first ever live event, last month's chris rock special. >> we'll learn from it and get better we do have the fundamental i infrastructure we need. >> reporter: that infrastructure will be under an intense microscope as streaming services constantly compete for eyeballs, and new sources of revenue >> netflix can't just ride on its coattails anymore. it has to figure out new ways to grow >> reporter: at one point netflix did make is some users are canceling at first and then signing up for their own accounts and bringing others on to them. we'll see how it goes in the state, sometime over the next few months back to you. >> nbc's jacob soboroff, thank you. thank you for joining us we'll be back tomorrow, same time, same place reporting from new york, i'm ana co cabrera. "jose diaz-balart reports" is next in kansas city, missouri, an

84-year-old man expected before a judge accused of shooting a black teenager after he mistakenly went to the wrong house and rang on the man's doorbell how the community is rallying around the injured teen. and in texas, a man under arrest accused of shooting two cheerleaders after one in their group mistakenly got into the wrong car. one of the girls being treated in the icu new this morning, a hearing for a massachusetts air national guardsman accused in a massive leak of classified intelligence documents. that hearing delayed but now new details about what those documents reveal it is one of the largest defamation payouts in history. a huge settlement between dominion voting systems and fox news, but fox's legal troubles are not over in florida, governor ron desantis' feud with disney heating up today as he faces new criticism from his potential presidential rivals.

and we begin this morning with what appears to be yet another tragic incident of gun violence this time it happened in elgin, texas, northeast of austin authorities say a man shot two teenage cheerleaders after one of them mistakenly got into the wrong vehicle in a supermarket parking lot early tuesday morning. one of the teens in critical condition. police say that the man has since been arrested and charged with deadly conduct, a third degree felony. nbc's morgan chesky joins us from dallas. good morning so what else do we know about this case? >> reporter: yeah, jose, good morning. heart breaking story here, hitting this tight knit cheerleading community incredibly hard. what we learned is they were practicing at a cheer camp in the woodlands, texas, outside of houston and beginning this drive back home towards austin when they stopped as you mentioned

about 30 miles outside the city at a grocery store to pick up some snacks, supplies, when one of those girls thinking they were getting back into the group's vehicle opened a door, saw a man she didn't recognize and closed the door and, according to witnesses, began to apologize when this man got out of the vehicle, and then pulled out a handgun and opened fire, injuring two of those cheerleaders one bullet grazing one girl, the other seriously wounding the other, who remains in critical condition. jose, this is a senior at a high school in the austin area, who remains in a hospital. we're told she is beloved by many, a top cheerleader, not just in her group, but across the state, and that is why this tragedy is hitting just so incredibly hard here jose >> morgan chesky, thank you very much. authorities in dadeville, are holding a news conference about this weekend's shooting.

let's go right to that press conference. >> make no mistake, this is alabama, and when you pull out a gun and you start shooting people, we're going to put you in jail. okay we're going to do that because we're thinking about the families we're concerned about the families we were in the beginning and we will be through the remainder of this investigation because somebody's got to start thinking about -- i'm tired of it, heverybody behind me is tird of it. we're tired of going to the mothers and having to tell them that these kids are not coming home so that's what we're going to be concerned about. we're not concerned about headlines. we're not. we're worried about mama okay that's going to be our focus and we are we're going to stay laser focused on this investigation throughout the duration. but, again, it is going to take

personal courage it is going to take personal courage of the individuals that were there that night to come forward, come talk to law enforcement, tell the truth, we need that information. okay i'm now going to turn it over to the fifth circuit district attorney, mike seegrist for his comments thank you. we will send out an official press release with all the names immediately following this please hold all questions until the end of the press conference. thank you. >> good morning, everyone. my name is mike seegrist, the district attorney for the 5th judicial circuit which includes here and macon, chambers and randolph counties. i know there has been some frustration among our community and the media about a lack of information that has been provided up to this point. and i want to explain part of the reason for that.

