msnbc headquarters in new york city. we got a lot to get to this hour. first a community in mourning as michigan state university remembers three killed during a mass shooting monday. students still trying to process the violence. all of us are numb to the whole situation. we have lived this our entire lives. i m still processing it. i honestly don t know if i can ever take a step foot into na union anymore. you see it on the news, but you never think it s going to be your school. and in fact, it is their school. we re learning more about the victims now as well, 20-year-old brian fraser was the president of his fraternity, 19-year-old ariel anderson, an aspiring surgeon, and 20-year-old alexandria verner, an all state athlete studying biology. police are still investigating the motive. we are learning more about the suspected gunman, ahead, the details about his criminal background and the chilling details that his father is now sharing. also this morning, fear a
intelligence officials to agree the hunter biden s laptop was filled with russian disinformation and nothing for joe biden to worry about. that s what we re learning from mike morrell s testimony to congress. you know the current secretary of state antony blinken used to work for the biden campaign. morel under oath say it blinken played a role in the inception of that intel memo weeks before the presidential election. house judiciary chairman jim jordan. it was a total political operation. it wasn t russian disinformation. the laptop story looks to be true. the way the then vice president biden did it was made it seem like it was organic. it was choreographed. it was their names and title. it was accurate when it wasn t. that s the scariest thing of all. that letter became the basis for keeping this information from the american people. harris: let me show you an example of what chairman jordan is talking about there and how the current president fits in. we ll flashback
there are people [inaudible] [applause] neil: you guessed it, tempers are not easing right now, in fact, they were flaring this week in east palestine, ohio, where norfolk southern ceo alan shaw skipped this town hall. a company representative was there, he became more of a piñata. meanwhile, shaw himself is going to be facing senate questions on wednesday, but what about residents who want their questions answered like today, like now, like soon, like please? we ll talk to a concerned citizen who was at that town hall. and the national transportation safety board chair who says this whole cast was 100% preventable. jennifer holliday is here and only here. plus, forget the grand old party, is president biden s own party revolting on his promise to raise taxes in a new budget plan to be released next week? we ll hear from key democratic senator joe manchin who says you can t tax your way out of this debt. and dangerous storms wreaking havoc across the u.s. at least 10 are d
entry into the united states due to public health concerns. it was set to expire last week which the biden administration had supported but asked for a brief delay. 19 attorneys generals from gop-led states requested the policy remain in place for fear of adding to the influx at the southern border. in the 5-3 rule, neil gorsuch joins sotomayor and jackson. gorsuch suggested that the court decision to intervene was more related to the crisis at the border, rather than the legal issues in the case. those issues concern whether states can intervene in defense of a pandemic-era policy. gorsuch noted that the states, quote, do not seriously dispute that the public held justification undergirding the title 42 orders has lapsed. gorsuch also said while states may have valid concerns, quote, the current border crisis is not a covid crisis. the supreme court s order says that while it prevents title 42 from being set aside, it does not prevent the federal government from taking up,
announcing a tentative agreement to avert a nationwide freight rail strike. a shutdown that could have had catastrophic consequences for the economy. talks involving the unions, rail companies and labor secretary marty walsh went on for 20 hours. we re told that president biden, who calls himself the most pro-union president ever was instrumental in getting over the finish line. last night was a historic night for rail labor. we re proud of what was accomplished. we wanted to take a few seconds and thank secretary marty walsh, deputy secretary julie sue and definitely president joe biden, everybody pulling together to make sure we could get our members what they deserve. this is the quality of life issue that we have been trying to get to our members. so we re going to hit the ground running. we ll have more information here in the coming hours. some tired looking leaders emerging as the sun was arising there. jeremy diamond is at the white house. what do we know abou