healthcare expenditures. given that, should drugs like this have more access and more insurance coverage as they hit the market? we have about 30 seconds, just so you know. >> quickly i'll say there is a gap between opportunity and access as you point out. right now most insurance companies are not covering for this. this is all out of pocket for the vast majority of people that qualify. if you're type 2 diabetic, have a conversation with your provider about this medication. right now there is a big gap between access, affordability and those who can benefit from this drug. >> thank you so much, dr. vin gupta, with all that great information. it is really interesting. hope it is the breakthrough that you are expecting it may be. thanks again. that's going to do it for us on this busy week. appreciate you being here. i'll see you back on monday, same time, same place. i'm ana cabrera reporting from new york. jose diaz-balart picks up our coverage right now. and good morning, it is 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific. i'm jose diaz-balart.

breaking overnight, russia launches the largest missile attack in two months on ukraine killing at least 20 civilians. this morning ukraine is promising to fight back. here at home, water continues to rise across the midwest and what is being called a slow moving disaster. there is widespread flooding along the mississippi river. and the worst is yet to come. former vice president mike pence testified before the special grand jury investigating former president trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election. we'll play for you what trump had to say about it. and a tense back and forth between donald trump's lawyer and the woman who says trump raped her which he denies. what it was like in the room during e. jean carroll's cross examination. we begin this hour with that breaking news out of ukraine. overnight, a deadly wave of air strikes, 20 people were killed including three children in a strike on a residential building in the central ukrainian city of

uman according to the national police of ukraine. two more people were killed in a separate strike in dnipro. air raid sirens could be heard across ukraine's capital kyiv as russia launched its first attack on the city in nearly two months. russia's latest barrage comes as ukraine's defense minister says that preparation for ukraine expected spring counteroffensive have been finalized. joining us now is nbc's ellison barber live from uman. what is the latest on the recovery efforts there in uman? >> reporter: jose, unfortunately the death toll here continues to climb. the official numbers that we have been given so far are at least 20 dead, three of them children. but within the last 15 minutes we watched as crews working to sift through the rubble in this section of the apartment building took out another body. there are a number of people still missing. we don't know exactly how many, but there are people who have gathered in the park sort of on

the other side of the building here, waiting to try and find out news of their loved ones. we're told this section of the apartment building, the apartment is all missing. that the way the apartments were laid out here, this is according to people who lived in the this section of the building and had family here, they say that this side that collapsed, that is gone, that's where in most of these apartments the bedrooms were. this missile strike happened at about 4:30 a.m. that means most people were sound asleep, not expecting anything like this to happen. you see all of the cars, all of the debris here, rescuers have told us they expect to be searching here well into the night. russia's ministry of defense, they're claiming, acknowledging that they did carry out what they describe as a group missile attack overnight. but they say they were targeting areas for reserve units of the ukrainian forces, where they were deploying from. but you look around here, you see everything that we have seen, you look at just these

buildings back here and people gathered waiting. this is a residential community. this is not something from anything we have seen that was any sort of reserve unit deployment station. this is where people lived. we keep calling this a residential apartment building because that's what it is. but really it is homes, these are people's homes, they were targeted, they woke up in the middle of the night to everything around them collapsing and as you mentioned, there has not been a significant missile attack in ukraine in about two months, but this right here is what most ukrainians will tell you they are constantly afraid of, that even if you aren't on the front lines, you always have to worry about something like this happening. and oftentimes for so many people here it seems incredibly random. why this city, why this building. this city actually uman it is a very important jewish cultural site. during rosh hashanah, they make a pilgrimage here to pray at the grave of a very important rebi

