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 growing controversy over

those secret service text messages that the committee wants to see. plus, 17 members of congress arrested at a rally for abortion rights. we'll speak with one of them. congresswoman sara jacobs. this morning 100 million americans are waking up to heat alerts and oppressive temperatures. the scorching conditions will be felt from coast to coast with some regions seeing triple digits. in dallas temperatures could reach 107 degrees by this afternoon. it will reach 100 in memphis. and new york could see 94 degrees. meanwhile, as the chances of passing climate action in congress look increasingly dim, a white house official tells nbc news president biden will announce executive action today. the president will deliver remarks at a former coal-fired power plant in massachusetts where he'll announce actions on

the wind industry as well as funding to protect low income communities grappling with extreme heat. across the atlanta, european nations without the infrastructure to grapple with this heat, in london trains are canceling as the heat damages tracks and emergency crews are working around the clock to put out wildfires in light of the scorching temperatures and dry conditions. the london fire brigade has not been this busy, they say, since world war ii. joining us with the very latest, sam brock in dallas, texas, and michelle grossman. sam, how much strain is this putting on the power grid there in texas? >> reporter: among experts, lindsey, good to be with you, who study this issue, they're concerned. if you look actually at the energy providers themselves, they say we're fine. it was 109 yesterday.

they project 107 today. this is a real-time gauge which shows green. this is how much energy is available, the reserves in the system. people here might use 79,000 or 80,000. it's about a 5% or 6% margin. should something happen to some of the generation, that could dip below 3,000. that's when those alerts start getting sent out to people to try to conserve their energy. it doesn't take that much. back on may 13th, a half dozen generators in the state were tripped up. it went offline. as that's happening, it's only a fraction of the overall generation, maybe 1%. that was enough to trigger it below 3,000. it's really that thin. take into consideration the overall aging of the infrastructure. this is not specific to just texas but a problem in texas. 30 to 50 years old are many of the coal and gas sxlants they have not been properly

maintained because experts tell me there is not a structure in place in terms of how the market sells energy here for them to do so. there's no insentization. they're aging, so the population is growing in texas. the infrastructure and the power generation has decreased over that time. that's how you get into trouble. >> if those margins are so small and the conditions are so dangerous, what should people be doing so they don't trip up those alerts? >> reporter: we are seeing on the ground a number of efforts here, really at the county level from dallas to reach out to people who are elderly, see if their air conditioning units are, whoing with all right. going door to door, knocking to find out if folks are okay. to wear sunscreen, staying hydrated. if you just move to texas and not accustom to 107 or 108, it's something you want to have in the back of your mind. of course, the kids aren't there right now. they were just playing in the splash pad. water helps to bring the core body temperature down. we've seen a lot of folks doing that at cooling centers throughout the city. also available but the key is to

stay out of the sun during peak hours as is soars higher and higher. dallas registered a daily double, which is to say the highest recorded temperature they've ever seen, 109, but the warmest low temperatures, 84 is as low as it got. it is hot. all day long. all night. >> sam goes for you and your crew, sam, making sure you find shade and stay safe. michelle, when does this heat wave end? >> we're looking for this heat wave to continue on and on. that's the problem, we're seeing really high temperatures it, high humidity but it's lasting long. that's where we see the stress on the body. the records from yesterday. 115 in wichita falls. oklahoma city, 110. abilene, 110. that's hard to imagine. when you're out there for an extended period of time, it can cause problems. we're looking at the dangerous heat through friday. 100 million people impacted through the west and southwest. we're looking at temperatures

