>> all the heat is overwhelming. >> tried to power through. felt like i was having a heart attack. >> how long the heat wave will last ahead. new this morning, congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez hitting back. she's in a town hall in queens. her district in new york, yesterday. >> we're here, they sent me back to queens. i am happy to be here. once you start telling american citizens to, quote, go back to your own country, this tells you that this president's policies are not about immigration, it's about ethnicity and racism. and his biggest mistake was that he said the quiet part loud. he's been keeping it in here. this week it went out here. where are we going to go? we're going to stay right here. that's where we're going to go. we're not going anywhere. >> the congresswoman also retweeting a new article from the "washington post" that details the political crisis caused by the president's tweets. ocasio-cortez wrote that the article proved that the president is not a quote, a secret genius. it cites 26 white house aides, advisers, lawmakers and others involved in the response to the president's tweets. in the report, the president's aides, quote, didn't think he fully understood what he had done last sunday when he sent those controversial tweets. when kellyanne conway explained the -- the president said he wanted to elevate the congresswoman as he had previously discussed with aides. advisers then encouraged him to pivot the attacks to patriotism. the argument went that some will see a racist agenda but not so explic explicit. when the president landed in north carolina for his rally, the white house and republicans believed the worst was behind him. it reignited when the supporters chanted send her back. we'll get new reaction in a few moments. also developing today, insight on democratic strategy ahead of the testimony of robert mueller on wednesday. the chair of the house intelligence committee, adam schiff is saying he has realistic expectations and may not ask mueller to read parts of the report out loud. what is most powerful is not an isolated fact here or an isolated fact there, but how the facts looked together. you not only look at the discreet acts of obstruction, you look at the pattern. the pattern both in volume 1 and volume 2 is what is most devastating. and that's not something that's necessarily some something you can ask the counsel to read. >> emily larson joining me with the washington examiner and daniel -- with politico covering the white house and washington. let's talk about what we heard from chirm schiff there. not asking mueller to read parts of his reports and leading him to highlight the patterns and themes based on the facts. does that translate to americans as democrats are hoping it wi? will? >> they hope his report -- the whole strategy for democrats is to get a little bit more and more analysis and thoughts from what he actually thinks about what happened between the trump campaign and russia. these instances of potential obstruction of justice. reading from the report won't necessarily give you any new information. i think the strategy to try and get -- evoke some other responses in order so the democrats can move forward in the strategy makes sense. >> chairman schiff talked about how he would make him testify about aspects not covered in his report? >> i'm realistic in my expectations. he is clearly deeply reluctant to testify. he has made it clear he doesn't want to go beyond the report. i want to make it clear, that is a choice that bob mueller is making. that is not required by law or regulation. we will be doing our hearing after the judiciary committee. so we will get some sense of how it is to fight with him over areas outside the report. >> daniel, what do you think? could that backfire? >> well, it's already taken a long time for fem them to get mueller to testify. if he had testified the week after his report was released, it would have a much bigger impact on the public. but much of america has moved on and so this feels like the democrats are fighting a lost battle here. but it's still going to be an important moment because the american public, except for five minutes or so from mueller talking publicly a month or so ago, they haven't seen mueller lay out his report. that's going to be very powerful. most americans have not read the report. even if he sticks to the four corners of report, that's still kind of devastating in the eyes of schiff and many other democrats. >>let go back to what he said in may. listen to this. >> i hope and expect this to be the only time i speak to you in this matter. we chose those words carefully and the work speaks for itself. the report is my testimony. >> emily, what do you think? is he going to push back an democrats and put the arguments from the president and the republicans work. that it's time to move on. >> i think we're going to hear a lot of, well, that's in the report. i'm not going to answer that. that's definitely to be expected. there could be some nuggets that democrats and republicans could highlight that give each of them political capital. there are things they want to know that aren't necessarily outlined in the