run in? >> we don't. the democratic chair in texas, he said he would welcome him to run on that ticket. republicans in texas have said they have heard from him, too. >> meredith mcgraw, thank you very much for your reporting as we cover all things in the political sphere this hour. thank you for watching. more with craig melvin coming up right now. ♪♪ good monday morning. craig melvin here. we are following several breaking stories. it's a busy monday morning. breaking news in just the last hour from the supreme court that could have major implications on this country's abortion laws. growing confusion over the cdc's new mask guidelines for fully vaccinated americans. the country's largest nurses union slamming the decision to say they can largely go maskless. in the last hour, one of the

most popular stores in the united states just changed its policy. plus, a new crisis for the white house to juggle. escalating violence between israelis and palestinians. overnight israel launching its most intense round of bombing in gaza so far. first, we are following a hearing inside this orlando, florida, courtroom. it wrapped up just a few moments ago. joel greenberg, former florida tax official and associate of republican congressman matt gaetz was in the courtroom. he pled guilty to six federal charges. plans to cooperate with federal investigators. a criminal case involving greenberg has led to a sex trafficking investigation of congressman gaetz. gaetz has not been charged with a crime so far. he has repeatedly deny wrongdoing. that's where we start. nbc car kerry sanders is outsid

that courthouse. kerry, let's start with you. this former associate of congressman gaetz, what happened inside the courtroom? i understand you were there. >> reporter: yeah. i stepped out. we had an overflow courtroom for the news media because of social distancing. about 25 journalists there watching on a monitor. joel greenberg initially arrived, standing as the judge arrived. he was in a blue jumpsuit, his hands shackled around to not only his handcuffs but also to his waist with a chain around his waist. for an hour they went through the details of the plea agreement. he said yes or i do to everything that the magistrate said. the one that is perhaps getting the most attention here is that he agreed that he would plead to the count of sex trafficking of a child, a 17-year-old. the reason all of this is important, you laid out, is

because of the parties that were put together, allegedly, included representative matt gaetz. representative matt gaetz, who denied any involvement with any underage women may be linked in some form or another to payments. certainly in the agreement here, we know that there were payments made for services provided that were set up on a website. in the plea agreement, it's important to note that -- this is where the key is. the defendant agrees to cooperate fully with the united states in the investigation and prosecution of other persons and to testify, which is another way of saying that he has started to sing and he is telling the prosecutors everything that he can as part of this plea agreement. if there is a connection that he can share that goes to representative matt gaetz, the investigators will have full access to everything he knows. a short time ago, adding to the

atmosphere of the circus-like attention to the matt gaetz case, a plane was flying overhead. we expect to hear from joel greenberg's attorney. he has some other business to attend to in the courthouse. he will not talk on behalf of joel greenberg. then as you noted at the top, again this weekend, matt gaetz has said that he has done absolutely nothing wrong and has broken no laws. craig? >> kerry, stand by. we are trying to get in some of the sketches from the courtroom. in this court filing of greenberg's plea agreement, he agrees, quote, cooperate fully with the united states in the investigation and prosecution of other persons and to testify. as a former federal prosecutor, glen, talk to me about the work

that goes into getting one of these plea agreements done and how prosecutors could potentially rely on someone in greenberg's position. >> craig, first let me say, in my 30 years as a prosecutor, i never did draft or execute an 86-page plea agreement. they typically run about 8, 10, 12 pages. i spent a lot of quality time with these 86 pages here. what we see are 60 of the 86 pages are what i would call receipts. hard corroboration of the crimes of not only joel greenberg but the crimes of others. those others are not yet identified. that's exactly what i would expect. federal prosecutors don't want to tip their hand until they have indictments, arrest warrants and we are starting to see arrest warrants and perp walks. the 60 pages of corroborating evidence in this plea and cooperation agreement really spell out some troubling crimes.

