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arrested in the murder of the baltimore tech ceo. what more we could learn at a news conference coming up next hour. ♪♪ hello, and thank you for being here. it's 10:00 eastern. i'm ana cabrera reporting from new york. we begin on capitol hill where just a couple of days out now from a looming government shutdown, and house republicans are focusing their attention on holding their first hearing of their impeachment inquiry into president biden. now, republicans allege president biden then as vice president took official actions to benefit hunter biden's businesses. democrats say there's no evidence of that. the white house and president biden have strongly denied the allegations. the president will provide the country with a split screen moment later today when he gives a speech himself in arizona, and his focus threats to democracy. nbc's ali vitali and mike memoli

join us in washington. also with us, brendan buck who worked for former house speakers john boehner and paul ryan, along with msnbc legal analyst, lisa rubin and former federal prosecutor harry litman. thank you all for joining us for this discussion. ali, we're going to be careful with how we cover this hearing with a focus on providing view ers with facts and contexts. can you just set the scene for what we're expecting? >> i think all of that is really important, ana. that's certainly the mind-set we've brought to all of our coverage of this. while this is the first impeachment inquiry hearing that we're seeing it's hardly the first time these committee chairmen have gone down the investigatory rabbit hole on these topics. this is the fruit of multiple investigations from the oversight committee and the judiciary committee, and in terms of what we'll see in that room, it's going to be a lengthy hearing process here, multiple hours we expect in large part

because there are so many members who are now involved in this process. to lead us off, though, we will hear from those three key committee chairmen, each of them has done their own pieces of this investigation. this is really a merging of all of their fact finding as well as some facts that were found from the senate side of this building over the past few years. i think what's important here is that the oversight committee chairman has said this is not necessarily meant to trend new ground, but to really update the american public on what they found so far, and i think you can't talk about this hearing without acknowledging the political landscape that it's happening in. you're right to point out that president biden will provide a split screen moment of sors later this afternoon. while he's speaking we expect this hearing to be going on. this impeachment inquiry is really born of pressure put on speaker mccarthy by the right most and most conservative members of his conference, when

he went to back an impeachment inquiry, this was meant to alleviate some pressure on him in hopes that it could make it easier for him to potentially avoid a government shutdown. now as they're launching this impeachment inquiry, we're no closer to solving the shutdown question, but certainly they're trying to prove they can walk and chew gum at the same time. >> we do have a live image inside that committee chamber where they just gavelled in. we'll monitor. we'll bring our viewers what's important here. mike, let's keep talking because we mentioned the president also is going to have an important speech later today. what's the tone the white house is sending, and what more can you tell us about the speech? >> well, ana, what you see from the white house today is effectively a two front response to what we're seeing. here in washington you have officials from the white house council identifies, the white house communication shop, to debunk in their view some of the claims we're likely to hear

surface during this hearing. white house officials making the point so far there has not been the kind of smoking gun evidence that the republicans are trying to give the impression they found over the course of their investigation so far, and they're going to be making the point that as one white house spokesman put it, the capitol hill republicans are engaging in conspiracy theory attacks on president biden instead of doing what they should be, which is working to avert a government shutdown. it's not a coincidence they're going to be pointing to the fact that for instance 2,000 tsa agents and air traffic controllers in ohio and kentucky, states represented by the republican chairman overseeing these proceedings will be losing pay if there is indeed a shutdown. the more effective, more impactful perhaps response from the white house will be coming, as you say, from president biden himself in arizona, giving his fourth speech on threats to democracy. the president is going to be pretty direct in calling out what he calls an extreme faction of republicans, not a majority but what he says is a faction of

republicans -- and i'll read directly from excerpts we've received from the white house, pursuing an agenda that if carried out would fundamentally alter the institutions of american democracy as we know it. this not the majority of republicans, but the republican party is driven and intimidate bid these maga extremists. this is a speech that has been in the work for some time, if anything more directly related to that debate we saw last night in the republican presidential race but serving as a counterpunch. >> we've got that debate covered too this morning. brendan, there is a government shutdown in just a couple of days. why is this the gop priority right now? >> well, it's what republican voters want to see and want to hear, you know. i don't think this actually gets in the way of what kevin mccarthy is trying to do on the floor. i think they can do both of these things at the same time, but what it does do is at least

