>> we can have a diagnosis in three minutes instead of three weeks. >> time is survival. time is quality of life. >> but for george, living with cancer every moment, precious. >> this disease is tough. on the other happened -- >> your spirit is still there. >> my spirit is still here and i will be okay, no matter what happens, i will be okay. >> such good news there in that report from the doctor. thank you for that. thank you so much for being with us here today. i am ana cabrera reporting in new york. josé diaz-balart starts right now. good morning, it's 11:00 a.m. eastern and 8:00 a.m. pacific. breaking this morning, the biden administration is considering

sending troops to the border days before title 42 is lifted. we'll bring you the latest reporting. it's day four in the manhunt for the suspect of the killing of five people in texas. this morning, many questions and few answers. writers on strike, what they are demanding and how it affects the shows you watch. and then avoiding economic catastrophe if the debt krael ceiling is not raised. in illinois, the highway where a blinding dust storm caused a deadly highway pileup is back open this morning. we have the latest. he lost his beloved daughter, jamie, in the parkland school shooting. today he joins us to talk about the gun violence crisis in america.

we begin this hour with some breaking news from washington. three senior administration officials tell nbc news the biden administration is considering sending 1,500 active duty troops to the southern border for 90 days. this comes just days before the u.s. government is set to lift title 42 which has been used for more than three years now to block migrants from entering and even seeking asylum in the united states. the chief white house correspondent, peter alexander, is with us this morning. good morning. what more can you tell us about this suggested or thought of move? >> reporter: we can update our reporting right now with new breaking information. nbc news just learned from a u.s. official that the department of defense will, in fact, be providing 1,500 additional active duty troops to go to the u.s. border. this is news just breaking here for you. they are going to be there for

up to 90 days, according to this u.s. official, to supplement the cbp customs and border protection. the border officials at the border right now have a real concern that next week, when title 42, that covid-19 restrictions lifts, there could be a surge in new migrants to the border. about 1,500 active duty troops will be going to the border and will not do law enforcement work and will not use force or be making arrests there. they will, in fact, be helping to supplement the bcp, and that means they will be doing ground-based detection and monitoring work. they will be doing other data entry and warehouse support as well, and they won't be the individuals manning the border itself. just breaking within the last few minutes here on msnbc, those

1,500 u.s. active duty troops will, in fact, be going to the southern border for a 90-day time period temporarily. josé. >> peter alexander at the white house, i thank you so very much. turning to the law enforcement search for a shooting suspect in texas. there's no sign of the man wanted for the murder of five of his neighbors after reportedly being asked to stop firing his assault rifle in his front yard. survivors say before the gunman started last friday, they repeatedly called 911, but help did not arrive for 30 minutes. it was half an hour after we first started calling. i wonder if they had come in those 30 minutes if this wouldn't have happened. maybe my family would still be alive?

we spoke with the sister of a 21-year-old who died in friday's attack. >> she says she just wants her sister to tell her she is okay. she was just 21 years old and had so many dreams, so many things she wanted to do. joining us now is nbc's priscilla thompson, and also with us a special hostage

negotiator. what is the latest on the manhunt this morning, priscilla? >> reporter: the search continues now in its fourth day and the fbi has not held a briefing in more than 36 hours but have been tweeting saying they are chasing down leads and urging anybody with information to continue to come forward. yesterday we saw officials swarm two areas where there had been suspected sightings, but they turned up empty and the suspect remains at large. i spoke to residents here about how they are feeling and some of them say they believe the suspect may be long gone now. take a listen. >> if they don't find him by dark tonight, he's probably sneaked out and gone somewhere. there's so many ways he can go. >> reporter: the fbi has acknowledged that as the days continue to pass, it will become harder and it does become harder to apprehend the suspect, josé. >> priscilla, governor abbott is

walking back some of the comments he made in the immediate aftermath of the shooting? >> reporter: yeah, when the governor tweeted this award of $80,000, he referred to the victim's only as, quite, five illegal immigrants, and that drew swift backlash with many saying he was dehumanizing these victims that had been murdered, and a representative said they were in the country legally as a u.s. permanent resident, but moreover, people are saying that's not the point and what matters right now. we saw the sheriff get visibly emotional saying he did not care if that little boy was here legally or illegally, and it was about bringing this shooter to justice. the governor walked back the statements. a spokesperson saying we regret

