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to build more affordable housing for everyone. now. we are coming on the air with a live look at what is happening in florida, where president biden is speaking right now in fort myers. let's listen. >> you can see a whole hell of a lot of the damage from the air. and you can imagine, because i've been to a lot of disaster areas in the last couple of months, the last six months, from fires that have burned in the west and southwest, and burned everything right to the ground, and then the entire state of emergency, and what
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that takes up, and the reservoirs out west that are down to almost zero, where we're in a situation where the colorado river looks more like a stream, and there's a lot going on, and i think the one thing this is finally ending is a discussion whether or not there is climate change and we should do something about it, but folks, i also want to, jill and i have had you all in our prayers, and i mean that sincerely, and we're here today, but we wanted to tell you in person, that we're thinking of you, and we're not leaving. we're not leaving until this gets done. i promise you that. and you know, when you walk around here, what's left of fisherman's wharf, and you don't have to have much of an emergency nation to understand that everything, everything is that is historic and titanic and an unimaginable type storm has ripped it to pieces and start from scratch and build again and it will take a lot, a lot of time, not weeks or months, it's
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going to take years, for everything to get squared away in the state of florida and fully recover and rebuild. we're here today with governor desantis and senator rubio and senator scott, and congressman, and you know, today, we have one job, and only one job, and that's to make sure the people of florida get everything that they need to fully recover. we're one of the few nations in the world that on a basis of a crisis that we face, we are the only nation that comes out better than we went into, it and that's what we're going to do this time around, come out of it better, because this is the united states of america and i emphasize united. we've seen extraordinary cooperation, at every level of government, as the governor has said, and the cooperation began before the storm hit. number one priority was saving lives. at the request of the governor, i signed an emergency declaration, let's see if this thing works, is this one working, i signed an emergency
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declaration to pre-position federal assets including food and water and generators not only in florida and other states to be ready if the worst happened. and it happened. we also pre-positioned the largest number of search and rescue teams ever assembled in the united states. ever assembled in the united states. and fema, the pentagon, the coast guard, other agencies, so we would be ready to respond immediately, immediately to work state and local officials. the search and rescue teams have knocked on nearly 70,000 doors and registered over 3,800 people. yesterday, lee county alone, the search and rescue teams examined 24,000 structures, just in this county. making sure they're accounting for everyone who still may be trapped. we have over 4,000 federal personnel on the ground, as i
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speak. and the army corps of engineers providing emergency power to hospitals across the state, nursing homes, water treatment plants, to make sure these facilities continue to operate. tens of thousands of utility workers, all across america, not just in florida, all across america, responded to the call for florida who needed help. thousands from all across america. working around the clock to get power restored. and this is about america coming together. and i really mean it. america coming together. and fema has delivered, as was mentioned, 4 million meals, millions of bottles of water, and making sure that they have the immediate necessities. but we know from experience, and i know from experience, how much anxiety and fear and concern there are to the people. we didn't lose our whole home but lightning struck and we lost an awful lot of it about 15 years ago, and we had a lot to
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go to, we had relatives nearby, it wasn't like everything was wiped out but we know about that feeling, the feeling of where am i going to put my head down on the pillow tonight and how is that going to work, are my kids going to be okay, the kids go back to school, will i be able to rebuild the home and if i have insurance to cover it and if i don't have insurance, god knows what i am going to do, we are working to speak to all of those issues because they all warrant immediate responses. i have instructed my administration to bring every element, i mean every element of the federal government together to help with the immediate needs and long-term rebuilding. yesterday, we opened a disaster recovery center right here in lee county. three more will be opened in this part of the state by tomorrow. and with more to come. and the state is co locating insurance villages at the same centers, so you're not sure what your insurance circumstance is, you're not sure what you're going to get, you can show up and determine in one place, one
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place, your insurance company, an it also applies for federal assistance at the same time. and from fema to the small business administration to the department of housing and urban development, there are many ways we can help. we've already started. already, 200,000 floridians, 200,000 families, i should say, have registered for urgent assistance like buying food, prescriptions, clothing, basics. and how many of you lost your businesses? well, the insurances may not cover, insurance may not cover everything, may not cover the full cost, so we're in a position. so folks who are going to have, who have lost their homes as well, and the question is, do you have insurance, and we'll cover the cost. well, i directed the small business administration to speed up the processing of low interest disaster loans, that can provide up to $2 million for small businesses and nonprofits, and an additional money for lost income. and 200,000, excuse me, 200,000
