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Trump takes a shot at msnbcs plus, hawaii challenges President Trumps travel ban just hours after it went into effect. The question this morning who counts as close family . Lawmakers are about to head home to recess with no Health Care Bill in sight, but despite the delay, Top Republican leaders say theyre still on schedule. Good morning, everyone. Its friday, june 30th. Well get to the firestorm surrounding the president s tweets in just a minute, but, first, the state of hawaii is challenging President Trumps travel ban that went into partial effect last night for the six muslim majority countries covered in the executive order. The Trump Administration has issued guidelines stating that travellers with close family in the u. S. Would still be allowed to enter the country. Now, a state department has narrowly defined that as a parent or child, including inlaws, a sibling, or a spouse. Initially fiances were not included on the list of who qualified, but the administration reversed that decision last night. The guidelines for who is considered close family does not include grandparents, aunts or uncles, nieces or nephews, cousins, and brothers or sistersinlaw. Hawaiis attorney general filed an emergency motion last night asking a judge to decide whether the administrations list of unqualified relatives violates a Supreme Court order. In a ruling on monday, the Supreme Court exempted travellers and refugees with a bonefied relationship with a person or entity in the u. S. In a win for the president yesterday the house has passed two bills cracking down on illegal immigration. Kates law and the no sanctuary for criminals act call for stronger punishment for people who enter the u. S. Illegally and take away funding from socalled sanctuary cities that shield residents from federal immigration laws. The first bill kates law is named after catherine steinly, who was shot and killed in San Francisco back in 2015 by a repeat felon and undocumented immigrant from mexico who had been deported several times. Under the legislation an undocumented immigrant previously convicted of a crime who attempts to reenter the country could face between ten and 25 years in prison. The second bill passed just yesterday and would deny federal grant money to socalled sanctuary cities if they fail to cooperate with federal immigration officials. Both bills passed largely along party lines of the republican controlled house. They now head over to the senate. The president made a statement saying, in part, the implementation of these policies will make our community safer. Im calling on all lawmakers to vote for these bulls aills and american lives. Congress heads home for the recess withless direction. They had hoped to find 50 votes before lawmakers leave washington, but leaders say theyre still on track with their agenda. What does that mean for the rest of the agenda . Were still on schedule and on track with our agenda. As weve said, we have tax reform thats later in the year and the fall. This is exactly what we did here on the house. We brought it to the floor and pulled it out and then brought it back and passed it. Its a sense of deja vu. I do think were going to persevere through this this because we have a promise to keep. Sources tell nbc news that republican senators are considering redrafrting the bill to include keeping an obama care tax on wealthy investors and adding money for people struggling with opioid addiction. Others want to stick to their guns. Senator pat toumey told the New York Times i dont think anybody was going around saying, oh, except for these jobkilling tax increases. And as it became evidence that the bill wouldnt get done by the july 4th deadline, the language became empassioned. Political reports in their closed door meeting tuesday senator tom cotton told his colleagues one year ago nearly everyone in the room would have supported the republican Health Care Bill. Then according to sources from there with the exchange he told them youre too weak to do what you should do. Meanwhile, the cbo has released even more data showing the longterm prognosis of the Senate Health care plan. Medicaid spending would be even lower after a decade. The nonpartisan cbo warns that projecting beyond the first decade is difficult, but the new report estimates that the Slower Growth rate would drive relative spending down even further in the second decade. In fact, by 2036 the government would spend 35 less on medicaid than it would under the current law. Yesterday one of the architects of obama care hit the Trump White House for their approach so far. Take a listen. Candidate trump said i want Health Insurance for all. I want everybody to be covered. I want costs to come down. I want to do something about drug prices. None of those are in this bill. I think that really is the basis for bipartisan support. Start with the promises made by the president of the United States. All right. Time and again the president has used social media to deliver his message. Often divisively. Yesterday was no exception as the president took on morning joe host Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski. Reporter President Trump touting his energy policy, and once again drowning out his own message with a tweet. This time lashing out at msnbcs morning joe for criticizing