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air, democratic senator bob menendez of new jersey has been indicted by a federal grand jury. what we know about the allegations against the senator and his wife. also ahead, the house speaker sending his caucus home for the weekend with no fix in sight and just over a week to go until a possible government shutdown. plus, united autoworkers announcing this hour where new strikes may take place if progress isn't made by noon with negotiations. so is the union about to hit the gas? later, the harrowing 911 call revealing the moments after the $100 million mishap involving an f-35 stealth jet. >> thanks for joining us on this busy friday. it is 10:00 eastern, i'm ana cabrera reporting from new york, and we begin with this breaking news. new jersey senator bob menendez and his wife indicted by a federal grand jury. the senator is accused of using

his office to help several businessmen from new jersey as well as the egyptian government in exchange for receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts, including cash a luxury vehicle, even gold bars. the department of justice is expected to hold a news conference about this at 11:00 a.m. eastern. let's bring in nbc's justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian, and former federal prosecutor an kush ka dori. ken, what more are we learning about these charges? >> good morning, ana, this is a shocking series of corruption charges against the powerful chairman of the foreign relations committee and his wife accusing them of a bribery conspiracy, and it's really complicated here. it's multiprong. it accuses the senator of accepting cash and gifts including, as you mentioned, gold bars, a luxury mercedes benz vehicle in exchange -- and they call it bribery -- for taking official action to

benefit the people that were paying the money in three separate arrangements. there was an egyptian figure who had a halal meat business that got an exclusive deal to provide halal meat to the government of egypt, even as senator menendez had significant influence over foreign u.s. military sales and military aid to egypt, and the indictment details a series of allegations where they say senator menendez exerted that influence and pressured egyptian officials, even as he was helping this company. and then separately it says that the senator intervened in two separate criminal matters involving his associates trying to stop, essentially the criminal investigations into those people in exchange for financial compensation in the form of bribes. what's so shocking about this is it's coming six years after senator menendez narrowly escaped conviction in a separate and unrelated corruption case. it was a hung jury, the justice department decided not to retry

him. he was admonished by the senate ethics committee for taking gifts and luxury items from a friend of his in exchange for official action. not convicted in this case, now facing these very serious criminal charges. >> and again, i think you emphasized it, but i'll just underscore, this is separate from those charges he faced previously and the allegations in that previous case. but ankush, we now know that federal agents executed a search warrant and may actually have photos of stacks of cash, even those gold bars we mentioned. how strong is this kind of evidence? >> well, it can be very useful. i mean, you may recall from many years ago that the government once seized cash from congressman william jefferson's home in connection with a corruption investigation. it's very potent evidence. i do want to sort of underscore something that ken alluded to. these have been challenging cases for the government over the last 20 years or so. all of these sort of political corruption and bribery cases,

and not just the menendez prosecution, but of course in another new jersey political corruption scandal, bridgegate resulted in criminal proceedings, and the supreme court throughout those convictions last year, the southern district brought charges against former lieutenant governor of new york and had corruption cases tossed out by the judge too. that's been because the supreme court has handed down rulings that have severely constrained prosecutor's ability on a couple of elements, including -- i'll just do this quickly that's relevant to what we've been talking about -- one, what is an official act under the law. the supreme court has narrowly con are strewed that and two, what is a quid pro quo. >> ken, this indictment has a lot of details. what more could we learn at 11:00 a.m.? >> i don't think we're going to learn that much more because this, as you said, is an incredible speaking indictment. he used the term quid pro quo,

that is crucial to bribery cases. just to be clear there is no smoking gun wiretap conversation in this indictment where senator menendez says i will do this in exchange for money. what this indictment does, is it paints a portrait, particularly of the senator's wife who was texting with some of these figures who were paying and demanding payments and reminding these people that the senator was doing them favors. that appears to be the most powerful evidence in this indictment. it's coming from text messages. again, no evidence at least from this paper that there were wiretaps. there certainly were a lot of witnesses, a new jersey law enforcement official who was pressured by senator menendez. pretty damning evidence. it is a challenge. supreme court has made it tougher to prove bribery against public officials. they want a direct quid pro quo, but there's a lot of evidence here, ana. >> and real quickly, ken, when

