Careful how you do this so you do not undermine or blow terrorism investigations. So we cant just be very clumsy and rush to judgment and do something that actually harms our ability to do terrorist investigations. More from chuck todds sitdown with the House Speaker and the latest from capitol hill. Thats still ahead this morning. We begin with the latest on the orlando nightclub shooting. The focus now squarely on the wife of gunman omar mateen. Today there are new details about what she saw and heard in the weeks leading up to the attack and those Text Messages she sent back and forth with her husband while he was carrying out the killings. Nbcs Ayman Mohyeldin has been on the ground in florida. He joins us now. We have the headline here. Texts exchanged between omar mateen and his wife as this was playing out. What else are we learning, and what does this mean for her own legal situation . Yeah, and this is a question that i was able to pose to her sprue an intermediary, a close source who has been in contact with her. This is something important to contextualize. In the middle of the night she was woken up from a phone call by her motherinlaw asking if she knew where omar was. She hung up and texted her husband saying, where are you . He was at that point, according to them, already engaged in the shooting at the pulse nightclub. He replied by saying do you see whats happening now . He replied, i love you, babe. That was the end of the exchange according to the source able to put it into context. But afterwards she called him repeatedly and it was only around 4 00 a. M. Or so that Police Called her telling her to come out of the apartment with her hands up and she was then notified and made aware of what had talken place. The fbi and others have been focussing on her. Some suggestion she may have been an accomplice because she may have known about this attack. Shes repeatedly denied she didnt know anything about this attack. Shes been cooperative with the fbi. There has been reporting that she, in fact, was with him when they purchased ammunition or purchased weapons. In fact drove him around the pulse nightclub. Both of those she says are not true. She is saying they were together at a walmart where omar went alone to purchase ammunition but she was with him at the store at the time. That one time even asking him why did he buy those ammunitions to which he replied he was going to renew his license and needed to practice on a shooting range. She said shes never driven him by the pulse nightclub but did go through a route by the pulse nightclub while driving. She was not aware they were driving specifically to case or look at that particular venue as a possible target. This was on a night they were driving back from orlando to their home. The bottom line is she is saying shes being negatively portrayed and criticized for something she did not know about or could not have prevented because of the way some of these pieces of information are coming out from law enforcement. At this time shes saying its important to put them into context. She is trying to get some legal representation in the event this escalates and some charges are brought against her. Ayman mohyeldin, thanks for that. Turning to the political reaction, the political fallout playing out across the country now. John mccain as we mentioned coming under heavy criticism from democrats for his comments saying that president obama was, quote, directly responsible for the orlando shootings. Barack obama is directly responsible for it because when he pulled everybody out of iraq, al qaeda went to syria and became isis. Democrats, as we say, they were quick to jump on mccain for those comments. Harry reids office saying mccains comments were, quote, unhinged and just the latest proof that Senate Republicans are puppets of donald trump. Nbcs Hallie Jackson tracking mccain down in the capitol a few hours after he made those comments. She asked him, do you want to clarify what you said in any way . I want to be clear. Are you backtracking on your statement . Im not backtracking on anything. Im saying the president of the United States actions actions were responsible because of the full withdrawal of troops from iraq which led then to al qaeda going to syria, which then led to isis. And mccain later tweeting that he, quote, misspoke. Republicans like mccain in contentious election fights this fall figuring out how they can still tap into trumps voter base if they also want to distaps themselves from the presumptive nominee for more moderate voters that may emerge on the trail soon in the form of former president george w. Bush. Hes getting out to raise money on behalf of mccain and some other republicans this summer. Well have a closer look at that ahead. Right now peters alexander, Kristen Welker are here. We played a little bit of paul ryan talking to chuck yesterday. Hes basically telling republicans, you have to figure out. Yo are o your own to figure out trump. Hes given him some breathing room as well. As long as were talking politics, its like hes trying to give these house members room, the breathing room he initially tried to give them by not making an endorsement. Now having given that endorsement and witnessing more of the language he and other republicans are uncomfortable with, he said follow your conscience. Heres part of his conversation with chuck todd. The last thing i would do is tell anybody to do something thats contrary to their conscience. Of course i wouldnt do that. Believe