into the 90s in parts of the northeast. so, for today we'll soar into the 100s, soar into the 90s again. this is the heat index. this is what you want to look at. this is what your body feels like. it will feel like 115 in little rock. 104 in indianapolis. feeling like 103 in birmingham. as we go throughout the northeast, we'll get in on the action in new york city, philadelphia, d.c., the big cities. 97 is what it will feel like in new york city. it will feel like close to 100 in philadelphia. same story tomorrow. we'll see no relief. it will feel like 105 in philadelphia. 100 degrees will be the heat index. new york city, same story as we slide back to the central and southern plains. i want to point this out. 99 will be the high temperature tomorrow. not to the triple digits. we saw 109 yesterday. there's some relief there. still, that's really hot. 104 in san antonio. europe, we were talking about that, too. this is not just a u.s. thing. it's a global thing. better news in parts of northern europe. we'll see some relief today with temperatures only in the 70s. that's good news after

temperatures in the triple digits. they set an all-time record high in the you can, 104.5. and broke 34 other records. paris into the 70s. madrid, rome, looking at temperatures into the 90s. lindsey, i want to mention this, too. we have a fuel for the storms. that's the heat, the humidity. we have a cold front moving through. that's the spark for these storms. we'll be watching the chance for really strong storms this afternoon from detroit to cincinnati down to louisville where we could see the chance of tornadoes. winds gusting to 60 miles an hour. damaging hail as well. 21 million people at risk. that is today. this slides off to the east tomorrow. then 33 million people at rick for damaging winds, hail, chance of an isolated tornado. that stretches from new england down to parts of the southeast. you're familiar with the summertime storms, the downpours. we're looking at chances of localized flooding. and hot and dry in the northwest. this is going to continue to go

on and on. >> i'm from phoenix. a reporter, you have to drink water, the fatigue is real. thanks. we are also tracking a ton on capitol hill. it is shaping up to be a very busy day. this hour the house is going to start marking up a bill on an assault weapons ban. while the senate is holding a hearing on mass shootings. next hour, ukraine's first lady will speak to congress. and democrats in congress are trying to enshrine certain rights after the supreme court overruled roe v. wade. today speaker pelosi is set to discuss a vote on a bill to protect contraception. we are on capitol hill tracking it all. there's a real sense of urgency. walk us through everything this morning. >> reporter: that's right. it looks like a jam-packed day on capitol hill. in the next hour, ukraine's first lady is scheduled to give remarks. we are told her remarks will

include a slide show that contains graphic imagery as russia's war in her country continues. the house of representatives, you just mentioned, they passed the respect for marriage act yesterday, codifying same-sex marriage nationwide. the house is likely to follow that up to also codify contraception. that vote is expected tomorrow. the house judiciary committee is marking up an assault weapons ban. it would be the most significant piece of gun violence legislation congress would pass over the last three decades. it would ban semi-automatic rifles with fixed magazine capacity to accept ten rounds or more. that's just the house. over in the senate, they took a major step yesterday to pass a chips and innovation bill that could total up to $250 billion. that's moving on a bipartisan basis. they are finalizing what's in that bill over the coming day or two. also in the senate, democratic leaders have decided to offer

the offer by senator joe manchin to pass a skinny bill, lowering prescription drug pricing and including a two-year funding extension for insurance subsidies under the affordable care act. it means climate change funding will be likely excluded. one lawmakers lamented that president biden's agenda went from a full loaf to half a loaf to a piece of toast. he said a piece of toast is better than nothing. >> do you get a sense of a lot of what we're seeing, particularly on the house side, is largely symbolic because the numbers in the senate aren't there for a lot of these measures? >> reporter: very likely on the gun bill. it's not even clear that will get a vote on the house of representatives. that would require pretty much unanimous support in the democratic caucus. speaker pelosi said it it had great support in the caucus but she didn't say it would come to the floor. of course in the senate it would require 60 votes. you saw how difficult it was for the senate to get 60 votes with

a minimum of ten republicans to pass that very modest gun violence prevention bill they passed recently. an assault weapons ban was highly, highly unlikely to pass the senate. yes,ist symbolic but democrats want to put a stake in the ground because gun control measures are increasingly popular in a country where mass shootings have become routine. >> thank you so much. check out this crazy video. engineers trying to figure out the cause of a fire at the hoover dam. you can see here, transformer erupted into flames, causing this huge plume of black smoke. this happened near the base of the dam on the arizona side late yesterday morning. officials say no visitors or employees were hurt. there was no risk to the power grid either. tours were passed for about 30 minutes. the national park service says that dam is the most visited in the world, getting some 7 million tourists a year. still ahead, more than a dozen house democrats under arrest.

