right now on "ana cabrera reports" an unprecedented court clash on border politics. a texas appeals court to hear arguments on a controversial new immigration law, again, halting enforcement just hours after supreme court action. we're live at the border amid

this legal whiplash. plus, just moments ago, new york's attorney general responding to donald trump's claims that he can't pay his $464 million bond. is his real estate empire in jeopardy? also ahead, absolute immunity? donald trump previews his argument to the supreme court name checking one justice in particular. and later, a victory for the maga movement in ohio, trump's candidate winning the state's rowdy primary. what it could mean for the fight for senate control in november. thanks for joining us on this wednesday. it is 10:00 eastern. i'm ana cabrera reporting from new york, and we begin with breaking news out of texas, and an intensifying court clash over a controversial new immigration law. an appeals court now set to hear arguments this morning on the law known as sb 4, which would

allow local police to arrest anyone suspected of crossing the border illegally. now, the court scheduled today's arguments and paused this law just hours after the u.s. supreme court ruled that texas law could go into effect and that police could begin enforcement as the legal challenges continued in the lower courts. let's go to the border now, nbc's morgan chesky is in eagle pass, texas. also joining us, the deputy director of the aclu immigrant's rights project. we should note the aclu has filed a lawsuit to try and stop this law. also with us msnbc political analyst, maria hin hoe sa so morgan, you are near one of the largest u.s./mexico border crossings. what's the impact of these roller coaster court rulings there on the ground? >> reporter: yeah, ana, i think a lot of unanswered questions. on the way to eagle pass, i had a chance to speak with the sheriff of neighboring valverde

county, that encompasses del rio up the road from us here at eagle pass, and i asked about sb-4 and the sheriff told me that right now they don't really have any clear cut guidance from state lawmakers, from state law law enforcement leaders on how they would put that law into practice when it finally go into full effect after what can be best described as really legal whiplash here. consider the fact by empowering state law enforcement, police, sheriff's deputies, state troopers with the ability to arrest migrants suspected of illegally crossing, that's kind of adding to their plates. many of these departments have dealt with staffing issues well ahead of this. now being given this new responsibility to essentially enforce what they've always considered federal law is stressful to some degree and in a lot of cases they don't have the manpower to do it. i asked him specifically do you have your deputies planning to

enforce sb 4, and he says until they receive explicit instructions on how to do so, that he's telling them not to. ana. >> maria, the white house has said this law, quote, will not only make communities in texas less safe, it will also burden law enforcement, and so chaos and confusion at our southern border, justice sonia sotomayor seemed to echo the sentiment about sowing chaos in her dissension too when the supreme court kicked this back to the lower courts here. can you help us understand how this law would potentially make things worse at the border? not better? >> well, as the reporter just said, the sheriffs are saying when we get information about what we're supposed to do, then we'll act assuing this goes forward. there's no information, ana, to be given to anyone because you and i could be undocumented.

anybody in this studio could be undocumented. >> because it's if you're suspectd of crossing the border. >> that's the whole problem, the narrative behind this, somehow in our country we're able to say that person is undocumented but that person isn't. it's absolute racial profiling, which is why these laws have failed in the past. you know, let's think about 2010, sb-1070. this is arizona, right? this notion of like we're going to deprive everybody from every possible benefit in the country, and we're going to ask you show us your papers. what's happened in arizona? right this very minute, you know what's happening, ana, young people are deciding to become activists in the state of texas, and they're saying we're not going to let this fly in our state. the young people who did the same thing in 2010 for sb-1070 in arizona have changed that political state. have changed the state.

who won arizona in 2020? it was joe biden. you have to understand that the backlash from all of this, the whiplash, of course, yes, but then there's going to be a backlash. negative of course because you're going to have police racially profiling everybody in the state of texas. but on the other hand there's going to be a new generation of activists that are born right now in these days who will then -- i know, because i'm professor, i see them. they'll go to law schools. they're going to become the next sonia sotomayors. this is a horrible moment but it won't last. >> you're talking about the potential political impacts and how this could force action on issues related to immigration policy, but morgan there's still this issue of logistics around what's happening at the border and this particular law, this idea from texas officials that this would allow them to take action to defend their state, but we know already when that sb-4 was allowed to go into effect by the supreme court for

about nine hours yesterday, there was the confusion that you've already talked about. to we know if there were any arrests during that time and sort of what the process looks like? because i wonder, do we know where migrants who are arrested by local police or state officials would be held and would they just bypass the immigration courts altogether? what does that look like? >> reporter: yeah, ana, all great questions. we do know right now there's been no official reporting of any local law enforcement taking sb-4 into full effect, within that nine-hour window or so when the supreme court enacted it, allowed it to be enacted. we do know that conversations we've had with local law enforcement, i've asked the question, you know, do you have capacity in your stations, in your jails to house migrants that would be theoretically arrested under sb 4. that depends on the agency you speak to. some have larger facility than others. we do know that here on the border there have been certain

instances where temporary facilities have been set up so they could essentially, you know, house migrants on a temporary basis working in conjunction with federal authorities, but as it stands with sb-4,ic that goes to show there's a much bigger question here. judges would be empowered to deport these migrants back to their countries of origin. you ask that question about whether or not this would impact the federal immigration process. you have to imagine that it would. important to note yesterday, that the country of mexico came out and said they would not be accepting any migrants that were deported from the state of texas in addition to those that they're already receiving from the u.s. federal government. so currently more questions than answers right now as it relates to sb4, and we do have this hearing kicking off in just a short time this morning. >> i know you'll be paying attention to that. please report back if there are any updates within this hour.

