kristen and joe. >> julie, thank you. >>> the issue of abortion has been a flashpoint on the campaign trail. many gop candidates are on the stump this weekend and including mike pence and donald trump. we have vaughn hillyard with more. vaughn, good morning. >> good morning. inside the nra convention, it was difficult to ignore the juxtaposition of the former vice president to speak in the state and followed by his former boss on the same stage 90 minutes later. former president donald trump and former vice president mike pence at the same event for the first time since they left washington more than two years ago. the reception for mr. trump overpowering compared to the splash of boos for mr. pence. >> i love you, too. >> reporter: the gathering? the annual nra convention. republican constituency ahead of the campaign trail. >> i'm all-in for trump. >> are you trump? >> no. >> reporter: the expo days after the gunman killed five in louisville and two weeks after another killed six at the christian school in nashville. >> we don't need gun control. we need crime control. >> the issue

in and save today ♪ grocery outlet bargain market ♪ >>> back on saturday morning with the weekly download. the biggest stories of the week. >> we welcome joe fryer. good to see you. >> peter and kristenod morning. a lot of headlines this week. none bigger than the unprecedented arrest of the former president. for the first time in u.s. history, a former president is now a criminal defendant. former president trump was arraigned in new york on 34 counts of falsifying business records and accused of making hush money payments to suppress hidden affairs. >> these are crimes no matter who you are. >> mr. trump denied the accusations and lashed out at the district attorney. >> the criminal is the district attorney. >> a russian blogger killed in the bombing at the cafe in st. petersburg. >> so far, only one death. pro russian blogger among the prominent champions of the russian invasion of ukraine and russia's agency says he was handed a figure reason with the bomb inside. >> schools walked out of schools and demanding officials do more to protect them after the shooting in nashville. >> adults in our country failed us by letting this happen and let it happen so many times over and over.

of ways this is a case of the safer and more proven option, even as there are , of course, some nervous democrats out there wondering about joe biden's age. kristen: on the republican side, is former president trump still be clear leader amongst gop hopefuls, despite his trial starting tomorrow, and of course he has been indicted in a hushed payments case? jeremy: i think if you look at the polls, they show former president donald trump is still in a very strong position could i do not know that i can say he is necessarily the front runner. that is probably something other national reporters would have more insult -- insight on than i, but it would be foolish to count him out. recall candidate jumped in a few days ago. jeremy: i do not know that larry elder had much more of a chance of winning the republican nomination than he did of unseating gavin newsom, but he is clearly someone who spoke to the republican base. he vaulted over other republicans, more established people who had held office at the top of the field. larry elder clearly gained some traction in the recall and is taking another shot. hard to see how he gets past a donald trump or

joe. good morning. >> kristen and peter, good morning. the headlines dominated this week by a number of unrelated shootings making headlines across the country. seemingly innocent mistakes led to gun violence across the country this week. in texas, police say high school cheerleader payton washington was shot when a man opened fire on her and three friends. it happened in the grocery store parking lot after a teen mistakenly approached the wrong vehicle. >> the latest comes days after the kansas city teen was shot in the head after going to the wrong home to pick up his brothers. >> and a 20-year-old woman shot to death when a gunman opened fire on her car which pulled in the wrong driveway. in north carolina, a father and son shot after the basketball rolled into the neighboring yard. >> fox news agreed to pay dominion voting systems $767.5 million to settle the lawsuit against fox. dominion accused the network of spreading lies. >> the truth matters. lies have consequences. >> in a statement, fox writes, we are hopeful to resolve the di

next, alicia joe from color health talks about the outreach efforts to inform those at risk and what they can do to ensure they keep th kristen: the biden administration moved to en that's publicd health emergency -- its public of the emergency that had been in place for three years. with that, confusion over whether millions will lose their medical coverage. to know whether people can keep their health coverage or options, door-to-door outreach happened today in china's chinatown. joining us today is the chief science officer for a color health, dr. alisha joe. thanks for your time. >> thank you so much for having me today. kristen: absolutely. this information pertains to so many people. today color health, the chinese hospital in san francisco and the state treasurer can best -- canvassed chinatown together to give people information about what is happening with their medi-cal coverage as a result of the health emergency ending. we have pictures from the event. tell us what the goal was. >> absolutely. some people might know, as of monday, president biden announced we are coming to the end of our covid health emergency. on

joe biden's account or the u.n. account for example. kristen: but somebody can start an account with the twitter handle abrar al-heeti1111. andhen pay for the subscription and get the blue check mark? >> i beg you not to but you totally can. [laughter] kristen: folks, be warned, make sure it's really abrar al-heeti. make sure it's really me. appreciate it. thanks for having me. kristen: coming up next -- empty office buildings in downtown san francisco. the sf standard say vacancy has hit a new level. is at a breaking point? -- kristen: san francisco's fighting many issues right now. one of them is the emptying out of downtown office buildings leading to a plunge in commercial real estate. our media partner of the sf standard has written an article about downtown san francisco vacancies hitting a record high as the city nears breaking point. joining us live now to talk about the impact is kevin truong. staff writer for the sf standard. how bad is the downtown office vacancy now? >> it is pretty bad. especially if you are looking at historical contexts. office vacancies according to real estate company cbre are around 30%. tha

and maternity wards to close. nbc's kristen dahlgren talked to medical professionals about why they say they have no choice but to flee. >> reporter: hi there, joe. i talked to one high-risk pregnancy doctor today who was actually packing up her home. she is moving her family of four to another state with less restrictive abortion laws. she said it's just gotten too difficult, too dangerous to be a high-risk pregnancy physician here in this state. she said she and her husband were actually having conversations, what if i were charged with a felony? what if i were actually sent to prison? and she's not alone in that thinking. a recent survey, almost 50% of ob-gyns practicing in this state said they were also considering making a move out of state within the next year. the idaho academy of family physicians says that is a real problem here. take a listen. >> in idaho we're on the precipice of a health care crisis. we are already 50th in the country for access to primary care. and with these laws that criminalize aspects of medicine, we're seeing an exodus of physicians. and i'm very concerned and i know many of our physicians are concerned that we

and then cross joy, that will be brutal cross-examination. >> yeah. joe tacopina doesn't seem like someone a woman who has gone through that trauma will enjoy being in front of. kristen let me go to you what is the significance of hearing from e. jean carroll right away, the first day. then hearing from her at the end, at the end of the day, not a cross-examination of her but just hearing her story and then being able to hear her again first when the trial resumes tomorrow >> well, it allows the jury to go home and think about what they heard in this particular case they'll think about the graphic and the detail, very vivid account of what she remembers, substantially remembers about the attack she suffered in there. and the rape, specifically by donald trump it allows the jury to then come back in the morning and hear more details about it. what it does, joy, i've direct examined countless witnesses and countless survivors. what it does is invites the jury to truly empathize with the witness and really empathize with their experience so they can kind of feel the suffering along with her as she testifies. >> we know that there are going to be other folks that are goi