and miss the coronation on may 6th. may 6th, otherwise known as prince archie's fourth birthday. >> nbc's kelly cobiella, thank you. now to a sports underdog story with a hollywood twist this weekend the rexam football club in wales got promoted after 15 years in the lowest class of the uk's professional soccer team you can see the celebration. their win comes three years after actors ryan reynolds and rob mcelny bought the struggling team and showed their efforts to turn it around to the show "welcome to rexham" a real life ted lasso story giving fans a chance to believe. that does it for us today, josé diaz-balart pickings up our coverage right now. >> and good morning, it is 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific. i'm josé diaz-balart breaking this morning, changes at the white house as susan rice plans to step down as president biden's domestic policy chief. we have new details about the president's expected

re-election campaign that could launch as soon as tomorrow our very own steve kornacki is here to break down what voters think about a potential biden/trump rematch in 2024. right now more than 15,000 americans are still trapped in sudan after evacuations this weekend and as violence rages in the streets. new details this morning about what's being done to get them out. the supreme court keeps the abortion pill available for now. what's next in the legal battle? and kevin mccarthy faces his first big test as speaker with a battle over raising the debt ceiling heating up we begin this hour with breaking news about a shake-up at the white house president biden announced a short time ago that his top domestic policy adviser, susan rice is stepping down from her post nbc news has learned her last day on the job will be may 26th.

her departure comes as the president prepares to officially announce that he intends to seek a second term in the white house. with us now to talk about this and more, nbc news white house correspondent mike memoli and nbc news national political correspondent steve kornacki so mike, susan rice has been in charge of immigration policy and a whole lot more at the white house. what do we know about why she decided to leave now >> well, jose, as our colleague carol lee who first broke this news reports, susan rice had told her colleagues when she took this job two years ago that she only intended to really serve for two years. that is a fairly typical time line for people in these kinds of very intense jobs in an administration and susan rice is somebody who has worn a lot of hats in government remember, she served as the u.s. ambassador to the united nations as well as national security adviser during the obama administration remember, president biden also considered susan rice on the short list for his vice president in 2020, ultimately choosing kamala harris when he did name her as the head of the domestic policy council,

it was with an expanded portfolio, really beefed up that dpc as it's known inside the west wing to have a pretty significant both staffing presence and foothold within the administration now, in that job she has stayed a bit longer because she wants to see through some of the initiatives she's taken on in this job including developing a plan to combat anti-semitism as well as a plan to combat homelessness, but this will leave a very big vacancy here in the west wing at an important political moment for the administration. >> rice's departure comes as the president gets ready to kick off his re-election campaign where do things stand there in that front >> just continuing to check my phone every other digital platform you could think of as we're waiting for what we expect is going to be an online announcement in the form of a video from president biden making it clear he is seeking a second term. our white house team reporting that recorded parts of this

video two weeks ago. spent the weekend in rehoboth beach, delaware. putting the finishing touches on the staffing footprint for his campaign julie chavez rodriguez who currently serves in the white house in the senior role of the head of the office of intergovernmental affairs, is likely to be serving as campaign manager. this is an important position. it does take somebody with great familiarity with the operations of the biden team and rodriguez certainly has that she was part of the 2020 campaign serving as a deputy campaign manager also worked on kamala harris's campaign, and a lot of the shots that are going to be called for this biden 2024 campaign are also going to be coming from the west wing. other officials like anita dunn as well as genjen o'malley dill who are going to be overseeing this launch. we expect it to come together in the next 48 hours or so. >> and julie chavez rodriguez, the granddaughter of cesar chavez all of had this comes as new nbc

polling shows kind of a snapshot into how americans are feeling about next year's presidential campaign what are the big gets from this poll >> yeah, i mean, interesting timing here with biden poised t% announce his re-election campaign just from a numbers standpoint, some troubling numbers here if you're an incumbent seeking re election our poll gives biden a 41% job approval the majority 54% disapprove of his performance. that's actually the trend there is going in the wrong direction for biden. we polled this in january, started a new congress he was 45, 50 then he's 41, 54 right now. something that has been dragging down his numbers for a long time now as president is the state of the economy and perceptions of how he's handling it we specifically asked do you approve of the job joe biden is doing on the economy less than 40% approve, nearly 60% disapprove of how he's

