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
[dramatic music] breaking news out of georgia. Democrat Raphael Warnock and democrat jon ossoff has won the Senate Runoff election. This is the new georgia. This is a state that is changing like the country is changing. The big factor in black voters matter, its the new georgia project. You have black genius and grassroots genius on display, and black joy. We vote all we win we vote all we win welcome to the new georgia. Welcome to the blue georgia. Republicans taking another step to prevent what they believe is voter fraud at the polls. 48 states have introduced at least 389 bills to restrict voting. Both of those senate seats flipped from red to blue, and so republicans in georgia want to make sure that that doesnt happen again. Anytime a Political Party abuses their power to actually put laws in place so that whoever does not vote for them, they can prevent them from voting, that in itself is political corruption. We are fighting for our lives we are fighting for our votes we are fi
Countrys president suffered a hard landing earlier today. Irans Foreign Minister and other officials were on board. The helicopter was flying in an remote region. Search and rescue operations are still ongoing. Lets go to Josh Letterman in london. Josh, phyllis and with the rest of the details phil us in with the rest of the details. What do we know right now . Reporter it is after midnight in iran and has been more than 10 hours as a helicopter carrying the iranian president and also his Foreign Minister went down. The iranian president was on his way back from a visit to a new dam built near the border when this helicopter went down in what has been described by iranian media as and hard landing. Other reports have called it a crash. We know it took place in harsh weather conditions. At this point in time the status of the iranian president and Foreign Minister are unknown. We know for hours rescue officials have been trying to reach them, trying to figure out exactly where they are.
May 19th, im Alicia Menendez in new york, with symone sanderstownsend and Michael Steele in washington, d. C. This morning, the compass braces for protest, plus donald trump addressed the Nra Convention, between the usual, there was a not so well threat to execute the city president. Plus, it could be the final week of trumps criminal trial in new york, a big question, will the defendant take the stand . Grab your coffee, settle in, welcome to the weekend. Safety is of course a priority for many voters and yesterday donald trump cozied up to the extreme gun lobby, accepting the endorsement at the annual meeting in dallas, in another hard to follow address, he painted a dystopian version of america, urging gun owners to vote because their safety is on the line. He used the event to rattle off his lies about President Biden but he added this new twist. He is a manchurian candidate, he has accepted money from china, from russia, from ukraine, from everywhere. If that were a republican, he
President say, 100 of first female black Vice President s. Its important what he has highlighted. It speaks to a concern that folks have about the support of hbcus, 16 billion is not cheap. Simone, thank you so very much. Its a pleasure to see you. Catch simone saturday and Sunday Morning at 8 00 a. M. Eastern as she cohosts the weekend right here on msnbc. Andrea mitchell picks up with more news next. Right now on Andrea Mitchell reports, President Biden trying to fire up lagging support from black voters, speaking at the National Museum for African American history on the anniversary of the Brown Versus Board Of Education decision and facing an uncertain reception when he delivers the Commencement Speech at moorehouse. Sparks fly between Marjorie Taylor greene and aoc. How dare you attack the physical appearance of another person. Oh, girl, baby girl. The trump Hush Money Case moves closer to Closing Arguments and going to the jury, how much impact will the showdown between Donald Tr