that wraps up the hour for me. i'm jose diaz-balart. see you tomorrow night on "nbc nightly news." reach me on twitter and instagram. watch highlights from today's show online. thank you for the privilege of your time. "andrea mitchell reports" starts right now. right now, hollywood superstars walk off the red carpet of the "oppenheimer" blockbuster premiere. actors join the writers in strikes that could impact the fall season and beyond. >> it's a huge deal to be here. it's a huge deal to be in lockstep with my peers. also this hour, the critical defense authorization bill now loaded with an abortion ban and other far-right social amendments gets through the republican led house despite outcries from democrats.

next step, a showdown in the senate. jack smith now challenging former president trump's efforts to delay his criminal trial on the classified documents until after next year's election. raising the possibility he could pardon himself. jared kushner has spoken to prosecutors about trump's alleged attempts to overturn the election. we will check in on trump's republican rivals without him in iowa for the informal launch of the republican caucus campaign. good day, everyone. i'm andrea mitchell in washington. hollywood comes to a standstill for the first time in more than six decades. sag-aftra, the union representing film and tv actors is now on strike after talks with studios collapsed following four weeks of negotiations. in a blow to the $134 billion

industry, of course, the two sides clashing over residual payments in the age of streaming and the usual of artificial intelligence to replace actors. the union president blasting the studios yesterday. >> i am shocked by the way the people that we have been in business with are treating us. how they plead poverty, that they are losing money left and right, when giving hundreds of millions of dollars to their ceos. human beings in all different walks of life are being replaced by robots. it's really important that we put barricades around artificial intelligence. >> the studios, that include nbc universal, represented by the alliance of motion picture and television producers saying that the strike will only exacerbate the ongoing economic challenges facing the industry as disney's

ceo told cnbc yesterday. >> there's a level of expectation that they have that is just not realistic. they are adding to a set of challenges that this business is facing that is, quite frankly, very disruptive. >> joining me now is kate killkenny and nigel smith. you were at the press conference. lay out what the union is demanding. tell us about the sticking points with a.i. and streaming. >> the news is trickling out about what exactly they came to an impasse on. something that the union negotiator said yesterday was that generative artificial intelligence is a major sticking point. the actors union is looking for more protections than allegedly they were offered.

as well as minimum rates for actors. essentially, minimum wage, according to the union contract. as well as an interesting proposal to have performers share in streaming subscription revenue if their projects do well on streaming services. those were the big three. >> nigel, at the "oppenheimer" film premiere yesterday, the cast, they showed up on the red carpet. then they left. matt damon said this. >> we said, let's do it. if they call a strike, we will go home. >> nigel, obviously, beyond the wealthy big name actors, this affects the entire economy in los angeles. everyone who supports the industry, the food services, carpenters, set makers, costumers, all kinds of people who are working class people. >> exactly. this effectively shuts down hollywood as we know it.

the last time that both the wga and sag went on strike was in 1960. all those productions that were still in production, despite the wga strike, most have now shut down. we just learned today that "dead pool iii" has effectively shut down production. "mortal combat ii" was in production. the script was already written at that point. that has shut down production. it affects so many markets. it affects what i do day to day. i'm not going to do any interviews for "people" in light of the strike. this is a historical moment. >> so how long are the studios willing to let this go on? the writers strike has had a crippling affect on that aspect of the industry and a lot of --

all of us as consumers. they are not getting any satisfaction, they say, as to the major issues as the industry transforms. >> yeah. we don't know yet how long this could go on. the last really big strike in the entertainment industry was writers strike in 2007 and 2008. that lasts 100 days and cost the california economy alone an estimated $2.1 billion, according to the milken institute. now that the negotiations are over, theoretically, the studios and streamers have time to go back to the negotiating table with the writers. time will tell. >> it's obviously a big impact for everyone as we look into the fall season. right now, what do we see in terms of the fall season? what are they going to do? >> we had comicon coming up. we are waiting to hear what's going to happen. they usually have all the stars show up to tout their work. it's likely looking that's not

going to happen. actors cannot effectively promote their work due to the strike. the toronto film festival, which serves as a launching pad for awards season, that's supposed to kick off in september. the last we heard from the festival is that they are still in planning. this awards season, especially for the film industry and the emmy awards, which are supposed to take place in september, is just at a standstill. actors can't promote their work. they can't campaign. the emmy nominations came in this week. those actors happy to get the nominations, they can't get out there to tout the nominations and get those wins. we are hearing that the emmy awards might be delayed until next year. >> wow. of course, artificial intelligence is one of the big issues. you referred to it. give us a better understanding of what the actors' concerns are as the technology develops.

