deputy press secretary, two officials who resigned after watching the handling of the riot. that will proceed without bennie thompson. he tested positive for covid. he has begun an isolation period while experiencing mild symptoms. a live report from outside the washington, d.c. courthouse where jury selection for former trump white house chief strategist steve bannon's criminal contempt trial got back under way today after the judge denied a new motion from bannon's attorneys for a continuance. the midterm spotlight son maryland as well as the race to replace republican governor larry hogan, a potential 2024 presidential candidate. i will talk to three top candidates on the democratic side about their chances today and the chances of winning in november to deliver the governorship back to a party that was traditionally theirs in

that blue state. we begin with the january 6 committee and nbc capitol hill correspondent ali vitali. brendon buck and kimberly atkin-store and sam stein. ali, is it possible that chairman thompson's absence could push this hearing or are they determined to keep this schedule? >> reporter: they are determined to keep this schedule, chris. especially because what's clear yesterday after my conversation with chairman thompson, who i would note was wearing a mask when he was talking to us yesterday, he seemed to leave the door open as all of the committee members have to the idea there are more hearings to come, specifically the idea that at some point in the last few days, the committee seems to have decided that their final report will come in the early fall still but that there will be some kind of scaled back report prior to that. in part, it's because they keep

getting new information and they want to make sure that the final report is reflective of everything that they know, but at the same time, it's also a chance for them to do more hearings around this. we also know what the last hearing in primetime this week is going to look like. my reporting with my colleague is that the two witnesses will be people from the trump white house, both aides to the former president in some capacity. it will allow the committee to better flesh out what was happening in the white house versus what was happening in the chaos on capitol hill. of course, i think what's important is the backdrop to this is that the former president is clearly in his own political machinations right now. the question if he is going to run for president seemingly answered by not if but when. when i asked chairman thompson about this, his answer was, that's not going to complicate their work at all. listen. o complicate their work at all.

listen >> reporter: thompson reiterating there that no one is above the law, including former presidents. that's the stance this committee has taken the entire time it's been doing these hearings. clearly, that's the stance they will continue to take. >> let me go back to the two witnesses. the committee has spoken with them in the past, as we said. what is the testimony that we think they want to dive further into where they may be able to fill out some holes, if that's the word for it, in the story that the committee is trying to present? >> it seems here, based on what some members have already said and where we are in these

proceedings, that they want to bring to the public's view the folks who were, so to speak, in the room where it happens, with apologies to hamilton. people in the white house on and before january 6 who can speak to -- as to what the president was doing, saying and wasn't doing, particularly during those crucial hours when folks were trying to call on him to call off the mob that assembled and went to the capitol hill. we hear previously reporting that everyone, including ivanka trump, was trying to urge him to stop. if they have direct evidence, if they saw this happen, this is important. we could also hear, if either pottinger or matthews is one of the people that vice chair liz cheney was talking about who received a call from donald trump, we could possibly hear evidence of potential witness tampering that she's teed up at the end of the last hearing. we don't know that for sure yet. we do know that this committee

is being very careful to try to fill in all the missing pieces from that day to determine exactly where the president was and what he was doing. >> sam, obviously, we heard it again and again from members of the committee, they are laying out the facts, but fair to say that maybe the two most interested parties on thursday night, which is going to be apparently, if you listen to committee members, some new information helping to tie things together, are the two most interested parties the attorney general and the former president? >> yes. i agree with everything. what they're going to try to illuminate in this hearing is what happened during those 187 or so minutes on january 6. where was the president? what kind of orders was he giving? what was the activity in the white house? we have at this juncture a compelling case of culpability by the former president. to your point, the real

remaining variables here are, what is merrick garland thinking, what is he going to take from the committee and apply to the investigation? second is donald trump. we know now that he is looking at an expedited time frame for launching a third presidential run. that is, in part, our reporting, because he feels like his political standing has been hurt by the committee and he feels like he had legal liabiliies not from the committee but from other investigations. those are the two most important variables. how does the former president trump respond to this? what does the ag do based on the copious amounts of evidence? >> to sam's point, the american people obviously are an audience. voters are an audience. throughout these hearings, a lot of the spotlight has been on liz cheney, the story she helped to weave. on thursday, we will hear from

