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This concludes the Press Conference. Thanks, everybody. Theyre doing a photo op, but not answering any additional questions being shouted by the press. That was President Biden and the president of kenya. He is the first african leader to be given an official state visit since 2008, three days of it. David ignatius, foreign columnist and Associate Editor of the Washington Post and an msnbc contributor has been watching along with us. Look, obviously very heavily focused on foreign affairs. The 300 million the United States is going to give to fight gangs in haiti, although were going to see kenyan troops there, no american troops. He reiterated again talking about the growing debt, the problems, the Crushing Debt really for developing nations like kenya. A lot of that money owed to china. I thought the toughest question maybe, david, for President Biden was about the icc warrant on benjamin netanyahu, the International Criminal court charging as the reporter said israel of using starvation as a weapon of war against hamas and against the palestinian people, and i wonder what you make of President Bidens response and whether you think this showdown is really heating up in this fight between the court and israel with joe biden and the United States in the middle. So i agree with you that was certainly from an american stand point, the most newsworthy thing the president said. He was emphatic. He didnt use a lot of words to say it. He said the icc has no jurisdiction here. He said there is no moral equivalence between israels actions and those of hamas, just totally rejected the request thats been made for the icc to issue a warrant. The warrants not been issued yet. I think this issue obviously is heating up. Theres a way to go before there actually would be escalation with seeking a warrant, making it difficult for israeli leaders to travel, but the president was blunt, direct, short of speech in his response. This really was an event that was focused on kenya and the idea of the United States is pressing for much more meaningful partnerships in africa with kenya. I thought that part of the News Conference couldnt have been clearer. One of the things that they did, so help us understand because i think a lot of people will watch and theyll try to figure out why there arent state dinners, for example, and state visits that often. This was a threeday visit. I was with president obama when he went to kenya back in 2015, the major issue was security then, a major issue is security and the economy now. So in i guess those broad categories, that hasnt changed, but one of the things that the United States has done is to designate kenya as a major nonnato ally. Why is this important, and why is this threeday state visit even taking place. Why kenya . So i think the answer to that is that the Biden Administration wants to make kenya a show piece, if you will, of a broader effort to engage what we call the global south, countries in africa and latin america and asia, that china is aggressively courting with loans, with assistance of various kinds, Economic Development projects, and President Biden was elevating the status of kenya, that phrase, a major nonnato ally. Thats kind of right up there with our key partners who are not actually part of nato, and then also interestingly trying to draw kenya and by extension other countries in africa into the expanding world of technology opportunities, a lot of reference to Green Technology projects in kenya. I found it very interesting that the president is going to ask for funding for kenya to be part of the chips and infrastructure act, the big effort to build american technology. He wants to extend that to kenya as a partner. I think its an attempt to say to countries around the world, were in this game too. Dont think that china is the only country thats seeking to interact with you about Economic Development and security issues. Were there too. I thought it was interesting as well the funding from the chips act. Thats the first african country that would get money from it, and also write that Student Exchange involving s. T. E. M. Students. I also want to bring in nbc news chief White House Correspondent Peter Alexander who was in the room. I think i heard your voice, peter asking some of the questions. The president didnt take the bait, but we were talking about the question about the icc for President Biden, but whats your big takeaway from this Press Conference . Reporter i too was struck by the president announcing that he would be supplying kenya with some of the Investment Money provided by the chips act, which was focused, as you noted logical, more microchips being produced in the u. S. He was very blunt on the way he addressed the situation with israel saying there should be no equivalence between what hamas did and what israel did. There were a series of other topics i was hoping to ask the president about, specifically as it relates to some of the news of day as we describe in politics, his reaction to nikki haley making it official yesterday saying that she will be voting for donald trump in the election this fall, despite her repeatedly attacking trump throughout the primaries. Donald trump has said very little, if anything about it since then, but joe biden had that opportunity now. How will he try to win over those collegeeducated, those independent voters looking ahead to the general election this fall. There are other questions as they relate to the debate, why the president thought it was necessary to hold the first debate in june and why