good morning. 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific. i'm jose diaz-balart. we begin this morning with a very busy day for president biden and vice president harris. tonight, the president will address the nation from the oval office for the first time since he withdrew from the presidential race on sunday. he's expected to discuss his reasons for dropping out and what he hopes to do for the rest of his term. right now, vice president harris is on her way to indianapolis to speak at the zeta phi beta sorority. that comes after her campaign debut where she accused president trump of looking to take the country back. >> this campaign is also about two different visions for our nation.

one where we are focused on the future, the other focused on the past. >> the harris campaign says it has raised at least $126 million since president biden's endorsement on sunday. this afternoon, the democratic national committee will meet to discuss the proposed rules for next month's convention in chicago, including a virtual roll call to select the nominee. this as former president donald trump attacked both the president and the vice president during an interview last night. >> she was the worst at everything. she was the worst vice president and he was the worst president. by the way, he was the worst president we've ever had. and her ratings are lower than his ratings. >> with us now, nbc news white house correspondent monica alba, ashley parker, senior national political correspondent for "the washington post," and msnbc political analyst and alencia johnson, political strategist who is a senior adviser for president biden's 2020 campaign. so, monica, the vice president's

campaign is laying out her path to victory. how can we expect to see that play out during her speech today? >> reporter: well, big part of this week, jose, is all about building on the momentum of her first couple of days of this campaign. we saw that yesterday when she was in wisconsin, they hope to build on that today with a speech in indianapolis and then tomorrow with a speech in houston. and all of this is really aimed at sort of reintroducing vice president harris to the american people in themes that have been really familiar to those who have been following her for the last couple of years on issues that she has been talking about repeatedly but now framing it in this newer context of her desire to earn and win the democratic nomination. according to that new memo from the harris campaign that we see here today, the path to victory for them, they claim, actually goes through the same states that joe biden's path, they thought, would have gone through. they're still talking about those key blue wall states, michigan, pennsylvania, and wisconsin, they're still talking

about the sun belt and they're still saying that essentially the universe of winnable voters here, that are the ones that become most important, vice president harris, they are insisting can uniquely try to reach them and talk to them, especially in this moment because you are seeing so much energy in this moment, because they're also pointing to the millions and millions of dollars that they have raked in, more than 126 million since president biden said he was exiting the race on sunday. and that's also translating into new volunteers, tons of voter registration, people who want to work for the campaign, so they're taking that all together and arguing that that sets them up for success, but something else that i think is key here, jose, is that vice president harris has been the lead messenger on an issue that according to the harris campaign they think will be key again in november and that's on abortion access and reproductive rights and they're arguing that because in all of these special elections and ballot measures

and in the midterms of 2022 where we saw that and how people responded, they're thinking that's going to be a key thing that carries her through. so expect to hear more about that in the coming days and weeks as well. >> ashley so far, the vice president has been leaning on a prosecutor versus felon strategy against trump. what are some potential strengths and maybe drawbacks of that strategy? >> so, it is instructive to look back at her 2019 campaign where she also used that strategy. it is interesting, some of the lines we're hearing from her at campaign headquarters and her speeches so far were lines we almost verbatim heard from her on the stump. she is a prosecutor. some of her best moments as senator came when she was in the senate judiciary committee, questioning people like justice kavanaugh, then getting through his confirmation process and bill barr, and she is not just the former prosecutor, but she is now prosecuting the case

against a convicted felon. and people around her have urged me to view this more broadly, it is not just prosecuting the case against a convicted felon, it is prosecuting, as monica said, the case on reproductive rights, which is a huge issue for her and one where she is much more forceful than president biden. and it is prosecuting the case on the democrats' vision as she said in that clip you showed where the future versus what she would argue is trump's backward leaning vision and some of the risks are that she at least the first time around she was very good at prosecuting that case, she had more trouble articulating an affirmative case for herself and for what she believed and for her ideology and for why she should be commander in chief. again this is four years later. she has some time as the vice president under her belt. people who worked for her and knew her then said she seems