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for homeowners, to close the gap between what insurance won't cover and what their needs are. and that's around 1.5% interest rate. and folks, look, yesterday, the state asked me, and we immediately agreed to activate our hotel program, so individuals who need hotel rooms won't have to pay for anything. i know there's not many around here, but they can go to the nearest hotel and not have to worry about paying anything and just have the coverage. if you don't have insurance, or if you're underinsured and you found a place to rent, or your car has been destroyed, you are entitled to, may be entitled up to $37,900 in federal fund. if you need to make repairs to your home, you may be able to be eligible for 37,900. 37,900. not 39,700. to be possible to get to close to 80,000 dollars for your needs, it is available. and folks, look, the most
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important thing you can do is register. so we can help figure out who is eligible for these things. hundreds of fema personnel are going door to door and can help with that, and where you call 800-621-3362. and i'm told you're waiting for hours and hours to get through. and you're not getting anybody answering the phone. we have talked about that on the way down there in air force one and we will try to speed that up by having additional personnel to try to expand it. so we have to have a little patience to get it all done. so many people are contacting. or you can go online, to disaster assistance.gov. and find out what you're eligible to receive. or you can sign up in one of the mobile disaster recovery centers, the one that is opened here, and many more that are going to be opening. meanwhile, in the counties hardest hit, the federal government at the request of the governor, and the very beginning, said we'll cover 100% of the cleanup costs, the debris
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costs, which is a billion before it is all over if you think about it, 100% for 30 days, just extend it for another 30 days and the governor and i talked, i think he will have to come back and ask for some more beyond those 60 days because it is consequential. unless you clear the area, there is not much else you can do. and so folks, look -- >> you can see there from president biden, the feed has gone out and we will look to get it back from an alternate camera. you have heard the president there asking people to register, asking for the number of federal personnel on the ground right now helping in the hurricane ian recovery, 4,000 of them, making the connection to the climate crisis, and of above all, saying america will get through this essentially, americans will come together on this. i will check to see if we have the feed of the president back. he is speaking now. i do not have it.
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and we will bring in chris pollone, and obviously if we get the president back, technical difficulty on live tv, we will get it to you the second we have, it but it is rather, i think, a striking view, as you look at the president there alongside governor desantis, i don't know if anybody had a biden desantis meeting on the pre-midterms bingo card here but both sides, both sides say they want politics out of this, they have left politics out of this. you heard governor desantis say he appreciated all that president biden has done. we heard the president commend how florida has responded to the storm so far. >> this is obviously a moment for the president to take in firsthand just the incredible devastation. you heard him use a number of superlatives in terms of describing what he has seen today. and this is a storm, this is a tragedy for so many families down there in florida that my colleagues on the ground are seeing firsthand as well. so white house officials and the
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president himself have emphasized, this trip today is above politics. but we can't help but note that political sub-plot here as the governor is standing behind the president there, spoke before president biden, saying he has never seen the kind of cooperation, federal, state and local level in response to this storm than has been happening right now. so this is a moment that when you consider what could have been happening in this mid-term environment, a week and a day ago, hallie, president biden was scheduled to go to florida and he was going to be in orlando and hold a rally with carly crist, on the ballot against ron desantis and instead what we have is another moment where the president has gone to florida, the second time since taking office, and just like the first time, he's seated and standarding side by side -- standing side by said with the republican governor praising one another for the response. the response at this moment, both sides are praising one another. at an earlier event today, we did hear from the governor in which he did open the door maybe to some criticism down the road to come in terms of how quickly
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it is coming. let's play that sound as well. >> we may need more, and that's something that the president can obviously approve. sometimes the bureaucracy can paralyze this, and i will say, from local, state coordinates and fema, there's been less bureaucracy holding us back in this one than probably anyone i've seen. >> so this is an effort, of course, all sides, to indicate that there is the cooperation now that we're needing to see in response to this. but what the white house has emphasized and i thought it was interesting, hallie, as the president was beginning his remarks, talking about what he has seen in other states across the country, and the shear quality of disasters that the federal government is having to respond to this year, the president said it is inevitable, really to, and hard to dispute that climate change is responsible for this, that was a moment that governor desantis quietly watching on that might have had some thoughts privately that he is not sharing at this moment but otherwise this is a moment above politics for both. >> thank you, chris. let me turn to you.
