cup in argentina. i think he'll do if same thing here. >> reporter: an nashgs right now, inter miami is currently in last place in major league soccer standings. however, they have more followers on social media than the miami heat, that just made the finals, and the miami dolphins. >> hold up that jersey again. it looks like barbie married messi there in miami. pink looks good. it's your color. >> reporter: pretty in pink. >> thanks so much. that does it for thus week. have a great weekend. jose picks up our coverage right now. good morning. it is 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific. i am jose diaz-ball art. tony bennett has died at the age of 96. also breaking this morning, the judge overseeing former president donald trump's case on the classified documents has set a date for the trial to begin. that comes as we learn more about grand jury testimony in another special counsel case.

in texas, new calls for biden administration to step in over reports of what's being called inhumane treatment of migrants at the southern border. we'll speak with former texas congressman beto o'rourke, who's demanding the government step in and take action. and messi madness in miami. the soccer star lionel messi is about to play his debut game for inter miami. we begin with sad news about an american icon, tony bennett, one of the most beloved and recognized voices in american popular music history died this morning at the age of 96, less than two weeks before his 97th birthday. in a career that spanned 07 years, bennett received 20 grammy awards, two emmy awards, he twice made music industry history as the oldest performer to have a number one album on the billboard top 200 albums

when he was 85 and again when he was 88. at the age of 95, he held his last public concert alongside his friend and musical collaborator lady gaga. the cause of death has not been named. he was diagnosed with alzheimer's disease in 2016. back in 2016, our colleague al roker spoke with tony bennett for his 90th birthday. here's a look. >> invented b-bop, a form of jazz. ♪ for once in my life i have someone who needs me ♪ >> tony bennett, one of the most iconic voices to ever take the stage. ♪ the best is yet to come come the day you're mine ♪ there's a certain timelessness to your music, you know. >> i search for quality all the time. i always find intelligent songs to sing.

i don't try to get a hit song. i just want a song that's so good that if you listen to it ten years from now it won't sound old-fashioned or dated. ♪ just the way you look tonight ♪ if somebody had told you at 20 that in 70 years you oud still be a huge star, probably more popular than ever, what would you have told them? >> i'm thrilled about it. i can't even figure it out. >> is that the secret? you're still going strong. you're probably busier than you've ever been. >> i'm always sold out throughout the world wherever i play. and it's beautiful. >> tony, it's never dawned on you to pack it in and say, you know, i'll just stop singing, i'll go in the park and paint and call it a day. >> to i don't feel that way at all. in fact, i feel like i have so much more to learn yet. ♪ oh, int don't mean a thing

if it ain't got that swing ♪ >> collaboration with artists like lady gaga. ♪ don't get around much anymore ♪ michael buble and carrie underwood. ♪ it had to be you ♪ who out there is someone you'd like to perform with? is there anybody you're listening to, you'd love to record with them? >> i'd like to do something again with lady gaga. she's a terrific talent, but i like that beyonce. she's terrific. >> queen bey and tony b. that would be something. if you had to write it down, tony, what would be your recipe for a long, healthy life? >> i believe in the fact that it's a gift to be alive. i love the fact that i'm blessed to be on earth, and i love -- my

whole life i love what i do. >> what would you like your legacy to be? >> that i made people feel good. it's a great thing. ♪ i love you ♪ >> a great, great adventure. joining us now a four-time grammy award-winning jazz trumpeter featured on tony bennett's "duets: 2" album, performed with tony at the 1995 halftime show for the super bowl, awarded the presidential medal of freedom by president obama. always a pleasure to see you. i want to start by -- you know, this is a man that you played with, that you were with. what does tony bennett mean for american music?

>> first of all, thank you for the opportunity to share my feeling about his death, because it's something extremely sad for the industry, you know, for all the people who love and follow his career over so many years. i huge privilege to be on stage with him several times, and also i play on a couple albums with him, and also in the super bowl, you know, a huge honor to be on the stage with him. i send you a clip of that, by the way. and, you know, it's very, very sad news. he had a wonderful career that was, you know, for a long time, and we have the opportunity to listen to him and see his videos and his presentation all over the world for so many years. i think he had a wonderful life, and we're going to miss him a lot because he was one of a

