good morning, everyone. happy fourth of july. happy 247th birthday the united states of america. there s a lot of news on this fourth of july. audie cornish is here with me. thank you for having me. thank you for being here. five things to know on this holiday tuesday. five people are dead, two children are injured, including a toddler after police say a man with a bullet proof vest and ar-15 style weapon carried out a mass shooting in the streets of philadelphia. this morning, a suspect is in custody and police are looking for a motive. also new this morning, russia claims ukraine attacked moscow with five drones. the russian defense ministry says it intercepted them, calling it a terrorist attack. kyiv has yet to respond. also, a new challenge over how harvard admits students. this time the university s legacy admissions program faces a civil rights complaint. lawyers complain the program overwhelmingly benefits white applicants days after supreme court gutted affir
let s get right to it. at this hour, adding to the horrific humanitarian crisis in ukraine, filthy water putting people at risk. plus, in just under 60 minutes, john durham set to testify in front of the house intelligence committee. expect a lot of questions about his scathing report on the fbi and doj s handling of the trump russia probe. the judge sets a date for former president s trial in his classified documents case. and the breaking news that charges filed against the president s son, hunter biden, mean he ll plead guilty to federal tax charges as part of a plea deal with prosecutors. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. we begin with that plea deal for hunter biden. ken dilanian joins us now. my understanding, ken, is the judge still needs to approve this so what happens next and what more can you tell us about the terms of this deal? that s right. we expect hunter biden to appear in the coming days at this courthouse behind me
are not going to be going anywhere. he says putin thinks he can wait us out. he said that is not possible. they spoke about that. they spoke about artificial intelligence, at the end of the news conference, i did pose a question to him rating now about the situation as it relates to former president trump. i asked him specifically how he s able to convince americans that they should trust the independence and fairness of the department of justice given his predecessor. former president trump has attacked his credibility, his integrity. he has never once as we have witnessed, he said, told the department of justice to do in any form or fashion, and he said, because i am honest. in fact, that s why you can trust me. the biggest take aways in the news conference. pride month is celebrated around the country. the president did speak in support, in backing of the gay and lesbian and transgender community, calling on congress to pass the equality act, which would incorporate protec
revelations. it has been like this from the start. as horrible as what happened, it could have been worse. the reason it was not worse is because law enforcement officials did what they do. they showed amazing courage running toward gunfire for the singular purpose of trying to save lives. that turned to out to be false. he later said he was misled. so did this. when the shooting began we had uvalde police officers arrive on scene along with the independent officers immediately breach. law enforcement was there. they did engage immediately. again, not true, as the body and security cameras clearly show, nobody immediately breached the classroom, nobody immediately engaged the shooter. the shooter was in the school for 77 minutes before the school was funinally breached and he w killed. not one of them did what officers around the country are routinely trained to do in these situations and have been trained for years in these situations to do. another misstatement re