report for example. how much it factors into the start of the investigation. that was something laid out completely in the report. so there will be instances where he doesn't say anything. but depending on how it goes, it will -- he will figure out how much this is an issue moving forward. >> let's also talk about some of the new report from the political crisis caused by the tweets about four congresswoman of color. he thought it would help thim elevate the congressman with aid. the president said he thought he was interjecting himself into democratic party politics in a good way. daniel, what does this reporting mean to you? >> it's a great story p they talked to more than 2 dozen people around the white house. it illustrates that trump can sometimes have good political instincts and other times they did not line up with where the american people are. he had to backtrack from his own attacks on these four congresswomen. he had started this whole thing by saying they should go back to their country. so it's not a surprise that his crowd adopted that. he waited 13 seconds for them when they were making that crude chant to start talking again. so his whole line that oh, yeah, i immediately started talking quick hi to get them to not say that anymore, that doesn't line up with the tape. >> it's sim minot true. emily, what toss it say that president has been thinking about elevating these congresswomen before he sent the tweets strategically. >> i think that's what the republicans as a whole are trying to do. they're trying to elevate the so-called squad, the progressive congresswoman, and ilhan omar who have more progressive ideas that they call socialist. this is an election strategy they're using in 2020 to show this is the direction the democratic party is going, these are going to be the consequences of the politics. trump was obviously trying to do the same sort of highlighting of these congresswomen and left wing progressive wing of the party but in a way that has severe consequences and we'll see if the voters with concerned about -- enough about what his tweets said that they will backlash. >> going to find out soon. probably get more polling data on that front in the coming weeks. the congresswoman, ocasio-cortez said this about the issue of immigration, how it's playing within her party. >> you know, i'll keep it real with you all. even within our party, this is a difficult issue. one of the reasons that i get in trouble is because i talk about immigration too much. it's because i try to protect your community, quote-unquote too much. it's because i say that there are some things that should not be up to politics and putting kids in cages is one of them. >> daniel, some have said the attacks have united leadership and the congresswoman -- is that internal democratic clash, is it over here? we have a meeting coming up between cortez and pelosi. >> yes. it's never going to be fully over. i would tweak ocasio-cortez a little bit. no one in the democratic party is saying that she is talking too much about getting kids out of cages. that's just not true as well. i think democrats, they know that if they focus too much on immigration, that could be to the detriment their electric coral chances. issues like health care and the economy, those are bread and butter issues. those are more popular with american people than immigration. the party has shifted left ward. you don't hear too much about the importance of border security from democrats and so that is a point that could get lost if aot wants to talk about immigration and now she's one of the stars of the democratic party. people listen to her do you think a the upcoming negotiations over funding the dhs, the homeland security situation may bring back some of the clashes we've seen previously or is it more of a united front? >> certainly, there will be clashes. there have been clashes over this issue in the past between nancy pelosi and progressive members who don't think there should be any money going towards more enforcement actions within i.c.e. and dhs and that it should be for humanitarian aid or purposes with the facilities on the border. that's a deep ideological divide that will continue to be an issue, not only for funding bills or other things coming up in the next year, too, but i think we'll see in the democratic party moving years into the future. >> emily, daniel, thank you so much. you got up early for us. we appreciate it. >> thanks. i a recording of communications between iranian armed forces and british navy forces minutes before a -- the apparent exchanged released by american security firm just moments ago. the british defense ministry confirmed the authenticity of the reporting. boosting air patrols over the persian gulf and the trump administration is once again appealing for a new set of nuclear paths with iran. hans nichols has more. hans? >> reporter: iran releasing dramatic video claiming to show its revolutionary guard seizing a british oil tanker. commandos wearing ski masks and machine guns rappelling to the ship's deck. the search for ways to de-escalate the tension. >> we're very clear that we will do what it takes to secure the safety of the shipping. >> in