>>> WE'RE COMING ON THE AIR JUST MINUTES AWAY FROM A KEY TEST FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN, THIS TIME O THE WORLD STAGE. SPEAKING ANY MINUTE AT THE NAT SUMMIT NOT FAR FROM WHERE WE'R STANDING HERE IN WASHINGTON. WE'LL TAKE YOU THERE LIVE WITH A VIBE CHECK FROM CAPITOL HILL AFTER A FLURRY THERE TODAY O THE POLITICAL CRISIS FACING TH PRESIDENT. >>> NO REST FOR THE WEARY DOWN SOUTH, MORE DANGEROUS WEATHER ON THE WAY. INCLUDING A HEAT WAVE WITH THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE N A/C RIGHT NOW. HOW THEY'RE BRACING FOR WHAT'S NEXT >>> INSIDE THE SANTA F COURTROOM, THE JURY BEING PICKED TO DECIDE ALEC BALDWIN'S FATE. >>> THE CONTROVERSIAL VIRA MOVEMENT TO BUILD UP THE HUMAN POPULATION WHY THEY'RE MAKING IT THEI MISSION TO HAVE AS MANY BABIES AS THEY POSSIBLY CAN LATER I THE SHOW >>> WE WILL WATCH LIVE THIS BI TEST FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN AS HE STEPS OUT ON TO THE GLOBAL STAGE IN ONE OF THE MOST CONSEQUENTIAL MOMENTS HE'S HAD SINCE THAT BA DEBATE PERFORMANCE NEARLY TW WEEKS AGO, WITH A NUMBER O DEMOCRATS CALLING ON HIM T WITHDRAW WANT TO SHOW YOU WHAT WE'R LOOKING AT THIS IS THE STAGE WHERE WE EXPECT TO HEAR FROM TH PRESIDENT. THIS IS A SCRIPTED SETTING IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN IN A MATTER OF MINUTES HERE. WE'RE GOING TO BRING HIS SPEEC TO YOU WHEN IT BEGINS AS HIS CAMPAIGN IS IS NOW, YOU CAN CALL IT, IN TRIAGE MODE STOP THE POLITICAL BLEEDING, S TO SPEAK, MEETING WITH KEY DEMOCRATIC MAYORS ACCORDING TO TWO SOURCES FAMILIAR WITH THAT CALL, AND THE VIBE OVER ON CAPITOL HILL A GRIM RESIGNATIO IT APPEARS THAT WHETHER THEY LIKE IT OR NOT, THE PRESIDENT IS INSISTING ON STAYING IN THIS RACE HOUSE DEMOCRATS HOLDING A CLOSED DOOR MEETING TO AIR THINGS OUT WHILE ONE SOURCE TELLS OUR TEA THERE'S WHAT THEY CALL A OVERWHELMING CONSENSUS THE PRESIDENT SHOULD STAY IN THE RACE, THE FEELING DESCRIBED BY ONE LAWMAKER IS PRETTY SHAKY WITH A CONCERN THE AGE ISSUE WITH OVERSHADOW THE REST OF TH RACE TALKS ABOUT THIS, THEY'RE NO OVER >> A VERY CONSTRUCTIVE CONVERSATION AMONG THE HOUSE DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS. >> DID YOU ALL COME TO A CONSENSUS ON PRESIDENT BOYDEN? >> CONVERSATIONS ARE ONGOING >> THE WHITE HOUSE REITERATING THE PRESIDENT IS FULLY COMMITTED TO SERVE ANOTHER FOUR YEARS. WATCH. >> WE RESPECT PEOPLE'S OPINIONS. YOU'RE RIGHT, WE DO WANT TO TURN THE PAGE YOU HEARD ME SAY THIS LAST WEEK. WE WANT TO GET TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS. WE WANT TO CONTINUE DOING TH WORK, AND THAT'S WHAT TH PRESIDENT'S GOING TO DO. >> WE'VE GOT TEAM COVERAGE TONIGHT. WE'RE ON CAPITOL HILL, BUT I WANT TO START LIVE OUTSIDE THA SUMMIT HERE IN D.C AND ERIN, A BIG MOMENT COMING UP FOR THE PRESIDENT, IT IS NOT A UNSCRIPTED SETTING, THE WAY THAT HIS PRESS CONFERENCE JUST ABOU 48 HOURS FROM NOW WILL BE, ANOTHER HIGHLY ANTICIPATED MOMENT, BUT IT IS STILL TH PRESIDENT ON THE WORLD STAGE WITH SO MANY EYEBALLS ON HIM >> YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT HALLIE YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE AUDITORIUM NOW WHERE WE KNOW WORLD LEADER WILL BE GATHERING IN A FEW MINUTES. PRESIDENT BIDEN ARRIVED TE MINUTES AGO, WENT INSIDE WE WILL SEE HIM ALONG WITH MOR THAN 30 OTHER WORLD LEADERINGS ASSEMBLED HERE FOR THIS OPENIN CEREMONY OF THE 75th ANNIVERSARY SUMMIT OF NATO THIS IS AN ORGANIZATION THAT WAS FOUNDED BACK IN 1949 WITH TH PURPOSE OF CREATING AN ORGANIZATION OF MILITARY - MILITARY CAPABLE COUNTRIES THA COULD STAND UP TO THE SOVIET UNION BACK THEN. TODAY I THINK YOU'LL HEAR TH PRESIDENT TALK ABOUT THE NEE FOR THIS SAME ORGANIZATION NOW 32 COUNTRIES STRONG TO STAND U AGAINST RUSSIA AND SUPPORT UKRAINE IN ITS WAR WITH RUSSIA AT THIS MOMENT IN TIME WE EXPECT, ACCORDING TO A SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL, THAT WE WILL HEAR SOME ANNOUNCEMENTS THIS WEEK COMING FROM NATO COMING FROM THE UNITED STATE ABOUT ADDITIONAL SUPPORT BOT MILITARILY AND MONETARILY FO UKRAINE TO INCLUDE SOM ENHANCEMENTS TO AIR DEFENS SYSTEMS THAT UKRAINIANS NEED GOING FORWARD IN THEIR FIGHT WITH RUSSIA. AND OF COURSE, AS YOU NOTED, HALLIE, THIS IS A PLATFORM WHERE EVERYONE WILL BE WATCHING TH PRESIDENT NOT JUST FOR WHAT HE HAS TO SAY IN TERMS OF AMERICA LEADERSHIP ON THE WORLD STAG BUT PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE WATCHING PRESIDENT BIDEN BECAUSE OF THE DEBATE PERFORMANCE THAT WE SAW ALMOST TWO WEEKS AGO. QUESTIONS AND CONCERNS AROUN THE PRESIDENT'S HEALTH AND VIGOR IN TERMS OF HIS ABILITY TO MOV FORWARD WITH THE CAMPAIGN AN HIS ABILITY TO LEAD FOR ANOTHE FOUR YEARS SO THIS IS A PLATFORM WHER YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE A GLOBA AUDIENCE WATCHING, MAKIN ASSESSMENTS IN A SPACE WHERE PRESIDENT BIDEN, WE KNOW, HA BEEN PREPARING FOR THE LAS COUPLE OF DAYS TO START TH ENGAGEMENTS WITH THIS CEREMONY TODAY. HE'LL CONTINUE WITH WORKIN SESSIONS AS THE WEEK GOES ON AS YOU NOTED, THAT PRESS CONFERENCE WHERE HE'LL FACE TH AMERICAN MEDIA AS WELL AS SOME FOREIGN PRESS ANSWERIN QUESTIONS IN A MOMENT THAT WIL BE UNSCRIPTED WHERE HE WILL HAVE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS ABOUT HI HEALTH AND QUESTIONS VERY LIKELY ABOUT HIS ABILITY TO MOVE ON I THIS CAMPAIGN, HALLIE. >> AARON, WE'VE HEARD NOW TH PRESS SECRETARY FOR TWO DAYS I A ROW BE PRESS # ABOUT THE PRESIDENT'S CONDITION, ABOUT HIS HEALTH, ABOUT HIS STAMINA, ABOUT WHERE THIS RACE STANDS AND THE VERY CLEAR MESSAGE IS IT IS TIME TO MOVE ON THAT MAY BE THE MESSAGE FROM THE WHITE HOUSE. IT IS CERTAINLY NOT THE MESSAG ON PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE OR ON THE HILL WHERE, AS YOU HEARD, TH DEMOCRATIC HOUSE LEADER SAYING THERE ARE STILL DISCUSSIONS AN TALKS TO BE HAD. >> AND YOU'RE RIGHT, THE CAMPAIGN, AS YOU SAID, HAS REALLY TRIED TO SAY, YOU KNO WHAT, IT'S TIME TO MOVE ON PRESIDENT BIDEN SAID AS MUCH HIMSELF IN THAT INTERVIEW WITH MORNING JOE ON MSNBC YESTERDAY THE LETTER HE SENT T CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS SAYING ESSENTIALLY IT'S TIME TO GET I LINE BEHIND HIM AND SUPPORT HI BECAUSE HE IS NOT DROPPING OUT OF THE RACE. HE INTENDS TO GO ON. WE DID SEE THE PRESIDENT HOL THAT CONVERSATION LAST WEEK WITH DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS HE MET WITH CONGRESSIONA LEADERS AS WELL. AS YOU SEE -- ACTUALLY, THAT'S VIDEO FROM OVER THE WEEKEND, SORRY. HE MET WITH CONGRESSIONA LEADERS OVER THE WEEKEND HE WAS OUT CAMPAIGNING, TALKIN TO VOTERS IN ADDITION TO THI CONVERSATION HE HAD WITH THE CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS YESTERDAY. WE UNDERSTAND FROM SOURCES H WILL SPEAK WITH DEMOCRATIC MAYORS TODAY THE PRESIDENT, THE CAMPAIGN, I THINK, WOULD SAY HE'S DOING TH WORK HE'S OUT THERE BOTH TRYING T REASSURE FORMER SUPPORTERS CURRENT SUPPORTERS OF HI ABILITY TO CONTINUE TO PROSECUTE THE CASE AGAINST FORME PRESIDENT TRUMP AND HIS ABILIT TO WIN IN NOVEMBER AT THE SAME TIME HE'S TRYING T JUST DO THE CAMPAIGNING, THE STANDARD STUFF YOU'D EXPECT TO SEE FROM A CANDIDATE AT THIS POINT IN THE CAMPAIGN CYCLE AN ALSO RUNNING A COUNTRY BOT DOMESTICALLY -- OF COURSE, THE PRESIDENT WE KNOW SPOKE WITH LEADERS IN THE HOUSTON ARE AFTER A HURRICANE CAME THROUGH THAT AREA AS WELL AS TALKING WITH MEDIA OUTLETS THERE SO TRYING TO DO THE WORK OF TH PRESIDENCY AS WELL, HALLIE >> AARON LIVE FOR US THERE I WANT TO GO TO CAPITOL HILL LISTEN, YOU'VE GOT SHERRILL TH NINTH DEMOCRAT IN CONGRESS WHO SUGGESTS THAT PRESIDENT BIDE SHOULD WITHDRAW FROM THE RACE. ALL THAT SAID, THERE ARE DOZEN OF OTHERS WHO AREN'T GOING S FAR. THERE SEEMS TO BE GRIM RESIGNATION, IS THAT FAIR? >> I THINK THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT, HALLOW THE GRIM RESIGNATION I THINK I A PERFECT WAY TO DESCRIBE HOW LOT OF DEMOCRATS FEEL ABOU THIS I WOULD SAY THE VIBES HAVE SHIFTED ON THIS FRONT IN THE DIRECTION AND FAVOR OF PRESIDENT BIDEN REMAINING ON THE TICKET, AT LEAST COMPARED TO WHAT IT LOOKED LIKE OVER THE WEEKEND WHEN IT SEEMED LIKE THE DA COULD BREAK VERY QUICKLY AND THERE COULD BE A FLOOD O DEMOCRATIC LAWMAKERS CALLING O HIM, YOU KNOW, OPENLY PUSHIN HIM OUT. THAT HAS NOT HAPPENED. THERE ARE SOME WHO ARE PUBLI ABOUT HIM SAYING HE SHOULD LEAVE WHO ARE A LITTLE BIT MORE QUIE ABOUT THAT NOW AND THERE IS ONE VERY NOTABL EXCEPTION TO IT. THE NEW JERSEY DEMOCRAT FIRS ELECTED IN THAT BLUE WAVE OF 2018, REPRESENTS A SWING DISTRICT JUST PUT OUT A STATEMENT MOMENTS AGO, A LONG STATEMENT FULL O PRAISE FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN, HI ACHIEVEMENT OF DEFEATING TRUMP THE FIRST TIME SHE'S HEARD FROM CONSTITUENT THE THREAT IS TOO HIGH, TH THREAT OF DONALD TRUMP RETURNING IS TOO REAL TO STAY SILENT QUOTE, I KNOW PRESIDENT BIDE CARES DEEPLY ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THE COUNTRY, I'M ASKING HE DECLARE HE WON'T RUN FOR RE-ELECTION AND WILL HELP LEAD US TOWARD A PROCESS OF NEW NOMINEE. -- THAT IT'S IN THEIR INTEREST AS WELL TO SUPPORT HIM, TO STRENGTHEN THE PARTY UP AND DOWN THE TICKET, OTHERWISE THEIR OW RE-ELECTIONS COULD BE IN JEOPARDY NOT SAYING THAT OUTRIGHT, BU THAT IS THE MESSAGE MANY DEMOCRATS ARE RECEIVING FROM THE PRESSURE CAMPAIGN, FIRM, EMPHATIC WORDS FROM BIDEN HE'S NOT GOING ANYWHERE SENATE DEMOCRATS ALSO MET TODA FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A ROOM SINCE THAT DEBATE BETWEEN JO BIDEN AND DONALD TRUMP A NUMBER OF THEM SAID THEIR SOLE CONCERN FOR BIDEN TO ADDRESS BUT THEY'RE ALSO NOT TRYING TO PUS HIM ASIDE. LET'S TAKE A LISTEN TO WHAT SOME DEMOCRATS SAID >> I'VE HEARD CONCERN FROM COLLEAGUES - >> WHAT ABOUT THE NEXT FOU YEARS? IS HE GOING TO BE ABLE TO DO THE JOB? >> IT'S A GOOD QUESTION. I CAN'T TELL YOU I HOPE WE -- >> PRESIDENT BIDEN -- PRESIDEN -- FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP HAD HORRIFIC PRESIDENCY. >> AND ONE CONCERN, HALLIE, THAT DEMOCRATS HAVE IS WHAT THE IMPACT TO THE TOP OF THE TICKE OF JOE BIDEN'S NUMBER WILL HAV ON DOWN BALLOT RACES SO FAR DEMOCRATS ARE OUTPERFORMING JOE BIDEN IN KEY SENATE RACES AND HOUSE RACES THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE WITHIN THE PARTY HOPING THAT STICKS >> HAS THERE BEEN ANYTHING THA SURPRISED YOU TODAY WITH THE THINGS THAT DEVELOPED IN YOU BEAT >> I THINK THE SHERRIL STATEMENT WAS SURPRISING, JUST BECAUSE IT SEEMED LIKE JOE BIDEN WAS PUTTING A LID ON THA CRITICISM. SOMEONE VERY PROMINENT COMES OUT. SHE'S BEEN TALKED ABOUT AS A POTENTIAL FUTURE GOVERNO CANDIDATE FOR NEW JERSEY SHE WAS IN THAT CLASS OF 2018, BEEN A FRONTLINER, THAT'S TH TERM FOR DEMOCRATS IN SWIN DISTRICTS, COMPETITIVE DISTRICTS. A LOT HAVE NOT COME OUT PUBLICLY AND SAID THAT BECAUSE THEI FATE, AGAIN, IS TIED TO JO BIDEN'S FATE HIS NUMBERS END UP CRATERING THAT'S NOT HAPPENED YET. THERE'S BEEN MODEST MOVEMENT BUT IF THE NUMBERS CRATER TH WAY SOME FEAR THEY MIGHT, THAT COULD BE PROBLEMATIC FOR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS LIKE SHERRILL WH ARE IN THESE COMPETITIVE DISTRICTS. SO HER COMING OUT, I THOUGHT WAS VERY NOTABLE IT SURPRISE ME THERE ARE DEMOCRATS LIKE JERRY NADLER WH AS FAR AS WE WERE TOLD WERE OPEN WITH COLLEAGUES ON CALLING A MEETING OVER THE WEEKEND THA JOE BIDEN SHOULD GO. HE DID NOT -- HE'S NOT SAYIN THAT PUBLICLY. HE'S GOTTEN MORE QUIET ABOUT THAT AND SIGNALLED JOE BIDEN WILL BE THE NOMINEE. >> LIVE FOR US ON THE HILL THANK YOU. >>> DOWN SOUTH TONIGHT WHERE THEY'RE BRACING FOR MORE DANGEROUS WEATHER ON THE WAY A WHAT'S LEFT OF HURRICANE BERYL SLAMS INTO THE WEST. TREES THAT HAVE COLLAPSED ON T HOMES. LOOK AT THAT, THAT'S A BIG TRE THEY'RE TRYING TO GET DOWN PUT A HOLE THROUGH THE NRG STADIUM ROOF YOU CAN SEE INTO THE SEATS THERE. LOOK AT THAT, THE STORM KILLED AT LEAST SEVEN PEOPLE ACROSS TEXAS AND LOUISIANA WITH THA STATE NOW DECLARING A STATE OF EMERGENCY. AND YOU KNOW WHAT'S MAKING A BAD SITUATION EVEN WORSE THE HEAT IT IS IS SUPER HOT HOUSTON HAS A HEAT INDEX THA COULD BE AS HIGH AS 106 DEGREES, BUT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WARNING PEOPLE TO BE CAREFUL WHILE THEY'RE OUT CLEANING UP. YOU SEE PEOPLE LINED UP TRYING TO GET GAS AT WHATEVER STATION HAS POWER. SOME 2 MILLION PEOPLE ACROSS TEXAS ARE STILL WITHOUT AN ELECTRICITY RIGHT NOW. THAT MEANS NO AIR CONDITIONING EVEN WITH THOSE TEMPERATURES A HOT AS WHAT WE'RE DESCRIBING QUESTIONS TONIGHT TOO ABOU WHETHER AT LEAST ONE POWER COMPANY DID ENOUGH TO GET READ FOR THE STORM. NOT JUST TEXAS BAKING RIGHT NOW, CITIES OUT WEST ARE SETTING NE ALL-TIME RECORD HIGHS DURING A HEAT WAVE WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT. SO THINK ABOUT THE SITUATION I SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA, WIT THE LAKE FIRE ONLY ABOUT 12% CONTAINED. LOOK AT THOSE CLOUDS OF SMOK THERE. 26,000 ACRES OF FIRE NOW BURNE THROUGH, AND THE FIREFIGHTERS IN THAT HEAT DOING WHAT THEY CAN. KEITH PATTERSON IS LIVE FOR US IN CALIFORNIA. BILL KARINS HAS THE FORECAST BUT I WANT TO START WITH PRISCILLA IN HOUSTON, BECAUSE IT IS A TOUGH SITUATION IN TEXAS. WITH THE STORM DAMAGE STILL FACTOR AND HEAT AND NO POWER MAKING A BAD SITUATION EVE WORSE. >> Reporter: YEAH, HALLIE, THERE'S A LOT GOING ON ON TH GROUND HERE. FIRST I WANT TO GIVE YOU A SENSE OF THE DESTRUCTION WE SPOKE TO A FAMILY WHO WAS INSIDE THIS BEDROOM WHEN THI GIANT STREE STUMP YOU SEE HERE -- THERE WAS A TREE HERE -- IT FELL RIGHT ON TOP OF THE ROO THEY WERE IN, LEAVING THAT GAPING HOLE, SENDING WATER POURING IN AND SO FOR THAT FAMILY TODAY WAS ABOUT TRYING TO GET CREWS OU HERE TO REMOVE THAT TREE SO THAT THEY CAN GET THIS ROOF TARPED UP AND BEGIN TO THINK ABOUT WHA COMES NEXT AT THE SAME TIME, YOU HAVE SOM FOLK WHO IS DIDN'T GET ANY DAMAGE TO THEIR HOMES BUT AR DEALING WITH THE LOSS OF POWER WE ARE TALKING ABOUT MORE THAN 2 MILLION PEOPLE IN TEXAS ALON WITHOUT POWER. THE MAJORITY OF THEM SOME 1.7 IN THE HOUSTON AREA I SPOKE TO ONE WOMAN WHO HAD T TWO TO A COOLING CENTER. SHE'S IN HER 50s, DIABETIC, AN SHE TOLD ME THE INSIDE OF HE HOME FELT LIKE AN OVEN SHE COULD NOT STAY THERE I WANT TO PLAY FOR YOU SOME OF WHAT SHE HAD TO SAY. YOU CAN HEAR HER FRUSTRATION WITH THE SITUATION TAKE A LISTEN. >> EVERY TIME WE'RE ALWAYS LOSING POWER SO NOT MUCH THE HURRICAN ITSELF, IT'S THE LOSS OF POWER THAT'S REALLY HURTING US JUST PHYSICALLY JUST MAKES YOU SICK TO BE IN A HOT HOUS KNOWING THAT YOU HAVE OTHE COMPLICATIONS FROM DIABETES. >> Reporter: WHAT DOES IT FEEL LIKE IN YOUR HOUSE RIGHT NOW >> FEELS LIKE AN OVEN, EVEN WITH THE WINDOWS OPEN >> Reporter: AND SO EVEN FOLKS WHO MAY NOT HAVE SUSTAINED SERIOUS DAMAGE ARE DEALING WIT THAT, POTENTIALLY HAVING T THROW AWAY FOOD, WHICH MAN PEOPLE JUST DID IN MAY WHEN THEY LOST POWER FOR SEVERAL DAY AFTER A STORM THEN AND SO STILL A FINANCIAL TOL HERE FOR FOLKS WHO EVEN DIDN'T SUFFER MAJOR DAMAGE, HALLIE? >> WE'VE JUST HEARD FROM THE, GUESS, ACTING GOVERNOR OF TEXA WHO'S STANDING IN WHILE TH GOVERNOR, GREG ABBOTT, IS OUT OF THE COUNTRY, THE LIEUTENAN GOVERNOR PROMISING A REVIEW INTO ONE ELECTRIC COMPANY BECAUSE O HOW READY IT WAS, EXPLAIN THAT IT COULD BE A BIG DEAL >> Reporter: YEAH, SO HE SAI THAT HE HAS A LOT OF QUESTIONS ABOUT WHEN THEY BEGAN TO MOV RESOURCES IN, HOW MANY RESOURCES WERE BROUGHT IN, AND THAT IS CENTERPOINT ENERGY THEY'RE RESPONSIBLE FOR A LOT OF THE ENERGY HERE, THE BULK OF I HERE WE HEARD FROM THEM IN A RELEAS SAYING THEY DID NOT EXPECT THI STORM TO IMPACT HOUSTON AS MUC AS THEY DID. THEY SAID THE TRACK CHANGED. WHAT THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR SAID IS WE ALWAYS KNEW ALL ALONG THIS WAS COMING TO HOUSTON AND THAT PERHAPS THEY SHOULD HAV BEEN MORE PREPARED BUT RIGHT NOW THE FOCUS REALLY IS ON JUST RESTORING THE POWER AND THEN BEGINNING TO LOOK A SOME OF THOSE ISSUES, AN ESPECIALLY, I SHOULD NOTE, BECAUSE THE DEATH TOLL HAS TICKED UP FROM SEVEN TO TEN WITH THOSE THREE ADDITIONAL DEATH BEING FROM CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING AND ONE PERSON WHO DIED WHEN THEIR OXYGEN MACHINE THE BATTERY DIED TO HOPING TO AVOID ANYMORE DEATH AS A RESULT OF THIS HEAT AND PEOPLE TRYING TO USE GENERATOR AND THINGS LIKE THAT TO POWE THEIR HOME, HALLIE >> HOURS LATER THE STORM CONTINUING TO BE DEADLY. PRISCILLA, THANK YOU KEITH PATTERSON IS JOINING U NOW. A COUPLE ISSUES, NOT JUST TH HEAT WHERE YOU ARE BUT ALSO SOME OF THE TERRAIN WHERE THIS FIRE IS BURNING, IT'S TOUGH TO GE TO >> IT'S VERY TOUGH TO GET TO YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT 26,00 ACRES NOW BY FAR THE LARGEST O THESE FIRES. MORE THAN 20 OF THEM BURNING ACROSS THE WEST. SIX OF THEM OVER 1,000 ACRES THIS ONE IS HUGE, 2,400 ON THI THING. BUT AS THE FIRE ACREAGE HA GROWN, SO TOO HAS TH CONTAINMENT. 8% YESTERDAY, 12% TODAY. WHEN YOU HEAR IT, BECAUSE YOU'RE RIGHT, IT IS BURNING IN STEEP, JAGGED, RUGGED TERRAIN, VERY INACCESSIBLE, DIFFICULT TO GET TO THE FIRST THING YOU SHOULD THINK IS THAT IT MUST BE BURNING AWA FROM COMMUNITIES, BECAUSE IT I VERY DEEP NOW IN LOS PADRE NATIONAL FOREST WHICH MEANS, YEAH, THERE ARE RANCH COMMUNITY, INCLUDING ONE FAMOUS ONE, STIL OR FORMERLY NEVER A LAND RANCH STILL THREATENED BY THIS FIRE. FIREFIGHTERS SAY THEY'VE PUSHE IT MOSTLY AWAY FROM THERE. SEVERAL COMMUNITIES THREATENED IT'S AWAY FROM POPULATIO CENTERS. IT'S NOT GOING TO BURN SANTA BARBARA AT THIS POINT. THEY'VE I GOT CORDONED OFF TO FAVORABLE POSITION I SPOKE TO THE FOREST SERVIC THIS MORNING, THEY'RE HAPPY WITH WHERE THE FRONT OF THE FIRE IS AND THEY'VE BEEN ABLE BECAUS THE WINDS HAVE DIED DOWN SOMEWHAT TO GET SOME AIR DROP, WATER DROPS, ON TOP OF THE FIRE. IT OBVIOUSLY HAS TO BE AN AERIAL TACTIC IT'S ALSO BECAUSE IT'S BURNING SO DEEP AND IT'S MUCH HARDER T GET TO IT MEANS THAT ONE EMBER, ONE WIND GUST, YOU CAN CREATE WHOLE NEW FRONT OF THE FIRE. SO A NUMBER OF THING FIREFIGHTERS ARE WORRIED ABOUT ALL OF IT EXACERBATED AS ALL O THESE FIRES BY THIS INCREDIBLE HEAT DOME THAT WE'RE ALL STILL UNDER IT'S LIKE DAY SIX, DAY SEVEN MISERABLE CONDITIONS FOR FIREFIGHTERS TO FIGHT WITH AND ESPECIALLY BECAUSE I SUPERCHARGES THE FLAME THEMSELVES THESE FIRES AREN'T GOING ANYWHERE, HALLIE >> THANKS FOR YOUR REPORTING BILL KARINS, LET ME BRING YOU IN HERE, HOPEFULLY JUST A MATTER OF HOURS OR A COUPLE OF DAYS WHER AT LEAST SOME PARTS OF THE U.S COULD GET A BREAK FROM THE HEA DOME >> 118 TO 115 OR 113 >> DOESN'T FEEL AWESOME. >> YEAH, DOESN'T FEEL AWESOME, BUT WE'LL STOP BREAKING RECORDS, AT LEAST HALF THE POPULATION IN OUR COUNTRY IS UNDER A HEAT ADVISORY OR HEAT WARNING. THAT'S EXTRAORDINARY ALL OF THE WEST EXCEPT RIGHT ALONG THE COAST. IT'S BEEN VERY HUMID HASN'T BEEN HOT ON THE EAS COAST, BUT THE HUMIDITY LEVELS MAKE IT ABSOLUTELY MISERABLE WASHINGTON, D.C., HAD A HEAT INDEX OF 111 THAT'S COME DOWN A LITTLE BIT AS THE HUMIDITY'S DROPPED A LITTL BIT, BUT THE TEMPERATURE'S STILL 98 DEGREES AT REAGAN NATIONA AIRPORT. NEW YORK CITY, IT WAS HOTTER BUT THEY HAD A LITTLE SEA BREEZE COME IN. NO SUCH LUCK IN RA LOW SAVANNAH, MIAMI. HOUSTON, BY THE WAY, IT FEEL LIKE 101 IN THE SHADE WHER PRISCILLA WAS STANDING MORE OF THE SAME IN D.C. NOT MUCH IS GOING TO CHANGE AN TIME SOON IN THE EAST. IF ANYTHING, THE HUMIDITY LEVELS WILL GO UP AND THE TEMPERATURE ARE GOING TO GO DOWN IN SOME CASES, BUT LOOK AT THIS, YOU KNOW, D.C., ONE BREAK ON FRIDAY, 84 BUT IT MAY POUR AND BE SUPER HUMID. BUT LOOK AT LIKE ATLANTA, 96 NASHVILLE UP NEAR 100 DEGREES ON SATURDAY SO YOU GET THE PICTURE, THERE' NOT A LOT OF RELIEF. WE'RE STILL DEALING WITH BANDS FROM BERYL YESTERDAY WE HAD 14 TORNADOS REPORTED WE'VE GOT ONE, TWO, THRE TORNADO WARNINGS AT THIS TIME. WE'VE HAD ONE CONFIRMED