right now on "ana cabrera reports," new controversy on the campaign trail. former president trump warning of a bloodbath and calling

migrants animals. the political implications and what we're hearing from both campaigns this morning. plus, the biden team announcing a new record fund-raising haul as the president prepares to hit the road for a campaign swing out west. also ahead, don't save the date. the new delay in trump's new york hush money trial and what it could signal about the case. get those brackets ready. the teams are picked, the stage is set. steve kornacki has a preview of all the march madness. good morning. thanks for joining us. it's 10:00 eastern. i'm ana cabrera reporting from new york. we begin with the battle for the white house. a cash flush president biden preparing for a critical west coast swing, set to hold a rally in nevada tomorrow, a state he

won in 2020 by only about 30,000 votes. meanwhile, there's new controversy with his campaign opponent. during a rally in ohio, former president trump making a dire prediction while speaking about the possibility of an increasing trade war with china over car manufacturing. >> we're going to put a 100% tariff on every single car that comes across the line, and you're not going to be able to sell those. if i get elected. if i don't get elected, it's going to be a bloodbath. that's going to be the least of it. it's going to be the bloodbath for the country. that will be the least of us. >> jiening us nbc's gabe gutierrez at the white house, garrett haake covering the trump campaign. and former democratic congressman max rose from new york. gabe, you first. the president is going to be back on the road this week. he's trying to draw more and more of a contrast with trump.

what do we know? >> that's right, ana. the biden campaign really looking to ramp up its efforts. the campaign will be in reno, vegas and phoenix tomorrow, then phoenix on wednesday as well as dallas. on thursday dallas and houston. all this before heading to north carolina next week. no, ana, the biden campaign has long said it planned to ramp up its travel. but also trying to capitalize by the comments of former president trump over the weekend. the campaign trying to link it to political violence and saying this is something that donald trump wants. they argue that he wants another january 6th. of course, you see it right there. he wants another january 6th, but the american people are going to give him another electoral defeat this november because they continue to reject his extremism, his affection for violence and his thirst for revenge. again, ana, the biden campaign hoping voters will see that distinction, that the president

wants to get things done for the american people and that trump, in their view, is promoting political violence, ana. >> garrett, what is trump and the campaign saying about those bloodbath comments he made over the weekend? >> reporter: the trump campaign views comments like that as hyperbolic spin. they said the former president was purely talking about the auto industry and they dismiss this criticism as overblown. the former president does tend to use this type of violent rhetoric on a variety of topics that makes it easier for people to say that it is about violence, or about political violence because of the types of language he uses. he made another set of controversial comments at that same rally talking about migrants whom he has blamed for every variety of ill in this country, particularly what he describes as a migrant crime wave. listen to this moment from the same event on saturday. >> i would do the same thing.

if i had prisons that were teaming with ms 13 and all sorts of people that they're going to take care of for the next 50 years. young people in jail for years -- i don't know if you call them people. in some cases they're not people in my opinion. these are bad -- these are animals. >> so, ana, i think for folks who may have tuned out donald trump and the possibility of a trump nomination, this long presidential campaign to come, this is the kind of rhetoric and the kind of language you'll hear on issue after issue going forward. >> mark, we have seven months to go in this election. your reaction to those comments about migrants, to trump saying it's going to be a bloodbath for the country if he's not elected and, of course, the defense from his allies. >> there's such a buffet of things to parse from that speech. let's take him at the word that he's taking about an economic bloodbath. but then he said that's the least of it.

the pushback from the trump campaign should be what did he mean by the least of it. he also went on to talk about jailing liz cheney and his political opponents. that to me is something even more outrageous. that's pretty clear. there's no ambiguity about what that meant. he wants to prosecute his political opponents. by the way, he said -- talk about projection. he talked about how there wouldn't be a democracy if he's not elected. so, listen, we're just talking about a few of the things he said. what bothers me are some of the things not being reported on. >> we report on them not to give them more oxygen but because it's not normal and we have to call it out. we can't let it become desensitizing. he said he didn't believe there would be another election here in the u.s. if he weren't elected. he talked about pardoning january 6th rioters, again, calling them hostages. are you worried about potential