adam kinzinger who said the testimony is going to open people's eyes in a big way. what do you think he brings to this? could he be effective in winning over voters to this story that they're trying to tell? >> adam kinzinger is a very talented public face for this. i think he will be great. that's been a big part of this committee's magic is it's not just partisan. you do have republicans who are out there saying very clearly that the president was responsible for what took place here. i think that's a big part of what this committee is trying to do is not allow this to be a partisan witch hunt in the eyes of maybe the middle or some republican voters. look, the committee talks a lot about how they just want to get the facts out. this is not political. clearly, they are trying to chip away at the president a bit here. the question is for republican voters, does this create enough questions of whether there's too

much baggage with donald trump? you are starting to see signs -- there's softening of his support. i think that's why he is trying to rush it. he is trying to box out a ron desantis or somebody from challenging him and prevent that from -- that scenario from taking place. people -- republican voters i don't think are going to turn against donald trump. i don't think they're going to think this committee is more credible than it was before because adam kinzinger or liz cheney are a part of it. they may think he is a little too vulnerable. all the stuff that we like about him may not be worth it if he is going to lose to joe biden. i think if you create enough doubt potentially you could invite more people in to challenge donald trump. i think that's what he is fighting back against by potentially jumping into the race early. >> sam, because when you look at how donald trump won the presidency, you don't do it with just republicans. you don't do it just with deniers, right, people who believe the big lie, people who

think it wasn't that big a deal on january 6 or that somehow it was justified. what are you hearing just how nervous is he about this? and about the impact that this could have in the end. >> it's tough to tell. on the one hand, they play it cool. they don't -- nothing has stuck to him before in the context of republican politics. he has impeached twice and survived both of those. you look at the polls and support is slip agway. i think it's fair to say if a primary would start today, he would be the favorite. it's his party. everyone is yearning for his endorsement. even ron desantis, trump can say, i made this man's career. if not for my endorsement, he would not be governor of florida. i think trump is the most powerful figure in the republican party and probably will remain that way. that being said, i think where the vulnerability lies is that republicans can now say, look,

you have so much baggage around you, you lost to joe biden, who is at high 30s in approval rating. why would we risk this again? that's where the real baggage comes in. in the end, they made a tactical mistake. everyone agrees. they decided not to stack this committee with republicans. they wanted to put trump supporters on the committee, they would have run interference. when they didn't get those, they walked away. i think trump regrets the idea that he doesn't have at least one or two voices trying to muddy the waters a little on this for him. i think that's going to bite him a little bit politically. >> do you think it's fair to say, kimberly, there's pressure on this committee because i think the general consensus is that every single hearing has built on the other one and you think, oh, that's the most compelling bit of testimony and then the next hearing there's another bit of testimony that seems even more compelling, how much pressure is there onned

a -- there on adam kinzinger and this committee to deliver something explosive on thursday night? it's primetime, after all. >> i think that there is some pressure. the american public -- the public attention will only last so long. i think that they are incentivized to make sure that each hearing is more enlightening than the rest to keep the american public coming back. i think that's the reason you are seeing this in real time. i think there's also a real time pressure on this committee. they know that this committee may not exist after the next election. certainly, once donald trump declares his candidacy, that will take up a lot of the public's attention as well. there are a lot of pressures on this committee. also, to the extent that this committee does want to nudge the doj, they know that they need to get that information to them as soon as possible, too. there are a lot of things

driving this committee to move thoroughly and expeditiously. >> thank you all so much. the jury selection, potential jurors sounding off on steve bannon. the defendant calling the proceeding a show trial. we have live outside the courtroom next on "andrea mitchell reports." the the courtroom next o♪ voltaren. the joy of movement. ♪♪ mitchell reports."

