good day. i'm chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. right now, as investigators try to figure out the motive for the man who shot and killed three students at michigan state university, we have two new facts from the last two hours. first, the 43-year-old suspect had a note. police are examining it now. second, his father tells nbc news exclusively he turned, quote, evil and mean following the death of his mother in 2020.

this is the 67th mass shooting this year alone. and it raises the question with a divided congress, does the focus to changing gun laws shift to the states? i'll ask michigan's attorney general whose sons are students at michigan state. plus, the new leading explanation behind the three most recent aerial objects the u.s. shot down and the latest on the work to find them. and a sobering report from the cdc about the mental health of our country's teenage girls. why we're seeing the highest rate in decades of young women saying they feel, quote, persistently sad or hopeless. and what we can do about it. but, we begin with new information on the deadly shooting on the campus of michigan state, including new details on the gunman and more chilling details from students about the moment he opened fire. >> someone was yelling there was a shooter and everybody needed to get down on the ground. at that moment i thought that i

was going to die. i will never forget the screams of my classmates as they were, like, screaming in pain, for help. >> claire told the "today" show she had to jump out of a broken window to escape. two of her classmates in that room did not survive. the police have officially identified the suspect as 43-year-old anthony mcrae, who we now learned has previously been charged with gun-related crimes. what we don't know is what brought him to campus. >> we had the same question last night and we have the same answer this morning, we have absolutely no idea what the motive was at this point. >> nbc's maggie vespa is in east lansing, michigan. also with us, former fbi assistant director for counterintelligence frank figlusi. what can you tell us about the investigation and the gunman?

what is the latest? >> reporter: police at this point say they don't know the motive. they say mcrae is not a student at msu, never was, not a staff member, he's 43 years old. we talked to students across the way here who were huddling in their dorm room, 10 to 15 of them total, and one of the boys told me when they heard it was a 43-year-old man who place say opened fire on campus, they were all silent. he said we all thought that this would have been a student. we have no idea why he would have targeted michigan state university and the students here. they say it is alarming he was able to walk into their building. specific to the investigation, that other detail that just came out of the last couple of hours, stunning people across the can country is that note inside mcrae's pocket and we found out about that because a school district in of all places new jersey, ewing, new jersey, sent out a news release saying they had closed schools today because they had got and heads up from authorities in east lansing, michigan, that that note inside mcrae's pocket, investigator say, threatened schools in

ewing, new jersey. and they say he does have ties to that community, but we don't know what those ties are. investigators aren't saying. this literally impacting and terrifying people across the country. and then also another update we want to highlight, we are learning more about the victims, two of the three students killed here on campus now been identified just recently as brian fraser and alexandria verner. the third student who was killed, the family has asked the authorities not to name that student. we won't know that student for some time. five students wounded, being treated inside a local hospital. authorities here in east lansing and the michigan state university campus try to make sense of frankly america's latest mass shooting that has terrorized this community. >> thank you for that. there is no explanation that is good enough, right, or makes any sense, will ever make any sense to these families, but motive is always a question. the fbi is there.

what are the first things that they're looking at to try to figure out why this guy did it? >> they're going to be examining the residence, apparently he had moved in with his father after the death of his mother. they'll look for writings, they'll look for any internet activity, google searches, et cetera. they'll also explore his interactions with law enforcement previously. there have been some reports, some conflicting reports regarding a criminal charge and whether it was disposed of or pled down to a misdemeaner that involved possession of a weapon. there is also reports out of the detroit media that neighbors say he was firing a weapon out the back of the house for so-called practice and so we have to examine whether or not there was a better way to handle this, whether he should have even been able to possess a weapon after he had pled to whatever he did in michigan. need to look at that at the state level. of course, they'll look at mental health issues and whether

or not, again, he was giving the signals, the warning signs and indicators, particularly following his mother's death that perhaps should have been acted on or whether he even had interactions with mental health professionals and they'll be interviewing all of those people. looking at co-workers and neighbor reports. it will be exhaustive, but as you said, chris, a lot of times we search for logical answers regarding motivations and it makes no sense to us. it makes perfect sense to the shooter, but it makes no sense to us and that's where mental health comes in as well. then, of course, the university law enforcement community will be looking at the security of college campuses because we understandably have been focused like a laser on k through 12 school security. obviously. because of the multiple shootings at schools, but, you know, the college environment is wide open, and the law recognizes a kind of unique relationship between a university and its students. in latin, the phrase is local