more poised and more comfortable. but they also warn you can't just prosecute a case, you have to offer an affirmative vision for the nation. >> alencia, let's talk about that vision, because no doubt she has played a very important role in the biden administration on the issue of abortion access and she is also very clearly the prosecutor versus felon concept. but then there is also the issue of immigration. and something that she has had a role in early on, the president asked her to look into the root causes of immigration. that is something that the vice president is going to have to define going forward. >> yeah, and, look, this is going to be the opportunity for her to define that. i worked on several presidential campaigns and oftentimes they go on weeks or campaigns around specific issues. and so, i wouldn't be surprised in the coming days if she doesn't actually go out and have the conversation around

immigration and when she was assigned the northern triangle and what she was trying to do around the root cause of immigration. what i also want to elevate too, we were talking about abortion as well, the vice president was the first sitting vice president to visit a planned parent hood held center that provides abortion access and care. she has been a leader on this issue and that's why so many of the reproductive freedom groups have come out and support her. on the issue of immigration, as we couch it in a latino issue there is polling that shows that latino independents are now undecided given that she is in the race. and they're going to make -- take a stronger look at her. there is polling that shows independents and young voters who didn't have their minds made up yet, they were deciding to not show up and are actually reconsidering. she's moving the needle on communities that care about these issues, that care about immigration, that care about climate change, that care about abortion, voting rights, criminal justice reform and so as the campaign defines itself

on those issues of presidential campaigns, they take a week to define their vision for the issue and will do varying events and swing states with key constituents and key groups, you will hear more about this and i'm pretty sure the american people will move toward her as they hear more about her positions. >> and monica, vice president harris may have less than two weeks to choose a running mate. what is her campaign looking at when it comes to that choice? >> yeah, this is something that is going to have to take place fairly quickly, we understand, jose, that's why they have sent out some vetting materials and requests to certain people that we have been discussing who are in the mix here, like governor josh shapiro, governor roy cooper, senator mark kelly, a couple of other names who have been discussed and who maybe would have a slightly different way of being vetted or considered like transportation secretary pete buttigieg who obviously has gone through a sort of rigorous testing to be in the cabinet. and then you have other people who are kind of a part of this

larger conversation and according to the harris campaign, she is looking at a large pool of candidates, we understand. and certainly they're looking at this through the lens of what could this potential running mate bring that she doesn't already necessarily have or isn't going to be as strong on a position as. so that's a part of this as well. in terms of the timing, this is something that might have to be wrapped up in the next seven to ten days in theory and then really formalized a short time after that because there is this window ahead of the august 7th deadline for a virtual roll call, which had been the plan for democrats all along, even before this major change in the race. and so they have to get this settled in the next couple of weeks. that really does compress the timeline but in many ways i'm told by people close to vice president harris they're viewing that as something that could give them also a boost because they're trying to roll some of the energy we have been talking about into that kind of an announcement as well, and then that goes right into the democratic national convention in chicago just a short time

after that. >> alencia, what do you think the vice president should be looking at when it comes to choosing a running mate? >> listen, i think she's looking for someone who can, much like president biden put in her, who can serve day one in the event she is unable to serve. but you're also looking for someone who actually has a strong record on some of the issues maybe that she feels as though she needs a partner in and a leader in, right? if you look at her partnership with president biden, obviously she brought so much to that ticket and so much to the white house, particularly on issues as it relates to women and people of color and young folks and gave those to her as her portfolio and i can imagine that she is going to look for a number two who is going to be a partner just as she has been to president biden and the person she's look for to be her running mate. >> so, ashley, vice president harris dropped out of the 2020 presidential primary before even the first votes were cast. how has her ability to deliver a message changed since then?

>> well, again, she has gone through the national vetting and that process, not as the presidential candidate herself, but she had hoped to be, but as president biden's vice president and inside the white house, she was handed a number of issues, some were quite challenging for her, like becoming, you know, the unofficial border czar, to be fair that would have been challenging for anyone, it is a challenging problem that bedeviled presidents going back to george w. bush, if not further. but she has grown especially, i was talking to some people yesterday, after the dobbs decision, when she became the administration's point person going out and pressing the case on reproductive rights, they saw her grow into the role and become more comfortable. she had a lot of fast turnover with her new chief of staff and her new coms director. there has been a bit of an

