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[{'start': '14.447', 'end': '16.849', 'text': ">> TONIGHT. THE FIRST.  >> BIG STAFFING SHAKEUP OF THE.  PRESIDENT'S SECOND TERM, WITH  EMBATTLED NATIONAL SECURITY  ADVISER MIKE WALLACE AT THE  CENTER OF THE SIGNAL GATE  SCANDAL NOW REASSIGNED. WHAT IT  MEANS FOR THE PRESIDENT'S INNER  CIRCLE AND WHAT HAPPENS FROM  HERE. THEN SOME GOOD NEWS FOR  THE BIG TECH COMPANIES MEANS  SOME GOOD VIBES FOR THE STOCK  MARKET. THE SINGLE WORD  SURPRISINGLY MISSING FROM  APPLE'S BUSINESS OUTLOOK. PLUS,  THE MAN WHO FELL 20FT FROM HIS  SEAT AT A PIRATES GAME, NOW IN  CRITICAL CONDITION TONIGHT. WHAT  WE'RE HEARING FROM SHOCKED  PLAYERS AND FANS WHO WATCHED IT  HAPPEN. AND NEW DETAILS FROM  SUPERSTAR SHERYL CROW ABOUT AN  ARMED BREAK-IN AT HER NASHVILLE  PROPERTY. WHAT SHE SAYS SELLING  HER TESLA HAD TO DO WITH IT. AND  LATER, BIG.  >> RACE, BIG HATS, BIG BETS.  >> AND BIG MONEY. WITH MILLIONS  OF DOLLARS ON THE LINE AT THE  KENTUCKY DERBY. OUR OWN STEVE  KORNACKI IS LIVE FROM CHURCHILL  DOWNS TO BREAK IT DOWN, COMING  UP LATER IN THE SHOW.  >> HEY.  >> I'M HALLIE, AND ANY MINUTE  NOW WE EXPECT TO SEE PRESIDENT  TRUMP FOR THE FIRST TIME AFTER  THAT FIRST BIG STAFFING SHAKEUP  OF HIS SECOND TERM. THE  PRESIDENT NAMING MIKE WALTZ TO  BE THE COUNTRY'S AMBASSADOR TO  THE UNITED NATIONS, WHICH MEANS  WALTZ IS LEAVING HIS ROLE AS  NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER IN HIS  PLACE FOR NOW. MARCO RUBIO, THE  SECRETARY OF STATE. YES, HE  ALREADY HAS A JOB. HE'S GOING TO  BE DOING BOTH OF THESE BIG JOBS  AT ONCE, AT LEAST FOR NOW.  SOMETHING NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE  SAW COMING. APPARENTLY NOT EVEN  HIS SPOKESPERSON AT THE STATE  DEPARTMENT.  >> HE SAYS THAT IN THE INTERIM,  SECRETARY OF STATE MARCO RUBIO  WILL SERVE AS NATIONAL SECURITY  ADVISER WHILE CONTINUING HIS  STRONG LEADERSHIP AT THE STATE  DEPARTMENT. DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG  HE'S GOING TO BE SERVING IN BOTH  ROLES?  >> IT IS CLEAR.  >> THAT I JUST.  >> HEARD THIS.  >> FROM YOU.  >> WALTZ SAYS HE IS DEEPLY  HONORED TO CONTINUE HIS SERVICE  TO THE PRESIDENT AND THE NATION  AFTER A PRETTY WILD COUPLE OF  DAYS. OUR TEAM DID NOT SEE HIM  AT AN EVENT WITH THE PRESIDENT  THIS MORNING, BUT CAMERAS DID  CATCH HIM LEAVING THE WEST WING.  THERE HE IS. AND THEN JUST A DAY  AND A HALF AGO, CAMERAS CAPTURED  HIM AS WELL. LOOK AT THIS. AT A  CABINET MEETING TO TALK ABOUT  NATIONAL SECURITY. BUT LOOK MORE  CLOSELY FROM ANOTHER ANGLE. LOOK  AT WHAT'S IN HIS HAND. THAT'S  HIS PHONE. HE'S ON SIGNAL. YOU  CAN SEE CHATS WITH LABELS OF  NAMES. RUBIO, GABBARD, TULSI.  GABBARD. LOOKS LIKE MAYBE STEVE  WITKOFF, JD VANCE. WHY DOES THAT  MATTER? WELL, SIGNALS KIND OF  WHY WE'RE HERE. REMEMBER, WALTZ  TOOK AND I'M QUOTING HERE FULL  RESPONSIBILITY FOR SO-CALLED  SIGNAL GATE, THAT BIG GROUP CHAT  WHERE A JOURNALIST FROM THE  ATLANTIC WAS ACCIDENTALLY ADDED  TO THIS WHOLE DISCUSSION ON  SENSITIVE STRIKES ON HOUTHI  REBELS IN YEMEN THAT HAD ALL  KINDS OF QUESTIONS SWIRLING  ABOUT WHETHER CLASSIFIED  INFORMATION WAS SHARED.  ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS DENY  THAT. NOW, PUBLICLY, THE  PRESIDENT HAS STOOD BY WALTZ  PRIVATELY, ACCORDING TO TWO  REPUBLICAN SOURCES OUR TEAM  TALKED WITH LAST MONTH, THE  PRESIDENT HAS VENTED ABOUT THIS  WHOLE THING LEAKING OUT. AND NOW  SOME BIG QUESTIONS MOVING  FORWARD. DOES THIS MEAN THE END  OF THE SIGNAL GATE FALLOUT?  COULD WE SEE ANOTHER FIRING OR  REASSIGNMENT, LIKE MAYBE THE  DEFENSE SECRETARY, PETE HEGSETH,  WHO DOES THE PRESIDENT PICK FOR  THE PERMANENT ROLE OF NATIONAL  SECURITY ADVISER? OR DOES MARCO  RUBIO END UP HANDLING THIS JOB  IN AN ACTING CAPACITY FOR A  LITTLE WHILE? REMEMBER, WE SAW  THAT A LOT IN PRESIDENT TRUMP'S  FIRST TERM, THESE KIND OF LONG  TERM ACTINGS. GABE GUTIERREZ IS  IN TUSCALOOSA, ALABAMA, WHERE WE  ARE GOING TO SEE THE PRESIDENT  TONIGHT. HE IS ON HIS WAY THERE.  GABE, HE'S ABOUT TO LEAVE THE  WHITE HOUSE. THERE MIGHT BE AN  OPPORTUNITY FOR HIM TO TAKE SOME  QUESTIONS FROM REPORTERS WHO ARE  GATHERED FOR THE DEPARTURE. WE  WILL SEE ANY MINUTE. BUT LET'S  START ON SORT OF THIS TURNOVER  HERE. WE SAW A LOT OF TURNOVER  IN THE FIRST TERM, INCLUDING IN  THIS VERY ROLE, WHEN HE FIRED  HIS FIRST NATIONAL SECURITY  ADVISER ONLY A FEW WEEKS IN.  HERE WE ARE, 102 DAYS IN,  DEPENDING ON HOW YOU COUNT IT.  AND THIS IS REALLY THE FIRST BIG  SHIFT TRIGGERED IN PART BY THIS  CONTROVERSY OVER SIGNAL.  >> THAT NIGHT.  >> YEAH. THAT'S RIGHT. AND LOOK,  THE KNIVES HAVE BEEN OUT FOR  MIKE WALLACE FOR SOME TIME, BY  THE WAY, BEFORE I KEEP GOING.  I'D BE REMISS IF I DIDN'T SAY  ROLL TIDE BECAUSE YOU APPARENTLY  ARE WEARING A RED BLAZER. THIS  EVENT DOES COMMENCEMENT ABOUT TO  GET STARTED? IN JUST A FEW HOURS  HERE. THE PRESIDENT SPEAKING  HERE IN FRONT OF A LARGE CROWD  IN RUBY RED, ALABAMA. AND HE HAS  BEEN FOCUSING ON TOUTING HIS  ECONOMIC ACCOMPLISHMENTS. BUT  BACK IN WASHINGTON, AS YOU SAID,  THE FOCUS HAS BEEN ON THE  DEPARTURE OF MIKE WALLACE. AND  HE HAD BEEN ALIGNED WITH THE  MODERATE WING OF THE PARTY AND  INTERNALLY, THE MAGA WING. NOT  VERY HAPPY WITH HIM. YOU  MENTIONED THOSE TWO SOURCES THAT  NBC NEWS SPOKE WITH THAT  REPUBLICANS HAVE BEEN SAYING  THAT PRIVATELY, PRESIDENT TRUMP  HAD BEEN VENTING ABOUT MIKE  WALLACE EVER SINCE THE SIGNAL  CONTROVERSY. NOW, EARLIER TODAY,  THOUGH, HE DID POST ON SOCIAL  MEDIA. IN ANNOUNCING HIS  DEPARTURE, HE SAID THAT HE WAS,  UM, FROM HIS TIME IN UNIFORM, ON  THE BATTLEFIELD IN CONGRESS. AS  MY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR,  MIKE WALLACE HAS WORKED HARD TO  PUT OUR NATION'S INTERESTS  FIRST. I KNOW HE WILL DO THE  SAME IN HIS NEW ROLE, AND THIS  COMES JUST SEVERAL WEEKS AFTER  PRESIDENT TRUMP FIERCELY  PRAISING MIKE WALLACE. HERE'S  SOME OF WHAT HE SAID IN LATE  MARCH.  >> THE PUBLIC UNDERSTANDS THAT  HE'S A VERY GOOD MAN. THAT MAN  IS A VERY GOOD MAN RIGHT THERE  THAT YOU CRITICIZE.  >> SO STRONGLY.  >> HE'S A VERY.  >> GOOD MAN.  >> AND HE WILL.  >> UH. CONTINUE TO.  >> DO A GOOD JOB.  >> ATTENTION NOW HAS BEEN  BUILDING FOR SOME TIME EVER  SINCE THAT SIGNAL GATE  CONTROVERSY. MIKE WALLACE WAS  SEEN AS VERY ALIGNED WITH  SIOUXSIE WILES, THE CHIEF OF  STAFF. SO UP UNTIL JUST A FEW  HOURS AGO, WE THOUGHT IT WAS  THOUGHT THAT HE MIGHT BE ABLE TO  PULL THROUGH THIS. APPARENTLY  NOT. AND THE PRESIDENT NOW  GIVING HIM A NEW ROLE OR  NOMINATING HIM TO BE AMBASSADOR  TO THE U.N.  >> AND THAT'S A SENATE CONFIRMED  POSITION. GABE AND I SHOULD NOTE  HERE, TOO, THAT, UM, NO COMMENT  FROM THE PRESIDENT ON DEPARTURE.  SO HE'S GETTING ON THE  HELICOPTER, HE'S HEADING TO  ANDREWS. HE'S GOING TO THEN BE  HEADING YOUR WAY. OF COURSE,  WE'LL SEE IF HE DECIDES TO TAKE  ANY QUESTIONS WHILE HE'S IN  ALABAMA. BUT BUT MIKE WALLACE IS  GOING TO HAVE TO GO THROUGH A  PROCESS NOW IF HE DOES WANT TO  BE THE U.N. AMBASSADOR. AND IT  IS ENTIRELY POSSIBLE THAT SIGNAL  GATE COMES UP, RIGHT? I MEAN, IT  DOESN'T NECESSARILY MEAN THIS  WHOLE SITUATION IS BEHIND HIM,  ALTHOUGH THE HE AND PETE HEGSETH  AND OTHERS HAVE ANSWERED A  SERIES OF QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS  ALREADY.  >> YEAH. AND CERTAINLY, LOOK,  HE'LL FACE TOUGH QUESTIONING  FROM DEMOCRATS FOR CERTAIN. BUT  AS I POINTED OUT, HE WASN'T  EXACTLY A VERY FRIENDLY WITH THE  MAGA WING OF THE PARTY, THAT  ARCH CONSERVATIVE WING OF THE  PARTY. SO HE MIGHT FACE TOUGH  QUESTIONS FROM THEM AS WELL, BUT  CERTAINLY A MUCH MORE DIFFICULT  CONFIRMATION PROCESS THAN  BEFORE. HE DIDN'T HAVE TO BE  CONFIRMED BY THE SENATE IN HIS  ROLE AS NATIONAL SECURITY  ADVISER. EARLIER TODAY, THE  PRESIDENT, AT A NATIONAL DAY OF  PRAYER EVENT, DID NOT SHOUT OUT  MIKE WALLACE. HE WASN'T THERE AT  THE EVENT. UH, BUT AGAIN, THIS  COMES AFTER WEEKS OF THE  PRESIDENT STANDING BY PUBLICLY  FOR STANDING FOR UP FOR HIS  NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER  PUBLICLY. AND NOW AGAIN, IT'S  THINGS HAPPEN VERY QUICKLY IN  TRUMP WORLD, AS I'M SURE YOU  REMEMBER, HALLIE, FROM COVERING  THE FIRST ADMINISTRATION.  >> GABE, REAL QUICK HERE. IS  THERE AN END CAP ON MARCO  RUBIO'S TIME DOING THIS DOUBLE  DUTY, IF YOU WILL? WE SAW FIRST  TIME AROUND. AND YOU REMEMBER  THIS, TOO. THESE ACTING FOLKS  WOULD SERVE FOR MAYBE MONTHS AT  A TIME HERE. DO YOU HAVE ANY  SENSE OF WHETHER RUBIO IS IN  THIS DUAL ROLE LONG TERM?  >> LOOK, IT IS QUITE REMARKABLE.  WE DO NOT YET KNOW. IT'S  POSSIBLE THAT HE COULD BE IN  THIS ROLE FOR QUITE SOME TIME.  PRESIDENT TRUMP OVER THE LAST  SEVERAL DAYS AND WEEKS, HAS BEEN  EFFUSIVE IN HIS PRAISE OF MARCO  RUBIO. AND YOU SEE RIGHT THERE  QUITE A RESUME NOW FOR MARCO  RUBIO. HE'S SECRETARY OF STATE.  HE'S A NATIONAL SECURITY  ADVISOR. HE'S THE ACTING  ADMINISTRATOR OF USAID, AND HE'S  ALSO THE HEAD OF THE NATIONAL  ARCHIVES. SO A VERY BUSY  PORTFOLIO THERE FOR MARCO RUBIO  SEEMINGLY GOT INCREASINGLY  CLOSER TO PRESIDENT TRUMP AS  MIKE WALLACE HAS BEEN ON THE  OUTS. OF COURSE, THERE ARE ALSO  OTHER, UH, DIPLOMATS INVOLVED IN  ALL THIS. STEVE WITKOFF OF  MIDDLE EAST ENVOY. UM, SO IT WAS  VERY CROWDED IN THERE. AND IT  APPEARS THAT MIKE WALTZ WAS ON  THE OUTS, DID NOT MAKE IT  THROUGH THIS, UH, THIS LATEST  SITUATION THERE. HOWARD.  >> GABE GUTIERREZ LIVE FOR US  DOWN THERE IN ALABAMA. FOR THE  RECORD, GABE THE RED  UNINTENTIONAL I AM A COLLEGE  FOOTBALL NEUTRAL DESPITE YOUR  ROLL TIDE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.  APPRECIATE YOU SIR. LET'S TALK  MONEY NOW BECAUSE RIGHT NOW  YOU'VE GOT APPLE BEATING  EXPECTATIONS, DOING BETTER THAN  PEOPLE THOUGHT IN THIS EARNINGS  REPORT THAT INTERESTINGLY OMITS  A SINGLE WORD THAT MAYBE  SURPRISING, DOESN'T MENTION THE  WORD TARIFF. REMEMBER APPLE HAD  LOBBIED HARD AND THEY WON CARVE  OUTS FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP'S  CHINA TARIFFS FOR STUFF LIKE  SMARTPHONES. BUT IT'S NOT THE  BIG COMPANIES THAT SHOULD BE  MOST CONCERNED. ACCORDING TO THE  CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. IT'S THE  SMALL ONES. AFTER THE CHAMBER  SENT THIS LETTER TO THE  PRESIDENT'S TOP ECONOMIC  ADVISERS ASKING FOR A TARIFF  EXCLUSION PROCESS, YOU SEE IT  THERE IMMEDIATELY. WHY? WELL,  LOOK, PEOPLE ARE STARTING TO  TIGHTEN THEIR PURSE STRINGS.  MCDONALD KNOWS IT. THEY'RE  TALKING ABOUT IT. THEY SAY THAT  THEY'RE SEEING ITS BIGGEST  CONTRACTION. SO ITS BIGGEST  SLOWDOWN SINCE THE PEAK OF THE  COVID PANDEMIC, THEY SAY BECAUSE  PEOPLE JUST AREN'T EATING OUT.  PEOPLE AREN'T DINING OUT QUITE  AS MUCH. SAME STORE SALES  DOMESTICALLY. WAY DOWN. LET ME  BRING IN CHRISTINE ROMANS, WHO'S  JOINING US NOW. A LOT TO GET TO  ON THE ECONOMIC FRONT HERE.  CHRISTINE, LET'S START WITH  APPLE. THAT IS JUST OUT HERE.  YOU HAD SO MANY PEOPLE WATCHING  THESE BIG TECH COMPANIES. BUT  NOW APPLE IS COMING OUT SAYING  BASICALLY LIKE THEY DIDN'T SEE  MUCH EVIDENCE OF PEOPLE PANIC  BUYING BECAUSE OF TARIFFS IN THE  FIRST FEW MONTHS.  >> YEAH. AND IPHONE SALES COMING  IN KIND OF AT THE LOW END OF  EXPECTATIONS. BUT WITHIN WITHIN  THAT RANGE HERE. AND IT'S A LOT  OF IT'S PROFIT BOOST CAME FROM  SERVICES. AND IT'S GROWING YOU  KNOW EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD  EXCEPT FOR CHINA. I MEAN I THINK  THE MOST IMPORTANT THING HERE,  WHAT THE ANALYSTS ASK TIM COOK  ON THE CONFERENCE CALL, THAT'S  WHERE THE NEWS WILL BE MADE. HE  HAS BEEN VERY DEFT IN NAVIGATING  WHAT ARE TREACHEROUS WATERS IN  TERMS OF NOT ANGERING THE WHITE  HOUSE RIGHT ABOUT TARIFFS. AND  HIS COMPANY IS RIGHT. I MEAN, A  LOT OF PRODUCTION THERE IN  CHINA. THE COMPANY HAS ALSO SAID  THAT IT PLANS TO MAKE EVEN MORE  OF THE OF THE PHONES THAT ARE  ARE SOLD IN THE UNITED STATES,  IN IN INDIA, OTHER PRODUCTS  MAKING THEM IN VIETNAM. SO THIS  IS A COMPANY THAT SINCE THE  FIRST TRUMP ADMINISTRATION HAS  BEEN CAREFULLY TRYING TO MANAGE  AROUND THE TRUMP TRADE  WORLDVIEW. SO TBD. WATCH THIS  SPACE. THE NEWS WILL HAPPEN WHEN  THE ANALYSTS TRY TO GET HIM TO  SAY THE T WORD.  >> OKAY, WELL, YEAH, YOU'LL BE  STANDING BY. THANK YOU. WE'LL  SEE WHAT HAPPENS. BECAUSE THAT I  THINK IS SUPPOSED TO START  REALLY ANY MINUTE HERE. WE ALSO  SHOWED THAT LETTER FROM THE HEAD  OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE  SAYING, HEY, SMALL COMPANIES  NEED HELP TOO. IS THAT A SCREAM  INTO THE VOID OR IS THERE SOME  REALISTIC POSSIBILITY SOMETHING  COMES FROM IT?  >> LOOK, IT'S BASICALLY THEY'RE  PRACTICALLY BEGGING THE WHITE  HOUSE TO DO SOMETHING AND SAYING  ALL THE BIG COMPANIES LIKE  APPLE, FOR EXAMPLE, THAT DOES  HAVE SOME EXEMPTIONS FOR ITS  PRODUCTS. THEY HAVE K STREET  LOBBYISTS AND A WASHINGTON  PRESENCE TO BE ABLE TO LOBBY FOR  WHAT THEY NEED. BUT, YOU KNOW,  AUNT JOAN WITH HER, YOU KNOW,  BABY CLOTHES STORE ON MAIN  STREET DOESN'T HAVE THAT. AND SO  THIS IS THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE,  AN INFLUENTIAL ORGANIZATION,  SAYING WE WOULD LIKE AN  EXCLUSION PROCESS IMMEDIATELY  FOR THESE COMPANIES AND SAYING  SPECIFICALLY THAT THEY DON'T  HAVE WEEKS AND MONTHS TO WAIT  FOR TRADE AGREEMENTS, AND ALSO  SAYING THAT THEY AGREE.  DEFINITELY, AS SO MANY BUSINESS  LEADERS DO, SAYING THE PRESIDENT  IS DOING THE RIGHT THING, BUT  LET'S MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE NOT  HURT BY IT IN THE MEDIUM TERM.  ALSO, MAKING THE POINT THAT I  THINK IS INTERESTING, THEY'D  LIKE EXEMPTIONS FOR THINGS THAT  AREN'T MADE IN THE US, LIKE  BANANAS AND COFFEE AND STUFF  THAT ISN'T MADE HERE, THAT NOW  IS BEING TARIFFED SMALL BUSINESS  OWNERS ARE PAYING MORE FOR  SOMETHING. THEY'RE NOT GOING TO  GROW BANANAS, YOU KNOW?  >> I MEAN, THAT'S IT, RIGHT? AND  THE OTHER THING IS, TOO,  CHRISTINA, I WONDER WHAT YOU  MAKE OF SOME OF THOSE WARNING  SIGNS FROM MCDONALD'S HERE.  >> YEAH, I LOOKED IN THOSE  NUMBERS. SO LOW INCOME DINERS  HAD AN ALMOST DOUBLE DIGIT  DECLINE IN SAME STORE SALES.  