parentis. there is some kind of parental responsibility over these students, even though some of them are adults, and so we need to kind of rethink college security, electronic access for classrooms, locking classroom doors, all of that and hopefully we'll learn something to just mitigate the risk as we move forward. >> the accounts i saw, frank, was that the police response was swift and it was pretty overwhelming. on the other hand, it is always challenging, size of the campus and in this case, there are reports that there were numerous reports from students that they heard gunfire in other buildings that turned out not to be true. i mean, we always say eyewitnesses are notoriously unreliable. ear witnesses, i suppose, in a high stress situation like this, that's just part of what happens, but they have to respond. >> i was listening to the police

scanner last night for michigan state university pd and i have to tell you, it was a classic example of not only professionalism in law enforcement, how they calmly, methodically handled this, but also the story that happens in these is the calls, people trying to do the right thing, calling 911, saying i hear shout, i hear gunfire over here, i see a suspicious looking person, all of them had to be responded to. they were and it was done in partnership with michigan state police, and city of east lansing pd, they did a great job, but the challenge was immense. as i listened, i thought, boy, we're talking about clearing a campus of well over 50,000 people, room by room, building by building, it is cold outside, they're moving students into freezing temperatures, they're moving them to some cleared building that is warm. it was a monumental task. they did it very well and the decision to release the photo clearly now we're learning led to the identification of the person and that was a smart

move. >> frank figluizzi, maggie vespa, thank you. i want to bring in state attorney general dana nessel. you have two sons who attend msu. you made this statement, as a parent, there is no greater fear than having your child tell you there is an active shooter at their school. i experienced this terror with thousands of other families last night. were your sons there on campus? were you able to talk to them before you heard there was an active shooter and tell me how everybody in your family is doing today. >> well, thank you for asking me that question. firstly, i learned that one of my sons had just left one of the locations, the first location of the shooting just prior to that event taking place. fortunately, you know, kids these days almost always have cell phones on them.

so i was able to communicate with both of my sons fairly quickly to ensure that they were in a place of what we presume to be safety at that time. but, i was in communication not only with my special agents who were on the ground, in coordinating with them, but also with many other families who were trying to locate their kids, some of whom were still in those locations, one of the two locations where we know the shooter actually discharged his weapon and where there were victims to be found. it was a very scary set of circumstances. if i can please clear something up that i heard frank say a few minutes ago, mr. mcrae did have a weapons offense conviction just from a few years ago. he was ineligible to possess or purchase a firearm. he was convicted of an offense, pled down from carrying a concealed weapon, five-year felony in michigan to possession of a loaded firearm in a motor

vehicle, which is a two-year offense in michigan, but still a predicate offense for either a felony and possession charge or felony firearm charge, meaning he was not eligible to have that weapon. so one of the things we're going to need to know is how did he get that weapon and can we put laws in place in michigan to ensure that a person such as himself who is ineligible to own a firearm can never access one? that's one of the questions we're going to be have to be addressing and thank god we at long last have a legislature and a governor here in the state of michigan that not only are willing to pass gun violence prevention laws, but really ran on that as a platform. so i expect to see a number of new laws put into place in short order. whether or not that would have prevented this particular offense from happening, i think the investigation will tell us that. >> i'm struck that you obviously

come at this from two different perspectives that don't necessarily need to be in conflict, but one of them is in your job as attorney general. the other as a mom and i cannot imagine what went through your head, your gut, frankly, when you knew that your sons were on campus where there was an active shooter. but so often we thought there would be change. and there hasn't been change. what do you think that this is going to do in terms of motivation and are we in a place where because of a divided congress you don't have that situation in michigan that you have some belief something can change. >> well, i know we're going to be able to create new laws in michigan that i look forward to having the opportunity to enforce to make certain that there are a lot of people who have access to weapons or can easily access weapons that we can either take those weapons away from those individuals or prevent them from obtaining those weapons in the first

place. so there are things that we can do that will make some difference. but, you know what i fear is i fear the courts right now. i see some of the rulings in federal courts that i think will significantly diminish the ability of states like mine to pass and to have meaningful legislation to prevent gun violence-related crimes. and certainly congress has done us virtually no favors at all. so, it is up to the states, but, of course, we know it is fluid. oftentimes it is easy to bring guns across state borders. this is a national problem and we need a national solution. but that's not going to stop us in michigan from trying to do everything we can to prevent tragedies like these from occurring. >> before i let you go and i don't want to in any way impose on your privacy, but how are your sons doing? how are their friends doing? i mean, it sounds like a silly question because obviously this

