they're running into tough russian defenses in the counteroffensive. white house national security coordinator john kirby joining me live. and the next generation, budding tennis star carlos alcaraz upsetting novak djokovic on center court at wimbledon, ushering in a new ear froor -- era for men's tennis. >> what i done yesterday it was a dream come true for me. it was tough to be with the nerves fay facing novak in that stage but i'm glad i did. good day. i'm andrea mitchell in washington where the top challenger to donald trump for the republican presidential nomination is dealing with another stumble early on in his bid for the presidency. florida governor ron desantis has fired about a dozen campaign

staffers, as a reported cost-cutting measure. six months before the iowa caucuses. two long-time senior advisors had left the campaign and more dismissals are expected in the coming weeks. an nbc news analysis for the desantis campaign financial disclosures shows top donors are maxed out with their contributions. the campaign has $9 million in cash on hand to spend on the primary and raised nearly $8 million in six weeks of campaigning. joining me capitol hill correspondent ali vitali with the desantis campaign in virginia at this hour. governor desantis is speaking to a christian pro israel group here in arlington, virginia, across the river. how is he defending his candidacy with all of these problems? >> look, i imagine he's not going to be outright defending his candidacy here. instead, he's going to use this for an opportunity on foreign policy focus, and he wrote in

his book, the idea he is someone who has a long history and track record of being pro-israel from his time in congress and governor of florida. he's expected to take the stage in the next few minutes, so we'll be riding the audio wave as he comes on stage and whispering at the back here. for desantis it's never exactly what you want at this early point in the process to be offloading staffers amid concerns from donors who are saying this campaign just hasn't caught fire in the way that they expected that it would. that's not just from a perspective of looking at the high burn rate, although that's something that clearly has donors concerned. instead, the other piece of this is looking at the polling numbers, recognizing the fact that even as desantis came in with a lot of fanfare, he's not someone who has been able to jog loose his poll numbers and trump, much like this event today, is not here, is not participating in a lot of the traditional fanfare of this republican primary, but he still

floats and looms large above it, consistently maintaining that polling lead, rainy in the midst of multiple legal battles on his own. andrea? >> ali, thank you so much. joining me now is nbc senior national political reporter jonathan allen, politico white house bureau chief jonathan lamar, host of "way too early" and back from the nato summit and prosecutor and civil rights attorney david. jonathan, great reporting, you and part of an nbc team, drilling down on the financial disclosures to see what staffing situation was, what the cash flow was and what the problem is for desantis? >> yeah. here's the problem, andrea. it's a high percentage of his donations came from people who have maxed out. if you look at his first six weeks, there was a huge spike in donations as there often is when you watch a campaign, got a lot of money, and then you see it trail off through the six weeks. now he's going to have to try to find some more people to give

money because it's such a high percentage that are maxed out. he tired 92 people on his staff -- >> 92 people. >> that's about four times as big as most of the other campaigns right now. and this is at a time when he has a super pac that's super well funded as well. it's not clear he needed 92 people. it seems not clear to him he needed 92 people because they've trimmed back by a dozen people. >> what is the problem here? we know he's had problems in terms of his personality, being a retail candidate, even though he was the funded of the republicans and best known and had a great story to tell from his success in florida, success politically with re-election, not in terms of some of the policies, which were controversial. >> yeah. i think what's going on here is that there was a huge expectation he was going to be the alternative to donald trump. he led people to believe he was going to run. put out a book, did a book tour. didn't get in the race. donald trump hammered him for

months while he was pretending he was going to be a candidate and his numbers have stalled and removed the confidence of big donors, key supporters, of voters and his ability to take on trump, which was his biggest appeal. the biggest mistake desantis made people loved him because of him as opposed to the possibility he might defeat donald trump and so now he's got to go about convincing people that they need to like him, love him, and vote for him and dough nate to him. it's going to be a challenge. >> jonathan lemire, he also did a foreign trip, unusual at this stage, with his wife and kids. partly paid for by, you know, the campaign, but partly paid for with government funds in terms of some of the, you know, costs of that trip were taken by an unknown profit taken by the campaign. how do you abrogate between the

