trial really really important to bear in mind. it's a civil, trial and it's preponderance of -- man, this is a tough case. so the question will, be whether the jury of six men and three women can understand and appreciate how is that you could start out an encounter in a playful bantering way, and in no way excuses a brutal rape that occurs after. and also, understand why a woman would keep quiet for many years. so it's a sense of where we are as a society, i think, that will be one of the take away points of the trial verdict. harry, you are sticking around for me. i appreciate that. we're going to talk more about the pence grand jury testimony coming up in my next hour. we've got a lot more coming up, everybody. you are watching msnbc, our second hour starts right now. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> hey, everybody, i'm yasmin vossoughian. if you are just joining us,

welcome. it's great to see you. if you are sticking with us, we are thankful for that. i am coming to you live from washington, d.c., today. in just a couple of hours, the president will travel from the white house to the white house correspondents dinner. and annual tradition in full swing tonight. just days after announcing his reelection bid, the president will take good-natured aim at those who cover him every single day. more on that ahead. also coming up this hour, a big political fight between the white house and republicans on capitol hill over the debt limit. we're going to look at the potential impact on your family if the gop gets its way, but we are also following breaking news out of texas. where an eight year old and four other people are dead after yet again another mass shooting in this country. and the gunman, remaining at large. >> everybody that was shot was shot from the neck, execution style. the my understanding is that the victims came over to the friends and could you might not

shooting out of the yard? we have a young lady that is trying to go to sleep. and he had been drinking, and he says i will do what i want to in my -- >> closet, millions around the nation are dealing with rough weather right now as those along the mississippi river worry about devastating floods. all of that and this. >> [muted] >> a teenager being healed as, hailed, i should say, as a hero after a quick thinking saves his fellow students on the bus from potential tragedy. that story is coming up. you don't want to miss it. we start, that, with our breaking news this hour. authorities in cleveland, texas, trying to find suspect francisco or a pizza, the man on your screen right now who police believe carried out a deadly mass shooting against his neighbor's, which claimed the lives of five people, including an eight year old boy. moments ago, the san jacinto

sheriff gave an update, saying the fbi believe they have or oasis around it and went into an area. residents in the neighborhood where the shooting happens are being allowed back on their property. we want to get right to nbc's poll priscilla thompson with the later latest. i don't, put a, like you have been making some moves there, trying to stick with authorities. they are on this man front. where are we at this hour? >> that's right, yasmin. so, we are headed about a mile and a half away, a mile and a half to two miles away from the crime scene, where law enforcement is set up, and they have set up the perimeter around this wooded area, where they say they are confident that the suspect is in this wooded area. the sheriff wasn't able to tell me how large an area this was that they were looking at. just driving down to where we are headed, i've seen the texas department of public safety helicopter, along with a number of law enforcement vehicles.

i think he said it is something like 50 to 75 law enforcement officials who are on the ground here working to locate this suspect. and he, this has been going on since late last night, since overnight, when all of this unfolded around 11:00 last night. that was when he came in, that there had been -- harassment, but then police elevated that call when they realized there was an official shooting that had taken place. as people then, -- including an eight-year-old child, there were also three other children the sheriff said were found covered in blood. they were uninjured. the sheriff believes it was because they were shielded by the bodies of some of those other dead relatives. he did confirmed to me that all of the people in that home are related, our relatives. so, neighbors tell me that it is a normal occurrence for people to be shooting guns late

at night on the weekend. on holidays, and things like that. and no one would ever have expected that this might have happened. we did see one man walking through the crime scene, head up to the crime scene, and he said he was the father of the eight year old boy that he had last night, and had fled the home. he came back today just absolutely distraught, having lost his eight year old and also his wife. a really incredibly tragic scene here. police continuing to search for the 38-year-old suspect in this case, who has now been charged with, effectively charged with five counts of murder. yasmin? >> my gosh. a man returning to his home, having lost his wife and child. i can't imagine what he's feeling right now. give us a sense of community. if you will, priscilla, if it's being on the ground there, as you've been there for the last

few hours. is this a rural community? two people seem close knit? i know you mentioned how it was a common occurrence on the weekends for folks to be in their backyards, firing guns. is it normal to be firing assault style rifles in your backyard? give me a sense of what you are hearing. >> yeah, i mean that is a huge question here. it is, so, this is a very rural community. we're about 45 minutes to an hour at sea of houston. it's a neighborhood, so there's lots of neighbors around. and beef and dogs, people and animals roaming the neighborhood, horses as well. neighbors tell me that the suspect, 38 year old francisco oropeza, seemed like a nice guy. he had a wife and also a young child, they tell me. they would not have expected him to do something like this. police do say they believe he was intoxicated one this crime occurred, but neighbors also

