saying they'll take the welcome news where they can. >> yeah, absolutely. marissa parra, we thank you. we have got look more coming up folks, you are watching msnbc, our second hour starts right now. nbc, our second hou♪ ♪ ♪ >> hey, everybody, i'm yasmin vossoughian, i'm good to see you. if you're just joining, us welcome. if you're sticking with us, we are thankful for that. campaigner in chief. the president holding his first big rally at the 2024 season. >> we've got a fight on our hands. my question to you is simple. are you with me in this fight? [crowd chanting] >> meanwhile, donald trump and biden's other republican rivals trying to grapple with an indictment of the former president. and primary front runner, number two and counting.

the strategy for trump supporters on capitol hill is simple. declare war on the department of justice. in a moment, i'm going to speak to congressman jim himes, a member of the intelligence committee about what democrats can do to protect doj. we are also following some dangerous weather across this country right now. from a system that spawned deadly tornadoes in texas, to triple digit temperatures, millions are at risk this saturday. all of that, plus disturbing new video involving allegations of sexual assault against mma superstar, conor mcgregor. regan have that story for you later on this hour as well. we want to start with the president. wrapping up the first major rally of the 24 campaign season, with union workers in philadelphia. want to go right to nbc's -- standing by for us. in delaware where, the president is headed next to spend the rest of the weekend. what did we hear, gary, from the president as he's kicking

off his campaign season, at a place he is most comfortable. in front of union workers in the philadelphia area. >> in fact, there are a few places he is more comfortable than in front of union workers in philadelphia area, of course with doctor joe biden, celebrated wedding anniversary with by his side. a lot of talk about the middle class and bolstering the middle class. as he puts it, from the bottom up, not the top down. but the middle out. as it relates to jobs and wages. this is something we're going to see today. we saw today. something we're not going to see very much of throughout the rest of the, year campaign has shown, what they're going to do, they're gonna talk about the legislation he's passed talk about the legislation he wants to continue to pass. as president, instead of going out in the trailer we see some of these gop contenders in iowa, in new hampshire, in south carolina or nevada. joe biden today? talked about one of his favorite things. jobs. >> we have created 13 million

new jobs. since i became president. [crowd chanting] that's more jobs than any president has cratered in any 14-year term. unemployment rate is down to a 50-year low, 3.7%. i've seen record lows from black unemployment and hispanic unemployment as well. we've created 800,000 manufacturing jobs. >> it wasn't just campaigning for president biden on a schedule today, before he met with union workers there, he actually took an aerial tour of the i-95 collapse with the governor of pennsylvania. the governor of pennsylvania actually made some big news during briefing, that he held with the president saying, in two weeks, from two weeks from today, the i-95 bridge will be fully operational for folks to get over. just in time for the fourth of july holiday. yasmin?

>> all right, gary grumbach for, us gary, appreciate. in the meantime, republicans busy finding ways to backup the former president in the wake of his criminal indictment over his handling of classified documents. one senator has taken things to a new level. that is j.d. vance of ohio, who is vowing to use procedural tools to prevent the confirmation of any justice department nominee. i want to bring in congressman jim himes, the top democrat on the house intel committee. congressman, thanks for joining us on this. i want to start there if we can. talking about j.d. vance. you said earlier this week, the gop is trying to sow doubt in a u.s. judicial system, and it is exactly what we saw before january 6th. can you talk more about this? >> yeah, sure. you know, as we saw prior to january 6th, when president trump lost the election, rather than admit that he lost and his supporters, primarily in the house of representatives, but also did admit that they lost. they decided the problem is not

with a president, the problems with the electoral system. we've got all these wild accusations of electoral system had been corrupted. not a single piece of evidence that that was true. 64 cases of course, that said that wasn't true. now, the same thing is happening with the doj and the fbi. and it is the same thing in the sense that, if you read the indictment, you know that not a single witness is a democrat. you know that a grand jury of people, selected to be on a jury, decided that he should be indicted. he was indicted by a special counsel. and yet, the only answer, because again, these folks are just about defending donald trump. whatever the charges. are the only answer is, the fbi is corrupt in the doj is corrupt. the problem with that, if you spend years saying the electoral system is corrupt, the department of justice the fbi is corrupt, eventually, what happens people lose faith in the key institutions of their democracy. that is what is happening right now. >> in the wake of the initial discoveries of these documents, both the former president of