put republicans in a position where they're talking about the subject they want to talk about. and what's been going on here for months now is an effort to deliver on some claims that have been made long before this investigation really ever took place. and i think that's important to appreciate. we've been looking for -- >> claims made during the trump administration, right? they had an opportunity to bring evidence during that time. >> exactly, and i think it's important to appreciate that there are a lot of republican voters who are convinced now, based on what republicans have been telling them, that the president is corrupt and that he was party to some illegal criminal scheme here, and for months now, they've been trying to backfill evidence to back that claim and thus far have not been able to. they have raised that they have seen a lot of allegations. that is different than evidence. it's important to appreciate that this hearing is not just about making the case to the public that there something worthy of looking into, it's

maing the case to their own republican colleagues. i imagine part of what they're going to be doing today is apparently not so much about evidence but the legal standing for having an impeachment. they're probably going to be working to lower the bar for what impeachment is. i'll be shocked if this does not end in articles of impeachment coming through committee, and they have to find some way to justify that, not only to the country but to their own members, many of whom are very skeptical of this whole investigation. >> and they are expected to bring up much of what they've already laid out in terms of what gives them suspicion here. as you point out, there's not direct evidence, i want to show you that republican representative jason smith who's on the house ways and means committee had with our own ryan nobles who was questioning him about a text message from 2017 that republicans have been pointing to as potential evidence of something.

watch. >> and then the whatsapp message you have i believe is dated june 6th, 2017, joe biden is not vice president or a candidate for president at that time, where is the direct connection to some sort of criminal malfeasance within these two pieces of evidence? >> i think the facts speak for themselves. there's over 700 pages of examples of where people should be very concerned. it's really unfortunate that we suh so many meetings and phone calls that involved around official activity that the vice president has been participating in and then big sums of money follows later. >> if he's not the president or the vice president at that time, where's the wrongdoing? he wasn't even a candidate for president at that time. >> he was a candidate. >> in august 6th of 2017? >> what source are you with? >> i'm with nbc. >> so apparently you'll never

believe us. >> just asking important questions, and as it turns out, mr. smith is there right now giving some opening statements, but brendan, what do you make of what he told ryan nobles? >> yeah, i mean, really telling exchange there, and to be clear, the ways and means committee, i don't think the full extent of what they think they have found. i can tell you this if there was a smoking gun or something incriminating, every republican would be able to articulate that very easily. the fact that they haven't been able to do that, they're creating the appearance of a lot of smoke. i do want to be very clear, one of the things democrats need to be very careful about is defending hunter biden. what hunter biden was engaged in does seem highly unethical and a thing he shouldn't have been doing and i think there are tough questions for joe biden to answer about whether he knew his

son was engaged in those things. that's different than shows the president profited or took some illegal action based on what his son was doing. and that exchange there is as stark as it comes. they haven't found that. if they were able to find that, they would be able to talk about it rather than throwing up their hands and arguing with the reporter. this has been the -- what we've seen for months and months now and why so many republicans are hesitant to go down this road. they don't have much to stand on. >> four witnesses will be at this hearing today, a forensic accounting expert who's done interviews on fox, a former assistant a.g. in the tax division a law professor, a frequent conservative commentator, and these are who the republicans will call. the there's a fourth witness there, that's the democrats' witness, a law professor who testified in the clinton and trump impeachment hearings. >> let's start with jonathan

turley who first came to fame in some respects because of his involvement with the clinton impeachment and now is associated with a very different partisan outlook. i think jonathan turley is going to do some of what some of our earlier guests were referring to in terms of lowering the bar necessary cstutionally for an impeachment. i also expect that we'll see the rm assistant attorney general for tax try and make sense of some of the evidence that the republicans themselves seem not to have facility with. one of the things that i thought was so interesting between that exchange is that jason smith is no jamie raskin. what i mean by that, in the past when we've seen impeachment inquiries, the members themselves are highly familiar with the evidence they've compiled. we didn't see that kind of familiarity. it's not just because they have no smoking gun, it's because the people who are leading this effort are not as steeped in the facts. why? because the facts aren't there for them, ana, and therefore,

they resort back to attacking the source that ryan is with, telling him he'll never agree with them, when what he was asking was a very reasonable question. what is it about a text message in 2017, a period during which joe biden didn't hold any office that you find legally problematic or worthy of impeachment, and they couldn't answer that. >> and that text message has even been called into question be will it's authentic. that's another question as well. so harry, as we look at this underway, and as we, again, continue to monitor and bring any new facts that come to light, what will you be watching for? >> well, look, ana, we are very, very far afield from anything anyone has ever suggested should be the subject of an impeachment in at least two ways. first, the total subject matter involves biden as citizen and biden as vice president many years ago. that's unknown in the annals of