say the family that lived in that home that is now dealing with all this grief was also a very nice family. one person said one time, his son got stuck in the ditch, and they came out to help him. the sheriff said a number of people in the household had only just moved down here within the past week or so from houston, so, they were new to that neighborhood, stay there. and to have this tragedy unfold? we know a suspect is a mexican national, and the victims are honduran nationals. so, law enforcement here is working with both local and state law enforcement, but there are also sheriffs who reached out to homeland, and the immigration federal immigration team, to try to get more information about how these victims and about the suspects, and figure out what exactly their status is and try to connect to the proper families to notify them of what happened here, yasmin. >> priscilla, just real quick here. i didn't get a sense of why the sheriff was so confident this

individual, this suspect, was actually in this radius that they were searching. do you know why they are so confident that he is there and hasn't fled elsewhere at this point? >> yes. this was a question i actually asked the sheriff, because earlier today, he said he expected the suspect to be apprehended within the hours. but it's has now been several hours, and we have not seen the apprehension. he said that there is a, someone who is in touch with, and working with police, that has also been in touch with the suspect. it's believe the suspect still has it on him and has been in touch with some of the police is in contact with. i did ask, i had the opportunity to speak with him. we know the fbi is here. he said they are likely negotiators who are on the ground here, but as far as we know, law enforcement has not yet spoken with this individual. but he does seem to be in contact with someone else, and we do know his wife is cooperating with police, according to the sheriff here.

>> all right, priscilla thompson, i will let you get back to. it thank you for taking your time. we appreciate it. we're also following, everybody, some breaking weather news around the country for florida residents still on alert for more tornadoes, as several through ripped through the panhandle. it's on the mississippi river continue to deal with potential flooding, as the river reaches record levels. nbc's george soliz is along the iowa illinois border in pleasant valley, iowa. george, take us back there. if you will, and describe for us the situation on the ground that you have been seeing so far. >> yeah, yasmin. the images here are really telling the story. this has been a slow-moving disaster for the residents here in the quad cities. last week, some of the water started to creep up into some of these homes. fast forward a week, here's where we are right now. 16, 17, almost 20 feet above the flood stage in some of these communities. and homes are underwater. back there, eight residential community. many people have been using

boats. this is now boat parking, if you will, for residents to go back in and salvage what they can. adding insult to injury for a lot of these residents, it's pretty windy right now. it's actually fairly chilly. the utility shut off heat for a lot of the residents here, but 140 or so, at last check. so many of them aren't able to stay in their homes because they simply can't take hot showers. they can't glean anything. so, many of them are using the electricity to pump out some of that water from their basements, their floor levels. this is going to be a very, to put it frankly, at uphill battle for them as the water begins to recede. a little earlier, i spoke to a couple who was trying to get back to their home to clean up what they could. i also spoke with lorenzo, who was coming up the road here with his two dogs, siren and wilson. his family had to relocate to a hotel. he is taking those dogs now to higher ground, because he is just going in and out when he can. for us long as he can, to try to clean up and make sure that his home doesn't basically

succumb to all of this water. as are many of the residents here. so, it's very emotional for a lot of residents. i will say many of them are very resilient. they say we know we are living up against the river. we know what to expect. this seemingly crept up on them almost without notice, right? they knew it was coming, but they almost couldn't foresee this level of water. i want you to take a listen to what lorenzo told me as i caught up with him. >> the currents that's flowing through the house the, water level? i mean, it's easy to get sucked out. and with nobody to save you, nobody knows you're there. >> how bad does it look at your place right now? >> it's probably around four foot down in the garage. the basement is getting flooded. >> you don't know the extent of it until you see it yourself. pretty. much >> worse than you imagined. >> he has, the current, obviously, a concern. we are not really out of the woods yet. we are expecting this to crest sometime tomorrow, maybe even monday, then, after this water

recedes, the real challenge for a lot of these homeowners, the cleanup. yasmin? >> yeah, absolutely right. thank you for being there, george soliz, for us. seven hours of testimony. we are back in just 60 seconds with what we're learning about former vice president mike pence's testimony before the january six grand jury. ♪ so you can be there. everything from vitamin a to vitamin zs delivered in 1 hour. subway keeps upping their game with the subway series. an all-star menu of delicious subs. like #6 the boss. meatballs with marinara and pepperoni. i get asked so many times - who's the boss? if you get the boss you are the boss.