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you are near where the president. is and so folks know, i want to be transparent, the feed from where the president is speaking keeps going in and out and we don't have a clean shot to bring you and the teams on the ground are working on it, but the president is visiting, the rebuilding, it is at the very beginning stages as he himself alluded to. talk to me about what you're hearing from some of the groups in florida that are looking to get this area of southwest florida back on the right track. >> yes, they're saying a couple of things, number one the need for supplies is still tremendous, and anything from water to diapers to baby wipes, food, fuel, you name it, that need is tremendous, and the second thing they're saying is they hope that the rest of the nation doesn't stop paying attention in a few days, when the cameras leave, when the attention turns to something else that people will continue to give and continue to care about this area. i spent some time this morning at a supply center that is set up by the vfw, they're just a couple of miles from where the
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president is meeting with governor desantis right now, right near the bridge that goes over to fort myers beach, they have been collecting goods from all over florida, things that i mentioned, everything from water to clothes to food, and diapers, and they are letting anybody who needs it come up and pick some of that stuff up, and take it home, and try to help them get back on their feet, or make their cleanup a little bit easier. and i asked, you know, how long do you think this will take, how long will it take to get this area back to normal, and i heard an interesting answer, because this area does rely on tourism. here's what they had to say. >> definitely it will take a few years. the sad part is, you know, we're right at the very beginning of tourist season here. and the snow birds would normally be coming down now. and the people that we said goodbye to last year, last easter, they're not coming back to, there is nothing to come
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back to. >> one of the most remarkable things i heard, some of the volunteers at that vfw center lost everything, and they decided to leave their homes, and go help their other fellow victims, in order to help this area get back on its feet. >> incredible, chris. thank you. shaq, you're at the so-called disaster recovery center, a very important part of the push to recover here. >> absolutely, and we heard the president make some news a little bit there by saying three more of these kind of centers will be opening up by tomorrow. they are fema run. there is also that coordination between the state, the state government and also the private sector. and you can see some of the lines that is showing up on screen right there. that's the main line that you're seeing into this disaster recovery center. that's for folks to go and speak to fema. many of them not knowing what they're going to say or what they need to have when they speak to those fema representatives, but they're saying that's been their only way to get the connection to fema, and some of them are still having connectivity issues and
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not able to go on a computer, they don't have television, many still don't have electricity, so this is their way to start that process of figuring out how to take those next steps and that recovery process. one thing that you're also seeing at this center, you have private insurers here, many people are telling me that before you file that fema claim, you need to go and file a claim with your private insurance, that's something that fema asks for, so people can come to this one location and get, and hear from private insurers, hear from fema, and also get assistance from more than ten state agencies that are here, at this location. so that is the sense of what the president is highlighting. and the coordination that you're seeing at the federal level and the state level. but you also get a sense of the need that is here. and based on the conversations i've been having with people here, and really across the fort myers area, there is a lot of need here, and that's the message they want to send to the president. let's listen to some of those conversations. >> what should we know about your situation?