impeachment. and then second, the evidence, lisa and others have emphasize nod smoking gun. i don't think there's even much smoke. it's all been extremely -- you know, there's these little wisps and the basic technique is sort of sinister in the sense that they're saying, oh, it's just crimes that may have been committed. we're just looking into it. obviously the effort is to embed in the minds of the american people the suggestion that biden having something to do but not at all sort of elaborated through his son acted improperly. >> right. >> these three witnesses have nothing direct to say. i think it will be basically recycled claims, and i'll be looking for the actual facts behind them. i think we'll get that in very scant supply, if any. >> so republicans allege that hunter biden is really at the center of this, and that he was selling, quote, the brand of joe

biden to his foreign business partners and potentially selling washington access. they've yet to show proof that his dad, the current president was directly involved at any point. should politicians, families, avoid this kind of business? >> of course, although, to be fair his business partner said there was never any attempt by influence of joe biden, but of course hunter biden's being dealt with in a separate process. this is the most grave constitutional remedy for mal administration by a president, not something about a president's son many years ago. so yes, absolutely, but this kind of kangaroo court is the complete opposite of how you want to handle hunter biden, and it really is just to try to have a sort of deflection onto the president for political reasons, as i think has been sort of instigated by his opponent,

which makes it more troubling. >> much of these allegations rely on that interview with hunter biden's former business associate devin archer who has testified before some of these committees. he was the one who said that hunter was essentially trying to sell the brand. now, he also said that he had no knowledge of then vice president joe biden altering foreign policy to help hunter. how strong is archer's interview? >> it's funny because each side looks to archer's interview to support their own interpretation. the republicans are going to look to the interview as a sign that smfsing awry, that joe biden was allowing hunter to exploit the family brand. as congressman dan goldman and others have said repeatedly, biden never asked for or did anything inappropriate in the process of essentially saying

hi, showing that the relation was real and leaving it at that. and of course there's also that background -- >> biden was involved in any kind of conversation with hunter around these people, it was like talking about the weathe more or less. >> hi, how are you, checking in on my son. and of course this was occurring against the backdrop of hunter biden being joe biden's sole surviving son. joe biden's love for his son is not in question. peppered throughout the evidence are a series of text messages in which joe biden is checking in with his son, it's pop, i love you. i just to want make sure you're okay. and the fact that he's trying to keep hunter on the straight and narrow appears throughout contextually. i think devin archer's interview is somewhat of a rorschach test. each side is getting something they want from it. in the end it's really a wash. it doesn't show anything that would be helpful for impeachment, nor is it

particularly exculpatory. it's really nothing at all. >> my thanks to all of you for that conversation. we're going to monitor the hearing. we'll check back. up next here on "ana cabrera reports," the looming government shutdown, is there any hope on the hill that congress can stop it in time. the big takeaways from the second gop debate, did anyone step up to the plate and show they can take on the no-sho donald trump. the u.s. no show travis king touching down, what he faces back home in the days ahead. fas back home in the days ahead. raps that get tails and tongues wagging. ♪♪ fastsigns. make your statement. ♪ tourists tourists that turn into scientists. tourists taking photos that are analyzed by ai.

so researchers can help life underwater flourish. ♪ we are down to the wire with just two days left to cut a deal, the chances the u.s. will avoid a government shutdown are dwindling by the hour. this morning, house speaker kevin mccarthy struck an optimistic tone about getting a deal by the weekend.

>> it's not going to happen by sunday. it probably won't happen by sunday, right? >> oh, listen, i know sunday's football day. if people have this type of attitude, they quit in the third quarter. one thing i hope you've realized about me is i never give up. if we have to play into overtime to get it right, i will do that. i wake up every day optimistic, i say put your money on me, we're going to get this done. >> let's bring in nbc news senior national political reporter, sahil kapur. mccarthy wakes up every day an optimist he says, but should he be? is there any movement toward a deal? >> reporter: there is no movement toward a viable deal at this moment, ana. speaker mccarthy likes to project eternal optimism in moments like these. the reality on capitol hill is muchless rosy. you have the senate and house moving on two different tracks. the senate is expected to vote to keep the government open

