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could last. >> all right everybody across the pond, you've been watching, it i've been washington -- marquetta vondrousová from the czech republic has become the lowest ranks in first unseated woman to win at the famed english tournament. the 24-year-old ranked 22nd. the princess of wales presented vaudreuil survive with the trophy. she's the first woman to even reach the wimbledon final since billie jean king took runner-up 60 years ago. if you can believe that. the men singles final set for tomorrow. also going to be a nail-biter as well. all right, we have a lot more coming up everybody. you're watching msnbc. our second hour starts right now. ig ht now. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> hey everybody. i'm yasmin vossoughian. if you're just joining us welcome.
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if you're sticking with, us we're thankful for that. the u.s. military becoming a political football for the house gop as they unleashed their anti-abortion rights, anti-trans, anti-woke agenda on a spending bill flooding americas fighting forces. >> instead of focusing on killing people employee stuff up, and having -- we are focused on dividing people up by race. >> i don't want someone who doesn't know if they are a man or a woman with their hand on a missile button. >> i couldn't help but pull out my pocket constitution, i couldn't seem to find anywhere in here where it says we need to fund programs for humanitarian aid for women and children in afghanistan. >> and one house republican in particular under fire for a shocking racial comment. we are going to dive into that this hour as well. plus, a defying president biden finding a new way to forgive the student loan debt for nearly 1 million people in this country. and as actors hit the picket line i'm gonna be talking to
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their chief negotiator, the red lines, they are drawing, in the strike that is shutting down hollywood. we are also keeping a close eye on the extreme heat hitting millions of people. i'll talk to the chief heap officer of los angeles about what that city is doing to keep people safe. that's coming up as well. we begin this hour though on capitol hill. where republicans in the house have set the senate a defense spending bill that is chock full of amendments to further their culture war on a number of issues. i want to get right to nbc's lori duster who's covering that for us. julia, as always good to talk to you. what can you tell us about this bill and where do we expect to go from here? >> good to join your, join you yasmin. the national defense authorization act typically passes with overwhelmingly bipartisan support. because it says the spending a national security priorities to the pentagon, and includes some pretty no-brainer issues like increasing service member salaries, this time around 5%, as well as helping with
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childcare and housing calls for service members. but this time around, house conservatives has really turned this into a proxy battle, bringing the culture wars to congress. this particular bill, they're using this as a battle against the biden administration's policies. they put amendments into this bill that would rollback diversity, that would prohibit the department of defense from carrying out biden's climate actions. executive orders, and really importantly, it prohibits funding of transgender health care, and abortion related expenses. which really created a heated battle on the houses. this was coming to pass. it passed narrowly with a 2:19 to 2:10 vote, with a few republicans and democrats crossing party lines. in so now, this bill, it has to the senate. and democrats and republicans alike have a message about what this fight means.
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take a listen to what speaker mccarthy and congressman moulton have said about this battle. >> a military cannot defend themselves if you train them in woke. we don't want disneyland to train our military. we want men and women from the military to have every defense possible. that's what our bill does. >> republicans have decided that they are going to politicize the military, use our troops as pawns, and ultimately put forward a bill that does not support our troops. >> and so now this heads to the senate, which will come up with its own version of the bill. the senate is not quite as interested in those cultural wars, but it will still be interesting to see what version goes back to the house. we will have to reconcile the differences. where speaker mccarthy cannot afford to lose to many republican members on a final passage of whatever compromise comes out. several hard-line conservatives have said they will not budge on some of the issues that made it into their version of the bill. yasmin. >> julie adjuster for us.