did this allegedly take place that he received these gifts and offered in exchange his influence on, you know, matters before hand in his role as a senator in helping these businessmen? >> so the indictment says the conduct began in at least 2018 and went on through last year, 2022, the search that you mentioned with these shocking photos of the cash and the gold bars happened in june 2022, and that's pretty remarkable because that was never made public. nobody knew about that, that the justice department had executed a search warrant against senator bob menendez, the powerful chair chairman of the foreign relations committee. >> his previous trial in that other case was in 2017, so all of this is alleged additional conduct that came after that. ken dilanian, thank you. we'll of course continue to work to get more details, more information. stay with us as we have more to discuss in the trump matters

later on. turning now to more news on capitol hill where lawmakers are headed home for the weekend, despite having just eight days left to make a deal to avert a government shutdown. speaker kevin mccarthy telling his chamber to leave town after suffering another defeat at the hands of a faction of conservative rebels the let's bring in nbc news capitol hill correspondent julie tsirkin and nbc news business and data reporter brian cheung. julie, that deadline is coming quick. how can lawmakers just leave without a deal? >> reporter: well, because they have really nothing to vote on. you mentioned that defeat on the floor that the speaker had faced twice enjoy. mccarthy said go home for now, no more votes this week. we'll call you back if we have anything. a group of republican holdouts a group of moderates have been meeting in leadership's office,

going back and forth between speaker mccarthy and his number two who counts the votes here. we know they're working on a series of appropriation bills. we also know they're still considering a short-term stopgap funding measure known as a cr around here, it's not clear they're going to get here. there are a group of republicans who no matter what kevin mccarthy touches or what his fingerprints are, they won't vote for it. they're okay with letting the governnthut down over it. i want to read you some of what matt gaetz has said. he's one of those holdouts. sd he would raise a motion to vacate that air. he said, i'll be honest with yo the progress we've made has been in spite of speaker mccarthy, not because of him. he hasn't really been in the room for any of the negotiations and that's probably why we've been able to make some progress. tough words for mccarthy there, certainly gaetz, including some moderates have been trying to work out a plan well into the night yesterday, be so far no

dice. >> i want to put up a graphic here. the the last several shutdowns were started under the leadership of republican speakers of the house. so where does mccarthy's speakership, his own job stand right now? >> reporter: and that's one of the things he's contending with. i was speaking to a number of republican lawmakers who aren't as in front and loud as gaetz is. they're feeling burned by the speaker. they said he made too many are promises he can't keep. he made the same promise to multiple people unable to uphold the bargain on both ends: for now there's no one to replace mccarthy. he famously in a conference meeting the other week had some tough words, including some f-bombs he threw on saying if you want a motion to vacate, go for it. a shut down eight days way, it's looking more is and more likely like the house will be jammed by senate because they're prepared to move on a short-term funding

bill. we have to keep the government open, it's not looking like they're listening to him. the question now is not if we have a government shutdown, but how long it will go and what it will take to get us out of this mess in the first place! and so brian, this isn't just drama in washington affecting people in washington. this has potential impacts on all of us as americans, so what type of economic impacts could come from a government shutdown? >> for that we can look to the last government shutdown in the trump administration into the later part of 2018. it was 34, 35 days depending on how you're counting it, and it costs the government $11 billion, $3 billion which the congressional budget office says was permanently lost. that's not enough to tilt the economy into a recession, even hoe we are in this place where we're not sure if we're going to go into one. this is going to be more impactful for those families that would be furloughed. during the last government shutdown, 300,000 government employees that were deemed non-essential were furloughed. that's a big hit to those households that rely on that

