i'm jeff bennet in for katy tur. we're waiting for nancy pelosi to speak in minutes responding to house minority leader kevin mccarthy's decision to vote against a commission on the investigation on the insurrection at the capitol. he, too, opposes the commission.

>> i can't imagine what yet another commission could lay on existing law enforcement and congress. the facts have come out and they'll continue to come out. >> the january riot followed months of trump's big lie that he continues to push to this day that the election was a big fraud, which we know is not the case. it has been proposed that maybe he pushed it to cover a legal exposure. the new york attorney general wrote, we ever informed the trump organization that our investigation into the organization is no longer purely civil in nature. we are now actively investigating the trump organization in a criminal capacity, along with the

manhattan da. we have no additional comment at this time. it could result in criminal charges, and the former president is facing a barrage of investigations and lawsuits from new york to d.c. to georgia. but these two investigations by the manhattan da and new york a.g. are widely viewed by legal experts as the most serious threats the former president, his family, and his business empire face. joining me now for more on this is nbc news correspondent hallie jackson, white house correspondent and moderator lu cindor and barbara mcquade. good to see you. >> you, too. >> what's he saying? >> witch hunt. that was the prediction and that's what you got, right? what is he saying? he's saying kind of a lot in this lengthy statement, not on twitter, because he still doesn't have twitter, not on

facebook because he still doesn't have facebook. he put out a press release talking about how the attorney general of new york worked on prosecuting donald trump even before she knew anything about me. this speaks to the politicization piece that those around the former president, his family members, will argue and we're seeing them argue that this is partisan, right? that links up with what we just saw from trump advisor jason miller who tweeted out a video of a montage of things letitia james said when she was on the cam taken trail in 2018. the former president said this. he said, a continuation of the greatest political witch hunt in the history of the united states working in conjunction with washington, these democrats, returning to cy vance and the attorney general, want to silence and cancel millions of voters because they don't want trump to run again. jeff, that speaks to what i think is the other component here, right? there is the legal component,

which we will dissect and talk about and you will have experts discussing what it really means for the former president component as well. and the former president is hat tipping to that the idea that he feels like he's being silenced or that democrats are trying to silence him. there is a real open question, i think, onto what this would mean for donald trump's political future. listen, the fact that he has potential legal exposure kind of baked in, right? like if you know anything about -- that's not a game changer. >> people know it, right. >> what may happen here, and i think this linked with the other story you're covering this afternoon which is the january 6 commission, as the gop grapples with and has really largely decided the issue of how they'll tie themselves to trump, the answer is a whole lot. i think that will ramp up the closer we get to 2024 with other republicans want to go get into the race with the former president hovering over this will he, won't he kind of thing

that could mar the field. >> barbara mcquade, walk us through what each of these offices were known to be investigating about the former president and his businesses, and what effect combining these investigations could have. >> the manhattan attorney general indicated he's been investigating donald trump for his fraud. the money given to daniels and insurance fraud. the attorney general's office -- improprieties, perhaps devaluing those assets for a favorable tax treatment and even deposed president trump's son, eric trump, one of the vice presidents of the trump organization related to that. it now appears that is morphed

into a criminal investigation which, as you said, on top of civil penalties, possible prison sentences, the truth is not just higher or preponderance of the evidence but truth beyond a doubt. and also they think they have some indication that there is criminal intent here, not just sloppy bookkeeping but an actual intent to fraud. they can share information and make sure the other doesn't step on the other's toes and does something that inadvertently adversely affects the investigation of the other. >> halley points out that letitia james, when she was running for the office she now holds, as the president pointed out in a statement, he said, she pledged she would use her office to look into every aspect of my business dealings. she said she would definitely sue me. given all that, do you think she's in a position where she might have to recuse herself? >> i don't think so. the motive of a prosecutor, the

