ayman, nice to see you. thanks at home for joining us. so if you got in your car and you drove out of oklahoma city, you drove southeast out of oklahoma city about four hours, before you left oklahoma state limits, before you crossed the border, the last place you would hit is mccurtain county, oklahoma you can see it on the map in the farthest southeast corner of the great state of oklahoma. it borders arkansas to the east and borders texas to the south and in mccurtain county, in that part of oklahoma, the local newspaper there fittingly is called the mccurtain gazette-news and the mccurtain gazette news is a print only newspaper. if you want to read its reporting it s like the good old days, you have to wait each week until the hard copy of the paper hits your doorstep and then you can see what they ve reported on now, like all good local news outlets online or in print or both, the staff at the mccurtain gazette-news make it their business to make sure they are di
presidential announcement, president biden laid out the stakes and took aim at what he calls magats republicans when i ran for presiden four years ago i said we are i a battle for the soul of america. and we still are the question we are facing i where they re in the years ahead we have more freedom o less freedom, more rights or fewer. i know what i want the answe to be. and i think you do too this is not a time to be complacent that is why i am running for reelection and with former president donald j. trump, the leading contender for the republican nomination in 2024, a rematc is an actual possibility the biden campaign will put hi policies front and center, including his agenda on th economy, just hours afte launching his reelection bid president biden spoke to union workers in washington d.c. where he focused on his record one of the first things i did as president was signed th american rescue plan, whic helped save the nation from pandemic, vaccinate millions o p
it is for me to be able to work with you on a daily basis. thank you and then we have an update on the felony charge against the suspect that is not in custody at this hour we will talk live to one of the teen s attorneys, benjamin crump. and we are getting the first image in weeks when a udetained u.s. reporter surfaced u.s. officials were repeatedly warned of child migrants being put to work in grueling jobs, but those warnings were largely ignored. we begin this very busy hour with charges filed against a kansas city man accused of shooting 16-year-old ralph yarl who mistakenly rang the wrong doorbell, and the 84-year-old homeowner is charged with assault in the first degree and on criminal action the county prosecutor said an arrest warrant was issued for lester, who is not in custody. meanwhile, yarl s family said the teen spoke with president biden on monday and said he is relieved by the outpouring of support. joining us with more is nbc s antonia hilton what m
the latest on that case and why prosecutors are opting not to charge the shooter with a hate crime. plus, florida governor ron desantis making a personal bid to try and pry conservative lawmake areas way from donald trump. could today s event in d.c. break the dam and give other republicans the green light to defy the former president? and american reporter evan gersh gershkovich, denied bail this morning and ordered to stay in the same russian prison that specifically is designed to cut off inmates from the rest of the world. but we start in kansas city, and an extraordinary scene taking place just a short time ago. hundreds of students marching to declare their love and support for 16-year-old ralph yarl the teenager shot for simply going to the wrong house we love you, ralph. we love you, ralph we love you, ralph that march happening as members of yarl s family and their attorney are demanding accountability for 84-year-old andrew lester, the man accused of pulling t
at this hour, protests in akron right now. a special grand jury in ohio declined to charge eight officers who fatally shot a 25-year-old black man last year. the city s response and the live report from akron as well as legal analysis plus, caught in the cross fire secretary blinken confirming a u.s. diplomatic convoy was attacked in sudan as two rival militaries fight for control quote, when hell freezes over that s the timing for one republican reogting to the possibility that democrats will try to replace dianne feinstein. plus, with more and more parents saying it s just financially out of reach, any minute now, president biden is set to speak in the rose garden about his administration s plan to make childcare more affordable our nbc news reporters are following all the latest developments and i want to start with cnbc s senior white house correspondent. kayla, we are going to hear from the president any minute now he wants to make childcare cheaper. how s he going