politicians. i was elected by the people. historic probe. the department of justice dubbing the investigation into the attacks on the u.s. capitol as one of the largest in american history. the stunning number of arrests coming down the line and why republican senator ron johnson now catching heat for the latest comments. had the tables been turned and president trump won the election and those were tens of thousands of black lives matter and antifa protesters, i might have been a little concerned. one year later, the city of louisville gearing up for a rally marking one year since the fatal police shooting of breonna taylor. we ll talk to her mother, ahead. good morning, everybody. it is saturday, march 13th. i m lindsey reiser. and i m kendis gibson live at msnbc world headquarters in new york. turning out to be a busy saturday, busy weekend, indeed. we have a team of correspondents and analysts following the latest for us. we ll start with nbc white house correspon
Because theyre coming. Toyota in so many others coming into the United States and all that needs to raise money for people. Lower taxes than what it really means is jobs. Maria the president says the u. S. Is the best place for Global Investors are treasury secretary Stephen Mnuchins comments that the dollar touching a threeyear low. Others low. Ill be saying to the secretary to talk about that coming up this morning i met a few minutes. Coming clean, algae says washing machines are about to get marks and then responds to deep new tariffs announced by the Trump Administration earlier in the week. Ill discuss that with wilbur ross moments away. Dow jones industrial average getting a new alltime high yesterday. S p 500 and nasdaq lower after declining technologies. , but not the dow continues in uncharted territory. Features look like this on the mixed performance yesterday looking among the intent of the dow industrials up another 40 points this morning. S p 500 announced back also high
A military base this past week. Here is the u. S. Secretary of defense, mark esper, and his response. Yesterday i directed that we look at our security precautions across the services and all of our installations and bases and facilities to make sure that we get the appropriate degree of security. I also directed that we look ot our vetting procedures within dod for all the many foreign nationals that come for good reason to our country to train. Joining us on set is msnbc analyst colonel jack jacobs. Colonel, thank you for being here. So you have the secretary of defense there, esper, who also said that at this time the shooting is not an act of terrorism. Could that change . Well, yeah, it should change because it is an act of terrorism. Our problem is that we dont want to call it an act of terrorism but all the elements of terrorism are there. Its a subjective evaluation, of course, but im reminded of the observation of Justice Potter stewart, in an opinion he was trying to describe
Guyger trial is shot and killed. Were starting this morning with breaking news. Tens of thousands of people taking to the streets of hong kong in the rain Wearing Masks in defines of a new ban. It took effect on saturday. A second legal attempt to block it failed. City leaders say the ban was needed to stop widespread violence because masks allow radical protesters to conceal their identities. Were getting word from kansas city, also breaking this morning that nine people have been shot inside a bar and four of them are dead. Police have released few details right now, but theyre looking for one suspect who en tertered bar and opened fire. The shooter is unknown and no one is in custody. Were shifting over to washington. A new reporting about how the president is defending the controversial call of the impeachment inquiry. Hes blaming Energy Secretary rick perry. Two sources telling nbc news the president told House Republicans on friday that perry urged him to make the july 25th call.
price at the pump. when it comes to inflation we see other goods going up, chicken, beef, rent, items. it has a widespread effect when it s not just gas not just gas going up, but you see the price of other items also going up at this time. all right, sibile marcellus, painting a hard to swallow picture for us. thanks so much. we will have up to the minute coverage from ukraine ahead. and new fallout from the capital riot as the january 6th committee sets its sites on donald trump jr. s fiance. site donald trump jr. s fiance.