good day, i'm chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. could we be on the verge of the first ever criminal indictment of a current or former president? the signals coming out of the manhattan d.a.'s office say yes, but how strong is their case? plus, the february job numbers blew by expectations adding over 100,000 more jobs than economists had forecast. will that help the markets? and the bad week on a good note. and the fda's brand new guidance designed to give women a better chance of detecting breast cancer earlier. but, at this hour, we are waiting for a decision by donald trump, will he make the unorthodox move of agreeing to testify before a grand jury investigating potential charges against him? the simple fact that manhattan district attorney alvin bragg

invited him to testify is being seen by legal experts as a sign his investigation into hush money payments made to stormy daniels may be wrapping up, and that an indictment could come soon. i want to bring in nbc's vaughn hillyard who's been following the former president. tali farhadian weinstein is a former federal and state prosecutor in new york. great to have both of you. tali, can you explain why this invitation from the d.a. is being taken by so many as a signal that this investigation may indeed be moving toward an indi reading it correctly that that is what it means, that the investigation is coming to an end. this is an unusual facet of new york law to give the defendant notice before you seek an indictment and give him the opportunity to come into the grand jury if you would like or to have his lawyers send a letter into the grand jury and make his case. and it's a complicated decision. i should say it's not unheard of. i spoke this morning to a former

new york state prosecutor who said he had interviewed at least 500 defendants in front of a grand jury here in the city. so it does happen, but it comes with risk. he would come in without -- i'm just going to stop you there. 500 in this case? >> no, no, to say over the course of his career. it seems strange because lots of jurisdictions don't have this, and you are -- it's like testifying in the sense that you are taking lots of risks about what prosecutors might ask you about and ultimately use against you, but it does happen. i've seen defendants do it in my own career, and you know, president trump has surprised us before. >> well, if the indictment does happen, tali, maybe that's the easy part. let me read part of what "the new york times" reported, quote, the case against the former president hinges on an untested and, therefore, risky legal theory involving a complex

interplay of laws all amounting to a low level felony. i assume if they bring an indictment, they believe, obviously, they can prove the charges, especially in a high profile case like this. but it's hard to think of it as a slam dunk by any means. >> it is not, chris, a slam dunk. the facts are simple and obvious. this event occurred seven years ago, and they've been picked over by lots of prosecutors, reporters, and analysts, but charging it as a felony in new york is, in fact, untested and risky. it's straightforward as a misdemeanor, to make false statements in your business records, but to turn it into a felony, prosecutors would have to show that he made this false accounting of the payments as either to conceal or with the intent to commit a different crime, and the big question is, well, what would that other crime be? if it's a violation of state

election law as has been reported, the d.a.'s considering. one might ask if one were president trump, well, is a federal candidate supposed to follow state election law, if it's a violation of federal election law, he might argue, well, how is that incorporated into new york law? and i do think that this is going to be a serious legal dispute on which there are going to be reasonable arguments on both sides and a court is going to have to make a ruling on a question that, as far as i know, is unprecedented. >> there are legal responses to this, vaughn, there are also political responses and it didn't take long for donald trump to respond. what's he saying? >> right, donald trump has pushed back against this, chris, suggesting that democrats in his words have struggled to bring any cases with merit against him in the past and that is why it is taking them going back to the hush money payment back in 2016 in order to try to find a way to

bring an indictment against him, and when you're talking about this investigation from d.a. bragg's office, this to our understanding does not include the side of the d.a. bragg's investigation into allegations that trump and the trump organization inflated the valuation of their assets. this has nothing to do, to our understanding, with the catch and kill payments that went from michael cohen to the parent company of the national inquirer regarding karen mcdougal, another woman who also alleged to have had sex with donald trump. but instead this comes down to this narrow case here involving the payment made to stormy daniels. i want to let you look at a bit of the statement here that donald trump issued. it was a lengthy statement last night in which he says in part, quote, i did absolutely nothing wrong. i never had an affair with stormy daniels, nor would i have wanted to have an affair with stormy daniels. congress and numerous democrat district attorneys, attorneys general and the department of injustice itself have found that