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>> just basically everybody needs help. and that it's not one person or the other person, it's everybody here. >> i'm thankful that the president okayed whatever desantis asked for and i know they don't see eye to eye, but something like this, everybody's got to come together. >> this is my neighborhood. a lot of the families in this neighborhood need help. they need houses. >> and you know, we've been watching the body language, we've been noting the fact that it is unusual to have president biden with desantis, and about five weeks from the midterm elections, and people are also noticing that, people have noticed that tension there, but overwhelmingly, based on my conversations, they're saying they like the response that they've been seeing, they like the coordination that they've been seeing and now they want to see more and want to see what the long-term solutions are, as they go from that emergency response phase, of where do i get water, where do i get food, to now where do i live, or how do i re-start what i once had. >> how do i function in my life.
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shaq, chris, mike, thanks to all of you, appreciate it. coming up on the show, the new reaction, and new fallout in that really important georgia senate race. we'll take you live with our team on the ground, talking to voters about the bombshell report that the anti-abortion republican candidate apparently paid for one himself. but first, a huge blow to the biden administration and your wallet after opec said it will cut oil production big time. how much will you have to pay at the pump? we'll get into it next. so am i. because i'm at risk for pneumococcal pneumonia. i'm asking about prevnar 20. because there's a chance pneumococcal pneumonia could put me in the hospital. if you're 19 or older with certain chronic conditions like copd, asthma, or diabetes, you may be at an increased risk for pneumococcal pneumonia. prevnar 20 is approved in adults to help prevent infections from 20 strains of the bacteria that cause pneumococcal pneumonia. in just one dose. don't get prevnar 20 if you've had a severe
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republicans today out with a new line of attack against president biden after the country's responsible for most of the world's oil production, decided to slow things down in a big way. one of those republicans, house minority whip steve scalise saying a group of countries known as opec as r-in his words laughing at the president and cut production by 2 million barrels a day. the opec plus group of two dozen countries including russia now hoping the move will drive oil
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prices up after they have been falling for months of the biden administration as you know has been trying to convince them not to make this move something that evidently did not work and now with prices again on the rise, the talking point about lower gas prices here at home and they have been lower, might be off the table. i want to bring in nbc news senior white house correspondent kelly o'donnell and msnbc business news reporter brian chung. it is a move that is clear, shots fired at the west basically, and also meant to very much drive up gas prices, what are consumers, what are americans here, when will they see the impact? >> that is exactly what is expected with gas prices to go up and some at gas buddy saying it could raise the price of gasoline from 15 to 30 cents a gallon and right now at $3.83 national average that would imply prices above $4 very soon. now these cuts won't be taking place until november, so it might be some time before you feel that, and of course the prices that you pay at the pump
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will be different depending on what region you're at in the country and it is a political conundrum for the biden administration that wanted to keep prices low before the midterms, and how the market pricing unfolding over the next few weeks, nonetheless, the white house saying it is a mistake and misguidance from the opec nations. >> and kelly o'donnell, the reaction obviously from the biden administration, the white house didn't want this to happen, tried to apparently get it to not happen, it did, talk about the potential political dangers and what if anything they can do to try to counter-act this. >> the white house chose his words carefully and they're muted. they say the president is disappointed in this short-sighted decision. that is certainly the kind of thing that would come off as rather tepid on the surface, and it obviously carries much more weight internally for the political ramifications rolling in to the midterms, where gas prices have been a very volatile
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issue and one where this white house has seen a steady decline, almost a daily decline, for weeks, and something where they've been able to pull the reins back on inflation. other products have continued to go up in price. gas prices have stabilized. and that is something that the biden white house has tried to tap. they have also of course, they also are concerned about this because they believe that this is unstable for the global economy, and very much point to the figure of blame quietly at russia. russia of course with the ukraine war, that they are trying to put this pressure on the west, with the political volatility that exists there, and to create a much more sort of volatility in the marketplace globally, which of course then affects american consumers. one of the responses from the biden white house is to increase the available supply from the strategic petroleum reserve that the u.s. maintains, and so there will be an additional release to try to offset that change to what is available on the marketplace, and they say they
