contention for 2024. we re going to talk to two legendary players about that. all right, everybody, good morning, it is saturday, july 17th. i m lindsey reiser. i m garrett haake in more kendis gibson. we have a lot of reporters and analysts following the latest for us this morning. and today we re marking one year since the late congressman john lewis s death, and tensions over one of the core causes remain extremely high. both sides are locked in on the texas voting rights showdown, vowing to not back down. some state democrats are still holdingous in washington, d.c. after leaving the state monday to avoid that vote on the gop back restrictive elections bill. governor greg abbott is now threatening their arrest once they return home. tensions are high in austin, the impact is also being felt in washington. so we are going to bring in nbc news political reporter vaughn hillyard and nbc news white house reporter lauren egan. what is the mood there as we wait to see
off for the first time to the edge of space. a space ship called spaceship 2, is about the side of an executive joe and will take off from new hampshire. it s named the vss unity compared by a larger plane to an altitude about 50 thousand feet above, from there it will be released. the rocket plane motor will ig nikd carrying it into launch position, about 50 miles from earth. at that point the pilot and crew will be able to exit their seats to enjoy sweeping votes of this big blue marble, experiencing four minutes of weightlessness. the miami-dade courthouse is closed due to safety concerns that were resleeld during the building review that was prompted by the tragic surfside condo collapse. the engineering firm says during their inspection they found structure discretion? support beams and joists, including steel columns that are in, quote, poor condition and concrete columns that have numerous cracks. the courthouse will undergo repairs immediately. all employees will
house as the capitol was under siege. it cites one of those moments saying, quote, as january 6th approached president trump attempted on multiple occasions to persuade vice president pence to participate in his plan. one of the president s discussions with the vice president occurred by phone on the morning of january 6th. you were present in the oval office and observed at least one side of that telephone conversation. end quote. ivanka trump s efforts to get the former president to call off the attack on the capitol are also under scrutiny. testimony from mike pence s then national security adviser keith kellogg is also included in the letter. here is one exchange. the committee asked him, quote, do you think that ivanka trump could help get president trump to a place where he would make a statement to try and stop this? kellogg answered, yes. the committee also asked so you thought ivanka could get her taeth to do something about it. kellogg replied take a course of actio
then national security adviser, keith kellogg, is also included in the letter. here is one exchange. the committee asked him quote, do you think that ivanka trump could help get president trump to replace, where he would make a statement to try to stop? this kellogg answered yes. the committee also answered, so you thought ivanka could get her father to do something about it? kellogg replied, to take a course of action. kelly that went on to describe several attempts of ivanka trump to appeal to her father. the committee asked, and so presumably so the first time that i want to trump when in, it wasn t sufficient or she would have had to go back at least one more time, i assume, is that correct? telegraph bonded, yes ma am. i think she went back in there because ivanka can be pretty tenacious. the january six committee vice chair liz cheney, gave something of a preview to this testimony earlier this month. we know, as he was sitting there in the dining room, next to t
billionaires we ve known this for a long time. this is nothing new. the reason today s sale of twitter is big news which turned out to be a pivot point in our history is that elon musk does not agree with the rest of the billionaires in the tech business. unlike the leaders of facebook, google, apple, amazon. elon musk leaves and free speech, he things everyone should be allowed to talk including people who disagree with him. i hope that even my worst critics remain on twitter elon musk wrote today on his new platform. because that s what free speech means. no that something american sentiment but in this atmosphere that is a revolutionary statement. of the five companies that control the flow of a truly all information the citizens of this company, twitter is by far the smallest of the group. but it doesn t matter. one platform going rogue is enough to break the monopoly. that means that you, now have real options for expressing yourself. going forward if you disagree with e