they're in final rehearsals for its tour with darius rucker beginning on thursday.ited for a sneak peek on a sunday sit-down. ♪ on a hot summer night inside a nashville rehearsal space the size of an airplane hangar, lady antebellum practices for its upcoming tour. ♪ with just a handful of technical staff in the room, hillary, charles and dave show their famous harmony is ready for the road. ♪ >> but this summer's tour is different from their previous ones over 12 years as a band. they've got new young groupies tagging along. >> your own backup singer. >> he say you look good? >> hillary scott, charles kelly and dave haywood now have six kids between them. with three new arrivals since jana loan. including twins for hillary. >> how different is the backstage experience on tour right now than it was when you started out eight, ten years ago? >> i'm wearing a lot of hats with newborns at home. it's a hot lot of packing, like lists, checklist. we'll all be going together. >> on stage it feels the same but backstage is a completely different world. kids running around a

the next step i the summer plays on tour with darius rucker. >> what's the g vibe we'reng for on tourd it to feel super streamlined and clean. >> does it feel like going home again to be up on stage on tour? any nerves going into it? >> i think w always get nervous. when we lose getting nervous, maybe we shouldop >> i'm excited, it's going to stage od to be up on together. ♪ >> and you can catch lady ant t um and darius rucker owginning this week and coming through yoursoon. some of the proceeds from that tour will go to the band's foundation, lady d, which focuses on children in need. lady a's latest album, heartbreak is available everywhere to hear more about the tour and why charles and dave will spend most of it playing golf with dare russ rucker, go to our website. >>> the sunday sitdown podcast hear the entire interview on apple podcast or wherever you get your podcasts along with your full library of conversations. >>> dylan is back with another >>> that's your latestas for >>> thank you, dylan. see you in just a minute. next on sunday "today." thet'usiness school idea t a $2 b

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now they are headed on tour with darius rucker.ingle "heartbreak." ladies and gentlemen, lady antebellum. ♪ i paint my lips red. >> turn my own hair don't need no help zipping up my own dress. >> pay my own way ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ i think it's time to take a heart break ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> don't go anywhere because we're right back with another hit from lady antebellum. but first, this is "today" on nbc. . >>> we are grooving with lady antebellum on our citi summer concert stage. >> last year the award winning trio released their sixth studio album "heartbreak." naturally it sky roblgted to number one on the summer charts. >> going to join dar reduce rucker on a great tour across the country but first a stop on the plaza. we're here with them. great to see you guys. >> thanks for having us. >> ironically nashville is the epicenter but took you getting out of nashville. what happened? >> we went down to florida, the beach, and got away from everything normal in our day-to-day life, then we went out to los angeles for a couple of weeks.

steve: darius rucker hosted this show. pete: has he? we have to roll the tape at some point.e president of the united states. pete: that's right. the remains of those korean war heroes are being returned to hawaii. the president will be there for that. we'll have a chance to ininterview him. ainsley: vice president's son is in the military, you served in the military. pete: it is really powerful when you remember this country doesn't for get the men who gave everything, decades later, you get a chance to witness it. i'm pretty excited. steve: pete's interview with the vice president is on thursday. he will be on an airplane, he will being stuck on an airplane with you for 12 hours. pete: 12 hours on an airplane and no wi-fi. i hope so. if there isn't, can you stock it for me, please. steve: take a deck of cards. pete: a deck of cards and a good book. steve: talk a little bit this. the president of the united states getting a little frustrated with congress. they have not done anything to change the immigration situation in this country. you look at the funding bills right now