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world headquarters here in new york. welcome to alex witt reports. we begin with breaking news our sunday the supreme court is asking maryland officials to stop a protest outside of justices houses. in a letter to gary governor larry hogan, the court-martial says maryland law prohibits assembly quote, with another in a manner that perception a person's right to tranquility in a person's home. demonstrators have been ongoing

since the decision to end roe was leaked in may. it comes as the battle for abortion rights intensifies. president biden is facing pressure from his fellow gov devin democrats to act. the president meeting with a group of governors yesterday promising to protect a woman's right to choose. also, new today in the january 6th investigation, nbc news confirming reports a catch cassidy hutchison, former aide to mark meadows, was the recipient of a message the committee revealed this week, as evidence of possible witness tampering. of which urging her to quote, do the right thing, ahead of her deposition. new reaction just a short time ago from how congressman mel des moines. >> i have worked in law enforcement enforcement, but i also worked with mark meadows. and we worked on the oversight committee, isn't that interesting? i tell you, but if i was still police detective, i would be very interested in that text message that she received from someone who was pretty much

buried in this investigation. >> plus, democracy advocates and election officials are sounding the alarm after the supreme court agreed to take up the north carolina redistricting case. it will happen next storm, and it could give state legislatures jurors power over federal elections. that decision, could have major locations in 2024. joining us now, msnbc's more baron who's out the white house, and i wrap this standing by at the white house. lower gonna start with you get the breaking news of the supreme court martial asking maryland governor larry hogan to put a stop to all that picketing, the demonstrating in front justices homes. what can you tell us about this? >> well, alex, since the draft opinion leaked back in may, we have seen protests like this pop about side of the supreme court justices homes. and basically, the supreme court marshaled asking the governor toenforce those state county laws, to put this protest to a stop as you detailed the law says that this type of protesting that

distracts a person's right to tranquility, is illegal and it can have a penalty of up to 90 days. and so we will stay tuned and keep you posted of marilyn's or the montgomery county where the letter was written to decides to enforce this law. but in the last weeks since roe v. wade has been overturned the right to an abortion and the argument around that has gone to the state level. and so president biden met with various democratic governors, those the white house acted swiftly to protect the right to an abortion. he met with governors of states like new york, illinois, washington. as you look at this map here, of states that enacted trigger laws or those trigger laws will be enacted over the summer, the state summit with the four have the right to an abortion now. they are going to be seeing a lot of traffic coming from the state. so president detail how he wants to support the streets effort to make sure that women

can travel between state lines if necessary. but you also detailed to codify roe v. wade too. we know there is no path for supporting that, basically he also detailed his new strategy when it comes to the midterm election. because he sees the potential for republicans to take control. we're gonna hear some of his reasoning for change of the strategy. >> so the choice is clear, we either elect federal senators and representatives who will codify roe, republicans who elect the house, and senate that will try to ban abortions nationwide. so now that president urging people to get out and vote come november. we heard it in the speech the day roe v. wade was overturned. but now guessing specifically there needs to be at least two more democrats elected and holding control in the senate as well. that is not a guaranteed path. we have seen democratic fundraising around the message,

but this is definitely something that we are gonna hear even more of on the campaign trail leading up to november, alex. >> we are right on that, thank you. mora with that we're gonna go to capitol hill new reporting to cassidy hutchison was on the receiving and a potential witness intimidation. let's go to nbc's aly rafael who is there for us to talk about that. what is the reaction been like on the hill, ali? >> well alex, first of not only can we confirm that hutchison was one of the people there, recipients of this message trying to influence her testimony. a source familiar with her testimony tells us that the person refers to you as a person and read these messages, someone thinking about how dodson, saying how loyal she is, is hutchinson's former boss mark meadows himself. but as a spokesperson for mark meadows is denying that telling us in a statement, quote, no one from meadows camp himself or otherwise has ever attempted to intimidate or shake myths hutchinson's testimony to the committee.