TORNAD HERE AS WE WATCH WE CONTINUE TO TRACK TO THE NORTH THIS ONE DID DROP A TORNADO NEAR UNIONTOWN, KENTUCKY. IT LOOKED PRETTY BAD ON RADAR, BUT WE DON'T HAVE GROUND TRUTH OBSERVATIONS HEADING TOWARDS SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF OHIO JUST ACROSS THE RIVER AND TOWARDS GREER, ANOTHER TORNADO WARNING TOO. SO HALLIE, ANOTHER VERY ACTIVE AFTERNOON AND EVENING, NOT T MENTION AT LEAST 33 NEW RECORD HIGHS ARE BEING SET IN THE WEST. >> YOU GOT A BUSY STRETCH AHEA OF YOU, BILL >>> WANT TO TAKE YOU DOWN TO NEW MEXICO NOW WITH JURY SELECTION TO ALEC BALDWIN'S MANSLAUGHTER TRIAL OFF TO A LITTLE BIT OF A SLOW START WITH PROSECUTORS AN THE ACTOR'S ATTORNEYS NARROWIN DOWN THE LIST OF PEOPLE WHO WILL DECIDE WHETHER THE DEATH OF TH CINEMATOGRAPHER ON THE SET O THE MOVIE "RUST" IS BALDWIN' FAULT. BALDWIN AND HIS ATTORNEYS SAY HE DID NOT PULL THE TRIGGER, BU THE GUN MISFIRED A BULLET. IF HE IS RESPONSIBLE HE CAN GE UP TO YEAR AND A HALF IN PRISON. WE'RE LIVE FROM SANTA FE, ONE OF THE HIGHEST PROFILE TRIALS - NONPOLITICAL TRIALS -- OF TH YEAR, AND IT'S HAPPENING I SANTA FE TALK US THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENTS IN COURT TODAY YOU'RE A COUPLE HOURS BEHIND US, SO IT'S STILL VERY MUCH ONGOING. >> Reporter: YEAH, I MEAN, LOOK, RIGHT BEHIND ME, HALLIE, IN THIS COURTHOUSE, THAT'S WHERE JUR SELECTION IS GOING ON RIGHT NOW. ALEC BALDWIN ARRIVED IN COUR THIS MORNING ALONGSIDE HIS WIF HILARIA. WE'VE ALSO SEEN HIS BROTHE STEPHEN BALDWIN. LIKE YOU SAID, IT'S A SLEEPY BEAUTIFUL, QUIET TOWN. I WAS SPEAKING TO A FORMER PROSECUTOR IN NEW MEXICO EARLIER TODAY, AND SHE SAID SANTA FE THEY HAVEN'T SEEN ANYTHING LIK THIS NOT WITH SUCH A MEDIA CIRCUS AND DEFINITELY NOT WITH SUCH A CELEBRITY PRESENCE >> WHAT'S THE TIMELINE HERE? JURY SELECTION CAN GO QUICKLY, IT CAN TAKE A LONG TIME, AND IT'S THE OPENING, CRUCIAL HERE WALK US THROUGH THAT, TH ARGUMENTS, AND WHERE THIS GOES NEXT >> Reporter: SO IF THE JURY IS SEATED TODAY OR PERHAPS EVEN MAYBE TOMORROW MORNING, YOU'RE GOING TO SEE OPENING STATEMENT BEGIN. AND EARLIER THIS WEEK ON MONDA THERE WERE MULTIPLE MOTIONS THAT THE JUDGE WEIGHED IN ON. AND ONE OF THOSE MOTIONS WAS I FAVOR OF ALEC BALDWIN AND HI LEGAL TEAM, SAYING THEY ARE NO GOING TO BE PRESENTING BALDWIN AS THE PRODUCER TO THE JURY. THAT'S A HUGE WIN FOR HIS LEGA TEAM, BECAUSE THE JURY IS ONLY GOING TO FOCUS ON THE FACT HALLIE THAT HE - >> AND IF YOU ARE WONDERIN WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THE SOUND ON YOUR DEVICE OR ON YOUR TV THAT'S NOT YOU, THAT'S US. WE'RE WORKING ON THOSE TEC ISSUES OUR THANKS FOR THAT. WE'RE GOING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT ELSE SHE WAS SAYING AND GET BACK TO HER LATER ON. >>> AN INCIDENT TONIGHT HERE I WASHINGTON WHERE A DEPUTY U.S. MARSHAL GUARDING THE HOME OF SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SOTOMAYO ALLEGEDLY SHOT A SUSPECTED CARJACKER WHO TRIED TO TAKE HI CAR. THIS HAPPENED NOT TODAY BUT LAST FRIDAY AROUND 1:00 A.M THE 18-YEAR-OLD SUSPEC ALLEGEDLY PULLED A GUN ON TH MARSHAL, WHO WAS SITTING IN PARKED CAR THE MARSHAL SHOT THE SUSPECT WHO WAS TAKEN TO A LOCAL HOSPITAL HE'S BEING TREATED FOR NON-LIFE-THREATENING INJURIES, SO HE IS EXPECTED TO SURVIVE THE GUN WAS RECOVERED ON SCENE POLICE ARE OBVIOUSLY INVESTIGATING. CLEARLY A LOT OF ATTENTION O THIS ISSUE BECAUSE OF WHERE IT HAPPENED, NOT FAR FROM THE HOM OF JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR MORE ON THAT AS WE GET IT. >>> WE'RE ALSO LEARNIN MANHATTAN PROSECUTORS AR INVESTIGATING MORE CLAIM AGAINST HARVEY WEINSTEIN OF COURSE, THE DISGRACED MEDIA MOGUL, THIS IS HIM IN COUR EARLIER TODAY, SOME POSSIBLE SURVIVORS WHO ARE NOT READY TO TESTIFY IN WEINSTEIN'S PREVIOU TRIAL ARE FEELING COMFORTABL ENOUGH TO SPEAK UP NOW THAT COULD MEAN NEW CHARGE BROUGHT AGAINST HIM. >> Reporter: -- AND SO THE EXPECTATION IS THAT PROSECUTOR ARE PLANNING TO FILE NEW CHARGES AND THAT COULD BE COMING AS SOON AS THIS FALL AS FAR AS WEINSTEIN'S DEFENS TEAM'S REACTION TO ALL THIS AS IT PLAYED OUT IN COURT TODAY THE DEFENSE TEAM IS ACCUSING PROSECUTORS ESSENTIALLY OF STALLING AND SAYING THAT THERE IS NOT A CASE HERE AT THIS POINT. REMEMBER, RECENTLY -- IN RECEN WEEKS, WEINSTEIN'S CONVICTIO FROM 2024 RAPE IN NEW YORK WAS OVERTURNED SO -- SO THE DEFENSE TEAM AT THIS POINT ARGUING THAT THERE IS NO CASE AND THAT THIS IS SOMETHING THAT IS SOMEWHAT OF STALL TACTIC, THE DEFENSE WA READY TO GO TRIAL FAR BEFORE THE PROSECUTION. HERE'S PART OF WHAT WE HEARD FROM THE DEFENSE TEAM EARLIE TODAY. >> WE WANT TO GO TO TRIAL. HARVEY WANTS TO CLEAR HIS NAME DIDN'T RAPE ANYBODY. HE'S INNOCENT OF THESE CHARGES AND HE'S CONFIDENT A NEW JUR WILL FIND THAT >> Reporter: AND SO ALL OF THI COME, AGAIN, AFTER THA CONVICTION FROM 2020 WAS OVERTURNED IN NEW YORK, AN THERE IS STILL AN OUTSTANDIN APPEALS MATTER IN CALIFORNIA FOR A SEPARATE TRIAL THAT PLAYED OUT IN THAT STATE. SO A LOT STILL IN PLAY IN TH LEGAL SYSTEM FOR HARVE WEINSTEIN WHO ACCORDING TO OUR PRODUCER APPEARED TO BE QUIT GAUNT AND FRAIL IN COURT TODAY HIS DEFENSE TEAM SPEAKING TO NUMEROUS HEALTH ISSUES AND POINTING TO THAT, AGAIN, A SOMEONE WHO'S BEEN BEHIND BARS FOR YEARS NOW AND IS ESSENTIALLY HIS DEFENSE TEAM ARGUING THA THIS NEEDS TO BE SPED UP HALLIE >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THA UPDATE WE'VE GOT A LOT MORE TO GET TO COMING UP ANY MINUTE NOW W EXPECT TO HEAR FROM PRESIDEN BIDEN IN WASHINGTON. THIS IS A LIVE LOOK AT THAT NATO SUMMIT STAY HERE FOR THE LATEST ON THAT FRONT. WE'RE GOING TO BRING YOU THE SPEECH AS SOON AS IT BEGINS. >>> BUT FIRST, NEW CONCERNS OVER YET ANOTHER SCARE IN THE AIR WHAT IT COULD MEAN FOR THE NEX TIME YOU FNK THIS COULD IMPACT HOW PEOPLE VOTE? >> 100%. >> MORNING NEWS NOW, STREAMING WEEKDAYS AT 7:00 >>> SO IN JUST THE LAST COUPLE OF MINUTES, COURT IS BREAKIN FOR THE DAY IN THE FEDERAL BRIBERY TRIAL AGAINST A SITTIN U.S. SENATOR WITH BOB MENENDEZ'S TEAM SET TO WRAP UP CLOSIN ARGUMENTS TOMORROW THEY STARTED THEIR CLOSE TODAY BASICALLY TRYING TO MAKE THE CASE THAT PROSECUTORS ARE AR ONLY TELLING A STORY, THEY HAVEN'T PROVEN ANYTHING OR PROVIDED EVIDENCE. THIS IS AFTER THE DOJ SPEN HOURS IN THEIR CLOSING ARGUMENTS PAINSTAKINGLY GOING THROUG THOSE 18 FEDERAL COUNTS AGAINS MENENDEZ ONE BY ONE, LAYING OU WHAT PROSECUTORS DESCRIBE AS THE WORK OF A, QUOTE, CORRUP POLITICIAN WHO GAVE OU POLITICAL FAVORS IN A QUID PRO QUO. ALL OF IT STEMMING FRO POLITICAL FAVORS HE ALLEGEDL PROMISED TO FRIENDS AN BUSINESSMEN IN EXCHANGE FO PRETTY FANCY GIFTS LIKE A NEW MERCEDES, GOLD BARS CASH FOUND STASHED THROUGHOU HIS HOUSE IN JERSEY. THE SENATOR DENIES ALL WRONG DOING. THERE'S ONE THREAD THAT HAS RU THROUGH HIS DEFENSE'S ARGUMENT OVER THE LAST NINE PLUS WEEKS. WE DID IT TWO AND A HALF MONTH AGO WHEN WE SET THE STAKES FOR THE CASE IN THIS TRIAL, AN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IT AGAIN NOW. AND THIS IS THE BLAME THE WIFE DEFENSE, ESSENTIALLY HAS THE DEFENSE PUT FORWAR STRONG ENOUGH EVIDENCE T SUPPORT THAT IN THE VIEW OF TH LEGAL EXPERTS YOU'RE TALKING WITH >> THE NEW CLOSING ARGUMENTS SAME AS THE OLD OPENIN STATEMENTS ON THAT SPECIFI POINT, BECAUSE WHAT THEY'R TRYING TO SAY AND WHAT THEY SAID WHEN THIS TRIAL FIRST OPENED A YOU JUST ALLUDED TO, HEY, TH GOLD BARS AND A LOT OF THI CASH, IT WAS FOUND IN NADINE MENENDEZ'S CLOSET. YOU CLEARLY SAW THAT FROM TH PHOTOGRAPHS THAT THE FBI TOO WHEN THEY CONDUCTED THAT SEARC WARRANT. WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO SAY, TH DEFENSE IS, THERE'S NO DIREC NEXUS TO THE SENATOR AND A BRIBE. THEY'RE SAYING THE SENATOR I DOING HIS WORK AS THE SENATOR ON BEHALF OF HIS CONSTITUENTS MEANWHILE, NADINE IS GETTING CASH, BUT YOU CAN'T PUT THOS TWO THINGS TOGETHER AS A OVERARCHING SCHEME FEDERAL PROSECUTORS, QUITE OBVIOUSLY, WOULD ARGUE DIFFERENTLY. TO YOUR POINT, GOING THROUGH ALL 18 COUNT, PAINSTAKINGLY GOIN THROUGH THE ELEMENTS OF TH CRIMES, WALKING THE JURY EFFECTIVELY THROUGH WHAT WILL BE THE FORM THAT THEY'LL GET TO A GET TO A POINT WHERE THEY VOTE GUILTY IN THIS CASE. WHETHER OR NOT THAT'LL ULTIMATELY BE SUCCESSFUL, YO HEARD THE PROSECUTORS EARLIE TODAY AND YESTERDAY TALK ABOUT TEXT MESSAGES, TALK ABOU FINGERPRINTS WHEN THAT CASH WA WITHDRAWN BASED ON THE SERIA NUMBERS ON IT. OTHER CORROBORATING EVIDENCE POTENTIALLY WITH THE GOLD BARS LEGAL EXPERTS THINK AS FAR A THIS CASE GOES, THERE'S PROBABLY ENOUGH FOR JURORS TO MAKE SHORT LEAP TO GUILTY BUT ULTIMATELY THEY'LL DECIDE. AND OF COURSE, THE SENATOR AND TWO OTHER CODEFENDANTS HAV STEADFASTLY MAINTAINED THEIR INNOCENCE, HALLIE. FROM TOM, REAL QUICKLY HERE, W KNOW THE LEGAL REALITY HERE, WHAT ABOUT THE POLITICAL ONE WHAT'S THE SITUATION FOR MENENDEZ WHEN HE GETS BACK T WASHINGTON >> Reporter: IF HE'S CONVICTED THERE'S GOING TO BE ENORMOUS PRESSURE TO RESIGN OR FOR TH SENATE TO TOSS HIM OUT THAT'S ON ONE END IF THERE'S AGITY VERDICT. IF THERE'S A NOT GUILTY VERDICT, HE PLANS TO RUN AS A INDEPENDENT. HE MAY RUN AS AN INDEPENDENT REGARDLESS OBVIOUSLY HIS POLITICA PROSPECTS IF HE'S FOUND NO GUILTY WOULD PRESUMABLY RISE I NEW JERSEY BUT THERE'S A LONG WAY BETWEEN HERE AND THERE, INCLUDING THAT JURY INSTRUCTIONS AND THE ACTUAL DELIBERATIONS THEMSELVES >> TOM, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. >>> NOW A SERIES OF MIDAIR INCIDENTS INVOLVING UNITED AIRLINES RAISING CONCERN TONIGHT AFTER A PLANE LOST A TIRE DURING TAKEOFF FROM L.A.X THE SECOND UNITED PLANE TO LOS A TIRE IN MIDAIR IN THE LAST FOUR MONTHS. LISTEN OU NEVER WANT TO HEAR A FLIGHT ATTENDANT SAY BRACE, BRACE BRACE. THERE'S AN INCIDENT IN SYRACUS AS WELL. THE SYRACUSE SITUATION A NEA MIDAIR COLLISION, WHAT HAPPENED? >> THIS IS NOT UNITED AIRLINES >> YEAH, DIFFERENT ONE >> THIS WAS AN INBOUND AMERICA AIRLINES THAT WAS TRYING