evolution of kamala harris. >> and monica, what can we expect to hear from the president tonight? >> reporter: yeah this is going to be a really major oval office address for him when you think about his political life, he's going to talk about why he made the difficult decision to abandon his candidacy. he's going to try to spell that out for americans in terms of his thinking, where his heart was, where his mind was, and he's going to try to lay out a road map for what he thinks he could still accomplish in the next six months. that will be tough as a lame duck president, but still he's going to spell out some priorities and try to frame this as his idea of finishing the job so even if he's not going to be able to do that, he will say with another four years in the white house, here is how we're going to do this now and he'll try to pass the torch to his vice president, kamala harris, as we have been discussing in the things and the priorities she will take over should she win the white house. >> monica alba, ashley parker, alencia johnson, thank you so

much. make sure you stay with msnbc for special coverage of president biden's address to the nation tonight. 7:00 p.m. eastern, 4:00 p.m. pacific, right here on msnbc. still ahead, we'll tell you about the major change that trump campaign is making to its rallies two weeks after the attempt on his life. plus, lawmakers on the hill angily demanding answers again on the assassination attempt. protests now in d.c. as prime minister of israel benjamin netanyahu is set to address congress in a couple of hours. we're back in 90 seconds. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. inspire is a sleep apnea treatment that works inside my body with a click of this button. no mask! no hose! just sleep. give me this thing. where are you going? i'm going to get inspire.

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cheatle resigned as secret service director. homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas has appointed the deputy secret service director ronald rowe as acting director. joining us now, nbc's justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian and rob d'amico, retired fbi supervisory special agent and team member, also the founder of sierra one consulting. what has been happening so far in the hearing and they're on a break, they'll be resuming shortly, right? >> that's right, jose. and as you alluded to, wray has already confirmed significant details, some of which have been reported, but based only on anonymous law enforcement sources. christopher wray confirmed the shooter flew a drone over that sight, two hours before the event, to conduct aerial surveillance. he wasn't able to explain why the secret service allowed that to happen. he confirmed the shooter had working bombs in his car and a transmitter on his person, but he said the receiver on the bombs was not turned on, so the

transmitter would not have worked. but he did say the explosives were real and were dangerous. and wray confirmed they found eight shell casings near the shooter's body, which means he shot eight shots, which has been confirmed, but he said it. jim jordan offered a detailed timeline of minutes before and after the shooting and he said it was based on private fbi briefings. jordan said at 6:09, the shooter was identified on the roof as a man way gun, 6:10 the countersniper team secret service was notified about the shooter on the roof. 6:11, a minute after that, the shooter fired the shots. 6:12, the countersniper team took down that shooter. and two minutes later, 6:14, president trump was escorted off the stage by secret service agents. that seems to answer an important question, they didn't have much notice between the time of a report of a man with a rifle and the shots being fired. didn't appear they had time to rush donald trump off the stage.

that doesn't answer the question of why they didn't take him off the stage when they learned there was a experience person with a range finder. that was 20 minutes, half an hour before. when they first heard that he had a gun on the roof, we're talking about minutes, now, obviously the snipers had a chance to shoot him, a minute before he fired those shots and they were not able to find him and take that shot for whatever reason and that is still unanswered. but interesting new details being revealed at this hearing. >> rob, so many questions still to be asked. so many questions still unanswered about what happened with the attempt. the fbi is conducting an investigation. what are the questions you have? >> well, my biggest thing is fbi investigation is as director wray said, on the shooter, his motives, and what he did. and it is not to look at fault or finding of who did what when because that's not in the preview of the investigation. that will be up to the oig or congress gets a committee to look at that. but they will use the facts that

the fbi finds. the fbi will find out exactly minute by minute, second by second, from the information, the videos, the witnesses, who said what, when, they'll put that into the investigation and then it is up to someone else to look and say, hey, is there fault, why didn't they do these things because that, again, is not the fbi's investigation motives. >> and, rob, just -- ken was bringing us up to speed on some of the things that the director was able to answer with some specificity. rob, when you hear that the person was able to fly a drone, just two hours before beginning to take shots, in an area that clearly was already designated to be an area where the former president would be speaking, when you hear that, and then, you know, the timeline that ken was giving us on when they actually spotted the person with a rifle that was one minute, one minute, one minute, one minute, but then the person, you know,