is horrific, but how are they? >> i mean, they're scared. they're shaken up. a lot of their friends are leaving campus right now actually. and i asked my kids if they wanted to do the same and they have decided to stay, even though classes have been canceled for, you know, the foreseeable future. but, you know, all i can think about is i can't believe that as a parent in the united states of america you can't move your child into college without seriously having to wonder whether or not they're going to make it through the next four years before they graduate without being a victim of a mass shooting. and that was a concern i had when i moved my kids into school a year and a half ago and i couldn't even make it through their sophomore year without an incident like this happening. the top law enforcement official in the state and i couldn't prevent a tragedy like this from happening. what do any of us have, what

hope do we have as parents if we don't have legislators who are willing to actually do something to protect our children. we have to start loving our kids more than we love our guns. >> michigan attorney general dana nessel, thank you so much because i know that you are -- you have a personal -- something personal you're going through as well as professionally. so we thank you for taking the time. i also want to note since michigan state marks the 67th mass shooting in the u.s. this year, today also marks five years since the shooting that killed 17 people at marjory stoneman douglas high school in parkland, florida. one survivor, delany tar, tweeting last night about the trauma just from seeing another school shooting. quote, do you understand how it feels? the night before the anniver anniversary, seeing it happen again, knowing their pain, knowing the screams and sobs?

we'll be live in parkland with more from the survivors in our next hour. meantime, on capitol hill, the frustration is escalating. some senators just off a classified briefing want president biden to update the shootdown of four flying objects in just over a week. there has been widespread bipartisan exasperation over the lack of information. >> president biden owes the american people an explanation. president biden should speak on camera directly to the american people today. >> i have a better understanding, but the american people need and deserve to know more. >> they can say what they know. what they don't know. and don't reveal sources and methods. that's what the american people want. when you don't provide information and there is a dearth of information, it can lead to wild speculation.

>> president biden has yet to address the matter, but we'll be listening closely because he's about to speak at a conference of the national association of counties. so we will keep our ear to that. and for the first time, we're hearing that u.s. intelligence officials do have a leading explanation for those three most recent objects. nbc's ryan nobles is on capitol hill and nbc's tom costello is following the investigation. tom, you know and you heard the frustration from the senator, there are many unanswered questions. what theory is the intel community leaning toward when we look at the last three objects, not calling them balloons? >> you're right. the theory now is and candidly they have been hinting at this for a couple of days, but the theory is now that in fact these were not any sort of intelligence gathering mechanism or device or balloon, the three objects shot down, we're not talking about the big balloon, but the three most recently could have been commercial or

maybe even a university type of weather balloon or something of that nature. something that is benign. in other words, studying the ozone or looking at weather patterns. by the way, the united states alone launches dozens, even hundreds of weather balloons every single day. and we're not the only ones. so there is a lot of stuff that gets up there, and the thinking increasingly is that in fact this is benign. however, let's underscore the united states and the canadians still do not have the pieces from these objects that were shot down in alaska, in the yukon or over lake huron. in the case of both huron and alaska, they're thought to be submerged in water. and the alaskan yukon is a vast siberian type of territory that they have got to search, looking for kind of a needle in the haystack. they do, however, have a lot of, if not most of the electronics that came from that suspected spy balloon off of south carolina.

and all of that continues to underscore the pentagon's theory that that was some sort of an electronic spy or eavesdropping technology deployed by the chinese to spy on the united states. but the three objects shot down this last weekend, increasingly, the thinking is -- the theory is they were probably benign and maybe some sort of a science or weather experiment or calculations, if you will, that are being done aloft. >> one of the things we know, ryan, also, is that they're having a lot of trouble getting to the other three locations, right? but you just heard from one of the centers -- senators, you can hear the frustration, tell us what you know, tell us what you don't know. what else are you hearing from senators as they come out of that briefing? >> reporter: the thing i was most struck by is that many of the senators said that 95% of the information that they learned behind closed doors today was not classified and could easily be shared with the public if the administration was willing to do so.

and they are concerned about this absence of information leading to rampant speculation and maybe causing more alarm with the average american than is necessary. and a lot of this also tracks back to the fact that the administration doesn't really know what they're dealing with in a fulsome way. tom points to a lot of the theories behind this now. but they don't are enough conclusive evidence to make some sort of broad declaration of what they're dealing with. and now the policy now to start shooting these things out of the sky is evolving and happening open a case by case basis. what the senators are looking for is concrete information and a concrete policy plan to find out if they need to do anything legislatively to help that process out, and to give faith and trust behind this administration that they're making the right decisions. they don't feel like they have all that information yet. that is both republicans and democrats that are saying it. it doesn't seem, chris, as though this briefing today