handling the economy you add these kinds of numbers up together and you ask folks in our poll if it's joe biden running for re-election and a republican candidate, key here not a name, just a republican candidate, a generic republican candidate. who would you vote for the generic republican in our poll beats biden by six points just gives you a baseline here in terms of what the climate looks like for joe biden but of course elections are not a name against no name there will be a republican name here, and that takes us to the next thing we asked about in this poll. we asked republicans who do you want to nominate for president in 2024, and donald trump continues to lead on that front, the only other republican candidate or prospective candidate getting any traction is ron desantis, the florida governor, 46 for trump, 31 for desantis desantis has not formally announced a candidacy. the prospect of donald trump being joe biden's opponent in 2024, having a rematch of that

2020 election certainly looms large right here if that ends up being the case, check this out we asked folks in this poll, do you think joe biden should run for re-election? only a quarter, 26% said they think he should run for re-election. age a big concern. he'd be 82 upon being sworn in for a second term. look, should donald trump run for president again? and again, it's a big majority 60% in this case of voters who say i don't think donald trump should run again either. they don't want biden or trump to run that's what voters are saying in this poll. and yet, as we say the prospect of biden versus trump round two certainly very possible here and this is what biden would hope for we're showing you all of these negative numbers the job approval, the economy, the generic ballot, all of these things those were working against biden and the democrats in the 2022 midterms, and biden and the democrats did well in the 2022 midterms why? this page goes a long way. we ask folks positive -- do you have a positive or negative feeling about biden, the democrats, the republicans and

trump, and this is what we saw in 2022. we saw that joe biden wasn't that popular the democratic party wasn't that popular. you know what? the republican party was less popular and donald trump in particular, look at this, donald trump is 19 points under water just in terms of negative versus positive views joe biden only 10 points under water. biden just less significantly, less unpopular personally than trump. and so it was that lingering presence of trump, january 6th, memo memories of january 6th, it was a huge factor in those midterm elections. as the president is poised to reannounce this re-election campaign not because biden's popular, at least not right now, but because the alternative is less popular >> mike memoli and steve

kornacki, thank you very much. now to the latest on the ongoing crisis in the african nation of sudan. the u.s. and other countries are working to get their citizens out of the capital early sunday morning u.s. special forces carried out a risky operation to evacuate 80 u.s. government personnel and their families from the u.s. embassy, but thousands of americans still in sudan and there are no plans for a mass evacuation right now moments ago, secretary of state antony blinken says the u.s. is doing all it can to help people wanting to leave >> even as we have temporarily suspended operations on the ground in khartoum, our diplomatic and consular work in sudan continues. indeed, in just the last 36 hours since the embassy evacuation operation was completed, we've continued to be in close communication with u.s. citizens and individuals affiliated with the u.s. government to are provide assistance and facilitate available departure routes for those seeking to move to safety via land, air, and sea >> for over a week now, sudan's capital has seen fierce fighting

between the military and a paramilitary group known as the rapid support forces, the world health organization says more than 400 civilians have been killed the actual toll likely to be much higher. with us now to talk more about this, nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel and barry mccaffrey. richard, there are up to 16,000 americans in sudan many have dual citizenship, so maybe not all of them are looking to get out burk, but wh the situation like for those who do want to get out >> it is extremely difficult because there are pockets of fighting not just in khartoum but in other cities close to khartoum the airport is not only closed, there's heavy fighting at the airport. prices are going through the roof the price of a bus ticket is four or five times what it was to get out of khartoum people are running low on cash there's no running water it is extremely hot right now.