an hour before was seen with that range finder. what do you think of those two -- those two facts and what questions do they bring you? >> so, actually, i used to run the fbi's counterdrone unit and the fact it was flying over the event, secret service has counterdrone and kinetic counterdrone, they can bring it down, but when you start having counterdrone, you can identify the person flying it by a whole bunch of information given from the counterdrone units. what i see is a bunch of yellow flags that were ignored. i say that yellow flags add up to a red flag. the fact that maybe they had a minute when it was identified as someone with a rifle, it was a whole bunch of yellow flags before that so that his protection detail should have been ready to move at a second's notice saying, wait a second, there is a man with a rifle and all those other yellow flags, they should have just dragged him off the stage and would have been embarrassing but, again, he wouldn't have gotten shot. i think what is going to come

out of this is why did all these yellow flags just get kind of ignored and then when they only had a minute, if they had put them together beforehand, they would have had better action on target. >> and, ken, meanwhile, senator chuck grassley released body cam footage from the rooftop after the assassination attempt, the video included the blurring of the shooter's body. here it is. it is unclear if the weapon seen nearby was his, nbc news reached out to beaver county police department and the secret service for comment. what -- there is a lot of still unconfirmed stuff out there. this video, what does it tell you? >> not very much, honestly. there was some interesting conversation among the law enforcement officers raising questions about what was going on. grassley did this outside of the recently announced congressional investigation. there is a task force that is going to look at this. so, this is one piece of interesting data and video among many that we're going to see in

the coming days and months. one of the things i'm interested in about what chris wray may say later is what has the fbi behavioral analysis unit concluded about the shooter's state of mind and possible motive, given the lack of hard evidence on that sco score. that's what they do. i don't know if wray will get into that because it is sensitive information, but it would be interesting if he did. >> i was thinking of your comments of the number of yellow flags that should have been made into a red flag, one of them, ken was mentioning, is that the director wray was able to confirm today is that the shooter actually had working bombs in his automobile. and that the receiver wasn't turned on in the automobile. but, this is a little bit more sophisticated than the narrative of a 20-year-old kid who just went up on the roof of a building to take a shot.

>> it is. he did say that i.d.s were somewhat crude and i think that we're just looking at -- used to looking at very sophisticated ones, maybe from nation states, but the fact they had a remote initiation device on it and receiver, then ups the scale of it. but they also talked about him communicating on encrypted apps. i like to know which ones. i'm working with a company that is working with fbi and other agencies to start capturing some of these encrypted app chat groups so we can look at was he communicating with other individuals or like we talked about there is some suspicion of a nation state involved, was he doing it on encrypted apps. it has been a tough challenge to the bureau and other intelligence agencies, but we have the technology out there to start doing it as we're trying to push that and saying, hey, this is where they're talking, they feel safe there and we have to look at it and find it. >> ken dilanian and rob d'amico, thank you, both, so very much. protesters descend on

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this afternoon, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is set to deliver an address to a joint meeting of congress. this is the first time since the october 7th massacre in israel. the prime minister is facing mounting pressure amid calls for a cease-fire and hostage deal. right now in washington, d.c., protesters are demonstrating against his address. joining us now, nbc's ryan nobles from capitol hill, also with us nbc's gary grumbach who is covering the protesters. what do we know about netanyahu's address this afternoon? >> reporter: the goal for the prime minister is try and find a way to convince both republicans and democrats that the war effort in israel is still worth american investment. that despite the fact that there is a real divisive sense of the direction of the netanyahu administration right now amongst particularly democrats on capitol hill, but even a few republicans, to the point where several democrats, very prominent democrats have decided that they are not going to be a

part of this speech today that netanyahu is going to deliver to a joint session of congress. that includes the sitting vice president kamala harris, who would normally be here and her capacity as the president of the senate. also several other prominent democrats like the speaker emerita nancy pelosi will also not be part of this address. instead, what many of these democrats are doing right now as we speak is that they are meeting with a group of members connected to the hostages that are still being detained by hamas in gaza. many of these hostage families are here on capitol hill to make their presence known as part of this speech by netanyahu. the one thing that is clear, jose, is that both republicans and democrats want to see some sort of an effort made to get to a cease-fire, particularly a cease-fire that would bring the hostages home. so, part of what netanyahu is going to have to do to appeal to the widest group of members of congress is show them that his administration has a plan to get there.

