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only at vanguard, you're more than just an investor you're an owner. giving you confidence throughout today's longer retirement. that's the value of ownership. good morning. 10:00 a.m. eastern, 7:00 a.m. eastern. i'm jose diaz-balart. wall street is bracing for another hike in interest rates as inflation continues to strain american households. in washington, another sign of hope for the bipartisan deal to address gun violence. the top republican in the senate now says he supports the plan's framework. we'll talk to california senator alex padilla about what's next. in ukraine president zelenskyy is urging the west to provide more long-range weapons as intense fighting continues in the eastern region. we'll bring you the very latest from kyiv. and 10 years after president obama authorized daca, the
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future of the program remains in jeopardy for hundreds of thousands of people that call america home. we'll talk to one of those dreamers later this hour. >> we begin with the efforts to bring down the skyrocketing prices we're paying for gas, groceries, and many other items. in a few hours from now the federal reserve is expected to announce its third interest rate hike this year. raising a key interest rate by three quarters of a percent. that's the largest increase since 1994. this comes as president biden looks at other steps to try to reduce the highest priced spikes in more than 40 years. the president sent letters to seven energy companies asking them to explain their record profits, as well as a drop in refining capacity helping to drive up gas prices. he also says he's prepared to use emergency authority to increase refinery capacity and
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output in the near term. "the new york times" reporting the president is also considering rolling back some of the tariffs president trump imposed on some chinese goods. however, the impact of those moves still unclear as many americans struggle to afford basic needs such as food, gas, rent. the expected rate hike also comes as the government says retail sales fell 0.4% between april and may. wall street seems to be shrugging off that news. the dow jones up 370 points with other major indexes. with us to take a closer look at this, nbc correspondent jacob ward at a food distribution center in oakland, california, cnbc senior markets correspondent dominic chu, and kate davidson author of politico's morning money newsletter. jake, how much of an impact of the rising prices on food banks like the one where you're at now? >> well, jose, this morning we've seen cars lined up since
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about 6:00 a.m. our time, and this it's important to note, a food bank that distributes to roughly 500 cars and about 150 people who walk in and they do that three times a week. also consider each one of those cars is picking up food for multiple families. the estimate this food bank three times a week distributes food to at least 1,000 families. here is how inflation makes all of that harder. not only does it drive up the cost of buying the food being unloaded behind me, we've seen about 25 pallets taken off so far, it, of course, drives up the need for that food. so that's why they've seen just through this very, very steady and sometimes an increase in traffic here. the really notable thing here is, jose, that as prices for things like rent and gas go up, families typically cut back on food first. that's part of what drives the demand here. and here's another thing to understand about how the arc of this increases, is that as gas
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prices have increased, this food distribution center has steadily seen this number -- the number of people walking in here go up. it's risen steadily since january. all of this is a sort of on the ground barometer for how difficult inflation is in america right now. jose? >> talk to us about the fed decision today, how will it affect consumers? >> so what it comes down to right now, jose, is that based upon all the things that jacob just laid out, the fed has an easy task, if you want to paint it that way at this point, they have to bring down inflation. they have to stabilize prices in this country. for that reason, the fed will, it will raise interest rates today. the only issue is by how much. now you mentioned that 75 basis point or three quarters of a percentage point rise. that is seen right now as a very, very kind of forceful sign that the fed wants to tamper
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inflation because it was a month ago that fed chair jay powell told the world the three quarter percentage rate increase was off the table and they were looking at the 50 or half percentage point increases. now for the consumer, what they will see, hopefully, over the course of the next several months, quarters perhaps, is this idea that commodity prices, including for food and fuel, start to come down. the issue becomes right now how long it takes for that to happen. by the way, we're already starting to see economic data, signs that things are starting to slow down, jose. you mentioned that retail sales report. that surprise drop in spending between the month of april and may, what that does indicate is that now the price of food and the price of fuel is now high enough where people are starting to spend less on things that they want to spend on because they have to spend on things they need to spend on like food and fuel. that's the key line that the fed is going have to walk right now. can they affect prices for
