the ammunition, asked him about it, and he says that it was because he was renewing his license and needed to practice and that's why he bought the ammunition. she did not buy him to the pulse nightclub to case out the scene or the venue. in fact they drove by it but he was the one driving, she was not even aware why they were going through that particular area. so that is the version that is being told to us through a source to try to kind of refute some of the pieces of information that are coming out to suggest that she may have been involved or known about this attack. she's saying she was not aware of it in addition to all of the other things that she's been telling us about her relationship with her husband, the shooter, omar mateen. jose. >> ayman, this is fascinating information. i'm just wondering if there is any knowledge or if she's mentioned whether she had a phone conversation with the killer during the rampage, because that's a question i think a lot of people are asking. was it just as far as we know text messages, according to her? >> what i've been told by the source close to noor and i have posed those questions to her through this individual was that there was no phone call. it was purely text messaging. when she tried to call him after the initial exchange of text message, there was no response. so that was the exchange as it has been described to us by the source close to noor, jose. thank you very much. as you heard president obama ripped opponents of gun reform after meeting with the families of the 49 gun victims. all eyes are on the senate and if they'll make any progress at all when they vote on several measures on monday. last night donald trump, who's been caught in the middle of the gun debate, was in dallas speaking to supporters. he called the president's response to orlando wrong and said he'll never take away people's guns. >> we have one after another. we have tragedy after tragedy. and it's a tough -- it's a tough situation. but he's largely, to a large extent, he's blaming guns. and i'm going to save your second amendment, folks. i'm going to save your second amendment. >> but this morning a new problem may be emerging for trump and the gop. "the new york times" reporting trump is pulling away from key swing states to focus on something he said he didn't need, money, cash flow, forcing the candidate to appear in traditionally red states like texas, georgia, and north carolina. all while hillary clinton's extensive media and donor network are already up and running in the critical battle grounds. meantime george w. bush is coming to the rescue, but not for trump. the former president and anti-trump republican is now reportedly getting involved to save the senate's most vulnerable conservatives. nbc national correspondent peter alexander is covering the trump campaign. peter, good morning to you. it's now four weeks since trump led in a poll against hillary clinton. is the rnc getting nervous? >> one of the reasons that the rnc is nervous to be very clear is this time four years ago mitt romney was raising about $100 million a month. donald trump has said that he has an unconventional campaign, he doesn't need to raise at that pace, raising as much as $6 million last night in dallas, texas, but they are way behind on that front. there have been challenges between trump and his relationship as we've documented throughout the course of this campaign season with the rnc. that trump in effect has been brushing off the advice on messages from the rnc, that he's failed to staff up in the way the rnc has suggested. new reporting today basically suggesting that the rnc is overseeing infrastructure and organization. that's really what you need to get out the vote during a general election, that donald trump's team hasn't put the money behind that, especially in critical states like ohio, florida and virginia. so these are real challenges right now as trump has a series of fund-raisers again today. again in texas, not the kind of battleground state where candidates like to invest their energy during these months that really may be critical as they define -- what happens right now may define what we're looking at when we come back on labor day. if they're just focused on some of these red states, they may not be accomplishing what they need to be accomplishing right now. >> meanwhile you have, peter, this george w. bush story getting in to help senate republicans, right? >> that's exactly right. so now eight -- flee eight years removed from his time in office, george w. bush, who's largely pulled back from the political campaign, is now back into it. he, though, is not helping in the presidential race. he's involved in trying to protect those vulnerable, the most vulnerable republican senators. he's already held fund-raisers in support of two of them. we're told there are supposed to be three more of these type fund-raisers coming up for candidates like john mccain. arizona with a huge hispanic population. obviously is a state that could be a troublesome place for john mccain this go-round with donald trump at the top of the ticket. the unfavorables from the hispanic community on donald trump, right now at roughly 89%, jose, so george w. bush is trying to get back in here to protect those senators in effect to have a check and balance on the white house, whether or not it's hillary clinton who is in the white house or donald trump. in either case, george w. bush thinks it's critical that you have that balance from a