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want to talk to congress about trying to make other changes, and kind of big picture, talking about how this is another sign that the u.s. needs to be as energy independent as possible. the timing isn't good. the political ramifications are not good. it's a sign of the tense sort of battle between the u.s. and russia. and the fragile relationship between the u.s. and saudi arabia as well. >> kelly o'donnell, thank you, brian, our thanks to you as well. still ahead, here on the show, seven months pregnant when roe was overturned. she is now running for congress and getting personal. showing the birth of her own son in a now viral campaign ad. we'll talk about why coming up. first, republicans rallying around their anti-abortion senate nominee in georgia, after a report he paid for one himself, our team is talking with voters there and they are not on the same page. >> i believe it. i don't really care about what the race is and who the person is. i care about what they stand by. for an everyday item to become dangerous. tide pods child-guard pack
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for a woman in 2009 and the woman wanting to remain private according to private concerns and has a receipt and a note from walker and the daily beast crob crated the details with a close friend at the time and nbc news has not verified these allegations or independently reviewed those documents. our team is in georgia on the ground talking with voters about what they have to say about an anti-abortion candidate. >> herschel walker would not impact the way i vote. he would not be a consideration. >> it doesn't impact my vote in this case. >> maybe he made a bad decision at the time but his views could change. >> walker today on defense using the scandal to raise more money to the tune of something like $500,000 since that daily beast story dropped. it comes as new reporting from "politico" suggests walker's campaign knew about the abortion allegations for months but were banking ton not coming out until after election day. and i want to bring in meredith
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mcgraw, the political reporter, and i want to start with you on the ground with reporters and get a sense of what people make of this. >> well, that's right. i'm here in marietta, georgia. about 30 minutes north of atlanta and this used to be a deeply red part of the state and now shifted blue. i have been talking to voters all day, and herschel walker paid a woman pregnant with his child to have an abortion and this is not changing their opinion and whether they want to stick with him and like him and those who don't want to stick with him and because of the domestics a buse allegation, they were not going to vote for him anyway. there is a lot of passion from voters. take a listen. >> i'm embarrassed. obviously, he has done all of these things, because it's right out in the open, and not back out. >> i'm voting for herschel
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walker, he made a mistake and i'm more interested in what somebody is going to do for me. >> so there you heard it. voters saying that they are both embarrassed, but also some other voters saying they're sticking with herschel walker. i should tell you, that there is a real question about sort of the veracity of these claims, some voters tell me they don't believe them and that's why they will stick with herschel walker and the woman making the allegations saying she is being anonymous because of privacy concerns to the daily booes beast, but i also surprisedly heard from voters, what if it is true, who cares if it is true, people make mistakes, people have baggage and i will stick with herschel walker and it shows how voters are sticking with this sports hero in many ways here, in georgia, but i also talked to another woman who was very angry at the fact that herschel walker is really an opponent of abortion rights and he doesn't want any exceptions for rape or incest and says that was hypocritical. so a lot of republicans sticking
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with herschel walker. >> yamiche, thank you, in marietta. >> herschel walker was on fox this morning where he outright denied the allegation. let me play a piece of that from his appearance. >> it is not true. it's a lie. it's like they're trying to bring up my past to hurt me. but they don't know that bringing up my past only energizes me to go out and fight even harder. >> how is walker saying publicly shape up with what his team is telling you behind the scenes there? how does that square? >> well, this report that herschel walker paid for a woman's abortion back in 2009, "politico," we have not independently verified that report. but what we were told from the republican operatives across the state of georgia was that there were concerns that an abortion allegation, and those concerns were made to medical walker's own team, and this is well known across the state as a potential liability for herschel walker as
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a senate candidate there. >> somebody close to walker's campaign told your team, and i want to read the quote here, i think people were holding out hope that we have five weeks to go and it would never come out but you can never bet on the waiting game. was the waiting game the strategy here for the campaign? >> you know, i don't know what, you know, if that was their strategy here. i think this is sort of what is known in politics as definitely an october surprise. but i think what, given more legs to this story, even more than the allegation itself, is herschel walker's own son, christian walker, a well-known conservative influencer, over half a million follows on instagram, going on social media and calling his own dad a liar, and a hypocrite, and he's talked a lot about absentee fathers and about abortion on his own social media accounts, and so he's really added more fuel to all of