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there is a big question hanging over the 2024 presidential race this hour. are the floodgates about to open for republicans? now, we asked because former south carolina governor and u.n. ambassador nikki haley made it official in a video today. she is the first to officially challenge donald trump for her party's nomination. >> the washington establishment has failed us over and over again. it is time for a new generation of leadership to rediscover fiscal responsibility, secure our border and strengthen our country, our pride, and purpose. >> interestingly by this time in

the run-up to the 2020 election at least 11 candidates had declared their intention to run are. not two. so, with lots of other politicians sending signals, they are interested this time around, will the haley announcement pressure them to decide? i'm joined now by nbc news senior political editor mark murray, and former aid to speakers paul ryan and john boehner and msnbc political analyst brendan bucks. could this be the breaking of the dam. what are the pros and cons of getting in sooner rather than later? >> at this point it is not sooner. you'll see more people come in. that's probably the biggest contribution that haley is going to make, it is okay to jump in the water. >> ouch. biggest contribution she's likely to make? >> well, look, i don't want to be unfair. i don't want to completely write off nikki haley. but look at any polling, she barely registers. i think nikki haley would be a

terrific general election candidate. she is an absolutely refreshing breath of fresh air. i just don't know that's exactly what the republican base voter is looking for right now. this was a very inspirational, aspirational, optimistic message, but that is not how the republican party has been looking for of late. she's going to have to run a very good campaign if she is going to make a real dent in this. there is a lot of people who want to feel the same way that she is potentially in. a number of other people who want to go back to sort of what republicans used to be like, you know, fiscal responsibility as she says or traditional republican values, i just don't know there is a lot of that. a lot more people -- there is donald trump out there, a lot of people who are acting like donald trump, who want to be populous, nativist, isolationist. none of those things describe nikki haley. interesting to see whether she can grow that pie, grow that

share of the republican party. i don't want to count her out. she's very capable, very smart, i think she's very tough. she has a tough task ahead of her. >> the average date to announce has varied quite a bit through the years. one thing we have seen during a re-election year, candidates have progressively been announcing earlier and earlier, so i wonder do you have a sense of why they have been waiting this time as it just to see how things go with trump and his legal stuff. is it they're trying to figure out can i raise some money? what is going on? what do you hear? >> there is no doubt that having the former president of the united states announce, he did one week after the midterms that we saw back in november, it does kind of create some instability and makes this a republican presidential field unlike any other. but one of the reasons why we end up seeing more and more candidates get in early is that really the governing phase of our politics has started it shrink and that means that the campaign season gets elongated.

another reason why you end up having candidates get in very early when there is a president facing re-election is that if you're going to beat that incumbent president, even in a general election, you need to start raising the tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars needed to be able to compete, just alone for your party's primary nomination. and it is interesting that when nikki haley had that video out today, and it linked right to that, start contributing to my campaign, she is trying to raise the money to be competitive. but, you know, the other person that we're going to be looking forward to, do they end up getting in, end up having names like former vice president mike pence, new hampshire governor chris sununu, former maryland governor larry hogan, and, of course, there is ron desantis, the current republican governor of florida. the florida legislative session does not start until the spring, and so it probably won't be until the conclusion of that

spring legislative session that we would get any kind of announcement from the florida governor. >> i'm wondering, we didn't mention tim scott, another south carolinae with nikki haley. how closely will you watch fund-raising as a key indicator. it didn't help jeb bush. donald trump ran away with it. that was a unique year, maybe never to be repeated. will this be a more traditional year, i guess in the sense that if you follow the money, you'll follow where the likelihood of a nominee is? >> i think you can look at it both ways. money follows momentum. if you're having a good campaign, money will flow into it. we learned just having money is not sufficient. jeb bush burned through a lot of money, scott walker burned through a ton of money. that's not enough. you have to actually have a following and once you develop a following, money is important. that's not what i'm looking for most of all. donald trump was able to knock

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saying, for those suppliers that are offering their goods, if they want to raise prices further, we have to tell them to stop, consumers are starting to walk away. i spoke to one who said how he's responding to price increases. >> we spent more time than we have in the past negotiating prices and cost increases, questioning cost increases and pushing back. >> and one really interesting dynamic is a lot of the grocery chains offer their own private label brands and off brand cookie that is cheaper than what the other companies offer. more people are trading down to the cheaper goods, which gives them more negotiating power when they try to talk to those big companies. >> there is so much information out there, you can find out maybe store brand is made by somebody i would buy for more anyway. brian cheung, great to have you here. thank you so much. we have an outdate after the break after the senate held a major hearing on protecting kids mental health after we got the new cdc report about the extreme