TO LAND IN SYRACUSE YESTERDAY MORNING. THE CONTROL TOWER HAD APPARENTLY CLEARED A DELTA AIRLINES T DEPART FROM THE SAME RUNWAY THAT THAT AMERICAN AIRLINES WAS TRYING TO COME IN ON NOW, YOU MAY RECALL WE HAD A VERY CLOSE CALL OVER AUSTIN. >> LET ME JUST BE CLEAR -- THI IS THE UNITED -- >> THIS IS THE VIDEO, NO UNITED THIS WAS POLICE DASH CAM VIDEO SHOWING THE CLOSE CALL OVE SYRACUSE TAKE A LOOK, YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THE CIRCLE, CLOSE CALL TWO PLANES, AN AMERICAN PLAN AND A DELTA PLANE, COMING VERY CLOSE TO EACH OTHER. WHAT HAD HAPPENED WAS TH AMERICAN PLAIN COMING IN O RUNWAY 28 BUT THERE WAS A DELT PLANE CLEARED TO TAKE OFF ON RUNWAY 28. THE TOWER TOLD THE AMERICA PILOT, BY THE WAY WHO CAUGHT THE ERROR, THE AMERICAN PILOT SAID WAIT A MINUTE, DO YOU HAVE SOMEONE TAKING OFF ON 28 THE TOWER SAID GO AROUND, WAVE OFF, THE AMERICAN PILOT DID, THANKFULLY EVERYBODY WAS SAFE. THIS WAS A VERY CLOSE CALL WE BELIEVE THAT THERE WAS ONLY 700 FEET DISTANCE BETWEEN THES TWO PLANES - >> PUT THAT INTO CONTEXT, MEAN, THAT'S LIKE LOOKING OUT, YOU CAN SEE THE PLANE -- >> HERE'S THE PROBLEM, ONE PLANE'S BELOW THE OTHER. SO YOU COULD NOT SEE THE PLANE BELOW YOU. >> OKAY. >> RIGHT THERE THAT'S DANGEROUS. THE QUESTION IS WHY DID THIS HAPPEN WAS IT A CONTROLLER ERROR? A PILOT ERROR? THE FAA SAYS IT'S LOOKING INTO HOW THIS HAPPENED. I THINK YOU'VE GOT TO BE WONDERING WHETHER THE AI CONTROLLER PLAYED A ROLE >> EXPLAIN THAT. >> YOU MAY RECALL THE AUSTIN CASE WE HAD 18 MONTHS AGO. QUITE LITERALLY A FEDEX PLAN WAS CLEARED TO LAND ON A RUNWA AND THERE WAS A SOUTHWEST PLAN DEPARTING OFF THAT SAME RUNWAY REMEMBER THAT? AND THEY LITERALLY DID A G AROUND RIGHT OVER THE TOP OF THE SOUTHWEST PLANE BECAUSE IT WAS FOGGY AT THE TIME AND TH CONTROLLER CLEARED THE FEDEX PLANE TO LAND RIGHT ON THE SAM RUNWAY THAT A SOUTHWEST PLAN WAS ON THANKFULLY, THEY SAW THE ERROR THEY WAVED OFF IT WAS THE FEDEX PLANE THAT SAID WE'RE OUT OF HERE, WE'RE LEAVING. SO THE QUESTION IS DID SOMETHING LIKE THAT HAPPEN IN SYRACUSE THE FAA IS CLEARLY VER CONCERNED ABOUT THIS >> TOUCH BASE ON WHAT HAPPENED WITH THAT UNITED ISSUE, TH WHEEL FALLING OFF. THAT'S NOT A GOOD THING. >> DON'T LOVE TO HEAR THAT >> THERE ARE EIGHT TIRES UNDERNEATH THE 757 LANDING GEAR, RIGHT, SO YOU DON'T WANT TO LOSE A TIRE, THE PLANE GOING ON T DENVER, IT LANDED SAFELY EVERYTHING'S FINE. THE FAA ALREADY HAS UNITED'S MAINTENANCE OPERATIONS UNDER SCRUTINY BECAUSE OF A SERIES O MISHAPS. SO THIS IS NOW GOING TO HAVE THEM DRILL DOWN GONE ON WHAT'S HAPPENING AT UNITED. NOT A BOEING ISSUE, UNITED >> THAT'S RIGHT, IT'S UP TO TH AIRLINE NOT THE MANUFACTURER T KEEP UP MAINTENANCE ON THOSE PLANES >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> TOM COSTELLO, APPRECIATE IT WE'VE GOT A LOT MORE TO GET TO BECAUSE ANY MINUTE WE EXPECT T HEAR FROM PRESIDENT BIDEN AT THAT NATO SUMMIT THAT. SHOULD BE COMING UP IN MAYBE THE NEXT THREE, FOUR MINUTES WE'RE GOING TO TRY TO SNEAK IN A QUICK BREAK BEFOREHAND STAY WITH US >>> WE ARE BACK HERE ON "NBC NEWS NOW" WITH SOME BREAKING NEWS YOU ARE NOW SEEING THE HEAD OF NATO SPEAKING AT THAT SUMMIT NOT FAR FROM WHERE WE'RE SITTING NEAR WASHINGTON, D.C WHY ARE WE SHOWING IT TO YOU BECAUSE THIS IS A CRITICAL TES FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN TO A DEGRE AS HE IS NOW FACING WHAT MAY B THE MOST DIFFICULT 12, 13 DAYS OF HIS CAMPAIGN YET. AFTER THAT DEBATE PERFORMANC ABOUT TWO WEEKS AGO, WIDEL PANNED AS DISASTROUS FOR HIS CAMPAIGN AND PERHAPS FOR HIS CANDIDACY. WE KNOW THAT AT LEAST NOW NINE DEMOCRATIC LAWMAKERS, NINE SITTING MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AR PUBLICLY CALLING FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN TO PULL HIS NAME OFF THE 2024 TICKET. THEY SIMPLY DO NOT THINK THE DEMOCRATS CAN WIN AND CAN BEAT FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP I PRESIDENT BIDEN STAYS IN THE RACE HOWEVER, OTHER DEMOCRATS BELIEVE THE PARTY SHOULD UNIFY BEHIN THE PRESIDENT AS HE HIMSEL INSISTS HE IS STAYING IN THI RACE, THAT HE IS, IN HIS WORDS IN IT TO WIN IT. SO WHAT YOU'RE ABOUT TO SEE AN MINUTE NOW IS PRESIDENT BIDE STEP UP TO THE MICROPHONE ON THE WORLD STAGE, EVEN AS, REMEMBER NBC NEWS HAS REPORTED THAT SOM ALLIES ARE NOW MORE CONCERNE ABOUT THE PROSPECT OF A SECOND TRUMP TERM INTERNATIONALLY WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE IN WASHINGTON IS HAVING A RIPPL EFFECT AROUND THE WORLD, S PRESIDENT BIDEN WILL DELIVER REMARKS. NOW, A COUPLE OF CAVEATS HERE. THESE WILL BE SCRIPTED, OFF TH TELEPROMPTER FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN. IT IS NOT A LIVE SETTING, LIVE, UNSCRIPTED SETTING YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THAT, IN FACT, ABOUT 48 HOURS FROM NO WHEN THE PRESIDENT IS THE SOLO NEWS CONFERENCE, A LENGTHY NEW CONFERENCE, IT'S BELIEVED, A LEAST THAT'S WHAT HIS TEAM I SUGGESTING AND HINTING AT, WHE HE'LL ESPEAK WITH MEMBERS OF THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS AN OTHERS, TAKING QUESTIONS ON HI AGE, HIS STAMINA, ON HIS FITNESS FOR OFFICE THIS IS AS NBC NEWS HAS REPORTED THE PRESIDENT HIMSELF HA SUGGESTED TO ALLIES, T DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS THAT HE NEEDS TO GET A LITTLE BIT MORE REST WONDERING IF THAT IS SOMETHING THAT MAY HELP, THAT HE PERHAPS IS WORKING TOO HARD, BURNING THE CANDLE TOO MUCH. I'M PARAPHRASING HERE. THE WHITE HOUSE TODAY INSISTIN THAT HE CAN, THAT HE WILL, THA HE WILL REMAIN ON THE TICKET A HIS CAMPAIGN HAS BEEN FIRM O THAT AS WELL WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TEA COVERAGE OF ALL OF THIS, O COURSE, AS IT CONTINUES ON, BU FOR NOW WE WANT TO CONTINUE ON MORE LIVE LOOK AT THE NATO SUMMIT IN WASHINGTON HEAD OF NATO SPEAKING. NOW, REMEMBER, THERE'S A LOT O THE PRESIDENT'S PLATE, A LOT O THE WHITE HOUSE'S PLATE AS THE PRESIDENT IS SPEAKING. NOT JUST, OBVIOUSLY, ON POLITICS HERE AT HOME BUT O INTERNATIONAL MATTERS AS WELL. WE KNOW PRESIDENT BIDEN IS EXPECTED TO MEET WITH THE BRAN NEW UK PRIME MINISTER STARMER ON THE SIDELINES OF THIS SUMMIT AND IT'S ALL HAPPENING, OF COURSE AS THE RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE CONTINUES TO MAKE HEADLINES WITH YET ANOTHER ATTACK, THIS ONE ON A CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL THAT REPORTEDLY KILLE DOZENS OF PEOPLE WE TOLD YOU ABOUT THAT JUS RECENTLY ON THE SHOW SIT EXPECTED, ACCORDING TO A SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL THAT THERE WILL BE NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS ON SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE. THIS IS SOMETHING YOU'VE SEE THE NATO ALLIANCE RALLY AROUND AS THEY LOOK TO MAKE SURE THAT UKRAINE FEELS SUPPORTED, THA THEIR ALLIES FEEL SUPPORTED IN THE FIGHT AGAINST MOSCOW, IN THE FIGHT AGAINST RUSSIA NOW, REMEMBER PRESIDENT BIDE AND HIS CAMPAIGN HAVE MADE FOREIGN POLICY A CRITICAL PART OF HIS CONTRACT WITH FORME PRESIDENT TRUMP SUGGESTING THA HE IS, IN FACT, THE BEST PERSO TO LEAD AMERICA FORWARD ON THE WORLD STAGE, THAT HE'S BES POSITIONED TO KEEP ALLIANCES STRONG, UNLIKE, IN HIS VIEW, AND IN DEMOCRATS' VIEW, FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP. BUT REMEMBER THE FOREIGN POLIC IS JUST NOT SOMETHING THAT TENDS TO DRIVE VOTERS TO THE POLLS WE SEE IT IN THE NUMBERS THA THE ECONOMY AND IMMIGRATIO CONSISTENTLY TEND TO BE AT THE TOP OF THAT TICKET I WANT TO SNEAK IN AARON GILCHRIST WHO IS WATCHING THIS AS WELL BEFORE WE GET TO PRESIDENT BIDEN, AARON >> Reporter: HALLIE, WE'VE BEE LISTENING BO THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE NATO SUMMIT HERE THAT IS -- RIGHT NOW YOU'R LOOKING AT THE SECRETARY GENERAL OF NATO SPEAKING AT LENGTH HER ABOUT THE HISTORY OF NATO, ITS VALUE AS A GLOBAL ALLIANCE THA THIS IS CREATING A DEFENSE MECHANISM FOR EUROPEAN COUNTRIES AND OTHER COUNTRIES THAT ARE PART OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC THIS. VENUE WHERE YOU SEE TH SECRETARY GENERAL SPEAKING I WHERE THE WASHINGTON TREATY WA SIGNED, THE NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION FORMED WIT THE 12 ORIGINAL COUNTRIES COMING TOGETHER TO SAY THAT THERE WAS A NEED TO BE ABLE TO CREATE THIS DEFENSE ORGANIZATION THAT COUL STAND UP TO THE SOVIET UNION SECRETARY GENERAL SPOKE IN THE LAST COUPLE OF MINUTES HERE HA BEEN TALKING ABOUT THE CURRENT THREAT THAT RUSSIA POSES NOT ONLY TO UKRAINE, HE SAID, BUT TO OTHER COUNTRIES THAT ARE PART OF THE NATO ALLIANCE, OTHER COUNTRIES IN EUROPE AND, OBVIOUSLY, THE CANADIANS AND THE AMERICANS ARE A PART OF THIS ALLIANCE AS WELL AND SO TODAY I THINK WHAT WE'R GOING TO SEE AFTER THE SECRETARY GENERAL FINISHES SPEAKING IS PRESIDENT BIDEN TAKE THE LECTURN HERE AND TALK ABOUT THE HISTOR OF NATO AND THE VALUE NATO HAS TODAY AND HIS ROLE AS TH PRESIDENT IN MAKING SURE THA ALLIANCE IS STRONG PRESIDENT BIDEN HAS SPOKEN SEVERAL TIMES, PARTICULARLY OVER THE LAST SEVERAL WEEK, ABOUT THE STANDING OF AMERICA ON THE WORLD STAGE AND HIS EFFORTS TO REINVIGORATE THE STANDING OF THE UNITED STATES ON THE WORLD STAGE AND HIS EFFORTS TO GROW TH NORTH ATLANTIC TREAT ORGANIZATION WE KNOW THAT THERE HAVE BEEN TWO COUNTRIES THIS YEAR THAT WER ADDED TO NATO, AND NOW WE EXPECT TO HEAR FROM THE PRESIDENT >> AARON GILCHRIST, THANK YOU. WE ARE JUST MOMENTS AWAY NOW FROM PRESIDENT BIDEN YOU SAW BOTH HIM AND THE FIRST LADY IN THE FRONT ROW THERE AT THIS NATO SUMMIT IN WASHINGTON AN NBC NEWS SPECIAL REPORT >> THIS IS AN NBC NEWS SPECIAL REPORT HERE'S LESTER HOLT >> WE ARE COMING ON THE AIR WITH BREAKING NEWS IN WASHINGTO WHERE PRESIDENT BIDEN IS SET T SPEAK AT A HIGH STAKES SUMMI WITH WORLD LEADERS THE PRESIDENT HOSTING LEADER FROM NATO TO CELEBRATE ITS 75t ANNIVERSARY AND SHORE UP SUPPORT FOR THE WAR IN UKRAINE BUT THE INTERNATIONAL SUMMIT COMES AS THE