kind, one of a kind. an incredible performer and a beautiful person as well. he show a painting he did of dizzy gillespie. man, that touched my heart because, you know, dizzy was my hero, my mentor. >> yep. arturo, you know, i also saw that painting of dizzy that tony painted. and dizzy so important to the whole world and certainly important to you. this is someone who had a 70-year career but he was able to successfully transmit such beautiful soul in jazz, in pop. what is it about him, arturo,

you think that musically made him so unique? >> he had a great voice to start with, because that's something that god have to give it to you. you cannot create from scratch, you know, a voice like that. but also his passion to deliver, his passion to make many songs special because he was so emotional in the way sings, you know. that's unique because when you combine both ends, it's what you have, tony bennett. you know, he was incredible singer. >> what will you take with you from your moments with tony bennett as being one of the moments that you'll always

treasure? >> for me, he was a blessing and such an honor and privilege to be able to meet him and play with him several times. that was one of the highlights of my entire career. and by the way, you know, i'm celebrating already 62 years playing music nonstop. and he is one of the idol, one of the idols that i look after, you know. i wish i could last as long as he did. >> yeah. yeah. arturo sandoval, i'm honored to be able to have the opportunity to speak with you on such an important day when we're thinking about and recognizing someone who no doubt will live forever. arturo sandoval, thank you for being with us. >> thank you so much. thank you.

may he rest in peace. >> thanks. now to breaking news on the investigations surrounding former president donald trump. a short time ago, a federal judge, aileen cannon, ruled trump and co-defendant walt nauta's trials will begin on the 20th of may, 2024. this came hours after the former president spoke out again about his legal woes after the deadline for him to appear before the grand jury investigating interference in the 2020 election came and went. >> all of a sudden i hear they want to indict me on this one. and why didn't they do it two years ago? why didn't they do it, like, when it would -- would have been, you know, timely? but there is no timely. they did it because it's election interference. they did it right in the middle of my campaign. that's called election interference and it's called weaponization of the justice system. >> with us to talk more about this, nbc news correspondent

garrett haake and joyce vance, former u.s. attorney, now a professor at the university of alabama law school. she is also an msnbc legal analyst. garrett, we now know when trump will go on trial in the florida case, which is right in the middle of campaign season. where do things go from here? >> reporter: that's right. or at least we know when he's scheduled to go on trial. i say that because there's still the possibility you could see additional delays as the process for reviewing these classified documents, other pretrial motions and so forth begin. there's another hearing coming up at the end of august, for example. each one of these days could push things even further. but regardless, we are seeing if this trial begins mid to late may, it will be after the primaries that he would take the stage to formally receive the republican nomination over the summer. so in terms of the politics of it, it's a very complicated piece of business for donald

trump. as we start to see the calendar develop for next year, the overlay between his court appearance trial dates in some of these various cases, the new york case, the documents case, potentially others still to come, and the primary calendar is just going to get more and more complex and difficult for the front running campaign for the republican nomination to manage. >> joyce, what do you make of the judge's decision to begin the trial in late may as garrett was saying? it's kind of the first flag on this. how likely is it that that date will, indeed, hold? >> so, that's the problem here. it's a slippery slope. and this is a schedule that's built in many ways for delay. there are a lot of reasons, some legitimate, sometime manufactured by defendants that can used to move the schedule out of it. notable that judge cannon said when she set the dates that flow from the trial date, dates that motions are due, times to resolve disputes over the use of

classified information, that she made a point of saying she didn't think at this juncture that it was necessary to take the election into account. of course that could change. and because she's a judge, she has a lot of discretion to make these calls. they're effectively unreviewable if the prosecution -- not the sort of thing you can really take to an appellate court unless it becomes egregious. so now i think garrett is right to say we are looking at not the final trial setting. this is just an aspirational one for the moment. lit very likely slip. and when it does, here's the problem. if there's a motion she grants to continue the trial, it won't just be a continuance of days or weeks because of her pre-existing calendar. trump's lawyers have said they think this trial will take several months to complete. that estimate is a little bit long. the government's estimate is more in the level of weeks. but finding an opening block of

a weeks' period of time on a federal judge's calendar at the last minute just doesn't happen. when if time comes if it has to be scheduled, it will be pushed down the road and likely won't take place before the election. >> joyce, you talk about rescheduling sometimes can occur for both legitimate and manufactured reasons. what would some of those legitimate reasons be, and what would some of the manufactured reasons be? >> sure. so, legitimate reasons might look like a lawyer who gets sit or a witness who can't be available on a certain date. and those sorts of problems do come up in trial settings. there can be pretrial motions that have to be litigated to an appellate court. that can slow down a schedule, too, in some situations, although fortunately the statute that governs the use of classified information, there's an expedited calendar built in for an appeal to the 11th

