status. or for going back, is because they took away safety precautions for the trans communities. for misgendering folks on their platform. they went and they took it all away. it had been working really well. it is really unfortunate. states have proposed more bills targeting lgbtq than any other time in u.s. history. the aclu is tracking 141 anti-lgbtq state laws across the country. so far we have 19 states having passed laws restricting gender-affirming treatment to minors. which states have enacted laws that you see is being particularly alarming in dangerous? texas and florida are really leading the pack in haiti.

creating environments that unsafe for the lgbtq community. leaders, their governors, are at the head of that. ensuring that it is not safe for lgbtq communities in that state. what we are seeing here is, even if the bills don't pass, we project about ten to 20% of these bills will pass. we are seeing them pass. there are ten don't say gay bills that have passed across ten different states in this country. the harm is done as soon as there proposed. they are proposing this insidious around the lgbtq community that we need to be legislated against as human beings. i beg any of these politicians to show me what happened. what went wrong that you needed to legislate against lgbtq people. i can answer that for. you absolutely nothing! these are solutions to problems

that don't exist. they are causing great problems for our community. >> glad president, sarah kay ellis. often glad to give you the chance to chat and talk about this. for all of you that is gonna do for me on this edition i will see you again tomorrow. my friend yasmin vossoughian continues our coverage. vossoughian continues our coverage hey everybody. welcome. i am yasmin vossoughian on a very busy afternoon. the president holding his first big campaign rally. he is in philadelphia with union workers. we will be keeping an eye on his speech as it continues. also, any moment, we are expecting the start of a news conference from texas governor, greg abbott, after deadly tornadoes ripped through the state there. he is touring one of the hardest hit areas. we will have a lot of report on that coming up in just a moment. plus, special counsel, jack

smith, making his first big move since the downing donald trump. it is aimed squarely at keeping the former president quiet. we are going to break all of that down. you won't want to miss that conversation. in reaction to minneapolis out of the doj releases a scathing report on the police department there in the wake of the killing of george floyd. is there hope that change can happen? we will look at this later on in the hour as well. once again, this is live pictures showing the president officially kicking off his very first rally of the 2024 campaign. speaking before union workers in philadelphia. we want to go first, if we can, to priscilla thompson standing by for us in texas, i believe. governor greg abbott is said to speak any moment now about the brutal tornado that has devastated that town, perrytown. gut wrenching scenes of the community around 8500 people. three were killed including an 11-year-old boy at least 50

others as crews continue to work to clear this rubble. nbc's in perry town for us, on the ground joining us now. as we await the press conference from the governor, what is the ground there? >> yasmin obviously, a lot of tragedy here with those three people killed. dozens injured. there is also a sense of resilience here as the cleanup continues. i will give you a look at what we are seeing. what governor abbott is probably seeing is he is touring. folks digging through the rubble trying to salvage what they can. this used to be a lumber yard. this is all that is left of. it 18 wheelers and cars literally tossed on top of the building. people are trying to save what they can as they look ahead trying to move forward. groups of people are helping in these cleanup efforts in front yards, businesses churches, passing out food and water. we spoke to one volunteer here

about what it is going to take for this community to move forward. what it feels like emotionally, right now. i want to play a little bit of that conversation. >> walking around, all of my childhood memories, everything, i don't even know how to put it into words. everyone i'm saying, don't drive in. i just knew that everyone was coming together. talking on their phones. coming out in the middle of the night to make sure their neighbors are okay. we lost some really, some pillars of our community that it is quite traumatic. >> of course, clean up a major effort here today. the other big effort here in regards to electricity. getting the power back on. power has been restored to thousands of people here. right now there are only about 1300 people without power. certainly a large number of people but those are the people

hit -- the hardest hit areas. the governor giving the briefing expected to speak any moment. now we will be listening very carefully to what he has to say about the resources and the aid that will continue to flow into this community. i have spoken to several people prisoners homes have been destroyed who didn't have insurance. the sheriff tells me that this is unlikely to qualify for fema aid. the question is, how will those people be able to rebuild? what financial resources are they going to have for temporary housing? figuring out the path forward from here. he has been. >> priscilla thompson for us. thank you, priscilla. i appreciate. it we have been watching the president. as i've said we are looking at live pictures now showing the president kicking off his first rally of the 2024 campaign season. speaking before union workers. specifically, in philadelphia. we want to get right to. it nbc's gary graham back standing by for. us what we have we heard from the president so far? what are your expectations going forward?