personality where he's not connecting, went to iowa, for instance, o just the policies which were controversial? the business community really stalled in terms of the biggest attacks to disney once bob iger took over disney? >> yeah. it's been a pretty disaster launch for desantis. misstep after misstep has been. part of the governor's staff behaving in political activities when they shouldn't have done so, trying to bolster his campaign, and he hasn't caught fire. in fact, there's a lot of whispers among the republican donor class that he was their guy to start and now they're having doubts. some reporting over the weekend, the murdoch family, now they're wavering. youngkin the virginia governor might jump in and they acknowledge if trump is the

nominee they will be behind him despite their misgivingings. desantis does need a reset here and he's running into financial and staffing difficulties and taking a new media strategy after vilifying the mainstream media for his entire time in office now he's sitting down for a number of interviews in the days ahead with the mainstream outlets trying to get that exposure and trying to show a different side of himself. we know he will be on the debate stage. we don't know if donald trump will be. trump might skip it because he doesn't want to elevate his rivals. desantis is taking blow after blow. he's been the one guy in the republican field trump has targeted and hammered him. at this point polls suggest that republican voters might have some misgivings about trump's ability to win next year, but he's still their top choice, despite all the legal peril piling up. >> if he's on the debate stage and donald trump is not, he could be -- desantis could be

the target of all the others attacking. this is what donald trump had to say on fox news about skipping that first debate. >> ronald reagan didn't do it and a lot of other people. when you have a big lead you don't do it. why would you let somebody at zero be popping you with questions. >> do you see any risk if you don't show up, ron desantis has a good night, it cuts into your lead? >> or somebody else has a good night and cuts into his lead. >> jonathan, what do we know about ron desantis as a debater if donald trump is not on the stage? >> desantis at this point has not shown to be a particularly strong debater. when running for re-election with governor, with charlie crist he had a couple tough moments. it's not seen as one of his real strengths, and it's something perhaps that he is sitting down for some of these interviews to shake off the rust, get his reps, deal with pointed

questions, because he will on the debate stage whether trump there is or not. i think some republicans have said to me in recent days, chris christie, who he all agree has little to no chance of actually emerging as the nominee, but where he could make a difference in the race is by attacking others. we've all largely been focused on how he's attacked donald trump. he's made some effective arguments, even if they haven't touched trump's poll numbers. christy has gone off desantis a few times. that's something we have to look out on the debate stage in milwaukee. if christy turns his sights on desantis if trump is not there, he could deliver blows to desantis. we recall what kristi did to another florida politician, marco rubio, ending his candidacy. there's the chance he could be the one that the desantis team has to watch out for? >> in trump legal news there's the prehearing in front of the florida judge on the mar-a-lago documents.

that's set for tomorrow. this is, of course, donald trump's appeal to postpone any trial until after the election, after the november 24 election, and in that, and he told people that means he could pardon himself if he is elected. what are the chances of this? there's no constitutional grounds really for doing this, but we don't know what judge cannon might do. >> that's true, andrea. we can't make progress discussing this topic until we stop looking at it in a political lens. if i'm the judge i'm going to look at the attorneys and say are you honestly telling me your client shouldn't have to go to trial because he's too busy at work? i get it, running for president is an important job, but it's a job he has chosen to do and having taken the bar you know i've got a duty to treat everyone equally. should i give anyone extra time when they come in and say judge, i'm too busy at work to handle my federal case? the simple truth is, that i'm assuming your client is running

because he thinks he has a chance of winning, so you're telling me he's going to have more available time after the election? the answer to those questions is no. so as court cases are routinely expended for a variety of reasons having it nothing to do with the arguments of the lawyers, trump shouldn't be afforded special consideration simply because his job happens to be a political one. the idea of him being able to pardon himself is a second consideration we should consider in the context of what's going on here, that is, on the one hand he is using these litigation, these court cases, to buoy his candidacy, while complaining it's an inconvenience for him running for president. >> jonathan allen, jonathan lemire and david henderson, thanks. the heat is on. historic temperatures, dangerous air quality, and fatal flash flooding. the latest on the extreme weather across the country and also overseas. that's next when "andrea mitchell reports" is back in 60 seconds only on msnbc. iatic arts can make me feel like i'm losing my rhythm.

