They plotting. And thousands join rare antigovernment protests in cuba amid the worst pandemic there. The question is, how is the government responding . Its way too early for this. Good Morning And Welcome to way too early, the show that would take a Beach Vacation before i book a ticket to Outer Space. Really something. I am Kasie Hunt on this monday, july 12th. The biden administration is responding after thousands of cubans took to the streets whats being called the biggest antigovernment demonstration in decades there. Its erupted amid food shoutages, high prices, and blackouts. The antigovernment protest lasting about 2 1 2 hours before it was eventually broken up. The cuban Security Personnel used Tear Gas and other things to disperse the crowds. The cuban president blamed the United States for agitating the population. The country is going through its worst economic crisis in decades as it suffers the ongoing consequences of u. S. Sanctions. A u. S. State Department Official released a statement on twitter that reads in part, peaceful protests are growing in cuba as the cuban people exercise their right to peaceful assembly to express concern about rising covid cases, deaths, and medicine shortages. We commend the numerous efforts of the cuban nation, mobilizing to help neighbors in need. Back at home on Capitol Hill, where one of president bidens closest allies is pushing him to endorse a reform to a filibuster. Majority whip Jim Clyburn said he should back a plan to that would change the constitution. It would allow the democrats to pass their sweeping Election Reform Bill and another bill authorizing the key sections of the 1945 Voting Rights Act with democratic support. Clyburn said president biden should pressure Joe Manchin, wu of the staunchest supporters in the caucus. He suggest theyd return to the talking filibuster, which would require senators to stay on the floor while blocking a bill. Clyburn told, unquote, im not asking you to eliminate the filibuster, but what im saying to you is nobody ought to have the right to filibuster my constitutional rights. Interesting. Texas republicans, meanwhile, are moving forward with a set of restrictive voting laws. It comes after a Marathon Weekend of public testimony by democrats fighting against the legislation. Both gopbacked Voting Bills are headed to the floor tomorrow. State house democrats are, again, weighing their options, considering procedural fights or even another walkout. Joining us now, white House Reporter for the washington post, tyler pager. Tyler, good morning. Its great to see you. Lets talk for a second about clyburn. Obviously not a member of the senate, but also very influential with the president and has been in the room with Joe Manchin. Whats your latest reporting on where things stand with the Voting Rights Measures that are facing the senate right now. Yeah, thanks so much for asking me. Thats, again, The Big Question were talk about. Democrats see that as an existential threat to not just their ability to win elections but also to democracy and the ability for people to exercise their right to vote. This comes with Joe Biden headed to philadelphia to make a big speech on democracy and then voting rights. And, again, were seeing more pressure, but at the same time, i dont see the party moving in that direction until we see the president of the United States, the leader of the democratic Party Call for these filibusters. Hes endorsed the talking filibuster reform, but hes not gone as far to say there should be a carveout. Until we see the president of the United States make that kind of statement, its going to be hard. We have not seen any sort of effort by the moderate democrats to make those concessions and call for a carveout. I think theres continuing to be an Uphill Battle for that kind of change. I think thats a very good point. The president would have to put the pressure on as you mention. Tyler, you also have reporting on a bunch of key biden administrations that still dont have any nominees or theyre untilled. Why . Yeah some of there are more than A Thousand positions that the biden administration needs to fill across the government, and the story that we looked at over the weekend is some of the key areas where they havent put forward a nominee, so that looks at the Solicitor General who argues cases in front of the supreme court. Amid the pandemic, theyre authorizing vaccines, the other we looked at was the top Budget Official as they try to pass a package. Each of these vacancies has different dynamics, but one of the things we look at is the White House talks about their Government Approach to solving problems burkes that approach is somewhat study mied. People i talked to said acting nominees are kind of like substitute teachers. They could be great burkes they just focus on issues of the day. They dont work on longterm strategy. Thats one area where the Biden Agenda can be impeded by these decisions. Really interesting. We talk about the nominations. The bottom line, they simply dont have the same kind of authority as the senate confirmed official. The washington posts tyler pager. Thank you for getting up early with us this morning. Appreciate you being here. British billionaire Richard