WOW. BUT GUESS WHAT? IT WAS  NEARLY AS MUCH FOR MIDDLE INCOME  DINERS. WHICH MEANS PEOPLE ARE,  YOU KNOW, THEY'RE THEY ARE  PINCHING THEIR PENNIES. THEY ARE  CONCERNED ABOUT STOCK MARKET  SWINGS AND TARIFF TALK. AND  AFTER ALSO, BY THE WAY, TWO AND  A HALF YEARS OF BEING JUST  EXHAUSTED BY INFLATION. SO JUST  INTERESTING TO SEE WHAT'S  HAPPENING THERE. WE'VE BEEN  HEARING SOMETHING SIMILAR FROM  THE AIRLINES. TOTALLY DIFFERENT  KIND OF CONSUMER BEHAVIOR. BUT  ALSO THE AIRLINES ARE SAYING  PEOPLE ARE PULLING BACK. AND THE  SOUTHWEST CEO SAID HE THINKS  IT'S BECAUSE OF TARIFFS.  CONSUMERS ARE CAUTIOUS. THEY  THINK SOMETHING'S COMING. THEY  THEY FEEL AND KNOW SOMETHING'S  BREWING. AND SO THEY'RE THEY'RE  PINCHING THEIR PENNIES.  >> NEVER A DULL. CHRISTINE  ROMANS KEEP AN EYE ON THAT APPLE  THING. WE'LL TALK WHEN WE KNOW  MORE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. RIGHT  NOW TONIGHT TO A TRAVEL MESS  WITH MORE THAN FOUR HOUR DELAYS  FOR FLIGHTS AT NEWARK OUTSIDE  NEW YORK. AND THAT SLOWDOWN IS  INTENTIONAL BECAUSE THERE AREN'T  ENOUGH AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS.  MAJOR DOMINO EFFECT HAPPENING.  LOOK AT THIS. INCOMING FLIGHTS  DELAYED BY SOMETHING LIKE FIVE  HOURS. DEPARTING FLIGHTS A  LITTLE BIT BETTER. 30 MINUTES.  THE FAA SLOWING THINGS DOWN ON  PURPOSE HERE BECAUSE OF MAJOR  STAFFING SHORTAGES AT THE  AIRPORTS CONTROL TOWERS. THIS  HAS BEEN HAPPENING AT NEWARK ALL  WEEK LONG, AND IT'S NOT CLEAR  WHEN THINGS ARE GOING TO GET  BACK UP TO SPEED. LET ME GET TO  NBC'S TOM COSTELLO ON THIS BOY,  TOM. THERE ARE A LOT OF THREADS  TO PULL HERE, IN PARTICULAR THIS  RIPPLE EFFECT, BECAUSE WHAT  HAPPENS AT NEWARK DOESN'T STAY  AT NEWARK. YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT  POTENTIALLY A DOMINO THAT COULD  AFFECT OTHER AIRPORTS IN THE  REGION.  >> YEAH. LET ME.  >> UH, THIS IS REALLY.  >> KIND OF A COMPLICATED.  >> SITUATION HERE.  >> SOME INBOUND FLIGHTS ARE  DELAYED BY 12 HOURS. SOME  OUTBOUND FLIGHTS ARE DELAYED BY  FIVE HOURS. UH, THIS IS. A REAL  PROBLEM AT NEWARK AIRSPACE. AND  LET ME EXPLAIN WHAT'S GOING ON  HERE. UM, THE FAA IN THE LAST  YEAR. HAS MOVED SOME OF THE  CONTROLLERS WHO HANDLE NEWARK  AIRSPACE, NOT THE PEOPLE ON THE  TOWER WHO HANDLE THE RUNWAYS,  BUT AIRSPACE. THEY MOVE THOSE  CONTROLLERS DOWN TO  PHILADELPHIA. IT WAS ALL ABOUT  TRYING TO ENCOURAGE MORE PEOPLE  TO BE IN THE PHILADELPHIA  TRACON, IF YOU WILL, THAT THAT  THAT CENTER THAT HANDLES  AIRSPACE ABOVE 10,000FT. AND IT  WAS ALSO ABOUT, YOU KNOW, TRYING  TO ESSENTIALLY MAKE SURE THAT  THEY'VE GOT ENOUGH PEOPLE IN ONE  PLACE AND THEREFORE THEY'RE  SIPHONING OFF EXTRA PEOPLE. THAT  WAS THE RATIONALE. IT HASN'T  WORKED THAT WELL, ACCORDING TO  THE CONTROLLERS WE TALKED TO.  AND THE PROBLEM IS THEY'VE HAD  DRAMATIC EQUIPMENT FAILURES THIS  WEEK. LISTEN TO THIS. RADARS AT  NEWARK AIRSPACE CONTROL CENTER  WENT DOWN. RADAR WENT DOWN  MONDAY NIGHT. RADIOS WENT DOWN  LAST NIGHT. AND ACCORDING TO ONE  OF THE VETERANS I TALKED TO,  THIS IS A REGULAR ONGOING  PROBLEM. AND IT HAS BEEN FOR A  WHILE. AND THAT IS WHY WE'VE  SEEN THESE DRAMATIC DELAYS AND  CANCELLATIONS TODAY AFFECTING  THE NEWARK, UH, AIRSPACE,  ESSENTIALLY, AND IN AND OUT OF  NEWARK. SO THE CONCERN IS THIS  COULD PORTEND A ROUGH TRAVEL  SEASON FOR ANYBODY GOING IN AND  OUT OF NEWARK. AND KEEP IN MIND,  NEWARK IS A CRITICAL HUB FOR  UNITED AIRLINES. SO THAT'S WHERE  WE STAND RIGHT NOW. WITH  HUNDREDS OF FLIGHTS DELAYED OR  CANCELED TODAY. AND THE DELAYS  AND CANCELLATIONS ARE REALLY  PRETTY DRAMATIC.  >> CAN YOU BE CRYSTAL CLEAR  THERE, TOM? HERE, TOM. SHOULD  PEOPLE FEEL LESS SAFE FLYING  INTO NEWARK? IN OTHER WORDS, IS  THIS A SAFETY THING OR IS THIS A  CONVENIENCE THING?  >> UNSOLICITED, THE CONTROLLER I  TALKED TO TODAY SAID HE DOESN'T  THINK THAT NEWARK AIRSPACE IS  SAFE. NOW.  >> THAT WAS.  >> I WAS SURPRISED.  >> THAT'S A THAT'S.  >> A LITTLE INTENSE.  >> AND THEY DON'T THEY'RE NOT  PRONE TO HYPERBOLE. I WILL TELL  YOU THAT IMMEDIATELY THE FAA AND  THE AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER  UNIONS SAY IT'S VERY SAFE. DON'T  WORRY. THEY'RE TRYING TO MAKE  SURE THAT THINGS ARE SPACED  PROPERLY. THEY'RE TRYING TO MAKE  SURE THAT THEY GOT ENOUGH  STAFFING. BUT THIS IS CLEARLY AN  ONGOING PROBLEM HERE. AND WE  ARE, AS YOU AND I HAVE  DISCUSSED, THE COUNTRY IS SHORT.  SOME 3000 CONTROLLERS. AND TODAY  THE DOT SECRETARY ANNOUNCED  STEPS TO TRY TO RECRUIT MORE AND  RETAIN CONTROLLERS. UH, AND IT'S  A VERY STRESSFUL JOB. RIGHT. SO  THEY'RE OFFERING BONUSES NOT  ONLY TO GET PEOPLE TO SIGN UP TO  BE A CONTROLLER, BUT THEN STAY  ON THE JOB UNTIL THE MANDATORY  RETIREMENT AGE OF 56. YEAH,  THAT'S RIGHT, 56. THAT'S THE  MANDATORY RETIREMENT AGE BECAUSE  OF THE STRESS THAT THIS JOB  ENTAILS. BUT NONETHELESS, WE  HAVE A BIG PROBLEM IN THIS  COUNTRY. ON THE SHORTAGE OF  CONTROLLERS WIDELY ACCEPTED.  EVERYBODY ACKNOWLEDGES THAT AND  IT WILL TAKE YEARS TO GET IT  FIXED.  >> BUT I DO THINK THAT HELPS  HELPS EXPLAIN MAYBE THE QUESTION  PEOPLE MIGHT HAVE, WHICH IS,  WELL, WAIT A SECOND, WHY NOT  JUST FLY IN MORE CONTROLLERS  FROM LA OR TEXAS OR WHEREVER?  IT'S NOT AS THOUGH THERE'S THIS  BIG EXCESS POOL OF PEOPLE WITH  THIS VERY SPECIFIC EXPERTISE  THAT CAN COME IN AND HELP AT  NEWARK FAIR.  >> 35% WASHOUT RATE AT THE  ACADEMY 35%. ANOTHER 20% QUIT ON  THE JOB. UH, THEY SIMPLY CANNOT  KEEP UP OR BARELY ARE KEEPING UP  RIGHT NOW WITH PEOPLE JUST  LEAVING, RETIRING AND LEAVING.  RIGHT. AND IT'S STRESSFUL. THIS  IS NOT MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY,  95. IT'S WEEKENDS, IT'S  OVERNIGHTS, IT'S HOLIDAYS AND  IT'S LIFE AND DEATH. IT IS A  VERY STRESSFUL JOB.  >> TOM COSTELLO MUCH MORE TO  WATCH THERE. TOM, PLEASE KEEP US  POSTED AS THE EVENING GOES ON ON  THIS ONE TO APPRECIATE THAT.  ALSO IN PENNSYLVANIA TONIGHT,  SOME 200,000 PEOPLE DO NOT HAVE  ELECTRICITY AFTER SEVERE WEATHER  RIPPED THROUGH HIGH WINDS  DOWNING POWER LINES. LOOK AT  SOME OF THE DEBRIS, SOME OF THE  DESTRUCTION HERE. ROOFS SMASHED  IN. LOOK THIS ROAD. YOU SEE THE  WIND BLOWING, THE RAIN ACROSS,  TREES DOWN AS MENTIONED. AND  THIS HAS TURNED DEADLY. AT LEAST  FOUR PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED IN  JUST THE LAST FEW DAYS ACROSS  THE COUNTRY. PARTS OF OKLAHOMA  AND TEXAS ARE UNDER FLOOD  WARNINGS AS THEY BRACE FOR  ANOTHER ROUND OF STORMS TONIGHT  WITH WHOLE NEIGHBORHOODS. LOOK  AT THAT. UNDERWATER FLOODWATERS  CAUSING A DAM TO BREAK IN ONE  TOWN ABOUT 30 MILES FROM TULSA,  WHERE AT LEAST TWO PEOPLE HAVE  DIED, AT LEAST IN THAT STATE,  INCLUDING AN 86 YEAR OLD WOMAN  WHO DROWNED. SOMEBODY ELSE DIED  AFTER HIS CAR GOT STUCK IN THE  WATER. RESCUERS WERE NOT ABLE TO  GET TO HIM. THAT'S THE CAR RIGHT  THERE. I WANT TO GO NOW TO NBC  NEWS METEOROLOGIST KEVIN WOOTEN,  WHO'S JOINING US NOW. WHAT IS  THE EXPECTATION HERE, KEVIN, FOR  WHEN THIS WHEN THIS WHEN WE GET  A HANDLE ON THIS.  >> WELL, HALLIE.  >> UNFORTUNATELY A LOT OF THOSE.  >> LOCATIONS THAT YOU JUST  SHOWED THEY'RE GOING THROUGH THE  SEVERE WEATHER TODAY.  >> STILL UNDERNEATH THE SEVERE  WEATHER THREAT.  >> TOMORROW AS WELL. THE STORMS  RIGHT NOW ONGOING ACROSS WESTERN  PENNSYLVANIA AND EVEN PORTIONS  OF OHIO WITH SEVERE  THUNDERSTORMS NOW WITH  POTENTIALLY PEA SIZED TO DIME  SIZED HAIL TO THE SOUTH AND  WEST, A NEW AREA. THIS IS THE  SECOND AREA OF CONCERN TONIGHT  AND INTO TOMORROW. NORTH OF  AUSTIN, WE DO HAVE TORNADO  WARNINGS RIGHT NOW AND ALSO  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS  TOO. AND KEEP IN MIND, AS ONE  STARTS TO COME TO A CONCLUSION,  THE OTHER IS JUST GETTING GOING.  AND THIS, BY THE WAY, WILL  CONTINUE TONIGHT AND INTO  TOMORROW, WHICH MAKES THIS ALL  THE MORE DANGEROUS. THESE  TORNADOES ARE HAPPENING  OVERNIGHT WHEN A LOT OF FOLKS  ARE SLEEPING, SO THEY SHOULD  HAVE A WAY TO GET THOSE SEVERE  THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS AND  TORNADO WARNINGS TO HAIL  POTENTIALLY THE SIZE OF A LIME,  IF NOT THE SIZE OF A SOFTBALL.  ALSO, THE POTENTIAL THROUGH  LAWTON AND WICHITA FALLS AND  ACROSS THE RED RIVER REGION, AND  THEN TO THE SOUTH FROM WACO TO  BRYAN AND AUSTIN, TEXAS, THAT'S  ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE CENTRAL  AND SOUTHERN PLAINS. BUT LOOK AT  THE RAIN THAT STRETCHES ALL THE  WAY ACROSS THE NORTHEAST. IT HAS  BEEN A VERY, VERY WET SPRING  ACROSS. BOSTON HAS PRACTICALLY  NOT HAD A DRY WEEKEND JUST YET.  HALLIE. SO FAR THIS SPRING,  UNFORTUNATELY, THIS IS ROUNDS OF  RAINFALL NOT JUST GOING ON  THROUGH SUNDAY WITH ANOTHER ONE  TO PERHAPS 2.5IN OF RAIN.  HALLIE. BUT PERHAPS ANOTHER  THREE, 4 OR 5 DAYS THROUGHOUT  MUCH OF NEXT WEEK. HALLIE.  >> KEVIN, THANK YOU VERY MUCH  FOR THAT UPDATE. APPRECIATE IT  TO HARVARD. NOW, WITH NEW  CONCERNS ON CAMPUS TONIGHT AS  WE'RE LEARNING MORE THAT ABOUT  HARVARD HANDING OVER INFORMATION  ABOUT THOUSANDS OF ITS  INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS TO THE  DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY,  THIS LOOKS LIKE THE FIRST BIG  MOVE FROM THE SCHOOL TO GIVE IN  TO AT LEAST SOME OF THE TRUMP  ADMINISTRATION'S DEMANDS. SINCE  THE START OF THE ESCALATING  FIGHT BETWEEN THE TWO. BUT  HERE'S THE THING THERE'S A LOT  WE STILL DON'T KNOW ABOUT THIS.  LIKE WHAT SPECIFICALLY WHAT  EXACTLY IS IN THOSE RECORDS? THE  WHITE HOUSE ASKED FOR THINGS  LIKE DISCIPLINARY RECORDS,  ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES AS WELL. THEY  THREATENED TO CUT OFF HARVARD'S  STUDENT EXCHANGE PROGRAM IF THE  UNIVERSITY DID NOT GO ALONG WITH  THIS, ALL OF IT PART OF A MUCH  LARGER FIGHT BETWEEN THE  UNIVERSITY'S VARIOUS  UNIVERSITIES AND HIGHER  EDUCATION AND THE WHITE HOUSE.  MORE THAN A THOUSAND  INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS AT  SCHOOLS ACROSS THE COUNTRY HAVE  REPORTEDLY HAD STUDENT VISAS  REVOKED IN JUST THE LAST COUPLE  OF WEEKS. REHEMA ELLIS IS  JOINING US NOW. REHEMA, HELP US  UNDERSTAND WHY HARVARD IS  CHOOSING TO COMPLY WITH THIS  REQUEST. AFTER VERY NOTABLY,  OVER THE COURSE OF THE LAST  COUPLE OF WEEKS, INDICATING THEY  WOULD RESIST.  >> ONE OF THE THINGS WE'RE  SEEING, AND THAT'S A RESULT OF  THE LETTER THAT THE PRESIDENT OF  HARVARD SENT TO THE HARVARD  COMMUNITY LAST NIGHT, IT POINTS  OUT HOW IMPORTANT FOREIGN  STUDENTS ARE TO THE HARVARD  COMMUNITY CAMPUS AND TO WHAT  HARVARD STANDS FOR. YOU TALK  ABOUT THE THOUSANDS OF STUDENTS,  AND THEY MAKE THEY COME FROM 140  DIFFERENT COUNTRIES. AND THEY'RE  SAYING THAT THIS IS CRITICAL.  YOU POINT OUT WE DO NOT KNOW  EXACTLY WHAT HARVARD TURNED  OVER, BUT IS SOME OF WHAT YOU  POINTED OUT. BUT I SHOULD  MENTION THAT HARVARD HAS MADE  SOME CONCESSIONS. IT'S THE WHOLE  PUSH FROM THE ADMINISTRATION  ABOUT GETTING RID OF DIVERSITY,  EQUITY AND INCLUSION. FOR  EXAMPLE, HARVARD WENT SO FAR AS  TO GET RID OF A PROGRAM CALLED  HER DIVERSITY, EQUITY,  INCLUSION. THEY NOW CALL IT  COMMUNITY AND CAMPUS LIFE. THAT  ONE CONCESSION, THEY MADE SOME  CONCESSIONS ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT  THEY COULD BE PROTESTS ON CAMPUS  AND WHETHER MASKS COULD BE WORN.  THEY SAID THAT CANNOT HAPPEN.  AND SO THEY HAVE DONE SOME  THINGS. AND WE ALSO WANT TO  POINT OUT HERE THAT IN OUR STORY  LAST NIGHT, WE SAID WE HADN'T  HEARD FROM THE WHITE HOUSE IN  REFERENCE TO THE WHOLE FACT THAT  SOME STUDENTS ON CAMPUS, NOT  JUST JEWISH STUDENTS, WERE  FEELING PRESSURED ABOUT THEIR  INABILITY TO SPEAK OUT WITHOUT  REPRISAL. THE WHITE HOUSE DID  RESPOND TO US TODAY. LET ME READ  SOME OF IT FOR YOU. AND IT SAYS  EXACTLY THE ACTIONS OF THE TRUMP  ADMINISTRATION'S ANTISEMITISM  TASK FORCE IS MOTIVATED BY ONE  THING AND ONE THING ONLY.  TACKLING ANTISEMITISM. HAWLEY,  REHEMA.  >> WHEN YOU TAKE A STEP BACK, WE  MENTIONED THERE HAVE BEEN  HUNDREDS OF STUDENT VISAS THAT  HAVE REPORTEDLY BEEN REVOKED  FROM INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS ALL  ACROSS THE COUNTRY. WHAT DOES  THAT LANDSCAPE LOOK LIKE? WHERE  DOES THAT GO?  >> IT'S A GOOD QUESTION. YOU  KNOW, OF THE THOUSANDS OF VISAS  THAT WERE REVOKED, 12 OF THE  STUDENTS AND FACULTY AT HARVARD  HAD THEIR VISAS REVOKED. BUT WE  FOUND OUT YESTERDAY THAT THEY  HAVE BEEN RESTORED. WHY? HOW? WE  DON'T KNOW ANY ANSWERS TO THAT.  THERE ARE A LOT OF QUESTIONS  HERE THAT REMAIN UNANSWERED. I  SHOULD POINT OUT TO YOU ALSO,  HALLIE, WE TALKED TO SOME OF THE  STUDENTS WHO WERE IN OUR STORY  LAST NIGHT WHO WERE CONCERNED  ABOUT THEY WOULD FACE  REPERCUSSIONS IF THEY SPOKE OUT.  ONE OF THE THINGS THAT SAID TO  US IS THAT THEY ARE SOMEWHAT  FRUSTRATED AND DISAPPOINTED WITH  THE RESPONSE FROM HARVARD  UNIVERSITY, AND, UM, IT DIDN'T  MAKE THEM FEEL BETTER. HALLIE.  >> REHEMA ELLIS, THANKS VERY  MUCH FOR STAYING ON TOP OF THIS  BEAT. AS ALWAYS, APPRECIATE IT.  LET'S TAKE YOU TO SOUTHERN  CALIFORNIA, WHERE POLICE THERE  ARE LAUNCHING WHAT THEY'RE  CALLING A THOROUGH INVESTIGATION  INTO THE GOLF CART ACCIDENT THAT  LED TO THE DEATH OF THE LONGTIME  FRIEND OF AN NFL HALL OF FAMER,  A SOURCE FAMILIAR WITH THE  DETAILS CONFIRMED TO NBC NEWS  STATION KUSA THAT FORMER BRONCOS  STAR JOHN ELWAY WAS DRIVING THE  GOLF CART IN THE PALM SPRINGS  AREA WHEN HIS AGENT AND FRIEND  JEFFREY SPERBECK FELL OFF. HE  WAS 62 YEARS OLD. THE NFL IS  DECLINING TO COMMENT. I WANT TO  GO RIGHT TO LIZ CREUTZ AND JUST  A CHILLING STORY. YOU KNOW, NO  MATTER HOW YOU LOOK AT IT HERE,  WHAT ELSE DO WE KNOW ABOUT HOW  IT HAPPENED? AND IS THERE ANY  POSSIBILITY THAT JOHN ELWAY MAY  END UP FACING CHARGES HERE?  YEAH.  >> HOLLY.  >> IT'S.  >> SUCH A TRAGEDY.  >> AND WE'VE BEEN GIVEN NO  INDICATION OF THAT AT THIS TIME.  WHAT WE DO KNOW IS THAT  AUTHORITIES HAVE RELEASED A  STATEMENT, THE RIVERSIDE COUNTY  SHERIFF'S OFFICE SAYING THAT  THEY'RE COMMITTING TO CONDUCTING  A THOROUGH INVESTIGATION INTO  THE DEATH OF SPERBECK AND WILL  TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION BASED ON  THE OUTCOME. WHAT WE KNOW FROM  AUTHORITIES, THIS HAPPENED ON  SATURDAY AT THIS PRIVATE GATED  GOLF COMMUNITY IN LA QUINTA,  ABOUT TWO AND A HALF MILES AWAY,  BY THE WAY, FROM THE STAGECOACH  COUNTRY MUSIC FESTIVAL. THERE  ARE REPORTS THAT THE MEN MAY  HAVE BEEN AT THAT FESTIVAL  EARLIER IN THE DAY, AND ALSO  THAT ELWAY HAS A HOME AT THIS  RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITY. ACCORDING  TO AUTHORITIES, SPERBECK FELL  OFF A GOLF CART. HE HAD A  SERIOUS INJURIES. HE WAS TAKEN  TO A HOSPITAL IN CRITICAL  CONDITION, WHERE HE SADLY DIED  YESTERDAY MORNING. UM, WHAT WE  KNOW AS WELL IS THAT THESE TWO  MEN WERE EXTRAORDINARILY CLOSE.  