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what pence put out in his book, and the interactions preceding and after, of course, the january 6th attack on the capital. what do you expect prosecutors learn? what do you expect the grand jury learned? >> well, let's start with the most important point, jasmine. that is the fact that it happened. even if all we get is what was in the book and what we know from the other side of that pivotal and vicious phone call on january six, eight, that is a lot. but b, it is an emotional highlight to hear that story from the victim, which is who pence was here, and see, that breathtaking fact that as you say, not only the highest so far. the highest imaginable! he is the vice president of the united states, giving testimony against a president in a criminal referral. then, again, even before the content, the fact that he has him now and the story is solid

in the grand jury, it means he knows what to expect, jack smith, and it won't change any -- in eight year, and that will be a big concern for a prosecutor building the case. then, finally, the content itself. if you look through that book as well as the accounts of the other side of that very tumultuous call, you've got some pretty incendiary material that shows a, trump knew exactly that he had no legal leg to stand on and b, he was so desperate he was at his most savage and vicious with pence. even apart from everything else, the testimony we knew already was very important in getting it down means a lot. that is without mentioning that probably, other stuff. remember, they had lunch every day in the weeks after the election, just one on one. i'll bet there's some more nuggets. even without them, just the fact of having it, and being the vice president, that's big stuff and it also offers that they are coming towards the end

of at least one case that they are building out of january six. >> i want to read you an excerpt of what pence said in his book about january 6th. and pence wrote that he was angry when trump asked him, five days after the riot, whether he was scared. writing this, you and i had our differences that they, mister president. seeing those people tearing up the capital infuriated me. but nowhere in the book did he acknowledge that biden rightfully won the presidency. right? in 2020. what do you make of that? >> it's a really good point, and his book, it says something, but it's couched in tempered and very pence like. a good prosecutor, and you can bet it was a good prosecutor on friday, quote settle for that. well, what exactly were the words, mister vice president? when you say you were infuriated, tell us exactly why. was it your view that, in fact,

biden had rightfully one? all of those things, he will be pinned on. that's what took seven hours, and as i say, even if by chance, he gives a strong and surprising answer, fine. smith could still work with it, knowing but he has coming when it comes to trial. if pence is going to say back. more likely than not, he did some real damage, because he had to really face forceful questions rather than just give his own kind of political and cushioned kind of bromides. >> why have you, i've got to ask you about this, nbc news has not independently verified this reporting, but the new york times reporting this according to people familiar with the matter, prosecutors are trying to determine whether trump and his aides violated feather a wire fraud statute raises much as 250 million for their save america pact by saying they need the money to fight to reverse election fraud. even though they had been told repeatedly that there was no

evidence to back up those fraud claims. what do you make of this new report? >> it's a whole new area of inquiry, one we all averted to it january six, lofgren talked about it. but like all the rest, jasmine? the conduct is really clear. of course, he asked for those donations. of course, he got them, and that's a factual matter, they just didn't go to what seems to have been a phony baloney pack of some sort. so, it goes again, to mental state. do they have enough to show that he or others were aware of it? >> carrie lippman, as always, thank you, sir. >> thank you. >> still ahead, everybody. the debt limit showdown. what that now house passed for espy pending cuts could mean for your family. and it's national infertility awareness week. the work being done to help those hoping for treatment. plus, this. >> someone call 9-1-1!

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so they can do more of what matters. welcome back, speaker mccarthy benefits. payroll. compliance. trinet. people matter. has finally passed a package to rage the debt ceiling, but the plan he and his republican colleagues are looking for would come at a steep cost for americans. republican house members want deep cuts to programs millions depend on. cuts to the two and four -- i want to bring in julie tsirkin for us covering it for capitol hill. and tristan roe --

welcome to both ladies, thank you. julia, let me start with you on this one, walk us through some of the details of what's happening right now. >> yeah, you mentioned those federal social safety net programs. let's start with those, because that's going to impact millions of americans. speaker mccarthy -- this house package implemented work requirements for things like food stamps and even medicaid. those are some new things that republicans are doing to get to that four and a half trillion dollars in spending cuts over the next decade. they're also making it impossible for president biden to implement and go forward with his student loan forgiveness program. they're also clawing back some of those unspent covid funds from states and local governments. all of this -- remember, just squeaking through the house with four republicans voting against it. i spoke to some of them who ended up supporting the package, and they told me this is the bare minimum that they would even except. so they want to see even more