political violence as this continues on? >> of course. how could you not be. there's substantive precedent for all of this. that's the point here. the biden campaign is going to be at a perpetual fork in the road. do you focus on the craziness that is donald trump, the psychosis that is him, or do you try to just completely ignore it and focus solely on your own record? that record is substantive and so important, but i really truly hope the biden campaign doesn't ignore what is being said over and over again. we can't overly learn the lesson of 2016 where after hillary clinton lost everyone said she focused too much on donald trump. the truth is no one believed that it was possible that this guy meant what he was saying. now after seeing the chaos, corruption, incompetency and hate-filled agenda that was four years of the trump administration culminating on january 6th, we know he means

what he says. it is imperative that we remind the american people hammer it home, over and over again. when he says bloodbath, he means it literally. this guy is to be taken both seriously as well as literally. >> some of his supporters certainly taken literally. that's why those comments are quite concerning. gabe, you have new reporting about frustration president biden has with his campaign. what can you tell us? >> our white house team has spoken with numerous officials, current and present and, as well as biden allies who says the president has grown angry and anxious about his re-election effort and the sources describe a private meeting at the white house in january where he was told his poll numbers were dropping in michigan and georgia over his handling of the israel-hamas war, and the president began to shout and swear. now, the sources also say he has at times pushed back strongly

against senior aids. he has chafed at what he sees as restraints on some of his natural instincts. of course, ana, as you were just discussing, democrats are alarmed by the state of the campaign. at this point the president with a 38% approval rating. that historically has signified a very uphill battle, lower approval rating than other presidents who have lost re-election. but again, that new reporting that the president himself is very frustrated by the way he sees he's being pushed by some of his senior aides, ana. >> congressman, what could president biden be doing about these poll numbers? do you think his economic successes are breaking through? >> so, first of all, he shouldn't be overreacting. what i care about and what everyone should care about is the head to head. the head to head is startling because it's almost even. but president biden is not at

38. when you take into account the third party candidates and the sizable numbers they're gleaning right now and the real capability that the biden campaign has to claw those voters back, the president is in a strong position and should keep his foot on the pedal. continuing to advance both his own economic agenda, the fact that -- look at the inflation numbers, look at the growth and the way in which we compare to the rest of the industrialized world, but, of course, also make sure people understand this is a comparison. successful re-election races -- go back to 2012 with obama/romney, back to 2004 bush/kerry. you frame your choice. the president should follow his gut. a half a century of doing this. >> the polls may tell one story, but the fund-raising tells another. president biden, the democratic party organizations raised $53 million in february.

they have about $155 million in cash on hand which the campaign says is the largest war chest amassed by any democratic presidential candidate at this point in the cycle. what do those numbers tell you? >> it's one of the few encouraging things. by the way, i'm glad to see biden is getting angry and anxious. i would hate it if he were passively sitting back say, oh, this is all fine. but the economic -- the fund-raising advantage the democrats have is a real upside in and other wise fairly bleak picture. it's good they're raising a lot of money. that means there's activism, excitement, energy in the democratic party. on the other side, trump has got a lot of problems on the legal front, the rnc, the small dollar fund-raising. that's all colliding in a way that could create a real economic crisis for donald trump and his campaign. >> mark, before i let you go, i want to ask you about mike pence, trump's vice president,

saying he's not going to endorse his former boss, that he won't be supporting him in this election. this is the guy who stood by trump even after the "access hollywood" tape dropped in 2015 which many thought would be the end of trump in that election cycle. now pence is saying no more. is it a red flag for the trump campaign to be losing someone who was such a loyalist? >> yeah. when it came to standing up when it mattered for the constitution and whether or not you can support this guy who doesn't support the constitution and support an insurrection, the guy who was more loyal than anybody, mike pence, has said i can't support this man. i think that sends a real signal to upstanding, upright republicans who support the constitution. mike pence is seen as a pretty moral, upstanding, religious guy. when he sends a signal, i think the people out there will be listening.