there are a few things that president biden loves more than philadelphia in unions. that is exactly where he is today. kicking off its 2024 campaign, officially -- although he did it formerly a few weeks ago, this is his first real big campaign event with those union workers. he is going through some of the same talking points we heard from the previous campaign and over the past two years. how he is going the class, not from the top down but from the bottom up in the middle. out talking to these union workers because these are the base of his support. for, working class folks. it's like he portrays himself as. from scranton and claymont, delaware. folks who are working hard. that is really his base of support. by the way, we won't see much of it according to the campaign for the next few months. he's doing a lot of administration work. that is how he's going to be selling yourself on the campaign trail. also, doing a number of fund-raisers over the next few weeks. we are expecting to see 20 dnc

related fundraisers with either biden himself, the first lady, the vice president, or other officials over the next few weeks just through june. that is an interesting way of campaigning here. gop candidates in iowa, south carolina nevada. president biden is the rose garden or in this case in philadelphia. selling points there. it wasn't just all the campaign work today. also presidential work. it was the unending five collapse we saw last week. we actually got some news out of joe shapiro today who said that in the next two weeks he expects a 95 to be reopened. that will be very good news for folks in the area. folks who live in philadelphia because all up and down the seaboard because the transit, the trucks on the corporations

use food and supplies up and down the east coast. >> gary graham back for us. thank you. we are going to continue to monitor the presidents campaign there. we will bring you any news that we see within the hour. we will be back into 60 seconds folks. a special counsel jack smith could keep donald trump quiet. that conversation is coming up next. is coming up next >> >> > >> >> when it comes to your hair, ingredients matter. that's why herbal essences is packed

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he's also a former prosecutor, as well. as always it is great to talk to you about this stuff. it was recorded that trump's lawyers have tried to settle with the justice department to avoid an indictment. he rejected those efforts. what are the chances that trump does not in fact comply with this order? if he does not what happens then? >> well i, do you think there is a chance that he might try to stretch the limits of the order and push as far as he can the the boundaries that have been outlined. it is very possible that if he does that he's going to potentially put himself, as well as his attorneys, in a position where they may face -- at some point if jack smith moves forward who could potentially make a motion to file to have donald trump held in contempt of the court or the judge on her own might decide to do that. overall i think the likelihood that he will violate this order is very the tivoli low.

we are talking about a federal judge here. i do think that donald trump is not so adverse to pushing the boundaries. but i don't know if in this entrance he's going to cross them. the punishment will be swift and relatively severe >> many of us were waiting to hear from the attorney general. we heard from him the first time after the indictment from mar-a-lago, specifically. asked also about his role. he essentially said this. let's play for you and then we will talk. >> my role is completely consistent with the regulations that force with regards to the responsibilities of attorney general. the special counsel regulations. . i follow those regulations. >> what do you think, charles? does the a.g. need to be more forthcoming here? or is the strategy on his part to make sure that this is completely legal and senses that any kind of involvement on

his part would seem more political the need to be? >> i think the a.g. is doing exactly what he needs to do in the situation. you can't on one hand argue that donald trump needs to be treated like everyone else. he can't on one hand argue that donald trump does not deserve any kind of special treatment by the justice department or the justice system but then inject yourself into the case in ways that you would not. where he another defendant merrick garland's approach here is the right one. it is important he remains as a political as possible the minute that he does inject himself into a situation involving donald trump further than he already has that opens the door for a different type of criticism. most importantly it could open the door for donald trump and his attorneys to launch an appeal should he become convicted. basically saying, look, the attorney general was weighing in on this in a manner that was a typical for how he normally does things. that could be problematic down the road. i think merrick garland is

maintaining as he should in his position as attorney general. >> i found this analysis from the atlantic fascinating. it didn't necessarily make sense to me. i'm curious what you think. considering what is happening, especially with judge cannon. there were mishandling's of those documents but for variety reasons the doj has decided not to move forward with charges for the former president. in fact the atlantic lays out the possibility of maybe filing charges if, in fact things do not go the way they want, or expect him to go, in florida, if cannon writes consistently with her trump friendly ruling, smith michael ruling for another way to aryan sure accountability and another venue where he could do so. speaking specifically about that midler. what do you make of that? >> it is important to understand that nothing should

be considered to be off the table at this point. we have heard from jack smith. that doesn't mean that we have heard the last from jack smith. there is a lot that his office in the doj continue to look into. quite frankly,, if there is some substantial grounds for bringing charges in the state of new jersey down, so be it. in the interest of justice's office to do so. i don't necessarily think that because jack smith has begun to initiate this prosecution in the state of florida that he should neglect any and everything else. it's important to understand that january 6th is not entirely off the table. as he is mentioned this week, there are other investigations that are ongoing. i think that these are things that he should continue to pursue if there are significant grounds to do so. >> if there are significant grounds to do. so a really important point for. us charge coleman as always, we appreciate you, sir. thank.