to them. remember one of the reasons russia said they started this war, what they call a special military operation, they said one of those reasons was to quote, unquote denazify ukraine, but you look here, they launched an attack on one of the most significant jewish sites in the entire country. the people who we have seen who are victims here, it is not people in military uniforms, it is not police officers, it is not soldiers, it is children, it is families, we met a grandmother this morning who said her daughter lived in this apartment building with her children. they had brought out with them scooters, jose, because they said they had been a recent birthday gift and that was one thing they could salvage. jose? >> ellison barber, thank you so much. joining us now is peter baker, "new york times" chief white house correspondent and nbc news political analyst. peter, always a pleasure to see you. ukraine's military says it shot down 21 of the 23 cruise missiles launched overnight, but

earlier this month we learned from those leaked classified pentagon documents that the u.s. fears ukraine could run out of air defense missiles by may. we're talking about the next couple of days. what would it mean if they do run out? >> yeah, that would be a bad thing for ukraine because they have been very successful at controlling the air space of -- around them. a lot of people expected russia to be much more able to dominate the air space basically over ukraine and in fact the defenses they used to shoot down the missile has been remarkably effective. you see what happens when they don't manage to do that. the scenes of devastation, destruction this morning, show you need to shoot down every single one and to run out of the missiles in may as was projected in the leaked documents is a major challenge for the ukraine army and also the united states which has been supplying them. >> yeah. i mean, there has been so much military assistance sent to ukraine. it seems, you know, kind of odd

that they would be running out of something so basic, so necessary for the defense of their country. as we look at these uman pictures, just -- it seems like one missile there, but it just causes massive destruction. >> it causes massive destruction, terrorizes the population, intended to do that, that's the strategy of the russians to take the war into the streets of everyday lives, not just attack soldiers or military facilities. you saw from your own report, and that's, of course, you know, the kind of thing that has actually galvanized ukraine. they see their country being, you know, devastated by these kind of attacks that have nothing to do with any kind of military targets. now, the problem, again, is that eventually after more than a year of warfare, you run into these supply issues. and while there has always been pressure from the ukrainians to supply more and more and more, there had been restraints on the part of americans, both in terms of willingness to go for more so

fist cas sophisticated weapons and i think we are reaching the limits we see in the american supply and the question is whether there is more that can be done by the administration to generate more output to make sure that they don't run out of missiles that they need so badly. >> and, you know, it seems as though many times the ukrainians are have been asking for things that it takes the west, the united states a lot to decide to send and one of those issues, for example, is the issue of jets. and airplanes and it seems that so far that hasn't been accepted. a plane could conceivably do some offensive defensive, right, that very few other things can do. >> yeah, the concern the biden administration is to supply enough weaponry and arms to the ukrainians to defend their country without doing something that might escalate the war in a way that they fear would spiral out of control. and that means they don't want the ukrainians to take the war

to russia, to russian territory. there was some of these leaked documents that suggested there was an effort or a desire on the part of the ukrainians at the one-year anniversary of the beginning of the war, the most recent invasion, to attack moscow from the air and the -- they were talked out of doing that because i think the biden administration worries that the war could get even worse than it already is and that's why they held back on some of this weaponry. for the ukrainians, it is a matter of survival. for them, basically, restrictions mean that they will have to fight longer and harder to eventually push the russians out and they have pushed against these restraints the biden administration put on them. >> fight longer and harder and take more and more casualties. peter baker, always a pleasure to see you. thank you. more breaking news now, three u.s. soldiers are dead after two army helicopters collided in midair and crashed in alaska. the military says it happened as the two apache helicopters were

returning to fort wainwright in fairbanks after a training flight. a fourth soldier was injured. the military has not yet released the names of the victims. authorities are investigating what led to this collision. just last month, nine soldiers were killed when two army blackhawk helicopters crashed during training in rural kentucky. turning now to a relentless string of severe weather stretching across the country, here in florida, a series of thunderstorms barreled through the panhandle on thursday, spawning tornadoes that -- tornados that ripped down trees, destroyed homes and scattered debris everywhere. take a look at these pictures. this was this morning. president biden, by the way, approved florida's disaster declaration following historic flooding in broward county earlier this month. meanwhile, along the already swollen mississippi river, historic flooding continues to plague communities in the midwest, forcing many to flee their homes. and the worst effects of these floods could still be days away. joining us now with more is

