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the need to issue this very strongly worded statement. and i'm guessing they'll have to be an investigation and they'll want some reassurances from the press and the paparazzi this won't happen again. >> all right, thank you so much, daisy mcandrew, thanks to ali arouzi as well. that's going to do it for us today. i'm ana cabrera reporting in new york. jose diaz-balart picks up our coverage right now. and good morning. 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific, i'm jose diaz-balart. we're keeping a close eye on the white house, where president biden is about to make a statement on the debt ceiling and the talks that have been going on now for some days. this comes just before he is set to leave for a trip to japan for the g-7 summit. president was also supposed to visit australia and papua new guinea, but he called off that part of the trip so he could return home and focus on the debt limit. it also comes one day after the president and the top four congressional leaders held another meeting at the white
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house. both sides pointed to negotiating teams to focus on the issue and two sources familiar with the discussions say they held a late night meeting at the capitol. we have a shot at exactly the roosevelt room right where the president is expected to come out and speak in just a few seconds, but i want to go with nbc capitol hill correspondent ali vitali. good morning. there is only 15 days left until the june 1st deadline. where do things stand now and where do they go from here? >> reporter: well, look, they're looking a little bit better today than they were over the weekend and yesterday. certainly now all parties seem to agree that default is not an option and they said it pretty clearly at this point. that should mean a little bit of a sigh of relief as we watch this new negotiating group move us eventually hopefully toward the finish line. this negotiation now is starting to look a little bit more like 2011 than at any other point during these negotiations. that's because we have seen the white house appoint a team of
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biden veterans and people who have deep experience up here on capitol hill to huddle and meet with mccarthy and his most senior aides and allies, including congressman garrett graves who has become very key in mccarthy's kitchen cabinet. otherwise would just be not someone who is on any of these relevant committees, but he is someone who mccarthy has grown very close to and who he's really deputized to lead through these negotiations with the white house and with other key leaders up here on capitol hill. as we look ahead, though, while they're having these now productive conversations, we know they met last night, they'll continue meeting today, all of this expected to make it so that there can be some kind of a framework for biden to actually come home to. we know as you mentioned, jose, he cut the back half of his trip short, but, of course, will still be going overseas for the front half of it. that's notable because you watch these domestic politics bleed into the international stage, this is a looming crisis still, even though it seems like we have entered a new phase of these negotiations. but i do think it is good news
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when you watch the speaker who had been very pessimistic with me and other reporters in recent days about where he felt these negotiations were. and then you watch him come more in line with where the white house is in these negotiations, which is saying there is renewed optimism over at least where things stand and the potential for a deal here. that's not to say, though, there is not still roadblocks, but better than it was. >> and, ali vitali, learning from you as i do every time i get a chance to speak to you, give us a context of, you mentioned 2011, what can we learn from those negotiations and that moment? >> reporter: that was yet another debt ceiling negotiation where we watched then president obama deputize then vice president joe biden to be in these negotiations with mitch mcconnell. we know mcconnell at this point is sort of taking a back seat to speaker kevin mccarthy in large part because mccarthy has the tougher reality is within his republican house conference here of trying to keep everybody and all ideologies on board. never theless, one of the other
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echoes of 2011 that i'm hearing from progressives is this new debate over work requirements for programs like snap that help people access food, who are food insecure, putting up work requirements is causing some senators on the progressive side of the spectrum, including people like john fetterman and elizabeth warren to start sounding the alarm of adding extra barriers to programs like that, but, of course, this is a new red line that we're seeing speaker mccarthy draw, saying that's something he needs in there to appease his conference and then on the other hand, you're watching democrats say that's not something that is palatable for them. we're going to be watching sort of this seesaw act of what is palatable to each side as they try to get a deal through here that can pass both the house and the senate when people clearly have red lines that they need or rather can't have in this deal. negotiations still ongoing, we're hearing the same themes around things like permitting reform and clawing back covid relief. those are points of consensus. but they're still points of tension as we look at things like work requirements for
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progressives and conservatives who have widely divergent views here. >> and as we wait for the president to speak, of course, we'll be bringing that to you live. i want to bring in nbc's allie raffa. what is the president expected to say today? >> reporter: yeah, jose, shortly after we saw the president at that medal of valor ceremony, we heard from the white house he would be delivering these remarks on how the biden administration would prevent a first ever government default before leaving to japan on that g-7 summit that as ali mentioned has been cut short by more than half. he was supposed to go to japan, papua new guinea and australia on this historic trip, more than half of that cut short to make sure that the president was back here in d.c. to make sure this debt debate got taken over the finish line. and because all parties involved here are acknowledging that june 1st so-called x date default deadline, we did see some incremental progress yesterday.