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this, as the campaign and as herschel walker himself has denied these allegations, and called them a flat-out lie. >> meredith mcgraw, from "politico," thank you for your reporting. yamiche, thanks as well. a viral campaign ad has a lot of people talking. katie darling, a democrat running for a house seat against the republican minority whip steve scalise and in the ad giving birth. darling is kind of a long shot in the republican strong hold district and launched her campaign while seven months pregnant not long after roe v. wade was overturned this summer and in the ad calls louisiana's abortion ban one of the most strict and most severe in the country. here's a piece of it. >> we should be putting pregnant women at ease, not putting their lives at risk. i'm running for congress because i want that better path, for you, for her, and for him. >> i want to bring in the congressional candidate behind this now viral ad, katie
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darling, thank you very much for being on the show this afternoon. >> thanks for having me. >> for so many women, you know, the act of giving birth is vulnerable and it is for many deeply private and here you are, making it public. talk about why and why now. >> well, i was seven months pregnant when roe v. wade was overturned, with a high risk pregnancy. and louisiana had a trigger abortion ban that left me terrified to be pregnant in louisiana. having a high risk pregnancy, i was scared that if i had a complication, i wouldn't receive life-saving care, and that the power would be taken out of my hands if i had an emergency situation. so that's what motivated me to get into the race, and to create the ad and share my experience of my pregnancy. watching that video, i love seeing that image of my son and
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my family, and i wanted to share with my, with the constituents in the first district, what my family represents, and i wanted to advocate for folks who want to have a choice on november 8th. they want to have a pro choice option in this district. so i wanted them to connect to me and my family and what it feels like to live in louisiana right now. >> to be clear, you knew going into this that you would have cameras in there and you would do this ad at the time? >> yes, we had one video grapher in the room who was very sensitive to the moment. yes. it was a beautiful partnership. >> i wonder about the reaction that you're hearing on this, because the context so viewers know, you are running in a very republican district, solidly republican in a district that has as we mentioned has a near total abortion ban. what you are hearing as this ad
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has gone viral across the country? >> you know, i was nervous there would be backlash, but there has been overwhelming support. 99% positive. and i am more encouraged than ever and feel strongly that we made the right decision to share this in mat moment, because folks are really connect -- this intimate moment, because folks are really connecting to it from their own experiences and their own stories. >> when you look at the latest nbc news polling, fight for abortion access ranks fifth in access to voters across the country, below the economy, and threats to democracy and cost of living and jobs et cetera. do you feel it is different in louisiana, given the laws in place in your state? and why center your campaign on abortion rights? we talked about how deeply personal this is for you, how the overturning of roe, your pregnancy let you to get into the race. >> i think those other issues are very valid and i want to say those are issues that are issues i loo -- like to address when in
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office and for me, to have this abortion ban, my life was at risk and my child's life was at risk because of the nature of my pregnancy oons and i think it is important for folks to recognize how harmful this legislation is. so people like me have been speaking up around the country. and we need to be loud about our stories so that people don't have to suffer, so that folks don't have to lose their lives unnecessarily, and that we have access to medical care that has been standard for a years. but i will acknowledge that the other issues listed are also very important issues to be addressed. >> and many political observers are looking at the race, i'm sure you're not surprised, and steve solis, as a very uphill battle here. you have given thought to what happens if you do not win, what is the longer term strategy if you have one, what work do you plan to do to try to continue this advocacy on abortion
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accession? >> well i have been involved in my community for a long time and so regardless of what happens to this race, i plan to continue to volunteer and be active with organizations in my community, and with the democratic party, so i'm going to stay active regardless of what happens. >> louisiana congressional candidate katie darming, thaurch for being on the show on msnbc this afternoon. appreciate your time. next up new protest video from inside a school in iran. what is not in the video what is making headlines. live to tehran for the latest. and plus vladimir putin raising the stakes in ukraine. why are his troops retreating in some key spots? we'll take you to our team on the ground next. the ground next. d. tony, the new outlaw's got double pepper jack and juicy steak. let's get some more analysis on that, chuck. mmm. pepper jack. tender steak. very insightful, guys. the new subway series. what's your pick? woman tc: my a1c stayed here, it needed to be here.