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julia, we appreciate it. to talk more about this i want to bring in william cohen, former secretary of defense under president clinton. secretary cohen, thank you for joining us on this. we appreciate it sir. before you were secretary of defense, you are actually a senator from maine, a republican senator for maine. what do you make of the passage of something that is normally very bipartisan, very routine, the ndaa, now becoming a battleground for culture wars? >> well it's disappointing. i certainly would have been disappointed as a senator. i would've been a secretary of defense. we need to focus on how we keep our troops ready, and not divert their attention from these issues. when you start talking about wokeness, i think we need some definition here, what is wokeness? in terms of the desegregation of the military to president truman was he woke when he no more segregation of our
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troops along racial lines? was it wokeness that women should be able to fly calm that aircraft? high performance combat aircraft? is that wokeness? or is it taking advantage of the brains and capabilities of half of our, more than half of our society. so defining what wokeness is, this is really something that they have to do. >> right. >> in the meantime, let's focus on what we need to do to keep us -- in the world. >> you talk about that right, and this is not just the only example of putting culture wars ahead of national security. senator tommy tuberville, continuing to hold a confirmation of any military nominees. this is essentially over a policy that allows personnel and their families to recoup travel expenses incurred while seeking abortion services. if they are stationed in the states that do not, that band i should say, or restrict the procedure. president biden calling this
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all out bizarre. and he say it is quote unquote, jeopardizing as he puts the, u.s. security. what do you make of this? >> i think bizarre is perhaps a softer word than i might otherwise use. and i am not just focusing on one senator. i would put the entire senate on record here. are you going to allow one senator to hold up these confirmations of our high ranking individuals who take command of our forces globally over this one issue? the senate has to be on record saying, let's call it up for a vote. let's confirmed these people, without going through the authorization process, let's at least try to do that. bring the issues to the floor, let him carry on with those who support the senator, let them carry on, and say this is more important than having these high-ranking officials -- so they can leave our forces in peace and in battle. >> historically republicans were known as the party of national security, and of the
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military. are they still? >> well i think they still are committed to this. i think both republicans and democrats should be committed to this one issue. we are supposed to be united over our national defense policies. and to the extent that we are promoting division, based on either race, gender, sex, sexual identity, then we are dividing ourselves. that only benefits our adversaries, and not the military and the american people. >> i want you to get, i want you to weigh in sir if you can on the presidents performance i should say. and or negotiating skills, aunt or results that he was able to get from the nato meeting that we all watched take place over the last couple of days. first and foremost, was the initial anger from president zelenskyy over not getting a timeline when it comes to joining nato. and it seemed like the president was able to soften that anger, and make the
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ukrainian president understand why it is they can't necessarily bring them in. but that there is a pathway forward. and also, the negotiation that was done to turkey to drop its opposition to adding new members to nato as well. what do you make of these results and the presidents visit overall at the nato summit? >> well i think that president biden deserves a great deal of credit. to hold all of the members of nato, which consists of people of different viewpoints, philosophies, and so forth, other than that they are committed to freedom and liberty and the pursuit of equality. but there are diverse people, diverse backgrounds. he has held them all together in a very difficult time. i'd say president zelenskyy, he has to be agitated. he has to be expressing his frustration. because his people are fighting and dying for freedom. something that we treasure in this country. so when some people think that we are doing something out of, out of charity for them, we are
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doing it because it serves their interest to be sure, in ukraine, nato's interests, and the american peoples interest, to make sure that russia does not succeed in changing the rules by breaking them. >> former secretary of defense william cohen. thank you sir, we appreciate it. all right, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu was hospitalized today as a result of what appears to be dehydration. netanyahu posted this video after he was admitted saying he spent time at the sea of galilee without a hat and water. the prime minister now says he is feeling very good. the white house and some republican presidential candidates offer their best wishes as well. meanwhile, protesters, they are back on the streets of tel aviv tonight, they are continuing to push back on netanyahu's attempted overhaul of the israeli judicial system. all, right coming up in 60 seconds, it sounds like something from an episode of black near. production companies able to use an actress likeness through a.i. for eternity. >> do we erase this image from
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every machine in the world? >> nothing. >> okay. >> according to the chief negotiator for sag-aftra now on strike, that's part of the latest proposal from hollywood studios. i will talk to them about that, and much more coming up next. e coming up next our heritage is ingrained in our skin. and even when we metamorphosize into our new evolved form, we carry that spirit with us. because you can take alfa romeo out of italy. but you best believe, you can't take the italy out of an alfa romeo. (bobby) my store and my design business? we're exploding. but my old internet, was not letting me run the show. so, we switched to verizon business internet. they have business grade internet, nationwide. (vo) make the switch. it's your business. it's your verizon.