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severe summer weather continues across the u.s. and europe. in the northeast, millions of residents bracing for yet another weather system after a weekend of heavy rains and more flooding. and there are air quality alerts now for major cities including new york, chicago, and pittsburgh. from those canadian wildfires still going. in the west and south, there are new triple digit records possible from nevada to florida. across the atlantic, spain and italy hit with a similar heat wave. joining me kathy park in bucks county, pennsylvania. marissa parra in phoenix. claudia is in rome. kathie, the tragedy for weekend storms in eastern pennsylvania, i know that area really well. what are you hearing from local officials today? >> reporter: good afternoon to

you. the weather has significantly improved from this weekend. the skies are clear. it's dry. there is no rain in the forecast today. so crews are taking advantage of this improved weather to continue actively searching for those two missing kids who were swept away this weekend. it's heartbreaking to share their story. they were visiting from south carolina with their family and their car got stuck in the floodwaters and their mother is among the dead. we heard from authorities a few moments ago giving us an update on the search efforts. take a listen. >> we have search teams that are assisting us from delaware, chester, parts of bucks county, new jersey, we also have deployed k-9 units, underwater assets and air assets. as you're aware this is going to be a massive undertaking involving the coordination and cooperation from numerous departments and agencies

throughout the state and region. >> reporter: and andrea, we should be getting another update later on this afternoon, but just being out here throughout the morning, we ran into residents walking along the creek beds here and we asked them, what are you doing? this one gentleman said he is joining in the search efforts. he wants to help in any way they can. here we are standing in washington crossing, probably one of the hardest hit communities and you can see the damage left behind by the floodwaters. the road buckled here. this is a bridge that we're standing on. parts of it broke off. you see tree limbs an debris scattered. one official told us this is something, the weather event hasn't happened in 44 years since he worked in this community. incredible the storms moved in quickly, dumped a lot of rain and caused a lot of problems, andrea. >> it's terrible. i think one was an infant, and the other sibling was a toddler.

tragedy there. unspeakable. thank you. marissa in arizona, people woke up to 100 degree heat this morning. that's morning temps, not even the afternoon. how are they adapting? this is the new norm? >> yeah. i mean, the thing to remember here is, phoenix, arizona, they are used to heat. seeing a day of high degrees is not a surprise to people here, but i think what is sort of shocking to people is how long it has lasted. the consecutive days of temperatures over 110 degrees, i mean it is impacting people around here. i had a chance to go inside of a local er and they showed the strain, the impacts of this. they have over kroidsing. they said they're an overflow and they've had to extend to different parts of the hospital they don't normally use to treat these patients to accommodate for everyone that has heat exhaustion, the most serious, heat stroke, people come in with

internal body temperatures of 107. when we talk about this heat, andrea it's not just uncomfortable. it can be deadly. there are more vulnerable populations depending on age and other factors. the thing about the heat is it also exacerbates everything else that may already be happening. it's putting a strain on hospitals, but as you may be able to tell i'm at a firehouse right now, i spent the last several days with them and had a chance to go on several calls with them. we've gotten firsthand access to see how it's changing what they do. they've been getting so many calls, heat related, of course. even if there's a car crash they have to make sure they're staying cool when tending to the people who are victims of the car crash which may be unrelated but heat is a factor no matter what they're doing. they're packing ivs on ice, extra water bottles every place they go. ice packs and ice coolers. when they're fighting a fire, which what is they do on the

regular, they themselves are exposed to extreme temperatures, sometimes having to take ice baths themselves to cool down. one last thing to leave you with, we're talking about once we get to 110 plus degrees today, that will be 18 plus -- that will be 18 days of consecutive days when it comes to 110 degree temps. tomorrow if they hit that again it will break a near 50-year record. >> thank you. claudio, there have been temperature alerts for days in italy. the latest heat wave could push through eastern europe. residents don't have central air conditioning the way we do back here in the u.s. how are people adapting? >> reporter: that's right, andrea. i definitely do. i've been using it for many days and i think the people are envious of me. you're right, italians don't tend to have air conditioning because they don't particularly like it, but because they are used to the heat in the summer,