i think one of the most ominous features of this plea agreement, craig, is that the last of the six charges joel greenberg just pleaded guilty to is a charge for a conspiracy to commit offenses against the united states. what does that tell us? well, of necessity, a conspiracy means you have co-conspirators. that's a requirement under the law of conspiracy that you agreed with one or more persons to commit crimes against the united states and you took one step toward the commission of the crimes. what we call an overt act. we know by virtue of this plea, there are co-conspirators who are likely to be indicted, held accountable. we don't know who they are. >> the documents that we are talking about, glen, again, they do not mention, as you point out, congressman gaetz by name. the congressman from florida has denied any wrongdoing.

he has not been charged with a crime. what should we take away from that, if anything? >> we should take away from that that the prosecutors are getting all of their sort of criminal law ducks in order. they want to make sure that if they are going to charge a sitting member of congress, they want an extremely strong case. the one thing nobody wants to go into court with is the word of joel greenberg standing alone. when you survey the crimes he has admitted to and the other 26 criminal offenses that are being dropped or 27 criminal offenses that are being dropped by the prosecutors as part of this plea agreement, you know, if i'm going to put a guy like joel greenberg on the stand, i am going to make sure i can corroborate him with hard evidence, with receipts every which way, rather than ever asking a jury to rely on his word standing alone. >> as we were having this

conversation, we just got this sketch in from the courtroom a few moments ago. joel greenberg, former associate of florida congressman matt gaetz in court. pled guilty. thank you. it sounds like we should learn more in the days and weeks ahead. we will spend more time with you. thanks. we are following breaking news out of another court. the supreme court of the united states, the high court said to take up a major case on abortion, specifically mississippi's controversial abortion law. pete williams is on this one for us. pete, tell us about this particular case and what it could mean for abortion restrictions in this country. >> this is a mississippi law called the gestational age act. it was passed in 2018. it basically said, no abortions after 15 weeks except in medical emergencies or cases of fetal abnormality. it was immediately challenged. the lower courts put it on hold

saying it was beyond the protections of roe versus wade. up with court said, you are trying to get the supreme court to overturn roe v. wade. you can't do that. the supreme court said abortions are constitutional before the age of viability. the question here is, what is that age? mississippi says it's roughly 15 weeks. the longstanding case law says, no, it's almost twice that. that's the issue that's coming to the supreme court. this is one of those -- i think it was the first of the wave of the laws passed primarily in the southern states intended to tee up a direct challenge to roe v. wade before the more conservative supreme court. the court will hear the case in the new term in the fall. >> pete, again, you more than just about anybody else i know,

you are familiar with precedent and how these justices have ruled on similar cases in the past. based on that and based on this new majority now, what, if anything, can we glean based on the previous rulings from some of the justices? >> well, a couple of things to think about here. one is that the supreme court has actually been considering whether to take this case for eight months. mississippi first came to the supreme court last september. the supreme court has discussed this case in its closed door conferences nearly 20 times. i think the count is 17. maybe it's 18 with this case being granted now. that's one thing. clearly, the people who would favor the mississippi law on the supreme court weren't sure that they would have five votes for a ruling. maybe they are still not sure. they figure they will take a shot at it. i wouldn't put a lot of

confidence in the fact that it's taken the supreme court so long to decide this case. clearly, what abortion opponents are hoping, especially with amy coney barrett on the court that their chances are now a lot better. would they get the votes of justice kavanaugh? would they get the votes of chief justice roberts? would they get the votes of gorsuch? we don't know much about them on abortion. >> pete williams, thanks. thank you, thank you. the head of the largest nurses union in the country says the cdc made a mistake. why she's urging them to reverse the new mask guidance as people across the country try to navigate the new rules. first, breaking news. growing calls for a cease-fire after another intense night of bombing in gaza. we will check in on the latest from israel and the pressure on the biden administration to do