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they've made it very difficult for people to have lives. >> i want to know by the way, comcast, which owns emma nbcuniversal is one of the entertainment companies represented by the association of motion picture and television producers. joining me now, duncan crabtree-ireland and national director of sag-aftra. duncan, thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> -- claiming -- he of course. claiming they provided a deal with quote, this is how they put, it historic pay increases, a.i. protections, and other measures. take us through what was actually offered, and why it does not measure up. >> sure. i mean first of all let's talk about pay increases. what we've been asking for is for the minimum salaries for our members, fair mind, we're talking about, we're not talking about huge celebrities, or big stars who are working on movies and tv. we're talking about working performers, the vast, vast majority of our members, who work at minimum salaries under our contract. and so what we propose is that
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those minimum salary should keep up with inflation this happened over the last few years. the companies have refuse that. they've offered a 5% increase in the first year. and a package of increases that will leave our members making less in real dollar terms. not only now, in 2023 compared to 2020, but they were making less than 2026 compared to 2020. that's based on the offer that the companies have put forward. i think that, that compared to, let's face, it their ceos are not suffering from the impacts of inflation. our members really are. and it's not fair for these members who work less than they were making three or six years ago. i mean that is one example. then when we talk about a.i., it is historic only in the sense that there are no provisions protecting anyone from anything in a eye right now. anything you do in this work, it's completely unacceptable. they proposed a set of provisions that would allow them to control the likeness, the face, the voice, the body, of our members, with no right
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of consent going forward. they had a proposal on the table that would intended to let our background actors work for one day, get paid for one day's pay, and digitally scanned, and companies would have the ability to use that scan over and over again for the rest of their lives, with no additional consent, and no additional compensation. that is just wrong. that is completely unacceptable. that's not how you treat a human being. and in this world where a.i. is so rapidly developing, we're not saying stop a.i., we're saying there has to be guardrails that protect people from that kind of abuse. that's what we're asking for. frankly, the strike isn't going to end until proposals are on the table that actually address it. >> so john, can you mentioned ceos, i want to talk specifically about disney ceo bob iger. he has a new incentive based contract that says he could essentially make up to 500% of his base, one of the sticking points as well that you kind of just touched upon, but i think we need to talk about more is
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kind of the, the -- not wanting to provide success metrics, right? actors and writers for that matter are not paid more essentially based on how well their shows are doing. and yet you have someone like bob iger at disney who is going to make likely more money based on how well disney does. this especially rings true for streaming platforms. >> right it's part of a broader theme. the executives who work in this business get paid and get a share of the success that they create for their business. but the actors, and the rioters, the actors are the face and voice of the streaming platforms, and all these projects that are on the streaming platforms. the reason people subscribe to season, to streaming is because of executives, it's because of our members. and yet companies don't want to share the revenue from those streaming programs, and don't want to share any of the success. while our members build those platforms for them.
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that is completely wrong. and by the, way it's the same thing with minimum salaries were talking about. you have executives, believe me, they're not suffering their minimum salaries. you have one industry executive making over, 100 million dollars a year. you have others that are making, you know, mid eight figures. and yet they have a problem with working people keeping up with inflation. it's not right. >> duncan crabtree-ireland we wish you the best of luck, thank you sir. >> thank you, thank you. >> all right, still ahead everybody, racially charged comments from one republican during a house debate stirs rebuke from both sides of the aisle. congressman in judiciary committee member glenn ivey joins me with his reaction to that and much more. plus how the suspect in the beach killings was tracked down. what are new interview with the suffolk county d.a. reveals. first contravention desantis campaign memo obtained by nbc tries to reassure donors who may be concerned by his recent stumbles. we will be right back.
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former president trump will speak in just a couple hours or so at a turning point action conference in florida. it comes as his legal troubles continue to intensify this week. in georgia lawyers for trump are urging the state supreme court to disqualify fulton county d.a. -- from investigating him. we're also waiting a response from judge cannon whether or not she will agree to the request by trump and his codefendant walt nauta to delay the classified documents trial until after the election. joining me now from west palm beach florida's senior national politics reporter jonathan allen to talk about this. jonathan as always, great to talk to you about this stuff. what can we expect at tonight's gathering in light of these kind of legal if shoes the former president is facing? >> it is great to be here in palm beach with you yasmin. we can expect tonight from donald trump, that's red meat.
