it a right-wing wish list. can democrats in the senate change the defense bill? and if you are alive rather living here it is more than just an average summer day, we will tell you why so many are in danger. i bet you all a very good day for nbc news here in los angeles, welcome everyone to alex witt reports. we have this breaking news from israel, prime minister benjamin netanyahu is in the hospital after feeling unwell as we give you a look at that she bought the medical center in tel aviv. that is where he is right now. and we see matt bradley is joining us from tel aviv. matt, welcome and what more can you tell us on netanyahu's condition and if he is saying anything? anybody putting out statements? >> yes, actually the prime minister that just put out a statement and it looks as though he's actually doing quite well. we don't know if you're spending another night there, but it looks as though he is another victim of the heat wave that you are talking about.

and i am too, that's why it looks like i'm extraordinarily sweaty right now amidst the protest. he is issued a statement and video saying that yesterday, edmonton with my wife and the sea of galilee in the sun without a hat and water and it was not a good idea. he wants to thank everyone for their concern and thank god i feel good he said. and then he ended its video statement by advising everybody not to go out too much in the hot weather but as you can see alex, everybody is already out here waving israeli flags. this is the 28th week of protests against netanyahu proposed judicial reform bill. now, this is something that is really energized the public here, particularly here in tel aviv. they don't want netanyahu to continue going through with legislation that would essentially sidelined the courts that netanyahu sees has not only people who are investigating him for fraud charges, but also limiting his right-wing agenda. he has right now, the most right-wing cabinet that is really history has ever seen.

that is why week after week, we are seeing protesters coming out in the thousands. this will be a particularly large but not necessarily routine but the other 27 weeks before because it was earlier this week that we saw netanyahu pushed through the first of three efforts to try and clear this bill through israel's parliament, the knesset. it looks like it will continue to do that, probably before the knesset goes into recess at the end of the month. expect to see alex more protests like this despite the heat. >> absolutely what we wish him well certainly to get better but it looks like he has a lot of heat to face when he gets outside. thank you very much matt bradley. more breaking news right, now the aggressive and dangerous heat wave and it is getting worse this weekend. over 80 million americans under heat alert from coast to coast. record highs are likely to be shattered in nearly 50 cities including las vegas. it is ten a.m. there it is already a blistering 101 degrees and giving you a look at the desert and palm springs

california, it is 98 degrees there. it will feel much worse. and check out this view of fort lauderdale beach, it may look refreshing but the temperatures there will hit triple digits today throughout south florida. our nbc news reporter and meteorologists are covering every angle of today's development for. you up for, us we have -- a very steamy and rainy miami, guad welcome. how are folks coping with the heat down there? are you getting any relief with the rain? >> alex, we are synthesized, at the temperature will drop a few degrees but as soon as the range sobs the temperature will go right back to what it was before. it is 92 degrees right now. the areas. >> what the, rain then thunderstorms and then last night, it was running the exact same way. and a few minutes after the, rain and felt like it was 100 and something degrees. now right here is 103 degrees because of that humidity, it makes these very difficult from miami. one of the unique factors about

miami is that this is a city where people used to doing things out of sight. we are used to temperatures in the 80s and it's humid but this is hotter than usual. so for a city that has about 100,000 workers and the county that work outside, the city that is residents this whole park, this whole monologue here has stores that are outside, tables are outside. it's very difficult for things to approach normally under these temperatures, of course right now with the rain as you mentioned, things cool out and people went inside. without the rain, we haven't seen a lot of people walk on the streets that are normally cool. this is example what's been happening in miami, but the humidity and of, course we have these high temperatures, all across the country. alex, we have 11 states, and push to write and eyes on the other side of the country. we have desert embitters that's valley and could reach 103 degrees. make it one degree hotter, it would be the hottest temperature ever recorded in the planet. and of, course meteorologist out there there's health