Branson has made history, becoming the first person to reach the edge of Outer Space in a rocket funded by his own company. Virgin galactic. He launched into space with three employees, flying 53 miles above the earth. Its the final mission before kicking off with commercial flights with paying customers next year. Nbcs Tom Costello was in New Mexico for every moment. Reporter under a blazing sun, a new plane drifted off. Unity attached to the belly of its mother ship. Inside, Richard Branson, three other employees and two pilots climbing to 46,000 feet. Then 45 minutes after liftoff. Three, two, one, release, release, release. Reporter 3gs. Passengers in the back have been cleared to unstrap. Reporter the Moment Branson has been dreaming of since he was a dream, the curvature of the earth and the darkness of space. Looking down to a beautiful, beautiful earth. Reporter after three to four minutes of weightlessness, the journey home. Safely touching down just over an hour after takeoff. A perfect landing. Reporter on the ground, jubilation, triumph, and the famous branson champagne shower. Finally 17 years after starting Virgin Galactic. The wings that are the Virgin Galactic wings, ladies and gentlemen, this, here, is sir Richard Branson, astronaut. Im never going to be able to do it justice. Its indescribably beautiful. Reporter in an exclusive Branson Family Interview with Nbc News ive got to show it off. Reporter sir richard could not contain his excitement, his Kids Grateful hes back on terra firma. Its quite bad when your dad is going to do something in pioneering no ones done. Reporter after suggesting on friday that branson and his passengers would not be true astronauts because they dont go as high as bezos and his passengers will, Bezos Today seemed to concede the win, writing, Cant Wait to join the club. I hope he has as extraordinary an experience as we do. Reporter bransons hope is that the quarter of A Million Dollar Ride will come down, making it possible for others. Then you and a friend will be able to go to space. Its an exciting, i think, opportunity for people around the world, which has never existed before. Reporter a lifelong dream fulfill and a pledge to open space for everyone. Our thanks to Nbcs Tom Costello for that report. The 2020 soccer championship. And blistering heat and dangerous wildfire concerns. Well have those stories and much, much more when we come back. Much, Muchor Me when we come back facing leaks takes strength. 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The Threeway Tie could be broken next month as djokovic remains on track to join only two other men in creating a calendar Grand Slam after winning the australian open, french open, and now wimbledon. And should djokovic compete at the tokyo games in between, he could potentially line up the socalled golden slam, cha is the four major championships plus the olympics. Thats an accomplishment only achieved by Steffi Graf in 1988. London is celebrating their national teams European Championship victory over england. With teams in a stalemate after 120 minutes of play in the final, england won the shootout winning the title since 1968. These things are so stressful, those penalty kicks. All right. The first half of the major league baseballs regular season is in the books and baseballs top prospects are off the draft board. The Pittsburgh Pirates selected Louisville Catcher henry davis. Hes the second catcher to be taken first overall. The second round beginning in denver ahead of tonights home run dir by at Coors Field. All right. Time for the weather. Lets go to Meteorologist Bill karins for a check on the forecast. Bill, weve got a lot of heat it looks like. Yeah, kasie. In the northeast, we talk about the rain and in the west, its as dry as it could get. We went into the Weekend Thinking we werent going to set the alltime hottest temperature which is 134 degrees. But we hit 130 on friday, 129 on saturday, 128 On Sunday in death valley. With the modern records and our improved implementation for measuring, it was the warmest ever recorded on earth. The one that was 134 degrees was over 100 years ago. Theyre saying this was the hottest reliable temperature ever recorded on earth. A lot of cities like Las Vegas tied their alltime high. One away in sacramento. Today is a little better. Some areas have cooled off slightly. We have 19 Million impacted by heat warnings. Fresno should be 110. Mount shasta should break their record high, same for reno at 105. Again, its a loss less than what we had. Were going to go normal. Still warm, but back to where we should be. Boise should be around 95. Phoenix will have a chance of that. Clouds and moisture. Maybe showers in the afternoon. So theyre going to see temperatures right around 102. By phoenix standards, thats greatly improved. Now to the northeast where it wont stop raining, we have flooding its humid tropical air mass. We have a ton of rain overnight up through portland, thunderstorms rolling through pennsylvania. Rain went through new York City, and now we have flood watches that are up for a good chunk of the northeast and New England including boston, hartford, providence, kingston, hudson valley, new York City is under a Flash Flood