i sign off on a new car if i can find any inventory on a car lot? it is a confusing time for everybody. i would be a multi, multimillionaire if i knew when the perfect time was to buy. but i still think there is a lot of excess in the housing market and it is a dangerous time with the fed still on the margin hiking >> yeah, that's a good point thank you very much for being here have a great weekend that does it for us today and this week. thanks for being with us see you back here monday, same time, same place until then, reporting from new york, i'm ana cabrera. have a wonderful weekend let me toss it over to my friend jose diaz-balart. >> ana, thank you very much. good morning, it is 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific i'm jose diaz-balart as the 2024 race takes shape, president biden is set to make it official, and announce his re-election bid as early as next week what new polling numbers tell us about the race for the white house so far also, title 42, the

pandemic-era policy, set to expire in just under three weeks. new reporting on how the biden administration is getting ready at the border. meanwhile, charges dropped what we're hearing from alec baldwin since prosecutors announced the actor will not face criminal charges for his role in the fatal "rust" shooting we'll break down the latest push against transgender rights across several states and we'll bring you inside the billion dollar latin music industry breaking records around the world. and we begin this morning with the news that president biden appears to be on the verge of announcing his re-election campaign three sores familiar with the matter tell nbc news the president will make his intentions to seek a second term official next week

the tuesday will be four years since he launched his last run to the white house. a new "wall street journal" poll out this morning gives the president a three-point advantage over donald trump among registered voters. that same poll gives florida governor ron desantis a three-point lead over the president, both leads are within the poll's margin of error with us now to talk about this, nbc news white house correspondent allie raffa and brendan buck, former communication adviser to former house speakers boehner and ryan and msnbc political analyst. what can we expect from the president's campaign as far as next week? >> yeah, jose, good morning. after months of speculation over when this would happen, as you mentioned, we're learning now it could happen as soon as tuesday in the form of a video announcement and that tuesday timeline sort of tracks -- sorry for the background noise here -- sort of tracks with what we know to be a very superstitious president, a president that is very sensitive

around the anniversaries of certain dates, and that anniversary, tuesday the 25th, would mark four years to the date since he announced his successful presidential run, also around the time that we know former president obama announced his re-election bid. and also a convenient piece of this timing puzzle is going to be where exactly president biden is expected to be on tuesday we know he's a very passionate supporter of unions. and on tuesday we expect him to speak to a trade union conference here in d.c so that would be a convenient timing piece of this puzzle. but, of course, with anything related to the president, jose, we have to caution that until he gives the green light and officially says this is a go, we are still in a holding pattern as far as when these re-election plans will be announced, jose. >> allie raffa in washington no siren too strong for you. thank you for being with us this morning. brendan, when the president finally announces, which seems

to be next tuesday or around then, does this essentially -- i think it is an obvious question, but i still -- does this essentially shut the door for any democrats other than the president who may have presidential aspirations this go around >> i don't any there was a big threat to joe biden, but enough distractions he had to do it moat ava motivation is he has to get mobilized and put in place the infrastructure joe biden is a pretty weak incumbent running for re-election. you don't usually see somebody with such -- so many people coming and saying i potentially may run against you. there are polls out recently that show a lot of democrats would like somebody else to run. it is not normal for an incumbent president to have so many people in his own party say, maybe you should step aside. he's got to convince a lot of people he should run and those poll numbers, we look at a lot of the chaos going on with donald trump and the infighting and the republican party, but that seems like a very close race that you would think that

would reflect better for joe biden, he could use that to his advantage. >> april 21st, today, we're not talking 2024 and not talking about from here to then what may happen and who the other candidates could end up being on the republican side. but as far as the weak candidate, it is interesting, because, for example, if we look at the last legislative elections, that was in many ways a referendum on biden. and when people went to the polls, and that's where you make your voice heard, it was broke records in a sense of, you know, when was the last time that a president in office had that kind of midterm election that's strong. >> absolutely outperformed history. usually -- >> that's saying a lot. >> however, republicans still took back the house. if you look at any polls over the last four or five, six months, they consistently show joe biden's polling under water. more people disapprove of him