spending cuts, some of those spending cuts by the way dismantling of the democrats inflation reduction act, that something that president biden is campaigning on once again, so it's why you're seeing democrats accepting this package, lukewarm to this package not wanting to see it move forward. they would kill green energy and fossil fuel incentives, tax incentives, as part of that package over the summer. so all of this, again, amounting to military trillion dollars in cuts, but not moving anywhere with democrats and what's concerning is that republicans aren't going to accept anything short of this. >> kristen, if you will jump in here from your perspective as we're taking a listen to kind of how julia lay things out, how do you expect this to in fact, affect american families, and what is your organization doing about it? >> this package is passed the republicans move forward is going to make it harder for parents to put food on the table. it is going to cause a lot of people to be pushed out of health care.

it is going to make childcare less affordable, and it's going to make the student loan crisis even bigger. it's preposterous. i want to raise that because one of the reasons why it's preposterous is it's under president trump, republicans three times raise the debt ceiling without giving drastic cuts like this. so this is not the time for an attack on parents, and in fact, it's a pattern of attack on parents that we're seeing from republican leadership right now. just weeks ago we saw the prince bill of rights, which is really a parents fill of wrongs. we had an attack on the freedom to side if, when, and how many children we can have. we've had an attack on teachers and schools. so it's time for republicans to do the right thing and stop the attacks on parents. >> so democrats are fighting back to a certain extent, putting out a series of social media posts here with regards to some of these cuts. putting a focus really squarely on republicans. ved to cut meals on wheels --

would rather see seniors go hungry than cut subsidies for big corporations. what do you make of the politics of all of this? and taking this approach? >> this approach is awful. the republican approach is really the wrong one. they're saying that they're doing one thing, helping parents, when they're actually doing the opposite. and we need to look at the contrast. what is happening with democrats. at the end of last year, democrats passed things like the -- act, the pump for nursing mothers act, they passed a 30% increase in childcare funding through the -- this is good for families, it is good for the economy, it is good for our country. when we boost parents and families, we boost businesses and all of us. republicans, on the other hand, are doing an outright attack. they're using maga policies and old outdated policies that actually it don't work. they're going on the trickle down idea of economies, which actually doesn't work at all. and so it's time for a change,

it is time for all people, moms, dads, parents across the country to call the republican leadership and say you are out of step with the realities of families, and get moving. and follow the lead of democrats who are proving that they are building back better still for families with that executive order from the president last week. >> you brought the executive order, i know that you are at the white house they're visiting for just that, the signing of these orders that would reduce costs for families benefiting from childcare and a development -- that you actually spoke about having to leave the workforce, because you didn't have paid family leave, you had a child that had some medical issues, so can go to daycare. what was that experience like for you? how has it propels you forward and how the white house actions here going to affect women like you in the future? >> i, like hundreds of thousands of people, was pushed out of the labor force when our child was born, and i didn't have any paid family medically. that united states of america is one of the only countries in

the entire world without this critical policy in place. republicans have time and time again blocked this policy from passing. this policy allows us to be there when our baby arrives, are for serious health crisis of ourselves or a close look one. it -- and i will -- continue to uplift the importance and urgency, and need of this policy. which 76% of even maga republican voters support from the white house we've seen democrats in congress supporting this policy, and again, it's time for republicans to catch up with their constituents and do the right thing for families. these policies are shown to lift businesses and with our economy, so it's time. >> kristen rouse, thank you. julia, thank you as well. we are following some breaking news everybody out of the pentagon today. the u.s. army has grounded all nonessential flights after a series of deadly helicopter collisions in recent weeks. the latest one coming on

thursday, nbc's pentagon correspondent courtney kube has more on this. >> this is a significant move by the u.s. army. for the first time in nearly a decade, announcing a temporary stand out of all aviation assets. this means no helicopters will fly anywhere in the world unless it's an emergency, and then only when it's ordered by a general officer. now this comes less than 24 hours after two u.s. army apache helicopters from fort wayne right collided in midair over alaska. killing three u.s. soldiers, and wounding another. the soldiers were returning from a day try training mission and there were no reports of any weather conditions or no issues with visibility. this is the latest collision raising alarms after two other recent deadly helicopter crashes by the u.s. army. a mid air collision by two black hawks killed nine troops in your fort campbell during a nighttime training mission last month, and to tennessee and national guard soldiers were killed in another black hawk