this new development is now sparking reaction among mark meadows's former colleagues on capitol hill. take a listen to congresswoman madeleine dean's reaction here. >> the text message or phone calls, whatever communication from somebody connected to the former president to somebody who is going to be offering witness testimony, is extremely troubling. i know as a lawyer, the only thing number one you wouldn't interfere with somebody testifying with a possible adverse consequence to you. but number two, the only thing if your effort caught talking to somebody would be, just tell the truth. that is all you have to do. you don't say, do the right thing and he will be reading depositions. he will be reading transcripts. very strange, very intimidating. >> and committee members are calling this witness tampering. they are saying this is a form of obstructing justice that the doj needs to know about. so we know committee members are taking this very seriously. they are investigating whether these messages have influences

the testimony of witnesses we've already heard from, they've already heard from. as well as possibly witness that they are still trying to hear talk to you who perhaps getting messages they perhaps don't even know about. whether that is influencing their decision to come forward. so this is definitely something they're looking into, before this next set of hearings begin. the second week of july. after this week of recess, alex. >> yeah, pretty serious. stuff okay, thank you so much for that ali. raffa >> joining me now is massachusetts congressman seth moulton, a democratic member of the house, budget armed services in transportation and infrastructure committees. congresswoman, welcome back it's always good to see. you had so these allegations of witness hampering, how do you think americans are interpreting it? what's type of message does it send? and let's make the statement here that, putting out a statement is a lot different than testify under oath. >> that's right. look, everyone should be shocked. all of us on capitol hill should be shot. i think the sad truth is, that we are not surprised. this is like par for the course for trump and his organization.

they think they can rule the world. they think they can tell americans what they want, rather than listening to the american people, or even listening to the truth in the court of law. >> so, let's play for you what liz cheney had to say this week following explosive testimony from former white house aide cassidy hutchison. take a listen. >> the reality that we face today as republicans, as we think about the choice in front of us, we have to choose because republicans cannot both be loyal to donald trump, and loyal to the constitution. at this moment -- [applause] >> that was a speech there with the reagan presidential library and got a pretty rousing response. what do you know how many republican colleagues are reacting to that message, do you think the hearings are at all diluting their loyalty to donald trump?

>> look, they are not many times when i say this but i think liz cheney has it exactly right. and i think most republicans know that she has exactly right. but, republicans on capitol hill just don't want to talk about this. they want to pretend that it is not even happening. they are so incriminated by what is going on. every one of them who supported donald trump knows that he or she was wrong to do so. and will be proven wrong, time and again throughout history. so they just want to avoid it. they want to ignore it, they wanna presented it happen. and that is what is so dangerous here. january 6th isn't just about the past. it is about the future. it is about how close we came to losing our democracy, about a close we may come again. >> look, i was going to say history will prove them wrong. i believe these hearings are already doing a delivery of proof on how wrong a lot of republicans were. but moving on to the president, as you know he is going to deliver a speech about january 6th. and this will be done after the house panel wrapped up this investigation. what do you think he needs to

say, and how much could it impact the 2022, and potentially 24 elections? >> you know, i think he has to find a way to bring americans together with the truth. to recognize that you need to put your partisan differences aside, whether you are loyal to donald trump, or you hated him. this is really about our democracy. this is about common principles that we have as americans. and we are a generation now that has to preserve our democracy. i don't think that this is in some ways all that different than the generation that faced the civil war. to recognize the choices that they made, the sacrifices that they made. the choices that might imperil their own future, we're choices that they had to make for the future of america. that is when it comes down to right now. so americans need to put aside their differences, republicans need to put aside their loyalties to a man, and say you know wet, it is time to do the right thing for america. that is what this is all about. >> just extraordinary. let's turn to the biden

administration's proposal of up to ten oil and gas leaks sales in the gulf gulf of mexico and one of the coast of alaska. it's gonna happen in the next five years. so the proposal inspired backlash from environmentalist. they're accusing biden of going against climate promises. and the oil industry also backlash because it says the moves are gonna be very little to counter high energy prices. how do you see the proposal, how does the president try to block these high sky high prices with transitioning to clean energy? >> look, sometimes it seems like biden just can't win, but he is trying to do the right thing here. which is that we have got to get off our addiction to oil in the long term. we can't be beholden to autocrats aroundhe world set the price of oil thrown gasoline. we can be beholden to that. and that has got to be our focus. but at the same time, in the short term, we should be buying oil from americans, not from autocrats. so in a lot of ways, both sides are right here on this. we have got to make sure we are