income. it depends on the duration and really kind of how severe the shutdown would be. >> and as far as what happens to the broader economy, does this have an impact on what the federal reserve does? >> this is something fed chair jay powell was asked about when they made the decision to not raise interest rates. in the past, it hasn't been that big of a macroeconomic hit. they're watching not only the government shutdown but there's a lot of other dark horse potential economic downside risk like the uaw strike as well. in totality we already have this high inflation rate, and an unemployment rate that people worry will rise. the government shutdown might be something that complicates that picture as well. >> brian cheung, thank you. brian mentioned the uaw strike. there's a new development there as well. the union giving automakers until noon today to make headway

in talks. and then what? is that strike about to escalate? plus, we're at the border where migrant crossings are climbing approaching the all-time daily high reaching those levels that we saw in may straining communities. also ahead, we've got a pilot in our house, those words in a 911 call just before a fighter jet went missing and crashed in south carolina. and later the hollywood breakup now turning into a transatlantic custody battle. tre (group singing for kids birthday) toooo youuuuu! (sean) i wish for the amazing new iphone 15 pro! (jason) sean! do you mean this one - the one with titanium? (sean) no way i can trade this busted up thing for one. (jason) maybe stealing wishes from the birthday boy is not your best plan -- switch to verizon and trade in any iphone and get the new iphone 15 pro on them. (sean) what!? (jason) yup, and on an amazing network. (sean) and i don't have to ruin anymore birthday parties! (jason) yeah, that ship has sailed... let's go get you the iphone. here we go, come on hon. (vo) trade in any iphone in any condition for a new iphone 15 pro on us. only on verizon.

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week, including a 3-year-old believed to have drowned as his family tried to cross the rio grande. nbc's guad venegas joins us from the border. he's in eagle pass, texas. the mayor of that town declared a state of emergency. we're reporting 2,500 migrants arriving in just one day there, overwhelming that city of about 28,000. what's happening there right now? >> reporter: ana we have migrants coming in in groups yesterday. we saw large groups cross the river and turn themselves in to authorities. we actually have a group right now. you can see over my shoulder, this is a group of migrants that just arrived. they will arrive usually in vehicles. we saw a vehicle drop them off. and then they cross this part of the river. the there's another group that you can't see in the camera. they're waiting on the american side. now, texas state troopers and

national guard members have installed this wire that's just next to me. this is the wire that they're installing to attempt keeping the migrants from turning themselves in to the united states. you can see two of them here, they're from venezuela. earlier i spoke with them when they made their way. i'm going to ask them. [ speaking in a non-english language ] so he's asking me where i'm from. earlier he walked up, ana and he asked us, you know, what to do. we of course told them -- we told them there's wires everywhere so he walked for the last 15 minutes and came back, and this is what we've seen these last days. you see groups of migrants arrive trying to make their way to turn themselves in to horts. there's a larger group there. two members of the national guard and the texas state troopers have been patrolling this area. across from us there's a temporary processing center being run by federal authorities. border patrol and cbp officers

will process the migrants that do -- for example, a group went under the wire and they do turn themselves in. they'll get processed and be taken to the processing centers where they can begin the asylum seeking process. we now have a new temporary protection for a lot of venezuelans. we have an airboat coming, so it's going to get loud. it's going to allow half a million venezuelans in the u.s. to seek work permits. that's a huge change for the way things are going in the city of new york. we have a lot of changes in d.c., with the rules that apply to migrants in the u.s. and what's happening here at the border. it's a changing situation. you can see right now, there's a family, it looks like a family. it looks like someone is carrying someone else. these are the danger when is they cross the river. this river depending on the time of the day, the tide could be more or less dangerous: you see it happening right now. two men walking over to try to