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you remember when that happened, it was big news, this is according to unnamed officials. certainly, potentially, easily could be the latest escalation in this war. we should note that nbc news has not confirmed this reporting. also today, russian president slapz annexing four regions of ukraine making them citizens of russia and the ukrainian forces have liberated eight settlements forcing russia to retreat and revealing some scary scenes left behind. erin mclaughlin is in kharkiv with the latest. talk to us about what you're seeing now. >> reporter: we describe the scene left behind by russian occupation as scary. i can tell you, they're terrifying. and in the kharkiv region, we have seen village after village completely destroyed. we were about 20 minutes outside of the devastated town of izyum, a village crushed, devastation as far as the eye could see, it looked like a hurricane,
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earthquake and tornado struck all at once, most of the people had fled, we spoke with one resident who managed to survive the russian occupation in the area and he described how a bomb fell in his backyard, leaving a 30-foot hole, and how when the russians moved in, they made him stay inside, only one person could leave his home at a time, to get food. and i asked him how did he survive, he said i do not know. that is the story in so many villages in the kharkiv region. as ukrainian forces are pushing further and further east, and to the south, according to president zelenskyy, reclaiming some 12 settlements alone this week, and both of those areas that are discovered more and more of the devastation. one ukrainian soldier saying that they're fighting for their freedom, and fighting for their children, but all of this is coming at an extraordinarily high price. this as president putin signed into law today, making it official, a law passed by both houses of russian parliament, the annexation, the illegal
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annexation of these four territories, neither of which has any full, he has any full control over, continuing with the spectacle calling up 200,000 russian troops to join in the fight. at the same time, though, ukrainian president zelenskyy downing down saying they will not stop until every single russian soldier is out of ukraine. to that effect, the white house announcing $625 million in additional aid, including four himars systems, the specific rocket launchers cha the ukrainians credit for turning this war and the ukrainians say they will continue until every single part of their country is completely lib rated. >> erin mclaughlin, thank you. kproerz defiance at universities in iran across the cun triv. dozens of students protesting
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with security forces deployed to campuses, this unarrest from earlier this week. and take a look at this. students from the southern part of iran, shouting down a para-military leader help welcome the country's crackdown. listen for a second. they're clanting for his group and i'm quoting, to go and get lost. and the tehran bureau chief is following the story for us. i want to show the footage from the center for human rights in iran, a group based in new york, nbc news has not been able to independently verify but it shows iranian school girls removing their head scarves and chanting this is the year of blood. talk to me about what you're seeing and hearing with the situation in schools there right now. >> it is a situation what is really extraordinary. fascinating. more than anyone else in the country, iranian students that have stepped up their protest in defiance of the crackdown, and a whole range of issues that have been festering for decades. universities in this country have been a traditional hot bed of dissent. and that's where we see most of the protests taking place in the last few days.
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on the campuses across the country, and more often than not, it's young women at the forefront of these events and we haven't seen an iran until a couple of days, high school girls have joined the movement, 13, 14-year-old girls participating publicly in fairly large numbers taking huge risks, removing their hijabs, chanting anti-government slogans and the slogan of these protests, women, life, freedom. authorities don't like this one bit. iran's education minister accused the enemy of targeting schools and universities. other officials say that the security forces should be prepared to counter the protests by young iranians who they sclam have been trapped by the ex osh exposure to the internet. they are generation-z. they are very much connected through social media and they
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are determined to gain some new rights in this unbelievable movement that's going on. let me reiterate. we have never seen girls of this age ever come out and protest in iran before. this is another new layer of what's going on here. >> you said it. it's extraordinary. it really is. when you look at the, you know, sort of stepping back here, the response from the u.p.s., you have seen president biden promise further costs on iran at some point this week. we have seen the administration move to sanction members of the morality police, for example, officials there moved to boost internet access. that was an issue during parts of this demonstration over the course of the last several weeks. what is the impact on these moves? >> reporter: i think any efforts to help people like trying to find ways of circumventing the internet blockades and words of support and encouragement are always welcome. reality is that some of those efforts are not going to have any tangible effect.