through november 17th. it's got some ukraine aid, some disaster relief funding. the republican-led house is operating in a very different way. they are moving party line appropriation bills that reflect republican priorities, spending cuts, conservative provisions that have no shot at becoming law. mccarthy says he does want to pass a short-term bill this week, ideally tomorrow, if he is able to get the other bills through. that also reflects some conservative priorities. it keeps the government open, border security funding that democrats are not supportive of at this time. where those two meet in the middle is extremely unclear. the two sides are not even negotiating with each other, the house and the senate are not. meanwhile, you have president biden who just put out a tweet moments ago. let's put this on the screen. he's talking about two-year budget deal he struck with speaker mccarthy earlier on this year. he accuses house republicans of reneging on that deal. the president says, quote, this may speaker mccarthy and i reached a deal that would fund essential priorities and cut the

deficit over 1 trillion. now there's a group of extreme house republicans who would rather shut the government down than live up to that deal. biden has a point here. mccarthy's appropriation bills do cut spending beneath the levels that he agreed to with the president several months ago. that's one of the reasons that democrats are not supportive of what he's doing. it's one of the reasons mccarthy is in quite a challenge situation. matt gaetz told me he will call a motion to vacate and try to overthrow mccarthy from the speakership. >> so the other big developing story there on the hill is the fallout from the indictment of democratic senator bob menendez, at last check around 30 democratic senators are calling on the new jersey senator to resign. what's the latest there at the capitol? >> reporter: that's right, our latest count is 30 democratic senators calling on bob menendez to resign. several of the democrats who haven't spoken out say it's because they're on the ethics committee and they're duty bound not to comment on a matter that could come before them. later today, menendez is

expected to address the senate democrats at a lunch meeting, and it remains to be seen whether he's going to convince the holdouts that he deserves to stay. everyone agrees he has a presumption of innocence until proven guilty. they don't agree he has the right to remain a senator. one senator who's had enough of him is the pennsylvania democrat john fetterman. let's put up a tweet. quote, unless senator menendez is coming today to resign, i am not interested in hearing his explanation for gold bars stashed in a mattress. he goes on to say we're past the point of his tough talk and defiance, begin the scope and scale of his alleged corruption. >> and fetterman's been the leader here in terms of saying he needs to go. i think he was the first senator to call for his resignation. we know menendez pleaded not guilty yesterday in his arraignment. thank you so much for that update as we watch any movement on the shutdown negotiations. up next here on "ana cabrera reports," the top moments from the second gop debate.

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it's the day after the second republican presidential debate, and as seven candidates made their case to potential voters, the main targets of the

night weren't even on the stage. joe biden and donald trump. nbc news correspondent garrett haake has the highlights from california. garrett. >> reporter: there were two main targets of last night's debate, current president joe biden, and the former president donald trump, neither of them on the debate stage, but with trump leading this republican field by more than 40 points in the latest nbc news poll, he casts a very long shadow over that debate stage. seven republican candidates facing off in a contentious and chaotic debate. former president trump skipping shoetdown to campaign in michigan. his rivals, chris christie and ron desantis noting his absence. >> donald trump is missing in action. he should be on this stage tonight. he owes it to you to defend his record where they added 7.8 trillion to the debt. >> donald, i know you're watching. you can't help yourself. you're not here tonight because you're afraid of being on this stage and defending your record.

you keep doing that, no one up here is going to call you donald trump anymore. we're going to call you donald duck. >> reporter: on abortion desantis demanded trump explain his recent comments on "meet the press" when the former president criticize the the former governor for signing a six-week abortion wan. >> i think what he did is a terrible thing. >> to say pro-life protections are a terrible thing, i want him to look into his eyes and tell people fighting this fight for a long time. >> reporter: former vice president mike pence taking aim at president biden for joining striking autoworkers in michigan. >> joe biden doesn't belong on a picket line. he belongs on the unemployment line. >> reporter: and vivek ramaswamy acknowledging his critics. >> you see a young man who's in a bit of a hurry, maybe a little ambitious, a bit of a know it all it seems at times. >> reporter: still his rivals pounced, tim scott seizing on his business dealings. >> i can't imagine how you can say that knowing that you were just in business with the chinese communist party and the

