good morning and thank you so much for spending some of your july 4th holiday with us. it is 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting for two hours this morning. as we come on the air and some of you wake up on independence day, americans are confronting once again a uniquely american crisis, gun violence. a deadly night in america, with a pair of shootings. one claiming the life of five people in philadelphia, the very city where the u.s. constitution was drafted. another at a celebration in fort worth, texas, killing at least three people there. what we re learning about both shootings. also right now, severe weather impacting millions from intense storms in the midwest and the east coast to nearly triple digit temps out west putting july 4th celebrations literally up in the air. it would be great if it was the fourth. but it is the whole month, the whole year, we live in the best country in the world. and watch the water. two teens attacked ten mil apart in new york wh
interview. there s so much going on. we want to get the court ruling, which we will, but first, i wanted to get your thoughts, really, on the interview that you did and i want to play for our viewers the part where you did discuss what is a huge issue for the nation right now, one president who does oversee a doj, while a former president awaits trial. i want to play from your interview. i made a commitment that i would not in any way interfere with the justice department, who they prosecuted, if they prosecuted, how they proceeded. i ve not spoken once, not one single time, with the attorney general on any specific case. not once. i have faith the justice department will move in the direction that is consistent with the law. and so, it may take time, but i have faith that they re going to do the right but i ve not spoken about that. the president s answer there to you, i m curious your thoughts.on t surprise you that it was rachel maddow that sort of articulated this b
that aside, it s as emphatic anm definitive as conservatives hoped and progressives feared. it s the way that the 14th amendment was color blind, jackson and others, nonsense., look at what the 14th amendment achieved. brown versust board of educati, likewise. nonsense says the dissent. it was race sensitive. the 14th amendment must be race sensitive. then there s this world s worl viewpoint, there they are like t ships passing in the night. one side says, look at the worlt today and whathe needs to be do. the conservatives, the law of the land, say ending discrimination means ending all discrimination, period, paragraph, end of story. yes, there will be a tiny little wormhole that people will push h on. the basic thrust of what the majority has done it s as emphatic as the dobbs opinion last year is to really have a revolution in the meaning of thl constitution and socially permissible ends as a result. laura, for a long time, quotas have been not permitted. sinc
from his own lawyers, and furthermore, there s evidence of him saying things that are completely incompatible that this was an idea. do you believe he lied to the justice department do i personally believe it? yes, i do. that s former attorney general bill barr, continuing his criticism of done in another sunday show interview. we ll have more of barr s damning comments about the president in just a moment. meanwhile, 2024 republican presidential candidate chris christie is mocking the rnc for its loyalty pledge we ll explain. and we ll have the very latest from beijing as u.s. secretary of state antony blinken meets with chinese president xi jinping amid heightened tensions between the world s two largest economies. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, june 19th, juneteen. i m job nathan lemire. thank you for starting your day and week with us. former attorney general bill barr is offering a scathing new case against former president donald
hello again, thanks for being with us. it s 11:00 a.m. eastern, i m ana cabrera reporting from new york with this special second hour on this federal holiday, and we are following breaking news this morning. america s secretary of state holding a high pressure meeting with china s president xi. did that one-on-one do anything to settle the simmering tensions between our two countries. extreme weather, millions remain under threat, even as communities reel from the aftermath of devastating tornados also ahead, a terrifying close call at one of the busiest airports in the country, a passenger capturing the video of this plane s wing almost hitting another plane on the runway. and later, celebrating juneteenth, we ll take you to galveston, texas, known as the birthplace of this federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery here in america. but first the breaking news out of china where u.s. secretary of state antony blinken met just a couple of hours ago with pres