i did nothing wrong. now they fall back on the ole and rebuked case which has been rejected by every prosecutor's office that has looked at this. where i relied on counsel in order to resolve this extortion of me which took place a long time ago. in this statement, not only does he put responsibility on michael cohen were this payment, michael cohen has pled guilty to making this hush money payment to stormy daniels, but also in here he notes that other prosecutors' offices have looked at this and decided to not bring charges against him. and you'll recall that d.a. bragg's office all but shut down its investigation on this hush money payment more than a year ago. that's what led to two prosecutors including mark pomerantz, mark pomerantz even writing a book essentially questioning the decision of d.a. bragg not to bring charges. it was not until this january when a new grand jury was impanelled by the district attorney to specifically look at this case involving the payments to stormy daniels that has now amounted to apparently an

invitation to donald trump to go before this grand jury in a potential of indictments against him. >> let me go back to his statements, tali, and tick through some of what trump said, denying he ever had an affair with stormy daniels. he said he relied on counsel to resolve what he describes as extortion. he said even that the statute of limitations had run out. does any of that amount to a real offense? >> the first part denying the affair with stormy daniels is very useful to prosecutors. if he were ever to testify in the grand jury or in a trial, they can ask him about that and really expose his lack of credibility around that. i mean, that's a factual issue on which they have lots of evidence. you know, some of the other things, i do think that he will likely try to argue that i didn't do this. i didn't falsely account for these payments in order to avoid

federal or state election law requirements, but because i didn't want my wife to find out or because she was extorting me, stormy daniels, which is a word that he has used before. i think that those are decent arguments in he is trying to go -- >> tally. president biden has been taking a victory lap pointing to today's better than expected jobs report and the impact of the american rescue plan he signed into law two years ago. >> it led to the fastest recovery of any major economy in the world. it laid the foundation for the progress we've been seeing and we see today. inflation is now down 30% from what it was this summer. gas prices are down more than $1.50 since their peak. at the same time, take-home pay for workers has gone up. especially for lower -- this is important in my view -- especially for lower and middle income workers.

>> new numbers out this morning show another month of solid job growth. 311,000 jobs were 225,000 econs were expecting. the unemployment rate inched up slightly to 3.6%. let's bring in nbc news business and data reporter brian cheung and nbc news senior business analyst stephanie ruhle, host of the 11th hour right here on msnbc. break down these numbers for us, brian, better than expected for sure. >> better than expected. it shows that the american jobs economy is still chugging on all cylinders. that's because we saw job gains of 311,000, which was above what economists were expecting. these are bars and restaurants that have been driving a lot of the jobs recovery, and we also saw it happening in retail and manufacturing as well. now, all of this adds a bit of a conundrum to the federal reserve that has been raising interest

rates to try to soften the growth of this economy. when you take a look at a hot jobs report you do wonder if the federal reserve is not seeing the impact it expected as it makes borrowing costs more expensive. that's the reason the federal reserve could reincrease the pace of its interest rate hikes. >> which made a lot of people nervous, stephanie. all of us are still dealing with higher prices. maybe the economy is chugging along, but we're paying more for food, gas, housing, most things it seems like. what do you think this new job report means for the fed? >> well, listen, it's tricky. it is all about threading the needle. the fed has been trying to cool the economy over the last few months because of how hot and high inflation has been. things do still feel expensive, but inflation has slowed. the president signaled that we're going to get a strong cpi number, the consumer price index. that's basically a basket number

of what things are costing. we're going to get that number next week. the president signaled that things should be okay. that's a positive. now, the problem is what does the fed use to slow the economy? they raise rates, but raising rates means the rest of the economy is really expensive for us. it means it simply costs way more money to borrow, borrow money for anything. your credit card, a car loan, a house. so that's the thing that they're dealing with on the other side. so to cool the economy, they raised rates, but people don't want them to raise rates too much because that causes serious problems on the other side. some of which we're experiencing. >> all right, we'll see what the fed does in a couple of weeks. in the meantime, i want to ask you about this big move by regulators to shut down silicon valley bank. it's the largest bank to file since 2008. those of us who were around then, remember it was a really scary time. a big bank has been closed down. it can make you feel really uncertain. what should we take away from

