andrew yang, katherine garcia saying vote for us one or two, trying to undermine eric adams, clear frontrunner now. >> joe, final thoughts? >> you can't beat michael steele. >> we are all watching that house. that does it for us. stephanie ruhle picks up coverage right now. hi there. i am stephanie ruhle. it is tuesday, june 22nd. we have a dramatic start to the day. it's really a showdown over voting rights. republicans are standing firm. in hours, republicans are ready to block the bill from moving forward. stakes couldn't be higher with former president obama now

weighing in. >> in the aftermath of an insurrection with our democracy on the line and many of these same republican senators going along with the notion that somehow there were irregularities and problems with legitimacy in our most recent election, they're suddenly afraid to even talk about these issues and figure out solutions on the floor of the senate. they don't even want to talk about voting. and that's not acceptable. >> ahead of today's vote, moderate senator kyrsten sinema doubling down on keeping the filibuster, saying to those that want to eliminate legislative filibuster to pass the for the people act, voting rights legislation, i support and co-sponsored, i would ask, would it be good for our country if we

did, only to see that legislation rescinded a few years from now and replaced by a nationwide voter id law or restrictions on voting by mail. in federal elections over the objections of the minority. and a major development on infrastructure and a big shift. president biden signaling he is getting more involved in talks, meeting separately with senator sinema and joe manchin monday to discuss their bipartisan proposal. joining us, peter alexander, garrett haake, john bresnahan, and la tasha brown. garrett, we know the bill is going nowhere. it is going to get blocked. what do democrats hope to get out of this and what happens next? >> reporter: democrats hope it is blocked on 50/50 instead of 49-51. they want to demonstrate they're unified as a party supporting the issues pushing forward.

most tenets in the for the people act, a little debate over whose version is going forward, house passed or joe manchin version. they want to put pressure on republicans nationwide and want to put pressure on some of their own members on the issue of filibuster. it is clear no voting bill is going to pass the senate at a 60 vote threshold. one of the things we'll see from democrats and progressive activists around the country, if the vote is a 50/50 vote, increasing pressure on democrats to get rid of the filibuster, put legislation like this through the senate on democratic votes alone. >> john, here's what i don't get. why are democrats so focused on pushing the vote and showing the world that they're united and republicans are blocking this. republicans know they're blocking this. they don't care. >> yeah. but i think it is, your point, important for democrats to show they're united.

this is a big issue at the state level. chuck schumer was on the floor talking about it, senate majority leader chuck schumer, saying there were 250 bills across the country since the november election where republicans are pushing legislation in state legislatures to restrict voting rights. saw it in georgia, texas, dramatic walkout by the democrats, they walked out there. they're trying to show the party is united about this at a national level, not just at the state level, and can they get the 50 votes, at least 50 votes to show of all senate democrats in the same place for starting debate. >> you were on a bus voting rights tour. i guess everything you meet wants something done on voting rights. is your goal to create awareness about what republicans are doing to hopefully galvanize as many voters to get to the polls in the next election? >> absolutely.

we have three focuses. one, we want to educate folks, let them know voter suppression they're seeing happening in statehouses now, they're extremely frustrated about. there's a solution, for the people act and john lewis advancement. we expect the democrats to find a way to get the legislation passed. in addition, we engage in people, put pressure. bus loads of workers coming from our labor partner in the district now that are holding rallies, educating people and doing millions of phone calls to let people know how upset we are with lack of leadership. same with manchin. we are going to west virginia thursday this week. over and over we keep having the same debate on voting rights as if it is negotiable. we are talking about the foundation, basic foundation of democracy is at risk now. we need to accept that there's a

