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this year supreme court began with a feeling of hope but has been nothing more than one step forward and two massive steps back for america. ketanji john broxson took place as the first black woman to serve on the high court, a historic appointment heralded as the progress needed to make the highest court inland reflect's population. really disturbed by the court specifically by chief justice john roberts suggested an error of moderation, the conserve justice ruled with the liberal in a slew of surprising decisions, including on key issues like immigration, voting rights, and electio...

we have updates in the other special counsel's investigation. jack smith issuing more subpoenas in the january 6th investigation. this time, focusing on arizona. so let's get to it. joining me now is nbc news investigative correspondent, tom winter and nbc news justice reporter, ryan reilly. let's start with the top. walt nauta, finally getting a lawyer. finally pleading not guilty. walk us through what happened. >> it was a short hearing. the big news is he did get this lawyer, and essentially one of the reasons i think it's more difficult to find someone is because, you know, donal...

>> chicago hit with severe flash flooding stunning drivers stunned by the sudden rushing water. nascar fans faced downpours for the city's first street race delayed by 90 minutes due to the weather and it was shortened by 25 laps. >> still exciting though, a lot of fun to watch and today on the west coast residents are warned to brace for extreme heat with temperatures in some areas expected to soar, get this, over 115 agrees so we check in with meteorologist adam klotz for our fox weather forecast. adam. >> very active weather across the country continuing to see at least some of th...

palestinian refugee camp. matt bradley caught in the firefight last night. good day, everyone. i'm andrea mitchell in washington. we begin our second hour of "andrea mitchell reports" with the gun violence epidemic in our country. according to the gun violence archive, there were 17 mass shootings in 15 states over the long july 4th weekend. leaving 18 people dead and more than 100 others injured. it brings the annual tally to 351 this year on track to surpass previous records. right now in el paso, texas, sentencing is underway in one of the deadliest mass shootings in u.s. histor...

al sand -- alexandria hoff with the latestest on all of this. >> reporter: so the president tried to the use the 2003 heroes act as a route to usher in this loan forgiveness plan. of course, the supreme court shot that down yesterday. now biden administration is looking at something called the higher education act as a means to the become a plan b. >> we're not going to waste any time on this. we're getting moving on it -- it's going to take longer, but we're getting at it right away. >> reporter: president sd the higher education act will allow the secretary the of education to waiv...