there's no internet. there's no phones, so it makes communication and coordination for any kind of evacuation exceedingly difficult. how do you relay information to people if they don't have a cell phone, if they don't have an internet connection, if they don't have cash. cash is also running low because of the price gouging that is going on there so even if you wanted to get out, you have to find a route. you have to be able to pay for it you have to be in communication with someone who knows which route is safe and the people who are likely to have that kind of overview would likely be a military or an embassy or someone who has access to satellite imagery and a greater battlefield picture. so if you're in khartoum and you're an american right now, and you're trying to get out, it is extremely difficult and the embassy, we've spoken to americans who were there, has been reaching out or sometimes the americans are reaching out to the embassy and they're often

just getting a recording telling people to shelter in place and to stay in communication >> a difficult picture you're painting for us, richard so general, tell us a little bit more about sudan, its importance and what's going on there? >> well, it's a huge terribly impoverished company, 46 million people. khartoum the capital has been spared endemic violence goes on in this region so the 6 million people are now under a terrible attack by these two forces fighting the army and the rsf. the army may be 100,000 troops, the rsf may be 40,000. the internet's gone, the water is cut off, the electricity is gone food is running out. as richard points out, a real nightmare. it was an astonishing complex operation by the armed forces, run by a marine force, they took

a 1,600 mile flight, tree special ops chinook helicopters, they put 100 navy s.e.a.l.s on the ground, in less than an hour got the remainder of the 70 some odd embassy staff out. it was wbacked up by air force ac-31 gun ships. now they're standing by. what happens next, who knows the violence is uncontrolled this is civil war without end. you see numbers as many as 20,000 americans primary dual national somewhere in the country. i think we'll see the international community try and put together a sea evacuation out of port sudan, but that's 600 miles from khartoum so it's a mess >> yeah, i mean, i was just seeing over the weekend how the

saudis actually had to do a series of operations to get their citizens out, bus to port to ship. i mean, this is a complicated situation, and who knows, general, if those 20 or 16,000 americans, many who have dual citizen ship, if they do want to get out, how, and listening to how, you know, richard described the difficulty in just getting out, how do you get out under these circumstances? >> well, they're showing up all in the periphery of sudan right now, south sudan, chad, libya, people are trying to get out through ethiopia, egypt of course is the big player in the region they're headed north to egypt, but we may well see in the coming days, weeks, an effort to put together some international military presence perhaps at port sudan, some corridor of safety so that the americans and

other nationals, egyptians, french, italians, saudis, uae to get them out but there's -- it's unlikely anyone would intervene on the ground to try and directly stop this fighting. these are big forces they have tanks. they have artillery and mortars, and they're devastating, these poor people desperately poor people in khartoum and other cities around the country right now. >> richard engel and general barry mccaffrey, thank you very much appreciate it. still ahead, the latest trial against the proud boys for attacking the capitol is coming to an end. we're going to go live to the courthouse. and we're back in literally 60 k seconds with why a former police officer convicted in the shooting death of a young black man in minnesota is out of prison this morning. you're watching "josé diaz-balart reports" on msnbc.

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16 past the hour jury selection is underway in the federal death penalty case of the man accused ofcarrying out the deadliest anti-semitic attack in the nation's history back in october of 2018, a gunman shot and killed 11 jewish worshippers at the tree of life synagogue in pittsburgh, pennsylvania lawyers for the defendant have offered a guilty plea in exchange for a life sentence, but federal prosecutors have turn that down if convicted, the gunman could face the death penalty this morning kim potter, the former minnesota police officer who shot and killed donte' wright was released from prison after serving 16 months of a two-year sentence. back in april of 2021, potter shot wright while in a struggle during a traffic stop. she says she mistakenly grabbed her handgun instead of her taser. potter was convicted of first and second degree manslaughter joining us now is nbc's jesse kirsch good morning

why was she released now >> yeah, so jose, as you mentioned, she was sentenced to two years in prison, but the way that the system works in minnesota specifically as officials describe it to us is that it involves a system where people only serve two-thirds of their sentence behind bars the last third of a sentence we're told by the state is served under what's called supervised release there's no parole board in this state. people don't get time off, they don't get time reduced from their sentence for things like good behavior, regardless of what her sentence was, she was going to be let out at two-thirds of it being fulfilled. as you mention, it was a two-year sentence. so at this point she has hit the two-thirds mark, and will serve the last third under supervised release. she will be spending that not in minnesota but in wisconsin that's where she's going to be spending this time and this comes with a set of conditions including that she has to report where she's living she could be drug or alcohol