getting oil domestically, when we can. but we have also got to do everything we can to focus on renewables. and alex, i am telling you, the future here is fusion. i'm telling you today, the futures fusion, it is being developed right here in massachusetts. that is what we are all going to be power in the world with before long but we have got to have a pathway to get there, and that is what the biden ministration the president, that is what they're trying to. leo >> fusion, julie noted. here july 2nd. let me ask you one more question, because i'm sure your thoughts on this. there is a new nbc news report which says, every branch of the u.s. military is struggling to meet its fiscal year 2022 recruiting goals. multiple u.s. military defense officials, and members obtained by nbc news show a record low percentage of young americans first eligible to serve. and even if you are willing to consider it. how serious is this? how could this impact the u.s. military? >> look, i think it is a serious problem. and i think that there are few

things going on here. first, a lot of kids these days are brought up to be's health centers. focused on their own six. they live live leisure where it's okay to be lazy and easily offended. those are not good fits for boot camp, and a lot of you will realize that. and they are not taught to be part of something bigger than yourself. the second issue is, it is hard to see the threat. a lot of americans don't appreciate the threat of china, they don't understand the threat that russia needs with its invasion of ukraine to european and to american security. we fought a war on terrorism, for 20 years to wetland? it is hard to see. this is very different than being in the middle of the cold war, and certainly different then world war ii. and the third thing is that the nation is divided. divided and so many lens, social, economic, political, racial. but americans across the spectrum are frustrated with their government. frustrated with the government that can't solve simple

problems like getting weapons of war off our streets. our government that takes away rights, like the supreme court chested, to women. to a lot of young people they look at our government and say, why would i want to work for that outfit? what i want to be on that team? so, the problem is here that, but recruiting numbers being down as always associated with a strong economy, i think it is also associated with a weak country. and we have a lot of work to do, and as americans go about the july 4th weekend, i hope you remember that the freedoms that we enjoy, the hot dogs, they hamburgers, the veggie burgers, they all come at a cost. a cost that is being born right now, by the few great americans who are out, standing on the ramparts of freedom around the globe serving today. and if we can remember that, if we can remember that cost, if we can remember with this great experiment in democracy is truly all about. then we will not only take better care of our troops today, we will also help inspire the

next generation of great americans. to stand up, and serve alongside them. >> wow, that just gave me chills. i feel like we should applaud what you just said. you are under percent right. i am so glad you showed that. thank you so much, my friend. have a great holiday weekend. appreciate it. and look at the weather for all of you this weekend, it is hazy and humid in myrtle beach, but that is not keeping people away from the surf and the sand. here's what it looks like, right now. this is near jensen and rhode island with a few little crowds in the sky and some showers expected later on. in my native los angeles, l.a.x. has partly cloudy skies with the high expected of about a degrees. i don't see any clouds, we don't really have the vanilla. anyway, do check out the radar though. severe weather is expected in the northeast and along the i-95 corridor. storms are also expected off the carolinas, as well as the upper midwest. so you can expect slower travel due to the wind the rain. we are gonna tell you what to the airports a bit later this

hour >> as a britney griner saga escalates in russia, the big question today, how might it end. there are some new wrinkles to that and one more vaccine questions about the war in ukraine, sanctions against russia. are they working? and how much the war end? former u.s. ambassador to russia, michael mcfaul, joins me with some answers. ambassador t russia, michael mcfaul, join me with some answers

wnba star brittney griner's nightmare now shifts to the courtroom. her trial is on the way, and her chances of being acquitted on drug charges are pretty much no. she could be looking at a ten-year prison sentence. but, as nbc's own mitchell reports, russia may try to barred can guard dinner in a prisoner exchange for notorious arms dealer. >> wnba superstar, and two-time olympic gold medalist britney griner, handcuffed wearing a jimmy hendricks t-shirt. after more than four months in

detention. on the first day of what legal experts call a show trial, accused of drug smuggling, the russians say they found vape cartridges containing cannabis oil in her luggage. the possible penalty, ten years in prison. griner's wife cherelle is on edge. >> she is walking into a situation where their judicial system has, a 99% conviction rate. so, in their system there is no innocent. in their system, it is guilty. >> the u.s. considers griner wrongfully detained. embassy staff were with her in court. >> she asked me to convey that she isn't good spirits, and is keeping up faith. >> we spoke to griner's olympic coach and front. >> it certainly seems this is been very difficult. for one thing, she is six foot nine and they've got her traveling back and forth in a cage. >> you see britney appear in court, or outside of court, walking into being handcuffed. you just feel for her.

