♪♪ welcome back to "morning joe." it is the top of the fourth hour of "morning joe," 9:00 a.m. on the east coast, 6:00 a.m. out west. live pictures of los angeles for you this morning. jonathan lemire and elise jordan are still with us for the hour. we have a lot to get to, including the big story we've been covering all morning. the secret service text messages from around the time of the january 6th attack on the us capitol were deleted despite requests from congress and federal investigators that they be preserved. we'll have the latest on that in just a moment. also ahead, new details on the war in ukraine as the white house says it has intelligence indicating russia is taking

steps to annex parts of the country. the former president of ukraine about this latest news. and cancelled, chronic delays, scores of lost luggage. can this summer's travel woes get any worst? one small airplane has a possible solution to all of this. we start with the growing controversy over the secret service text messages and the january 6th attack on the capitol. a source tells nbc news the secret service has no new text messages related to the january 6th insurrection to hand over to the house select committee investigating the attack. that revelation comes after an inspector general informed the committee the secret service had deleted text messages from january 5th and 6th, 2021.

the committee issued a subpoena for those records last week. the source tells nbc news that the secret service plans to do a, quote, forensic examination of agents' phones identified in the inspector general's report, but added the agency does not expect it will yield any relevant e-mails or other records. the national archives has asked the secret service to investigate the potential unauthorized deletion of the text messages. if the secret service determines that any text messages were improperly deleted, the agency must send the national archives a report within 30 days documenting the deletion. >> this is, again, mika, this is a growing scandal. it should be a growing scandal. they knew exactly what they were doing. >> or what they were not doing. >> they understood what january

5th and january 6th meant to this country. they understood just like the people that were at pearl harbor on the morning of december 7th, 1941, understood the importance of that. we should respond to this the same way we would respond to people running the base at pearl harbor burning all relevant documents on those days leading up to that attack, trying to figure out why that happened. could you imagine if we had deleted texts, deleted e-mails, deleted information leading up to september 11th? here we are with january 6th. we have the people who could let us know what donald trump knew, when he knew it, where he moved, when he moved, why he moved. same thing with mike pence. all of these questions right now that we're having to sort through, they had it on their text messages.

they were told to turn those text messages over and they deleted them. again, somebody -- >> or they didn't stop the reset that was happening. still kind of shocked that information, any information that is on a government issued phone or e-mail would be deleted forever. i don't understand how that happens in this day and age. >> mika, they were on notice not to delete them. they were on notice to preserve records from january 5th and january 6th and they didn't do it. >> we're also learning new details about tomorrow's prime time january 6th committee hearing. a source tells nbc news former deputy white house press secretary sarah matthews and member of the national security council during the trump administration matthew pottinger are expected to testify live.

both were among a wave of trump officials who resigned after the attack on the capitol. it would be the first time either witness has testified publicly before the panel. we've also learned tomorrow's hearing will focus on a minute by minute account of what former president trump was doing during the attack. and we're expecting to see more videotape testimony from former trump white house council pat cipallone. let's bring in democratic congressman david cicilline from rhode island. he was an impeachment manager for donald trump's first impeachment trial in 2019. he's a member of the house judiciary and foreign affairs committees. so many questions for the congressman. >> i have to get your reaction to the fact that the secret service understood what was at

stake on getting those text messages to congress and the inspector general on january 5th and january 6th when there were physical altercations inside the president's automobile. there was a riot going on. there was an attempted fascist takeover of the united states government, overthrow of the united states government, overthrow of a peaceful election. the secret service deleted the texts. they say, we can only get you one. i'm sorry, but for a secret service that it's been reported was highly politicized by donald trump, obviously there's some disturbing questions out there that have to be answered. what do you want to know first? >> this is a shocking revelation. the secret service has the responsibility, of course, to maintain those records, particularly because they received a letter directing them to do so. but i think the january 6th

committee will do a thorough investigation of exactly what happened here. the american people have a right to know. this is a law enforcement agency that has enjoyed the respect of the american people for a very long time but this is deeply, deeply troubling and we need to get to the bottom of it. you simply can't allow important, critical documents to just disappear. i think you're going to see a very thorough investigation of this. the january 6th committee will insist that be conducted and that that information be made available. >> we always respected the secret service, always had great respect for those men and women who protect the president of the united states and other elected officials and risk their own lives. they've had our trust and confidence in the past, but obviously something is wrong over there. maybe it's leadership.