test second-ed and she cannot o. >> what's the reaction from daunte wright's amily? >> we haven't heard any official reaction yet this morning about the release, which we know has happened officials were being tigh tight-lipped about when potter would be released. we're told she was released from prison at 5:00 a.m. eastern time this morning we haven't heard any response from the family officially yet, now that we know the release has actually happened. however, when potter was sentenced, we know that the family was dismayed by the fact that she was only sentenced to two years. prosecutors have been asking for upwards of seven years, jose this is something the family did not want to be happening so soon. >> jesse kirsch, thank you very much. right now closing arguments are underway in the seditious conspiracy trial of five members of the far right group the proud boys for their alleged role in the january 6th attack on the capitol. over the course of three months, the jury heard testimony from more than three dozen witnesses as well as two of the five defendants on trial.

all five are facing felony charges including seditious conspiracy it's a rarely used civil war statute that carries a potential maximum 20 years in prison joining us now is nbc's ryan reilly good morning what's the latest from the courthouse today >> reporter: that's right. so one of the most interesting things today was prosecutors directly accused zachary real who was the head of the philadelphia proud boys of lying on the stand during hadis testimony last week. over the urcourse of a long weekend while we were in the middle of zachary real's testimony. online sleuths got to work and they found video that appears to be showing zachary real point ago can of pepper spray at the officers that day. that's something that the fbi and justice department didn't know about, and had failed to see during their two-line investigation. online sleuths were able to surface this they presented it during the cross compassion, and all that

v zachary real was able to come back with was that he didn't recall whether or not he pepper sprayed officers which isn't necessarily that someone it that didn't pepper spray officers would say in that situation. the evidence is pretty strong against him. that's what they're saying, you can't believe anything that zachary real said because he made this lie about whether or not he pepper sprayed officers that day so we expect closing arguments to go on for a bit here, and then we'll hear from the defense. there are five defendants here it could take a long while for us to actually get through all of those defense closing arguments here, jose >> ryan reilly in washington for us thank you so much. up next, new data shows more abortion bans could mean fewer ob/gyns in those states. we talk to a doctor about that next you're watching "josé diaz-balart reports" on msnbc.

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25 past the hour this morning a widely used abortion pill is still available to patients as an intense legal battle surrounding the drug continues to unfold. the supreme court ruled friday that mifepristone can stay on the market while a case centered on the drug's fda approval plays out in appeals court this as we get a closer look at where public opinion stands on this issue an nbc news poll shows nearly six in ten adults say abortion should be legal always or most

of the time. a combined 38% say it should be illegal either with or without exceptions joining us now with more is mary zigler, law professor at the university of california daivis. and also with us is dr. kavita patel, she is an msnbc legal and medical i should say contributor. so mary, your recent piece in "the atlantic" says the justices passed on this abortion pill ban until a better one comes along what'd you mean by that? >> i meant that there were a lot of laws in this case we can read only so much into what the court did because it's early in the litigation, and this took place on the so-called shadow docket. it's still obviously a good sign for fda that it was a 7-2 ruling that said, if the justices are going to ultimately side with the fda when this case returns to the court, it's going to likely be because this case is so flawed. either because the plaintiffs don't have standing to sue, because this case is very not

timely the fda approved mifepristone in 2000, a full 23 years ago so even if the justices are open to rolling back boabortion, they my not be abled to so in a case flawed as this one. >> states with abortion bans have seen a steep drop in ob/gyn residency applications what are the long-term consequences, do you think, of these bans >> yeah, jose, we knew this was coming for some time because 45% of our country's residency in gynecology and obstetrics are in states where there have either been already severe restrictions or are likely to have severe restrictions completely aside from this current mifepristone decision that's going to take place and so this translates, jose, not just to doctors who are not adequately trained to deliver reproductive services such as abortions, but jose, this means

that the chasm for being able to just have a safe delivery of a healthy baby becomes even wider. and just as a reminder, residency training is what we do after four years of medical school so four years of medical school, then you apply and go into training this is important training to teach you all aspects of maternal care, caring for a young baby, and prenatal care as well as fertility counseling unfortunately the american public, even if you're in a state such as mine as maryland with many protections, if we don't have doctors to safely deliver babies, that affects every state, not just red ones or ones that have severe restrictions. >> you know, dr. patel, i've also been thinking about this, if a non-medical expert can question an fda approval of a drug, mifepristone is the one that they're working on legally, but of a drug, what kind of impact does this have on, i guess, anybody's confidence in