there is a great deal of skepticism right now on capitol hill that he does. and that this is something that could happen in the near future. so, that's going to be part of the tall task he has here in washington today, jose. >> and gary, what do the protests look like? >> reporter: there are several protests happening in the capitol area of washington, d.c. several different ones, but all with the same goal of bringing hostages home. and that's the real goal here. i want to bring in mirav who came to the protest today. what brings you here? >> what brings me here, we have to bring the hostages out of gaza. everyone here should do whatever they can in order to finish this thing. they should come out, out of gaza. >> you're pro israel. >> i love my country. i love israel. i love dearly. but i'm opposing the government because obviously something is not right and inside israeli politicians, they're not doing what they need to do. >> thank you so much for that.

appreciate it. as with protests here in washington, d.c. does come a significant amount of security. i want to bring the camera around here to show what the security looks like here around the capitol. we have bike fences around this side of the u.s. capitol, folks from the u.s. capitol police, metropolitan police, other agencies, all working together to make sure this is a safe event for all the protesters involved. >> and, gary, so that protest you're seeing right there is pro israeli, but not necessarily pro netanyahu. there are other protests in the capitol that are not necessarily pro israel and anti-netanyahu. >> reporter: that's correct, yes. so we have one that son the national mall that you may be able to see a shot of right now. that is pro palestinian and so folks are gathering there as well. there doesn't seem to be any sort of combination of the two of them right now. they're staying separate and i'm sure law enforcement will make sure that stays the case. >> thank you very much.

appreciate it. joining us now is ambassador dennis ross, counselor and william davidson distinguished fellow at the washington institute for near east policy and nbc news foreign affairs analyst. also with us, ambassador alon pincus. ambassador ross, what do you make of netanyahu's objectives here in washington, d.c. today? he comes at a very kind of unusual time. >> well there is no doubt about that. i suspect that when the timing of this was originally agreed upon, one of his hopes was that he would command the attention of the capitol and be able to use the platform, the speech to the congress, to try to recast a narrative and focus very heavily on what israel is doing and the reality that in fighting hamas, it is fighting an enemy that no country would accept as existing next door to them. now, he's here instead, in an

environment, to say that there is a distraction, to say the focus is much more on the political realities and the new reality of president biden no longer running for re-election, that's certainly something he could affect and limits the level of attention here, but it won't change his desire, i think, to reframe the narrative that the focus on what israel is fighting to create a sense that israel very much appreciates the scope of american support and i think very much he wants to recast the whole u.s./israeli relationship in a nonpartisan reality. historically there hasn't been a republican approach to israel, a democratic approach to israel, a republican interest in israel, or democratic interest in israel, there has been an american one. and i think he wants to sort of in a sense rehighlight that. that's certainly going to be part of his speech.

i think we'll see him take the high road, he'll thank president biden. he'll thank congress for support. he'll say israel is fighting a fight that is also america's fight given who hamas is and the fact that iran is a key player, stoking all the instability in the region and trying to take advantage of the conflicts that exist. >> and ambassador pincus, you signed a letter with a bipartisan group of officials who worked in the israeli government and are concerned about the visit to the u.s. what are your concerns? >> i, you know there are a few people on this planet, jose, not to mention washington, who know the middle east better and know israel better and know benjamin netanyahu better than -- i have to disagree with him. i think this is a -- a political trip. it was done in collusion with republicans who wanted to highlight democratic divisions -- the last nine months. mr. netanyahu has spent the better part of the last decade trying to turn israel

deliberately into a partisan issue. i think in terms of why is he coming to congress, but, look, this is a prime minister who is facing a war on three fronts, in gaza, in lebanon, and with the houthis in yemen, who has 120 hostages being held in gaza, which he has not in good faith negotiated the relief of. and the question is why are you going to congress? this is a congress that already authorized $14.3 billion and the administration, the biden administration did everything -- republicans that supported it, why are you going there? it is all about politics. on the flip side, he has his domestic audience and the domestic agenda to show that he still has his mojo, that he still can walk around washington and garner some respect and

