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warning from the fbi that says these conspiracy theorists may turn violent and what the biden administration is doing to stop it. >> the president authorized a study of domestic terrorism in the united states, a report was released just last week on this issue. the attorney general gave a speech on it and that collective action this administration is undertaking reflects the seriousness with which we take it and the efforts we will pursue to ensure the american people are protected against this form of violent extremism and terrorism. >> let's get right to it now with nbc's monica alba at the white house and amanda golden at the capitol. a good sunday to you both. monica, we have the president returning to d.c. tonight after spending juneteenth at home in delaware. >> reporter: if last week was all about the foreign
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engagements this week will be all about the domestic diplomacy and the range of challenges he faces at home. he will confront complications on much of his priorities from election reform to his economic proposals. a pivotal week ahead with a major test set for tuesday on voting rights. though republicans have said they'll sink the measure holdout joe manchin now open to a compromise, uniting his party behind a bill that would make election day a federal holiday, ban gerrymandering, and require voter i.d. and in a significant endorsement from a leading voice in this battle stacy abrams said she would support the proposal. >> it is only through federal legislation we can mitigate the harms. >> reporter: there's no clear path forward, a problem the president is hoping to avoid on
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another key priority, infrastructure. a bipartisan group will unveil a new framework with a $1 trillion price tag. democrats are preparing to use budget reconciliation and others on their own. president biden optimistic a traditional infrastructure package could still pass with votes from both parties. >> i'm still hoping we can put together the two book ends. >> reporter: republicans continue to grapple with their future. as former vice president mike pence was booed and heckled at conference friday, even called a traitor. >> ralph reid knows me well enough to know the introduction i previous is a little bit shorter. i'm a christian, a conservative, and a republican,that order. >> reporter: as for president biden we know he will have some
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key meetings tomorrow and trying to decide which path to pursue. we know he will be engaging with people from both parties to see if this bipartisan option is something that would be his number one option and choice or if they will have to go it alone, emerges as the one more likely, a combination of the two. >> infrastructure for sure is front and center. thank you for that. let's get more for that issue and those discussions. amanda golden is on capitol hill for us. so, amanda what do we know about this bipartisan proposal that's being presented this week? >> reporter: the details should be emerging tomorrow from that bipartisan group of 21 senators that have been in ongoing negotiations with the white house and of that group of 21 it does appear that 11 of the republican senators are currently supporting this framework. as we see the details tomorrow
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and be briefed to the white house we're waiting to see what that next step would be. the likely scenario is a split track, also their sweet spot to move forward. two separate tracks. one, up to $1 trillion bipartisan framework that would have the harder, more traditional elements and then a separate go it alone democratic package that could incorporate a lot of those more human elements including climate change and child care. it's important to keep in mind not all democrats are onboard for this plan and that would include at least ten republicans, not even having all 50 democrats onboard is a potential roadblock. we heard earlier today from senator bernie sanders, and he wouldn't commit one way or the other, but he did issue red lines he's not willing to cross. >> what is in the bipartisan
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bill in terms of spending is, from what i can see, mostly good. roads and bridges. one of the concerns do i have about the bipartisan bill is how they are going to pay for their proposals and they're not clear yet. i don't know if they even know yet. some of the speculation is raising a gas tax, which i don't support. those are proposals i would not support. >> reporter: not mincing words there, while an early draft of this bipartisan proposal included raising the gas tax as a way to pay for it, the white house has nixed that. he wouldn't raise taxes on those making less than $400,000 a year. it's really going to be a deal or no deal on both sides of pennsylvania avenue here, alex.
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>> a pivotal week ahead. thank you for that. just hours ago, as we go to florida, a tragic -- and actually when it happened, a confusing incident. now this video released showing the moments after a man drove his truck into a crowd killing one person at a pride parade in florida. in wilton manors with all the new developments. gary? >> reporter: it had all the nights of a fun and festive atmosphere. it turned tragic around 7:00 when a man driving a truck drove through a crowd that was here and drove through the garden center and hit towards the end of the garden center. you could see where the vehicle ended up after hitting the crowd. here is what we know this hour. two adult males were injured. they were both taken to broward health medical center where one later died.