as a prosecutor, i cannot discuss the specific facts of the case it is highly inappropriate for me to come out and publicly talk about that and tell that information. the reason being, defendants have constitutional rights they got to be tried by the jury of their peers inside this building they have a right to be represented by counsel and for me to come out here and give information about what's going on in the investigation, i can't discuss the details of that with you all. and i apologize, but i hope you understand that. nor can law enforcement. so, we won't be discussing all of the details i can tell you a few things about the process of what will happen next with these individuals. first, they'll be entitled to a bond hearing that will have to occur within 72 hours. the state of alabama will be requesting no bond, that's up to

a judge to decide, but that will be the state of alabama's decision after that, there will be an initial court appearance then there will be a preliminary hearing. and then this information, depending on outcome of that, will go to a grand jury. the grand jury system in alabama and each circuit operates differently. here the grand jury convenes twice a year once in march and then once again in september once the grand jury is empanelled in march, they're still the grand jury for that six-month period we can recall the grand jury to present an indictment under special situations that's unprecedented, and hasn't been done that i'm aware of anytime recently here. this is an unprecedented situation. if we can't establish the facts and are ready to present that, we will be asking our grand jury to come back in to present that, so we can move forward efficiently and effectively.

this is a very complex case. we mentioned four counts of reckless murder. obviously that just includes the four deceased that have been reported okay we have got a lot more victims in this. we still got four that are in hospital, four that are in critical condition there will be pending charges coming regarding all those when i tell you this is just the tip of the iceberg, and forth coming charges literally, we're going to make sure every one of those victims has justice and not just the deceased. i would be remiss if i didn't just say thank you to all the agencies, i can't name them all, there have been so many. literally every agency from federal, state and local that has been involved in this, without the resources that they have brought to our community, we would not be where we are and have already made these first arrests here today

i will tell you that even though these are 16 and 17-year-olds, we will be charging them as adults in this when i spoke to the press on sunday, i started off by talking about the victims. and the victim services and i want to go back over that. we have information on our website, www.fifthcircuitda.org that has information to provide to victims and victims' families and we got victim services from the fbi, victim services from the attorney general's office, victim service from the office of prosecutorial services as well as our office they're all working to provide the needs to the victims when we talk about the victims, it is not just the 28 injured and 32 dead. there were so many kids in this

venue. and what they saw, they're victims in this. their families are victimed s of this, and the ripple effect of this is like a wave rolling across lake martin but that ripple didn't stop when it hit the banks there are other communities involved there are kids from real town here one of the ones in critical condition had gone to the prom that night in real town. there is kids from palisades, booker t.w, kids from alexander city we haven't identified possibly where all some of these kids came from. and it is a traumatic thing for them and they need help and our services are available for them as well. and in talking about the victims, i'll share something with you, and i'm going to try not to get emotional and i won't

be taking any questions because i probably would but one of the victims that was injured is lexi divell it is lexi's 16th birthday party. sweet 16 there is uncut cake and unburnt 16 candles that never got lit. lexi's brother is one of the victims. on her 16th birthday party, she knelt by her brother as he took his last breath. that's what we're dealing with here those are what these victims went through the message that i want to send is i know some of these victims personally some of these kids are kids of friends of mine, people that i went to school with, people that i played ball with, and against and in the community back in high school. and these are my kids. these are our kids

don't mess with our kids do not mess with our kids. thank you. >> good morning, everybody i'm jonathan floyd, the police chief of the city of dadeville i want to echo what has already been said concerning our victims. our victims who were physically injured, our victims who were there and even though they may not have received physical injuries, they have emotional scars and injuryies that they will have for the rest of their lives. to our families, we love you the dadeville police department is going to do everything we can to make sure that we have a successful prosecution for you