minority as sinema said, later in the years people would use this filibuster. but truth of the matter, filibuster was designed to really be able to push back civil rights legislation, and we're saying no, the time is now. we need to make sure voters are protected. >> what is at risk, if nothing is passed here, what happens to vulnerable voters next election? >> let me tell you what's happening now. the republican secretary of state says he is dropping 100,000 voters, purge them from the list. in addition, they've already started in the state of georgia dropping people from the election rolls. there's a long time voter advocate that dedicated her life to this work who was on the board in morgan county, georgia

that's being dropped. they're using the administrative process now in these states. the most egregious, dangerous part. yes, not being able to pass, in many ways are a smoke screen for things that are most egregious, using the administrative process to undermine local election boards to remove people off and to overturn results. >> i want to turn to infrastructure. garrett haake back on the hill. talk about what president biden is doing, he is rolling his sleeves up and digging in. he wants something done and wants it done on a bipartisan basis. he is now meeting separately with democratic senators manchin and sinema. what is this about? >> reporter: he is speaking with them and has a host of white house officials coming to the hill to meet with different people involved in the infrastructure talks.

we knew this would happen eventually. this president has been eager to get a bipartisan deal if there's one to be had. does seem like there's outlines of something that could get through to chambers and get to his desk. what republicans involved want to see is the president come to the table with new ideas how to pay for what's in the plan. the white house crossed several items off the list presented to them by the bipartisan group. they don't want to index the gas tax to inflation, let it rise over time. don't want to include a fee like gas tax equivalent to pay for infrastructure improvements on hard infrastructure. rob portman who is basically leading the republican element of the bipartisan group saying come with your own ideas then and how to pay for it. we have gotten this far, we need the president to get the rest of the way over the line. we will see if that's possible with a blitz from senior white house officials and with continued meetings.

we expect two meetings, just the beginning of white house engagement on this issue. >> the beginning. peter alexander, who is the president meeting with next, is it going to be more progressive democrats in the senate saying ladies, gentlemen, this is how we get something done in the middle. >> reporter: good question obviously. this is notable because the president is putting more muscle into the effort with those meetings with senators manchin and sinema yesterday. some top aides on the hill trying to focus in, zero in on the $1.2 trillion package. the focus is more on traditional infrastructure. doesn't hit a lot of things progressives are concerned. doesn't do enough for clean energy, elder care, child care and the like. among the questions, how they pay for this. garrett indicated what they're not into. so what are they into. yesterday for the press

secretary, jen psaki, heard them discuss the possibility of irs tax enforcement, basically following the tax laws now as a way to get more money toward the effort. beyond that, there are other efforts, including potential for deficit spending, but the one the white house said from the beginning was the idea of raising corporate and personal taxes on some of the wealthiest americans now. that's a no go zone in terms of bipartisan effort. were that to happen, the white house would have to do it later through reconciliation process, the process where they go it alone as democrats. >> john, looks like joe biden is about to strap this infrastructure plan onto his back and start muscling it up the hill. what is your take on his strategy? >> listen, i think garrett and peter did a good job. if biden wants a deal, if democrats want a deal, biden needs to get involved. he had sinema and manchin in

there, has to talk to progressives. the house is going to do a bill before july 4th, but that's probably a party line vote or little bit of republican support, going to be dramatically different. whole ball game in the senate. joe biden, 36 year senator, this is why he was elected. we talked about i can do bipartisanship, i can do bipartisan deals. i am an experienced negotiator. did it as a senator and as vice president, i can work with mcconnell and republicans. now he has to deliver. this is the heart of his agenda. if he can get this done on this kind of hard infrastructure bill, there's a pathway to get done on the rest of his social spending on straight party line vote. this is kind of a one, two process, and the path is open for big legislative achievements if he can get it done now. this is a big moment for the president.