circuit, so less likely to be a problem. and then there are sort of manufactured delays. for instance, a defendant who tries to late in the game switch lawyers or who continues to object that the government hasn't given them enough time to review material, or in this case, perhaps a defendant who will say that, as the nominal presidential candidate of the republican party, he can't be blocked out of appearing at important campaign events. and that's sort of ooh call, that's the one to look for. it would be up to judge cannon's discretion to decide whether she should and could give him delays that would accommodate him as candidate trump rather than defendant trump. >> i always appreciate your explanations. thang you. garrett, meanwhile, the trump white house aide lillian russell, who was with the former president on the 6th of january, testified yesterday. do we know more about what his

appearance was about? >> we do. russell was a close aide but not a senior one, close by proximity and by personal relationship with donald trump. my colleague vaughn hillyard has been able to report after talking to a source familiar that he was asked about mr. trump's state of mind after the election and around the events of the 6th. the kind of thing that could potentially be protected by executive privilege, which we know one of mr. russell's lawyers had complained that was in the line of questioning that they were dealing with. but jose, this was not russell's first appearance in front of a grand jury related to donald trump. we've also learned from a source familiar that he's talked about the documents case, has had sort of a wide range of things prosecutors have been interested in talking with him about. again, my suspicion based on the position he held in the white house, the kinds of things he's likely to have done there, it was mostly due to his proximity to these events, things he might have heard or conversations he might have been privy to.

our team is still digging. >> garrett haake and joyce vance, thank you very much. we're back in 60 seconds. vice president kamala harris will soon head to florida outraged over the state's new standards for teaching black history, which teaches students slavery -- that slavery actually benefited some black people. >> they insult us in an attempt to gaslight us, and we will not stand for it! power e*trade's easy-to-use tools, like dynamic charting and risk-reward analysis

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on the ground with students and civil rights leaders. she'll focus on the importance of giving students the freedom to learn about the country's history. we heard a little bit of a preview of what she was going to say during a trip she took to indianapolis yesterday. take a listen to a bit of her speech there. >> just yesterday in the state of florida they decided middle school students will be taught that enslaved people benefited from slavery. they insult us in an attempt to gaslight us, and we will not

stand for it! >> reporter: jose, this is just the latest change we've seen under governor desantis' leadership in this whole overlapping sort of culture war fight. we've seen the white house play into this messaging and use it to their advantage in their 2024 campaign. so it's safe to assume we're going to continue seeing that spotlight moving forward. >> and also, this comes as wcu news confirm that hackers linked to china accessed the email account of the u.s. ambassador to china, nicholas burns, and other officials? >> reporter: that's right. this is coming one month after we learned that state and commerce departments emails were also accessed by these hackers linked to beijing. one of these email accounts belonging to commerce secretary gina raimondo. and now u.s. officials are telling my colleagues carol lee and peter alexander, that these two u.s. diplomats, the u.s.

ambassador to china as well as another top diplomat at the state department were also targeted. now, it's important to note these were unclassified emails that were targeted by these hackers, but it is worth noting how heavily involved and close they were to secretary of state antony blinken's high-stakes trip to beijing last month. remember, he met with his chinese counterparts to smooth over relations with china. worth noting, the chinese government has not commented on this hack so far, so there's a lot more to learn out of this developing story, jose. >> and this comes on the same day as a high-profile meeting with leaders from seven artificial intelligence companies? what's expected to come from this meeting? >> reporter: that's right. those executives include executives from companies like google, microsoft, amazon, and they're meeting with the president to talk about the future of this rapidly evolving technology and how to more responsibly and safely regulate

it. the white house saying that these companies have volunteered to agree to more regulation, more testing for potential vulnerabilities before they release new technologies to the public as well as new tools to basically make it safer for people to very obviously understand when they're monitor organize watching ai-generated content. the white house says these are continues steps to something much broader. they're working on what will eventually become an executive order that the president is expected to sign to better regulate this space. so, the white house hoping by these companies stepping forward and leading by example that more companies follow suit, jose. >> allie raffa in washington, thank you very much. this morning 2024 republican candidates are out on the campaign trying to close the gap with donald trump. one top contender is planning a