should the leaders of the secret service be brought to the hill to testify to explain hy they destroyed information that you all needed to continue the investigation? >> unfortunately we have seen many of the institutions of our great democracy be politicized during those four years of donald trump. he did it at the justice department, the most revered institution in the law, and all throughout the government. so this is some of the consequences of the last administration. but we now have a new president and those individuals responsible for those decisions ought to come and explain what happened, not only for the congress, but for the american people so they understand fully what occurred and why those materials are no longer available, if in fact that's the case. >> in just about an hour the house judiciary committee will take action on new legislation aimed at curbing gun violence in this country for the first time in two decades. the committee will hold a markup on measures that would ban the

sale, import, manufacture or transfer of certain semiautomatic weapons. congressman, you sponsored the bill. it has 211 cosponsored in the house. that's just five shy of the 216 supporters required to get it through the lower chamber. what's the chances you get this through? >> well, we're at 213 sponsors, including me, so we're very close. i think there's no question we'll pass it today out of the judiciary committee and it will come to the floor and be passed in the house. these are military style weapons that are designed for the battlefield to kill as many people as quickly as possible. they are the weapon of choice in mass shootings. six times as many people are shot when an assault style military weapon is used. they don't belong in our communities. we know it works. when we had the assault weapons ban, there was a significant

drop in shootings and fataliies resulting from shootings. we have a responsibility to keep the american people safe from gun violence and an assault weapons ban is part of that. it's the first time in almost 30 years we've done that in congress. >> is it just to lay down that marker because it would be the first time it passed in the house of representatives in three decades? >> not only that. the american people are demanding we do more to protect them and their families from gun violence. the last four mass shootings all involved someone who walked into a store and bought a military style assault weapon and killed lots of people. if we're only going to pass things in the house we know would pass in the senate, i could spend the last four months in rhode island. our job is to deliver them and

the senate can answer to why they're not moving these bills, but that is not going to deter us from doing our job. that is to get these military weapons of war that were designed to kill people on battlefields out of our neighborhoods, schools and communities. >> congressman, what are the sticking points with your republican colleagues when it comes to supporting this bill? >> well, i don't think there are sticking points. we have a republican party that does not support any common sense gun safety legislation. just a week ago we passed the active shooter alert that is simply an amber alert so if there's an active shooting, got forbid, at your child's school, you receive an alert on your telephone so you don't go into that situation. 140 republicans voted against that bill, just to notify their constituents, because they don't want to take any measure that the gun lobby will oppose. i think they don't support

anything, any common sense proposals. they don't support universal background checks. i think they are a wholly owned subsidiary of the gun lobby in this country. they are interested in allowing the proliferation of guns across this country. the democratic party is stepping up to protect people from gun violence. they are going to argue this is the first step of taking away your guns. it's not. nobody's gun is taken away. they argue we need these guns for hunting. that's also not true. they're military grade. the american people by a two-thirds majority want assault weapons banned from their community and we're going to take that step today. >> thank you very much for being on this morning. up next, the families of more than 64 americans being held hostage or wrongfully detained overseas will hold a press conference today, a day after president biden signed a

new executive order aimed at strengthening efforts to bring them home. a reporter who spent 544 days in an iranian prison charges of espionage will join us to talk about this. later today, the ukrainian first lady will address congress. her speech coming after the u.s. government is raising alarms over russian plans to annex portions of ukraine. also, the former president of ukraine, poroshenko will be here when "morning joe" returns. ukraine, poroshenko will be here shingles doesn't care. we've still got the best moves you've ever seen good for you, but shingles doesn't care. because 1 in 3 people will get shingles, you need protection. but, no your risk for getting shingles.

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17 past the hour. testimony continues today in steve bannon's contempt of congress trial. a federal prosecutor told jurors in opening statements yesterday that bannon, quote, decided he

was above the law when he ignored two subpoenas from the january 6th committee. the prosecutor said cooperation with the committee, quote, wasn't a request and it wasn't an invitation. it was mandatory. bannon's legal team argued that the dates on the subpoena were not fixed and open to negotiation. the government's first witness, a staffer for the january 6th committee, told jurors the panel was investigating accounts that bannon played multiple roles related to the january 6th attack and suggested he may have had advanced knowledge of events that day. that staffer is expected back on the stand when the trial resumes later this morning. >> of course, subpoenas, the request is not optional. it's not a take it or leave it sort of thing. you get subpoenaed by congress. you have to show up. and he didn't do it. it seems like a pretty open and shut case.