republican-led senate. >> 90% unfavorables. i guess it could be worse. peter alexander, thanks. thanks so much, good to see you. bernie sanders is not going anywhere. he spoke to supporters last night from vermont via live video, even after coming up short in the democratic primary. the senator did not suspend his campaign. instead he says he's ready to take down the republicans in november. >> the major political task that together we face in the next five months is to make certain that donald trump is defeated and defeated badly. and i personally intend to begin my role in that process in a very short period of time. >> msnbc political correspondent kasie hunt is following the democrats. good morning to you. what exactly is going on? >> well, bernie sanders himself and those very closest to him are really the only ones at this point who do. you've seen an evolution over the past couple of weeks. a lot of the people, the main voices with ties to the democratic party have in some ways fallen out of bernie sanders' inner circle and the people that he's listening to are the candidate himself but also people who have been with him for a long, long time. that's drowned out those people who have been pushing him to concede this race to hillary clinton d start working on her behalf. campaign manager jeff weaver, one of those people who has been with bernie sanders for decades, since he was a relatively young man he's been working for bernie sanders. he was on "morning joe" this morning talking about just what that future is. take a look. looks like we don't actually have that sound, but weaver said directly that bernie sanders is still an active candidate for president. now, of course they have said he's not lobbying superdelegates to change their positions. sanders himself also hasn't been out saying negative things about hillary clinton the way that he did on the campaign trail previously before he lost california, so those are positive signs. my reporting indicates that they do want some sort of public concession from hillary clinton on this. it's not clear yet exactly what that might exactly be, but the clinton campaign has shown willingness to work with him. the conversations are ongoing between weaver, jeff weaver, the sanders campaign manager, robby mook, hillary clinton's campaign manager. you saw them install their own person over at the democratic national committee that reduces the influence of debbie wasserman schultz. there is this question of whether or not that's going to be the thing that they ultimately get out of this, jose. >> kasie hunt, thank you very much. good seeing you. breaking news this morning. egyptian investigators say they have recovered the second black box from the wreckage of egyptair flight 804 in the met trai -- mediterranean. reunited after tragedy. embracing for the first time since officer delgado dragged angel from the pulse nightclub to safety on sunday morning. >> i've been wanting to see you, the man that took me out of that horrible place that was all just filled with craziness. i was happy. i was so happy. >> you know, you only get one life and i'm glad now that he can be with his family and continue living his life and all because we all assisted him in getting him out as fast as we could. that's why i have the spark cash card from capital one. witht, i earn unlimited 2% cash back on all of my purchasing. and that unlimited 2% cash back from spark means thousands of dolrs each year going backnto my business... which adds fuel tomy bottom lin. what's in your wallet? 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>> it's a big deal. this is the flight data recorder, jose. we know that they had the cockpit voice recorder recovered earlier this week. now the flight data recorder. the good news is that both black boxes, i should say, had damage to them but the memory unit appears to be okay. they have recovered both the recording from the cockpit, two hours of conversations between the pilots and also ambient noise inside the cockpit and then the flight data recorder which is about 25 hours of recorded data. about 1,000 parameters of data are on the fdr. it's everything from the heading, the speed, the condition of the flaps, doing any sort of a diagnostics on the computers, on the engines, on the fuel, everything you can imagine in a high-tech modern aircraft should be inside the flight data recorder, so that's great news, right? they have now both black boxes. and now this is going to be the next process. they need to take both black boxes and because they have been submerged in the sea, in the mediterranean sea, they will put them both into clear, fresh water because they want to dilute the salt out of the black boxes. that salt, of course, is corrosive to the circuit boards, the memory boards, i could say, inside the black boxes. so they will try to diffuse out the salt and then after they get that done, then they'll dry it out and begin the process of listening. they need to sync up these two black boxes, both the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder, sync them up on the timeline so when you hear somebody talking about an issue, one of the pilots, for example, then they can look at the flight data recorder and say, aha, this may be what he's talking about, some issue they can identify on the flight data recorder. all of this going to the question of what brought down egyptair 804. was it a bomb, was it a mechanical issue of some sort, was there a fire in the avionics bay underneath the