>> this is his skill set, his test. all eyes on his ball game. john, good thing we have your baseball mitt. thank you all so much. we are leaving it there. also developing this morning, a story you don't want to miss. the justice department releasing new video in the federal case against a capitol riot defendant accused of leading the proud boys, the proud boys extremist group. let's bring in scott macfarlane. what can you tell us about the new video? >> good morning. it shows the east front of a multi front war january 6th. few pieces of guidance, the video was curetted, released by the justice department as a court exhibit. nbc news filed a motion to get a copy. charles done oh hoe has pled not guilty in his case.

first set of video shows the quiet before the storm, showing charles and others associated with proud boys getting ready to breach a police barrier. this piece of footage shows him carrying a stolen riot shield with another defendant. that would be pivotal, prosecutors say they used it to breach a window and get into the capitol. in this piece of video, prosecutors say someone in the mob says let's storm the expletive capitol. somebody else responds saying let's not say that out loud. this is the quiet before the storm. in the third piece of video, you see that group, this group of insurrectionists, the circles here provided by the justice department, spotlighting certain defendants as they make their cases. that group will vastly outnumber police on the frontlines on the east lawn of the capitol and eventually they make their move. you see the numbers, mob versus police, they start pushing forward with flags, u.s. flags,

trump flags, and start exchanging blows. again, the prosecutors are circling certain people as they try to make arguments in court, but there are chemical sprays deployed, makeshift weapons thrown at police, and eventually this mob overwhelms the police line, gets its first access to the east front of the capitol. prosecutors are trying to hold some of the defendants in jail pending trial, using videos as evidence, arguments that's why nbc news requested copies. late last night, got our first copy of this video. you won't hear the audio, it is full of vulgarity. >> wow. well, we can guess what they were saying. scott, thank you so much for joining us. thank you for staying on top of this. for anyone that believes it was just a day for tourists to visit the capitol, keep watching the videos. believe your own eyes. scott, thank you. up next, the supreme court

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right now, police departments nationwide are struggling with burnout, with retirements up 45% and resignations up 18% across the country. so many cops are out the door, it is getting harder and harder to replace them as violent crime continues to spike. that violence even coming against police officers with the number dying on duty soaring compared to last year. gabe gutierrez has a closer look how police are handling all of this. >> reporter: night after night after night. the clashes in portland were relentless, many police officers felt targeted. >> morale is at an all-time low now. >> reporter: the precinct where this officer works is boarded up, more than a year after george floyd's murder. >> we're being held responsible for the actions of an officer that's across the country and i don't think that's fair. >> reporter: since last july, at least 115 portland officers left

the force, by resigning or retiring. there are barely 800 left. last week, members of the city's rapid response team resigned from that unit after one officer was charged with excessive force during a protest last year. daryl turner is the police union executive director that retired in january. >> we are dealing with rioting at a level and sustained violence we've never seen before, gun violence in a city like we've never seen before, we're looking at the most catastrophic staffing levels we've ever seen. >> reporter: a problem, several cities calling to defund police, others slashed budgets due to covid. more and more officers feel villainized like never before. >> reporter: a survey of 200 police departments finds retirements up 45%, resignations 18% compared with the previous year. >> we reached a breaking point. >> reporter: this sergeant in california says floyd's death rippled across smaller

departments like his, where recruiting new officers is getting much harder. >> some of it has to do with paying benefits. but i think there's a bigger picture, that being this public discourse if you will against the police and some young people perhaps asking themselves the question, is that really a career path that i want to go down. >> reporter: in richmond, virginia, officer carol adams is trying to mend relationships in her community as a black woman, last year's protest felt even more personal. >> i am standing as a human being and i am processing as a human being. >> do you think you could help me with a dollar? >> you can't separate me, make me one or the other. i'm both. >> reporter: that duality more drastic. many officers say within months they went from being heroes on the frontlines to enemies. >> it all boils down to three main concepts of being