biden of pence as well. you called for a briefing, and you got one. you said at the time, quote, having been given a flavor, this is a very serious issue. this wasn't stuff that we can say clearly does not matter. it matters. of course, we now know there are very big differences between the documents that were seized and subsequently immediately returned by president biden, versus documents that were seized at the former presidents residence in florida. talk to be more, if you can, now about some of what you heard in that briefing. anything that you could share with us. >> well, i and a very limited number of members of congress, had the opportunity to look at some, not, all but some of the documents that were found both in president trump's as well as vice president pence's and biden's possession. and i, obviously, can't get into the details of what was in those documents. i can tell you, this is nothing to be rushed off. there was material in there that would badly damage both u.s. national security, as well as our foreign policy goals.

you know, this gets to the point of the other, defense apartment trashing the doj and the fbi, this ridiculous game of whataboutism. of course, the contention is, well pence and biden did the same thing, oh, by the way taylor cling with her emails. of course, there is nothing in common between president trump, who deliberately took classified documents, who obstructed the attempts on the archives and ultimately the department just to get them back. who lied about, who asked his lawyers to lie about it. and either the clinton, the pence, or the biden case. again, the point here is to just confuse americans enough, so that their defense of donald trump doesn't look as absurd as it manifestly is. >> let me ask you about the presidents kickoff event today in philadelphia, in front of union workers. there's a lot of folks wondering if the president is missing a moment here, or democrats missing a moment in speaking out about the former president's latest indictment. also, what could be in the pipeline. what's gonna come out of fulton

county. what's gonna come out of possibly the january 6th investigation as well. by the special counsel. is it time for the president to speak up on this indictment? for other democrats, leading democrats, to speak up on this indictment? or do you stay away from it for now? >> you stay away from it for now. you stay away from it forever. until donald trump is convicted by a jury of 12 americans, he has a presumption of innocence. remember, the third defense, could because we talked about it hacking the fbi and the doj, we've talked about saying this is exactly what he'll clinton and mike pence and joe biden, which is absurd. the third defense is to say, this is a political witch hunt. and, in a normal democracy, you do precisely what joe biden has done. which said, i'm not going, near as a political actor, anything related to the administration of justice. by the, way there is one massive exception to that rule. that is donald trump. who spent four years as president, explicitly urging the fbi and the doj, and firing

attorney generals when they wouldn't do his bidding investigating his political opponents. so, no. not yesterday, now today, now tomorrow, should political actors, like me or the president or senators or governors, be commenting on what must be an apolitical process. which is the administration of justice in this country. >> so, well i have you, i'm sorry, it is one a touch quickly on the gun reform some of that happening in your state as well over the weekend. i know the president spoke yesterday. he said, when it comes to gun reform legislation, where the real tipping point. do you agree? why? and what can realistically be done in this moment? >> well, it was great to have the president and we have both senators, our governor, members of congress, lots of activists in connecticut yesterday, we committing to continue the fight. why do we need to continue the fight, even in a state like connecticut, where we've asked very sensible, very effective gun safety legislation? because you know why. every single day, we opened the paper, we turn on the tv, we find yet another mass shooting.

so, we have work to do. to address this problem. which no other industrialized country has. the reason that gun summit is important, we recommit to that. by the, way we re-commit to that in the context of supporting the second amendment, so the constitution. the conversation where we say, folks, you have a right to bear arms. there must be limits on that right, just as there are limits on every other right that is guaranteed by the constitution's. that's the conversation that we need to continue to have. so we don't have tens of thousands of americans dying as a result of firearms in the future. >> congressman jim himes, we thank you. coming up, everybody. in just 60 seconds, dealing with the aftermath of severe weather as storms continue to threaten more than 35 million americans this weekend. a live weather report, plus the latest in the tornado ravaged town of perryton, texas. coming up next. ming up next

