category of being elderly, young, also those with underlying conditions as well. >> really important. >> ana? >> really important reminders there. dangerous when it gets that hot. kathy park, thank you for your reporting. that will do it for us today. see you back here, same time, same place, tomorrow. until then, i'm ana cabrera reporting from new york. yasmin vossoughian picks up our coverage right now. good morning, everybody. it is 11:00 a.m. in the east, 8:00 a.m. pacific. i'm yasmin vossoughian in for jose diaz-balart. overseas, the president on the world stage at nato making security promises to ukraine with president zelenskyy at his side. we're going to talk to ukraine's former president petro poroshenko about it coming up. and then back at home, fireworks on capitol hill. house republicans slamming fbi director chris wray and his agency claiming it has been quote, unquote weaponized against conservatives. and no rest for millions of americans suffering the effects

of extreme weather, heat alerts are stretching from california to texas and parts of south florida as well. while in the northeast, a state of emergency. in vermont, the capitol city devastated by flooding there with some people still stranded in their homes. and then new this morning, what we know about the fourth migrant child to die while in u.s. custody. we begin this hour, though, with a war in ukraine taking center stage at the nato summit in lithuania. later today, the president will give a major speech on the u.s. support of ukraine and the actions that world leaders are taking to address global challenges. just last hour, the president sat down with ukraine's president zelenskyy for their third face to face meeting this year. while ukraine will not become a nato member right now, ukrainian leader is coming away with a series of security guarantees announced by nato and g-7

leaders and this assurance from the u.s. president. >> we're going to make sure you get what you need and i look forward to the day when we're having the meeting, celebrating your official membership in nato. >> with us now to talk all about this, nbc news correspondent josh lederman, with the president in lithuania, igo delder and retired admiral james stavridis, msnbc's chief international analyst. welcome to you all. thank you for joining us on this. josh, start us off if you will. we played a little sound of president biden and zelenskyy there. take us through some of the main takeaways we have been hearing so far between these two men. >> reporter: well, throughout this war, yasmin, the united states, its allies and nato and elsewhere have provided billions of dollars of assistance to ukraine. but what these leaders are announcing here in vilnius today

as president biden meets with president zelenskyy and gets ready to give that major speech, they're going to make this a much more longer term commitment, essentially creating an umbrella agreement under which the individual nations in nato, including the u.s., are going to commit to make this a regular occurrence, they are going to contribute over the longer term to make sure that ukraine has the defense that it needs to be able to protect itself from russia and other enemies, including building up a defense manufacturing sector, the kinds of economic assistance that they're going to need and part of that is an attempt to show and signal to moscow that western support for ukraine is not going anywhere, despite the fact that these nations are not yet ready to admit ukraine formally into the nato alliance. president biden also spoke about the frustration that ukraine's president has voiced, about not being let more quickly into nato as he met with president zelenskyy today.

take a listen. >> i hope we finally have put to bed the notion about whether or not ukraine is welcome in nato. it is going to happen. we're moving in the right direction. i think it is just a matter of getting by the next few months here. >> reporter: president biden also said explicitly he understands the deep frustration from president zelenskyy. u.s. officials have said if they were in zelenskyy's shoes, they too would be asking for admittance into the alliance as soon as possible. president zelenskyy for his part, despite the tweet last night that lashed out at nato allies for refusing to formally invite nato into the alliance, he was much more gentle towards president biden today, really embracing him, saying that he completely understands that the support that he's been getting from the west, though he of course would like that invitation to come sooner, yasmin. >> ambassador, if you would

expand on that, right, the kind of more measured tone that we're hearing from president zelenskyy today after hearing yesterday and seeing that tweet last night about how it was absurd they were not being given a timetable. it seems as if there has been a real heart to heart or understanding or assurances that zelenskyy feels pretty confident in between both president biden and president zelenskyy. >> yeah, i mean, i think we have all in the past sent emails or tweeted out something we regret having sent in the heat of the moment. that's one of the cases we saw here. better to use drafts and keep it there before hitting send. that said, clearly president zelenskyy, everyone else, he would loved to have been in nato before the war started. if he had been in nato, the war wouldn't have started. we get frustration. he understands the kind of commitment he just had, first yesterday from nato, repeated now by president biden, that ukraine's place is in nato is a