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the trial of former white house chief strategist steve bannon is in recess until 1:00 after hearing anabout admissibl evidence. bannon's lawyers asked for a continuance which was turned gown. on monday, this was bannon's take on the january 6th hearings. >> i think when you have -- it

would have been more productive if we had been on capitol hill in front of open mikes addressing the nation with exactly all this nonsense, this show trial they have been putting up on capitol hill. it's nothing but a show trial. >> joining me now, pete williams and glen kershner. >> the issue is this. the judge has argued and has told the defense and limited the defense in this way. steve bannon cannot argue as a defense that he didn't have to comply with the subpoena because he was relying on the advice of his lawyer, he didn't have to comply because of executive privilege by trump. what the defense says is, well, the government wants to introduce a letter from bennie thompson to bannon's lawyer in which bennie thompson lays out a

recitation of those things. what bannon's lawyers say is you can't introduce that letter because it's hearsay. what the judge said is, well, maybe we could allow certain parts of it in and bannon could raise these points in a different way. the judge is saying, he can't raise it as a legal defense. he can't say, i'm not guilty because of those things. but he could say, with those factors in mind, bannon could say, i understood that the date for the subpoena compliance could get pushed out and was unclear and so i was confused about the date for the compliance. that's what this comes down to is, will bannon's defense of i didn't know what the final deadline was be allowed to talk about those other issues of privilege or not, and that's what they are trying to work

out. that's why the lawyers wanted awe continuance. wait a minute, i thought that was completely off the record. or completely out of the realm of possibility to refer to at all. the judge is suggesting there may be some way they can talk about it without using it as a legal defense. >> while we wait for that, we are waiting for -- for us all to see who is going to be seated as jurors. you were at court yesterday and today. where are they in that process? what are you hearing from the jurors as you watch the questioning? >> chris, i sat through jury selection yesterday. i would say the jurors can be put in two camps. there were quite a few who knew a lot about not only what happened on january 6 but the public hearings, they knew steve bannon. they were pretty comfortable sharing what were universally negative impressions of steve bannon. not surprisingly, the judge ended up excusing a lot of those

jurors because he concluded they had preconceived notions and they couldn't sit fairly and impartially and decide the evidence -- the case based only on the evidence introduced at trial. you have jurors who may have known something about bannon but they said, whatever i know, i can set aside. i can decide this case fairly based on the evidence. we are waiting to see how many of those end up making their way into the box. we thought at this point today we would have 12 jurors in the box. we would have been through opening statements. as pete said, the morning was taken up with legal wrangling over theed aadmissibility. he they can remove spr information and shield it from the jury. we will go back. we will see if we go to jury

selection and opening statement. the judge might give the parties a one-day continuance to absorb some of the new legal rulings and opening statements tomorrow. we will see at 1:00. >> what are you going to be looking for in those statements? >> the statements, chris, are pretty clear. bannon has no wiggle room to say, my lawyer was communicating with the j6 committee and a firm date for my appearance was set. steve bannon had to appear or run the risk of being held in context of congress. steve bannon's lawyers want to argue, maybe with the accommodation process, maybe it really wasn't a firm date. maybe it's malleable was the phrase we kept hearing in court. i think what the defense is going to have to do is try to pick off one or two jurors and hope for a mistrial. you can never prejudge what a jury is going to do.

bannon doesn't have much of a case. the evidence of guilt is pretty strong. i suspect the jury will probably end up convicting steve bannon. of course, it's never a sure thing when you are involved in a jury trial. >> never a sure thing. pete, what is at stake for steve bannon? >> potential jail time. the statutes here say that if a person is convicted, they face a fine and at least 30 days in jail. it's not -- this statute doesn't get much exercise because people are very rarely found to be in criminal contempt of congress. we will see whether that's construed at a minimum of 30 days. he could face up to a year on each count. there's no way he would serve that much time if he is convicted. there's another question here about -- because it refers to a common jail whether he could serve in home confinement or not.