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nawotiating group be trimmed down on the white house's part. that's something that speaker mccarthy called for saying there were essentially too many cooks in the kitchen to get anything substantive solved. this group now consisting of omb director shalanda young, counselor to the president, steve rushetti and lisa terrell, they met hours after that meeting at the white house yesterday with mccarthy's negotiators on capitol hill. the president, we know, is going to stay in the loop while he's overseas. he's expected to be updated daily on the progress of these talks. he is set to have a call with these negotiators in a few days. and the white house says they're hoping to get a third meeting between the president and these big four congressional leaders on the books for when he comes back on sunday, potentially monday or tuesday. so as far as what happens in the meantime, while he's away, as you mentioned -- as ali mentioned, that room for common ground here, things like permitting reform, clawing back
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those unspent covid funds, but what remains a sticking point at this point are the added work requirements for some federal programs for low income americans. that's something that speaker mccarthy again says is a red line for him, he needs it included in whatever bipartisan bill is developed here. but my colleague monica alba asked the president the same question, whether that's a red line for him this morning and he said, quote, it depends on what they are. progressives are not happy about that statement. so that's something we're going to be watching very closely, especially on the work requirement front. >> and ali vitali, turning to this alarming security breach, at national security adviser jake sullivan's home two weeks ago, someone managed to get in, secret service agents are protecting the home. what happened there? >> reporter: yeah, very concerning report here that we're learning about, the top intelligence official for the white house, of course, the fact that jake sullivan in his home, this person was able to get in
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without the law enforcement who were guarding the house becoming aware until sullivan himself told them and it really does come as we have seen more concerning moments just over the last week alone. the fact that congressman gerry connolly had his district office attacked, a man came in there and hit two staffers with a metal bat, asking for connolly himself before doing that to the staff. all of this comes as we're reminded yet again of the heightened sense of security and the heightened sense of threats that these public officials are facing now. we see it in the numbers from capitol police. this is something we have been covering now over and over again, especially in the aftermath of january 6th. now we're watching more isolated and targeted incidents happen. i know that even just speaking from a capitol hill perspective, when you talk about what happens outside of this building, of course, the capitol itself is secure, but when lawmakers go out of this building many of them having to think about hiring private security or what they can do to bolster security at their homes and other places they might go. this incident with jake sullivan just another reminder of that,
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not just isolated to electives, it is isolated to senior people in government too. >> the two alis, thank you both very much for being with us this morning. as soon as the president does speak, we will bring that to you live on the debt ceiling negotiations or talks. he's expected to speak any second now out of the white house. we're also following some breaking news regarding prince harry and his wife meghan. according to their spokesperson, the couple as well as meghan's mother were involved in a, quote, near catastrophic car chase involving paparazzi after leaving an event in new york city last night. their spokesperson said in part, quote, this relentless pursuit lasting over two hours resulted in multiple near collisions, involving other drivers on the road, pedestrians and two new york city police officers. joining us now is nbc's ali arouzi. also with us is daisy mcandrew.