THEY HAD WORKED TOGETHER FOR  DECADES. THEY EVEN THEN WENT  INTO BUSINESS TOGETHER. THEY  OWNED A WINERY. ELWAY PUT OUT A  STATEMENT WHERE HE SAID, THERE  ARE NO WORDS TO TRULY EXPRESS  THE PROFOUND SADNESS I FEEL WITH  THE SUDDEN LOSS OF SOMEONE WHO  HAS MEANT SO MUCH TO ME. IN THAT  STATEMENT, THOUGH, HE DID NOT  COMMENT OR BRING UP AT ALL HIS  REPORTED INVOLVEMENT IN THIS  INCIDENT. HOLLY.  >> UH.  >> JUST JUST AN AWFUL SITUATION.  LIZ, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE  REPORTING. APPRECIATE IT. COMING  UP HERE ON THE SHOW, HOW ELON  MUSK IS PLANNING HIS WAY OUT OF  THE WHITE HOUSE AND HOW FAR HE'S  REALLY GOING. PLUS, WHAT SHERYL  CROW SAYS HAPPENED TO HER AFTER  POSTING THIS VIDEO SELLING HER  TESLA. PITTSBURGH  STATION. SHELBY, THANK YOU FOR  BEING THERE FOR US TONIGHT.  LET'S GET YOU OVER TO THE FIVE  THINGS OUR TEAM THINKS YOU  SHOULD KNOW ABOUT TONIGHT.  NUMBER ONE, AN ARMY VETERAN  CONVICTED OF KILLING HIS  GIRLFRIEND AND HER THREE KIDS  NEARLY 30 YEARS AGO, IS SET TO  BE EXECUTED BY LETHAL INJECTION  IN FLORIDA. LAWYERS FOR JEFFREY  HUTCHINSON HAVE TRIED TO DELAY  IT, POINTING TO MENTAL HEALTH  PROBLEMS LINKED TO HIS ARMY  SERVICE ARGUMENTS A JUDGE  REJECTED. IF CARRIED OUT, THIS  EXECUTION WILL BE THE FOURTH IN  FLORIDA THIS YEAR. NUMBER TWO  SAFETY OFFICIALS RECALLING  NEARLY 2 MILLION NINJA BRAND  PRESSURE COOKERS AFTER LIKE 100  REPORTS OF PEOPLE GETTING  BURNED, HALF OF THEM WERE SECOND  OR THIRD DEGREE BURNS. THE  COMPANY SAYS PEOPLE SHOULD STOP  USING THIS PRESSURE COOKER RIGHT  AWAY. YOU SEE IT THERE. GET IN  TOUCH WITH THEM AND YOU'LL GET A  FREE REPLACEMENT LID. NUMBER  THREE KOHL'S FIRING ITS CEO  TODAY FOR VIOLATING COMPANY  POLICY. KOHL'S SAYS AN  INVESTIGATION FOUND HE HAD A  PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH A  VENDOR THAT HE DID NOT DISCLOSE,  AND THEN TOLD THE COMPANY TO  ENGAGE IN TRANSACTIONS WITH THAT  SAME VENDOR. KOHL'S AND THE  FORMER CEO HAVE NOT YET  RESPONDED TO OUR REQUEST FOR  COMMENT. NUMBER FOUR, THE  WRESTLER JOINING THE CAST OF THE  THUNDERBOLTS CAST AT A SPECIAL  SCREENING FOR THE FILM. IF YOU  HAVEN'T SEEN IT BEFORE, HE'S  NINE YEARS OLD, HE'S A TIKTOK  STAR AND HE'S LIKE, KNOWN FOR  THIS LOOK FOR MOVIE SHOWINGS AND  CRASHING EVENTS LIKE THIS WHILE  DOING HIS SIGNATURE RIZZLE FIED  SMIRK LIKE YOU SEE HERE. NUMBER  FIVE A LEGENDARY TENNIS  SUPERSTAR'S PICKLEBALL  CHAMPIONSHIP RUN COMING TO A  BITTER END. WE TOLD YOU ABOUT  THIS. ANDRE AGASSI AND HIS  PARTNER BARELY BEAT TWO  TEENAGERS ON THE PICKLEBALL  COURT YESTERDAY. SECOND ROUND.  THEY LOST. NOW, LISTEN, AGASSI  IS STILL ONE OF THE GREATEST  TENNIS PLAYERS EVER. MAYBE  PICKLEBALL ISN'T HIS THING RIGHT  NOW. WE'LL SEE. THERE'S ALWAYS  NEXT SEASON. PICKLE IS NOT FOR  EVERYONE. YOU KNOW, ALSO  TONIGHT, IN OTHER NEWS, WE'LL  TAKE YOU TO NASHVILLE, WHERE  COUNTRY SUPERSTAR SHERYL CROW IS  SHARING SOME NEW DETAILS ABOUT  WHAT HAPPENED WHEN AN ARMED MAN  ENTERED HER PROPERTY THERE,  TELLING VARIETY IN A NEW  INTERVIEW. IT WAS WHAT SHE  DESCRIBES AS AN ALARMING  RESPONSE FROM THE FAR RIGHT  AFTER SHE SOLD HER TESLA. SHE  POSTED THIS VIDEO OF HER SELLING  HER CAR BACK IN FEBRUARY, AND IN  THE CAPTION, CROW WROTE, MY  PARENTS ALWAYS SAID YOU ARE WHO  YOU HANG OUT WITH. REMEMBER,  THIS WAS AS ELON MUSK WAS TAKING  ON THAT CONTROVERSIAL ROLE AT  THE WHITE HOUSE JUST A FEW WEEKS  AFTER PRESIDENT TRUMP'S  INAUGURATION. CROW IS NOT THE  ONLY PROMINENT PROGRESSIVE WHO  HAS WAVED GOODBYE TO HER TESLA  AS A FORM OF PROTEST. SAME DEAL  FOR JASON BATEMAN, BETTE MIDLER,  SENATOR MARK KELLY, OTHERS. I  WANT TO BRING IN JORGE SOLIS,  WHO IS JOINING US NOW. AND IT'S  NOT THAT SHERYL CROW IS SHY  ABOUT HER POLITICAL BELIEFS.  SHE'S WRITTEN SONGS ABOUT, YOU  KNOW, WEAVE THAT INTO SOME OF  HER SONG WRITING HERE. SHE'S  TALKED ABOUT IT, BUT SHE SAYS  THE REACTION THIS TIME WAS  NOTABLY DIFFERENT, RIGHT?  >> YEAH. THAT'S RIGHT. I KEEP  IN.  >> MIND, WHEN SHE WROTE.  >> ALL I WANT TO.  >> DO AND LOVE.  >> IS.  >> A GOOD THING, SHE WAS LIVING  OUT IN LA. SHE WASN'T LIVING. IN  TENNESSEE. SHE SAID IN THAT.  >> SAME.  >> ARTICLE THAT, LOOK, PEOPLE  DIDN'T HAVE AS MANY GUNS BACK  THEN. I CERTAINLY WASN'T LIVING  IN TENNESSEE. SO THIS OBVIOUSLY  FELT A LOT CLOSER TO HOME. IN  THAT ARTICLE. SHE SAYS IT  DOESN'T FEEL SAFE.  >> WHEN YOU'RE DEALING WITH  PEOPLE WHO ARE.  >> SO COMMITTED. AND YOU'RE  RIGHT WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THAT  ONE SONG, LOVE IS A GOOD THING.  THE LYRICS, THEY'RE REALLY POINT  OUT SOME OF HER.  >> VIEWS THAT SHE.  >> HASN'T BEEN SHY ABOUT  EXPRESSING. I'LL SING IT FOR YOU  SINCE WE CAN'T ACTUALLY PLAY IT,  SHE SAYS VERY FAMOUSLY. WATCH  OUT SISTER, WATCH OUT BROTHER,  WATCH OUR CHILDREN WHILE THEY  KILL EACH OTHER WITH A. GUN THEY  BOUGHT AT WALMART. DISCOUNT  STORES. I APOLOGIZE, I AM NOT A  SINGER, SO I'LL STICK TO MY DAY  JOB, BUT YOU GET THE POINT  THERE. SHE WAS OBVIOUSLY VERY  OUTSPOKEN. SHE'S BEEN AN  ADVOCATE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE. SHE  SUPPORTS THE NATURAL RESOURCES  DEFENSE COUNCIL, THE NRDC. BUT  AGAIN, VERY SHOCKING TO HEAR  THAT THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENED TO  HER AT HER PROPERTY. AND SHE  SAYS, YOU KNOW, SHE STILL STICKS  BY HER DECISION TO GET RID OF  HER TESLA, AS YOU HEARD, BECAUSE  SHE'S OBVIOUSLY TRYING TO SEND  THAT MESSAGE THAT SHE DOESN'T  FEEL LIKE SHE CAN SUPPORT THIS.  WHILE THINGS ARE KIND OF THE WAY  THAT THEY HAVE BEEN GOING.  HALLIE.  >> AND AS YOU KNOW, GEORGE,  THESE SORT OF THE SELLING OF THE  TESLA, THE OFFLOADING OF TESLA  BECAME AND HAS BECOME KIND OF A  THING EVER SINCE PRESIDENT TRUMP  WAS INAUGURATED. AND IT BECAME  CLEAR THAT ELON MUSK WOULD HAVE  THAT ELEVATED ROLE, AS HE DID IN  THOSE FIRST FEW MONTHS HERE. UM,  YOU KNOW, AND THEN THERE ARE  SOME WHO LOOK AT IT AND GO,  WELL, OF COURSE, HOLLYWOOD  PEOPLE IN HOLLYWOOD MIGHT LEAN  MORE LIBERAL. THESE SORT OF  CELEBRITIES, MANY OF THEM KNOWN  FOR HAVING THAT MORE SORT OF  DEMOCRATIC BENT.  >> YEAH. THAT'S RIGHT. I MEAN,  OBVIOUSLY NOT EVERYONE CAN GO  OUT AND JUST GET RID OF THEIR  TESLAS AFTER BUYING THEM. SO  WHAT WE HAVE SEEN, IT'S BEEN ALL  OVER SOCIAL MEDIA IS PEOPLE ARE  BUYING STICKERS, BUMPER  STICKERS, ANYTHING TO PUT ONTO  THEIR TESLAS SAYING, HEY, LOOK,  I HAVE THE CAR. AND EVEN THOUGH  THIS DOESN'T REALLY SUPPORT MY  VIEWPOINT, I CAN AT LEAST KEEP  MY CAR AND EXPRESS HOW  DISSATISFIED I AM WITH THINGS  THAT ELON MUSK HAS BEEN DOING AS  PART OF DOGE, OR ANYTHING ELSE  THAT THEY DON'T SEEM TO CARE  FOR, BUT IT IS PART OF A OF A  MOVEMENT. AND OBVIOUSLY WE HAVE  SEEN MORE AND MORE FALLOUT FROM  PEOPLE WHO ARE RETHINKING, EVEN  PURCHASING OR GETTING A TESLA  VEHICLE. BUT AGAIN, FOR SHERYL  CROW IN THIS PARTICULAR  INCIDENT, AGAIN, TO HEAR THAT  THIS ACTUALLY HIT SO CLOSE TO  HOME FOR HER, UH, VERY POIGNANT  IN THAT ARTICLE. SHE, UM, SHE,  SHE IN THAT INTERVIEW SHE GAVE  TO VARIETY. HALLIE.  >> THAT'S RIGHT. THAT THOSE NEW  THOSE NEW REVELATIONS THERE.  JORGE SOLIS, THANK YOU VERY  MUCH. WHEN WE COME BACK, WE'LL  TAKE YOU TO FLORIDA WITH POLICE  WRANGLING A ROGUE BOAT. WE'LL  TELL YOU WHAT IT TOOK FOR THEM  TO STOP IT. PLUS, WHY MENOPAUSE  IS HAVING A MOMENT. TO NBC  NEWS THAN ANY OTHER NEWS  ORGANIZATION.  >> AS ELON MUSK GETS READY TO  SCALE BACK HIS ROLE AT THE WHITE  HOUSE, HE'S DENYING A REPORT  THAT ONE OF HIS COMPANIES IS  TRYING TO SCALE HIM BACK TO.  BOTH MUSK AND TESLA SAY IT IS,  IN THEIR WORDS, ABSOLUTELY, EVEN  DELIBERATELY FALSE THAT TESLA'S  COMPANY BOARD HAS STARTED  LOOKING FOR SOMEBODY TO SUCCEED  MUSK AS CEO. AS THE WALL STREET  JOURNAL REPORTED. THE OPPOSITE,  ACTUALLY, MUSK SAYS HE SAYS HE'S  GOT TO GET BACK TO RUNNING HIS  COMPANIES, WHICH, IN HIS WORDS,  DO NEED ME DOGE. THAT DEPARTMENT  OF GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY, HE  SAYS, IS NOW MORE IN A RHYTHM.  SO INSTEAD OF 24 OVER SEVEN,  WE'RE TALKING MAYBE A COUPLE  DAYS A WEEK, MAYBE EVERY OTHER  WEEK IN WASHINGTON, SOMETHING  LIKE THAT. MUSK'S REFLECTING ON  HIS TIME IN WASHINGTON, WAXING  POETIC ABOUT PLAYING VIDEO GAMES  IN THE WEST WING, INVITATIONS BY  PRESIDENT TRUMP TO SLEEPOVER IN  THE LINCOLN BEDROOM, SNAGGING  ICE CREAM FROM THE KITCHEN. HE'S  INTO THE CARAMEL HAAGEN-DAZS  THESE DAYS. FOR THOSE INQUIRING  MINDS WHO WANTED TO KNOW, JULIE  SIRKIN IS LIVE FOR US ON CAPITOL  HILL. IT IS AN INTERESTING  SHIFT, CONSIDERING MUSK HAS BEEN  A NEAR CONSTANT PRESENCE AT THE  WHITE HOUSE FOR MONTHS NOW.  WHETHER OR NOT SOME OF THE  CABINET MEMBERS CABINET MEMBERS  LIKE IT. IT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE  HE'S GOING ALL THAT FAR AWAY. IN  OTHER WORDS, HE'S NOT GETTING  LIKE BANNED FROM WHITE HOUSE  GROUNDS. BUT TALK US THROUGH  WHAT HE'S SAYING AS HE DEPARTS  AND AS HE TAKES SOME SHOTS AT  THE JOURNAL REPORTING THAT THE  TESLA BOARD STARTING TO LOOK FOR  HIS SUCCESSOR.  >> YEAH. IF ANYTHING, MUSK IS  SAYING HE'LL NOW STICK AROUND  WITH HIS DOGE EFFORT FOR THE  NEXT FOUR YEARS. IN OTHER WORDS,  THE ENTIRETY OF THE TRUMP  PRESIDENCY. BEFOREHAND, HE WAS  SUPPOSED TO DEPART. THE DOGE  EFFORT WAS SUPPOSED TO KIND OF  WIND DOWN BY JULY 4TH OF NEXT  YEAR. NOW HE'S SAYING, THOUGH,  HIS PRESENCE WILL BE LESS  FREQUENT, HE WILL BE AROUND.  ALTHOUGH HE DID ACKNOWLEDGE TO  OUR GARRETT HAKE AND OTHER  REPORTERS THAT HE KIND OF  DETAILED HIS PLANS ABOUT WHAT  HIS NEXT PHASE LOOKS LIKE, THAT  HE DIDN'T ACCOMPLISH AS MUCH IN  DOGE AS HE THOUGHT HE WOULD  REMEMBER. THEY CAME IN WITH THIS  BIG PLAN TO CUT $2 TRILLION IN  SPENDING FROM THE FEDERAL  GOVERNMENT. HE SAID HE ONLY  ENDED UP CUTTING ABOUT $160  BILLION, AND THAT CAUSED A TON  OF HEADACHES AND HEARTBURN, NOT  ONLY FOR HIM PERSONALLY, BUT  ALSO FOR HIS COMPANIES, AS YOU  MENTIONED. AND NOW HE'S SAYING,  OF COURSE, THAT HE'S WINDING  DOWN. HE ALSO MADE REFERENCE TO  A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO WHEN HE  MADE SOME MISTAKES, PERHAPS  CUTTING SOMETHING TOO SOON,  GETTING OUTRAGE FROM PEOPLE HERE  ON THE HILL, INCLUDING  REPUBLICANS. AND HE SAID, IF THE  STANDARD FOR TERMINATING ANYONE  IS THAT YOU CAN NEVER MAKE A  MISTAKE OUT OF MILLIONS OF  PEOPLE, THEN YOU COULD NOT FIRE  ANYONE, OBVIOUSLY. SO BACKING  HIMSELF UP IN THE WORK HE DID ON  THAT TO HOLLY.  >> THERE IS ONE AREA HE'S BEEN  CUTTING, AND DOGE HAS BEEN  CUTTING THE FEDERAL WORKFORCE,  TRYING TO CUT BACK ON SPENDING,  ETC. HE IS SAYING THERE'S ONE  AREA THE U.S. SHOULD SPEND MONEY  ON. IT JUST SO HAPPENS THAT IT'S  AN AREA WHERE THERE ARE SOME  OVERLAPPING CONFLICTS OF  INTEREST FOR HIM.  >> EXACTLY. THAT IS ELECTRIC  HUMVEES. REMEMBER A WHILE BACK,  A WHILE BACK, THE STATE  DEPARTMENT ACTUALLY CANCELED  PLANS. THEY SCRAPPED THEM WHEN  IT WAS REVEALED THAT TESLA COULD  ACTUALLY PROFIT HUNDREDS OF  MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN PROFIT BY  TRYING TO USE THESE ELECTRIC  VEHICLES FOR MILITARY PURPOSES.  TWO ARMY OFFICIALS ACTUALLY TELL  NBC NEWS NOW THAT TO PREVENT  THOSE FROM GOING IN TO HAVE MORE  POWER TO THE GENERALS AND HAVE  INTERNAL CHARGE ON THIS MATTER,  THAT THEY ARE PROPOSING TO  ELIMINATE HUMVEES AND TO CUT  OTHER COSTS IN THE HOPE THAT IT  WILL ALLOW GENERALS NOT TO  DECIDE WHERE AND HOW TO CUT  SPENDING. SOURCES TOLD NBC NEWS  THAT MUSK WAS IN THAT MEETING  AND APPARENTLY AGREED.  >> HIS DECISION TO WALK AWAY  ALSO COMES AT AN INTERESTING  POINT, BECAUSE ON THE ONE SIDE,  YOU KNOW HIS COMPANY, HE FEELS  THE NEED TO BE BACK WITH HIS  COMPANY. THE COMPANY, YOU KNOW,  REPORTEDLY FELT THE NEED TO BE  LOOKING FOR SUCCESSOR, ALTHOUGH  TESLA DENIES THAT. ON THE OTHER  HAND, HIS POPULARITY HAS HAS  SUNK PRETTY DRAMATICALLY EVER  SINCE. IN THE LAST FEW MONTHS,  EVER SINCE HE BECAME SORT OF  PROMINENTLY INVOLVED WITH WITH  PRESIDENT TRUMP HERE IN THE  WHITE HOUSE. WHAT DO FOLKS ON  THE HILL THINK ABOUT THAT?  >> WELL, WE DIDN'T ACTUALLY GET  ANYONE TO SAY TODAY WHAT THEY  THINK ABOUT HIS WINDING DOWN  ROLE. BUT IF I LOOK BACK TO MY  CONVERSATIONS IN THE PAST COUPLE  OF DAYS AND WEEKS, CERTAINLY  EVEN REPUBLICANS HERE REALLY  WANTED CABINET OFFICIALS TO HAVE  THE POWER. THEY ALSO WANT  CONGRESS TO HAVE THE POWER. THIS  IS A ROLE THAT CONGRESS SHOULD  BE IN CHARGE OF. NOW THEY HAVE  IT BALANCED, A BUDGET, IF YOU  WILL, IN DECADES. BUT THEY  WANTED TO TAKE SOME OF THAT  POWER BACK. MIKE JOHNSON, FOR  EXAMPLE, EYEING THAT IN THIS  BUDGET PROPOSAL TO FUND THE  PRESIDENT'S AGENDA, SAYING THAT  THEY WILL MAKE CUTS IN DIFFERENT  AREAS. BUT YOU'RE TOTALLY RIGHT  ABOUT ELON MUSK'S POPULARITY,  AND IT'S PERHAPS WHY HE'S TAKING  A STEP BACK FROM HIS ROLE. A  SURVEY THAT WE DID AT STAY TUNED  ACTUALLY FOUND THAT 41% OF  AMERICANS HAVE A FAVORABLE  FAVORABLE VIEW OF MUSK. 59% OF  AMERICANS UNFAVORABLE. YOU  COMPARE THAT TO HIS Q1 EARNINGS  THIS YEAR VERSUS LAST YEAR. IT  COMPLETELY TANKED 71% IN PROFITS  LOST FOR THE COMPANY. THAT'S  SOMETHING MUSK IS CERTAINLY  PAYING ATTENTION TO. HOLLY.  >> JULIE SIRKIN, GOOD TO SEE  YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR  THAT REPORTING. NBC NEWS COVERS  HUNDREDS OF STORIES EVERY DAY.  