this? >> okay, well, this takes us right back to the fed raising rates. silicon valley bank, think of it as the biggest bank, the keybanc to silicon valley. during the pandemic, we saw huge deposits. remember, it was like a big startup boom. it was like blank checks to start up tech companies. there were much bigger deposits into silicon valley bank. what did they do with a lot of that money? they decided to invest it in treasuries and mortgage backed securities. now that rates are going up, the price of those securities, the price of those treasuies are going down. that's a big negative for silicon valley bank. we know that with the economy slowing, you're seeing less investment in startups. silicon valley bank went out to raise money for themselves. that spooked the market, and in spooking the market, that made some of those investors pull their money out, the stock dropped, and now it has been frozen, shut down, and the fdic has stepped in to try to help

figure out how they can secure there thing and get some money back to some of their depositors. >> brian cheung and stephanie ruhle who i'll be watching tonight, thank you both very much. appreciate it. have a great friday. ron desantis's first major test of 2024 now underway in iowa. our dasha burns is traveling across the state from one event to another and joins us next. the fda unveiling new rules that could help save literally millions of women's lives, breast cancer survivor congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz joins me ahead. and rivals iran and saudi arabia restoring ties. how china is involved and what it could mean for the middle east? you're watching "chris jansing reports" only on msnbc. reports" only on msnbc so it's decided, we'll park even deeper into parking spaces so people think they're open. surprise. [ laughs ] [ horn honks, muffled talking ] -can't hear you, jerry. -sorry. uh, yeah, can we get a system

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the unofficial kickoff to iowa caucus season here even though we are months away. i am indeed a passenger, my producer is driving here. we just wrapped up the first event that desantis held here in iowa in davenport. it was a big crowd, a full house and a really enthusiastic crowd. the governor got several standing ovations throughout his speech. now, he has not officially announced, so this trip to iowa, his iowa debut, by the way, is part of a book tour as he's promoting his new memoir, which is really a playbook of florida policies, he has used as a plat form to get his message out. we heard a lot of talk about what he views as his biggest successes in florida, how they could apply here in iowa. similar moves that governor kim reynolds made at iowa, and will be with him in des moines where we're driving right now. really playing up the greatest hits, his response to the covid pandemic, education, his battle

with disney. perhaps the biggest applause line, though, came when he mentioned the immigration issue. take a listen. >> i'm sick of elites imposing their vision on open borders on you and on us with them not having to face the consequences of it so we thought it was worth it to send 50 illegals to martha's vineyard. [ applause ] they said they were a sanctuary city. they claim that nobody was illegal and all are welcome. you know what they did? they deported them the next day. >> reporter: yeah, you see the crowd standing up there. this is a big first test for desantis. this is the first time we're really seeing him addressing voters outside of his home state of florida, and here's the thing. you know very well, chris, iowa is all about retail politics.

voters here take their jobs very, very seriously. they want to shake their hands of all the candidates. they want direct answers. they really want to connect with the people who are coming to this state, and the folks i spoke to after this event, they said they really did feel that with desantis today. they were excited. they liked his policies. they liked what he had to say. but they're going to go to everyone's events. they're really going to wait and suss out and see whose vibe they like better, whose policy proposals they like better and of course desantis hasn't yet announced so they're waiting for that as well. >> it does feel like iowa, just watching her in that car driving across the state. and i guess this really is desantis's first big test on sort of a national political stage. the iowa crowd can be tough. what's your early grade from what you've seen, and what are you going to be looking for with ron desantis to tell you if he's the real deal? >> you know, i think with even i'm looking a little further down the line really at the

debates. but first of all, look, iowa is fantastic but i worked for jeb bush in 2016, in march of 2015 we were the front runners. there's a lot of time right now. iowans take their role seriously. they want to talk to you, their pastors, their communities. republicans are going to have the whole state to themselves. democrats won't be having that fist in their primary process. what i'm looking at are the debates. i think when the lights are on, the stage is set. you're going to have 20 million plus viewers on that first debate at least, that's going to tell us a lot. they were impactful in 2016. i think they'll be impactful this time around. >> you mentioned the jeb bush campaign, i was along for the ride as much more brief than you expected it to be. trump went after jeb bush with a vengeance, and that's not jeb bush's style, he was not about to attack him back. if you look at desantis, is there a lesson from from jeb