PRESIDENT CONTAIN DOMESTIC FALLOUT AT HOME DEMOCRATS STILL WEIGHING WHETHER TO REPLACE HIM AS THE PARTY' NOMINEE AFTER HIS DEBATE PERFORMANCE AGAINST FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP. AND TODAY'S SUMMIT BEING VIEWE CLOSELY AS A MAJOR TEST AS H INSISTS HE IS NOT LEAVING TH RACE I WANT TO GO STRAIGHT TO OUR SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT KELLY O'DONNELL, KELLY, WHAT CAN WE EXPECT FROM THE PRESIDENT HERE >> WELL, THIS IS A WORLD STAGE MOMENT IN HIS OWN BACKYARD HER IN WASHINGTON, D.C., WITH 38 LEADERS OF THE NATO NATIONS AN OTHER PARTNER NATIONS WHO AR HERE AND CERTAINLY ALL OF THEM IN INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP MEETING WILL ALSO BE TAKING A MEASURE OF THE MAN. SOME OF THEM MAY HAVE KNOWN HI OVER THE YEARS, EVEN DECADES OTHERS LIKE THE UNITED KINGDOM'S NEW PRIME MINISTER NEWER TO TH WORLD STAGE WITH MR. BIDEN, BU IT'S A CHANCE TO ASSESS HOW THEY THINK HE'S DOING AND A CHANC FOR THE PRESIDENT TO REASSUR DEMOCRATS IN HIS OWN PARTY LAWMAKERS, THE GENERAL PUBLIC -- WITH RE-ELECTION IN THE FALL SO FOR THE PRESIDENT THESE ARE KEY DAYS TO ALSO HIGHLIGHT ONE OF THE THINGS HE THINKS IS HIS GREATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT IN THI TERM, AND THAT IS BRINGING TOGETHER NATO PARTNERS T SUPPORT UKRAINE AT TIMES WHE THAT WAS DIFFICULT AND CHALLENGING AND IN MANY WAYS REMAINS SO THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS W EXPECT THE PRESIDENT WILL TALK ABOUT WHEN HE HONORS THE ANNIVERSARY OF NATO. WE EXPECT HIM TO SPEAK FOR TEN MINUTES OR SO, PERHAPS A BIT LONGER >> ALL RIGHT, WE'LL HAVE YOU STAND BY LET ME BRING IN HALLIE JACKSON HALLIE, IT'S HARD TO IMAGINE FOLKS DON'T WATCH MOMENTS LIKE THIS, SPEECHES LIKE THIS WITHOUT APPLYING A SHARPER DEGREE OF SCRUTINY ON THE PRESIDENT' WORDS AND ACTIONS. >> YEAH, PARTICULARLY AFTER WHAT HAS HAPPENED OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS. AND THAT GOES, LESTER, LIKEL FOR VIEWERS AT HOME AN LAWMAKERS ON CAPITOL HILL WITH AT LEAST NINE DEMOCRATIC MEMBERS OF CONGRESS CALLING ON PRESIDENT BIDEN TO WITHDRAW. THIS IS A SCRIPTED SETTING FOR HIM. IT IS NOT THAT LIVE, UNSCRIPTED, IMPROMPTU SETTING THAT YOU'R GOING TO SEE IN 48 HOURS AT THAT POTENTIALLY LENGTHY PRES CONFERENCE WHERE HE WILL UNDOUBTEDLY BE PEPPERED WITH QUESTIONS ABOUT HIS AGE, ABOUT HIS STAMINA, ABOUT HIS FITNESS FOR OFFICE AT THIS MOMENT, LESTER, BUT A KEY MOMENT FOR HIM ON THE WORLD STAGE NOW, LESTER >> THAT PRESS CONFERENCE LATER IN THE WEEK AND A LOT OF EXPECTATION ABOUT THIS HERE IS THE PRESIDENT NO APPROACHING THE PODIUM AT TH 75th ANNIVERSARY OF NATO >> GOOD EVENING.>> GOOD EVENING. WELCOME.WELCOME. 1949 -- CAME TOGETHER IN THI VERY ROOM, HISTORY WAS WATCHING. IT HAD BEEN FOUR YEARS SINCE THE SURRENDER OF THE AXIS POWERS THE END OF THE MOST DEVASTATIN WORLD WAR THE WORLD HAD EVER EVER KNOWN HERE THESE 12 LEADERS GATHERED TO MAKE A SACRED PLEDGE, DEFEN EACH OTHER AGAINST AGGRESSION, PROVIDE THE COLLECTIVE SECURITY, AND TO ANSWER THREATS AS ONE BECAUSE THEY KNEW TO PREVENT FUTURE WARS, TO PROTEC DEMOCRACIES, TO LAY THE GROUND WORK FOR LASTING PEACE AND PROSPERITY, THEY NEEDED A NE APPROACH THEY NEEDED TO COMBINE THEIR STRENGTH THEY NEEDED ALLIANCE AND HERE THEY SIGNED THE WASHINGTON TREATY AND CREATE THE NORTH ATLANTIC TREAT ORGANIZATION THE SINGLE GREATEST, MOS EFFECTIVE OFFENSIVE LINE IN TH HISTORY OF THE WORLD THE SECRETARY GENERAL, LEADERS OF NATO COUNTRIES, REPRESENTATIVES FROM NATIONS THE EUROPEAN UNION, MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, ESTABLISHED GUESTS WELCOME, WELCOME TO THE 2024 NATO SUMMIT. IT'S A PLEASURE. IT'S A PLEASURE TO HOST YOU IN THIS MILESTONE YEAR, TO LOOK BACK WITH PRIDE AT ALL WE'VE ACHIEVED AND LOOK AHEAD FOR SHARED FUTURE WITH STRENGTH AN WITH RESOLVE TOGETHER WE REBUILD EUROPE FRO THE RUINS OF WAR, HELD HIGH TH TORCH OF LIBERTY THROUGH LON DECADES OF THE COLD WAR. FORMER ADVERSARIES BECAME FELLOW DEMOCRACY, WE WELCOMED THEM INTO THE ALLIANCE WHEN WAR BROKE OUT IN THE BALL CANS, WE INTERVENED. OUR NATO ALLIES STOOD WITH US, INVOKING ARTICLE FIVE FOR TH FIRST TIME IN NATO HISTORY TREATING AN ATTACK ON US AS AN ATTACK ON ALL OF US. A BREATHTAKING DISPLAY O FRIENDSHIP THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WILL NEVER, EVER, EVE FORGET THROUGH ALL THIS HISTORY, WHEN GREAT CHANGES OCCURRED, PEOPLE WOULD ASK, CAN NATO ADAPT? AND EVERY TIME WE PROVED W COULD ADAPT AND WE DID EVOLVING OUR STRATEGY TO STA AHEAD OF THREATS, REACHING OUT TO NEW PARTNERS TO INCREASE OU EFFECTIVENESS. THEY'RE HERE BECAUSE THEY HAVE A STAKE IN OUR SUCCESS, AND WE HAVE A STAKE IN THEIRS TODAY NATO IS MORE POWERFUL THAN EVER 32 NATIONS STRONG. FOR YEARS FINLAND AND SWEDEN WERE AMONG OUR CLOSEST PARTNERS. NOW THEY HAVE CHOSEN T OFFICIALLY JOIN NATO BECAUSE O THE POWER, THE MEANING O ARTICLE FIVE GUARANTEE, THAT'S THE REASON THE MOST IMPORTANT ASPECT OF THE ALLIANCE IN 1949, AND IT'S STILL THE MOST IMPORTANT ASPECT. I'D ALSO NOTE FINLAND AND SWEDEN JOINED THE ALLIANCE NOT JUST BECAUSE THEIR LEADERS SOUGHT IT, BECAUSE THEIR CITIZENS CALLE FOR IT IN OVERWHELMING NUMBERS REMEMBER, NATO'S CHARACTER I FUNDAMENTALLY DEMOCRATIC, ALWAYS HAS BEEN AND ALWAYS MUST CONTINUE TO BE AND TODAY NATO'S A BETTE RESOURCE THAN IT EVER HAS BEEN I WANT TO PAUSE ON THIS BECAUS IT'S SIGNIFICANT IN THE YEAR 2020, THE YEAR I WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT, ONLY NINE NATO ALLIES WERE SPENDING 2% O THEIR GDP ON DEFENSE THIS YEAR, 23 WILL SPEND A LEAST 2% AND SOME WILL SPEND MORE THA THAT AND THE REMAINING COUNTRIES THAT HAVE NOT YET REACHED THA MILESTONE WILL GET THERE SOON. THIS REMARKABLE PROGRESS, PROO THAT OUR COMMITMENT IS BROAD AND DEEP AND WE'RE READY AND WILLING. WE'RE ABLE TO DETER AGGRESSION AND DEFEND EVERY INCH OF NAT TERRITORY ACROSS EVERY DOMAIN, LAND, AIR, SEA, SOVEREIGN SPACE. MY FRIENDS, IT'S GOOD THAT WE'RE STRONGER THAN EVER BECAUSE THI MOMENT IN HISTORY CALLS FOR OU COLLECTIVE STRENGTH. AUTOCRATS HAVE OVERTURNED GLOBAL ORDER, WHICH WAS BY AND LARG KEPT FOR 80 YEARS AND COUNTING TERRORIST GROUPS CONTINUE TO PLOT EVIL SCHEME, CAUSE MAYHEM AND CHAOS AND SUFFERING. IN EUROPE, PUTIN'S WAR O AGGRESSION AGAINST UKRAINE CONTINUES. PUTIN WANTS NOTHING LESS NOTHING LESS, THAN UKRAINE'S T EN OF DEMOCRACY AND TO WIPE UKRAINE OFF THE MAP. AND WE KNOW PUTIN WON'T STOP A UKRAINE. MAKE NO MISTAKE, UKRAINE CAN AND WILL STOP PUTIN. ESPECIALLY WITH OUR FULL COLLECTIVE SUPPORT, THEY HAV OUR FULL SUPPORT -- THE ALLIANCE ACTED. MORE TROOPS, MORE AIRCRAFT, MORE CAPABILITIES AND NOW THE UNITED STATES HA MORE THAN 100,000 TROOPS ON TH CONTINENT OF EUROPE. NATO MOVES QUICKLY AS WELL NOT ONLY REINFORCING THE -- BU ALSO ADDING FOUR MORE IN BULGARIA, HUNGARY, ROMANIA, AN SLOVAKIA, ESSENTIALLY DOUBLING NATO'S PRESENCE ON THE EASTERN FLANK. TOGETHER WE BUILD A GLOBAL COALITION TO STAND WITH UKRAINE. TOGETHER WE PROVIDE SIGNIFICANT ECONOMIC AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE AN TOGETHER WE SUPPLIED UKRAINE WITH WEAPONS IT NEEDS TO DEFEN ITSELF, TANKS, FIGHTIN VEHICLES, AIR DEFENSE SYSTEM LONG RANGE MISSILES, AND MILLIONS OF MUNITIONS. UNITED STATES, NEARLY TWO DOZE ALLY PARTNERS HAVE SIGNED BILATERAL SECURITY AGREEMENT WITH UKRAINE, AND MORE COUNTRIES WILL FOLLOW. TODAY I'M ANNOUNCING AN HISTORIC DONATION OF AIR DEFENS EQUIPMENT FOR UKRAINE. THE UNITED STATES, GERMANY, TH NETHERLANDS, ROMANIA, AND ITAL WILL PROVIDE UKRAINE WITH TH EQUIPMENT FOR FIVE ADDITIONA AIR DEFENSE SYSTEMS. IN THE COMING MONTHS, THE UNITED STATES AND OUR PARTNERS INTEND TO PROVIDE UKRAINE WITH DOZENS OF ADDITIONAL TACTICAL AIR DEFENSE SYSTEMS. THE UNITED STATES WILL MAKE SURE THAT WHEN WE NEXT -- UKRAINE GOES TO THE FRONT OF THE LINE. THEY WILL GET THIS ASSISTANC BEFORE ANYONE ELSE GETS IT ALL TOLD, UKRAINE WILL RECEIVE HUNDREDS OF ADDITIONAL INTERCEPTERS OVER THE NEXT YEAR, TO PROTECT UKRAINIAN CITIE AGAINST RUSSIAN MISSILES UKRAINIAN TROOPS FACING THEI ATTACKS ON THE FRONT LINES MAKE NO MISTAKE, RUSSIA IS FAILING IN THIS WAR. OVER THREE YEARS INTO PUTIN' WAR OF CHOICE, HIS LOSSES AR STAGGERING MORE THAN 350,000 RUSSIAN TROOPS DEAD OR WOUNDED. NEARLY 1 MILLION RUSSIANS, MAN OF THEM YOUNG PEOPLE, HAVE LEF RUSSIA BECAUSE THEY NO LONGE SEE A FUTURE IN RUSSIA AND KYIV, REMEMBER FELLAS AN LADIES, SUPPOSED TO FALL THE FIVE DAYS, REMEMBER? STILL STANDING TWO AND A HAL YEARS LATER AND WILL CONTINUE TO STAND. ALL THE ALLIES KNEW BEFORE ALL I WAR PUTIN THOUGHT NATO WOULD BREAK. TODAY NATO IS STRONGER THAN IT'S EVER BEEN IN ITS HISTORY WHEN THIS SENSELESS WAR BEGAN, UKRAINE WAS A FREE COUNTRY TODAY IT IS STILL A FREE COUNTRY, AND THE WORLD WILL EN WITH UKRAINE REMAINING A FRE AND INDEPENDENT COUNTRY. RUSSIA WILL NOT PREVAIL. UKRAINE WILL PREVAIL LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, LET'S GIVE A MOMENT FOR EUROPE, FOR THE TRANSLANTIC COMMUNITY, AND FOR THE WORLD, IT WASN'T INEVITABLE, AGAIN AND AGAIN AT CRITICA MOMENTS WE CHOSE UNITY OVE DISUNION, PROGRESS OVER RETREAT, FREEDOM OVER TYRANNY, HOPE OVE FEAR, AGAIN AND AGAIN WE STOOD BEHIND OUR SHARED VISION OF PEACEFUL AND PROSPEROU TRANSATLANTIC COMMUNITY. HERE AT THIS SUMMIT WE'VE GOT TO PROCLAIM NATO IS READY AND ABL TO SECURE THAT VISION TODAY AN WELL INTO THE FUTURE LET ME SAY THIS, AN OVERWHELMING BIPARTISAN MAJORITY OF AMERICANS UNDERSTAND THAT NATO MAKES U ALL SAFER. THE FACT THAT BOTH DEMOCRAT AN REPUBLICAN PARTIES ARE REPRESENTED HERE TODAY IS TESTAMENT TO THAT FACT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE KNOW WIT ALL THE PROGRESS WE'VE MADE IN THE PAST 75 YEARS HAS HAPPENED BEHIND THE SHIELD OF NATO. AND AMERICANS UNDERSTAND WHA WOULD HAPPEN IF THERE WAS NO NATO ANOTHER WAR IN EUROPE. AMERICAN TROOPS FIGHTING AND DYING. DICTATORS