authorities talking to people giving advice as what they should be doing under the heat. >> i was advised to limit your time outdoors, avoid going outdoors if you don't have to and making sure you are staying hydrated. making sure you can find adequate pooling, unable to there is a lot of cities that have cooling centers and refreshment centers for people that may not have access to adequate cooling. well >> it's the advice that is very important but that people forget hydrate, take a break from the sun if you're outside. a lot of people alex here in miami, they escape the heat by going to the beach. even the beach is too hot, in fact the water down in the keys this week was as hot as 97 degrees. that is the way things are going down here in south florida. it's >> 97 degrees in the water,

might have been squad. okay thank you very much for that, joining me now and we've seen is meteorologist michelle grossman. do you know what really disturbed me in part? you see the, people suffering through but then the animals as well, should people even be walking their dogs outside michelle? >> i know, no because the pavement is so hot. the air is, not the pavement will be like 30 degrees warmer in the math. we are talking dangerous, extreme danger as you head out in some part of the country. you look at the southwest into the triple digits once again. we look to see that over the next couple of days, you can see it week after week. that's where it gets really taxing on everybody but, eligible need to be outside. the need to work outside so if you do need to be outside, you need to hydrate. you need to do that before you go on thursday. you want to find that shade if you kind of course get the air conditioning, that will be the key. taking a look at, alert look at 81 million people impacted today that is a lot of americans. we're looking from the pacific northwest to the intermountain west, the southwest, the south central states into the southeast.

by the way, if there is not an alert in your area, you are still really warm. in the northeast, we're into the 90s you factor in humidity, that's a big piece of the puzzle and that is what our body perceives as the temperatures. feels like over 100 degrees in portions of southern florida. record heat and so many places, we've broken so many records over the past few, weeks and we are breaking the record as well. phoenix 15 consecutive days for 110, that was yesterday. we make it 16 today, look at el paso. record 28 days of 100 plus degrees, that will happen tomorrow because we will have the triple digits once again and as we look towards monday tuesday, wednesday we are still in no trouble digits in el paso. las vegas can see their all-time high at 117. that's a big tourist city, you need to be careful as we're out and about, during a lot of water and stay away from the cocktails if you can. if you're outside but look at weekend records, into weekend temperatures and then to 1:17 and phoenix, 102 by city and alex, where cities numbers even warmer to got mauro. -- we have planted concern in portions of the northeast

tomorrow, back to you. >> yes you know what really good point about chicken alcohol. very dehydrating so keep that in check. okay, michelle appreciate you keeping on for us. meantime, new fallout on the house gop's passage of a marked up version of the national defense authorization act, jammed up with amendments on abortion access, transgender, troops and diversity. many democrats are calling it an ode to bigotry and ignorance. congresswoman adam smith commenting today on it adopted by some republicans when discussing the military. >> what we are trying to wrestle with here is the history of racism in this country. and what the republicans want to pretend is that there is no history. the practical real world consequences, if you are a person of color are also a woman or a part of the lgbtq unity you are going to wonder whether or not you will get a fair shake in the military. >> while, the bill is not expected to survive the senate. >> about 80,000 80,000 troops

when able to get base of reproductive health care because of some of the amendments made to this bill. by the, way if you are a man you are fine. don't worry about women? treated like second class citizens. >> new details in the investigations into donald trump. his lawyers are trying to shut down the georgia investigation into election interference asking the state supreme court to disqualified the a fani willis. new reports indicate key trump aides -- jared kushner both testified last month to a federal grand jury investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. meanwhile, trump surrogate kari lake stumping for him in iowa last night. it's been quite a bit of time looming over her own election loss. >> i know the fake news, some of them here today have said the cases are down the judges ruling again. this that case is moving forward, we are not going to stop in our case. we have the evidence on our side. >> [applause]

now, good news for more than 800,000 student loan borrowers, the biden administration finding a new avenue to offer student debt relief. let's go right up to and we see it might mentally. of course in washington, d.c.. mightmike the white house is sounding a major campaign accomplishments so i can you tell us about the whopping second quarter fund raising? >> yes alex, this is a very big day for us political junkies because by midnight tonight, all of the campaigns have to file with the federal elections commission. they are fundraising reports detailing just how much money they have raised and just how much money they have spent over the last three months. the biden campaign tried to get out of that yesterday by putting out their own numbers, and it was a big one. $72 million raised since he announced his candidacy on april 25th. what is more significant to me alex and how much money he has in the bank because frankly, he is not spending a lot of money. he is using air force one not campaign resources to travel the country.

