great state of iowa. a brewing battle over who has the harshest vision from america. trump and desantis prepared to do it out in a fight for the gop nomination. plus, the greatest ongoing shift towards authoritarianism, if they work literally wrote the authoritative study on the subject. also, the harsh realities, now that title 42 is history is easy to forget, this is a humanitarian crisis, there are enormous hurdles for those arriving at our border by the books. we are going to show. you and holding a line on reproductive rights in south carolina. one of the woman fighting to keep an ultra restrictive abortion ban from becoming law is with us. this is american voices. . we begin this hour with the humanitarian crisis at our southern border with mexico. as the u.s. struggles to meet the reality of the growing complexities of migration. this new reality demands every imagining of our immigration system, a system meant for the realities of past decades. new data from the dep
humanitarian crisis at our southern border with mexico. as the u.s. struggles to meet the reality of the greatest complexities of global migration. this new reality demands a reimagined nation of our immigration system, a system that is of past decades. border agents stopped more than 6200 undocumented migrants at our southern border on friday. it was the first day since the u.s. entered the trump era border restrictions known as title 42. a number of crossings downed shortly compared to earlier in the week. behind each numbers a person trying to find their way to a better life. this week, our colleague jose diaz found a family fleeing their country, venezuela. three generations, a grandmother with her daughter, and granddaughter leaving everything behind because of their nations unstable government. they have dreams with a better future earning an education, building a new life here in the united states. and beyond her southern border, there are millions of families across
and the response to such calls from the republican stat legislature, in the republican governor has been thus far t just keep getting rid of law around guns, to keep getting them more and more prevalent and more more places, giving them to more and more people who previously, under othe laws, would not have bee allowed. to have them and that was the context a wee and a half ago, when three democratic state legislators some middle aged white women and two young black men, the three of them got wowed on the floor of the state legislature essentially, cheering on kid in the gallery who had come to peacefully, but very loudly, protest. that state legislature, only acting to make things worse, i terms of gun violence. even after that elementary school massacre in nashville you see the three stat legislators there, in th front. you see them there that picture, political headline as the whole country now i well aware, the republican dominated tennessee stat legislature that vot
is it freedom for kids to go t school and tried to socialize, and try to learn, and be scare to death that they might die that day well, that groups will fix i because it s gonna double th number of cops in schools. that s what he wants to do well, that will create a great environment. is that freedom? or is it freedom to have a congressman who can make a postcard with all his family holding rifles, includin ar-15s or whatever, is tha cool is that cool for republicans that is freedom. that s more important than protecting the kids? i don t get it coach gregg popovich take us off the air tonight and on that note, i wish you all a very safe night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late i will see you at the end of tomorrow thanks to atone for joining us this hour really happy to have you here. on a new state like today, i will admit it is hard to kno we are to begin. but today is yet another day 1 place to begin is with
really happy to have you here. on a news day like today it is i will admit a little bit hard to know where to begin, but today is yet another day when one place to begin is with today s american mass shoot. this time in louisville, kentucky downtown louisville, right next to the minor league baseball park there police say a 25-year-old man armed with a rifle shot 13 people at a bank at which he was either currently or very recently employed. four of the people he shot were killed, nine were injured, and of those nine injured three are consi considerered to be critically wounded. because this is what it s like in our country increasely awash in high powered weapons, while the louisville police were responding to that absolutely devastating just catastrophic multiple murder scene at that bank, while they were responding to that call, they got a second call from less than 2 miles away, a call about multiple people shot at a nearby community college, one person dead there as well