kirsch. memorial day weekend travel expected to be the busiest travel day, today, since 2019. the faa expecting that there will be more than 50,000 flights today, the same number tomorrow, and, according to aaa, more than 38 million americans are expected to hit the road as well. so, good luck. stay safe as we all welcome the unofficial start to summer. that's going to do it for us today. i'll see you back here tomorrow, same time, same place. i'm ana cabrera reporting from new york. jose diaz-balart picks up our coverage right now. good morning, 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific, i'm jose diaz-balart. we begin this hour with breaking news. any moment the attorney general merrick garland will announce a lawsuit the department of justice is filing against livenation, the parent company of ticketmaster.

the doj alleging the live entertainment conglomerate monopolized markets and boxed out rival companies. there you see at the department of justice, the podium is set up. these companies, the department of justice is alleging, unfairly have resulted in higher prices for consumers. 30 state and district attorney generals are joining in the lawsuit. dominic chu, good morning. what exactly the basics? what does livenation doo, how do they they make their money and what is the government accusing them of? >> this is a suit highly anticipated for quite some time now and hit a fevered pitch, got a lot more traction a couple of years ago when livenation took a lot of the heat for the botched handling of ticket sales for taylor swift's concert tour at the time. that whole ordeal of dropped sales, long lines and reportedly outrageous prices eventually led

to even a congressional hearing on what exactly happened. now, today, the justice department made it official, earlier just this past half hour or so, the doj filed that suit in federal court, in the southern district of new york, it alleges that live nation and its ticket selling subsidiary ticketmaster, quote, unlawfully exercises its monopoly power in violation of section 2 of the sherman act. it goes on to say that because of that, music fans in america are denied access to ticketing innovation and it leads to paying more for tickets than elsewhere in the world. the justice department also tries to make the case in its complaint saying that live nation itself controls over 265 event venues in north america, which includes 60 of the top 100 amphitheater style locations in the u.s. itself. now, some estimations are a 70% market share in ticket sales in the u.s.

live nation, i will point out, responded to the suit formally, issuing a statement calling the allegations, quote, absurd. also saying that, quote, the doj's complaint attempts to portray live nation and ticketmaster as the cause of fan frustration with the live entertainment industry. it blames concert promoters and ticketing companies, neither of which control ticket prices for those high prices. it ignores everything that is actually responsible for higher ticket prices, from increasing production costs to artist popularity to 24/7 online ticket scalping that reveals the public's willingness to pay far more than primary tickets cost. all of this in aggregate is what is driving a lot of this particular suit, but, again, this is a very high profile one because of things like the taylor swift eras tour and the popularity of concerts. you and i have already seen stories of just how much the get in price for that taylor swift

concert costs here in the u.s., which led many american concertgoers to fly to places like stockholm and paris where ticket prices are less. there is a lot of anecdotal evidence at play right now. what ticketmaster has to do is show many of the arguments don't hold water, that's where the tough part of this legal case is going to come, jose. >> that taylor swift thing was such a disaster on so many levels. so, dom, the u.s. government approved the sale of ticketmaster to live nation in 2010. do you think they'll be able to successfully to break the two up? >> this is an interesting point. this is a suit that has broader bipartisan support if you want to call it that and consumer support as well, especially because of the taylor swift issue you just mentioned. what remains to be seen is just how much of a legal basis there is for breaking this company up. so, on the one hand the whole idea of the sherman antitrust act was to make sure that companies did not get so large that they cornered their respective markets and gave consumers no choice but to use

their products. there are right now competing ticket sales platforms, no doubt about it. but ticketmaster is by far the dominant force and the dominant name in the market. but a lot of live nation's argument will be about just how much ticket prices like i point out are a function of their role and their charges and their service fees in that process. as i mentioned, live nation is calling attention to all the other factors that cause spikes in ticket prices that are not in their control, including just supply and demand, jose. >> and, dom, as we await the attorney general just about a minute from now, just real quickly, live nation is a multilateral, it is a global company, right? it has its offices and its influence throughout the world. >> yes, it does. there is no doubt about it and a good amount of their business comes from outside the u.s. as well. the reason why this is going to become the curious case is because the administration, the ftc, the doj, the folks who regulate this kind of market