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the other is expected to survive. the driver of the vehicle involved, as you can see in this striking surveillance video we have for you, is in custody this hour and is being questioned. the ft. lauderdale police is working with the fbi and they are both continuing this investigation. they say it is an active investigation and there's no motive yesterday. nobody is sure whether this was an accident or whether this was an intentional act yet. we have a statement from the gay men's chorus. they say our thoughts and prayers are with those affected by the unfortunate accident that occurred when the pay raid was just getting started. our fellow chorus members were those injured and the driver is also a part of the chorus family. to my knowledge, this is not an attack on the lgtq community. >> this incident is something that we have to do our very best to investigate properly,
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appropriately, that we do our best because that is what this community deserves. >> reporter: wilton manors has a large lgbtq population. restaurants and bars are owned by members of the lbgtq community. there were thousands of people around here yet and this is the festival and parade with the slogan of coming out of darkness and into the light. this is certainly a dark day. just a short while ago my colleague ali velshi interviewed a witness to this incident and here is what he had to say about it. >> i saw people go down and the first thing i thought was at first maybe they're playing around. people are excited and then people are telling me somebody is slamming a car into the crowd. it was traumatizing.
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we just had an opportunity to observe the lives lost from the pulse nightclub shooting so seeing that take place i thought to myself is this happening again to our community? what i understand this was most likely an accident, an individual who was behind the wheel, has been arrested, but is more likely committed an accident. their feet got stuck and this is a tragic, freak accident. unfortunately, they still have to go through the investigation and get the details and interview people to get a full picture how this happened. >> his firsthand account. police have said they have yet to determine the cause of the crash. from pure insanity to italy gate, new reports about emails and conspiracy theories as
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new details now on a report from "the washington post" on just how far supporters were willing to go in the effort to overturn election results and keep donald trump in office. emails show mark meadows sending conspiracy theories to the acting attorney general, jeffrey rosen, and rosen's frustration telling his deputy, can you believe this? i'm not going to respond. the deputy attorney general calling it at one point pure insanity. amy gardner, national political reporter who co-wrote this article for "the washington post." amy, good to see you. this paints a picture of pretty high tensions behind the scenes. what more were you able to glean from these emails? >> i feel like the biggest take away from this trove of emails is how much the leadership at
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doj was resisting these conspiracy theories that, as you say, senior white house officials, including the staff, mark meadows, were forwarding on to the attorney general of the united states. and the fact they were privately saying pure insanity, and can you believe this, and slow walking efforts to actually give them credence or investigate them is really important and significant and shows jeff rosen he, the acting attorney general, was not having any it have and was doing what he could to push back against these efforts. >> and that may be the part of the report you write about that trump considered firing the acting attorney general because of this and then other doj officials considered, what, a mass resignation? >> that's right. basically trump was ready to remove acting attorney general jeff rosen and jeffrey clark was in charge of the safely and
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environmental divisions at doj who was ready to step in and trump was considering appointing. they met at the white house, and this was january 3rd, a sunday, three days before the attack on the capitol, and were successful in persuading the president not to fire him that day. >> you mentioned the timing, and this matters because trump's never ending effort to cast doubt on the election results resonated with many of his followers who eventually stormed the capitol on january 6th, right? >> absolutely. it's absolutely critical to look at the timing. on january 2nd, that saturday, was the day president trump called the secretary of state in georgia and urged him to find the votes to overturn the as a
