mar-a-lago today with his most powerful ally in washington as president biden blasts the former president as a convicted criminal in a massive new ad buy. the maneuvers from both sides ahead of their first debate next week. a new phase in israel s operations in gaza, and netanyahu disbanding his war cabinet. what does it all mean for the war against hamas? scorching heat from detroit to boston as wildfires rage in california. the extreme weather that s turning this summer into a slow broil. good morning. thanks for being here. it s 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. we begin this morning with the intensifying race for the white house today donald trump hosts house speaker mike johnson and the head of the campaign committee working to elect house republicans at mar-a-lago to talk strategy, while president biden is seeing green coming off a record fund-raiser, raking in $30 million at a hollywood event with big-time stars in attendance. nbc s vaughn h
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the president, spoke to him about ukraine and then later responded and that is the message in which he kind of shuts down bill taylor, says i think that you are incorrect about the president s intentions, he s been crystal clear no quid pro quo and he also says i think that we should take this conversation off line, stop putting it in text message. and so let s just make something clear. the administration did not block kurt volker from speaking last week. we don t know if they are going to do the same with the other testimony scheduled on friday. but to the best of your knowledge, gordon sondland was the only one who was speaking directly to the president regarding ukraine? reporter: we also know that kurt volker had occasional conversations with the president and was senl ha certainly in with the white house. the white house couldn t really block him from testifying because he resigned, he was no longer part of the u.s. government, so it would be harder for them to direct him n
federal law. forgetting about this meeting you ve had and traveled to about nuclear reactors, forget it. jim, this is a big deal right now as far as the overall russia investigation is concerned. and the problems that michael flynn has. you speak to people close to flynn who served with him. from their perspective, i ve asked many of them this question. why is this happening? why this failure to disclose is one of the lee esh issues he s facing right now. their senl sense will be that he wasn t a pro at this. right? this kind of stuff was new to him. he s coming out in the private sector. he s getting business offers. a lot of folks leave the military and do the same thing. that it wasn t part of an intentional pattern to mislead. the trouble is from a legal perspective and you know this better than me, but you can tell by the interest of prosecutors, is that a significant, a sufficient explanation from their point of view and in light of the fact that you have more