Out of the office this week 🏝️ 🛥️ 🌅

Everything Luka Doncic does here is poetry. Await the screen, goad the switch, sense his opportunity with big man Gobert, dance, throw him off balance, fire.

Savage 🏀

New Interview: I talked to the Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg about why he thinks Biden isn’t currently losing to Trump, whether he and the White House are too optimistic about the state of the campaign, and why he doesn’t like poll averages. newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/i…

CBS News exclusive: Migrant crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border have plunged 54% from record highs, internal data shows. cbsn.ws/3wDP2d3

After the bipartisan border bill fails (again), Schumer vows to bring it up (again) -->

He says the executive actions the administration is poised to take are not a replacement for legislation.

Our reporting on that from this morning: nbcnews.com/politics/immig…

Schumer says they’ll keep trying to pass the border bill this year.

But is it on the table next year if Democrats win in 2024?

“Where I'd like to go—and I think large numbers of our caucus next year if, God willing, we win the majority, keep the majority in the Senate and the

Reminder: Non-citizens cannot vote in federal elections, or even register to vote. There’s no evidence that this happens in any meaningful, significant or measurable way. Republicans say they “intuitively” know that it’s happening, however

.Mario Andretti: 'Just as I was trying to explain that to Stefano, Greg Maffei, Mr. Maffei, broke in the conversation and he said: 'Mario, I want to tell you that I will do everything in my power to see that Michael never enters Formula 1.'' - NBC News nbcnews.com/news/sports/ma…

Attorney General Merrick Garland, asked about the Alito flag issue, and two Jan. 6 cases before the Supreme Court, replies, 'As you rightly point out, the Justice Department has cases before the Supreme Court so I can't comment about any justice.'

The Lankford-Murphy-Sinema border security bill is getting a Senate vote today. It will fail to get 60 because a vast majority of Republicans and a slice of Democrats will vote no. A reminder of how we got here 👇

Even presuming a de facto incumbent bonus for Trump in the primary, the big problem with parsing these Haley 2024 voters is that they could already be Biden 2020 voters (including the registered Rs) or still vote R in ‘24. It doesn’t inherently mean Trump voters are defecting.

#2 House Democrat Katherine Clark: “Justice Alito has displayed flags at his homes that support insurrection against our government, promote religious nationalism, and attack free and fair elections.” She calls on him to recuse from J6, Trump and election security cases at “minimum.”

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer plans to hold a Senate vote next month on a bill to establish federal protections for legal contraceptives, a source familiar with his plan says. nbcnews.com/politics/congr…