>> there are specific proposals that haven't been released. they are looking for compensation when their work is being ingested into artificial intelligence systems as well as further areas of consent where they can give permission for their work to be used. those are some of the big things they are looking at. we will see how that goes. obviously, this is a rapidly evolving technology that entertainment companies are looking to use. that has clearly been a sticking point in the actors and the writers' negotiations. >> thanks to both of you for kicking us off. we will hope for the best. we hope everyone gets satisfied quickly somehow and the industry survives this as well. thank you. the defense bill. this is a huge battle. the house sending a military spending bill to the senate, jammed full of controversial right wing amendments.

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from which this passed out of committee and then, of course, the overwhelmingly bipartisan nature that these ndaa bills tend to pass in most congresses. that's one of the key questions that i was talking with speaker kevin mccarthy about when we were in a press conference with him just in the last few minutes, asking about what he sees as the difference between why democrats were not willing to vote for the ndaa this time around, and if he saw this as the right vehicle for things like abortion related regulation and others to be adjudicated in. he urged other members of the conference to keep things as relative to the military and -- as relevant to the military in this bill as possible. we expect more of these hot button issues to come up during the fall spending battle. nevertheless, one of the interesting ways mccarthy was able to cobble together the votes he needed here -- we know slim majorities are the way of this particular congress -- is it is clear he was offering members spots on the conference committee for when this bill

ultimately goes to conference between the house and senate versions. one of the people is going to be marjorie taylor greene, who as of last night was a no on the ndaa. today did ultimately vote yes on it. she told one of our colleagues here that the reason she did that is because mccarthy told her she could be on the conference committee. that's what he told us a few minutes ago. this was something that she wanted and something he was happy to give her. that's why he was able to get her on board in a congress where every vote counts. >> you never asked me, that i wish you would, why did the democrats vote no? technically, it's a bipartisan vote. four democrats voted with us. are the rest of the democrats against a pay raise for the veterans? are they against deterring china for a safe future? are they against rooting out wasteful spending? because they all voted against it today.

>> reporter: that was speaker mccarthy speaking about why he thinks democrats deflected -- defected on this bill and voted no. most of the democrats that we spoke to said it was the poisoned pills that were put into this bill, in their words, the amendments added. that's what we heard across the board why most democrats didn't vote for this. >> kim, let's talk about tommy tuberville in the senate who has been blocking the military nominations over the same issue of the pentagon abortion and reproductive health care policy, which was one of the amendments added today. at this stage, which way do you see the senate going on this whole bill? >> yeah, you know, it's evidence that the politics that used to be separate from policy, particularly pentagon policy and military funding, military appointments, has infiltrated these bills. every bill that is being put

forward in congress right now has turned into a messaging bill. republicans are really focused on these cultural issues, like abortion, like lgbtq rights. we are seeing that come to a head in a way that we usually don't before. the problem here is that it's particularly with the holding up of the military appointments and promotions, is that there's a lot of bipartisan unease with the fact that you are essentially grinding the ability of the military to operate to a halt with this. it's the same with the ndaa, this is normally an easy rubber stamp bill. there's some negotiations about amendments. but it's never in peril or uncertain. both of these are evidence in the way republicans are pushing these issues wherever they can, even in military policy. >> senator lindsey graham was speaking out about the issue today. let's listen.

>> the point about holding up promotions, we need to end that. we need a vote. i'm going to vote to change the policy. i think it's illegal. it's a misuse of funds. quite frankly, a violation of the existing legal structure. having said that, you don't always get your way around here. you do get to vote. that's where a change of policy is due. >> kim, what about what senator graham said? how do you see this shaping up in the senate? >> well, i think you are going to see people really holding firm and pushing these issues if that's going to be the approach, making this a campaign issue for 2024 and trying to get republican control. in the meantime, you are really going to see this really -- this unease when it comes to the fact military policy could be ground

to a halt. pro-military is what republicans fashioned themselves to be. in pushes for other issues, they are finding themselves on the other side of that. >> thanks to both of you. the cattle call in iowa. republican presidential hopefuls gathering for a key pre-caucus kickoff, all except donald trump. in the bank, the biden campaign building a massive war chest. jim messina joins me next. you are watching "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc.

