impacting household budgets and small business as like. joining me now to discuss this is nbc news correspondent jacob board at a bakery in the bay area. oh, gosh, i m getting hungry looking at those baked goods behind you. but, jake, tell me about what this means for small businesses and how they re coping. reporter: well, right now, katy, it s an incredibly difficult time to run a business in america. according to the owner of this, a local legend bakery, this is the hardest time in the history of the united states, and that includeded depression, because back then, wages were low. right now, they re as high as they ve ever been. and the cost of all of this is more expensive than it s ever been. when you look at the price of flour up 52%, the price of eggs, up 45%. the price of butter up over 100. it s just unbelievable how the costs of everything have gone
you had republicans going on twitter, reacting in realtime last night, many of them defending him and immediately politicizing this information asking for a clarification from the department of justice, a military general, at that unprecedented moment. we throw that term around especially over the last years. as congresswoman elaine luria explains it watching with great extension, they used that word and explained why this moment actually applies there. listen. it truly is unprecedented. but it s unprecedented because this is in reaction to an unprecedented presidency. we ve never seen a president seek to overturn elections. send a mob to d.c. and unprecedented responses are required for unprecedented reactions. and look, katy, there s two things here. in this moment, we learned what
that s highly disingenuous. i understand it. but i think it s highly disingenuous, and completely disregards the law surrounding how search warrants are obtained and the standard required which comes right from the fourth amendment to obtain it. yes. taking that, this is still the search of a former president s home so the bar has to be very high. what we re already seeing is republicans coming out and saying, merrick garland, you need to explain yourself. show us what was so egregious that you would do this to a former president. what do you think that merrick garland, the position he s in now. and i know there are rules and regulations in place at doj, same as fbi, about investigations. but is this a different matter, chuck? do you think they need to come out and explain to the american public to explain what they re doing to blow back on of the allegations by the republicans? it s a good question, katy,
testimony concluded. the final witness, polly shepherd, who roof chose not to shoot her so she could tell people what happened. jurors also heard the 911 call from that day. please answer. oh, god. 911. what s the address of the emergency? it s emanuel church. there s plenty of people shot down here. please send somebody right away. emanuel church? emanuel ame. 110 calhoun. there s people shot? yeah, he shot the pastor. he shot all the men in the church. please come right away. okay. my partner is going to be getting some help on the way while i get a little more information from you. okay? stay on the line with me. are you safe? he s still in here. i m afraid. he s still in here. nbc s mariana is live in charleston. what is happening right now? reporter: katy, dylann roof
when it comes to that tech meeting, there they are sitting around the table with some of the most powerful people in the country. the legal aspect, the nepotism law, is still a question. it s not a done deal with the courts. we ve heard from ari melber who says it is still a question. trump seems to be pushing back on those questions. certainly on the morning call this morning with the transition team, they pushed back and they said, it s not such a clear issue. that his children can be involved, certainly, when it comes to a role like senior advising. cal perry, somewhere in that puffy coat, that s my friend. thank you so much out there outside of trump tower. thanks, katy. moving on, nine people are dead. their killer laughed while confessing he did it and now a year later, it s finally up to jurors to decide if dylann roof was motivated by hate. prosecutors and defense attorneys presented their closing arguments this morning in the federal hate crimes trial in the man accused