crash in february. late friday, the army stop officer released a statement saying, we will focus on safety and training protocols to ensure our pilots and crews have the knowledge, training, and awareness to safely complete their assigned missions. now, all u.s. army pilots must complete a mandatory safety training before being allowed back in the cockpit. they have to have that training completed by the end of may. back to you. >> thank you, a sixth child is confirmed dead today after russian missile strike on an apartment building in ukraine early friday. the attack in uman two hours from kyiv is among the largest stripes of -- the youngest known victim of one year old. the search for survivors has been called off, ukrainian president zelenskyy says the attack which took place far from the frontlines of combat zones, only absolutely evil can commit such terror against ukraine.

and then ensued, in the u.s. is using armed drones for security to get hundreds of americans to safety this afternoon. all of this after a third straight week of deadly fighting led by dueling sudanese military generals. but a lot more americans remain at risk. unable to flee. nbc's aly rousey is tracking developments for us. >> hi yasmin, that's right. land, sea, an air evacuations of the hundreds of american -- according to the state department. in this initial stage, they've been traveling in a convoy up higher buses adding to the red sea before being taken out of the war torn country. u.s. is offering some logistical support for these evacuations, but they still have to navigate a lengthy and treacherous journey through the country. different countries, taking different approaches to get their citizens out of sudan. the u.s. has come under some scrutiny for evacuating around 70 embassy staff in an elite

seal commanders mission, while warning thousands of u.s. citizens that there will be no similar evacuation for them. however, in recent days, the scale of the fighting has slightly declined, with both sides partially respecting a very fragile cease-fire, allowing a small window of opportunity for evacuations. but some americans found their own way out, like denise and chris bowers. on their way home to south carolina after the school denise taught at in sudan got -- let's take a listen to some of the details of how they managed to escape the country. >> we are kind of crushing down a little bit and trying to stay quiet, and you can hear all the shouting in the yelling outside. and they're banging on the bus. it was scary, it was dark, we don't know we were going, it was -- >> mean well, we're getting reports of the u.s. civilian evacuation plan is ongoing, and that convoy has reached port

sudan. that left car to for a 500 mile journey from where the southern u.s. embassy was, to use sudan, and from there and they'll be transported by air and boat to safety. many of them have been taken to -- the last boat trip to -- took 17 hours, so people are already tired and stressed, but i'm sure they're going to be relieved to be on that boat out of sydenham. yasmin? >> thank you to al arouzi for that report. coming up everybody, raising awareness of infertility. an issue many across the world are facing after the break, i'm going to speak with an organizer who has helped bring more than 100 babies into this world. i'll be right back. be right back hhh... with flonase, allergies don't have to be scary spraying flonase daily gives you long-lasting, non-drowsy relief. (psst psst) flonase. all good.

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activists. -- baby crust foundation. pamela, it's great to talk to you. thanks for joining us on this. you look at the numbers of baby crust, it's pretty astounding. nearly $3 million in funds awarded, 142 baby quest babies, take me back to the moment you cofounded baby quest, and why you did it. >> we'll, go back about 14 years, our younger daughter who was 28 at the time, she and her husband decided to try to have a child. first it was a miscarriage, then it was claude mid, then it was several months of are you eyes, and then progressed to in vitro fertilization. four times, pregnant every time, wound up at the eighth or ninth week having a miscarriage. after having heard a heartbeat. we went through about three years of crying fans questioning and frustration,

and trying to support her. and eventually, it was found out that she could not carry a child herself, because her uterus was sharply divided into two parts. that was a decision we said to her -- we are financially blessed, we'd like to help you hire a surrogate. and fast forward 13 years, she and her husband have two beautiful children, daughters, 1:10, 1:13. each carried by a surrogate. she owns a surrogacy agency in los angeles that services the country, and i started baby quest in 2011. >> so the idea is for families, for women that cannot conceive and it's so incredibly prohibitively expensive to do so, whether it's through surrogacy or ivf procedures,

and not all places are covered by insurance, or not all people have insurance to cover it, they apply for grants. for money through your organization. what is the criteria to receive that? what does that process look like? >> the process is an online application, the actual issues that people can face are not only infertility, recurrent miscarriage, but those who need in vitro fertilization to eliminate a genetic disease. such as cystic fibrosis, not wanting to pass that on to future generations. women who have been robbed of their infertility because of cancer, and they cannot proceed without assisted reproduction. singles, same sex couples, those are just some of the types of recipients and that we find. we really strive to be diverse in both what we find, the procedure, and the type of

