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
tonight, the nation is turning to pennsylvania, a major battleground in american politics, from the three rivers in pittsburgh, to the striking green home of the capitol building in harrisburg, heart of government in the commonwealth, to historic independence hall in philadelphia, those across pence im , pennsylvania, are making choice to influence the presidential race. i m jake tapper and we re standing by for results in what is sure to be an eventful election. the political spotlight on key primary races in pennsylvania, north carolina, kentucky, idaho and oregon. in phil pennsylvania, north carolina republican senators retiring seats, tonight, we ll bring more to the direction of the two major parties, also a significant new test of former president trump s grip on the republican party and president biden s sway over the democrats. as both weigh a potential rematch in 2024. perhaps the biggest test of the trump factor is his pick in pennsylvania republican former tv dr. m
rights biggest driving the racist agenda. and just hours from polls opening in pennsylvania, we ll pictures of a republican candidate marching next to proud boys on january six help or hurt her? and a presumptive democratic now nominee for governor joins me live. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i am chris hayes. we start this week in morning and in shock, after the brutal and sadistic murders of ten people in a buffalo supermarket over the weekend. they were victims of a single shooter and his gun, the poisonous vision of america. the racist ideas espoused in the shooters white nationalist manifesto, the wrong kind of people why people, question people, coming into this country to replace so-called white judeo-christian values. now, this vile racist conspiracy theory is as old as time. and the oldest white in this country is the fact about who the we, and we the people are. who counts as a real american? and on one side, there s a vision of americ
i took a note during your hour. that line, everybody knows somebody was really the line of the hour by the majority leader, new york state assembly, peoples stokes, meaning everybody in that community in those somebody who lost a loved one, and at the tops market in east buffalo. it is just a tragedy that we will deal with, and in the way that we do. and the way we have before. and it s just a horrible familiarity to this ritual which we re going through now. yeah, i mean we are a country that has an incredible problem with mass shootings. we also have an incredible problem with political violence, particularly racially motivated, politically motivated violence. and that is something that we are never going to be new to, and it s not getting better, it s still getting worse. but it s very hard on these for days, particularly talking with people in that community, the tight-knit community who really are in a position when they know someone who was affected. we re gonna hav
uniforms, everything. the government opened defense production facilities all over the country. factories, they either retooled the existing ones, or they built new ones. and in some places, there were particularly large defense production facilities, either a large number for retooled plants, or a bunch of new ones that were built. one of the things that emerged quickly as a bottleneck for our country mobilizing for that war was this conundrum of where all the workers would live, who worked in these newly built and newly retooled production plants? in an already crowded city like detroit, for example, the government of 1941, realized that they re gonna have to quickly add hundreds of thousands of units of housing in order to bring in hundreds and thousands of new workers to staff these defense production facilities that were being retooled from civilian use in detroit, or in fact newly opened to make more material in that city. and that math is easy to see, right? you need t