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this is a group of conservatives, the turning point conference. it's basically the next generation of the maga movement. of course people here of all ages, but really the concentration's younger folks. what we've seen from them so far, when you talk to people here and elsewhere, in pro trump circles, they are more energized for him because of these legal troubles. it's not like these arraignments that he's had, the indictments that he's had, the ones that are pending are going to turn these folks off. very different from what you saw yesterday. the family leader forum in iowa where trump did not go, this is not like an open crowd. for the vast majority of them, they are here, they're in the party because of trump. you can see behind me perhaps that there is faces of candidates where people have written notes on the faces of candidates. most of the ones for trump are very positive. a lot of ones for other candidates, including ron desantis are very negative. some of them even a little foul. >> give me this exclusive
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reporting that both you and other nbc colleagues dribbled down on. that's the memo that depicts the desantis camp. >> there is this memo that was written basically for donors that nbc news got a hold of as you refer to. basically internet for to reassure desantis's donor that in a time where his campaign has stalled, his polling isn't rising, he has a 30-point gap with trump depending on the pole, sometimes 25, sometimes more. they are trying to hold donors with him. what this memo says is they're going to focus very hard on the early states. don't make decisions later about whether to vote resources to later states on the map. but they understand that they are gonna have to concentrate on beating trump, or performing extremely well on those early stages. the other thing they hid at yasmin, for those of us who love watching politics, this is tantalizing. they say that they are going to be ready for scott bio to get out there. they hinted that there is going to be opposition research dumped on tim scott, who is
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nipping a little bit avron to santa's's heels. i've talked to some republican operatives who say that tim scott gets into second place in any poll, weather or national poll, or in one of the early staples, that that is very, very bad news for desantis. >> all right, jonathan allen for us. as always, sir thank you. coming up everybody, our own -- back with an exclusive interview with the suffolk county day after the arrest of a suspect in a notorious serial killer case. how detectives worked to keep detail secret, because they knew the suspect was watching. misery for millions as the excessive heat is shattering records again. i will speak to the new chief heat officer of los angeles. about why the new position might now be a necessity. t now be a necessity 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.
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we're tracking the extreme and dangerous heat impacting millions across the country this afternoon. several states in the southwest are under visor the heat index as well with the triple digits. those conditions leading to massive wildfires in southern california. dozens have been evacuated there. there's over 4500 acres and riverside county continuing to burn. and then in florida, a mix of heat, humidity, thunderstorms, making it tough on anybody wanting to do anything outdoors. that is where we are joined by nbc's one venegas staring by for us in miami. last time we talked, at the last hour, you just had a major rainstorm.
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it looks like the sun is out once again. i imagine the heat is back up as well. how are folks handling things there? >> the heat is coming back. the best description for anyone that has been to miami, it's like a sama sauna. it's the same feeling you have in a sauna especially now with the rain. in miami, we normally have hot temperatures in the summer. but not as hot as what we've experienced this past month. temperatures in the 90s, with a heat index at 109 degrees at some point this week. that is too hot for people in a city that are usually hanging out outside. we are in bayside in downtown miami. this is a park that is often full of tourists that come, walk around the bay. we have a lot of restaurants, we have a shopping mall with a lot of businesses that have all of their merchandise outside. they've been practically empty the last few days during the day. fortunately today, we did have the storms come through miami. it is cool down quite a bit. we are still experiencing this heat wave in the entire miami
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area. the top in miami is it's too hot even to go to the beach. people go to the beach, they have to escape the sun with umbrellas, or any way they can take a break from that. of course authorities are reminding people, especially tourists who aren't used to this heat, who are planning to visit miami before they knew this heat wave would happen. they need to drink water, of course you sunblock, but take those breaks from the sun. again, the water, we've been talking about this down in the keys. it was as hot as 97 degrees at some point this week. so it's hot outside, it's hard to, beach hot at the water. these are things that we have to keep in mind as we experienced this heat wave. of course we've seen in other parts of the country. something like 11 states could see record high temperatures today. we are playing close attention to the death valley. where temperature could reach 130 degrees, and break a new temperature, the hottest temperature on the planet could be registered there. if it goes one degree hotter. so this is just one place where we have that humidity, and that