>> definitely. i do wander, though, how much of this is simple fear in his part and trying to insert himself into a bigger part of the drama than he actually was. that's why the firsthand testimony is so critical. >> jonathan lemire, it's so interesting that elise just said that, because of course, he wanted to call members of congress. no, you can't do that. it's irrelevant. >> members of the committee. >> i guess yesterday afterwards he was going on and on about the fact that they didn't show up and why didn't they show up. they didn't show up because the judge said they didn't have to show up. maybe that's why he wears so many shirts. maybe it's trying to distract from the basics. wait, didn't the judge tell him members of congress couldn't be compelled to come here.

why is that dude wearing 12 shirts? jonathan lemire, you take it. >> i wasn't listening. i was too busy looking at bannon's shirts. bannon embraces the idea of being a maga martyr. he wanted to hijack that. he wanted to be what donald trump says has been missing, people going on television defending him during these proceedings. bannon was willing to do that. bannon was trying to play a big part in these proceedings and trying to take them off the rails. he did play a central role in a lot of the scheming around january 6th. he had fallen in and out of trump's favor. but by the time in that post election window, he was firmly back in the president's good graces. they spoke on the phone on january 5th. he was part of the willard hotel war room. he talked about it extensively

on his podcast. most experts believe he will be found guilty in a fewer number of days than outer layers he is sporting. >> look at these pictures. i think we now know what he means when he was talking about going medieval at trial. you look at these pictures. these are past shots. these are file photos. he's only got one ballpoint pen clipped between his second and third button. you look at the press conference. i don't know why you're laughing. this is serious. you look at the press conference yesterday. does he have three ballpoint pens? >> i think it's three. >> you should get him a pocket protector. help a guy out. send him a pocket protector. >> i don't know. i think for him this is going medieval, three pens clipped between the second and third

button. i've never seen anybody do that. again, the fashion states just keep coming. you know, mika, he owns it. like lemire said, he owns it. he may be going to jail, but he's going -- >> okay. i'm going to move on you don't mind. >> that guy is going full medieval. >> i get it. he wants you to talk about something else. >> do you think i could clip four pens? let me see. hold on a second. one -- >> joe. >> i tell you what, you read the news. [ laughter ] >> why don't you go ahead and do the next story and i'll see how this works out. >> okay. we're going to be talking later. president biden has signed a new executive order aimed at

strengthening efforts to bring wrongfully detained americans home. it allows the administration to impose sanctions and visa bans on those involved with wrongfully detaining and taking americans hostage abroad. joining us now, global opinions writer for the "washington post" jason resign, who in 2014 was arrested and held in an iranian prison for 18 months on charges of espionage. he's also a producer on the documentary on the crisis, titled "bring him home." you write about the president's executive order in an op-ed in the "washington post." let me read from it, if i could. president biden just declared the hostage taking and wrongful detention of american nationals abroad by foreign governments a national emergency, confirming that those of us who follow the

issue closely already knew. two developments in recent months have given the threats new urgency. the first a ground breaking effort led by loved ones of americans currently detained by different governments around the world. but undoubtedly the biggest event that has put the problem on the national agenda is the five month long detention of wnba superstar britney griner. as a hostage survivor and the subject of a high profile campaign for my release, i understand the incredible burden placed on those fighting to get the u.s. government to work on their behalf. by declaring wrongful detention and hostage-taking an urgent national priority, biden made an important commitment to listen and stand with those who, while deeply affected, continue to fight for the freedom and well-being of their loved ones. is it enough? what will this do to change the

situation, to change the fate of people like britney griner, who are being held right now? >> well, mika, thank you so much for having me on. it's a really important issue and important question. the short answer is, the executive order in itself isn't going to magically bring anybody home. but what this does is elevates this issue that is affecting very personally several dozen u.s. families to the national agenda. in the executive order, president biden writes that hostage-taking is an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy and economy of the united states of america. that's a really important distinction from the idea that, okay, these are just random americans who are being held by foreign governments, there's nothing we can do about it. this is really an attack on our way of life. these countries that do this are using their opaque judicial

systems to abuse fellow americans, and there's a cost to it. i think this is an important step by the u.s. government on a long continuum of steps it's been taking for almost a decade. but there's still a lot of work to be done. >> jason, when you were undergoing your imprisonment, of course, you had a family that fought hard to keep the message out front. the "washington post" did the same. there are so many people, though, that you bring up such a great point, so many people arrested and detained wrongfully across the globe that americans just don't know about. we all obviously have been following closely the story of britney griner, basketball star. everything is being done to get her out. but the family of paul whalen goes, wait a second, our loved one has been gone for a very long time. i'm sure they're grateful that all of this talk is starting up.