>> yet mike pence isn't terribly popular with the republican base at least. what do you think? >> trump needs more than the base, and ma message is important to independents and people in the middle. >> your thoughts? >> the most interesting question is will he endorse biden. >> he did say in the same interview there's no way he's voting for biden. >> so is he not voting? we'll see how this unfolds. when you look at this from the broad picture, anyone who has closely worked with donald trump, former secretaries of defense, former vice president, multiple national security advisers, they all have come out against him. so what are we supposed to say at this point? i think that -- i go back to this point i made earlier. it is about the comparison. it's about using that incredible cash advantage that the biden campaign has right now to remind people of who donald trump is. they have forgotten, rightfully so. the american people move on very

quickly. but he is crazy, he's a psychotic individual, and he put our country through not just a horrible period of division, but he was also incompetent, and that's the message you're going to see in the coming months. you're going to see the poll numbers reflect that messaging as well. >> former congressman max rose, mark mckinnon, thank you both. our thanks to gabe and garrett as well. the supreme court hearing arguments right now that could have major implications for social media and disinformation. we'll explain. also, how a delay in donald trump's hush money case is scrambling his legal calendar. plus our own keir simmons, the first journalist to get vladimir putin to say alexei navalny's name in public. what russia's future under putin looks like now after its latest so-called election. later, breaking down the brackets. we'll talk march madness with our own steve kornacki. we're back in one minute. rnacki we're back in one minute (man) excuse me, would you mind taking a picture of us? (tony) oh, no problem. (man) thanks. (tony) yes, problem. you need verizon.

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now to the supreme court where justices are hearing a case this hour that could change what you see online. it all dates back to the pandemic when the white house pushed social media companies to remove information deemed false or misleading. today the court is considering whether those efforts violate the first amendment. nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian joins us with more now. ken, walk us through this case and a similar one the court is hearing today involving the nra. >> good morning, ana. at issue before the supreme court today is how far the government can go in trying to regulate the conduct of private organizations if that regulation implicates free speech. in the case that you mentioned first, the implications for our democracy are huge because the question really is how far the government can go in talking to social media companies about disinformation and violent rhetoric on their platforms. that case stems from a lawsuit by missouri and louisiana that resulted in a judge's ruling

ordering federal agencies to stop communicating with facebook, youtube and other companies about taking down problematic content. as nbc news reported previously, the result of that ruling is the fbi and other agencies stopped talking to the companies, even about foreign disinformation campaigns. experts say the result is that there's a lot more disinformation circulating on social media as an election looms, ana. >> ken, we're also hearing from a former supreme court justice this morning, stephen breyer says he is worried about the court's future. fill us in. >> yes, so entering, stephen breyer has a new book out. in an interview he was very explicit in criticizing the conservative supreme court majority in taking on the concept of originalism, deciding cases based on what justices believe the text meant at the time it was written. that's a philosophy embraced by many of the court's conservatives. breyer says it leaves no room

for judges to consider the practical consequences of the constitutional rules they're writing. he says it doesn't take into account our values as a society evolve over time as we learn from the mistakes of our past. breyer criticized the dobbs decision saying, quote, are they really going to allow women to die on the table because they won't allow an abortion which could save her life? it's one of the many questions raised by what he view as a very flawed decision. >> strong words from a former supreme court justice. thank you very much, ken dilanian. also today, the supreme court's temporary block on a texas immigration law expires at 5:00 p.m. eastern. then what? plus, how donald trump is stepping up his public attacks on the multiple legal cases he's mired in. could it come back to bite him? stay with us. you're watching "ana cabrera reports." ra reports.

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it's all politics. that's how the former president framed the looming indictments against him during his rally in ohio over the weekend as he railed against the georgia election case and the looming hush money trial in new york. >> my mother was such a beautiful woman, and she's looking down with my father, and she's saying how the hell did our boy get four indictments? mr. and mrs. wade, which his wife did not appreciate, his wife didn't appreciate. can you imagine these two people trying to take down a very popular -- i'm a very popular president? >> let's bring in former u.s. attorney barbara mcquade and former manhattan district attorney catherine christian. we heard donald trump going after fani willis, her former special prosecutor nathan wade.

he continues to talk about all his legal cases on the campaign trail. could that come back to bite him eventually? >> well, possibly. but the things he's said so far, probably not. that's because it's so tricky to impose a gag order that is compliant with the first amendment. the judges who have so far ruled on gag orders in his cases have given him an awful lot of leeway to comment on the cases, and even the prosecutors and the judges themselves, they've really carved out on limitations of targeting of witnesses and court staff. i think going after fani willis and some of the other prosecutors is going to remain fair game. i'm sure we're going to continue to hear this kind of rhetoric on the campaign trail. >> catherine, now that the special prosecutors in georgia, nathan wade, has stepped aside in that case, do you see that trial moving forward, getting back on track? >> it should move forward unless there's an appeal.