motive of a police officer doesn't matter if you have the evidence. just because she may have said things in the past that suggest that she is out to get president trump, just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're out to get you, that old phrase, if she has the evidence, then it doesn't really matter whether she likes president trump, despises him or is indifferent to him. >> and amesha, you know that the president inflated his annual financial statements and inflated the value of his assets to get favorable loans and insurance rates, and then he deflated the value -- his company deflated the value when it came time to pay taxes. >> that's right, and michael cohen is really an essential figure when you think about the criminal problems that are facing the former president, president trump. michael cohen has been very clear that he believes he has information that is not good news. of course, he tweeted out just a few hours ago this image of

former president trump in jail. and when i've talked to michael cohen, he's been very clear that he stands by his 2019 testimony that the president was engaged in the activity of devaluing his assets, he was lying, he was making sure to try to get as much financial gain as possible, and that means gaming the system. it's also, of course, telling that michael cohen has been talking to d.a. cy vance's office for months and it's not good news for the president. you see the former attorney being sentenced for three years for a crime he performed with the president. he went from being a confidant of the president to being someone who wants to see the president brought to justice.

>> hallie, the incidents in new york isn't the whole picture. he also is in trouble in georgia. tell us the whole picture here. >> there is the supreme court fight over the former president's taxes, that's what that was related to what we're talking about with the new york attorney general. in georgia, there was this discussion of trying to influence the outcome of the election just this past november. there is also three lawsuits he faces filed by democratic members of congress, in one instance by two capitol police officers related to the president's conduct and what he did on january 6. that's the incitement question. then he's got a whole bunch of civil lawsuits, right? he faces these defamation lawsuits by eugene carroll, he faces a suit by his niece mary trump, and he's got people suing

his family by a principal marketing scheme, so he's being sued over that. he has other legal things he is facing on his plate. this clearly, though, is the most serious. this is partly why this is so significant. there are folks in and out of washington, members of congress, people in that orbit who would like to get a much closer look at the former president's financial picture, right? from the very beginning, from his campaign, from the very beginning of his administration, he never released his taxes. this was like a thing reporters would talk about all the time, and he would just say i'm not going to. >> i'm under audit. >> i'm under audit, which actually we can fact-check that. but this is absolutely the most clear picture yet. we don't know what that picture is. cy vance might. the new york attorney general might. and so that is going to be significant if and when this comes to light if there is something to come to light. >> hallie jackson, good to see you. my thanks to both of you as

well. any moment nancy pelosi will present a bill to commission the january 6 insurrection at the capitol. both leaders kevin mccarthy and mitch mcconnell are opposing the commission for wanting to investigate the attack on the building where they work. >> what about all the riots in the summer, the blf, antifa and others. this is solely driven by democrats and nancy pelosi, but we shouldn't be a part of that. >> and mccarthy says he's still voting for it and he may not be the only one. as my next guest reports, as many as 50 republicans could potentially support the effort in what would be a stunning rebuke of party leadership.

but with mccarthy opposing it, it's unclear whether it has a path forward in the senate. josh dossey and jake soboroff join me. these are one of the most consequential events in history. there was an assassination of jfk, a 9/11 commission. so republicans in this proposal for the january 6 commission got nearly everything they wanted, so what reason are republican leaders giving now in opposing it other than pure politics? >> reporter: a few things. they suggest that the scope should be wider, jeff, right? they suggest the scope should include an investigation into the 2017 shooting of republican members playing softball, practicing softball. this was four years ago when

steve scalise was tragically shot. luckily he's fully recovered. they had that clip on fox news across the country, the blm, antifa protests that were termed political violence across the country over the last couple years. the irony here is the republicans supported a commission that looked exactly like this just a couple months ago. so the crux of what's going on here is you had kevin mccarthy deputize john katko to head up this commission. katko got basically everything mccarthy wanted. he went back to mccarthy and mccarthy threw him under the bus and said, no, i'm not going to support this. mccarthy is now trying to get republicans to stand with him against katko, and katko's proposal appears to have somewhere between 20 to 50 -- 30 to 40 is what we had in our