but if you don't work for the "washington post," if you're not a wnba star, sometimes you just fade into the woodwork. >> definitely. that's one of the reasons why i've committed so much time and column inches in the "washington post" to this issue, because i realize that other people aren't going to have the benefit of the kind of campaign that i did or that britney griner does right now. i want to point out that within the hour, a massive mural is going to be unveiled in georgetown with the faces of 18 of these americans who are currently being wrongfully detained. >> oh wow. >> we do whatever we can to make as many americans aware of other americans being held hostage abroad as possible. because ultimately what i learned in my case and reporting on it after the fact is that people come home when this rises up the agenda of the president

of the united states. i think this executive order yesterday from president biden is an important indication that he recognizes that this is a problem that's getting worse and worse and is going to work with different u.s. government and law enforcement agencies, but also the community of people who are working on the issue to find solutions for it. i think, you know, there's two challenges when it comes to hostage-taking. one, the safe and quick return of american citizens and, two, how do you deter this practice moving forward. a lot of people think that the two are sort of antithetical to each other. i think we can walk and chew gum statement, work to bring people home and cultivate tools to make accountability and deterrence

tools that allow legislatures to take real action against actors in the world involved in what is really a medieval and heinous practice. >> thank you so much. we really appreciate you being on this morning. >> i appreciate you guys for giving the air space to it. >> absolutely and we will continue. thank you. coming up, former ukrainian president petro poroshenko joins us after the u.s. warns that russia has planned to annex more of the country in sham elections. also ahead, a major florida newspaper pens a scathing editorial against governor ron desantis, calling him a bully and as authoritarian as trump. >> that will help him with the base. t will help him with the j. and mine's unlisted. try boost® high protein

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33 past the hour. airlines have seen an increased number of flight cancellations this summer as more and more americans are looking to travel. one factor contributing to the

cancellations has been a shortage of pilots. now, one airline says it might have a quick solution. nbc's tom costello has that story. >> reporter: 5,000 feet over indianapolis and the newest student pilots who could one day fly you cross country are learning the basics just as the national pilot shortage has led to massive flight cancellations this summer. now republic airways, which flies smaller regional flights for united, delta and american, says its pilot training is so good, with even more, its graduated should be treated the same as military pilots, who can qualify for commercial pilots license with just 750 hours. brian bedford is petitioning the faa. you say your training is just as good as the military's.

>> using more technology, more flight simulation. we can do the exact same thing. working with the military, we can build a better model than what we have today. >> republic's lift academy trains 200 students a year in both planes and simulators. kayleigh price's dad was a ups pilot. now she's learning to fly. what does this career offer that entices you? >> the freedom, honestly. it really is the most freeing feeling in the entire world being up in the air. >> reporter: after 12 months graduates typically become instructors or charter pilots to rack up the required flight hours. becoming a pilot isn't cheap, typically costing $100,000 to $200,000. as a flight attendant, satrina simmons dreamed of becoming a

pilot. now she's a first officer. >> honestly, it is the best decision i think i've ever made. it was the right career decision for me. >> reporter: how good is republic's academy? republic says its training is far more intense and far more specific to commercial airliners. as a result, it says that training rivals military training. >> we're not training private or recreational pilots. we're training mission specific commercial airline pilots. >> reporter: today the nation's biggest pilot's union, airline ceos, even the faa oppose republic's petition to change the rules. >> right now we have these requirements based on safety judgments. i haven't seen any change in the safety rationale for that. >> that's nbc's tom costello with the report.

of course there's some very exciting stories in there. i hope those that are training get to be pilot one day of an airline. i just hope they do it under the regulations we have right now. if you look at the numbers, mika, flying in the united states is extraordinarily safe, the safest it has ever been and one of the reasons why it is so safe is we've learned from some tragic mistakes. >> yeah. >> just the sadness, the tragedy of the 2009 crash, we saw pilots put through really tough conditions that were not getting enough sleep, that were not making enough money. so this country has stepped in, leaders have stepped in. it's tough to become a commercial pilot. and that's a good thing.