nbc's jesse kirsch in davenport, iowa. good morning. boy, i'm looking at your background, what are you seeing there today? >> reporter: jose, what you're looking at behind us here is the beginning. so we're south of where this flooding began. and so, what you're looking at here, which should be street, is becoming an extension of the mississippi river essentially. you can see off in the distance the actual river and across the border from where i am, illinois. where we are right now, in davenport, iowa, we're bracing for the worst of this. we are not there yet. i cannot stress that enough because you already see how much of a mess this has created. off in the distance behind us, the river banks, you see sandbags and other forms of protection appear to be up against that building in hopes of saving it because they're still expecting the water level here to keep on rising until the middle of the day or so on monday. so we're still days away for the worst of this here in davenport.

this is flooding that started up in the twin cities, has been making its way down here. this is because, jose, we had a lot of snow on the ground. all that snow is now melting. that snow melt has funneled into the mississippi river and is creating headaches up and down a major artery of transit and of business. there are barges, barge traffic that has been shut down for the time being. there are other headaches and, again, what we're looking at in this community is just the beginning. so we're bracing for things to get worse here potentially in the days ahead. and just moments ago, jose, there was a road closed sign here in the middle of the street and a public works team just picked up that sign and took it away, which i think just speaks to the fact that it is quite obvious that they are having to retreat where they put up warning posts as they continue to wait for things to potentially -- the water level to keep rising here, jose. >> jesse kirsch in davenport, thank you. we're back with what we know former vice president mike

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in him. >> joining us now, nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian and glen kirschner, co-host of the justice matters podcast, also an msnbc legal analyst. so, ken, what is the special counsel jack smith hoping to get from pence's testimony? >> well, the most significant new information mike pence can bring to this investigation, jose, would be details about his private conversations with donald trump that shed light on the then president's state of mind. to bring a case against trump, smith probably needs to show that trump knew he was breaking the law, that he knew it was wrong to try to -- and pence is a crucial witness in that respect. he can talk about what trump told him. and, remember, there is reporting that trump called pence a wimp and worse in a phone call before the riot. what else was said on the call? perhaps only pence can say for sure. pence can also provide context

about his experiences as the riot unfolded because, look, in some way he was a crime victim that day. trump tweeted about it and the rioters called for pence to be hanged. remember liz cheney said that the january 6th committee was told trump joked about that. and then pence's secret service detail had to whisk him into hiding while the rioters rampaged through the capitol. but he insisted on staying in place and finishing the job. pence testifying about that will be powerful and he may have to one day do it in open court. >> glen, how much can pence say and what kind of things can he shield himself from having to say in a conversation with the former president? >> he can shield very little, jose, because the reporting is that chief judge bossburg who presided over the litigation over the various privileges that were asserted first by pence and

then by trump, he gave him some limited protections, saying, well, you know, when you were presiding as the president of the senate over the count of the electoral votes, during that limited time you might have had -- you might enjoy some speech or debate clause privilege, but everything else is fair game. your conversations with trump, the run-up to january 6th, and certainly anything that would constitute criminal activity on trump's part, you must testify about. it is interesting because the federal circuit appellate court in d.c. on wednesday afternoon rejected trump's attempt to stop pence from testifying and the very next morning pence is in the grand jury for eight hours. and i agree with ken that one of the interesting pieces of evidence that jack smith's team will be looking for is evidence of trump's corrupt intent, but there is a really important evidentiary nugget that mike pence put in his own book that helps prove donald trump's corrupt intent and it is when