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so, ali, i'll start with you. what do we know about this? >> well, jose, the details are just coming through now. but it appears that they were at an awards ceremony last night, where meghan was being honored for her work. and when they were leaving that awards ceremony, it turned into this massive chase across the streets of new york, where they were being pursued by as many as six blacked out vehicles and as you mentioned, jose, all sorts of road traffic violations were broken on that pursuit that lasted several hours. they're saying that the drivers were on the sidewalks, running red lights, going down one way streets, on the phone, hanging out of the window, taking photographs. now, for what we understand from meghan and harry is that they accept there is a large level of interest in their private lives and when they were entering and leaving this event last night, they did it through the public
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entrances so the photographers could get the photos they wanted from them. but they think that's when that should stop and they should be allowed to have their private life and that's not what happened. they were pursued relentlessly, apparently they were staying at a private friend's residence and they didn't want to go to the friend's residence because of security reasons with all of this paparazzi following them. and that's why this turned into this pursuit across the streets of new york. and obviously it must have been fairly terrifying for harry because this would bring back these memories of his mother being pursued by the paparazzi in paris, which ended in that fatal car crash. and we also know that, you know, harry has been a real champion of fighting media intrusion in his life and this country. he was just here last week attending a court case against the tabloid papers that had hacked his phones and had a lot of intrusion into his private life and his friends' private
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lives and he said his life mission is to change the media landscape in britain, but obviously he's also being pursued in the united states. because there is such enormous interest in his life, his wife's life, and all of this palace intrigue between his father and his brother and fallout they're having. so these pictures of harry and meghan always worth a lot of money, but it also seems to put their life at risk. harry and meghan have apparently said this was a near fatal crash, that it could have been fatal because it was such a relentless pursuit by so many cars acting so recklessly. but as it is, thankfully, doesn't seem like anybody was hurt or there were any fatalities, but this is obviously something that is going to be a major cause of concern for harry and seeing the way he's gone after the newspapers here, this may be a case for him to try and stop media intrusion on his private life in the united states as well. jose? >> and, as we await the
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president of the united states who is expected to come up to that podium in seconds, so, daisy, i want to apologize to you in advance if i do have to interrupt you. i was there in paris the 31st of september 1997 and the tunnel there. it seems as though this kind of frenzy of paparazzi following them through the streets at high speeds is something that we don't kind of normally associate with what happens in the united states. and yet it seems as though, daisy, this was something very similar. >> yes. and horrifyingly so. i think we can all remember those of us who are of an age where we were when we heard the news about diana's car crash and death. but, of course, the person who it affected the most in the world i think is fair to say is prince harry. he's spoken repeatedly about the impact it has had on his mental health, on his attitude as ali was saying to the press, and on
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his messianic campaign to change the press. and this is such a calling incident. i think as ali was saying clearly what happened was -- >> daisy, i'm so sorry to interrupt you. president biden. >> -- the helicopter out there to japan. anyway, and to meet with leaders of g-7. america's role in the world is vital, especially right now as we work with other countries to support ukraine and take on the challenges that demand international cooperation. from tackling the climate crisis to strengthening global economy. and before i leave i want to say a word about the status of negotiations with the congressional leaders. we had a productive meeting yesterday. and with all four leaders in the congress. it was civil and respectful. and everyone came to the meeting i think in good faith. i'm confident that we'll get the agreement on the budget, america will not default.
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and every leader in the room understands the consequences if we fail to pay our bills. and it would be catastrophic for the american economy and the american people if we didn't pay our bills. and i'm confident everyone in the room agrees with the speaker from -- from the speaker to the majority leader to the majority leader of the house and the senate and -- excuse me, majority leader in the senate, minority leader in the senate and the leader of the democratic leader in the house, we're going to come together because there is no alternative to do the right thing for the country. we have to move on. and to be clear, this negotiation is about the outlines of a budget will look like, not about whether or not we're going to in fact pay our debts. the leaders all agree we will not default. every leader has said that. i'm proud of the progress my administration has made. we reduced the deficit in the first two years by $1.7 trillion in the firstyears.