flight deck. all of that is going to be critical. one last time, come out here for one last minute. this is it, this is the area we're watching very closely. there were indications of a fire or something in the forward aif aun avionics bay so maybe these will help solve this mystery. back to you. >> tom, who's going to be listening to this? where are these black boxes taken? what's the process of finding them, bringing them out of the ocean, where are they taken and who listens to all that? >> the egyptian authorities have control of this investigation because it's an egyptian flagged aircraft. they have requested the assistance of french investigators. it's a french built aircraft. and they requested some help from the ntsb. so two investigators are en route to cairo to assist. it will probably be multiple parties listening to the cockpit voice recorder to make sure they understand what the pilots are saying. and they'll have to have people in there who recognize the voices even. for example, you might have somebody who says, yeah, i know the pilot and i know the co-pil co-pilot. they'll say that's his voice, that's his voice and they'll match that up with the microphones to ensure that everything is accurate. they should so just by keying the mike, which mike is being keyed, but they want to double check that based on voice recognition as well. >> tom costello, thank you very much. it's good seeing you. aedheaahead, the personal s the fight for gun control. the filibuster pushing for increased gun regulation. >> according to just about everybody who knew him, it was impossible not to fall in love with dylan. >> we'll speak to dylan's mother about her personal fight for tougher gun laws after the break. and so... new packing robot will make jet warehouses even more efficient... and save shoppers money. genius! 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(screams) road trip! whahhhh hahaha... road trip! it was impossible not to fall in love with dylan hockley if you met him. he loved video games, he loved jumping on the trampoline, watching movies, munching garlic bread. he had dimples, he had blue eyes, he had this really mischievous little grin. you can see it here wearing one of his favorite shirts. his beaming smile, it would light up almost any room that he was in. >> connecticut senator chris murphy in the early morning hours of thursday talking about one of the youngest sandy hook victims. the senate is expected to vote monday on at least two proposals dealing with gun reform. for 15 hours on wednesday and thursday, democrats stopped all action on the senate floor to draw attention to the bills. however, there are a few who expect monday's outcome to result in any significant changes to gun laws. with me now is nicole hockley, the mother of diylan, who was killed in the shooting at sandy hook. nicole, thank you for being with me this morning. >> thank you, jose. >> what do you think that everyone expects the outcome to be the same on monday, despite the polling that americans favor certain new restrictions. why do you feel that most people feel nothing is going to change? >> i -- this is a really hard situation, but i truly hope that something does change. orlando was only a few days ago and the country is demanding action. senator murphy is demanding action. this is not something that we can continue to be silent about because every day that passes that we don't do something, more people die. we're past the time for change. and if it doesn't happen monday, then we should look forward to tuesday and wednesday and keep pressing to make this change happen in order to save more lives. >> nicole, what do you want to see happen? >> i want to see a lot of change happen. i want to see change in terms of preventing people who are showing at-risk behaviors from getting their hands on weapons, those that are intent on harming themselves or others. there's all these signs or signals that we can be educated on in terms of how to stop someone. and then we have to look at as a country what we can do in terms of access to firearms and ensure that people who should not have access to firearms don't. but there's a lot that needs to be done. >> i'm curious, you talk about the at-risk behavior that some people show. it's so difficult for the privacy of people that have mental health issues or have some behavior. that information is very difficult to share and to be even made public. it just seems as though there are so many things that are barring, you know, easy flow of information that could maybe help people determine whether weapons should be sold or not sold to people. >> i agree with what you're saying. however, there's also a lot of information that a person puts out there themselves. whether it's on their social media accounts or by telling their friends and colleagues. when you think about mass shootings such as orlando and such as the shooting that took my son's life, these are planned events. sandy hook, the shooter was planning for more than a year in advance. there were signs and signals displayed that have nothing to do with hipaa laws or privacy laws but that normal every day people can see in the school, in the community, in the family. but if we don't know what it is we're seeing and how to act on that appropriately to make an intervention, then we are part of the problem so we need to know what it is we're seeing and how to deal with it. >> and how do you suggest we do that? this is so important, this conversation. how do we