AND BECAUSE IT CAN BE TOUGH TO  READ OR WATCH OR LISTEN TO THEM,  ALL OUR BUREAU TEAMS HAVE DONE  IT FOR YOU. THIS IS WHAT THEY  TELL US IS GOING DOWN IN THEIR  REGIONS, IN A SEGMENT WE CALL  THE LOCAL OUT OF OUR MIDWEST  BUREAU. THE CHICAGO HEALTH  DEPARTMENT IS NOW INVESTIGATING  THAT CITY'S FIRST TWO CASES OF  MEASLES. OFFICIALS SAY ONE OF  THE CASES WAS FOUND IN AN ADULT  WHO HAD TRAVELED INTERNATIONALLY  THROUGH O'HARE AIRPORT LAST  MONTH, AND WHO HAD ALREADY HAD  AT LEAST ONE DOSE OF THE  VACCINE. WE DON'T KNOW THE  VACCINE STATUS OF THE OTHER  PERSON WHO TESTED POSITIVE. BOTH  OF THEM ARE NOW ISOLATED OUT OF  OUR NORTHEAST BUREAU. AN UPDATE  TO A STORY WE TOLD YOU ABOUT  YESTERDAY. THE COACH OF THE BOYS  HIGH SCHOOL LACROSSE TEAM IN  UPSTATE NEW YORK DENYING HE KNEW  ANYTHING ABOUT ALLEGED HAZING  INVOLVING 11 STUDENTS. REMEMBER,  THOSE HIGH SCHOOLERS TURNED  THEMSELVES IN YESTERDAY FOR  THEIR ALLEGED INVOLVEMENT IN AN  INCIDENT PROSECUTORS CALLED  HAZING ON STEROIDS. THE COACH  SAYS HE'S HEARTBROKEN AND IS  COOPERATING WITH THE  INVESTIGATION. THE REST OF THE  LACROSSE SEASON THERE HAS BEEN  CANCELED FOR THE TEAM OUT OF OUR  SOUTHERN BUREAU. TAKE A LOOK AT  THIS. AN OUT OF CONTROL BOAT IN  FLORIDA. THE DRIVER HAD FALLEN  OVERBOARD, AND SO POLICE HAD TO  FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET THAT BOAT  UNDER CONTROL. AN OFFICER KIND  OF, LIKE, ALMOST LASSOED IT. HE  USED A ROPE TO GET THE BOAT  UNDER CONTROL. HE THEN JUMPS ON  IT. BOOM! HE'S ABLE TO SHUT IT  DOWN. JUST REALLY INCREDIBLE  THERE, CONSIDERING HOW DANGEROUS  THAT CAN BE. FORTUNATELY, THE  BOAT CAPTAIN, THE DRIVER WHO  FELL OVERBOARD, IS EXPECTED TO  BE OKAY. TO TONIGHT'S ORIGINAL.  NOW WITH IN-DEPTH REPORTING ON A  TOPIC WE'VE BEEN WATCHING. AND  TONIGHT, IT'S THOSE NEW NUMBERS  FROM THE CLEVELAND CLINIC ON  MENOPAUSE AND NEW DIVISIONS  AMONG WOMEN ABOUT HOW OR EVEN  WHETHER TO TREAT IT. OUR YASMIN  VOSSOUGHIAN IS TALKING WITH  PEOPLE ON THE FRONT LINE OF THIS  DEBATE, FIGHTING FOR MORE  MENOPAUSE TRAINING AND  AWARENESS.  >> MENOPAUSE AND PERIMENOPAUSE  ISN'T JUST TRENDING ONLINE.  PERIMENOPAUSE OR ON THE NEW YORK  TIMES BESTSELLER LIST.  >> IT'S CATCHING.  >> ON IN STATEHOUSES AS WELL. AS  WE.  >> GO THROUGH THIS MENOPAUSAL  TRANSITION.  >> JUST THIS YEAR, AN  UNPRECEDENTED 13 STATES  INTRODUCED MENOPAUSE RELATED  LEGISLATION.  >> IF THIS LEGISLATION PASSES,  MENOPAUSE TREATMENTS WILL BE  MORE AFFORDABLE. THAT WILL BE  GUARANTEED.  >> JENNIFER WEISS WOLF IS THE  EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE  WOMEN'S. LEADERSHIP CENTER AT  NYU AND COAUTHOR OF THE  CITIZEN'S GUIDE TO MENOPAUSE  ADVOCACY.  >> RIGHT NOW.  >> FOR A LOT OF WOMEN ACROSS THE  COUNTRY, IF.  >> THEY WERE.  >> TO GO.  >> SEE THEIR DOCTOR FOR.  >> MENOPAUSE OR PERIMENOPAUSAL.  >> CARE.  >> IT WOULDN'T BE NECESSARILY  COVERED.  >> THERE'S NO GUARANTEE. IT IS  NOT UNIFORM FROM INSURANCE  COMPANY TO INSURANCE COMPANY,  NOR AMONG STATES.  >> AND THE BILLS GO BEYOND  MANDATORY COVERAGE FOR  TREATMENT. THEY RANGE FROM PAID  LEAVE PROPOSALS AND PUBLIC  HEALTH CAMPAIGNS TO REQUIRING  MENOPAUSE TRAINING FOR HEALTH  CARE PROVIDERS.  >> I GOT.  >> SICK AND TIRED OF. WATCHING  OTHER.  >> DOCTORS TREATING.  >> WOMEN LIKE.  >> THEY'RE.  >> CRAZY WHEN.  >> THEY WERE ACTUALLY  MENOPAUSAL.  >> DOCTOR ERICA SCHWARTZ HAS  BEEN AT.  >> THE FOREFRONT OF MENOPAUSE  TREATMENT FOR DECADES. SHE AND  OTHER EXPERTS SAY MEDICAL  SCHOOLS ARE NOT. TRAINING  PROVIDERS ON HOW TO TREAT  PERIMENOPAUSE OR MENOPAUSE.  >> OB-GYNS ARE NOT.  >> WOMEN'S HEALTH EXPERTS. THEY  ARE. EXPERTS IN DELIVERY  BREASTS.  >> HYSTERECTOMY AND BECAUSE OF  THAT, MANY WOMEN HAVE. CONTINUED  TO SUFFER AND BEEN MISDIAGNOSED  LIKE MICHAEL O'BRIEN.  >> I WAS.  >> IN MY.  >> MID TO LATE 40S AND STARTED  EXPERIENCING.  >> SOME SYMPTOMS.  >> I WAS STILL.  >> HAVING A VERY REGULAR, UM,  CYCLE. AND EVEN BROUGHT THIS UP  TO MY FRIEND GROUP AND.  >> THEY WERE LIKE, OH, IT'S TOO.  >> EARLY, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE FINE,  YOU'RE FINE.  >> WHEN SHE WAS HOSPITALIZED FOR  HEART PALPITATIONS AND HIGH  BLOOD PRESSURE, DOCTORS TREATED  HER FOR THAT INSTEAD OF THE REAL  UNDERLYING FACTOR PERIMENOPAUSE.  >> MY EXPERIENCE WITH.  >> DOCTORS AT.  >> THIS POINT.  >> WAS SO.  >> YOU KNOW.  >> JUST SO DISMISSIVE.  >> AND MICHAEL. STORY IS NOT  UNCOMMON.  >> WHAT SYMPTOMS COULD THEY  EXPERIENCE? HOT FLASHES, NIGHT  SWEATS.  >> INSOMNIA, IRRITABILITY,  URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS,  BLOATING.  >> WEIGHT GAIN.  >> WEIGHT LOSS. DEPRESSION.  ANXIETY. SO BEFORE.  >> YOU GO TO 20, SPECIALISTS.  >> THINK HORMONES.  >> AND MAKE SURE THAT YOU'VE  ADJUSTED.  >> YOUR LIFESTYLE.  >> AND THESE SYMPTOMS HAVE FAR  REACHING RIPPLE EFFECTS.  ACCORDING TO THE MAYO CLINIC,  OUR ECONOMY IS LOSING AN  ESTIMATED $1.8 BILLION ANNUALLY  BECAUSE MENOPAUSE SYMPTOMS ARE  PUSHING PEOPLE TO MISS WORK. SO  WITH THIS POTENTIAL CHANGE IN  LEGISLATION, WHAT COULD THIS  MEAN FOR WOMEN AND OUR FUTURE?  >> IF YOU'RE FEELING.  >> GOOD, THEN.  >> YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE.  >> AND IF YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE,  OUR SOCIETY WILL BENEFIT.  >> NOW IT'S UP TO LAWMAKERS TO  PUSH POLICIES THROUGH  CHAMPIONING CHANGES FOR WOMEN IN  EVERY STATE.  >> YASMIN VOSSOUGHIAN IS JOINING  US NOW. AS YOU MENTIONED, THOSE  STATE MOVES TALK US THROUGH SOME  OF WHERE THOSE ARE HEADED.  >> YEAH.  >> FIRST OFF, CAN.  >> YOU BELIEVE IT?  >> RIGHT. I MEAN, THAT STATES  DON'T HAVE KIND OF.  >> THIS UNIFORM COVERAGE OF  MENOPAUSE. I MEAN, IT'S.  >> INCREDIBLE TO THINK ABOUT  HALF THE POPULATION OF THIS  COUNTRY, REALLY MORE THAN HALF  BEING WOMEN. THAT BEING.  >> SAID, THE.  >> STATE THAT WE'RE WATCHING,  RIGHT. WE SAID 13 STATES,  CALIFORNIA. RIGHT NOW IS THE  STATE. TO WATCH.  >> YOU GOT.  >> TWO ASSEMBLY BILLS THAT HAVE  ALREADY GOTTEN PUSHED THROUGH,  UM, THEIR FIRST COMMITTEE  HEARINGS, WHICH IS ESSENTIALLY  THE.  >> FIRST HURDLE, ONE OF.  >> THOSE BILLS, ESSENTIALLY THE  STATE HAVING TO REPORT THE GAPS  IN, UM, KIND OF EDUCATION WHEN  IT COMES TO MENOPAUSE CARE  AMONGST HEALTH CARE WORKERS.  >> THE OTHER ONE.  >> THE REALLY IMPORTANT ONE IS A  BIG ONE, RIGHT? WHICH IS.  >> COVERAGE OF MENOPAUSE.  >> CARE, UM, BY INSURANCE.  COMPANIES IN THE STATE.  >> OF CALIFORNIA.  >> MAJOR.  >> FOR A LOT OF WOMEN.  >> LIVING IN CALIFORNIA. THE  OTHER.  >> IS CONTINUING.  >> EDUCATION FOR.  >> HEALTH CARE WORKERS,  SPECIFICALLY DOCTORS MANDATED.  >> IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA.  >> AS WELL.  >> IT IS.  >> FASCINATING, AS I'VE.  >> BEEN RESEARCHING THIS WHOLE  THING, HOW. THAT PHYSICIANS,  DOCTORS.  >> FOR THE MOST PART.  >> DO NOT HAVE. FORMAL MENOPAUSE  CARE TRAINING.  >> AND IT'S.  >> FASCINATING TO THINK THAT SO  MANY WOMEN OUT THERE ARE  SUFFERING BECAUSE OF THAT. HENCE  WHY. IT SEEMS LEGISLATION IS SO  INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT RIGHT NOW.  HOW?  >> IT'S JUST SO INTERESTING,  YASMIN. YOU KNOW, PEOPLE THINK  MENOPAUSE IS SOMETHING THAT  DOESN'T HAPPEN FOR, FOR LIKE A  LONG, LONG, LONG TIME. I MEAN,  IT'S, YOU KNOW, IT'S THE  GENERATION OF LIKE, ELDER  MILLENNIALS, YOU KNOW WHAT I  MEAN? LIKE YOUNGER GEN LIKE IT'S  HAPPENING WHEN YOU START TO.  >> FEEL SYMPTOMS OF.  >> PERIMENOPAUSE.  >> WHICH IS BASICALLY. BEFORE  MENOPAUSE, POSSIBLY.  >> IN YOUR MID.  >> MID 30S, EARLY 30S. RIGHT.  YOU GET PREGNANT AND LITERALLY.  >> THE NEXT.  >> DAY YOU HAVE A BABY.  >> AND THE NEXT.  >> DAY YOU COULD BE FEELING  PERIMENOPAUSAL SYMPTOMS. I MEAN,  IT. STARTS AS.  >> EARLY.  >> AS YOUR MID 30S, HENCE.  >> WHY IT NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED.  >> YES, AGAIN, THANK YOU VERY  MUCH FOR THAT REPORTING.  >> IT'S GOOD.  >> TO SEE YOU. YES. APPRECIATE  IT. COMING UP FOR HORSE RACING  FANS OR HAT FANS OR MINT JULEP  FANS, IT IS YOUR TIME. IT IS  ALSO YOUR TIME. IF YOU'RE A  STEVE KORNACKI FAN BECAUSE HE'S  GOT YOUR DERBY DAY PREPS COMING  UP LIVE FROM CHURCHILL DOWNS IN  JUST A SECOND.  NEWS THAN ANY OTHER NEWS  ORGANIZATION.  >> IT CALLS ITSELF THE MOST  EXCITING TWO MINUTES IN SPORTS  THE KENTUCKY DERBY THIS WEEKEND.  AND THE BIG RACE AT CHURCHILL  DOWNS MEANS TWO BIG THINGS BIG  HATS AND SMALL HATS AND LOTS OF  HATS, REALLY. AND BIG BETS. BIG  MONEY BETS. LOOK AT THIS. MORE  THAN $210 MILLION WAGERED ON THE  RACE LAST YEAR, UP MORE THAN $20  MILLION FROM THE YEAR BEFORE.  STEVE KORNACKI IS JOINING US NOW  FROM THE DERBY GROUNDS WITH A  MINT JULEP AND A HAT. OH, YOU  HAVE NEITHER. AND NOW I'M SUPER  BUMMED OUT ABOUT THAT. BUT  WHAT'S SO INTERESTING HERE WE  TALK ABOUT THIS HUGE YOU KNOW,  I'VE TALKED A LOT ABOUT SPORTS  BETTING, HOW IT'S EXPLODED. THE  KENTUCKY DERBY PRESENTS SOME  INTERESTING AND UNIQUE  CHALLENGES WITH THAT, RIGHT?  >> WELL.  >> IT.  >> IS OF ALL THE HORSE.  >> RACES IN THE COUNTRY EVERY  YEAR, THOUSANDS OF RACES.  THERE'S NONE.  >> THAT'S GOING.  >> TO.  >> BE AS.  >> CROWDED AS.  >> THIS.  >> TRACK ON SATURDAY.  >> THEY'VE GOT 20.  >> HORSES WHO ARE GOING TO BE  RUNNING.  >> YOU KNOW, NORMALLY.  >> HORSES RUN.  >> AGAINST.  >> MAYBE SIX.  >> SEVEN.  >> EIGHT, NINE, TEN.  >> IN A IN A BIG CASE.  >> OTHER HORSES.  >> SO THIS IS.  >> THE BIGGEST RACE.  >> LITERALLY THAT THEY RUN ALL  YEAR. THEY'RE COMING.  >> IN FROM ALL SORTS OF.  >> DIFFERENT TRACKS.  >> ALL.  >> SORTS OF DIFFERENT  CONDITIONS. UH, AND EVERYBODY.  >> GETS IN THERE.  >> THAT'S THE FUN.  >> OF.  >> IT, AS YOU SAY, ALI. YOU  KNOW, MOST EXCITING TWO.  >> MINUTES IN SPORTS.  >> UH, PEOPLE GOT THEIR OWN  THEORIES ON HOW TO MAKE SENSE.  OF THESE FIELDS. SOME PEOPLE.  USE COMPLICATED ALGORITHMS.  OTHERS LIKE GRAY HORSES.  >> SO WHAT ARE.  >> YOU HANDICAPPING? CHALLENGE.  >> HOW DO YOU.  >> DO IT? WELL, I TELL YOU,  THERE'S SOME. THERE WAS SOME BIG  NEWS LITERALLY IN THE LAST FIVE  MINUTES. YOU'VE HEARD OF THE  TRAINER BOB BAFFERT. HE'S ONE OF  THE HE TIED FOR THE ALL TIME  WINNINGEST TRAINER IN THIS RACE.  HE'S BEEN SUSPENDED FOR THE LAST  THREE YEARS FROM CHURCHILL DOWNS  FROM THIS RACE. HE'S MAKING HIS  RETURN THIS YEAR. AND YOU SEE  THAT HORSE ON YOUR SCREEN THERE.  RODRIGUEZ. JUST FIVE MINUTES AGO  IT WAS ANNOUNCED THAT RODRIGUEZ  IS GOING TO SCRATCH FROM THIS  RACE. HE IS NOT GOING TO RUN IN  THE KENTUCKY DERBY AFTER ALL.  AND THAT MEANS THAT'S A BIG  DEVELOPMENT BECAUSE IT MEANS  ANOTHER HORSE IS NAMED IS  BY-AYE-ZA B E Z A. HE IS NOW  GOING TO ENTER THIS RACE. HE WAS  ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN, BUT  WITH THE SCRATCH HE GETS IN.  BY-AYE-ZA IS A HIGHLY TOUTED  HORSE. A LOT OF FOLKS THINK HE  HAS A GOOD CHANCE. AND I'LL TELL  YOU, I JUST LITERALLY BEFORE I  CAME ON WITH YOU, ALI BAFFERT  WALKED RIGHT PAST ME WHERE I'M  STANDING. I'M JUST OFF OF THE  PADDOCK HERE AT CHURCHILL DOWNS.  I ASKED HIM, I SAID I JUST HEARD  IT, YOU KNOW. HE SAID HE WAS  CLEARLY DISAPPOINTED. UM, YOU  KNOW HE STILL HAS ONE OTHER IN  THE RACE, CITIZEN BOWL, BUT HE  ALREADY SEEMS TO BE TALKING  ABOUT THE NEXT RACE IN THE  TRIPLE CROWN, THE PREAKNESS. HE  SAID, LOOK, YOU KNOW, RODRIGUEZ  JUST WASN'T READY FOR THIS ONE.  AND HE'S ALREADY STARTING TO  TALK ABOUT THE PREAKNESS, THE  NEXT RACE FOR HIM.  >> THAT'S A HOT SCOOP. ARE YOU  DO YOU EVEN HAVE A IS IT JUST  YOU YOU'RE JUST SCOOPING STUFF  AT THE DERBY SELFIE CAMERA?  YOU'RE INCREDIBLE.  >> LET'S GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO OUR  PRODUCER, JOHN FURLONG. HE  TEXTED THE NEWS AND I SAW IT AS  I'M STANDING HERE. AND THEN I  LOOK UP AND THERE'S BOB BAFFERT.  SO MAYBE WE GOT THE FIRST QUOTE  FROM HIM.  >> DUDE.  >> I LOVE IT. WE'RE GOING TO  TELL OUR FRIENDS OVER AT NBC  SPORTS, THEY CAN GET IT UP ON  THE BLOG. STEVE KORNACKI, JOHN  THE PRODUCER. THANK YOU STEVE.  SELFIE ING IN FROM CHURCHILL  DOWNS. WE LOVE YOU PAL. THANKS  FOR DOING IT. WE APPRECIATE YOU  SO MUCH. HAVE FUN AT THE DERBY  THIS WEEKEND. LOOK FOR STEVE.  LOOK FOR MORE OF OUR COVERAGE.  OF COURSE. SATURDAY 230 EASTERN  ON NBC OR ON PEACOCK. STILL A  LOT MORE TO COME HERE ON THE  SHOW. DID ALL THE HOLLYWOOD STAR  POWER PAY OFF FOR BROADWAY? EVEN  WITH THOSE TICKET PRICES  SPIKING, WE'RE TAKING A LOOK.  NEWS THAN ANY OTHER NEWS  ORGANIZATION.  >> SOME NEW CONTROVERSY TONIGHT  OVER BROADWAY'S BIGGEST NIGHT,  THE TONY AWARDS, BECAUSE THE  LIST OF NOMINEES IS OUT AND IT  IS DOMINATED NOT JUST BY  BROADWAY STARS, BUT HOLLYWOOD  STARS, PEOPLE YOU MAY ASSOCIATE  MORE CLOSELY WITH, LIKE A BIG  TIME MOVIE OR TV SHOW. LOOK AT  GEORGE CLOONEY, NICOLE  SCHERZINGER, SARAH SNOOK, MIA  FARROW ET CETERA. SOME OF THE  CELEBRITIES MAY BE LOOKING OR  HOPING FOR AN AWARDS SWEEP TO  ADD THE T TO THE EGOT. EMMY,  GRAMMY, OSCAR, TONY AND THE  BROADWAY SHOWS DON'T SEEM TO  MIND THE INFLUX OF THESE  HOLLYWOOD STARS. THEY NEED THE  MONEY. WITH REVENUE DOWN $40  MILLION LAST YEAR FROM THE YEAR  BEFORE. BUT LOOK AT WHAT THAT'S  DONE TO TICKET PRICES. THEY ARE  WAY UP. BUT HERE'S THE THING  PEOPLE ARE BUYING. LOOK AT  OTHELLO, STARRING DENZEL  WASHINGTON AND JAKE GYLLENHAAL.  SOME TICKETS ARE MORE EXPENSIVE  THAN A FLIGHT TO LONDON, BUT THE  SHOW IS A SELLOUT. IT'S MAKING  NEARLY $3 MILLION IN PREVIEWS.  IT'S NOW THE HIGHEST GROSSING  BROADWAY PLAY THAT'S CURRENTLY  OUT. MY EAGLIN IS JOINING US  NOW. AND MIKE, THERE'S THIS  CONFLICT HERE, RIGHT? BETWEEN  THAT. SOME CRITICS WOULD SUGGEST  BETWEEN THESE THESE SORT OF HUGE  NAMES THAT ARE COMING IN, BUT  SOME WOULD ARGUE MAKING SOME OF  THESE BROADWAY SHOWS  UNAFFORDABLE FOR LIKE THE  AVERAGE, YOU KNOW, BROADWAY  WATCHER, IF YOU WILL. THAT SAID,  CLEARLY PEOPLE ARE PAYING FOR  THEM, RIGHT?  >> 100%, HALLIE.  >> AND I HAVE TO SAY, THERE'S  BEEN SO MUCH. EXCITEMENT AROUND  THIS DAY, THE RELEASE OF THESE  TONY NOMINATIONS, NOT JUST  ONLINE, BUT HERE ON BROADWAY.  WE'VE BEEN SEEING CAST MEMBERS  AND CREWS HUGGING PEOPLE,  CHANGING THEIR SIGNAGE. ALREADY  HERE AT THE BUENA VISTA SOCIAL  CLUB, YOU CAN SEE TEN TONY  NOMINATIONS, INCLUDING FOR BEST  MUSICAL. BUT SO MUCH OF THE  CHATTER HAS BEEN AROUND THOSE  A-LIST CELEBRITIES. AS YOU  MENTIONED, DENZEL WASHINGTON,  JAKE GYLLENHAAL, SARAH SNOOK WHO  FOLKS MIGHT REMEMBER FROM  SECESSION. ON THE ONE HAND,  FOLKS ARE SAYING THIS IS DRAWING  IN A NEW TYPE OF AUDIENCE MEMBER  TO REALLY HELP SUPPORT THIS ART  FORM AND COMMUNITY. ON THE OTHER  FOLKS ARE SAYING IT'S RAISING  TICKET PRICES AND MAYBE  INFLUENCING THE GENRE AND ART  FORM IN A WAY THAT THEY MIGHT  NOT BE IN AGREEMENT WITH. SO  DEFINITELY SOME PROS AND CONS  HERE. BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY,  WITH SOME OF THESE HUGE STARS  ARE HUGE PROFITS LIKE OTHELLO,  HALLIE.  >> AND THE ACTORS GET SOMETHING  OUT OF IT TOO, OBVIOUSLY. RIGHT?  IT'S A RESUME BUILDER IN MANY  WAYS FOR THEM.  >> 100%. AND THIS IS REALLY THE  BEST CLASSROOM A LOT OF ACTORS  HAVE SAID TO REFINE THEIR  SKILLS. YOU GET ONE CHANCE ON  BROADWAY TO GET THAT EGOT TITLE.  