but definitely not used to this kind of heat waves. right now it's 6:00 in the evening. it's about 102 fahrenheit and going to get worse tomorrow when the forecast is going to be for temperatures to reach as high as 118, 120 degrees somewhere in sardinha, an island on the west -- off the west coast of italy. let's see whether that will even break the record for the hottest day in -- ever recorded in europe, which was recorded a couple years ago still here in italy in sicily. it was 119.8 degrees. the name of the heat wave says it all. the italian meteorologists called it, of the dead, lingering souls, this one delivering poor souls in the city to air conditioning environment or out in the mountains or beaches, andrea. >> there are huge numbers, unprecedented numbers of american tourists there.

especially in rome and the other capitals as well. claudio, thank you very much. keep cool if you can. coming up, weaponizing hunger. russia cutting off aid, critical grain deal, potentially throwing the global food crisis into a catastrophe. security council coordinator john kirby joining me next. you're watching msnbc.

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. russia has now halted a deal rumored for a while, but now it has halted a deal that allows ukraine to ship ukraine grain through moscow's black sea blockade to the rest of the world. this is an agreement that helps feed much of the world. it keeps global food prices down. the extension was not related to today's attack earlier that killed at least two people on the kerch bridge linking russia with the peninsula of crimean it annexed illegally in 2014. joining me john kirby national security council coordinator at the white house. it's great to see you here. let's talk first about the grain deal, how critical this is. >> so important, andrea. more than 50% of the grain thats of shipped out went to developing countries, latin america, asia, africa, countries that needed this grain, and now there's going to be greater food insecurity as a result of it, and i'm glad that in your

opening you called it a blockade because that's what russia is putting back in place, a blockade, on this grain. it will not be allowed to leave ukraine and they will not be able to ship it over land through eu countries, not to the degree they can by sea. this could have devastating consequences for people living in developing countries that just want to eat. >> we're about to take over in august the presidency of the u.n. security council. ambassador linda thomas-greenfield spoke about this very thing today. >> while russia plays political games, real people will suffer. the child in the horn of africa, who is severely malnourished, the mother who will stop producing breast milk for her baby because she doesn't have enough to eat herself. these are the consequences of russia's actions. >> and she knows of what she speaks. she's been to those locations. >> she has. >> hands on ambassador. i'm going to be interviewing her

tomorrow at the security council, but does this indicate that turkey is losing its leverage? turkey helped negotiate this deal with russia? >> i don't know that it indicates they're losing leverage, and we're grateful for president erdogan's intervention here, he has kept this grain deal going for a full year, it's gone through numerous extensions, the u.n. has done this and president erdogan is none too happy either that russia has made this decision to pull out. like the way the ambassador characterized it there. it's going to have practical impacts on real lives, real families, real children, places in the world where food scarcity matters a lot and this grain deal really helps put food on the table for folks an it will be russia and needs to be remembered, particularly in those parts of the world, that russia is the one turning off the spigot. >> it's talk about the kerch bridge, the second attack. do you have any doubt as to who is responsible or any way of attributing it? >> we are not able to attribute

to anyone in any way right now. this is the second time the bridge has come under attack. the first attack was from ukrainian forces. i wouldn't want to speculate on who is responsible for this, but to be clear, andrea, crimea is ukraine. it belongs to ukraine. it doesn't belong to russia. they have no business being there in the first place. and ukraine has ever right to pick the targets it wants to pick to defend itself and reclaim its territory. >> ukraine has acknowledged that their military is running into fierce defense from russia and the counteroffensive, but you've got the leading candidate for the republican nomination, i know you don't do politics, but you have a -- i would like to ask you to comment on the foreign policy implications of this. this is donald trump claiming that he could solve the ukraine war in a matter of one day. watch. >> i know zelenskyy very well and i know putin very well. even better. and i had a good relationship, very good, with both of them.

