil davis who was inside of the

building tweeted this. a gunman shot through the glass door to the office and opened fire and on multiple employees. in a later interview davis said it was quote, like a war zone inside the newspaper's offices. he said he and others were hiding under their desks when the gunman stopped firing. authorities took a suspect into custody without exchange of fire. editors at the "capital gazette" continued to report on the tragedy. this is the paper's front page this morning. >> and the shooting victims shared a profession in bringing the public the news. yesterday their friends and family told their stories. a reporter spent decades living his dream writing about sports he particularly enjoyed covering his alma mater where he met his

wife andrea at a bar after he covered a football game and assistant editor celebrated his 33rd wedding anniversary. they are three kids. he remembered him for his humor. many called him a mentor. he was 59 years old. and wendy winters chronicled her community writing around 250 articles each year. a mother of four. journalism was a second career for her. her life was a gift to everyone who knew her. and fishman was 61 years old and started at the gazette in 1992. the newsroom marvelled when he married a woman who he had met online. >> and a maryland nation and self-described first class field hockey players, she was engaged

to be married calling herself a bonus mom to the best kid ever. smith was just 34 years old. in just a little bit we'll go to maryland for the latest on the shooting investigation. >> let's switch gears. the trump administration is getting the ball rolling to fill justice kennedy's seat. last night the president met separately with republican senators along with red state democrats. those democrats are considered pretty vulnerable in the upcoming midterm elections. the president's team talked with more than a dozen other senators. earlier in the day though, white house officials told nbc news that white house counsel reached out to senators in a signal that the white house recognizes how important the two are to

confirming justice kennedy's replacement. the two republicans helped stop the repeal of obamacare and are expected to feel pressure for their votes on this. democratic senator framed the importance of the senator's voetss saying the focus thaz to be on getting a handful of republicans. this is a legacy vote adding i don't know how you can say you're pro choice. meanwhile mcconnell continues to delay a confirmation vote on president trump justice's pick. he also is disputing their criticism to block the former president's obama's pick. take a listen to this. >> what i said in 2016 is that we shouldn't feel a supreme

court vacancy in the middle of a presidential election year. the last time i looked there is no presidential election this year and in fact, three current members of the u.s. supreme court were completed in election years, nonpresidential election years and the president's nominee to the kennedy va can say will be confirmed in a nonpresidential election year. >> although it is an election year nonetheless. when it comes time to vote throw on confirming the pick, republican senator jeff flake says he won't with hold his sup sport. >> and the former trump campaign aide to pleaded guilty to lying toe investigators will be sentenced on september the 7th. george papadopoulus die about his interactions with the london

based professor who told him that the london government has quote, dirt on hillary clinton. at the time it had not been publicly reported that russian intelligence was hacking the dnc and now, papadopoulus was arrested last july. he pleaded guilty three months later and agreed to cooperate. >> in case you missed it, it was a pretty contentious hearing on capitol hill yesterday. chris wray and rosenstein facing sharp questions about the independence of the justice department. hallie jackson has more on this. >> reporter: inside a house hearing room a political production. >> i'm reading what the press said. >> i would suggest you do not rely on what the press says. thank you for making it clear.

t. >> it focused on fbi actions in 2016 and that seen your agent working on the russia investigation at the time exchanged anti trump text messages with a colleague when he was having an affair with. peter strzok saying a trump presidency will stop it. >> the very same people to assign to investigate the man they hated. >> buzz critics see all this as a cover for republicans' real purpose they said to try and undermine the special counsel investigation, overseen by rod rosen tine. >> they're not holding responsible those who work with the russians. this is an effort to work as the president's fixers in congress. >> there's no evidence of russian collusion. >> the special counsel's russia investigation has lasted about 400 days but the investigation

into i ran contralasted six times as long. >> whatever you got, finish it the hell up because this country is being torn apart. >> rosenstein and wray facing friendly fire. >> are you a democrat? >> no, i am not. >> i'm not a democrat and i'm not angry. >> and you can see and hear just how tense some of those conversations got with democrats, republicans and leadership in the doj and the fbi. back to you. >> thank you for that report. attorneys in texas, california and washington, d.c. are saying that migrant children as young as three years old are being ordered into court alone without their parents for their own deportation proceedings while uncompanies maynors have been going through this process

by themselves for some time, the trump administration separation policy has led to more young children including toddlers being afked on this patrol si. women marched singing and chanting quote, free our families and abolish ice. elizabeth warren also spoke to the crowd there. as did senator sammy duckworth bringing along her two and a half month old infant as you see there. joining us now, dave, good morning to you. happy friday. thank you so much for joining us early. trump not wasting any time as we can see meeting with key senators after one day after justice kennedy announced his

