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hey there, everyone. im alex witt at nbc world headquarters here in new york city. our top stories this hour, we are awaiting a key meeting that could be critical in helping the crisis on the southern border, as,000 more migrants begin their long journey north. secretary blinken and other officials plan to how old talks with mexicos president. were look at whats at stake as resources are stretched to the limits. tension in the west bank after a new israeli drone attack kills six pale...

of migrant crossings days before covid era policy ends. we are live at the border. plus, rocket systems sabotaged. sources telling cnn that russia is using electronic jammers to throw off rocket systems in ukraine in some cases causing rockets to miss their targets. how the pentagon is responding. the labor market is on fire but april surprise jobs report is complicating the feds inflation fight. so what will the central bank do next? following these major developing stories and ma...

fighters. and the former president trump under oath pleading the fifth more than 400 times and ron desantis fights back as one major advantage is emerging. well show you one number that really matters. lets go outfront. tonight nuclear break down. russia the breaking nuclear arms control treaty with the nuts for the first time. russia is refusing to allow the u.s. to inspect its nuclear weapons. now this move comes at a moment where the world faces the highest risk of nuclear conflic...

oversee all aspects of justice department. >> paula reid is following all of this. paula, lets just start with these five additional pages of classified material that were found at the presidents home in delaware. what do you know about that. >> reporter: these were found uncovered at the presidents wilmington home. lets take a step back. right now there are approximately 20 known documents of classified markings have been uncovered at two different locations connected to the president...

the presidents visit comes as his administration is facing mounting pressure following this, you know, 41-year inflation high that were seeing and a huge surge in gas prices. the nations national average for gas, $5.02 a gallon now. all of this as a key inflation measure slowed slightly last month. >> also this morning, the white house is now confirming that the president will be traveling to the middle east, specifically to israel and saudi arabia, in july. were also learning his visi...

Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. It is now under way. The director of National Intelligence said in a recent speech that the Warning Lights are blinking red and the Digital Infrastructure that serves this country is literally under attack. And here we see the incursions coming. Russian hackers have now already targeted at least three candidates in this years 2018 midterms. Reports one of the targets is missouri democratic senator Claire Mccaskill. So highway don...

That is all. he remains in the notorious evan prison. there are also two other americans wrongfully detained by the iranian regime right now. the hardest question for him to answer is how are you doing? he writes to biden, quote, how do i explain the devastation my family and i have left with after so many half hearted prisoner deals crumbled last minute. turning freedom into chyme era. how do you convey not knowing when or how this nightmare will end or even what comes next. >> hes begging you ...

Another way that he is allegedly ooh misusing welfare money in the state of mississippi, with $2 million in federal funding from the state that was meant for families to lift them out of poverty but the money was apparently used for human trials of nasal spray to treat concussions. since 2018. the research hasnt gone all that far yet. four years later there is no data on whether this spray actually works. and keep in mind that favre has been under fire and under investigation for also misusing m...

Effort to bring paul home and also other wrongful detainees. also, trades are not the only tools the u.s. government could use. im really concerned that everybody backed themselves into corners about a trade or not a trade. meanwhile, paul is rotting in a russian prison, waiting for someone to sort this out. >> we have heard from trevor reed today, and he has said in the past that he feels bad that he was let out while your brother stayed behind. he said today, this is trevor reed, we node to ge...

They were telling us barely any food, water, no electricity and barely any connectivity, cut off from the world and huge lack of medication. what we node from experience when cities are with ungoing hostilities, basics come to lack. also for medications. those who stay behind are usually elderly, vulnerable, chronic diseases, disabilities, problems with mobility. weve been calling to parties to enable us to facilitate safe passage but also get humanitarian aid. part of their legal obligations. c...