very important commitment and secondly, just announced as you mentioned, this major, major commitment by all the major powers including japan. let's just underscore that, japan, to provide the kind of equipment, ammunition, training and intelligence not just today, not just for this war, but in order for ukraine to be able, even after the war, not only -- to defend and hopefully to deter a resumption of fighting. that is the kind of commitment that a bunch of words and the communique don't do justice to. and i think he's now looking back and saying, listen, i'm coming back here, much closer to nato membership and with an incredible degree of support, not just from the united states, but from so many other countries and that is what ultimately this is all about. it sends a signal to putin he miscalculated, colossally, and as a result nato is stronger, ukraine is stronger.

>> it definitely seems, i have to agree, a real change of tone even from nato members as well, seeming like ukraine is so much closer to nato membership. admiral, weigh in for me here. are security insurances enough for zelenskyy, for ukrainians, as well? and also possibly enough to deter future advance from russian president vladimir putin? >> i think that for this moment these security assurances that the ambassador just laid out are spot on. if i were driving the train, i would move a little quicker to get some specific weapons, f-16s notably into the hands of the ukrainians. but that will come. and certainly the military flow here favors ukraine going forward. and look at the defense budgets. the defense budget of the united states and nato combined is over a trillion dollars.

the defense budget of russia is 60 to $70 billion. well under a tenth. they're not going to win this footrace in terms of armaments and capability. and to your second point, is it enough? it is, in my view. putin's burn rate is terrible. he's losing tens of thousands killed, hundreds of thousands wounded, hundreds of thousands of men departing russia to avoid the draft. he can't sustain that. he knows it. we're headed towards some kind of negotiation, i would say, toward the end of the year. >> i want to get to more in a bit. the vulnerable position that russian president vladimir putin is finding himself in. before we do that, josh, weigh in on the expectations we have on the president's speech in just a little bit here. we heard a little bit of kind of the tone he may take in that bilat, the empathy he has for the position the ukrainians find

themselves in and the courage they have put forward in the last 500 plus days of war. what more are we expected to hear? >> you're going to hear the president, yasmin, make the moral argument for the ongoing security commitments that these leaders have been laying out throughout this nato summit. but i also think you're going to see the president take a step back and try to describe the way that russia's invasion has really changed the environment here in europe. he will certainly take a victory lap over that ability to get turkey to drop its objections to sweden joining nato. he is likely to repeat a line we heard from him in speeches like this before. like the one he gave not too many months ago, back in warsaw, as well as speeches he gave earlier in the war talking about how president putin said that he started this war because he saw nato as a threat and wanted to stop its expansion. instead, president putin is getting a massive expansion of

nato, adding its 31st and 32nd members, finland and sweden, likely to add a 33rd ukraine once this war is over and those conditions, they have been discuss having been met. you'll hear president biden making the argument that this coalition has stood together, that ukraine's military has performed better than so many of its doubters had predicted, and that continued support is what is going to make the difference to ensure that ukraine is able to be victorious in its counteroffensive and ultimately to lead the way to negotiations to end this war. >> ambassador, the wingman as you are too, admiral, weigh in for me on the audience of one, russian president vladimir putin, as we're looking at the podium and where the president of the united states will address the world here at that nato summit. this is amidst the failed rebellion in russia, from yevgeny prigozhin, precarious vulnerable position the russian

president finds himself in. what do you want to hear from the president today when it comes to support for ukraine and also what he may say directly to russian president putin on that stage? >> i think what he's going to say is put this in a larger context as josh said, but the larger context is that he came into office to revitalize our alliances. they were brittle at the end of the previous administration. and he has put as the number one requirement for american foreign policy is to have very strong alliances, strong alliances in nato as we're seeing, a strong commitment to ukraine as we're seeing from the g-7, a revitalization of the g-7 itself which is now really as jake sullivan of the national security adviser likes to say the committee of the free world, directing and looking at ways in which we can combine ourselves, strengthening of our alliances in the asia pacific, the quad, the relationship with australia, japan, south korea, with india.