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hot, humid weather. of course other parts of the country are suffering from this heat wave as well. >> all right guad venegas for us. stay cool guad. thank you. i want to continue this discussion now with -- who works as the first chief heat officer of los angeles. she also serves as the director of climate emergency mobilization. thank you for joining us. we appreciate. it you guys will have high temperatures as well, i just beat my colleague as well in miami. but california has been dealing with. it l.a. specifically has been dealing with it. what are you advising folks right now in how to stay safe during this heat wave that is expected to continue into the next week? >> yeah. well, i am working with the mayor's office of public safety and emergency management department. all of us have released press releases, we're speaking to the media. we have a heat relief campaign. we're posting it on social media. and this mask media campaign helps us get this information out to the public to go to the
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nearest cooling centers. they can call 311 in our city and the county to find cooling centers. which are libraries, senior centers, they all offer cooling during the weekend. many of them are open also on sunday and monday. in addition to it being hotter, there is a five fold increase in the frequency of heat waves in los angeles, and many cities. we're expecting another 31% increase by 2050. in areas of higher vulnerability, that is where we have lower income neighborhoods without air conditioning, high-levels of pollution, more chronic illness. there's at least 1200 daily of emergency room visits. this is also a public health and public safety issue. we want people to plan advanced, prepared it vans, take care of our loved ones. especially elders and children. and have them recognize it's not your grandmother's summer. it is a very different summer. and it's the heat season from
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june through november, with at least three or four heat waves, if not more. and it doesn't cool down at night. so that's why peoples bodies need to recover in air conditioned areas under the shade, with lots of hydration. and if you drink alcohol or caffeine, over compensate by drinking extra water. but the best thing is to try and avoid that. especially if you're working outdoors. >> so i'm glad you brought that up. there is a major equity component in all of this. when you're looking at folks that work outside, and the people who don't have air conditioning, cooling systems in their home. manual labor, there are a lot of folks who perform manual labor throughout the city of los angeles, they have to work outside in these types of conditions. what is the city doing to mobilize and effort in helping those individuals? >> with our heat relief for allay campaign, we are informing employers, were informing workers, we are
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asking them to start jobs earlier, when it is not as hot. change schedules, provide hydration stations, provide them more breaks. make sure there's access to shade. because people cannot work as long and hard during a heat wave, or during a hot day, and we need to protect those workers. or else companies are liable for their health and safety. we urge companies to take extra precaution, and protect their workers. particularly outdoor workers. in your workers are also at risk if they're working in a warehouse without a lot of air conditioning. we definitely encourage folks to drink water, not soda, or caffeine like i said earlier. because those dehydrate your body. so just, we want to make sure that people are informed. employers are informed. but in california, we have a -- occupation safety and health administration. they have rules, and regulations that the city can help convey communicate to employers. but they are the enforcement
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arm for employers. not the city of l.a.. >> so there's only, you're only one of three of you. chief heat officer's. you have peers in miami, phoenix as well. i think when this position was created, there was a hope that more cities would catch on. they really haven't. tell me why, especially with what we're dealing with when it comes to climate change that it's so important incredibly important to have chief heat officer's in major cities like los angeles, and areas across the country? >> i think what's really important is this on siloing coordination, collaboration between public health, and public safety, and really public works. departments in the city, and then municipalities, because it's a component of emergency response and public health. climate officers don't normally deal with all of that. so this roll crosses over, to ensure that people in the least, and the lowest income
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communities, that are most vulnerable, they have better communications. because we hear every year that not enough people hear about our cooling centers, about our resources. this is also a role of communications, conveying them, engaging with community as partners to share more people get this really critical lifesaving information. i'm not just how to protect themselves and communities, but resources that the municipality is offering. there's a lot of different roles that a chief heat officer does. on filing the city, and collaborated with other departments to make sure that this information gets out there is one of them. >> chief heat officer for the city of los angeles, thank you so much. after the break everybody, house republicans hold a hearing this week to attack trump appointed fbi director chris wray from every political angle. >> you have personally, they have personally worked to weaponize the fbi against conservatives. >> your job is to protect american people from the tyrannical fbi storming the
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home of an american family. >> congressman or judiciary committee member glenn ivey was there, and joins me next with the real issues he wishes the hearing hundred focused on. we'll be right back. right back. they switched to google tools for education because there's never been a reported ransomware attack on a chromebook. now they're focused on learning knowing that their data is secure. ( ♪♪ )