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results there and january 3rd was the day the u.s. attorney for the northern district of georgia resigned and what we've been able to infer from the doj emails trump was displaced with him and let it be known he was not happy, did not believe that he was adequately investigating for evidence of fraud in the georgia kout come. so that evening one of rosen's deputies emails him and says call me and then he renders his resignation. >> you have flushed out the italy gate conspiracy in the paper, something previously on this broadcast i brought up and said this is so whack, i'm not addressing it. given that "the washington post" has done it, it claims people working for an italian defense contractor in coordination with senior cia officials used military satellites to switch
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votes from trump to joe biden and swinging the result of the election. >> you got it. you're right that it's outlandish. the reason to explore the theory and debunk it as my colleagues wrote in today's paper, it's important to do so because mark meadows, again, the chief of staff to a president of the united states, forward this had to the attorney general of the united states and this is the theory that caused rich donahue to say pure insanity in that email that you quoted. >> perhaps the most outlandish part of this story, the part that, seriously, my eyes were glazing over, it is relative to the mansion north wales farm, the registered address of two companies related to italygate
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and yet this mansion was actually up for sale and the widow owner of the mansion had no idea her home was being presented as being owned by someone else. i mean, this is worth picking up a copy of "the washington post" today and reading this article just to go what? >> yes, well, thank you for the plug. the woman's name is michelle, a former canningal candidate and not only is she the leader of the two companies you cite that were helping to promote the italy gate conspiracy theory but she actually filmed a tv interview in that mansion. my colleagues learned she is a realtor so it's possible, i don't know this, but possible she gained access because she's a realtor and when the actual
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owner, the widow you referenced, learned this interview had taken place in her home, who is this stranger? what is she doing in my house? it's really important to sort of -- the significance of that, this is a woman who is apparently grifting, telling untruths, claiming ownership of a home she doesn't actually own, and that is the person or one of the people behind this outlandish conspiracy theory that not only did president trump seize on but was disseminated throughout his constituency in the days leading up to january 6th. >> and also, to your point, a former gop congressional candidate there in virginia. may i ask if "the washington post" reached out to her for a comment? >> my understanding is she declined to comment. >> okay. well, i'm glad we've discussed it but, again, it's something
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and now to some new numbers in the coronavirus pandemic. just five states have seen an increase. 38 states saw a decline in the same time. more than 33 million cases recorded in the u.s. 605,000 americans have died from the virus. new today, though, some encouraging vook seen numbers. 14 states have vaccinated at least 70%. nationwide 65% of adults have gotten at least one dose. the biden ad administration's
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goal by july 4th. chinese officials say they want to have 40% of the country's 1.4 billion people fully vaccinated by the end of this month. new today in the workforce after suffering through the pandemic a record number of americans are deciding to leave their jobs. msnbc's aaron mclaughlin with the latest on this. this begs the question, erin, my friend, why this spike in people saying, i quit. >> reporter: well, they're calling it the great resignation, alex, and experts are saying people are leaving their jobs in droves for a variety of reasons. one of the reasons there's an actual backlog of people who are planning to resign, many people putting their resignations on hold during 2020 due to all the uncertainty surrounding the pandemic, now enacting those plans now that things are
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getting back to normal. another reason people are leaving their jobs is that people simply don't want to have to go back to the work place, asking them to return to work now that things are getting back to normal. they're looking around for other opportunities. covid-19 pushed them to evaluate their lives and pursuit sue their passions and that is the case. one couple left their respective jobs in the insurance and restaurant industries and opened up a landscape gardening business. take a listen to the reasoning why. >> i think the worst thing everyone was worried about with the pandemic ultimately was death. you have to kind of consider, well, you're alive. what do you want to happen while you're alive and what can you make out of your life while you have it? life is precious and we have to do what we want to be happy and what we need to do to be happy.