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inflation without sending the economy into a slow down or a recession. >> and kate, to take on dominick's point, it's almost like the fed is having to walk a tightrope there between, you know, bringing down inflation, but not sending the economy into a recession? >> yeah. dominic said it's an easy task and it is in the sense that there's only one main thing they can do, they have to raise rates. it's a really tricky thing to know how high to raise them and for how long to keep raising them and when do we get to that point where things are just, i guess, tight enough where, as dominic was saying, consumers are pulling back more on spending and inflation is slowing, but they're not pulling so much that it's sending the economy into a recession. i think part of what makes that tricky, too, is that there are other factors, not just strong consumer demand and consumer spending, there are other factors contributing to inflation which you've talked about like the war in ukraine
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that's sending energy prices higher and commodity prices higher. there's some supply issues related to that. those factors, those won't necessarily be solved or fixed by higher interest rates. so, you know, the fed's tools can affect consumer demand and that will help somewhat, but it's still not clear exactly how much they can do. it's just a matter of time. it takes time for higher interest rates to filter through the economy. >> so dominic, just as a final question, is there any -- is there any, do you think, end in sight to these high prices? i'm thinking about the basic food stuff that every family needs to have, you know, has been shooting up through the roof. is there any relief in sight for things like food? >> and you're already starting to see some signs of it right now. so the reason why i point that out is, if you look at the latest consumer price report, the cpi so to speak that we got
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last friday, what it did show again, was the highest levels of inflation that you've seen in some 40 years. as you point out. and it fairly is across the board, especially for things like food and fuel. but if you look at the kind of breakdown for certain food items that are driving it, a lot of it has to do with things like poultry because we know that supply chains are still an issue, avian or bird flu is still an issue that's affecting flocks for things like eggs and poultry product, but if you look at some of the places where prices are coming down, you're starting to see a little bit of moderation and outright price declines on a month over month basis in things like beef products or pork products, bacon, veal, that sort of thing. now, that doesn't help folks who have dietary restrictions, but what it does show is that there are pockets or places where people continue to spend aggressively on, but others they are overlooking and when supplies start to become glut-ish in those scenarios, prices tend to come down.
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it's going to be about whether or not the high prices affect demand and whether or not those big supply chain issues tied to things like the covid pandemic and the war between russia and ukraine and everything else, sorts out. if all of that starts to get better you can see prices to start perhaps to move in the right direction. >> should use the emergency powers to increase refining capacity in oil output. well, first of all, could he do that? what would that potentially mean? >> this way, if they could use that kind of a process, the issue is going to be what kind of precedent that sets for the entire business community. if you're going to use the defense production act, these emergency powers, to force companies or force refiners to do this kind of thing, that might be a ripple effect that maybe wall street investors don't want to see. because what it does show is this slight tilt towards almost nationalization if you will, of the government stepping in to
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tell companies how to run their businesses. if that were to happen, you could see markets get very frightened about a scenario like that and remember, energy companies have been some of the biggest gainers so far in this kind of whole market downturn and subsequent recovery that we've seen since the pandemic. if it comes down to it, whether or not those prices can be affected, if refining capacity goes up, if you bring more product to market, you bring more oil into the market, more gasoline into the market, prices will come down, but then it also says about policy, what do you want to be as a country and economy going forward? you made it very clear at certain points you wanted to tilt away from fossil fuels. if you go down this route, because you know prices are going to go higher, does that mean there's a certain level where you say, alternative energy might be able to take a bit of a back burner. some of these policies might take a back burner or back seat if oil prices get too high. we know what we're seeing right now, that's real world evidence, jose. >> that change isn't an
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overnight immediate change, right? it would take some time. dominic chu, kate davidson and jacob ward, thank you for being with us this morning. we have breaking news out of the january 6th committee. they just renewed their request for information from gop rep barry laudermill. he released this security foot am showing what they say is a tour of approximately 10 individuals led by laudermill to areas in office buildings and areas to tunnels leading to the u.s. capitol. the committee investigating the january 6th attacks on the capitol is expected to hold its third public hearing. joining us now with more, nbc news capitol correspondent ali vitali and msnbc contributor and "washington post" congressional investigations reporter jaclyn almaini. what does this mean? >> look, this is sort of one of the side stories that january 6th committee has been following. they issued previously a request for laudermillo , cooperate with the committee. they said they wanted more information from him on this