and his campaign does not even have a campaign headquarters, alex. they are working largely out of the democratic national committee headquarters and it's a very small staff at best. the president is really able to use this time to hoard resources and wait while republicans are duking it out and spending a lot of money facing each other. president $77 million in the bank. but that in comparison, former president donald trump announced that he and his joint fund raising committee had raised about half of what president biden did 35 million over the last three months. we've got some new numbers for some of the other republican candidates. kelly o'donnell reporting that chris christie is only one in the race a little over a month raised under $2 million since he announced his candidacy. nikki haley another leading republican contenders raising more than $7 million over the last three months. these are all really important opportunities to demonstrate these candidates, their strength both with grassroots donors in the biden campaign saying that 97% of their donations came an amounts last in $200.

also, with those big donors and the biden campaign has raised a lot of money from some of those big donors, the president during 12 fund-raiser since he announced his reelection campaign. one single democrat who supports the president alex got this can write a check for up to $929,000 which will go to biden's campaign. the democratic national committee and the joint fund raising committee. so the race is on and the president's team feels really good about where they stand so far. >> and i wonder some of those big checks are written right here where i am in los angeles given a lot of heavyweights backing in. there. hugo thank you my, friend good to see you. mike with one stroke of a, pan a governor in the midwest likely altered the lives of many women. gonna reach beyond just? that one state back in 60 seconds. ack in 6 seconds. tourists that turn into scientists. tourists taking photos that are analyzed by ai. so researchers can help life underwater flourish. ♪ subway's slicing their turkey fresh like on the titan turkey.

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capitol hill with reaction from both sides for us. julia, welcome to what are you hearing there today? >> alex the culture wars have gotten caught up in congress over this defense, spending bill. the ndaa is typically viewed by all lawmakers as critical because it sets national security and spending priorities for the pentagon. because, of that typically passes with overwhelmingly bipartisan support. on friday, it narrowly passed to 19 to 2:10 and the republican-controlled house. after as you, mentioned they conservative house freedom caucus really turn this vote into a proxy fight over the biden administration priorities on progressive social issues like abortion and spending allowing funding for travel for service members. the ion issued is as well as trans member health care. while dems argue that these help make the military more attractive to a diverse force

and can help prove, mid speaker mccarthy said quote to democrats stop using taxpayer money to do their own wokeism. that goes a lot of what we heard from lawmakers. take a listen to what some have said yesterday and this morning over this contentious bill. >> republicans have decided that they will politicize the military, use our troops as pawns and ultimately put forward a bill that does not support our troops. >> taxpayer money is provided to the d.o.d. and intended to provide for our national defense and national security. it is not, not to promote and support the biden administration's radical immoral pro abortion agenda. >> it is woefully irresponsible that extreme maga republicans have hijacked a bipartisan bill. >> as far as what the senate does with the nba, we have shown the way. we are not going to back down and we will not give up on the cause that it's rises and keep

fighting for it. >> this fight now heads to the senate which is controlled by democrats. those republican amendments are not likely to survive their. it will go back to the house with a conference of lawmakers including marjorie taylor greene who is ultraconservative and it's not going to be easy getting this past, alex. >> okay, julia jester, thank you for that all of you from capitol hill. joining me right now is congresswoman sharice davids a democratic member of the house transportation and infrastructure, small businesses and agriculture committee. welcome, it's good to have you on the show here. so how speaker kevin mccarthy defending the controversial amendments, take a listen to what he said. >> focus on the military. stop using taxpayer money to do their own wokeism. the military cannot them find themselves if you train them in woke. we don't want disneyland to train our military, we want the men and women in the military to have every defense possible.