so judge mcafee could give a certificate review which would allow the defendants to appeal. the court of appeals in georgia could say no or they could say yes, we'll take the appeal. then it will be delayed. >> to appeal the issue that he decided on friday. >> the conflict of interest issue which in my view isn't a matter of importance. it doesn't go to the guilt or innocence of the defendants. he should not, the judge, grant a certificate of review. certainly the court of appeals shouldn't grant it either. there's no reason why this case shouldn't be back on track. back on track means the earliest may be august which i doubt that will happen. that was the original date before all the disqualification issues. it's probably not going to be tried before election day. >> speaking of sort of a derailing of schedule, barbara,

the new york hush money case was supposed to start a week from today. that's been delayed until at least mid april. do you think even a mid april starting point is likely? >> i do, unless some new issue arises. one of the things i think the public is seeing is the kind of frustration that the parties and the public and prosecutors experience when awaiting a trial date because defendants have a right to due process, judges are very reluctant to push them to trial when they need additional time to prepare. receiving something like 100,000 pages of additional materials from the u.s. attorney's office over the past few weeks is probably the right call to give them time. the delay really was caused by the trump team's own delay in not asking for these documents until january. so it took that much time to review the documents and produce them. i often say trial dates are

meant to be changed. it happens a lot, especially when you have a well-funded defense team who can afford to keep pushing, keep filing motion, keep seeking more information. unless something unanticipated arises, i think the case can get back on track in 30 days. >> michael cohen is expected to be the key witness in that hush money trial. now we're learning how democrats in the house might call him to testify this week related to a hunter biden hearing. catherine, if you're a prosecutor on that hush money case, do you want michael cohen out there testifying on capitol hill? >> no. it's just another opportunity for him to say things that might allow the defense to impeach his credibility. he loves the camera. he loves to speak. i can assure you that the prosecutors in the manhattan d.a.'s office don't want him speaking publicly. there's nothing they can do about it. >> real quick, barbara, i want to get your thoughts on what we're hearing from former justice of the supreme court, stephen breyer.

he's raising alarm bells about the direction of the court. "the new york times" writes in earlier interviews justice breyer kouk rambling and opaque. this time he was direct. he meant to sound an alarm about the direction of the supreme court. something important is going on, he said. the court has taken a wrong turn, he said. it is not too late to turn back. barbara, what do you make of that? >> i think it's extraordinary. justice breyer is one of the only people in america who can really speak out about this court with some credibility. there are very few remaining -- two justices of the supreme court who are now living who can talk about the court's work. i think he's raising the alarm bell on this idea of originalism. you heard ken claim what originalism is about. it's a way of keeping the country in the past and tied to conservative values under the guise of juris pru dins. he talks about how it makes it impossible to reflect evolving standards of human decency that

occur in the two-plus centuries since the constitution was drafted. i think some really powerful words. i don't know whether these justices will take note. i think it will cause them at least to reflect on what they're doing and how they're harming the credibility of the court in the eyes of the public. >> we know that confidence in the court is at a record low. barbara mckad, catherine christian, thank you both. the supreme court is expected to make a decision today about a controversial new texas immigration law. this law, sb 4, would make crossing the border without authorization a state crime allowing state officials to arrest, prosecute, even deport migrants. that would upend decades of legal precedent that makes immigration enforcement the job of federal officials currently. earlier this month the supreme court temporarily blocked the law from taking effect. that order is set to expire today at 5:00 p.m. eastern. nbc's david noriega is joining us with more on this. what are we watching for here as

we wait for a decision from the supreme court? >> ana, good morning. there's a few different scenarios. either way the court will either continue blocking the law from taking effect or it will allow the law to take effect. even if the court doesn't make a decision today, it will be a de facto decision because it will allow the law to go into effect this afternoon. if there's a block, it's a temporary block t. merits of this law are still being litigate phd the court system. the legal experts i've consulted on this say there's clearly established precedent including supreme court precedent on similar cases stating that the enforcement of federal immigration laws is the sole purview of the federal government. additionally the supreme court tends to be biased in favor of preserving the status quo. that indicates it's fairly likely the court will continue blocking this case. however, observers also point to the fact that the current conservative supermajority of the court has upended legal

precedent in other cases. this is an extremely high-stakes and charged political issue. >> we'll be watching closely for any ruling from the supreme court, any decision on whether this law remains blocked and the supreme court moves forward with looking more deeply at this. thank you very much, david noriega. overseas the russian election cementing putin's power and his reign as the longest-serving russian leader since stalin. plus, what we just learned about president biden and israel's benjamin netanyahu. we're live from israel next on "ana cabrera reports." from isrn "ana cabrera reports." i'm not good being retired. i'm a pain in the neck. i like to be able to have a purpose. about three or four years ago, i wasn't feeling as if i was as sharp as i used to be. i saw the prevagen commercials. after a short amount of time taking prevagen, i started noticing a difference-- that i'm remembering this, i'm remembering that. i stopped taking prevagen and i found myself slacking back so i jumped right back on it.

