people lost their lives as they were celebrating, such a festive occasion. ten other people were injured. lindsey reiser picks up with more news right now. ♪♪ good morning. i'm lindsey reiser. right now the search for answers in the wake of the latest mass shooting in america. police say the suspect behind the massacre at a dance hall in monterey park, california, is dead after a dramatic standoff. ten people were killed, ten others injured. during a celebration of the lunar new year. it's the deadliest mass shooting in the u.s. so far this year. and the 36th mass shooting since january 1st according to the gun violence archive. that statistic raising the question being asked far too often, when will this end?

>> just confirming there's no safe place anymore. there's nowhere for you to be safe anymore. it's a scary thought that this world is not safe anymore. >> what we know about the 72-year-old suspect, the weapon police say he used in the attack, and the impact the massacre has already had on lunar new year celebrations around the world. president biden faces growing scrutiny after a justice department search of his delaware home turned up even more documents with classified markings. a source tells nbc news the search was prompted not by the doj, but by the white house itself. we'll tell you what president biden's lawyers are not revealing this morning. plus a power struggle taking shape in the southwest. this morning, ruben gallego launching his senate bid in arizona. the clash this sets up with kristen sinema and what could mean for democrats' hopes to

keep the senate in 2024. we start with the breaking news from california. joining us right now is kathy park, ken dilanian in washington, and a national security analyst. kathy, what more do we know about the suspect and the victims. >> officials are reassuring the community that there is no longer a theft after an hours-long manhunt yesterday. it all happened right behind me at the dance hall around 10:30 saturday night. people were having a good time. it was a lunar new year dance, we are told, dozens of people are inside. that is when the suspect entered this building, began shooting indiscriminately killing ten and injuring ten others. he went to another location a

few minutes away from here, entered another dance hall. however, a good samaritan, a hero, we are told, was able to disarm the suspect and the suspect got away. but it was that hours long intense man hunt. police were able to corner a white van where the suspect was inside. when they breached the vehicle, they discovered that he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. so many questions about a motive. but the investigation is still ongoing. and earlier today, our kate snow was able to talk to the mayor of monterey park with a little bit more of what may have triggered the individual to carry out such a heinous attack. take a listen. >> we do understand that he may have had a history of visiting this dance hall and, you know, perhaps motivation has to do with some personal relationships.

>> reporter: there's still so many questions. we still don't have confirmation from authorities about the exact motive, and if the suspect actually new that people inside, some of these dance halls, that he had entered. but i do want to talk about the victims because there were ten people who died in this mass shooting, ten others were injured. at the last press conference yesterday, we were told that seven people were still hospitalized. a few moments ago we got names of the victims. both women in their 60s. and we are told that there were five men and five women who are among the dead. but obviously in the coming hours, hopefully, we'll get more i.d.s on these individuals who lost their lives this weekend. lindsey? >> kathy, thank you. ken, we know president biden has offered federal support in this case. police say they've been inundated with calls after the shooting. what do we know about the status of the investigation?

>> at this point, the big remaining question is motive. the focus of the investigation will be interviewing relatives and friends of the suspect, examining his personal effects, and hunting through online activity that he may have had. obviously the task is complicated by the fact that the suspect apparently shot himself. law enforcement officials say the suspect had no apparent criminal history and investigators are looking into the possibility that domestic violence may have played a part in what happened. investigators will have to be sure they have complete clarity on what happened when police closed in on the suspect in attorneys, yesterday. officials said officers heard one shot as they approached the van and the suspect's body was found slumped over the wheel. they want to fully understand after the suspect used the van to flee and bystanders stopped him from attacking a second dance hall. a worker there said he wrestled the gun out of the suspect's hands. that was about 17 minutes after he opened fire at the star ballroom dance studio in

monterey park. another avenue of inquiry will be the magazine he used. the l.a. sheriff said that's illegal to possess in california. it's worth noting that this suspect's age is a real outlier. research has found that the median age of gunman is 32 and there has only been one other mass shooter over the age of 70. >> after what ken said, talk to us about the scope of an investigation like this, where you have potentially two crime scene, but also the manhunt and the standoff. how do investigators go about piecing it all together? >> kudos to law enforcement for

ending this when they did, confronting that cargo van. >> but, rather, targeted locations, that seems to indicate there was a personal -- the places that were targeted and statistics tell us that domestic violence, if that's what this turns out to be, often, extends outward to other locations and that's where the person acts out against their real or perceived beef against a person or a place. we may be looking at this here the other thing that i always do and i take this as a teachable moment, lindsey, in this day and age, we got to learn personally from each of these incidents.