underfunded, understaffed, undersupported. >> now uncertainty about their future. gabe gutierrez, nbc news, portland, oregon. >> underfunded, understaffed, undersupported. sounds like a recipe for disaster. i want to bring in the miami police chief, former police chief in houston and austin. police departments are having trouble recruiting. what are you doing. you just got to miami, to recruit the next generation of cops? >> well, good morning. thanks for having me. we're going out, spending time with young people in the high schools and junior high schools and elementary schools, having one of the most i think effective police activities. we have to build relationships from a young age through college. as a result of those efforts, we are meeting our goals. however, that can't be said nationwide because of what's going on across the country with

anti-policing sentiment and the other things you highlighted in the report there with gabe. >> there's a very big difference between peaceful protesters and looters. last year, when you were houston's police chief, you made it clear, you warned looters they would be prosecuted, but charges were just dropped for hundreds of looters in new york. are you concerned what kind of message that sends and the position that puts police in? >> i'm concerned about a lot of things. biggest problem in the country isn't the police. cops that remain are still doing their job. we removed 200 firearms in the last few weeks from bad guys here in miami, that's happened across the country. i'm concerned about our criminal justice system, our courts that have been shutdown across the country, activist judges across the country, d.a.'s not charging people. it is like a perfect storm. the officers remain, they're committed, dedicated, want to make a difference. when they see themselves at risk and their families at risk to

see charges dropped wholesale, just to see violent criminals being coddled, it has impact on the psyche, morale, and a lot of officers are saying why am i putting myself at risk if the criminal justice system isn't doing their jobs, if the community isn't going to speak out on behalf of good cops and victims in this nation. >> miami is putting more cops in neighborhoods with gun violence. you have seen it. you have seen that violence cut nearly in half. but at the same time, we have seen several mass shootings in your city. help us understand the solution you believe will work. >> first of all, we have a congress that does its job, elected officials that are not worried about political theater or are married to the base of either party. think about all these mass shootings in our country. if those were people that were

muslim, foreign, extremist, or home grown extremist, not just everyday crazy kids going around shooting the city and other cities, congress would be tripping over itself to close the gun show loophole, to have a universal background check, to do a myriad of things to keep firearms in hands of law abiding americans. we need congress to do its job and need them to act. pretend it is foreign extremists shooting up cities instead of americans. >> safety should not be political. you have been as i said at the top, the chief of police in three big cities. you see the impact on the ground. the idea behind defund the police is not to take money away from the police force but to redeploy money in better, smarter ways, to keep law enforcement safe, to keep communities safe. do you see it working? how do you see it impacting the most vulnerable communities?

>> well look, first of all, defund the police means different things to some people. some folks, it means abolishing the police, other folks means to cut the police. for folks that need us most, communities of color, it means less safety for them. you saw in atlanta where a rich neighborhood saying we're going to create our own city. this defund the police, let's not invest in good policing will not impact affluent communities. i can tell you having worked in the most diverse city in the country, if you go into high crime neighborhoods in houston, you tell them you want to defund the police, they will scream you out of there. we want to invest in good policing and good education and good health and job programs. covid taught us, when it impacts the entire nation, congress acted. congress needs to act on policing, they need to act on reform, and they need to act on the safety of the american

people, they can do it all if they put their minds to it. >> hopefully all americans, all lawmakers want all americans to be better, safer, smarter in their communities every day. chief, thank you so much for joining us. good to see you. thanks for all that you do. >> same here. thanks. we are continuing to dig into this all week. tomorrow i speak to the chief of los angeles police department, michel moore, about the challenge his team is facing and path forward to keep people safe. coming up, a former police captain, a sanitation chief, and 2020 presidential candidate among those vying to be the mayor of new york city today. but we might not know who will win the primary for days. we are bringing in the big guy, steve kornacki to break it down next. eak it down next