donald trump was relentlessly pressuring mike pence to do the wrong thing, at one point mike pence said donald trump told me you know what your problem is, you're too honest. that's an important tell. what does that tell us? it tells us that donald trump knew what he was urging mike pence to do was dishonest, that provides important evidence of donald trump's interrupt intent. >> if that's in a book, it is clearly something they're going to be asking about, to repeat on the record. what are the likely next steps for the special counsel's investigation on this? >> yeah, so, first of all, it is really important because people have been saying, well, he said this in a book, he said it in an op-ed, in media interviews, so isn't this just more of the same? it is absolutely not more of the same. because prosecutors can't really use those out of court statements in books or in op-eds

of a witness the way they can use it once it is presented under oath in an official proceeding without turning this into a criminal law 101 class. that makes it so much more valuable for prosecutors to use in a future prosecution, once it is locked in under oath and in an official proceeding. and now it does feel like, jose, the next step, it feels like jack smith sort of reached the top of the evidentiary totem pole with mike pence's testimony, and so i think there is at least an argument that some of the next steps should involve having the grand jury consider voting out charges for an indictment. >> ken dilanian and glen kirschner. glen, i do appreciate that 101 class every time i get a chance to learn from you. so thank you for being with us. up next, emotional testimony from writer e. jean carroll accusing donald trump of raping her. what happened when trump's

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23 past the hour. the cross examination of the woman who accuses former president trump of raping her in a department store in the 1990s is expected to get back under way on monday. e. jean carroll underwent questioning from trump's lawyer joe tacopina during the civil trial on thursday. he tried to portray carroll as a -- someone with a political

agenda and a financial incentive to promote sales of the book in which she made the allegation. trump denies the rape accusation. joining us now with more is nbc news legal analyst lisa rubin, who was inside the courtroom. also with us is deborah turkimer, professor at northwestern university school of law. she is the author of "credible: why we doubt accusers and protect abusers." so what are your top takeaways from the cross examination part of the trial? >> well, it is difficult, jose, to see how joe tacopina's cross examination yesterday is going to be received by this jury. and in particular by the three women of this jury because there were times where he very vividly asked e. jean carroll to go over some of the most brutal aspects of assault, including in our viewers will forgive my language, even referencing to a portion of the assault where she said trump rummaged around her

vagina with his fingers. tacopina leaned into those moments in ways that were uncomfortable, i think, for not only the audience, but probably for the jurors as well. so, that's one of my top takeaways. the other is that e. jean carroll wasn't really having it and she sort of reclaimed her time. she said, you can't beat up on me for not screaming, because tacopina's defense is much of a should have, would have, could have, you should have called the police, you should have gone to see a doctor, you should have sought therapy, you should have called 911 and you didn't do any of those things, and that's not how we as lay people expect real rape victims to behave. deborah can tell you better, but that's in fact not how real victims of sexual assault usually behave and i expect that e. jean carroll's lawyers will bring out those facts. >> it is difficult to read, you know, what the jury here is talking about, the women on the

jury, to read them, but what was your -- what was your impression of how the totality of the jury was receiving the totality of the cross examination? >> well, jose, as you say, reading body language in a trial is a dangerous game. i've tried to do it before. and spent lots of time thinking about it. and sometimes you're right, and sometimes you're just dreadfully wrong. what i will tell you about this jury, they were rapt at attention. i have attended trials where you are definitely fighting to keep your jurors awake. this is not one of them. >> so, deborah, in an op-ed you said this lawsuit is among the most significant developments of the post me too era. what do you mean by that? >> well, the me too era is characterized by women and men coming forward with their stories of abuse. and yet we haven't really resolved the question of what happens to those stories. and whether there is meaningful

accountability that follows when someone comes forward with an allegation like this, especially when the allegation is one against a powerful man. and donald trump is extraordinarily powerful. to many women he has come to represent entitlement and sexual entitlement and so what happens in this courtroom is going to reverberate well beyond the walls of the courtroom. >> and, talk to us a little bit about that fine line that lawyers cross, have to cross when cross-examining someone coming forward with a rape allegation. i mean, lawyers i guess have the -- they can make the decision how far and how deep they cross-examine this. what are some of the fine lines? >> yeah. i'm struck by how old and familiar this playbook is.

