hey, everybody. welcome back. it is 11:00 a.m. in the east. i m yasmin vossoughian back for a second hour here. we re following the breaking news out of michigan that is putting pressure on the u.s. supreme court this morning. the state supreme court rejecting a case to remove trump from the 2024 ballot, just a week after a ruling by the colorado supreme court removing him from the ballot in that state. want to bring in nbc news correspondent vaughn hillyard, carol lam, and former republican congressman from florida david jolly as well. vaughn, if you will, walk us through this ruling out of michigan. it is most notable the supreme court, we should understand, is not actually taking up the appeal from the litigants. instead, they denied to hear any arguments and to take up the case. but by doing so, they are all but affirming the lower court s decision, which in the state of michigan is to not disqualify donald trump from the ballot, like the state of colorado did. on the p
our nations greatest rivals, china, now warning it is getting seriously prepared for the house speaker to potentially visit. seriously prepared, they call it. she s going to the island of taiwan later this month. the communist nation which is historically claiming the island as its own territory has had this to say on the speakers possible visit. here s a quote. if the u.s. side insists on making the visit, the chinese side will take firm and strong measures to safeguard our sovereignty and territorial integrity. the u.s. must assume full responsibility for any serious consequence arising thereof. taiwan s military is now bracing for a potential aggression china. the capital of taipei is staging its annual air raid drills yesterday and mobilizing for routine defensive exercises as the fear of war ramps up. and despite warnings from the pentagon and president joe biden that the trip might not be a good idea, both democrats and republicans have said they have backed the move i
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Development, designed to target certain people. that s what this is. you can actually take someone s dna, take their medical profile, target a biological weapon that will kill that person or take them off the battlefield or make them inoperable. emily: the popular dna ancestry company, 23andme, says it does not sell customer data to anyone but has collaborated with law enforcement. morgan, he s also joined by senator ernst, senator rubio, talking about the risks of bio weapons to target food supplies. the russian and chinese labs processing dna tests of americans to medicare and medicaid, but this isn t really a new concept. but the vulnerability remains, especially when you bundle it with a lack of enforcement options for average americans. morgan: i think americans are generally less cautious because we do have privacy protections here written into our constitution. it is an indelible part of who we are.