monopoly type control situation will look at just how incentivized these companies are to act in the way that they do. what is curious about the ticketmaster live nation situation jose is that maybe not surprisingly, remember, live nation and ticketmaster, selling tickets is just one portion of their business. by far the biggest generator of revenues for live nation is actually putting on the concerts at their venues. they drive a lot of revenue because of that. but what is interesting about the live nation business model is that that is a low margin business for them, putting on these concerts. they don't make a lot of money doing it. where they do make a disproportionate amount of their profits is by this ticket sale process, the service charges they charge for selling tickets. it is one of those things that both sides, the live nation ticketmaster side as well as the merrick garland-led doj has to make a case for if whether or not that is incentivizing some

people to maybe become bad actors or allegedly abuse their market power to the detriment of consumers. >> we're talking about how big of a market share and what kind of money does live nation have? >> so, this is -- it is curious, from a profitability standpoint, over the course of the last year, there have been ups and downs with regard to the business. and because of those rising production costs as live nation points out, the profitability is not far and away huge, but what it does do it call attention to which part of the business is the big driving force behind live nation's overall profitability. >> dom, thank you very much. attorney general merrick garland. >> good morning. earlier today the department of justice joined by 29 states and the district of columbia, sued live nation entertainment and its wholly owned subsidiary ticketmaster for violating the sherman antitrust act. in recent years, live nation,

ticketmasters exorbitant fees and technological failures have been criticized by fans and artists alike. but we are not here today because live nation ticketmaster's conduct is inconvenient or frustrating. we are here because as we allege that conduct is anticompetitive, and illegal. our complaint makes clear what happens when a monopolist dedicates its resources to entrenching its monopoly power and insulating itself from competition, rather than investing in better products and services. we allege that live nation has illegally monopolized markets across the industry in the united states for far too long. it is time to break it up. live nation ticketmaster has made itself ubiquitous in the live entertainment industry. it controls at least 80% of primary ticketing at major concert venues, and it directly

manages more than 400 artists and controls more than 60% of concert promotions across the country. and it owns or controls more than 60% of large amphitheaters in the united states. we allege that to sustain this dominance, live nation relies on unlawful anticompetitive conduct to exercise its monopolistic control over the live events industry in the united states, and over the fans, artists, independent promoters and venues that power the industry. the result is that fans pay more in fees, artists have fewer opportunities to play concerts, smaller promoters get squeezed out, and venues have fewer real choices for ticketing services. as detailed in our complaint, live nation ticketmaster locks out competition and ticketing through the use of long-term

exclusive ticketing contracts with venues that can last over a decade. as well as by acquiring venues themselves. with exclusive disagreements that cover more than 70% of concert ticket sales at major concert venues across the country, ticketmaster can impose a seemingly endless list of fees on fans, those include ticketing fees, service fees, convenience fees, platinum fees, price master fees, per order fees, handling fees, and payment processing fees among others. for fans in the united states, this illegal conduct means higher prices. in other countries, where venues are not bound by ticketmaster's exclusive ticketing contracts, venues often use multiple ticketing companies for the same event, and fans see lower fees and more innovative ticketing products as a result.

we also allege that live nation ticketmaster uses these long-term ticketing agreements with venues and its control over those venues to unlawfully pressure artists into agreeing to use its promotion services. in fact, live nation often sacrifices profits it could earn as a venue owner by letting its venue sit empty, rather than opening them to artists who do not use live nation promotion services. even during peak concert season. live nation has not only deployed anticompetitive tactics to court artisan venues to using its services and charge fans excessive fees, it has also worked strategically and illegally to eliminate the threat of potential rivals from emerging from across any of its businesses. as detailed in our complaint, live nation suffocates its competition, using a variety of tactics, from acquisitions of

smaller regional promoters and venues to threats and retaliation to agreements with rivals designed to neutralize them, this has included acquiring or co-opting key independent promoters. even when the economics of a particular deal did not make sense for live nation's promotions business. for example, as recounted in our complaint, live nation acquired a controlling stake in ac entertainment, an independent promoter in tennessee. live nation's chief strategy officer assured executives that even though, quote, the numbers are not super exciting, and this feels like more of a defensive move, the acquisition helped, quote, grow our moat in the nashville market. when faced with another potential competitor to its promotions business, live nation took action to ensure that the competitor would not threaten its dominance in the live music