what do i mean? i mean the run, hide, fight mantra that we teach so often is very much applicable. understand when you enter a public place that this could happen and think about where you would exit and how you would exit. the other thing that's teachable, citizens wrestled this guy and got his gun from him. think about how you would respond. it's sad to think about it. but it's something we must all be aware of today. >> it certainly is sad. the l.a. county sheriff says he believes one of the weapons used yesterday was not legal to own in the state of california. could that reveal anything to investigators about where he got the weapon or anything that could be useful here?

>> they're going to look into guns and enforcement and gun-related crimes. yes, we'll figure out how this gun was altered, was it stolen, who did this seemingly illegal alteration, extended magazine is what we're hearing. but here's the larger question. there's people all social media right now saying, look, california has these really stringent gun laws and even they couldn't stop a mass shooting like this. my response is, that is correct because we don't have consistent federal solutions and laws across the country. so, yes, a state is trying to do the right thing, but if other states in their region do not, then it erodes the effects. we still need a federal national solution and we need an atf, if we're really going to get

serious about gun crime. we need to resource and staff the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms so they can actually enforce our gun laws. >> thank you to all of you. i want to bring in amanda wynn, the founder of rise, a collection of leaders from some of the largest grassroots -- what was your first reaction when you heard happened? >> i called my family and it was lunar new year. even though we're taught that lunar new year sets a precedent for the rest of the year, you're supposed to celebrate that year, all i could think of was, is my family okay. and i know that so many other people within the community also have these horrific thoughts. >> you talk about lunar new year being a sign of prosperity to

come, it's supposed to be obviously a joyous moment. we know that a lot of new year celebrations after this attack were altered, canceled. i want to read part of a statement. they said, this tremendous act of violence on one of the most important days of the year for many asian americans at a place where they come together and celebrate, is sending shockwaves through our community. can you give us a sense of what it means that this attack happened on the lunar new year, out of all days and what it feels like to not feel safe to celebrate? >> it is conflicting. this day is sacred to us. it is the most important day of the year. and to be a member of this community means to carve out identity, especially in light of the rising violence that has happened towards the community. this day is special

traditionally and it's special in the context of history right now. and to have this violence just wreck this moments has been -- has been really difficult. i spent last night trying not to cry because i don't want to set that precedent for the rest of the year. it's also a moment of reflection because there is a true conversation that needs to happen about the rights of domestic violence within our community. 60% of asian american, pacific island women have reported to be survivors of domestic violence or sexual violence. there's a very real conversation -- >> there's a level of fear.

i want people to see is have more empathy. this idea that aapis don't actually below, questioning where are you from, really, where are you from when people have been here for generations. focuses want to support the aapi community, i encourage you to support your local businesses, restaurants, entrepreneurs or educate yourself on the history of aapis in this country. >> amanda wynn, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. still ahead, a voluntary search has yielded more classified material at president biden's wilmington home. the new pressure it's putting on the white house. plus, we're weeks into 2023,

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♪♪ more breaking news this morning. a former top fbi official in the bureau's new york office has been arrested. four senior law enforcement

sources say he faces charges in connection with violating russian sanctions. ken dilanian is with us. he's the former head of counterintelligence for the new york city office. he's due in federal court later today in manhattan. what do we know and what more could we learn? >> this is a massive and shocking case, lindsey. we're still going through the details of this news release from the u.s. attorney in the southern district of new york. but he was arrested over the weekend and he's facing five counts related to business dealings after he left the fbi in 2018 with a russian oligarch who he had some role in investigating while he was inside the fbi. this is a huge, huge black eye, a whiff of corruption here with a former senior fbi official. the head of counterintelligence in new york office is a very important spy-hunting job. you're dealing with many