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overnight, israel launching its most intense round of bombing in gaza so far. it comes after a weekend of air strikes that levelled three apartment buildings. about 200 palestinians have been killed, including at least 58 children. it's ramping up pressure on president biden to step up his involvement as this conflict

enters its second week. richard engel is on the ground, he is in tel aviv. mike memoli following the president's response to the conflict from the white house. richard, let me start with you. take us through this latest escalation of violence. what's the likelihood at this point that either side will heed the calls for a cease-fire any time soon? >> reporter: well, it's a question of, are these the last licks or are these the start of something much bigger? there are a lot of reasons to believe that both israel and hamas want to find a cease-fire, they are looking for a way out of this. hamas has said publically it would consider a cease-fire, but it wants it on its own terms. hamas has achieved a great deal from its perspective from this campaign. it has put the palestinian cause front and center again after it hadn't been talked about for

years. in a very different kind of way, it has united, in a sense, the palestinian voices. the voices of opposition. it has been able to reach out to palestinian israeli citizens in a way that it hasn't before. it has been able to reach into the west bank, the area run by a rival palestinian faction. it's using social media very effectively. in fact, it's using tiktok to spread its messages. each time hamas launches a rocket, it is including with it a launch of a social media campaign saying the rockets are for the cause of jerusalem. these rockets are for the cause of houses that are being taken by israelis in east jerusalem. these ones are for the abuse and death of children. it is definitely trying to unite the palestinian people. there is an argument that could be made that hamas at this stage can back off and not see the

gaza strip deinvoistroyed and ne the infrastructure further destroyed. a lot has been destroyed. from israel's point of view -- i spoke to a senior diplomat -- also is looking for a cease-fire on its own terms. it does not want hamas to dictate the terms of the cease-fire, to be able to fire rockets -- 3,000 rockets over the last seven days at israel and simply to walk away and pull the cover of a cease-fire over itself like protection. it wants to dictate the terms. it wants to punish hamas enough that it knows that there are huge costs for doing something like this. they are looking for guarantees that this won't happen again. the last war -- it won't happen again for some period of time. when there was the last war in 2014, it bought israel, from israel's point of view, several years of relative calm. it is looking for those kind of

guarantees that will lead to more calm months, years preferably from the israeli point of view before it agrees to a cease-fire. >> richard engel in tel aviv. mike, back here, president biden and prime minister netanyahu, they spoke over the weekend, as we understand it. president facing increasing pressure for a more forceful response, shall we say. so far, he held off on calling for a full cease-fire. what do we know about that decision, mike memoli, and how the white house is navigating this? >> reporter: this is an administration a few weeks its second 100 days that has been a domestic policy presidency. president biden is somebody with decades of foreign policy experience knows that a situation like this in the mideast can preoccupy your

focus. that's why the president back at white house this morning huddling with his national security team. his last known conversation with regional leaders, including the prime minister of israel as you mentioned on saturday, he did two things. first of all, he reiterated what has been a pretty clear line which is to defend israel's rights to defend itself. also, what the president did was raise concerns, white house officials say, about that missile strike on a compound housing many western and local journalistic outlets. there's a sense this is rapidly escalating. complicating this is the that they biden has had relationships with netanyahu for decades, but he is a prime minister without a mandate. there was a coalition coming together before this outbreak of violence that would have left prime minister netanyahu out of office for the first time in quite a long time. we are looking now at tony

blinken, the secretary of state, he said that the administration has been working around the clock to speak not only with its allies in the region but also other players who can exert pressure on hamas here. the u.s. not having that much leverage with hamas. up until this point, craig, the main u.s. presence has been a deputy assistant secretary of state. we are keeping a close eye on secretary blinken who is in denmark at the moment. if and when the white house feels it does have more reason to try to reach a cease-fire agreement, keep an eye on secretary blinken and his travel schedule. >> mike memoli from the white house. thank you. richard engel for us in tel aviv, big thanks to richard. across this country, on this monday, people -- a lot of folks struggling to figure out how to comply with the must mask guidance. we will look at why the country's biggest nurses union says the new rules put people at risk.