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vladimir putin this weekend cementing his rule over russia for another six years. the kremlin holding that putin won 87% of the vote, but he had no real opposition after the death of his biggest critic, alexei navalny, although navalny supporters staged protests during the voting including pouring dye in ballot boxes. joins us is nbc's chief international correspondent keir simmons. you became the first journalist to get him to say alexi nah valley's name in public. what more can you tell us? >> reporter: well, that's right. that news conference happened late last night in this hall. in response to a question from

nbc news, president putin, ana, described the death of his opponent alexei navalny as, quote, an unfortunate incident and suggested that he had been agreeing to release alexei navalny just days before he died. he was speaking after those election results where russian officials say he got 87% of the poll and the turnout was 77%. pretty incredible, frankly. many western leaders are saying this election is, in fact, undemocratic. president putin beginning another six years in power after an election that saw dye poured into ballot boxes, arson attacks and drone strikes russia blamed on ukraine. putin won the biggest victory of his leadership, russian officials say, after years of crushing opposition leaders like

alexei navalny and boris, who voted by writing his initials on the ballot. nbc news was the first news organization to question putin after the election. >> journalist evan gershkovich spent this election in prison. borery wasn't allowed to stand against you and alexei navalny died in one of your prisons during your campaign. president biden, is this what you call democracy? >> that's life, putin said. he said he agreed to release navalny on the condition he never return to russia. days later his outspoken opponent was dead, he said. his widow joined a protest in berlin on sunday as russians demonstrated at polling stations by simply standing in line. >> there cannot be any negotiations and nothing with mr. putin because he's a killer, he's a gangster.

>> reporter: the kremlin spokesman rejecting criticism of the election. >> alexei navalny's widow is calling on leaders around the world not to accept this election. >> you know, those are people who are -- who get themselves deprived of their mother land and they're staying abroad. >> her husband died in one of your prisons. >> the longer they stay abroad, the less connection they have with their own country. >> reporter: what they didn't explain and left unclear is why, if president putin agreed to his release, why did he then die just a few days later. there are in many ways more questions than answers here. just to bring you up to date today, a number of countries are congratulating president putin, countries like china and iran and north korea amongst others.

meanwhile, as i mentioned, democracy around the world less enthusiastic. today the spokesperson for the national security council saying the elections are obviously not free or fair given how mr. putin has imprisoned opponents and prevented others from running against him. ana. >> keir simmons live for us in moscow, thanks. this morning dozens of american citizens are back on u.s. soil after the first government-chartered flight out of haiti. more than 30 americans arrived in miami overnight. the state department has urged americans to leave haiti as gang-fueled violence and chaos has gripped the country. the country's main airport in the capital port-au-prince remains closed leaving stranded americans with little option but to find their own way. about 150 miles to the less chaotic northern region where the state department is offering limited charter flights for americans that agree to reimburse the government for their flight. turning to israel's war on

hamas where things have taken, once again, a violent turn at al shifa hospital. israel says its troops took fire from inside the hospital while palestinian officials say the israelis were targeting the hospital, calling it a potential war crime. meanwhile, israeli prime minister netanyahu this weekend saying israel will move forward with its planned incursion into rafah which the u.s. has repeatedly warned against. he also fired back at senate majority leader chuck schumer's calls for new elections there in israel. >> i think what he said is totally inappropriate. it's inappropriate to go to a sister democracy and try to replace the elected leadership there. that's something that the israel public does on its own. we're not a banana republic. just in this hour, two administration officials tell nbc news president biden is expected to speak with netanyahu