counterintelligence officials -- issues involving russia and china. he left that job. he began doing business with russian oligarchs according to allegations and is now charged with money laundering and conspiring to help the oligarchs evade russia sanctions. a big deal, a shocking below to the fbi today. >> frank, we'll go ahead and give you the floor here. help give us the context of just how big this is. >> this is a punch of the gut for those of us who worked alongside charlie. he had access to some of the most sensitive counterintelligence investigations in the fbi. i think, lindsey, one of the lessons here is that, look, the reach of the russian intelligence services and the corruption that they bring with them, those around putin has now reached into someone who held a senior executive position in the

fbi and actually as ken said, had investigated him during his career. as i read the facts in the doj press release, i see this isn't an administrative error, it isn't a failure to report, this is deliberate -- there's allegations here of shell companies avoiding the scrutiny of the government, understanding he was violating sanctions, going to great lengths to use aliases. this is bad. if it's true, it's horrible, and it's a lesson here that the russian government will do whatever it takes to get their own mission done. >> thank you for coming back with me. today the white house is responding to the discovery of additional classified material during a justice department search of the president's private residence in wilmington. >> a lot of people are asking how could this happen? and that's the answer that we're stuck on.

there's no answer being provided. >> well, again, i'm going to stress this again, i understand that there's a desire for public disclosure of information, that there's a desire for facts to come out, but it's important that the full set of facts be gathered by the justice department and then presented publicly so that people can understand all of these details. >> according to the president's personal attorney, six additional items were found, including documents with classified markings during a 13-hour voluntary search. but they have revealed little about the scope of those. joining me now mike memoli, lisa rubin and charles carbellow. what do we know about the additional items and the white house's cooperation at this stage? >> we're limited to what bob bower said in a statement announcing the fact that we have this unprecedented step of the fbi conducting a full and complete search of the personal

home of the president of the united states while he's in office. bower in that statement saying they had access to materials that included handwritten notes, files, papers binders not just from his time as vice president, saying it also included handwritten notes from his time as vice president and paperwork going back to his time as a senator. this is what's significant to me, lindsey, by what we learned over the weekend, the development is that the white house and the president's attorney is no longer in control of what is being reviewed here. the last 2 1/2 months we had the president and his team making voluntary disclosures to federal officials about what they had obtained and now even before the special counsel is fully in place, we have his team now taking steps with the invitation of the white house, but certainly the beginning of a phase in which they're going to be directing the steps from here

on out. the president touching down on the white house after speaking the weekend in delaware. that's his home that he purchased while he was out of office in 2017, one of the questions we'll be asking today, is after the search of his home in wilmington, will that property and will additional entities related to the president now also be subject to the same kind of more rigorous research that happened in his wilmington home? >> lisa, this is going to sound like the frank hour because his name has been invoked so much. but over the weekend, i interviewed him, and he had written a column saying that now is a good idea for joe biden to invite the fbi into his house. is this a good move on both parts? >> i think it's a great move and i'll contrast it with what we saw during the early stages of the mar-a-lago records investigation. after the department of justice sent the subpoena to trump in florida, you might remember that

the department of justice went to mar-a-lago in june, retrieved a folder full of classified documents. while they were there, they asked president trump's legal team, can we look at the storage room and they were refused. so president biden is trying to give the absolute opposite level of cooperation here which is extensive. at my invitation, welcome to my home, you can search whatever you need to. and they were there for 12-plus hours. i think it's an important move and i'm glad that after the search we learned about it. my guess is, that if additional locations are searched and they probably will be, we'll hear about it after the fact so that there's not paparazzi and media gathered there that might interfere with the integrity of those searches. >> some of the documents were from biden's time as vice president and as a senator. what questions do you have about this? >> well, lindsey, i think the big story here is political in

nature because joe biden presented himself as someone who was vastly different than donald trump. someone who could be trusted. someone who respected institutions and although the cases are different, they are also similar in many ways and this really does undermine biden's argument. there's talk about this being the most transparent administration ever. i think that's the case that's going to be harder and harder to make, especially when you think about how long it took the biden administration to disclose it when all of this was going on, when the initial documents were first discovered on the second of november. i think what we have to keep an eye on here is the growing political controversy and what does this do for joe biden's aspirations for 2024? what do other democrats start saying and how do they start reacting to this growing controversy. >> and just real quick, because i do want to ask another question of mike.

just in response to that, that's the political nature here of the apples and oranges, but legally speaking, the two are still very different. >> at least, lindsey, in terms of what we know now, i would still say that the two are very different. however, if and when we learned that president biden was personally involved in any of the packing or access to these materials and that involvement was, in fact, willful on his part, we would see a more legally equivalent situation. the other way in which they're distinct, there's a ton of evidence of obstruction by president trump and those around him. we haven't seen anything like that around him yet with respect to president biden and we've seen the white house going out of its way to show the exact opposite. >> nbc news has confirmed ron klain is expected to step down in the coming weeks. jeff zients will take over. what more do you know?