Watch and our friends in cleveland. It looks like a round of thunderstorm this afternoon. Another one this evening and another one this thursday. Thats going to be at least three rounds of rain. Its hard to pinpoint whos going to get the most of it, but computers are hinting from Central Pennsylvania and reading, maybe around syracuse. So humid, so tropical, its going to be hit and miss, depending on where you are. Youll notice the heat still in the west. Coastal cities are bad. Seattle, portland, not affected by the latest heatwave. There are Rain Chances in the east. Kasie, everything is lush and very green, what a contrast to whats happening in the west with the drought and the heatwaves and how Climate Change has affected areas of the west. Yeah, were going to talk later nonthe show about the economic implications of that. Its starting to affect people, their daytoday lives and their livelihood. Thank you very much for that. We appreciate it. Well see you tomorrow. Still ahead here, a scary situation in denver as people arrest four people. 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Hes seen on camera threatening an officers life, according to prosecutors. Youre going to die tonight. Just awful. Former President Trump, meanwhile, is framing what happened on January 6th. We saw some of it just a moment ago in a far different light. Here is trump during an interview on Fox News yesterday. There was such love at the rally. You had over A Million people there. They were there for one reason. They felt the election was rigged. Thats why they were there. And these were peaceful people. They were great people. The crowd was unbelievable. I mentioned the word love. Kwlts the love in the air, ive never seen anything like it. At least some of the people in that crowd marched down to the capitol and beat Police Officers as you can see there. A new straw poll, meanwhile, from the cpac showed President Trump is the overwhelming favorite for republicans in the 2024 primary. The results were revealed at The End of the Conference Yesterday and shows if trump chose to run, hes the first choice of 77 of republicans who attended there. In second place, florida governor Ron Desantis with 21 of the votes. Trump has not revealed whether hell seek the nomination but said last month he had made his decision. In a poll where he was not the nomination, desantis received 68 . Joining us now, the cofounder of punchbowl news, anna, its gooed to see you. Theres a lot on January 6th. We showed that video of police being dragged by trump supporters, and you heard trump call them fine people. There are republicans obviously at this conference who say, hey, you know, hes our choice for this. What is your sense of what this means going forward . The rewrite of what happened on January 6th continues. I hatewatching that video, but, you know what sunny im glad it exists so we can see with our own eyes exactly what happened. Its very disturbing to start your day looking at that video, but it truly shows how violent it actually was, how perilous it was. Well have the House Committee looking at this, looking at what actually happened because you have trump and a lot of his supporters and members of congress who were whitewashing, saying, oh, its tourism. Trump is trying to pretend there was a lot of love in the air. Thats no what you see on the ground on January 6th. Its really quite disturbing. Yeah. So, anna, the other thing that obviously we mentioned here was Mike Pence in that cpac poll. He made the decision, hey, i doge have the authority to overturn the election. And hes stood by that decision in the intervening months. He hasnt actually shifted. But what he did that day cost him. The Cpac Crowd would have typically been a friendly crowd. Clearly not for him. What is his future in politics . Hes a lonely face right now to be clear. The republican side of the party doesnt love Mike Pence. Theyre not enamored with him. He clearly wants to have a future in the republican party, trying to find what that footing might look like. But in the short term its hard to see the republican base, you know, switching its position to actually finding a real love for him going forward. So, anna, this is a big makeorbreak week. In fact, were about to hit the august recess, and democrats have to keep the bipartisan Bill And Deal on track and try to make sure theyre making enough progress on the democraticonly proposal to reassure nervous progressives about where this is all going its very delicate dance. Roys your latest reporting on Capitol Hill this weekend. Do you have anything in your News Letter this morning we should talk about here . Absolutely. You teed it up perfectly for us. This morning were out with several different scenarios, basically playing out what that could look like if Chuck Schumer is successful in running the table and getting the bipartisan Process Policy going as well as this harder Reconciliation Package going forward. Theres a lot of things that he needs to do. But i think what we really tee up is this other kind of scenario, which is the glooming debt ceiling, the fact that theyre going to have to do funding that punts it to The End of the year. You and i know. Over new years, it acts when they have that legislative deadline. We try to play out the five different scenarios. You can read about all of them in this News Letter. Its going to be quite a busy second half of 2021. Anna palmer. Thank you. We appreciate it. Coming up, a growing sized payday. Way too early back in a moment. Way too early back in a moment experience, hyper performance that takes you further. At the lexus golden opportunity sales event. 