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this morning, the nation's largest nurses union is slamming the cdc's updated mask guidance.

the head of national nurses united says the new guidance is, quote, not based on science. it underscores the confusion across the country over when and where masks should still be worn. nbc's guad venagus and vaughn hillyard. guad, this new criticism really took a lot of folks by surprise. what are you hearing? >> reporter: exactly. it took a lot by surprise to see the largest union in the country speaking against this decision made by the cdc this morning. this is what people are talking about. we didn't expect this type of blow back. let's hear what the president

had to say. >> if the cdc wanted to maintain their credibility, instead of caving in to the interests of walmart, trader joe's and all these other business interests, they should stop the gaslighting and acknowledge that they are putting essential workers' health at risk. >> reporter: as you hear, they believe that health care front line workers would be put in harm's way with the new change. one of the arguments is that more than half of the u.s. population has not received a dose of the vaccine. less than 40% of the u.s. population is fully vaccinated. they want the cdc to change the guidelines and wait until more americans, more people in the country are fully vaccinated before changing the guidelines. of course, this creates confusion with a number of retailers making the changes. as of now, 21 states still require the use of masks inside

public settings when people are indoors. there's a lot of confusion all over the country. the nurses union speaking against the cdc, craig. >> yeah, vaughn, these requirements from businesses are changing. one business updated its rules. what happened there? >> reporter: yeah. target changed their rules just this morning. we were actually here in virginia, because initially this morning when we woke up, target had mask requirements in place here. just this morning, the signs literally came off the doors of these front entrances at the targets across this country. my people in arizona or if you shop at one of the three targets in alaska, as long as you are fully vaccinated and your local jurisdiction does not have a mask requirement in place, you are free to now go into a target

without a mask. i want to let you hear from liz ales who i met inside. she was one of the shoppers this morning without a mask. it was her first time in more than a year going in without one. take a listen to part of our conversation. this was your inaugural trip without a mask? >> it was. >> reporter: more than a year? >> for sure. it was scary. we need to see smiling faces. >> reporter: potentially others unvaccinated coming into the store, does that concern you? >> no. i know i have been vaccinated. at some point we have to let people take responsibility for their own decisions. i'm ready to take that step. >> reporter: craig, there are concerns from the nurses union about folks going into these stores. costco lifted the mask requirement if you are fully vaccinated. we went shopping in costco. i was talking to a woman who didn't have a mask inside.

she is not vaccinated. she believes it's her personal freedom. that's where this is very much of an honor system that these corporations have set up. of course, you meet some folks like liz shopping without a mask but fully vaccinated. others like melissa who are going indoors when nearly two-thirds of the population is yet to be fully vaccinated. craig? >> vaughn, glad you got shopping done on the company's time. kudos to you. guad, thanks to you. i want to bring in the dean of brown university's school of public health. always good to have you. >> thank you so much for having me back, craig. >> let's start with the news from the national nurses united union. how significant is it that this country's largest nurses union is coming out against the new mask requirements or i should say guidance?

>> look, nurses have a lot of credibility for good reason in this country. people trust america's nurses. i understand the criticism. my personal view on this, which i have been very clear about, is i think we should hold off for a few more weeks before lifting indoor mask mandates. so many people who started getting vaccinated in the second half of april, when vaccines became available, are not fully vaccinated yet. let's give people the time to get vaccinated. then we can lift the mandates. >> what do you think was behind the decision? >> i think the cdc was reading the data and the science is right. the science the cdc lays out that fully vaccinated people are safe to go maskless is correct. the question is, how is that science getting implemented by states and by retailers? retailers are not figuring out who is vaccinated and who is not. they are letting everybody go

unmasked. that's what poses a risk. in the short run while there are millions of americans who are not fully vaccinated but are going through that process, we should let them finish and that's why i have said we should wait until june 15th, when all the people will be fully vaccinated before we lift the mandates. >> dr. jha, you had an interesting thread on twitter this weekend, walking through your logic on when you should wear a mask. i want to run through a few scenarios to help them understand a rapid fire style. let's start with the grocery store. would you wear a mask inside a grocery store still? >> yeah. i am fully vaccinated. i do still wear one. i still wore one this weekend. mostly because i think there are a lot of people out there who are not fully vaccinated. i would like to set a norm for people to be wearing masks for

some period of time longer until people are -- until more people are vaccinated. >> public transit, trains, planes, buses, subways? >> i think some of them are required. public transit is the last place we should lift mandates, because they are so crowded. yes, definitely mask on that. >> what about working out inside of a gym. >> most are where you can lift indoor mask mandates. i haven't been in a gym for a while. that's on me. the bottom line is, i think it's probably safe, especially if you are in a community without massive levels of infection. >> you not going to the gym, dr. jha, is a small sacrifice for all the good you have done over the past few months with regards to public health. what about around fully vaccinated parents or grandparents? >> absolutely fine to be maskless. i have had gatherings with fully