iran, continued defiance. ali arouzi in tehran. >> it shouldn't surprise that they seized the british tanker on the 4th of july. it provoked a furious response from the supreme leader here, calling it an act of piracy by the evil english and vowed not to let it go unanswered. >> iran challenging president trump's claim about downing an iranian drone. >> no doubt about it. we shot it down. >> state tv broadcasting this footage purporting it was from that very drone with the u.s. navy ship boxer clearly in view. the pentagon promising more troops on the way. mike pompeo that the diplomatic door is still open. >> we hope, as president trump has said, they will discuss each of the items with us. >> western diplomats are trying to cobble together a coalition to protect shipping lanes in the strait of hormuz. the u.s. has made it clear, they won't do it alone. >> hans nichols, thank you very much. another day of sweltering heat across 2/3 of the country. millions of people under hot weather warnings today as the temperatures climb into the triple digits. it's putting a strain on city's power grids too. kathy park has details. good morning, kathy. >> jo, good morning to you. it would typically be a busy weekend here in central park. but the heat wave has kept the crowds relatively small as the city braces for round two today. >> in new york city, subways, on the hottest day of the year. >> all the heat is overwhelming. >> underground, no relief. parts of the city feel like 111. new york is one of many states in the east and midwest under dangerous heat emergencies this weekend. add humidity to the mix and it's brutal. it feels like 112 in d.c. 105 in chicago and wichita, too. >> another dangerously hot day is on tap. >> the extreme heat is pushing power grids to the limit. >> everyone is running an air conditioner. >> con edison in new york doing everything it can to prevent a blackout. >> is con edison prepared sf. >> we are prepared. we have called in over 4,000 extra crew members to way on stand by in case any outages occur. >> roads take a hit in the heat too. this interstate in south dakota, buckled. cracking under a heat indesks 110 degrees. the heat so dangerous for young and old. in philadelphia, a senior center was evacuated after an air conditioning failed. in michigan, a storm knocked out power to more than 200,000. despite the heat, the hardy race in the new jersey triathlon, but it wasn't easy. >> tried to power through. but felt like i was having a heart attack. >> any chance to cool off. a welcome relief for the families in new york city playground who know the worst isn't over just yet. >> since ten, a heat eye hand, much of the surfaces are made of concrete crete and asphalt. there isn't much relief even at night. jo. kathy park, thanks so much. the battle over hope hicks. the chair of the judiciary committee is demanding she return to clarify her testimony before congress. now her lawyers are responding. i wanted to keep digging, keep learning... this journey has just begun. bring your family history to life like never before. get started for free at ancestry.com we all use our phones differently. i can manage the time they spend on their phone, who they're texting with, all of that. it's a win for all of us. 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>> you would expect the defense team for hope hicks to come forward and say she denied. if you look at the dates of the phone calls, text emails and -- the most important angle that everybody needs to remember is the following. we had a presidential election in november of 2016. if we had all this activity by donald trump, presidential candidate with his fixer, michael cohen, hope hicks, keith davidson a lawyer for stormy daniels and david pecker, donald trump's best friend, over at the national enquirer, we have it a lont month before the election, we have potential pain financial dissolution. the fact that they collided, makes them all cup pablly. >> the justice department could finish the -- they violated the violations a source with knowledge of the investigation told usa today that the department guidelines against indicting a sitting president, quote, factored in the decision to end the probe. why were there no additional charges filed do you think? why not charge hicks or donald trump jr. who signed a reimbursement check to cohen? >> there's a whole bunch of us in the legal community, including in the american public that are scratching our heads about this one. it doesn't really make sense. if you have even on a circumstantial basis linked to the particular people why wouldn't charges be brought. i hate to say this, perhaps it's true. currently our department of justice -- it's being run by bill barr. he's a trump loyalist. he's turned the department of justice into something not what it used to look like under other people's reins. it's important to realize, specifically regarding donald trump, we have the office of legal counsel memorandum that indicates you cannot indict a sitting president. it's fair to ask why aren't people like hope hicks and keith davidson in trouble as well. we don't have an answer, unfortunately. >> we know that the judiciary is demanding