retirement. who does the president need on his side here to confirm his -- the possible replacement? >> so everybody is looking at the two democrats. they're both -- or sorry republicans, they're both pro choice republicans. they're the two votes that if he gets he's problem play across the line but he also met with three red state democrats who are under a lot of pressure under the midterms. these are all people who voted for gorsuch, so he got across the line relatively easily in the end. this seems to be a more contentious fight. >> what's the likelihood that we'll see collins stick with the president here? they voted last time for gorsuch, but again, the pro choice issue has become so front and center here because we're going to have abortion cases coming before the court and if

you have a court that has five conservative justices you can see roll back ks on abortion rights and that's where democrats think they have some leverage. >> this becomes a conversation that comes into row v wade that can see the president losing the votes. >> right. >> let's talk about democrats sending an open letter to christopher wray and deputy attorney general rod rosenstein urging them to not give into pressure. what does is at stake here if these men do not comply with these requests from the republicans? >> and they're basically saying if you give into these political requests, then you'll have to give over everything that you have to draw a line somewhere. if thaw don't comply we've had jim jordan who you played a clip f earlier, he's pledged to start

impeachment against rod rosenstein. you guys are being political, we're being straight and we're not going to do anything that harms the credibility of the justice department. >> it doesn't seem like he buckles to pressure. thank you. i'm going to talk to you again in about 30 minutes or so. >> we're digging into reports about ties between donald trump, russia and some leaders of the brexit movement and is he eyeing the exit. what we know about john kelly possible plan to step down as trump's chief of staff and who the president is considering as a replacement. and plus, your weekend weather when we come back.

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they're looking into possible ties between rush slsiarussia, l counsel's team has investigating the possible role that a man flamed aaron banks played in serving as a conduit between the kremlin and the trump team. banks is the largest political donor in history who poured millions into the brexit effort. they eve alg also been probing possible relationships between the brexit leaders and russia. banks had multiple meetings with russia's uk ambassador including sometimes just days before or after meeting with the trump campaign. banks rejected the notion he was a go between and insisted his contacts were business exchanges but he admitted interactions raised questions about whether

the brexiteers were a back channel. some told the paper that investigators asked about what kind of relationship. the leader of the brexit movement had with the trump campaign and interviews earlier this year. they disputed the idea that they had information but they had not been contacted yet by mueller's investigators. >> and since the start of his campaign president trump has routinely gone after international institutions and there is growing worry about what trump may say or do during his july summit with vladimir putin who also shares similar views as trump on the topic. that will happen on the heels of the nato summit and during the contentious g7 summit in canada trump told the other leaders

quote, nato is as bad as nafta. a trade deal trump views as a catastrop catastrophe. saying quote, here angela, don't see i never give you anything. meanwhile per the washington post, josh rogan during a private meeting with emmanuel macron, trump asked him quote, why don't you leave the eu with trump adding that he would offer a bilateral trade deal on better terms if that happened. that's according to two european officials. the white house declined to comment on the report but did not dispute it and earlier this week the president asserted the only reason the eu was established to take advantage of the united states and attack our piggy bank. let's get a check on your weather now with bill karins. tell us about the heat wave.

>> it's going to last significantly long in the northeast. maybe into the northeast. so today we're adding the numbers up. we're getting new forecasts coming up. we're now up to 76 million people under heat warnings or heat watches. chicago, st. louis to indianapolis, that's where the worst of it is today and that's going to be for the upcoming weekend. so today, we look at just the numbers. the number of people that will experience 90 plus indices, it's only 100 million of you that won't be feeling that hot. how hot will it be and how warm will it feel? little rock 107. chicago 107 this afternoon. kansas city 106. you're about 100 to 105 but for you you've been in and out of this all summer long.