YOU'LL HAVE TO COME HERE AND  WORK NIGHT AFTER NIGHT. THERE  ARE NO SECOND TAKES. I ACTUALLY  SPOKE TO THE HOST OF ON STAGE ON  NEW YORK ONE, FRANK DILELLA,  ABOUT THESE A-LIST CELEBRITIES  ON BROADWAY. HERE'S WHAT HE HAD  TO SAY. AS AN EXPERT IN THIS  SPACE, WHAT ARE YOUR PREDICTIONS  FOR THE FUTURE OF BROADWAY IN  TERMS OF THESE A-LIST  CELEBRITIES?  >> I THINK WE'RE.  >> GOING TO CONTINUE TO SEE THEM  COMING.  >> YOU KNOW.  >> EVERYONE WANTS TO BE.  >> AN.  >> EGOT NOWADAYS.  >> AND IN ORDER TO BE.  >> AN EGOT, YOU GOT TO.  >> DO BROADWAY.  >> YOU GOT TO WIN THAT. TONY  AWARD. SO I THINK WE WILL  CONTINUE TO SEE STARS FLOCKING.  >> TO BROADWAY. SO, HOLLY, A LOT  OF EXCITEMENT.  >> THAT IS FOR SURE. MY LIVE FOR  US THERE IN MIDTOWN. MAYA, THANK  YOU VERY MUCH. QUICK POINT OF  PERSONAL PRIVILEGE. BEFORE WE  GO, TAKE A LOOK AT OUR CONTROL  ROOM, BECAUSE TONIGHT IS OUR  LAST SHOW FOR ONE OF THE MOST  BELOVED MEMBERS OF OUR SENIOR  TEAM, KATHERINE CASEY. OH, MY  GOD, SHE'S SO EMBARRASSED. SHE  IS ON TO. WE WILL MISS HER VERY  MUCH. ON TO OTHER EXCITING  THINGS I SHOULD SAY. COMING WITH  ME OVER TO WEEKENDS WHERE SHE'LL  BE JOINING US ON WEEKEND NIGHTLY  NEWS. WE LOVE YOU. WE WILL MISS  YOU. SHE WAS LIKE A REAL OG HERE  AT NBC NEWS NOW RIGHT FROM THE  LAUNCH. SO SEE A FRIEND. WE'RE  EXCITED FOR YOU AND FOR YOUR NEW  ADVENTURES. I WILL SEE YOU  SPEAKING OF SUNDAY ON SUNDAY  NIGHTLY NEWS AND THEN RIGHT BACK  HERE MONDAY ON NBC NEWS NOW,  ALSO SUNDAY, BY THE WAY, KRISTEN  WELKER SITS DOWN WITH PRESIDENT  TRUMP FOR A BIG INTERVIEW FOR  MEET THE PRESS BIG SUNDAY. WE'LL  SEE YOU THANKS FOR WATCHING. AS  ALWAYS, MORE COVERAGE PICKS UP  RIGHT NOW.  TONIGHT, THE FIRST BIG STAFFING  SHAKEUP OF THE PRESIDENT'S  SECOND TERM, WITH THE EMBATTLED  NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER AT THE  CENTER OF THE SIGNAL GATE  SCANDAL NOW GETTING REASSIGNED.  WHAT IT MEANS FOR THE  PRESIDENT'S INNER CIRCLE AND  WHAT HAPPENS FROM HERE. THEN  FEAR AND CONCERN ON THE HARVARD  CAMPUS TONIGHT, AFTER THE SCHOOL  HANDED OVER INFO ABOUT THOUSANDS  OF ITS INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS TO  THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION. WHY  THE SCHOOL IS ACQUIESCING NOW  AFTER WEEKS OF RESISTING THE  WHITE HOUSE'S DEMANDS. PLUS,  POLICE LAUNCHING A MANHUNT IN  SOUTH CAROLINA OVER A POSSIBLE  CAR RAMMING ATTACK AT A  PRESCHOOL. WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT  THE PERSON OFFICIALS HAVE JUST  NAMED AS THEIR SUSPECT. THEN THE  MAN WHO FELL 20FT FROM HIS SEAT  AT A PIRATES GAME IN CRITICAL  CONDITION TONIGHT. WHAT ELSE?  WE'RE HEARING FROM SHOCKED  PLAYERS AND FANS WHO WATCHED IT  HAPPEN. AND LATER, NEW DETAILS  FROM SUPERSTAR SHERYL CROW ABOUT  AN ARMED BREAK-IN AT HER  NASHVILLE PROPERTY. WHAT SHE  SAYS SELLING HER TESLA HAD TO DO  WITH IT LATER IN THE SHOW. HEY,  I'M HALLIE, AND TONIGHT  PRESIDENT TRUMP NOT ANSWERING  QUESTIONS ON HIS WAY TO ALABAMA  AFTER THE FIRST BIG STAFFING  SHAKEUP OF HIS SECOND TERM.  THAT'S AFTER THE PRESIDENT IS  NAMING MIKE WALTZ TO BE THE  COUNTRY'S AMBASSADOR TO THE  UNITED NATIONS. THAT MEANS WALTZ  IS GOING TO BE LEAVING HIS ROLE  AS NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER IN  HIS PLACE FOR NOW, MARCO RUBIO.  AND IF YOU'RE LIKE, WAIT,  DOESN'T HE ALREADY HAVE A JOB?  HE DOES. HE'S THE SECRETARY OF  STATE. HE'S NOW GOING TO BE  INTERIM NATIONAL SECURITY  ADVISOR. THAT'S TWO BIG JOBS AT  ONE TIME, SOMETHING NOT A LOT OF  PEOPLE SAW COMING. APPARENTLY  NOT EVEN THE STATE DEPARTMENT.  >> HE SAYS THAT IN THE INTERIM,  SECRETARY OF STATE MARCO RUBIO  WILL SERVE AS NATIONAL SECURITY  ADVISOR WHILE CONTINUING HIS  STRONG LEADERSHIP AT THE STATE  DEPARTMENT. DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG  HE'S GOING TO BE SERVING IN BOTH  ROLES?  >> IT IS CLEAR THAT I JUST HEARD  THIS.  >> FROM YOU.  >> SO STILL SOME QUESTIONS  THERE. WALTZ, FOR HIS PART, SAYS  HE'S DEEPLY HONORED TO CONTINUE  HIS SERVICE TO PRESIDENT TRUMP  AND THE NATION. OUR TEAM DIDN'T  SEE WALTZ EARLIER TODAY AT AN  EVENT WITH THE PRESIDENT THIS  MORNING, BUT CAMERAS DID CATCH  HIM LEAVING THE WEST WING. THERE  HE IS AT ONE POINT, AND CAMERAS  ALSO CAPTURED HIM JUST A DAY AND  A HALF AGO. HERE HE IS AT A  CABINET MEETING TO TALK NATIONAL  SECURITY. BUT WAIT A SECOND.  LOOK FROM THE OTHER ANGLE.  WHAT'S HE DOING? HE'S ON HIS  PHONE. MORE SPECIFICALLY, HE'S  ON SIGNAL. THERE HE IS. AND  LOOK, IF YOU TILT YOUR HEAD, YOU  CAN SEE IT LOOKS LIKE MARCO  RUBIO, MAYBE STEVE WITKOFF. YOU  SEE JD VANCE AT THE BOTTOM  THERE? IT LOOKS LIKE TULSI  GABBARD. NOW THE WHITE HOUSE  SAYS, YOU KNOW, NBD. THEY'RE  SAYING SIGNAL IS AN APPROVED  APP. DOWNLOAD IT ON GOVERNMENT  PHONES. YOU SEE THE WHITE HOUSE  STATEMENT THERE. BUT THIS  MATTERS BECAUSE SIGNAL IS KIND  OF WHY WE'RE HERE IN THE FIRST  PLACE. REMEMBER, IT WAS MIKE  WALTZ WHO TOOK FULL  RESPONSIBILITY, IN HIS WORDS,  FOR SO-CALLED SIGNAL GATE. THAT  GROUP CHAT WHERE A JOURNALIST  FROM THE ATLANTIC WAS  ACCIDENTALLY ADDED TO THIS  DISCUSSION ABOUT SENSITIVE  MILITARY STRIKES ON HOUTHI  REBELS IN YEMEN THAT RAISED A  TON OF QUESTIONS ABOUT WHETHER  CLASSIFIED INFORMATION WAS  SHARED. ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS  SAY IT WAS NOT. NOW, PUBLICLY,  THE PRESIDENT HAS REPEATEDLY  STOOD BY WALTZ PRIVATELY,  ACCORDING TO TWO REPUBLICAN  SOURCES OUR TEAM TALKED WITH  LAST MONTH, THE PRESIDENT HAS  VENTED ABOUT THIS WHOLE THING  LEAKING OUT. SO NOW A LOT OF  QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS  FROM HERE. IS THIS THE END OF  THE SIGNAL GATE FALLOUT? COULD  WE SEE ANOTHER FIRING OF  SOMEBODY WHO WAS INVOLVED IN  THAT, MAYBE THE DEFENSE  SECRETARY OR AT LEAST  REASSIGNMENT, IF YOU WILL. WHO  DOES THE PRESIDENT PICK FOR THE  PERMANENT ROLE OF NATIONAL  SECURITY ADVISER? AND UNTIL  THEN, DOES MARCO RUBIO END UP  HANDLING THIS JOB IN AN ACTING  CAPACITY? AND DOES HE DO IT FOR  A WHILE? WE SAW THAT A LOT IN  THE PRESIDENT'S FIRST TERM,  THESE SORT OF LONGER TERM  ACTINGS, AS THEY'RE CALLED. GABE  GUTIERREZ IS IN TUSCALOOSA,  ALABAMA, WHERE PRESIDENT TRUMP  IS ON HIS WAY FOR LATER TONIGHT.  LET'S TALK THROUGH THIS SORT OF  WALTZ DYNAMIC HERE. THERE WAS  SOME REPORTING SWIRLING, SOME  SPECULATION. MAYBE THE PRESIDENT  WAS GOING TO FIRE MIKE WALTZ.  THEN IT TURNED OUT IT WAS KIND  OF A REASSIGNMENT. ALTHOUGH  HE'LL NEED SENATE CONFIRMATION  TO SERVE AS AMBASSADOR TO THE  UN. EITHER WAY, IT SEEMS CLEAR  THAT THIS WAS SIGNALED. EXCUSE  ME. TRIGGERED BY THIS SIGNAL  DISCUSSION, THE WHOLE SIGNAL  ISSUE A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO.  >> YEAH. LOOK, HALLIE, PRESIDENT  TRUMP DOES NOT LIKE BEING SEEN  AS BOWING TO PRESSURE FROM  EITHER DEMOCRATS OR HIS OTHER  CRITICS. SO IT MAKES SENSE THAT  HE WAITED QUITE A WHILE BEFORE  DISMISSING MIKE WALLACE AS  NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR. IT  ALSO HAS THE ADDED BENEFIT OF  DISRUPTING A NEWS CYCLE HERE  THAT HE HAD BEEN DEALING WITH  FOR THE LAST SEVERAL DAYS ABOUT  THE ECONOMY, ABOUT HOW HIS  TERROR POLICIES HAD CAUSED  MARKETS TO PLUMMET, AND THERE  WERE CONCERNS AMONG THE AMERICAN  PEOPLE. THIS IS A NEW CYCLE.  THIS IS A NEW STORY THAT MAY NOT  AFFECT AMERICANS DAY TO DAY  LIVES. IT'S SORT OF INSIDE  BASEBALL. STILL, IT GETS A LOT  OF MEDIA ATTENTION, AND IT  LARGELY DISTRACTS FROM THE  TARIFF NEWS CYCLE AS WELL. BUT  THIS IS SOMETHING, AS YOU SAID,  THAT WE'VE BEEN HEARING FROM  SOURCES FAMILIAR WITH THE  SITUATION THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP  HAD BEEN VENTING PRIVATELY ABOUT  MIKE WALLACE FOR A VARIETY OF  REASONS EVER SINCE SIGNAL GATE  BROKE OUT. AND IT LOOKS LIKE HE  FINALLY TOOK ACTION ON THAT  TODAY. HALLIE.  >> GABE.  >> THE OTHER PIECE OF THIS.  >> HERE, TOO.  >> IS YOU TALKED ABOUT THE  PRESSURE FROM DEMOCRATS. ONE IN  PARTICULAR. I WANT TO PLAY FOR  YOU TO THE HOUSE'S TOP DEMOCRAT  HERE. BEFORE ALL THIS HAPPENED,  BEFORE WE KNEW THAT MIKE WALLACE  WAS MOVING TO THIS NEW ROLE.  >> HE SAID IT'S THE. MOST  UNQUALIFIED SECRETARY.  >> OF DEFENSE EVER.  >> HE'S GOT TO GO.  >> AND IF HE DOESN'T HAVE THE  DIGNITY. TO RESIGN.  >> TRUMP SHOULD FIRE HIM.  >> NOW.  >> THE NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR  IS OUT. HE'S THE FIRST PERSON TO  LEAVE. HE WILL CERTAINLY NOT BE  THE LAST.  >> IT FEELS LIKE TWO THINGS ARE  TRUE HERE, GABE. I KNOW IT'S  LOUD THERE, BUT NUMBER ONE,  DONALD TRUMP HAS NOT MADE IT  PART OF HIS BUSINESS TO TAKE  ADVICE FROM HAKEEM JEFFRIES.  RIGHT. LIKE A BUT NUMBER TWO, B,  UM, THE PRESIDENT HAS ALSO  REPEATEDLY AND PUBLICLY SAID HE  STANDS BY HIS DEFENSE SECRETARY.  RIGHT.  >> YEAH. THAT'S RIGHT. AND RIGHT  NOW WE HAVE NO INDICATION THAT  HIS JOB IS ON THE LINE. LOOK,  THE SITUATION DIFFERENT FROM  MIKE WALLACE. MIKE WALLACE WAS  SEEN AS NOT BEING ALIGNED WITH  THE MAGA WING OF THE PARTY.  THERE WERE PEOPLE WITHIN THE  ADMINISTRATION THAT JUST DIDN'T  GET ALONG WITH HIM. HIS VIEWS,  FOR EXAMPLE, ON FOREIGN POLICY,  WAS ONCE AN AIDE TO DICK CHENEY.  HE HAD DIFFERING VIEWS ON  UKRAINE THAN OTHER PEOPLE WITHIN  THE ADMINISTRATION. MEANWHILE,  PETE HEGSETH HAS BEEN COMING OUT  AND DEFENDING HIMSELF STRONGLY  AGAINST HIS CRITICS. WHAT HE  VIEWS CRITICS IN THE MEDIA,  CRITICS IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.  AND SO FOR NOW, PRESIDENT TRUMP  IS STICKING BY HEGSETH.  ALTHOUGH, HALLIE, ANYTHING CAN  CHANGE ON A DIME IN THE TRUMP  ADMINISTRATION.  >> YOU KNOW IT. GABE, GIVE US A  QUICK PREVIEW OF WHAT'S TO COME  FOR TONIGHT FOR THE PRESIDENT,  WHERE YOU ARE.  >> WELL, AS YOU CAN TELL, IT'S  VERY LOUD RIGHT HERE. THE  PRESIDENT COMING TO THE  UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA, RUBY RED  ALABAMA, OF COURSE, WHERE HE  ENJOYS STRONG SUPPORT. HE'S  DELIVERING THE COMMENCEMENT  ADDRESS HERE AT THE UNIVERSITY  OF ALABAMA. HE DID NOT TAKE  QUESTIONS AS HE LEFT THE WHITE  HOUSE A SHORT TIME AGO. UM, AND  WE DON'T EXPECT HIM TO PERHAPS  TAKE QUESTIONS HERE AS HE  ARRIVES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF  ALABAMA. HOWEVER, UM, HE HAS  BEEN SELLING HIS ECONOMIC  POLICIES, HIS TARIFF POLICIES,  UH, IN HIS LAST SEVERAL  SPEECHES, ESPECIALLY HIS 100 DAY  RALLY IN MICHIGAN. SO WE EXPECT  TO HEAR MORE OF THAT FROM HIM  TODAY. THIS DOES HAVE A BIT OF A  RALLY ATMOSPHERE, IF YOU CAN.  SEATS ARE STARTING TO FILL IN  HERE. IT'S JUST A FEW HOURS  UNTIL THE PRESIDENT TAKES THE  STAGE. UH, BUT CERTAINLY THIS IS  A STATE THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP  LOVES TO VISIT, AND WE EXPECT  THEM TO BE, UM, YOU KNOW,  TOUTING HIS ECONOMIC  ACCOMPLISHMENTS HERE, UH, WHEN  HE ARRIVES HERE LATER THIS  AFTERNOON. THIS EVENING.  >> OF.  >> COURSE, IT WAS JUST ABOUT.  >> A DECADE AGO THAT HE HELD HIS  FIRST BIG RALLY OF HIS FIRST  PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN ALONGSIDE  THEN SENATOR JEFF SESSIONS. BOY,  UH, YOU KNOW HOW MUCH HAS  CHANGED AND HOW LITTLE IN SOME  WAYS. GABE GUTIERREZ, THANK YOU  VERY MUCH FOR THAT. LIVE FOR US  FROM TUSCALOOSA. LET'S TALK  MONEY HERE, BECAUSE IN JUST THE  LAST HOUR, SOME VERY INTERESTING  DEVELOPMENTS HERE. APPLE CEO IS  COMING OUT SAYING HE THINKS  APPLE IS GOING TO TAKE A NEARLY  BILLION DOLLAR HIT BECAUSE OF  THE PRESIDENT'S TARIFFS. NOW  REMEMBER TIM COOK HERE LOBBIED  THE PRESIDENT HARD AND WON CARVE  OUTS FOR THOSE CHINA TARIFFS  LIKE ON SMARTPHONES. NOW COOK  SAYS HE IS STILL ENGAGED IN  TARIFF TALKS. BUT IT'S IMPORTANT  TO NOTE THOSE TARIFFS WERE NOT A  FACTOR IN APPLE'S FIRST FEW  MONTHS OF THE YEAR. RIGHT. THE  FIRST QUARTER APPLE CAME OUT AND  SAID THEY FEEL LIKE THEY DID  WELL. IT WAS A GOOD EARNINGS  REPORT. AS WE TALK ABOUT THESE  BIG SORT OF VERY IMPORTANT TECH  AND EVERYTHING COMPANIES NOT  JUST APPLE LOOK AT AMAZON.  THEY'VE ALSO GOT EARNINGS OUT.  BUT THEY SAY IT'S HARD TO TELL  WHAT TARIFFS ARE GOING TO MEAN  FOR THEM OR WHERE THINGS ARE  GOING TO SETTLE UNCERTAINTY  HERE. THAT'S A REAL THEME AS ALL  THAT'S GOING DOWN. YOU'VE GOT  THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE SAYING,  HEY, IT'S NOT JUST THE BIG  COMPANIES, IT'S THE SMALL ONES  THAT SHOULD BE MOST CONCERNED,  THESE SMALL BUSINESSES, WHICH IS  WHY THE CHAMBER IS ASKING THE  TRUMP ADMINISTRATION FOR TARIFF  EXCLUSIONS. YOU SEE IT HERE IN  THIS LETTER SENT TO THE  PRESIDENT'S TOP ECONOMIC  ADVISERS. I WANT TO BRING IN  BRIAN CHUNG JOINING US NOW. SO  EVERYBODY HAD BEEN WATCHING THIS  APPLE EARNINGS REPORT. THIS IS  NOT CNBC RIGHT. LIKE BUT WE'RE  TALKING ABOUT IT HERE ON THIS  CHANNEL BECAUSE IT IS BIG NEWS  AS IT RELATES TO SORT OF AN  ECONOMIC INDICATOR HERE. BECAUSE  TIM COOK IS BASICALLY SAYING IF  RIGHT CAVEAT IF NO NEW TARIFFS  ARE ADDED, THEY'RE LOOKING AT  THIS NEARLY BILLION DOLLAR LOSS  EITHER WAY OR AT LEAST HIT WALK  US THROUGH WHAT THIS MEANS SORT  OF ON THE MACRO LEVEL FOR THESE  BIG COMPANIES THAT CUSTOMERS BUY  A LOT OF STUFF FROM.  >> YEAH. WELL LOOK AT THE MACRO  LEVEL. THE TARIFFS ARE STILL  LOOMING OVER EVERY INDUSTRY, BUT  APPLE IS TRYING TO SHRUG IT OFF  IN PART FIRST, BECAUSE  SMARTPHONES AND ELECTRONICS HAVE  GOTTEN THIS CARVE OUT, AT LEAST  FOR RIGHT NOW, FROM THE TARIFFS  AS IT GOES UP. THIS UNDERGOES A  SECTION 232 REVIEW FROM THE  COMMERCE DEPARTMENT. BUT YOU  STILL HAVE AMAZON, APPLE SAYING  THAT THERE COULD BE A $900  MILLION HIT FROM THE TARIFFS IN  THE NEXT QUARTER. AGAIN, JUST IN  ONE QUARTER COMING UP IN THE  MARCH TO JUNE PERIOD, IF THE  TARIFFS REMAIN IN PLACE. AND  THAT'S ALSO ASSUMING THAT THERE  WON'T BE ANY ADD ON TARIFFS FROM  WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW. AND WE  ALSO HEARD TIM COOK ON THE CALL  TELLING ANALYSTS, HEY EVERYBODY,  DON'T FREAK OUT TOO MUCH ABOUT  THESE TARIFFS. WHY? BECAUSE NOT  THAT MUCH OF OUR SUPPLY CHAIN IS  IN CHINA. YES, IT IS INDEED TRUE  THAT A NUMBER OF PRODUCTS DO  COME FROM CHINA, BUT THEY'RE  POINTING TO THE FACT THAT OVER  HALF OF THEIR IPHONE SALES IN  THE UNITED STATES COME FROM  UNITS THAT ORIGINATE IN INDIA,  NOT CHINA. AND THEY SAID THINGS  LIKE THE MAC, IPAD, AIRPODS,  WATCH. ALMOST ALL OF THOSE ARE  MADE IN VIETNAM. SO THAT 145%  CHINESE TARIFF THAT IS LOOMING  OVER THE POTENTIAL ASPECTS OF  THIS INDUSTRY MIGHT NOT APPLY.  