person of every ethnicity. >> how discerning are you in providing the grants, the funds that are needed it to couples that are applying? what is the approval process look like? >> the approval process is rigorous. and thorough, and difficult. extremely difficult. we rely on donations, and you never have enough donations to cover binding every recipient, every applicant who applies. this past week, we were very fortunate, we just were able to award over $200,000 to 16 in new grant recipients throughout the country. but, it's complex and it's sad because we know we cannot help everybody who is deserving. >> pamela, two things here. how do people help if they want, and how do people apply if they want to as well? >> we have a website, and you

could both donate through a donate button, baby quest foundation dot org, and you can apply. there is a button there at that point you to our application, applications will open again in june, we go through this process twice a year. we just closed applications in march, and the next deadline will be september 7th. applications will be available june 1st on our website. >> pamela hearst, thank you for the work that you're doing, we appreciate it. in just a couple hours everybody, president biden is going to be -- the white house for the white house correspondents dinner, a tradition that has been revived during his presidency, though some of the targets never go out of style. >> i get why donald trump didn't want to be roasted tonight, but look at him he's been roasted nonstop for the past 70 years. historically, the president usually performs other correspondents dinner, but i think i speak for all of us when i say he's done too much

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that's a personal problem. i can't be walking through the room -- granted, i heard after stephen colbert when he roasted bush to his face that nobody talked to him. it's a legendary speech now, but at the time, literally nobody talked to him and he still did what he was supposed to do. i think at the end of the day, it's about spitting the truth as i see it, as i believe the people in this country see it and if the voters -- if the election officials have a problem, they'll change the conditions that led to me running that show in the first place. >> roy wood junior they're talking with my colleague and friend simone sanders. he is tonight's featured comedian at the -- and you can see more of that interview at 4 pm on simone. we'll turn quick to nbc -- 's with more highlights from what we can possibly hear and see at tonight's dinner. so what are our expectations when it comes to what the president will be saying? >> yeah has been, there's a lot to look forward to tonight both

from our perspective as members of the press, but also from this white house and members of it. we know that this is going to be the first time since 2016 that both the president and vice president are going to attend this event together. and as you know, this is the one night a year where thousands of journalists, entertainers, politicians are all able to put their politics aside, sit under one roof, and really think about the importance of the freedom of the press, and that is what's going to be the main focus of president biden's speech, according to white house officials, who say he is going to talk about and highlight how that freedom has been threatened and been under attack for sometime now. of course, this speech, this event coming one month after wall street journal correspondent evan gershkovich was arrested in russia for espionage charges. we know that the u.s. is working in coordination with russia to try to get him released, they have established that he's been wrongfully detained. we know that gershkovich's

family will be in attendance at this event tonight, including the family of austin tice who's freelance -- who hasn't been heard from since he was kidnapped in syria in 2012. we expect his family to attend as well. all see wnba star brittney griner and her wife, we know that she was detained in russia for nearly a year until that prisoner -- agreed to between the u.s. and russia. so definitely heavyweight to the topic of this event, but that will be balanced as you heard with roy wood junior there. that'll be balanced by some committee. we expect some great jokes from him tonight, as well as the president, because we've seen throughout the decades that this event has been going on, some pretty good self deprecating jokes from presidents as they've given their speeches at these events. >> let's hope for the committee. that's why we're there. that's why we've come. real quick, do you know if the president kind of rehearses beforehand the speech that he is going to be delivering? it's all about timing, right?

at the end of the day, when it comes to delivering these punchlines. >> i'm sure he does, i don't know that for sure, but i'm sure with any other speeches we see him do, this is rehearsed for sometime now. i know that from past events that we've seen, usually these jokes are sort of collected over the year since the last white house correspondents dinner. so expect not just in the recent timeframe, but expects on these jokes to have references that go back a couple months. >> you wonder when you're in the room, which journalist is going to be the target of some of the presidents, and of course the host jokes? we'll have to wait and see. thank you, by the way, remind our coverage of the white house correspondents dinner begins tonight at 8 pm eastern right here on msnbc, streaming on peacock as well. you don't wanna miss that. that wraps up for me everybody, i'm yasmin, i'll be back in the chair tomorrow 2 pm eastern from new york. simone starts right now.