reboot. nbc news is learning exclusively that ron desantis' campaign is expected to shift away from focusing on the governor's record in florida to a more national focus as his poll numbers are lagging behind and he's facing some financial hurdles. joining us is more is maya king from "the new york times," and matthew dowd, served as chief strategist for the election in 2004. maya, how is a desantis campaign defining his performance so far? >> i think that the campaign has always presented governor desantis as an alternative to president trump, that he champions a lot of the hyperconservative policies that former president trump was able to advance in the white house but does not necessarily have the drama or necessarily the issues outside of that. but i think where the campaign now has encountered some roadblocks is how this governor

as a presidential candidate is able to connect with voters and actually put forth a message beyond the conservative policies that he himself passed in florida. i think that's what you're going to see from him now in the weeks and months to come in this campaign reboot, not necessarily him changing his stance on thing, though that may also come, but more him playing up the national appeal that he might have and of course the general election appeal that he might have in a matchup against president biden. >> and matthew, the governor of florida continues to kind of double down on the culture war issue. desantis spoke out on bud light on fox news after the beer company hired a transgender woman for a branded content partnership. here's what he had to say. >> we're going to be launching an inquiry about bud light and embed, and it could be something that leads to a derivative lawsuit filed on behalf of the shareholders of the florida pension fund, because at the end

of the day, there's got to be penalties for when you put business aside to focus on your social agenda at the expense of hardworking people. >> so he's, you know, going up against the bud light issue. now he's going -- and form -- and also disney. what do you think, mavt you, is his bet on these culture wars? >> well, if he's got a bet that's filled with reason, it doesn't seem to make any sense with me. i mean, first of all, all these issues he talks about, even if he gets to the general election and gets through the primary, is going to be a negative for him. but the interesting thing is, while talking about this, he's not connecting with his message or his personality with the voters. so this message isn't working. it's not going to be helpful in the general election. and it's not able to erode donald trump's support. to me what he's trying to do is, "i hate these people more than donald trump hates these people." that seems to be his message.

donald trump takes the same people you do, and i hate those people more than donald trump hates them. the problem that he has is that, one, to me it's like -- jose, it's like a restaurant which the people don't like the food and they hate the cook and the solution to it is invite more people to the restaurant, not change the food or change the cook. that's ultimately ron desantis' problem in the republican primary. >> meanwhile, matthew, on thursday, trump released a new video where he urged members of the united autoworkers to support him, a union that has reliably supported democrats. he released a video warning about the slaughter of manufacturing jobs in light of the recent push toward electric vehicles. what do you make of this play? >> well, and you know the facts, and i know you've talked about this before. but the manufacturing jobs have grown at a tremendous higher rate under president biden than they did under donald trump. that's a fact, that the manufacturing jobs have increased. i think he's trying to force a

wedge. obviously, this is on the clean energy stuff and electric vehicles. i would be shocked if the uaw, which has been incredibly supportive of the democratic politicians in michigan, which is a huge part of where their base of support comes from, which has been supported by joe biden in this, but i think he's trying to drive that wedge and use, quote, unquote, climate change and electric cars in that wedge. but, again, i'd be shocked if the uaw ever gets close to donald trump in an endorsement. >> maya king and matthew dowd, i thank you both for being with us this morning. coming up, new comments from the secretary of state on the american soldier detained in north korea. this is american infrastructure, a prime target for cyberattacks. but the same ai-powered security that protects all of google also defends these services for everyone who lives here. ♪ age is just a number, and mine's unlisted.

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what more have you learned about travis king? >> reporter: there is a troubling legal history for the time he spent in seoul, south korea, before he made that shocking decision to fling himself over the boarder into north korea. the latest revelation we've heard, i think we reported before, that he was implicated or confronted or briefly detained in at least two assaults here in seoul, all of them last fall. during one, he was put in a police car and shouted obscenities at korean people and korean police. he started kicking the police car. he incurred about $500 damage and south korean police decided to fine him after $5,000. after that, instead of paying that fine, we don't know if this was choice or he was forced to do so, he ended up spaying 48

days, again, while he was a serving u.s. soldier here in south korea, 48 days in a south korean prison, and he was released on july 10th. that was one week before he decided to join a tour group that took him right up to the dmz, and that's when he dashed across. the rest, you know, as they say is history. but another thing we're hearing in the past 24 hours is the united states government coming out and saying they're trying their best to try to find private travis king, who has disappeared into north korea. we don't know whether he's been detained, whether he's being interrogated, or whether he's, you know, hanging out, whether he's a defector, welcomed there. this is all still a mystery. we heard from the u.s. government saying they've created a sprawling group of different government agencies trying to investigate the fate of private king. but all of them so far have tried various diplomatic channels to try to reach north korea. they can speak through the swedish mission in pyongyang. and that's where most of the u.s. interests in north korea are handled.