same people that funded hunter biden. >> reporter: and nikki haley targets his use of tiktok. >> this is infuriating because tiktok is one of the most dangerous social media apps that we could have -- honestly, every time i hear you i feel a little bit dumber. >> we asked ramaswamy about that. >> the core argument -- >> she has a grudge against me, i don't have a grudge against her. >> she can't trust you, that voters can't trust you. what do you say to that. >> she said i made her dumb zbler there was that too. >> that's the first time i've ever heard that. >> reporter: trump and his campaign argued it's time to move past these primary debates and focus on rallies republicans around him to face off against joe biden next year. the trump campaign also spending some energy last night attacking nikki haley, not just long-time foil ron desantis, suggesting they may seen someone else in second place soon enough. >> our thanks to garrett haake for that reporting, and joining us now is former republican

congressman from florida, david jolly, and democratic strategist basil smikle. >> i think other than donald trump who continues to retain a 40 point lead in this race is likely over, but if you look at the rest of the field, it's haley and desantis and nobody else. we is that true a little bit in the first debate. there was the ramaswamy spark, but it's not really going to go anywhere. what nikki haley continues to demonstrate is she has the experience and she has the ideology to actually run for office, get the nomination. ron desantis remains an underwhelming heavy weight, if you can put those two words together. he still has the money. he still has a bit of the star power in the gop. and even though if you're not a republican, you don't hear these things, he hits all the right notes for republicans. add to it last night that he has now turned a corner and decided to go at donald trump in a way we haven't seen before. we heard him on stage. he ran a national ad hitting donald trump.

he's doing bill maher tomorrow night to hit donald trump. we'll see where it goes. does it change the course of his campaign? probably not, but is it a new chapter, probably so. >> what were your takeaways, basil? similar or different? >> i agree with a lot of what david has said, the underlying dynamic has not changed. donald trump is still way ahead and will likely be the nominee. i think nikki haley helped herself a little bit more in this debate than any of the other candidates. >> how so? >> she seemed a little more serious, interestingly enough, she went after vivek ramaswamy and said she's dumber for the experience. she actually made a glowing comment about him when she endorsed his book not that long ago. the reality is she has essentially tried to distance herself from ramaswamy and even tim scott who she elevated to the senate seat, but has created that distance! she criticized him not getting

anything done in congress. >> chris christie tries to portray himself as that republican who could win in a blue state, and those lines of attack against donald trump are i think resonate with some voters, but the reality is the entire debate stage, it seems like it's too little too late. they have not heretofor attacked donald trump in the way they would have wanted to. for anybody going to the polls, if you're going to vote for the copy, just go vote for the original, which is donald trump number one. and number two if you're a democrat, trumpism's still on the ballot. >> yeah, we had a reporter who was listening to this debate with some voters, potential voters. these were younger voters, college students in new hampshire, which is the first primary state for republicans that will take to the polls, so let's listen to their reaction, their top takeaways.

>> nikki haley overall did a very good job. i thought she had a strong performance. i also was surprised by chris christie. i thought he had a couple zingers in there. >> as someone who came, was leaning to desantis and pence, and i still like them, i am -- as of right now, if the new hampshire primaries were held today, i am casting my ballot for nikki haley. >> it's probably best that trump wasn't there. i do think he owes it to voters, if he's going to ask for their votes. >> a lot of nikki haley support there. should trump be worried? >> well, i don't know that he needs to be worried. it's still a 40 point lead, but i do think going into this, one of the things we anticipated, we did not know six or eight months ago if donald trump would run for re-election, if he would be vulnerable. and we expected the candidates to engage in a delegate slog. you've got to win the early state delegates. if you're haley or desantis that remains your strategy. capturing the hearts and minds

of enough republican voters to overcome a 40 point lead tially is very hard, but a delegate slog where you pick off the delegates to the caucuses that will give you the votes, that is where we see nikki haley and ron desantis putting their work. for that reason donald trump should be worried. the desantis team used a line last night that donald trump is campaigning for the nomination from his basement. everybody knows what they alleged against joe biden, but that is a hit on donald trump and republican voters can spot when a candidate is not there. i don't think anything's changed, but there is a dynamic for haley and desantis to pursue in the coming months. >> i agree with that, and i think if donald trump even wins iowa, if nikki haley or someone else wins new hampshire, it changes the narrative, and for the donors it gives them an opportunity to say, you know what? let's take a step back, let's wait and see a little bit. one of the thing that was really interesting last night is the sort of juxtaposition between these candidates, this republican party and ronald

