>> josh letterman in kyiv tonight josh, thank you. >>> tonight, new body camera footage is raising newuestions about a georgia woman who died after being taken into police custody. the newly released video shows the moments just before and after the woman fell out of a moving police car but first, a warning some of the footage may be difficult to watch. here's erin mclaughlin >> reporter: tonight, the family of brianna grier reacting to this newly released police body camera footage, showing the events leading up to her death. >> my heart was broken, and see the picture i'm holding now? we don't have it no more. >> reporter: as her mother, what was going through her mind >> you don't want to know. >> reporter: the 28-year-old georgia resident died july 21st just days after falling out of a moving police car. the mother a twins, a diagnosed schizophrenic, had been arrested during what her family says was a mental health emergency. >> get off me. >> reporter: in the video, you see the officers struggling to get grier into the police car she's handcuffed in front of her body. >> no. >> br

joining us with more on this is josh letterman. how much weight will this executive order have?on the issue is the right thing to think of it. rather than anything earth shattering in terms of policy, this is an attempt by the biden administration to say we get it, this is a critical and growing issue and we're taking it very seriously. so this executive order that the president has signed would allow the u.s. government to impose sanctions, including financial penalties and visa bans on people potentially including officials of other governments who are involved this hostage-taking. whether or not that will dissuade people from taking hostages in the future, we don't know. there is a whole lot of sanctions on russia and yet brittney griner is still in russian jail. and this executive order will also improve information sharing with families of u.s. hostages about where they are and what the u.s. government is doing to try to free them. and then the state department will also be creating a new designation on those travel alerts that they put out to tell you about the danger in v

joining from us kyiv is nbc's josh letterman good morning what do we know about these two americans? >> reporter: frances, they were killed alongside a canadian and a swede fighting in eastern ukraine. apparently killed by a russian tank nbc news has confirmed that one of those americans was 31-year-old luke logan from north carolina 31, father of two, and our nbc colleague ellison barber spoke to his family, obviously devastated, and said their son did not go to ukraine to try to become a hero but simply to try to help. amid that tragic news, there is deep uncertainty this morning over the future of that delicate t deal to allow ukraine to resume exporting grain amid fears of famine in africa and other parts of the world that rely on grain from ukraine the russians launching a missile attack a day after that delicate deal was struck at the key port of odesa that would be used to export that grain, creating a lot of uncertainty about whether that dealed stands overhearing conversations of russian troops informing their relatives they know they're going to lose this battle. president

joining me is josh letterman. tell us about the strike on odesa.ility to export grain? >> reporter: ukraine hopes to be able to export grain to restart that in line with the deal despite the russian strikes. we heard from the deputy interior minister in ukraine who said by tomorrow they can start the wok for the ports to retime exports of grain and there's three ports that they are eyeing, odesa that was hit by the russian missiles being one and the largest. within about two weeks they hope to have the ports ready to start shipping grain out through the black sea but of course all of that is contingent on whether or not russia launches more strikes aimed at the ports. we heard the russian government, both putin's spokesman and the foreign minister saying that the strikes on the port did not violate the agreement because they were targeting military infrastructure at the odesa port and not the civilian infrastructure used to eximportant grain. ukraine, the united nations, the united states they feel that those two missile strikes certainly did viola

. >> josh letterman live for us, traveling with the president in somerset, massachusetts. thank you for that. >>> i want to bring you back to washington. right as we were coming on the air, we got a lot of new information looking ahead to tomorrow night's primetime january 6th committee hearing. including one aide telling nbc noose, it will probably not be the last one. i want to get to our team with this new reporting. my guests are joining me now. so allie, you have gotten a solid download about what we can expect tomorrow night, the timing, we know that -- i think bennie thompson will chair virtually, he's got covid. so let me turn the floor over to you, friend. >> what a sign of the times, that where they are going into their last primetime hearing of the summer series of hearings, because we have been auking about this as it is the season finale of the committee, not the series finale. that's what they were telling us on the phone, that they have so much information continuing to come in, that they reserve the right to do more hearings when they feel fit. that could c