industry. live nation initially categorized that competitor, the venue operator oak view group, as one of its, quote, biggest competitor threats. over time, however, oak view and live nation morphed from competitors into partners. as detailed in our complaint, live nation executives repeatedly scolded oak view for trying to compete. in one instance, in 2016, live nation's ceo warned oak view that competition would only lead to artists demanding more compensation. the live nation ceo emailed oak view writing, quote, let's make sure we don't let them now start playing us off, referring to a prominent artist agency. oak view backed down. in a similar instance in 2022, live nation's ceo scolded oak view's ceo, quote, who would be so stupid to do this and play into the artist agent's arms,

closed quote. oak view again backed down, quote, we have never promoted without you, won't, said its ceo. and later, added, quote, i never want to be competitors, closed quote. we also allege that live nation has repeatedly wielded its powers to keep its rivals from expanding in the u.s. concert promotions market through threats and retaliation. in 2021, live nation threatened to retaliate against private equity firm silver lake unless one of the latter's portfolio companies stopped competing with live nation for artist promotion contracts in the united states. live nation's ceo told silver lake that he, quote, failed to understand why silver lake, quote, continued to invest in a business that competes with live nation, closed quote.

the threats ultimately succeeded, and silver lake has tried to sell tag all together. we allege that live nation does not maintain its dominance in the live entertainment industry by staying ahead of its competition on the merits. it does so by unlawfully eliminating its competition. we allege that live nation controls the live entertainment industry in the united states because it is breaking the law. i am grateful to the justice department's antitrust division for their excellent work on this case. the live entertainment industry is complex and well sourced. taking on this case has required persistence and diligence by the antitrust lawyers who are behind me today and by their team. i am proud to work with them. people always remember the first time that they were transformed

by live music. i still remember as a senior in college going to a bonnie raitt concert and seeing a then up and coming musician named bruce springsteen play as a warmup act. we all know that we had just seen the future of rock 'n' roll. the justice department filed this lawsuit on behalf of fans, who should be able to go to concerts without a monopoly standing in their way. we have followed this lawsuit on behalf of artists who should be able to plan their tours around their fans and not be dictated by an unlawful monopolist. we have filed this lawsuit on behalf of the independent promoters and venues, which should be able to compete on a level playing field. and we have filed this lawsuit on behalf of the american people. it is time for fans and artists to stop paying the price for live nation's monopoly.

it is time to restore competition and innovation in the entertainment industry. it is time to break up live nation ticketmaster. the american people are ready for it. thank you. and now i'll turn this over to the deputy attorney general. >> and attorney general merrick garland there with a very detailed announcement on the justice department's intention to break up live nation/ticketmaster. i want to bring in dominic chu. dom, what is next? what is the next phase or stage? >> so the next phase or stage right now is going to involve the administration and the doj specifically and merrick garland's team trying to make the case here that everything that they have laid out in that statement and in the complaint is actually true. now, i laid out before the crux of the case ahead of attorney

general garland's comments here to make it more definitively clear with regard to what exactly they're saying is the monopolistic or anticonsumer behavior in all of that. attorney general garland went through almost bullet point by bullet point some of the allegations they made. i would also point out that in response to this, and i'm just going to kind of go through some of these points, that live nation has made in response to the suit that is being put forth attorney general garland and his team have talked about this idea that ticket prices are being in some way gouged or alleging they are being gouged by ticketmaster and their fees. live nation counters by saying that artist teams set their prices for tickets while venues set and keep the majority of ticket fees, not the operation itself. this is one of those things they have to make the case there is a consumer net not benefit of this whole thing, an actual consumer hurt that is being caused by

this whole thing and that's going to be the key here, jose. >> dominic chu, thank you very much. appreciate it. now breaking news from the u.s. supreme court. in a 6-3 vote, the justices preserved a republican held south carolina congressional district rejecting a lower court ruling that the district discriminated against black voters. with us to talk more about this, barbara mcquaid, former u.s. attorney, law professor at the university of michigan. barbara, good morning. what more do the justices have to say in this decision? >> well, this is an interesting decision. i think we saw this coming, but it doesn't bode well for the future of fair maps in various states. so, in a decision penned by justice samuel alito, the supreme court overturned a lower court decision that had struck down gerrymandered maps on the basis of race. so, you know, we're in this weird position where the supreme