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in southwest france, an area who than half the size of washington, d.c. is on fire. i want to bring in meagan fitzgerald in london. the last i checked, it was 102 fahrenheit. whatever it is, it's the hottest day in 363 years. how does it feel? how are people coping? >> reporter: chris, it's hot. like you mentioned, this country is not ready for temperatures like this. people are doing everything they can to stay cool. you see them behind me jumping into pools, into ponds, lakes, buying fans. the reality is, not everybody can do those things, which is why this is a crisis situation. this is why the government declared a state of emergency across the country as these temperatures soar, possibly past the 104 degrees fahrenheit today. also, we are seeing massive fires throughout london. one of them in particular is in east london happening right now. we know 15 firefighters -- 15

fire engines, rather, are on scene. 100 firefighters are trying to tacking this blaze. there's other fires breaking out throughout the city. i want to read this quote. this is a tweet from the london fire brigade. we have declared a major incident as firefighters battle several significant fires across the capital. another tweet from the mayor of london saying fire brigade declared a major incident. this is critical. we are seeing similar situations breaking out throughout europe. as you mentioned, fires breaking out in portugal as well as spain. temperatures have soared past the 114 degrees there. we know the new numbers coming in, that more than 1,000 people there have died because of the heat. in france, as you mentioned, a similar situation. europe is not out of the woods. we know this heat wave is expected to head towards germany and belgium where folks are bracing for record-setting temperatures at 104 degrees in the coming days.

>> thank you for that. let me bring in our meteorologist. any relief in sight? >> no. i was looking at one computer model that goes way in advance. it was saying for the next month at least, we will have above average temperatures. >> month? >> yeah. it's exceptionally hot. i have to -- give the uk thing the perspective. only 5% of people have air conditioning. why? the average high in the peak of the summer is the low 70s. today was 30 degrees warmer than it should be. they don't typically need air conditioning. that's why it's a big deal and why the dodge toll could be high. 1,000 lives have been lost between spain and portugal and the heat wave there over the last couple days. cambridge, 100. london, you were at 104.

that was the all-time hottest recorded in the uk and in england. london, 99. cooler air is on the way. dublin is at 72. that's why tomorrow will be considerably cooler. other temperatures right now, paris is 102. they are five, six hours ahead of us. temperatures are starting to drop as the sun is going down. we are at 99 in brussels, 95 in amsterdam. it's sliding into germany. you get the idea. it's moving and shifting. tomorrow, cooler in many places, especially london, paris, only 78. back home to the lower 48. we are dealing with our endless heat this summer, especially in areas of texas where the drought is out of control. stories about farmers and ranchers out there trying to sell off their cattle because no one is making hay. they can't feed their herds. that's how dire it is. it's not changing.

excessive heat warnings today. yesterday, 109 in dallas. today we will do it again. add up some of the numbers. 194, over half of the country is above 90. how many people are above 100? 340 million people in the country right now. 40 million of them will be above 100 degrees this afternoon. relentless heat today. dallas, another day about 109. this will be your fifth day this summer above 105 degrees. it's not quite as hot today in the dakotas as yesterday. it's the south that's baking. then some of the heat begins to slide to the east coast. it's warm today but not as humid in the northeast. tomorrow, the humidity builds. new york city is under the heat advisory tomorrow. as far as the forecast, it will be an official heat wave in new york city with 90s into the weekend. same in the d.c. area. you get the idea. this is the peak of the summer heat. what's happening is a very high, dry summer. one of the hottest we have had. it's not all-time hot like they

are seeing in europe. >> but in some places, as we just said, in the uk, how much of this can directly be linked to climate change? >> i think a lot of people say, it's the middle of summer. we have always had heat waves. yes, but climate scientists are sure and they have done computer modelling on this, that the heat waves are more extreme. portland, seattle, they had temperatures in british columbia that were smashing record highs. that's what we have done the last couple days in areas of uk. we know temperature is one of the things that's driven because of the greenhouse gases and the warming of the planet. tornadoes and relationship to more tornadoes, we don't have a good correlation on that. we know hurricanes are getting more intense because of the warmer ocean water. we don't know if the frequency is higher. some things we know are driven by climate change. we know extreme heat and extreme cold is a big factor because of