today, more than one month after the leaders last spoke. let's go to tel aviv and nbc's raf sanchez. raf, netanyahu sounding defiant there. he's been bucking the biden administration's warnings about going into rafah and all the people in harm's way there. what does this say about how he's responding to pressure from the u.s.? >> reporter: ana, i think defiance is the right word. the white house has been saying consistently that it opposes any attack on the city of rafah in southern gaza where more than a million palestinian civilians are sheltering without what it calls a credible plan to get those palestinian civilians out of harm's way. prip netanyahu approving a military assault on rafah. he says that assault will have two phases. the first being that evacuation of civilians from raf far, the second an attack on the city

itself. netanyahu says the attack is necessary to carry out israel's objective of defeating hamas. president biden for his own part has given slightly mixed messages about this. he has described an attack on rafah as a red line. and then in the same breath said there is no red line that israel could cross that would lead him to withdraw military support, diplomatic support for israel. secretary of state antony blinken antony blinken over the weekend saying the u.s. has not yet seen the details of israel's plan to attack rafah so isn't in a position to judge whether the attack is credible. >> let's talk about the humanitarian situation. a second aid ship has set sail for gaza. tons of flour, rice and canned foods unloaded on saturday from the first shipment still haven't been distributed. where do things stand? >> reporter: so that first

shipment is aid from this american charity, world central kitchen run by chef jose andres. it arrived in gaza by sea, unloaded onto this improvised pier. that's a proof of concept that you can get aid in by sea. it's as we understand in a warehouse in gaza. it has president been distributed. not clear why that is. it may be that the security conditions in northern gaza don't exist to safely distribute that food to people who need it. the u.n. saying 1 in 3 of all babies under the age of 2 are suffering acute malnourishment in gaza right now. >> that's heart-wrenching. raf sanchez, thank you for your reporting. a new development just into our news room about one of trump's legal cases. we'll have that next for you, plus, new comments from the father of murdered nursing student laken riley talking

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we're back with breaking news on one of donald trump's legal cases. trump's lawyers saying the former president has been unable to get a bond for the $464 million fraud judgment against him in that civil fraud case. back with us now, catherine christian, former manhattan assistant district attorney and msnbc legal analyst. catherine, trump's lawyers write in a recent filing here that getting the judgment's full amount in a bond is a practical impossibility. they say they have tried to approach about 30 surety companies through four separate brokers and cannot get a bond for this amount. so what does that mean? >> that says he doesn't have the collateral. so a company is like, no, we're not going to do it. unless the appellate court grants him a stay until after

the appeal is done, attorney general james says she's going to go in court and request his assets starts being seized, properties, liquid assets. so that's going to happen if he doesn't get the stay, and he has to pay because that's what the attorney general said she's going to do if he doesn't come up with the bond or the money. >> we're talking about half a billion dollars. just how unusual is that? >> that's a lot of money. i've never seen something that high that a judge has ordered -- and this was a civil fraud trial. he has bragged about all the money he has. clearly, all of these bond companies don't believe him because they're not willing to take a chance and do that. as i said, the attorney general has said it more than once, that if he doesn't pay up, meaning he doesn't get that stay from the appellate court, she's going to request his assets start being seized. she said i can see 40 wall street from my window. that's one of his buildings in

lower manhattan. >> that is a possibility here. at what point could that actually happen? what are you watching now in terms of the process? >> again, in the appellate court doesn't grant him a stay, and on the 25th if he's still saying i can't pay, you can expect her to send her attorneys into court and start the proceedings. she has to have a judge, a court order and direct that to happen. >> okay. it's one to watch. catherine christian thank you for jumping back with us, doing the u-turn to give us this breaking news. appreciate it. new this morning, we have new reaction from the family of the 22-year-old nursing student who was killed while she was jogging on the university of georgia campus last month. laken riley's father speaking exclusively to nbc news about his daughter and how her case has gotten caught up in politics because the suspect in her killing is an undocumented migrant. let's bring in nbc news correspondent priscilla thompson

in athens, georgia. priscilla, what a painful time for this family. tell us about your conversation with laken riley's father. >> reporter: ana, he described his daughter as an angel who was one of a kind. as her name has become a rallying cry amid the partisan fight over border politics, he said he hopes she will be remembered not just for how she died, but also the way she lived. >> who was laken to you? >> she was like an angel. >> reporter: this morning, jason riley speaking out for the first time, describing his 22-year-old daughter laken as an avid marathon runner with dreams of one day becoming a nurse and working with we were looking f seeing her graduate next year. she was so full of life. i just hate that, you know, she was taken so early. >> police say laken was murdered while jogging on the university of georgia campus last month. >> i wake up every day thinking,