me, chuck. I get this. This is a very strange situation. Very unique nominee. In effect hes saying that every republican is on their own to do what they like. More and more republicans coming forward, not necessarily falling in line. Were witnessing. The representative from michigan, fred upton, he is the Senior Member of the ninemember celligation from michigan right now. Well put up his comment to the detroit news. Theres a lot of things that folks are not happy about with either of these two candidates. Were not endorsing. Were running our own campaign. Theres a couple of governors on the sideline as well. Larry hogan, maryland, charlie baker. Richard armitage saying hes going to vote for headquarteill clinton. The House Speaker making clear hes still on ultimately. This is the period of time where the democrats, 17 million being spent by Hillary Clinton right now to try to define donald trump in this window. They have it all to themselves because the Trump Campaign is still fighting to raise enough money to compete in that way. So this is a time when trump is being defined and a lot of republicans are saying we support him. We dont support his words. A lot of americans will make their own conclusions if that seems like a reasonable argument. Thats the question of unito the republican side. On the democratic side, Bernie Sanders issuing a video message to supporters last night. He says hes going to do everything he can to stop donald trump in the fall but he still refused to actually drop out of the race or to formally endorse his primary opponent Hillary Clinton. On morning joe, his Campaign Manager jeff weaver signaled no endorsement is coming now. But that doesnt mean never. I think we are in discussions with the Clinton Campaign. Thats been widely reported. Obviously the secretary and senator met in person a couple of nights ago. Im in communication with the Clinton Campaign on a daily basis. We are working towards coming to a resolution on a number of issues, both process issues and substantive issues. Who better to bring us up to speed on whats going on than Kristen Welker. In the final days of the democratic primary race there was all this panic among democrats. Is Bernie Sanders going to blow this whole thing up for us . Hes not dropping out right now but it certainly doesnt sound that contention anymore. Hes trying to walk a fine line. Ive been talking to his top officials who say, look, what he wants is to be able to say to his supporters that we won something here. That ultimately, we did get secretary clinton to compromise on some of the things hes asking for like getting rid of superdelegates. The challenge for senator sanders is that by focussing on some of these process issues he runs the risk of not really achieving what he wanted to with his revolution and undercutting the core messages of his revolution. A lot of democrats are startin to lose patience. Its not that contentious but it still limits her a little bit in terms of being able to focus solely on donald trump. And largely, the general election race is moving on with or without senator sanders. Were seeing that. Yesterday secretary clinton won the endorsement of the aflcio, oprah winfrey. She is blanketing these key battleground states with ads trying to define donald trump. Theres this lingering issue with senator sanders. I think a lot of democrats are going to start to put morand more pressure on him to drop out. Will he do it this weekend . Based on my conversations, hes not leaning in that direction yet. He still wants to be able to say we really won something. You look back at how those primaries ended. If maybe he would have folded earlier, he could have had more leverage. Every day, does he not lose a little bit of leverage . I think thats one of the other challenges. The conversations are fast and furious between the clinton and sanders camps. They really want to get something done on this. Kristen welker, peter alexander. Tight quarters here, but we did it. 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Jake reese, day to feealive jake reese, day to feel ali ke reese, day to feel alive dinner may i be excused . Get the new xfinity tv app and for the First Time Ever stream live tv, watch on demand, and download your dvr shows anywhere. President obama and democrats in congress renewing their fight for new gun control measures in the wake of orlando. The first test could come on monday. One key flash point the socalled terror loophole referring to people on the federal terror watchlist being allowed to buy guns. The orlando shooter was once on that federal terror well, although the fbi did remove his name two years ago. Democrats want to vote on their plan to close that loophole. Thats where things get very complicated. Lets take a look at the big board here. Whats going to happen in Congress Next week, it looks like, is it going to be four votes. Two on democratic plans. Two on republican plans. Two of those rival plans involve this terror loop hole. Lets just take you through the differences youre seeing here. Democrats say take that list thats out there right now, this federal terror watch list. Its a large sprawling list. Were talking hundreds of thousands of people who are on this thing. They are saying, if your name is on that list, you dont buy a gun, period. And then the one little add on hire it looks like is if youor that list and you can prove you dont belong on that list you can go to the Justice Department. The Justice Department can arbitrate your claim and if