that is what the bill does. the money focuses directly on their quality of life and more importantly, on the investment. >> i don't even wear that, disneyland reference came from but i do know that your mother served in the army for 20 years. speaker mccarthy says they are eliminating wokeism from the military. on his republican policies really going to help service members? >> thank you for covering this. first, of all i think it's really important for, and support for the american people to know that up until yesterday when we were asked about on a national defense authorization bill that contained a litany of extreme measures that for 60 years this bill has passed across the board in a bipartisan way because it's about the national security. this is about us protecting our,

freedom is about protecting the things that the united states stands for and i can tell you that from everything i learned growing up as an army brat my mom is an army for 20 years. she was a jewel sergeant for a portion of that time. that this concept of interfering with the decisions that our current military service members are making about how to best attract, maintain and keep a strong, volunteer active duty military for us is frankly it's outrageous to hear. some of the arguments that are coming out not just the speaker's mouth by some of the most extreme folks on, and the republican conference right now. >> yes, among the amendments as you know the past is ending medical coverage for transgender troops and this is just one of many recent actions by republicans against the

lgbtq rights. i know you are the first openly gay, native american elected to u.s. congress. what do you make of these measures? not just in this defense bill but across the country? >> yeah i mean again, these continue to be and these types of amendments continue to be evidence of what i think are probably just a small number of voices in the republican conference. that are frankly holding our national security hostage for extreme policies. for things that are not directly attributable to again maintaining our volunteer active duty military service members health. they are lobbying and the ability to our country safe. >> congressman let me ask you something. you said you think this is a small number of republican voices, that may well be but whose fault is it that these republican voices have

mushroomed into having the kind of control influence that they do? if >> yes i mean look i think there's a number of factors at play here. i will say that speaker mccarthy is ultimately responsible for the bills that come to the house floor. and is ultimately responsible for making sure that the republican conference is able to put together a bill that literally for 60 years, we have seen bipartisan support for. to be the speaker in charge when we have national of the fence authorization bill failed to garner the type of bipartisan support that it has seen for so long. i would say to failure of leadership on his part. >> let's move it to iowa governor kim reynolds who is just signed as you know a six-week abortion ban into law. abortion was illegal there up to 20 weeks. more than a dozen states now have six-week bans in place. how does that impact the rest

of the country, including states like your state, kansas? other republican led states follow? >> yes i think that first of all, this idea that any of this is happening in a vacuum is so far from the truth. people are being impacted every single day by first of all the fall of row, which was the law of the land for 50 years. 50 years of precedent and rights protections were taken away. just over a year ago and the immediate aftermath of that, kansas. i am very proud to say we stood up in a overwhelming way said we don't want politicians making these very private, personal, health care decisions for us. whether it's around reproductive health, including access to abortion. you know i think that what we are seeing is the lives of people being impacted around

the country and, yes there is a ripple effect that happens when one state does something like this and makes it hard for someone to access house care, reproductive health care, access to abortion services. what they are doing is putting more pressure on other states, not to mention the fact that they're impacting the direct lives of people in their own states. i cannot imagine what it is like for the people whose families are being impacted right now. they are in iowa because this is a very scary time. >> yes i think you said it, well right there. kansas congresswoman sharice davids, thank you so much. they are almost unrecognizable, and the new rules some of this country's most famous faces taking to the streets. it is not an act but you will hear from them. hear from them mean to you?" it means cashbacking every opportunity. did you cashback on this? like i wouldn't cashback? cashbacking by the basket, i see you. ugh. i dreamt you didn't cashback this flight.