BUT AGAIN, THE QUESTION IS HOW  LONG CAN THEY MAKE THOSE  ASSUMPTIONS? WE DON'T KNOW THE  TARIFF POLICIES AN HOUR FROM  NOW, A DAY FROM NOW, A WEEK FROM  NOW, THAT COULD BE WEIGHING ON  APPLE. AND THAT'S THE REASON WHY  IN AFTER HOURS, PERHAPS WE ARE  SEEING A SELLING OF APPLE STOCK  OVER 3%.  >> BUT THEN AMAZON IS OUT HERE  SAYING WELL THEY HAVEN'T SEEN  THE PRICE OF RETAIL ITEMS OF  THINGS GOING UP YET, EVEN THOUGH  SOME COSTS ARE ALREADY RISING,  EVEN IF AMAZON IS NOT SEEING IT.  >> YEAH. WELL AMAZON  INTERESTINGLY SAID THAT YEAH,  THEY HAVEN'T SEEN THOSE PRICE  INCREASES. BUT INTERESTINGLY,  THE CEO ANDY JASSY DID SAY  QUOTE, TO SOME EXTENT, WE'VE  SEEN SOME HEIGHTENED BUYING IN  CERTAIN CATEGORIES THAT MAY  INDICATE STOCKING UP IN ADVANCE  OF ANY POTENTIAL TARIFF IMPACT.  WE DO HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT WHEN  WE TALK ABOUT THE TARIFFS, WE'RE  TALKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW,  SOMETHING THAT NECESSARILY  REALLY HASN'T TAKEN EFFECT UNTIL  PERHAPS PARTS OF MARCH,  DEPENDING ON WHAT TYPE OF  TARIFFS YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT.  THERE WAS A 10% TARIFF ON CHINA  THAT BEGAN IN IN FEBRUARY. THAT  WAS RATCHETED UP TO 20% IN  MARCH. THESE ARE EARNINGS  REPORTS THAT COVER BASICALLY THE  FIRST THREE MONTHS OF THIS YEAR.  SO IT'S NOT REALLY THE FULL  IMPACT OF THESE TARIFFS. BUT  AGAIN, THE NEXT QUARTER THAT'S  GOING TO BE THE BIG ONE. THE  SOFT GUIDANCE FROM THESE  COMPANIES IS HAVING INVESTORS  CERTAINLY WORRIED ABOUT WHAT THE  NEXT FEW MONTHS ARE GOING TO  LOOK LIKE.  >> ALI BRIAN CHUNG, WE'RE GLAD  TO HAVE YOU ON ANOTHER VERY SLOW  AND UNEVENTFUL DAY FOR YOU,  BRIAN. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.  SPEAKING OF SLOW AND UNEVENTFUL,  LOOK WHAT'S HAPPENING AT NEWARK  HERE. MORE THAN FOUR HOUR DELAYS  FOR FLIGHTS AT THAT AIRPORT  OUTSIDE NEW YORK. AND THIS  SLOWDOWN IS ACTUALLY  INTENTIONAL. THE FAA IS DOING IT  ON PURPOSE BECAUSE THERE'S NOT  ENOUGH AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS  TO HANDLE ALL THESE PLANES. YOU  SEE IT HERE. INCOMING FLIGHTS  FIVE HOURS DELAYED, OUTGOING  ROUGHLY 30 MINUTES. AND THE FAA  IS SLOWING THINGS DOWN BECAUSE  OF A MAJOR SHORTAGE OF STAFF AT  THE AIRPORTS, CONTROL TOWERS AND  AROUND THEM. THIS HAS BEEN  HAPPENING AT NEWARK ALL WEEK,  AND IT'S NOT CLEAR WHEN THINGS  ARE GOING TO GET BACK UP TO  SPEED. LET'S GET TO NBC'S TOM  COSTELLO FOR MORE ON THIS. TOM,  THERE ARE A LOT OF THREADS TO  PULL HERE, IN PARTICULAR THIS  RIPPLE EFFECT, BECAUSE WHAT  HAPPENS AT NEWARK DOESN'T STAY  AT NEWARK. YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT  POTENTIALLY A DOMINO THAT COULD  AFFECT OTHER AIRPORTS IN THE  REGION.  >> YEAH. LET ME UH, THIS IS  REALLY KIND OF A COMPLICATED  SITUATION HERE. SOME INBOUND  FLIGHTS ARE DELAYED BY 12 HOURS.  SOME OUTBOUND FLIGHTS ARE  DELAYED BY FIVE HOURS. UH, THIS  IS A REAL PROBLEM AT NEWARK  AIRSPACE. AND LET ME EXPLAIN  WHAT'S GOING ON HERE. UM, THE  FAA IN THE LAST YEAR HAS MOVED  SOME OF THE CONTROLLERS WHO  HANDLE NEWARK AIRSPACE, NOT THE  PEOPLE ON THE TOWER WHO HANDLE  THE RUNWAYS, BUT AIRSPACE. THEY  MOVED THOSE CONTROLLERS DOWN TO  PHILADELPHIA. IT WAS ALL ABOUT  TRYING TO ENCOURAGE MORE PEOPLE  TO BE IN THE PHILADELPHIA  TRACON, IF YOU WILL, THAT THAT  THAT CENTER THAT HANDLES  AIRSPACE ABOVE 10,000FT. AND IT  WAS ALSO ABOUT, YOU KNOW, TRYING  TO ESSENTIALLY MAKE SURE THAT  THEY'VE GOT ENOUGH PEOPLE IN ONE  PLACE AND THEREFORE THEY'RE  SIPHONING OFF EXTRA PEOPLE. THAT  WAS THE RATIONALE. IT HASN'T  WORKED THAT WELL, ACCORDING TO  THE CONTROLLERS WE TALKED TO.  AND THE PROBLEM IS THEY'VE HAD  DRAMATIC EQUIPMENT FAILURES THIS  WEEK. LISTEN TO THIS. RADARS AT  THE NEWARK AIRSPACE CONTROL  CENTER WENT DOWN. RADAR WENT  DOWN MONDAY NIGHT. RADIOS WENT  DOWN LAST NIGHT. AND ACCORDING  TO ONE OF THE VETERANS I TALKED  TO, THIS IS A REGULAR, ONGOING  PROBLEM. AND IT HAS BEEN FOR A  WHILE. AND THAT IS WHY WE'VE  SEEN THESE DRAMATIC DELAYS AND  CANCELLATIONS TODAY AFFECTING  THE NEWARK, UH, AIRSPACE,  ESSENTIALLY, AND IN AND OUT OF  NEWARK. SO THE CONCERN IS THIS  COULD PORTEND A ROUGH TRAVEL  SEASON FOR ANYBODY GOING IN AND  OUT OF NEWARK. AND KEEP IN MIND,  NEWARK IS A CRITICAL HUB FOR  UNITED AIRLINES. SO THAT'S WHERE  WE STAND RIGHT NOW. WITH  HUNDREDS OF FLIGHTS DELAYED OR  CANCELED TODAY. AND THE DELAYS  AND CANCELLATIONS ARE REALLY  PRETTY DRAMATIC.  >> CAN YOU BE CRYSTAL CLEAR  THERE, TOM? HERE, TOM, SHOULD  PEOPLE FEEL LESS SAFE FLYING  INTO NEWARK? IN OTHER WORDS, IS  THIS A SAFETY THING OR IS THIS A  CONVENIENCE THING?  >> UNSOLICITED, THE CONTROLLER I  TALKED TO TODAY SAID HE DOESN'T  THINK THAT NEWARK AIRSPACE IS  SAFE. NOW.  >> THAT WAS.  >> I WAS SURPRISED.  >> THAT'S A THAT'S.  >> A LITTLE INTENSE.  >> AND THEY DON'T THEY'RE NOT  PRONE TO HYPERBOLE. I WILL TELL  YOU THAT IMMEDIATELY THE FAA AND  THE AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER  UNIONS SAY IT'S VERY SAFE. DON'T  WORRY. THEY'RE TRYING TO MAKE  SURE THAT THINGS ARE SPACED  PROPERLY. THEY'RE TRYING TO MAKE  SURE THAT THEY GOT ENOUGH  STAFFING. BUT THIS IS CLEARLY AN  ONGOING PROBLEM HERE. AND WE  ARE, AS YOU AND I HAVE  DISCUSSED, THE COUNTRY IS SHORT,  SOME 3000 CONTROLLERS. AND TODAY  THE DOT SECRETARY ANNOUNCED  STEPS TO TRY TO RECRUIT MORE AND  RETAIN CONTROLLERS. UH, AND IT'S  A VERY STRESSFUL JOB. RIGHT. SO  THEY'RE OFFERING BONUSES NOT  ONLY TO GET PEOPLE TO SIGN UP TO  BE A CONTROLLER, BUT THEN STAY  ON THE JOB UNTIL THE MANDATORY  RETIREMENT AGE OF 56. YEAH,  THAT'S RIGHT, 56. THAT'S THE  MANDATORY RETIREMENT AGE BECAUSE  OF THE STRESS THAT THIS JOB  ENTAILS. BUT NONETHELESS, WE  HAVE A BIG PROBLEM IN THIS  COUNTRY. ON THE SHORTAGE OF  CONTROLLERS WIDELY ACCEPTED.  EVERYBODY ACKNOWLEDGES THAT.  RIGHT. AND IT WILL TAKE YEARS TO  GET IT FIXED.  >> BUT I DO THINK THAT HELPED  HELPS EXPLAIN MAYBE THE QUESTION  PEOPLE MIGHT HAVE, WHICH IS,  WELL, WAIT A SECOND, WHY NOT  JUST FLY IN MORE CONTROLLERS  FROM LA OR TEXAS OR WHEREVER?  IT'S NOT AS THOUGH THERE'S THIS  BIG EXCESS POOL OF PEOPLE WITH  THIS VERY SPECIFIC EXPERTISE  THAT CAN COME IN AND HELP AT  NEWARK FAIR.  >> 35% WASHOUT RATE AT THE  ACADEMY, 35%. ANOTHER 20% QUIT  ON THE JOB. UH, THEY SIMPLY  CANNOT KEEP UP OR BARELY ARE  KEEPING UP RIGHT NOW WITH PEOPLE  JUST LEAVING, RETIRING AND  LEAVING. RIGHT. AND IT'S  STRESSFUL. THIS IS NOT MONDAY  THROUGH FRIDAY, 95. IT'S  WEEKENDS, IT'S OVERNIGHTS, IT'S  HOLIDAYS AND IT'S LIFE AND  DEATH. IT IS A VERY STRESSFUL  JOB.  >> TOM COSTELLO MUCH MORE TO  WATCH THERE. TOM, PLEASE KEEP US  POSTED AS THE EVENING GOES ON ON  THIS ONE TO APPRECIATE THAT. NEW  CONCERNS ON CAMPUS TONIGHT AS  WE'RE LEARNING HARVARD HANDED  OVER INFORMATION ABOUT THOUSANDS  OF ITS INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS TO  THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND  SECURITY. THIS SEEMS TO BE THE  FIRST BIG MOVE FROM HARVARD TO  GIVE IN TO THE TRUMP  ADMINISTRATION'S DEMANDS, AT  LEAST SOME OF THEM. EVER SINCE  THE START OF THIS BIG FIGHT  BETWEEN THE TWO ENTITIES. BUT  HERE'S THE THING THERE'S A LOT  WE DON'T KNOW ABOUT THIS, RIGHT?  LIKE WE DON'T KNOW WHAT EXACTLY  WAS IN SPECIFICALLY THOSE  RECORDS. THE WHITE HOUSE WANTED  STUFF LIKE DISCIPLINARY RECORDS,  INFORMATION ABOUT ANY POTENTIAL  ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES. THEY  THREATENED TO CUT OFF HARVARD  STUDENT EXCHANGE PROGRAM IF THE  UNIVERSITY DIDN'T GO ALONG WITH  THIS. IT'S ALL PART OF A BIGGER,  BROADER BATTLE BETWEEN HIGHER  EDUCATION AND THE TRUMP  ADMINISTRATION, WITH MORE THAN A  THOUSAND INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS,  STUDENTS AT SCHOOLS ACROSS THE  COUNTRY REPORTEDLY HAVING THEIR  STUDENT VISAS REVOKED IN JUST  THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS. REHEMA  ELLIS IS TRACKING THIS FOR US.  AND REHEMA, AS OUR VIEWERS KNOW,  YOU SPENT A LOT OF TIME  REPORTING ON WHAT'S GOING ON AT  HARVARD HERE. TALK ME THROUGH  WHAT YOU'RE HEARING FROM  STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY. NOW  THAT THE SCHOOL HAS HANDED OVER  AT LEAST SOME OF THIS  INFORMATION? AND WHY IS HARVARD  DOING THIS NOW?  >> YEAH, STUDENTS ARE LEARNING  ABOUT THAT. HARVARD HAS HANDED  OVER SOME INFORMATION. WE IN  FACT TALKED TO SOME STUDENTS,  GOT IN TOUCH WITH THEM WHO WERE  INCLUDED IN OUR STORY LAST  NIGHT. THAT WAS ALL ABOUT  INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS WHO WERE  FEELING AFRAID TO SPEAK THEIR  MIND ON CAMPUS FOR FEAR OF  REPRISALS JUST FROM THE CAMPUS,  AS WELL AS FROM THE TRUMP  ADMINISTRATION. WE'VE HEARD  STUDENTS SAY THAT THEY ARE  FEELING FRUSTRATED ABOUT WHAT  HARVARD HAS DONE. IT DOES NOT  MAKE THEM FEEL HAPPY. BUT IN THE  STATEMENT THAT HARVARD SENT OUT  LAST NIGHT TO ITS COMMUNITY, IT  SAID WHAT IT HAS DONE IS COMPLY  WITH THE LAW. TO YOUR POINT,  THEY HAVEN'T TOLD US EXACTLY  WHAT THEY HAVE DONE IN TERMS OF  ANSWERING ALL THOSE QUESTIONS.  THEY'VE COMPLIED WITH THE LAW.  AND THEY SAID TO STUDENTS, THIS  SHOULD MEAN THAT THERE SHOULD BE  NO CHANGE IN OUR STUDENT VISA  STATUS. SO THEY'RE SUGGESTING TO  STUDENTS THAT YOU MIGHT BE ABLE  TO RELAX BASED ON WHAT THE  UNIVERSITY HAS DONE AT THIS  POINT. HALLIE.  >> SO WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? REHEMA.  >> IT'S A BIG QUESTION BECAUSE  THE WHITE HOUSE HAS BEEN VERY  DILIGENT, IF YOU WILL, ABOUT  PUSHING FORWARD WITH THE CHANGES  THAT THEY WANT TO SEE ON  UNIVERSITY CAMPUSES. WE DID GET  A RESPONSE, WE SHOULD POINT OUT  FROM THE WHITE HOUSE TO OUR  QUESTIONS ABOUT THE FACT THAT  STUDENTS WERE SAYING THEY WERE  NOT FEELING COMFORTABLE. AND THE  WHITE HOUSE SAYS THIS THE  ACTIONS OF THE TRUMP  ADMINISTRATION'S ANTISEMITISM  TASK FORCE IS MOTIVATED BY ONE  THING AND ONE THING ONLY, AND  THAT IS TACKLING ANTISEMITISM.  SO IT SEEMS THAT THEY'RE PRETTY  CLEAR ON THE FACT THAT THEY'RE  GOING TO KEEP PUSHING FORWARD  WITH THIS, NO MATTER WHAT THE  HARVARD UNIVERSITY DOES. UM, TO  THIS POINT, WE'LL HAVE TO WAIT  AND SEE ABOUT ALL OF THAT.  HALLIE.  >> REHEMA ELLIS COVERING EVERY  ANGLE ON THAT STORY. REHEMA,  THANK YOU VERY MUCH. TO SOME  BREAKING NEWS NOW, JUST IN THE  LAST COUPLE OF MINUTES FROM  SOUTH CAROLINA, WHERE WE'RE  LEARNING, POLICE HAVE ARRESTED A  MAN IN A SUSPECTED HIT AND RUN  ON SULLIVAN'S ISLAND, NOT FAR  FROM CHARLESTON. THEY SAY HE  DROVE A CAR INTO A GROUP OF  PEOPLE OUTSIDE A PRESCHOOL,  HITTING TWO KIDS, ONE ADULT,  SENDING TWO OF THEM TO THE  HOSPITAL. I WANT TO BRING IN  NBC'S AARON GILCHRIST ON THIS  FAST MOVING STORY HERE. ERIN,  WHAT'S THE LATEST?  >> WELL, YEAH.  >> IN THE LAST FEW MINUTES.  >> HERE, THE BREAKING NEWS IS  THAT AN ARREST HAS.  >> BEEN MADE HERE.  >> POLICE IN SULLIVAN.  >> ON SULLIVAN'S.  >> ISLAND, SOUTH.  >> CAROLINA, TELLING US. THAT  JUSTIN COLIN.  >> ADAMS WAS.  >> APPREHENDED BY OFFICERS.  >> ON A BOAT. APPARENTLY.  >> AS THEY.  >> WERE. SEARCHING THAT.  >> SMALL TOWN.  >> AS YOU NOTED, NOT FAR FROM.  >> CHARLESTON.  >> SOUTH CAROLINA. WELL.  >> BACK UP AND.  >> SORT OF EXPLAIN WHAT WE KNOW  ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED HERE TODAY.  IT WAS A LITTLE BIT BEFORE 1:00  WHEN THE CALL STARTED COMING IN  TO LOCAL POLICE, THAT A MAN IN A  CAR HAD HIT THREE PEOPLE. AS WE  UNDERSTAND, TWO CHILDREN AND AN  ADULT OUTSIDE A CHURCH PRESCHOOL  IN. ON SULLIVAN'S ISLAND. AT  THAT POINT, THE WITNESSES SAY  THE MAN GOT OUT OF THAT CAR AND  TOOK OFF ON FOOT. THE ALERT THAT  WAS PUT OUT TO THE COMMUNITY  THERE.  >> WAS THAT.  >> HE MAY HAVE BEEN ARMED WITH A  KNIFE. AND SO POLICE CONSIDERED  HIM ARMED AND DANGEROUS. THEY  TOLD PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THAT  TOWN TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY DID  NOT COME OUTSIDE, THAT THEY  LOCKED THEIR DOORS, AND IF THEY  SAW ANYTHING SUSPICIOUS, THEY  SHOULD CALL POLICE. AT THAT  POINT, THERE WAS AN ALL OUT  EFFORT, A MANHUNT, REALLY, BY  THE LOCAL POLICE, STATE POLICE,  FBI, SEVERAL OTHER AGENCIES  PARTICIPATING IN TRYING TO FIND  MR. ADAMS. AS WE UNDERSTAND IT,  THERE WERE HELICOPTERS PUT IN  THE AIR. DRONES WERE BEING FLOWN  AROUND THE AREA. CHECKPOINTS HAD  BEEN SET UP AS PEOPLE WERE  TRYING TO LEAVE THE ISLAND  THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON. AND IN  WORD COMING IN JUST THE LAST FEW  MINUTES HERE, REALLY HAPPY THAT  THE ARREST WAS MADE, THAT PEOPLE  ARE SAFE NOW, THAT THEY DON'T  NEED TO BE CONCERNED. THERE WILL  BE STILL A POLICE PRESENCE ON  THE ISLAND AS THEY START TO PARE  ARREST HAS BEEN MADE AS WEE  UNDERSTAND IT. ONE OF THE  CHILDREN WAS TREATED AT THE  SCENE AND RELEASED TO HIS  PARENTS. THE TWO PEOPLE WHO WENT  TO THE HOSPITAL. THE ADULT, AS  WE UNDERSTAND, IS STABLE AND IS  EXPECTED TO BE OKAY. THE SECOND  CHILD WE UNDERSTAND WAS RELEASED  FROM THE HOSPITAL.  >> ALI AARON.  >> GILCHRIST, THANK YOU VERY  MUCH FOR THAT UPDATE. LOTS TO  FOLLOW IN JUST THE LAST COUPLE  OF HOURS THERE. APPRECIATE IT.  COMING UP HERE ON THE SHOW, A  FORMER EMPIRE ACTOR REACHING AN  AGREEMENT WITH THE CITY OF  CHICAGO YEARS AFTER THAT ALLEGED  HOAX ATTACK. SO WHAT'S NEXT NOW  FOR JUSSIE SMOLLETT? PLUS,  FORGET SNAKES ON A PLANE. HOW  SNAKES ON A TRAIN SINGULAR  CAUSED A MAJOR BLACKOUT IN  JAPAN. OOF!  >> FROM OUR PITTSBURGH STATION.  SHELBY, THANK YOU FOR BEING  THERE FOR US TONIGHT. LET'S GET  YOU OVER TO THE FIVE THINGS OUR  TEAM THINKS YOU SHOULD KNOW  ABOUT TONIGHT. NUMBER ONE, AN  ARMY VETERAN CONVICTED OF  KILLING HIS GIRLFRIEND AND HER  THREE KIDS NEARLY 30 YEARS AGO,  IS SET TO BE EXECUTED TONIGHT BY  LETHAL INJECTION IN FLORIDA.  LAWYERS FOR JEFFREY HUTCHINSON  HAVE TRIED TO DELAY IT, POINTING  TO MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS LINKED  TO HIS ARMY SERVICE ARGUMENTS A  JUDGE REJECTED. IF CARRIED OUT,  THE EXECUTION WILL BE THE FOURTH  IN FLORIDA THIS YEAR. NUMBER  TWO, TAKE A LOOK AT THIS HUGE  FUNNEL CLOUD FORMATION TAKING  SHAPE IN KEMPNER, TEXAS, NOT TOO  FAR FROM AUSTIN. OH, IT'S LIKE  SWIRLING. YOU'RE SEEING IT START  TO COME TOGETHER. IT'S JUST THE  LATEST IN THIS DAY'S LONG STRING  OF INTENSE WEATHER HITTING THAT  AREA AND PARTS OF NEIGHBORING  OKLAHOMA. THEY'RE BOTH UNDER  FLOOD WARNINGS AS THEY BRACE FOR  ANOTHER ROUND OF STORMS TONIGHT.  