she is a free spirited woman who has got a great heart. the state department says, freeing brittani is a top priority. but shrug reiner says, the rhetoric and actions don't match. she wants a meeting with president biden. the most beneficial thing that i have been told is that, you know, you meet with president biden. he has that power, he is a person that ultimately will make that decision very her to come home. >> russian media reports that the kremlin wants a trade for arms dealer victor boot. nicknamed the merchant of death, currently serving a 25 year sentence in the u.s.. meanwhile, grinder style is just beginning, and could go on for months. >> u.s. officials tell me russia has a practice of jailing americans on trumped up charges to use as bargaining chips to trade for hardened rush and criminals jailed in the u.s.. the kremlin spokesman dimitri crest denied that griner's arrest is politically motivated.

>> all right i think sandra mitchell for that report. joining me right, now michael mcfaul from former u.s. ambassador to russia, now professor stanford university an msnbc internal affairs analyst. always glad, international. fares you don't mention everything going on right here. anyway, it is good to see you my friend. couple things i want to break down here. why can't the u.s. get britney out? is there anything about this relative to the ukraine war? would she already have been home if it were a different political climate? >> well that is a great question, i don't have a great answer. most certainly other americans have been detained before the war in ukraine. and paul we land, still sits in jail. i think is in his third or fourth year, so that was before the war. i don't think it helps that the war is happening in terms of her detention, and the way that they are going to try to treat her. and again, i want to mention another american just sentenced to 14 years in jail, mark foldable is his name. he suggested the anglo american school. he says he's at the school that

my kids want to, and all of our economic secrets went to. he was detained, and it seems for real wrongfully detained under the same kind of charges. but i think that there is a very important points that everybody needs to remember, there is no rule of law in russia. the idea that she has certain rights, that they are treating her properly, well yes. look at the way putin is conducting the war in ukraine against innocent civilians. massively violating all kinds of international norms, i think that tells you everything about how they think the individual rights of any citizens, ukrainian or russian, let alone american. >> that is a sobering statement so andrea did a great report and you have a headline in the new york times is characterized is her detention as hostage diplomacy. you heard brittani's wife cherelle, who wants to make a deal for her release with the president. russia's denying that she's being held hostage, so where does this leave any effort to try to secure her release?

they are saying, this is the legal issue for us. >> well, yeah of course they're going to say that. and there may be some grounds for it by the way. i don't want to prejudge what they found. i know that their system is not fair, but according to their laws, they might have a case. i don't pretend you know the answer to that. what i do know is that there have been instances where we have done a swaps. so when people say it's unprecedented, and never can happen, because it creates precedents that other people be arrested, that is just not true. in fact, it should give people some hope that just recently there was one. for trevor reed, for konstantin -- . that just happened, the biden ministration made that happen. i know mr. yaroshenko, he was arrested when i was ambassador. we talked about him many times, and they finally decided to do that. that trade. so victory was also arrested when i was ambassador. he has been in jail for ten or 11 years now here in the united

states, and i think that is something that the biden administration will certainly have to consider in this case. >> yeah that header live in years in jail on a 25 year sentence, i'll remind viewers. let's talk about sanctions on the question whether not there actually crippling russia's economy. it was expected that they would do so and the fact that, coming out of the g7 and nato summits, the economic cost of the war in ukraine is weighing very heavily on western leaders. so first of, all have the sanctions backfired in some ways? >> well yes, and no. i mean first of, all when everybody says how sanctions work, that means to me have they, have putin stop the war in ukraine, the answer to that is no. so in the general sense that they achieve their objective? no. have they put in place economic pain that will last for years and years to come in russia? the answer to that is yes, without question. and the data on that is just