than approve of him. at some point you have to turn that around if you're going to win. he has a benefit of running against potentially donald trump, a deeply flawed candidate. and that could help him a lot. but he's very weak in terms of a lot of people just don't approve of the job he's doing, but he also needs -- this is a presidential election where you need to turn out every vote. every single vote and there is a lot of democrats who are not excited about joe biden. he needs to figure out a way to excite them. >> depends who is running against joe biden on the other side because some of those votes will definitely go to him regardless one way or another. let's talk about those polls one of the things the new associated press poll finds, 47% of democrats want president biden to run compare to 52 that don't and that's something you were talking about what does the president need to do to change those numbers >> that's a stunning number. more than half of your own party don't want you to run again. i can't recall any incumbent president that had to face something like that. the biggest thing that joe biden has going for him is that donald

trump is the biggest turnout vehicle for democrats there has ever been. and one of the things they have seemed to have been doing is staying a little hands off, they seemed to be thinking there is a benefit to letting donald trump sort of hang himself out there, and reap the benefit they haven't seen the benefit a lot so far i don't think what they need to do is start playing a little more contrast feels very much like hillary clinton, very excited to run against donald trump they felt there was no way they could use against donald trump we know what happened there. they need to take the threat more seriously, need to be engaging congress more seriously. that's a great contrast for him, the house republicans, you know, where i worked, never really popular. if you can take the contrast straight to them, i think that would be very helpful. >> let's talk more about the republican side. new "wall street journal" poll out this morning, as a matter of fact, finds that donald trump has a 13-point advantage over desantis in a head to head primary matchup. when you add other candidates into the mix, trump has a 24-point advantage over

desantis what do you see things going on here and look at these numbers. pretty substantial. >> yeah, one thing that sticks out is that donald trump's support is solid when it is head to head against desantis, it is -- he's got 51% open up all the rest of the candidates, it is the same ron desantis on the other hand, he has -- he drops dramatically had when you open other people the trump voters were not going anywhere it tells you rondesantis is no nearly as strong as we perhaps thought he was a couple of months ago feels like a poll is a snapshot in time. it feels like ron desantis is in a bit of a free fall right here. he needs to find some way to stabilize that donald trump, you would think, should be the prohibitive front-runner he's the essentially the incumbent, extremely popular, and nobody yet has figured out a way to go after him. most people running against him, aren't putting up a fight. that's part of what you're seeing with ron desantis donald trump is attacking him mercilessly and ron desantis is doing nothing to fight back.

at some point you have to take him on or we're headed for a rematch of the last election. >> and then the issue of desantis versus trump, and then whatever he has to do or not do. it will have an impact on a general. can desantis run and win in a general? >> the polling out this morning shows he does a little better than donald trump in head to head against joe biden but not dramatically so. what ron desantis is pitching is that i'm much more electable than donald trump. the polling doesn't bear that out too much it bears it out a little bit, not dramatically so. and ron desantis is making a bet that republican voters think that way i don't know that voters typically think about who is more electable they tend to vote for whoever makes them feel good, tells them what they want to hear, gets them excited and donald trump is very good at that. so i think it is placing a big bet that voters care about electability but also undermining his electability case quite a bit recently with the actions they have taken in florida. the abortion ban is not something that you would potentially want to run on in a

general election he's got to figure out what his message is he hasn't gotten in the race yet, it is a little early. so i'm not ready to write him off. he needs to find a way to stabilize this. >> thank you very much good to see you. appreciate it. now to the latest on the humanitarian crisis at the border homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas says the administration will announce next week how it is preparing for a potential increase in the number of migrants coming to the southern border. in less than three weeks, the pandemic-era border restriction known as title 42 is set to be lifted those restrictions barred most migrants from entering the country and applying for asylum. with us to talk more about this is nick meroff who covers immigration for the "washington post." always great seeing you. what do we think about how the administration has been preparing to deal with the end of title 42? >> well, the top homeland security officials say they're planning to surge resources, get

ready for this date that everyone has been an ticipating for a long period of time. we don't know the administration's plan is for what happens if all their detention capacity is maxed out. we don't know how they're going to handle migrant family groups that have been such a challenge for u.s. customs and border protection over the past decade. we don't know what the status is of their cooperation with mexico on returning nonmexicans as they have been able to do under this title 42 pandemic policy that as you know is going to expire on may 11th by the administration's choosing. >> and so, nick what do we know about how many people are waiting in mexico or even on the border there, for their chance to come to the united states to request asylum >> sure. well, it is interesting, you know, the top border official troy miller today, sorry, this