court says if gerrymandering is done for political reasons to make it easier for one party or the other, that's okay as long as it doesn't -- isn't motivated by race. the lower court said these maps were absolutely decided on the basis of race and we're striking them down. the supreme court today said, yeah, you know, we looked at it and it is really difficult to separate out race from politics because so often there is this overlap between black voters voting for the democratic party, and so, they found that the lower court's decision, which heard the evidence, was clearly erroneous and said they have not proven that race was the -- it was an effort to give an advantage to the republican party that was actually the motivation here. and that's okay under prior supreme court decisions decided in recent years. >> this was a 6-3 vote. alito is the one in charge of the majority on this? >> yes, and there is a dissenting opinion by justice

kagan who says that this opinion could really provide a road map now for states to engage in impermissible racial gerrymandering by calling it partisan political gerrymandering. so, because of that overlap, because it can be difficult to separate whether the decision was based on race or whether it was based on politics, now as long as you call it politics, even if it is based on race, this is a road map for every other state to suppress voting rights of minorities to split their vote, to dilute their vote by putting them into various districts and to say, it is not on a basis of race, it is on the basis of giving an advantage to the republican party, and that's okay. and so, she is has issued a pretty blistering dissent about how we should expect better in the united states, we should expect better from state legislatures, and we should expect better from this court. >> barbara mcquaid, thank you

very much. up next, breaking overnight, tragedy in mexico, a stage collapses at a campaign rally killing at least nine people, including a child. what we're learning about how it happened. plus, she spent months campaigning against donald trump calling him unstable and unhinged, now nikki haley says she'll vote for him come november. what changed? and we'll tell you about the new supreme court controversy surrounding justice alito. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. i. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports" on msnbc.

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26 past the hour. in washington, d.c., in the oval office, you see president biden and his meeting with the president of kenya. and let's turn now to the race for the white house, where former president donald trump was going to be holding a campaign event in the bronx tonight, but it is his former rival who is getting much of the attention today in her first public remarks since dropping out of the race, nikki haley said yesterday she will vote for trump this fall, despite her many differences with him. >> trump has not been perfect on these policies. i have made that clear many, many times. but biden has been a catastrophe. so, i will be voting for trump. >> she did say many times of her disagreements with trump, this comes after she spent literally months telling voters trump was unfit to be president.

>> times change. and so has trump. he's gotten more unstable and unhinged. if you mock the service of a combat veteran, you don't deserve a driver's license, let alone being president of the united states. he was thin-skinned and easily distracted. it's not normal to spend $50 million in campaign contributions on personal court cases. it's not normal to threaten people who back your opponent. >> with us now to talk more about this, basil smikle of the new york state democratic party, now director of the public policy program at the roosevelt house institute, vaughn hillyard and jennifer horne, former rnc executive committee member and co-founder of the lincoln project. vaughn, any reaction from trump

or team trump to nikki haley's statement yesterday? >> no. not yet. >> really? >> we're waiting for word. this is somebody who donald trump repeatedly called bird brain for the better part of the year, called disloyal. i think this say moment that we'll be studying for generations to come, individuals posture toward authority, that authority being donald trump. just a couple of months ago in march, she dropped out of the presidential race, she said it would be up to donald trump to win over her and her supporters. it is not clear at this point in time if donald trump made any explicit outreach or efforts to try to win her over. and yesterday in her remarks there, she mentioned he still needs to do that, to win over those that voted for her in the republican primary, but at least on her own position here, over five months out from the general election, it looks like the former u.n. ambassador in his administration made the decision that in a one on one matchup biden and trump that she is going to go with her former boss. >> there is a long tradition in american politics of rivals becoming allies, sometimes not the best allies, but what do you

make of nikki haley's decision to vote for trump? >> i think it is a really disturbing reflection on who nikki haley really is. and for people like me, who have in the past admired her, it is particularly unsettling. nikki haley had an opportunity to do something really big here. she called him unfit. unhinged, unstable. and she could have been somebody who led the way to bring the republican party back to some sort of a reasonable stance in the years ahead. and imagine the impact it would have had if nikki haley had said i will not vote for donald trump. she didn't even need to go as far as saying i'm going to vote for biden. but instead she chose cowardice, scheming, she decided this was the better way to set herself up to run for president in 2028. and she put her own personal ambitions ahead of the country and the people that she swore to