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we're tracking severe weather happening in large parts across this country this weekend. right now, for 40 million people across much of the south are under advisories or warnings. heat index is well into the triple digits. then in texas, cleanup efforts are ongoing following the deadly tornado that struck the town of perryton on thursday. producing much of the town to rubble. nearly 100 homes were damaged or destroyed, three people, including an 11 year old boy were killed, dozens were injured. want to bring in msnbc's priscilla thompson in perryton. msnbc meteorologist michelle grossman for more on this. >> michelle, i wanna start with, you talk to us about what we've been seeing on the ground. how people are returning, and seen the absolute devastation, what are they telling you? >> yeah, yasmin. this was an ef2 tornado that absolutely wreaked havoc on the small town. i'm standing on what used to be

a lumber in hardware store that was completely destroyed. there is an 18 wheeler that was essentially launched right on top of this building, there's a trailer here that also just all flew in to this building. and what we're seeing is folks in this community coming together to try to help people with the cleanup, helping people to dig through the rubble. and salvage what they can. we're also seeing just about every church, even some of the businesses that you have, pallets of water, people handing out water, the barbecue pits with people trying to give out food and do what they can to help this community right now. we spoke to a pastor of one of those churches, i want to play a little bit about what he had to say about those efforts and the devastation that this town is seeing right now, take a listen. >> they've been feeding people here, daily, since the day of the tornado. so, the idea, breakfast lunch and dinner. they're so close to some of the people that were affected, many of them lost their cars. so, just a short walk away from

getting that lease, a nice place, a cool place where they can just relax and give them some prayer. >> in addition to the cleanup efforts, the focus today is on restoring power. this is the town of an 8500 people i. we'll tell you, they have restored power to thousands of people here. there are still around 1300 people without power. those are the areas that the electric companies are really focusing on. of course, the other issue here, really just the emotional trauma. this tornado barreled down on this town so quickly. the sheriff tells, me they didn't even have time to sound the sirens. the power was already out by the time the tornado got here. i spoke to one man who described seeing it out of his window, he said they did not have time to run to the basement. they hovered in the bathroom and hoped that they would be okay. a lot of people really grateful to be alive, incredibly traumatized by how all of this

happened and the devastation that is still all around them. yasmin? >> we've seen it before, we'll see it again. so devastating to see that type of damage. after a natural disaster like that. michelle, with that, we look at the devastation there. you're also thinking about the incredibly high temperatures, we're seeing across the country as well. dangerously high. talk us through it, what's going on? >> yeah, hi there, yasmin. so good to see you. dangerously high, we're looking at triple digits, or feeling like 1:20 in some spots. it's not just the hot weather, it's the days and days of hot weather. we've been tracking it all week long, we're gonna track it into early next week. that he is hoping to aid some storms. we know some unusual severe weather for this time of year. we're seeing storms that are typical in april, maybe may. not this month. let's take a look at radar right now. we are tracking some thunderstorms right now. we have been tracking severe weather for six days straight. we're gonna continue to do that today. also, tomorrow. radar showing us, we do have a severe thunderstorm watch. that's where you see that yellow line outlining the gulf coast states. little orange boxes to. that's where you see a severe

thunderstorm warning, we're also seeing a severe thunderstorm watch in portions of the rockies. as we go throughout time, i don't if you are the pull up whether, six if you can, that would be great. if not all just keep going. we have severe weather threat for 37 million people, where you see the orange behind me, we're looking at portions of kansas, oklahoma, texas. this is where we like it is to see some really strong storms. winds gusting over 80 miles per hour. that is hurricane-force winds. we're looking at really large hail. five inch hail earlier this week. of two days in a row. that is just a giant ball of ice falling from the sky. we're looking at a chance for a few tornadoes, we're gonna watch as we go through the afternoon and evening hours. that is today. we're looking tomorrow once again, for severe weather threat. set up once again. here's a setup we're looking, it strong storms, strong winds, across the southeast. i just show you along the gulf coast states. looking really strong storms in the central and southern plains. then tomorrow, no relief. this is a really slow moving system, parked over the area. once again, we're gonna see the threat for some strong storms