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arizona representative eli crane, prohibiting the defense department from considering race, gender, religion, and other factors as of sole basis for training and promotion decisions, while defending the mehmet on the house floor he gave comments that prompted a strong rebuke from one of his colleagues. and we warn you, the language that he used, it's upsetting. >> my moment has nothing to do with whether or not colored people, or black people, or anybody can serve. okay? it has nothing to do with. >> mister speaker. i would like to be recognized to have the words colored people stricken from the record. i find it offensive, and a very inappropriate. >> joining me now, maryland jeopardize glenn ivey, member of the house judiciary committee. congressman, thank you for joining us. i appreciate it. >> thank you for having me. >> that shocking moment on the house floor, what was your reaction? >> i heard it as it was being said. i cringed, frankly when he said
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that. i was quite surprised. and i appreciate the fact that congresswoman beatty responded immediately, and asked that the words be taken down. i'll say this about congressman crane. i've served with homeland security, i don't know that it was badly intentioned. but this is exactly the reason we need the type of diversity and inclusion efforts and training that the republicans were trying to strike down this week. so it is the irony, it should be lost on any of us that this happened. and they have been fighting to prevent us for making sure it doesn't happen in the future. >> so i want to talk about these amendments on diversity, abortion, and transgender care as well. they are expected to die in the senate as we well know. but is there a concern about getting a clean version of this bill across the finish line in time? >> sure. i mean we know what's gonna happen. and so you hate to have this
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kind of stuff lard into a defense appropriation, or defense bill that traditionally had been bipartisan. so that's problem number one. problem dubbed number two is all of the signs that republicans are gonna shut down the government in the fall. that might derail things that are going on on capitol hill as well. look, even if that isn't the case, even if we get all of it done, get all the stuff stripped out, build it like a should. the message the senses awful. you know, with respect to abortion amendments, women who are thinking about joining the military. you know, if you get raped while you're in service, or you become pregnant, you're on your own. that's not the message we want to send. these are the wrong messages at the wrong time for america. >> congressman, you serve in the house judiciary committee, you are there for the hearing with fbi director chris wray. i want to play some back and forth between some republican members of the committee and
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the fbi director. and then we will talk. >> the american people fully understand that there is a two tiered justice system that has been weaponized to persecute people based on their political beliefs. and that you have personally, that you have personally worked to weaponize the fbi against conservatives. >> well first off, i would disagree with your characterization of the fbi. and certainly your description of my own approach. >> your job is to protect the american people from the tyrannical fbi storming the home of an american family. >> i could not disagree more with your description of the fbi as tyrannical. >> are you protecting the bidens? >> absolutely not. >> so congressman ivey, you have expressed concerns and frustration that this, this, his testimony, right, and this hearing was not focused more on things that concerns you and others. specifically those in the democratic party, which is russian election interference. what was it like to be in that
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room for that hearing? >> you know, it was difficult to watch. i thought, you know director wray handled himself well. but a lot of the allegations, like the one that you played but there were many more, just over the top frankly. and frequently based on false information. so you know, we have a couple things going on here i think. one is the house judiciary committee is not doing what it's supposed to be doing. there is work that we need to do with respect to, for example, issues in correcting traditional issues. one of the issues i raised for example was the failure of the supreme court to be able to keep track of its own house with respect to ethics, and the like. even though the next day after the right hearing they went after the ftc chair, miss khan for recusal, even though a judge said that her, that she didn't have to recuse. we have other types of issues too, but instead are focusing on the big things that we need to address, they're focused on hunter biden's laptop, and you,
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know what happened to the school board meeting in x county a year ago, that sort of thing. we have bigger fish to fry. we really do, hopefully they'll get around to recognizing that, dealing with those issues. >> congressman glenn ivey. thank you sir. i appreciate >> it thank you. >> the still ahead, the biden administration announcing student loan forgiveness for 800,000 americans, totaling almost 40 billion dollars. find out if you are one of the lucky ones who are getting your tuition loans forgiven, or one of the ones who will just have to rely on intuition. t have to rely on intuition >> i came here today because i promised you to action, and tuition is very valuable. but you know it's invaluable? is intuition. is intuition more meat. i proffer freshly sliced turkey. it's my favorite mouth guard flavor. mmmm. now available at subway. the sub, not the mouth guard. you know, people always ask me,
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gilgo beach. nbc's kathy park just wrapped up that interview with the top prosecutor and now joins us outside the suspect's home. kathy, what did you hear? >> hey yasmin, good afternoon to you. i just wrapped up an interview with the suffolk county d.a.. he says yes, there has been a major development in this case that led to the arrest. but the work certainly isn't over. we are in rex you are men's community right now. there's a large police president behind me. if you take a look behind me, that is heuermann how some resuming in. and that is been the center of the investigation ever since his arrest on thursday. just a few moments ago i asked the dea what are they looking for, how long is this investigation going to take? what does the timeline look like? here's what he told me. take a listen. >> we're looking for trace evidence. hair, fiber, among other things. so the team is going through