medication that's already proven to be safe and that was accepted by the fda >> yeah, the food and drug administration has a very important role as an independent agency this is something that you and i have even spoken about during the trump administration, during previous administrations regardless of the politics, the advisers to the fda and the internal staff at the fda have an incredible sense of service, and that is to the science their service is really to look at the safety and effectiveness of therapeutics, medications to your point, jose, if this can be called into question, a drug that as the professor pointed out has been approved and authorized since 2000 and that i prescribed safely for decades, if that can be called into question, jose, people who have issues with vaccines, that could be called into question, cancer drugs, drugs that are used for any immune disease we know about, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus. many of these things can be

called into we cannot on the basis of science but on the basis of opinion that's something that's incredibly dangerous we've already seen it invade our hospitals and clinical offices with decisions around what i can do as a doctor and limiting what i can tell patients as a doctor in some states extending this to how we regulate drugs and therapeutics would have a worldwide effect, not just in the united states. >> yeah, i'm just thinking your thoughts, professor, on that it does possibly call into question any and every drug that we go and have, you know, a prescription on because it's authorized by that same group, right? >> yeah, and i think one of the reasons anti-abortion groups were doing this is because they suspected that some federal courts in the u.s. supreme court in particular was hostile to administrative agencies like the fda and thought that the administrative state broadly defined might be unconstitutional or aspects of it might be.

the thought was that the court would be open to this, it would be really a pandora's box. the message would be you don't really need to be an expert, you don't need to comb through scientific records you don't need to be particularly careful you need to essentially -- everyone will be an expert and the ultimate arbiters will not be scientists at fda the ultimate arbiters will be federal judges, and of course for better or worse our federal courts will be politicized and federal judges have their own views on many of these issues, both legally and politically and we know at least in this case that it was no accident that the piece was filed in amarillo, texas, before a particular judge because lawyers believed correctly it turned out, that that judge would be special sympathetic to an attack on this particular drug and so there is now a play book if this strategy ultimately is successful, if it did ultimately prevail before the supreme court for those unhappy with any number of other drugs for reasons having nothing to do with the safety or efficacy of the drug, to see the federal

courts as a place where change can be made. again, really regardless of the competence of the federal courts to do any of that. i'm optimistic that the u.s. supreme court may not want to go down that particular road, in part because the hypocrisy of doing that would just be astonishing, in the lead up to the right to choose abortion under roe v. wade, conservatives, one of their primary complaints was the supreme court was in no position to act as medical review board we should heed that advice and not do that now with conservative judges. >> mary zigler and dr. kavita pa patel, thank you both for being with us this morning. up next, a deep dive into the nbc news poll 2024 poll numbers. we're live in the trump stronghold of staten island to see what residents there think about a trump/biden rematch. you' wreatching "josé diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. made me queasy. ♪ ♪ but now i've found a way that's right for me. ♪

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37 past the hour, back decision 2024. in a mixed back of news for former president donald trump in our new nbc news poll. 70% of republicans stand behind trump despite his recent indictment in new york however, 60% of americans, including a third of republicans, think the former president should not run in 2024 with us now to talk more about this, nbc news correspondent vaughn hillyard in staten

island, new york, and former florida congressman carlos curbelo, who is now an msnbc analyst. vaughn, tell me what you're hearing from folks in staten island. >> reporter: this is important because staten island for context here, jose, is the very republican borough of new york city here, voting by a two to one margin on behalf of the republican candidate for governor in the 2022 gubernatorial election here versus the democrat. and in talking to folks here, what you hear is largely a reflection of what we're seeing in these polling numbers when you're opening up this poll, i think it's important to go back to that question among republican voters here in which 68% of republican voters nationally defend donald trump and say that they see themselves sticking by him despite the arrest and despite the investigations into him. that question was specifically, quote, they are politically motivated attempt to stop trump. no other candidate is like him we must support him. 68% of republican voters as it goes to democratic voters,