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Its just weeks and weeks and Weeks Dryer than it should be this time of year. Reporter the Fire Season not only prematurely ferocious but as deadly. In arizona, these two men were killed in an air accident. The scorching temperatures threatening millions of americans across the west, with thermostats soaring 10 to 20 degrees abob average. On Saturday Utah tied its alltime statewide record, 117 in st. George t same temperature as Las Vegas. Also matching a Sin City record. The extreme heat pushing the regions extreme drought to historic levels, reducing Water Deliveries across the west, with reservoirs hitting new lows. In utah, one reservoir has completely run dry. This here is something different. This is something ive never seen before. All right. Our thanks to Erin Mclaughlin for that report. And joining us now to talk a little bit more about this topic is reporter for the Wall Street journal, orla mccaffrey. Thank you for being up way too early this morning for us. I really appreciate it. Your story stuck out with me. You were Noult Seattle during the heatwave, and you chronicled the way this is impacting ordinary people trying to go about Making A Living and all the things they had to do differently because of this heatwave. I think its been a real challenge as we try to konk the Climate Change because so much is about science and measurements of different things this. Is very tangible, very real world with a very big impact. Explain what you found when you went out there to cover this . Right. I think the key thing here, kasie, is how unaccustomed this particular region is to the heat. Temperatures are typically 30 to 40 degrees worse than The End of june. So there isnt the kind of infrastructure to deal with an event like this. Less than half of the homes in seattle dont have a a. C. They didnt know what to do. It was difficult on people, businesses. I know a lot of folks who didnt sleep because of the heat. Now government officials and businesses alike are tasked with what do we do the next time this happens, which they expect to be sooner rather than later. Can you walk us through some of the things that businesses in particular, the headline, Christmas Trees, doughnuts were affected, fishing. What did they have to do to try to keep their businesses going through the heatwave . Right. So the extreme heatwave caused problems for businesses across the board. One of my colleagues wrote about 350,000 Chinook Salmon having to be released early by the fishery or they would have been nonviable for the season. A Christmas Tree grower i spoke to said he thinks his crop is saved this year, but hes definitely going to plant more next year and the year after that to account for the future extreme events that might take some of them out. Everyone is kind of brainstorming and figuring out what to do. Employees at that Doughnut Store actually went on strike because of the working conditions. There are also concerns about working conditions at an Amazon Warehouse here. Its affecting Business Leaders to employees at the ground level. Right. So, i mean, the reality, of course, at The End of the day, its still going to take wide, collective action in the long run to try to combat some of these effects. Do you get the sense theres fewer political diversions or are people divided as ever as they continue to hamper or efforts to do something about this . You know, i think there are a lot of ways people can come together here. In washington state, for example, theres a ban against campfires. Its posted all across the state because of the recent high temperatures. I spoke with the commissioner of Public Lands here recently, and shes afraid this year is going to be the worst ever for wildfires. But i think on concrete things like that, theres definitely momentum for that to happen. All right. Well see. Theres so much work to be done and unfortunately not a ton of reen rns to be encouraged, but hopefully more reporting like this so that everybody understands how impacting they are by this. Thanks very much for being up early for us with your reporting. We really appreciate it. Earlier on in the show, we asked why you are awake. One person writes coffee tastes better in this cup, goblue. Yes, it does. Go blue. Actor Dave Foley is up way too early to shoot a sketch for the kids in the hall. Hall. Thanks for helping to wake my brain. And bobby is getting dressed to catch a 6 00 a. M. Plane to cleveland, ohio. Up to meet my great, great, Grandson Beau for the first time. You are so lucky. Up next well look at the axios one big thing. And on Morning Joe, where priorities lie in the senate. Michael bennett of colorado joins the conversation. And well hear from former hud secretary, julian castro. Dont go anywhere, Morning Joe just moments away. Where, morni just moments away. 