him. How come low iq crazy mika along with psycho joe came to maralago three nights in a row around new years eve and nova scotiaed on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a facelift. I said no. Well, the show does consistently take aim at him. He is covering his hands here because theyre teensy. He doesnt know his own positions on health caa health he is passing where, he seems confused. Reporter it was the very personal shot at mika that prompted immediate condemnation from i think its blatantly sexist. Many republicans taking to twitter himself calling mr. Trumps tweet beneath the office of the presidency. Tweets like this are inconsistent with the greatness of the country and the office. There is no need for such uncivil language. What were trying to do around here is improve the tone, the civility of the debates, and this obviously doesnt help do that. Reporter his tweet strikingly similar to this remark about nbcs megan kelly, then with fox news, after sharp questioning during the first debate. You know, you can see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever. Reporter then there was that access hollywood tape. Zroo grab them by the the president expressed regret at that time. I was wrong and apologized. Not today. He fights fire with fire. White house spokes won sarah hucka b huc Huckabee Sanders digging in. Does he have to meet a higher standard . I dont think you can expect someone to be personally attacked day by day, minute by minute and sit back. First Lady Melania Trump leads an antibullying campaign, and after the recent shooting of congressman Steve Scalise when the president and others called for civility. The president views this as a street fight. It really hasnt sunk in to him that he now speaks for the entire country when he gets on twitter and degrades the office of the presidency. Thank you for Kristen Welker for that report. Joining us from catholic molly hill. Do you think congress is sort of getting accustomed to the president s rhetoric and his unpredictability, or do you think were really at a breaking point after yesterdays firestorm . Im not sure if i would say were at a breaking point, but the lawmakers that i spoke with and the republican lawmakers in particular, you know, they had had been sort of getting used to these sort of random tweets and the 10 that may go off, but yesterday a lot of them said this just wasnt appropriate. It just wasnt appropriate. In fact, paul ryan who basically took this new policy of im not going to respond to President Trumps tweets anymore, the policy i think he put in it went in play maybe a few months ago. He even said this is just not appropriate. Whats unfortunate for the lawmakers is on the house side at least they were dealing with a lot of immigration bills. A key issue for President Trump during the election, one that probably won him, you know, the four key states of blue collar workers, and that message was lost in the whole twitter fire. Molly, we are hearing a tone changing with the Steve Scalise shooting, and i want to read you what senator james langford, a republican from oklahoma wrote yesterday. I just chaired a hearing with the u. S. Capitol police about safety and the june 14 shooting attack of Steve Scalise, mike mika and officers crystal griener and david bailly. National and local leaders, including our president , should model civility, honor, and respect in our political rhetoric. The president s tweets today dont help our political or National Discourse and do not provide a positive role model for our national dialogue. My question to you is has capitol hill been making an effort to be more civil since the scalise shooting . Have you noticed a change in the tone if discourse . I noticed a change for maybe two days. Then, you know, theres one thing that changed the tone and discourse. Its another thing to be more openminded to compromising, to going across the going across the aisle and working with the other party. I think that a lot of what we hear in twitter or at least this is the way that members kind of gauge it, i was asking them about this as well. You know, those are all words. Its all people trying to make a statement. The real the real marker of bipartisanship and cooperation will come when both parties sit down and start creating Bipartisan Legislation and working with each other on issues that actually make it to the president s desk. You know, on one hand they might be toning down a little bit, but, on the other hand, again, well know that when well know thats happening when we see more Bipartisan Legislation on difficult issues. You know, another point to be made about that, the president s tweet, this one in particular, you know, one lawmaker, i believe it was david brought, its okay to go after people for political positions, but dont go after them personally. Dont do it. Stay away from it. Just skip it. You know, if i go after them, theyre going to come right back after me permanently, and thats not needed in this discourse. All right, molly cooper. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. Of course. Still ahead, defense secretary james mattis says nato has to finish the job in afghanistan. The question is what does that mean for u. S. Troops there . Plus, President Trump has tweeted that he doesnt have tapes of his conversations with jim comey, but a tweet does not seem to be enough for the house intel committee. We have those stories and a check on weather when we come back. Take the zantac it challenge pill works fast . Zantac works in as little as 30 minutes. Nexium can take 24 hours. 