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the house with a fine tooth comb. so it is going to take a lot. among other things, there is some storage units that we have searched. >> are they all in the area? >> yes, they're all in suffolk county. we seized a car in south carolina. >> and yasmin, the suspect has been, on the radar of authorities for the better part of earlier this year. this is something that they have been zeroing in on. they have been building his case, burner phones attached to him as well as critical dna evidence. yesterday we saw him make his first court appearance. he was distraught, emotional, and he told his attorney that he didn't do this. meanwhile, as you can imagine, the family members of the victims, they feel some vindication that there is interest in this case. they say that they didn't give up hope. yasmin. >> kathy, two things for you. have we any idea where the suspect's family is? have we had any sightings of
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them? or understanding of any interactions family has had with the suspect himself? and also, if you are able to ask the prosecutor in the case whether or not they are certain that the suspect is not connected to the other remains that were found at gilgo beach? >> let me answer the first part of your question regarding the suspect's family members. we don't have confirmation as to where they are exactly. we know according to neighbors that he was married. so he had a wife who lived with him, as well as two older children. we haven't seen them, and neighbors in this community haven't seen them either. in fact many neighbors we spoke with say they didn't really see a whole lot of wrecks. he kept to himself. he was relatively private. a lot of neighbors say they actually thought the house might have been abandoned, because there was not a lot of foot traffic coming in and out. obviously a much different story today. we have a huge police presence. we've seen investigators going in and out, pulling lots of
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pieces of evidence. unclear what exactly they are grabbing at this point. but obviously, it's all part of the investigation. i think you asked a second question. reminded once again what you were asking? >> yes, our prosecutors certain that heuermann's is not connected to other remains found at gilgo beach? >> right. 11 bodies were discovered in the general vicinity of gilgo beach. right now, he is being charged for three of the victims. i asked the dea what about the other victims? are there possibly other murders that he could be attached to? he said it's not out of the question. he's hopeful that they can get more answers. but obviously that is still kind of in the works. right now, it is at least to those three women that he is being prosecuted for. >> all right, kathy park for us. thank you kathy. appreciate it. switching gears here everybody. there is some renewed hope this week for some student loan
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borrowers. the biden administration announcing that over 800,000 people will have their debts eliminated intern action totaling 39 billion dollars. it is coming just two weeks after the supreme court struck down the presidents plan to forgive up to $20,000 in debt for 43 million borrowers. i want to bring in nbc news white house correspondent -- who has more on this for us. mentally, you and i spoke after this decision came out. i asked you if the biden administration and the president specifically would be working on a work around. it seems as if they have found one. >> well yasmin, the white house has been working on multiple tracks to try and deal with this issue of student debt. because they think it's really a problem for the economic picture in this country. too many people with high levels of debt can't really start a family. they might not buy a house, they don't have mobility and employment. this is not necessarily an answer to the supreme court's decision. it's one of the other things they are working on. but you can understand why they are quick to try and get the snow soon after the supreme court's decision. this affects people who are paying back student loans
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through what is known as income based repayment plans. you pay a percentage of your income at the moment, and that number obviously will change over the course of your life. they say that there were glitches involved with some of the private servicers who they deal with the help process these loans. that didn't properly credit people for the time that they were putting in, paying off these loans overtime. so what's gonna happen now is automatically, those who did qualify with this glitch corrected will receive that debt that they were owed. because they made payments overtime up to 20 to 25 years. now the president put out a statement after the department of education made this announcement, which speaks to some of the politics here. he really called out republicans for what he said was their hypocrisy in criticizing these kinds of steps that his administration is taken. when for instance they had seen some of the debt forgiven through ppp loans. remember those were the small business loans through the pandemic that many people took advantage of? so it's both a political issue, and an economic issue to this white house. >> certainly. as mike manley, as always my
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friend, great to see you. that wraps it up for me everybody. i'm yasmin vossoughian, i'll be back in the chair tomorrow, two pm eastern. symone starts right now. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> greetings. you are watching symone on msnbc. i'm charles coleman junior, in first symone. this week, with house republicans with voting up a routine defensive spending will with controversial antiabortion, anti-trans, and anti-diversity amendments. we'll look at the potential impact on our military and national security, along with what happens next, when congresswoman sarah jacobs from california, who's on the house arms service committee joins the conversation. and, republican presidential candidates lean into that our culture war issues at th
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