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16 past the hour. pressure is building on the secret service to look into the potential deletion of text messages related to the january 6th capitol attack. nbc news has just obtained a letter saying the secret service has turned over a single text conversation to the committee. this comes just days after the committee subpoenaed the secret service for those texts. joining us is nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitali, betsy woodruff swan and paul butler, georgetown law school professor and msnbc legal analyst. ali, this is playing out a day

before the committee's next big hearing in prime time. what are you learning about this single text conversation? >> reporter: yeah, this is a single text conversation that is the result of the dhs inspector general asking the secret service for text messages sent or received by 24 specific secret service personnel between the dates in december and january 8th. the secret service saying in this letter to the january 6th committee yesterday that we obtained saying once they got that specific request, they were able to namely a text conversation between former u.s. capitol police chief to uniformed division chief thomas sullivan in which that text said they were requesting assistance on january 6th and then later advised that the agency did not have any further records responsive to the inspector general's request for text messages. they're saying, again, that's because of a migration to a different internal system within the secret service. they go to great pains in this

letter to detail that this is a migration that had been long planned since some time in september or november of 2020. and that this was the result of that. at the same time, though, committee members like zoe lofgren explaining why this is such a problem. >> this doesn't look good. coincidences can happen, but, you know, we really need to get to the bottom of this and get a lot more information than we have currently. january 16th they were told to preserve everything, and within a week or two, they allowed it to tb destroyed. that's very problematic. >> reporter: look, what lofgren is saying there is so important because she's talking about the timeline. the fact that when this migration of data happened on january 27th of last year, by that point the secret service had already heard from multiple different members of congress asking them to preserve records related to january 6th. that didn't stop the migration.

while the secret service continues to point back to the fact that each person was responsible and shown how to preserve their records, that nevertheless, this is the situation they're in. i think the important thing to underscore here is even though the secret service is saying they're not aware of other text messages that may exist relating to these requests, you can't know what you're missing if you don't realize you're missing it. it really is a chicken and egg scenario here where the secret service may say they don't think any other text messages apply, but they can't know what they don't know. >> i want to bring up that graphic again, this text message ali laid out. the former u.s. capitol police chief asking uniformed division chief for assistance on january 6th. what's the significance of this? what does this spell out for you? >> well, it certainly raises concerns about the good faith of the agency. lindsey, when this data migration was happening, agents were allowed to decide for themselves which text messages

were personal and didn't have to tb preserved and which were official government business and required to be saved. and the question is whether some agents wrongly deleted texts because they were trying to protect donald trump. and the way to answer that question is to use forensic analysis to excavate those missing texts. now we have the spectre of the secret service under the world's best law enforcement agencies saying, we can't do that kind of forensic recovery when our agents delete their texts, they're gone forever. that raises even more suspicion. that's what's triggered this investigation by the national archives. >> betsy, we have this committee hearing tomorrow. this text message, how, if anything, if at all, does this change things? >> i doubt this particular piece of the probe is going to be a focus of the hearing tomorrow because the committee's been pretty clear to telegraph that what the hearing is going to

prioritize is 187-minute period as the attack unfurled, looking at trump's silence, his total disengagement from efforts to secure the capitol as the violence there was playing out. one of the biggest things we're watching for tomorrow is any video footage from former white house counsel pat cipollone's very recent, under subpoena interview with the select committee. cipollone was somebody who the committee had been trying to get in a formal way for months. we know they spoke with him and one of his top deputies in an informal setting many months ago. being able to bring him in under subpoena on videotape was a huge win for the panel. the big outstanding question is, just how helpful was he? did he show up and, you know, provide them with lots of information or did he manage to not remember things or choose not to go into details? that's what we think is likely to be the most newsy coming out