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tour of the capitol complex that was led the day before the january 6th insurrection at a time when the capitol was closed because of covid concerns. in that video you showed and that we can put on the screen, you're seeing what the committee points out as people in the building taking pictures of corridors and tunnels and security checkpoints, these are places that jackie and i walk around here every day and they're not particularly visually compelling, not usually the places that we see tourists taking pictures, and yet, those were some of the photos that they take and that'something thatommittee actually pois out here, sayg that they seem to be taking pictures of things that are not typically tourist attractions. the key overlap here, though, comes in that video, the committee points out, that some of the members who were on the tour led by loudermilk, were then at the capitol the next day making explicit threats against people like nancy pelosi, chuck schumer, jerry nadler, and other top democrats, some even took pictures of nadler's name plate,
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for example, the plaque that's outside of his office, again, the committee trying to show here the overlap between being on that tour, some of the photos that were taken and then, of course, the fact that at least one member of that tour was at the capitol, at the insurrection. this is, again, something that they're asking for loudermilk's cooperation on. he has denied that tour was anything wrong. but this is certainly one of the key things that people talked about in the aftermath of january 6th, the idea that potentially people could have gotten an inside look at the capitol complex before coming here for the insurrection on the 6th. >> yeah. ali, the fact that a member of congress tours people, i guess, is not that unusual, but it was january 5th and, as you say, there was one person there on that tour who later returned on the 6th. jackie, committee chair bennie thompson backtracked on what he had said about no criminal referrals out of the hearings. does that hint that referrals are more of a possibility?
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>> it's a confusing debate that we've seen play out in real time, which is quite unusual for a committee that over the course of 11 months has largely avoided any drama or public discord or divergence. bennie thompson did slightly backtrack his statement, which was fairly declarative to reporters on monday night that there was going to be no criminal referrals that the committee had ruled it out, and that it wasn't the job of the committee. shortly thereafter, liz cheney, adam schiff, the dividing lines became clear quickly, issue conflicting statements, saying it was the responsibility of the committee to actually issue these explicit criminal referrals if they do find that trump committed crimes. there are a lot of other factors at play here, though, other than the superficial debate. what we see the picture that we've gotten of the committee
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members disagreeing on this really paints a more complicated decision that they ultimately have to decide on. are they going to apply as much public pressure on the department of justice issuing this letter that would outline the potential crimes that they think trump and his co-conspirators might have committed, it's a strong public signal, perhaps the strongest political signal they could make, or does that run the risk of further and over politicizing what they're grappling with and maybe actually hinder the department of justice from ultimately prosecuting donald trump and his co-conspirators. it's a lively debate and something members have been discussing for months now and they're probably going to have to make that final decision as soon as these public hearings wrap or as soon as the report is written at least. >> and jackie, your paper, "the washington post" reported new details about a meeting between president trump and doj officials where one of them,
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jeffrey clark, pressed the former president to make him attorney general in exchange for a letter claiming election fraud. trump didn't do it after other officials threatened to resign according to this report. how close was this to happening? >> it seemed to be pretty close, and as our colleague michael cannish detailed after reviewing and devouring court filings, the senate judiciary report that came out a few years ago, along with new e-mails that have not been seen until this reporting, but we heard lawmakers on the panel commend the bravery and the decision that acting attorney general jeff rosen, rich donoghue who were jeffrey clark's bosses, the stance against clark in that meeting in the oval office, against trump, and the threat of mass resignations. if not for those members, it is quite possible that jeffrey clark would have been installed as the top leader of the
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department of justice and trump might have been successful in actually trying to implement some of these conspiracy fueled theories that he was peddling in order to actually do trump's bidding and overturn the results of the election. >> jackie and ali, thank you so very much for being with us. up next, i'm joined by senator alex padilla, a member of the judiciary committee, holding a hearing right now on gun violence in children. his hopes for the new legislation. we'll be chatting in just a second. legislation. we'll be chatting in just a second. first, look at these pictures from the entrance to yellowstone national park. a house fell into a swollen yellowstone river monday after a deluge of rain and rapidly melting snowpack triggered massive flooding and mudslides. take a look at that. yellowstone national park closed and at least 10,000 people have been evacuated. look at the home. wow. the governor of montana has declared a state of emergency