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welcome back. three years after george floyd's murder at the hands of a minneapolis police officer a scathing report from the department of detailing just how deep the problems ran at the minneapolis police department. a thorough investigation into the department revealing that discriminatory policing methods have been used against black and native americans in the city for years. i wanna bring in nbc's jesse

cursor standing by in minneapolis for us. chesley can you tell us what is in this report in the doj? what did the attorney general have to say about the minneapolis police department conduct? >> yasmin, i want to point to align specifically from the conclusion of this doj report which summarizes a lot of this. it says the minneapolis police department, quote, uses unreasonable force, infringes on first amendment rights, and discriminates based on race and disability. talking about people with behavioral issues being discriminated against. black people, native american people. it talks about peoples protected speech being infringed upon. all kinds of allegations in this. the doj saying there was a lack of training accountability and supervision which allowed these problems to fester, as you mentioned, this is tied to the aftermath of the murder of george floyd. here is what attorney general, merrick garland, said about that specific case and how the practices they have found to be a part of this investigation

may have been involved in that murder. take a listen. >> george floyd should be alive today. the patterns and practices we observed made what happened to george floyd possible. as one city leader told us quote, the systemic issues didn't just occur on may 25th, 2020. >> so, again, just underscoring there from the attorney general the idea that what was found to have been going on in this report was what made the murder of george floyd possible. president joe biden, we've been told, have been briefed on this according to the white house. he's making another call for legislative reform in congress on these types of issues. you have been. >> what has been the reaction so far on the ground to this report jessie? >> obviously, there has been a lot of protests in this committee for years, right? around these issues the murder of george floyd put a lot of this under the microscope here. at least one community member

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president just wrapping up his remarks the first rally of his 24 campaign season speaking before union workers in philadelphia i wanna bring in nbc's mike mentally standing by for us in philadelphia with the president. good to talk to you. the president just wrapping up his remarks there. what did we hear? >> yasmin, you might still be able to see the president behind me. he is in one of his favorite places, the rope line in one of his favorite cities in philadelphia, speaking before one of his favorite types of crowd the union. crowd it is really giving the campaign the type of kickoff we haven't seen. yet it has been two months, almost since the president announced he is running for reelection. in the time in between now and then he has been mostly working as president. dealing with the tough

negotiation over the debt ceiling. this is the kind of opportunity for the president to speak now about what is going to be a core front and center for hamm. the economy. the economic accomplishment that he thinks he's racked up over the course of the past two years. representing a choice to the voters in 2024 about an economy that, as he says, is about going from the middle out and the bottom up, versus a trickle down economy which he says hasn't worked. let's listen to part of what the presidents message was here in the last hour. >> hello organized labor! union labor. there is labor and there is union labor. folks, and feels good to be home. >> last week every single environmental organization endorsed me. no, no, this week, for the first time that i'm aware of, they endorsed us early. every union, as well.

>> we are coming together. . yasmin, the big question around 2024, one of several big questions around 24 is can president biden keep and through the adam and energy behind his campaign. but the president was a time when there is something we really haven't seen before. and unprecedented early and coordinated endorsement on the part of major labor unions. we also saw earlier this week major climate green groups endorsing the president. this is all speaking to the need on the part of the campaign which is frankly building itself as it is launching to rally important constituencies that the president needs to turn out in big numbers in 24. there is another big imperative right now for the president and that is raising money. the president, from, here will head out to the west coast. i will be there with them as he's going to be participating in some 20 odd fund-raisers that he and other members of his team will be holding here between now in the end of june. >> mike memoli on the road again.