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i think that's what our pursuit has been. still working on that but we're really happy. >> reporter: and we're now seeing the fallout from that line of thinking a record 3.9 million people resigned from their jobs in april of this year. that is a 20-year high. and employers are now having to sort of just re-assess how they're doing things, how packages for their employees and whether or not they want them to absolutely return to the work place. alex? >> landscape design gives sense how much people are home and want to be outdoors in their gardens. that was maybe a smart move. thank you for that. this past week's supreme court decision shows a rift in what was thought to be the conservative majority. on the thursday the justices voted to toss out a lawsuit threatening the entirety of the affordable care act, with only two conservative justices
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dissenting. the court ruled 6-3 that philadelphia cannot exclude a catholic organization from its foster care program because the group won't work with same-sex couples. joining me to make sense with all of this barbara mcquaide, former u.s. attorney and law professor at the university of michigan law school. welcome, barbara. let's talk about what we learned in this article. "alito was just piss." i'm sorry i don't usually say those but it was the headline there. the sharp attacks that seemed aimed at their fellow gop and the cases presented. what's your reaction to this, first of all, does the ruling surprise you. >> with regard to the affordable care act decision, no. i think most court watchers expected to see a decision like this. they decided this issue on
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standing, to say the affordable care act could not be attacked on the individual mandate. i think lawyers, at least, appreciate the fact there has to be a legal remedy available before someone can succeed in challenging a law like this and because the individual mandate now has no penalty, there is no harm done when somebody fails to pay for their insurance. the standing argument really strikes me as a pretty obvious one. the harder case, the one that the decision does perhaps surprise me in the outcome although in the outcome perhaps it should not be surprising to us. i think this issue whether we are recognizing free exercise of religion as a basis to discriminate against people on lgbt issues is one we will see again and again. >> so this standing status,
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though, does that mean people could come back, file another case or is this case closed? >> i think with regard to challenging the individual mandate this will be case closed. if they don't have standing there's really nobody left. by eliminating the tax there's no real case or controversy. nobody suffers any injury result of the mandate provision. we will still continue to see challenges chipping away at other provisions like contraceptive coverage and other kinds of things. the existence of the affordable care act, that is here to stay. >> okay. there are some new theories that, in fact, the supreme court justices may not be divided 6-3 but break down as a 3-3-3 with justices roberts, kavanaugh and barrett forming something of a
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center right. is this something that indicates the court will rule more moderately than expected, or is this a mirage at this point, this reading? >> yeah, i think i wouldn't take too much from this ruling, that it's based on process and the restraint we've seen from chief justice roberts in the past. in fact, it is the kind of thing that is a mraf's worth enemy to be struck down on a standing issue. something that is used in challenges by the aclu or people in personal injury lawsuits. some may see as a blessing and others as a kurt. curse. it's a process. i don't think we should see the tea leaves that these justices are therefore more likely to be
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for those cases down the road. >> what do you expect from the court? >> i do think that the big issue that is gearing up for the next term is the abortion issue coming out of mississippi. the only reason to take a case like this is if you think you're going to make a change in the law. it's similar to a different case the court has already rejected. the new makeup of the court, there are people really worried about roe v. wade. with regard to lgbt rights, if fulton case, where the court ruled in favor of catholic social services being able to deny care on the basis of same-sex couples.
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shocking new numbers show a growing number of election workers are under unprecedented attack. a new survey from the brennan center of justice found about one in three election officials have felt unsafe because of their jobs while one in six say they've been threatened for their work running america's elections. joining me now the democratic strategist and founder of the national voter protection act fund, susan dell percio, and david jolly, msnbc political contributor. by the way, thank you for joining me on father's day and happy father's day. i appreciate your time particularly today. susan what does it say if that
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many people who run feel unsafe? >> let me join you in wishing a happy father's day. i think it shows how deeply when we talk about a divided country and the ugliness politically, i think nothing shows it more than when you hear a report like that. election workers are people from the community who get paid very little money to spend 14, 15 hours on election day to just monitor and make sure the rules are being applied and what's even worse now we have some states that are willing to punish election workers instead of protecting them with this information. so that's of grave concern. >> how much blame falls on the lawmakers and donald trump who perpetuated the big lie and still do so today? >> i think it falls equally on those two parties. donald trump is who he is and
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this is a direct by-product of the big law. it's certainly a direct result. the big lie as we point out every week is executed on the local level by county official who is are the official executors, the handlers, if you will. so many legislators have an extreme amount of responsibility. we hope people's lives aren't lost. we've seen this is where this is headed, people died as a result of the insurrection. >> scary. david, i'm going to ask you now about an uncomfortable encounter between andrew clyde and went recently viral for likening january 6th to a normal tourist visit and the police officer who was injured on january 6th. he extended his hand to congressman clyde and take a listen to what happened next.