week, told lawmakers that there are 660,000 nonmexican migrants in mexico right now who could potentially be try to cross over into the united states he was citing u.n. figures about the number of displaced persons. obviously not all of them are going to try to come but that just gives you an idea of the potential universe of people who may want to migrate to the united states the biden administration is deploying cvp personnel to the panamanian/colombian border to this notorious jungle trail through the darian gap it is going to try to work with security forces down there to stop people from coming through that jungle path to try to reduce the flow of people coming in but there are already tens of thousands of people who have come through that area and who are in mexico or somewhere along the route who may have potentially tried to thrive over the coming weeks and months after title 42 islifted. >> i like to reaffirm and

re-emphasize that these are men, women and children that have been risking everything, their lives and more to come to the united states. are the dangers they face now going to increase as more migrants try to get to the southern border? i'm thinking of that gap, i'm thinking of what they go through overwhelmingly when they pass through mexico, are those dangers going to be increasing to theple that are willing to do everything at a shot at the opportunity of asylum? >> unfortunately i think so, jose i mean, you know, one of the things we know about, about migration dynamic, whenever enforcement increases and, you know, governments do more to try to prevent people from crossing, it creates new opportunities for criminals and smuggling organizations to exploit those people it raises the costs of migrating and, you know, i think we all know unfortunately the tragic

results of what happens when more people are coming through remote desert areas or risking their lives to swim across the rio grande or come through the darian gap in the jungle trail between panama and colombia. >> nick, a pleasure. thank you so much. really appreciate your time. >> thank you, jose anytime. >> thanks. coming up, the supreme court's decision on the future of the abortion pill could come at any moment now with the deadline just hours away we're back in exactly 60 seconds on how it could play out you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports" this morning from new york. you need to deliver new apps fast using the services you want in the clouds of your choice. with flexible multi-cloud services that enable digital innovation and enterprise control, vmware helps you innovate and grow. (vo) verizon small business days are coming. april 27th through may 3rd. and enterprise control, now is the time to partner with our experts. get started today with verizon business.

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ruling that sought to limit access to the drug that pause expires at midnight putting the future of access at risk joining us now with more is nbc news washington correspondent yamiche alcindor and former congresswoman donna shalala who servinged as hhs secretary in the clinton administration and so much more what should we be watching for today? what could the court do? >> as you said, all eyes are on the supreme court this morning the options before the supreme court are similar to what they were before the extension. some scenarios before the court, the court could grant the biden administration's request that would mean access to the pill mifepristone remains as is for now and the case goes back to the 5th circuit court of appeals. the court could deny the biden administration's request, restrict access to the pill and it goes back to the 5th circuit court of appeals this would mean the abortion pill would no longer be available by mail and patients

need to do so in person and before seven weeks of pregnancy. the supreme court could also agree to hear the case and access to the pill could remain as is for now while it works its way through the court. there is also the wild card here, that is the supreme court could take on some other unknown path, so that's why we're watching this so closely this could be simple or could be complex. in the meantime, jose, there is so much anxiety, there are reports some states and pharmacies are stockpiling this abortion pill because they're worried that access could be curtailed. on the other end, you have conservative groups who are hoping and praying and saying this conservative majority cohort that overturned roe v. wade last year, that they move to restrict access to this abortion pill. jose >> and so, secretary, i want your reaction to this whole -- the latestlegal battle over mifepristone. >> well, this is a constitutional crisis, because fda is required to follow the rules of congress, not the courts no drug has ever been withdrawn

from the market over the scientific objections of the food and drug administration so, it is unprecedented that this could happen. no drug has ever been modified by the courts. they really respond to congress and responsible to congress. so the question is, do the courts really have jurisdiction here this is about stopping abortion. it clearly is a constitutional crisis i'll be really interested in how the court wields its way around this particular issue. now, here is the real danger and you can hear the pharmaceutical companies starting to come out on this they believe that no new drug will come to market if the courts can restrict a drug, even this particular drug no new drug will be brought to market because of the risk that the courts could interfere >> and you talk about a constitutional crisis, it is