reagan and the stance on immigration. >> that came up last night. >> it was really fascinating to me. there was this conversation in the reagan conversation about amnesty back when he was president. my parents are immigrants. i remember this time when so many folks in our community were talking about amnesty and trying to sort of get this path to residency and citizenship, very different republican party today. it really is fascinating to see how much things have changed. i don't know that any of the candidates even rightly could talk about not only taking the mantle from ronald reagan, but trying to figure out how to beat b reagan-esque and trump-esque. >> how can you be both? >> that's a line they haven't been able to walk. it seems insincere and inauthentic. >> thank you so much. appreciate the conversation. let's go back to capitol hill where we are still monitoring the first impeachment inquiry hearing into president biden underway right now, nbc's ali vitali is back with us now. we are about, i guess, a half an

hour or so into this hearing. what's happened so far? >> reporter: already a little bit of chaos here, ana. over the course of the last two years we've covered a lot of congressional hears, but the one we've probably covered the most was the january 6th committee hearings. in that committee, what was so fascinating and, frankly, rare about the way that they were able to conduct their business is that they were all marching in lock step. this is not what you typically get on committees where the majority party is pushing one idea and the minority party is trying to debunk it. on the january 6th committee they were able to paint a narrative, all of them marching in lock step. that is not what is happening here. i think it's important for us to point that out because it lends to the idea of the ping-ponging effect we're already seeing in play right now. you've got the chairman of the oversight committee, james comer attempting to do his opening statements and then you've got the ranking member of the committee on the democratic side, jamie raskin trying to leverage his minority power to

present the idea that they should subpoena rudy giuliani and lev parnas. now, raskin wants to do that because he believes that they can speak directly to counter the claim that republicans are making that -- >> ali, hold on just a second. >> bribed by burisma officials. >> let's play it quick. >> if this dysfunction caucus is going to insist on going forward, we must received testimony of rudy giuliani and lev parnas. i move that the committee subpoena rudy giuliani and lev parnas to come and testify in these hearings. okay. so now fill in the rest of the context there, which you were starting to do. that was one tactic democrats are using to sort of throw their weight when they don't have the majority. >> reporter: exactly. it causes chaos. it disrupts the narrative flow.

we'll go to why raskin wants to subpoena them in a second, but the fallout from him saying he wants to subpoena them, was that chairman comer had to do a vote around the table to table raskin's motion to subpoena them. it becomes circuitous, but disrupts the narrative flow of what republicans are trying to do here, which is present their case. you've got to expect that raskin and democrats are not only prepared to do that but will continue to do that over the course of this hearing. if we're on the fact check front here, the reason that raskin wants to subpoena lev pas in that case parnas and rudy giuliani is because of a 2019 questionnaire where according to parnas who is an affiliate and a colleague of giuliani, it shows that biden was not receiving bribes from burisma because the cofounder of burisma says he never had contact with biden. that's why raskin wants to do this and of course why comer

knows he's trying to block it. this is not going to be a committee hearing like the ones we've covered in the past akin to the january 6th committee hearing. it's going to go more the way the congressional hearings in this building have always gone, which is ping-ponging between majority and minority, a each side trying to score their own points. >> thank you so much for that update. keep us posted. come back to us with any other major developments. up next here on "ana cabrera reports", the brewing fight for union workers after president biden's historic appearance on the michigan picket line. and then later, what e could learn from baltimore police about the arrest in the murder of a tech ceo featured in forbes 30 under 30. featured in forbes 30 under 30 d up my hair every time i dried it! only takes a minute. look at that! the heavy duty cloths are extra thick, for amazing trap & lock. even for his hair. wow.

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welcome back. so where was donald trump during the republican debate? he was in michigan delivering remarks about an autoworkers strike at a non-union plant. the former president gave a speech about 40 miles from where president biden addressed united autoworkers strikers on the picket lines just the day before, and their dueling visits come as union officials are warning that they could expand the strike again tomorrow if there's no progress towards a deal. nbc's maggie vespa joins us from wayne, michigan. how was trump received? >> reporter: so ana, mixed reactions basically from what we're hearing on the picket lines this morning. just to put it in context, donald trump spent the majority