if the information was correct and detracted from the important goal of finding and arresting the criminal. any loss of life is a tragedy and our hearts go out to the families that lost a loved one. the governor will be not far from cleveland tonight and we will wait to see if he will make a potential surprise stop here or anything like that. >> i see behind you a sign in spanish calling for people who have information on the suspect to call a number. are those things kind of around the entire area in cleveland now? >> reporter: yeah, so this is one of the things that officials announced on sunday. signs like this one popping up throughout this area, in both english and spanish urging anybody with information to come forward. the fbi said they believe the suspect may begin to reach out to friends if he has not already, and they are hoping the $80,000 reward and the signage

on how to contact officials might generate leads. >> thanks. >> day four of the manhunt, what can you tell us about what officials might be doing, and it took half an hour for the officials to respond in the 911 call, and so why four days and not even a small clue? >> this guy has moved around and been arrested a number of times and crossing the border unlawfully, so he's a little savvy about how to deal with the police. he could be holed up in a house nearby holding a family hostage or killed a resident and taken their car or carjacked somebody. authorities did find other guns in his home and a cell phone. he was smart enough not to take his cell phone, and smart enough to get away from the scene quickly. he can traverse the border with

ease because he has done it, we know, at least four or five times, and probably more times. but it doesn't mean he's out of the area. he could still be there. other residents could be in danger. he could be in somebody's house, josé, and if somebody calls to check on the person and he's holding a gun on them, and when they answer the phone they have to say everything is all right. we don't know the scenario yet. i don't think he's a candidate for suicide, although that's possible. i think he has had enough run-ins with the law that he would probably try to flee and flee back to his home country. he could be laying low for a while and letting the heavy police presence die down. the 250 officers, josé, they are all over the roads. he may be waiting and waiting, you know, holding somebody hostage or killed somebody in a home and is waiting and waiting until it dies down a bit where he can then take a vehicle or force somebody to drive him somewhere. it's just a possibility.

>> yeah, those are terrifying possibilities. the sheriff said he has three deputies that spans 700 miles, and three people to cover an area that wide? >> well, josé, i was stationed in texas with atf and i was a florida deputy sheriff, and in our county there, in those large florida counties, the response times in the rural interior areas, you could be 30 miles from a call, 35 miles from a call. in this county, even maybe 50 miles from a call. we don't know the facts, and it's legitimate questions everybody has and the sheriff's

office needs to answer those. sometimes it's just the geography deputies in america face, they have long response times, not like city police that can get to the calls in minutes. when i was a deputy, you could get to a call and not get a backup for ten minutes in a hot situation, and sometimes you are out there by yourself and it takes a long time to get to the call. i am sure some of that contributed to the response time. and we have to see if any balls were dropped. i don't know if it would have saved any people, josé, and a police officer could pull up outside a house and can't beat the trigger pull of an ar-15. >> we are back in 60 seconds with congresswoman pramila jayapal, and more migrants are expected at the border and it's a pleasure to see you.

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13 past the hour. now to washington and a new sense of urgency to reach a deal on the debt limit, and janet yellen said the u.s. could run out of cash to pay its bills by the 1st of june. with us now to talk more about this, nbc news capitol hill correspondent, ali vitali, and has the new deadline done anything to increase the urgency on capitol hill to reach a deal? >> already there was a sense of urgency around this and concern, frankly, because how difficult it will be for mccarthy to keep his entire conference onboard.

nevertheless we are watching in the last day or so as the date seems closer than people thought it was, and lawmakers are getting nervous and wanting everybody to be back at the table. it's why the news about the meeting next week is so well received, but doesn't mean it's changing the posturing here. senate majority leader, chuck schumer, in the last half hour or so saying this on the floor. >> mccarthy is giving us two terrible options, either default on the debt or default on our country with steep, severe, devastating cuts to things like law enforcement, veterans, families, teachers, kids, and even cancer research. the only real option that does not hurt the american people is a clean bipartisan bill to avert default. >> reporter: we know speaker