>> it's a significant change of guard. he was his first chief of staff as vice president for two years. this is the beginning of potentially a more significant staff turnover for a pretty stable senior staff at the white house. it's tied to the state of the union address as the president transitions into re-election mode. ron klain will stay close to the biden orbit and helping to advise that campaign when it launches. >> thank you. next, more from monterey park as investigators search for answers in the deadly mass shooting there. what one local activist who is in town for lunar new year celebrations with family says about turning pain into action. n . to help take you from 9 to none. power through with vicks dayquil severe. kids are so expensive, dad. now katie needs braces. maybe try switching your car insurance to progressive. you could save hundreds. i don't know, dad.

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and now we're learning more about the victims including some of their names. josh lederman is in monterey park following the investigation. josh, what have you learned? >> reporter: we're at the back entrance to the star dance club here in monterey park which is closed now until further notice. the owners say to give the communities a chance to grieve and process what has happened here. on the ground you can see what appears to be bloodstains. we believe this is one of the exits that was used to evacuate victims who were coming out of the building, but in the meantime, we're getting the first information from officials of confirming who some of the people who died in this incident were. those ten fatalities that we've been talking about. until now, we haven't had any of their names confirmed by the government. but now the l.a. county coroner's office, we're hearing that one of the victims was my nhan, a 65-year-old woman, and another was lilan li.

and the remaining victims included a female in her 50s, two women in their 60s, two males in their 60s. and three males who were in their 70s. officials are not yet naming those remaining victims as they go through the process of trying to notify next of kin and make sure they are aware before the public is aware. but this is starting to answer some of the questions in a community that for the last 36 hours or so now has been wondering, people have been wondering if their loved ones are alive or not. in fact, we've seen family members showing up to the resource center that is available, trying to find out whether people they've been trying to contact since saturday night are, in fact, among either the survivors who are injured or, unfortunately, the dead. we hope to be able to get some of those additional names soon. but the other burning question this community has, of course, what is the motive? why did this happen? that is something law

enforcement still has not been able to answer, lindsey. >> bloodstains outside a dance hall. josh lederman, thank you. as we mentioned, the shooting in monterey park saturday sadly wasn't the first mass shooting incident in the u.s. this year. in fact, it wasn't the only one that day. less than an hour and more than 1800 miles away, 12 people were shot in what authorities are calling a targeted attack at a club in alabama. joining me now, a member of the group mom demand actions. you are from california, close to monterey park. you're celebrating the lunar new year in the area with your family. how are you processing this? >> well, i've been a gun violence reduction activist for the last five years. and so the news of mass

shootings is nothing new, unfortunately, but to be here in the los angeles area with my family for the lunar new year celebration has been really hard. for something like this to happen so close to home. >> we talked to the founder of rise and he talked about the significance of the lunar new year, how heartbreaking it has to have it happen at all. but she said she was trying not to dry because she didn't want that to set the tone for the rest of year. do you feel the same way? and how by looking at these 36 mass shootings so far, how do you not feel overwhelmed by all of this? >> well, you can either become overwhelmed and remain inactive, or you can take this as a call to action. i think that's one of the basic premises is that we take our grief, our sympathy and it's not just about, you know, our heart being with people, but our legs

and our mouths and our bodies being with people and turning that grief into something tangible by lobbying our legislators, by speaking out at rallies, by galvanizing the community, particularly the aapi community which times has stood back in terms of rallying or advocating for different positions. but really it is a call to action. and when people see that gun violence can take a tole in your very own community, that's the time to act. it's not a time to sit on the couch and say, well, what can we do about it, because there's a lot we can do. >> what does that action look like? california has some of the strictest gun laws in the country. it's home to background checks, it bans military-assault-style