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sanctioning the morality police isn't going to hinder their operations. any individual working for them isn't going to be traveling to the u.s. nor are they like to have assets in the u.s. that could be frozen. being personally sanctioned by the u.s. would be a badge of honor for many. allowing the internet to flow freely would be a significant change. president biden said he wants to make it easier for iranians to access the internet including outside platforms and services. elon musk has said he is launching starlink over iran. but they haven't seen the effects of these things here yet. the internet is still throttled by the authorities and fully controlled by them. they block all the apps. so these are still early days and i guess iranians are hopeful that these things will be able to make it easier for them to have wider internet access to be able to upload videos, to be able to communicate with each other. it hasn't happened yet. again i said it's early days.
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these things take a long time to come into effect. it can't happen soon enough for the iranian people. >> it is just incredibly compelling as a story. thank you for being there for us. one of the few western journalists on the ground there. during the chaos of january 6th one bizarre incident highlighted by lawyers for the oath keepers on trial for seditious conspiracy. a capitol police officer, it's tough to see, looks to be wearing a maga hat escorted by an oath keeper with a megaphone. a long line of officers in riot gear and here is video of that moment. the officer takes a maga hat from somebody and putting it on. a lot of speculation about what's going on here. what does it mean? does it mean law enforcement was -- had some nexus to these far-right groups, et cetera? nbc spoke with that oath keeper and an attorney representing the former capitol police lieutenant who resigned after january 6th and they are painting a different picture of that
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moment. ryan riley is joining us now. we should note that this oath keeper retired police officer has not been charged with anything. but some of the oath keepers on trial who have been charged are using what he did in their defense. talk to us about your reporting. >> reporter: essentially, they are trying to take credit for what he did. if you look at the video, there is extensive video evidence i have reviewed, countless videos of what happened and there is a key video that shows that essentially the officer asked for assistance and this retired police officer from new york, michael nichols, offered assistance. said how can we help. they brought a number of officers from inside-outside. if you look at the chaos at the u.s. capitol that day you sort of get the sense of what was happening. people inside. there were people outside. there was no way to form a line. what happened with the line of officers that had been inside is they got through that mob, came
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down, went back into the building at another point and were redeployed where they helped assist other law enforcement officers. but essentially they were pinned down near the rotunda the top of the stairs there and in this moment allowed them to get out. what's weird, though, is that a lot of the crowd thinks essentially that the capitol police are giving up, are giving them the building. and that's not what happened afterwards. in fact, because of this crowd going through, because the doorways were clear, they were able to get the doors shut temporarily. the problem was there were a lot of folks stuck inside so they -- the doors eventually got back open again. essentially, what the officer was trying to do, this former lieutenant was trying to do with the u.s. capitol police was to get those officers out of that situation. there is nobody communicating with him on the radio. you see that in the videos. it was essentially just this chaos this day. in the oath keeper trial now essentially they are trying to take credit for what this retired law enforcement officer did that day to help officers
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because he is loosely affiliated with the oath keepers and was part of that online. but the key part is that he was not part of this broader what federal prosecutors say is a seditious conspiracy and to stop the peaceful transfer of pow their day. >> ryan reilly, great reporting as always. thanks. thanks for watching this hour of msnbc. find us on twitter at hallie on msnbc and as always over on our nbc news streaming channel nbc news now tonight and every week night. show number two, 5:00 eastern. "deadline whitehouse" with nicole wallace starts after the break. see you tomorrow. wallace start break. see you tomorrow don't just connect your business. (dock worker) right on time. (vo) make it even smarter. we call this enterprise intelligence. the new subway series menu. the greatest sandwich roster ever assembled. for more on the new boss, here's patrick mahomes. incredible - meatballs, fresh mozzarella and pepperon-
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