are all designed to put pressure on the two countries trying to revise the international order. china on the one hand, and russia on the other. now, he's been tremendously helped by russia making this incredible mistake of invading ukraine, believing that ukraine would crumble and nato would be divided. nato is stronger than ever, stronger than admiral stavridis and i were in the show, though we didn't have to deal with a russia that was invaing anybody when we were there. and at the same time, a military that is extraordinarily weak. ukraine that is now more unified, more determined to be independent and indeed become the 33rd member of nato. this is a colossal miscalculation. and i have no doubt that mr. -- that president biden will point out that mutiny of prigozhin may be one of the signs of how

miscalculating putin has been. >> ambassador ivo daalder, thank you. we're back in 60 seconds with ukraine's former president petro poroshenko. we'll get his reaction to nato's decision to wait to bring ukraine into its fold. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports." we'll be right back. watching " diaz-balart reports. we'll be right back. hristina) with verizon business unlimited, i get 5g, truly unlimited data, and unlimited hotspot data. so, no matter what, i'm running this kitchen. (vo) make the switch. it's your business. it's your verizon. first, there's an idea and you do something about it for the first time with godaddy. then before you know it, (it is a life changer...) you make your first sale. small business first. never stopped coming. (we did it!) and you have a partner that always puts you first way. (no way!) start today at godaddy.com.

all right, 14 past the hour. president biden expected to deliver remarks highlighting how the u.s. along with its nato allies are supporting ukraine in its defense against russia. want to bring in now from kyiv petro poroshenko, the former president of ukraine. president poroshenko, thank you so much for joining us on this, we appreciate it. i read your op-ed, released before the nato meeting in which you obviously advocated for nato membership to ukraine. it seems as if that's not happening right now and a real

timetable has not been given, though it does seem ukraine is a few steps closer to nato membership than it was just a couple of months ago. you write in that op-ed that you feel as if not only ukraine would benefit from nato membership, but europe and the west as well. why? >> i want to start with the thanks to the united states, president biden, congress, administration, that enormous leadership you demonstrate since february 2022, which is extremely important. you should understand it should be -- it could be no peace, no sustainable security situation in the world for nato member states without peace, security in ukraine. second, we have the most

strongest armed forces on the continent. with a unique combat experience. and now we protect europe and this is not article five of nato, but the blue and yellow shade of ukraine and armed forces. and that's why not only ukraine desperately need nato, but nato definitely needs ukraine. and this is the win-win situation. we definitely understand that we should provide a long list of -- protecting democracy, protecting freedom, rule of law, fighting against russian corruption, media freedom, but we definitely want to see the same process from the site of the nato membership. next point, please don't be

afraid of ukraine victory and don't be afraid of the russia defeat. and the ukrainian membership in nato, this is the ukrainian victory, nato victory and defeat of putin. >> president poroshenko, we know of assurances both security along with, of course, those cluster munitions promised by the u.s. president. we also have assurances from 11 separate countries in training f-16 fighter jet pilots. with all of that in mind, and the success so far of the spring offensive, what seems as if spring into summer offensive, i should say, which seems as it is not done yet, could this be a real moment of victory for ukraine and taking back territory? >> this is not an easy question. does the best security guarantee available now after russia launch aggression and destroy

all security mechanisms based on the security council of united nations -- nato membership. you are absolutely right. this is a security assurance, not a security guarantee. me as a president of ukrainian year 2014, 2019, understand what does it mean in assurance when i spend a lot of time calling for the -- asking for the consultation and launching the process for security assurance. it is not working. security guarantee is, by the way not mentioning the g-7 statement, should be binding, should be ratified. and we very much appreciate the, again, the leadership, but i hate the idea that we spend one year before the russian -- nato

2024 in agreeing in discussion guarantee. no, this is not the case. we need to spend this time to prepare nato, prepare membership, to prepare ukraine for nato membership and that would be the only one condition, when we have a peace, very next moment we should get nato membership. and that is not a scenario for launching third world war as putin tried to create. that would be the only possible peace plan and the only possible security situation. we consider the security guarantee of the g-7 based on the bilateral -- as preaccession guarantee. this is what we need, together with future nato membership. the exact date, exact reforms

that need to be done. we have 144 to be done and we definitely -- >> former ukrainian president petro poroshenko, thank you, sir, for your time, appreciate it. good luck to you. coming up, everybody, grand jurors have now been seated in a major case that could decide if donald trump faces charges for interfering in the 2020 election. we're going to break down where this case is headed next. and then over on capitol hill, fbi director chris wray is face to face with lawmakers amidst accusations of political interference. how wray is responding next. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports." we'll be right back. we'll be right back. wayfair's got just what you need... performance fabrics, stains don't stand a chance. no chance! -woo!