they can speak with the united nations, try to reach north korea through the south korean government. but so far all of those have failed. now my colleague, andrea mitchell, just spoke with antony blinken, the u.s. secretary of state, and he described in detail those failed efforts. here's what he told andrea mitchell. >> unfortunately, i don't have any further information to share. we are very concerned of course about his well-being, we'd like to know his whereabouts. we have communicated to north korea seeking that information. >> reporter: so the fact is, jose, all these u.s. government agencies can do all they can to try to find travis king, but if no one's picking up the phone on the north korean side, it's not going to go very far. and now we're going into day four and everybody in washington and throughout the world are wondering where is private travis king. jose? >> thank you so much. coming up, former

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39 past the hour. an update on the humanitarian crisis at the border. a doj spokesperson tells nbc news that the justice department is assessing claims by a texas state trooper who alleges that state troopers were under orders

to deny migrants water, instructed to push migrants back into the water to send them back to mexico. the texas department of public safety says it is investigang a treating migrants inhumanely. joining us is former congressman beto o'rourke. he is from el paso. beto, it's good to see you. i appreciate you being with us this morning. you said that what the texas governor abbott is doing along the border is criminal. what do you mean by that? >> everything that he's doing right now, especially around eagle pass, is illegal, placing a floating barrier, for example. it's a series of buoys that are connected with netting under water. it's effectively a drowning device. the governor and texas dps have admitted as much and have said, well, maybe this will deter people from even trying to cross.

they've also placed barrels wrapped in re szohr wire under the surface of the river. migrants and asylum seekers are becoming entangled and entrapped in this. as you pointed out, dps troopers are literally pushing those migrants, including children and infants, back into the river in exposed conditions where the temperature has been over 100 degrees not for days but for weeks. jose, so far this year, 26 asylum seekers, including infants and children, have died. many of them have drowned. greg abbott has blood on his hands. but we can't stop at criticizing the governor. we must continue to look for solutions. and those solutions can only be found in one place. that is in the biden administration. his administration has the responsibility to enfoce-fed ral law and to protect the lives of these asylum seekers who literally have no other place to go. and one last important thing --

the last time i saw you in person, jose, in el paso, was just after the massacre in el paso, texas, august 3rd, 2019. 23 people ultimately were killed by a man who was compelled to come to this community to stop, in his own words, the hispanic invasion of texas. when we militarize the border and treat defenseless, vulnerable refugees as though they're an invading army, we supercharge these white nationalist terrorists who do things like the murder in el paso in 2019. so the president must step in. i know that he wants to. i know that he can. sometimes it just takes public pressure to get someone like president biden to do the right thing. so i'm asking my fellow americans to step up and join me in asking the president to step in and do something in texas and do it now. >> so, beto, what do you think the president could be doing that he's not doing?

and, you know, the governor of the state of texas controls the national guard of his state. there is certainly a lot of pow they're the governor has to do what he's doing. maybe not, maybe. but what is it that you think the president should or could be doing now? >> the constitution and federal law both empower and mandate the president to remove the buoys that are in the middle of the rio grande river channel, clearly illegal, under the purview of the international boundary and water commission. those have to be pulled up immediately. again, those are drowning devices, and mark my words, people will drown because they have been placed in the river channel. remove the razor wire that's on the riverbanks that's impeding customs and border protection, the border patrol agents from doing their job of securing and protecting the border and also rendering humanitarian aid. that is part of their job mission, and they're unable to do it.