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in iowa today, republicans are gathering for an evangelical conference. it's the informal kickoff to the caucuses six months from now. a notable absence is donald trump, not appearing with a half dozen otherhopefuls. ron desantis is trying to reassure supporters about falling poll numbers. the biden campaign is releasing fund-raising numbers. joining us from iowa, dasha burns, sam stein and jim messina, former obama white house deputy chief of staff, who managed his re-election campaign and is a surrogate for the biden re-elect.

dasha, how critical is iowa for the contenders trying to catch up to donald trump? >> reporter: right now, we are at a critical inflection point here in iowa. we are officially six months away from the iowa caucuses on january 15th. in this memo, what we saw from the desantis campaign is trying to lay out a path forward as he really has been seen as struggling over the last few months. what they are laying out is a doubling down in early states, iowa, south carolina, and especially new hampshire, which has been seen as challenging for desantis. the memo says they will not cede new hampshire. it indicates that they still see this as a two-man race between trump and desantis. it indicates that they see a potential threat from senator tim scott and hints we might be seeing some increased scrutiny from desantis allies when it comes to tim scott.

iowa is the end all be all at the moment. this is the place where it's going to be either trump or an alternative. if trump wins here, it's essentially door closed for everybody else. if someone else can win, it actually really does open the door for a real alternative. in the last few weeks, trump has been feuding with iowa's governor kim reynolds which upset some of her fans here. she's popular here in iowa. he is skipping this event, which has 2,000 likely caucus goers. it does open up the opportunity for desantis and the other candidates coming here. i had the chance to sit down with the man putting on this event. he is an influential vangelical and political leader in the state. i asked him about what's going on with trump and the state of iowa. listen to what he told me. how worried should donald trump be about iowa? >> i think he should be very concerned. the venues that he is doing

right now are more small town venues, a couple hundred people. i think he knows he is going to have to work at there. this will not be given to him. have too many americans made up their mind saying, you are not going to win. you might win the nomination. that doesn't mean you win the presidency. >> reporter: bob has a history of endorsing candidates that are successful. i asked him when we might get an endorsement. he is looking at november. >> sam stein, could desantis turn things around in iowa? >> of course. it's incredibly premature to rule anyone out. i think it's objectively true that the launch for desantis has not gone according to plan. the twitter space that he was on

malfunctioned. the fund-raising numbers, they have been okay but not overwhelming. he was supposed to excel in those parts. the polls have trended downward. now you see internal second guessing bubbling to the surface. an effort to quiet the naysayers and quiet the skeptics. that doesn't mean he can't turn it around. i think trump has provided a bit of an opening, frankly, in iowa for attacking the government. we report an iowa state senator that endorsed trump was defecting to desantis because of the attacks. the door is not closed on desantis. one of the things that is hampering him is the field is crowded. the same thing that happened in 2016. ideally, you would have a one on one matchup. if you are an iowa caucus goer, you have a lot of options. that evangelical crowd has options, including mike pence, tim scott, people who have firm

ties to that community who could come in and take a couple percentage points here or there. that's the stuff that desantis needs if he wants to come back. >> those are good points. jim, let's talk about the democrats. president biden coming out today, combined with the dnc and state party groups, announcing they raised more than $72 million for the re-election, including $77 million in cash on hand. that's a combined total. they are not giving us the breakdown. we will get that tomorrow night when we see the filing. it's a lot of money. they had a very slim start in their campaign operation. they have other advantages where they can combine trips and use some assets the other candidates don't have and use dnc money in the number. the other candidates are still running for the nomination. >> there's a whole bunch of democrats this morning taking a big sigh of relief. these numbers are just incredibly impressive. they are impressive for two reasons. one is the pace per day.

they are faster than the obama 2011 numbers. to your point, there's real cash on hand numbers. they are spending very little money. they are holding this money for next year when they are going to need it. it's a very slimmed down and very smartly run operation. the other number that strikes is that biden out raised all republicans combined. that's another number that we look at to say who is healthy and how are these numbers. there's a bunch of democrats who woke up this morning to the numbers feeling pretty good about where joe biden's campaign is six months before the iowa caucuses. >> two quick things. since obama in 2014, there was a supreme court decision that lets individual donors give as much as -- almost -- more than $900,000, close to a million dollars to different organizations. at the same time, you have got a lot of small donors, first-time donors and small donors. those are good numbers, good

numbers for biden long-term. >> absolutely. in 2020, he raised a billion dollars. of that, 700 million was online. the atm of the democratic party is small donor online. the numbers he released this morning showed a huge number of small donors giving at a $20 and $30 level. that's another number i looked at and said, they know what they are doing. here we go. it's a good morning for the democrats. >> dasha, sam, jim, thanks to all of you. family matters. donald trump's son-in-law reportedly speaks with federal investigators in the election interference probe. that plus the key pre-trial decision coming as soon as next week. we are watching for that in the classified documents case in florida. an adverse ruling from the judge could sink the prosecutor's hopes for a conviction. that's all next on "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. hey'g their meats fresh.

