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pitch their closing messages to voters. we ll have a slew of new polling numbers to see what, if anything, is getting through. also ahead, this week s jobless claims are in. what the new numbers on of the of another interest rate hike tell us about the state of our economy. professor eddie glaude jr. and jonathan lemire are with us. and joining us, nbc news national political reporter marc caputo and republican strategist and nbc news political analyst susan del percio. it s good to have you with us this hor hour. we have new polling out this morning. a hotly contested senate race in pennsylvania, the latest emerson college the hill survey finds mehmet oz with a two-point lead over john fetterman, within the poll s 3% margin of error. 4% remain undecided. let s keep it in pennsylvania. another new poll shows last week s debate between fetterman and oz appears to have had very little impact in minds of voters. 48% of voters telling monmouth university they will defin ....
custody. there s a picture there. right now the motive is unknown. it is unclear if the attacks were racially motivated. but we should know police are ramping up security in asian-american communities as a precaution. president biden has been briefed on the shootings, and at this hour he returns to the white house. we ll bring you any live comments. also today, concerns of another covid surge. cases are climbing in more than one dozen states. the cdc is sounding the alarm on two variants in california. we ll get to that in a moment. let s begin on this tragic shooting spree. our ryan young joins us this morning in atlanta. what do you know about the victims, eight total, six of them asian. what can you tell us? reporter: so far, very little information is coming out about the victims except, besides their races. of course, what we ve been told so far is at least six of the people killed are asian. of course, we re trying to move forward with parts of this investigat ....
And other issues that might make us uncomfortable. yeah. that s right. there have always been some limits on what people feel they can say in polite society for good reason. you don t want people to say things like tucker carlson says on msnbc and cnn. you don t have white nationalists on your program and i think that s the correct decision, but i think in a lot of these institutions people really are afraid as wemple admitted and they re criticisms and that can create an unhealthy atmosphere where the people who have the most fanatical or extreme ideas can you have abouter everyone else into going along with their positions, so i think you need to strike a healthy balance and what wemple was admitting that we don t strike a healthy balance. he was afraid to write that column for two and a half years and a lot of people were afraid ....
dana: i don t think we should be asked to join again. greg: score of zero. tucker: i don t know what to say my mouth is open. lowest score ever recorded of in the two year history of the score. greg: we are little people and we have little scores. dana: yes. little scores. i m so embarrassed. tucker: greg you win with zero. next time i will award you eric wome wemple mug. dana: i can t believe you came him swalwell. tucker: share the most absurd questions in the history of of the game including one about barbra streisand cloning her dogs. stay tuned. ....
He s been going after the show pretty much the day we launched. in february we had him on the show mostly so we could meet one of our most fixated critics. how did it go? this picture sums it up more precisely than any video we can play you but the entire interview is on our facebook page for those of you will enjoy that sort of thing. wemple apparently never got over it, hence his column this morning. eric is wemple is hereby invite invited back to the show any day. i have to be honest, that picture you re looking at on the screen is on my favorites on my phone. whenever i m feeling sad, when the plane is in turbulence, a tough day at work, something wrong has gone on my life, i pull up that picture in the palliative effect is instant. it s on our facebook. if you want to download it to your phone too in benefit for the magical powers of his bewilderment, we recommended strongly. that s about it for us tonight. ....