SPREADING CHAOS. ECONOMIC COLLAPSE. CATASTROPHE. AMERICANS, THEY KNOW WE'RE STRONGER WITH OUR FRIENDS, AND WE UNDERSTAND THIS IS A SACRED OBLIGATION AS PRESIDENT REAGAN PUT IT, AN I QUOTE, IF OUR FELLOW DEMOCRACY IS NOT SECURE, WE CANNOT B SECURE IF YOU ARE THREATENED, WE AR THREATENED IF YOU'RE NOT AT PEACE, WE CANNOT BE AT PEACE REAGAN KNEW IT THEN, WE KNOW I NOW, OUR NATIONS WILL CONTINUE TO KEEP FAITH WITH WHAT WE PLEDGED IN YEARS TO COME NOW IF YOU'LL INDULGE ME, I' LIKE TO END THESE REMARKS IN A FAIRLY UNUSUAL WAY NATO IS AN ALLIANCE OF NATIONS WE'RE ALSO MADE UP OF LEADERS. AND ONE PERSON IN PARTICULAR HAS THE DONE AN EXTRAORDINARY JO LEADING NATO FOR THE LAS DECADE SECRETARY GENERAL, WILL YOU COME FORWARD? SO MUCH OF THESO MUC PROGRESSH MADE THE THANKS PROGRESS WE MAD IN THE ALLIANCE IS THANKS TO THE SECRETARY. HE'S A MAN OF INTEGRITY AN INTELLECTUAL RIGOR, A CONSUMMATE DIPLOMAT WHO WORKS WITH LEADER ACROSS THE POLITICAL SPECTRU AND ALWAYS FINDS A WAY TO KEEP US MOVING FORWARD. SECRETARY, YOU'VE GUIDED THI ALLIANCES THROUGH ONE OF ITS MOST CONSEQUENTIAL PERIODS I HISTORY, I REALIZED TALKING TO YOUR WIFE I PERSONALLY ASK YOU TO EXTEND YOUR SERVICE FORGIVE ME CAN YOU PUT YOUR OWN PLANS O HOLD, WHEN THE RUSSIAN WAR I UKRAINE BEGAN, YOU DIDN' HESITATE TODAY NATO'S STRONGER, SMARTER AND MORE ENERGIZED THAN WHEN YOU BEGAN. AND A BILLION PEOPLE ACROS NORTH AMERICA, INDEED THE WHOL WORLD, WILL REAP THE REWARDS O YOUR LABOR FOR YEARS TO COME IN THE FORM OF OPPORTUNITY SECURITY, AND GREATER FREEDOM, FOR THESE REASONS, I'M PLEASED TO GIVE YOU THE PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM AND ASK THEM TO READ THE CITATION.I'LL [ APPLAUSE ] ASK YOU TO READ THE CITATION >> PRESIDENT BIDEN NEARING THE END OF HIS REMARKS THERE SPEAKING AT A GATHERING OF WORLD LEADERS, NATO, MARKING THE 75t ANNIVERSARY. MORE POWERFUL THAN EVER. HE TALKED ABOUT THE ENDURING STRENGTH OF THE NATO ALLIANCE, BUT IT WAS CLEARLY A MESSAGE BEING SENT TO RUSSIA AND VLADIMIR PUTIN ABOUT NATO' RESOLVE TO CONTINUE TO SUPPORT AND HELP DEFEND UKRAINE. LET'S GO TO OUR SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT HALLI JACKSON. HALLIE, AS WE WATCH THIS, IT'S HARD NOT TO THINK HALLIE JACKSON. THERE WERE A COUPLE OF AUDIENCES THAT WERE IMPORTANT. CERTAINLY A DOMESTIC AUDIENCE. >> YOU SAID IT, LESTER. I JUST WENT THROUGH MY HEAD. THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF ADDITIONAL HELP TO UKRAINE.ATO STANDS WITH UKR MAKING IT VERY CLEAR THAT NATO STANDS WITH UKRAINE. AND THERE'S A MESSAGE ALSO TO THOSE IN THE ROOM FOR THE WORLD LEADERS. SAYING THAT HE IS STRONG ENOUGH AND RIGOROUS ENOUGH FOR ANOTHER FOUR YEARS. AND OF COURSE, THE MESSAGE TO VOTERS, THE CASE HE'S BEEN TRYING TO MAKE SINCE THE DEBATE PERFORMANCE WAS WIDELY PANNED AS DISASTROUS. HE SEEMED VIGOROUS, AND UP TO THE TASK. ALL OF THAT SAID, THERE IS STILL A BLAND RESIGNATION -- RECOGNITION, SUGGESTING YOU NEED TO GET BEHIND THEM. COMING OUT, PUBLICLY CALLING ON HIM TO WITHDRAW. AND I HAVE SUGGESTED THAT IN AT LEAST THREE SWING STREETS -- STATES, PRESENTING TO BE VICTORIOUS. AND THIS IS JUST OUT IN THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS, SHOWING HE CONTINUES TO TRAIL IN 5 OF THE 7 INSIDE THE MARGIN OF ERROR. LISTEN, IMPORTANT MOMENT FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN. SPENT WE'VE BEEN WATCHING THE PRESIDENT CONCLUDE HIS REMARK, AWARDING THE PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM. LET'S BRING BACK OUR SENIOR WHITE HOUSE COURSE BY THE, KELLY O'DONNELL. KELLY, WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS AS YOU ARE WATCHING? >> SPECIFICALLY, THE AWARDING OF THE FREEDOM. IT IS A GRAND GESTURE THAT IS MET TO CARRY A MESSAGE PARTICULARLY TO THOSE IN CONGRESS WHO HAVE NOT BEEN SUPPORTIVE OF UKRAINE, AND A SHOW OF SUPPORT. SO THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT THE WHITE HOUSE HAD NOT TOLD US ABOUT IN ADVANCE. AND THAT IT IS A SIGN OF THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING THE HOST NATION OF THIS. THE PRESIDENT WAS ABLE TO WORK THROUGH THIS SPEECH IN A STRONG VOICE, DECLARING THE KEY PRINCIPLES OF HIS VIEWS ON NATO AS THIS CONFERENCE GETS UNDERWAY. AND AS YOU POINTED OUT ON THURSDAY, ACCEPTING THAT THERE WILL BE A PRESS CONFERENCE. AND WHAT WE DO KNOW FROM OUR PLANNING, EXPECTING TO HAVE MORE THAN THE TYPICAL NUMBER OF RUSSIANS WE EAT. ANOTHER WORLD LEADER STANDING NEXT TO HIM. AND THERE ARE TWO QUESTIONS FROM THE WORLD LEADER DELEGATION. WE ARE TOLD THAT THE PRESIDENT WILL TAKE MORE QUESTIONS FROM THAT THURSDAY, AND THAT WILL BE SOMETHING TO WATCH VERY LOOSELY. >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THAT CONCLUDES THIS SPECIAL REPORT. ON MY AT -- ONLINE AT NBCNEWS.COM. I AM LESTER POLK. THANK YOU FOR WATCHING. >> YOU BEEN WATCHING THAT NBC NEWS SPECIAL REPORT AS PRESIDENT BIDEN MAKES THOSE REMARKS TO WORLD LEADERS AT THE OPENING OF THE NATO SUMMIT. CLEARLY THE PRESIDENT, APPEARING ENERGETIC AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF HIS CAMPAIGN, NOW IN TRIAGE MODE. TRYING TO STOP THE POLITICAL BLEEDING. MEETING WITH KEY DEMOCRATIC LEADERS, MAYORS, ACCORDING TO A COUPLE OF SOURCES. A NUMBER OF HOUSE DEMOCRATS, CALLING FOR HIM TO STEP ASIDE. WE GOT COVERAGE ON CAPITOL HILL. I WANT TO START WITH AARON GILCHRIST WAS LIVE OUTSIDE OF THAT NATO SUMMIT. IN THIS INSTANCE, DESPITE THE INVASION OF RETURNING -- UKRAINE , IN SO MANY WAYS, FRONT AND CENTER HERE. >> YEAH, YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. THERE'S BEEN A CONSTANT CONVERSATION ABOUT WHETHER PRESIDENT BIDEN IS GOING TO BE ABLE TO HOLD UP, IF YOU WILL, THROUGH THE COURSE OF THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS OF CAMPAIGNING. THAT THERE WOULD BE THIS VERY SPRITE -- VERY BRIGHT SPOTLIGHT. AND THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME WE'VE SEEN THE PRESIDENT ON THE WORLD STAGE, A GLOBAL STAGE SINCE THAT DEBATE A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO NOW. WE'VE SEEN THE PRESIDENT TRY TO ENGAGE WITH MEMBERS OF THE PARTY WITH PHONE CALLS THAT HE'S HAD WITH DIFFERENT MEMBERS AND DIFFERENT GROUPS OF CONGRESS, AS WELL AS GOVERNORS FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THAT THE PRESIDENT HAD TO RISE TO THE OCCASION OF A GLOBAL AUDIENCE, DELIVERING A MESSAGE THERE. IT SOUNDED STRONG. THE PRESIDENT TALKED ABOUT HIS BELIEVE THAT -- HIS BELIEF THAT UKRAINE CAN. THAT RUSSIA WILL NOT PREVAIL AGAINST THE WAR AGAINST UKRAINE. AS WELL AS OTHER LEADERS AROUND THE WORLD. ALSO HEARING THAT THEY ARE DONATING SOME DEFENSE EQUIPMENT. THIS IS ALONG WITH THE GERMANS AND ROMANIANS, AS WELL. THIS IS SOMETHING THE ADMINISTRATION HAS BEEN TRYING TO DO. ABLE TO SEND MONEY AND EQUIPMENT TO UKRAINE IN ORDER TO SHOW OFF DEFENSES, MAKING IT MORE CAPABLE OF HOLDING OFF RUSSIA. THIS IS A MESSAGE WE WILL CONTINUE TO SEE THE PRESIDENT PUSH. AND THE WHITE HOUSE HAS SAID THAT IS THE MESSAGE WE'VE BEEN HEARING. PRESIDENT BIDEN IS UP TO THE JOB, AND THAT WE SHOULD WATCH HIM THROUGH THE COURSE OF THE EVENTS. >> IN SOME WAYS, AARON, THIS SEEMS TO BE SOMEWHAT REMINISCENT OF THE SPEECH. ALSO FOR OTHER REASONS. A LOT OF HIS ALLIES SAW THIS AS AN ENERGETIC PERFORMANCE, IF YOU WILL. AGAIN IN HIS SPEECH, YOU KNOW, LONGER THAN ONE OR TWO MINUTES. HE HAD A SCRIPT WHERE HE KNEW WHAT HE WAS GOING TO SAY. THAT IS NOT GOING TO BE THE CASE FOR EVERY MINUTE OF THE NEXT 48 HOURS. FOR OTHER WORLD LEADERS -- MIGHT BE ABLE TO SHOT A QUESTION OR TWO. SO THERE ARE SOME OTHER KEY MOMENTS TO WATCH HERE. >> YEAH, YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. PLANNING TO MEET ON THURSDAY. THE LARGER NATO SUMMIT WILL BE HAPPENING. THESE ARE THE OPPORTUNITIES WERE WITHOUT QUESTION, HOPING FOR THE PRESIDENT TO ANSWER SOME OF THEM. CERTAINLY, THE PRESIDENT WILL HAVE A LONG LIST OF QUESTIONS DIRECTED AT HIM, BOTH ABOUT HIS HEALTH, I WOULD IMAGINE. IN CHOOSING TO CONTINUE THE CAMPAIGN, REGAINING SOME OF THE SUPPORT IN THE DEBATE PERFORMANCE. I WOULD IMAGINE THIS IS THE SAME WAY HE DID YESTERDAY ON MSNBC. HE CLEARLY WAS FED UP WITH THE CONVERSATION AROUND WHETHER HE COULD CONTINUE TO MOUNT THIS RE- ELECTION CAMPAIGN. WE KNOW IT WILL BE BACK ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL FRIDAY IN MICHIGAN. >> AARON GILCHRIST, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT. INTERESTING NEWS COMING OUT IN JUST THE LAST HOUR. IT IS CONSIDERED -- AND IN THE LAST LITTLE BIT, THEY HAVE NOW SHIFTED THEIR PREDICTIONS. SEVERAL KEY BATTLEGROUND STATES. I MENTION THIS NOT BECAUSE THIS IS THE END ALL BE ALL, THIS IS IN IT, BUT IT'S ANOTHER ONE OF THE WARNING SIGNS. >> YEAH, THAT'S ABSOLUTELY RIGHT, HAILLE. INVOLVING PRESIDENT BIDEN. IT LOOKED LIKE HE HAD PUT A LID ON IT. A VERY PROMINENT ONE. IN THE CLASS OF 2018. ONE NOTABLE THING ABOUT HER AS OUR COLLEAGUE MIKE MEMOLI POINTS OUT, JOE BIDEN VISITING HER DISTRICT AND CAMPAIGNING WITH HER AS PART OF HER TRAVELS. SHE PUT OUT A STATEMENT SAYING, QUOTE, BECAUSE I KNOW THEY ARE SPEAKING ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THE COUNTRY, DECLARING THAT HE WON'T RUN FOR RE-ELECTION, LEADING US THROUGH A PROCESS TOWARD A NEW NOMINEE. HAVING BEEN A CRITICAL MASSIVE NEW MEMBER COMING OUT. ONE TOLD ME -- THIS PERSON MENTIONED THAT THE AGE ISSUE WILL OVERSHADOW EVERYTHING. AND THAT THEY WOULD BE BETTER OFF AT LEAST TRYING FOR A NEW CANDIDATE. YOU KNOW, KEEPING HIM AT THE TOP OF THE TICKET. ALSO, THIS IS WHAT HE SAID. >> DID YOU FEEL MORE PRODUCTIVE TODAY? >> DID YOU HAVE CONCERNS FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN? >> SERIOUS CONCERNS REMAIN AMONG DEMOCRATS. WHETHER THEY CAN WIN A REGULAR -- THE ELECTION AT THIS POINT. >> I SAW SOMEBODY USE THE PHRASE PASSIVE AGGRESSIVENESS. THEY ARE NOW PUBLICLY CALLING FOR THE