he has decided that its there is no reason that he should hold any more than two debates with donald trump. There have been other offers. He has agreed to do only two, and then finally as it relates to the issue of the Supreme Court right now, the series of decisions on its plate, most notably as they relate to donald trump, president ial immunity one of the issues before the court, other issues as they relate to Donald Trumps effort to try to overturn the 2020 election, questions about the Election Integrity in general. Whether the president would have any comments specifically about Justice Samuel alito and the new reporting from the New York Times about multiple flags now at a Northern Virginia home and at a home in new jersey where the justice was flying flags that had been embraced by rioters on january 6th, the president not keen to take that question either. But the bottom line, the focus of this visit really to sort of to make a clear message to the people of sub saharan africa, to the people of africa broadly that the u. S. Does want to be engaged in that effort, that the u. S. Has investments, and that democracy can deliver. It comes amid so many of the coups weve seen there, the instability throughout that region, american troops being kicked out by the Military Junta in niger most recently. Really a lot of challenges there. It should be noted this tonight this is the first state visit with a state dinner to take place tonight for an african Nation Dating back to 2008, the sixth state visit that president of the United States joe biden has hosted since taking office, chris. Peter alexander and david ignatius, thank you guys, both. I really appreciate it. Up next, the other controversial flag spotted outside a home of Justice Samuel alie toe. The links to the january 6th attacks and the growing pressure for the justice to recuse himself. Thats next. For the justice to himself. Thats next. ella fashion moves fast. Setting trends is our business. We need to scale with customer demand. In real time. jen so we partner with verizon. Their solution for us . A private 5g network. ella we now get more control of production, efficiencies, and greater agility. marquis with a custom private 5g network. 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We dont know if the flag was up continuously the entire time, but we do have about four different photos and actually a fifth that actually surfaced after the report came out. So yeah, and we asked him about this. We asked him about the Upside Down Flag from a week ago, and there he blamed his wife for it, so it was after a dispute with his neighbors, but he refused to give a comment about this flag. So he had something to say about the first Upside Down Flag, but nothing about this. Ryan, Trump Supporters i mentioned this were seen carrying the appeal to heaven flag during the january 6th insurrection. Give us a little bit of the historical background on this, though, and how after a really long time in obscurity its back. Yeah, you know, if you really wanted to go back to, you know, john locken when this all started, you know in the 16, 1700s, thats one thing. In the modern era its been closely associated with Christian Nationalism. Thats what we really think of it in that context, starting with sarah palin a decade ago and all the way up to now. It was carried by a number of people who were there for january 6th. Its probably not something that would be unexpected in a crowd with the makeup of this type. There are also a lot of Blue Lives Matter flags there as well. I think the Upside Down Flag in the context of January Of 2021 is definitely more of a direct link in terms of january 6th, but this was definitely a feature of january 6th altogether, but more directly i think speaks to this idea of Christian Nationalism being promoted on the lawn of someone on the Supreme Court. So critics have said, carlos, that Christian Nationalism, signs of it, signs of an attempted overthrow of the government or any implication of support, overthrow of an election have no place with somebody who is a Supreme Court justice. But former National Security adviser john bolton had a fiery response to critics of alito and i want to play that. I think it is outrageous, outrageous and unacceptable for people to take a flag from the American Revolution and say that because some january 6th protesters flew it that its now unacceptable to fly that flag, and id like to hear a Democratic Party politician say that expressly. Carlos, do you agree at all . Is this much ado about nothing . Look, chris, i think the irony here is that for conservatives, the ideal Supreme Court justice, the ideal judge is someone who soberly interprets the law. Someone who is not an activist. Someone who is simply taking the letter of the law and applying it to modern day questions, and what we have seen both from Justice Alito and Justice Thomas in recent years is a kind of activism, right . Their opinions have been very aggressive, very pointed, and then also theres all this extracurricular behavior that raises questions. So look, i dont think thats very hard to reach any strong conclusions from any of this, but certainly it injects doubt into an institution that is supposed to be objective, unbiased, and that would hopefully have the support of the majority of the American People because it weighs so heavily on our democracy, so in doing these things, these justices are certainly reducing the credibility of the court yeah, i mean, as you just suggested, this is one in a line of controversies on the court, right . Several of them surrounding