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senator alex padilla who sits on the judiciary committee. it's always a pleasure to see you. what do you hope will come out of today's hearing? >> good to see you again, jose. yes, in a few minutes i will be rejoining that hearing myself. look, i think we need to continue the momentum and continue the push to advance smart gun safety laws in america that will help protect not just the general population, but especially our children. to think that the tragedy in uvalde, texas, right on the heels of other mass shootings in the country, to see the images of elementary school students who didn't have to die, should bring anybody to tears and should bring congress to act. we're on the verge of that. as with any big deal that happens, it's going to be way too much for some people and not enough for others. oh, how i wish we were banning assault weapons in this process or banning large capacity
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magazines in this process. but if we can by states adopt these red flag warning laws that have proven helpful in states that have them, if we can invest significantly in mental health and more, then it's absolutely worth doing. >> and the fact that senator mcconnell says he supports that bipartisan framework, it's just a framework right now, it's still in the process of being written, how -- this would be significant in that i guess what the last time there was any movement on it was when bill clinton was in the white house? >> exactly. it's been decades. and, you know, for the last decade since sanity hook elementary in connecticut, our hearts have been broken time and again after shooting after shooting. i am confident that we will get to the finish line here. i know it's just a framework now, as it should be. the concepts and the outline is one thing. once you get it to specific language, we'll see the final details. but in talking to both my democratic colleagues,
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particularly senator murphy who has been lead on these negotiations, he, like myself, not just a senator but a father of young kids, very passionate about this, but also many conversations by republican colleagues including senator cornyn who sort of was tapped by mitch mcconnell to lead negotiations on the republican side, i do think there's a true commitment here and i do think there's good faith here. it seems like everybody is on the same page. we just need to see the final language and get it scheduled for a floor vote, which leader schumer has committed. >> and senator, as you know, better than anybody else, today marks ten years since president obama created the daca program that has temporarily protected hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who came to this country when they were children and know no other country but ours. allows them to live, work and study in the u.s. you came from a press conference talking about the anniversary. what's your message? >> my message is sort of mixed.
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on the one hand we celebrate ten years of daca protections, which have allowed hundreds of thousands of these young people to prosper in america. they've excelled in school and in the workplace. many are working in jobs that the federal government has deemed essential throughout the covid-19 pandemic. but the tragedy is, congress has failed to act, has failed to codify these protections into federal law, let alone advance more comprehensive modernization of our immigration laws, and to think that so many of these daca resip pents live in limbo, daca has been challenged time and again by republicans and other conservatives, there's pending litigation that will determine whether these young people who have -- who are completely americans by the way, except for one piece of paper, will be able to continue to live in the united states, contribute to the success of our country, or face a tough decision of whether to go back into the shadows or have
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to leave the country. >> so senator, why can't what dealing with daca be what we're just seeing with the issue of guns? why can't there be a bipartisan group of senators that can get together and work on a framework on this? you always, it's so important that i kind of underline, that you are always -- it's such an important point to mention that there is the crisis, the humanitarian crisis at the border, and then there is immigration in our country. i know you always separate those two as needs to be separated, but senator, why can't there be some bipartisan group talking about this? >> look, i'm hopeful, and there are bipartisan discussions happening literally as we speak. we tried last year unsuccessfully. we know we were looking at the build back better package and the reconciliation process as a way to advance immigration
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reforms. we've pleaded with the white house to use their executive authority. a recent hearing in the judiciary subcommittee i chair reopened these bipartisan conversations. we had a hearing about two months ago specifically on documented dreamers that brought republicans back to the table. we just had another hearing yesterday sort of highlighting the positive impact of immigrants on workforce and the economy. right. prior segments you're talking about inflation in america, which every family is feeling, economists, business leaders are pointing to a labor shortage as a key contributor to higher prices and a significant ntributor to the labor ortage is our broken immigration system. all the reasons are there. republicans are talking us to once again, and the bottom line is, it's been ten years and we're not giving up until we get this done. >> senator alex padilla, always a pleasure to see you. i thank you for your time. >> thank you, jose. have a great day. >> likewise.