of his more than hour-long speech really hammering president biden. he never even mentioned his gop rivals by name. he went in on the president's push in particular to shift the industry toward electric vehicles, which president trump says will kill union jobs. the white house has repeatedly refuted that claim. people out here on the picket line after last night's speech saying, yeah, that is a very real fear. it's something they're cognizant of, during their union negotiations, but they bristled at a line, he told workers i don't think you're picketing for the right thing, and then he called for the uaw's endorsement. take a listen. >> joe biden claims to be most pro-union president in history, nonsense. do me a favor, just get your union guys, your leaders to endorse me. >> reporter: and we should note no official response to the uaw to that speech this morning. last week the union's president

blasted former president trump's plans to speak here altogether, so the endorsement seems like a long shot. all of this against the backdrop of that announcement you pointed out yesterday, a source with the uaw telling us once again we're becoming familiar with this routine, the union's president shawn fain will go on facebook live at 10:00 a.m. eastern where he will announce, they say, potentially another round of strikes. they call them strike target, basically another group of facilities that come noon tomorrow they will call on workes to walk off the job. again, they say this is barring serious progress with -- amid contract talks with the big three, those are the strike numbers now. it's worth noting they did this last week last friday, and in that last round of strike expansions they spared ford saying they had made progress in contract talks with ford, not with gm and stellantis. i asked this time around if ford would again be spared and a possible sign those talks may have stalled again.

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lengthy rap sheet, including sex offenses and assault. he was released from jail last october, according to authorities, who are now confirming billingsley's also wanted in connection with an attempted murder, arson and rape that occurred in another part of baltimore just last week. while a student at johns hopkins university, lapere founded eco map technologies, her family, friends and colleagues gathering for a vigil in her honor wednesday, saying lapere was compassionate about her community and her work. >> she inspired so many people through her brilliance, through her passion, through her zest for life, through her authenticity. >> reporter: baltimore police have yet to reveal a moative in lapere's killing as they continue to comb through all cases since last october when billingsley was released from jail. back to you. >> that press conference coming up at 11:00. we'll be watching. emilie ikeda, thank you. up next on "ana cabrera reports," back on u.s. soil,

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and up to 4 hours of battery back-up to keep you online. only from xfinity. home of the xfinity 10g network. back on american soil, just hours ago u.s. soldier travis king stepped off an air force plane in san antonio, two months after he intentionally crossed into north korea. king was first transferred out of north korea into china, where u.s. officials met him. he will now undergo what is known as post isolation treatment in texas, at the very facility where brittney griner was treated after her release from a russian prison. nbc's morgan chesky is in san antonio. morgan, what are these next few weeks going to look like for king there, and given the circumstances of how he ended up in north korea, i wonder does he face any sort of military response? >> reporter: very interesting to see how the next few weeks and potentially months play out. we do know that king arrived

early this morning here in joint base san antonio. our photographer there to capture the scene as he was escorted off of that plane, by military personnel. he will, as you mentioned, be undergoing this post isolation treatment for the next at least several days, talking with staff on site at brooks army medical center and they're going to be making sure that he is indeed, you know, healthy as he was at least described upon his return to the united states. as for the potential response by the u.s. military, it will be very interesting to see how that plays out. they did not claim him as a deserter, important to note, but they did say that king was absent without leave, which could result in military disciplinary action, potential forfeiture of pay, maybe dishonorable discharge. we have no idea what will actually take place. military officials were very

clear when they announced his return to the united states to say their only focus right now, ana, is to make sure he is of sound mind and healthy and that he's reunited with his family. >> the details, morgan, still seem to be very thin about how this transfer came about. do we know any more about whether there were negotiations since the u.s. obviously doesn't have diplomatic relations with north korea. >> reporter: right. bits and pieces are helping tell the broader story here. the u.s. very clear to say that there was no trade-off for king to be released by north korea. and they credited swedish officials in escorting king from north korea to the chinese border where he was greeted by both u.s. and chinese officials, a rare sight since the two countries aren't always seeing eye to eye. china says it was after a request by north korea and the united states that they chose to

step in and offer what they called a humanitarian aid. as for why exactly north korea parted ways with king after 71 days instead of potentially using him as a bargaining chip of sorts in light of sanctions, we don't know. but we do know that potentially he was seen as a private second class or low level asset to north korean intelligence who then found a way to get him back into u.s. territory. >> he's back home. morgan chesky, thanks so much. that does it for us today. thank you for joining us. see you back here tomorrow, same time, same place, it's friday, almost. until then, reporting from new york, i'm ana cabrera. jose diaz-balart picks up our coverage right now. good morning. it is 11:00 a.m. eastern.