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plus, even republicans have had enough of a sham voting audit in the state of arizona. the latest officials turning their backs on the efforts there. and the next big battleground in the politics of covid, college campuses, going back to school in the fall. that is coming up. but we do want to start with that breaking news out of washington. new reaction this afternoon from the white house to a quick dismissal from republicans to a compromise offer on the president's multitrillion dollar infrastructure plan. with that, i want to bring in nbc's leigh ann caldwell who's on capitol hill and following this for us. i read some of the statement, leigh ann. it's fairly astounding. the white house feeling like they made some real concessions here and getting flatout rejected by the republicans. what are they saying? and is there a sense the white house will, in fact -- is willing to, i should say, negotiate further? >> hey, yasmin, so, let's back up a little bit. the original offer by the white house, $2.2 trillion, way too

high for republicans. there was some back and forth, and then yesterday, the white house came back with a $1.7 trillion bill, so that's much smaller. but that is still three times what republicans want to spend. their original offer, just $568 billion, and so after this meeting between five senate republicans and the white house yesterday, senate republicans immediately rejected the offer, saying that is way too high, $1.7 trillion, to get any bipartisan support on capitol hill. and the white house today is responding to the republican response by saying that they put forward a reasonable offer in interest of finding bipartisan common ground that includes critical infrastructure, investments to create middle class jobs and strengthen our competitiveness in the world as well as cuts to his original proposal and way to pay for it. the ball is now in their court to respond with a good faith

counteroffer, and that's exactly what senate republicans say they are going to do. these were negotiations are not over. they say they are going to respond with something, perhaps as early as next week, and see where these go. but yasmin, i will say that the two sides do not agree on the definition of infrastructure still. republicans still want to keep it to very traditional roads, bridges, broadband, ports. democrats want a much broader human infrastructure included in this. so it's going to be very difficult for these two sides to come together, yasmin. >> yeah, i got to say, i saw it firsthand myself on monday in memphis as i was covering the bridge that was shut down there in memphis, tennessee. on the local level, the divide between the republicans and democrats there. hey, quickly, obviously, if the democrats want to go this alone, if they can't come to some sort of bipartisan legislation when it comes to infrastructure, they're going to need manchin

and sinema on board. is this going to put more pressure on them? >> reporter: well, it would, and that's actually what some of my sources think is happening, that the white house put forward a proposal that they know is way too high for republicans, but it's a good -- it's an effort to show manchin and sinema and others they are trying to negotiate and go back to the skeptical democrats and say, look, we tried, and they need to go it alone on this path of reconciliation. so, we'll see. one other point i want to make really quickly, yasmin, is that when the white house publicized their offer, that's usually a bad sign, because good faith negotiations and serious negotiations, there's usually not a lot of leaks happening. the fact that they are negotiating in public means that i'm pessimistic that the two sides are going to come to any sort of agreement, yasmin. >> and leigh ann, just to be clear here, the white house wants to get this done setting a goal of memorial day, right? which is just a week or so away.

>> reporter: yeah, not to pass any legislation but to at least have very significant progress that either shows that the republicans are going to come to the table and so, yeah, the timeline is the -- democrats aren't going to hold out forever, and so they want to put this marker down and say, look, we tried. perhaps we need to move on. >> all right, leigh ann caldwell, good to see you on a saturday. thanks for working. coming up at 4:00, congresswoman dina titus of nevada who serves on the transportation and infrastructure committee will join me on where she sees the latest infrastructure bill negotiations heading. also want to get to the latest on the 2019 death of a black man in police custody. louisiana state police releasing the first time body cam footage in the fatal arrest of ronald greene two years after his death. i want to warn you, the videos are very disturbing. you can see one of the officers kicking, then stepping on greene. greene was tased by troopers

multiple times, dragged face first, choked, and left without medical assistance for about nine minutes. watch. >> all right, sir, don't you turn over. don't you turn over. lay on your belly. lay on your belly. >> yes, sir. okay. okay, sir. >> lay on your [ bleep ] belly like i told you. you understand? >> yes, sir. >> so, greene can later be seen receiving medical help but died before he made it to the hospital. the louisiana state police say the investigation is ongoing, but they would hold their personnel accountable. they added that the department had made changes to their use of force tactics and training. on this story for us is nbc's priscilla thompson in monroe, louisiana. good to see you once again. i talked to you about this yesterday before the release of this video. so now this is a completely different story, considering the fact that we now have all the video out there. for everybody to see.