clarification from hicks as well. is having hicks come back to congress or return for more questioning, is that the best way to proceed here, to get at the truth? >> a couple of things. hicks could file or send a letter in an attempt to claire what are perceived -- to the house judiciary committee. or she has until the 15th. she doesn't have to come back to congress by the 15th. if i were her, i'd hide behind my lawyer and a piece of paper. it's easier to tweak that versus coming back to the house judiciary committee. if i were nadler, i would insist on open toor hearings next. the closed doors is absurd. allowing people to get closed door testimony versus being able it be perceived bit public. looking at people's body language is key. i would like to see -- everybody would like to see her on national television being questioned by congress. >> saying that remains to be seen. we'll follow the story. thank you so much. >> thank you. as iran takes increasingly aggressive action, the top commander in the region is saying america should not fall into a trap of overreaction. up next, why you might call the u.s. strategy rope-a-dope. -keep it down there. i have a system. -keith used to be great to road-trip with. but since he bought his house... are you going 45? 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>> the top administration, the issue with iran is not only it behavior in the nuclear area but its behavior across the middle east and the larger world. this is a country, a regime that sponsors terrorism, that uses proxy militias in yemen and other places to attack and destabilize the entire region. there's been an effort by the trump add hrgs to set the parameters for any discussion. what president trump and pompeo have said before is that they're open to negotiations without pre conditions for the negotiations. that's not the same thing as saying there will be a deal without conditions, obviously. the interesting phrase that secretary of state pompeo used there was across a wide range of issues. the iranians in the past have said, we're not interested in talking about the other things. we'll only talk about the nuclear issue. of course, recently, they've been refusing even to do that. >> let's talk about the three countries here and how they're interacting. do you think that the uk allowed itself to get sucked into the u.s. iran tensions here? was it a mistake to detain an iranian tanker at the request of the u.s.? >> the uk, the sovereign nation capable of making its own decisions. it was obviously informed about this tanker. but it made the decision based on eu sanctioning, not on american sanctions. that's what the british government is saying. there are some in the uk who now obviously feel like they shouldn't have done that. but this is responding to iran's quid pro quo. the fact is that the uk is citing eu regulations and there's a process. they haven't taken the tanker for all-time. there's a process the iranians can complain and have complain and the eu can make a judgment about whether taking the tanker was the right thing to do. remember, it's taking oil to the syrian regime, in the middle of a genocide. there are pretty good reasons for not wanting to empower t the -- to enable and empower the regime. merely because they're being irresponsible, we shouldn't fall into the trap of some form of overreaction. if iran is trying to bait the u.s. and it doesn't work, can we expect iran to continue pushing the envelope here? >> well, that's traditionally been iran's way of responding to pressure internationally. to keep pushing againthe envelo see -- this is not the first act against a tanker. there were attacks on several tankers a few weeks ago. they were firing rockets at oil installs in saudi arabia. this is part of a pattern of behavior. at the same time, remember, that last week when the iranian foreign minister was in new york, he brought up the idea of negotiations and so the irani s iranians, the regime is feeling pressure. the economic sanctions are working. the iranians are feeling pain from the sanctions. the regime itself is aware that, with every passing month, their economic weakness will be exposed more and more and more. they want to build up some sort of leverage before they can have a negotiation. part of the leverage at the moment is to say that if you don't talk with us we have the capability of choking off one of the world's most important groups of trade, the straits through which a quarter of all the world's oil supplies have to travel. it's a form of diplomatic blackmail. no more polite way of putting it. >> you bring up the situation with iran. how much does the economy have to suffer that it moves the needle to ask in a different way? >> that's the million dollar question. we don't know the answer to that. you have a regime that is not really particularly responsible to the pain of ordinary iranians and typically is dishing out the pain itself. the -- it won't be the suffering of ordinary iranian people that will move the needle with the regime, i don't think. but there is a concern in the regime that if the economy keeps weakening, their position in negotiations will also keep weakening as well. they do