maybe currently predisposed who don't agree with what i, joe, or other democrats stand for, is there was a time when we had certain core values that we agreed with. >> former president obama on stage with president biden saturday night for a star-studded fund-raiser in los angeles. we will have more from that event including president biden's warning of the future of the supreme court. the presidential debate is less than two weeks away. well get expert legal analysis on the controversial analysis for the federal court to strike down a ban on bump stocks. ♪♪ good morning. welcome to "way too early" on monday, june 17th. the biden campaign is raking cash over the weekend. the campaign said it raised more than $30 million as a part of a star-studded fund-raiser in los angeles on sat breaking the record for the largest fund-raise forever. the nbc news could not claim that. president biden appeared at the event, alongside former president barack obama, actors george clooney and julia roberts he and other top celebrities. comedian jimmy kimmel moderated the conversation and touched on several policy issues as well as former president trump. president biden said trump wants to get rid of the progress made the past four years and president obama expressed concern that the nation has, quote, normalized behavior pointing to trump's recently felony conviction and other legal issues. at one point during saturday's fund-raiser president biden spoke about the supreme court and the possibility the next president will likely have an opportunity to appoint two justices. president was candid in his criticism of the high court bench. >> so it's been almost two years since the largely trump-appointed justices in supreme court overturned roe versus wade. >> don't hiss! vote! >> they are not booing. they are saying roe. these threats to abortion rights, to women's rights, to -- even to birth control and ivf, are not in our liberty imaginations any more and they are very real. these very personal intimate decisions are now being made by nine unelected judges, one of whom flies his flag upside down, the other one -- one of the others drives around in a 267,000 gift on vacations, and i think we are all wondering what can we do about this? >> elect me again. no, i'm not just saying. the next president is likely to have two new supreme court nominees, two more. two more. he has already appointed two that have been very negative in terms of the rights of individuals. the idea that if he is re-elected, he is going to appoint two more flying flags upside down is really -- i really mean it. >> could this be the scariest part of all of it? >> well, i think it is one of the scariest parts of it. look. the supreme court has never been as out of kilter as it is today. i mean, never. i taught constitutional law for nine years. this guy knows more about it than most. look. the fact of the matter is this has never been a court that is this far out of step, taking and -- and, by the way, when we said after the decision that overruled roe v. wade, the dobbs decision, you had clarence thomas talking about the fact that there are going to be other things we should reconsider, including in vitro infertilization and all of these -- by the way, not on my watch. not on my watch. >> meanwhile, there is growing reaction on capitol hill after a divided supreme court struck down a federal ban on bump stocks on friday. the bump stocks are devices that allow semiautomatic rifles to fire hundreds of belts in minutes. the ban was put in place by the trump administration after the deadliest mass shooting in modern american history at a concert in las vegas in 2017. in a 6-2-3 ruling the justice reflected the federal's government that rifles equipped with bump stocks could be considered machine guns democratic senator chris murphy is calling on republicans who support legislation to ban the devices. >> i would hope that republicans said back during the las vegas shooting they want bump stocks regulated would join us if we pass a law, supreme court said they would honor that law. my bigger worry, jake, this supreme court has been signaling in some of their decisions on guns that they are ready to fundamentally rewrite the second amendment and require people to take a background checks and taking dangerous weapons off of the street. i think this court is poised to make it very hard for congress or state legislatures to be able to regulate gonzalezs and keep our schools and communities safe. >> joining us is anthony coaly who previously served as the top spokesman for attorney general merrick garland. your thoughts on supreme court's decision on bump stocks. were you surprised? >> so i was. i was surprised about this decision on bump stocks. i grew up in deep in gun culture in rural north carolina where a lot of my family members still today they go out here and they hunt and they kill deer. but they don't use these devices that essentially turn semiautomatic rifles in to machine guns to kill a deer. so i was surprised that they did this, but i'm not disheartened because senate majority leader chuck schumer has it right. congress can close this loophole today, right now. >> how? >> by passing legislation and the reality is that they can pass this legislation if donald trump gave republicans the green light to