i would tell zelenskyy, no more. you got to make a deal. i would tell putin if you don't make a deal, we're going to give them a lot, more than they ever got if we have to. i will have the deal done in one day. one day. >> that was just yesterday on fox news. >> well, again, i, obviously, can't get into politics and i won't. >> not as a candidate -- >> i would say -- >> as a foreign policy statement. >> i would say president biden knows how difficult this war has been for ukraine and the ukrainian people and how difficult it has been for everybody trying to support ukraine, because it has required sacrifices from 50 some odd countries, and he has put a premium on keeping unity in nato, keeping unity within the broader coalition and you saw that on display in vilnius at the nato summit. this is hard work and wars are difficult and we have to make sure he don't lose focus on making sure ukraine can succeed on the battlefield so when

president zelenskyy, only he gets to determine when this is, when he's ready to sit down with mr. putin and have a negotiation, that he can do so from a position of strength. >> now, i want to ask you about what's happening in the senate. senate and the house. but in the senate with senator tuberville first of all on holding up these positions at the pentagon and now you've got also secretary of state speaking out about state department ambassadors who are being held up, most of them all but three are career ambassadors held up by rand paul. so, how is this affecting military families? you are a military family going back generations and going forward, you know, you have two sons, a son-in-law, on destroyers as we speak. when people can't plan their lives, not just readiness, but recruitment. >> yeah. >> people can't rotate out, they can't rotate in, and kids going to school -- >> i had a chance a couple weeks ago to sit down with military spouses and some were active

duty members, married to active duty members, and they were all women, and we talked about the impact of some of tease state laws on abortion and it's having an impact on their decision making about whether they're going to stay in the service or whether they want their spouse to stay in the service. they don't get to decide where they get assigned. my son and son-in-law, they're in nor folk on two different ships. that wasn't their choice. the navy sent them there. that's what you do when you sign up to wear the uniform of the nation. if you're in a state where you can't have access to reproductive care you want to know the dechts department of defense has your back. it has retention consequences without question. and then just take the broader issue of senator tuberville's hold, we're talking about 260 admirals and generals. that might not sound like a lot, admirals and generals are just, but it has a ripple effect down the chain of command and now you

have dozens of families underneath each of those who can't make school decisions for their kids, they can't buy or rent new houses, can't make the kinds of plans to move their families to a new city or a new part of the country, and it freezes everything. that's going to have an affect on some of these officers and their willingness to continue serving. >> that affects national security. >> look at the things we've been talking about, the indo-pacific, john kerry over there, meeting in beijing a lot going on in the world, and when you don't have leaders in their appropriate assignments, confirmed by the senate and with all the authorities they need to conduct those jobs, there's going to be a national security implication. >> question about china, because even as john kerry is now in china following up on yellen and blinken, is there any chance, despite everything that has happened with china, xi and president biden will speak, even as our commerce secretary is

supposed to go and her e-mail unclassified e-mails were hacked in the large hack? >> two things on the call, absolutely president biden expects to have a conversation with president xi some time in the future. i don't have anything on the schedule to speak to, but he said he's going to do it and we'll do it at the appropriate time. he's glad these visiting are happening and the lines of communication are staying open. on the hack we found it and alerted microsoft and did things to try to shut down our vulnerability on that. we're being careful right now. we have no reason to doubt the assertion it came from chinese hacking groups. >> john kirby on all things greeshgts see you in person. >> thanks for having me. >> there are three is a crowd. how disruptive of a potential third-party run could be in 2024. that's next. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. ndrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. felt anything. ♪ ♪

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no labels is pushing ahead with its efforts to run a third-party candidate in 2024 despite effort business leading democrats who fear that could split the anti-trump vote and defeat joe biden. maverick democratic senator joe manchin is going to speak at the no label town hall in new hampshire this afternoon joined by ambassador and presidential candidate john hemsman. that raises concerns whether a