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that includes more revenue by asking the wealthy and large corporations to begin to pay their fair share, and cutting subsidies that exist in the law now to big oil and big pharma. yesterday we all agreed that both speaker mccarthy and i would designate senior members that we would negotiate to give our authority to make agreements in detail. we narrowed the group. we narrowed the group to meet and hammer out our differences. and we have done that, in fact, met last night, they're going to be meeting again today, and i'll be in constant contact with my team while i'm at the g-7 and be in close touch with speaker mccarthy and other leaders as well. what i have done in anticipation that we won't get it all done until i get back is i've cut my trip short in order to be -- for the final negotiations and sign
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the deal with majority leader. i made it clear and i'll say it again, america is not a deadbeat nation. we pay our bills. the nation has never defaulted on this debt and never will. we're going to continue these discussions with congressional leaders in the coming days until we reach an agreement and i have more to say about that on sunday. as it stands now, the intention is to go to the g-7, be back here on sunday, hold a press conference and in the meantime, i've spoken to the australian leader albanese and i'll see him at the g-7, he'll be there as well, along with the indian prime minister and along with the japanese as well. so the quad members will be there, we'll get a chance to speak separately at the meeting, but unlikely i'm going to be
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going on to australia. so, thank you very much. >> mr. president, what about work requirements? you still considering it? is it still on the table? what would you be willing to accept? >> i'm not -- i'm not going to accept any work requirements that's going to impact medical health needs of people. i'm not going to accept any work requirements that go much beyond what is already -- i voted years ago for the work requirements that exist. but it is possible there could be a few other, but not anything of any consequence. thank you. >> what message does it send that -- and australia? i know it was important to you to focus on the trip, but this is having to be put aside. is this almost a win for china? >> no, we're still meeting. we still have four good allies.
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>> and the president -- [ inaudible ] >> you won't be meeting or you won't be speaking? >> well, that was an interesting little last question that he did answer. i think i got most of it, whether he was going to be meeting with the leader of china xi anytime soon and the president just before he closed that door right outside the roosevelt room there said that there was some movement, didn't say if it was a meeting or a call, but that there is some expected communication between them. i want to bring back nbc's allie raffa. the president leaves today for the g-7 conference. but there is some interesting words there. one thing that he did say and i wrote it down, it is i look forward it signing a deal with the speaker. yet there is some confidence there that seems to be kind of -- the president has been
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confident the whole way, but the speaker was talking a little bit less pessimistic than we have heard him in the last couple of days. >> reporter: yeah, that's what we have seen, jose, since the last time that the parties met. really it depended on who you asked, how productive the meetings were. yesterday mccarthy saying that these two sides were still pretty far apart, but he did say the meeting was productive and now you have the president reminding the american people that he said that these talks are about the outline of what a budget would look like, not about raising the debt ceiling, underscoring what he said for months now that raising the debt ceiling is nonnegotiable, all the parties agree on that and they also agree on this june 1st so-called x date default timeline. but saying that these negotiations that are taking place are not about the debt ceiling, they're about the budget. he said that this meeting was productive, civil, respectful, he says we're confident will get
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to an agreement. and avoid default because every leader in the room, he says, understood the consequences of that. we're going to come together because there is no alternative. he talked about the progress that's been made really since that meeting at the white house. we know that this trimmed down group of negotiators on the white house's part that was announced yesterday met last night at the capitol with speaker mccarthy's negotiators and they're starting to flesh out the details of this. he talked about really the decision to cut back what was supposed to be this historic overseas trip to japan, papua new guinea and australia. the decision to put his diplomatic ambitions and goals aside to make sure he got back to d.c. to get this across the finish line. so as he goes overseas on this g-7 trip, the white house is saying that he will be updated daily on progress. he's going to have a call with these negotiators in the next few days. as you heard him end the press
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conference, he said he'll get back on sunday and hold a press conference on how the talks developed while he was away. >> allie raffa in washington, thank you very much. up next, what we know about the u.s. army veteran killed in ukraine. and what a new abortion ban in north carolina means. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. es you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. so, you found the no7 then... it's amazing! hydrates better than the expensive stuff
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26 past the hour. now to the shifting landscape for abortion rights. overnight, north carolina state lawmakers cleared the way for a 12-week abortion ban to take effect after overriding governor roy cooper's veto. >> the house has overridden the governor's veto and it becomes law. so notified. >> and as you heard, and as you saw, some demonstrators there heard yelling shame as others flocked just outside the state capitol in protest of the move. joining us now is nbc's shaquille brewster live from raleigh. also victoria francesco soto, the dean of the clinton school of public service, also an msnbc contributor. shaq, what was going to change for folks there and when does this ban take effect? >> reporter: well, it takes effect july 1st.
