ex-president very clear publicly known efforts and plot to overturn his defeat in the 2020 election. a series of court battles over the last few weeks have largely gone in special counsel jack smith s favor, resulted if a whole slew of new trump officials and allies now being ordered to testify. some big names, none of them bigger than the one, vice president mike pence, news broke on tuesday that a federal judge had ordered him to answer questions under oath regarding conversations that may involve illegality on donald trump s part. here s what mike pence told nbc news about all of that this morning. i ll be in washington, d.c., later the week. i ll be meeting with my counsel that week and we ll determine the best way forward. again, i have nothing to hide. i believe we did our duty under the constitution on january 6th. nothing to hide, but that response begs the question, if that s the case, and frankly the fact that he wrote the book about it, why hasn t he testified
go before the midterm, republicans are regaining ground on inflation, crime, and immigration. ron johnson s opponent on one of key races. and we ll show you part of katie couric s interview on the today show and share our own kristen dahlgren s difficult journey with the disease. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. has rescue workers in florida continue going door to door searching for survivors who could still be trapped. state officials reporting 600,000 florida customers are still without power and more than 160,000 are applying for fema assistance. president biden will tour the damage on wednesday. right now, he and the first lady are on their way to puerto rico showing how they are dealing with the devastation from hurricane fiona two weeks ago. darsha, you spent part of the weekend with fema task force. it was terrifying as they were going door to door. reporter: yeah, to be on the ground with these teams as they re conducting this dangerous a
missile defense system and artillery in the coming days. another supreme court decision, this one rejecting states rights on gun safety . i ll speak to a noted expert on the second amendment as president biden signed into law some gun safety measures. we begin with abortion. nbc s pete william and linda greenhouse. pete, first to you. states are acting quickly today and over the weekend. what challenges are you following that we should expect more of? i think there are going to be many more of them. they all follow a similar pattern saying, we understand the u.s. supreme court has said the u.s. constitution allows states to ban abortion, but what about state constitutions that oftentimes differ and provide more protection in certain categories than the federal constitution does? we have a lawsuit in utah that says the state constitution provides more protection for personal autonomy and family planning issues. one in florida says state privacy protections allow abortio
think it s great what you re doing is we ll all be tuning in. thank you so much. you were one of the first person i called to, let s say, educate mist about the music world. so thank you for being there for me. thank you for doing it, and we re all going to see what you re doing. the culture part matters. that s why zelenskyy spoke at the grammys. there are all ways we can engage. we ll be watching, nicole. thank you. thank you, friend. absolutely. welcome to the beat, everyone. as just nicole and i were you discussing there are many, many things going on in the world, and in america we re following several stories for you tonight. we ll begin with our lead story, the reaction to the fall of roe and what is happening around the country. later, i have to tell you, we have a big story coming up, another big trump coup plotter facing a search by the feds. that s new breaking today. this time it is one of the donald trump s most controversial lawyers and aides ever and,
but you may have missed it. you may never even heardf this because there weren t a lot of follow up pieces abouti these manmade food shortages that joe biden was predicting. a and that s weird if you think about it because food shortages are inherently a big deal . you could argue they re even more significant and say slap fight between actors at an . ards ceremony food shortages are a historic event. they overturn society sd they bring down empires they often have if you ve gotav food shortages, you ve got a potentially destabilizing problem on your handsr and we do have food shortages. they re real as joe biden predicted as of tonight , at least twenty six states are reporting that half their retail stores are completelytely baby formula. that would include the states of texas, tennessee, missouri and iowa, many others. so these are major population centers without enoughd fo foodr newborns in memphis and nashville. 52% of stores have no baby formula. houston and des moines