along the gulf coast into the tennessee valley. we're concerned about flooding, we have over a foot of rain in pensacola. just on friday, we're adding to those totals. heavy rainfall, localized flooding, we see the green. portions of mississippi, into alabama. also georgia into the gulf coast states, looking at some really heavy rainfall. we're also looking at triple digits, yasmin. we're looking at temperatures into the triple digits, won ten in some spots. feeling like 1:20 in corpus christi today. >> wow. pretty high numbers to say the least. priscilla, quickly, i understand that the governor's news conference is happening now. in regards to that extreme weather in the lives lost there. where you are. what has been the states response so far? >> yeah, so we know that he's serving that damage, and has been briefed. the initial hours after this happened, there were several response teams that came into help with the search and rescue. he also issued a disaster declaration, which is helping to get additional resources here to help to restore power, water, things like that.

the real question for him, one of the financial resources going to look like? the surface that he does not expect this disaster is going to qualify for a fee made, that is a question of if the state is going to be able to offer people hear any financial help or temporary housing for the rebuilding efforts as this long journey to getting things back in order begins here. yasmin? >> do you know if the governors had a conversation with the president as of yet? >> i am not sure about that, we haven't gotten a readout yet from the press conference. he hasn't made any indication that he spoken with president biden, as of yet. >> got, it will keep tuned to that, of course, taps on the virtual shoulder -- priscilla thompson, michelle grossman, thank you as well. still ahead, everybody. the former president claims the seal is broken for charging former presidents. if that's true, who did? who broke the seal? plus, a look at new videos filmed not long before a woman

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in ukraine, it's all about the counter offensive. in a wide ranging, exclusive interview with nbc's richard engel, president volodymyr zelenskyy's shared how he believes the initiative to push back on russia's going. >> i would say, it's generally positive. but it's difficult. our heroic people, our troops, who are now at the front of the frontline, are facing very tough resistance. we understand why. for russia, to lose this campaign to ukraine, i would say, means losing the war. >> nbc news former correspondent ralph sanchez is joining us. as we know, the united states has been an integral in this counteroffensive, providing weapons and supplies, the

ukrainian military. i know the president was asked about ukraine today. what is he saying? >> hey, yasmin. president biden has been under pressure from officials, both here in kyiv and from american allies in eastern europe, to speed up the timeline under which ukraine might join nato. that is something the president is reluctant to do. especially well this war is still raging. it could, in theory, mean that as a member of nato, the entire rest of the alliance would be committed to coming to ukraine 's aid, which could mean war with russia. the president was asked in philadelphia earlier today, whether he would consider dropping some of the membership requirements so ukraine could join nato more easily. take a listen to what he had to say. >> no. because they gotta meet the same standards. so, it's not gonna make it easier, i think they've done everything we can do to demonstrate coordinate militarily. but there's a whole issue of

all of our system secure? non corrupt? the same as every other nation in nato does. we will, and we can. but it's not automatic. >> so, you heard the president pushing back pretty forcefully there. yasmin, this is a major, unresolved issue the allies are going to have to iron out between themselves. at a summit they're holding in lithuania next month. >> so, we got back on results, always the question of how the russian president, vladimir putin, is seeing this entire counteroffensive. what has been his perspective so far? >> yeah, we've got a sense of his mindset, he's been hosting this economic form in st. petersburg. he's been defiant. he said there is no chance that ukraine is going to win this war. he says the counteroffensive is doomed to fail. interestingly, yasmin, he's been talking in a level of detail about developments on the battlefield that were not used to hearing from putin who

likes to glide above the details of the campaign here. this economic form has been a visual reminder of how economically isolated russia's right now. a few years ago, business leaders from the west would have flocked to this summit. now, with russia heavily sanctioned as it, is a lot of empty seats there. putin also today meeting with the delegation of african leaders who were here in kyiv yesterday. they want to see the russian president today. they're trying to organize some kind of cease-fire, they didn't make a whole lot of ground on either side. when they were presenting their ten point plan to the russian president earlier today, he listened politely well a couple of these african leaders presented their thoughts. and then he interrupted and he started explaining why, and his familiar talking points, this war was started by ukraine. it's being fueled by the west. so, it does not seem like there is any major ground to be made through this diplomatic initiative. i can tell, you here in ukraine,