mccarthy thinks the opposite, he is not going to back a clean ceiling lift, and we watched what he put before his conference the other day, something that was meticulously negotiated and it barely passed and you and i know the realities of the slim margins here in the house, and the fact they are getting back to the table is what mccarthy has been demanding in the recent days, and the person when they start talking is senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell. he did not speak this morning about the debt ceiling, and my sources say they are eager to hear what mitch mcconnell says, they are eager to let kevin mccarthy take the lead. >> what has been going on since then? >> each respective side has been making the case for the positions she just laid out, the white house and democrats have

been pounding the pavement and talking about how they believe this needs to be a deal with no strings attached to simply and cleanly raise the debt limit like they have done in the past. now is an opportunity to couple the debt ceiling with what they believe are long-needed fiscal austerity measures. what the white house has been asking for is for republicans to put up or shut up, to present a budget or present something they could coalesce on, and there was a belief that would not happen but it did, and kevin mccarthy was able to pass a spending cut bill in recent weeks. what happens from here? there will be that meeting next week. the question is what can they actually get one. president biden and white house officials want to keep this on track but the calendar is not going to work in their favor,

and the president himself is traveling for about ten days of that, so that has led a lot of smart money outside of government to suggest a short-term deal may have to be done, and if you ask anybody working on this, they say they will try and get a deal but might need a fallback option. >> all of this comes as a judiciary committee holds a committee on the ethical lapses by some of the justices. what is the likelihood something will come out of this effort? >> you are watching the chairman of the committee, dick durbin, continuing his line of questioning. what we have seen is a push for the supreme court to bolster its ethics reforms and rules that govern the justices, in part because of the things you are talking about, different business dealings previously undisclosed by sitting justices,

justice thomas and gorsuch. you remember around the january 6th committee, it was around ginni thomas, the wife of clarence thomas, and there are rules that govern not just the justices themselves but also their spouses. you will remember chief justice roberts was invited but declined to attend. >> thank you for being with us this morning. with us to continue our conversation, is washington congresswoman. we were talking about ethics and ethics rules. do you want any ethics rules to be put in place by members of congress? >> josé, it's always good to see

you and to be with you. >> thank you. >> yes, i absolutely think we have to because the supreme court and justice roberts have shown that they are not willing or capable of putting in place the ethics standards that americans expect of the supreme court. last session, when democrats were in the majority in the judiciary committee we held several hearings on this issue, on ethics reform as well as, you know, i have a bill with senator warren on complete ethics reform and transparency of the supreme court. the reality is, the ratings of the public in the highest court of the land are at a record-time low, and these stories that are coming out show us exactly why. yes, if the supreme court is not going to do this on their own, then congress is going to have to do this. some of these justices, frankly,

certainly justice thomas, should step down. the violations that have been coming out in news stories are stunning, josé, really stunning. >> you are calling for him to step down? >> i have called for him to step down because i think you can't be a supreme court justice and be accepting enormous numbers of gifts from people who have business before the court, and, by the way, not reporting it. i think that this is a serious crisis of the supreme court, which americans rely on for the final word on so many of our fundamental freedoms. >> congresswoman, as you know, we are just nine days away from the end of title 42. we learned this morning the biden administration is going to send 1,500 troops to the border to support that whole process. what is your reaction to that? >> well, i am not a big fan of sending troops to the border, however with the biden administration, what they have said is that these troops will not be there for law

enforcement, they will essentially be there to help with transport, logistics and processing. if that's the case, josé, then, you know, i think what we are trying to do is prepare for this -- what could be a possible influx of migrants across the border. i think the biden administration has done some important things, including setting up refugee processing centers in initially two countries, expanded to four countries. this is what we need to do. we never had, as you know, any kind of a refugee processing system for people from the western hemisphere, for people from the latin american countries. if we have a way for people to claim refugee status, then everybody won't need to come to what is now -- thanks to the trump administration's dismantling of legal pathways, then people would not have to just come to the border for the one pathway that still exists,

which is asylum. we have seen how legal pathways really can help. i think that's what we want. we know we can process people in an orderly way, as long as we have some legal pathways that exist for the different kinds of emergencies and crisis that send people from their countries to ours. >> it's just -- to me it is so frustrating to see the lack of urgency or the lack of even planning and organization. i keep thinking about the people that are living in haiti today, and that are seeing gangs essentially taking over the streets, kidnapping, killing, raping. they have no option but to leave. i think of the people of cuba, who have been living in a dictatorship for 62 plus years, and venezuela and nicaragua, and