serve. >> trump earlier said he would not consider her for, you know, to be his running mate. he often changes his mind. >> he does. >> by the minute, hour or day. so, what are the possibilities that haley could join trump? >> you know, it is interesting, nikki haley spent all this time calling donald trump everything but a child of god. normally that would be disqualifying. but as, you know, this is such an unconventional candidate in an unconventional cycle that anything goes as you say, maybe donald trump makes that decision. but my guess is that he would not do so, he would not bring nikki haley into the ticket unless he felt he could actually get her voters. and i don't know that that's actually going to happen. those voters were very clear that they made a statement by actually going out and casting a vote against donald trump and for nikki haley in these primaries. i don't know they're actually gettable in this particular instance.

and normally you wouldn't -- you would want somebody who can kind of complement you. i don't know if he would feel that way necessarily about her. because the whole time that they're probably campaigning, and even let's say in the chance that he wins, that she becomes the vice president, she is going to be spending all that time trying to set herself up for 2028. does he want that in -- >> vaughn, there is deep animosity between trump and his hard core support and nikki haley and her support. >> right. don jr. has been very explicit she should be nowhere near the vice presidency. donald trump said he would not choose her as vp, and let's be frank here, the nikki haley vote in the republican primary is different than the nikki haley voter in the general election.

so the question if you're donald trump and his ticket is do you try to win back over some of those more moderate conservatives or reticent conservative voters to trump or do you try to juice excitement among that trump loyal base of support turned trump supporters into trump voters around the country because frankly there is a lot of disenchantment with somebody like mike pence. how much does nikki haley get you? that's the conversation that is happening inside of that trump campaign right now. >> one thing that the trump people have been utilizing is the use of force phrase in the decision of the fbi when they went into mar-a-lago. attorney general merrick garland was just asked about that, here's what he had to say, just moments ago. >> -- during the mar-a-lago raid, first, can you give us some clarification on that particular point that he's

making and whether or not deadly force is authorized in other interventions including the search of mr. biden's residence and office? and second question is -- >> one at a time. okay. on that one, that allegation is false. and it is extremely dangerous. the document that is being referred to in the allegation is a justice department standard policy limiting the use of force. as the fbi advises, it is part of the standard operations plan for searches, and, in fact, it was even used in the consensual search of president biden's home. >> basil, that's more clear than water on the fact that this is pretty much a pro forma, this is what is included in there, and it is a limiting of the use of

force, right? >> that's right. what donald trump is using by making the statements he is because he has been over the last few weeks and months talking about how the government is against him and, by the way, if you're a latino, african american in this country, you understand how the criminal justice system is being weaponized against you, same thing with me. this is kind of following that same language and theme and train of thought. my concern, however, is that it not -- that people don't become susceptible to that argument, it is quite pernicious. there are very few people that look like me that are in -- that would be in the criminal justice system and i have the ability to take my case to the supreme court. like he's doing. particularly with what 91 counts. let's clear that up right away. he thinks this is a line that works with some of those communities. >> and jennifer, i think it is important that the attorney general actually use the word dangerous. >> yeah. anything that comes out of donald trump's mouth is about riling up his base, getting his

base focused on defending him, doing whatever is necessary, calling them to arms as we saw him do on january 6th, it is very dangerous when a candidate for president uses a kind of language that donald trump did in this case. and that donald trump does all the time. but be very clear on what it is focused on. it is not as much about trying to win over black voters, latino voters, as it is trying to make sure his people are going to be ready to bring force if he calls for it in defense of him when this is all over. >> vaughn hillyard, basil smikle, jennifer horne, thank you. up next, the senate set to vote on a bipartisan border bill today, three months after it was first rejected. we'll speak with california senator alex padilla about what he says he plans to vote no. senator, always a pleasure to see you. we'll chat in just a minute. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. u.