overwhelming. have they had a short term boost for russia, the answer to that is also yes because the price of oil and gas went way up. they are still selling to the europeans, and they are benefiting from that and the short term. in the long term however, they want. i think people need to remember that. when europe finally stopped buying russian energy, that is going to have long term negative economic consequences for russia. and finally, when people ask me this question, are they working? i think the most obvious evidence that they are working is that mr. putin and other people on the sanctions list including people that i have talked directly with, are seeking ways to end the sanctions. so they are not working. if they were working they would be trying to end the sanctions. point well taken there. let's talk about the defense department which is strongly urging the senate to quickly approve finland and sweden joining nato. then you have a retired army colonel daniel davis writes for

nbc, saying that's a mistake. he's part of a think tank that promotes u.s. military restraint. he argues that including these countries and nato increases the risk of conflict, because russia's gonna see this as an extra essential threat. -- plunging the u.s. into war if either of them is attacked, plunges them into war if anyone else in nato is that attack, because it removes protection from their neutral status. can the u.s., or any other member, guarantee that nato would not install weapon systems in these countries. well that kind of action provoke conflict? how does this expansion help nato and help the world's promote diplomacy? >> i radically disagree with the idea that bringing sweden and norway into nato will provoke russia. i just want to remind people, we have heard this argument

time and time again. we heard it when they talked about joining. putin said if you do that, you're gonna face bad consequences. well now we've done it, and what happened? oh whimper out of moscow. they're not talking about invading. it puts to rest this idea that have ukraine joining nato, that would've been war. no. it was that they didn't join nato that created the purpose of conditions for war. has any nato country didn't act by russia? no. but countries in between georgia, ukraine, moldova has russian troops occupying their forces, they're the ones that are at risk. i actually think, i worked for president obama, i'm a democrat, but i think ronald reagan was right on this. peace through strength. by bringing them in, and it reduces the probability of a war between any native ally and certainly are two new nato allies. this is a good thing. president biden should get a

lot of credit. he had a great week in terms of diplomacy, in answering our nazi national security. this was an historic nato summit. >> peace through strength. let's add unity as well apparently. thank you. very good to see you. happy holidays. frustrations at the pump and at the airport. unprecedented troubles facing travelers this holiday weekend next. travelers this holiday weekend next

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one gram of sugar, and nutrients to support immune health. ♪ ♪ ♪♪ voltaren. the joy of movement. ♪♪ here is a look at today's other top stories. the city of akron, ohio has canceled its holiday weekend that's doubleafter police shooting left him and dead this week. early monday morning, police shot and killed 25-year-old jalen walker during a chase. it has canceled its red white and blue fast saying it's not the time for a citywide celebration. -- the florida's don't say gay bill -- for the the state says it doesn't have a plan for other

students. beaches across the country are stepping up patrols after a string of shark attacks. a swimmer in florida was bitten on the leg by a shark -- more than 20 shark sightings have been reported off the coast of massachusetts so for the summer. as americans are flying and hitting the roads a solid a weekend -- and widespread airport delays and cancellations. nbc's gary grumble park is running us from reagan national airport. let's see how folks are being impacted so far. what are you observing? >> the impact is really being felt from sea to shining sea here on this independence day weekend. if you're at reagan alone, we've seen 45 cancellations today. those delays and cancellations are really nationwide. yesterday we saw 7000 flights delayed, 600 flights canceled, and we may meet or exceed those numbers today. today as of half an hour ago, we are seeing about 2500

flights delayed, and 600 flights canceled. but it is not stopping people from flying. according to the tsa 2.5 million people went through a tsa checkpoint yesterday. that is the most that has gone through a tsa checkpoint since before the pandemic began. people are certainly feeling more comfortable about getting back into the air and traveling. there's mixed reaction from folks i spoke to today. >> i have to take a pcr test within 72 hours, so if there's a delay, i have to fly by 4 pm today. i have to take the pcr test again. if they can just atlas -- just have to deal with. >> i'm trying to find a try to have empathy for all the stuff, it's just like a huge system that is trying to run smoothly, so i've got here super early, i'm kind of expecting a delay.