you know, that i can call her and i can't. >> police have charged 26-year-old jose antonio ybarra with her murder. a venezuelan citizen entered the u.s. illegally in 2022, and despite an arrest in new york and a citation for shoplifting in georgia was never deported. >> do you think a different immigration policy would have made a difference for laken. >> we have no idea if that would have changed anything. but he's here illegally, he might not have been here had we had secure borders. >> laken's murder has become a flash point in the partisan debate over immigration. former president trump meeting with laken's mom and stepdad earlier this month. just days after this tense exchange at the state of the union. georgia representative marjorie taylor greene imploring president biden to say laken

riley's name. >> laken riley, an innocent young woman who was killed by an illegal. >> i feel like she's being used somewhat politically. >> how do you feel about that? >> it makes me angry. she was much better than that. she should be raised up for the person that she is. >> an angel on earth, her heartbroken father says now gone far too soon. >> what gives you strength? >> knowing that she's looking down on me. it has made me so much stronger. >> reporter: it's just heartbreaking, ana, and while the suspect has not yet entered a plea, we are now learning that he is requesting a jury trial. the family of laken riley also preparing for what is sure to be a very difficult trial. ana. >> priscilla thompson, thank you for bringing us that reporting. we'll be right back. be right ba. just one aleve. 12 hours of uninterrupted pain relief. aleve.

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march madness, 68 teams punching their ticket to the big dance, but only one will walk away with the top prize. yesterday yale with this crazy buzzer beater to knock off brown and secure their spot in the ncaa tournament. our steve kornacki is here to help us get ready for this march madness, so we've got the brackets all ready to go. who's in? who's out? >> what a fun night last night was finding out all of those teams, and now everybody trying to fill out their office bracket. we'll start on the men's side. here are the heavy hitters. these are the number one seeds in the tournament. you can see the defending national champion here, the uconn huskies. they won their contest in convincing fashion. they are the top overall seed in this tournament, you see houston, north carolina, purdue. they are the four number one seeds in a bracket that looks like this. everyone in the country in their office pool is staring at this

saying what do i do with this? some fans already have it filled out. a couple of things maybe to keep an eye on here that we can point out. we have the number one seeds that we show you, one of the upsets, everybody's always asking where are the upsets in this tournament? one of the most common ones is the 12 seed beating the five seed. the 12 seed matchups would be james madison playing wisconsin. mcneese playing gonzaga. this might be one of the less kind of imposing teams they've brought to the tournament. there could be an upset opportunity there. grand canyon against st. mary's, and then you've got up here uab against san diego state. those are the 12 spot generally produces at least one upset a year, and in fact, we can show you some stats here as you fill it out. in the history of the men's tournament, here's how the underdogs have done in the first round, and again, you see 35 percent of the 12 seeds have won these.

ana, here's one that might worry you. the number 10 seed beating the number 7 seed happens 39% of the time, you may know where i'm going with this. >> not going to happen on this side of the bracket. >> circle it, ana is a proud graduate of washington state university. playing drake. are you scared of the upset? >> no, because we are fighters. washington state hasn't been in the tournament in 16 years. it's been that long. we have that kind of team this year that's going to take it all the way, baby. >> it's really exciting. i think one of the best things about the tournament are stories like washington state. it happens so infrequently, and it's a very big deal when it does. >> we're going to be the cinderella team this season. >> if washington state gets by, look out, iowa state, that's what makes this tournament fun. good luck to the cougars. the women's bracket as well, here are your top seeds, south carolina, they replaced five starters from last year. haven't lost a single game this year. a lot of attention to iowa,

caitlin clark, she can hit it from anywhere. they're a one seed first time in 32 years for that. how about usc, a one seed for the first time. here's a name from the past, cheryl miller, 1986, they get it in here. and what's really interesting, a lot of attention to iowa, but look at this region iowa's in. they are the top seed, lsu who they played in the national championship game is up here. ucla is up here. if iowa makes it, they're going to have to achieve a lot. >> i heard the women's championship game, tickets are almost double right now the cost that the men's are because it is so popular. so i say, hey, go ladies. girl power, thank you so much. steve kornacki, that's going to do it for us today. i'll see you at 1:00 p.m. eastern today filling in for chris jansing. for now i'm ana cabrera reporting from new york, josé diaz-balart picks up our coverage right