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>> i asked him if he was going to shake my hand, and he told me he didn't know who i was. i introduced myself. i said i was a d.c. metropolitan police officer who fought on january 6th to defend the capitol and as a result suffered a traumatic brain injury as well as a heart attack after having been tased numerous times at the base of my skull as well as being severely beaten. at that point the congressman turned away from me, pulled out his cell phone. >> why, david, is he such a problem for republicans? >> because ultimately if they engage with officer fanone they have to accept who is responsible for the violence that ensued that day and the danger to his colleagues. congressman clyde should be condemned for his behavior whether january 6 happened or
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not. if a law enforcement officer approaches a congressman and says i need to talk to you about something important, there is probably no bigger calling than to listen and find out how to assist that officer. i've worked with the congress 25 or 30 years. there will always be this band of miscreants and misfits. not everyone deserves the term the honorable. the bigger question is why is mccarthy and the republican leaders not created distance from this caucus? there's no reason that kevin mccarthy and others couldn't set the tone for the republican party that disavows the behavior of senator clyde. >> it makes it hard to say the gop is the party of law enforcement. what about ted cruz, let's take
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a listen to what he had to say there. >> critical race that same marxist concept except replaces class with race. it is bigoted, it is a lie and it is every bit as racist as the klansmen in white sheets. >> don, what do you make of that? >> that cruz is a moron. that's it. there's nothing really else to say. and he knows that's not true. i have a lot of friends who went to harvard law school and were undergrads with him. a shoutout to brother sheldon. ted cruz knows better. he's smart, he knows what critical waste theory is and that it's an academic discipline and is not being taught in elementary school and everything he said is false.
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he is intentionally being incendiary. so shame on ted cruz. >> why, susan, are republicans just grasping at straws like this? stoking the culture wars, is that the best strategy they have? >> i actually don't think he really passed and graduated from harvard law school. there's no way he did it on his own. he has proven over and over again his complete lack of knowledge about so many things. you know what, alex, because the republicans are no longer focused on policy issues, they are focused on issues that will divide us and set off culture wars. the reason it's the only way they know how to win, they can't win on their ideas. they win on division and this is all they've got because they know they can't win a general election in a presidential on straight numbers. they can only do it electorally. they don't have what it takes to
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actually lead all of our country even those we may disagree sometimes. they are not interested in governing. they want to divide. >> david, at this same event you have people in the crowd heckling mike pence, yelling traitor. what are they doing to rile up their base, is it working? >> i think the culture war will work. unfortunately, it means race. and ted cruz and others will try to create this that will go to november of '22. this is a moral inflection point for the country and the republican party not on the final decision whether to teach critical race theory or not but on this point. the most valuable thing we can instill in students is to teach them to think critically, right? and the truth is our nation was founded by one race that owned another and they created a constitution and laws that
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allowed them to perpetuate that ownership of another race. it limited the ladders of opportunity for blacks in america when it comes to finance, to home ownership, to job creation, to economics, you name it. the effects still exist today. if we are not teaching our children that narrative and that thread, we are not teaching them to think critically. the schools don't need to teach them what to do with that information. if republicans are suggesting we cannot expose our children to information and they turn around and lawn after culture war with white america suggesting this is a black america priority, no, this is a reflection that all should learn and decide critically what to do with that information this is shameful behavior by ted cruz and other republicans. i don't believe ted cruz's haircut is that good, by the way. >> well said, david jolly. i don't know, someone, maybe his
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it's the sound of low cash mode from pnc bank giving you the options and extra time needed to help you avoid an overdraft fee. low cash mode on virtual wallet from pnc bank. one way we're making a difference. york times" report that the manhattan d.a.'s office is wrapping up its investigation into trump's taxes. and that the trump organization's chief financial officer, allen weisselberg, could face charges as soon as this summer. >> he knows where the bodies are buried, if anyone can stick trump with criminal charges, which the linchpin would be knowledge of the funky tax transactions, it would be he. >> well, "the new york times" reached out to a lawyer for mr. weisselberg and a trump organization representative, both of whom declined to comment. joining me now is jennifer
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weisselberg, allen weisselberg's former daughter-in-law, divorced in 2018. jennifer turned over documents and has been interviewed by the manhattan d.a.'s office. and you have apiered on the show. i welcome you back. are you still in touch with investigators? have you been told whether or not they may be close to some kind of action this summer? >> i did meet again with investigators recently. >> and can you share anything about a timeline? >> no. what goes on inside the investigation, the timeline, and you know, i have been asked and i will abide by the fact that specific questions, topics, information that's being discussed, it's really important that i keep it private. and discreet. >> okay. i do get that. how about this? have you been asked to appear before the grand jury?