but we'll see. >> so when is this going to get better? that's the question that everybody is asking. according to delta, united, an american, they have all revamp their schedules to try to make it better, deal with the pilots shortage in the passenger increase. a tsa administrator told nbc news yesterday, it could be labor day before things start coming down. >> thank you so. much more on this right now. president of the association of flight attendants is here. what is causing this disruption in the skies? how much of it is due to weather? how much is due to staffing issues? >> alex, first and foremost, we should remind people that when your flight leave on time or when it's canceled, it's not always the airlines fault. in some cases it is because we put safety first and we're not gonna put you up in the air if it's not gonna be safe. that is first and foremost. we are seeing a confluence of a lot of things. you can call it a perfect

storm. we have the covid effect, we have the fact that we had planes that were sitting on the ground, they've gone back up in the air. we have highly skilled jobs, where you have to be trained and certified to get into those seats in order to fly those planes. and work on them as mechanics. 83 has enough staff in place. when there's a weather event, it slows things down in order to manage that capacity. it's great that airlines have cut back on capacity going into this holiday weekend, so we are not over promising and bringing people to the airports and that having nothing to do with them. we've had operation meltdowns that frankly all of our unions have been really pressing the airlines on, would that, doesn't appreciate so much the comments of the person who is showing empathy for the frontline staff have been dealing with this, but that is disruptive and makes it very difficult for us to do our jobs. the airlines have been perceptive to that. we have been very strong about getting them to work with us on addressing operational issues,

addressing things that can be addressed right now to make the operation work more smoothly, to be able to schedule, us recruit flights, help when the operation gets into it little bit of a meltdown. >> i appreciate all you say. but here's the problem. did the airlines now look ahead for the covid effect and the ultimate end of that? knowing that there would be a pent-up desire to get out and about as soon as covid mandates were lifted or people started getting their vaccinations. they not plan ahead properly for staffing? >> you know, i think some of this is about staffing. some of this is about what's happening even before the pandemic, when saw $12 million and stock buybacks going out the door, and staffing cuts to a minimum so there is no to give them the operation. we were able to freeze what was an imperfect system before. this but now people have been tired, working two years during

the pandemic, not willing to work overtime hours than they did before. so they are lying that surprised about how steph would respond to this and about how they weren't able to attract people to the jobs or not. -- we haven't been able to attract people to jobs that have been people rinsing on the evening news of people getting punched in the face. there's covid effects here that are all the way around, and also i want to recognize that in the past couple of months, we thought people have been getting sick who did not get sick through the whole pandemic. but once that mask mandate today mandate was, lifted we had a lot of people getting sick for the first time. that is adding to the effect as well. >> i will buckle up and getting on a plane pretty soon. of a let you know if it's tardy or council. >> lisa let me know. alex stay safe. >> thank you. the courage cassidy hutchinson displayed at this week's january six hearing is greater than imagined.

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the day before former white house aide cassidy hutchinson delivered bombshell testimony on tuesday, she received an apparent attempt to influence your deposition. in a message from an unnamed person, hutchinson was urged to do the right thing when she appeared before the january 6th committee. joining me now is the reporter for the guardian.

welcome hugo. in your article, you said the prisoners that the message has not been confirmed, but your sources say it was an associate of former chief of staff mark meadows, for whom cassidy worked. -- >> i think they're taking it very seriously. they have identified the fact that someone was trying to tap his temper with cassidy hutchinson her testimony and they are treating it with the seriousness it requires. the fact that it came from an associate of mark meadows, the white house chief of staff, is significant. the committee is looking at that person as their witness to their investigation. part of the reason why they have not made that person, is that they think that person could still talk to the committee about what trump knew and what meadows knew going into january 6th. >> they're treading very lightly on that. how about cassidy hutchinson

herself, who provided some of the most damning and significant testimony with votes so far? this hearing was gonna be in july. why did the committee decide to pump this up with just 24 hours notice? why the sense of urgency? >> i think a lot of it does come down to this potential witness intimidation and witness tampering's. the committee only recently learned that these messages were coming to hutchinson. and they decided that rather not risk someone in the trump world getting to her, they thought we need to make this testimony public right now. so they rushed to that with less than 24 hours notice. her testimony was explosive. the most interesting thing for me was the fact that she testified that trump told mark meadows -- so he is like if you are through line from the white house through the -- and i think that's really significant. >> that thing we call the war room. or they called it. that let's talk about what happened after testimony.

