good to be with you, i m katy tur in for hallie jackson. and we re on the cusp of something, but what that something is still unclear. the fbi search of former president trump s mar-a-lago home has stood up a lot. republicans slammed the move as politically motivated with many of his allies claiming witch hunt and basically blaming president biden for the search. the white house said it was not given a heads-up for the events and found out with the rest of the country when the news broke. at this hour, we have more questions than answers. here s what we know so far. a source familiar with the matter tells nbc news that the search was tied to alleged removal of the classified documents from his home in 2021. according to donald trump the estate was searched by agents. the way this happened might be shocking but it didn t come out of nowhere. we know that the national archives asked mr. trump to return 15 boxes of documents they say were improperly taken from the white house. t
help clear those mines? reporter: yeah, that s right, the u.s. plans to spend about $80 million this year to fund 100 teams to clear out land mines, improvised explosive devices as well as booby traps and other types of risks created by both russia and frankly ukrainian forces that have planted explosives as they are trying to fight each other. a state department official tellings that the area of ukraine that is now potentially contaminated with explosive devices is the area the size of maryland, connecticut, virginia combined. and they say russian troops have placed booby traps in things like kids toys, the back seats of cars. food containers and even a child s piano, katy. why in the world would you do that? kids toys, that s horrible. josh, thank you so much. and fueled in part by the war in ukraine, here in the united states you ll pay more from everything from groceries to gas, as you know. and those rising costs are
before him. so would a governor push on his ticket at least sort of massage that difficulty with hispanics, that is that governor romney faces? it would start to massage the problem, but i think bluntly that governor romney has to evolve his position and support marco rubio s version of the dream act, if not come out with his own comprehensive immigration policy. the hispanic vote is that important. greta: if you look at arizona, colorado, florida, nevada, and virginia combined, all swing states, the polls say that obama has 63% and romney has 27%. that s a huge margin. that s enough in those states, greta, to make the difference to give president obama, in most of the polls i ve seen, a small, but statistically citinsignificant lead in those states. bottom line, those numbers have to change if governor romney is going to be elected.
so would a governor push on his ticket at least sort of massage that difficulty with hispanics that is that governor romney faces? it would start to massage the problem, but i think bluntly that governor romney has to evolve his position and support marco rubio s version of the dream act if not come out with his own comprehensive immigration policy. the hispanic vote is that important. greta: if you look at arizona, colorado, florida nevada, and virginia combined, all swing states, the polls say that obama has 63% and romney has 27%. that s a huge margin. that s enough in those states greta to make the difference to give president obama, in most of the polls i ve seen a small but statistically citingsignificant lead in those states. bottom line, those numbers have to change if governor romney is going to be elected.
nevada and florida the unemployment rate is higher than the national average. in nevada and colorado, the unemployment rate is still above what it was when president obama stepped into the white house. but in the rest of the battleground states it s pretty interesting. the jobs markets are improving. they have been improving since when the president became went into office. still improving, iowa, virginia, nevada, all have pretty low unemployment levels. 5 pst in iowa, new hampshire 5%, virginia 5.6% and in ohio with 18 electoral votes, much more than iowa and virginia combined, significant drop in the unemployment rate 7.4% over the past year. 48th in the nation to much higher than that. it s a very interesting story, ohio, big manufacturing auto, this is one of those places where mitt romney had said don t have that auto bail jautout. nobody wins out ohio and mitt romney will have an uphill batter there. this is showing you population centers. some of these areas wher