though, joe biden here is that one major candidate at this point in the democratic field, and yet, you saw in the polling numbers among those that do not want joe biden to run again, 70% nationally say they don't want joe biden to run for office again. half of them said his age was a major reason listen to a few of the voters we talked to. >> i would rather that someone else was running in his place. if he's the front runner, then he's the one i'm going to vote for. >> donald trump is so much worse. if there was somebody younger and sharper running for president for the democrats, i would probably prefer them over joe biden. >> i voted for him. >> in 2020 >> yeah. >> would you -- donald trump is running again. >> i'm a registered democrat. >> you're a registered democrat. >> unlikely to vote for trump? >> i'm not sure because i don't like biden's age >> you heard it from that last man, charms, that is the sticking point when you're talking about a general election and a concern and a reality that there could be a joe biden versus donald trump rematch and

there are folks like charles there who suggest an openness, despite having voted for joe biden in 2020 that they'd be open to donald trump this go-around. again, when you're looking at these polling numbers, they're fascinating because there is a clear -- a clear base of concern around joe biden's candidacy, but donald trump's, when you hit that general election matchup, it's folks like charles that are a concern to democrats running nationally. >> interesting poll after poll seems to show there's a good possibility that maybe it will be trump, biden all over again the question would be it seems as though there wouldn't be a large mega enthusiasm factor for either of the candidates, but maybe an enthusiasm factor against one of the candidates. but this is what the possibility is for 2024. how do you see this race going >> yeah, jose, you talked about mixed signals at the beginning

of the secmgment, and that's wht we're seeing because remarkably the two leading candidates for president right now are rejected by a majority of americans now donald trump does have a solid base of support. you see these people he's been indicted, and there's still 100% -- >> president biden has a solid base of support, the question now for democrats is do they believe that biden's base can once again defeat trump's base that was the bet in 2020, and then of course the independent vo voters, and that's where donald trump and republicans really struggle we saw that in the 2022 midterms, those independent voters rejected trumpism do they turn out for joe biden despite the fact that many of them don't want him to run for re-election? >> there is no -- i mean, cl clearly if the president announces re-election tomorrow, for example, that shuts the door for any other democratic -- >> it would be very difficult. it would be very difficult on the republican side, you do see more and more people getting in and people willing to

challenge trump, which is remarkable because he's so strong that they still believe there will be an opening they think anything could happen to donald trump. he could end up in jail, who th knows, right on the democratic side it would be hard for anyone to gain the traction to take on the sitting president. >> on the republican side, florida governor ron desantis who hasn't announced for the presidency, had a tough week last week with the florida lawmakers endorsing trump. he is now in japan seeming to move toward an announcement at some point so given the state of that, how do you see this possibly going >> well, ron desantis is clearly looking for a reset. he needs one a lot of people want to write him off already, and jose, it's early. it's early in the process, and desantis is still getting some 30% of the vote in a lot of national polls, which is pretty good for someone who's never run for national office. he's had a rough week. a lot of people think he doesn't have the relationships to come back or the personality to come

back, but it is certainly too early to write him off no one really knows what's going to happen with donald trump in the next few months. >> vaughn hillyard and former congressman carlos curbelo, thank you so much for being with us. the push for more high schools to teach financialif le skills you're watching "josé diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. is that i did what everyone else did at the time. i hired local talent. if i knew about upwork, i would have hired actually talented people from all over the world. instead of talentless people from all over my house. -grandpa... -shh.. shh.. shh.. -but... -shh.. shh... shh... -but... -oh... ♪ this is how we work now ♪ what's on tap for the caggiano's? well, this family of long island brewers harvests their own ingredients, on their own land. mowing every blade, getting ready to entertain,