interesting because this aspect is one that we rarely talk about. because, you know, there is the standing, right, in texas. well, maybe it is the whole standing of the whole entire issue per se >> exactly and that's what i'm suggesting and we'll see what the supreme court does but the idea that a court could restrict a judge, could restrict a drug is unprecedented in this country. >> and could, of course, open up a whole series of other kind of issues on this >> exactly and, you know, congress ought to be concerned whether republicans or democrats about the court interfering with a regulatory decision in which they have set the rules for the regulatory agency >> all this as we hear new stories from those who have been denied care in light of, well, the new bans, et cetera, including one pregnant woman who was told a miscarriage was inevitable, but because of the texas ban, doctors could not

immediately intervene. take a listen. >> what happened to me was in a matter of about 15 minutes, i went from, you know, seemingly healthy to septic. and what that looked like for me was an extremely high fever. i think it spiked at 103, incoherent, confusion, i couldn't walk from the car to our bedroom without my husband's help violently shaking, teeth chattering, you know it felt like if you ever had the worst flu, the worst chills of your life, that times about a thousand it was the worst i ever felt in my life. >> doctors not willing to intervene because of this. i know that this is many ways personal to you as well. >> absolutely. when i was a resident adviser at a major university, before roe, i got back to my house and saw a

student bleeding actually and she had had an illegal abortion. it was a nightmare to get her to an emergency room, to find a doctor that would treat her because they were afraid and she did live, but she came this close to dying. that woman that we just heard from, she's having a miscarriage. this drug is used, there are a million women in this country that have miscarriages doctors use this drug to ease the miscarriage. and they're now intimidated. we're asking doctors in this country to harm their patients by these kinds of decisions. and that is outrageous, unethical, and it simply should not happen. >> yamiche alcindor and former hhs secretary donna shalala, thank you very much. let's have you back. we have a lot of talking to do. >> i'd love to. >> come back soon. >> thanks. >> yamiche, thanks.

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26 past the hour now to capitol hill and renewed push for ethics reform at the u.s. supreme court

senate judiciary committee chair dick durbin asked chief justice john roberts to testify before congress in early may about potential ethics reforms and rules for justices so far, the supreme court has declined to comment on that request. this follows reports by p propublica that justice clarence thomas didn't disclose gifts given to him he did not disclose the sale of properties from thomas' family to crow. with us now to talk more about this, nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitali and a former federal and state prosecutor in new york as well as a former clerk for the justice sandra day o'connor, now msnbc little analyst what is the leaikelihood that chief justice will appear before the senate judiciary committee >> unclear at this point, jose we know from talking to chairman durbin yesterday, at that point he had not yet heard back from the chief justice, though you would expect potentially the

reaction from republicans to be what it has been in the last few days, many of them suggesting that this is a bad idea for the chief justice to come in and testify. here is senator lindsey graham to give you a sense of what the conversation is on the hill. >> chairman durbin called chief justice roberts to testify before the committee on may 2nd. what is your thoughts on that? you think he should come >> i would be surprised if he did. >> you think he should come, though >> no, not really. i think that opens up pandora's box min my view let him deal with the situation in his own backyard. >> now, jose, this comes amid the larger discussion as you just mentioned about potential ethics violations or at least concerns about what the justices are able to do and not do as justices on the nation's highest court. there has been a lot of talk about this in congress in recent months, dating all the way back to the conversations around justice clarence thomas' wife ginni thomas and the

conversations we were having around the allegations made by the january 6th committee at that point about the kovgs she was having with people inside that orbit this is something that has been in chatter on the hill for many, many months now. whether or not these reforms actually come to fruition is the question what we're talking about here for the chief justice would be a hearing just about a week and a half from now, so we might get our answer then and this hearing is probably going to go along with -- >> what are the ethics rules for federal judges versus supreme court justices >> the judicial conference, jose, which is an administrative body that sort of oversees the federal courts does have a code of conduct that applies to every single federal judge in the country. except for the nine supreme court justices so, everything from the circuit court down to bankruptcy chjudgs magistrate judges. it has rules and also advice on how to conduct yourself in a way that maintains public confidence. >> who sets those rules and that

advice >> the judicial conference, a creature of congress, sets those rules. and it has been an open question whether they can impose rules on the supreme court as well, or whether they can only do it on the lower federal courts and chief justice roberts has taken the position that that agency can't actually promulgate rules on the supreme court, but, of course, the supreme court could give itself a code of conduct and, look, most of the justices on the supreme court typically come up through the federal courts so, it is not like they don't sort of know those rules and why they're valuable. >> but there are rules in the supreme court as well. they do have to, you know, set up some forms, et cetera certainly vastly different than the rules set up for the other judges how is that process of the rules set in the supreme court done? and are they ever changed? >> well, so, there are other