"punch bowl" midday edition that just came out. it is a stunning rebuke of mccarthy, but as josh can talk a little more about it because he's a trumpologist of this, too, this is an attempt by mccarthy to make sure trump is happy and is not in the crosshair. they don't want to be talking about january 6th. they don't want to be talking about donald trump in a negative light. because as we all know, donald trump doesn't like to be talked about in a negative light, they want to focus on democrats. keep in mind here, two weeks, three weeks in a row now, republicans have been engaged in this really nasty inter-party food fight. last week it was liz cheney, this week it's the commission. >> so, josh, jake just set up the next question to you. how much of a factor here is the hidden hand of donald trump and the tanking of this january 6 commission from these republican leaders? >> i think it's a hugely important factor here. the former president has made very clear that he would not support this commission.

he said that to advisors and last night he put it out in a public statement. mccarthy has been incredibly careful not to get on trump's bad side. that afternoon mccarthy was calling trump, he was calling others in the white house, jared kushner, to try to get the rioters off. mccarthy knows what happened that day to a large degree with the former president. he knows a lot of the other members said, we'll do what it takes if you just come out and tell these people to please go home. mccarthy led that day as anyone did. when he's looking at trying to become speaker in 18 months or 16 months or whenever, having this sort of commission that puts a highlight, puts a focus on the former president's actions probably doesn't help them politically, but it also puts him personally in a difficult spot because he could be compelled to explain exactly what he saw, what he did, his

conversations that day with trump and the other members, and that's not the way he wants to be. >> jake, in the minute we have left with mitch mcconnell, the senate minority leader, saying he's done, does that spell the end of this commission, do you think? >> probably. i have a few thoughts. i'm not convinced there can't be ten republicans even if mcconnell opposed. i'm not sure but i don't want to rule it out completely. pelosi has the stack decked here for democrats, right? pelosi could just kick this to a congressional committee, she could make a select committee, she wouldn't have to get the republicans' permission on that. it's not wrapped up, it's just not going to include any republican say or republican involvement. >> nancy pelosi is set to speak more about this in about 15

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strongest stance yet on the conflict between israel and the palestinians in a call with benjamin netanyahu. he told the leader that he expects a de-escalation of violence on the path to a ceasefire. israeli war planes fired another 120 guided missiles into gaza overnight and an ib spokesman said gaza shot 300 rockets. it suggested israel is doing what it can to avoid civilian casualties. >> we tried to target those who target us with great precision. that is not as surgical an operation as it is even in a surgical room in a hospital. you don't have the ability to prevent collateral damage around affected tissues. even then you can't. and certainly in a military operation, you cannot. >> we also heard today from palestinian president devos who

spoke from the west bank. he called war crimes punishable by a court. there are at least 119 at the border, including 63 children. now, hundreds of buildings have been destroyed according to u.n. workers on the ground. that includes hospitals, schools and homes leaving an estimated 50,000 people homeless. the u.n. also reports broken pipes, sewage in the streets and electricity that comes on for hours if at all. with us is erin mclaughlin. israel insists they're doing what they can do from causing collateral damage. tell us what's happening now. >> reporter: when you consider

gaza decimated 200 people, and that land has been blockaded both by israel and egypt for some time now, so it's taken what was a bad situation, this latest violence, and making it even worse, night after night of bombardment by israeli fighter jets. just last night alone in the span of some 25 minutes, 52 israeli fighter jets, according to the israeli military, bombarding some 40 targets. civilians i've spoken to on the ground there in gaza were absolutely terrified, saying the conditions are going from bad to worse. there is electricity issues, water issues, sanitation issues, tens of thousands of people displaced crowding into schools. covid is a concern. take a listen to what one doctor had to say. >> the people are fleeing from their homes. they go to shelters. more than 50,000 people already left their homes going back to

shelters. of course there is overcrowding in the schools, the shelters, and we are asking everybody for social distancing. there will be no way for social distancing in schools and corona will surely spread quickly. we won't be able to treat any more victims of this infection. >> while civilians are traumatized in gaza, they're also traumatized here in israel. today alone, according to military forces, some 250 rockets fired at gaza. nevertheless, israelis running for cover, israelis also scared wanting this conflict to end. jeff? >> erin mclaughlin on the ground reporting. our thanks to you. joining us now, former ambassador of israel and egypt, thanks for joining us. i'll start with this.