help the group that's crossing. the group earlier had young kids who were crying, and you know, this is what we see throughout the day. people crossing the river attempting to turn themselves in and seek asylum in the u.s. >> it gives us a sense of who is coming into the u.s. and i know you've been chatting with them. why? why are we seeing an increase in crossings now, guad? >> reporter: so this was going to happen any day. there isn't a specific change that took place in mexico. what we know is for the last few months, these waves of migrants have been coming through central america through mexico. this is something that has been known. days ago, the largest freight train company in mexico shut down their trains heading north because they said they had an unprecedented number of migrants riding those trains. you can see these bridges. this bridge on top here is -- it has rails, and these are the trains that come from mexico

into the united states. a lot of those trains have been halted. a lot of the migrants here told me they came from one of the trains that stopped three hours south. they had to find a way to come to the border. you have large groups of migrants making their way through mexico, through central america that are coming to the u.s. so this is an issue that is more related to what's happening in the countries where they're coming from, right? we hear about venezuelans, if i can nicaraguans, cubans. you have a crisis in latin america where people are attempting to leave coming to the u.s. it's not that something we know happened today or this week, it was meant to happen when a lot of these migrants arrive. what we know is judging from the numbers being report instead central america, in the jungle is we can only expect more of these numbers to make their way to the u.s./mexico border. we're going to listen to the sheriff who spoke to us yesterday about the reaction from the people who live in

eagles pass. >> what is going to happen in eagle pass. it's something very unusual to see all these immigrants coming from all kinds of concern thes. the people from my community are still not used to seeing all this, especially walking on the streets. >> eagle pass has been dealing with this since last year. before that the sheriff told me they had never seen numbers like these. and of course things have changed at the u.s./mexico border. we all know that since the pandemic. in fact, when you look at latin america, a lot of the crises that exist in the countries they're coming from have to do with the economies and how they were affected by the pandemic. a very complex problem that of course requires new legislation in washington to figure out a solution when it comes to immigration in the united states, of course, ana. >> okay, guad venegas, thank you for that update. again, live in texas for us along the border where migrants

continue to cross and that community working to try to accommodate them. we're back with additional breaking news in the united autoworker strike. the union gearing up to expand that strike ahead of the new deadline far deal. the union's president addressing that potential escalation just moments ago. so let's talk with roben farzad, host of public radio's full disclosure now. our understanding is they will now have strikes in 20 states. tell me again what else we're just learning? more workers will be taking part in this strike, go into those picket lines, specifically auto parts workers. this all coming in this conference as i speak. so your thoughts on the union's strategy here to do this sort of rolling strike of sorts. >> well, ana, let's mix some choice metaphors here. you're trying to turn up the

heat on this goose whose eggs you really want, right? you don't want to kill the goose. you just want to make the goose sufficiently uncomfortable in the interim so you get the maximum yield of eggs, that's what i kind of think the strategy is here. they don't want to destroy the big two and a half, big three. they just want to wrest back much of what was taken away from them 15 years ago and then some. inflation is so severe. the supply chain shocks were so hard that they realize they perceive to have leverage right now. >> why not do it all at once, why not have everybody strike. it's 146,000 workers that could potentially go on strike, but right now up until this point, it's been about 13,000 workers who have been out there on the picket lines. that just seems like a little slow trickle effect, right? that doesn't really put the pedal to the metal, pun intended there, when it comes to applying pressure to these automakers, does it? >> tactically it's something new and shawn fain, uaw head's play

book. we have seen the uaw for decades and decades go back to kind of an all or nothing strategy. it also allows an incrementalism for pain, for people who need to feed their families on top of the uaw stipend, which is nominal. you can variablize the hit, variablize the costs. it still puts the screws to the company. all right, you're not going to play with us, we got missouri, we got ohio, we got michigan, how about we throw in some illinois. it's hardball and it's new and i think that the entire environment is new. look, these companies with the old tactics, they became by 2007 and 2008, the big three became effectively really bad benefits providers masqueraing as automakers. everyone lost as a result of that. i can understand why you're trying to bring cold eyes and a new world view to the strategy of negotiation. >> i want to go to nbc's maggie vespa who is joining us from

