Brightest future. President biden celebrates the fourth of july as a day where we re nearing independence from the deadly pandemic. As the nation misses the president s vaccination goal, the question is how is the white house preparing for its next covid challenges. Plus, the latest from florida as a part of the surfside condo that collapsed has been demolished ahead of a tropical storm. The question is what does it mean for families still looking for answers. And new report tong issues republicans play to push as they try to seize control of congress. The question is the surge of violent crime the message for them? it s way too early for this. Good morning. It s way too early, i m kasie. A look at the surf side condo that was demolished overnight. Wow, it mapped overnight. The worry was the rest of the tower south would come down on its own. Bringing the building down in a controlled manner is critical to expanding our scope of search a use know, in the pile, and allowing us to search
the coronavirus. stimulus talks. night s dueling banjos of town halls. one for donald trump, the other for joe biden. to get us started to talk about all of this is the washington white house reporter ashley parker. thank you for being here. these dueling debates, did the trump campaign achieve this aim scheduling the town hall at the if theas biden? aim in some ways was to compete with biden for airtime and overshadow biden, i think yes. anecdotally, more people seemed to be watching the trump town hall in real time than the joe biden town hall. hindsight how that the, will the trump is trump campaign happy so many potentially watched the trump town hall. the day, i sent out a tweet saying, the town hall format is not exactly the best format for the president because he is interacting with demeanor with not, it is not warm and fuzzy, shall we say? i am bringing this up because i presidentng from trump s perspective, which is better? a town hall or a campaign rally? from
and lots of questions to answer, so let s get started is donald trump finally abou to face accountability for his crimes we have the latest on th possible indictment of forme president trump for allege hush money payment to an adult film star. they lied, again and again and again. more details on what was going on inside fox news as they peddle conspiracy theories about the 2020 election. my question is, how much wil those lies cost them and later, tennessee man and drag shows on public property? what one of the votes famous drag performers has to say about it, and how we can pus back against anti-trans hate all of that and more, coming up and the good saturday morning to you, i m kati phang. we begin today s show with a mixed bag when it comes to the economy, with the doubters focusing yesterday more than 300 points in the red, but a better than expected job report, surprising a lot o people 311,000 jobs added much more than the 225,000 economists were expecting. the unemp
the workplace. reporter: the process was quick and swift. and nbc says that the information was brought monday evening and barely one day later and the network has already taken action. good morning breaking news overnight. matt lauer has been terminated from nbc news. matt lauer s today show c samantha guthrie has released the information on air. our colleague came forward reporting violation. and according to an nbc spokesperson his accuser is saying inappropriatel behavior since 2014. how do you recollect lauer s abrupt departure leaves people sho a friend of 30 years and we are all trying to process is. president trump was quick to tweet about his conduct. and he is facing problems of his own. he calls the women liars. and lauer s firing comes one week after charlie rose was fired from cbs after several women came to the washington post with allegations of being sexually harassed by the anchor. the mood aro like there has been a death in the family
than asking that the company do the right thing. they thought there would be a flood of stories after this and they took strong action. president trump was quick to tweet but he has accusations of his own. the president has denied the accusations calling the women liars. lauer s firing coming one an charlie rose was fired from cbs after women came to the washington post after saying they were harassed by the anchor. and they say nbc was aware. channel 6 action news. and matt lauer is not the latest person to lose their job overallgations over inappropriate behavior. radio host garrison keeler was fired this afternoon and minnesota public radio says they are terminating their contract with him. and mpr says that the claim against the 75-year-old came to light last month but did not elaborate further. and keeler retired last year. best known for creatin the popular sho home man and a fema that goes to the school. sara bloomquist joins us live and the shooter is in