the committee formally subpoenaed former white house counsel pat cipollone. in your in your article, the panel hasn't been negotiating cipollone's testimony for weeks without success. first of all what's been the holdup? >> it's about scope. it's been about what can the white house counsel testify to the investigation about? -- so a lot of this has been about attorney client an executive privilege. executive privilege has been a factor in this. but it sounds like pat cipollone now is gonna agree to a transcribed interview, and is very narrow in scope. let's see where that goes. >> what can we expect to hear from him? there are many who suggest, he is the one who knows everything that he could have the potential greater amount of damaging information about donald trump. >> i think that's an accurate

assessment. pat cipollone was there for all the worst moments in the final weeks of the trump administration. he wasn't all the big meetings when everything was going down. when trump was desperately trying to find a way to overturn the election. as the white house counsel, he could speak to the president above what was lawful and unlawful, which could then talk about trump's intent. -- cipollone's gonna talk about trump's effort to decapitate the justice department's leadership -- so it's gonna be limited to that. but he knows a lot. >> so what and who can we expect in the next hearing? >> the next hearing is gonna be jimmy raskin, the focus on the proud boys and the militia groups. and the coordination that we reported between these group and others as they stormed the capitol. the justice department is

already charging members of the oath keepers and proud boys for seditious conspiracy. -- here we will see the connection from the people who actually broke into the capitol and if there were any ties to trump in the white house. that's gonna be the week of july 12th. >> okay. excellent reporting and discussion my friend. thank. you happy july 4th. it is a full court press to pass or block new bans on abortion next. new with rinvoq. abortion next. check. when uc held me back... i got lasting, steroid-free remission with rinvoq. check. and when uc got the upper hand... check. rapid symptom relief. lasting, steroid-free remission. and a chance to visibly repair the colon lining. check. check. and check. rinvoq can lower your ability to fight infections, including tb. serious infections and blood clots, some fatal; cancers, including lymphoma

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uvalde leader news is reporting that embattled school chief pete arredondo has resigned from the city council. he was sworn into the council just a week after the horrific

school shooting. he was a no-show this week -- parents expressed outrage saying they're not getting the whole story about the shooting. meanwhile, the new fallout from the overturning of the roe v. wade. the texas supreme court has stepson to allow an abortion ban to take place in that state immediately. -- houston judge allowed texas abortion clinics to resume operations. our bush and activists in alabama and idaho -- information on illegal on abortion could lands of conspiracies charges. -- let's go to nbc's stephanie stanton joining me from florida. lots of confusion out here around what's legal and what is not so how are women there figuring it out? >> good afternoon to you alex. well there is a lot of confusion. there is a loss a lot of fear

according to planned parenthood. i'm standing here in tampa. there is a planned parenthood center right behind me. officials there say they have seen an uptake and women coming in seeking counseling and information about abortion care. officials say they are now seeing between 20 and 30 patients per day. last, year in the state of florida, they were about 80,000 abortions recorded. about 4000 of those were done after the 15 week mark. currently, at this point legally, the 15-week ban is in effect here in florida. that took effect yesterday, july 1st. before that women could get abortion up to 24 weeks in the state of florida. planned parenthood file that injunction, they believe that will be signed by the judge and go into effect on tuesday. but here's the thing. with that would do would be to reinstate the 24-week that. but the state of florida has vowed to immediately appeal that, which would then put florida right back to where we are now, with that 15-week ban

in effect. that does also not make exceptions for rape or incest. >> absolutely stunning. okay stephanie stanton thank you so much for iron out all this confusion out from tampa. meanwhile, that's gonna do it for me on this edition of alex reports. i'm off tomorrow but i will see you that after that. what . that that can scale across all your clouds... we got that right? what yeah, we got that. it's easier to be an innovator. so you can do more incredible things. good afternoon. [whistling]

i'm cory coffin, filling in from yasmin vossoughian. we've got a lot to cover for you right now including breaking news out of texas. the embattled police chief telling the newspaper that he is going to resign and city council seat in the wake of the bitter criticism of his actions during the school shooting. their new reporting and allegations of potential witness tampering involving efforts to influence january six committee star witness cassidy hutchison. we will have more on that as well as more on the smoking gun that she provided about donald trump, weapons, and metal detectors at that famous pre riot rally. >> just to be clear messages, and is it your understanding that the president wanted to take the mags away and said that the armed individuals are not there to hurt him? >> that is a fair assessment. >> also this hour, and ohio