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florida federal court judge aileen cannon is facing her first big test. a ruling on whether former president trump will win his legal argument in a recent filing to postpone the entire classified documents trial until after the 2024 election. it's supposed to start in december. this week trump's lawyers petitions cannon to delay it. the former president faces 37

counts. saying, quote, time and energy that the client needs to run for president will sustain through the november 2024 election. in the response to the filing, the assistant special counsel saying -- joining me now is ken dilanian, former u.s. attorney barbara mcquade and "new york times" chief white house correspondent peter baker. ken, first of all, the prosecutors here kept politics out of their response. they didn't respond to the trump team saying that this is a joe biden prosecution when it's not even a merrick garland prosecution. you have a special counsel. all of the other issues about the campaign. they didn't respond to the politics at all. >> they didn't. they pointed out that the right

to a speedy trial is not some favor the prosecution grants. it's the bedrock of the constitution. they really squarely attacked what donald trump's lawyers say is his defense, that supposedly the presidential records act makes these charges inappropriate. they said, that's ridiculous. presidential records act is not a criminal statute. they say -- they call it a baseless and bordering on frivolous argument that should not be as an excuse to delay the trial. >> let me read an excerpt. they write --

boom. >> yes. it's strong language but deservedly so. president trump has made it a point of saying that the presidential records act is what exonerates him. it doesn't. the presidential records act was passed after watergate to say and clarify that all of the records belong to the people and not to the individual who occupied the office of the presidency. it's not applicable. if anything, it goes against him. of course, what he is charged with is violating the espionage act, which makes it a crime to willfully retain national defense information. as well as obstruction of justice. it's just apples and oranges. i think they may file some motion raising this issue in some way. the justice department responds,

we're going to file quickly. the judge will decide this and it will go away. the idea that that is somehow complicating the timing of this case is really just absurd. >> let me pick up on something you said. this is judge aileen cannon, remember, who reported a special master and delayed that -- the whole study of the documents and categorizing of them for months last summer. we don't know what she's going to do here. this is a real test to see whether she's going to follow the constitution or follow some other legal theory here. right? >> yes. i am proceeding in good faith. i hope she is, too. i'm trying not to be too cynical about her poor ruling last year that was very quickly reversed. she's got another shot here to establish her own reputation. i think any judge acting in good faith would follow the speedy trial act, which as ken says is not only a defendant's right but the public's right to a speedy

trial. in fact, the language of the speedy trial act says the judge should set a date certain. should not be adjourning this until january of 2025. pick a date she thinks is reasonable. if it's necessary to move it, that's something they can do. as the government says, whether it's december or something shortly after that, the public is entitled to have a date certain that is a reasonable amount of time for parties to prepare and to get on with it. >> peter baker, let's talk about the other big trump legal news, which "the new york times" reported, revealing that jared kushner, the president's son-in-law, has spoken to federal prosecutors in recent weeks. what can you tell us about that? obviously, his knowledge of what was going on could be really impactful. >> yeah. jack smith's prosecutors are trying to establish whether, in fact, donald trump knew that what he was telling the public and what he was telling everybody else about the election was false. he knew he lost, yet he was spreading lies about mythical

fraud anyway. they asked jared kushner and other witnesses as well. there is indication that people heard him say in the days after the election an acknowledgement he knew he lost. we heard alyssa farah griffin say that she heard him say, you can believe i lost to this guy? kushner has not indicated his father-in-law knew he had lost. apparently his testimony to the prosecutors is that he thinks his father-in-law believes some of the things he was saying. there's indication he had reason not to. he was told time and time again by people in his own campaign, in his own orbit, his own government that what he was saying was not true. they hired agencies to

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reached ukraine. president biden said it was a difficult decision to approve the transfer of the weapons. they have been banned in more than 100 countries, including nato allies, because they can cause indiscriminate harm to civilians, especially children, decades after the fighting ends. joining me now is barry mccaffrey. how could the cluster munitions affect the fighting? it's acknowledged by president zelenskyy, the counteroffensive is going slowly. it's tough, very flatter terrain. the russians were dug in. this is a slow slog. they say they need them desperately. >> look, there's no question it's a problem. whether it's 3%, which we claim publically, or higher, it remains a problem not just to civilians but to infantry. we had casualties in desert storm from air force dpicm.

