accounts today. nearly 10 million children are at risk of slipping back below the poverty line if payments are not extended. senator michael bennet will join us this hour. we ve got to start with the historic vote in the house to recommend criminal contempt charges against one of their own, former congressman and white house chief of staff mark meadows. just two, only two republicans, liz cheney and adam kinzinger joined 220 democrats in voting to hold meadows in contempt for defying a congressional subpoena. it s the first time a former member of the house has been held in criminal contempt since 1832. i want to bring in nbc s ali vitali on capitol hill, scott mcfarlane, investigative reporter nor nbc 4 in washington. luke broadwater, and joyce vance, former u.s. attorney and professor at the university of alabama school of law. ali you have to start on this vote because two, only two republicans voted for it. we all heard those text messages. those are republican members of
the vice precedent missing on the southern border. dana: president biden asked harris to take the lead on immigration in march. she went to guatemala in june. according to the country s president it has been radio silence ever since. peter doocy asked jen psaki about it yesterday. is vice president harris still in charge of addressing the root causes of migration from el salvador, honduras and guatemala? she is. she is announcing a commitment this afternoon. why hasn t she spoken to the president of guatemala since june, six months? i did see this strange report from the president of guatemala saying that he has had no contact with the white house, which is inaccurate. he said vice president harris he has not spoken to her. if sthe is in charge, why is that? we have had a range of conversations, peter, as reflected in our read-out we put out last week. bill: that was yesterday. last week the new poll from abc news showing that nearly 2/3 of americans disappr
235i23 facing a threat of flash flooding. flooding is also a big problem in st. louis, missouri. there have been multiple rescues of people trapped in their homes. and new video out of las vegas overnight, take a look. water pouring into some of the casinos. over an inch of rain fell there, saturating the vegas strip. i want to get right to derrek vn d dam. what is happening in kentucky, there are water under way. and there is a dam that is under a concern. yes, a flooding event that took place in st. louis and now looking likely that we have another one in 1,000 year event that has taken place across eastern kentucky. thanks to the ongoing rain that is falling as we speak, right now national weather service continuing with flood watches, flood warnings and even flash flood warnings near the border of kentucky and west virginia as some of the heaviest rains move through the area swelling the rivers and also overflowing some of the local roadways there, submerging homes as w
trump s old cabinet. the west wing was broken. it was not functioning properly. the problem hesident has a l history with president xi. we re adversaries, we re competitors with china right now, no doubt about that . welcome, it is friday, july 29, 9:00 a.m. in london, 4:00 a.m. in eastern kentucky where flash flood warnings are up right now as more storms and heavy rains move through the region. that is after catastrophic flooding already claimed the lives of at least eight people and the governor warns the death toll will go higher. and he said that it could take years for residents to rebuild and called it the worst flooding disaster of his lifetime. overnight residents near a dam were ordered to evacuate due to the fast moving water and the area has gone through this before, but not quite like this. we ve seen water in the streets before, but we ve never seen water, you know, waist deep in the streets or chest deep in the streets. never seen this in all the year
So just have to pick yourself back up and that is all we can do, you know. reporter: joe johns, cnn, hazard, kentucky. and we ll continue to stay on that story this morning. meantime federal prosecutors gearing up for a court battle to force former white house officials to testify about donald trump s involvement in the january 6 insurrection. the doj is particularly interested in the former president s conversations and actions on or near january 6. at issue are claims of executive privilege that prosecutors expect trump to make to keep information shielded from a federal grand jury. meanwhile the january 6 house committee is zeroing in on former trump cabinet members, they are particularly interested in conversations among officials about possibly invoking the 25th amendment to remove trump from office. the panel has already interviewed former treasury secretary steven mnuchin. let s bring in state attorney for palm beach county. thanks for getting up early with us. so the doj wi