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this was the house chamber where that bill was passed, where the override of the governor's veto took place last night. and i just spoke to the speaker who went through the provisions in this legislation. it is a 12-week abortion ban. it does have exceptions for rape and incest. it then pushes that limit to 20 weeks and then at 24 weeks that is the limit for abortions that involve any fetal abnormalities. this is a bill that really caused a lot of protests, a lot of demonstrations, you saw some of the scenes just now. but it is one that the republican house speaker, who passed this over the objection, over the veto of the democratic governor, said really grew out of consensus here in the state of north carolina. listen to a little bit of his argument there. >> the vote that we had, you know, failed on party line vote, but it was -- i'll tell you as we worked through the bill, we were working with a number of democrats who i believe and who i know wanted to vote for this
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bill because they recognized that it was a consensus bill. it was not an extreme position in any way. >> reporter: this bill was able to pass because of previously democratic lawmakers switched parties. that gave the republicans the super majority, the ability to override the governor's veto. i did have a conversation with planned parenthood as well and while they do push back on the idea that the 12-week ban is a consensus position, they are concerned about other provisions of the legislation. the restrictions on essentially how abortions are done in the state of north carolina. 72-hour waiting period essentially has been extended to require an in person appointment at the beginning of that. there is new regulations for abortion clinics throughout the state. the warning that you hear from planned parenthood and other clinics is that it could result in the closure of abortion clinics throughout the state. jose, one other point from the speaker's comments and you've been hearing some of the fears from democrats in the state is that this is just the beginning,
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this -- this ban will be expanded. 12 weeks now, it could be 6 weeks as you're seeing happen in other states. 'sur he assured me that would not change. that policy is set here in the state of north carolina at least for the next two years. jose? >> so, victoria, you know, a consensus bill that had straight party line vote doesn't -- i don't know what the definition of consensus bill, but i don't know if that's it, but do you think this could become a blueprint for republicans who want to pass abortion bills in other states? >> jose, i h seen this movie before. and namely in texas, which was one of the initiators of rolling back abortion protections at the state level, right? it started from putting into place waiting periods, rolling back the 12-week, now texas is at six weeks, you have to go in
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person. so we have seen this where a massive change doesn't happen overnight. but it goes tick by tick. what we saw happen in north carolina last night is an indicator of that. the question for me is does this mean that north carolina, which has been a swing state for the last four electoral cycles, four to five electoral cycles, does it firmly entrench itself in a red path where we're going to see the six-week ban go into effect or is this going to be a trigger point for democrats in the state, for moderate republicans who say, no, we don't want this backsliding and then make their voices heard at the ballot booth in 2024? really north carolina is at a crossroads and this issue is indicative of where the parties are going to fall if they go further right or if they pull back to the democratic center.