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39 past the hour. turning to a development we're following on capitol hill, democrats on the senate are planning to hold a vote today on the bipartisan border bill negotiated back in february. republicans turned on the bill after former president trump voiced his opposition to it and they are expected to pose it again. with us now, alex padilla who sits on the judiciary committee. there is a humanitarian crisis at the border. there are also millions of people who have been here, many for years, decades, with u.s. born children, that have been participating and contributing to our economy and to our country. that's not what's being talked about. what is being talked about today is this border bill. how do you fix this, senator? >> jose, good to be back with you. and if my frustration comes across, i'm not sorry, because here we go again. taking up a measure that failed just a few months ago.

i was opposed to the border package that's in front of us, combination of flawed policies included in this bill, tried and proven to fail. and what is not in the bill. we can get tough on the border all we want, but for the first time that i can recall, democrats are supporting a tough on the border position without fighting for relief for dreamers or foreign workers or other long-term undocumented residents of the united states. this cannot be the new starting position for negotiations when it comes to border safety and immigration, certainly not for democrats. and i think the biggest frustration is not solving the problem. if the goal here, the concern here is that there are too many people coming to the southern border of the united states, seeking asylum, find out why they're coming, where are they coming from and what are the root causes and address them. that's not in the measure before us. finally, jose, with the only big difference that i can see from the last time we voted this down

and today is the last time it was before us, it was tied to urgently critical needed funding for ukraine. the foreign aid package, and this was seen as a concession for the foreign aid. the foreign aid package got done, but this border package that was negotiated months and months ago is back before us and obviously i'm a no. >> senator, another issue "the new york times" has another story about flags being flown at the home of supreme court justice alito, this time it was a flag featuring a symbol carried out by january 6th rioters, flown outside his beach house in new jersey, alito has not responded to the times' request for comment and the supreme court did not respond. do you have a response? >> absolutely. this is number one not the first incident, but the second, with justice alito given this. he should recuse himself from

any trump-related cases, cases related to the 2020 election and certainly the january 6th insurrection. it is a reason why the democratic members of the judiciary committee continue to push for not just a code of conduct or code of ethics for supreme court justices, but an enforceable one. we need to enforce when these types of violations and conflicts of interest are identified. >> senator, real quick, just what is a priority of yours that you see, you talk about frustration as we begin our chat, that continues to frustrate you? >> well, coming back to the border, and immigration issue, here is an important fact, jose, currently the numbers of people approaching the southern border are down. they are significantly down in the last couple of months without an executive order from the white house, without congress having passed the bill, they're down because the united states has engaged its partner, the leaders of mexico to work

together to address the migration flow. that's what we need to be doing. not just engaging mexico, but the leaders in central america and south america because this is a hemispheric challenge, which requires the hemispheric solution, and plan. and so, for the negotiators, for people in the white house, let's look at that and build on that. >> senator, i always say this, representation matters and i think it would be fundamental, critical, never more important that your voice is listened to, taken into consideration when anything and everything has to do with this be, and i urge folks to continue to listen to senator padilla. thank you for being with us. >> thank you, jose. up next, disturbing video of hamas abducting a group of women on october 7th, talking to the mother of one of those women about what she wanted the graphic video made public.

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families who released the video say it was edited to remove the most disturbing scenes. one of the seven hostages in the video is 19-year-old naama levy, who is still missing. joining us now from israel is her mother, dr. levy. doctor, thank you for being with me. it is now been 229 days since that massacre, 229 days since that video was shot. how are you doing today? >> well, obviously it has been 230 days today of a nightmare. the past days since we released the video and had to watch it again and again and talking about it has been very, very difficult. there is nothing compared to what my naama is going through and what she went through on that day, and, of course, the

video takes us back to october 7th. and to those horrifying moments. and you see her there, very clearly, her face really close to the camera, she is speaking, she's telling them, i have friends in palestine, she's trying to -- she's begging for her life. i see the fear in her eyes, so, now for me as a mother, it is just -- my heart is with her. but we must understand that this is going on since then, i mean, this nightmare, this terror attack, this is what she's dealing with for these past almost eight months already. >> 230 days i remember speaking with you just last december and i don't know, i don't know how one can process what you are having to process. i don't know how just the extraordinary strength, dignity that you and so many others are

showing. what do you know since then about your daughter? >> we know from, first of all, from the hostages that have been released, but that's over five months ago, they met with her shortly, we know that she is alive, and walking and talking and wounded, and she has been through -- been through hell and she spent a lot of the time alone with her with her captors. we know that -- we did get a sign of life after. a few weeks ago was the last time we know something that they gave us a sign, but not more than that. what we know is that they're not back yet. what we know is what we see in