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luisbe luis burgdorf. we begin with that shooting at the "capital gazette" in maryland. he's accused of shooting and killing five employees of the local newspaper yesterday afternoon and injuring several more. officials say it was a targeted attack. ramos had sued the paper for defamation back in 2012 after his report on a misdemeanor of harassment. the woman accused of harassment tells that she warns police years ago he will be your next mass shooter. so let's go to annapolis, maryland. jennifer, good morning to you. thanks for joining us this morning. where does this investigation stand right now? >> reporter: well, overnight

38-year-old jarred ramos has been charged with five counts of first degree murder. he's got a bail review set for 10:30 this morning. also overnight the "capital gazette" did publish its daily newspaper. five shot dead at the capital. a very, very sad day for people in this community. people know annapolis as the place of the naval academy. this newspaper is a local newspap newspaper. people know the reporters. so a difficult day for this community. ramos has a bail review hearing at 10:30 this morning and as you mentioned he's got a long standing feud with the "capital gazette" after they published his name following a conviction of harassment and he got into this social media feud with the

gazette. four of the five killed were journalists after he opened fire yesterday afternoon. >> and talk to us about some of those victims that we are learning about this morning. >> reporter: four of them were journalists. the "capital gazette" talking about them on -- online and also in this edition today, shooting victim, sports report k was his dream job. rob a generous mentor. wendy winters chronicled her community. a quirky voice of the community and rebecca smith, a recent hire at the newspaper and the newspaper said she loved spending time with her family. >> all right. thank you, jennifer. just a tragic and terrible story. and president trump tweeted

about the mass shooting but did not make an on camera statement. i was briefed about the capital shooting. my thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families. and a party line vote yesterd republicans, deputy attorney jeff rosenstein alongside chris wray, sorosenstein appeared befe the committee yesterday where they berated him with accusations. >> why are you keeping information from congress? >> i am not keeping any information from congress. >> if a few minutes i think the house of representatives is going to say something different. >> i don't agree with you,

congressman. i don't think they're going to be to say. >> i don't know why you won't give us what we've asked for. >> it certainly hope your colleagues aren't under the. >> can we allow the witness to answer? >> your statement that i'm personally keeping information from you trying to conceal information. >> you're the boss, mr. rosenstein. >> that's correct and my job is to respond to your concerns. we have sir. my understanding is it's actually going very well sir, but your use to attack me personally is very wrong. >> may the witness be allowed to answer the question? >> we just want the information. >> i appreciate you saying it isn't personal. sometimes it feels that way. >> mr. rosenstein, did you threaten staffers on the house intelligence committee? media reports indicate you did.

>> media reports are mistaken. >> sometimes but the number one law enforcement officer -- did you threaten to subpoena their calls and e-mails. >> no, sir and there's no way to subpoena phone calls. >> a contentious time in washington right now and democrats were asking about special counsel bob mueller's investigation as well including the president's repeated claim that it is a quote, witch hunt headed by 13 angry democrats. >> they keep talking about the 13 angry democrats that are running the investigation. >> congressman, i'm trying to do this job apolitically and i consider myself -- i do not consider myself an angry democrat. >> are you a democrat? >> i'm -- no, i am not. >> mr. rosenstein, are you a democrat? >> i'm not a democrat and i'm

not angry. >> this morning our president tweeted when is bob mueller going to list his conflicts of interest. mr. rosenstein, does mueller have any conflicts of interest? >> if there were any conflicts of interest brought to our attention it would be brought to review. and so i'm not aware of any disqualifying conflicts of interests. white house chief of staff john kelly's days may be winding down as new reports suggest he may leaf his post in the near chu fur. he may step down as early as this summer but possibly soon. kelly has told colleagues he doesn't intend to stay beyond his one year mark on january 1st. but some say that departure could come as early as this week. nbc news had rarted in late

april that current and former white house officials expected kelly to leave in july saying the chief of staff and the president had tired of one another. the president is considering at least two candidates to replace kelly. vice president pence's chief of staff and head of the offices of management and budget, deputy press secretary lindsey walters said she spoke to the president who called the article quote absolutely not true and fake news. it should be noted the president made similar statements before firing former international security advisor h.r. mcmaster. joining us now dave lawler, good morning. lit's talk about the possible departure of john kelly. reports saying it could be as soon as this coming week. we have heard this before. we have also heard the fact that

the president would consider not even having a chief of staff. how would that go down? >> this is something that lendon johnson did. we reported previously that he was tickled by not having a chief of staff. the chief of staff job is important, even more so in this day and age. so i don't see that happening but it is something that he's thought about previously. >> and what about possible replacements here? >> so we've heard the same thing that politico has. mulvaney seems to be the kind of mr. fix it guy in trump's mind. he was brought in when there was a va ccancy. it's not surprising that his name would pop up here and nick

is somebody who was brought on to pence's staff. >> let's talk about that meeting yesterday getting contentious with rod rosenstein and christopher wray. they want to see the evidence that's been gathered on the russia probe within the next seven days. what are they worried about here? >> their mission from the beginning has been to disrupt, to undermine this investigation and so it's similar to president trump when you see president trump tweet things that are just really trying to muddy the waters. there is a more specific mission in this case. they want to look for information like we got about the two doj officials who were texting back and forth. they want to dig up more details to indicate that president trump is not getting a fair shake. so that's the information they want. >> good seeing you.