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>> so, do you think that this would incentivize or bring people to the polls that maybe would have not voted? so i have two pieces i'm looking at, jose. the first is the incredibly thin margin of the last several presidential races. even though donald trump won the state of north carolina, in 2020, it was -- i think it was about by a point or so, a percentage point. very thin margin. i think this is still a very competitive state. the other evidence i have that points to maybe democrats being able to mobilize on this issue is what we saw in the last midterm election. across the country, you did see people mobilize and vote against the restrictions we have been seeing. those are the two pieces. north carolina still has conservative roots, especially in those rural areas. and it is the poster child of
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being uber gerry mandered where republicans both in the assembly and in the congressional district have a lot of safety because that's a bit of a counterbalance. >> uber gerrymandered, victoria and shaquille, thank you both very much for being with us this morning. overnight, we're learning that another american has died fighting in ukraine. the aunt of u.s. army veteran nicholas maimer confirms to nbc news that her nephew was killed. this video posted on telegram shows the chief of russia's mercenary wagner group standing over what he says is a dead american soldier in bakhmut. the u.s. state department says they are aware of the reports, but have not been able to confirm his death. joining us from kyiv is molly hunter. what more do we know about this army veteran? >> reporter: jose, that's right. we finally have confirmation from his aunt, we do not have
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official confirmation from the state department as you mentioned or from u.s. embassy officials here. it is very hard for american officials here to confirm that, especially in some place like bakhmut. we know he was 45, life cut too short, from boise, idaho. he was a u.s. army vet, jose. he joined in 1996. but what is remarkable is our colleague raf sanchez, when he was here in ukraine in february, doing a story on americans on foreigners who have come over to train ukrainian soldiers to fightukrainian soldiers, he interviewed nicholas. listen to what he had to say. >> why did you come out to ukraine? >> i actually was already in europe for another job. and i think in recent history -- in kind of recent history this is one of the most clear cut violations of human rights and
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national sovereignty that we have seen. and so i personally, with my background, i knew i was compelled to come help. >> reporter: jose, he also spoke about his absolute determination, his commitment to his humanitarian values, he was using his military expertise to save lives and train up civilians turned soldiers. the other big story we're chasing here in kyiv, we have a little bit of breaking news, the ukrainian foreign ministry he has just confirmed that foreign minister, the ukrainian foreign minister met with the chinese envoy. the chinese special envoy for eurasia. we knew he was expected for meetings here in ukraine. we did not have any confirmation about who he would be meeting with. we got two lines from the foreign ministry. kyiv will accept no proposals that would involve loss or territory or freezing of
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conflict with russia. this has been a discussion point about this special representative visit, according to the chinese foreign ministry, he's on a listening tour, it is thought he is on -- china is kind of testing the waters to see if china could operate as a mediator in some kind of mediation efforts between russia and ukraine. china, a staunch russian ally. >> molly hunter, thank you very much. still ahead, the humanitarian crisis at the border becoming national. the debate over where to house men, women and children asking for asylum next. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports." you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports. it's amazing! hydrates better than the expensive stuff i don't live here, so i'm taking this and whatever's in the back. it's already sold in the us. but i'm not taking any chances. the uk's #1 skincare has crossed the pond. hey bud. wow. what's all this? hawaii was too expensive so i brought it here. you know with priceline you could actually take that trip for less than all this.
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39 past the hour. migrant border crossings have dropped somewhat since title 42 expired last week, the arrivals trying to find safety have been overwhelming cities from coast to coast. in new york city, school officials and parents are protesting as school gyms are being turned into temporary shelters to make space. new york city mayor eric adams says the city has no more room, and has been busing asylum seekers to hotels in the suburbs. a temporary restraining order has been granted on the grounds that the area is not a designated sanctuary city. gabe gutierrez joins us now with more. what is the significance of this new order? >> reporter: hey there, jose, good morning. this has been an ongoing legal
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fight now for the last several days, but not just orange county, but rockland county here in suburban new york. and these suburban counties saying they do not want these asylum seekers bused to their counties. the state supreme court giving this temporary restraining order now to orange county, and this all comes as you mentioned, jose, looking at the video there of parents and students protesting the idea of converting school gyms freerks , freestanding school gyms in new york city to house asylum seekers as well. the biden administration has not done enough to help new york city with what he refers to as humanitarian crisis. city budget officials estimate that by next year taxpayers will have to foot the bill for housing and caring for these migrants to the tune of more than $4 billion by next year. in orange county this temporary restraining order is in place. and that means that no more migrants can be bused there. there are 186 that have already
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been taken to two hotels in orange county. and just a few days ago, i spoke with some of the migrants who are being housed here in new york, one woman told us that she had been here for months. take a listen. >> reporter: and, jose, that was at the hotel steps from times square. mayor adams announcing that the iconic roosevelt hotel near grand central will be used to house asylum seekers as well. overwhelming not just new york city and its surrounding suburbs, but also places like chicago, denver, also seeing a large influx at this point. jose? >> gabe gutierrez, thank you for always bringing us those voices as well. i appreciate that. coming up, we're learning
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more about what is being called a near catastrophic car chase in new york city involving prince harry and meghan. plus, why there are new fears in florida over a worker shortage. we'll also speak to florida congressman debbie wasserman schultz about that and a whole lot more. we'll see you in a minute. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. u. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. pd is super comfortable. it feels like it's barely there. look at how much it holds, and it still stays thin! i've looked at myself in the mirror and i can't see it at all! that's the protection we deserve! we got the house! and i can'tyou did!at all! pods handles the driving. pack at your pace. store your things until you're ready. then we deliver to your new home - across town or across the country. pods, your personal moving and storage team. (tap, tap) listen, your deodorant just has to work. i use secret aluminum free. just swipe and it lasts all day. secret helps eliminate odor, instead of just masking it. and hours later
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on undocumented immigrants in florida. trying to figure out what to do next as a tough new immigration law is set to take effect the first of july. there are an estimated 775,000 undocumented immigrants in the sunshine state. and among the laws require's requirements, hash harsher penalties, requiring hospitals that accept medicaid to ask admitted patients for their immigration status and report that data to the state, and allocating $12 million to send migrants out of florida. what have you learned? >> thank you for having me, jose. we're able to witness how terrified the undocumented community is here in south florida and many of them, you know, jose, these communities are already isolated. but that fear has intenintensif.