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a single production and anything else would require consent and payment. really those are the sticking points, many of them at this point and the union says the industry is at an inflection point right. now it's actors are on the picket lines and they're holding their ground. >> the whole business model has changed. if they don't allow us to change the contract to reflect on the new business model, what are we talking about? >> you are here to protect every single -- in every category. >> i think it's a battle worth fighting. >> constituency in which really is very unpleasant they will take us to the brink and will probably have to go to the brink. >> the corporate greed [inaudible] has made it very difficult for people to have a life. [inaudible] >> now we know they strike and

the writer strike and pretty much stopped all tv and movie production. you can see if it starts on talk shows and doing interviews. you might find new tv and streaming content may be hard to come by in the fall as well. the impact of the strike will stretch well into next year at least. you take a look at some of the movies that reportedly have stopped production. we are talking about gladiator two within the washington. clint eastwood, juror number two. the sequel to the new mission impossible movie that just came out. that also appears to be on hold right now. i'll, accessible to one actor who says he will be on the picket lines for as long as it takes and at this, point there is no word on when negotiations might start up again. we should note too, the parent company comcast is a part of the alliance of motion picture and television producers. some of our colleagues in the nbc news group are represented by the writers guild of america. alex? >> yes indeed they are. can i just say i saw the recent indiana jones movie, indiana jones and the dial of destiny and that first scene has

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developments and two big investigations involving donald trump. the first free trial occurring in the classified documents case is now set for tuesday. trump wants the entire trial but off until after the 2024 election and jack smith's team is pushing back hard on that using phrases like no basis and law or fact and borderline frivolous. reports of a new target letter against a low level trump staffer indicates that more document charges may be coming. well investigations into trump's effort to overturn 2020 elections are ramping up within the reports that hope hicks and jared kushner taking the stand before a d.c. gradually, though nbc news has not yet confirmed these reports. joining me, now we have lisa, rubin msnbc legal analyst. always good to have you here so let's get to the timing first of the trial. it seems like the first big legal fight in the documents case is just that. it is a normal for prosecutors though to use the kind of language that we see in this filing?

>> eligible normal for prosecutors to be as hard-hitting as they are in this brief. on the other, and it's also not normal for defense councils to say we don't need to set a trial date now or maybe ever. right, usually there is a debate about when the appropriate trial date should be by each side takes a concrete position. what trump and novice counselor doing here saying we will not count to propose a date. it should at least be after the election, it's a tough unprecedented and somewhat justified the response to see from the department of justice which is saying the speedy trial act is not solely for your convenience and it's not a function of statute. their constitution requires and when you tried to find as quickly as possible. >> 100%. let's talk about prosecutors also addressing the trump team claims that they're unable to use contract personnel to assist and unclassified document reviews. they call that puzzling, as well as the claim that will be difficult to select an

impartial jury until after the presidential election. saying that does not justify any further delay. overall, lisa are the serious legal arguments from the trump team or are they taking a page out of the ticket bull shrunk playbook that we have discussed multiple times it took everything at the wall to see what sticks? >> this is definitely what i call another instance of spaghetti incident. they are flowing everything to the wall and seeing what sticks. i think the argument about contract lawyers as one that doj easily dispenses with. it's sad to protective order in place. there is no reason why they can't use contract lawyers at the reason trump and this team is making that argument in the first place, neither one of them artfully it it with big law firms. in fact of lunch until recently, is understood the basal of practitioner. they're concerned about a fertile alex is a pharaoh one. this is the president of the united states there is not a pocket in the country that doesn't know who donald trump is. what he's been accused of. not having that said i will tell you that in the e. jean

carroll trial, not a criminal trial but a civil one in the southern district of new york, there were a number of jurors there who faced on responses that they gave during jury selection. you would've thought had been partial to trump, and that's a jury that unanimously return the verdict in cairo's favor. i have confidence however this case has tried, whenever it is, tried donald trump will get a fair trial because department of justice has an interest in making sure that is so as well. >> he has talked about the reports that hope hicks and jared kushner testified last month before january six contrary. and you know the saying, lisa many are called fewer chosen. what is the significance of putting these two on the stand, even if according to reports, they likely gave divergent points of view. >> well you know in some respects, they might have given the same view and i will tell you why. both jared and hope are people who say that they genuinely believe that the president thought that he had one. hope testified before the