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These passengers headed to miami forced to put their hands on their head for nearly an hour due to a security risk. Authorities arested this man. He claimed to have a bomb in his luggage during an argument with the ticket counter employee. Now more than 3,200 reports of unruly rioters this year. The number of faa investigations already three times more than a normal year. The faa releasing a Zero Tolerance psa. Stop. And tsa resuming selfdefense classes for workers. To handle problem passenger. Reporter masked planes enflaming the stresses of airline travel. Hoping the Mandates End soon. The current order expires September 13th and i guess it will expire on September 13th. Clearly the masks are a Spark Point but its not the underlying cause. Any Flight Attendant would say Theres Something much bigger going on here and there is just a general aggression. Reporter american and Southwest Airlines stopping alcohol service, and the faa handing out massive fines from 7,500 to 52,000. A Steep Price to deter more chaos in the air. I mean, i know its been a tough year for everyone, but lets keep it together, everybody. Thanks to Vaughn Hillyard for that record. That report. Joining us to look at Axios A. M. , congressional reporter elena treen. Good to see you. Whats the one big Thing Today . Good morning, happy monday. Today were looking at Vaccine Laws across the country. A lot of republican State Lawmakers are trying to theyre using the same language they would with race, religion and gender, politics in their states, trying to make it illegal for employees and private businesses and government to discriminate against those who are unvaccinated versus those who are vaccinated. This is really an interesting marker of how deeply Vaccine Status has burned into the political psyche in our country. One state already, montana, has made it illegal for different employers to discriminate against people who are unvaccinated versus those who are vaccinated. And my Colleague Points out the states doing this and pushing this are the states that have higher rates of unvaccinated people. So i think its something to keep tracking and see as, you know, more people become vaccinated, more laws get relaxed, how many states follow through on this or if its more bark than bite. The emerging political Signaling Divide here. The senate is coming back this week, right before their august recess. And they are trying to put two massive Infrastructure Packages into that time. They want to finish the bipartisan plan and also get the ball rolling on the democratic only bill. It is a very tough period for the Senate Majority Leader in particular, Chuck Schumer, whats the Game Plan for him . He has a very difficult job in the next few weeks. And time is running out. You know, they have a Summer Deadline for getting the Infrastructure Packages through. Selfimposed deadline, i should say. And as you know, kasie, and Anyone Else who covers congress, they move very slowly, particularly in packages of this size and magnitude. I think this week in particular is going to be a big week to see, one, they have to write the bills, particularly the bipartisan bill, they struck the deal, 22 senators and the White House struck a deal on a 1. 2 trillion infrastructure package. It hasnt been written yet and they still need to get a lot of support for this. I think the dynamics of how many people, even democrats who will vote for this bill ultimately is going to be a key factor that well probably learn more about this week. Progressives are really pushing this Package Pass along with the Reconciliation Bill which is a much more ambitious, progressive proposal. But not a lot of time to do this. So i think Chuck Schumer has his work cut out for him in these next few weeks. Sure does. So the key piece of this too is the Budget Committee working on writing the Reconciliation Package. I had sources tell me its going to represent a broad range of democrats and could represent a good place to start for the whole senate. But its going to be a lot less than what bernie sanders, the chairman, wants in terms of spending, right . It is. My colleague, Hans Nichols reported last night that its going to be roughly 3. 5 trillion. Still a massive number. I mean, if you look years ago, 3. 5 trillion is not something to blink at. But bernie sanders, he wanted initially something closer to 6 trillion, looks like hes not going to get that. He has to bow to reality and come down from that number just to be realistic with what a lot of moderate democratic senators would do because they need every single democratic senator to vote for this package for it to pass. All right. Thanks for being up early with us. We appreciate it. One other thing to watch this week and through the summer is voting rights. Sources close to senator Joe Manchin say that he understands its likely to come up again. It is going to come to a head, and there are some signs that he is thinking about ways in which to make a filibuster more painful for the person who decides they want to implement it right now. It doesnt take very much skin in the game to do it. So Thats Something im keeping a close eye o