bring us up to date on the latest developments so far, now that that release of the video has been -- has happened. >> reporter: right, yasmin. you know, that video came late friday, and this was only after the associated press was dropping batches of that video at which point the louisiana state police decided that they needed to release all of this in its entirety, and i had an opportunity to speak to ronald greene's mother just a little while ago about the release of this video. and she told me that it is heartbreaking to relive her son's death all over again. she said that today has been incredibly difficult for her and for the family. she has not watched all of this new video in its entirety. she can't even bear to watch it with the volume on. she has to watch it on mute because she cannot stand to hear the screams of her son. she said that it haunts her and more than anything, she is angry, angry that this happened and angry that it has taken this long for the public to see what

exactly happened to her son on that day. i also spoke with the family attorney about this timeline and the fact that it did take two years for this video to be released. meanwhile, the investigation is not even over. it is still ongoing. take a listen to what lee merritt had to say about all of this. >> we knew that it would take a public demand for the world to see what happened because apparently, leadership in louisiana was unmoved by just how horrific this really was. and in fact, when they were in the room with us, they seemed a bit underwhelmed by how really atrocious this behavior was. matched with the cover-up. >> reporter: merritt tells me they now hope to see federal charges and at the state level in this case against these police officers. yasmin? >> i can't imagine as a mother watching the video of your son die that way. i watched all the video in full. it's incredibly disturbing to

see and quite frankly, really hard to watch. priscilla thompson in monroe, louisiana. thank you, priscilla. we're going to talk about this. the greene family attorney, ron haley, is going to be there talking about how they're coping with the video's release and the steps they're going to take to get justice. also in minnesota, police are searching for suspects in a shooting in downtown minneapolis that left two people dead and eight wounded. it happened early this morning at the monarch nightclub. police are saying they drove up on an exceptionally chaotic scene. the shooting reportedly stemmed from an argument between two men in the crowd. we're going to continue to follow this. any updates we have, we'll bring it to you. we also have some new reaction this afternoon from someone who used to be in donald trump's inner circle. when it comes to the former president's legal woes, this resolves around that state and local prosecutors in new york teaming up to conduct a joint criminal investigation into his organization. msnbc's cori coffin is outside trump tower in new york city for us. cori, great to see you this afternoon. thanks for joining us on this.

give us a breakdown, an update of the civil problem that has now been elevated to a criminal investigation, and really who are the key players? >> reporter: yasmin, good afternoon. so, this civil investigation was widespread, and when we move on to this criminal investigation, it could still be widespread but we certainly know that investigators are now starting to hone in on specific possible charges here. the civil investigation included trump's businesses, his tax filings, whether or not any valuations from any properties were manipulated for tax benefit. now, as we step forward into this criminal probe, we know that there is a possibility of new evidence. however, attorney general letitia james's office has declined to put forth evidence at this point. one particular person is coming forward in this investigation skpishds in two investigations. that's trump organization chief financial officer allen weisselberg who has now been named in his own investigation regarding his personal taxes. now, a legal analysts say they

believe this is a tactic for prosecutors to be able to pressure him to try to get him to flip on his boss. will it work? that's the question. many people within the trump orbit or formerly within the trump orbit are weighing in on this. we spoke with former trump executive barbara res today about that. listen to what she had to say. >> i think he has lots to be worried about, weisselberg. weisselberg has been with him for about 50 years or close to it, and he's probably the most trusted employee trump ever had, maybe next to his body guard. and there was never a question that allen would be loyal to my mind, but now that they're playing with his kids and maybe even implicating him, i don't see allen going to jail for trump. i think he's going nuts. i think he's furious. i think he's looking for someone to blame immediately. >> reporter: all right, yasmin, so if you're counting, this is