deal with what we're seeing, if we see a family member, a loved one, a friend, someone who is via their social media expressing some issues that you're thinking this is -- how do we deal with something like that? >> you know, it's really not that different from the education that we've done over the years and how do you recognize someone who's having a stroke and what actions do you take or how do you recognize someone who's drowning. mental health issues and at-risk behaviors are no different from any of these other public health issues that we can address. so if you see something, you need to say something. you need to -- if you're a child, you need to tell a trusted adult if you're seeing your peers acting out. if you're a family member, go to your local community health organization, get the help that you need. if you need to go to law enforcement, go to law enforcement. chances are it could be nothing, but you need to get under the surface of what's going on in that person's life that's causing them to act in this way that could lead to them harming someone else or harming themselves. if you don't take action, then that's just the worst thing to do. find someone, tell someone and help that person get the help that they need. >> nicole, your son would be 10 years old now. when you saw him up there on the senate, you know, what -- i mean i'm just moved -- i was moved the moment i saw this and i still am every time i see this. how did you see this? >> i was extremely humbled that senator murphy did this. he has been a tireless champion on this issue and i've watched him grow into a very powerful advocate on this issue over the last three years. i'm so proud of him and touched that he would share dylan and mrs. murphy's story, because it is a story of love. it's a story of bravery. and it's still something that hits me very hard that does provide some peace to know that my son wasn't alone when he died but was in the embrace of someone that he loved and who loved him. so i can't thank senator murphy enough for taking this stand and for sharing my son's story as a way to help people find their own courage and stand in the face of adversity in order to do the right thing and help others. >> nicole, dylan's mom, thanks for being with me today. appreciate it. >> thank you. breaking news. sources tell nbc news russia's track and field team will be banned from the summer olympics in rio. we'll tell you why, next. ♪jake reese, "day to feel alive"♪ ♪jake reese, "day to feel alive"♪ ♪jake reese, "day to feel alive"♪ do you really know what it means? 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>> reporter: jose, so tragic. so the mom has stage 4 cancer. she had just come home from a chemotherapy treatment. the whole family was in the house, but likely paying attention to her. the little boy somehow was able to slip out unnoticed, and his death is at least the 12th this year hot car deaths in the u.s. this morning a 3-year-old is the latest hot car death found in searing houston heat. police say the boy crawled into the back seat possibly to get a toy. the rear doors had the child safety lock engaged so he couldn't get out. >> this was a little kid that was the poster child for being the energizer bunny. so it's not easy news. >> the season's first major heat wave has firefighters battling wildfires in arizona and southern california. and mandatory evacuations in new mexico, as the wind picks up and the threat spreads. across the plains and southwest, an excessive heat warning is in effect, a huge drain on the power grid, and the hottest temperatures some cities have seen in a decade. >> by this weekend, sunday 118, 120 for next monday. this is dangerous heat. >> reporter: 12 states have enacted a heat emergency plan at this point and are under heat advisories and cities like houston are now saying they are opening cooling centers across the city because of the fear that they will have more deaths from this extreme excessive heat. jose, back to you. >> janet shamlian, thank you very much. let's get more on the crippling heat from nbc meteorologist bill karins. so what areas are at greatest risk heading into the weekend? >> it's the extreme temperatures and areas of humidity. so the heat dome depose from the south all the way to the southeast. we now have heat advisories and warnings from savannah, charleston and now into the southwest. 19 million people under heat warnings. that's where it's dangerous to be outside for a extended period of time. the peak of it, the feels like temperatures will be 104 in dallas, 104 oklahoma city. then the heat on saturday heads out to the west. 112 in phoenix saturday. then sunday and monday, this is historic. 