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suicide attempts, sexual violence and feelings of sadness are reaching never before seen levels among teenage girls here in the u.s. nearly three in five teen girls feel persistently sad or hopeless. that's the highest rate in a decade. 30% say they seriously considered attempting suicide. a dramatic increase over the past decade. and one in five girls say they experienced sexual violence within the past year. 14% forced into having sex. all this while on capitol hill the senate judiciary committee just wrapped up its hearing on protecting kids online with witnesses testifying on the harms of social media. >> the constant quantification of my worth through likes, comments, and followers heightened by anxiety and deepened my depression. >> i am testifying here today to bring a face to the harms occurring every day resulting from the unchecked power of the

social media industry. >> the sad reality is we're failing to protect our children from the threats they face online. >> let's bring in nbc news health and medical reporter, erica edwards. this new report is devastating. walk us through findings in more depth and importantly, do we have any idea why these numbers are up so dramatically? >> yeah, chris, these numbers are unprecedent. the cdc has been doing this survey of teenage mental health for three decades and never before have they seen this high level of despair and hopelessness among our teen girls. one of the most disturbing findings, more than one in ten of our teen girls said they have been raped. of course that's only going to lead to feelings of depression, sadness, and sadly in some cases, thoughts of suicide. i talked with the cdc researchers about this who said really we as a society need to

sort of reframe our thoughts around this issue. moving away from what's wrong with our girls to what's wrong with the environment they're living in? what's wrong with boys and other girls who may be instigating these acts of violence? for parents who need answers, experts say to have conversations with your kids early and often about mental health. ask them about their feelings. ask about what's going on in school, about their friends, peers. i have a teenage daughter, i talked with her about this report. it wasn't easy, but it was important. >> again, i think most of us know teenage girls and we know the struggles they have gone through. is there any indication that there are as we just saw with the senate judiciary committee, more obvious pressures from online, particularly bullying? we have kids just coming out of the pandemic. i know kids who went through you know, two or three of their high school years mostly alone in

their room taking classes. do we have any idea why this change is happening now? >> i think that there are a lot of ideas, multifaceted, complex. and certainly you know, with all the online stuff that, bad stuff that can come with it. image issues. online bullying. there's also a flip side to that. there are huge communities of people online, tiktok and snapchat, who are supportive of one another who have gone through these things. some kids find they can snap a perfect stranger and ask them about their experiences and for advice. >> erica edwards, thank you so much. this is a very important study and i'm glad we had a chance to talk about it. the big question is what can be done about the teen mental health crisis? we'll take you inside one school that's literally investing in student happiness.

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that he's under pressure to say more about. in the meantime, as the cdc reports growing sadness among teen girls, fueled by an overwhelming wave of violence and trauma, a high school near boston is launching a new program to teach lessons in happiness. and it's working. kate snow has the story. >> take a few more slow, deep breaths. >> reporter: this is not a typical science elective for high school seniors. meditating, writing down what they feel grateful for. jennifer hamilton is teaching the science of happiness, modelled after a curriculum by a yale professor. >> when you're happy, you're like thrks happiness is going to last forever. >> the class was the most popular course ever taught at yale. now she's adapted it for teens. >> do you think students in your school are happy? >> reporter: available through the site, coursera. >> we put a lot of the thought

into the strategies teens can use. what can they do in the moment to feel better. >> it's a nationwide thing with kids in their college process. >> a lot of kids in our generation are just putting on this i guess mask to tell everyone, yeah, i'm okay, and you really aren't feeling that way. >> we have unrealistic kind of comparisons with each other. start by focusing on your breath. >> brian grant is taking the class now. brook and mark took it last semester. the course starts by redefining happiness. he says too many teens think reaching a goal like getting into college will make them happy. >> in order to get there, they're putng their heads down and grinding then they get there, why am i not happy? >> they learn strategies to be happy now like building relationships, being immersed in an activity, savors experiences. mark reduced his time on social media from six hours a day to an hour and a half.

>> i decided to do other things like meditation, social connection. getting more sleep. that was a big one. >> found time for all that. >> once i put my phone down. >> brooke set up a nightly video chat with the center she missed. >> we facetimed every night for 15, 20 minutes. >> that's something you wouldn't have done. >> brian says he's gotten a lot out of the class. >> it makes me super conscious about what i'm grateful for and what makes me happy. >> are you happier after taking this course? >> yes. >> i think it like kind of really allowed us to focus on like what's real and what's actually important, which is happiness. >> absolutely amazing. our thanks to kate snow for that report. we have a lot to get to in the second hour of chris jansing reports. let's get right to it. at this hour, a january 6th rioter breaks into tears as he