bosh -- bush in that? >> i love jeb, there are a lot of lessons from that campaign. jeb was inherently, god love him, but he wasn't trusted as much by the base as desantis was, to say the least. if you're a member, donald trump wasn't the former president, he wasn't sitting at 80% among republicans in their approval rating. he was low. when you're looking at the debates, desantis is ignoring the attacks, playing off the attacks. when you're on the same stage, it might be a different dynamic. that's why i think, again, those debates when jeb went after -- or when trump went after jeb on those debate stages, those are places you can't hide. that's why i'm looking towards them. >> matt gorman, always good to see you. dasha burns, you've got another event to get to, and we're going to talk to you in our next hour. there's a major move by the fda that could be life saving for millions of women.

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breast. and so i didn't know anything about dense breasts. i didn't know that, a, it raised my risk of breast cancer four times or b, because it's such a fiberous breast that it doesn't appear on mammograms or it appears white on mammograms just like a cancer does. i wasn't having those conversations. so now the fda is saying that by september of 2024 all mammogram providers will have to tell women what their breast density is, and that's key because it's also going to encourage women to talk to their doctors about that and ask if they need additional screening, things like ultrasounds, mris 3d mammograms that can pick up cancers earlier. early detection is key. >> breast cancer survivors are seeing an insurance coding change that could have a major impact on their recovery options. tell us more about that. >> right, so kind of one more

kick to this breast cancer community. when you have a mastectomy, if you want to rebuild a breast, you have two choices. you can do an implant, or you can use your own fat and tissue. about 70% of women and growing were using that second type of surgery, using their own tissue for this. some thought it was a safer option, but now the center for medicaid, medicare services has decided to end the coding for that particular complex type of surgery and only reimburse at the rate of some of the less complex, older surgeries. and so essentially it is taking that choice away from women who would like to do that. we spoke with one patient. here's what she had to tell us. >> who wants to hear that after being told you have breast cancer and you just went through chemo and radiation to then say this is my only option, but yet i have this great option.

however, i need you to put this much down and we live in the best country to have great physicians learn their craft, to be good at it, to provide you with the best outcome, least complications to then say but how much money do you have. >> and we are talking about more than $50,000 for this type of surgery. >> what? >> private insurers have followed suit. this weekend cigna is going to stop paying for this, bluecross blueshield already has, and so women, a lot of women are being left without this option. and one other thing, the fda, chris, said this week implants have been linked now to another type of cancer, a small number of cases, but a lot of women want the option to do something like using their own tissue. >> and don't have $50,000. once again, we see the disparity in the health care system. chris, and this is important stuff. thank you so much for bringing it to our attention. and coming on the program, i

want to bring in florida congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz who is also a breast cancer survivor. congresswoman, this is going to shock a lot of people. i mean, this insurance coding change coming at a time when, as we just heard, some implants are facing new recalls, this link to another type of cancer in breast implants. how can the center for medicaid and medicare be taking away this option and mow you're going to see these other companies following suit. >> well, chris, this really is a huge problem, but not one that was generated by the center for medicare and medicaid. the doctors involved in this decision have some culpability here and i've been trying to sort out the finger pointing, but the bottom line is that we need to make sure that we unravel this coding fiasco so that we can ensure that we restore the coverage options for this much more natural, much

less physically taxing surgery when after a woman has been through breast cancer, a life-threatening illness, she simply wants to be able to have an option to be made whole again from her own tissue, and the bureaucratic mess that has been created needs to be fixed. it needs to be fixed quickly and as seamlessly as possible and they need to get around the table and sort this out. >> meantime, you have this fda news that is critical and should help catch breast cancer much earlier in women, but really relies on these screenings. how hopeful are you that the find it early act will be revisited and passed in this congress? >> well, we need to make sure that there are as many options to catch breast cancer as early available as possible. this fda decision, you know, is really so welcomed news. kristen and i need to get together. i had the same story, eventually