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welcome back, everybody. 24 past the hour. right now fbi director chris wray is on capitol hill, testifying before the house judiciary committee, where he's being asked about a number of topics including the

investigation surrounding former president trump and president biden. joining us now, my friend, ali vitali standing by for us on capitol hill. start us off, the latest on the hearing, what have we been hearing coming out of the room? >> reporter: this was always going to be a contentious hearing and it is wide ranging. we knew coming in that director wray went in with the goal of defending the law enforcement officials that worked within the fbi, they have seen sustained attacks from republicans including some of those who are on this very panel. listen to the way it started and i'll tell you how we have seen it go over the course of the last hour or so. watch. >> i want to talk about the sheer breadth and impact of the work the fbi's 38,000 employees are doing each and every day because the work, the men and women of the fbi do to protect the american people goes way beyond the one or two investigations that seem to capture all the headlines. >> reporter: we have heard republican and democratic

members each ask pretty tough questions of the fbi director. everything from pipe bombs on january 6th and where that investigation stands to mentions of the hunter biden probe and then even further into that -- talking about data collection and other topics. wide ranging as he makes his annual visit with the committee. >> while all this is happening, the president's pick to become the next chair of the joint chiefs of staff warning that the military is going to lose talent due to tuberville holding up promotions there. where do things stand on that? >> reporter: it is a new messenger, but the same message we have been hearing over the course of the last few months because tuberville had this hold on military promotions since the spring and he said he's not letting up until he sees the pentagon change their policy on providing assistance for lodging and travel regarding abortion care. that is something that military officials, democrats and even some republicans have made

clear, there are national security implications to that kind of a hold, nevertheless we're watching tuberville hold strong and i think it is also important to note while that's happening in the senate, we're starting to see a bubbling on the house republican side as we head into a week where the national defense authorization act is the chief focus for republicans on the house and senate side, watching house republicans put an amendment in that mirrors what tuberville is pushing for, getting rid of the policy that would allow for people to travel with extra funds for abortion care funded by the pentagon, that is something that we haven't seen them put into the nda yesterday and my reporting from this morning with my colleague rebecca kaplan is that speaker mccarthy, behind closed doors with his republican conference, urged members, hey, maybe all the nongermane stuff should go into the fall appropriations and spending package, let's keep it in the words of what one member told us germane to defense in this upcoming ndaa. this is a member where domestic

policy on abortion is coming on collision course with national security. >> we're going to be speaking about what just took place in iowa overnight coming up in a little bit as well. thank you for that. ali vitali. we're following new developments as well, everybody, in the investigation surrounding the former president. the justice department saying essentially in a court filing it will not defend trump in a lawsuit brought by writer e. jean carroll, saying it no longer believes he was acting within the scope of the presidential duties when he defamed her. and two brand-new grand juries are have been seated in fulton county, georgia. one of which could be asked to decide on potential charges against trump and others in connection with alleged efforts to overturn his loss in that state. we were going to be talking to charles coleman. i believe we're having some technical difficulties right now. we're going to try and get him up in a moment, guys? are we trying to get charles back? okay. we got charles coleman back with

us. civil rights and trial attorney and former prosecutor as well to talk more about this. charles, thank you for that. technical difficulties when it comes to live television. thanks for rolling with it. talk to me, first, about the justice department's decision here to drop the former president when it comes to their defense of him against e. jean carroll. >> well, what we understand about the department of justice's reversal is basically that while they did believe that he was previously protected by federal law, which shields employees from being personally liable for anything they say in the capacity of their job duties, while they are federal employees, the motivation for his attacks on -- on miss carroll were not necessarily connected to his duties while in office. and that is something that has become more and more obvious and evident since he has left office and continues to make further attacks on miss carroll.