now four investigations with trump at the center, including two in georgia and one in d.c. and no less than 29 lawsuits, which trump is named in the lawsuit. he has raised so far in his post-presidential political action committee, though, some $31 million that can be used for any legal fees should he need it. he has not been charged with a crime. yasmin? >> all right, cori coffin for us in new york. thanks, cori. by the way, former executive vice president of the trump organization, barbara res, is going to be my guest in our next hour to discuss how she sees these civil and criminal investigations playing out. you don't want to miss the confers that i'm going to be having with her. i want to get to the middle east now where a very fragile ceasefire between israel and hamas is holding. last night, clashes between israelis and palestinians at an israeli mosque as prime minister netanyahu is vowing to respond with a new level of response, as he puts it. the 11-day conflict left many

dead, the vast majority palestinians. let's bring in erin mclaughlin, joining us live from te aviv. thanks for covering this for us. let's talk about secretary tony blinken headed to israel and the west bank. what do we know about this trip, who he's going to be meeting with? >> reporter: that's right, secretary blinken is expected in the region in the coming days. he's going to be meeting with israelis as well as palestinians and other regional partners. he's going to be focusing on efforts to rebuild gaza as well as ways to strengthen the ceasefire, a ceasefire, which as you point out, is extremely fragile and really does nothing to address the underlying issues of the broader conflict, and those tensions still very much exist as evidenced by what we've seen play out since the ceasefire was announced,

particularly within jerusalem yesterday. there were serious clashes between palestinians and israeli police at the al aqsa compound known as the temple mount and then today, again, we saw confrontations between palestinian protesters and israeli police. so how secretary blinken or if secretary blinken is going to address some of those underlying issues remains to be seen on his visit. >> so, i do want to talk about what you know about the type of humanitarian relief they're trying to give to the gaza strip and if, in fact, israel has at all kind of relieved some of the security at the border with gaza in order to help with humanitarian aid reaching gaza. >> reporter: well, we do know that humanitarian aid has started to reach gaza. unicef has committed a number of aid items, including vaccines.

again, covid-19 is a huge concern there in gaza. the healthcare system has been badly hit by the violence, even roads aren't in existence at this point to allow ambulances to transport the wounded. homes have been obliterated. you have tens of thousands of palestinians crowded into u.n. schools, so that's definitely a concern. we are seeing aid start to trickle in through the israeli entrances to gaza as well as from the egyptian crossing, and that, again, will be something very much on the mind of secretary blinken when he arrives in the region. >> all right, erin mclaughlin in tel aviv. thank you, erin. good to talk to you. even republicans are starting to turnl on the sham audit being conducted in the state of arizona but that's stopping an effort to duplicate it in other states. plus getting people back to work. rhode island governor dan mckee joins me to talk about a new effort he thinks will do just that. we'll be right back. we'll be right back.

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welcome back. trump loyalists matt gaetz and marjorie taylor greene moved their traveling america first road show to arizona, telling the crowd they support the republican-led recount in the state. >> we are here in arizona to stand in solidarity with the arizona election audit. >> who do you think won arizona on november 3rd?

you know, that's how we feel in georgia too. >> but when you call on those two, it is a sign that things are not going too great. county supervisors, including republicans, they're threatening a lawsuit after auditors falsely claimed this week the county destroyed evidence by deleting an election database. the false part of that claim, it didn't stop former president trump, of course, from running with it and arizona secretary of state katie hobbs is warning that the voting machines turned over to the cyber ninjas are no longer safe for use in future elections, a reminder that among other things, the auditors were looking for bamboo fibers in ballots to prove they came from asia. joining me now, reed wilson, national correspondent for "the hill." every time i read details about what's going on in arizona, i just kind of shake my head, but let's get into it, reed.