Justice Clarence thomas, also his wife who denied the 2020 election results. So senator dick durbin is trying to push through ethical standards for the Supreme Court. Even Amy Coney Barrett supports them, but chief Justice Roberts could not get it done, so what do you think the likelihood is that congress could actually take some action . Well, look, i think congress should at least try, right . The constitutionality of congress imposing rules on the Supreme Court means certainly that thats going to be controversial, and its going to be contested. But for better or worse, congress does have its rules, does have ethical standards for its members, both Chambers Have Ethics Committees that regulate the conduct of their members, and really, the Supreme Court should be held to the same standard as the congress, as the executive branch. It really does seem ironically that its been pretty lawless over there at the Supreme Court for a while, and again, if we want to restore the trust and confidence of the American People in these institutions, the court should either take its own action to regulate the ethics of its members or congress should try to do what they can. So eric, you also report that the appeal to heaven flag is being flown outside the office of House Speaker mike johnson. How do they explain that . Yeah, mike johnson, they plant to kind of the roots of this flag. It was back in 1775, i believe, is when the flag was created and used during the Revolutionary War, but its been repurposed and its pretty naive to think this is purely a nod back to the Revolutionary War. Its been used very heavy by christian nationalists and other right wing groups, kind of as a Mobilization Campaign to bring more of a Christian Focus and more kind of christian law making and interpretation of law. So thats what many havepointed to who have been asked about this, pointing to the Revolutionary War origins of this flag. A flag is not just a flag. Its been repurposed heavily in the last decade or so, and it kind of fell out of use for a while until relatively recently. Eric toller one of the great reporters on the New York Times investigative unit, congressman carlos curbelo, thank you both. Ryan, youre going to be back with me in a little while. Coming up, the surprising study about how many more americans are turning to cannabis than alcohol every single day. 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Among the hardest hit places baltimore where fatal Drug Overdoses have occurred on a third of the citys blocks and nearly 6,000 people there have tide from an overdose in the past six years. Meanwhile, more people now use cannabis every day than drink alcohol. That is the first time thats ever happened in this country. A new study from 2022 shows that the estimated 17. 7 million americans who say they use cannabis daily or near daily is 3 million more than those who drink every day, and another study out just yesterday shows theres an 11 times higher risk of developing a psychotic disorder for teenagers who have used cannabis in the last year. Joining me now Global Health policy expert and msnbc medical contributor, dr. Vin gupta. Good to see you, cannabis is legal in 23 states, in d. C. , 38 in d. C. With medical marijuana. But big picture, what should folks know, and what dont we know about daily use . Well, chris, thank you for highlighting this. Great to see you. Its important to say upfront, fda scientists have looked at the data that exists on marijuana, recreational, medical, its not as prone to abuse and it might be it shouldnt be as tightly controlled as other substances that are schedule 1, things like heroin. We can all agree if this is being used every single day more so than alcohol, which we dont control as tightly as marijuana, and we need to loosen it, hence the Biden Administration moving it to schedule 3, which is critical. It allows federal money, chris, to actually be now utilized to do Gold Standard studies on the risks and potential benefits of marijuana in the human body. We know Health Benefits are potentially numerous. Again, not no Gold Standards have been used to look at these benefits, but maybe to alleviate pain, fibromyalgia, insomnia, chemorelated impacts. But as you pointed out, theres serious potential concerns here, especially among youth. It could be impacting youth brain development, and thats the big concern. What about this use among kids and should we be worried that this could mean problems for teenagers in their development . Potentially, and so that is one of the concerns here. You know, most places you mentioned the states, over 20 where we have Recreational Marijuana use. What were seeing is its usually 21 and older. Its these studies have shown association, not causation, important to point that out. Its why we need Gold Standard studies. What theyve pointed out is that the youth brain in teenagers still developing and that cannabis can actually interfere potentially with important signaling thats happening in brain development. Our functions that govern anxiety, basic development of our neurons in our brain might get disrupted as youth brains develop, and so thats why youre seeing the stronger correlation between frequent high potency cannabis use and maybe the development of some of these psychiatric disorders. This is not the first of these studies. Weve seen a lot of anecdotal reports. There was one study i found, vin, from back in february. It showed people who Smoke Cannabis Daily have a 25 increased risk of having a heart attack, a 42 increase of having a stroke. I know you sort of mentioned this in your