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i'm glad it's done. happy to hang up my witness one hat after this whole thing. she was witness one in that original fbi affidavit and more than three years after all of this unfolded it's wrapped up in a bow with a six-year sentence here, chris. >> ryan reilly, thank you. up next, the world's most powerful rocket launches into orbit. why this mission is such a critical milestone in the space race. but first, honoring the 80th anniversary of d-day. my colleague peter alexander spoke with legendary actor tom hanks who of course starred in ""saving private ryan"" at the normandy smet cemetery there. >> we have a few men and women who i see as being 16, 17, 18, maybe 25 years old and they might be in wheelchairs now, but they are represented by everything that is here. were it not for their choice to come and do the right thing 80 years ago, you and i would not be standing here. years ago, yout be standing here
campaign, these are crucial days and crucial stops out west for the former president, especially coming off of his guilty convictiones in new york, chris. >> deirdre, you are outside the house where tonight's fundraiser is being held. we think of san francisco as the bastion of liberalism, we think of silicon valley as a place where joe biden and democrats have done very well, so what's happening here? >> reporter: well, there's been a real shift, especially over the last eight years, and part of the reason for that is that the republican party is seen as friendlier or at least less hostile towards the tech industry. you can look at the biden versus trump administrations, biden and his regulators have been tough on tech, whether that be a crackdown on cryptocurrencies, lawsuits from the doj and ftc on big tech workers. the trump administration there were tax credits that helped the
house speaker mike johnson has now tapped two allies of former president trump to serve on the all important house intelligence committee. it's a controversial move and punchbowl news reports that speaker johnson didn't even tell the committee chair he was appointing them. nbc's julie tsirkin is on capitol hill for us. julie, what's been the reaction to these appointments? >> reporter: well, the reaction has been mixed, chris. if you look at allies of the former president they've been posting on x praising the move. you have to look no further than, for example, to congressman matt gaetz of florida's message, he said, quote, that president trump now has major reinforcements for his plan to obliterate the deep state. you also heard from lauren boebert and others praising johnson the speaker for making this move unilaterally. this committee, the intelligence
texas and there is a lot of confusion there about how exactly how they should deal with immigrants who cannot claim asylum since that ban went into effect at midnight on wednesday, but cannot be deported. as you know, we can deport about over 60 -- the u.s. has deported about 60,000 migrants per month over the past year, that is a high -- higher than anything they've soon in the past decade, but that is still less than double the amount of migrants who cross the southern border per month. so what will they do unless they can get more funding for planes, for detention space, and to get countries like venezuela and china to take back their nationals who right now they refuse in large part to take back. so there's a lot of concern about overcrowding because, remember, chris, this was supposed to come as part of that bipartisan bill that was negotiated in the senate, but since it wasn't passed by congress it doesn't come with more money, more manpower, more detention space or more authority and they're worried about what this will actually look like if those numbers get
you see on your screen you see the flap, you see the flames and at some point you see the camera lens breaking. this was part of another major win for spacex which was eventually it did make its return to earth. so even though, you know, elon musk himself posted to x saying even though they lost some tiles, we don't know what exactly the shape of the rocket s but it did make its return to earth and nasa administrator bill nelson also celebrating this as a big success. even though part of it was loss and kind of came apart this was the first time we've seen that. this was something we've seen in previous tests starship exploded minutes after it lifted off. so this is all a part of this major mission that nasa has to return astronauts to the moon. spacex's starship has been tapped to be a part of that mission and eventually the mission to mars. but, chris, this is all coming during a busy week for spaceflight. remember yesterday we were talking about boeing's starliner that is a totally separate mission.
president biden has been able to frame the stakes here in a way that resonates both with voters and with allies? >> well, one hopes that that is the case. joe biden got into this race in order to -- got into the race for president back in 2020 in order to preserve our democracy when he saw it being weakened, and he's made the preservation of democracy a central pillar of his campaign. his being able to prevail in a fall election will be a way of continuing that as we see that democracy is under threat with the candidacy of donald trump, a potential presidency from donald trump would certainly put our democratic principles in jeopardy, but we see biden today at this hallowed battleground in world war ii, one of two world wars that we fought last century to make the world safe for democracy, and we see democracy in peril today not only abroad, but in our own country, chris.
fulton county election interference case against former donald trump is on pause while he appeals to try to get the da fani willis kicked off the case. and in the case of accused gilgo beach serial killer, the man suspected of killing at least four women in long island is now being charged with murdering two more. plus, confusion and concern. the reality at the u.s./mexico border right now for those tasked with enforcing president biden's new asylum executive action. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. we begin with the deadly israeli air strike on an u.n.-operated school in central gaza. nbc's josh lederman is following that story for us. the idf says this was a precise strike on a hamas compound. what do we know? >> reporter: chris, the israeli military clearly knows the amount of criticism they're getting for this strike, coming a week after that other strike in rafah near that unrwa facility that killed dozens of
now. so theoretically steve bannon, unless something changes right now, he's going to be required to actually report to court on -- by july 1st, chris. >> ryan reilly, thank you. still to come in the next hour of chris jansen reports, a strike on a school in gaza kills dozens, including children. what both israel and hamas are saying about it. stay close. more "chris jansing reports" after this. chris jansing report" after this so go ahead, live unfiltered with the one and only sotyktu, a once-daily pill for moderate to severe plaque psoriasis, and the chance at clear or almost clear skin. it's like the feeling of finding you're so ready for your close-up. or finding you don't have to hide your skin just your background. once-daily sotyktu was proven better, getting more people clearer skin than the leading pill. don't take if you're allergic to sotyktu; serious reactions can occur. sotyktu can lower your ability to fight infections, including tb. serious infections, cancers including lymphoma,
tell us what happened today. >> reporter: hey, chris. well, yeah, in the eyes of spacex this was exactly that. i want to take you to the moment that we saw in the mission control, people celebrating after one big major milestone. i will explain on the other side of it. >> you can see the water below. and we have splash down! an incredible sight. congratulations to the spacex team. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: so, chris, as you mentioned, that was the first soft landing splash down of the starship booster and there was another major milestone moment that i want to show you because it might be deceiving if you were watching the live feed as it was happening. this is the rocket after it was in orbit and it was starting to come back to earth what you see are pieces of the rocket essentially coming apart.
woman. now, the other significant information that came out from the cross examination is that hallie biden said she was going through rehabilitation treatment in early october, and that was part of why hunter biden came back to delaware, and he attended some of those sessions with hallie biden. there was a very tortured series of questions from lowell to biden, and she sometimes seemed nervous and was looking around the gallery, and i noticed her looking at her brand new husband, a man by the name of john anning, my colleague spoke with him. they just got married this past weekend, chris, and when sarah asked him about that, he said this is one heck of a way to spend the honeymoon. this is speaking to really the complicated emotional and family dynamics that are at play during this trial. >> yeah, complicated to say the least. hallie biden was in a romantic relationship with hunter biden in october of 2018, and that's when the gun was purchased. as you've been following along with this trial, how important is that, and how important is