it's a reality, congresswoman, so large and so deep that i just don't get a sense of how you can deal with that and if you are doing enough -- i am not saying you, just in general as a country, that we are doing enough to deal with that? >> i don't think we are. i think it's because immigration is not really a policy issue anymore. it's a political issue. unfortunately there are people on the other side who have it in their -- feel that it's in their best interest to keep immigration out there as a broken system. there's a lot of xenophobia, as you know. when we introduce legal pathways what we see is people use them. when the biden administration introduced legal pathways for haiti, and for a number of countries in the last couple much months, what we have seen is that 72% of people come through those legal pathways, because guess what? nobody wants to be out there

with no legal option to escape a cruel dictator. >> absolutely. >> that's what we need to do. everything that is happening at the border, josé, is because it's a consequence of an immigration system that has not been modernized in three decades. we have set, you know, set out there as supposedly a system but it didn't work, it doesn't have due process or ways for people to come in for employment, for families, or a fleeing refugee or -- those are all pieces of a functioning immigration system. that's what we need to do, and we need to call on republicans for their stop and cruel and extreme unworkable bills that shutdown legal pathways and we need to invest in the modernized implementation system. >> congresswoman, it's a pleasure to see you.

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37 people from toddlers to seniors are recovering from injuries this morning after a sudden blinding dust storm left drivers along an illinois highway with zero visibility prompting a deadly chain reaction pileup. six people died. when the dust cleared, state police say 72 vehicles were jammed together. take a look at this video. we're following the story from chicago. shaq, good morning. i know the police department wrapped up a press conference moments ago. what did they have to say? >> reporter: yeah, in the past hour or so we heard from the state police, they said there are no additional known victims or hospitalizations, and they say two of the six people that lost their lives in the pileup have not yet been identified. now they are asking for members of the public to help them with the process. i want to you listen to what you heard a few minutes ago.

>> it was a terrible day here in this part of the state and the families affected by this and we'll certainly continue to keep them at the center of our hearts as our love goes out to them, and as we do the job we need to do here to identify the remains of the last two individuals. >> reporter: of those two individuals, one was driving a blue chrysler 300, the other was driving a hyundai. they don't even know the model of the hyundai or the color of the car. that just gives you an idea, a sense of the extent of the damage that was caused. officials describing the situation again as a mixture of high winds and dirt from nearby farms creating essentially blackout conditions. that was the word of the director of the illinois state police that we heard from just about an hour ago. we know that this morning that the highway was reopened and the

department of transportation was able to go through and clear out the debris and inspect the road before reopening it. the big news right now is that two of the six victims have yet to be identified and illinois state police asking if you know anybody that was supposed to be in that area, they are asking folks to call illinois state police to help identify those two remaining victims. >> thank you very much. we have breaking news in the seditious conspiracy trial of the proud boys and their role in the january 6th attack on the capitol. ryan riley joins us. what do we know? >> reporter: we know the jury has a serious note they september to the judge, and at any moment the judge is expected to take the bench. the jury is looking for additional instruction on the conspiracy charge and want to know if they reach a deadlock or if there is a immovable

disagreement they have, and you would have an instruction back to the jury saying make another go of it, and it seems like on the top charge of seditious conspiracy on some of these defendants, there's pretty firm disagreement within the jury about whether or not these five individuals on trial, including the head of the proud boys, are guilty of seditious conspiracy here. >> thank you very much for that update. we're going to tell you a little bit about the people that write tv and streaming shows and even films are demanding very important issues. there's a real-world drama going out on the picket line today. thousands of writers argue they are not being paid fairly went on strike after negotiations

with studios failed. production has been brought to a standstill. comcast, the parent company of nbc universal, is one of the companies represented by the alliance that bargains on behalf of studios, tv and streaming platforms. melissa joins us from los angeles. what are both sides saying? >> reporter: both sides say they did their best and are pinning it on the other side. the alliance says they offered a comprehensive package including a, quote, generous increase in pay for writers, and the union representing the writers has something different to say, and they say the companies created a gig economy, and it has betrayed a commitment to further devaluing the profession of