NUMBER THREE, FORMER EMPIRE  ACTOR JUSSIE SMOLLETT REACHING A  SETTLEMENT WITH THE CITY OF  CHICAGO TODAY. THE CITY HAD SUED  THE ACTOR MONTHS AFTER HE  CLAIMED HE WAS THE VICTIM OF A  RACIST AND HOMOPHOBIC ATTACK.  THE CITY ACCUSED HIM OF STAGING  A HOAX HATE CRIME AGAINST  HIMSELF, AND WANTED SMOLLETT TO  PAY BACK THE $130,000 POLICE  SPENT ON INVESTIGATING IT.  SMOLLETT FILED A COUNTERSUIT  DENYING THE ATTACK WAS A HOAX  AND THAT HE FILED A FALSE POLICE  REPORT. SMOLLETT WAS EVENTUALLY  CONVICTED, BUT THAT CONVICTION  WAS OVERTURNED LATE LAST YEAR.  NO DETAILS ON THIS NEW  SETTLEMENT WERE DISCLOSED.  SMOLLETT'S ATTORNEYS AND THE  CITY HAVE NOT RESPONDED TO OUR  REQUESTS FOR COMMENT. NUMBER  FOUR LUIGI MANGIONE, SET TO BE  THE FOCUS OF A NEW MUSICAL  DEBUTING IN CALIFORNIA NEXT  MONTH. FIVE SHOWS IN SAN  FRANCISCO REPORTEDLY SOLD OUT  ALREADY THE WHOLE RUN. MANGIONE  JUST PLEADED GUILTY TO A FEDERAL  MURDER. EXCUSE ME, JUST PLEADED  NOT GUILTY TO A FEDERAL MURDER  CHARGE LAST WEEK IN THE KILLING  OF THE UNITED HEALTH CARE CEO.  NUMBER FIVE, SOME WILD VIDEO NOW  OUT OF AUSTRALIA, SHOWING THREE  MEN RESCUING A GREAT WHITE SHARK  FROM SHALLOW WATER. SO THEY SAY  THEY USE, LIKE, I DON'T KNOW,  LIKE RAKES. KIND OF LIKE A TOOL.  KIND OF LIKE A RAKE TO PUSH PUSH  THE SHARK OFF THE SANDBAR. AFTER  ABOUT AN HOUR, THEY MANAGED TO  GET IT BACK INTO DEEPER WATER.  PRETTY, PRETTY. WOW. ALSO  TONIGHT, COUNTRY SUPERSTAR  SHERYL CROW SHARING NEW DETAILS  TONIGHT ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED WHEN  AN ARMED MAN ENTERED HER  PROPERTY, TELLING VARIETY IT WAS  WHAT SHE CALLS AN ALARMING  RESPONSE FROM THE FAR RIGHT  AFTER SHE SOLD HER TESLA.  REMEMBER SHE POSTED HER VIDEO OF  HER GETTING RID OF HER TESLA  BACK IN FEBRUARY? IN THE  CAPTION, SHE WROTE MY PARENTS  ALWAYS SAID YOU ARE WHO YOU HANG  OUT WITH WAS IN MANY WAYS SEEN,  OF COURSE, AS A NOT SO SUBTLE  REFERENCE TO THIS MAN, ELON MUSK  AND HIS PARTNERSHIP. IN SOME  WAYS, HIS CONTROVERSIAL ROLE AT  THE WHITE HOUSE INSIDE THE TRUMP  ADMINISTRATION AS PRESIDENT  TRUMP'S CLOSE ADVISOR AS HE WAS  ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL. CROW IS  NOT THE ONLY PROMINENT  PROGRESSIVE WHO HAS WAVED  GOODBYE TO HER TESLA AS A FORM  OF PROTEST. SAME DEAL FOR JASON  BATEMAN, BETTE MIDLER, SENATOR  MARK KELLY AND MORE. GEORGE  SOLIS IS JOINING US NOW. AND  IT'S NOT THAT SHERYL CROW IS SHY  ABOUT HER POLITICAL BELIEFS.  SHE'S WRITTEN SONGS ABOUT, YOU  KNOW, WEAVE THAT INTO SOME OF  HER SONGWRITING HERE. SHE'S  TALKED ABOUT IT, BUT SHE SAYS  THE REACTION THIS TIME WAS  NOTABLY DIFFERENT, RIGHT?  >> YEAH. THAT'S RIGHT. I KEEP IN  MIND WHEN SHE WROTE ALL I WANT  TO DO AND LOVE IS A GOOD THING,  SHE WAS LIVING OUT IN LA, SHE  WASN'T LIVING IN TENNESSEE. SHE  SAID IN THAT SAME ARTICLE THAT,  LOOK, PEOPLE DIDN'T HAVE AS MANY  GUNS BACK THEN. I CERTAINLY  WASN'T LIVING IN TENNESSEE. SO  THIS OBVIOUSLY FELT A LOT CLOSER  TO HOME. IN THAT ARTICLE, SHE  SAYS IT DOESN'T FEEL SAFE WHEN  YOU'RE DEALING WITH PEOPLE WHO  ARE SO COMMITTED. AND YOU'RE  RIGHT WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THAT  ONE SONG, LOVE IS A GOOD THING,  THE LYRICS ARE REALLY POINTING  OUT SOME OF HER VIEWS THAT SHE  HASN'T BEEN SHY ABOUT  EXPRESSING. I'LL SING IT FOR YOU  SINCE WE CAN'T ACTUALLY PLAY IT,  SHE SAYS VERY FAMOUSLY. WATCH  OUT SISTER, WATCH OUT BROTHER,  WATCH OUR CHILDREN WHILE THEY  KILL EACH OTHER WITH A GUN THEY  BOUGHT AT WALMART DISCOUNT  STORES. I APOLOGIZE, I AM NOT A  SINGER, SO I'LL STICK TO MY DAY  JOB, BUT YOU GET THE POINT  THERE. SHE WAS OBVIOUSLY VERY  OUTSPOKEN. SHE'S BEEN AN  ADVOCATE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE. SHE  SUPPORTS THE NATURAL RESOURCES  DEFENSE COUNCIL, THE NRDC. BUT  AGAIN, VERY SHOCKING TO HEAR  THAT THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENED TO  HER AT HER PROPERTY. AND SHE  SAYS, YOU KNOW, SHE STILL STICKS  BY HER DECISION TO GET RID OF  HER TESLA, AS YOU HEARD, BECAUSE  SHE'S OBVIOUSLY TRYING TO SEND  THAT MESSAGE THAT SHE DOESN'T  FEEL LIKE SHE CAN SUPPORT THIS.  WHILE THINGS ARE KIND OF THE WAY  THAT THEY HAVE BEEN GOING.  HALLIE.  >> AND AS YOU KNOW, GEORGE,  THESE SORT OF THE SELLING OF THE  TESLA, THE OFFLOADING OF THE  TESLA BECAME AND HAS BECOME KIND  OF A THING EVER SINCE PRESIDENT  TRUMP WAS INAUGURATED. AND IT  BECAME CLEAR THAT ELON MUSK  WOULD HAVE THAT ELEVATED ROLE,  AS HE DID IN THOSE FIRST FEW  MONTHS HERE. UM, YOU KNOW, AND  THEN THERE ARE SOME WHO LOOK AT  IT AND GO, WELL, OF COURSE,  HOLLYWOOD PEOPLE IN HOLLYWOOD  MIGHT LEAN MORE LIBERAL. THESE  SORT OF CELEBRITIES, MANY OF  THEM KNOWN FOR HAVING THAT MORE  SORT OF DEMOCRATIC BENT.  >> YEAH. THAT'S RIGHT. I MEAN,  OBVIOUSLY NOT EVERYONE CAN GO  OUT AND JUST GET RID OF THEIR  TESLAS AFTER BUYING THEM. SO  WHAT WE HAVE SEEN, IT'S BEEN ALL  OVER SOCIAL MEDIA IS PEOPLE ARE  BUYING STICKERS, BUMPER  STICKERS, ANYTHING TO PUT ONTO  THEIR TESLAS SAYING, HEY, LOOK,  I HAVE THE CAR. AND EVEN THOUGH  THIS DOESN'T REALLY SUPPORT MY  VIEWPOINT, I CAN AT LEAST KEEP  MY CAR AND EXPRESS HOW  DISSATISFIED I AM WITH THINGS  THAT ELON MUSK HAS BEEN DOING AS  PART OF DOGE, OR ANYTHING ELSE  THAT THEY DON'T SEEM TO CARE  FOR, BUT IT IS PART OF A  MOVEMENT. AND OBVIOUSLY WE HAVE  SEEN MORE AND MORE FALLOUT FROM  PEOPLE WHO ARE RETHINKING EVEN  PURCHASING OR GETTING A TESLA  VEHICLE. BUT AGAIN, FOR SHERYL  CROW IN THIS PARTICULAR  INCIDENT, AGAIN, TO HEAR THAT  THIS ACTUALLY HIT SO CLOSE TO  HOME FOR HER, UH, VERY POIGNANT  IN THAT ARTICLE. SHE, UM, SHE,  SHE, IN THAT INTERVIEW SHE GAVE  TO VARIETY. HALLIE.  >> THAT'S RIGHT. THAT THOSE NEW  THOSE NEW REVELATIONS THERE.  JORGE SOLIS, THANK YOU VERY  MUCH. WHEN WE COME BACK,  PROTESTERS CLASHING WITH POLICE  IN PARIS TODAY, WHAT UNIONS  THERE ARE NOW CALLING FOR. PLUS,  HOW ELON MUSK MAY BE SCALING  BACK HIS ROLE AT THE WHITE  HOUSE. BUT NOT SO FOR TESLA.  THAT'S NEXT. IS NBC NEWS  NOW.  >> NBC NEWS COVERS HUNDREDS OF  STORIES EVERY DAY. AND BECAUSE  IT CAN BE TOUGH TO READ OR WATCH  OR LISTEN TO THEM, ALL OUR TEAMS  AROUND THE WORLD HAVE DONE IT  FOR YOU. HERE'S A LOOK AT WHAT  THEY'RE WATCHING IN A SEGMENT WE  CALL THE GLOBAL OUT OF BRAZIL,  THE WORLD'S OLDEST PERSON HAS  DIED AT THE AGE OF 116, JUST A  FEW WEEKS BEFORE HER 117TH  BIRTHDAY. INA LUCAS WAS A NUN  AND TEACHER AND, ACCORDING TO  HER RELIGIOUS CONGREGATION, DIED  OF NATURAL CAUSES. IT'S A GROUP  LONGEVITY QUEST, A GROUP THAT  TRACKS SUPERCENTENARIANS, SAYS  SHE ATTRIBUTED HER LONG LIFE TO  HER FAITH. THE CURRENT NOW  WORLD'S OLDEST PERSON IS A 115  YEAR OLD WOMAN IN ENGLAND, OUT  OF FRANCE. MAY DAY PROTESTS IN  PARIS, ONE OF MANY  DEMONSTRATIONS AROUND THE WORLD  TAKING A VIOLENT TURN. PEOPLE  YOU SEE HERE CLASHING WITH  POLICE, SOME DRAGGED AWAY  STREETS FILLING UP WITH TEAR  GAS. SOME UNIONS, THEY'RE CALLED  WORKERS TO JOIN IN, TO RESIST  THE INFLUENCE OF FAR RIGHT  PARTIES, THEY SAID, AND TO  SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND  OUT OF JAPAN. A SPOKESPERSON FOR  A TRAIN LINE OPERATOR SAYS THIS  THREE FOOT LONG SNAKE BROUGHT  THE COUNTRY'S BUSIEST BULLET  TRAIN LINE TO A STANDSTILL. THE  SNAKE APPARENTLY GOT TANGLED UP  IN A POWER LINE AND TRIGGERED A  BLACKOUT ON THE TRACKS BETWEEN  TOKYO AND OSAKA FOR 90 MINUTES,  SOME 80 TRAINS WERE AFFECTED,  MEANING TENS OF THOUSANDS OF  PEOPLE WERE STUCK. AND THIS IS A  BIG DEAL THERE. IN JAPAN, THE  AVERAGE DELAY LAST YEAR WAS ONLY  ABOUT A MINUTE AND A HALF. SO AN  HOUR 30. THAT IS QUITE A BIT FOR  A SMALL SNAKE. ALSO TONIGHT IS  ELON MUSK GETS READY TO SCALE  BACK HIS ROLE AT THE WHITE  HOUSE. HE'S DENYING A REPORT  THAT ONE OF HIS COMPANIES IS  TRYING TO SCALE HIM BACK TO BOTH  MUSK AND TESLA SAY IT'S  ABSOLUTELY QUITTING. THEY'RE  EVEN DELIBERATELY FALSE THAT  TESLA'S BOARD HAD STARTED  LOOKING FOR SOMEBODY TO SUCCEED  HIM AS CEO. AS REPORTED BY THE  WALL STREET JOURNAL, MUSK SAYS  THE OPPOSITE, ACTUALLY, THAT  HE'S GOT TO GET BACK TO RUNNING  HIS COMPANIES, WHICH, IN HIS  WORDS, DO NEED ME. DOGE. THE  DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT  EFFICIENCY, HE SAYS, IS NOW MORE  IN A RHYTHM. SO INSTEAD OF 24  OVER SEVEN THERE, HE CAN DO LIKE  MAYBE, YOU KNOW, EVERY OTHER  WEEK, A COUPLE DAYS, WHATEVER.  IN WASHINGTON, MUSK IS  REFLECTING ON HIS TIME WORKING  WITH DOGE, WORKING AT THE WHITE  HOUSE, WAXING POETIC ABOUT  PLAYING VIDEO GAMES IN THE WEST  WING'S INVITES BY PRESIDENT  TRUMP TO SLEEPOVER IN THE  LINCOLN BEDROOM. SNAG AN ICE  CREAM FROM THE KITCHEN THERE.  APPARENTLY, HE'S INTO THE  CARAMEL HAAGEN-DAZS THESE DAYS.  OUR JULIE SIRKIN IS JOINING US  NOW. IT IS AN INTERESTING SHIFT,  CONSIDERING MUSK HAS BEEN A  NEAR-CONSTANT PRESENCE AT THE  WHITE HOUSE FOR MONTHS NOW.  WHETHER OR NOT SOME OF THE  CABINET MEMBERS CABINET MEMBERS  LIKE IT, IT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE  HE'S GOING ALL THAT FAR AWAY. IN  OTHER WORDS, HE'S NOT GETTING  LIKE, BANNED FROM WHITE HOUSE  GROUNDS. BUT TALK US THROUGH  WHAT HE'S SAYING AS HE DEPARTS  AND AS HE TAKES SOME SHOTS AT  THE JOURNAL REPORTING THAT THE  TESLA BOARD IS STARTING TO LOOK  FOR HIS SUCCESSOR.  >> YEAH. IF ANYTHING, MUSK IS  SAYING HE'LL NOW STICK AROUND  WITH HIS DOGE EFFORT FOR THE  NEXT FOUR YEARS. IN OTHER WORDS,  THE ENTIRETY OF THE TRUMP  PRESIDENCY. BEFOREHAND, HE WAS  SUPPOSED TO DEPART. THE DOGE  EFFORT WAS SUPPOSED TO KIND OF  WIND DOWN BY JULY 4TH OF NEXT  YEAR. NOW HE'S SAYING, THOUGH  HIS PRESENCE WILL BE LESS  FREQUENT, HE WILL BE AROUND.  ALTHOUGH HE DID ACKNOWLEDGE TO  OUR GARRETT HAIG AND OTHER  REPORTERS THAT HE KIND OF  DETAILED HIS PLANS ABOUT WHAT  HIS NEXT PHASE LOOKS LIKE, THAT  HE DIDN'T ACCOMPLISH AS MUCH IN  DOGE AS HE THOUGHT HE WOULD  REMEMBER. THEY CAME IN WITH THIS  BIG PLAN TO CUT $2 TRILLION IN  SPENDING FROM THE FEDERAL  GOVERNMENT, HE SAID. HE ONLY  ENDED UP CUTTING ABOUT $160  BILLION, AND THAT CAUSED A TON  OF HEADACHES AND HEARTBURN, NOT  ONLY FOR HIM PERSONALLY, BUT  ALSO FOR HIS COMPANIES, AS YOU  MENTIONED. AND NOW HE'S SAYING,  OF COURSE, THAT HE'S WINDING  DOWN. HE ALSO MADE REFERENCE TO  A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO WHEN HE  MADE SOME MISTAKES, PERHAPS  CUTTING SOMETHING TOO SOON,  GETTING OUTRAGE FROM PEOPLE HERE  ON THE HILL, INCLUDING  REPUBLICANS. AND HE SAID, IF THE  STANDARD FOR TERMINATING ANYONE  IS THAT YOU CAN NEVER MAKE A  MISTAKE OUT OF MILLIONS OF  PEOPLE, THEN YOU COULD NOT FIRE  ANYONE, OBVIOUSLY. SO BACKING  HIMSELF UP AND THE WORK HE DID  ON THAT TO HOLLY.  >> THERE IS ONE AREA HE'S BEEN  CUTTING, AND DOGE HAS BEEN  CUTTING THE FEDERAL WORKFORCE,  TRYING TO CUT BACK ON SPENDING,  ETC. HE IS SAYING THERE'S ONE  AREA THE U.S. SHOULD SPEND MONEY  ON. IT JUST SO HAPPENS THAT IT'S  AN AREA WHERE THERE ARE SOME  OVERLAPPING CONFLICTS OF  INTEREST FOR HIM.  >> EXACTLY. THAT IS ELECTRIC  HUMVEES. REMEMBER A WHILE BACK,  A WHILE BACK, THE STATE  DEPARTMENT ACTUALLY CANCELED  PLANS. THEY SCRAPPED THEM WHEN  IT WAS REVEALED THAT TESLA COULD  ACTUALLY PROFIT HUNDREDS OF  MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN PROFIT BY  TRYING TO USE THESE ELECTRIC  VEHICLES FOR MILITARY PURPOSES.  TWO ARMY OFFICIALS ACTUALLY TELL  NBC NEWS NOW THAT TO PREVENT  THOSE FROM GOING IN TO HAVE MORE  POWER TO THE GENERALS AND HAVE  INTERNAL CHARGE ON THIS MATTER,  THAT THEY ARE PROPOSING TO  ELIMINATE HUMVEES AND TO CUT  OTHER COSTS IN THE HOPE THAT IT  WILL ALLOW GENERALS NOT DODGE TO  DECIDE WHERE AND HOW TO CUT  SPENDING. SOURCES TOLD NBC NEWS  THAT MUSK WAS IN THAT MEETING  AND APPARENTLY AGREED.  >> HIS DECISION TO WALK AWAY  ALSO COMES AT AN INTERESTING  POINT, BECAUSE ON THE ONE SIDE,  YOU KNOW HIS COMPANY, HE FEELS  THE NEED TO BE BACK WITH HIS  COMPANY. THE COMPANY, YOU KNOW,  REPORTEDLY FELT THE NEED TO BE  LOOKING FOR SUCCESS, ALTHOUGH  TESLA DENIES THAT. ON THE OTHER  HAND, HIS POPULARITY HAS SUNK  PRETTY DRAMATICALLY EVER SINCE.  YOU KNOW, THE LAST FEW MONTHS,  EVER SINCE HE BECAME SORT OF  PROMINENTLY INVOLVED WITH WITH  PRESIDENT TRUMP HERE IN THE  WHITE HOUSE. WHAT DO FOLKS ON  THE HILL THINK ABOUT THAT?  >> WELL, WE DIDN'T ACTUALLY GET  ANYONE TO SAY TODAY WHAT THEY  THINK ABOUT HIS WINDING DOWN  ROAD. BUT IF I LOOK BACK TO MY  CONVERSATIONS IN THE PAST COUPLE  OF DAYS AND WEEKS, CERTAINLY  EVEN REPUBLICANS HERE REALLY  WANTED CABINET OFFICIALS TO HAVE  THE POWER. THEY ALSO WANT  CONGRESS TO HAVE THE POWER. THIS  IS A ROLE THAT CONGRESS SHOULD  BE IN CHARGE OF. NOW THEY HAVE  IT BALANCED, A BUDGET, IF YOU  WILL, IN DECADES. BUT THEY  WANTED TO TAKE SOME OF THAT  POWER BACK. MIKE JOHNSON, FOR  EXAMPLE, EYEING THAT IN THIS  BUDGET PROPOSAL TO FUND THE  PRESIDENT'S AGENDA, SAYING THAT  THEY WILL MAKE CUTS IN DIFFERENT  AREAS. BUT YOU'RE TOTALLY RIGHT  ABOUT ELON MUSK'S POPULARITY,  AND IT'S PERHAPS WHY HE'S TAKING  A STEP BACK FROM HIS ROLE. A  SURVEY THAT WE DID AT STAY TUNED  ACTUALLY FOUND THAT 41% OF  AMERICANS HAVE A FAVORABLE  FAVORABLE VIEW OF MUSK. 59% OF  AMERICANS UNFAVORABLE. YOU  COMPARE THAT TO HIS Q1 EARNINGS  THIS YEAR VERSUS LAST YEAR. IT  COMPLETELY TANKED 71% IN PROFITS  LOST FOR THE COMPANY. THAT'S  SOMETHING MUSK IS CERTAINLY  PAYING ATTENTION TO. HOLLY,  JULIE.  >> GOOD TO SEE YOU. THANK YOU  VERY MUCH FOR THAT. REPORTING TO  TONIGHT'S ORIGINAL. NOW WITH  IN-DEPTH REPORTING ON A TOPIC  WE'VE BEEN WATCHING. AND  TONIGHT, IT'S THOSE NEW NUMBERS  FROM THE CLEVELAND CLINIC ON  MENOPAUSE AND NEW DIVISIONS  AMONG WOMEN ABOUT HOW OR EVEN  WHETHER TO TREAT IT. OUR YASMIN  VOSSOUGHIAN IS TALKING WITH  PEOPLE ON THE FRONT LINE OF THIS  DEBATE, FIGHTING FOR MORE  MENOPAUSE TRAINING AND  AWARENESS.  >> MENOPAUSE AND PERIMENOPAUSE  ISN'T JUST TRENDING ONLINE.  >> DURING PERIMENOPAUSE.  >> OR ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST  SELLER LIST. IT'S CATCHING ON IN  STATEHOUSES AS WELL. AS WE.  >> GO THROUGH THIS MENOPAUSAL  TRANSITION.  >> JUST THIS YEAR, AN  UNPRECEDENTED 13 STATES  INTRODUCED MENOPAUSE RELATED  LEGISLATION.  >> IF THIS LEGISLATION PASSES,  MENOPAUSE TREATMENTS WILL BE  MORE AFFORDABLE. THAT WILL BE  GUARANTEED.  >> JENNIFER WEISS WOLF IS THE  EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE  BIRNBAUM WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP  CENTER AT NYU AND COAUTHOR OF  THE CITIZEN'S GUIDE TO MENOPAUSE  ADVOCACY.  >> RIGHT NOW, FOR A LOT OF WOMEN  ACROSS THE COUNTRY.  >> IF THEY WERE TO GO SEE THEIR  DOCTOR FOR MENOPAUSE OR  PERIMENOPAUSAL CARE. IT WOULDN'T  BE NECESSARILY COVERED.  >> THERE'S NO GUARANTEE IT IS  NOT UNIFORM FROM INSURANCE  COMPANY TO INSURANCE COMPANY,  NOR AMONG STATES.  >> AND THE BILLS GO BEYOND  MANDATORY COVERAGE FOR  TREATMENT. THEY RANGE FROM PAID  LEAVE PROPOSALS AND PUBLIC  HEALTH CAMPAIGNS, TO REQUIRING  MENOPAUSE TRAINING FOR HEALTH  CARE PROVIDERS.  >> I GOT.  >> SICK AND TIRED OF WATCHING  OTHER.  >> DOCTORS TREATING. WOMEN LIKE.  >> THEY'RE CRAZY.  >> WHEN. THEY WERE. ACTUALLY  MENOPAUSAL.  >> DOCTOR ERICA SCHWARTZ.  >> HAS BEEN.  >> AT THE FOREFRONT OF MENOPAUSE  TREATMENT FOR DECADES. SHE AND  OTHER EXPERTS SAY MEDICAL  SCHOOLS ARE NOT TRAINING  PROVIDERS ON HOW TO TREAT  PERIMENOPAUSE OR MENOPAUSE.  >> OB-GYNS ARE.  >> NOT.  >> WOMEN'S HEALTH EXPERTS. THEY  ARE. EXPERTS IN DELIVERY  BREASTS.  >> HYSTERECTOMY AND BECAUSE OF  THAT, MANY WOMEN HAVE CONTINUED  TO SUFFER AND BEEN MISDIAGNOSED.  LIKE MICHAEL BRYANT.  >> I WAS.  >> IN MY MID.  >> TO LATE.  >> 40S AND STARTED EXPERIENCING.  >> SOME SYMPTOMS.  >> I WAS STILL HAVING A VERY  REGULAR, UM, CYCLE. AND EVEN  BROUGHT THIS UP TO MY FRIEND  GROUP.  >> AND THEY WERE LIKE, OH, IT'S  TOO.  >> EARLY, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE FINE,  YOU'RE FINE.  >> WHEN SHE WAS HOSPITALIZED FOR  HEART PALPITATIONS AND HIGH  BLOOD PRESSURE, DOCTORS TREATED  HER FOR THAT INSTEAD OF THE REAL  UNDERLYING FACTOR PERIMENOPAUSE.  >> MY EXPERIENCE WITH.  >> DOCTORS AT THIS POINT.  >> WAS SO, YOU KNOW, JUST SO  DISMISSIVE.  >> AND MICHAEL'S STORY IS NOT  UNCOMMON.  >> WHAT SYMPTOMS COULD THEY  EXPERIENCE? HOT FLASHES, NIGHT  SWEATS.  >> INSOMNIA, IRRITABILITY,  URINARY.  >> TRACT INFECTIONS.  >> BLOATING.  >> WEIGHT GAIN, WEIGHT LOSS.  >> DEPRESSION. ANXIETY. SO  BEFORE YOU.  >> GO TO 20, SPECIALISTS.  >> THINK HORMONES.  >> AND MAKE SURE THAT YOU'VE  ADJUSTED.  >> YOUR LIFESTYLE.  >> AND THESE SYMPTOMS HAVE FAR  REACHING RIPPLE EFFECTS.  ACCORDING TO THE MAYO CLINIC,  OUR ECONOMY IS LOSING AN  ESTIMATED $1.8 BILLION ANNUALLY  BECAUSE MENOPAUSE SYMPTOMS ARE  PUSHING PEOPLE TO MISS WORK. SO  WITH THIS POTENTIAL CHANGE IN  LEGISLATION, WHAT COULD THIS  MEAN FOR WOMEN AND OUR FUTURE?  >> IF YOU'RE FEELING.  >> GOOD, THEN YOU CAN  CONTRIBUTE.  >> AND IF YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE,  OUR SOCIETY WILL BENEFIT.  >> NOW IT'S UP TO LAWMAKERS TO  PUSH POLICIES THROUGH  CHAMPIONING CHANGES FOR WOMEN IN  EVERY STATE.  >> YASMIN VOSSOUGHIAN IS JOINING  US NOW, AS YOU MENTIONED, THOSE  STATE MOVES. TALK US THROUGH  SOME OF WHERE THOSE ARE HEADED.  >> YEAH. FIRST OFF, CAN YOU  BELIEVE IT? RIGHT. I MEAN, THAT  STATES DON'T HAVE KIND OF THIS  UNIFORM COVERAGE OF MENOPAUSE. I  MEAN, IT'S INCREDIBLE TO THINK  ABOUT.  >> HALF THE POPULATION.  >> OF THIS COUNTRY, REALLY MORE  THAN HALF BEING WOMEN.  >> THAT BEING SAID, THE.  >> STATE THAT WE'RE WATCHING,  RIGHT. WE SAID 13 STATES.  >> CALIFORNIA RIGHT.  >> NOW IS THE STATE.  >> TO WATCH. YOU GOT TWO.  >> ASSEMBLY BILLS.  >> THAT HAVE ALREADY GOTTEN.  >> PUSHED THROUGH THEIR FIRST  COMMITTEE HEARINGS, WHICH IS  ESSENTIALLY.  >> THE FIRST HURDLE. ONE OF  THOSE.  >> BILLS, ESSENTIALLY THE STATE  HAVING TO REPORT.  >> THE.  >> GAPS IN, UM, KIND OF  EDUCATION WHEN IT COMES TO  MENOPAUSE CARE AMONGST HEALTH  CARE WORKERS.  >> THE OTHER.  >> ONE, THE REALLY IMPORTANT  ONE, IS A BIG ONE, RIGHT? WHICH  IS.  >> COVERAGE OF MENOPAUSE.  >> CARE, UM, BY INSURANCE.  COMPANIES IN.  >> THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA.  MAJOR FOR A LOT OF WOMEN.  >> LIVING IN CALIFORNIA.  >> THE OTHER IS CONTINUING.  EDUCATION FOR HEALTH CARE  WORKERS, SPECIFICALLY DOCTORS  MANDATED IN THE STATE OF  CALIFORNIA AS WELL. IT IS  FASCINATING, AS I'VE.  >> BEEN RESEARCHING THIS WHOLE  THING, HOW. THAT PHYSICIANS.  >> DOCTORS, FOR THE MOST PART,  DO NOT.  >> HAVE FORMAL MENOPAUSE. CARE  TRAINING.  >> AND IT'S FASCINATING TO THINK  THAT SO MANY WOMEN OUT THERE  ARE. SUFFERING BECAUSE OF THAT,  HENCE WHY IT. SEEMED THIS.  LEGISLATION IS.  >> SO INCREDIBLY.  >> IMPORTANT RIGHT NOW.  >> HOW?  >> IT'S JUST SO INTERESTING,  YASMIN. YOU KNOW, PEOPLE THINK  OF MENOPAUSE AS SOMETHING THAT  DOESN'T HAPPEN FOR LIKE A LONG,  LONG, LONG TIME. I MEAN, IT'S,  YOU KNOW, IT'S THE GENERATION OF  LIKE, ELDER MILLENNIALS, YOU  KNOW WHAT I MEAN? LIKE YOUNGER  GEN LIKE IT'S HAPPENING WHEN YOU  START TO.  >> FEEL SYMPTOMS OF  PERIMENOPAUSE, WHICH IS  BASICALLY BEFORE MENOPAUSE,  POSSIBLY.  >> IN YOUR.  >> MID MID 30S, EARLY 30S.  RIGHT. YOU GET PREGNANT AND  LITERALLY THE NEXT DAY YOU HAVE  A BABY AND THE NEXT DAY YOU  COULD BE FEELING PERIMENOPAUSAL  SYMPTOMS. I MEAN, IT STARTS AS  EARLY AS YOUR MID 30S, HENCE.  >> WHY IT NEEDS TO. BE  ADDRESSED.  >> YES. AGAIN, THANK YOU VERY  MUCH FOR THAT REPORTING.  >> IT'S GOOD.  >> TO SEE YOU. YES. APPRECIATE  IT. COMING UP FOR HORSE RACING  FANS OR HAT FANS OR MINT JULEP  FANS, IT IS YOUR TIME. IT IS  ALSO YOUR TIME. IF YOU'RE A  STEVE KORNACKI FAN BECAUSE HE'S  GOT YOUR DERBY DAY PREPS COMING  UP LIVE FROM CHURCHILL DOWNS IN  JUST A SECOND.  >> IT CALLS ITSELF THE MOST  EXCITING TWO MINUTES IN SPORTS.  THE KENTUCKY DERBY THIS WEEKEND.  AND THE BIG RACE AT CHURCHILL  DOWNS MEANS TWO BIG THINGS. BIG  HATS AND SMALL HATS AND LOTS OF  HATS. REALLY? AND BIG BETS. BIG  MONEY BETS. LOOK AT THIS. MORE  THAN $210 MILLION WAGERED ON THE  RACE LAST YEAR, UP MORE THAN $20  MILLION FROM THE YEAR BEFORE.  STEVE KORNACKI IS JOINING US NOW  FROM THE DERBY GROUNDS WITH A  MINT JULEP AND A HAT. OH, YOU  HAVE NEITHER. AND NOW I'M SUPER  BUMMED OUT ABOUT THAT. BUT  WHAT'S SO INTERESTING HERE WE  TALK ABOUT THIS HUGE YOU KNOW,  I'VE TALKED A LOT ABOUT SPORTS  BETTING, HOW IT'S EXPLODED. THE  KENTUCKY DERBY PRESENTS SOME  INTERESTING AND UNIQUE  CHALLENGES WITH THAT, RIGHT?  >> WELL, IT IS.  >> OF ALL THE HORSE.  >> RACES IN THE COUNTRY EVERY  YEAR, THOUSANDS OF RACES.  THERE'S NONE THAT'S GOING TO BE  AS CROWDED AS THIS TRACK ON  SATURDAY. WE'VE GOT 20 HORSES  WHO ARE GOING TO BE RUNNING. YOU  KNOW, NORMALLY HORSES RUN  AGAINST MAYBE SIX, SEVEN, EIGHT,  NINE, TEN IN A IN A BIG CASE,  OTHER HORSES. SO THIS IS THE  BIGGEST RACE LITERALLY THAT THEY  RUN ALL YEAR. THEY'RE COMING IN  FROM ALL SORTS OF DIFFERENT  TRACKS, ALL SORTS OF DIFFERENT  CONDITIONS. UH, AND EVERYBODY  GETS IT. THAT'S THE FUN OF IT,  AS YOU SAY, ALI. YOU KNOW, MOST  EXCITING TWO MINUTES IN SPORTS.  UH, PEOPLE GOT THEIR OWN  THEORIES ON HOW TO MAKE SENSE OF  THESE FIELDS. SOME PEOPLE USE  COMPLICATED ALGORITHMS. OTHERS  LIKE GRAY HORSES. SO WHAT ARE  YOU HANDICAPPING? CHALLENGE.  >> HOW DO.  >> YOU DO IT? WELL, I'LL TELL  YOU, THERE'S SOME. THERE WAS  SOME BIG NEWS LITERALLY IN THE  LAST FIVE MINUTES. YOU'VE HEARD  OF THE TRAINER BOB BAFFERT. HE'S  ONE OF THE HE TIED FOR THE ALL  TIME WINNINGEST TRAINER IN THIS  RACE. HE'S BEEN SUSPENDED FOR  THE LAST THREE YEARS FROM  CHURCHILL DOWNS FROM THIS RACE.  HE'S MAKING HIS RETURN THIS  YEAR. AND YOU SEE THAT HORSE ON  YOUR SCREEN THERE. RODRIGUEZ.  JUST FIVE MINUTES AGO IT WAS  ANNOUNCED THAT RODRIGUEZ IS  GOING TO SCRATCH FROM THIS RACE.  HE IS NOT GOING TO RUN IN THE  KENTUCKY DERBY AFTER ALL. AND  THAT MEANS THAT'S A BIG  DEVELOPMENT BECAUSE IT MEANS  ANOTHER HORSE. HIS NAME IS  BY-AYE-ZA B E Z. HE IS NOW GOING  TO ENTER THIS RACE. HE WAS ON  THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN, BUT WITH  THIS SCRATCH HE GETS IN.  BY-AYE-ZA IS A HIGHLY TOUTED  HORSE. A LOT OF FOLKS THINK HE  HAS A GOOD CHANCE. AND I'LL TELL  YOU, I JUST LITERALLY BEFORE I  CAME ON WITH YOU, ALI BAFFERT  WALKED RIGHT PAST ME WHERE I'M  STANDING. I'M JUST OFF OF THE  PADDOCK HERE AT CHURCHILL DOWNS.  I ASKED HIM, I SAID I JUST HEARD  IT, YOU KNOW. HE SAID HE WAS  CLEARLY DISAPPOINTED. UM, YOU  KNOW HE STILL HAS ONE OTHER IN  THE RACE, CITIZEN BOWL, BUT HE  ALREADY SEEMS TO BE TALKING  ABOUT THE NEXT RACE IN THE  TRIPLE CROWN, THE PREAKNESS. HE  SAID, LOOK, YOU KNOW, RODRIGUEZ  JUST WASN'T READY FOR THIS ONE.  AND HE'S ALREADY STARTING TO  TALK ABOUT THE PREAKNESS, THE  NEXT RACE FOR HIM.  >> KORNACKI, THAT'S A HOT SCOOP.  ARE YOU DO YOU EVEN HAVE A IS IT  JUST YOU? YOU'RE JUST SCOOPING  STUFF AT THE DERBY SELFIE  CAMERA? YOU'RE INCREDIBLE.  >> LET'S GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO OUR  PRODUCER, JOHN FURLONG. HE  TEXTED THE NEWS AND I SAW IT AS  I'M STANDING HERE. AND THEN I  LOOK UP AND THERE'S BOB BAFFERT.  SO MAYBE WE GOT THE FIRST QUOTE  FROM HIM.  >> DUDE.  >> I LOVE IT. WRE GOING TO  TELL OUR FRIENDS OVER AT NBC  SPORTS, THEY CAN GET IT UP ON  THE BLOG. STEVE KORNACKI, JOHN  THE PRODUCER. THANK YOU STEVE.  SELFIE ING IN FROM CHURCHILL  DOWNS. WE LOVE YOU PAL. THANKS  FOR DOING IT. WE APPRECIATE YOU  SO MUCH. HAVE FUN AT THE DERBY  THIS WEEKEND. LOOK FOR STEVE.  LOOK FOR MORE OF OUR COVERAGE.  OF COURSE. SATURDAY 230 EASTERN  ON NBC OR ON PEACOCK. STILL A  LOT MORE TO COME HERE ON THE  SHOW. DID ALL THE HOLLYWOOD STAR  POWER PAY OFF FOR BROADWAY? EVEN  WITH THOSE TICKET PRICES  SPIKING, WE'RE TAKING A LOOK.  HEALER.  >> EVERY ANGLE, EVERY NIGHT.  STAY RIGHT HERE. NBC NIGHTLY  NEWS.  >> SOME NEW CONTROVERSY TONIGHT  OVER BROADWAY'S BIGGEST NIGHT,  THE TONY AWARDS. BECAUSE THE  LIST OF NOMINEES IS OUT AND IT  IS DOMINATED NOT JUST BY  BROADWAY STARS, BUT HOLLYWOOD  STARS. PEOPLE YOU MAY ASSOCIATE  MORE CLOSELY WITH, LIKE A BIG  TIME MOVIE OR TV SHOW. LOOK AT  GEORGE CLOONEY, NICOLE  SCHERZINGER, SARAH SNOOK, MIA  FARROW ET CETERA. SOME OF THE  CELEBRITIES MAY BE LOOKING OR  HOPING FOR AN AWARDS SWEEP TO  ADD THE T TO THE EGOT. EMMY,  GRAMMY, OSCAR, TONY. NOW, THE  BROADWAY SHOWS DON'T SEEM TO  MIND THE INFLUX OF THESE  HOLLYWOOD STARS. THEY NEED THE  MONEY. WITH REVENUE DOWN $40  MILLION LAST YEAR FROM THE YEAR  BEFORE. BUT LOOK AT WHAT THAT'S  DONE TO TICKET PRICES. THEY ARE  WAY UP. BUT HERE'S THE THING  PEOPLE ARE BUYING. LOOK AT  OTHELLO, STARRING DENZEL  WASHINGTON AND JAKE GYLLENHAAL.  SOME TICKETS ARE MORE EXPENSIVE  THAN A FLIGHT TO LONDON, BUT THE  SHOW IS A SELLOUT. IT'S MAKING  NEARLY $3 MILLION IN PREVIEWS.  IT'S NOW THE HIGHEST GROSSING  BROADWAY PLAY THAT'S CURRENTLY  OUT. MAYA EAGLIN IS JOINING US  NOW. AND MY, THERE'S THIS  CONFLICT HERE, RIGHT? BETWEEN  THAT, SOME CRITICS WOULD SUGGEST  BETWEEN THESE, THESE SORT OF  HUGE NAMES THAT ARE COMING IN,  BUT SOME WOULD ARGUE MAKING SOME  OF THESE BROADWAY SHOWS  UNAFFORDABLE FOR LIKE THE  AVERAGE, YOU KNOW, BROADWAY  WATCHER, IF YOU WILL. THAT SAID,  CLEARLY PEOPLE ARE PAYING FOR  THEM, RIGHT?  >> HUNDRED PERCENT. AND I HAVE  TO SAY, THERE'S BEEN SO MUCH  EXCITEMENT AROUND THIS DAY, THE  RELEASE OF THESE TONY  NOMINATIONS, NOT JUST ONLINE,  BUT HERE ON BROADWAY. WE'VE BEEN  SEEING CAST MEMBERS AND CREWS  HUGGING PEOPLE, CHANGING THEIR  SIGNAGE. ALREADY HERE AT THE  BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB, YOU CAN  SEE TEN TONY NOMINATIONS,  INCLUDING FOR BEST MUSICAL. BUT  SO MUCH OF THE CHATTER HAS BEEN  AROUND THOSE A-LIST CELEBRITIES.  AS YOU MENTIONED, DENZEL  WASHINGTON, JAKE GYLLENHAAL,  SARAH SNOOK WHO FOLKS MIGHT  REMEMBER FROM SECESSION. ON THE  ONE HAND, FOLKS ARE SAYING THIS  IS DRAWING IN A NEW TYPE OF  AUDIENCE MEMBER TO REALLY HELP  SUPPORT THIS ART FORM AND  COMMUNITY. ON THE OTHER FOLKS  ARE SAYING IT'S RAISING TICKET  PRICES AND MAYBE INFLUENCING THE  GENRE AND ART FORM IN A WAY THAT  THEY MIGHT NOT BE IN AGREEMENT  WITH. SO DEFINITELY SOME PROS  AND CONS HERE. BUT AT THE END OF  THE DAY, WITH SOME OF THESE HUGE  STARS ARE HUGE PROFITS LIKE  OTHELLO.  >> AND THE ACTORS GET SOMETHING  OUT OF IT TOO, OBVIOUSLY. RIGHT?  IT'S A RESUME BUILDER IN MANY  WAYS FOR THEM.  >> 100%. AND THIS IS REALLY THE  BEST CLASSROOM A LOT OF ACTORS  HAVE SAID TO REFINE THEIR  SKILLS. YOU GET ONE CHANCE ON  BROADWAY TO GET THAT EGOT TITLE.  YOU'LL HAVE TO COME HERE AND  WORK NIGHT AFTER NIGHT. THERE  ARE NO SECOND TAKES. I ACTUALLY  SPOKE TO THE HOST OF ON STAGE ON  NEW YORK ONE, FRANK DILELLA,  ABOUT THESE A-LIST CELEBRITIES  ON BROADWAY. HERE'S WHAT HE HAD  TO SAY AS AN EXPERT IN THIS  SPACE, WHAT ARE YOUR PREDICTIONS  FOR THE FUTURE OF BROADWAY IN  TERMS OF THESE A-LIST  CELEBRITIES?  >> I THINK WE'RE GOING TO  CONTINUE.  >> TO SEE THEM COMING.  >> YOU KNOW.  >> EVERYONE WANTS TO BE.  >> AN EGOT NOWADAYS, AND IN.  >> ORDER.  >> TO BE AN EGOT, YOU GOT TO DO  BROADWAY. YOU GOT TO WIN THAT  TONY AWARD. SO I THINK WE WILL  CONTINUE TO SEE STARS FLOCKING  TO BROADWAY.  >> HOLLY, A LOT OF EXCITEMENT.  >> THAT IS FOR SURE. MEGAN LIVE  FOR US THERE IN MIDTOWN. THANK  YOU VERY MUCH. QUICK POINT OF  PERSONAL PRIVILEGE. BEFORE WE  GO, TAKE A LOOK AT OUR CONTROL  ROOM, BECAUSE TONIGHT IS OUR  LAST SHOW FOR ONE OF THE MOST  BELOVED MEMBERS OF OUR SENIOR  TEAM, CATHERINE CASEY. OH, MY  GOD, SHE'S SO EMBARRASSED. SHE  IS ON TO. WE WILL MISS HER VERY  MUCH. ON TO MORE OTHER EXCITING  THINGS I SHOULD SAY. COMING WITH  ME OVER TO WEEKENDS WHERE SHE  WILL BE JOINING US ON WEEKEND  NIGHTLY NEWS. WE LOVE YOU. WE  WILL MISS YOU. SHE WAS LIKE A  REAL OG HERE AT NBC NEWS NOW  RIGHT FROM THE LAUNCH. SO SEE  YOU FRIEND. WE'RE EXCITED FOR  YOU AND FOR YOUR NEW ADVENTURES.  I WILL SEE YOU. SPEAKING OF  SUNDAY ON SUNDAY NIGHTLY NEWS  AND THEN RIGHT BACK HERE MONDAY  ON NBC NEWS NOW, ALSO SUNDAY, BY  THE WAY, KRISTEN WELKER SITS  DOWN WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR A  BIG INTERVIEW FOR MEET THE PRESS  BIG SUNDAY. WE'LL SEE YOU THEN.  BE SURE"}]