you wrote a piece for "the hill" talking about how republicans are turning against this audit in the state of arizona. i want to read a bit from that piece. some republicans say they hope it does not continue after embarrassing revelations that supposedly bombshell allegations by auditors who have perpetuated trump's lies were in fact made by the auditors themselves. what more can you tell us about this, and who exactly is now speaking out? >> so, earlier this week, the republican state senate down here in arizona that is behind this audit claimed in a tweet and then publicly that auditors -- that the maricopa county elections officials had deleted some directory files. turns out, they were just looking in the wrong place and the maricopa county board of supervisors, which i should point out is made up of four republicans and one democrat, sent a scathing letter to the state senate calling their allegations not only baseless and defamatory but also showing the incredible lack of knowledge

that these supposed auditors have of election law, election procedure, and just basic way computers work, apparently. so, the auditors later acknowledged they had found the directory and they have not yet apologized for that -- those insinuations, but right now, i mean, we're starting to see more and more republicans saying that, hey, guys, this is a bad idea. earlier this week, jan brewer, the former arizona governor, not exactly a republican in name only, remember, one of the more conservative governors in america when she served, who also has experience as arizona's former secretary of state, an office that runs elections, said that maricopa county should probably or that the state senate should probably let this audit go before it's scheduled to resume on monday. i talked to a state senator this week, a guy named paul boyar who was one of the republican votes in favor of the audit initially. he now says he regrets that. he says the state senate has been doing such an embarrassing

job that he is embarrassed to be an arizona state senator. >> how did they expect anything was going to be different? >> well, actually, the state senate president, karen pham, said she didn't expect anything to be different, which, of course, is not exactly what she was saying when she was pushing this audit a couple of weeks and months ago, even back into the end of january. but you know, this is a part of president trump's -- former president trump's big lie in that something has gone wrong. maricopa county is one of the best counties in america at conducting elections and counting these votes and, you know, democrats have lost this county going back for quite a substantially long period of time just in the last couple of elections, they've started to win it, and as a matter of fact, i mean, even in this last election, where joe biden won maricopa county by about 45,000 votes, again, four of the five county supervisors here in maricopa county were elected republicans. >> reid wilson, thank you for

your reporting on this. senator ted cruz is getting blowback from veteran groups after describing the u.s. army as, quote, woke and emasculated while at the same time seeming to praise how russia advertises for their military. the texas republican kweeted out a video that displays an apparent ad for the russian military showing men with shaved heads doing push-ups. the video then cuts to a clip from the u.s. army featuring corporal emma who talks about her mother's wedding. marching for lgbtq rights and joining the military. the texas senator got some sharp rebukes from groups like vote vets and even his own colleague, senator tammy duckworth, of course a veteran herself who lost both her legs in combat. it's also worth noting, by the way, senator ted cruz never served in the military, though he has said he thought about it when he was younger. coming up next, everybody, a furry way of combatting the coronavirus. furry way of combatting the coronavirus.

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welcome back. health screenings, temperature checks, even covid-sniffing dogs, organizers of this year's south beach food and wine festival, they're pulling out all the stops to make attendees feel safe and secure. ellison barber is in miami beach for us. talk us through some of these safety measures, one of which i see sitting right behind you, right beside you, i should say. >> reporter: i was going to -- i was going to say, i will just show it to you. this is betta taking a little bit of a break here but she's going to hop up and show you how this works. she is one of four covid-19

sniffing dogs at the south beach wine and food festival. this is her trainer, john mills with her here. let's go over and show you how it goes. so, as people make their way to come into the festival, you can see the crowd starting to come. one of the events starting this afternoon. they are greeted by dogs like beta. they are detecting one thing, one thing only, covid-19. they kind of sniff around the feet especially. they are looking for any sort of covid-19 volatiles that can be picked up on surfaces on from the sweat that naturally comes off of our hands and feet. this is one of quite a few safety protocols in place as he kind of walks her through, you'll see ultimately, she will sit if she gets any sort of detection, and they will take that person out of line and have them go to a nearby tent where they will then get a rapid covid-19 test. actually, what they do is they give them a card so the dog can

sort of keep working and not get distracted that says, hey, go over to this area, meet this person nearby, waiting, helping them out, takes them to show them where the area is that they can get a covid-19 test. researchers at florida international university, they've been studying this for over a year, and they say not only are these dogs or dogs in general really good and able to pick up covid-19, that they do it within abnormally high rate of accuracy, 95% accuracy rate. listen here. >> it's not the first time that dogs have been used to detect disease. they have a history of detecting everything from cancers, epilepsy, low blood sugars, different things like that. it's a good idea to have that extra layer of security there, so because of the success of the dogs in detecting it, i think it is a possibility that we may see this happening more often. >> reporter: so, they're trying to make sure everybody is aware of what the dogs are doing.