weapons and became one of the first states to enact a red flag law that allows communities to remove firearms from someone believed to be a danger to themselves or others. frank earlier in the show said this isn't evidence that those aren't working, it's evidence that we need something more uniform around the country. what do you believe? >> absolutely. we are only -- our gun laws are only as strong as our gun laws in our neighboring states. if there's a state that borders california, you can fly into california, really what we need is something more on a national scale to make sure that ghost guns are regulated, that background checks are uniform, that the way that people arm themselves or can be armed is regulated. and then especially when it comes to red flag laws. what we -- what we don't know about this incident is, what types of guns there were, what the motive was, was it a

domestic violence incident or not. but what we do know is that red flag laws work to take guns away from people who are known to have mental health issues, they're suffering from an episodic mental health issue or if they have threatens people with violence. if you know that there's somebody -- california has a red flag law and we've put training programs in order to fulfill the promise of red flag laws. i know the san diego city attorney's office is one of the pioneers in this area where they have taken away guns from people who fall under this category and i think that just taking a look at -- at this specific circumstance without knowing more, we can't say that a red flag law would have been able to do something, you could have reported something to the police

or tried to take guns away from somebody who was having that kind of violent episode. >> thank you for your time. >> thank you. next, arizona's senate showdown. the democrat jumping into the 2024 race there, setting up a fight with newly independent incumbent kyrsten sinema. spotify forced to face the music, cutting 6% of its workforce. what the latest wave could signal about our country's economy. atest wave could signal about our country's economy. high quality protein to help manage hunger and support muscle health. try boost® today.

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gallego's announcement, he took direct aim at her record. >> there is no lobbyist for working -- we could argue different ways about how to do it. but at the core, if you're more likely to be meeting with the powerful than the powerless, you're doing this job incorrectly. >> joining me right now is vaughn hillyard who is covering every aspect of this race and back with us, former republican congressman of florida. what kind of dynamics does this set up, and what are some other names that you're hearing? >> i think arizona is going to play a key role in helping the country better understand, what does it mean to be a democrat in the year of 2024, but also what does it mean to be a republican in the year of 2024. you have only one candidate who is so far running for the u.s. senate in arizona and that would be ruben gallego.

kyrsten sinema has not announced her re-election bid yet. blake masters is looking at it again. on the democratic side, right now it's ruben gallego. i am told that the a sheriff is taking phone calls. so gallego could have a challenger, but that's because kyrsten sinema is a registered independent and you're looking at what could be a three-way race. and that is where kyrsten sinema would, if she were to run, make the claim that she help passed the bipartisan infrastructure package and she tried to go to washington to do exactly what he sold arizonians she would do in 2018, and that is to become an independent voice. but what you saw that when it came from voting down the $15 minimum wage amendment to refusing to help democrats press an increase in the corporate tax

rate to, you know, not being willing to push aside the filibuster, this is what led to this moment and ruben gallego still 18 months from the primary to jump into what will be a really telling race and one in which democrats they cannot afford to lose the senate seat come 2024. but now he's going to make the case that a liberal democrat can win here again. >> carlos, what do you think this means not only for the republican party, but really the importance here of arizona. >> well, lindsey, this is a high-risk exercise for democrats and this gives republicans some hope that they might be able to reclaim a senate seat in arizona after losing two senate seats in the last few years here. there are pretty extremist republicans looking at running and the only way they could win is if democrats split their vote, if kristen sinema does,

indeed, run for re-election and a candidate like ruben gallego is representing democrats in a general election. so this is good news for republicans and it really raises questions as to what the strategy here for democrats -- i mean, every major victory that they tout, kyrsten sinema had a hand in investing, a bipartisan infrastructure bill, which a lot of senators give her credit for making that happen, gun reform legislation for the first time in decades, the chips act, and delivering the vote -- the deciding vote for a -- or a critical vote, at least, for what democrats call the inflation reduction act. so what are democrats getting by having a progressive liberal that they're not getting today with kyrsten sinema. i think that's the question to ask themselves. >> congressman, i want to get your reaction on another topic here. "new york times" report on a new

bond between kevin mccarthy and marjorie taylor greene after that hard-fought speaker's race. mccarthy told a friend, quote, i will never leave that woman and i will always take care of her. "the times" point out that comment would have been unthinkable a few years ago. what does this tell you about the relationship and the dynamics right now on the house. >> i think speaker mccarthy was probably surprised that marjorie taylor greene was not one of the holdouts and the rebels. it's totally in her personality and dna. she used to hang around with matt gaetz and others, and think mccarthy feels he has managed to convert her. we'll have to see what she says in the 118th congress. i think it was a pleasant surprise for kevin mccarthy, one less headache that he had to deal with on the path to speakership, and that's why he