support a law to change, to close this loophole. you should do it, right? because this regulation was promoted and finalized under his tenure in 2017. so there is one person right now that is standing in between making communities safer or not and that is donald trump. >> you know, when -- in the decision, it was a 6-3 decision that came down. in the decision, justice thomas writes that bump stock doesn't change a gun in to a machine gun. it's just basically a fast trigger finger. >> right. so what we saw here is what you just kaw on one hand and then you saw justice sotomayor say a person can hold down the trigger and that turns it into a machine gun. i loved her analysis here. if looks like a duck, if it walks like a duck, if it quacks like a duck, it's a duck. >> justice sotomayor had a very, very harsh dissent she writes today the court puts bump stocks into civilian's hands. we will be watching what senator schumer and senate democrats decide to do this week. before i let you go. you worked at the justice department under attorney general merrick garland. not shockingly but they have decided not to prosecute justice garland said he will no face charges. that contempt vote was because congress was seeking house republicans specifically were seeking the tapes from president biden's special counsel interview and the justice department has refused to release them. they said that the tapes were protected by executive privilege. your thoughts on this entire ordeal? >> no surprise here. we have politicians doing what they do and using the legislative process to score political points is what happened here. >> is no surprise? >> it is a surprise. >> he almost was justice garland. another story. garland, something he does not usually do put out an op-ed last week he essentially called this an assault on the justice department, on the men and women and said that this was political gains that they have turned actual process in to a charade. >> yeah. it is a political process and i wasn't surprised by it, particularly because of how we learned about it. we first learned that republicans were going to do this vote because they leaked it to a partisan news outlet and the day after the vote, they were already out with a campaign political ad. politics as usual here. what is important to note if you look at the facts how we got here, joe biden is voluntarily cooperating with the special counsel and he wasn't charged and merrick garland releasing a 53-page reported unredacted and open press under oath hearing from the special counsel. republicans have everything they needed to conduct a legitimate oversight. they are not interested in legitimate oversight. they are interested in politics and that is why i'm glad to see the attorney general stood up for his department and refused to let it be used as a political football. >> very important note that congress does have the transcript of this special counsel interview with president biden. >> right. >> thank you so much for your time. >> thank you. >> appreciate it. still ahead, folks, we will look at how former president trump celebrated his 78th birthday over the weekend and how he confused the name of his own white house doctor. those stories and a check on weather and sports when we come back. r and sports when we come ck well i don't know if you know but i did manage to steal the moon. that moon? 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>> good morning. we have lots of heat. a dangerous week weather wise. coast-to-coast with temperatures 10, 15, 25 degrees above normal for this time of the year and 90s and triple digits and if not, feel like the triple digits when you factor in the humidity. today, 66 million americans under heat alerts. heat advisories in the orange from midwest all through the ohio valley to the northeast and heat watches and heat warnings. this is just the start of it. we are going to see some really hot days and not really recover overnight and this is going to be a long stretch and what makes it particularly dangerous. taking a look at temperatures today. lots of 90s throughout the ohio valley. chicago, 97 today. in addition to the dangerous heat, we are probably will break a lot of reports. pittsburgh 92 and syracuse, 93 degrees. same story tomorrow. we are going to be super hot as we are looking at temperatures soaring into the 90s once again and breaking records. you factor in the humidity and it will feel warmer than it is. these temperatures are some of the first dangerous heat we have found all year. keep in mind summer has not started. it starts on the 20th. syracuse 97 tomorrow and record is 96. 91 in boston' 90 in bangor. parts of new england, they do not have air-conditioning so you want to heed all of the warnings and keep finances going if you can and stay indoors and stay under the shade if you have to be outdoors. late week, temperatures still staying in place. syracuse 91 and new york city the same. 96. it will feel like over 100 degrees there. no real relief throughout the late part of the week. another big weather story. we have a tropical system that may turn into a tropical depression. 8 inches in some spots so another story we will watch very closely. >> michelle grossman, thank you. so it's going to be hot? 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