disclosure obligations they have to make, like other people who work for the government, and they do have some of their own rules. when i was clerbi ingclerking a supreme court, i would see this. they had systems for making sure the justices recused when there might be a personal conflict with a particular case i think in matters for the public that these would be binding and the same is for everybody else, not just individual justices sort of sometimes deciding what they think is right we always say that when it comes to judicial ethics, the appearance of corruption is as bad as corruption itself we have to believe as a country that there is a set of rules that applies to everybody. >> and roberts is aware of all this. >> he has said from the moment that he was confirmed to be chief justice that he really cares about confidence in the courts and that he knows that's where the court's authority comes from. >> ali and tali, thank you for

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36 past the hour charges have been dropped against actor alec baldwin in the fatal shooting of cinema tagogt tographer halyna hutchins. they resumed production of the movie on thursday at a new location in montana. joining us is shaquille brewster good morning what do we know about the charges that were dropped? >> reporter: good morning, jose. sources tell nbc news that prosecutors learned new information about the prop gun that was in alec baldwin's hand in october of 2021 specifically that it was modified with a new trigger that would have made it possible for a misfire to occur as baldwin has alleged. so, overnight, prosecutors confirmed that they dropped that involuntary manslaughter charge against baldwin and said in a statement that in preparation for major hearing that was set to begin in just about two weeks, they say, quote, new

facts revealed that -- new facts were revealed that demand further investigation and forensic analysis. consequently they go on to say we cannot proceed under a current time constraint and on the facts and evidence turned over by law enforcement in its existing form. they acknowledge and they insist that this is not clear alec baldwin of criminal culpability. they say new charges could be launched at in point in the future and we expect to learn a little bit more during a virtual court hearing later this afternoon. but, jose, this is really a string of embarrassments it has been a string of embarrassments for this prosecution team it was back in february that they dismissed one of the charges against baldwin that carried the heavier prison sentence that weapons enhancement charge that was dismissed as unconstitution unconstitutional the first special prosecutor had to step back and resign because of a possible legal conflict and the d.a. stepped back from her involvement in this case

so, alec baldwin overnight posted on instagram signaling some relief. posted a picture of him with his wife saying he owes everything to this woman. and we know that this news, this big bombshell that we learned yesterday, it happened on the same day that the production was resuming for the rust movie instead of happening in new mexico, it was moved to montana, that's where alec baldwin posted that picture from. >> shaquille brewster in los angeles, thank you very much. this morning, tesla investors are speaking out in a new letter to the company's board demanding ceo elon musk spread himself less thinly a coalition of 17 shareholders ais accusing the company of mismanagement and seeking to discuss musk's performance joining us now with more is cnbc's dominic chu good morning what more do we know about this letter >> so, to your point, we do know that it is a consortium of shareholders that have stakes of varying sizes in the electric

vehicle giant. worth a little over $1.5 billion collectively and that group is being spearheaded by the investment team at amalgamated bank it was sent to robin denhome and said that they believe musk has too many things going on in his professional life that he can't adequately focus on running the world's biggest evmaker. the group wants the board to evaluate musk's other commitments and see if changes in leadership at the executive and board level need to be made. now, earlier today, the chief sustainability officer ivan firstburger appeared on cnbc to address the contents of the letter more. he said there is frustration among the group and says it appears tesla suffers from -- the chief sustainability officer being the voice for the group comes from the bank's self-proclaimed focus on supporting things like progressive causes and social justice, which is likely a big part of why it is invested in an

alternative energy-related company like tesla and, jose, the bank traces its roots back to organized labor groups back in the early 1900s an interesting dynamic developing at tesla. >> and, dom this is one of musk's other companies, twitter is beginning to roll back the blue check marks signaling verification a lot of people upset. what is going on there >> so, it is going, jose that's probably the best way and more straightforward way to look at it. twitter users with the legacy blue check marks that used to indicate noteworthy accounts, those owned by media personalities and/or celebrities, notable organizations saw for the most part all of those verification badges disappear yesterday elon musk is trying to rebrand that blue check mark as a pay for subscription service and most all celebrities, save a few, lost that verification unless they choose to pay the $8 a month to maintain the status as well as, by the way, have a

verified phone number attached to their accounts. the move is being cheered by some as a way to make the platform more equal for users and to your point, jose, being panned by many as taking away a means for users of the platform to identify real accounts owned by legitimate sources for information. so it is ongoing it remains to be seen how many people do actually go and sign up for the new fee to maintain that blue badge. jose >> dominic chu, thank you very much appreciate it. coming up, a look at a wave of antitrans legislation we'll talk to an aclu official about what they're doing to fight back you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. from big cities, to small towns, and on main streets across the us, you'll find pnc bank. helping businesses both large and small, communities and the people who live and work there grow and thrive. we're proud to call these places home too.

