russia s invasion of ukraine. we ll ask the head of the foreign relations committee, senator bob menendez, about what s next for the u.s. response to that crisis. in new york, the suspected gunman in a racist shooting in a buffalo store is in court this morning as they launch a probe into the suspect s social media footprint. we begin with the dire situation facing families across the country, the baby formula shortage. the president taking dramatic emergency steps, invoking the defense production act to ramp up manufacturing as two bills, one sending $28 million to the fda and the other expanding formula access for low income families make their way through the senate. nbc news is the first to obtain a letter from two senate democrats urging president biden to, quote, immediately assign a coordinator to work with formula manufacturers. meanwhile, any moment now, the fda commissioner is going to be testifying before a house committee where he s expected to be asked about ho
we ll tell you where that legislation stands right now. a key component of russia s propaganda machine is at risk as bloggers embedded with russian troops are fed up with the repeated failures and are now voicing concern. good morning. welcome to with the morn mornin it is monday, may 16th. we start with the very latest on that deadly shooting in buffalo over the weekend. the white house says the president and the first lady will visit the city tomorrow to, quote, grieve with the community. speak at the national peace officers memorial service in washington yesterday, president biden addressed what the department of justice is investigating as an act of racially motivated domestic extremism. a lone gunman, armed with weapons of war and hate-filled soul, shot and killed ten innocent people in cold blood. we must all work together to address the hate that remains a stain on the soul of america. our hearts are heavy once again, but our resolve must never, ever waiver. w
meanwhile, one challenge on top of another for the president of the united states, joe biden. ukraine, inflation, the markets, and now a nationwide shortage of baby formula. the president pushing back when asked if he could have acted sooner. if we had been better mind readers, i guess we could have. but we moved as quickly as the problem became apparent to us. and we have to move with caution, as well as speed because we got to make sure what we re getting is, in fact, first-rate product. so the baby formula shortage coming in the middle of worldwide shortages of grain and cooking oil. what can we do to make food supplies more stable in an unstable world? and we have got shocking video tonight. watch what happened this is jerusalem it is at a funeral of an al jazeera journalist who was shot dead while she was reporting. cnn s atika shubert was there. reporter: as the funeral procession began, israeli riot police first blocked the coffin from moving forward, then ch
rights advocates are taking to city streets. a live look at chicago. demonstrations are well underway. the demonstrations are title ban off our bodies. they come after a draft opinion to abandon roe versus wade. justice clarence fondness broaching the subject in a public forum, says the leak undermines trust among justices. if someone said that one line of one opinion would be leaked by anyone, and you would say, that s impossible. no one would ever do that. and look where we are, where now that trust, or that belief is gone forever. we never had that before. we actually trusted. we may be a dysfunctional family, but we were a family. and we loved. we trusted each other. you left. together you went to lunch together every day. well chief justice john roberts has ordered an investigation to the source of that leak. developing story on many fronts. antonia hilton from washington d.c., and jesse courage from chicago. welcome to you both. i ll begin with you antonia, where
full-throated embrace of the big lie of the his efforts to steal the election for donald trump were knot nothing short exhaustive. he was in regular communication with trump after the election and led the charge to create a slate of so-called alternate electors. mastiono attended the rally on january 6th and spent thousands of state senate campaign dollars to busing true believers for the event. he s been subpoenaed by the house january 6th committee over his involvement with the fake elector scheme. in short, he s a full-barone coup-supporting threat to democracy running for governor of the keystone state where the governor appoints the secretary of state meaning that he could set up a nightmare scenario in 2024. mastiano s hand picked secretary of state could just toss out as many votes as are necessary to hand the election to trump or desantis or whoever the republican nominee, is even if they lose the involvement after all, we learned this week that trump lawyer john east