one of the decisions i made very early on was to get our state and federal partners involved. the resources that they have provided have been invaluable. i ask for patience as you already have been told this is the tip of the iceberg this is the very beginning but we have one chance to get this right in a few days, most of you are going to be gone our community is still going to be here. our victims, people that are affected, are still going to be here we're going to be here with them as the police chief, as a member of law enforcement, we owe it to

every person affected to make sure that we're slow, make sure we're very methodical, because we have one opportunity to get this right because this case is not just about making an arrest, that is not the finish line. if we hurry, if we're careless, and we do make an arrest, but it does not result in conviction, it does not result in ultimate justice for our victims, we have failed our victims so i ask each of you to please be patient please be understand ing. to our victims who may not be -- but were here that night, you're a dadevillian whether you like it or not.

you're part of our city and our family i want to thank every one of you for your interest, for your concern, for our families, for our children, for being here there are too many partners to name them all. but i'm telling you, sheriff has been a tremendous asset, alabama bureau of investigation, state bureau of investigation and alabama law enforcement agency, atf, fbi, united states marshals service, alabama fugitive center to name a few, not to mention our neighboring surrounding agencies when i arrived on scene, you had sheriffs from other counties, you had police chiefs from overseas, countless officers and especi

specialty units that came from other jurisdictions. they did not care that this wasn't their community they were here because they have a servant's heart. so, i ask each of you to please continue to lift us up, please be patient and please understand that when you email, when you call, when you text, and we do not give you a specific answer, it is because there is information you want that i cannot reveal because i'm not going to do anything that is going to jeopardize this investigation. so i thank each of you for your time i thank each of you for your understanding. >> thank you, chief. thank you. again, we're going to get ready to close the press conference and just what they said, this is about the victims, this is about

the families, this is about this community. and that's what we're here as law enforcement officers, we have a duty, a responsibility, and that's what we're going to do that's what we're going to follow thanks again for just the cooperation. the partnership has truly been amazing. and we thank the media, we thank y'all, we know you all have a job to do. >> and as we wrap up that news conference in dadeville, alabama, i want to bring in danny ceballos, great seeing you. this is a press conference where they announced the investigation continues at a very early stage. but there have been two arrests, a 16 and 17-year-old person that ill with b will be charged as adults. >> the minimum juvenile age is 14 in alabama.

in alabama, if you are at least 16 and you commit a class a felony, that's what murder is, the presumption is you're an adult, you're getting tried as an adult, and reckless murder or depraved heart murder as it is often called in alabama has a statutory mandatory minimum of ten years, but if a deadly weapon is used, that mandatory minimum gets bumped up to 20 years. you're looking at 20 years to life for 16 and 17-year-olds under alabama law because alabama recognizes that 16-year-olds who commit murder are just automatically tried as adults. >> danny, thank you. please stay with us. i want to talk about another horrible tragedy and it is the one in missouri, where an 84-year-old man is now charged in the shooting of of a black teenager who mistakenly rang his doorbell he's set to appear in court today. that man, andrew lester, is free on bond after turning himself into authorities yesterday in

connection with the shooting of 16-year-old ralph yarl last thursday people in the kansas city area continue to show their support for yarl hundreds of people gathering in downtown kansas city last night for a protest. with us to talk more about this is nbc news correspondent antonia hylton and back with us, danny ceballos, msnbc legal analyst. the alleged shooter will be arraigned this afternoon. >> that's right. at about 2:30 this afternoon on eastern time he's going to be arraigned. this comes one day after he surrendered himself to clay county authorities, booked in their jail there, and then posted $200,000 of bail. this is, you know, continuing actually to really fan flames there in the community in some ways it is a relief that he has been finally brought into custody this is something that protesters, family members have been asking for for days but on the other hand, there is still a question there in the community of why it took so long