feel a certain amount of pressure to begin the process of negotiations while they still have some upper hand may not be the right way to put it. but at least they have some kind of leverage. that's what iran's behavior has been. creating leverage. they want to come to the negotiating table with some bargaining chips. so a few weeks ago, they began to enrich the uranium again past the levels that were agreed to in 2015. that is one form of leverage. and the sort of blackmailing of the international oil markets is another kind of leverage. you don't create leverage until, unless you actually want to use that leverage. >> right. >> if you want to read between the lines, the interpretation is that they're creating leverage so that they can come to the negotiating table. >> a very complicated situation. bobby ghosh, thanks for helping us out with this. >> any time, jo. >> we'll talk about the "washington post" and how the president doubled down following his tweets about four minority congresswomen, next. award winning interface. award winning design. award winning engine. the volvo xc90. the most awarded luxury suv of the century. prpharmacist recommendedne memory support brand. the volvo xc90. you can find it in the vitamin aisle in stores everywhere. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. look limu. a civilian buying a new car.ug let's go. limu's right. liberty mutual can save you money by customizing your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. oh... yeah, i've been a customer for years. huh... only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ happening right now, 2/3 of the country dealing with dangerous sweltering heat. there's relief in sight tomorrow, that's the good news. it will be cooler and less humid in much of the country. at least three people have died from the heat. dr. john torres shows us watching for early warning signs can save your life. >> across the country, deadly heat. if you're out jogging in central park, how do you feel? >> like i'm evaporating? >> in brooklyn, new york, dr. john marshall dealing with heat-related illness. >> we've seen rising summer temperatures the last several years and as the temperatures get higher, the risk of injury, the number of people who die of heat-related deaths goes up every year. >> being outside in heat -- being outside out air conditioning is also risky. >> over the next few minutes, i'm going to see what happens to the human body as it heats up. >> the temperature here 93 degrees. it only takes two minutes for my tulsa to race. >> when i walked in the door, my heart rate was 63. looking at it now a few minutes, it's above 100. >> after ten minutes, my temperature changes. but it's not what you think. >> my temperature has gone down 96.8. that's lower than normal because my body is compensating for the heat by overcooling it. imt 21 minutes in, i just started feeling a headache come on. one of the first signs of heat exhaust wrong. >> 60 minutes later. >> i'm feeling lightheaded. it's a telltale sign of heat exhaustion. fast pulse, heat exhaustion to watch for. before-threatenilife-threatenin. >> louis jimenez was on his way to work when he ended up in the e.r. i felt dizzy, wobbly and a lot of sweat. he now know what is to look for. >> i thought it was a heart attack. >> it was the heat causing it. it was the heat. the elderly, especially those on medication and the very young are of course, the most vulnerable to heat. what happened behind the scenes after the president's tweets last sunday? 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>> at the end of the day it has nothing to do with race or gender. it has everything to do with a disagreement with what the squad represents in their socialist views. on i ammigration on the social. donald trump needs a villain is right now until the democratic nominee decides he need a villain. some of those tweets, he made the squad the face of the democratic party and that's the problem and nancy pelosi knows that. and so that i think is where some of the real crisis is. there is a crisis in the democratic party and he made them the face of it. >> ned, in articulate and it had nothing to do with race. is that what you believe given the twitter stream of consciousness is often reflective of what he actually think sns. >> thinks? >> i do. i had a conversation with the president. >> recently? >> i love you on twitter, there is a few tweets that gives me a heartburn. i am not going to throw out the baby with the bath water. the substance of what he's arguing is absolutely 100% correct. >> you are saying the tweets had bad style point. rashad, i would like to get your reaction. >> the tweets from the president are racist. president trump understands this, those women represent their districts. they are u.s. congresswomen, they are americans and they are apart of our fabric of democracy. he has never said go back to your own country when in political with a white men or women. we are a nation of immigrant. everybody in this country, white, black and brown, we came from some where else. if he's in political disagreement with the white person, he does not tell you to go back to germany or russia. she tells them