january six committee that she tried to talk the president out of it multiple times and eventually, just talk talking to him. she did not even show for work on january six because she was so disgusted with the way that things were going. she had repeatedly tried to dissuade him from continuing down the path that he was on. he basically would say to people and meetings, hope does not believe in me. hope does not believe in the stuff. commissioner, similarly said the president genuinely thought that he won but if you are the the department of justice it's important to smoke out these people. you need to understand what their testimony is before you charge the former president for example, or others. i also think that jared is a very valuable witness with respect to other aspects of this investigation. not limited to the campaign finance angle that we understand from the washington post, might be a focus for jack smith. >> okay, lisa reuben as always, good to see you. i will see you again soon. republicans, they made a lot of noise during the hearing with

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remains in full force this weekend with former president trump now weighing in on director christopher wray. and a new interview sat there sunday, trump blames chris christie for the ray hiring. this on the heels of raping for

us to push back on gop claims of politicization within the agency during capital hearing. >> the idea that i am biased against conservatives seems somewhat insane to me given my own personal background. >> this notion that somehow the violence at the capitol on january six was a part of some operation orchestrated by fbi sources and agents is ludicrous. among the things that you listen, off i find ironic, the reference to the lab leak area. the idea that the fbi would somehow be involved in suppressing references to the lab leak theories is somewhat observed and insane, ludicrous and ironic, absurd. >> joining me now is peter strzok former fbi counterintelligence agent. author of compromised, counter intelligence at the threat of donald j trump. peter, good to see you. what in the world went through your mind as you watch this hearing? what are your fbi colleagues telling you about it? >>, alex it is great to see

you. i think what we saw for the first time as the fbi director chris wray taking on a number of these conspiracy theories, in a very direct terms. not trying to please both sides of the, i'll not necessarily catching his answers in a delicate balance, not trying to offend anybody brother coming out and calling all of these conspiracy theories exactly what they are. absurd. you know ridiculous all the clips that you just played. and i think it is so important for congress to hear a direct rebuttal like this. it's important for the american people to hear directly bottle like this. it is hardly, absolutely is important for the men and women of the fbi to hear their director. to hear a senior leader within the fbi and the department of justice stand up to this just absurd range of conspiracy theories that frankly took root during the trump administration. for the longest, time starting in 2017, 18, 19, 20 a lot of dancing around these crazy ideas but now we are finally seeing somebody stand up and really putting the lie to all

of these outrageous claims and ideas. >> well then you like the speed, are democrats on the judiciary committee pushing back during the hearing highlighting their sense of republican intentions. take a listen to this. >> this here is a little more than performance order. it's an labyrinth show designed with only two purposes in mind. to protect donald trump from the consequences of his actions, and to return him to the white house in the last election. >> you are being attacked and vilified by some of the members of this committee and others outside of this committee because of justice department and fbi's had the audacity to investigate serious allegations of criminal conduct by a former president. >> it is not the fault of the fbi that donald trump surrounded himself with criminals. donald trump brought that upon himself. >> i think it's quite rich that the guy that has accused you of lawlessness and weaponization is 400 days into violation of his own congressional subpoena over january six. >> while my district is not

concerned about is the republican conspiracy theories and selective targeting of law enforcement agencies who tried to hold their twice impeached, twice in that it called leader donald trump accountable. >> i'm guessing you agree with this but give me a sense of what the real impact is. inside of the agency adds that is facing allegations of bias? >> well i think again, it's important to have the truth out in front of the american people. it's important to rebut these false claims that they are made. and then congressman luke got it exactly right. if you look at former president trump, if you look at all of the people around them who have been convicted, who are now current, convicted felons. everybody from paul manafort to michael cohen george papadopoulos,, michael flynn and on and on. fact of the matter, is all of these people in engaged in crime and were convicted. that's what even getting to the people who are currently under investigation. the people who are currently under indictment. the fact of the matter is you know director wray is anything but a liberal. he is the a republican, placed