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President trump will meet with german chancellor Angela Merkel who has been critical of the surs withdrawing from the paris climate accord. And the mexican president who trump met during the 2016 campaign but has not seen since winning the presidency. Meanwhile, yesterday putin met with former secretary of state Henry Kissinger in moscow. This according to the kremlin. The white house is responding to a request from congress involving President Trumps discussion last month that there were tapes of his conversation with former fbi director james comey. In a joint statement the leaders of the house russia Investigation Called on the white house to clarify whether there are any recordings or documents and they threaten to subpoena to fine out. Initially the white house sent congress a letter pointing to the president s followup tweet from last week where he did rule out the possibility of recordings only saying he did not personally make or have that. That wasnt enough for the members of the intel committee. Now the white house issued a new letter clarifying it has no recordings and just a side note here, nbc news has confirmed with National Security advisor sizan rice had agreed a closed interview with the house intelligence committee. No date has yet to be announced for that meeting. And there is fallout to another one of the president s claims that up to five million undocumented immigrants voted illegally in the 2016 election. He created a Commission Last month to investigate naming kansas secretary of state chris cobach to lead it. One order of business was to ask all 50 states to hand over their full voter roll data. That includes the name, address, date of birth, party affiliation, last four Social Security number digits and voting history back to 2006. Potentially every voter. Several states they pushed back, including virginia, whose Governor Terry mcauliffe had no intention of honoring this request. Nato allies sent more troops to support the coalition, mattis vowed to stick with the war. Looking back on it, its pretty much a consensus that we may have pulled our troops out too rapidly, reduced the number a little too rapidly, but the difference today is that the afghan army is actually able to carry the fight, and theyve been carrying the fight for some time now. Now, mattis refused to say just how long u. S. Forces would stay in afghanistan or how many additional troops would be sent to that conflict zone. Officials have said the u. S. Is considering sending up to 5,000 more troops beyond what nato allies offer. Now, the war in afghanistan is now in its 16th year with more than 2,000 soldiers killed since 2001. One more note on nato, former senator Kay Bailey Hutchison of texas has been named nato ambassador. Lets get a check on your weather now with nbc meteorologist bill karins. Bill, it could be a rainy dry 4th for some of us across the country. For brief periods. Doesnt look like anybody will be washed out. Well be typical. Summertime hot, humid. You get the afternoon storms. You try to time them out and plan your barbecue plans and your fireworks plans. As we look at the morning, overnight we had the worst storms in areas of many month, come down out of iowa. Kansas city to st. Louis, a lot of thunderstorms heading towards tulsa right now and through springfield and joplin. Thats probably the worst weather in the nation. Today 37 Million People are at risk of severe storms. Not too many tornadoes. Wind damage will be the big threat today, but not everyone is going to get hit. Theyre going to be scattered hit and miss thunderstorms, but from upstate new york to Northern New England and back down to the ohio valley, including detroit, cleveland, buffalo, syracuse, down to indianapolis, a little bit around louisville, cincinnati, and also into areas towards peduca, and then a sliver back to oklahoma city. If we get any tornadoes today, likely they would be in Northern Arkansas or in oklahoma. Doesnt look like widespread anyway. Numerous storms yesterday in the southeast. Now were dealing with a little leftover rain. Atlanta, you should be okay. These little showers will be heading out of here pretty shortly. Then this afternoon youll get a new batch of showers and storms. Todays forecast if theyre going to be major airport delays with a line of storms later today we do have to watch out around oklahoma city, chicago, atlanta hit and miss variety storms. Were okay in the airports today in the midatlantic. Getting warmer today. D. C. Up to 93 degrees. As we head through the weekend forecast, again, these are hit and miss storms. Not going to ruin your beach plans. Tampa, storms are going to head for you in atlanta and orlando. We will see storms on saturday afternoon and evening. D. C. , baltimore, philadelphia, to new york. Boston, you look okay. Then into sunday the northeast clears out. Should be a gorgeous summerlike sunday. Lots of sunshine. Warm conditions. Great beach weather on the east coast and then the northeast on sunday. Just hit and miss storms as we go into the south. As far as the weekend is looking, not bad. Very typical for july. Nothing too hot also. Thats nice for anyone outside. Thats good news for people celebrating the fourth of july. All right. Bill, thaungs for thnks for. Venus williams is involved in an accident, and police say the tennis star is at fault. baby crying fly me to the moon elegant music and let me play bell rings trust 1 doctor recommended dulcolax. Use dulcolax tablets for gentle dependable relief. Suppositories for relief in minutes. And dulcoease for comfortable relief of hard stools. Dulcolax. Designed for dependable relief. To find smarter solutions. To offer more precise and less invasive Treatment Options than before. Like advanced Genomic Testing and immunotherapy. 