because of that, the doj separated his statements from his position because they have continued and they're not motivated by his job capacity or his job function as the former president of the united states or at that time as the president of the united states. so that's the distinction, yasmin, that ultimately allowed them to change course on their position and determine that he could ultimately be held liable. >> got it. okay. i want to pivot here, because we have had all eyes, right, on fulton county and the fulton county d.a. there, fani willis, especially because of the emails that were dropped a couple of months ago, about fulton county employees, working from home, and the reporting that was coming out of there, the potential for charges to be filed there, and now we have grand juries seated now until september 1st. what is the process going to be looking like from here on out, and expectations there when it comes to this grand jury? >> well, we don't know who the

actual targets of the presentation are as of yet. we know that the previous special grand jury that conducted the investigation provided fani willis' office with a number of different names they made recommendations about moving forward, with respect to charges. for each defendant and for each potential charge, there is going to be separate presentation that is going to go before the grand jury. so the grand jury may, over time, get familiar with the facts, with the presentations becoming shorter and shorter because they're more familiar, but ultimately they're going to put a story in front of the grand jury and they are going to essentially allege or try to get the grand jury to determine whether the actors that they are saying are responsible for trying to interfere with the election, is there probable cause enough for them to move forward with an indictment? again, it will be interesting to see how this shapes up, because we are not clear about who the targets of that investigation were and who the targets of the indictment will be. all of that is going to come out

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welcome back, everybody. 36 past the hour. this morning, a key inflation report was released giving us insight into prices for consumer goods like bread, eggs and gas as well. the june report is showing inflation is actually cooling, some good news there. rising 3% over the year, marking the lowest level in more than two years. it is down from 4% back in may. the president reacting to the report in a statement saying in part this, today's report brings new and encouraging evidence that inflation is falling while our economy remains strong. cnbc's dom chu is joining us now with more on this. dom, if you would, help us understand what is in this report, what we're seeing. >> so, yasmin, you mentioned the headline number of 3%. it means that inflation is still present, and it is still a problem, but it is getting better. there is a focus right now on so-called core inflation, though. that's the relative level of prices. if you strip out the effects of

more volatile food and energy prices. so that core level of inflation does remain stubbornly high. on a more positive note, though, it does, again, show signs of easing. that core cpi rose by 4.8% over the last year. compared to the 3% that you mentioned. now, the core cpi read was also the lowest annual pace since october of 2021. as for where we're seeing the price gains as we're seeing on the screen versus the price drops, it is rent and housing costs that are still up meaningfully, 7.8% over the last year. and housing is roughly a third of the cpi read. now, the labor department does say that housing inflation was responsible for around 70% of the gain of headline consumer prices, meanwhile, fuel, car, airfare prices fell meaningfully over the last year. inflation still a problem, but there are some signs it is getting better. >> all right, so, to sum it up, dominic, right, slowing but stubbornly high.

if you're fed chair jerome powell you're looking at this, what do you do next? >> it is a welcome sign for the federal reserve but it is not under control, inflation, by in any means. the central bank is going to try to tap the brakes on the economy. the fed may proceed with another quarter point interest rate hike when it sets policy later on this month. the next meeting is going to be july 25th and 26th. financial markets are pricing in roughly 90% chance of a fed will raise rates. and by doing so, at least one more time for the balance of the year. now, one reason yasmin for the vigilance on rates, the labor market still remains relatively strong and inflation adjusted wages, yasmin, still climbing. >> dominic chu for us,us, as always, thank you, sir. extreme weather across the country. there is not a place that is not feeling it. right now, vermont officials are giving an update on the state of emergency there after flash

flooding ravaged the state. dumping as much as nine inches of rain in some areas. meanwhile, 78 million people from california and south florida all under heat alerts. el paso set a new record 26 consecutive days of, get this, triple digit temperatures. death valley, california, is expected to hit 117 degrees today, and get even hotter throughout the week. how do you survive that? who knows? lindsey reiser is joining us from montpelier, vermont and kathy park is in miami. lindsey, talk to us about what you've been seeing there, the damage. i've been seeing some of the pictures. i've been to montpelier, beautiful place. the images coming out of there just startling. >> devastating. the sun is out, the water has receded, but the damage is done. in downtown montpelier, it is business after business coming into assess the damage, clean up, get the merchandise and the damaged furniture out. you can see here at this salon