attention. i'll wait to see. i agree with dennis, with ambassador ross that he's going to try and take the high road, though that is going to be very untypical of him. but he will try to do so because of the timing and because of biden's decision to withdraw. but let's not forget, he is going on friday to meet donald trump. if this isn't political, what is? >> and that's something that i want to ask ambassador ross about, because he is the prime minister of israel, going to be meeting with trump, separately, as he's going to be meeting as well with the president and with the vice president. is that a fine line or is this as alon said just the prime minister of israel walking into a political lie? >> well, he is walking into a political climate, to say the least, that is highly charged. so the idea that he would have come here seeing president biden, seeing vice president

harris and then not seeing trump, that would have been, i think, problematic for him as well. so he's, i think, what we're seeing is he's trying to show a nonpartisan, bipartisan approach, obviously this is in contrast to what he did in 2015, when he came and spoke to a joint session of the congress, and that was to appeal in a sense to the congress over the head of the president in opposition to president obama's approach, at that interto, point negotiating a nuclear deal with iran. the need for bipartisan support is greater than ever in israel at a time when parts of the democratic party there is more criticism and questioning of israel than we have ever seen before. on the one hand, he certainly wants to stake out a position that is the high road, that emphasizes nonpartisanship, and at the same time he's in a highly polarized political

climate here, so he's obviously trying to, i think deal with both these elements. i don't disagree, he has a political objective with israel in mind as well. coming here and speaking to a joint session of congress is designed to demonstrate he still commands a certain stage within the united states and pretty hard to see anybody else in his mind or certainly what he's trying to convey who can do the same thing. and he is. there is enormous polarization within israel right now, notwithstanding the war, and certainly hardly because it is not clear exactly what the day after strategy is, partly because of issues that alon was raising about the negotiation, the effort to get the hostages released. >> yeah, and ambassadors, pinkas and ross, thank you for your time. appreciate it. >> thank you. up next, how republicans are

shifting their messaging to respond to vice president harris entering the presidential race. plus, we talked to voters in the swing state of wisconsin, and we'll play for you what some of them say are their biggest concerns about both trump and harris. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. rs you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. from pep in their step to shine in their coats, when people switch their dog's food to the farmer's dog,

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states that could decide the election. nbc news political analyst elise jordan spoke to some of those undecideds in green bay, wisconsin, about some of their concerns. >> if you have one concern about president trump, tell me that concern and then what's your one concern about kamala harris. >> for me, my concern about trump is him making too aggressive of choices and us not being able to recover from it. i appreciate that he is willing to if a bomb is dropped on our doorstep, he's out the door as fast as it hit us, but that does make me nervous. my concern about harris is a bomb is dropped on our doorstep and it is going to be six months before we move and now we're viewed as weak.

so, again, which route do i really want to go, it is personal questions for myself. it makes me nervous on both sides. >> what about you? >> it would be nice if they concentrate more on the issues instead of the mudslinging and personal attacks. we got problems in this country. the left ring and the right wing are on the same bird. let's try to find that common ground. let's start with that. >> what about you, karen? >> i don't think we can ignore trump's convictions, his integrity, his moral character. i worry about him if he gets retaliation for, you know, something that gets him upset and he's going to retaliate without slowing down, thinking it through. i honestly need to get more

information about kamala because i just don't know enough about her. so i'm going to wait and see. i have to kind of step back and see -- i've learned a lot just through our conversation today about her that i found really interesting. >> our thanks to nbc's elise jordan for that. new today, we're getting details about how the trump campaign is refocusing its attacks to fit their new main opponent, vice president harris. this comes as two sources say the trump campaign will no longer hold outdoor rallies after the attempted assassination. joining us now, former republican congresswoman barbara comstock, represented the swing state of virginia during the trump presidency. thank you very much. great seeing you. just it took harris two days to earn enough delegates to secure the democratic nomination. three days to haul in $126 million plus. boy, republicans are now trying to figure out their response.