vaccinated people. it's fine as long as everybody is fully vaccinated. >> should fully vaccinated people wear masks around unvaccinated kids? >> i don't think so. unless there's the kid is -- has a high risk condition, no, i don't think so. there's no reason to think fully vaccinated people will spread the virus to unvaccinated children. >> one of the things that struck me when the guidance came down a few days ago -- it caught a lot of folks by surprise. i do wonder if you are going to have folks who might have otherwise gotten the vaccination so they can walk around without the mask on with some peace of mind and now that the guidance has changed, maybe there are folks who wouldn't get the vaccine. >> one of the debates has been, will the guidance motivate people? i think your scenario is possible.

alternative scenario is, a lot of people say, i want to go maskless. i know i will be safer if i get vaccinated, because i will be around people who are potentially unvaccinated and maskless. maybe it will motivate people. i don't know. people should get vaccinated because, my god, we want to put this behind us. i'm hoping maybe the cdc guidance will motivate people to do that. >> there's this new kaiser family foundation survey that found that unvaccinated latino and lahtina are two times more likely to want a vaccine than white people. it found nearly two-thirds of hispanic adults are concerned about missing work because of side effects and having to pay for the shot, even though the shot is free. do those findings -- do they worry you? what should be done to turn those numbers around?

>> yeah, they absolutely worry me. they are a reminder that our understanding of what is access is way too narrow. access is not just, can you get a shot? now you have access. there's been a lot of misinformation that has been targeted towards communities of color by people trying to keep vaccination numbers down. for a lot of these essential workers, people who don't have a ton of work flexibility, the idea you can schedule a shot whenever is not that simple. one of the reasons to be patient is to give people more chances to get vaccinated. i think we do have to let americans get vaccinated when they can. then lifting the restrictions makes more sense to me. >> dr. jha, we appreciate the insight and the perspective. thank you very much. bridges across this country desperately need repairs, including this bridge in

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starting july 15th, 39 million households are going to start receiving monthly child tax credit payments as part of the american rescue plan. the information there on your screen right now, normally something like this is an annual tax refund. now with the administration's expanded program, families will get up to $300 per month for each child under 6 and up to $250 per month for children 6 and older. i want to bring in senior business correspondent stephanie ruhle to dig into this more. for so many families, this could mean the difference between paying a bill or being able to put food on the table. the administration says the tax credit will dramatically cut childhood poverty. help us understand how this is going to help america's families. >> yes. you would have almost 90% of kids in this country impacted. here is how it works. we have a child tax credit.

here we are, the tax deadline, as we scramble to get taxes in. one of the problems with our current system, that tax credit, for many of the poorest families in america, they don't file taxes. even if you get a tax credit for your kids, you don't realize it if you don't do taxes. this is a shift. no longer are you going to get the money like a tax credit after you do your taxes. it will be as you said like a monthly payment. almost like those stimulus checks starting july 15th. if you have kids under 6, it will be $300 per child. if you have kids between the ages of 6 and 18, it will be $250 per child. this money phases out. it's only for families making $150,000 or less a year. this could cut child poverty in this country by 40%. if families were getting this money monthly, almost like a kid allowance.

>> phases out at $150,000 a year. i find this interesting. depending where you live in the country, you get the same amount of money. if you have a family of four in new york versus a family of four in tupelo, mississippi, you get the same amount of money? >> correct. cost of living is very different depending on where you live. it's also important to note that this expanded tax credit is only temporary. the american rescue plan is what we saw passed in march. we will see that for this year. the biden administration would like to make this more long term. you have lawmakers like michael bennett, cory booker who are pushing to make this permanent. at the very least, we have heard from people inside the biden administration that want to make the monthly payments permanent. will it be expanded, more money than it was months ago? that we don't know. >> stephanie ruhle, thank you.