again, they only detect covid-19. you can see here, it is not the only safety protocol they have. they're also doing temperature checks, there's a qr code just over this volunteer's shoulder that people who arrive at this event, they have to first sign in, do the symptom check and verify they've either had a negative covid-19 test in the last 72 hours or that they've been fully vaccinated. yasmin? >> that's incredible. the talents of our best friends. that's why i got three dogs myself. ellison barber for us in miami. thank you, ellison. great to see you. love the socks, by the way. >> you bet. all right, so the politics surrounding vaccinations on college campuses is already reaching a fever pitch. as of this weekend, more than 400 american colleges and universities are going to require students to be vaccinated before they come back in the fall. but according to one tracker from the chronicle of higher education, only 8% of those schools are in states that voted for former president trump, and experts are saying that political gap is likely going to persist. with me now is msnbc medical

contributor dr. kavita patel. dr. patel, i got to ask this quickly. i'm sure you heard the segment i did with ellison. how incredible is it that we have dogs able to sniff out covid? imagine the position we would have been had these dogs had this ability over a year ago when we had zero to no testing? >> yeah, it's incredible, isn't it, yasmin? and i think it's important to remind people that this is just the first. i think over the next hopefully several years, as we just need to get better and better to immediately identify cases, we'll have examples like this, and it adds to what we know. people are testing sewage water. i mean, it's incredible how far we've come in a year. >> all right, so, let's talk about this college campus story. you got a total of 15 conservative-led states, oklahoma, nebraska, kansas, mississippi, alabama, they do not have a single university that has announced a vaccine requirement, requiring returning college students to get vaccinated seems like a no-brainer and the way to keep your college campuses safe from

outbreaks. >> yeah. you're right. look, i want to be clear, like, i understood a little bit of the hesitation when we were talking about, you know, vaccines that weren't even here before november. now that we have the data and, yasmin, let me stress, we have over a billion people that have been vaccinated on this planet, and so it is highly safe, highly effective, and frankly, as you're seeing from south beach, it's one of the few ways that we can get back to normal. and so, i think we'll always have room for exemptions but those are rare. i would say that if you actually asked the students and the staff on those campuses, they would want to make sure that their college and their campus and their living spaces are as safe as possible, so i hope that those leaders at those universities listen and i hope families express their discontent and really have an open conversation about why they are not requiring vaccinations. >> so, interesting. when i was out reporting in new york, when new york was having

its major reopening on wednesday, there was a lot of young people that i stopped and talked to who told me they weren't vaccinated, and they were hesitant to get vaccinated. i spoke to one young woman. i want to play a bit of what she had to say. >> i just don't trust it. i think it's way too soon. there hasn't been enough testing done, in my opinion, and i won't be putting that in my body. >> reporter: is there something that will convince you either way to get vaccinated? is there something further down the road that will convince you? >> no, i'm not going to get vaccinated. >> reporter: what if travel requires it? >> then i just won't go to that place. >> so it's interesting. that was one of maybe five or six individuals that i spoke to that day, people that are probably younger than 25 years old that were vaccine hesitant. another woman talked about the fact that the only reason she actually would get vaccinated is if her school requires it in the fall to go back and get her education. so, it seems to me, it's actually a way that it could

help us reach herd immunity if, in fact, these college campuses were requiring young people to get vaccinated. >> yeah. that's right. and i'll be honest -- yasmin, this -- that age range say to me and what it requires is usually about a 20-minute conversation that goes into, here's the data, here's how mrna vaccines in particular and other vaccine by johnson & johnson are not new, that their technology, we've been using for decades, and that helps. and then the second big myth coming up, especially with young women in their 20s, is that it could affect fertility. once you start to go through the data and debunking many of those myths, even if it's not this that moment, yasmin, the next time around, i usually do convince them this is the safest way to get back to normal so i do think requirements always allow for that conversation to happen, and that's what we need to concentrate on is how we're getting back to normal. look, there is no other way to explain the decrease in cases, yasmin. the ability to vaccinate our country has resulted in what i