you've got international pressure building. the french, egyptian, jordanian governments today promised to work with the security council to avoid a ceasefire. the biden administration has been participating in what they call quiet diplomacy. has the international response, has the u.s. response met the moment, do you think? >> i think not. look, for the president this has been a diversion from a very ambitious domestic agenda and a foreign policy agenda that didn't include the israeli-palestinian issues. the conflict took the administration a bit by surprise. they also are not staffed up. we don't have an ambassador on the ground, we don't have an assistant secretary. so they've been kind of making tup as they went along to the point where the president has now made several phone calls to netanyahu ratcheting up the verbal pressure. at the same time, the united states has blocked some actions in the u.n. security council which suggest that it's not going to be a full-fledged

pressure on israel. we want to make sure the idea of israeli self-defense is preserved, and therefore international efforts may fall flat. >> netanyahu declared today that airstrikes in the gaza strip would continue. that was, of course, after president biden demanded he immediately wind down a conflict that has killed more than 200 people. so given all of that, what is the incentive for an american president to step into this conflict? >> well, the international response may be a bit flaccid, but the reality is that international pressure on the united states will grow to do something. the humanitarian situation which your correspondent reported is horrible. not just the dead and wounded but the long-term effect of no electricity, no sewage system, no water provision in an already overcrowded problematic area. and as the doctor in gaza

reported, the health system is on the verge of collapse. so it's one thing to give israel a little more time to finish the operation, it's quite another to look ahead and see this humanitarian disaster looming which is far worse than almost anywhere else in the world except perhaps in yemen. >> so i'll ask you, as we wrap up the question i've been asking to other experts which i think might be instructive. at this point what does de-escalation look like to you? >> i think there are two steps. the first is the president getting very, very serious with prime minister netanyahu and saying, that's it. you've achieved what you've achieved. maybe it's not 100% of what you wanted, but this must stop. at the same time, as egypt and others are telling the same thing to hamas. once that happens, however, there must be a second step, and that is to go back to the problems that originally created this in jerusalem and make sure that we don't have another outbreak as a result of israeli

pressures largely stimulated by extremists to dispossess palestinian homeowners in the eastern part of that city. >> ambassador daniel kurtzer, my thanks for joining us this afternoon. new york city is lifting its covid restrictions today. we're live on the ground with reaction. and the d.a.'s decision not to charge the deputies that killed andrew brown jr. have sparked protests in the city where he was killed. in the city where he was killed. we've got you taken care of, sgt. houston. thank you. that was fast!

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we're following breaking news across the south where we're seeing catastrophic flooding after days of unrelenting rain. in louisiana the governor declared a state of emergency after it killed two people and prompted tons of water rescues. and tens of thousands of homes across texas are without power right now when the storms unleashed hundreds of lightning strikes. and the threat isn't over yet.

national correspondent tommy yamas is in baton rouge, louisiana. >> reporter: there were hundreds of homes flooded out in louisiana and i want to show you just one. this is the beasley family home. they said the water came right in the front door. you can see the mess left behind. they had just renovated this home and in the power of that storm, they got three feet of water. the house is a mess. there is debris everywhere around this hallway. it looks this way in every single bedroom, the bathroom and kitchen. this overnight as there were more rescues, but this time in arkansas. >> reporter: parts of the gulf coast on high alert. texas, which saw powerful twisters to southern louisiana devastated homes and killed up to four people. baton rouge resident helen smith came back from her nursing shift to find her home filled with knee-deep water. >> you have to move now? >> yeah, i'm going to move. but i'm getting my most

important stuff right now and try to relocate. >> reporter: many residents telling us the powerful storms caught them by surprise. >> it started raining and the rain got heavier and heavier, and i looked outside and the next thing i know my car was going under water. >> reporter: the baton rouge fire department responding to hundreds of emergency calls as the storm pummelled the region. >> it came up and it was relentless. it just wouldn't go away. >> reporter: in lake charles, this baby was rescued by first responders as the rain poured down. the western part of the state saw close to 17 inches of rain in just six hours. so much rain, parents did what they could. some even picking up their kids from school in kayaks. following back-to-back hurricanes last summer, lake charles' mayor says his community has hit a breaking point with the flooding. >> it's absolutely catastrophic and historic, and we are