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now they're scared of driving, scared of going to hospital, scared of going to a police station and we heard from many families that they already left the state or are hiding. i've spoken to construction workers and agricultural workers that tell me people are simply not showing up for work, not going to service at churches, not going to grocery stores because they're so scared that they might be detained and i spoke to a construction worker in orlando that showed me that construction site that you're looking at right now. he told me people were in such a hurry to leave, that they abandoned some of their tools. and this might be the beginning of a mass exodus in florida. but what we saw is that many of them are still weighing their options, they want to see how this law is going to be implemented and how it is going to impact them directly. around half a million citizens in the states have a family member that is undocumented and
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around 7% of children in the state are citizens that have at least one family member that is undocumented in their household. we were able to speak to a family in this situation. they told me if things get tough, meaning if they see immigration rates at work sites or no checkpoints on roads, they are planning on leaving because they don't want to be separated. let's take a listen to what they told me. >> i do not want this to happen because i have family here. that doesn't have papers. and i just want them -- that i
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want them to have a better life here. >> so we know that there is a lot of confusion. some of the initial provisions in this law didn't get approved, but people don't know, you know. it was initially proposed that it would be criminalized to transport immigrants within florida or to house undocumented immigrants and that didn't pass and many people don't know that. they're very scared and now community organizers were reaching out to educate them, and to tell them that they still have constitutional rights in this country. >> a lot of those provisions that weren't passed back to sb 1070 in arizona. thank you for being on set this morning. >> thank you. with us to talk more about this and much more is florida congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz. a pleasure to see you. you know, in many ways your district kind of is a microcosm of what america is.
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you represent an area with venezuela exiles, cuban exiles, haitian exiles, many of whom may live in a mixed status immigration family. what is your reaction to this new immigration law in >> jose, it's good to be with you. i appreciate you shining a spotlight on this horrific situation that is the responsibility of ron desantis, our governor, who created a nightmarish culture of fear for immigrants in our state. not only that, but like you referenced, when arizona did the same to their immigrants in their state, he is going to devastate our economy. tourism, construction, agriculture. you are going to have vegetables rotting in the fields, construction sites that will lie dormant or struggle to get
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workers to help make sure that they can make progress. the tourism and restaurant industry in particular rely on these workers. can you imagine? there's a provision in the law that requires hospitals to check the immigration status of a patient. health care should never be compromised. someone should not not go to a hospital or seek medical care as a result of being fearful of being deported. it's outrageous. this is just more of the same from him distracting from the real critical issues of ensuring we can get our kids educated, that we can create more jobs, that we can make sure that here in washington that we are supporting our nation's veterans rather than cutting their funding, which republicans are doing here. on top of that, we're about to start hurricane season on june 1st. what does desantis do? he sends 1,500 national
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guardsmen, who we need here in the state to be ready to protect our citizens and help be in line to deal with the aftermath of storms, he sends them to the border for an immigration crisis that largely has really not lived up to the billing with title 42 lapsing last week. >> on d.c., democratic congressman robert garcia introducing a resolution to expel embattled new york congressman george santos, who admitted to lying about parts of his background. what do you make of that? >> i think it's important that we uphold the highest standards as members of congress. this expulsion resolution is going to be voted on, i think, today, if not tomorrow. what republicans are going to do is they're going to try to push it off and delay, holding our own membership to the highest
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standards. this is an individual charged with 13 felony counts. he pled guilty to theft in brazil. his own constituents have called on him to resign. i would like to ask my republican colleagues why in heaven's name would they support having an individual like this, who has not only no ethics whatsoever, but literally deceived his own constituents into electing him, why would they let him remain in office? >> thank you so much for being with us. it's good to see you. >> thank you. up next, new comments from new york city's mayor about a reported car chase involving prince harry and meghan. you are watching "jose diaz-balart reports" on msnbc.