toledo, ohio. you've been monitoring the uaw president in this announcement. what more are you learning? >> yeah, so essentially he is still making his announcement as we speak. basically shawn fain just telling the world and the big three including media, obviously, 38 locations, parts distribution facilities for specifically gm and stellantis. not ford, 38 locations for two of the big three across 20 states will close down at noon today. parts distribution facilities. you've got to think about the major wrench that that throws in the big three's ability to ship the parts they need to other facilitys that they have and also to where they would eventually be sold. the idea to take this nationwide, we're talking as far west as colorado, as far east as michigan and, again, we want to reiterate no new facilities that are operated by ford. this is now gm and stellantis in

specific. shawn fain went on ten minutes talking about how they've made serious progress with ford through there. this morning outside stellantis through their negotiations, ford in particular in the last couple of days has come to the table with things like profit sharing and getting rid of a lot of paid tier structure kind of complexities. bringing temp workers more into the realm of their permanent counterparts. basically they say they have a lot of ground still to make one ford. you can tell ford is definitely far more in their favor. >> just to reiterate this facebook live event, this major announcement from uaw's president who's been the new sort of self-described bombastic president, wanting to take aggressive tactics. he dropped this bomb on two of the big three. 38 locations under gm and stellantis parts distribution facilities across 20 states will close down in just a couple of hours here just exacerbating this crippling work stoppage for

these automakers. >> hearing that, which side has the leverage right now? >> i perceive that labor does in this environment. again, you're at an overall unemployment rate. if we were in a financial crisis and unemployment was approaching double-digit, everybody could cry poverty. that was what gm had in that event was a quick rinse bankruptcy. as painful as it was for workers, they realized that everything was going down: in this case you have record profits as he's saying, you have ceo pay that's high. you have dealerships across the country complaining for a couple of years that they can't get any inventory, and so this is the time to strike. we've seen it in the past with the airline industry, in industries that have high fixed costs labor as a percentage of operating costs overall, they kind of perceive now or never.

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donald trump on trial, a hearing in new york underway right now in trump's $250 million civil fraud case. this is the new york attorney general's lawsuit dealing with trump's family businesses and allegations of false financial reports. this morning lawyers for the former president are hoping to narrow the scope of the case, if not throw it out altogether. back with us is ancurb khardori ankush from what we're expecting what would you anticipate from this hearing. >> these are pretrial motions asking the judge to conclude

that based on the undisputed facts the judge should rule in favor of the government or in favor of trump. it's hard to win motions like this before a trial, particularly in a case with this level of complexity. the other side can say there is a dispute of fact, that's why we have a trial. we don't agree. or i have evidence that contradicts your claim that i lied on this form or such and such property was valued at this rate when it should have been valued at that rate. it's hard to get a case fully resolved on motions like this. >> this is a civil trial as we mentioned, and it's expected to get underway next month, but of course the former president is facing many other legal perils, and that includesultiple criminal cases. office has said any delay in 's this new york fraud caseld have ripple effects on trump's very busy legal calendar. is that something the judge would take under consideration? >> yeah, it is something that the judge could take under consideration.

judges do consider parties, other litigation schedules and the lawyer's other litigation schedules. one possibility that is distinct from the one that the attorney general's z office has propose second-degree not that there would be a delay here and then a cascading series of delays, but that the judge, if it needs to be pushed back could simply move it to the end of the line. whether that's next summer or next fall or so forth. now, i'm sure the government ears lawyers, the attorney general's lawyers would not like that outcome, but i think it's just as likely as a scenario in which everything gets pushed back. >> let's talk about the georgia election interference case and trump's co-defendant kenneth chesebro. his trial was severed from the rest along with sidney powell and began on october 23rd. we now have a list of witnesses chesebro's attorneys expect to call at this trial. it's an extensive list, over 50 names on it. what stands out to you?