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right now, it is primary day in the new york city mayoral race. voters are heading to polls to cast ballots. polling shows eric adams leading among major candidates, voters pointing to rising crime as the number one concern. this race is anything but settled. new yorkers for the first time will rank top five choices in order of preference. there have been nine days of

early voting, and we know in new york city our town starts to get quieter and quieter heading to summer. what can we expect in terms of turnout. >> reporter: it is very unpredictable for so many reasons. this is the first time there's been a june primary. there's been absentee balloting, mail in balloting, long early voting period, and a dozen democratic candidates crisscrossing the city during a time the pandemic is easing. whether voters turnout or not is unclear. usually low turnout. one reason for this choice voting. maya wiley is a civil rights attorney, worked in the current administration some time ago,

here is what voters are saying about how important the election is, what they think is at stake. this is an important election obviously. >> yes. make some change. time for a change. >> local elections are as important as national elections. issues such as housing, our economy and crime will rank as my top issues of importance. >> reporter: most voters say public safety, spike in crime in the city is the big issue. as well as disparities between the majority and minority populations in the pandemic, and how is new york going to lift itself out now that the pandemic is easing. who is the best to lead the city through that. very unpredictable election. we will have some results later tonight, but it will take several weeks if not longer we are hearing to count the votes in the unusual right choice

system. stephanie? >> which is why we need steve kornacki to educate us. in the last few days of campaigning, we saw two of the top candidates, garcia, yang, campaigning together. confusing for people watching from afar. walk us through what's going on with rank choice voting here. >> stephanie, what you're almost watching in real time, the largest experiment in rank choice voting. new york city with nearly 9 million people, largest jurisdiction to try to implement a system like this. you put it up a second ago, this is the recent poll. the way things used to work in new york city was simple. this is how it ended up finishing in the primary, the top two candidates from a cluttered primary advance to a runoff in a few weeks. voters would come back and choose between these two

candidates. that's not what's happening. instead, voters are asked when they come and get ballots, let me show you what it is going to look like, the ballot in new york city looks something like this. these are all of the candidates that made the primary ballot. you the voter are given the option, you don't have to do this, you are given the option of making five choices. first, second, third, fourth, fifth choice. you can make five different xs on the ballot. it is optional. if you want, you can show up, vote for one candidate. you want to do two, you can do two, you want to do five, you do five. the way it works, once they get ballots, they count up everybody's first choice. then whichever candidate comes in last, let's say it was the last name on the list, joslyn taylor, whichever candidate comes in last when they count them the first time, they take that candidate, say anybody that voted for taylor, who was their second choice. then they take the second choice

votes and reallocate them to everybody who is left. whoever is in last place then, they reallocate those voters. candidate second choices. on and on. keep doing it round after round until one of the candidates clears 50%. with the field this size and with all the polling that shows 20, 25, 28%, this could go 11, 12 rounds before somebody clears 50%. again, it will only take one election. voters aren't coming back in a few weeks. you come there, mark your top five choices if you want, they're going to work through, election administrators work through each round like i just described. a jurisdiction the size of new york city, never attempted this before to give you a sense of this, maine and alaska start doing this next year.

couple of big cities, oakland, san francisco, minneapolis, here is new york city. biggest to try it. as ron told you, new york city even before there took forever to count election returns. this could take awhile. >> steve, i am smiling ear to ear because there's no one on earth with this kind of enthusiasm, expertise, interest in this massive experiment like you can. let me tell you, if it takes 10, 12 rounds to go through it, i am 100% sure you'll have the stamina to cover it. steve kornacki is covering the race. voting ends today. coming up, oakland raiders defensive end becomes the first active nfl player to come out as gay. >> hope you know i am not doing this for attention. i just think representation and visibility are so important. >> the reaction from fans, the league, and people across the

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oh! don't burn down the duplex. terminix. history has been made in sports, carl nassib became the first nfl player to come out as gay. he made the announcement on instagram, along with a donation to the trevor project. stephanie gosk is all over the story. how big a deal is this? >> it is a big deal. so many parts of our society we have been openly talking about sexuality. male professional sports is not one of those parts of society. it is a big deal for the nfl. michael sam, was drafted, said he was gay.