for lester to be brought to custody and anger over the fact he was able to post bail and head back home this hearing is also going to be virtual. so while on the one hand this case is moving forward, he's facing two serious felonies that could very likely put him behind bars for the rest of his life, the anger in kansas city, the people surrounding ralph yarl's family is still very much present. >> we're hearing from ralph's family what are they saying >> they're describing the recovery right now as a roller coaster, up and down at one moment, according to the attorneys and family members who have spoken to nbc, ralph can feel grateful to be alive, the next moment he's asking very painful questions, why did this happen to me, i don't understand what even happened in the few moments when he stood at andrew lester's door. take a listen to some of what his aunt shared. >> he sees that there is a lot of love in america there is a lot of good people. doesn't matter black, purple, green, white, yellow, it does

not matter there are people filled with love there are people who love him that i have never met, that he will never meet, but they're pouring love into him. >> and we saw that outpouring of love yesterday classmates marched through the streets. they had signs, they were chanting about how much they love ralph and are eager for him to come back into school you have to keep in mind, these wounds, the one to his head, these are going to cause traumatic brain injuries, so the road to recovery is going to be long for ralph and for all the people around him. >> no doubt. just a miracle that he's alive really extraordinary so, danny, let's talk about the possible legal aspects of the defense. this person who shot at him, missouri is one of 28 states where the stand your ground law, all the laws are different in every state, but they all have a few things in common one of them is you don't shoot first. and correct me if i'm wrong,

there has to be -- i guess stand your ground in principle is you don't have to back away from a deadly danger to yourself. is that a correct representation of these laws? and second of all, this sdoesn' seem like it was any of that. >> there is a lot of talk about stand your ground in this case i think stand your ground will be a nonfactor in this case. take you back with a very brief history lesson, traditionally there was a suggestion that when you're confronted with deadly force, there is an obligation in some jurisdictions you have to run away so, castle doctrine developed. it is the idea there is one sacred place, our home in our home, we shouldn't have to run away because we live there. that's a sacred place that if somebody breaks into, you should be able to stand where you are and stand your ground developed and it took that thing that was so sacred about the home and eliminated it and said, okay, well, home aside, if you're out there in the world walking

around, doing it lawfully, someone attacks you, you don't have to retreat ought in the world. all of stand your ground requires is that you're confronted with deadly force under missouri law, it appears to allow you still need reasonable apprehension of force, but i attempting to enter an occupied dwelling that is the only section that could apply here. but that would mean that if it applied here, that the mere fact that someone rings your doorbell means they're trying to gain entrance to an occupied home that's never been the law in america. it would mean every grubhub delivery person, every pizza delivery person, every traveling salesman is potentially initiating a castle doctrine deadly force authorization every time they walk up to your door, open the outer door and ring the doorbell that's never been the law in america and it won't be now. this is going to be a really difficult, possibly indefensible case. >> antonia hylton, thank you very much.

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you're doing business in an app driven, multi-cloud world. that's why you choose vmware. with flexible multi-cloud services that enable digital innovation and enterprise control, vmware helps you keep your cloud options open. 24 past the hour this morning, a closer look at the high profile defamation trial that was over before it began. just moments before opening statements on tuesday, fox agreed to settle with dominion voting systems for $787.5 million. that's just under half of the damages claimed in the lawsuit in that lawsuit, dominion accused fox news of spreading false claims that the company's machines rigged votes in the 2020 election. here is what dominion's ceo said about the settlement just this morning. >> this was not the case of a

media company pursuing the truth and making a mistake they knew. and at the end of the day, the court system really is about accountability we feel we got it. >> joining us now with more is nbc news correspondent stephanie gosk live from outside the courtroom. and still with us, danny ceballos what more can you tell us about the terms of this settlement >> reporter: well, it is really just about the money at this point. and dominion, you heard the ceo there as well as his legal team said that money is accountability goes a little bit beyond that, and fox's statement, they say, we acknowledge the court's rulings finding certain claims about dominion to be false what this is specifically referencing is a decision by this judge in this case about two weeks ago and he ruled that the statements, 20 of them that are at the heart of this case were false what was going to be on trial was this issue of actual malice,