that horrible video. what they had to endure. that is what we know and what keeps us in this fear of what is happening to them every minute. >> i know you supported this video being released. who needs to see this video? >> i think we need to see this video. the person who needs to see this video is the decision makers. this is what the video was made for. they edited so we could watch it, the parents. then they brought it to our cabinet members, to our ministers and to the worldwide leaders that are players in this negotiations and what needs to be taken place in order to bring for hostage release. these are the persons who need

to see it. but at a certain point, you know, we were two weeks now with no meetings of our cabinet or nothing going on with the negotiation for the return of the hostages. so everything was still. nothing was happening. this was becoming somewhat of a science story. people were talking about other things. this is an ongoing terror attack, which is still happening right now. we needed for the world, for everyone, to see these horrible things and what happened to our girls on october 7th and to remind everyone that they are still there and they are still in this danger and abandonment and in captivity with these captors who took them on that day. you can see what -- how they are handling them and what they are saying to them. >> yeah. i don't know how -- you have

clear proof and evidence of evil. you see it and you feel it. >> how does everyone not see it? how can i even need to be sitting here and talking to you to be convincing the world of this? >> doctor levy, i thank you. i just -- thanks. thank you for being with us. we will continue. >> you are welcome. >> take a short break and we will be right back. shingles. the rash can feel like an intense burning sensation, and last for weeks.

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update from the chief of police and the louisville mayor. what they found in their internal investigation, they want to have transparency and they tell the public the details that they have been reviewing over the last week since the arrest and the incident that happened at the golf club just before the pga tour. in the interest of transparency, they are not aware of video that exists that shows the interaction between the police officers and scheffler. the only video they have that they are going to be releasing in the next few minutes is a dash cam video from a police car as well as a traffic pole camera from across the street that only shows the arrest. in that sense, the question is, why wasn't there bodycam video? that was another part of the investigation. the chief of police saying it's policy for the officers to have bodycam -- their body cameras ready when they have incidents like this. the arresting officer, involved, did not turn on their body

camera. this is something they have reviewed. they reminded them of the policy. they recognize it's a problem that the bodycam was not turned on. the officer received corrective action. they said in the press conference that an internal investigation memo will be released as this press conference just wrapped up, as well as those two videos that i mentioned. we will see how that plays out in that video. the next step, the mayor said, in the legal process is scheffler's arraignment, set for june 3rd. right now, he is facing felony second degree assault on a police officer as well as lesser charges of third degree criminal mischief, reckless driving and disregarding signals. we think we're about to get an update from scheffler's attorney as well, but still waiting on that video set to be released. >> thank you so much. we are following new developments out of a terrifying scene in mexico last night. at least nine people, including

a child, were killed. look at this video. a strong storm swept through a campaign rally bringing down part of the stage on the crowd below. this video captured shows the moment of stage collapsed. joining us now, nbc's guad venegas. >>images. dozens are injured. there's been different numbers reports. it could be as many as 50, maybe 60. we have been getting updates overnight. the governor spent the night going to hospitals. what we know is that this was an event organized by a political party in mexico. the presidential candidate was attending this event along with other candidates from the party. we can see him in the middle. people shouting his name as he sees the stage falling on him,

and they run toward the back part of the structure. it did fall in front of him. we know that nine people died. there were reports earlier that day in mexico of the possibility of storms. there is a report that was updated -- or uploaded online by mexican authorities that indicated there was a possibility of tornadoes in the area. these reports aren't shared the way they are in the u.s. where advisories go out for tornadoes or storms. there were no advisories shared before the event. this was a massive event. before the event, the presidential candidate shared a video on social media asking people to come. there was going to be a famous mexican band that was going to play. they wanted large numbers of people to attend, not expecting these wind gusts that we can see in the image. the governor shared a video after the incident asking people to stay at home because of the winds and because of the storms.

right now, that's the information we have. we will have to wait and get more details as the investigation begins into the structure and what is exactly -- what is it exactly that happened that made the structure fail and fall the way we can see in the images. >> it's terrifying what we are seeing. this is all part of the last phase of the presidential election, which is to be held next month, in which this -- he is not considered a top tier candidate, but still running for president in a very intense presidential campaign. >> right. he is a presidential candidate. mexico has three candidates. the leading candidate, which has 50% or 60% of the support, according to the polls, and then after her, 20% or 30% for the next candidate and he is third in the polls. he is very important in mexican li