thank you. you gop presidential hopeful, ron desantis, is also hitting the trail today in nevada he is attending the basque fry republican fund-raiser. president trump asked by the the past two presidential campaigns. desantis has a uphill battle there. about the same place after trump was indicted on federal charges. there for us in gardnerville, nevada. trump tasha, had a pretty solid grip on republicans in that state at one point. he did lose the general elections there twice. why, specifically, does desantis feel like they can actually win nevadans over? >> what you just said there, you have, finn is part of the argument they're making here. desantis has a winning record when it comes to general elections that trump does not. that is something you're going to hear him repeat on the campaign trail. i was just talking to a group of voters here, yasmin that sort of represent both the

opportunity that desantis hasn't states like nevada and the challenge. i want you to take a listen and watch them closely here and we will talk on the other side. >> who here voted for trump twice? who here is planning to vote for him again in this primary? who hear things it is time for a new face for the republican party? who here thinks that phase should be desantis? >> really interesting there. all the folks who voted for trump twice, the majority of them think it is time for a new phase. only one really solidly thinks it's desantis. the other said they are open to him but they are also considering other candidates. it is too early, they want to learn more. one of the women there told me that his six-week a fortune bill in florida is a real concern for her. she thinks it is too far to the

right on the abortion issue. everyone in the states -- it's gonna be so important. they're playing really close attention right now. the message that he delivers to voters, it really is going to matter, yasmin. >> i also want you to talk about the effort to raise money. i know he coauthored this new piece on them in some sees this 100 million dollar door knocking effort to boost desantis. what did you find? >> this is sort of the centerpiece of the team desantis effort to beat trump. it is a ground game. the political experts that i have been talking to say that this could make the difference especially if these races end up being very close. that never back down super pac supporting governor desantis is spending $100 million in a door knocking effort. we got a behind the scenes look at how they are training paid canvassers they're bringing around the country to a facility in iowa where they're

bringing them in an eight-day boot camp. they are doing a deep dive on desantis best practices of knocking doors. eight days of training, yasmin. that is not typical. these are the folks going around knocking on doors. hey, do you want to learn more about i can? didn't we talk about them every campaign season. eight days of training. they are planning to train 2600 canvassers by labor day and deploy them to the 18 states for super tuesday. right now they are focused on iowa new hampshire, south carolina and nevada. they believe that this could be the big difference maker. these are folks that are, again going deep on desantis. we watched them practice with a fake door in the center of the room. practice talking about desantis to these voters. they are prepared to message what desantis stands. for this ground game has shown -- we saw it with ted cruz. this is how he won iowa.

that ravaging the ground game in 2000 1820. 12 experts credit that to his winning expert. this could make the difference. they're investing a lot of money in a lot of time in this last. and it is a pretty unprecedented effort. >> joshua burns for a. thank you. i appreciate. it we want to bring in now to talk more 2024, former congresswoman debbie mucarsel powell. a democrat from florida and for congressman, joe, walls living at the republican from illinois. welcome to you both guys. thank you for joining us on this. let me just start with you on this. let's talk, specifically, first, on where the president is choosing to speak to kick off the 2024 campaign season. philadelphia, union workers, right? this is exactly where he is most comfortable. what do you make of it? >> never underestimate the power that happens when people in workers come together to support a candidate. i think that is exactly what we are seeing.

president biden is doing the right thing by reminding americans that what he is doing is strengthening in building the middle class. he has provided more than 12 million jobs in the past two years. many of those jobs to not require a college degree. that really helps a lot of americans have been struggling, especially after covid. he has been focusing on tackling some of the most difficult challenges. the challenge of climate change. he has been getting endorsements, not just from the afl-cio but also from environmental organizations. very important for the critical bathe, which is the use voter base. think he is doing all the right things. the energy is continuing to build. i hope to see more of that. >> so joe doing all the right things ray? but i'm wondering if and when we are going to hear about the donald trump campaign issue -- i want to read to you what one white house aide told us. it is now practice to let them dominate.

the president needs to be above this but it allows you to be hitting him hard. democrat should not be waiting for a general election to start to finding this. what do you make of that? >> i agree that the president should ignore donald trump and his indictments, floral. there will be another one. yasmin, think about this, these next 16 months are going to be full of donald trump and his indictments and his trials. the criminality of donald trump. one of the other republicans talking about? all these culture war issues. these democrats should go after both trump and the republican party. joe biden, i agree, he should just focus on what he has done. focus on his accomplishments and focus on the economic issues. that is all he should be talking about. >> debbie our own jen psaki, obviously used to be president press secretary, this is what they had to say about the