of this hearing. of course, the two witnesses, sara matthews and matt pottinger, white house officials resigned on january 6th because how trump handled the violence is poised to provide new, interesting context and detail on what was going on in the building as that horrific attack played out. >> paul, the national archives, they also want to look into these missing secret service texts. does that have any teeth? >> every government employee is told, your records don't belong to you and they don't only belong to your agency. they have to be preserved because they're part of history. so, lindsey, maybe it's just a coincidence that secret service text messages went missing at the same time agents emerge as key witnesses to donald trump's possible criminal conduct, but

investigators are skeptical about coincidences. i think we're seeing the shift from the lead theory that the secret service just made a bad but honest mistake and messed up its data migration. i think there are concerns. how could that happen, as betsy said, the agency was on notice that the inspector general had already requested these records? >> based on what the committee already has, do you think these missing texts will be a significant setback for the case the committee is trying to build? >> the challenge is because we don't know what's in the texts. all we know is they disappeared. the fact these texts disappeared would lead most of us to suspect maybe it was because they had interesting content. we don't know that yet. what the committee has going for them, however, is the secret service has said they're making available any and all employees who the committee wants to talk to. the people who are most closely

involved, who had direct firsthand knowledge of trump's activities on january 6th, particularly bobby engel, the special agent in charge of the president's detail and tony ornato, a secret service employee who was detailed to the white house as a senior deputy chief of staff, both of those men are both part of the service. and the service has been clear they're available to testify under oath to the panel. we don't know if those follow-up interviews have happened yet. there haven't been indicators that they have gone back in. we do know they spoke months ago earlier this year. my understanding is neither of them presented by testimony that involves the president potentially engaging in violence as he was driven from the ellipse back to the white house. but, secret service has been adamant, on the record, the committee can talk to whoever they want to talk to. of course, it would be pretty weird if either of those men claimed they couldn't remember what happened on what was likely

the most memorable day of their professional careers. >> certainly. ali, betsy, paul, thank you all. still ahead, the drastic measures women are taking in the wake of the roe versus wade decision. what they're asking doctors to do. plus we'll talk to sara jacobs after protesting the supreme court's decision. we'll get her story next. prote supreme court's decision we'll get her story next announcer: type 2 diabetes? discover the power of 3 in the ozempic® tri-zone.

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to stop fighting until every person across this country has the same right to access abortion. this fight is currently being fought on people's bodies across this country. we are hearing horrific stories of people in doctors' offices, emergency rooms that can't get the care they need. it om felt right for those of us in congress, for those that have power, to put our bodies on the line to fight and protect for those who can't do that right now. >> is this the first time you've been arrested for doing something like this? and would you be willing to do it again, if you had to? >> it was my first time. i got some very angry text messages from my parents after, but, look, i think be we're in an incredibly important fight about the fundamental rights of at least half of our population. and even those of us who are not currently impacted because we do live in blue states, that right is not guaranteed if there's a federal abortion ban. we know all of us are impacted. i think it's important we all do everything we can to fight and get back these rights that, you

know, people have had for at least 50 years before this. >> late last week the house passed legislation that would protect access to abortion rights, including traveling across state lines for an abortion but the bills don't have the votes needed to get through the senate. you're out there, committing, as you call it, civil disobedience, but where does the fight go from here? >> look, i think there is a couple different prongs to this fight. the first is we need to pass legislation in congress to codify roe v. wade into law and protect people in states where abortion is currently being criminalized, like the ability to travel across state lines, the right to contraception we'll be voting on this week, and my bill to protect reproductive and sexual health data. unless we have two more democratic senators in the senate, it may not get through the senate, even though they have broad support across both parties. we need to work hard in november to make sure we hold the house and we elect two more people to