republican tennessee representative tim burchett called harris a dei hire. another republican congressman said democrats will elevate her because of her ethnic background. speaker johnson is already warning stick to policy complaints. can this republican party do that? >> the speaker is right to do that, to say that. but unfortunately it is usually the least accomplished men who make those attacks. we know it is harder for women, even the most accomplished women get those type of attacks. obviously the vice president has an accomplished career as a attorney, the attorney general, the senator and now the vice president. we know donald trump who is, listen, the guy was, people forget he was bankrupted three or four times, he's been impeached twice, he has been found guilty of sexual assault, obviously a felon as that focus

group, a woman made reference to and has all kinds of problems himself. and then you have jd vance who is a junior senator and is much less accomplished than vice president harris. and here he has been out there attacking women as a childless cat ladies which i will point out, he likes to go on fox a lot, but look at some of the accomplished women who are hosts on fox, maria bartiromo, shannon breen, dana porino, all childless women, who i think are happy with their lives, pretty accomplished, but he defines women by whether they're childless and you have no idea why women might be childless. these petty attacks coming from men, a lot of women are going to see this and really be appalled by it because we're used to

this. we know it is a lot harder for women and women are the deciders in these swing states. so, you know, these republicans can't help themselves, and it is going to be to their detriment. >> barbara, one day after president biden endorsed harris, the house rules committee called a snap meeting passing along party lines a resolution to condemn harris' handling of the border. here is gop congressman mark green on fox business news this morning. >> she's mediocre at best. and i'm not even sure she gets that rating. you look at her performance on this border issue, she's the border czar, that's been an abysmal failure. if she is such a great decisionmaker on foreign policy, her first move as a candidate for president is to basically boycott netanyahu's speech to the congress. >> just to be clear, the harris campaign says it is not that she's boycotting the speech, her indiana event was preplanned

before biden dropped out of the race and vice president harris will meet with netanyahu tomorrow, privately. but border security and foreign policy seem to be two focuses of the attacks against her. what do you think of that focus? >> well, of course, the republican congress were the ones who they negotiated a bill, was very carefully negotiated by a conservative senator and group of senators that negotiated it with the white house. and it was all set to get passed. one of the most conservative border bills that had ever been done and then donald trump told all these guys, like mark green, nope, i don't want it passed, i want an issue, not a solution, for all these states that wanted a solution, for these people that needed a solution. and what did these guyswhat, yo that is going to be the issue that the vice president is going to be able to point out, that these guys don't have a spine enough to go and do what they know is right. they're just going to do whatever donald trump tells

them. what do you even need a congress for if donald trump is just going to tell them, line up and do whatever i need to tell you. you know, this is what's a problem these days. congress should do -- be their own body. >> former congresswoman barbara comstock, i thank you for being with us. up next, signs of improvement, signs of some improvement, six days after the massive computer outage that caused a melt down in delta air lines. we've got the very latest. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. watch me platinum plus gives you the highest standard of clean, even in your machine. clean enough for you? yeah! scrape. load. done. cascade platinum plus. power e*trade's easy to-use tools make complex trading less complicated. custom scans help you find new trading opportunities, while an earnings tool helps you plan your trades and stay on top of the market. e*trade from morgan stanley

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54 past the hour. we have an update from delta arlts following days of cancelled and delayed flights tied to last week's global tech outage. this morning the airline is saying it anticipates a full recovery by tomorrow. joining us nbc news senior correspondent tom costello. tom, what a mess, huh? >> yeah, well, it certainly has been. and as you suggest, things certainly do seem to be improving. here's where we stand. i just checked right now. delta has about 1% of its flights cancelled today. that's about 47 flights. what an improvement, yesterday, 500 total cancellations. jump your eyes midway down, saying we anticipate cancellations wednesday to be minimal. thursday expected to be a normal day with the airline operating at a traditional level of

reliability. since last friday morning, delta cancelling nearly 5500 flights, really hit hard by this computer outage caused by a bad software update. it wasn't delta's fault. it was crowdstrike security which put up that cyber security update. and then it brought down windows-based computers worldwide. delta hit especially hard because not only was their primary computer system affected, so was their system that was for crew scheduling. and every single individual computer had to be rebooted manually. well, without your crew scheduling computer, you can't tell where your crews are anywhere in the world. so this took an awfully long time to recover. as i said, 5500 flights cancelled. people waiting in long lines, particular concern to parents, unaccompanied minors, jose,

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