hasn't been anyone talking about it since. carl nassib coming out with a video statement saying he is gay, he feels like even though he is a very private person, agonized over this, it was important for him to do it. representation is so important. let's listen to what he had to say in that statement. >> i hope that one day videos like this and the coming out process are not necessary. but until then, i'm going to do my best, do my part to cultivate a culture accepting and compassionate. >> one of the things, steph, coming out the way he has is the kind of support that many groups say is critical for kids who might be suffering with the decision themselves and talking about it themselves. you mentioned he gave $100,000 to the trevor project. this is a group that works to prevent suicide, very much an at risk group of kids. worth pointing out within the

nfl there are likely other players who perhaps have not come out themselves and see it as an opportunity to do so. steph? >> what's the nfl saying? >> the nfl has been very supportive. publicly came out and said it is important, representation is important, that they are proud of carl nassib for doing this and for sharing his truth. they put out a tweet in support of the trevor project, you can be the person to prevent a suicide, noting just one adult can make an enormous difference for an lbgtq plus youth that's struggling. >> thank you. now to another game changer in sports. the supreme court dropped the hammer on the ncaa yesterday, saying it cannot limit some benefits to student athletes. the court said they violated

antitrust laws when they limited what students could get for all the things you see on the screen. all nine justices ruled against the organization. justice brett kavanaugh had the toughest words saying in part this. nowhere else in america can businesses get away with agreeing not to pay their workers fair market rate on the theory that their product is defined by not paying workers a fair market rate. under ordinary principles of antitrust law, it is not evident why college sports should be any different. the ncaa is not above the law. end quote. joining me to discuss, recognizes chapman. scored more than a thousand points playing for university of kentucky, a former guard for phoenix suns, joins us bright and early from phoenix this morning. recognizes, start with this. this is the first time in 30 years the court rules on college sports. how monumental is this? >> it is pretty big.

i'm no fan of brett kavanaugh in all honesty. what the ncaa has been doing has been so flatly wrong, he felt strong enough to write an opinion and basically say anywhere in the world what the ncaa has been doing, their business model, would be flatly illegal. we have all known this. you can't get away with not paying your employees, college athletes, especially at the highest level, it is work. and i don't know if you know this, steph, but for me, an athlete, former athlete, 35 years ago, coming out of university of kentucky, when you sign a national letter of intent to go to college, in that moment you sign away your image and likeness rights in perpetuity forever. so university of kentucky, for instance, has my rights. i don't make any money from that, not when i was in school, not after school, and that's wrong, on top of just not paying

for your labor. a monumental day yesterday. the ncaa is having to face some reckoning now. >> well, this hits the ncaa exactly where it hurts. do you think it is going to destroy their business model forever? >> i think it is going to change their business model. they're going to have to start taking some profits, some of the billions of dollars. you know, the idea that especially at a power five school that top five high school player is going to go to college and not be paid, that you're just going to go there and get a scholarship when you are bringing in millions and millions, if not billions in revenue to the ncaa machine, so they're going to have to, whether it is now or in a few years from now, they're going to really have to buckle down and decide how they want to continue

this thing because now the courts are involved and they don't have a leg to stand on. >> could this make more players want to stay in college all four years? >> you know, i think it could. i think, look, the thing that bothered me about the ncaa, and let's forget about basketball for now, when you go to an sec football school, you're getting the same, banging up your body for four or five years there in college and getting the same kind of cte you would be getting in the nfl. when college football players leave school, they don't have any insurance, don't have pension, and have the same limp they got from the acl injury that an nfl player makes. there's all kinds of wrong that's been going on. ncaa has to figure out how to do