an internal cvp memo recently revealed shows dps troopers, abbott's people, are preventing border patrol agents from doing their job. so there's a clear conflict here, and only one level of government can come out on top, and it has to be the federal government. everyone understands that 's the law in the united states of america. and president biden must enforce that law. and we clearly expect him to do that. i think ultimately he will. but sooner the better because people's lives are at stake. and, again, just within one county, maverick county near eagle pass, texas, we have lost 26 migrants and asylum seekers so far. more will die if the president does not step in. >> i think back on the 2020 presidential debates that you were in, and we have the opportunity to speak spanish. but to talk about these specific

issues, we're now in 2023 and if anything the humanitarian crisis has gotten more acute. beto, what is the solution? how can we as a country deal with the fact that there are people who would do anything just for the opportunity to request asylum? >> that's absolutely right. no one does this for kicks. a 2,000-mile journey, much of it on foot, some of it atop, not inside of a train called "the beast," then braving the deep river waters, not to escape or evade but to turn themselves in and to lawfully and legitimately and orderly claim asylum so they can come here, work, improve their lives, but also improve our lives by their presence. that is the story of america. joe biden as a candidate in 2020

was absolutely passionate and eloquent on this issue. and now i want joe biden, the president of the united states, to live up to those words and to that commitment. it worked for him when he was running for president in 2020. i believe it will work for him in 2024. and i say that because i bet you there are people around him who say, mr. president, do not touch this issue at the border with a ten-foot pole. it's too dangerous, it's too toxic, it's too politically unpopular. but not only should he do it because it's if right thing, but if he fails to do it now, that alba toss will be hanging around his neck coming november of 2024. people want to see leadership from this president, and he must lead here on the border. >> beto o'rourke, i thank you for being with us. let's continue our conversation going forward. always a pleasure to see you. >> sound good. thank you. >> thanks. we're also following breaking news at this hour. former president trump attorney michael cohen is expected to settle a lawsuit with the trump

organization according to a source with direct knowledge of the situation. back with us is nbc's garrett haake. garrett, what do we know? >> reporter: we started this hour talking about things that were getting added to the trump legal and political calendar. now we have something being removed from it, this settlement, if, indeed, that's what comes to pass as a source with direct knowledge tells us, to avert a trial that would have started on monday. michael cohen, former trump attorney, central in the stormy daniels case, was suing the trump organization for what he said was $1.3 million in unpaid legal fees. he was expected to be paid for testimony he gave to various congressional committees in 2017, 2018. he filed that lawsuit the following year in 2019 but only now with it set to go to trial on monday do we see this settlement news. having covered cohen for quite some time and trump, i expect we'll probably hear from both party in the not-too-distant

future and get more detail on this. for now, it looks like this trial scheduled for monday will not go forward. instead, we have a settlement with details still unknown. >> garrett haake in washington, thank you so much. up next, the world of soccer is on fire here in miami. we're live with messi mania. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. there are currently more than 750,000 unfilled cybersecurity jobs in the u.s. the google cybersecurity certificate was made to fill that gap and help grow the workforce that's keeping us all safe. hi. i use febreze fade defy plug. and i use this. febreze has a microchip to control scent release so it smells first-day fresh for 50 days. 50 days!? and its refill reminder light means i'll never miss a day of freshness. ♪

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soldout crowd tonight. joining us now is nbc's sam brock. also with us is jasmine garts, npr correspondent and host of the last cup podcast. sam, what more can you tell us about team usa's hopes for this year's world cup? >> reporter: jose, the u.s. women's national team is the number-one-ranked team in the world and they are attempting to do something that's never been done on the men's or women's side, which is to win three consecutive world cup titles. no doubt they are the favorites, but other countries are considered to be strong contenders, among them, france, england, germany, and spain, which has the player of the year on their team. as we mentioned, the women tonight are going up against vietnam at 9:00 this evening. some of the stars are household names no doubt. alex morgan, megan rapinoe. but sofia smith and trinity rodman are new names you'll hear about. and big picture, women's soccer is exploding. the viewership for the world cup in 2023, the expectations are

roughly 2 billion people with 1.1 billion four year ago in 2019. >> meanwhile, sam, you're also following the debut of messi tonight. tell us a little bit about the anticipation there. >> reporter: it's hard to say there's even hyperbole being used talking about messi mania or messi fever, because it is real on the ground. you're talking about someone who led the argentinian team to a world cup just last year. it's not like he's just wrapping up his career. this guy is at the top of his game and transforming sock we are this latest chapter for mls here in miami and in the united states. you drive around miami, jose, you've no doubt seen all these bill boards and murals that are everywhere. the wynnewood has his face plastered there as people are taking pictures. there is a new beer from prison pals locally called goat, the greatest of all time, referring to messi. they are talking about what he

means for the sport and not just the city of miami but the united states in general. take a listen. >> i would think not just miami but in general, a lot of people don't know how big soccer is outside of here, so i think it will bring more fans. football, basketball, baseball. they think soccer is, like, the fourth greatest sport. messi comes, it will be more. >> reporter: jose, here's my favorite part. one of the most telling windows into the madness, the resale tickets for inter miami games before messi got here were about $150. they are now $850 and still rising. so, yes, he is inspiring here in miami. >> you've been following messi's career. can you describe for us what it is he means for soccer and the move to the united states, what that could mean? >> absolutely. i mean, he is one of the greatest living athletes, and he is a soccer god. he is one of the greatest players of all time.