119. this is near all-time record highs, 122 for phoenix. tucson is 117. we'll be very close to that sunday and possibly monday. the worst part of this is it doesn't really die off. it still continues into next week. vegas 110, yuma 112. we showed you those pictures of that horrible fire in california, the santa barbara county fire. this fire forecast will get more difficult. it's zero containment. by sunday it's 96 with winds gusting to 20 miles per hour. so here we're going to be on father's day, we're going to have -- there's 1,000 firefighters out there already on this blaze. that number will grow and there will be a lot of firefighters celebrating father's day out there trying to protect life and property. >> bill karins, thank you very much. exactly one year ago today in charleston, nine people, all african-americans, were killed during bible study after a gunman stormed their church. the suspect reportedly told friends he wanted to start a race war. nbc's ron mott is in charleston, where events honoring the victims are under way this morning. ron. >> reporter: hey there, jose, good morning. we're in front of the mother emmanuel ame church here in historic downtown charleston. on that gate there, you can see nine white ribbons representing each of those folks who were lost a year ago today. as you mentioned, they were there on a wednesday night for final study, which is something they do every week here at this church. the alleged shooter in this case walked into the church. they were down in the basement. he apparently sat there as they studied the gospel of mark that night. after about an hour or so, got up and began shooting. nine people were killed. there were a couple of other survivors. today they are going to remember and reflect on those lives lost here as well as to pay tribute to those who survived and the families of these victims. the one word you hear around charleston and throughout south carolina in the past year that seems to be consistent everywhere is unity. this state has a checkered past with respect to race relations and it's a topic that people want to tackle head on here in light of this shooting. this shooter wanted to start some sort of racial war and the exact opposite has happened. there have been a lot of reconciliation meetings that have taken place in the past 365 days here. so after the event this morning, there's a service about three or four blocks from here in an arena that holds about 5,000. at 4:00 eastern time they're going to hold another service here at the church and then afterwards there's going to be essentially a social mixer where people can begin and continue having those conversations knocking down those barriers between race so that one person can see the next person as simply that, a person. this is a weekend of reflection here in south carolina, in charleston. it will go on all weekend and into next week as well, jose. >> ron mott, thank you very much. ahead, dissent in the state department. more than 50 u.s. diplomats slamming the white house's policy on syria in a scathing internal memo. what does this mean in the fight against isis? 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>> reporter: well, a lot of moving parts. let's start with fallujah and then we'll get into that other story about dissent at the state department on the syria policy. but in fallujah, what we've seen is iraqi forces, iraqi national forces, federal police and counterterrorism forces going into the very center of the city, taking over some government buildings, hoisting the iraqi flag. it's getting wall-to-wall coverage on iraqi television. it's being celebrated as a partial liberation of the city. iraqi forces say that the isis resistance, which has been very fierce up until now, is subsiding somewhat. that the isis fighters are in retreat. they still hold large pockets of fallujah, mostly in the western part of the city. but the iraqi government is celebrating this as a major breakthrough, that not militia forces, but iraqi government forces, the legitimate forces in the country, were able to get into fallujah, hoist the flag, a very symbolic victory for the iraqi government. not a complete one and certainly by no means the end of the tensions there, but it helps the government and prime minister a great deal. >> richard, let's talk a little bit about that, what fallujah is. is it a skeleton city? the civilian population there that's been caught in this horrible fighting? >> reporter: so there's a lot to talk about on this one as well. so fallujah is a sunni city. and that's why it was really important for the iraqi government to send in national forces, to send in legitimate government institution forces, because there's another wave of troops and militia fighters who are involved in this offensive and they are primarily iranian-backed shiite militias. now, the iranian-backed she 8 militias are generally spending their time defending the perimeters of fallujah. they are to the south, they are to the east and as it is right now they are not involved in the spearhead operation, we are told, to take the center of the city. that is being left to the government forces so that there is not a fear that there will be reprisal attacks. but as people are leaving fallujah, the sunni citizens who are escaping isis, who are escaping the violence, who are escaping also this liberation offensive, as they are leaving the city, occasionally they are also running into those shiite militias and there have been several incidents of tension, several incidents of what they describe as abuse at the hands of the militias. so it is a very delicate operation with shiite forces providing the outer perimeter, with government forces spearheading in and then people fleeing and the sunnis are afraid that if they flee, they will run into, as this has happened a few times, those shiite militias that are to the south and to the east. >> thank you, richard, for that. i also want to ask you about the state department cable regarding syria. this has got to be unusual, isn't it? >> reporter: it is really about setting an historic marker, i think. it's a moral argument. these are people in the state department who want to plant a flag to say we don't agree with this policy. you have to realize that in the five years that this conflict has gone