and perfumery, that's what they're busy doing. everything is caked in mud. and it is also really, really dusty here. so i'm going to take you inside, because people compare it to other flooding that they have seen, for example, hurricane irene in 2011. but take a look at the water line of what we were talking about in the last few days. two months of rain was dumped in 36 hours. this is how high the water was. at this salon and perfumery, they're deciding whether to open up their doors again. they don't know what the future holds because post covid was already really tough. they got sheetrock that has to be ripped out and replaced. the flooring right now is a mess. and then i also want to show you, it is dark in this bathroom, but 1992 there was a pretty bad flood here as well, that's the first marker on the wall you see there, yasmin. and the sharpie above it was the flooding, the flash flooding that took place this week. so i've been talking to business owners here, i want you to hear

from paul one of the co-owners of this establishment and the co-owner of a bookstore i talked to as well. let's listen. >> has a lot of dimensions. sleep, business, trying to speculate on the future. even if this is a temporary pause, either way we're out of business for a while. >> it is a big mess. we have a lot of people coming in to help us, but there is a ton of cleanup, wet books are not an easy thing to clean up. it is heart breaking looking at the books and throwing them away. >> reporter: she took books off of the lower shelves with the water went much higher than anyone expected. so we know fema is here and national disaster declaration has been issued. so people are grateful that they're going to be getting the help. the other thing to look to though tomorrow there is a forecast for rain. we know how saturated these grounds already are. >> that's not what they need right about now. from flooding, kathy, to you in

florida. it is just hot there. how are folks doing? >> reporter: yeah, hey, yasmin it summertime here in miami. yes, it is hot. but even today in miami we could be looking at a record if we reach the 95 degree mark. and right -- this time of year, we're supposed to be somewhere around 91 degrees. and i just checked our heat index. it feels closer to 101 degrees. and for the past 31 days here the miami region, we have actually seen the heat index that has been at least 100 degrees. so we have been kind of sitting in this heat dome for quite some time and we're in the shaded area, i have a tent above me, so, you know, we're trying to stay cool the best we can. i can tell you, it is pretty uncomfortable out here. imagine having to work in these conditions, just being exposed to the elements and yesterday with a chance to catch up with a team of roofers and they said that the key, the strategy to staying safe in these conditions

is by taking a lot of break, drinking a lot of water and if they can get a hold of it, ice as well to keep that body temperature down as much as possible. yasmin? >> yeah. stories like that in florida and vermont happening across the country now with extreme weather conditions. lindsey reiser, kathy park, thank you, both. appreciate it. coming up, everybody, another abortion ban is set to go into effect in the critical early voting state. what role this issue could play in the upcoming election. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports." we'll be right back. ching "jose diaz-balart reports. we'll be right back. new emergen-c crystals pop and fizz when you throw them back. and who doesn't love a good throwback? [sfx: video game sound]

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friday. iowa would become, by the way, the 16th state restricting abortions to six weeks or less and 14 states banning the procedure. joining us now is alessia johnson, senior adviser for president biden's 2020 presidential election and former republican congressman from florida carlos curbelo, nbc news political analyst. let me start with you on this one, alessia. iowa pushing this thing through. a six-week abortion ban with some exceptions. even the former president of the united states kind of faltering on the stance on abortion, not necessarily wanting to push restrictions to the nth degree, it seems. maybe because of public sentiment. how is it when looking at states across the country, right, outright bans, compare that to public sentiment, which the majority of americans believe women should have access to

abortion. >> you know, it is interesting that republicans are not paying attention to how voters showed up in the past several elections and pushing against the egregious abortion bans. in iowa alone, six in ten iowans and seven in ten women in iowa believe abortion should be legal in almost all cases. the republican party has to actually grapple with the fact that these states are ramming through these deeply unpopular pieces of legislation when you see the national leaders like donald trump and some people trying to run for president trying to toe this line as if they're moderate on the position, when let's be clear, donald trump did appoint a supreme court justice that overturned roe v. wade. >> right. congressman, looking at 2024, how big of an issue, you consider what happened in the