in the job by former president trump and a member of the federal society. he is hardly anyone that somebody could try and say is you know a deep, a deep state democrats trying to undo the goals of the trump candidacy from the presidency. it is again important that all of these false claims are being directly rebutted. and i think it is again, important across the board from the american people to the men and women of the fbi that this is being done in such a clear way. >> but these attacks republicans peter, they have polarized how americans feel the fbi. it was not always this way. how do we restore public confidence in our justice department and if attacks on the fbi continue, is there a point where its reputation is forever tainted? >> no, i don't think so. i think the important thing to do is to have public the fences of the organization like this. one of the most telling things that i heard director wray said is that the fbi has created an

entire unit whose job it is to track and manage threats against fbi personnel. that is absolutely chilling, as a former fbi agent, with any number of friends and colleagues fill in the organization, the fact that you need an entire unit to manage the threats against fbi personnel because of the political environment, the threat environment has gotten so severe that that is needed, is absolutely chilling. now, what i do think you know we are an upside down world. for the better part of my career, republicans where the staunch defenders of the fbi, of law in order and that is flipped on its head. i do think a lot of what we are seeing right now as a result of trying to protect one man, donald trump and that with that motivation going away, you will quickly see the number of republicans returning to their support of the fbi. that intern will trickle out of the support of the american population. no doubt, it has played a significant role in the demolition of the fbi's image amongst certain portion of the population. without question, that is a

direct result of the redirect by former president trump and his enablers in congress and the media. >>, yes very fair unlikely, the accurate assessment. there peter strzok thank you so much, good to see you. all of the ragnow, see look here with some leading voices in the republican party are still saying about the 2020 election and like nationalist. msnbc hayes brown strands me to the reaction, next. on, next with a majority of my patience with sensitivity, i see irritated gums and weak enamel. sensodyne sensitivity gum & enamel relieves sensitivity, helps restore gum health, and rehardens enamel. i'm a big advocate of recommending things that i know work. (bobby) my store and my design business? we're exploding. i'm a big advocate of but my old internet, was not letting me run the show. so, we switched to verizon business internet. they have business grade internet, nationwide.

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events this weekend. two different events and different parts of the country, there was a big event in iowa yesterday were almost the entire rest of the field spoke. donald trump is trying to avoid events like that. he does not want to elevate his competition by appearing side by side with them or kind of a standard format with them onstage. he prefers to come to events like this, one which is of course in west palm beach. basically his home turf. also what he is the king speaker, i can tell you from the folks i've been talking to here, far and away the political favorite. now the other person to watch obviously in an event like this is a florida governor, ron desantis. he is number two and this race right now. he is having a hard time even holding on to that position, just a few minutes ago to chance to talk to charlie kirk, he is the founder of turning point. he puts on this event, he himself as a donald trump endorsers but i asked him, when you think the rest of the field and particularly ron desantis would need to do to shake this race up and try to track down the front runner? here's what he told me. >> if you want to be trump, not that i want to give advice what

do you do? you have to dominate him. you know what even governor desantis, my recommendation to him and i told him this privately and publicly, he showed up to this event. he should've played in the blog and many should have taken questions and not even giving a speech. said hey, come to the front of the line if you disagree. that is kind of like the trump, kaitlan collins energy words like i go into the lions den, i tried to assert dominance. it is almost a who is the alpha and right now trump is the off of the republican party, these other candidates still kind of seem stuck in a policy debate. it's not a policy debate. >> alex that talks with so much what i hear from conservative voters all around the country, the idea it's less about power texan more about the person who has the movement and the heart of the party. and many cases, that has been the former president, remains a former president. i want to show you something very quick. at the event we are at right now, they have the swab of this big, giant heads behind us of all the candidates were in this race. folks can come up and stick their thoughts about each of those candidates onto the wall. that feedback on donald trump almost entirely positive. on two of the top rivals, ron