the cross examination is attempting to trigger deeply seeded biases against victims of sexual assault, and to ask the jurors really to draw upon myths about how victims behave. and in the past, those kinds of tactics have been quite successful. lay people and lay people are jurors are very much prone to judging credibility based on a host of misconceptions of abuse and abusers and victims. and so it will be really interesting to see whether in this case the jury gets past some of this, and is able to evaluate the credibility, not based on the idea that for instance victims scream or victims necessarily report to police right away or that they get medical attention.

but rather a more accurate understanding of all of the complexities of reporting. and i -- and i think that, you know, based on, you know, lisa's reporting and others, it sounds as if this is a very heavy-handed cross examination that in no uncertain terms is going at this jury hard in ways that i think the jury may see through. >> lisa and deborah, thank you for being with us. i appreciate it. up next, we're going to sort through the new numbers on inflation. our efforts to bring it down working? and the city of santa monica is settling more lawsuits over a city worker accused of molesting more than 200 children for decades. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. what causes a curve down there? can it be treated?

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34 past the hour. new data this morning on the fight against inflation. cnbc's seema mody joins us now with the details. good morning.

what did we learn from this report? >> well, jose, the federal reserve's preferred gauge on inflation is the personal consumption expenditures price index. it dropped to 4.2% in march from the 5.1% in february. so, it is a welcome sign as higher inflation, of course, has driven the fed to aggressively raise interest rates over the past six months. however, it is still above the central bank's target of 2%. so moving in the right direction, but economists argue it may not be enough to stop the fed from one more interest rate hike next week. however, it could lead to a smaller rate hike than previous months. right now the forecast is for a quarter point raise. the pce data does coincide with the gdp data we received yesterday that did show the u.s. economy growing at a slower pace than prior months. so evidence that higher interest rates are certainly curtailing spending, not to mention the recent stress we have been seeing in the banking sector. >> yeah, making everything more

expensive as well. but, interesting, on the banking sector, the federal reserve is out this morning with a new report on what happened with silicon valley bank? >> that's right, jose. the fed says that the mismanagement and lack of urgency led to silicon valley bank's collapse. michael barr, the fed vice chair for supervision, appointed by president biden to conduct this probe, he also mentioned in the report that there was a powerful role at social media played in disseminating information that really pushed customers to panic and withdraw money at a very fast pace. the recommendation now is to evaluate the regulatory framework for the banks to make sure this does not happen again. >> seema mody, thank you so much. great seeing you. turning now to california, where this week the city of santa monica announced an additional settlement to the alleged victims a former city employee who volunteered with a santa monica police activities league and accused of molesting more than 200 children over

three decades. and nearly $230 million, that's the most costly single perpetrator sexual abuse settlement for any city in the state. the los angeles times reports court documents show he often preyed on vulnerable boys whose parents were in this country without proper immigration papers. he was arrested in 2018, but died by apparent suicide before going to trial. now the l.a. times is out with a new report saying in 1991, background check, they reviewed, which msnbc has not seen, says the man had been arrested as a juvenile, accused of molesting a 4-year-old boy. he was still able to become a volunteer with the youth program. santa monica officials did not respond to the l.a. times request for comment. and nbc news reached out to the santa monica pd for comment but did not receive a response about the background check revelation.