there's not a lot of optimism about this african leaders delegation. they are putting their trust instead in the ukrainian soldiers who are on the frontlines right now. tip of the spear in this counteroffensive, and both the south in the east. he has been? >> yeah, as they have been for this entire war. raf sanchez, thank you. coming up, everybody, more on the special counsel. jack smith. working to stop president trump from disclosing evidence in his indictment. my next guest says the biggest threat to trump in the primaries is him talking about the indictment. and how long should president biden continue his strategy of silence on the former president 's charges? i'm gonna talk to my colleague and former biden campaign advisor, symone sanders-townsend, coming up next. u next the game-changing new plan that lets her pick exactly what she wants and save on every perk. sadie is getting her plan ready for a big trip. travel pass, on. nice iphone. cute couple. trips don't last forever, neither does summer love. so, sadie is moving on. apple music, check!

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donald trump is not known for keeping things quiet. with a federal trial looming, senator -- highly classified information, special counsel jack smith is looking to make him do just that. smith yesterday requesting a protective order, to stop trump from being able to disclose evidence from the trial to the public. it's coming as judge aileen cannon issued an order requiring all attorneys in the case, for both trump and walt now to, to secure security clearance for -- those lawyers have been told to reach out to the justice department by tuesday. i want to bring an msnbc daily columnist, -- and jessica levinson as well. hayes, let me start with you.

you have a piece out to donald trump keeps acting like he didn't start this. you say this, if a seal has actually been broken with the first criminal indictment against a former president, it is only because he himself loosened it. how has trump targeting his political opponents impacted how these charges are now seen? >> so, i mean, i feel like during trump's speech at bedminster, after his arraignment this week, he was defiant. he was talking about how this is the worst thing that ever happened to a former president. how could this happen. the seal has been broken. there will be retribution. ones i'm reelected, i will appoint a real, special prosecutor to go after the bidens, and anyone who stands against him. this is a fiction when you consider that trump himself, as early as 2015, during 2016 campaign for president, a major part of his messaging was going

after his political enemies. lock her up was an unofficial campaign slogan for the 2016 election. during his time in office, he pressured numerous attorneys general about why they were not directly going after his political enemies. whether it be the clintons, the bidens, people who disagree with trump in general. the idea that, oh, it's biden and this current administration that is broken a norm. justice department run amok, broken the seal. that just doesn't make any sense. >> you want to say this, i want to read this for folks as well. while the republican voters polled support, trump and think he's being unfairly persecuted, it's pretty emphatically not what they want to hear about on the campaign trail. i wonder, more and more he rents about this, at his campaign rallies, as he did days before his arraignment, the worse it will be for him. >> absolutely. a recent cbs news yougov poll has likely gop prime odors, what they do and don't want

trump to talk about on the campaign trail. i mean, over 96%, 96% something like, that we want to talk about the future. want to hear what he wants to do with the second term in office. counter that with, it was 61% of them who said they don't want to talk about the investigations. and 68% they don't want to talk about the 2020 election. and if you know anything about trump, that is not going to happen. he is going to talk about how unfair it is. how he's being persecuted, i was being targeted. that is going to be a majority of his messaging. you need to come out for, me they are attacking you by attacking me. it's a twisted logic. that a lot of people have bought into. it seems like two thirds of likely gop voters don't want to hear about it from him during this campaign. >> jessica, talk to us about the impacted judge cannon here. what is most concerning to you about this when it comes to her history leading up to this, especially when it came to the appointment of special counsel? >> that's a great question.