PRESIDENT TO WITHDRAW FROM THE RACE. TALK US THROUGH THAT DYNAMIC HERE. >> THERE IS THE HESITATION ABOUT JOE BIDEN'S CANDIDACY. ONE THAT I LOOKED AT JUST IN THE LAST FEW MINUTES, DONALD TRUMP HAD JUST TWO POINTS. THAT IS A VERY SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME. REMEMBER, THEY WERE DECIDED AT THE END OF THE DAY. SENATE DEMOCRATS ARE CONCERNED, BECAUSE IT IS VERY RARE. JUST ONE CENTER OF ALL THE RACES HAS WON THIS DATE WHERE THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE OF THEIR PARTY HAS LOST. THEY HAVE VERY GOOD REASON TO FEAR. >> VERY -- THANK YOU SO MUCH. ALSO A LOT TO WATCH DOWN SOUTH ON THE WEATHER FRONT. DANGEROUS AND EXTREME SITUATIONS ON THE WAY HERE. I WANT TO SHOW YOU THIS. LOOK AT THE SCENE IN HOUSTON. THAT'S A HUGE TREE COLLAPSED UNDER THAT HOUSE. THIS IS NRG STADIUM. YOU CAN SEE STRAIGHT THROUGH DOWN TO THE SEAS BELOW. KILLING AT LEAST SEVEN PEOPLE ACROSS TEXAS. SUBSEQUENT HEAT WAVE AND POWER OUTAGES. WE TALK ABOUT THE HEAT, THAT'S MAKING A BAD SITUATION WORSE. THEY ARE LINING UP TO TRY TO GET GAS. BEING ABLE TO TRAVEL THAT THEY WANT TO GET OUT OF TOWN. BUT THINK ABOUT IT, THEY HAVE NO WAY TO KEEP THEIR FOOD COLD. SO AN EXTREMELY CONCERNING SITUATION. IT'S NOT JUST TEXAS BAKING IN THE SEAT EITHER. I WAS, ALSO SEEN PROBLEMS. ALL-TIME RECORD HIGHS. THIS IS THE SITUATION. WILDFIRES, LOOK AT THEM. IN THE TERRAIN, IS REALLY DIFFICULT. I WANT TO BRING IN STEVE PATTERSON. I WANT TO START WITH YOU. THERE IS DAMAGE ALMOST EVERYWHERE YOU GO. NOW WITH THE POWER OUTAGES OF THIS HEAT WAVE. >> YEAH, HAILLE. A LOT GOING ON HERE. THERE WAS A COUPLE THAT WAS INSIDE. THIS THAT YOU SEE HERE, THIS GIANT TREE SNAP, AND IT WENT RIGHT INTO THE ROOF. YOU SEE THAT MASSIVE HOLE TODAY. TRYING TO WORK WITH CREWS TO GET THAT TREE REMOVED. AND HOPING IT WILL PREVENT ANY FURTHER DAMAGE. A LOT OF CLEANUPS. ALSO AS YOU MENTIONED, JUST UNDER 2 MILLION PEOPLE ACROSS THE STATE OF TEXAS WITHOUT POWER, TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW THEY WILL STAY COOL. I MET A WOMAN, TRACY. SHE WAS JUST COMPLETELY FRUSTRATED. LISTEN TO WHAT SHE SAID ABOUT WHAT WAS GOING ON. >> NOT SO MUCH AS THE HURRICANE IS SELF. IT JUST PHYSICALLY MAKES YOU SICK. TO BE IN A HOT HOUSE, KNOWING THAT YOU HAVE -- >> WHAT DOES IT FEEL LIKE IN YOUR HOUSE RIGHT NOW QUICK >> SO THE HEAT, CERTAINLY COMPOUNDING THE ISSUES. >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. STEVE PATTERSON, LET ME GO TO YOU. THIS CAUSES SO MANY PROBLEMS. >> IS THE SAME THING. MORE THAN 20 MAJOR FIRES BURNING ACROSS THE STATE. OVER 1000 ACRES HERE COCO. AND OF COURSE, THE PARK FIVE. THIS HAS BEEN INCREDIBLE. IT IS BURNING NEAR SANTA BARBARA. 26,000 ACRES, 2400 FIREFIGHTERS ON THE FRONTLINE. ALL OF THEM ARE DEALING WITH THE FACT THAT IT IS EXTRAORDINARILY HOT. ALSO IN VERY DIFFICULT TERRAIN IN WHICH IS VERY INACCESSIBLE. THAT IS ALSO DIFFICULT BECAUSE IT IS LIKE ONE THING GETS ANOTHER THING. IT BEATS THE FLAMES, DRIVES OUT THE GRASP. THE FUEL CATCHES ON FIRE, AND THAT HE KEEPS BEATING THE FIRE THAT'S BURNING. IT'S GOOD, THEY ARE GETTING PROGRESS ON IT. LARGE AMOUNTS OF PEOPLE, WHICH IS GOOD. JUST MAYBE 100 OR SO. AND TRYING TO KEEP IT AWAY FROM THE COMMUNITY AND RANGES. THAT IS THEIR MISSION. THERE ARE SEVERAL. A LOT OF THEM HAVE PAYMENTS ON THEM. BECAUSE IT IS SO HOT, A SPARK FROM ONE OF THESE FIRES, WE'VE SEEN THIS HAPPEN OVER AND OVER AGAIN. SOMETHING LIKE 200,000 ACRES HAVE BURNED SO FAR THIS YEAR ALONE. IN JUNE, THAT'S EXTRAORDINARY TO THINK ABOUT. IT'S WAY, WAY MORE THAN LAST YEAR. WHEN IT REALLY GETS HOT, AND THE WIND REALLY START TO BREAK UP. THOUSANDS OF THEM ON THE FRONT LINE. >> STEVE PATTERSON, THANK YOU SO MUCH. THE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE, ALLEGEDLY SHOOTING AT THE SUSPECT THE CARJACKERS. AND THIS IS NOT FAR FROM HER HOME HERE IN WASHINGTON AND. WHAT DO YOU KNOW? >> ACCORDING TO THE INVESTIGATION THAT THIS ATTACK RAN DOWN A RANDOM CARJACKING. THIS HAPPENED IN THE EARLY MORNING HOURS OF JULY. JUST HOURS AFTER THE FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATIONS HERE. ACCORDING TO COURT DOCUMENTS, TWO U.S. MARSHALS WERE PARKED IN UNMARKED VEHICLES IN THIS AREA. THE SUSPECT APPROACHED ONE OF THE VEHICLES. THE U.S. MARSHALL OPENED FIRE, SHOOTING THIS IS THAT SEVERAL TIMES. SOME OF THEM, HITTING HIS FACE. HE SURVIVED. CARJACKINGS HAVE BEEN A PERSISTENT PROBLEM HERE IN THE CAPITOL . SPEAKING TO LOCAL RESIDENTS, THEY SAY THEY WERE NOT SURPRISED. TAKE A LISTEN. >> IT WAS NOT MORE THAN FOUR OH WALK AWAY FROM HERE. >> THIS IS NOT UNCOMMON. >> THIS IS NOT UNCOMMON. THIS IS DOWN DUE TO A CONSERVATIVE EFFORT BY LAWN FORCE. 60% COMPARED TO LAST YEAR. THEY HAVE MORE WORK TO DO. HAILLE? >> THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT. ALLIE BALDWIN'S MANSLAUGHTER CHARGER -- CHARGE, OFF TO A SLOW START. NARROWING DOWN THE LIST OF PEOPLE TO WHETHER OR NOT THE DEATH OF THE CINEMATOGRAPHER ON THE SET OF RUST. BALDWIN AND HIS ATTORNEY SAID BALDWIN DID NOT PULL THE TRIGGER. HE SAID HE MISFIRED A BULLET, BUT IT JURORS DECIDED UNANIMOUSLY, HE COULD FACE A YEAR AND A HALF IN PRISON. DANA GRIFFIN IS FILING THIS ONE FOR US. THIS IS A KEY MOMENT. ONE OF THE HIGHEST PROFILE NONPOLITICAL TRIALS OF THE YEAR. IN THE PROSECUTION AND THE DEFENSE COME THROUGH EVERYTHING. TALK US THROUGH IT. >> ABSOLUTELY. THIS IS IN THE CASE WHERE THEY ARE LOOKING FOR JURORS WHO HAVE NEVER READ ARE SEEN -- THE POTENTIAL JURORS THAT WERE QUESTIONED. SO THEIR GOAL IS TO FIND JURORS WITH THE RIGHT WHAT THEY KNOW ABOUT THE ACTOR, DESPITE WHAT THEY KNOW ABOUT THIS CASE, IF THEY CAN BE IMPARTIAL. STRICTLY THE EVIDENCE IN THIS CASE. THEY ARE STILL GOING THROUGH THAT QUESTION AND ANSWER PHASE AS WE SPEAK. 12 PEOPLE, +4 ALTERNATES. SEEING ALEC BALDWIN AS HE SHOWED UP THIS MORNING. ALSO, BALDWIN'S BROTHER BEING SPOTTED INSIDE THE JURY SELECTION. THEY WERE ALLOWED TO COME IN. THAT PROCESS -- WE DO HAVE A REPORTER IN THERE TAKING NOTES. A TON OF QUESTIONS ABOUT WHETHER THEY OWN GUNS, OR WHETHER THEY HAVE A WEAPONS PERMIT. WHETHER THEY LIKE THE ACTOR. HAILLE? >> IT COULD LAST FOR POTENTIALLY THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS HERE. THE OPENING ARGUMENTS AND PAYMENTS WILL BE REALLY CRITICAL HERE. >> THEY HAVE EIGHT DAYS FOR THIS CASE. ABOUT 5 OR 6. AND THERE WAS A KEY DECISION THAT CAME DOWN YESTERDAY THAT REALLY HELPED THE BALDWIN CASE. THE JURY WILL ONLY GET TWO-WAY EVIDENCE AGAINST ALEC BALDWIN THE ACTOR, NOT ALEC BALDWIN THE PRODUCER. THAT LIMITS WHAT CAN BE PRODUCED DURING THIS CASE. THEY'VE SHORTENED THEIR TIMEFRAME HERE. THIS IS BECAUSE OF AN EARLIER VIOLATION. WE KNOW HAZING HAS BEEN ON SO MANY COLLEGE CAMPUSES FOR DECADES. IT'S BEEN SEVERAL YEARS SINCE I HAZING DEATH ACTUALLY HAPPENED, WHILE THEY ARE STILL LOOKING INTO HIS CAUSE OF DEATH. THEY SAY ENTHUSIASM -- HE WAS A STUDENT MENTOR, A BANDLEADER. HE WAS EXPECTED TO GRADUATE IN 2026. >>> COMING UP ON THE SHOW, TRYING TO GET INTO THEIR RESTRICTED MEDICAL RECORDS. >>> HOW CREWS IN ARIZONA ARRESTED BY THE. WAIT NO-SHOW THAT'S YOUR FAVORITE NEW SHOW. NBC NEWS NOW. >>> DEFENSE PROSECUTORS ARE LOOKING INTO ADDITIONAL SEX A THOUGHT CLAIMS -- A THOUGHT CLAIMS. SAYING THAT THEY FELT COMFORTABLE ENOUGH TO SPEAK UP NOW. NEW CHARGES BROUGHT AGAINST WEINSTEIN IN JUST A COUPLE MONTHS. REMEMBER, HIS CONVICTION WAS OVERTURNED BACK IN APRIL. BRING US UP TO SPEED, JEFF. >> YEAH, HAILLE. TODAY IN COURT, PROSECUTORS REVEALED THAT THEY ARE LOOKING INTO CLAIMS OF RAPE FROM MULTIPLE WOMEN. THESE ARE NEW ALLEGATIONS THAT HAVE NOT BEEN TRIED. THIS IS A REVELATION THAT CAME OUT IN COURT TODAY. THEY SAID THEY ARE LOOKING INTO THIS AND INVESTIGATIONS ARE ONGOING. THIS COMES AT THE SAME TIME THAT WEINSTEIN'S DEFENSE TEAM IS ARGUING THAT THERE IS ESSENTIALLY A DELAY GOING ON HERE. THEY ARE ESSENTIALLY ARGUING THAT THE PROSECUTION IS LOOKING -- NOW THAT THE CASE HAS BEEN OVERTURNED. THIS IS WHAT WE HEARD EARLIER TODAY. >> WE WANT TO GO TO TRIAL. HE WANTS TO CLEAR HIS NAME. HE DIDN'T RAPE ANYBODY. HE IS INNOCENT OF THESE CHARGES. MET ALL OF THESE PLAYING OUT. IT IS BEING REVIEWED FOR APPEAL IN CALIFORNIA. OUR COLLEAGUE, ADAM REESE, WHO WAS IN COURT EARLIER TODAY. SAYING THAT WEINSTEIN APPEARED TO BE FRAIL. AND HIS ATTORNEYS CONTINUE TO LIST OFF SEVERAL MEDICAL ISSUES. HAILLE? >> JESSE, THANK YOU. >>> WITH RITUAL OVER TO THE FIVE THINGS OUR TEAM THINKS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT . NUMBER ONE, CHARGING A MAN WITH -- ON THE SIDEWALKS. TRYING TO ATTACK THE MAN. HE'S NOT BEEN CHARGED WITH MURDER YET. TODAY, CALLING THE WOMAN'S THAT INHUMANE. TRYING, BUT FAILING TO GET INTO PRESIDENT BIDEN'S MEDICAL RECORD. SAYING THAT THE PRESIDENTS PERSONAL INFORMATION IS NOT COMPROMISED. >>> NUMBER THREE, IN FRONT OF CONGRESS TODAY, SAYING THAT THE ECONOMY IN HIS WORDS, NO LONGER OVERSTATED. AND NOW, IT IS NOT JUST ABOUT TRYING TO BRING DOWN INFLATION. A BRIEF SIGNAL. NUMBER FOUR, LOOK AT THIS. RESCUING THE DRIVER. FIRST RESPONDERS, THEY LOWER A ROPE. THEN TRANSFERRED TO THE HELICOPTER. IT IS STILL NOT CLEAR. >>> MAKING THEMSELVES RIGHT AT HOME. THE MAIL, AND THE FEMALE ON THE RIGHT HAVE GONE VIRAL. I CAN'T BEAR THE CUTENESS. FINALLY GOT WHAT WE WILL ET AN EXACT DATE WHEN YOU CAN SEE ONE FOR YOURSELF. >>> JUST THE LAST HOUR OR SO, THE FEDERAL BRIBERY TRIAL AGAINST THE CITY SENATOR, SET TO WRAP UP POSING ARGUMENT TOMORROW AFTER ARGUING TODAY THAT PROSECUTORS HAVE SIMPLY MOVED IT FORWARD. THAT THEY HAVEN'T PROVEN ANYTHING. THIS IS TO THE BRIBES HE ALLEGEDLY RECEIVED. THIS IS AFTER PROSECUTOR SPENT HOURS IN THEIR CLOSING ARGUMENTS. SENATOR MENENDEZ -- ONE BY ONE. AND SAYING, QUOTE, CORRUPT POLITICIANS. MENENDEZ SPACES A BUNCH OF CHARGES HERE. BRIBERY, WIRE FRAUD, TO ALLEGEDLY WORK IN BEHALF OF ANOTHER