on, about 400,000 people have been killed. the vast majority of them haven't been killed by isis, they have been killed by the assad regime. and over the last several months, the assad regime has been making progress. the assad regime has been getting very direct air support from moscow and has been carrying out air strikes, offensives, shellings, bombings and killing large numbers of civilians. and the united states, according to these dissidents who signed this memo is turning a blind eye. the u.s. is not pressuring assad, is not pressuring moscow. that those two are not abiding by a cease-fire and these people in the state department wanted to plant a flag and say an atrocity is under way and unless military pressure is put on assad, that the assad government backed with moscow will continue to take territory and continue to kill civilians while the u.s. remains quite narrowly focused on the fight against isis. >> richard, you have this regime, this dictatorship, that continues almost on a daily basis to kill civilians when they're supposedly a cease-fire that the world kind of turned a page on once that was reported, and yet every single day because of that dictatorship people are dying. >> reporter: so there's two very divergent strategies that are being discussed right now for syria. the one strategy that the u.s. seems to be pursuing is to focus narrowly on isis and to turn a blind eye while assad and the -- and moscow regain territory. there was a big offensive against the city of idlib not very long ago. the assad forces are stepping up their attacks around the edges of aleppo. so that is the strategy that people in the state department are complaining about. they're saying that it is a delve devil's bargain. that we're allowing assad to do what they will in the rest of syria. the opposite approach would be bomb assad, drive him out of power and try to get a rebel coalition, a moderate arab force built, equipped and have that move in and take over in damascus. but frankly that is a strategy that the u.s. considered for some time and when that was tried and flirted with a few times but really never got off the ground frankly. >> richard engle in istanbul, thank you very much for being with me. it's good to see you, appreciate it. >> absolutely. ahead, why house speaker paul ryan is doubling down on his support of donald trump, despite a growing number of republicans saying trump should not get the nomination. we'll talk about that, next. the right things working together can give you an advantage. like trubiotics with iune support advantage. its unique formula supports immune health in two ways. with probiotics that work in your gut. and antioxidants that work throughout your body. trubiotics from one a day. have an orc-o-gram we for an "owen."e. that's me. ♪ you should hire stacy drew. ♪ ♪ she wants to change the world with you. ♪ ♪ she can program jet engines to talk and such. ♪ ♪ her biggest weakness is she cares too much. ♪ thank you. my friend really wants a job at g mine too. ♪ i'm a wise elf from a far off shire. ♪ and sanjay patel is who you should hire. ♪ thank you. seriously though, stacy went to a great school and she's really loyal. you should give her a shot. sanjay's a team player and uh... when shoppers add an item they automatically shrink the prices of millions of other products. very impressive. whoo, it's got a little kick to it. at jet.com, we're always looking for money saving innovations. house speaker paul ryan holding firm to his endorsement of donald trump. he tells our chuck todd that, yes, the two have disagreements but not everyone agrees on everything. as far as his colleagues up for re-election, there's no need for them also to back the nominee. >> the last thing i would do is tell anybody to do something that's contrary to their conscience. of course i wouldn't do that. look, believe me, chuck, i get this. this is a very strange situation. this is a very unique nominee. but i feel as a responsibility institutionally as the speaker of the house that i should not be leading some chasm in our party. that will definitely knock it out of the white house. >> let me bring in jay newton small and robert costa. robert, you heard paul ryan there. this is a strange situation and trump is a unique nominee. can you translate that for me? >> paul ryan is uncomfortable in some respects with donald trump being the presumptive republican nominee, but he said as the institutional leader of the party at the moment, he's not going to be leading some kind of republican civil war. but he's given a lot of opportunity for members of the house and other members of the republican party to distance themselves from trump. that's the interpretation many members are making of ryan's comments. >> and, jay, i mean how close are we here to this race being everyone for themselves as far as the republicans are concerned? >> certainly down ballot a lot of republicans are taking every opportunity to distance themselves from donald trump as the nominee. some of them have like mark kirk of illinois has unendorsed donald trump and said he will not support him. others have just said that they will support the nominee but don't really enjoy it or have clarified their differences with him very strongly. and it is a -- i think paul ryan is right to some degree that if you have -- you lead a revolution against him it makes things worse because you would have to spend so much time reuniting the party, healing the party, you're going to lose no matter