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he was arrested in pennsylvania a few weeks later. krem-tv reports he is scheduled to appear in court monday morning where he is expected to enter a plea. i want to turn to breaking news we brought you at the top of the hour. according to the spokesperson for prince harry and meghan markle, the couple, as well as her mother were involved in a near catastrophic car chase involving paparazzi after leaving an event in new york city last night. two senior law enforcement sources tell nbc news harry and meghan had private security with them at the time and that one nypd vehicle was escorting their vehicle. harry and meghan did not want paparazzi to know where they were going. they drove around for about an hour and 15 minutes. officials say it was a bit of a chaotic scene.
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>> i think all of us -- i don't think there's many of us who don't recall how his mom died. it would be horrific to lose an innocent bystander and something to have happened by them as well. we have to be responsible. i thought it was reckless and irresponsible. >> back with us is daisy mcandrew. thank you for being back with us. all of this just goes back to immediately -- we are taken back to what happened to his mother. it seems like so unusual for this to happen in new york. right? >> it really does. although, i guess the laws in new york are not the same as they are in california when it comes to paparazzi driving dangerously and so on. which makes me think that's one of the reasons harry and meghan decided to settle in california.
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it's a horrible event. it must have been terrifying for them, particularly given we know how emotionally upset and how harry's mental health has been affected, of course, by the way in which his mother died and the fact that he has always blamed the paparazzi for that. >> indeed. it's something that we will be learning much more about. daisy, i'm wonder, the situation for them in california is different in what ways? >> my understanding -- i'm sure your viewers might know better than me. from reading up on it, my understanding is that the laws about being pursued by paparazzi are stronger, more stringent in california. ironically, those laws were brought about immediately following the death of princess diana. you can perhaps see that they were nervous in new york. i'm told that they took refuge
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in some new york police station, trying to shake off the paparazzi. i think as you implied, they didn't want the paparazzi to know where they were staying. makes me wonder whether the children were there and they were trying to protect them on the friend they were staying with. they wanted to shake them off. they got into a new york taxi as a decoy. that didn't work. you can see this must have been a frustrating, frightening and lengthy process. people say, why was it two hours? when you explain that, you can see why it was two hours. they were trying to shake these paparazzi who were pursuing them the way they pursued diana, holding out phones, being on the phone. it must have been very frightening. >> yeah. this is such a lucrative -- pictures of them is something really lucrative. >> yeah, exactly. they know that. that's one of the many things that sticks in their throat. they know they are lining the pockets of the people who harry absolutely detests.
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harry wants to put them out of business, not make them more profitable. by the very nature of who he is and what he does and how he makes his own money from selling his story in books and netflix, you can see this is a relationship -- a symbiotic relationship. >> thank you so much for being with us. appreciate it. that wraps up the hour for me. i'm jose diaz-balart. i thank you for the privilege of your time. right now on "andrea mitchell reports," no deal but new signs of hope after tuesday's meeting at the white house with congressional leaders, the speaker, that they can avoid default. >> i'm confident that we will get the agreement on the budget, that america will not default. leaders have agreed we will not default. every leader has said that. >> different opinions can get together, come to an agreement where both sides

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