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The letter to a federal Appeals Court, the Justice Department abandoned its legal fight over the redskins name citing last weeks Supreme Court decision that ruled in favor of an asianamerican band calling themselves the slants. The court found that it would be unconstitutional for the u. S. Patent and Trademark Office to discriminate against the bands name citing the first amendments free speech protection. The redskins case had been on hold in the federal Appeals Court while the bands case was being decided. As for right now, their legal worries are over. The u. S. Patent and Trademark Office originally revoked the redskins trademark back in 2014 saying the teams name was disparaging to native americans. The redskins name has been with a team since its origins back in boston in 1933. And one final story for you here. Peewee Football Players in indiana joined forces last night to take on the mascots from around the nfl. The Indianapolis Colts mascot blue and his friends signed autographs before taking on the young Football Players at the Second Annual mascots versus peewee Charity Football game. Check one there for the peewees. A portion of the proceeds will go to the make a Wish Foundation and the Indianapolis Colts foundation. Looks like a lot of fun was had there. Nice to end on a high note. I know just like go down. I know theyre the nfl mascots. Its a good thing the new york mets mascot wasnt there. All right. Thats so true. We dont want any bird flipping around that. Still ahead, fighting fire with fire. The white house comes to the president s defense after he took a shot at msnbc host Mika Brzezinski on twitter. Plus, well explain why some are calling it slightly controversial. Stay with us. Just like the people who own them, every business is different. But every one of those businesses will need legal help as they age and grow. 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The state of hawaii is challenging President Trumps travel ban that went into partial effect last night. In new guidelines issued yesterday the Trump Administration concluded that citizens from the six muslim majority countries that have close family in the United States wouldnt you lobbed to enter the country, but hawaii is now asking for clarification. Nbc news justice correspondent Pete Williams has been following the story for us and has all the latest details. Its been in effect only a matter of hours, and where it will make a difference immediately is overseas when people go to get a visa to come to the United States and are told they cant get one for at least the next 90 days. Reporter mustapha came to maryland two years ago as a refugee to escape the brutal civil war in syria. He had no relatives in the u. S. , so if he tried to come here now, he would be blocked by the travel ban. It does not make sense to me how i cannot come to the United States if i dont have family member. I need a new place, a new life, like anyone in the world. Reporter for people in the six countries covered by President Trumps executive order, the Supreme Court said they can still get a visa to come here if they have a close familiaral relationship with someone in the u. S. The administration defined that narrowly as a parent or child, including inlaws, a sibling, or a spouse. It does not include grandparents, aunt or uncle, niece or nephew, cousin, or brother or sisterinlaw. Advocates for immigrants say those distinctions dont make sense. How you get from a motherinlaw and a spouse affirmatively clearly being okay to saying that a fiance or a grandparent is not without any guidance in that direction is a mystery. Reporter the government says dont expect a repeat of the chaotic airport scenes of five months ago because anybody who has a valid visa now will be allowed to board a flight to the u. S. And to enter the country when they arrive. The challengers who got the executive order blocked earlier this year say they may go back to court over the definition of close family and over the kind of connection that refugees must demonstrate. All right. Pete williams in washington for us. Thank you. Well, overnight the local newspaper in atlanta reported that the worlds Busiest Airport Hartsfield Jackson had no issues with flights coming in from overseas. While the talk yesterday was President Trumps vulgar attack on the coanchors of morning joe the front page of the New York Daily News reads simply humiliation. On capitol hill members of the president s party, many of whom his white house is trying to broker deals with reacted in dismay. Senator Lisa Murkowski tweeted stop it, the president ial platform