starting to lose words in the english language to describe what has happened to lake charles over the last nine or ten months. >> reporter: he hopes this latest natural disaster pushes washington to pass a much needed aid package for the region that has been delayed. >> if you could speak directly to president biden and to the congress, what would you tell them? >> i would say find a mustard seed of bipartisanship, sit down at a table and find a way to help americans here in southwest louisiana who are languishing, who are suffering. >> reporter: now, that mayor from lake charles, nick hunter, who we just heard from tells me he hopes this latest natural disaster prompts president biden to pass a package he's been weighing on and has since been delayed. i'm tom yanas. jeff, back to you.

the family of andrew brown jr. is asking the justice department to intervene after his death wasn't justified. we show protests last night over andrew brown jr.'s killing. police were giving out arrest warrants. the family of andrew brown jr. is asking the doj to intervene. what more do we know about that request? >> reporter: jeff, good afternoon. so the doj is investigating what happened with andrew brown, but the family wants, and the civil rights attorneys that are working with the family, they're asking for the doj to file civil rights charges which essentially would be the backstop here, because they said they would not be prosecuting the three who brandished their weapons at andrew brown, so the only chance at this time to see the deputies

behind bars is if the judge steps in. benjamin crump said this would be analogous to what we've seen with george floyd, that they would see civil rights charges and then organize this coalition. any reasonable police officer would have taken these steps, but if that's the case, why aren't they being retrained and disciplined right now as those three deputies do remain on the job today? >> sam brock in new york city. sam, thank you for that. the house held a hearing on the tulsa race massacre along with the 100th anniversary this month. in the late 1800s, greenwood was known as its own black street with restaurants, theaters, a library, hospital, even its own bus and taxi service until the evening of may 21st, 1921 when

rioters descended on them, dropping turpentine bombs on houses. when the massacre ended on june 31st, 1921, hundreds of survivors were rounded up at gunpoint and forced to march in camps where they were held for weeks. survivors also recall seeing black bodies dumped into the arkansas river and into mass graves. well, today two of the last living survivors of that massacre flew to washington to share their stories and demand justice. mr. hughes van ellis, known as uncle red, is 100 years old. and his sister, miss viola fletcher, or mother fletcher as she's known, is 107 years old. listen to what she experienced in one of the darkest moments in u.s. history. >> i will never forget the violence of the white mob when we left our home. i still see black men shocked,

black bodies lying in the street, i still smell smoke and see fire, i still see black businesses being burned, i still hear airplanes flying overhead, i hear the screams, have lived through the mess every day. the country may forget this history but i cannot. i will not. and other survivors do not. and our descendants do not. >> both were gracious enough to stop for a minute to talk with me on their way to the white house, they said, for a meeting with vice president harris. it's important for you to be here in washington today and share your story. >> we really want to go over this. it's a long time ago. i would have thought something

by now would have been done about it. that's why we're here, trying to make sure we get justice for it. >> miss fletcher says as a result of the massacre, she never finished school beyond the fourth grade, never made much money and struggles to support herself. it's part of a reparation lawsuit filed last year which suggests oklahoma and tulsa were responsible for that massacre which historians believe left more than 300 black people dead, 10,000 homeless and the community of greenwood destroyed. a world war ii veteran told lawmakers, quote, please do not let me leave this earth without justice. blessings to the both of them. let's take you now live to house speaker nancy pelosi who is speaking about the january 6 commission. >> i want to defend democracy especially as we go forward. each has been assisting and patriotic in achieving these steps.

this is all important because at this place, this capitol of the united states, has been a beacon of democracy to the world. the fact that it was assaulted on a day which the constitution called for for us to ascertain, to certify the president of the united states as voted by the electoral college and the american people made that day especially, especially harmful to our democracy and our constitution. so here we are, january 6th, and now the middle of may, and we have a commission, a bipartisan commission, coming to the floor of the house. you may not know this because many of you were not here then, but our bill for -- well, 9/11, you know when that was, 9/11,