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an ultimatum from russia to hand over a key city in the east where fierce fighting has been taking place. president zelenskyy says ukraine needs more modern anti-missile weapons as nato defense ministers beat in brussels today. ellison barber joins us from kyiv and clint watts, national security analyst and distinguished research fellow at the foreign policy research institute. what are you seeing today? i know you spoke with a man who recently escaped mariupol? >> yeah. he spoke to us under the condition of anonymity. we're using a different name, not his real name, not going to show you his face, because he still fears for his own life and also his family's because they are still back in mariupol. i want you to listen in his own words to what life was like
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living under russian occupation. >> you cannot even count the number of dead people. they've been burned. they're being buried in mass graves. it's impossible even to identify people anymore. they cleaned the rubble and they didn't even clean the bodies under the rubble. imagine life in mariupol, you walk in the street trying to find some food. people needing drinking water from the stations. they were catching pigeons and eating them. >> reporter: when he decided to plot his escape with his friend he said they had to bribe russian soldiers at the checkpoint with cash. he said they almost made it through, but then they were searching his phone. he had prepared for this. he is a gay man so he deleted anything on his phone he thought in his words might provoke russian forces. he forget one photo of him in camouflage type fatigues.
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he says it was a photo from a fishing trip. they thought he had something to do with the military and says they yanked him out of the car, put him on his knees and a rifle to his back. a bus, a car full of children pulled up next to them, and he says for whatever reason the guard put the rifle down and let him go. he still lives in fear every day here he will lose his life because in mariupol he said it wasn't if he was going to die but when. jose? >> ellison barber, thank you. thank you so much. clint, president zelenskyy says the battle against russia in eastern donbas region will, quote, surely go down in military history as one of the most brutal battles in and for europe. that's a very strong statement. how bad are things there right now? >> it is definitely the most intense fighting in the war, jose. incredible artillery fires. really we've not seen this much like the president zelenskyy said, world war ii, world war 1
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era fighting. this is where you're seeing the fighting happen. this is the sector where you have seen the russians slowly advance in and around here, severodonetsk. this was a key city over the last two or three weeks the russians push forward, ukrainian counterattacks but the russians using massive amounts of artillery fire to bring the ukrainian forces to their knees and push them back. separately you're seeing some advances here by russian military forces and proxies to include militias from the dnr and lnr, the breakaway sort of republics sort of pro-russian and trying to move on slovyaysk. you're seeing pockets here and here fighting to hold off the russian advances. they are out gunned, out equipped and out manned. we're seeing western munitions and support starting to come in, but getting out here, using them effectively, on this front
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lines, the one place we need to watch over the coming weeks is slovyansk. the russians are trying to cut off highways from here and here from izyum. they would like to encircle all of sloev yanks, traple the military there, about where to move back into defensive positions and try to endure. bigger picture as we zoom out, what you're going to see is a decision by the russians about how far to push. initially they tried to come down and bring these forces together, really were stopped and did not have the combat power tone circle this area. they are moving more snux a limited fashion here, but on both sides of this fight hundreds of dead each day. that's what president zelenskyy was trying to emphasize, the amount of casualties both sides are taking. in kharkiv we see fighting. ukrainian military holding off the russians but there's intense combat in this area as well.