midterm elections, abortion was essentially the number one issue for democrats and why they fared so well in the midterms. how big of an issue is abortion going to be in 2024? >> the shift in the politics of this issue has been dramatic since the overturning of roe. it used to be republicans comfortable attacking democrats for positions that were outside of the mainstream. now, as you said, even former president trump has attacked this six-week abortion ban. donald trump is a deeply flawed man, but he knows how to read polls. he understands that it would probably be difficult for any republican to win a national election for president supporting a six-week abortion ban. we have seen a dramatic shift. it's going to be republicans who are going to be on defense on this issue for the foreseeable future. >> i want to switch gears while you have you both as we talk about the 2024 presidential election. former vice president mike pence

asked last night on cnn essentially about the former president's position on january 6. he said -- i'm paraphrasing -- he hoped former president trump would have come around about january -- about the election results in 2020 before january 6. i'm not quite sure what would have led him to believe that. what is your reaction to that? >> it was an interesting interview. mike pence is very good with his words. he didn't quite say that president trump lied about the job that mike pence could do. he said he maintained that mike pence could do something about the election. so he is being careful with his words to make him look like a statesman while trying to not anger trump base, which we all know in order to do well in the republican primary, you actually need those votes. it's interesting to see him walk this line. i was also deeply disturbed that he said he wanted to -- he

believed in the rule of law and yet he actually wanted the american people to decide donald trump's fate and all of his indictments. i'm actually concerned about the way that he is trying to thread together some of these -- the words while he is not saying anything and trying to not indict the former president himself, even though there is evidence against him. >> congressman, could you weigh in, please, as well, how the former vice president is threading this needle, evidence with the former president and his voters? >> yeah. this is a perfect example of republican primary candidates trying to have it both ways. they want to try to distinguish themselves from donald trump a little bit, but also in some ways excuse his behavior or just be very tentative or timid about criticizing him. what the republican primary electorate needs from other candidates is leadership. if these candidates actually want to defeat donald trump, they are going to have to

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56 past the hour. want to go to conditions at the u.s./mexico border. health and human services reporting an unaccompanied 15-year-old from guatemala died monday at the el paso children hospital in texas. hhs saying the teen had a pre-existing condition and was hospitalized when she was transferred to custody from border patrol. this brings the total to four

unaccompanied migrant children who have died in u.s. custody this year. joining us from texas near the border, fernando garcia. thanks for joining us. we appreciate it. you have asked that hhs be transparent about the medical care specifically as well for migrant children. what have you heard from them? what are the concerns you have right now? >> we have heard nothing yet, because we believe this is not a circumstantial case. it's becoming a pattern now that children are dying while in detention or in the care by immigration authority. this is not the first time this happened. in the previous administration, when the trump administration, children died because of condition in detention. we believed it was going to change in this administration. unfortunately, you mentioned it,

four children have died already in these detention centers, under the custody of the federal government. we believe that there's no major change in revamping the emergency procedures to provide health care and emergency care for these children that are in detention. >> we mentioned four children have died in u.s.custody. 6,000 unaccompanied minors are currently in hhs custody. what improvements need to happen? how do you save lives? >> the first thing is that we believe that children, specifically children and minors, they should not be in detention centers. they should not be in border patrol stations. they should be immediately released to their sponsors or family members. specifically, should be a procedure to have an initial

health assessment of every child that border patrol or any other agency is finding at the border and also have a complete medical procedure in case of emergency. in all of these cases, i think emergency health care have come late. that's why these children have died. i think it has to be revamping of the process and a new strategy at the border and create welcoming centers instead of putting children in detention centers. >> a new strategy at the border. thank you so much, sir. appreciate it. before we go, take a look at this. to mark one year since the first images taken by the james webb telescope were unveiled, nasa released this stunning image of a star birth shown in a way that has never been seen before. history in the making really. wow. look at that. that wraps it up for me. catch me right here on msnbc

every saturday and sunday, 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. eastern. garrett haake picks up with more news right now. right now on "andrea mitchell reports," fbi director chris wray under fire from house republicans on the judiciary committee during a contentious hearing. >> when the court says the fbi misled, that's a nice way of saying they lied. >> this is not a political party issue. this is about whether the very system of justice in our country can be trusted anymore. >> you preside over the fbi that has the lowest level of trust in the fbi's history. people trusted the fbi more when j. edgar hoover was running the place. this hour, president biden and president zelenskyy clear the air at the nato summit. zelenskyy describing their meeting as powerful in a tweet just moments ago. all after public frustration from the ukrainians over the lack of a time line for their entry into the allianc