with us now is new jersey senator bob menendez. always a pleasure to see you.xican president said about you. >> first of all, our relationship with mexico is one of the most important relationships we have, certainly in the western hemisphere, if not the world. it's a significant neighbor to our south, and we have deep cultural and historical ties. having said that, i think president lopez obrador basically tried to blackmail president biden into insisting that countries that are not democratic, countries like venezuela, cuba, or danielle ortega's nicaragua, that are dictators and despots should have been invited to the summit. the summit is an opportunity for democracies of the hemisphere to come together in common cause to deal with, how do we grow the economies to help more of our people? how do we deal with the challenges of climate change? how do we deal with the challenges of irregular migration? so instead of coming to the summit and strengthening the relationship with the united states of four years of donald trump, he chose to stay away and side with d

bob menendez is said to be the person who threatened cuba being removed from the invited guest list.id this morning. >> i think that he basically tried to blackmail president biden. instead of coming to the summit and strengthening relations with the united states after four years of donald trump he chose to stay away and side with dictators and despots. the first summit was in 1994, president clinton held that one. i had the opportunity then to speak with one of the stars of that conference about what she had asked the presidents to do. >> reporter: the conversation of the night is what one floridian, known as the queen of latin music, what she said to the 42nd president. quick exclusive with you. >> in english? >> reporter: let's try in english. >> remember my english is not very good. >> reporter: it's very good. in your song you said what? >> i said be our president. don't help castro anymore because we want castro leave cuba and we want cuba. >> 28 years ago to that first conference where cuba was not invited. katy, i don't know about you but when i see what 28-year-old videotap

the opposition is really led by the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, senator bob menendezt, who was opposed to the first deal and certainly very much opposed to this deal as well. >> eric: they certainly know the dangers of iran, and iran has for years lied about the nuclear program. meanwhile, the administration has been dropping some sanctions. they decided to let rm toer members of -- let former members of the irg come into america. here's what the former vice president said, his warning to the biden administration, if they continue to pursue this path of getting that deal. here's the vice president. >> we call on the biden administration to stand with the people of iran, stand up for the cause of freedom and justice. today we call on the biden administration to immediately withdraw from all nuclear negotiations with tehran, voice support for the organized opposition in iran and make it clear that america and our allies will never permit the regime in tehran to obtain a nuclear weapon. [applause] >> eric: general, what do you think could change? or will anything change

. >> senator bob menendez from new jersey, always a pleasure to see you. thank you very much for your time, sir. that wraps up the hour. thank you for the privilege of your time. peter alexander picks up with more news right now. >>> good morning. i'm peter alexander. we've live here on capitol hill, where tonight the house select committee investigating the january 6th attack here will hold its first hearing. it will take place in primetime. a chance for that committee to grab the attention of the american public to try to lay out its case. it has now been more than 500 days since the attack in this building. the images haunting. but the impact has been waning over time. the committee that hopes to show donald trump's election with his election loss and repeated false claims of voter fraud laid the foundation for the deadly siege. but as our meet the press first read team puts it, what if folks who watch tonight are part of nearly half americans who already believe donald trump was mainly responsible for what happened on january 6th? and what if the other