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to martha's vineyard in massachusetts and even to the doorstep of the vice president's residence in d.c. we're going to have much more on that in just a moment. but gets begin with jeremy diamond live at the white house on the very late night and early morning negotiations to avert this rail strike. what are you learning about the deal, jeremy? >> 20 hours of negotiations between the union leaders. the railway companies and also involved the white house and the labor secretary marty walsh. president biden was being kept updated throughout the day yesterday. the negotiations began at ...

negotiators their due. he is meeting with them in the oval office. this case down to the wire with a source familiar with the negotiations telling nbc news the deal was reached early this morning after 20 hours of talks. there was, quote, a basic handshake at 2:30 a.m. and approval by the teamsters board at 4:30 a.m. it couldn't come at a more critical juncture as the biden administration tries to tame red hot 40 year high inflation with the midterms now just 53 days away. for some context about what a strike would mean for our economy, our web of railways are responsible for shippin...

for the juneteenth holiholiday, the biden administration and officials around it are not taking the weekend off. yesterday, i spoke with energy secretary jennifer granholm who projected optimism despite economic challenges. >> the president is really focused on preventing these inflationary increases to the extent he can, inflation is happening globally, recession is in the inevitable, the president really wants to have a steady and stable recovery. but, of course, one of the biggest pieces of these infla inflationary increases we're seeing is the price of fuel. >> the growing number...

reproductive freedom in our nation, in the gun epidemic, special interest groups like the nra are feeding the logjam, making it harder for congress to pass laws that are popular among the american people. warning, and it's in bc -- now is the time to act. >> the door that is open, we cannot go back. we cannot see a closed. here's the question to america. it's a question to those who read the herald opinion. -- that you can't have some restrictions on gun -- guns. weapons that are dangerous. here's the real question. is there any humanity? is there any courage and are we ready to act?...

you know, he plays the tv game and he went too far here. that really didn't help, talking about that primarying liz. he created a sense of revenge. >> graham saying trump went too far. really? and created a sense of revenge. he's saying trump has responsibility for those terrorists that attacked and tried to overthrow the country as the january 6th committee preps public hearings with videotape testimony. today new emails from trump lawyer john eastman, the mastermind of the coup. he circulated that memo, a sort of coup playbook. he urged gop lawmakers in pennsylvania to, quote, reta...