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that brings me to the south, what you're seeing the russians do down here, they're meeting a ukrainian front here that has essentially stopped them from advancing from the south but trying to resettle and make this part of russia over the longer term. lots of current trends to watch. the east is where the battle will shake out over the next month. >> thank you so much. new details about wnba basketball star britney griner's detention in russia. we have the update next. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports". diaz-balart reports". think he's posting about all that ancient roman coinage? no, he's seizing the moment with merrill. moving his money into his investment account in real time and that's... how you collect coins. your money never stops working for you with merrill, a bank of america company. ♪♪ this... is the planning effect. this is how it feels to know you have a wealth plan that covers everything that's important to you. this is what it's like to have a dedicated fidelity advisor
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monitor. joining us from london, foreign correspondent meghan fitzgerald. what do we know about these two cases? jose, good morning. good to be with you. i'll start with brittney griner first. as you mentioned her pretrial detention has been postponed for the third time. she was meant to appear in a russian courtroom back in march. that was then postponed to may. then again to june 18th and now we're looking at a date of july 2nd. even that is in question. she was arrested and detained in russia back in february where authorities there accused her of trying to smuggle narcotics into the country saying she had hash shish oil in a vape cartridge a crime in russia punishable by up to ten years in prison. the state department has said she's being wrongfully detained and working to secure her release and, in fact, we understand that they met with members of her wnba team on
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monday, meeting with staff as well as coaches of the phoenix mercury, and according to her teammates, they were encouraged to continue to shed light on her case and to continue to speak out. obviously many of them incredibly concerned as the time continues and she's still not been released. i want to switch gears quickly to the russian opposition leader, alexei navalny. his attorneys went to his prison yesterday to try to see, to meet with him, and they were told that he doesn't exist there. he's not there. so that was concerning. and it was later reported by russian media that he was transported to a maximum security prison about 155 miles outside of moscow, but his attorneys say that they have not independently confirmed that. they still don't know his whereabouts and they are getting increasingly concerned about his safety, jose. >> thank you so much. steve kornacki joins us with all you need to know about last night's primaries plus the
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they'll meet with victims' family members, survivors and first responders. this morning we're getting a clearer picture of the november midterms after four states held closely watched primary elections and they show mixed results for candidates backed by former president trump. here to help break down all the results from last night, nbc news national political correspondent steve kornacki. steve, what are your takeaways from last night? >> yeah, jose, the former president loomed large in a lot of these races, perhaps none bigger than this. this is the 7th congressional district in south carolina. this is the republican primary. you can see here, the incumbent member of congress tom rice didn't just lose, he was absolutely crushed by russell fry who was endorsed by donald trump. the significance here was that tom rice was one of the very few republicans who in the wake of january 6th last year, voted to impeach donald trump. here it was for the first time in this primary season we had a republican who voted to impeach
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trump, facing republican voters against a candidate backed by trump. this was the clearest test of that dynamic. this was the first clear test of the dynamic that we've encountered. you can see the result. fry needed to get 50% to avoid a runoff and win needed to get 5 outright. did he. tom rice will lose his seat. russel fry will win the republican nomination. that's a notch in trump's belt politically. in south carolina, now republican primary where donald trump weighed in against mace. arrington loses the margin by eight ponts. what is notable, mace, who earned trump's ooir in the wake of january 6th by condemning his behavior in that time spent most of the last two years trying to make peace with the trump side speaking favorably of donald trump. and you can see that rhetorical shift, perhaps the reason she's
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able to hold off the trump-backed challenger. those were the two biggies in south carolina. in nevada, something unusual we don't usually focus on but we will here. a secretary of state's primary. we talk about them in the wake of the 2020 election. here there is an open seat for secretary of state in nevada this year. nevada a very politically competitive state. the winner of the republican primary last night, jim marchant is a national leader in the movement claiming that the election was stolen from donald trump in 2020. this was nevada's result in 2020. this was a very close state. marchant says, had he been secretary of state, he would have not had certified this result. he wins the republican primary, if he wins office in november he would be in position the make that decision in the 2024