2001. the 9/11 commission was signed into law november 27th, 2002, more than 14 months later. just a little more than four months later, we have a bill coming to the floor. this is a remarkable achievement and one that is very necessary. i'm especially pleased that this morning at a press event, perhaps you were participating in it, the bipartisan commission was endorsed by the 9/11 commission co-chairs. governor thomas kane of new jersey and mr. chairman, lee hamilton, former member of congress. they were the co-chairs of the 9/11 commission. in the interest of bipartisanship, we revealed many points that we thought would be important and were not necessarily narrowing 9/11 but narrowing many commissions since 9/11, giving the president

appointments. the republicans didn't like that, so we have five and five, what they wanted. we had subpoena power in the majority. they didn't like that, so we have bipartisanship in terms of the subpoena. you have to have bipartisanship. we had findings in the legislation that were very important. we took a big chunk out. they still wanted more out. even the testimony of the director of the fbi earlier before january 6, and we took that out. we wouldn't budge on the purpose, to expect what happened on january 6. my distinguished chairman will speak to that, and it is my honor to yield to the person responsible for this bipartisan agreement, the chairman of the homeland security committee,

benny thompson. mr. chairman? >> that was house speaker nancy pelosi talking about the proposal for the january 6 commission that democrats and republicans negotiated at the request of house republican and democratic leadership. she's saying that republicans got nearly all the requirements that they asked for in that proposal. a republican leadership decided they weren't going to support it. we'll keep an eye on that, but still ahead, new information on an nbc news exclusive. migrant children left overnight on buses. the white house now said to be, quote, livid. we have new exclusive data that highlights the impact the pandemic has had on working women. >> everyone's mental health has taken a toll, i think especially parents feel like there's no good choices for us. we just have to choose from a series of possibly bad choices. s

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they are taking a giant leap towards a new normal with vaccination rates up and covid cases down in new jersey and new york, most capacities on gatherings have ended as of today. this is quite a marker for new york city who, as you know, was a -- hardest hit by the pandemic early on. i hear music. is there a band out there? >> reporter: there is a band out here. let's give them some love because they've been playing all day. we've been enjoying it, obviously, between hits as you know how that is. this is the energy out here, jeff. you can't imagine what it was

like this time last year, the city was completely and totally shut down. now here in new york city the restrictions basically lifted. no more mask wearing indoors or outdoors, restaurants open, gyms open, bars open, stores open. you can actually dine inside without a mask on so long as the patrons can be six feet apart, otherwise they have a partition. 100% entrance. there is some mixed emotions about this latest stage in the pandemic. >> as soon as i walk outside, i like to take it out, but i'm in the farmers market, there is a lot of different people with different, you know, children in their homes, so i still feel protective. >> my mother has underlying kidney disease and i'm not vaccinated, don't plan on getting vaccinated any time soon, so i'm going to continue

just taking safe measures and carry on. >> i don't know what the rules of this private establishment, union square. it's been mask on for the last 14 months and i actually had it off when i was riding my scooter and just didn't know what it was, so i erred on the side of caution and respect. >> reporter: as you heard, still some vaccine hesitancy, jeff, this governor wanting to change that. some pop-up vaccine stations. you can get a 7-day metro card for getting a vaccine in one of these pop-up stations. this city, jeff, a very different city than it was a year ago at this time. we've been through, as new yorkers as well, so much. >> yasmin, thank you for that on the ground reporting. a new international survey find it's hit working women particularly hard with home life and work life colliding. 77% report that the demands on

them have only grown in the last year. joining us is political correspondent ali vitale. what did they tell you about what they want to see from their employers to really alleviate some of these burdens? >> reporter: jeff, their answers probably aren't going to surprise you because they're pretty commonsense. they want more understanding and more flexibility from their employers, especially as schools and daycare centers are not widely open on a regular basis. what's striking to me is that the women surveyed here by deloitte across ten countries, as you mentioned, only 4% of them say they feel they work for an employer right now who has been inclusive and flexible with their schedule over the course of the pandemic. instead the feeling that these women shared in overwhelming numbers is that they feel like their workload has increased at work. 77% of them say their workload has grown. that's nothing to say of what's happening at home. there is a feeling that they need to be always on and that they're judged by how visible