having to prove that fox news knew that they were lied or recklessly disregarded the truth. fox went on with its statement to add, we're hopeful that our decision to resolve this dispute with dominion amicably instead of the acrimony of a divisive trial allows the country to move forward from these issues. moving forward is not going to happen anytime soon, jose. there are a lot of outstanding cases when it comes to the 2020 presidential election, including a $2.7 billion -- another $2.7 billion defamation case against fox news >> so, danny, you tweeted that fox had to settle. why do you think that? >> because vast majority of all civil litigation settles, often on the courthouse steps. what happened here is not that unusual. it appears that fox's defense team was following an old school approach that insurance companies and defendants often use in run of the mill personal injury type cases which is wait, wait, wait, wait, wait until the

very last minute and then settle the case that way they can hold on to their money, invest it fox had to be worried about letting folks like rupert murdoch and sean hannity testify, but the reason this seems look a bit of a stumble for fox is the blood was already let over the last nine, ten months as all this information got out there into the ether they should have gone early on to settle this case. but here's the thing, they probably did that. dominion was in the rare plaintiffs position of having so much leverage, so much confidence in this care is this he could tell fox, no way, we're going to trial i suspect we may never know. they took monday off to talk settlement tuesday they achieved settlement just before opening. i bet dominion made themselves an extra $10 million by simply saying no on monday and raising the stakes more and more and more for fox fox was inan untenable position i have no doubt they wanted to settle, but dominion knew they had the cards and could keep

saying go away, this is the magic number we want and fox eventually had to meet that number >> so, a few things as stephanie was talking about, this is not the end of the road legally for fox, another voting machine company, smartmatic is seeking $2.7 billion has all this stuff that has come out in discovery and this agreement yesterday going to have an impact on this next legal step >> this is another reason corporate defendants wait until the last possible minute to settle because they do not want to be the corporation that sends a signal that we settle case early. fox knows and their lawyers know there are plenty of other would be plaintiffs out there waiting, watching, ready to pounce. smartmatic is going to use this case as a blueprint. they now know where fox keeps the documents. that fox maybe sometimes can't find the documents they are ready to go, so too are other plaintiffs, maybe some we haven't heard about yet.

fox was in an untenable intractable position they knew they had to hold out as long as they could so they could at least dissuade some of these other folks out there. it is magical thinking, but this is the poker game of civil litigation, negotiation and settlement. >> so all of this information stuff that has cop me out over h last months, will this be able to be utilized by this other group, smartmatic, in their case >> to the extent it helps smartmatic a lot of the discovery was specific to dominion even the stuff that was specific to dominion, we now know who was emailing whom who was where in the chain of command and what they were talking about. talk about all the different threads that smartmatic can pull on this sweater and get to the bottom much faster than dominion dominion was the vanguard. dominion had to break down all the walls of discovery those are broken down. it got to the point where a

special master had to be appointed to deal with discovery. smartmatic is going to sit back or has sat back, watch this, put together their game plan and i imagine they'll run their lit fwa litigation a lot more efficiently and fox is in the position where they probably have to come early to settle most if not all of these cases >> danny, always a pleasure to see you. thank you very much. good to see you in person. >> thank you. also new this morning, the detention hearing for the 21-year-old international guardsman accused of leaking classified documents was postponed for two weeks. teixeira was charged under the espionage act last week for maintaining and transmitting national defense information on an online gaming discord chat. we are learning more about the leaked documents "the washington post" reports that one of the documents posted on discord shows that china's military may soon be able to deploy a high altitude spy drone