first answer, but how many more studies i mean do we need to do here . Are we behind on where we are as a country and the use of cannabis and where we should be in understanding what the implications are. 1000 , chris. To give you a sense, weve been studying the impact of alcohol, red wine on the human body for the last 50 years plus. Gone back and forth on potential benefits and risks. Now we have some clarity potentially. We havent done that with marijuana in any rigorous way because we havent had the resources to do it. When the government says its schedule 1, what does that mean . That means nih dollars cannot be utilized to study the risks and benefits of medical marijuana. Its been a big lapse. This Movement Towards schedule 3, yes, it means decriminalization, all the important things for social justice, for individual justice, but what this is going to allow us to do is actually be smarter about the risks and benefits of marijuana on the human body, were very far behind. Dr. Vin gupta, always good to have you on the program. Thank you. Theres new fallout after the arrest of the worlds number one golfer, Scottie Scheffler. Nbcs Maura Barrett is following this story for us. I understand Louisville Police now admit a detective violated protocols during the arrest. What do we know about what happened here . Reporter its been about a week since the arrest. We got an update from the police chief and the louisville mayor this morning, and they conceded that for transparencys sake, the only video that exists of this whole incident is actually of the arrest. We can only see the arrest. There isnt any video that exists of the interaction that the officer claims that scheffler dragged him with his car. Thats something thats going to raise some Question Marks moving forward with the investigation. The two pieces of video that we received this morning, one was taken from a traffic pole across the street. Its very hard to see given the dark and gloomy rainy circumstances. It looks like you can see the arrest in that video. And then another video is the dash cam in which you see it appears to be Scheffler Walking across in front of the dash cam as hes arrested, and so this is all unfolding as the police chief is conceding and let the media and the public know that they did an internal investigation with the arresting officer and found that he did not turn on his body cam. It is their policy. It is Police Department policy that theyre able to activate their body cam in these situations, and he was not operationally prepared. They said that hes faced corrective action since then. I think all of this is very striking. I dont have to remind you in the wake of this is the fact that the Breonna Taylor case, this is the same Police Department that handled that one, and also raised Question Marks around body cams. Its been several years since then, and clearly theres still some issues there. Scheffler, his Attorney Says that he and Scottie Scheffler maintain this was a chaotic situation, a lack of communication, they intend to move forward with the charges. Hear a little bit about his stance on all of this. It wont impact the case at all. Our positions the same as it was last friday. Scottie scheffler didnt do anything wrong. Were not interest instead interested in settling the case. As the mayor said this morning, they plan on moving forward. The next step in the Legal Process is set for june 3rd. 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Now to the warning for millions of americans who are heading out for memorial day. If you thought it was bad last year, well, you aint seen nothing yet. Nbcs David Noriega is at Los Angeles International airport for us. David, aaa is predicting this could be the busiest Memorial Day Weekend in nearly 20 years. How are things looking there . Yeah, chris, so l. A. X. Is expecting about a million passengers flying in and out of this airport over the weekend starting today. As someone who has spent a lot of time at this airport over the years, i can tell you that today so far so good for the most part. Its a busy day, but a normal busy day. The main issue is the traffic, the car traffic getting into the airplane. Thats been pretty badly choked up all day. You should budget some extra time for that last quarter mile or so before you actually get to the terminal. Things can get a little hairy there. Aaa anticipates this might be the busiest Memorial Day Weekend for travel since 2005. L. A. 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Everyone is pretty much fed up it seems with concert Ticket Prices, and today the Justice Department pretty much said it is too, and now theyre doing something about it. Doj just sued live nation and ticketmaster. The Monster Business that controls 70 of tickets to end what they say is an illegal monopoly. Some of the companys most vocal recent customers swifties who have been furious and touched off a congressional hearing after they ended up either empty handed or shelling out more than A Thousand Dollars per ticket on average for the american leg of taylor swifts tour. We havent used the bathroom. We havent eaten. We are just waiting to get these tickets. This is the biggest disaster ive ever seen on ticketmaster. Im not getting tickets. Joining me now to discuss nbcs ryan reilly in d. C. So what exactly does the doj say that live nation and ticketmaster are doing that constitutes a monopoly . Well, you know, Merrick Garland is a wellknown swifty, and i think essentially what he laid out here is that this monopoly as they call it has spelled trouble, trouble, trouble for consumers. He