richard, thank you for being with us. what have you heard from the victims in this case? >> the victims, the trauma is still impacting them. some of them recently made statements for basically the judge who will eventually decide who gets what in this case, so traumatized they had to get therapy. they had many of them had suicide attempts. some of them spent considerable amounts of their time in prison, in jail, because basically their lives fell apart. in the aftermath of this abuse. these are kids who mr. uller was meant to be helping in this police activities, particularly vulnerable kids who were living in a fairly impoverished part of santa monica at the time. >> and you talk about this in your stories, i'm so grateful for you to give us so much detail on this, but the fact that this monster was, you know,

targeting kids, boys who maybe were from mixed status families or whose parents were undocumented shows you just the exploitation that this monster was careful to do to the most vulnerable. how -- just how horrendous was this -- and it went on for decades. >> yeah, i mean, the bulk of these claims and allegations involve 1989 to 1999, early 2000s, which when he was very, very active in the program. literally 1991, they're doing a background investigation on him. he's at the time a police department dispatcher. and in that report it literally -- he says and they eventually find out from the lapd, he was arrested and taken into -- he was cited and there was an investigation and basically it wasn't filed upon.

but they knew that in 1991. at that same time, i talked to victims like identified as one of them being john am doe who were being molested at the time they were getting that background check. >> and nothing. gosh, this is just such a horrible reality. richard, thank you for being with us. i really appreciate it. we also want to note the nbc los angeles reports that santa monica says in response to the settlement, it has taken steps including creating a child protection committee. our affiliate notes in previous our affiliate notes in previous interviews, santa monica's

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the volkswagen atlas. more room for possibilities. of potential mass layoffs as the company winds down physical operations. and as more people turn to medications to help them shed pounds. another drug could soon be hitting the market. according to a study from drugmaker eli lilly, a new

diabetes medication under the name of mounjaro is proving to be effective for weight loss. joining us now with more is dr. kavita patel, former white house policy director for the obama administration, also an msnbc medical contributor. always a pleasure to see you. what are the conversations you're having with patients about these new drugs? >> these drugs a game changer and truly a life saver for my diabetic patients. that has been the original indication that all the drugs including mounjaro have the fda approval for. there is a weight losspp ozempic. that is on the market. these are majority of the united states adult diabetics have this particular type of diabetes, and i am seeing not just dramatic improvements in their glucose control, they come off of

insulin, they come off all their other medications, but they also had this weight loss, which is why lilly has done this trial and shown that they can have over 900 adults this is what is staggering, a 15% body weight loss and that's just something that, you know, we haven't seen in this field, it is changing the dynamics around obeobesity. >> so what -- so this drug is just for diabetes right now, right? you're talking about a trial, et cetera, and then how is it administered, what is the cost, all those kinds of questions. >> so, my job as an internal medicine doctor is to make sure i walk people through what this looks like. it is not just a one time drug and you're done. this is a weekly injection. and just to be clear, i tell patients and these are diabetics, i tell them that this is something you should think about being on the rest of your life because we know from trials, jose, even the current trials, if you stop the drugs, that weight loss generally reverses. not for everyone, but for the

majority of trial participants, you stop the drug, that weight loss goes away. and, of course, the diabetes can come back. so i tell people, once a week injection, these are often patients used to injecting themselves multiple times a day for insulin. so i tell them, this is a trade-off. get you on a weekly drug and on top of that, i do explain, be prepared. this is not a quick fix for a celebrity looking to lose ten pounds. this is for patients where the risks of their obesity outweigh any of the benefit we have been talking about. so i do think and we will have more data to look at nondiabetics to see how that weight loss alone can affect heart disease, stroke, blood pressure and when we're talking about communities of color, i really want to emphasize that's where we don't diagnose these diseases. then to your point about cost, that's the trillion dollar question. we work really hard and for most diabetics we can get insurance to pay, but it can be pretty painful, paperwork that we need to do. i'm hoping with all this growing evidence and even this fda indication that we should soon

see from mounjaro with weight loss we'll be able to get insurance companies on board. but it is a nontrivial experience. out of pocket, $1100 a month. >> and as far as the side effects that you've seen or they're talking about? >> yeah, so the most common side effects are gi. not a surprise. this drug acts by basically mimicking two of the hormones in your gut, one that helps release more insulin and a second one that tricks your brain into not feeling as hungry. so, all of the side effects we see, nausea, constipation, diarrhea, all have to do with effects of the drug on the gut. now, mounjaro, one of the trial results we're just talking about show a pretty favorable side effect profile, meaning that the majority of people that have side effects find that they can be resolved with a change in ine diseases. it's incredible. >> when would we know if this is going to be granted that specific?