strategy here. there are many ways to contrast biden's commitment to the rule of law with his rivals lack there of the don't require him weighing indirectly on the indictment. but his team silence is central to strategy, for now. can you walk this line? can you figure out how to walk to find? it's santa's walking the line a little bit? >> desantis has a lot of other issues. he's barely been able to breakthrough with the lost favor ability polls. especially commenting on what you are talking about in nevada. four out of five gop women are completely against his almost complete abortion ban. i think he has a lot of issues he's gonna have to deal with. look there is a fine line. i think president biden is doing right by respecting the independent of the department of justice in his investigation. at the same time i do believe the democrats, and other, they have to remind americans the importance of respecting the rule of law. making sure that americans remember that they're the true

situation in power. the only ones politicizing this issue right now are republicans. we cannot allow republicans to control the message and to control the opinion as it relates to the indictment of donald trump. we are going to see more of this, ray. it seems like the january 6th insurrection is getting closer to, also, bringing an indictment. one of the most serious crimes before donald trump the, ex president. >> joe, let's also talk about how republicans are responding. i mentioned desantis trying to walk this line, right. trying to keep the trump voter but also, show the difference that he has between him and the president of the united states. mike pence, asked my colleague chuck pence, if he would pardon the former president. if he would win the presidency. i want to play for you what he had to say in how he kind of danced around this question and then we will talk. well, i just think the question is premature. i don't know why some of my competitors, and the republican primary, presume the president

would be found guilty. look, all we know what the president has been accused of. in the indictment. we don't know what his defense is. we don't know if this will even go to trial. it could be subject to a motion to dismiss. we don't know what the verdict will be. >> he's right about all that stuff. joe walsh. but if you read the 49-page indictment, there's a lot of damning things. his own former attorney general even said it, bill barr, on fox news. even half of it is true, the former president is in a lot of trouble. what do you make of pence and what he says there? >> put me to sleep, yasmin. put me to sleep. mike pence, he may be right on a lot of that stuff. that's not where the republican party voter is. the base voter is with donald trump. they don't mind that he's indicted. they don't mind that he's a criminal. they don't mind that he's corrupt. in fact, a lot of them like

that. what they want to hear, from all of these other candidates's, i'm standing with trump. and if he's indicted, if he's convicted, i'm going to pardon him. this is an impossible rule that all of these republican challengers are trying to ride. an impossible road. yasmin, their own cowardice has put them on this road. trump's a monster, they helped create this monster. now, they can't defeat him up. debbie, jumping off of that, is it really that impossible. is it that impossible of a road? to talk about what's right and what is wrong in classified documents and not giving them back when asked to do so several times? >> no, absolutely not. the evidence is so clear in that indictment. yet, i applaud republicans like senator mitt romney. who have come out strong against the former president for these serious, serious allegations. it is true, we need to wait and respect the process and see what's going to happen.

once the jury hears the case. it's very sad to see the desperation of mike pence, the former vice president, whose life was on the line because of the former president, because he incited that insurrection on january 6th, so desperate to try and be somebody in this election. you hear him say nothing, and not take a stance. i, mean he has no character, obviously. i don't think any american voter is going to go for that. >> debbie mucarsel powell, joel, thank you as well. we have a lot more ahead, folks. house intelligence committee member, jim himes, or jointly effort -- to target the justice department in the wake of the former presidents indictment. first, how a small, right-wing group of doctors gained outsized political influence in their push for anti-trans and anti-abortion rights laws that are sweeping the country. we'll be right back. we'll be right back.

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advocates, who have only become more vocal in recent years. the trend is the result of appointed strategy from certain right-wing groups to influence the social climate. one of those groups is the american college of pediatrics. if that name seems innocuous, and trustworthy to you on the surface, that is the idea. in reality, this group works as a leading force behind some of the nation's most extreme republican medical movements, for promoting gay conversion therapy, to pushing to outlaw the abortion pill. to working to ben hormone therapy for transgender people. the washington post this week uncovered 1000 -- of internal documents that detail the groups inner workings. one of the journalists who broke that story is joining me now. lauren, thanks for joining us on this. i think the researcher kellan baker said it best. without knowing what actually behind it, you would think it is a medical professional organization. it's not. he goes on to say, it's a tiny group of french conservatives who didn't like the fact that