what. at this point you just focus on the down ballot, keep your head down and disagree where you have to with the nominee. >> robert, can that be effective in a general presidential election? >> it's going to be difficult for the republican party, especially because many donors in the party who are close to ryan and close to party leaders, they're taking ryan's comments and they're wondering whether in the coming months to dedicate their funds and their resources to the presidential race or perhaps just separate themselves and to focus on retaining the senate majority and retaining the house majority. that's going to be something to watch over the coming months. where does the money go. >> to build on that, one of the names you hear a lot on capitol hill this week is bob dole and how the republicans in 1996 when they saw he could not win the presidency pulled their money away from bob dole's candidacy and put it into the down ballot races. >> that's going to be interesting to watch. thank you both for being with me this morning. appreciate it. donald trump is not backing down from his muslim ban, but is it even legal? ari melber's exclusive interview with a man that represents the white house before the supreme court on whether it would be constitutional or not. you owned your car for four years, you named it brad. you loved brad. and then you totaled him. you two had been tough everything together. two boyfriends, three jobs... you're like nothing can replace brad. then liberty mutual calls, and u break into your happy dance. if you sign up for better car replacement™, we'll pay for a car that's a model year newer with 15,000 fewer miles than your old one. see car insurance in a whole new light. liberty mutual insurance. ...to cook healthy meals... yet up to 90% fall short in getting key nutrients fr food alone. let's do more... ...add one a day men's 50+. complete with key nutrients we may need. plus it helps support healthy blood pressure with vitamin d and magnesium. if you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis isn't it time to let the real you shine through? 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>> i'd be surprised. i'd be surprised to think that it would. >> you think a supreme court would likely strike down that proposal? >> you don't want to speculate on a case that doesn't exist and probably will never exist, but, you know, i can't imagine that the court would find a religious test like that appropriate. >> and a religious test, you use that word because that itself is banned in the constitution? >> in a different context, but yes. >> that may be some speculation there, obviously donald trump is a long way from the presidency and you have to pass a law to get that ban. but we also spoke about something that's active now, this president's use of executive authority on immigration. take a look. >> ever since we've had immigration laws and immigration enforcement and immigration system in this country, there has been a huge amount of discretion given to the executive branch. you can understand why that's so. it's a huge problem. it's got all these different dimensions to it. it's got humanitarian dimensions and foreign relations dimensions and budgetary dimensions. there's only so much money and you have to spend it effectively. it's inevitable that you need to have the president and executive branch officials have always exercise very, very great discretion with respect to immigration. >> that, jose, as you know is part of the argument that is in the balance at the supreme court right now. they will rule within the next two weeks on the president's executive orders. >> ari melber, thank you very much. good seeing you. >> sure. that wraps up this hour. thank you for the privilege of your time. "msnbc live" continues. tamron hall, right now. right now on msnbc, texting during the massacre. police reveal the messages the orlando nightclub shooter sent to his wife as he carried out the shooting. this as investigators uncover more about his troubling past, including concerns as far back as grade school. plus the unconventional plan from the unconventional candidate. does donald trump's new strategy involve ignoring key battleground states to spend more time fund-raising? and temperatures could soar up to 120 degrees in california and arizona as much of the west braces for potentially record-breaking heat wave. it's already being blamed for the death of a toddler in texas and it's helping to fuel raging wildfires. we'll update you on it. good morning, everyone, i'm tamron hall coming to you live from our msnbc headquarters in new york. we begin with the latest on the orlando nightclub shooting. we're learning new details about communications made by gunman omar mateen during the rampage. a source close to the gunman's wife tells nbc news that mateen and his wife, noor, exchanged text messages during the shooting. she texted him where are you? he responded, quote, do you see what's happening? she replied no. he then texts i love you, babe. according to a federal law enforcement official, mateen's wife repeatedly tried calling him on his cell phone after they exchanged text messages. today new information is emerging about the gunman's past, including reports that he was preoccupied with violence as early as the third grade. a man m ayman mohyeldin joins us from port st. lucie, florida. we've learned at least one witness believes that he saw mateen with a rad

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