third-party candidate could help donald trump chipping away voters from president biden. joining me, nbc news correspondent juan hillyard in manchester, new hampshire, and bill crystal, founding director of defending democracy together. joe manchin and jon huntsman could make for a ticket if they had support but that could hurt joe biden. >> reporter: right. let's be clear about how big of a step this is. publicly, joe manchin is going on the campaign trail. he is not ruled out his own third-party presidential run, and he has made a decision to come with the organization no labels here to new hampshire today for a town hall. no labels has not just some small organization that's raised a couple thousand dollars. their director tells me they are nearing a $70 million war chest to put this no labels unity presidential ticket on the ballot in all 50 states. they are serious about this. i've talked to several folks

that are working as part of this effort and they say that look, you know, according to nbc's polling 70% of americans don't want joe biden to be running for president again. 60% don't want donald trump to be running for president again. they feel like this is their opportunity to have the most legitimate, serious third-party effort in more than 100 years. this is dating back to when teddy roosevelt gave the white house another shot here. we have not seen this in our politics. ross perot came out of nowhere and gary johnson, jill stein, had their impacts in 2016. ralph nader had his in 2000. this is something unlike we have seen in modern american politics, potentially if they were to field candidates like a joe manchin or jon huntsman to run. >> no labels co-chair, former senator joe lieberman, democratic senator, is dismissing concerns that this effort is going to help donald trump. he says people are overreacting.

what's your take on that? >> people are reacting critically. i'm not an enemy of no labels. i used to work for them in 2017 with my friend bill. i'm not against it, but the fact is no labels is not going to win. a no labels candidate will not win in this polarized country. no labels might get 20%. every piece of evidence from polling to history, suggests that more of that 20% will come from joe biden than donald trump, trump supports, more committed, in centrists will be seduced into voting for someone younger than joe biden, what looks like a centrist ticket and it could defeat joe biden and it is not responsible cen terrorism, it is not responsible moderation to elect donald trump. >> and bill, i know you already met with no labels and tried to

make this argument. you also on the democratic side have rfk jr., a democratic presidential candidate, pushing covid conspiracy theories. last week in a video obtained by "the new york post," he said some things that are raising eyebrows. let's show that. >> covid-19 there's no argument it is ethnically targeted. covid-19 attacked certain races. covid-19 is targeted to attack caucasians and black people. the people who are most immune are [ inaudible ] chinese. >> so jews and chinese people, supposedly more immune from covid. tweeted "the new york post" was wrong, they misinterpreted his comments, hard to misinterpret what he said, but he does enjoy

20% support among democrats and republicans. >> yeah. this is the putin talking point, this isn't just out of nowhere. this is the u.s. is developing buy logical weapons, that's one of his arguments in ukraine, some republicans, many republicans, and that those are sort of targeted at particular groups. this isn't a random foolish conspiracy theory. it's a putin conspiracy theory, and it's now been reported out they filed the second quarter, first quarter finance report, a large amount of bobbie kennedy jr.'s support is republicans, major republican donors, and steve bannon encouraged him to run several months ago. so i think this is part of an attempt, again, to weaken biden. the support comes from major republican donors. this is, you know, donald trump, whatever you think of him and bannon and these people, they know how to -- they're not foolish about politics and they're ruthless at times and

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congresswoman pramila jayapal chair of the congressional progressive caucus, has now apologized for characterizing israel as a, quote, racist state at a conference on saturday. >> i want you to know that we have been fighting to make it clear that israel is a racist state, that the palestinian people deserve self-determination, autonomy, that the dream, that dream of a two-state solution is slipping away from us, that it is not -- that it does not even feel possible. >> one day later under pressure from the democratic leadership, and political attacks from republicans, she clarified those comments saying, quote, i do not believe the idea of israel as a nation is racist. i do, however, believe that netanyahu's extreme right wing government has engaged in

discriminatory and racist policies and there are extreme racists riding that policy within the leadership of the current government and joining me is congressman jared moskowitz from florida. congressman, thank you very much for being with us. i want to ask you about this because there are a lot of organized jewish groups and jewish groups and jewish americans who believe, despite their support for israel, believe this right wing coalition government is indeed racist because of its policies, the settlement policies in particular against the palestinians in the expansion of settlements denying all possibility of two states. >> first, andrea, thanks for having me. listen, to say an entire country is racist, which really gets to the foundation of the country is racist is an outrageous statement. i'm happy that the chairwoman has decided to clarify her comments. i think that was good and productive. obviously you saw democratic