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reporter with politico, chase strangeo with the aclu's lgbtq project. you've been covering many of these efforts in different state houses recently. what have you seen as the maybe similar force behind all of them >> well, when you talk to lawmakers and governors and everyone who has brought forward these bills that restrict transgender students from bathrooms or sports or gender affirming care, they all seem to lean on the biden administration they say that the biden administration has moved to codify gender identity, you know, sexual orientation, those sorts of discrimination protections. so they say if the biden administration hadn't started this, they wouldn't be doing it. which, you know, may or may not be a fair argument on their behalf just yesterday we had a huge discussion, i guess, about how the montana house speaker refused to allow a transgender

lawmaker to talk on the floor and so, you know, we're just seeing different sorts of efforts to censure transgender students or bar them from certain activities >> so, chase, the aclu is challenging the new antitrans law in tennessee what do you want to see happen there and why specifically tennessee? >> well, we filed a lawsuit in tennessee. that's one of several lawsuits we're working on right now there are laws being pushed across the country it is interesting to hear that lawmakers are claiming this is a response to the biden administration because the majority of these bills, the first iterations of them we saw introduced in 2019 and 2020 as a rath of national attacks on trans people that were coordinated by well funded groups that were pushing out legislation banning gender afarming cafar i affirming care for minors. we're looking at a context in which some of these states have

more bills that would ban transstudent athletes from sports than transathletes in the state. at a time when you have great pay disparity in women's sports, rampant sexual assault in women's sports and they're acting to codify discrimination tells you everything you need to know about this disingenuous set of attacks on an already marginalized and maligned community. >> in washington, d.c., the education department proposed new rules under title nine to protect transgender sports eligibility. how does that come into play >> that comes into play. it was a promise of the biden administration made last year when they unveiled title nine rule on sexual harassment. how this comes into play is that basically this rule would protect transgender kids -

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56 past the hour we'll take a look at latin notice artist smashing records around the world gaud >> reporter: it's a sound the billboard top 10 had never heard

before the song from breakout singer pluma, which is smashing glass ceilings, becoming the first regional mexican song ever to hit top ten in the u.s. billboard top 100. just days ago, taking on one of the biggest stages at coachella, joining another giant, becky ♪ >> reporter: the mexican singer has become the latest global sensation in the wave of latin artists breaking records never seen before and also cashing in. in 2022 latin music revenue surged 24%, exceeding $1 billion for the first time, outpacing the broader music industry. >> last year 13 million hours of latin music were streamed on spotify. >> reporter: bad bunny surpassing ed sheeran, amassing

481 million. >> most of the tracks on spotify are mexicana latin music has been an incredible few years and this year it's moving to new heights. we see music growing in a huge way. ♪ >> reporter: for three years, he has held the titles as the most streamed artist on spotify the puerto rican mega star making history this weekend as the first spanish language performer to headline coachella. ♪ >> reporter: and then the first female singer to score a number one album in the u.s. with an album entirely in spanish, leading with her hit song. ♪ >> it's almost impossible to ignore anymore, especially a guy like bad bunny who's dominating world popular music. we can't have our head in the sand anymore and ignore the fact

that folks listening to the music is not latino, it's multirmu multiracial, a lot of age, a lot of demographics listening to bad bunny. >> reporter: from the clubs to coachella with latin music dominating the charts, you'll be sure to hear spanish on your summer playlist. nbc news, miami. and that wraps up the hour for me i'm jose diaz-balart you can reach me on twitter and instagram @jdbalart and you can watch highlights of today's show. andrea mitchell interviews former secretary of state john kerry, special envoy for climate. she starts right now right now on "andrea mitchell reports," the supreme court facing another self-imposed midnight deadline tonight on a