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happy friday it s 4:00 in new york. he has held no press conferences, done no interviews that we know about he is elusive. the inner workings of his highly sensitive assignment a bit of a mystery outside of what some journalists worked to uncover. when it comes to the special counsel jack smith and his federal investigations, plural, into donald j. trump it takes an ear to the ground adept and trained to know when progress is being made this afternoon trusted voices suggest it is time to buckle up. here s why in dates since the federal appeals court in washington rejected the ex-president s bid to block former staffers from testifying in the january 6th investigation, ex-aides have paraded in and out of depositions without fig leaf protections of executive an attorney-client privilege. on tuesday it was stephen miller late yesterday it was former dni john ratcliffe soon it could be the star witness, donald trump s former vice president mike pence himself. last week an a ....
stories we re watching today the first is joe biden heading to monterey park, california the president will deliver remarks on gun safety. we are also following a developing situation out of ukraine involving a u.s. intelligence aircraft that was forced down by russian war planes but we start today with the race to the bottom in the republic primary the leading contenders for the presidential nomination making clear that they will not stand with the fledgeling democracy. a statement from ron desantis in response to a questionnaire than none other than fox news and america s most prominent putin defender tucker carlson reads in quote, while the u.s. has many vital national interests, securing our borders, addressing the crisis of readiness within our military, achieving energy security and independence and checking the economic, cultural, and military power of the chinese communist party, becoming further entangled in a territorial dispute between ukraine and russia ....
u.s.-mexico border looking for asylum in the united states. breaking, the biden administration officially out with new rules for travelers from china. we re live at the white house with the details developing as we speak. i m hallie jackson in washington. joining me now is msnbc correspondent shomari stone at bwi airport, mike memoli is with the president in saint kroi in the virgin islands. some people have canceled vacation plans altogether. what are the airlines saying. talk us through that piece of it. reporter: right now people are trying to get answers. they re understandably frustrated and they re waiting in line here this line has grown over the last hour and they re trying to get more answers right over there. people can rebook their flights if it was within 30 days of the original travel date. people can also go on the southwest website and try and get a refund. i tell you, that s just not the problem with all the cancellations. look over here. look at a ....
that takes up, and the reservoirs out west that are down to almost zero, where we re in a situation where the colorado river looks more like a stream, and there s a lot going on, and i think the one thing this is finally ending is a discussion whether or not there is climate change and we should do something about it, but folks, i also want to, jill and i have had you all in our prayers, and i mean that sincerely, and we re here today, but we wanted to tell you in person, that we re thinking of you, and we re not leaving. we re not leaving until this gets done. i promise you that. and you know, when you walk around here, what s left of fisherman s wharf, and you don t have to have much of an emergency nation to understand that everything, everything is that is historic and titanic and an unimaginable type storm has ripped it to pieces and start from scratch and build again and it will take a lot, a lot of time, not weeks or months, it s going to take years, for everythi ....
you re right. very, very somber moments, around 15 minutes, a vigil, around the queen s coffin, of princess, princess ann, prince charles, prince andrew, prince edwards, the queen s children standing there, in silence heads bowed maintaining that vigil and something the queen wanted, will have planned, and perhaps not necessarily in scotland, there were different plans depending on where she died, but we have been saying all day, wherever she is now, and wherever her soul is, she will have been very much enjoying seeing this opportunity that the fact that she died at balmoral has afforded scotland to pay respects to her. you sea her, her body slowly travel through edinburgh, in silence, and so silent, that you could hear the hooves of the horses, and that silence from the thousands of scottish people who came to see her and say goodbye, spoke volumes, and they came to i think to see the new king, and they once again, with the enormous pageantry and very, very personal m ....