they are, not necessarily how productive they are. i want to also introduce you to angelica. she's one of the women who sees her story mirrored in this data. she's the mother of three with a fourth on the way. thankfully she says her law firm has been flexible for her, but . listen. >> there needs to be the ability to be flexible there. but i wasn't -- it's not just about having one person at a company that's willing to talk with women. you need a culture, right? so you need the culture of the company to care about women, to realize that there's some difficulties going on. our company definitely has been promoting a lot of women. and in that, there's understanding of what women are going through. >> it's not just that flexibility would be a nice thing to have. it's going to be essential when it comes to retaining female talent in the workforce. the other part of this study is

that there's a tangible impact to this work/life balance. 57% say they plan on leaving their firm or employer in two years or less and more seriously one in four women in this survey say they're thinking about opting out of the workforce for good. jeff? >> we talk about the new normal, what you just articulated, that cannot become the new normal. >> absolutely. >> ali vitale with exclusive reporting. >> why hundreds more migrants will be able to seek asylum here in the u.s. every day. stay with us. .s. every day. stay with us because we're the engineers who built the most reliable network in america. thousands of smarter towers, with the 5g coverage you need. broader spectrum for faster 5g speeds. next-generation servers with superior network reliability. because the more you do with 5g, the more your network matters. it's us...pushing us. it's verizon...vs verizon. and who wins? you.

after months of pressure from immigration advocates, the biden administration is easing restrictions on asylum seekers put in place during the pandemic. 250 so-called vulnerable migrants will now be allowed in the u.s. each day while they wait hearings. those eligible include the ill, families with young children and those who have been threatened or attacked while they wait in mexico. joining me now is nbc news national security and justice correspondent julia ainsley. what's the situation in place for the administration to identify these vulnerable migrants? and unrelated to this, you reported that white house officials were lived with hhs officials following your exclusive reporting about migrant children being held on buses and there was a report that at least one child slept on that bus for four days. what can you tell us? >> that's right, geoff. lots of news on both sides of the border. for immigrants waiting to get

into the country to claim asylum, they can now work through an ngo, international humanitarian organizations, to try to get on this daily list of 250 who will be allowed into the country to be able to stay here while they claim asylum. that's something that used to be just for everyone a blanket right for everyone prepandemic and before the trump administration undid a lot of those asylum rights. a lot of the ngos we've spoken to say this should be a responsibility of the government to identify those people, however, and not fall on them. in other news, we know that there was a white house call on friday, where the white house was apparently lived with hhs. this was a senior official level call where they were lived with nbc news reporting, as you pointed out, where there were children left overnight on buses in a dallas parking lot. this is part of the system that they're trying to use to be able to fill up a bus of children who were being transferred out of hhs custody to go live with parents or sponsors in the

united states. these are unaccompanied children coming across the border in record number this is year. of course, the white house did not know about this, was livid. this is yet another test for hhs secretary javier beccerra in terms of how he has dealt with this migrant child crisis. >> julia ainsley, as always, thank you. and thank you for spending this hour with us. ayman mohyeldin picks up our coverage next. ayman mohyeldin picks up our coverage next. like an “unjection.” xeljanz. the first and only pill of its kind that treats moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, or moderate to severe ulcerative colitis when other medicines have not helped enough. xeljanz can lower your ability to fight infections. before and during treatment, your doctor should check for infections, like tb and do blood tests.

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good afternoon, everyone. i'm ayman mohyeldin. country's military operations will press ahead, making no mention of a cease fire just hours after president biden personally conveyed to netanyahu that he expected a significant deescalation today. we'll have a lot more details on that call. this, as fears of wider conflict are now on the horizon along the border with lebanon. the israeli military announced it was shelling, quote, a number of targets over that northern border in response to earlier rockets coming from inside lebanon. it was intercepted in the sky by israel's iron dome. israeli troops say they shot and killed a palestinian woman who fired a rifle at them.