that travels at least three times the speed of sound meanwhile, members of the house and senate will receive separate briefings on the leaked documents later today. joining us now is nbc's garrett haake on capitol hill, william avanina, former director of the national counterintelligence and security center and jane harman, chair of the freedom house board of trustees and former democratic congresswoman from california members of congress are preparing for a briefing on these leaks this afternoon what are they going to be focusing on? >> reporter: they have a lot of questions, jose. part about how a 21-year-old national guardsman had access to so many secrets across such a broad spectrum of intelligence issues we have one senator lindsey graham who say major in the u.s. air force before he was in politics saying he doesn't think he ever had this much access the idea of the classification system isn't just that the documents are supposed to be secret, but they're supposed to be on a need to know basis and why a 21-year-old needed to know

any of them and was able to put paper in his pocket and walk out of of a building are significant questions for how so many other of our national secrets are being protected. so particularly the members of the intelligence committees in both chambers will be asking some fairly pointed questions in these briefings today. they already have been working on this issue of protecting classified documents after they were found in the homes of the current and former president stored improperly. this is very much the front of mind and we won't see, it will be behind closed doors, we'll hear afterwards some of very difficult questions being asked of the representatives of the intelligence community briefing today. >> some of the most significant disclosures have been from american personnel on the inside how does the intelligence community defend against that as well as foreign adversaries? >> well, first of all, pleasure to be here it is a complicated task it is multifacetted with respect to not only what garrett said

having access to documents, printing the documents and being able to physically get them out of the facility to put them on another chat room or give to someone who is -- hopefully not a foreign adversary and then do damage assessment. we have worked really hard the past decade to lock down majority of systems subsequent to snowden this strikes a new vulnerability we have with respect to maintaining and securing classified documents. >> bill, i'm wondering, is there a possibility of having virtual skiffs versus just having people the opportunity to go in and get out printed stuff? >> well, there is. there is all kinds of opportunities. we have to caution here, some of the mitigation to this particular situation is fairly easy it might come down to just compliance of existing policies and standards that exist within the intelligence community and department of defense. that investigation will vet that

out. how do the documents get from a secure portal to an outside portal on the internet. >> so on tuesday, the british secretary for state for defense dismissed the potential impact of the leaks, saying it does not damage the u.s. and uk relationship do you think any harm has been done relating to america's allies >> well, sure, but let me go back to what we -- you were just asking about, jose, i was the senior democrat on the house intelligence committee after 9/11 i was in the so-called gang of eight that gets briefed on our most important secrets to my knowledge, none of us ever violated the protocols with respect to secure documents, but we all fought for sharing information across the government remember, 9/11 was a failure to connect the dots and so what we wanted was information to be converged across systems that's what led to the jwick

system, that's what this gamer this kid, just showing off to his friends, had access to if we start compartmentalizing all of this again, we may go back to the same problem we tried to solve it is tricky one of the things we were going to do is set up a two-person rule, you couldn't do any of this stuff by yourself there had to be a second person there. that still might be a good idea. back to the question you asked me, yeah, i think the so-called five eyes are intelligence -- closest intelligence cooperators have kind of forgiven us, for example, they could have a similar problem, but these documents reveal how we get information. this one that you're just talking about, i'm reading "the washington post" here, chinese military readies supersonic spy drone unit says we got this information from satellite we're checking off the seas about our sources and methods. that's why we classify things.

my bottom line here is tricky stuff, i think we're okay for now. i think the senate and house are going to be pretty upset about this because most of them truly respect safeguarding classified information, most of them, but i think we do have some work to do, but not to return to this stove pipe system we had before 9/11. >> so what is your reaction to that article you just are looking at and quoting from? there are these -- the possibility that the chinese have these uber high tech three times the speed of sound drones in the making. what is your reaction to that? >> well, the chinese are trying to gain advantage. we're still ahead, but we have to continue to innovate. we should not reveal our capabilities, you know, through some gamer leaker. that would be a huge mistake