it's a problem. the ukrainians are fighting for their survival. we apparently were going to spend 100,000 rounds or more. we have a stockpile around 3 million. we plan on using these if north korea attacks the south. that's why we are not a signatory to the treaty. ukrainians say, they will clean it up after the war. they are probably four times more effective against russian military. they also knock out light armor. i think president biden, lloyd austin and blinken were correct to send them these munitions, not just as a stopgap, but because they are a very effective tool. ukraine is fighting for its survival. >> do you think ukraine can get any advantage by what is

acknowledged to be some disarray on the russian side as we read today more reporting that putin is going after some of the generals? he is trying to weed out those who may have supported the mini-rebellion. >> we have never seen public criticism -- not just by prigozhin, who by the way the words that can never be unsaid were, the war against ukraine was a fraud. nato wasn't the problem. they are not nazis. we were doing it for corrupt purposes. now to see the russian active duty military, including some of the allegedly hot shot generals, getting fired, detained, disappearing. where is the chief of the russian air force? he disappeared. putin doesn't know who in the security forces are going to support him.

he is cautiously feeling his way now. >> bringing it back to home. let me take you to alabama and senator tuberville's stand against the pentagon's policies on reproductive care for military to go off base and get paid for abortions and other reproductive health care. that has been adapted. it's embedded as an amendment in the just passed defense authorization bill on the house side. it's going over to the senate. this debate will be broadened with other issues. what do you say to the senators and house members who put social policy demands, requirements into the defense bill? >> they know exactly what they are doing. in past decades, literally, we never held up the defense bill. it got sorted out in the house armed services committee. they get to vote on it. we should not involve the

defense of america in what are political struggles going on in the halls of congress. tuberville better change his ways. he is harming u.s. national security. not just families moving, this is higher than that. when you go to a conference and you don't have a t accelerating now soon we won't have a chairman of the jcs unless they push tuberville into pulling back on this ridiculous -- >> milley's term is going to be up, and you've got an approved nominee, but least got to be confirmed by the senate. >> some 32% of nominations apparently right now are held, and it's not just lesser quality officers, it's the impermanence of it all. we just don't want the uniformed military to be part of these

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that allows airlines to cut delays and cancellations. >> the challenge for the nation's airlines navigating a summer of weather extremes. record heat, rain, tornados, lightning, and historic flooding. in st. pete clearwater, four people were injured after an allegiant air flight hit severe turbulence while on approach. >> we have a report of several head injuries and one possible broken ankle. >> now artificial intelligence is helping airlines cut delays and could soon predict the kind of severe injury-causing turbulence we've seen in recent years. >> 4:31 laguardia has been cut into ground stop. >> reporter: the ai program is called gale. >> is my flight going to leave on time from laguardia airport this afternoon? >> what we're seeing is the expected weather forecast for that flight at that exact time over the course of the day. >> gale uses satellites and thousands of other data points,

sensors on planes, drones hovering over a zip code, even connected cars reporting windshield wipers have activated. jetblue relies on it, even investing in the program. >> you're going to head to 23. >> using gale to shift its operations around extreme weather down to a specific runway, even the exact time to start de-iing planes. >> reporter: in a business where time is money, jetblue says this microforecasting is already saving it $300,000 every month, $3.7 million in a year. >> the rate in which we have canceled flights, the rate in which we've delayed flights associated with weather has improved remarkably just in one year's time frame. >> reporter: driving the extremes, climate change. >> we are facing the greatest challenge arguably that our generation is going to see in weather and climate. >> reporter: a new ai tool to help airlines micro prepare for the extremes. >> jetblue insists it's not

getting rid of its own meteorologists, it's giving them more data and tools to be even more accurate. every airline delay can cost the airline $100 a minute, not to mention the incredible inconvenience people experience, including yourself. so this is now harnessing ai to try to micro predict when stuff's going to happen. >> well, to that point, is jetblue having fewer delays than some of the other airlines? >> good question. jetblue says it's already dramatically cut back, reduced their delays and cancellations over the last 12 months, and it expects that will only continue. delta's also using this, and guess what, the new england patriots are using this because they want to know precisely when is the weather going to go bad at gillette field. >> they win enough games. >> or not. >> tom costello, for everything you need to know, thank you. safe flight, and that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports," follow us online on facebook and twitter @mitchellreports.

wads "inside with jen psaki" at noon eastern, and "chris jansing reports" starts right now. >> good day. i'm chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. if president biden can turn his poll numbers around and win re-election, history may look back on this week as a key moment. the latest on his eye popping new fund-raising numbers coming on the heels of good economic and political news both at home and abroad. plus, no end in sight for punishing and dangerous heat. and the horror stories are starting to add up, people getting third degree burns from walking on hot pavement, scalded by water coming out of their garden hoses. we'll get the latest from arizona where it could hit 120 degrees this weekend. and as we speak, republicans are racing to the right in iowa, their puso