writing. both offered their sides, and a minimum number of weeks of employment for tv writers is one, and studios proposed creating a day rate from writers that they found to be insulting, and they could not move past artificial intelligence. the writers guild stressed that one, and they said from the beginning that they are looking not just for protections right now, but what is really interesting is that looking out for the future, where artificial intelligence might go, they are looking out for their job security because we know how advanced artificial intelligence have already come with programs like chatgpt, and they are looking for job protections. josé, we already know what an affect this will have throughout

hollywood. the last writers strike, we know late night shows will have an impact. seth meyers referenced this not only on friday but last night. this is something that we will see immediately. but then longer term -- yes, some writers were crashing scripts, but i think we could see big stalls in production if they cannot get a resolution soon. we know picketing should be starting sometime in the next few hours, josé. >> thank you so very much. donald trump's civil trial in new york city is entering a new phase. we will have the live update from the courthouse. now the economy seems to be slowing down a bit, will the federal reserve continue to raise interest rates? straight ahead, we will have a preview of an important meeting that begins today. you are watching "josé

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38 past the hour. this morning in new york city the civil trial facing former president donald trump enters a new phase. today jurors will hear from a friend of e. jean carroll that she confided with that trump raped her in a store in the 1990s. trump denied the allegation. carroll finished her testimony yesterday where she faced questions from tacopina about her social media. what are we hearing so far this morning? >> we are hearing from lisa burnback, a friend and journalist of e. jean carroll. she's the person carroll said

she called back in the mid-1990s after the alleged incident at bergdorf goodman. she and another friend, carol martin of e. jean carroll's, and she is walking the jury through what carroll told happened. she knew trump and had been to mar-a-lago to do an article at mar-a-lago and spent two nights there in the month before this alleged attack happened, and she new trump and had been to her

place and then heard from her friend, e. jean carroll, telling her about this awful thing happening, and she describes her at being emotional on the call. and then carroll told her to never talk about it again and she didn't until the book came out in 2019. she also talks about the fact that she's a democrat and supported clinton and was surprised and upset when trump won. the jury is aware of her politics and she has been up front with it. she described trump as a narcissistic sociopath and putin's agent, and letting the jury know she doesn't like trump but she is there because she's a good friend of carroll and wants everybody to know carroll is telling the truth.

>> it's important to remember that there are no cameras in the courtroom, and i am not in the courtroom so watching reporting as it comes out. these are very important witnesses. they are not testifying to the truth of the matter. they are not because they were not there when the alleged assault occurred, but the reason they are testifying is to corroborate e. jean carroll's account of what happened, and saying she related what happened to them and her story is consistent. i think that one of the important things here is that both witnesses here, both are people who are known. they are -- they are writers, authors, and they have careers. they probably have some extra credibility that comes along with them in terms of who they are and what their testimony is. they will be precise in their testimony and be accurate. i think that's important

corroboration of mrs. carroll's story. >> thank you both. appreciate it. up next, fred guttenberg who lost his daughter in a school shooting joins us to talk about the gun violence crisis in america. you are watching "josé diaz-balart reports" on msnbc.

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shooting in texas killing five people, we are taking a moment to underline once again the ongoing gun violence epidemic in our country. the latest figure from the gun violence archive shows as of today there have been 185 mass shootings in the u.s. this year. joining us now with more is fred guttenberg, the author of the new book "american carnage: shattering the myths that fuel gun violence." fred, thank you once again for being with us. this book goes on sale today, so i wanted to take the opportunity to talk to you a little bit about that book and why you wrote it and the message behind it. i want to, you know, your reactions on this thing in cleveland, texas. >> uh-huh. >> you know, this person that went into this house.