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planning for the military parade has begun. it comes months after he ordered to organize his parade. there is only one person who wants this parade referring to the president and adding several white house officials are uninterested and they're planning the parade and are dragging their feet. no funds have been earmarked for it. let's get a check on your weekend forecast with bill karins.

bill, it's going to be a hot one. >> yeah, it's hot and we will see some thunderstorms. the heat is going to be the big story through the upcoming weekend. storms this morning, gfargo, an this will tral through northern minnesota and northern wisconsin. you'll see more clouds. hit and miss storms. this is 8:00 p.m. this nk. maimmy could have a stray storm too. the numbers up to 76 million people at risk of this dealing with the heat whether it's the warnings or advisories or watch watches. chicago, st. louis, we're not seeing too many record highs but day after day it accumulates and especially the overnight lows when they're this warm i you don't get that break. 90s showing up on the east coast

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welcome back everybody. joining us from washington with a look at ax yas, mike allen talk to us. >> it's a sobering day for journalists in this area. you've had great coverage from annapolis. those journalists per severing and getting out their paper.

our one big thing is president trump's private threat that could up end global trade. >> i know that your colleague jonathan swan is reporting that during the g7 summit he told the collective leaders quote, nato is as bad as nafta, a trade deal he considers a catastrophe, to say the least. how does this play into fears that allies have? >> well, you put your finger on it, that they're worried about the fact that we're going to have a rerun of what we heard in canada. behind the scenes, again and again president trump has threatened to get out of the world trade organization. now the wto adjudicates international disputes. the funny thing is the president is convinced we get screwed there, he says again and again. during the campaign he said that

the world trade organization was a disaster. very trumpian then. you look at the data, the united states does very well. we've won 85% of our riecent cases. reason this is so illuminating is shows how odd visors manage trump. they don't think he'll do this and they try to explain. but when it happens in the end, he may just announce it. insiders are saying to us, he said this enough times, they think the white house should take this seriously, put a policy process in place and deal with it, not just pray that some day he's not going to tweet that we're getting out of the wto. >> what would be some of the major consequences we would see? >> this is an organization that his advisers believe ultimately

help us. it would throw international trade into chaos. it would be like taking the referee off the field of the world cup, which sometimes people would like to do, but it definitely causes truouble. that's why this hasn't gotten out. even though this isn't an off handed remark the president made. we're told he has said this again and again in private settings. jonathan swan when he got this tip, he called around and people said yeah, i heard the president say that. >> are we kind of in uncharted waters here? >> a well known trade lawyer here in d.c. said that the president -- he said we think he's nuts, not that nuts. so people inside outside saying that it won't happen. but they're not sure. >> you can never be too sure

with this administration. that's for sure. let's turn now to the upcoming midterm elections. a lot of eyes on that just a few months away. reporting that democrats are finally getting serious about the mid terms and the data they're seeing. >> they went to a dnc data boot camp where they're educating campaigns about how you help target voters. the new thing, the big thing, and 2020 campaigns, are going to focus on reaching individual voters. like targeting us, not just demographics, but particular people. another fascinating midterm story out there today, on the front page of usa today. campaign ads that crush -- we talked about here on msnbc, they

are -- ads are breaking taboos. abuse and harassment, and so women candidates are -- besides just the demographic change and new perspective, that they bring to the debate, like the ads are already changing the look and feel of these big campaigns. >> so really wanting to hone in on the female vote. >> that's right. and democrats know that the pockets that are rising for them, minorities and women and so watch the tv ads. you'll see that that's where democratic tv ads are going. >> what about republicans? do they have a plan to focus on female voters? >> they need to do more of that. they certainly are moving away from the tax cut. that was not the ultimate answer they expected it would be. we're going to hear more about national security as the president making big claims

after north korea, and of course a strong economy. so a president with peace and prosperity at the moment, republicans down the ticket are going to help they can get a rbi rbi -- a little bit of that halo. >> thanks so much. >> happy getaway day and holiday weekend. >> thanks. you too as well. we're going to be reading axios again. that does it for us on this friday morning. "morning joe," everybody starts right now. they keep talking about the 13 angry democrats that are running the investigation. >> congressman i'm trying to do this job apolitically, and i consider -- do not consider myself an angry democrat. >> are you a democrat? >> no, i am not. >> mr. rosenstein, are you a democrat? i'm not