should be used for more than bringing people down. Tweeting that the president offices handle, do you want to be remembered for youror your accomplishments. Congressman barbara, republican of virginia, the tweets went too far. Please stop. More spoke out worried about the agenda and the example being set by the president. The president of the united stat states, the best of behavior. He should be an example for children. He should be an example for all of us. This is madness. Its maddeningly frustrating because this is beneath the dignity of the president of the United States, or at least it should be, and its a distraction, and it really ultimately starts to undermine the president s ability to get his agenda done. This is not about policies. Its about the person. Its about President Trump as an individual. I want to help him. I want him to be a successful president. Tweets like this are inconsistent with the greatness of the country and the office. It doesnt astonish me. It isnt the first time he has attacked various people that he has disagreement with. Im not surprised, but im disappointed. I dont see that as an appropriate comment. What were trying to do around here is improve the tone and the civility and the debate, and this obviously doesnt help do that. And yet the white house standing firmly behind President Trumps comments. I think that the president has been attacked mercilessly on personal accounts by members on that program, and i think he has been very clear that when he gets attacked, i think the American People elected somebody who is tough, who is smart, and who is a fighter, and thats donald trump. I dont think that its a surprise to anybody that he fights fire with fire. He is not going to sit back and be attacked by the liberal media, hollywood elites. When they hit him, he is going to hit back. Meanwhile, a spokesman for first Lady Melania Trump tells nbc news as the first lady has stated publicly, when her husband gets attacked, will he punch back ten times harder. In the wake of the president s tweets yesterday, many recalled the first ladys decision from the campaign trail to fight Cyber Bullying if her husband was elected. In fact, days before the election Melania Trump gave a major speech centered on a call for civility for the sake of our nations children. Technology has changed our universe. But like anything that is powerful, it can have a bad side. We have seen this already. As adults many of us are able to handle mean words, even lies. Children and teenagers can be fragile. They are hurt when they are made fun of or made to feel less in looks or intelligence. We have to find a better way to talk to each other, to disagree with each other, to respect each other. When asked about the first ladys antiCyber Bullying either a spokesman told nbc news that shes continuing to be thoughtful about her platform. Molly hooper, good to he so you. Speaker paul ryan, he quickly said the tweets they were not appropriate, but he seemed to let a lot of the president s behavior slide in the past as he did earlier this month in explaining trumps comments about Michael Flynn to then fbi director jim comey. Take a listen to that. The president is new at this. He is new to government. So he probably wasnt steeped in the longrunning protocols that establish the relationships between doj, fbi, and white houses. He is just new to this. Do you think that the relationship could actually change here after all this that happened yesterday, and do you think people and members especially are looking to ryan to do more and say more really . And say more. Well, the key here is that we have to go back to the election and that access hollywood tape. It came out where trump made the comment about grabbing womens you knows, and paul ryan took a risk, and he got in the Conference Call with the House Republican conference and basically said did not condone it and said im not supporting this. He said im not going to campaign with then president then candidate trump, and he really ticked off a lot of conservatives in the conference and conservative media came out questioning whether he would, in fact, be speaker in the next congress. Paul ryan is a little gun shy when it comes to taking on trump for things that trump does. In particular, when it comes to the tweets, you know, at first paul ryan tried to speak to these tweets via the press conferences he has. What i would say is it would take a lot of members of his own conference writing a letter to him, signing on to it, and for him to actually Say Something to the president. This person is going to talk to trump and maybe make a difference. Paul ryan is really focused on getting things done, and he has learned in the past that he gets burned when he takes on trump for tweets like this and in situations like this. Speaking of getting things done, i wanted to ask you as we enter the fourth of july weekend, how tight is the republicans window to actually pass the legislation they promise throughout the past year . Well, its going to be a squeaker. Its going to be a squeaker. Thats all i can say. When they get back from the july 4th weekend, its going to be, you know, all guns on go because they have to raise the debt limit. They have to make sure that they have a government funding bill thats ready to go when they get back from the august recess, and they want to pass