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watching for first in the democratic race for governor? >> this race, chris, is one of the democrats' best opportunities to pick up a governor mansion. larry hogan, the two-term governor of maryland, who is a republican, is term limited. you are seeing this group of democrats -- you are right, right now, the polling suggests it's a top three. it's largely breaking along experience versus outsider lanes. on the experience side, you have peter franchot, who is the controller of maryland. you have tom perez, who you will be interviewing shortly. the former dnc chairman, served in the obama justice department, was barack obama's labor secretary. then on the outsider lane, wes moore, someone familiar with msnbc viewers, best selling author. he has oprah winfrey narrating ads in his favor. those are the top three. some of the other democrats are

doug gainsler, as well as john king, who ended up serving as obama's education secretary in the final years of his presidency. >> what about the republicans who are running? >> this is set up as kind of that donald trump versus larry hogan proxy war. donald trump has endorsed dan cox. larry hogan's candidate is kelly schulz, his former commerce secretary in his administration. schulz has been advertising. the democratic governor association has been running ads saying dan cox is too conservative. he is pro life. he defends the second amendment. a lot of people see that as an effort to boost dan cox. people accuse the democrats are meddling in this. we see one of the classic kind

of donald trump versus a non-donald trump republican. we will see that tonight. >> there are house races, including the 4th district. >> donna edwards is another person who is very familiar to msnbc viewers. she ended up to serve this district or a reconfigured district before she ended up running for senate in 2016 and ended up losing. she's running for her old seat. what's interesting is that she's being outspent by nearly seven to one against her opponent and the allies, glen ivey. what is interesting here is that the group that has been pummeling her over the airwaves is affiliated with apac, the pro-israel organization. it has a lot of progressives calling foul. we have seen this organization advertise in other progressive versus establishment democratic

primaries across the country. the amount of money that's spent over the d.c. airways has been really, really high. >> making a lot of tv executives very happy at the local stations. mark murray, thank you so much, as always. joining me now is tom perez, former dnc chair and labor secretary, who is running for maryland governor. good to see you. why do you think this is such a close race right now? >> well, there was a large field. voters were taking their time to do their homework. the reason i feel very confident right now is they have done their homework, and part of the homework was looking at "the washington post" and "baltimore sun" editorials. both issued very fully-throated endorsements of our campaign. what we have seen in the work we have done is that maryland voters are sick of the gridlock in washington. they want someone here who can get stuff done. i'm a proud member of the gsd

wing of the democratic party. we have to address education, crime, health care, climate change. we need a governor who will take quick action on protecting women's reproductive health and the aftermath of the terrible supreme court decision. i feel very good. i come to you today with optimism, knowing that it's going to be a close race. >> all those things you have done before and that people know you for, you have good name recognition, dnc chair, labor secretary. those also are part of why you are considered an establishment candidate. could that hurt you in a race at a time when polls show voters are really unhappy with the way things are going? >> voters that i talk to aren't talking about labels. they are talking about, can you get my health care? people lost loved ones to covid, lost health care, they lost jobs. their neighborhood school isn't working for them. there's crime challenges. they are asking the question, who can get the job done day

one? that's why we are doing so well. as a former federal prosecutor, i understand crime challenges and how to deal with them. as somebody who worked on health care issues as part of obamacare, i know how to make sure we become the first state in the country where everyone has quality, affordable health insurance. people aren't concerned about labels. what they have been impressed with is, worked in state government, local government, federal level. we have gotten stuff down. it's not just any old stuff. it's stuff that matters to people. they want to see results. they want someone who can actually improvement their lives. they don't see that happening with sufficiency at a federal level. they see i can hit the ground running day one. i don't need an apprenticeship program. i'm not the show horse in the race. i'm the workhorse. >> you do have ads that feature obama, speaking highly of you.

he has not endorsed you. would that help? >> again, our first ad was featuring president obama talking about my tenure as labor secretary. the ad speaks for itself. i'm proud of the fact that he noted that i was one of the best labor secretaries in american history. i'm proud of the support we have gotten at a local level. community activists. nationally known figures like speaker nancy pelosi. the ad from president obama speaks for itself insofar as people want really, really competent leadership that's going to have their back, share their values and get stuff done. that's exactly what i have done throughout my career. >> let me ask you to take your hat as a candidate off for a minute and put on your expertise that you certainly grew in all those ways you talked about, but particularly as dnc chair. what is the message coming out of this going to be nationally, do you think? are there things you are going