>> good to see you. this morning, time running out for any movement on the president's infrastructure bill in congress. the senate is in break. the house will leave for a month later this week. now, so many areas are facing urgent emergencies with no time to spare. we are live in memphis. a bridge that connects tennessee with arkansas that has been closed for a week. what's going on with that bridge? how has the closure there impacted folks who live there? >> reporter: craig, you played the 911 call as you were going to break earlier. think about the urgency of this thing. literally at one moment you had 45,000 cars a day crossing that bridge behind me. then you had a 911 call put in saying, get everybody off this bridge because you have this major crack. there was an inspection in 2019. they believe they didn't see any

kind of crack back then. there have been video resurfacing of images possibly showing the crack beginning to open up back then in 2019. they didn't really discover this until the last week. they shut this thing down. you think about what it is feeding between west memphis, arkansas, and memphis, tennessee. i was talking to a guy that owns a freight company. he talks about the trucks. of the 45,000 cars goes back and forth, one in four are trucks. trucks have to redirect to a bridge a couple of miles away, they are in traffic over there. they have to up charge freight going over that bridge. subsequently, where does that fall on? that falls on the customer, the products, the people that need to buy things. the companies are suffering. the folks in the community are suffering because the prices are going up. they have to redirect the commute traffic.

folks aren't able to give businesses to some communities they normally would. i want to play sound of the mayor of west memphis, arkansas, we spoke to yesterday, craig. >> we got to get it back up and running. i hope the house will support a bipartisan bill to support infrastructure. this is the evidence that needs to be seen is that we need to shore up america's infrastructure. >> reporter: here is the national conversation, craig, happening on a local level, all about infrastructure. waiting on this biden infrastructure plan to go through. you have $115 billion allocated to bridges, to roadways and to highways. you have republican senator haggerty saying, we don't want that infrastructure bill. we need money for roads and bridges. democrats are saying, include this bridge in that infrastructure bill. bridges like this one. our communiies are going to suffer.

>> you are right. a national conversation being had there in memphis for sure. thank you. we have breaking news in south carolina on this monday morning. the associated press reporting that governor henry mcmaster has signed into law that bill that adds the firing squad to the state's methods of execution. this is in response to a shortage of lethal injection drugs in the state. under the new law, death row inmates will be forced to choose between a firing squad or the electric chair if the state runs out of the drugs. south carolina has not carried out an execution since 2011. it has been a tough year for so many people, especially for many asian-americans and pacific islanders. my colleague just sat down with six members of the aapi

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from prom dresses to workouts and new adventures you hope the more you give the less they'll miss. but even if your teen was vaccinated against meningitis in the past they may be missing vaccination for meningitis b. although uncommon, up to 1 in 5 survivors of meningitis will have long term consequences. now as you're thinking about all the vaccines your teen might need make sure you ask your doctor if your teen is missing meningitis b vaccination. in a brand-new survey, a non-profit that aims to create a better future for asian-americans asked a very simple question, name a

prominent asian american that comes to mind. the most common answer was don't know. 42% of americans answered that way. 11% said jackie chan, a hong kong actor who has appeared in american films and 9% said bruce lee. an asian-american actor who died almost 50 years ago. those are the top three answers. this data is from the non-profit group to unite for change or launch. ali velshi is in union square in san francisco, and i understand you talked to a group of members of the aapi community there at a roundtable. what did you take from that conversation? >> reporter: my friend, it's good to see you. i've been enjoying going around the country and talking to people about these issues and this is one of the oldest asian-american communities in the country. by the way, new orleans is even older, it's from the 1700s, but

i spoke to one young man who was sixth generation american. he was saying when his kids would talk about superheroes they had superman and batman. he didn't have a person like that to play and to think about. i spoke to another woman, deborah. she's a lawyer here, and she's several generations american, and she said all she wants people to do is stop othering asian-americans. stop thinking about them as something else other than american. here's the way she said it to me. >> i'm 100% american. i am fifth generation, and i've been very lucky here. i can't speak the language, but i eat the food. i behave the way i'm supposed to as a chinese girl, and i've had to, you know, i have all those cultural attributes, but my heart is 100% bleeds red, white and blue. so i may look differently, and i

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