>> the company -- by all the results that i have been telling you about and have been covered in the news are by eli lilly's press release. they will look for a priority review voucher. it's faster than the fda's accelerated track. they are hoping they can have that filed this year with approval as early as next year, january 2024. >> always a pleasure. thank you very much. up next, why the biden campaign is trying to elevate the work of his running mate. you are watching "jose (vo) with verizon, you can now get a private 5g network. so you can do more than connect your business, you can make it even smarter. now ports can know where every piece of cargo is. and where it's going. (dock worker) right on time. (vo) robots can predict breakdowns and order their own replacement parts. (foreman) nice work. (vo) and retailers can get ahead of the fashion trend of the day with a new line tomorrow. with a verizon private 5g network,

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harris' work amid republican efforts it turn her into a liability. this comes as president biden tries to tamp down concerns about his age and whether he would complete another four-year term. with us to talk about this is simone sanders townsend. and, a former chief spokesperson for vice president harris. a pleasure to see you. how are you? >> i'm good. the allergies have me. >> you are always eloquent and brilliant. i want to just kind of start our conversation, you know the vice president so well. what do you think needs to be promoted about her that maybe hasn't been? >> i think if you really -- when is the last time you knew what a vice president did every day? dick cheney. folks don't know what mike pence did or what even joe biden as

vice president did every day. i think it's incumbent upon the white house but also the biden/harris campaign to make sure voters are aware of the work that the vice president is, in fact, doing and that nbc news piece from our colleagues, i think, says the white house recognizes just that. >> republican presidential candidate nikki haley said she doesn't believe the president will live to see the end of his second term. deputy white house press secretary andrew bates was blunt. he said, i forgot she was running. how should the president deal with this issue going forward? >> this is not a new issue for the president. remember, when he ran in 2020, he was the oldest candidate in the democratic -- one of the oldest in the race at that point, in the democratic primary. the way that he attacked the issue is i think how they should attack the issue now. with age comes wisdom.

i think you are not going to hear many advisors on the record from the president say that they recognize that the age is an issue for them. i do think privately, many allies of the white house will acknowledge that the president's age is something that's on the mind of voters. the best answer to this question is for voters to be able to see president biden in his element. while we won't have many i think official campaign events that will we cover, i think the president and vice president will continue to hold events across the country. those will be places where the president can get closer with voters and folks can see him up and -- close and personal. >> the vice president has been criticized for making only one trip to central america and one

trip to the border. does this need to be addressed when we are talking about the vice president and her work? >> this is something that should be explored. it's my understanding that -- i believe maybe a month or two ago, it was the state of the union address, and it was in the lead-up to that that the vice president convened business leaders who -- they announced additional $1.8 billion at least in commitment to central america addressing the root causes of migration in the northern triangle, if you will. i do think there is -- there has been movement on the root causes. when the vice president is not traveling to guatemala, if you will, or traveling to mexico, convening with partners, it's hard to see. that's why the white house has to go out there and make that case about what it is. >> i mean, it's not just as you know better than anybody -- it's not just the northern triangle.

it's cuba, nicaragua, haiti. there's a lot going on. i thank you for being with us. good to see you. >> thank you. always a pleasure. you can watch her show, as you should, on msnbc weekends at 4:00 p.m. eastern, 1:00 p.m. pacific. that wraps up the hour for me. see you tomorrow night on "nbc nightly news" saturday. reach me on twitter and instagram. you can watch highlights from today's show online. nk you for the privilege of your time. andrea mitchell picks up with more news right now. right now on "andrea mitchell reports," air assault. russia unleashing its first mass air strikes in months. mass casualties near an important jewish cultural site. ukraine prepares for a counteroffensive this summer. mike pence spending hours