wants to reward her. and he wants to send the message to some of the other troublemakers, look, if you cooperate with me, i'm going to treat you well and help you advance politically. >> we'll have to leave it there. thank you. congressman ruben gallego will join lawrence o'donnell tonight to talk about his senate bid. that's at 10:00 p.m. eastern on the last word right here on msnbc. turning to more troubling news for the tech industry and potentially the broader economy. music streaming giant spotify announced this morning it's cutting 6% of its workforce citing declining ad revenue. the company joins the likes of google, amazon and microsoft, all of which have announced large job cuts in recent weeks. joining me now is morgan brennen. what are you hearing from spotify on this and does this raise concerns about layoffs really in industries outside of tech? >> yeah, lindsey, it does raise

those concerns and an avalanche of companies reporting numbers this week. it's companies that grew exponentially during the pandemic because they saw a surge in demand for their products and services. they hired in response to that, they expanded in response to that and now the demand is not only reversing, but sometimes overcorrecting amid this broader slowing economic growth. in the case of spotify, sent out an internal memo to staff announcing plans to layoff 6% of its workforce. spotify's head of content who was critical to the podcast expansion also departing the company. as you mentioned, we've seen a flurry of layoffs announced in the past week alone. microsoft, amazon and alphabet joining that list. upwards of 200,000 layoffs so far.

keep in mind, at least, right now, talking about a tight labor market and more job openings and people to fill them. >> today is the first day the irs will start accepting returns. what should people know? >> brace yourself, you could be in for some surprises. you could be seeing smaller refunds, shrunken tax credits. no more stimulus checks. the enhanced child tax credit, that's gone. a special pandemic era tax break that is on charitable deductions, that's gone as well. and some people might face taxes on investment gains. for example, the funds that had to sell stocks, you could see a bill come due there. perhaps the one silver lining to all of this, the u.s. treasury really emphasizing improved customer service as tax season begins at the irs. 5,000 new customer service representatives has been hired.

hopefully, at least, a more official filing and processing of returns. people won't have to wait as long. we'll see. >> morgan brennen, thank you. coming up, a local south carolina paper is calling it the trial of the century. why there's been so much attention on the case of lawyer alex murdoch. that's next. that's next.

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the most famous rioters. he was photographed with his feet on speaker pelosi's desk during the attack. he's just been found guilty by a jury of all eight counts he faced. he said last week he regretted his actions. in south carolina, jurors are being questioned in what's being called the trial of the century. he's facing two counts of murder following the shooting death of his wife and son. he denies involvement, but the case has developed all kinds of twists and turns with murdoch facing allegations of financial fraud, drug addiction, even being involved in a hired hit man plot. catie beck is outside court in walterborrow, south carolina. >> reporter: jury selection is actually underway as we speak. they are questioning potential jurors. there's a pool of about 900 of

that have been selected to be potential jurors in this case. they are answering questions like do you have relatives or have been represented by murdoch or a member of the family? most of the people in the courtroom as we can hear from the audio feed have some knowledge of this case. it's only about 5400 residents. call din county is about 8,000 residents. these are small communities and murdoch was really a household name in low country. still is. people know them. they're a family law firm and of course, given the national and international spotlight that has been put on case, there is going to be few jurors that have not had some knowledge. but legal experts say this case is full of circumstantial evidence. there is no eyewitness, security

camera, murder weapon. there's a lot of circumstances that can be considered but this is going to be a battle of lawyering between the prosecutor and defense. who is the jury going to believe, has integrity behind their facts? it's going to take weeks to decide. we're told three weeks is probably a minimum. it could be a month that this town has all of these people descends upon it. the area here is actually swarmed with media from all over the place. they in fact brought in food trucks to try and accommodate the meal needs of the media here, which is funny to see these rows of satellite trucks with food trucks and bathrooms for folks. this is quite a spectacle today. probably a month more. >> thank you so much. that does it for me this busy hour. i'll be back here again tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. eastern. "andrea mitchell reports" starts next. . eastern. "andrea mitchell reports" starts next rapid wrinkle repair® smooths the look of

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