what concerns me most isn't the fact that she was appointed by a former president. what concerns me most, in an earlier iteration of this case, she decided to grant trump's motion to try and obtain a special master to review documents that were collected at mar-a-lago. that was a decision that was just not based in the law, period. it was a political argument in search of a legal theory. in that decision was actually overturned by a three judge panel of the 11th circuit, two members of whom were actually appointed by the former president. so, it's not really about who appoint you. it's about what you do once you are on the bench. that bias concerns me. how could she affect this particular case? i mean, in ways big and small. but just to be sure that people are aware, there's this thing called rule 29, it's a federal rule of criminal procedure. it allows judges, at a certain point to say, there's not

enough evidence here. i've heard the department of justice's entire case, this doesn't need to go to a jury. and they don't need to deliberate. if a judge grants that motion, that is game over. that type of motion is not appealable, because double jeopardy attaches once a jury is seated. >> concerning, yes. but considering what we have red in the 49-page indictment, and what we know the doj already has on the former president, and what we know about the history and who jack smith is. and how brings cases forward. do we realistically think that's going to happen? that judge cannon would rule the evidence is not there? especially when we know, likely, smith has even more evidence than was presented in the 49-page indictment. >> yes. but potentially less, if judge cannon actually grants an evidentiary ruling early on that eliminates all of the

information from evan corcoran. that was key evidence in the indictment. we obtained that evidence because the special counsel argued there was an exception to the attorney client privilege, called the crime fraud exception. if judge cannon doesn't agree with that particular ruling, that was from a different judge in washington d.c., if she doesn't agree, all of a sudden, we lose that important evidence. so, am i realistically worried? i will say i am concerned that that is an option. only given her ruling in the special master case. >> hayes, quickly here. as we're thinking about how the former president is dealing with this campaign trail, how do you suspect, or do you think, desantis of the world, the pence's of the, world should be dealing with this as well? to break out of the pack? to win the nomination? >> i mean, ideally, to take advantage of this kerfuffle that's been going on. and actually try to say, look,

this is why donald trump should not be president again. we can talk up how his record was, they can say he was a great president for his time. he's clearly shown that there is no -- he should not be president again. and that they would be better option. they're not going to. because they don't seem to understand how to truly delineate between defending trump and winning over his base. they feel like they have to defend him in order to get those solid one third of the gop base to vote for them. that is befuddling them to try and figure out how to do otherwise. >> hayes brown, jessica levinson, thank you as well. i want to bring it now symone sanders-townsend. host of symone on msnbc, who picks up at the top for here in just a couple minutes. 21 minutes or so. symone, as, always fantastic to talk to. you i want to pick up where hayes left. off the political landscape that is going to be left in the

wake of this indictment. in what might be, i should, say future indictments or are looking at fulton county, the january 6th investigation as well. by the special counsel. how do you see this affecting both sides? considering the strategy we're seeing now. you've got biden not really weighing in on things. and then the former president going in hard and desantis and pence and those folks dancing around it. >> look, i think it is going to be something that all of these candidates, especially within the republican presidential primary, are going to have to contend with over the next couple of months. yasmin, we are just two months from the first republican primary debate. we are just seven months, as we have this conversation, from the first voters casting their ballot in the iowa caucuses. i think republicans are going to have to get their bearings much quicker on this issue then president biden. because president biden can, essentially, avoid, if you will, talking about this until the

republicans shake out what their primary process really is. and who their nominee will be. >> at what point does he have to stop avoiding it? the president, that is, especially for looking at a decision on charges in early august we're hearing from fulton county d.a., fani willis at what point it's gonna be the elephant in the room. people get what he'll from the president of the united states. especially during this very politically divisive time. aside from the election. >> well, look, yasmin, president biden is in a different position than if he was not the current president of the united states of america. let's just say joe biden was a governor at this point. or a former governor. and the democrats had decided, he's their nominee. then i think that it is imperative that the folks here from the candidate. it's imperative. in this instance, i think that, look, the justice department is under the biden administration. the moment that president biden weighs in on the machinations