>> i think it's important to recognize this is a very preliminary witness list for a defendant who has not seen the government's case, and it's often the case that these lists are very over inclusive at this point in time because it's much easier to take people off a witness list, even before or during a trial, than it is to add people late in the day. so it looks to me from the very lengthy list that chesebro has provided that they maybe don't have a targeted strategy. they're trying to keep all of their options open, which is common. you have to be prepared for all eventualties if you're the defense. it includes a bunch of people who would probably not willingly come, people who may have their own legal exposure as a result of testifying in a case like this. >> like who? >> the electors in other states, right? he's included a lot of people who are electors either in georgia or in other states, and as well as people like boris epshteyn who have been alleged

to have some coordinating role in connection with the alternate slates of electors, and if you're, you know, one of those electors in another state and you're seeing georgia charging these people, you're seeing jack smith look very closely at these people at the federal level, you're not going to really raise your hand and say, hey, i did the same thing. >> it will be interesting to see how who they ultimately do call and whether any of the people on their witness list we find out could have worked some kind of deal with the prosecutors in this particular case in order to be witnesses on their side. ankush khardori, appreciate you very much giving us your legal expertise. >> thanks for having me. up next on "ana cabra reports," a first of its kind push to stop gun violence, what the white house is expected to announce today, i'll talk about that. and the looming government shutdown with congressman maxwell frost. plus, ukraine zelenskyy in canada this morning a day after making the case for continued support for his war effort in washington, what more we've learned about those closed-door

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ukrainian president zelenskyy is heading north touching down in canada last night where he will address parliament and meet with prime minister justin trudeau. this comes a day after his trip here in the states. he visited washington where president biden announced a new $325 million aid package for ukraine and where we've just learned the president told zelenskyy that he will provide his country with a small number of long range missiles, and as the ukrainians launched a counter attack on russia's black sea fleet headquarters in crimea. that happened overnight. let's bring in nbc white house correspondent gabe gutierrez. what's the latest here with this aid going to ukraine? something about missiles, right? >> reporter: yeah, ana, good morning. you mentioned the $325 billion -- or million dollar security package that has

already been reported on. the president mention that had includes artillery rounds and antitank weapons. we're also just learning according to nbc news citing mee three u.s. officials and a congressional official familiar with the discussions that yesterday president biden informed president zelenskyy that the u.s. does plan to provide a small number of atacms, those long range guided missiles ukraine has been asking for. it's not clear how many atacms they will provide or when they will be delivered or when it will be announced. the officials did say the president made it clear to zelenskyy that will happen at some point in the future. now my colleague courtney kube has been speaking with officials at the pentagon, and they say that there had been some concern about the stockpile of atacms

here in the u.s. and also they had also talked about whether use of atacms in places like crimea might end up provoing putin: at this point they have found a small number of of atacms that the u.s. does plan to provide ukraine. i want to play some of what president biden said yesterday during the event yesterday following his meeting with president zelenskyy, take a listen. >> i approve the next tranche of u.s. security assistance to ukraine including more artillery, more ammunition, more antitank weapons, and next week, the first u.s. aid tanks will be delivered to ukraine, but also focus on strengthening ukraine's air defense to protect the critical infrastructure that provides heat and light during the coldest and darkest days of the year. >> reporter: and again, that is what president biden said publicly yesterday, that $325 million security aid package: but again, according to new reporting from nbc news citing several u.s. officials,

the president also told president zelenskyy that he does plan to provide a small number of those long-range guided missiles known as atacms in the future. ana. >> gabe gutierrez at the white house for us, thank you. a new 911 call detailing the dramatic moments after a military pilot ejected from a stealth jet and landed in a south carolina backyard after experiencing aircraft failure. nbc news correspondent blayne alexander has more for us. blayne. >> reporter: well, it really was just an incredible sequence of events, especially as we learn more and more about what happened. at times during that 911 call it sounds like the dispatcher herself was having a hard time making sense of exactly what she was hearing. now, for the very first time, we're hearing from that pilot in his own words about that incredible story of survival. >> i guess we got a pilot at our house, and he says he got ejected. >> reporter: this morning a dramatic 911 call is giving new