and i think -- we're living in this really exciting moment where this is a moment for u.s. soccer, for mls. i think the big question is what does messi's arrival to the u.s. and his playing here, what will it do for u.s. soccer? is this the moment where soccer in the u.s. really lights on fire? it looks like it's happening. so for soccer fans, it's a very exciting moment. >> so, i keep thinking of where is soccer in the united states, what's the greatest moment? remember pele came into united states soccer, you know, a bigger name than pele probably hasn't existed, beckham, and others. do you think that messi is any different? why? >> well, i think the circumstances are very different. i mean, when pele came in the late '70s, you didn't have streaming services. i mean, not everyone could watch

him play. messi has struck a historic deal here. this is going to be shown across platforms. the games are so much more easily accessible. i also think the demographics are here for this. i mean, will u.s. soccer catch on? depending on what community you're in, u.s. soccer has already caught on. i mean, for latinos in the u.s., soccer is and always has been a passion, so i think the circumstances that messi is coming into in the u.s. are very, very different than when pele came to new york in the late '70s. >> so, jasmine, compare, contrast someone like pele, like, you know -- we could go on and on -- is messi number one? >> i mean, i think there have been a lot of number ones. pele, a god of soccer. you know, i think messi is an

amazing athlete. i think something that is going to be very interesting to watch, messi loves a challenge. i mean, everyone's talking about how winning the world cup with messi, but it wasn't a team that was expected to win. he really loves the challenge. he loves sticking with a challenge. he loves team building. so i think that's going to be really interesting to watch what he does with miami. >> sam brock and jasmine garsd, thank you so much for being with us. cap the match tonight on telemundo and streaming on peacock. coverage begins at 8:30 eastern. turning now to barbenheimer weekend. "barbie" and "oppenheimer" are out this weekend. could not be more different, but they're expected to give the box office a much-needed boost. cnbc's dominic chu joins us.

what is hollywood hoping for these movies? >> they are hoping for back-to-back goals followed by fireworks. there's a lot of excitement for this weekend. the expectations keep growing and growing, giving some hollywood insiders optimism about the state of the business amid the biggest labor strike in decades. writers and actors are still on the picket lines. the initial signs are already generally positive. the "barbie" half of the weekend has seen that warner brothers movie take in $22.3 million for thursday night preview tickets alone. that's the biggest thursday haul of the summer so far, beating out the $17.5 million that disney's "guardians of the galaxy: volume 3" took on earlier. and "oppenheimer" took in $10.5 million yesterday, and of course universal is owned by comcast nbcuniversal, the parent company of cnbc and msnbc. this is an initial sign we could see a big opening weekend for these movies. some estimates are for $140

million for "barbie" this weekend and $50 million for "oppenheimer." now, if you add in the continuing sales for ""mission: impossible": reck noning part 1" and others, this could be the biggest revenue weekend for the year for the entire movie business. so the next level of the story, jose, could be weather this kind of potential blockbuster weekend could move negotiations forward between striking actors and writers and producers if the potential for future block blusters is called into question with still no work, jose, being done in today yous. >> dominic chu, thank you so very much. i have to rewatch one of those movies this weekend. >> there you go. i like it. >> dom, thanks. that wraps up the hour for . see you tomorrow on "nightly news." you can reach me on twitter and

instagram. you can watch highlights from today's show online. thank you for the privilege of your time. the great peter alexander is next. he'll get nancy pelosi's reaction to the passing of tony bennett. right now on "andrea mitchell reports," breaking news from florida where trump-appointed district court judge aileen cannon has now sent a may 2024 date for the former president's classified documents trial. that update comes as mr. trump awaits a potential indictment in the special counsel's 2020 election probe and his growing legal challenges. also this hour, andrea's interview with secretary of state antony blinken that wrapped up moments ago at the aspen security forum where they discussed the american soldier now in north korean custody. >> we are very concerned of course about his well-being, but we'd like to know his whereabouts. we've communicated to north korea seeking that information. there are certainly c