it's, of course, inconvenient right now for all of us as we're having this post covid shortage. but no, we don't need to lessen the requirements for pilots that are flying millions of people around this country. let's turn now to one of this morning's must read opinion pages. florida's sun sentinel editorial board writing trump's group weakens, but that's bad news for florida. it writes, anyone who admires desantis from afar should come to florida with eyes wide open. after winning by just 32,000 votes, he has governed with contempt by the 4 million people who didn't vote for him. he is as authoritarian as trump, just as disdainful of democracy,

no less polarizing. desantis is a bully. no florida governor has been as ruthless or effective in dominating his state, owning the legislature and trampling dissent. the present republican party has no shortage of qualified governors or ex-governors to nominate, all who won election or reelection in blue states by governing from the center, not from the dark extremes. the party's post trump future rightfully belongs to people like them, not to the intentionally divisive, polarizing and humorless desantis. voters in america's other 49 states take note. >> this is great news for ron desantis. he loves owning the libs. he loves when he's attacked in the media. but this authoritarian streak is fascinating. two things about desantis, one

is the fact that if you ask most people if he's a conservative, they say, well, of course he's a conservative. and yet he doesn't let small businesses decide how they keep their workplaces safe because it doesn't fit his political agenda. even at the height of covid, he would not let cruise lines take what steps they thought as private employers they needed to take to keep their cruise lines safe. you could talk the same thing about local school boards. you could talk so many things where the decisions are centralized. the centralized state tells everybody in all 67 counties what they're going to do, how they're going to do it. there's nothing conservative about that. you actually want to empower local school boards and principals, teachers, small business owners. he just doesn't view it that

way. the second thing, though, it's hard to remember, but ron desantis started as a conservative republican governor who reached out to the middle and to democrats. pre-covid, he had approval ratings in the 60s and was getting praised by a lot of democrats who said this guy's trying to govern from the middle. >> that changed because his goals changed. governor desantis has staked oppositions to the right of donald trump on a number of issues, most notably covid. that has manifested itself in this top down government structure where all decisions are made from tallahassee for the rest of the counties, which seems antithetical to what a

traditional republican does. he wants to even go further than donald trump. you know, he has fought with school boards, local health groups and cruise ships. he fought with disney. he has been very good at generating headlines. he has become the new darling of fox news and of people who might like trump but feel he is too backward looking and feel like he's not the choice for 2024. i spoke to a close adviser of the former president whose basic message was bring it on. they think they would still defeat desantis easily. coming up, vladimir putin appears to have found a new ally in iran. we'll talk to former ukrainian president petro poroshenko about that and what it could mean for

the ongoing war. that and what it could mean for the ongoing war.

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i think looking back, one of the things that i said was we cannot go into a war zone and come back and not feel the sorrow and the pain of the people, the mothers and the children and we spent some time with them. >> first lady jill biden meeting with ukraine's first lady at the white house speaking of their last meeting in ukraine on mother's day. president joe biden also joined them and presented zelenskyy with a bouquet of flowers that were the colors of the ukrainian

flag. she is set to address congress later this morning. the white house says it has new information that russia is planning to declare ownership of additional ukrainian territory, including forcing residents to apply for russian citizenship and making the ruble the official currency. here is national security spokesman john kirby briefing reporters yesterday. >> russia is beginning to role out a version of what you could call an annexation playbook very similar to what we saw in 2014. first these proxy officials will arrange sham referendum on joining russia and use it as a basis to try to claim sovereign ukraine territories. the russian document is reviewing detailed plans to reportedly annex a number of regions in ukraine including

kherson, all of donetsk and luhansk. >> joining us now the former president of ukraine petro poroshenko. i know you were visiting the front lines this week. we want to hear about your experiences there. but, first, can you please respond to these reports that russia is planning on annexation of certain regions of your country? >> thank you very much for the invitation and for keeping ukraine very high on your agenda. secondly, it's extremely important that the understanding that putin did not stop in ukraine, putin did not stop in kherson, donetsk and the rest. definitely putin go further. this is the war not against ukraine. this is the war against the whole rest of the world.

