and one confirmed case now in the united states. i m jake tapper. we start with the health lead in the biden administration, warning parents desperate to get their hands on baby formula to beware of online scammers, charging exorbitant prices for formula that does not exist. house lawmakers griled the fda commissioner demanding answers and action. this after the house passed a pair of bills to address the crisis. the first would provide $28 million to the fda to fix the shortfall and prevent it from happening again. the second bill is ensuring low income families can find and buy form law enforcement last night, biden passed the defense production act to direct suppliers to deliver formula to manufacturers. but the slew of actions is not stopping even biden allies from criticizing the overall administration response. nobody did their job here. no one did well. senator casey and i wrote to the fda and to abbott back in february and said, what are you doing? we need to get th
the tale of triumph for a baby giraffe inspiring america. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening a solemn journey to buffalo for president biden today meeting with some of the grieving families who lost loved ones in saturday s supermarket massacre the president and first lady visiting the site the president offering comfort and giving full-throated voice to the anger so many feel over the racist ideologies that drove the attack that allegedly targeted black people the president declaring white supremacy will not have the last word this evening a chill still sweeping across buffalo as the pieces of the horrific plot reveal themselves. tonight what we ve learned about the suspect s previous journey to the city, the planning, the alternate targets allegedly considered all under the nose of an unsuspecting community. emilie ikeda has new details for us tonight. evil will not win, i promise you. reporter: today president biden and the first l
transcripts of the interviews it has conducted in its investigation. the request came on april 20th with the doj indicating that some committee interviews may contain information relevant to a criminal investigation we are conducting. nbc news has now confirmed that reporting. the doj did not indicate the number of transcripts they wanted or if there were any specific interviews they were interested in. so far the committee has interviewed more than 1,000 people, including many close to the twice-impeached former president. while attorney general merrick garland has received criticism about the justice department s response to the insurrection, this is the latest sign of the department appearing to escalate the scope of its inquiry. and as the new york times also points out several months ago the department quietly detailed a former federal prosecutor from maryland to the department headquarters. he s overseeing the politically fraught question of whether a case can be made
weekend of bloodshed and loss in america. in chicago five people were shot dead including a 16-year-old boy killed near the being that those of us in chicago know automatically is the site in the park where people race together to take photographs. it s one of the most popular attractions in the city and just this last weekend it was the scene of a murder. one teenager killing another. a governor walked into a church, opened fire killing one person, critically wounding four others. the same afternoon another gunman opened fire in a fleamarket killing two and injuring three. a weekend in america. but both of the shootings happened less than 24 hours after a white supremacist massacred innocent shoppers in a grocery store in buffalo new york. the shooter was wearing tactical gear carrying an assault rifle, a weapon designed to kill people. he shot 13 people 11 of whom are were black and inactive racist violence. ten of the victims died. each of these ten people left home saturd
true justice in a naig that aspires to e pluribus unum will continue tength and recovery as quickly as they can. madam president, it was another weekend of bloodshed and loss in america. in chicago, five people were shot dead, including a 16-year-old boy, killed near the beam, which those of us in chicago know automatically as that site in millennium park where people race to gather and take photographs. it s one of the most popular attractions in our city. and just this last weekend it was the scene of a murder, one teenager killing another. in california yesterday, a gunman walked into a church, opened fire, killing one person, critically wounding four others. that same afternoon another gunman opened fire in a flea market in houston, killing two and injuring three. a weekend in america. both of these mass shootings happened less than 24 hours after a white supremacist massacred innocent shoppers at a grocery store in buffalo, new york. the shooter was wearing tactical gear