or talks to them as u.s. america. here is the other part. when you are president of the united states, you become the standard barrier for your party. trump is unable to bare that standard. instead of the republican party keeping him true of the conservative movement, he's transforming folsundamentally w it means to be a republican and that's a dangerous zone. >> something i want to hit on is patriotism. there is a big debate as why he's using this word to justify what he's saying here. is that the correct use of the word patriotism? >> so first of all, a couple of things, john. what i want to tell people is we are in a massive remaining battle. democrats on the left is trying to form trump as racist. what he's trying to do saying the left and democrats are socialists and un-american which leads you to this country. what about patriotism. the problem of what i have of what the squad is doing, we are a nation of immigrants where we come here to make us grea great -- what we are seeing is fundamental disagreements. the chief of staff came out recently the green new deal is not about climate change, it is about restructuring our economy. what they want to do is a massive departure from who we have been as people. that's the debate. do that's the debate we want in 2020 and that's what donald trump is framing right now. >> the washington post is reporting they look back at what happens on her send her back tweets. republican leaders including mccarthy and -- how much influence does mike pence have here, is it too little or too late? >> i don't think pence influences anything when it comes to donald trump. they agree with him. however, roughly 70% of swing voters completely disagree with the president and finds his tweets to be racially offensive. that's a problem moving into the general election. that's why trump decided to attempt to change the narrative zp he's talking about freeing black rappers from sweden because that's a better story line than his racist chants or tweets against four wom congresswomen. >> are you serious ned? >> he disagree with ts with the. here is the fact, he disavowals it. the squad has not disavowal any of their remarks. omar and tlaib were pushing sanctions which i consider very antisemantic. >> he comes out and says something different or he disavowals what he just said. is it his responsibility to protect everybody's rights to free speech here? >> no, absolutely, i don't disagree with that. i think people get stuck on the style and miss the substance. i guarantee you the basis not stuck on style. >> style certainly influences the substance when you are the president of the united states, right? >> sure. but i think one of the things with trump is -- people get stuck on the style. >> i am not stuck on the style, i am just asking you when you are delivering a message on behalf of the country, style matters. >> sometimes people put a little too much about the style and forgets the substance. does it give him a little angst every now and then ? yes, but not in substance. come november 2020, people are going to look at the substance, are we better off now than four years ago? >> are we calling racist a style? >> go ahead, rashad. >> i would challenge ned, are we calling racism a style now? racism isra real and dangerous. we don't have to go back to 40 or 50 years to understand that? >> is nancy pelosi a racist, too? >> i want to say thanks for coming on. >> the hazardous heat wave and when much of the country could finally see some relief. ntry cod finally see some relief. fisher investments tailors portfolios to your goals and needs. some only call when they have something to sell. fisher calls regularly so you stay informed. and while some advisors are happy to earn commissions whether you do well or not. fisher investments fees are structured so we do better when you do better. maybe that's why most of our clients come from other money managers. fisher investments. clearly better money management. when crabe stronger...strong, with new nicorette coated ice mint. layered with flavor... it's the first and only coated nicotine lozenge. for an amazing taste... ...that outlasts your craving. new nicorette ice mint. if your adventure... keeps turning into unexpected bathroom trips. you may have overactive bladder, or oab. not again! we're seeing a doctor when we get home. myrbetriq treats oab symptoms of urgency, frequency, and leakage. it's the first and only oab treatment in its class. myrbetriq may increase blood pressure. tell your doctor right away if you have trouble emptying your bladder or have a weak urine stream. myrbetriq may cause serious allergic reactions, like swelling of the face, lips, throat or tongue, or trouble breathing. if experienced, stop taking and tell your doctor right away. myrbetriq may interact with other medicines. tell your doctor if you have liver or kidney problems. common side effects include increased blood pressure, common cold or flu symptoms, sinus irritation, dry mouth, urinary tract infection, bladder inflammation, back or joint pain, constipation, dizziness, and headache. looking for a destination that isn't always the bathroom? 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