i mean, it s a little bit comical. everybody who s ever met me can tell you i love all people, i love all cultures. you can tell by my past and all of my travels and adventures around the world. i was actually planning a road trip through africa when this happened. penny also opens up about the death of jordan neely saying, quote, i m deeply saddened by the loss of life. it s tragic what happened to him. hopefully, we can change the system that so desperately failed us. joe, i think i want to start with you here. okay. you have some experience traveling through the city. yes. as do many new yorkers who have been on the subway. your thoughts on this, on what neely has said or on what penny has said about the death of neely. penny s words are important, obviously, but it s the witnesses. those words are even more important. his lawyer is saying, and you re going to see video around this as well, that time and again during whole incident neely wasn t trying to kill a
hello and thanks for being with us. it is 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. we re now into day four in the manhunt for a suspected mass killer. the search growing more urgent by the hour as false alarms turn up empty. and today new questions about the police response to the shooting. what a survivor of that attack is telling nbc news about the terror that unfolded and five desperate calls reportedly made to 911. plus, zero visibility, look at this. a sudden blinding dust storm engulfing a highway, causing a deadly chain reaction crash. also developing overnight, hollywood writers trying to write their own ending, now on strike for the first time in 15 years. the ripple effects you could see if this strike lasts weeks or even months. if this lasts a couple of months, we ll start to see the impact on the fall tv schedule and some movies will have to be pushed back. and june 1st, mark your calendar, that s how soon the country could default on its debt,
it is economically ill literate. it raises more taxes, creates the biggest government we ve ever seen in the history of the united states. they want to spend money. they want to raise taxes on you. it is wildly irresponsible. julie: wall street journal board sums it up this way. all the president s tax increases for the wealthy, corporate stock buy backs, certain unearned income on the spendsing side the defense increase doesn t even cover inflation when compared to last year s budget. now the plan calls for thousands of new employees for the epa and i.r.s. the border on the back burner yet again. no boost for the dhs budget. the plan also adding only 350 border agents. that won t make up for a shortfall of 1,000. biden s own dhs secretary is even worried. so what do you propose? how do you propose that we handle 8,000 people each day when we are not resourced for that personnel, facilities, transportation an the like? how should we handle that? by redistributing mo
back in new york city, where he will be facing questions in a $250 million civil suit, separate from his indictment we begin this hour with a major development in the national fight over abortion rights today, widely used abortion pill mifepristone is still available to patients after a federal appeals court put on hold a judge s decision to suspend the drug s fda approval while leaving some restrictions in place. here in florida, any moment the legislature is expected to pass one of the strictest abortion bills in the country that would ban the procedure at just six weeks. joining us now with more is nbc news senior legal correspondent laura jarrett and with us msnbc news correspondent dasha burns in tallahassee in what appears to be a demonstration of some sort laura, all this is still difficult to understand because now there is a conflicting ruling from a judge in washington that ordered u.s. authorities to keep mifepristone available across 17 states and d.c. what does
surrounding former president donald trump. why a grand jury could soon hear from former vice president mike pence. also, our exclusive interview with the leaders of three powerful congressional caucuses, the first time the three have sat down for an interview together. we stand in unity together. i think that is the power of the tricaucus, the power of us is being able to stand together, to make change, and to be there to support each other. but first, the breaking news, a second military base used by the u.s. in syria coming under attack today. it is happening just one day after a drone strike killed one american worker and wounded several troops at a different coalition base. intelligence officials believe the drone came from iran. president biden authorized new air strikes in response. joining us now is nbc news chief white house correspondent peter alexander. good morning. tell us about the new attack and what more do we know about iran s role? reporter: yeah, jos