would say has been a historic milestone in this pandemic. we cannot deny that. and i would just say to that young woman that you interviewed, if you're not vaccinated, you're more likely to be infected, and do you want to get a covid infection? >> dr. kavita patel, thank you as always. great to see you, my friend. coming up, everybody, we have a lot more ahead. "the washington post" calling them sex-crazed salt shakers of death, the cicada invasion and what it means for global warming. we'll be right back. t means forl warming. we'll be right back. ahead for us this saturday, the push for a third reconstruction to address a new era of poverty and low wages in this country. among those proposing it, reverend william barber and representative barbara lee, they're both going to join us. that's 6:00 p.m. eastern, "american voices," right here on msnbc. m. eastern, "american voices," right here on msnbc. hooh. that spin class was brutal. well you can try using the buick's massaging seat. oohh yeah, that's nice.

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the 17-year wait is over, everybody. the return of the cicada insect is on. that invasion is happening as warm weather takes over much of the country. this weekend. "the washington post" has a headline about the bugs that caught a lot of attention. a fungus could turn some cicadas into, get this, sex-crazed salt shakers of death. let's bring in nbc's josh lederman, who has become an expert on this, oddly. josh lederman, great to see you. tell me about these. sex-crazed salt shakers of death. go ahead. >> reporter: yeah. i'm going to go ahead and leave the sex-crazed salt shakers of death to "the washington post" but here in washington, we have been talking to scientists who have been telling us these brood x cicadas have been coming out earlier than ever before and they think global warming might be the reason. every night for the last two

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they popped up. >> in 2017, the first cicada was noted on april 27th. that's very, very early. that's because periodical cicadas are insects of climate. >> reporter: as the planet heats up, the soil does too, hitting the magic 64 degrees earlier in the year. in the region where brood x lives, the average ground temperature is a full 8 degrees warmer than at this time in 1970, according to climate central. in baltimore, the soil is hitting 64 degrees roughly 16 days earlier than it did half a century ago. in chattanooga, 36 days earlier. a mild winter or a december warm spell can also throw off the underground nymphs' counting, making them think one winter is actually two. >> when the earth is literally heating up from within, it is a little alarming. >> reporter: for now, citizens and scientists will keep tracking, shedding light on how human activity is affecting other species. and yasmin, despite all the

noise these guys make, they're actually pretty lousy flyers, which makes them fairly easy prey for hear the predators, one reason it's important that they actually all come out at the same time because there's safety in numbers but in recent years, in part, perhaps, because of global warming, scientists telling us some of them have been coming out up to four years ahead of schedule because their clocks have been thrown off. yasmin? >> brave, josh lederman, very brave to be picking those cicadas off that tree right about now. thank you for that. in-depth look at cicadas. appreciate it, josh. good to see you, by the way. so, after the break, everybody, one governor thinks he has the solution of getting people back to work without losing unemployment benefits. rhode island's dan mckee joins me next. we'll be right back. ee joins me next. we'll beig rht back. struggling to manage my type 2 diabetes was knocking me out of my zone, but lowering my a1c with once-weekly ozempic® helped me get back in it. ♪ oh, oh, oh, ozempic® ♪ my zone? lowering my a1c and losing some weight. now, back to the show.

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extending benefits to workers who returned to the job. i'm joined now by that governor, daniel mckee of rhode island. governor, thanks for joining us on this. i really appreciate it. this is astounding to see the steps that you are taking in your state, especially when it comes to raising the minimum wage, something the biden administration wanted to do on a federal level, has not been able to achieve. talk me through how this is actually going to work. >> yeah, so, first, the vaccination rates allows us to reopen our economy. i think we're about 87%, 97% on 65 and older, about 83% on 50 and older so that's a really important point, and our economy is ready to open up. yesterday, we reopened 100% of our economy, and we were able to do that because of the vaccination rate. but that brought an issue, right, with the workers. so, some states are, like you say, with texas, they're talking about, you know, these people on unemployment not willing to come back to work. we look at that as different.