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47 past the hour, we turn to breaking news. just moments ago nbc news learned that tucker carlson and fox news have agreed to part ways the company thanking carlson for his service to the network in a statement, his last show was this past friday and we turn now to one teacher's effort to bring financial education to the next generation in 2018, vermont adopted a k through 12 financial literacy standard for students, but left execution up to local school districts, and while many students did not have access to personal finance classes, one school is working to provide

important lessons about money management joining us now with more is cnbc's sharon epperson good morning what did you learn >> good morning, i learned a lot the morning that i spent last week with this devoted teacher she is on a mission. at her high school, there are about 200 students from many different countries, speaking more than 20 different languages. and she is ready to teach personal finance to every one of them students at wanuski high school are required to take a personal finance course to learn about money management before they graduate. >> how to build your credit. >> applying for skplej loans. >> how to write a resume or cover letter. >> you can have some fun with that. >> courtney is teaching them about earning, saving, and spending >> you're going to have to buy all of the things that you want. you also want to think about how long we have to learn to pay for those things. >> key steps in budgeting. >> a bill to make a

semester-long personal finance course a graduation requirement at all public high schools in vermont has stalled in the state house. you've been advocating for personal finance to be a stand-alone class that all high school students have to take in order to graduate. why do you think that's such an important requirement? >> i see the impact every day in my class every day students are engaged, they're asking questions they're bringing this information home they're applying it to their own lives, and they report to me that they're making better financial decisions because of it. >> reporter: and research shows her students are not alone professor carly urban has studied the outcomes. >> when personal finance is required in high school, you see improvements in credit scores. you see reductions in delinquency rates. you see fewer payday borrowing choices. you see less reliance on choices you see less reliance on credit cards. >> in eight states all high school students are required to take a personal finance course before graduation and ten states are in the process of implementing the requirement >> after taking these classes,

it has helped me to start saving my money and start investing right now. >> students say that everyone could benefit from a financial literacy class do you all see yourselves as advocates for personal finance now? >> yeah. i would think so >> it's one of the few classes that no matter what you're going to do, it can apply to your life in some sort of aspect >> and over time, help to improve your financial well-being, too. many polls show popular support for financial education, but many students may not have access to personal finance classes. that can be due to budget constraints and other demands. >> thank you so much such an important issue and i really appreciate you being on and shining a light on this. be sure to check out sharon's money 101 newsletter at cnbc.com/money101. also available in spanish or --

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on a $4.5 trillion bill that raises the debt limit into 2024 and makes cuts to federal spending it marks a major test for kevin mccarthy on whether he can corral both moderate and conservative members of his party behind this bill as a potential u.s. debt default looms. joining us now with more is nbc news capitol hill correspondent, ali vitali good morning so does he have the votes already? >> look, that is the question we have been asking both in recent days since this bill has been unveiled since mccarthy got the votes in the first place. this was the test that all of those promises that he leveraged in those early days of january would come to bear fruit in terms of the way it would play out is probably the biggest economic battle his party is going to face. the big challenge here is balancing between moderates and

more conservative members of the party, although we were waiting to see how moderates would leverage the deal given that conservatives seem to have taken a dose of reality, that no party wants to own a piece of history in defaulting on the debt for the first time ever. now we're seeing several of the concessions he made from the speaker's battle about how this would be worked through committees and through a regular process. that's sort of out the window at least at this point. conservatives don't seem to be raising too much eyre about that in the short-term. on the moderate side, we haven't heard too much outcry there either at this point, if they're trying to do it this week, we should get a better sense once they get back to town tomorrow where the whip count is, but fagain, we're not hearing too much loud outcry from the people who might be troublemakers on this which could be a good sign for mccarthy as he tries to urge them back to the negotiating

table on this by showing he has the full confidence of his slim republican majority. >> thank you before we go, some good news a 7-year-old boy born with cerebral palsy inspiring his classmates taking first steps in front of his kindergarten class in ohio his parents say the support from his classmates meant all to him. >> what is the bigger lesson that all of us could learn >> i think the first thing that comes to mind is hope. sorry. i told myself i would not get emotional. all kids struggle with something. so if there's people, whoever's out there that's struggling with something, there's always someone out there that's going to give them support even if they feel stuck.

>> and you know, such an extraordinary youngman and his parents both say that the struggles and the milestones they have seen their son be able to carry out including this walk and he did it twice. not just once. he did it twice in front of his kindergarten class he said that the teacher called them and said he said he wants to take his steps in front of all his friends. the reaction was amazing the parents have started a foundation to help support other kids and other parents who need a little bit of support to take those milestones one step at a time making such a huge difference what an extraordinary family and just -- by the way, his next dream, and it's going to come true, is to be on the baseball team at his kindergarten class.