of the justice department, one of which he's gone through great lengths to make sure they're independent. i think he's a very, very dangerous water. and risks politicizing this more than it already is. >> i want to switch gears, symone, if we can, i don't have someone import on your show tomorrow, that minnesota attorney general, keith ellison. i want to talk about the doj's findings on excessive force, discriminatory policies in the minneapolis pd. what do you want to hear from the attorney general after reading through that thing? in the problematic police force in minneapolis? >> yasmin, the last part you said is very important. the problematic police force. this is not just about what happened to george floyd. it is about the pattern and practice of, i'm gonna read, it excessive force, unjustified deadly force, other types of force. unlawful discrimination within the minneapolis police department. so, when the justice department

opens a pattern, or opens the, they enter a memorandum, if you will, with that police department to fix those systemic issues. i want to know from attorney general ellison, what kind of changes on the horizon, how long will this change take, and what is the escalation going to be to the people of minnesota, to the people of minneapolis? who have lived with and under this police force for years, prior to this report. >> yeah. it's been an ongoing problem, it was happening before george floyd, it continues to happen after george floyd. as well. i look forward to that interview, symone sanders-townsend, thank you, be sure to be junior to juneteenth, special as she visits the national museum of african american history and culture to talk with director kevin young about the people in places along the path to june 19th 1865 catch simone every weekend for pm following our show, new

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the bathroom during the nba finals in miami. and he sees dana griffin has more on this, dana? >> mcgregor has denied the claims, new video appears to corroborate at least part of the woman's story. miami police aren't saying much about the incident, but said the special victims unit is investigating a report that was filed sunday. after the nba game four finals video obtained by tmz sports shows a moment ufc star conor mcgregor allegedly took a woman by the hand and let her inside this press room. as security stood by the entrance. >> mr. mcgregor turned a willing participant into an on looking participant. >> mostly for the incident, the selfie video also obtained by tmz sports verified by the accusers attorney, shows a woman and mcgregor partying together at a club inside miami's -- she took some videos with him, they were drinking. attorney aerial mitchell says her client was initially

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pomp and circumstance on full display in london today as king charles celebrated his first

official birthday parade since taking the throne. the -- known as trooping the color is a tradition going back near that -- even though the king's actual birthday is in november. nbc correspondent megan fitzgerald is in london for us and joining us. charles also revived another tradition as well, that we have not seen in quite some time. talk us through it. >> you're absolutely right. so for the first time in decades, we saw king charles riding a horse to lead the procession from buckingham palace. this is the first time since we saw it since 1986, when queen elizabeth ii mounted a horse. and so, we are talking about thousands of people that line the streets, trying to get a glimpse of this pomp and circumstance and pageantry that only the brits can do. they stalking charles on this horse leading some 1400 troops, hundreds of musicians, as he made his way to horse guards parade, and that is where we saw him inspecting his troops

alongside queen camilla, prince william, and princess catherine, before he then went back to buckingham palace for what was a spectacular event. this was the royal -- we saw some 70 fighter jets flying past buckingham palace. the king and his family on the balcony. this was exciting because we saw a shortened version of this about six weeks ago for the coronation. it was in full fanfare. >> so, this is actually -- because of the nice weather, right? but in fact, you guys have had some dangerously high temperatures, which actually affected some of the rehearsals. he >> yeah, you're absolutely right. so last weekend, when we saw the troops rehearsing, it was about 86 degrees, almost 90 degrees. it doesn't seem like it would be that hot, but we did see three of these guardsman faint. and when you think about it, they are wearing these towering bare skin hats, right? they've got these tunics that they wear as part of their uniform, mix that with 86-degree temperatures, pushing

90 degrees, you have some dangerous circumstances. we saw a tweet from prince william, where he basically acknowledge the fact that this was a difficult day. this was difficult circumstances to be in. he thanked them, because it was hot. now today, we also saw a guards woman. she did faint in the procession, it's unclear as to why, because the temperatures were a lot cooler today than they were last weekend. but again, you've got these warm uniforms that they wear. so it is possible that that could've been the weather as well. >> that must have been pretty troubling for the soldiers that were watching that happen, seeing the footage, the video of people rushing out after someone had fainted. pretty troubling to see. megan fitzgerald, as always, we thank you. that wraps up for me everybody. i'm yasmin vossoughian, i will be back in the chair tomorrow. simone starts now.

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