this Health Care Reform before they get on to tax reform, which is another issue thats out there. We have a few weeks before the august recess. If health care isnt done, i dont think that perhaps the senate if theres hope in sight that the senate cant come to an agreement, that we might see them in session for the first week of august, but really its going they have a very slim window in which to get all this business done. All of these things are based on timelines as well with because for legislative reasons, theres technical timing, you know, issues that have to go with the tax reform. It will be interesting to see how it all comes out. Yeah. We heard from senator pat toomey saying the tweets undermine the president s agenda as well. The wall street journal reports that investigators are looking into the russian meddling of the 2016 election. They examine reports about how they look to get emails from a server and then have a middle man to return them to Michael Flynn. Flynn was a Senior Advisor to then candidate donald trump at the time. The journal also reports that republican operative peter w. Smith was convinced 33,000 emails missing from clintons server were in the hands of russian hackers. Smith had told multiple friends he was working with flynn on the email project. The journal notes its unclear whether flynn played any role in smiths kwets who died within days of speaking to the paper. Well have more on this developing story as a reporter of this piece. Sha shane harris joins morning joe next hour. Zblierngs wall street is recovering after tech stocks fell sharply on thursday. We are joined live from london. The s p and the dow suffer the worst their worst day in weeks. Its all also the second to last trading day of the quarter yesterday. It has a big impact. Yeah, it does. It means the trade is looking to essentially whether or not to or whether theyre going to take profits outs. We look at the numbers. We saw the s p 500 fell. 9 . That fell below its 50day moving average for the First Time Since midmay. The industrial average down 168 points. That was largely due to apple, boeing, 3m. The nasdaq composite was also down 1. 4 . If you look at the tech stocks, they were big, big losers as well. We saw facebook, amazon, netflix, apple, and alphabet. All of them down. Tech has been doing well this year. Over the last month not so much. A company that has seen its stocks do pretty well after hours yesterday was nike. They reported Fourth Quarter earnings and sales that beat wall street expectations. It says International Geographies and direct consumer businesses helped to grow those sales. It also saw strong growth in its jordan brand, sports ware, and running divisions and two other well known u. S. Brands in the news, of course, walgreens and rite aid. That two years of negotiation seems not to have worked. Theyre not going to have a merger. Antitrust competitors saying thats not a possibility. Instead whats going to happen rite aid will sell 2,186 stores out of a total of 4,600. Two walgreens for 5. 18 billion dollars. 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I dont think that the legislation as it was presented was was the right balance, and so were trying to rebalance that now. He is one of the key votes for republicans scrambling to find a deal to repeal obama care before a holiday weekend. Vice president mike pence dispatched to the capitol again to help, but the negotiations remain secret. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell refusing to say if theres been progress. Is that a no . Reporter sources tell nbc news republican senators are considering redrafting the bill to include keeping an obama care tax on wealthy investors and adding as much as 45 billion to help people struggling with opioid addiction. Those changes might not be enough for moderates who want to start over completely. West Virginia Republican shelly moore capito. Reporter theyre bracing to face angry constituents back home. Live in our shoes. Live off the same benefit plans and everything that we have. Being diabetic, my prescription costs went up significantly. I mean, 3,000 for a threemonth supply, you know, it kind of hurts your paycheck. Get back in your seat and work for us. Our thanks to casey hunt for that report. Lets get a check on your weather now with nbc meteorologist bill karins. Bill, give us some good news on this july 4th weekend. As far as the 4th is going to go, hit and miss showers and storms will be dodging them all weekend long. The worst is going to be if it looks like in areas of the southeast towards the 4th. Lets get to the forecast. As we look at the radar on early today the storms the strongest in areas near kansas city. Thats now a proven for you, and its heading down towards springfield and along i44 corridor here from st. Louis southward. Down towards tulsa, we have strong winds overnight. Also, another cluster up here right around columbus and detroit that were dealing with some of the storms, and those are missing the pittsburgh area, and it looks like theyre going to clip to buffalo, new york, and in all we have 37 Million People at risk. Wind damage is the primary threat on this. We still have a threat of a tornado in arkansas and also oklahoma. Not going to be widespread, but there may be a hit and miss storm out there that were going to have to deal