the field was leaving them behind. tell us about the american college of pediatrics? >> pediatricians, i should say. >> yes, the american college of pediatricians is a small, conservative group, that has, for a long time, sought to shape the nation's most contentious issues brave presenting their views as medical science. when often, they are rejected by the medical establishment. they've become very successful in recent years. in part, by tapping into conservative media. and using it as a megaphone. as you heard, their name does sound very familiar to the american academy of pediatrics. the much larger group that is about 67,000 members. 95% of pediatricians, as opposed to this group, the american college of pediatricians, which is about 700 members, the internal documents show. i'm curious how the washington post access these records. they're claiming this group of

doctors is claiming, a centrally, they were hacked. in fact, it was more about their privacy settings, it seems. >> yes, my colleague taylor -- was giving copies of the documents by sources that accessed it after their google drive was left public. essentially, that's how we were able to review the documents and check with the metadata had not been altered to see this insight into the inner workings of the group and their inner board members and meetings. see how they come to these -- and how they shape society. >> so, i want to talk about what they're doing. i'll read for folks from the page in the washington post. the organization said, 15,000 mailers to quote unquote, conservative positions between 2018 in 2019. one document instructed the group to target christian -- in red letters as well as for pediatricians in red states. it gained further national prominence, as one of the plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit

told them it accessed to mifepristone, a key abortion drug. the organizations quest to ban the use of puberty blockers and home on 34 transgender minors has culminated in a string of recent legislative winds following lobbying in at least eight states. as shown by internal documents. talk to me more about what they're successfully able to accomplish. >> look, they've deployed members of their group to testifying in state legislatures. they've sent letters. they've been able to change gender-affirming care policies in hospitals in st. louis. they have members who are prominent in different hospitals around the country. they even had a member who was the head of texas's state public health department. they've been able to, through this network of folks, through right-wing media channels, through fox news, through other right-wing media, express these beliefs that the medical establishment has rejected.

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some good news for the nations economy this week. inflation standing at 4% in may, the lowest number in more than two years. it only rose one tenth of 1%. last month, compared back to april. nbc's marissa -- is at a supermarket in virginia for us. look at how that's affecting food prices, that is more of a mixed bag, marissa. >> absolutely. we'll start of the good news first, especially for your breakfast lovers. some of the items that are cooling down the most, items like bacon, we're seeing a 10% increase, -- decrease in prices there. we've also got items like a whole milk, we're talking about eggs. we've talked about that for quite some time. those prices taking the

sharpest nosedive in over half a century. also, citrus fruits. tomatoes. we've talked about the mixed bag here. items are still more expensive than what we saw two years ago. certainly, something that shoppers are noticing here saying, yeah, this is welcome news this week. this new report. ultimately, they're only gonna celebrate when they're seeing those results in the changes on their receipts. >> yeah, i have a family of four. it's expensive to feed them. so, i thought i could grab a few things. items that our bullet $60. i don't get any meat or anything like that. my thing is like, ike how can a family of four even eat with these prices? you can't get any assistance to help you, you have to do the best you can. >> now, outside of the grocery store, things are still expensive. we're talking about cars, we're talking about outdoor equipment. of course, rent, we know how expensive that has been. but when we look at the bigger picture here, something that's so important to remember, this

is a consecutive 11th month decrease. this is certainly a lot less expensive, a lot less dire, than what we saw currently 4%. it was 9% last summer. so, we're talking about a big change. of course, shoppers here that we've seen all week, nbc news has been speaking to shoppers all week, the one bottom line here, they're saying, they're not gonna be celebrating until their bottom line, until they're seeing changes on what they're buying at the grocery store per week. >> so, again, when we're talking about inflation, we're watching those numbers, we're always thinking about what the fed chair is gonna be doing when it comes to interest rates. we have had month over month quarter after quarter interest rate hikes. there's some news there as well. >> yes, absolutely. we were seeing hikes for 15 months, they decided, rather than doing that, the short answer they're holding that steady for the time being some

welcome news as shoppers are saying they'll take the welcome news where they can. >> yeah, absolutely. marissa parra, we thank you. we have got look more coming up folks, you are watching msnbc, our second hour starts right now. nbc, our second hou♪ ♪ ♪ >> hey, everybody, i'm yasmin vossoughian, i'm good to see you. if you're just joining, us welcome. if you're sticking with us, we are thankful for that. campaigner in chief. the president holding his first big rally at the 2024 season. >> we've got a fight on our hands. my question to you is simple. are you with me in this fight? [crowd chanting] >> meanwhile, donald trump and biden's other republican rivals trying to grapple with an indictment of the former president. and primary front runner, number two and unng