the Justice Department decides you actually dont belong on the list, then you can get a gun. That looks like the democratic plan. On the republican side they say there are some Civil Liberties issues with this terror watch list. People dont necessarily know when they are added to it or how to get their name off of it. There is no due process where you can go to court or a judge. They say if you are on it, 72hour waiting period. In that 72hour waiting period, the burden of proof is on the attorney general, on the department of justice to prove in court that you are a threat and shouldnt be able to buy a gun. Those are the two rival proposals taking shape. Each one it looks like will get a vote next week. Two rival proposals on the issue of background checks. If any of these proposals get through the Senate Next Week theyll need 60 votes to do it. Thats going to make it even tougher to sift through whats happening, what we can expect. Lets go to capitol hill. Nbcs luke russert. Two different issues here. The background checks, the terror loophole. Two proposals. A proposal from each party in a 60vote threshold. Is this a recipe for nothing happens . I think ordinarily it would be a recipe for nothing happens. But if you look at the democratic proposal and republican proposal you just put forward regarding not being able to purchase a feirearm on the terrorist watch list, there are a lot of commonalities. Obviously the democrats want a more forceful bill, really tip the scale in favor of doj. But republicans are admitting the system as it currently is, is flawed and there should be a way for the government to prohibit a sale of somebody who is on that list in some capacity. I think whats very interesting is youve seen since the course of orlando last week, republicans are now open to, if youve been on this list for a period of five years, even if youve been taken off, you still can be flagged. Thats a big movement for them. In that case, this killer in orlando specifically, he would have been flagged again because hed gone on and off of that terrorist watch list. There are areas of commonality where a compromise could come forward. The question will be, though, is how contentious is this vote next week . Whats the language from people like chris murphy who fought to get a vote like this, the language from Mitch Mcconnell and ted cruz who have gone on the floor against any types of gun control measures. What is the house willing to accept . What im interested in, to be honest, is reids playbook. If reid wanted to negotiate, i suppose they could get somewhere. Reid is a tactician and he can say, if we negotiate a deal, it allows the republicans to get a win regarding guns. Something we feel that the politics is in our favor heading into november. Thats the real question. Will they make a compromise that, when in theory would probably help out those red state sorry blue state republicans, purple state republicans running in the senate more so than democrats. People will say were talking about politics and guns and peoples lives but thats how every decision is made up here on capitol hill. Thats really the question. Do democrats want to give republicans what i think on the face would be perceived as a win for them . Its hard to take the politics out of politics. Luke russert on capitol hill, thanks for that. Coming up, nbcs tom costello on the news the flight data recorder has now been recovered from egyptair flight 804. Will we finally find out what happened to that plane . Thats next. With booking. Coms range propertie rebel and key can wing it all the way to jordan and chelseas wedding. Rumble road trip. There she is. Uh oh, oh, oh, oh, what . So here is our road trip itinerary. Whats this . A bunch of different places. Nah, bro. We gotta go offscript. Rip to shreds every motel, cabin and teepee, between here and the wedding. Now get out of my seat. Alright. screams road trip whahhhh hahaha. Road trip im terhe is. At golf. But id like to keep being rriblet golf for as long as i can. New patented ensure enlive has hmb plus 20 grams of protein to help rebuild muscle. 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Amazing breaking news about the second black box, the flight data recorder from the egyptairplane that crashed last month has now been found in the mediterranean sea. We go to tom costello who covers aviation. Its a big deal. So you know there 24 blaare two boxes on a typical plane. Two days ago they recovered the cockpit voice recorder and now the flight data recorder. The boxes for both of them were damaged but the memory unit was apparently recovered. Thats very good news. On the cockpit voice recorder, youll get the last two hours of cockpit conversations between the pilots and the ambient noise in the cockpit. The flight data recorder, about 45 hours of data on the engine performance, any technical issues, computer issues, what was the direction, speed, heading, condition of the flaps. All of that will be on the flight data recorder. What they will do now. Theyll sink these two black boxes. Once they get them to the lab, theyll sync the timeline for the cockpit voice and flight data recorder so they can match. If they hear a pilot saying he is observing something, they can look on the flight data recorder and see what does that show . Does it indicate a problem . Does it indicate a sudden loss of pressure or sudden loss of altitude or any indication of an onboard fire or explosion or anything of that nature. This is critical. This is how theyll s