the senate. and then we also have to recognize that so many of these bad things are happening at the state level. this is not only about what's happening here in washington. we need to put some skin in the game and make sure we're fighting to elect democrats up and down the ballots in all of these states. we can do all of those things while we're pushing to try to get our colleagues in the senate to understand the gravity of the moment and hopefully change their vote so we can get this done before next year. >> from now until the midterms or after the midterms, if democrats don't get what they want, what do you think the biden administration should be doing? >> the biden administration is looking at all available options of executive orders. i was happy to see the first round of executive orders that they rolled out a few weeks ago. and i think it will be incredibly important that we continue to enforce that anyone can have access to medication abortion, that the fda has approved in any state, that people have a right to travel across state lines, that no one can prosecute someone for getting an abortion or serving abortions in other states.

there's a lot that our justice department and our fda can do right now to make sure that people in these states where abortion is being criminalized are getting the care they need. >> congresswoman sara jacobs, thanks for your time. in the month since the supreme court overturned roe versus wade, the l.a. times reports the number of women seeking sterilization to avoid pregnancy is rising. morgan radford traveled to a clinic. what did women tell you? >> there are so many different things happening, so many repercussions happening in the wake of roe v. wade overturned. we've seen a surge in the morning after pill, more women getting iuds. now women are seeking out a more permanent option, sterilization. we spoke with three women who said timing is, without a doubt, tied to state abortion laws and the supreme court. >> reporter: here at women's

health domain, a clinic in texas, dr. hancock says his team has been fielding more calls than ever. >> they're asking for permanent sterilization. >> permanent sterilization, tubes removed? >> yes. >> reporter: since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade. >> they want something permanent because they fear that tomorrow there will be no other option. >> reporter: how many were calling before versus after that supreme court decision? >> one to two a week would be average. the weekend following there were 200 messages by sunday night. >> reporter: in fact, he says he's received so many requests, asking for permanent sterilization, that he and the practice's co-owner, dr. chapman, hold weekly group information sessions. how many people are in this room? >> a little over 20 at a time. >> reporter: per session? >> per session. >> how are you today? >> reporter: a decision 27-year-old brooklyn, who's pregnant with her fourth child, says she's planning to make soon, influenced by the supreme court ruling. >> i don't want anymore. i'll be 27 in october and i'm

just done. >> you're done? >> i'm done. >> are you for sure sterilization is something you want to do or learn more about? >> i think it's something for sure i want to do. >> reporter: she's not alone. google searches for sterilization procedures surged by as many as 200% after the supreme court decision. and membership in some facebook support groups for women seeking the procedures has nearly doubled with one group growing by 2,50 members since the ruling came down. groups megan and ashley both joined. megan, you already had your tubes removed? >> yes. >> reporter: ashley, you're about to begin the proer? >> yeah. i'm in the process with consultations. >> reporter: what was behind the timing of when you decided to have this procedure? >> after the draft decision was leaked. i decided to schedule the procedure sooner than i had originally anticipated. >> reporter: what was it about that leak that made you say, i'm going to do something for myself now? >> well, i've always known i didn't want children and i didn't want to be in a position

where i didn't want children and would lack access to contraception as well. >> so, like megan, i have always known i didn't want kids. when we started seeing more of the restrictions coming through, that's when i scheduled my first consultation appointment. >> reporter: they say others like them are often dismissed by doctors who are reluctant to perform the procedure. >> you're told that you are too young to make this decision or what if your significant other wants children some day. >> what if you change your mind? >> what if you change your mind. what if you regret this some day. >> reporter: let's be honest, there's a lot of judgment around the decision to have this procedure. around this decision in general. >> right. >> reporter: what do you say to people who don't understand? >> sterilization, permanent contraception, is just as permanent as choosing to have a child. a lot of the arguments against it, well, what if you regret it? you could say the same thing about having a kid. >> reporter: it's a choice they expect to see even more women making in the days ahead. >> nobody wants to be put in the