2020 those i think are the two really most interesting moments for her because 2016 and i see josh letterman who we were sitting in our white house booth during that campaign trying to figure out you know, where the biden family was. she's the one who literally says we write about this in the book. she literally says as advisors are putting, you know timelines in front of them and you know, here's here's how late you can get in. here's when we're gonna have to be hitting these fundraising deadlines. she literally says, we're not ready. you know bo has just died, you know, we're not ready and she has to vocalize that almost for him. he can't really say it himself. he can't get himself to the point of walking away. she plays that really important role, but then you fast forward to 2020 and conventional wisdom again is he's too old the party is too liberal. the party has moved too far to the left and she is actually one of the most forceful voices behind the scenes say no this this actually is your time so, you know her evolution and the role she plays in those campaigns i find to be really fas

2020 those i think are the two really most interesting moments for her because 2016 and i see josh letterman who we were sitting in our white house booth during that campaign trying to figure out you know, where the biden family was. she's the one who literally says we write about this in the book. she literally says as advisors are putting, you know timelines in front of them and you know, here's here's how late you can get in. here's when we're gonna have to be hitting these fundraising deadlines. she literally says, we're not ready. you know bo has just died, you know, we're not ready and she has to vocalize that almost for him. he can't really say it himself. he can't get himself to the point of walking away. she plays that really important role, but then you fast forward to 2020 and conventional wisdom again is he's too old the party is too liberal. the party has moved too far to the left and she is actually one of the most forceful voices behind the scenes say no this this actually is your time so, you know her evolution and the role she plays in those campaigns i find to be really fas

joining us now is josh letterman and jessica bruder. , what do we know about the president's meeting with governors today? >> reporter: the president announced to have this meeting in his closing news conference in spain before coming back to washington which was an effort to show that he is really hitting the ground running. trying to address this abortion issue after been out of the country for the discussion of the country. these are democratic governors including those from connecticut, new mexico, illinois, california, oregon and washington state and states that have rushed to shore up state abortion protections. part of what the white house wants to call attention to is the need according to white house officials to take the action to the states so the states recognize abortion rights now that there's not according to the supreme court a nationwide right in the constitution to that access but there's an element here that feels like preaching the choir or virtue signaling to the democratic states because these are the states that wi

nbc's josh letterman, thank you for capturing it all for us this morning, we appreciate it. >> comingstrips the epa of a key tool to control pollution, how that could impact the environment and the economy. brian sullivan joins us straight ahead. -hi, i'm smokey bear and i made an assistant to help you out. because only you can prevent wildfires. -hey assistant smokey bear, call me papa bear because i'm "grrr-illing" up dinner. haha, do you get it? -yes. good job. -so, what should i do with all of these coals? -don't just toss them out. put them in a metal container because those embers can start a wildfire. -i understand, the stakes are high. assistant smokey vo: ha-ha, ha-ha. -see, smokey think's im funny! by a 6-3 vote, the court ruled the clean air act first established in 1963 does not give the environmental agency the authority to regulate greenhouse gases from power plans that contribute to global warming. writing for the conservative majority, chief justice roberts conceded that the epa does not have the authority to do that. in her dissent, justice elana condemned the court f

societal, public or private endeavors and the ceremony will take place on thursday and nbc's josh lettermanite house. >> there are a lot of folks on this list, josh. a lot of people that we know, household names and by the way, the president himself also a recipient of this award. talk us through it. >> yeah. this list includes a really broad and bipartisan and cross section of american society. everyone from athletes and politicians to civil rights icons and folks from the entertainment and military world. the white house saying that america is embodied by the word opportunity and that these honorees really stand for our values like hard work, faith and perseverance. so you have folks like olympian simone biles who has been outspoken to sexual assault and megan rapinoe, and denzel washington and denzel khan the gold star father who was so outspoken to president trump's muslim ban. you have politicians from both parties including gabby giffords, the former congresswoman who has become an outspoken advocate for gun violence in arizona. and john mccain who served for decades in the senate wit