compounding this mistake but china is a peer competitor trying to gain dominance in this space and we have to be ready. and i now chair something called the commission on the national defense strategy and we're all talk about how we could make certain we keep our advantage in places like this i'm not saying because i don't know that we don't have something comparable to this or even better than this. >> and, bill, what are your big concerns >> well, jose, i think to carry on what jane just talked about, no one should be surprised about the capabilities with the communist party has militarily as we have seen in the last decade, they utilize a lot of services on our corporate world here in the u.s., which does not have the ability to protect itself this manifests itself with what they can do now, and what they can do in the future if they can

weaponize themselves saw with re spy balloon floating over the u.s., we saw to things that are important there. number one, the intent of xi jinping and the communist party of china, what they want to do and, b, the capabilities of a very sophisticated surveillance balloon flying 60,000 feet over the united states and our sensitive locations. to things, capability and intent of a nation state threat actor who as jane said is a computer competitor those combinations are problematic for us and the united states moving forward. >> i thank you all so very much for being with us. up next, florida governor ron desantis is facing new criticism over his growing dispute with disney and some o that criticism is coming from his own party. how this could give his potential 2024 rivals a political opening.

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43 past the hour now florida governor ron desantis is making an appearance at an event in new charleston, south carolina, accompanied by his wife casey desantis. it comes as the board that oversees disney is holding a meeting this morning over the ongoing feud with the company for which he's facing new criticism and some of that criticism is coming from within his own party, specifically

potential 2024 rivals including former president trump himself joining us now from tallahassee is nbc news correspondent gabe gutierrez. walk us through all of these moving parts what is going on between the governor and disney? >> reporter: good morning. as you said, the governor in south carolina this morning, once again touting his vision of florida and trying to sell it to a more national audience in an early primary state, referring once again to disney as a, quote, woke corporation, and as you know, jose, this is an ongoiing feud since last year when disney opposed the parental rights and education act here in florida, which critics dubbed don't say gay bill, well, governor desantis doubled down his attacks earlier this week. today, a state board appointed by governor desantis is meeting near orlando, but he's facing a lot of backlash from some potential 2024 republican rivals including donald trump who called this a political stunt,

chris christie also said he wasn't sure if desantis was a conservative and this is all playing out in the backdrop here at the florida state legislature to why we speculated that governor desantis is waiting until after the legislative session to announce a run for president they have passed man ed many ofe governor's priorities so far we spoke with paul renner earlier today, a staunch republican ally and ally of governor desantis, of course, and i asked him about a wide range of issues. here is part of our conversation. >> has he indicated to you he plans to run for president after the session is over? >> no he hasn't. he's focused on this very, very big transformative session i think he's leading where the country ought to go in the coming years. >> do you think disney should be retaliated against >> i don't think it is retaliation at all. >> isn't it risky to go after the largest single site employer in florida

>> i think it is risky not to hold people accountable and make sure people play by the same rules. >> reporter: so the florida house speaker defending his allied governor desantis on the battle against disney. the florida congressional delegation now desantis's potential campaign having issues with that. six members of congress from florida have already endorsed former president trump, so certainly a lot that desantis' potential campaign has to look out for, especially as he tries to hole on to any sort of support within the republican party and former president trump clearly still has quite a hold on >> gabe gutierrez, thank you very much. i want to bring in michael steele, msnbc political analyst, former rnc chair great to see you if you just put a little perspective on this for us, if you would, michael, what is the game moment for desantis in this

disney feud? >> there is no gaming moment for desantis, particularly given that you are now seeing a couple of cracks. one, obviously, between trump -- with trump and with chris christie, who may or may not get in the race, but has placed a marker but then you also have the fact that as you just noted coming into this conversation that at least six members of the florida delegation refuse to hold their power and wait for the governor to make a decision so, all of this -- all of the backdrop with what is going on in florida is sort of underscored by how the political class is responding to him the governor was in waushington earlier this week, couple of days ago, trying to ing to shor support with high end donors from what i understood those