with the people who are on unemployment, they get a $300 benefit. we want them to keep that. in our state, a million people, that's about $20 million a week, and we think that that's really important to our economy and our businesses over the summer it will be about $400 million of funds that are going to be spent in our local economy. so, we did -- i signed legislation yesterday. it allows workers to earn up to 150% of what they're currently earning on unemployment. for example, if they're earning $300, they can earn up to $449 and still receive the $300 benefit. >> and then what about the minimum wage hike? >> so, the minimum wage hike, that's -- was signed this week as well and it's going to ratchet up to a $15 rate by

january 1, 2025, and each year, it will go up by a dollar or so and it will get us to that $15 rate at january 1, 2025. and we think that's important. >> what about -- >> -- when you think about the number of individuals that are impacted and they're going to be able to earn a great deal more money and it's all going to go back into our economy and our small businesses are going to benefit as a result. >> so, couple things, though, i want to challenge you on, governor, here. one is child care, providing subsidized child care. a lot of folks worried about child care and returning to work. and then secondly, tipped workers staying at $3.89. why not raising the wages for them as well? >> well, tip workers need to earn the minimum wage in our state and if their tips don't come to that level, they are paid at that level, but their tips normally will exceed them, you know, get them well past that. as far as the child care issue,

when i took office on march 2, because i am a transitioning governor, because secretary raymundo is now secretary of commerce, we immediately vaccinated all our teachers and related staff, and all our child care workers and related staff. so, we're in the process right now of making sure that everybody who wants to get vaccinated can, and that is going to help us get families who have young kids to be able to get them back in school or in the child care that they need so they can go back to work. >> governor daniel mckee, appreciate you joining me on this. i haven't reported a lot from your state. i was live on the ground at one point. next time, i'd love to interview you in-person when i am there. >> that would be great. there's going to be music in newport this summer. please come on. join us. visit us. >> beautiful place. >> we're open. >> beautiful place, newport,

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square yesterday. it is one of more than 2,000 anti-semitic attacks that have occurred throughout the country just this year. my colleague, stephanie goss, reports. >> reporter: tensions are high as new york police continue looking for as many as six people involved in the attack of a jewish man. the victim of an alleged hate crime. this video appears to show the moment 29-year-old joseph borgen was attacked. >> surrounded by, like, a whole mob, crowd of people. they proceeded to obviously assault me, beat me, kick me, punch me, hit me with crutches. >> reporter: one man is facing multiple charges, including assault as a hate crime. borgen says they yelled anti-semitic slurs. >> we're going to kill you, we're going to kill israel. >> reporter: the assault taking place as propalestine and proisraeli protesters confronted each other. in the days following the start of the recent violence in the middle east. the antidefamation league found more than 17,000 tweets with variations of the

phrase, "hitler was right." in a survey, 63% of american jews have experienced or witnesses antisemitism in the last five years and more than half feel less safe. >> this isn't america. >> reporter: the adl reports that nearly 50% increase in possible anti-semitic incidents since the middle east conflict broke out. >> holding jews collectively responsible for middle east policies, that's not activism. it's antisemitism. and the people committing these crimes need to be brought to justice. >> reporter: the restaurant goers in los angeles were pelted with glass bottles, attacked by people waving palestinian flags and yelling slurs against jews. a conflict thousands of miles away triggering anti-semitic violence on u.s. streets. stephanie gosk, nbc news, new york. >> and thank you to stephanie gosk for that. so, republican congresswoman marjorie taylor greene is once again facing a wave of backlash after comparing house speaker nancy pelosi's decision to continue requiring masks in the

chamber floor to the nazi regime against jewish people during the holocaust. >> this woman is mentally ill. you know, we can look back at a time in history where people were told to wear a gold star and they were definitely treated like second class citizens so much so that they were put in trains and taken to gas chambers in nazi germany, and this is exactly the type of abuse that nancy pelosi is talking about. >> okay. so, more than 100 house republicans still have yet to disclose their vaccine status, prompting pelosi to leave the mandate in place. surprise, surprise, by the way, taylor greene is among those 100-plus lawmakers. we are approaching the top of the hour, everybody. you're watching msnbc reports with yasmin vossoughian. ♪♪ welcome back, everybody. i'm yasmin vossoughian.

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