swa igs where they have to make a choice between, you know, the medical health of whoever is having that kid and the kid itself. so, a lot of people are just saying, okay, we're not going to. we're going to go for sterilization instead. >> so, the question a lot of people have now is what comes next? the supreme court decision did not address the issue of contraception, in this recent dobbs ruling justice clarence thomas did bring up the issue in his concurring opinion and it has a lot of people worried about the future of access to contraception more broadly. to be clear, this is not just a trend we're seeing among women. daily searches for vasectomy clinics increased 110% after june 24th, when the supreme court decision came down, reaching an all-time high according to google trends data. the most popular searches for both forms, tubl ligation and vasectomies in missouri, ohio,

indiana, with current or likely bans on abortion. >> it's interesting you're seeing jumps in community groups, people looking for support and people to talk to in the wake of this. >> and doctors to perform the procedure. >> yeah. thanks so much. still to come, the trial is back under way for steve bannon. a former senior adviser to trump. what's expected on this first full day of testimony as he faces contempt of congress charges. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports." charges.driftin' on by... ♪ if you've been playing down your copd,... ♪ it's a new dawn, it's a new day,... ♪ ...it's time to make a stand. start a new day with trelegy. you're watching "jose you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports.egy. with three medicines in one inhaler, trelegy helps people breathe easier and improves lung function. it also helps prevent future flare-ups. trelegy won't replace a rescue inhaler for sudden breathing problems. tell your doctor if you have a heart condition

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boost® high protein also has key nutrients for immune support. boost® high protein. 42 past the hour. the contempt trial for former trump strategist steve bannon is back in session. in opening statements yesterday the prosecution said ban, quote, decided he was above the law. while bannon's lawyer told jurors they should consider whether the evidence they see is, quote, affected by politics. nbc news justice reporter ryan riley is outside the courthouse with the latest. ryan, what's happening in court today?

>> reporter: sure. we have a senior staffer for the january 6th select committee testifying. prosecutors are running through the basics. they're basically going through, this email was sent to steve bannon's lawyer who accepted the subpoena on his behalf and then after this first deadline had passed last october that required him to turn over documents, his lawyer sent a letter back to the committee essentially saying that they weren't complying. they laid out a basis for that. the jury's not going to get some of the details about the basis for why steve bannon was claiming he couldn't cooperate at that moment, but basically we're going through the basics of this at this moment. we have this sort of black and white -- the essentials of the case and then we'll move to cross-examination. i think cross-examination from steve bannon's defense attorneys is where we'll get the most interesting content. >> and ban had strong words for bennie thompson when he left court yesterday.

what was that about? >> reporter: steve bannon has made some comments that are pretty unusual in an ongoing case, especially when a case is open like this. he was outside the courthouse and made comments. i believe we have audio of the comments we can listen to here. >> where is bennie thompson? we subpoenaed thompson and they're hiding behind these phoney privileges. bennie thompson and the entire committee. we had a staffer up here today, he sent a staffer over. he's too gutless to come over here himself. >> reporter: so, those comments are directly relevant to the ongoing case, so it's somewhat surprising we haven't seen a gag order thus far from the judge because he's not just making general comments. those are very specific to the facts at issue in this indication. and potentially could be heard by jurors coming in and out of the courthouse because those are happening right at one of the entrances here. that could be something we'll hear more about if this continues and he continues making these comments on the steps of the courthouse. >> certainly let us know if