essentially said that the prices have really gone up and this is unfair to people who are trying to buy tickets, and thats why its important to break this all apart. Take a listen. The Justice Department filed this lawsuit on behalf of fans who should be able to go to concerts without a Monopoly Standing in their way. We have filed this lawsuit on behalf of artists who should be able to plan their tours around their fans and not be dictated by an unlawful monopolist. So essentially what the allegation is here because live nation and ticketmaster control sort of every part of the process, because they control sort of these venue spaces, the ticket selling and sign a number of the artists as well, that that creates a way basically for the prices to rise up here. Live nation and ticketmaster have pushed back really strongly on that saying that the majority of these prices are set by the artist and the venues, but you know, obviously theres a lot of pushback here, and theres this big comparison between what the Ticket Prices look like say for the Eras Tour In Europe as compared to what they look like for in the United States where, you know, theres more regulations in europe. So the Justice Department is, you know, while they approved this 14 years ago, they said that the conditions this merger initially back in 2010, this is much different conditions than were in today and thats why they felt the need to file this lawsuit and ultimately break up live nation and ticketmaster, chris. Nbcs Christine Romans is also with me. The difference in prices is stark. So much so that there are a lot of americans who found it was cheaper to fly to europe and buy tickets there and stay there than just to buy tickets in the cities where she was in the u. S. Lisbon next week, 100 to 300 are those tickets. You look in miami in october, it thousand dollars. Thats the difference. Today you heard the Attorney General talk about the ticketmaster tax, he rattled off seven different platinum taxes. All these different taxes and fees that are on top of these tickets and you dont have those. There are rules against that in europe here so thats been the big focus of the government today is that they want to try to make prices cheaper here in the u. S. For american consumers, and they say breaking up the company is the only way to do that. I think the only people who are happy about this are the airlines because they say actually in european cities where taylor swift has concerts, theyve actually seen an uptick in people buying tickets. So good for them, but live nations stock is down today. I wonder what the company is saying. Yeah, the stock is down about 6 today. Obviously this is not great for the company, at least in investors minds today. Heres what the company said pushing back very sharply. The doj suit ignores everything that is actually responsible for higher Ticket Prices from increasing Production Costs to artist popularity, to 24 7 Online Ticket scalping that reveals the publics willingness to pay far more than the primary tickets cost. The Company Pushing back and saying supply and demand is really at the bottom of all of this. What about the allegation that live nation is actually, you know, i guess strong arming venues, would that be the right word to use and artists . Tell us more about that. Yeah, i think thats essentially what is at the center of this is that because they control sort of every step of this process, they have a lot of control over what artists do, right . You cant really get into the game unless youre going to sign up with live nation because they control so much of these venue spaces. So i think that basically what doj is saying, theyre breaking this apart, separating this out is going to create more competition and ultimately lower those prices so that you could maybe see the eras tour for a little cheaper perhaps in the United States versus europe. Look, im not going to pretend that i would fly to a foreign country to see taylor swift, but i certainly have many people in my family who would love to be able to do that. Heres the bottom line. Most people cant afford to do that, right . Most people cant afford i think somebody did a calculation that a third of the people at her paris concert were actually americans, which is great if, you know, you can take your 16yearold daughter to paris. Good on you. But its hard to believe that a lot of these artists and i think taylor swift among them, wants to price out a lot of people, probably the vast majority of people who are the bread and butter of her fan base. Well, lots of bands have been saying this for many, many years. They would like it make it affordable for people to come to their concerts. The issue for the government is theyre saying live nation controls the venue, controls the artists contracts and then sells the tickets so they have a hand in every single piece of the pie and thats what keeps it so expensive. Im still stuck in the 70s and 80s, but my nieces are telling me that ive got to get with the program. I have waited in line for a physical ticket in my lifetime too, remember waiting in line for the actual ticket. Christine romans. Ryan reilly, who would you wait in line for, ryan . Full disclosure my family and i are frying over to london actually over the summer to see taylor swift. I dont actually get to see the concert, but my daughter and wife get to. It was much cheaper when you looked at this. It was cheaper to buy a flight over to london than look for something in the United States. I reiterate that, dad of the year. 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