this. yes, it may, if you can go to college, make money as a high level college player, most people don't go on and play in the pros. i was lucky to do that. many of us were very lucky, but for most of us, if you go and play college ball, at the end of the four years, get your diploma, see you later. you should be being taken care of while you're in college, at least a little bit. >> rex, i mentioned carl nassib coming out as gay. how important is this moment? what's your take? >> oh, man, i saw that video yesterday, immediately i almost burst into tears for him. you know, man, i can't understand why in 2021 this is still an issue. what a brave young man. look, this is different. you touched on it in the open. this is not a man who is trying to make the league, this is a guy in the middle of his career,

prime of his career. has a three year deal. signed a $22 million deal. he is on the team. and for him to come out and do this is incredibly brave, it is going to save lives. the trevor project that he donated money to is doing the lord's lord's work but representation matters, and you can bet your bottom dollar yesterday carl nassib saved lives. >> no doubt. you're going to make me burst out into tears, rex chapman. rex, thank you for waking up so early to join us this morning. always good to see you. >> anything for you, steph. coming up, new details about the investigation into former president donald trump and the man prosecutors hope will turn against him, the reporter who broke that story, next. you don't want to go anywhere. or necessity. we can explore uncharted waters, and not only make new discoveries,

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donald trump. "the washington post" reports that investigators are frustrated with the trump organization's cfo, allen weisselberg. not happy about his lack of cooperation and thinking he's regularly talking to trump himself after the "new york times" reported he could face criminal charges as early as this summer. we should note neither of them have been accused of wrongdoing. joining me to discuss, one of the reporters who probing the story at "the washington post," david fahrenthold. weissenberg is the most seniorberg in the company not with the family, he has been there before donald trump ran the show. he was fred trump's guy. >> that's right, he is more essential to this company than pretty much anybody except donald trump himself and the day-to-day functioning probably more essential. people we talk to say trump makes big decisions, he makes decisions about what to acquire, who to sell but to run the company day-to-day, that's weisselberg and still playing that role even now under

investigation. >> so let's take a step back. what's the state of the investigation? if weisselberg isn't playing ball, where are things? >> so the manhattan district attorney empaneled a grand jury that will decide on charges and gathered a lot of paper and trump's tax returns and other documents. the key thing to prosecute trump is to find a way to show trump's intent. if trump broke the law and understood he broke the law in the context of the financial transactions and did it anyway. because he doesn't use email you need somebody close to him who says "he said i understand that, go ahead." weisselberg is the most likely person to do that because he was close to trump on basically every transaction his company made. >> and of course, the manhattan d.a. vote is also part of the primary happening today in new york city but i want to ask separately, we're also learning that the trump organization has now filed a lawsuit against new

york city over bill de blasio terminating the contract the trump organization had with the city over a golf course. where do things stand at this point? >> that's right, after january 6th, de blasio terminated trump's contract to own a city-owned golf course in the bronx and trump yesterday sued him saying there's nothing in the contract that lets you fire me for basically being a bad person or tarnishing my own brand name. the only reason you can get rid of me is if i screw up the course and i didn't. i see this in the context of a negotiation. de blasio and the city wants trump out. trump wants some sort of payout to leave. this lawsuit is a step in that direction. trump is asking i'll leave if you give me $30 million which is the money i put in, probably an opening offer and they'll reach some settlement in the middle. >> city wants trump out, trump wants a payout, groundhog day all over again.

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it is coming into session as we are coming on the air. that's a live shot on the left side of your screen of the floor ahead of the key vote on a sweeping voting reforms bill. spoiler alert it's almost certainly going to fail. not one republican is expected to sign on. so the biggest question of the morning, what happens next? just how hard progressives might push to change senate rules to get more done? we're live on capitol hill and at the white house and later this hour, we're talking with a key democratic senator where she sees the state of play and what her party should do next. plus breaking this morning's first here on nbc, a miss for the white house, with sources telling us the administration is expected to acknowledge today, it will fall short of its july 4th vaccination goal where the biggest problem is and a reality check, just ahead. we have a lot to get to on this tuesday morning. i'm hallie jackson in washington. we have a couple of reporters from capitol hill, that is where the action is today,