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it's 48 past the hour. nearly two months after the massacre that took 21 lives at robb elementary schoolings uvalde is still searching for answers. release of a damning report finding systematic failures and new body cam footage of officers waiting outside in the a hallway has reignited outrage over the police response that die. parents have been expressing their anger at meetings, including a pto meeting last night. we're joined with the latest. gaud, what's the latest? >> reporter: minutes ago we received information from the communications director from the school district and we now know that this saturday the school board will have a special meeting at 9:00 a.m. and listed on the information that we received is one of the items on that meeting that the public has been asking for, and they will be discussing the possible action on terminating pete

arredondo's contract. during that meeting, the special meeting that was held on monday, parents attended and kept asking the question, what will be the future of the school district police chief? what will happen? will they eventually fire him? he had been placed onchief? will they fire him? he has been placed on administrative leave. and the school district makes the announcement yesterday. they had two meetings. one meeting was held by the pto. another one, where parents of victims were discussing the possible distribution of funds, of some of the money that has been raised. there had been some discussion about the special meeting. whether pete aradondo would be terminated or not. that special meeting will be held on saturday. people have been waiting for the moment when the school board meets. they have that report that was released over the weekend, with details on the actions that the officers took here at the

school. school board has said they will consider the information in that report when it comes to making the decision this saturday. >> thanks so much for staying on top of that. today marks ten years after a gunman killed ten people at an aurora, colorado, movie theater. congress is putting gun violence front and center right now. the house is marking up two bills. one focused on helping victims of gun violence, and a weapons ban. the senate is holding a meeting with the mayor of highland park. >> i want to introduce debbie. she is the senior adviser with giffords. we're seeing the groundwork on two gun bills. the senate discussing how to protect communities.

what kind of action are you and many americans looking for? is this mostly symbolic? >> good morning. i think we're seeing a response to the public outrage that americans have waking up to witness another tragedy. i think that it is the job of our representatives in congress to take action. they're doing what they need to do, thanks to president biden and the democrats in the house and the senate, the bipartisan safer communities act was passed and signed into law. this is the first bill that has been signed into law in over 30 years. but much more has to be done. one of the things we've seen, is the mass shootings that have been occurring. we lost 49 lives in that shooting. parkland, those families are reliving the pain this week, as

the killer goes to trial. the ar-15s are military-style weapons that are used to kill many people in a short period of time. i think this bill is past due. when i was in congress, i served on the judiciary committee. and i was one of the co-sponsors of that bill. and i'm optimistic that finally, the government is moving in the right direction. our representatives are doing what they need to do to pass safety measures. this is about safety. this is about saving lives. >> and a gallup poll from june after the shootings in buffalo and uvalde but before highland park, how americans view semi automatic weapons. in 2019, 61% wanted it banned. now, 55% do. it's still a majority. majority of americans still wanting them banned. why is this a decisive issue? >> that's a good question to ask marco rubio, rick scott. it's a good question to ask the

republican senators that continue to take money from the nra. there's been a rise in hate violence and hate crimes and political violence. we have seen really terrible marketing employs to young, white men in america. marketing ar-15s. there's mistrust in political institutions that's coming from disinformation that's been spread from the republican party and those elected officials. you know, it's a good question to ask republicans that are not standing up for the safety of the people they represent. more and more people, whether they are gun owners, republicans or democrats, they support banning assault rifles. they understand that military weapons do not belong in the streets and in the hands of civilians. >> i have to be quick are you here. how is giffords going to take action ahead of midterms?

>> i have to say that gabby has been inspiring americans all over the country. her and i are working together and make sure legislatures pass gun safety bills. in 12 states, we've seen bans on high capacity magazines. here in the state of florida, governor desantis has threatened that he wants an open carry bill before he leaves the governorship. we're working with state legislators here in the state of florida to make sure that bill does not come for a vote. there's a lot of work that needs to be done. gabby giffords is optimistic. it's great to work with her. together, i know that strong women, you know how it is. we are not going to stop until we make sure that we protect our children from these terrible, terrible senseless and avoidable tragedies. >> debbie, thank you for your time. stay with us for continuing coverage of the gun safety fight

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