insight into a $100 million mystery, what caused an f-35 fighter jet to go missing, then crash in rural south carolina. the pilot ejected and landed in the backyard of a home near north charleston earlier this week. the stunned homeowner called 911. >> i'm sorry, what happened? >> we got a pilot in the house, and i guess he landed in my backyard, and we're trying to see if we can get an ambulance to the house, please. >> reporter: then the pilot took the phone. >> how old is the patient? >> 47, man, a military jet crashed, i'm the pilot. we need to get rescue rolling. i'm not sure where the airplane is. it would have crash landed somewhere. i ejected. >> reporter: the 47-year-old pilot described a harrowing escape. >> how far did he fall? >> i was at 2,000 feet. >> okay. and what caused the fall? >> an aircraft failure. >> reporter: the marine corps says the pilot ejected around 1:30 sunday afternoon, and

residents reported feeling their homes shaking after 2:00, meaning the plane could have been flying on auto pilot for more than a half hour. the pilot ejected in north charleston, but the jet ended up 80 miles away in williamsburg county. >> usually airplanes, other military aircraft in which the pilot ejected, the airplane will fly for a while, maybe 30 seconds to a minute, but several minutes, that is surprising. >> reporter: according to department of defense officials, the pilot was taken to the hospital and released on monday, a stunning story of survival after that mysterious crash. and the marine corps says that crash site is secure including the air space above it, and they say that investigation will last for several months. back to you. >> thank you. up next here on "ana cabrera reports," a new white house initiative to fight gun violence. i'll talk to the youngest member of congress, congressman maxwell frost, about that next. axwell frost, about that next there's never a dull moment for the nelsons'...

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so far this year alone, more than 31,000 american lives have been ended by a bullet. in just a few hours, president biden is set to speak about that epidemic from the white house and introduce a first of its kind white house office of gun violence prevention. this office will push for new gun safety measures and work to implement changes introduced in bipartisan gun legislation that passed last year including expanding background checks and offering incentives to states that pass red flag laws. i'm going to bring in congressman maxwell frost a democrat from florida. congressman, thanks so much for being here. what are your expectations of this new office? how much can it really get done without legislative help? >> well, the office already has a lot of the legislative help it needs through the bipartisan safer communities act, which dedicates a record amount of

money through that and also the american rescue plan to going to community violence intervention across the country. we also know that when democrats take back the house next congress, we're going to pass reform or we're going to pass legislation to give that office the ability to dedicate even more money to community violence intervention across the country. it's not just about the funds, it's about the fact that this office will work hand in hand with organizations across the country to ensure we're addressing gun violence in a holistic way, trauma-informed care, ensuring that we fund intervention. ensuring that it gives good recommendations to congress but also representative bodies across the country. i'm feeling really good today. when i worked at march for our lives before i was a congressman, i was the national organizing director this is something we brought up. my first bill i introduced was to create an office of gun violence prevention. that becomes a reality because of president biden and vice president harris.

it's a great step in showing that the federal government cares about this issue and is going to do something about this issue. >> congressman frost, you are the youngest member of congress: you were inspired to become an activist on this issue specifically by the sandy hook shooting that happened when you were just 15. you're 26 now. so you come from a different generation, right, than a lot of your colleagues. does that make your perspective on gun violence different than theirs? and how do these generational differences affect priorities in congress? >> you know, it's interesting, i like to say i don't think age really changes what issues you think are important. but it changes the lens in which you see the changes the lens which you see the same issues. gun violence impacts everybody in this country. the leading cause of death for a child is to be shot. that's a failure -- a policy failure. there's a lot of work we need to do. i'm part of generation z which

is known as being the mass shooting generation. when i go to high schools, elementary schools, they tell me they're afraid of being shot. they go through more school shooting drills that fire school drills. we often meet with elementary school students on field trips. you ask them what would they like to change. they used to talk about no homework or more field trips. now they say gun reform because i don't want to be shot in class. this is what's going on. >> i spoke with high school seniors getting ready to go to college who will be voting next year. gun violence was one of their top issues impacting their vote. i want to pivot to the potential government shutdown. we're nine days away from that. why is congress headed home?