to be watching, your campaign is going to be watching for that will give you some idea of sort of the national mood and where democrats may be headed? >> our democracy is on fire, chris. it's a five alarm blaze. what we have seen from the most recent supreme court decisions, whether it's overturning the 49-year precedent of roe v. wade or a day later or two days later in the gun cases, what we have seen is that states need to lead. justice brandeis said that states are laboratories of democracy. i don't think he had texas and florida in mind when he said that. i want to make sure that maryland becomes one of those. >> how do you judge that? do you judge that by turnout? >> we are working -- we judge that by making sure he would speak to the issues that people are seriously concerned about. my experience meets the moment. voters are worried about crime, they are worried about jobs,

climate change, worried about health care. they want someone who can be that multi-tasker in chief. we need to show we can get stuff done. i'm optimistic about november. look at the issues of women's reproductive health, the issues of gun safety. we have to do a better job as a national democratic party of articulating and communicating our accomplishments. joe biden inherited messes. america is better off because of the american rescue plan, because of his leadership in ukraine. that's what we have to tell voters about. >> tom perez, thank you for taking the time. good luck tonight, appreciate it. >> thank you. next hour, i will speak with the other leading candidates for the democratic gubernatorial ticket in maryland. stay tuned for that. first, wrongfully detained. high profile americans held

overseas. what the white house announced today in an effort to bring them home and how the families are reacting. this is "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc. s "andrel s "andrel reports" that's why we recommend salonpas. it's good medicine.

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. today, president biden is issuing a new executive order to bolster efforts to bring american hostages and wrongful detainees home. detainees like wnba superstar, brittney griner, who has been held in russia since february and pled guilty to drug smuggling charges in the hopes it would speed her release. doug whelan who has been held since 2018 accused of spying. it comes as several hostage families are in washington this

week as part of the bring our families home campaign. josh, what do we know about this executive order, what does it exactly do? i guess, bottom line, does it have any teeth. >> that is the bottom line. an unanswered question right now, because we know this executive order does things like allow the u.s. government to impose sanctions, financial penalties and visa bans on people who are believed to be involved in hostage taking. but then you look at a place like russia, where there are unprecedented economic sanctions on russia already. yet still brittney griner sits in a russian jail, according to the u.s. government, wrongfully detained. it's unclear whether that type of step will deter more hostage taking in the future. in the meantime, president biden including in this executive order steps to improve information sharing by the u.s. government with the families of hostages about the condition of their loved ones and u.s.

efforts to try to bring them home. there's a new state department designation that will be added to travel warnings that go out so people can know where in the world they're at higher risk for hostage taking of american citizens. places like china, iran, myanmar, north korea and venezuela where there's been a history of hostage taking of u.s. citizens in the past. >> it's impossible to know what it's like to be a family member. a spokesperson for the group has been critical of the biden administration. they say the administration is taking executive action to direct itself to follow existing law, and they're waiting for a rely for their opportunity to meet with president biden. >> clearly, this order that president biden signed today, even though he did it behind closed doors, not on camera where we could see, it was an attempt to show they're taking

this issue seriously. we know ahead all of this pressure from families for the president to do more, in recent weeks he has spoken with relatives of gritny griner, of paul whelan and others, clearly many of these families are saying the fact there's a growing number of u.s. hostages is a problem and it shows the u.s. government is not doing enough about it and they feel the steps president biden has taken today are still insufficient. >> josh, always good to see you. that's going to do it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." i'm back with more in a moment including this life-threatening heat wave. president biden said to be considering a national climate emergency. we'll speak with a leading climate behavioral scientist right after this. e behavioral st e behavioral st right after this try the cooling, soothing relief or preparation h. because your derriere deserves expert care. preparation h. get comfortable with it.

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i could spend the entire hour talking about the devastating impact of this deadly heat just today, but here's just a few examples of what we're seeing. in the u.s., excessive heat warnings are up in at least eight states including most of texas and nearly all of oklahoma and arkansas. almost 90 major fires fueled by heat and drought are burning right now across the u.s. take a look at this. this is not california, this is france. excessive heat left pine forests in this country bone dry allowing wildfires to spread across more than 70 square miles, that's larger than washington, d.c. and it's a similar story across europe. more than 1,000 heat-related deaths have been reported in spain and portugal. 1,000. italy's longest river is slowly running dry as the country faces its worst drought in decades. in the uk, temperatures rose to 104. more than 30 degrees above normal shattering records in a