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election. >> and last night mayra flores flipped a seat in houston. she will be the first mexican-born congresswoman. significant. >> this is extremely significant. here's the results here. again we are talking about south texas going down to the rio grandee valley. what she was elected to was a term that will run for only a few months because the lines are going to be redrawn. and she will run in a different direct this november. but specifically along the border, the rio grande valley, south texas we have seen county after county this district and districts to the west of it where voters moved 10, 20, 30, 40 points away from the democrats and toward the republicans. this district that mayra flores won last night barack obama got more than 60% of the vote here
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in 2012. hillary clinton won it by 22 points. it shifted that dramatically. joe biden carried it by four in 2020. and now a republican candidate has won it outright. we have seen shifts like this throughout south texas. this is the second most heavily hispanic population in the united states. we talked about the shift among hispanic voters. we saw it in 2020. the question was, would we continue to see it in 2022? i think this underscores the hispanic vote could be up for grab this is fall in ways we haven't seen in a long time. >> an 85% latino district, right. >> the second most latinos in the country. up next, the daca program. ten years later, it opens up pathways to jobs and education for hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants that know no other country but this one. the program, however is, still in jeopardy.
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u.s. with temporary protection from being deported. just last hour president biden urged congress to pass a path to citizenship for recipients. >> dreamers are friends and names in america in every way except on paper. it is time to provide them with the permanent protections they deserve. >> here with us to discuss is daca recipient and the sutive director of dream big in nevada, and a end from, i have to safe. astrid, it is great seeing you. ten years in daca's fate still up in the year. what's it like to be adreamer now? >> it is incredibly confusing. i think a lot of people have forgotten that this program is temporary. many people still ask me, they say, have you become a citizen yet? when is your citizenship ceremony? every time we come around the daca anniversary it is a
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reminder this program is temporary, was always temporary. and we have witness in court so long at this point there is a lot of misinformation out there about where the program stands as it is. for me personally, it is frustrating. it is -- daca has given me the ability to pursue so many dreams, but at the same time there is no end to it, there is no finality to what i can do. >> astrid, it's -- people may say, why give these people any special treatment? it's almost as though, you know, people don't realize, you don't know another country that's not this country. you were brought here as children. you didn't make the decision to come. >> when i was 4 years old, i came to this country. and at 24 is when daca was announced, ten years ago. i'm now 34. i think people still picture us as high school students. and there are many students that are high school students. right now, this is going to be the first graduating class where -- the last grad waiting
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class of those two qualified for dak a. which means every high school students after this that's graduating are not going qualify for the program. to think how wide the array is of aims the dream act, which was first introduced in 2001 -- over 21 years. we talk about all the numbers, we talk about how many people would be effect affected, we talk about how much money we would contribute to the country. but the bottom line for us, the program has been a blessing, but it has come with a lot of sacrifice, having to leave our parents out of the program, leaving older and younger friends out of this such important program. >> and there is still the possibility at any time that things could change. it is a great unknown that is so frustrating and so difficult. astrid, it is great seeing you. i thank you for being with us this morning. >> thank you. that wraps up the hour for me, i'm jose diaz balart.
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you can always reach me on twitter and gram, be sure to follow the show on line. thank so much for the privilege of your time. garrett haake picks up with more news right now. right now ♪♪ good morning, i'm garrett haake in washington. this hour, we should have been in the middle of another hearing by the january 6th committee. but now we will have to wait until tomorrow for that next hearing. but in the last hour, we did just get new video from the committee. you are seeing it there on your screen. it's been released as part of a letter from chairman bennie thompson to republican congressman barry louder milk of gentleman. thompson says the surveillance footage shows louder milk led a tour on january 5th. more on that in moments. plus, new details about what we can expect to hear at the committee's next hearing tomorrow. a big focus. the pressure vice president mike

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