FOREIGN COUNTRY. ALL STEMMING FROM FAVORS IN EXCHANGE FOR -- LIKE A NEW MERCEDES, GOLD BARS AND CASH FOUND THAT HIS HOUSE. THE SENATOR DENIES ALL WRONGDOING. THERE HAS BEEN ONE THREAD OVER THE LAST NINE PLUS WEEKS. A FEW MONTHS AGO GETTING THE STAKES FOR THIS TRIAL, AND WE ARE TALKING ABOUT IT AGAIN NOW. HAS THE DEFENSE PUT FORWARD STRONG ENOUGH EVIDENCE? TO SUPPORT THAT? >> RIGHT, HAILLE. THIS IS THE SAME AS THE OPENING STATEMENTS ON THAT SPECIFIC POINT. WHAT THEY ARE TRYING TO SAY, WHAT THEY SAID WHEN THIS TRIAL FIRST OPENED. HEY, THE GOLD BARS AND A LOT OF THIS CASH, YOU CLEARLY SAW THAT FROM THE PHOTOGRAPH THAT THE FBI TOOK WHEN THEY CONDUCTED THE SEARCH WARRANT. WHAT THEY WERE TRYING TO SAY TO THE DEFENSES, THEY ARE SAYING THE SENATOR IS DOING HIS WORK AS A SENATOR ON BEHALF OF THE CONSTITUENTS RAISING THEIR ISSUES. MEANWHILE, HE'S GETTING CASH, BUT YOU CAN PUT THOSE TWO THINGS TOGETHER. FEDERAL PROSECUTORS WOULD ARGUE DIFFERENTLY. AND TO YOUR POINT, GOING THROUGH ALL 18 COUNTS, SHOWING THROUGH THE ELEMENTS OF THE CRIMES, WALKING THE JURY EFFECTIVELY TO GET TO THE POINT WHERE THEY VOTE GUILTY. WHETHER OR NOT THAT WILL OPENLY BE SUCCESSFUL, YOU HURT THE PROSECUTORS EARLIER TODAY AND YESTERDAY TALK ABOUT TEXT MESSAGES, FINGERPRINTS, WHEN THAT CASH WAS WITH DRAWN. SOME OTHER COLLABORATING NUMBERS POTENTIALLY WITH THE GOLD BARS. AS FAR AS THIS CASE, THERE'S PROBABLY ENOUGH. ULTIMATELY, THEY WILL DECIDE. >> AND TOM, REAL QUICKLY HERE, WHAT ABOUT THE POLITICAL ONE? >> RIGHT. SO IF HE'S CONVICTED, THERE WILL BE PRESSURE FOR HIM EVEN TO RESIGN, OR FOR THE PRESSURE TO TALK THEM OUT. HE PLANS TO RUN AS INDEPENDENT REGARDLESS. THAT'S AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT SEPARATE MATTER. IF HE IS IN FACT FOUND NOT GUILTY, PRESUMABLY -- IN NEW JERSEY. I THINK THERE IS A LONG WAY BETWEEN HERE AND THERE. INCLUDING THE ACTUAL DELIBERATIONS THEMSELVES. >> TOM, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. >>> WE COME BACK, FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP, GETTING READY FOR A RALLY IN FLORIDA. ALL OF THOSE RUMORS SWIRLING ABOUT A POSSIBLE VP. >>> PLUS, WHAT WE ARE LEARNING >> YOU DON'T WANT TO DO WHAT SOMEONE ELSE IS DOING. >> THAT'S A GOOD IDEA. >>> IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF MINUTES, OVER THE NEXT HOUR WE EXPECT TO SEE FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP HOLDING A RALLY IN FLORIDA. IT WON'T BE HIS SON SPEAKING NOW. YOU SEE HIM THERE, DONALD TRUMP JR. SENATOR MARCO RUBIO, WHO IS IN FACT ON THAT SHORT LIST WITH THESE CONTENDERS. NO BIG ANNOUNCEMENT YET, THAT IS FOR SURE. IT IS NARROWED DOWN TO THE STREET. GOVERNOR DOUG BURGUM, J. D. VANCE, AND SENATOR MARCO RUBIO HEALTH. NIKKI HALEY, WHO WAS RUNNING AGAINST FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP, REMEMBER? THAT WAS UNTIL THE FORMER PRESIDENT HAD TO WORK TO WIN OVER -- LET ME BRING IN -- BURNS WHO IS LIVE. I DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS THE ROLLOUT FOR A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, RUNNING MATE HERE. >> OKAY. I WILL SAY, HE HAS TOLD ME THAT THE STAKES SET UP HERE, IT'S MORE FORMAL THAN WE'VE SEEN. SEVERAL OF THE PRESIDENTS -- FORMER PRESIDENTS FAMILY MEMBERS ARE HERE. ERIC TRUMP IS HERE, SOME OF THE CHILDREN. THIS IS A MORE FAMILY ORIENTED EVENT THAT WE'VE SEEN RECENTLY. AND IT IS NOT JUST RUBIO, TWO ADDITIONAL GUEST, HAILLE. OF COURSE, THE FORMER PRESIDENT HAS BEEN TEASING THIS ANNOUNCEMENT FOR WEEKS NOW. WE'VE GOT A FUNDRAISING EMAIL SAYING, WILL I MAKE MY ANNOUNCEMENT TONIGHT? TUNE IN TO FIND OUT. THIS MIGHT JUST BE PART OF IT, HAILLE. >> GETTING TO THE NEWS WE ARE ANTICIPATING, RELEASING THE DELEGATES, SAYING IN A STATEMENT, IT IS TIME FOR REPUBLICAN UNITY. SAYING THAT DONALD TRUMP WOULD HAVE TO WORK TO GET HER PEOPLE, THE PEOPLE THAT SUPPORTED NIKKI HALEY. >> HE HASN'T SHOWN ANY VISIBLE SIGNS OF DOING THAT. BUT SAYING HE HAD A GRIP ON THE PARTY HERE. >> YEAH, THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT, HAILLE. WHAT HAPPENS WITH THOSE HALEY VOTERS QUICK ESPECIALLY THOSE THAT VOTED FOR HER WHEN SHE WAS ALREADY OUT OF THE PRIMARY? THEY VOTED FOR CANDIDATE WHO WAS NO LONGER IN THE RACE. THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN IS GOING AFTER THOSE VOTERS, AND THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN IS GOING AFTER THOSE VOTERS. GIVING HIM THE DELEGATES, SAYING, LOOK, WILL THAT INFLUENCE ANY OF THOSE VOTERS WHO ARE STILL NONETHELESS FRUSTRATED, HAILLE? >> DASHA BURNS, LIVE FOR US THERE. CHUCK, ALL RIGHT, YOU'VE BEEN THROUGH THIS CYCLE AFTER CYCLE. WHEN IS THE PICK, I MEAN, EVERYBODY IS ON PINS AND NEEDLES. HE LOVES NOTHING MORE. LIKE TO DANGLE A LITTLE HIT. I KNOW YOU ARE ON THE RECEIVING END OF SOME OF THAT. YOU KNOW HE HAS ANOTHER RALLY PLANNED IN PENNSYLVANIA. HELP US HERE. BREAK IT DOWN. >> I SAW HER NOTE, AND I THOUGHT IT WAS A GREAT OBSERVATION. WHAT WAS OUR FIRST RULE TO ANY REPORTER? SEE SOMETHING AT AN EVENT YOU DON'T NORMALLY SEE, FLAG THEM. AND SHE DID, RIGHT? >> WHAT'S THE COUNTERPOINT? THE UNOFFICIAL CAPITOL IN SOUTH FLORIDA. THAT IS AN IMPORTANT LOCAL EVENT FOR REPUBLICANS RUNNING. THERE ARE ALL SORTS OF EXPLANATIONS. BUT THE THING TONIGHT, AND YOU NEVER KNOW. >> THAT'S RIGHT. YOU KNOW IN THE GROUP CHAT, ESSAY, ITALY BE -- IT WILL BE SO INTERESTING. RIGHT NOW, PRESIDENT BIDEN IS HAVING A VERY DIFFICULT NEW CYCLE. WHY COME OUT AND DO ANYTHING TO DISTRACT THEM FROM THAT DECISION? >> THE THING IS, WHAT HAVE YOU AND I LEARNED WITH DONALD TRUMP? MAYBE HE DOESN'T LIKE THE FACT THAT HE IS NOT GETTING ENOUGH ATTENTION RIGHT NOW? HEY LOOK AT ME, LOOK AT ME. THAT WILL BE THE ALTERNATIVE EXPLANATION. BUT LOOK, TO ME, HE NEEDS TO MAKE HIS CONVENTION INTEREST IN. AND I'M THINKING, TRUMP, YOU WAIT UNTIL CONVENTION WEEK. GET PEOPLE MORE FOCUSED ON THIS. BUILD A LITTLE BIT OF SUSPENSE. THERE WERE PEOPLE TRYING TO TAKE THE NOMINATION AWAY FROM HIM. RIGHT? THERE WERE TRYING TO LOCK DOWN THE END -- EVANGELICAL SUPPORT. AND IF ANYTHING, HE NEEDS REASONS FOR PEOPLE TO TUNE IN. RIGHT NOW, THERE AREN'T A LOT OF REASONS TO TUNE INTO THIS CONVENTION UNDER THAN TO SEE WHO THE VP IS. HOLD THAT OUT THERE. KEEP IT GOING. IF YOU ARE THINKING TRUMP THE SHOWMAN, I WOULD CERTAINLY BE BETTING ON SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE EARLIEST. SOMETIME WHEN EVERYBODY'S GOT THE FOCUS ON. IN SOME WAYS, HE KIND OF NEEDS RECONNECT -- NEXT WEEK TO REFOCUS. >> DOES THIS GIVE TIME TO GET THE BALL CAPS MADE? >> IN MY EXPERIENCE, THERE IS USUALLY THREE VERSIONS OF THE YARD SIGNS, THREE VERSIONS OF THE HATS. IT'S REALLY FUN. I THINK THERE ARE SOME GORE CARRY SIGNS FROM 2000 THAT NEVER GOT USED. YOU KNOW HOW THEY SEND THE LOSING CHAMPIONSHIP T-SHIRTS, THEY MAKE THEM FOR BOTH TEAMS. THE LOSING TEAMS END UP IN ANOTHER COUNTRY WHEN PEOPLE GIVE AWAY FREE SHIRTS. >> WE ARE GLAD TO HAVE YOU WITH US. LOOKING FOR MUCH MORE IN THIS COVERAGE. THANK YOU. WE APPRECIATE IT. >>> NBC NEWS COVERING HUNDREDS OF INTERNATIONAL STORIES EVERY DAY. CREWS AROUND THE WORLD HAVE DONE IT FOR YOU. AT IN PANAMA, TRYING TO BLOCK MIGRANTS HEADING TO THE U.S. AND A SPOKESPERSON FOR THE WHITE HOUSE SAYING THAT THE U.S. IS NOT BEHIND THAT SENTENCING. OUT OF RUSSIA, THERE IS AN ARREST WARRANT RIGHT NOW. IN ORDERING THE ARREST, ACCUSING VLADIMIR PUTIN OF HER HUSBAND'S DEATH. RUSSIAN OFFICIALS HAVE DENIED ANY INVOLVEMENT. A EUROPEAN -- IS LISTING OFF TODAY. A BUNCH OF SMALL SATELLITES, ABOUT 4 1/2 BILLION DOLLARS. THE EUROPEAN SAFETY AGENCY OVERSEES THIS. THE LAUNCH FOR YEARS OVER TECHNICAL ISSUES. COMING UP, ONE COUPLE ANNOUNCING THE FUTURE OF THE WORLD DEPENDS ON MEN. AND OTHERS HAVING A LOT MORE TO SAY >>> BREAKING TONIGHT, OVER THE DOCUSERIES -- THE GUY AT THE CENTER OF THE SHOW, THREATENING TO SUE NETFLIX FOR SLANDER. INDIVIDUAL WOMEN WHO DISCOVERED THEIR SPERM DONOR HAD FATHERED HUNDREDS OF CHILDREN AROUND THE WORLD. CLAIMING HE FATHERED SOMETHING LIKE 550 CHILDREN, NOT 1000. NETFLIX DID NOT IMMEDIATELY RESPOND TO REQUESTS FOR COMMENT. >> IT IS INTERESTING. PERHAPS GROUNDBREAKING FOR A NUMBER OF REASONS. HE HAS ADMITTED TO FATHER SOMETHING LIKE 500 PLUS KIDS. HELP US UNDERSTAND THIS. >> DEFAMATION IS SOMETHING THAT IS OFTEN THREATENED, BUT RARELY CARRIED OUT. IF THERE IS A LAWSUIT, IT WILL BE MORE BECAUSE -- NOT REALLY BECAUSE IT WILL BE A STRONG DEFAMATION CASE. FIRST, HOW FALSE IS THIS STATEMENT? IT DOESN'T REALLY APPEAR CLEAR EVEN THOUGH THAT'S EXACTLY HOW MANY CHILDREN HE HAS FATHERED. THAT IT IS ANYMORE TRUE OR LESS TRUE THAN WHAT HE THINKS THE NUMBER IS. IT IS HARD TO SAY THAT STATEMENT IS FALSE. WHAT ARE THE DAMAGES? WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HIM FATHERING 100 KIDS AND 1000 CLEATS -- 1000 KIDS? YOU THOUGHT OUR FIVE AT 1000 AND NOT 500 QUICK THE IT'S A LONG SHOT. THE ONLY REASON THIS WILL EVER BE A CASE IS BECAUSE OF THE DEFENDANT. IT IS USUALLY SOMEONE ONLINE TALKING BADLY. >> ARE THERE LAWS LIMITING SPERM DONORS IN THE NETHERLANDS QUICK >> IN THE UNITED STATES, IT IS CONSIDERED A FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT. IT WOULD RESTRICT THAT RIGHT. IN OTHER COUNTRIES, THEY DON'T HAVE THE SAME CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS. THIS LAW MIGHT NOT SURVIVE IN THE UNITED DATES. ANYTHING THAT LIMITS YOUR ABILITY TO PROCREATE. >> IT'S NOT THE ONLY LAWSUIT. THERE WAS THAT BILLY RANGER SITUATION, TOO. >> YES, EXACTLY RIGHT. I MEAN, MOST DEFAMATION CASE INVOLVE GIGANTIC DEFENDANTS WH HAVE THE ABILITY TO PAY. IF YOU'RE A PLAINTIFF AN FEELING LUCKY, YOU'LL GO FOR THE DEFENDANT WHO CAN PAY OVER A STRONG DEFAMATION CASE >> DANNY, THANK YOU MUCH DO NOT MISS THE EXCLUSIV SPECIAL ROAD TO THE OLYMPI GAMES TONIGHT AT 10:30 EASTERN HOWEVER YOU'RE WATCHING RIGH NOW. THAT DOES IT