conversations were just conversations. there is no commitment or guarantee the dollars will be there. he has to figure out how to translate to the speaker's point, this florida narrative nationally and my bet is it doesn't translate nationally people like disney people think the way disney is being handled is inappropriate to go after, you know, one of the largest employers in the state. for what reason? they took a conscientious position against legislation that be, you know, went against some of their own employees, for example. so there is a lot for this governor to figure out how to correct if he launches a presidential bid in the face of these wins. >> i'm wondering, the insistence gi the governor on the back and forth, it seems as though there have been a series of waves, right, regarding this issue

between desantis and disney, is this, youny, something that he's doing on purpose it is almost as though this is very specific, michael. >> i think it is on purpose and i think it is personality. i think he has sort of a peakish kind of personality. he's easily annoyed. he doesn't engage with people the way other folks do in politics, his skin is a little bit thin in that regard. and to be honest, he got pumped by the mouse a couple of weeks ago. the disney folks had a plan to deal with him and, you know, all this conversation about taking on the chairman iger, mr. in tt interest of the governor to be in that position you have got people saying, disney needs to figure out how to fix this with desantis. desantis needs to figure out how

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to get worse more migrants are making their way to the southern border u.s. customs and border protection says agents encountered nearly 192,000 migrants in march. it's below the record 260,000 we saw in december. the numbers come just three weeks before the biden administration is set to lift title 42, which blocked most migrants from entering the u.s. and applying for asylum. it also comes as new poll by the democratic polling firm global strategy group finds 58% of likely voters in seven key battleground states disapprove of how the president is handling immigration compared to 32% who approve. with us now from el paso to talk more about this is lauren v viagrande. what's the situation like today? >> el paso is ground zero in

terms of the number of crossings of migrants in this region the numbers are up about 1,300 migrants per day are crossing. we are seeing increased use of the cbp1 app there have been glitches with migrants trying to get lawful appointments to cross the border via the bridges. >> lauren, the increasing numbers could be a sign that more people are coming and are coming into the mexico area ahead of lifting of title 42 in just over three weeks. >> yeah, that's right. there are thousands of people waiting in suarez across the rio grande from el paso where we know conditions are getting more tense. you saw the fire that killed 40 migrants inside a mexican detention center in suarez migrants are afraid of authorities on the mexican side. they are frustrated that they aren't able to easily get these

appointments via the app, which is over subscribed folks are getting frustrated and they are crossing the border, turning themselves in. it's an issue that is likely to increase i spoke with border patrol today. they are expecting numbers above 3,000 people per day once title 42 lifts which is going to strain both their capacity to process and temporarily hold people. >> the folks that are loving this whole crisis are the cartels. how are they preparing for the end of title 42? >> you know, that's an interesting question we know that with that in place, more people are choosing to cross illegally, sneak over the border and try to evade control. of course, that's where cartels, the smugglers can make their money. once title 42 lifts, will people

be crossing through the river to turn themselves in in a fashion that in some ways avoids this? it's going to depend on whether the cdp1 app expands the number of appointments available, whether people will try to cross lawfully or irregularly between the bridges. we have been down this road before, twice already, with the nearing end of title 42. we will see what happens on may 11th. >> one thing for sure, the cartels are going to find a way to exploit this tragedy. lauren, thank you very much. it's good seeing you we have an update on a story we brought you earlier this hour moments ago, ralph yarl's attorney says he is home and recovering how the bullet in his head did not cause more extensive damage is a miracle he was shot in the head and

chest after mistakenly going to the wrong address to pick up his siblings the 84-year-old homeowner will be arraigned this afternoon. that wraps up the hour for me you can reach me on twitter and instagram. you can watch highlights from today's show online at jdbalart. right now on "andrea mitchell reports," the fallout from fox new's $878 million settlement with dominion to keep fox hosts and murdoch off the witness stand. this hour, new developments in the case against air national guardsman jack and the supreme court now facing a midnight deadline to respond on a lower court ruling, in effect banning nat