desantis and mike pence, there were two most often it straighter. they say even the idea that people are challenging trump in this race as disloyal to him. potentially damaging to the republican party. it's a fascinating dynamic to see it play out this early in a election cycle. alex? >> i appreciate you used the word fascinating. i would say it's a little bit something frankly but there you have it. good to see you garrett, thank you. today marks exactly six months into the iowa gop presidential caucuses and just over five weeks on the party's first debate. it is still anyone's guys who actually will appear on stage. meanwhile, the head of the parties national committee seems to keep peddling baseless theories that election fraud led to president biden's victory. >> i think there are lots of problems with 2020. ultimately he won the election, ultimately he won the election but there are lots of problems with the 2020 election. 100%. >> you are saying you are not sure as a republican party chair that he was a legitimate leader? >> i'm sandra latza problems with the 20 election and we

need to fix it going forward. >> joining me now is msnbc daily columnist and editor hayes brown. hayes, this week are and search iran and make daniel held firm in her belief that president biden did not win fairly. i mean we are coming up on three years later. why is the head of the rnc still claiming president biden was not legitimately elected and making up all of these false excuses to get around the fact that donald trump lost? >> let she was just reelected he would think that she would use this to say okay, here is what i actually believe but the reasons why she can't. one she does not want to upset the base too much. she still as the rnc chair needs to have republican base primary voters out to the polls, especially in the general election of 2024. she cannot alienate them now and this is the post and i showed from philip at the washington post said that she is trying to split the middle and say, oh biden didn't steal the election but there were a

lot of problems. it's fair to say there are problems with us and sort of rhetoric that you saw from ted cruz in 2020. josh hawley in 2020 where they would say there were problems with this election, and just gonna leave it out there negligently. where that leads to a situation where there is no evidence that could be provided, that's us okay but here is why those problems have been fixed or why is here that the work did not lead to the election being stolen. rana mcdonald has a lot of problems on her hand on that front. >> look this week, alabama senator tommy tuberville backed off defending white nationalists, admitting finally that they are indeed racist. what does it tell you about the state of today's gop? when one of his senators cannot admit that white nationalists are by definition, races. >> i mean first of, all tommy is a special case and he always in the always will, be god bless him as they would say in his state. but the fact that he is trying to avoid anything that looks

like he sides with you know dei or i guess black lives matter or the idea of critical race theory, they want to avoid talking about race and racism in general because they feel like doing so at all in the lead some to having to admit that racism is real or they get put into a position like senator tuberville was and when they have to like dance around it and kind of disseminate like oh well maybe white nationalist are just proud of america without having to talk about the real problems of white nationalism. top orville was eventually pinned down but the fact that he does not want to talk about it is -- what the rest of the party at this point. >> to what degree? how? this is one guy, how many are there? >> it is one guy but he is one of 100 most powerful people in washington. member of the senate, he is someone who there is no way it feels like he is going to not win reelection in alabama. i know that you had a situation where doug jones managed to

peek in there and it was taken out but i don't see, i see it emblematic in the sense that he is speaking to the base of the party still. and i feel others, not obviously directly will want to like try to dodge the sort of position that he was in. >> okay, i'm out of, time will make it up to you next time my friend. a brown, thank you that will do it for me on this edition of alex witt reports, i will see all again tomorrow at one pm eastern, my friend yasmin vossoughian continues our coverage. >> everybody, good afternoon i'm yasmin vossoughian. i'm a very busy saturday afternoon, we have a lot to cover in the two hours ahead. a dangerous condition, nearly one third of the country under extreme heat advisories. we will take it to one of the hottest spots in just a moment plus this.