how we can stop putin, three things, weapons, weapons and weapons. i really very much counted the meeting with the anti-putin coalition when we need more weapons when i see during my visit weapons when i see during my visi operation, and i see high efficiency, ukrainian soldiers are using their western h howitzer, stopping the russian arsenal, stopping the russian offensive and we need more i want to make a special sense to the united states for the himars, already 50 himars have and if we keeping, we receive more.

definitely, this has been our soldiers waiting and definitely russia afraid. this makes a difference. i'm very proud what i see in areas. i see lots of victims of ukrainians, which was killed during the last 48 hours. this is just a demonstration, russian army and what a genocide he starts against ukrainians. at the same time, we are very decisive. ukrainian soldiers are motivated and we definitely never accept. you asking ukrainian soldiers, please, thank united states for their himars and ask more. >> mr. president, you talked about how the ukrainians are destroying russia's arsenal.

we spoke earlier this morning, when i asked him how he thought the war wassk going on the grou, he actually mocked the russians and said how sad it was that putin had to go to iran, hat in hand, begging for more drones because the russians who were supposed to be this great and mighty army didn't have enough weapons of their own to carry out their fight against the ukrainians. and he said the russians lost on so many fronts already. president battle of kyiv and so many other battles. i'm curious, what are your feelings about how things are going on the ground right now strategically? are the russians at the brink of exhaustion or is this going to be a long, hard slog? >> i'm very happy to hear the wordspp of my friend. and i think that the visit of putin toin iran demonstrates tw

things. number one, the isolation of putin by anti-putin coalition in the world is working. and putin stay with a limited number of friends, including iran, north korea. we need to have more sanctions and sanctions would be more severed just to push putin to stop. and to feed ukrainian. number two, this is russian soldiers exhausted? no. at the same time, hundreds of russian soldiers refusing to go to ukraine, even prepared to go to prison than to ukraine. this is another sign of the efficiency of the ukrainian army together with the western weapons. and point number three, what i see with my own hands on the

east of my country. i was there with another friend of ukraine, the -- one of the members of the coalition, one of the leaders. with that situation, i want to use this opportunity to invite to the east of ukraine, american congressmen, american leaders, and i am even ready to be together with them, shoulder to shoulder, deliver them to the front line with their own eyes, you will see what is there, what price ukraine paid for this disastrous aggression and how need to be when they introduce new sanction, including the sanction, for example, pushing putin not only to stop the war but to deblock the ukrainian black sea port and wese need to arrest the russian

commercial, do not stop the port,co do not make danger of hunger with the big -- millions -- hundreds of millions around the globe which is really the purposend of putin. once again, more visit to ukraine. let's go together to the v fron line.et let's inform the world how disastrous is this war. >> former president of ukraine, petro porchenko, thank you for being on. this is how british prime minister boris johnson signed off from his final prime minister's questions.oh >> mission largely accomplished. for now. i want to thank you. mr. speaker, i want to thank all the wonderful staff i want to thank my royal colleagues and friends opposite. mr. speaker, i want to thank

everybody here. and asta lavista, baby. >> really put that up there with i've just begun to fight. r old soldiers never die, they justbe fade away. ith mean, now asta lavista, bab. boris johnson says good-bye as only boris johnson could. >> boris johnson wore out his own welcome with his own party. that was not a churcillian good-bye. >> that does it for us. i know you want to help us say good-bye to kat. >> we will miss you. >> going to a different chapter in her career.

she's obviously made your lives and everybody who comes on the show so much easier, right? >> we love you so much. we're going to miss you a ton, too. >> yeah. she's terrific. terrific to work o.with. and a dear friend. we will miss her. congratulations. excited for what's next. >> and proud of her. >> sot. excited. >> that does it for us. we pick up msnbc's coverage after a quick final break. we pick upom war, dreaming of the possibilities ahead. ♪♪ where your dad waited for his dad to come home from the factory. after a quick final break. ancestry can guide you to family discoveries in the 1950 census. see what you can uncover at ancestry. after switching to the farmer's dog we noticed so many improvements in remi's health. his allergies were going away and he just had amazing energy.

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good morning. it's 10:00 a.m. eastern. i'm lindsey reiser in for jose diaz-balart. more than 100 million people across the u.s. are facing dangerous temperatures amid a sweltering heat wave. today president biden is expected to announce executive actions addressing climate change. also this hour, house democrats are trying to advance a bill that would ban assault weapons. we'll have the latest from capitol hill. the house january 6th committee preparing for tomorrow's prime time public hearing. the g