found the lump myself a few months after my first mammogram came back clean. i was younger, 41 years old when you're more likely to have dense breast tissue. having that information on your mammogram report, knowing that you have a red flag so that you have to be more vigilant and you go talk to your doctor, that makes it more likely that breast cancer will be caught early. we have to leave every option available for women to be able to make sure we can catch it early. that saves more lives, it makes survivorship more likely, and then when you get to the end of the nightmare that going through breast cancer is, you can have an option to ensure that you have the most natural way to restore your ability to move forward with your life, with your natural tissue. need to sort this out. >> i want to stay on top of both of these stories. i don't think there's anybody watching who doesn't know someone whose life was threatened by breast cancer. can i talk to you about politics just very briefly? >> sure.

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of these remote areas. people don't have a lot of options for how they can get to places. as we see with the people behind jacob, those people are stranded until that road is fixed. we have the rest of today, what we call a high risk of flash flooding. we only get these a couple of times every year. this is where we get a lot of destruction and fatalfatalities. these are the areas here from cambria down to santa maria, this is where we've had 10 inches of rain overnight, and this is where it's pour. this yellow, these are showers and thunderstorms that are rolling on shore. this is an ugly situation north of santa barbara, that area where we have all these maroon counties, this is a huge area of flash flood warnings, and those are flash flood warnings near fresno. it's getting worse before it gets better. we're seeing the snow melt with the heavy coastal rain. >> that whole area is the central coast wine area where

frankly a lot of money is at stake there as well, a lot of tourism dollars in addition to the wineries that are there. will all of this rain and snow, though, have any substantial impact on the drought that we've been talking about for month after month after month? >> just to give you an example, today they're planning on opening the oroville dam spillway for the first time in four years. they only open the spillways if they're worried about too much water in the dams and the reservoirs getting full. we are heading in the right direction. here's the new drought monitor that was just issued today. the worst of the drought, extreme and exceptional, that covered so much of the west three months ago. here it is today in california. a little bit of moderate, a little bit of severe. severe covers 19% of the state right now. three months ago, 85% of the state was covered in severe drought, chris. this last period of three months with the exceptional snow and rain has almost eliminated all of the drought conditions. a lot of the reservoirs were 36%

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it's that time of year again, time to spring your clock forward this sunday and lose an hour of sleep. but the battle in congress to do away with the biannual clock change has reawakened. nbc's emilie ikeda takes a closer look. >> reporter: it's that time of year again. at 2:00 a.m. sunday, clocks spring forward one hour. >> i need a solid week off of everything to adjust. >> reporter: the twice a year time traveling tradition has plenty of people sounding off from the big screen. >> and i want to end daylight savings time. >> reporter: to perhaps more fitingly on tiktok. >> don't get me wrong, i'm excited to have the sun setting later in the day again, but why can't it just be like that all year round.

>> reporter: every march, we spring forward to daylight saving time to allow for more light in the evenings. we lose an hour of sleep. we provide more light when we wake up. for many, shifting schedules can take a toll in bodies. research shows a spike in car accidents, and workplace injuries. >> we're talking about one hour of time, but you're saying it can have serious consequences. >> it is. we are creatures of habit, and our bodies are meant to do certain things at certain times. everything gets shifted by an hour, and it takes longer to adjust to it. >> reporter: the majority of americans would do away with the time changes according to a new poll. and more would prefer locking the clock on daylight saving time. >> it's confusing having half the world doing it and half the world not doing it. >> i would be happy to see it go away. it makes everything a little bit easier.

>> reporter: congress is considering making that happen, reintroducing the bipartisan sunshine protection act, but some critics point out we have tried it before which after a string of morning traffic accidents in the 1970s lasted less than a year. author of seize the daylight says we should embrace the current system. >> even with the problems people have with the time change i think the current system is the best alternative. >> reporter: emilie ikeda, nbc news. we have a lot to cover in our second hour of "chris jansing reports." let's get right to it. at this hour, a new twist in the ongoing saga involving embattled congressman george santos. his unconventional reaction to a