the man that lost his wife and son said he left honduras to escape violence and they found it in america. >> yeah. >> fred, you know, what is your reaction? >> listen, my friend, manny oliver, whose son died with my daughter in parkland said the same thing about why he left venezuela, to find safety here in america. here's my reaction. it's time to stop listening to the liars. you know, jamie would be 20 years old this july. 20 years ago in 2003, we had 200 million weapons in america, and now we have 400 million plus

ghost guns. and now the ar-15 sales are at 25%. it's everything you need to understand about where we are today, and the question is how did we get here? two years ago, my co-author reached out to me about this project that he wanted to work on, taking on all of the myths and the lies that the gun lobby has been telling us now for the better part of 20 or 30 years, because america was not always this way. it's their lies and those that embrace those lies, those who serve in elected office to continue to tell those lies that we need to defeat. i will give you an example. it continued just yesterday with abbott, who moronically said -- referred to the family status, immigration status, to distract

from the conversation on gun. what he should have been saying is, how did that shooter get an ar-15. he didn't ask that question. we have to stop listening to the liars. we have to fire these people. we better vote. >> fred, it's in your book -- i'm very grateful you wrote it. >> thank you. >> how do you go, fred, from a reality -- it's what you wish and what you have to deal with. how do you deal with the reality you have -- to quote you -- 400 million plus weapons in our country, just in the last couple of years, 100% plus increase? so that's a reality. how do you deal with that reality going forward? i know you tackle this in your book. but how do you, fred? >> let's start by not listening to the liars who make this discussion you are either for guns or you are against guns. that's a false choice.

we talked about it in the book. you can be a legal, lawful gun owner and want to reduce gun violence. how do you deal with it? start by having conversations with the 80% of america about how to reduce gun violence. let's do red flag laws as the law of the land. listen, jose, the governor of tennessee now wants to do red flag laws, even though he opposed them previously. gun violence touched his family in the tennessee school shooting. red flag laws should be the law of the land. we did it in florida after parkland. they have been used over 7,000 times. they have stopped gun violence. let's raise the age across the country for purchase to 21. let's expand background checks and not just on firearms, let's expand it to ammunition. jamie's law is waiting for a hearing. the truth is, i consider ammunition the holy grail of solving this problem.

>> i think it's an important thing. fred, you talk about jamie would have been 20 the 13th of july? >> july 13th, she would be 20 years old, living the best days of her life. >> all the milestones that i keep thinking about. all the milestones we would have celebrated as a family and as a country that aren't there. >> but can i just say, i visited jamie in a cemetery this weekend. that's the reason we wrote this book. it's to stop the next one, stop listening to those on the other side who want to sell the next weapon. listen to those who want to stop the next instance of gun violence. we can do this. >> fred, thank you, my friend. appreciate you being with me this morning. checking the markets. the dow is down. this is ahead of a federal reserve decision tomorrow about the interest rate. what you need to know next.

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joining us is dominic chu. let's talk about the banks that paused trading this morning. >> they are the same banks that we have been focused on since the collapse of signature bank. it's pack west bank and western alliance. each have been halted multiple times for volatility. they have gone up and down so much. outside of those that have triggered the pauses, it's other regional bank stocks. all are falling in value. that may speak to a negative sentiment around investing this those types of stocks for fear the worst is not over. that runs contrary to remarks we spoke about yesterday, made by jp morgan chase's ceo said that the phase of the banking fallout is pretty much over.

there's a concern and focus on whether customers/deposits will feel okay about keeping their money and business with those institutions. we did, by the way, learn over the last several weeks that for the most part, deposits have not fled these regional lenders. there's speculation there's more down side to come. these things often create opportunities on the flip side. >> what are you watching for tomorrow? >> it's connected. the fed has to be hypervigilant, inflation and employment. those things can be at odds with each other. there's so much nuance and complication around what the fed has to do. by raising interest rates, you reduce the value of government and mortgage bonds that these banks hold. that could put undo stress on the banks. now at the same time, if these banks are under stress and

getting more conservative, that leads to a slowdown in the economy. it could help solve the inflation problem but it could hit the jobs market. those are some of the questions i'm sure the fed chair will for sure face during his post-rate decision press conference tomorrow afternoon, stuff to watch for sure there. >> absolutely. thank you very much. that wraps up the hour for me. i'm jose diaz-balart. you can watch highlights from today's show online. i thank you for the privilege of your time. andrea mitchell picks up with more news right now. right now on "andrea mitchell reports," a june 1st deadline gets the white house to invite congressional leaders to a debt ceiling summit next week before the economy goes over the cliff. the treasury secretary warns the u.s. could default on its debt in less than a month. should the president start negotiating now? the budget committee's