why isn't everyone working through the weekend to hammer this out? >> that's a great question for speaker kevin mccarthy. we know what happened. what i said then and i'll say now, my introduction to the united states congress was not being able to elect a speaker for multiple days. saying hakeem jeffries 13 or 14 times because kevin mccarthy couldn't get his votes together. what i said then is that was a microcosm of the next two years under speaker kevin mccarthy, the weakest speaker. why? because he gave away most of his power to the far right fascist wing of his caucus. when he did that, he made promises he can't hold, and now they're holding him to it. he gave away all his power. he doesn't know what to do.

he's either going to have to work with democrats and risk his job or pass a c.r. that no one is going to support in the senate. we'll see what happens. it's unfortunate. i think we should be staying here. one of the most important jobs of the united states congress is to pass the budget. it's to pass these appropriations. the fact we're going home this weekend without having gotten to the other 11 appropriation bills we need to pass is a shame. this comes from a guy who is a leader of a party that claims to be the fiscally responsible party. >> and not paying the bills, the basic function of government. before we let you go, i want your thoughts and expectations for this impeachment inquiry hearing that's supposed to happen next week. what can we expect? >> we'll expect what we've seen. they have no new evidence.

there's no evidence at all that connects what they're saying happened with hunter biden to president biden. the fact of the matter is if they want to look at an actual family that has abused the position of the presidency to benefit their bottom line, they should look at the trump family. hunter biden never had a position in the white house versus donald trump who hired his kids with security clearance and they benefited from that financially, and he did too. there's no evidence connecting this to president biden and they know that. when you tune into the oversight committee, you'll see a lot of eye rolling because they'll make up stuff and try to reintroduce information they've already told us. there's no evidence here. they have nothing. there's no argument. that's part of the reason why they're doing this impeachment inquiry that would give them more power when we've been doing this for a year. 90% of the things we handled on

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one hollywood divorce battle a burning up at "game of thrones" actress sophie turner sues joe jonas. chloe, there's an interesting twist here. there's a petition filed through the international hag convention. >> sophie turner is from the uk. she's saying in this petition --

when they first announced they were divorcing, it was amicable. she's saying the children belong with her in the uk and that's their primary residence. joe is saying not so fast they've been living with me in florida while you've been working overseas. overnight sophie turner turning to her famous friend taylor swift amid new developments in her divorce from joe jonas. the two heading to a hotel in new york city. just days after she and swift who dated jonas in 2008 turned heads with a dinner in new york. in the weeks since they announced their separation, the split has turned acrimonious. >> i'm sansa stark of winterfell. this is my home. >> reporter: the actress alleging she learned of the divorce through the immediate

media. >> sophie turner argues the children's home is england and that's the country to which they should be returned. >> reporter: the family relocated to england last april. turner says she had an agreed plan with jonas allowing their children to tour with his band until filming wrapped on her series. the jonas brothers kicking off that tour in august. turner alleging their plan was for her to pick up the kids and return to england. days before that happened jonas filed for divorce in florida. a rep for jonas saying jonas believed they reached an understanding and they would work together. a source close to jonas telling

nbc joe never wanted a messy divorce. >> it's complicated enough when parents from two different states enter into a custody battle. it's twice as complicated when one of the parents is fighting that battle from another country. >> so i want to tell you a little bit about the hague convention. it was started in the '80s and applies to children under the age of 16 who have been removed from their home by one of their parents. what we'll see now is a court hearing and a judge is going to have to decide where the children should live. i want to point out their ages are 3 and 1. >> sad to see this. thank you, chloe. that does it for us today. we're back monday. jose diaz-balart picks up our coverage right now. good morning. it's 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific. i'm jose diaz-balart in new york. we begin a busy hour with breaking news out of the southern district of new york. any minute now