leadership led by hakeem jeffries make a statement on it. you have president herzog coming here this week. you have republicans saying the democratic party is anti-israel. it feeds into that. we've seen a significant increase in anti-semitism. republicans are having rfk jr. on the hill this week and he's going to tell everyone covid is the jews' fault which is a white supremacist conspiracy theory. i think it's fair to criticize government policies, but to say an entire country is racist, which gets to the foundation of that country i think is unacceptable. >> i should point out that rfk, jr., has said he was misquoted. tape is the tape and we saw exactly what he said. it does echo some of the things that vladimir putin has been proposing in his propaganda. that said, as i point out,

president herzog who is speaking at joint meeting of congress and meeting at the white house is himself critical of netanyahu's judicial proposals and has been critical of the coalition. there's a coalition member once on a terrorist list and and another who says palestinians are not really a people. these are ministers, important ministers. >> i think those comments are unacceptable. obviously there are people within the israeli government that i disagree with, and there are folks in that coalition that i disagree with. i think criticism of those people is totally fair. look, israel is going through domestic policy issues. now we can weigh into that. andrea, you've been paying attention. what's going on with our judiciary in this country? we have supreme court seats being stolen by mitch mcconnell, supreme court justices overturning 50 years of rights in this country, supreme court justices taking trips and going on trips with folks that have

cases in front of them, and that's not some sort of violation. so i think it's fair to talk about other countries and their judicial system. right now we've got problems in our judicial system as well. >> speaking of that, you're on the oversight committee on the house side. they'll have hearings on hunter biden this week. talk to me about how democrats can legitimately push back against some of the attacks given the fact that there are plenty of things that hunter biden did that he acknowledged were wrong. >> democrats are not here to defend hunter biden. obviously, someone who lost his brother, lost his mom, he's experienced loss and he's got issues he's been dealing with, and he has to deal with. we're here to fight for truth and democracy. to think that the republicans are working with a whistle-blower who has now been indicted by the department of justice as a chinese foreign agent doing business with the iranian government and selling illegal weapons to the libyans, that's where they're at in this

effort to try to own hunter biden. these are the folks who said don't listen to whistle-blowers during the trump administration because they're part of the deep state. is the whistle-blower blower from the irs this week, is he part of the deep state or not part of the deep state? i can't keep up when they they are or aren't part of the deep state. are there deep state meetings they go to? did he not do his deep state membership? democrats have to fight for truth. >> congressman jared moskowitz, great to see the tourists back post covid. tourist season at the capitol. wonderful to see the big crowds there. fast-rising tennis star, 20-year-old spaniard carlos alcaraz winning wimbledon in a dramatic five-set match. that's next. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports." this is msnbc. ching "andrea mitl reports. this is msnbc. custom scans help you find new trading opportunities, while an earnings tool helps you plan your trades

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star grabbing the spotlight on the biggest stage in the game. 20-year-old spaniard carlos alcaraz coming back after a 6-1 loss in the first set to win an epic five-set victory at wimbledon over tennis legend joe vac djokovic. alcaraz collapsing in tears after defeating djokovic in the finals denying him a chance to sweep the slams. he spoke to savannah and hoda about his historic win this morning on "today." >> it was a dream come true for me, you know, defeat novak the way i did in center court. he was unbeaten for ten years. >> 36-year-old novak djokovic attempting to match roger federer and his eight wimbledon trophies let his famous tennis briefly take over, smashing his racket in the fifth set.

an emotional salute to his young son in the players box. soccer royalty has arrived in miami. world cup champion and soccer icon lionel messi welcomed to a massive sunday celebration after rejecting lucrative offers from saudi leagues to start his next chapter right in the u.s. in the mls. messi has scored more than 800 goals throughout a nearly two-decade career that began as a teenager. soccer fans are hoping he adds to that total in miami and visiting stadiums across the country over the coming month. that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." "chris jansing reports" starts right now. good day. i'm chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. a stunning 100 million-plus people in the s. right now, a third of the population under wags