. . pete: there it is. we asked, you delivered. yesterday was k-9 anthem day. today is the felines. they got their shot, they delivered. we have a squirrel in there. rachel: i will be hoppest, pictures kept coming up, that is really cute, super cute. when the pictures coming up, i asked the producers did we about to msnbc to get these? this is a dog channel and a baby channel. it worked. pete: halfway through i looked at you, this is a stretch. i don t i this the viewers will like it. joey: those are perfect. rachel: did dave give you that? on your own? joey: i have my own dad jokes. pete: thank you very much. no stock photos in there the a all. those are all viewer photos. yesterday, when i said send cat photos. i was inundated, i forwarded over to ariel who put this together. rachel: my mom is cat person. pete: gwen, one of our cats, storm and trooper. joey: cat people are surprisingly pretty normal. rachel: the cat people. [laughter] joey: they re normal. pete: curled up
these people are working, farm workers are working from sunrise to sunset, by the time they get home and ask for transportation and pay to go and find they find nothing. it s so terrible. this has been a big, big issue. i thank you for being with us. thank you for doing what you do on a daily basis. it s been great to have you here with us this morning. that wraps up the hour for me. see you tomorrow night on nbc news saturday. thank you for the privilege of your time. andrea mitchell picks up with more news right now. good day, everyone. this is andrea mitchell reports in washington. president biden is trying to show he is taking action in response to the supreme court s abortion decision. it s not clear what he can do without congress. just back from nato, the president will meet with nine democratic governors virtually to talk about steps they can take to protect abortion access. the white house is trying to increase the availability of abortion pills as recent cou
tenth grade biology class, co2, co2, hmm, don t trees consume co2 for photosynthesis? quick google check. how about we plant a whole lot more trees across the country and across the world? that seems like a natural solution with lots of upside, trees are beautiful, and might help fight global warming. oh, but no, there is a problem with that idea. planting more trees might help solve climate change, but it definitely will not enrich your donors. trees are cheap. it is hard to make money from trees. worse than that, trees are impossible to regulate. once you plant trees, they grow by themselves, they do not need federal help. trees definitely will not make you more powerful, so instead, here is an idea, let s invest trillions of dollars of other people s money in batteries and wind farms and electric school buses. that way democratic politicians get fingertip control over the entire u.s. economy and all of their friends get rich. sounds perfect. let s go with that idea. that i
john: another fox news alert to kick off america reports for this thursday. biden administration cancelling a massive oil and gas lease sale in alaska and the gulf of mexico. scrapping the potential to give drivers desperately needed relief at the pump. hi, i m john roberts in washington. gillian, good to see you again. gillian: great to be with you, i m gillian turner in for sandra smith. so, america s economic woes are continuing to mount. one red flag economists are pointing to now today, april wholesale prices. up 11% from a year ago. one part of the overall inflation problem. consumer prices up 8.3% from a year ago, a slight drop from march but still hovering near a 40-year high. john: filling your tank could drain your wallet. the national average of gas prices a record high, costing 4.41 a gallon. look at where it is compared to a year ago, gillian. gillian: tremendous pressure on the biden administration. americans are skyrocketing with the cost of everyday
the founders were designing a government for a country whose entire population was the same size. the same size as the population of brooklyn today. it was inconceivable to the founders that the unexplored areas of the continent would eventually include a state called wyoming, with a population smaller than many of the country s biggest cities. and that even deeper into the unexplored territory, they would eventually be a state named by its spanish speaking settlers that would eventually have a population to rival the size of some of the most influential countries in the world. and the economy of that state alone would grow to be the seventh largest economy in the world, if it were a separate country. the founders would have recognized that the 40 million people of california, being restricted to voting for the same number of senators as the 580,000 people of wyoming, is a crime against democracy. we long ago outgrew the senate formula of two per state, which has evolved to a