with. Further down to the south, again, its in the northern ozarks and areas of central oklahoma where well have the best chance of any of the storms. Buffalo to albany, were actually dealing with some of the storms even earlier today, and you can see on the radar here, just a little narrow line north of lake george area heading up to north of beddington in between burlington and back over towards notice were fine in most areas of philadelphia and new york. Straight showers around hartford. Doctors a couple of storms that are dealing in those areas. Again, its hit and miss stuff. Thats going to be the trend over the upcoming weekend. Its not something horrendous out there, where its going to be hit and miss, and i think, the bottom line for the fourth of july, all the fireworks shows are just be patient. Most of the storms will be in and out in about 30 minutes. Its one of those duck and corps drills when they come through. Then you can head back out. Youre grilling. You run inside. You have to turn off the grill first. You dont want anything getting soggy. Grill master. Still for months iraqi forces have been trying to pry isis from the city of mosul. This morning new signs the mission is working, but with some collateral damage. A live report next. Stay with us. Thanks for the ride around norfolk and i just wanted to say, geico is proud to have served the military for over 75 years roger that. Captains waiting to give you a tour of the wisconsin now. 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Now to the battle against isis in iraq where Government Forces have captured the ruined Al Nuri Mosque. The mosque is considered a huge victory. Matt, the Iraqi Government appearing assured of its victory, but there is still fighting in areas of mosul populated by civilians. Talk to us more about that. The Iraqi Government said yesterday that isis is finished and they and their american counterparts will continue. He declared isis devise yefr after retaking the Al Nuri Mosque in iraq. As you mentioned, this is a major step for the entire Coalition Fighting isis. It was in this 850yearold mosque that isis was declared a caliphate almost a year ago today. That was when the group was at the height of its power in iraq. This iconic mosque it is has been almost complete lly levele and an iraqi force blew it up probably to avoid giving them the type of victory that they claim today. All of this comes just as neighboring forces have surrounded raqqa. Theres still a lot more to be done. Hundreds of isis fighters are still hold up in mosuls old city and many more are thought to have retreated to their desert readouts. The groups ideology remains a for midible threat not on to the east but to the middle west. Iran says that baghdadi is debt. Russia says he may have been killed in an air strike earlier this month. Coming up next on morning joe, will will be any tangible ramifications . She tweeted this is not okay. As a female representative, i am often criticized about my looks. Weep should be working to empower women. Morning joe is moments away. This is a story about mail and packages. And its also a story about people and while we make more ecommerce deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country, we never forget. That your business is our business the United States postal service. Priority you another antiwrinkle cream in no hurry to make anything happen. Neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair works in just one week. With the fastest retinol formula to visibly reduce wrinkles. Neutrogena®. Before we toss it over to morning joe, lets check on the stories youll be hearing about ahead. Kristen welker has the preview. President trump will start himself day with a joint statement with the leader from south korea. Theyve been discussing everything from trade to the environment but of course north korea and its recent provocations. But overshadowing the president s agenda, his series of Early Morning tweets on thursday at which he took directly at msnbcs Mika Brzezinski, her appearance and her intelligence. Bipartisan outrage saying it was beneath the office of the presidency, republicans saying it adds to the vitriolic rhetoric but a spokesman for the president saying hes not going to apologize, making the argument that he fights fire with fire. But the pressure is mounting for the president to take a step back from his tweet. The president stepping on his on tweet. Yet again he is starting this weekend on defense. Louis . Christian welker, thank you so much. And the germ and parliament has just legalized samesex marriage. This comes in a snap vote only days after chancellor merkel changed the longstanding position. In louisiana, the District Attorney plan it is release their findings on last years deadly ambush on baton roj officers. And in louisiana senator bill cassidy will have a town hall. One earlier this year turned combustible. That does it for us. Im Yasmin Vossoughian for Louis Burgdorf and ayman mohyeldin. I think the president is clear when he gets attacked, hes going to hit back. I think the American People elected somebody who is tough, whos smart and whos a fighter. Thats donald trump. I dont think its a surprise to anybody who fights fire with fire. Hes not going to sit back and get attacked about media liberals and hollywood elightes. When he gets hit he fights back. Joe a