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>> i prefer not to comment. >> okay. how about this? your former father-in-law continues to work at the trump organization, and the times says for now, he appears to have rebuffed attempts to cooperate with prosecutors. in your opinion, why hasn't he? >> it does appear that he has not. he's blindly loyal. he's -- he doesn't have the same moral compass, i think, that i do where you tell the truth. and he's stayed blindly loyal to not just donald's businesses but his practices and the way he treats people and the way he's willing to destroy people that aren't silent. just in the way he is. i mean, they're morally -- they have the same moral compass, the same integrity, but he's always been blindly loyal to donald. i also think it's about control.
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allen is a control freak. i think once things start to get messy, and people are flipping or flopping, that scares him. so he's just going to stay due diligent and stay the course and keep going to work and hold out. >> you have to sort of try to wonder, be it that description you have given of him, but might he be trying to drag out this process? maybe with some sort of a hope for a change in political winds, hoping that this would blow over, or at least until cy vance leaves office in december. the indication is cy vance presumably would file charges before he leaves office. so you think he's trying to run out the clock? >> absolutely. good point, alex. absolutely. the same thing he's doing in my case. it's one of their litigation tactics. they talk about it endlessly in books, and he was given that advice, just wait for -- to
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outlitigate someone. to run the clock out, to find that new angle. absolutely. 100%, you're right. >> flipside of that, given this has been a very long running financial fraud investigation in terms of why it's taking so long, do you at all worry, jennifer, that evidence they have uncovered has yet to produce a clear-cut smoking gun? we know they've got to be given the magnitude of this particular case dotting every i and crossing every t. but have they found what they needed? >> i don't really know the answer to that. but i do have faith that they're running a just investigation. if they're talking about charges to come this summer, i do believe that the d.a. is in a good position and that i think that allen should maybe start to consider what he wants his legacy to be.
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you know? maybe he can, you know, do the right thing. >> i mean, would you describe him as a good person? i know what you said about him, but in general, he was your former father-in-law? >> oh, i always thought that he was. but i think that they're emotionally sort of barren at this point. a good person, no, a good person wouldn't be doing what he's doing to me right now in my civil case. >> okay. jennifer weisselberg, sorry for the difficulties you are enduring, but i do appreciate your insights. we appreciate you and your time. >> i wish i could tell you more at this point. to be continued. >> we'll see you again. thank you, jennifer. up next, 30 million americans are asking for relief, but there's little anybody can do to help them right now.
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it's a day at the beach, in myrtle beach. spring as about to give way to summer tonight at 11:0032 eastern time. this is the longest day of 2021. meaning the most daylight of the entire year, and it's also father's day. plenty of dads hitting the beaches or staying home with their families. >> new alarming temperatures are affecting millions across the country. the dangerous heat is also impacting the water supply and power usage.
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nbc's steve patterson has more on the new normal. >> if you live in one of nearly a dozen states right now, just setting foot outside is considered a perilous act. >> it's extremely hot. >> 30 million americans are under some form of excessive heat advisory. sweltering in record-shattering temperatures. >> i feel like i'm in a space ship most of the day. i go in my car which is air conditioned, my apartment which is air conditioned, my office which is air conditioned. we're in a strange new world. >> scientists say that's exactly what we're living in, a sprawling high-pressure dome of heat covering an entire region, intensified by human caused climate change that year by year is pushing temperatures by just a few degrees. >> and we do expect those temperatures to continue to increase in the coming years. as the climate continues to warm. >> the intense heat already making the west unrelenting drought worse. the water level in california's lake orville is so low that the
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hydroelectric powers will shut down for the first time, putting more pressure on an overtaxed power grid as the threat of blackouts looms. on the other side of the country, tropical storm claudette is still pounding parts of the south, causing flooding and a tornado that touched down in southern alabama. >> the worst i have seen in the two years i have been around, but most part, consistent rain on and on. >> a volatile climate, spawning a strange new world of dangerous weather, spreading pain from coast to coast. >> that was nbc's steve patterson reporting. >> at the top of the hour, very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters in new york. we begin on capitol hill and a big week for congress as two major pieces of legislation could see major steps forward or remain in limbo. infrastructure and votingig

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