thanks for the reporting, morgan. lee, let's try to take this piece by piece because there are so many aspects and potential challenges that this law poses, right? the texas attorney general is defending this law arguing, quote, texas has the sovereign right to defend itself from violent transnational cartels that flood the state with fentanyl, weapons, and all manner of brutality. what's your response to that argument? >> yeah, this law is patently illegal, and there's precedent going back 150 years, and to be clear, i mean, texas is basically saying we want the supreme court like they did in roe v. wade to overrule all this precedent. under current laws going back again more than a century, this law unconstitutional as your reporting has shown. this is a federal issue, immigration, and the reason it is is for one, because of foreign relations. mexico doesn't want to take people back. that's where texas wants to

deport them to. that's a sensitive relationship with mexico. that's why it has to be the national government. but also, the law is conflicting with so many things that congress has enacted. for example, congress said someone may be prosecuted for illegally entering, but then they can't be immediately kicked out. they have to be able to apply for relief such as asylum and protection. that's enshrined in our law. texas says, no, we're just going to kick you out, and if you reentered you're going to go jail for 20 years. over and over, texas's law conflicts with what congress has set up. now, texas may be upset with the way the current administration is enforcing the law, but the way to go about that is to lobby the federal government. states have periodically been upset with the way the federal government enforces the law, but it's still a national prerogative, and that's on top of all the racial profiling, the chaos that's going to ensue.

>> right. >> we think this law is patently unlawful. >> lee, you discussed one of the main reasons that this is the federal government's job to deal with immigration policy and enforcement, and you and morgan pointed to how mexico is already responding. one top official there saying that they wouldn't accept migrants who are deported by the state of texas, so i'm just wondering how you see this shaking out if individual states start acting independent of the federal government on immigration, how is this going to work in terms of the relationships with other countries where these migrants are coming from? >> yeah, it's going to be, as you said, a complete chaos, and it's going to put these migrants between a rock and a hard place because on the one hand, texas is saying if you don't leave, you're going to go to jail for 20 years. on the other hand, mexico won't take them back. and so now we're in a situation

where we don't know how the law is going to be enforced, and that's one of the reasons we'll be in court in just a few minutes saying you have to pause the law until it can be fully briefed and argued, which will happen relatively soon, and at that point we hope the court will strike it down. but imagine if every state decided to have its own immigration policy or anything that is normally for the federal government. there would be complete chaos and it would ruin our relationships with other countries. we can't have each state negotiating with texas. it has to be the national government. the supreme court has said that over and over, and so i think we're looking at a really difficult situation. ultimately i think this is a political game by texas and hopefully the courts see it for that. >> so we're talking about sb4 in texas, but maria, we're starting to see other states follow suit. iowa just passed some additional legislation there that would make it a crime to somewhere that state after being deported or denied entry into the united

states, so sort of following in texas's foot steps here. again, states now trying to have their own immigration policy, the impact. >> sounds a little bit like chaos, doesn't it? i think that's part of the whole conversation. >> is this just the tip of the iceberg? >> the problem is, ana, why did texas feel like they needed to do this? what is the narrative? and the narrative is, oh, my god, texas is being overrun by uncontrollable people who are criminals, and we have a huge problem with immigrants and refugees as criminals in the state of texas. >> the facts suggest otherwise? and what i'm saying is all of the data says those are lies. when you base policy based on lies and we have to say that they're lies, ana. for example, i had my assistant pull up just some basic data, right? so a 2020 study by rice

university found that the economic benefits of illegal immigration in texas vastly outweigh the costs of immigrants in the state. that has also been shown by the gao of the state of texas, immigrants, legally or whether they came in without documents are a net economic benefit. in 2018, the state of texas collected $2.4 billion in state taxes from undocumented people, 2.4 billion in state taxes, and in 2020 the department of justice found that in the state of texas undocumented immigrants significantly lower rates of crime. so all of this law, all of this how is it going to happen, what are we going to do? it's based on lies that are being said about immigrants and refugees. so we as journalists have to say, no, this law should not go into effect. it's impossible for it to go into effect. it's absolute chaos. it's illegal. it's against human rights. it's engendering racial

profiling, but we have to be the ones who say it's based on fluff. and our country's better than that. >> highlight the truth and facts about the matter. good to have you here. thank you very much. good luck as you move forward with the litigation. up next, breaking news, new york's attorney general just replied to a filing from donald trump about paying that massive multimillion dollar judgment. plus, what a trump-backed candidate's win in ohio could mean for control of the senate. also, a hearing about hunter biden on the hill this hour, and he's not there. what it means for the gop's impeachment efforts. and an alleged breach of princess kate's medical records as the royal family faces a barrage of online conspiracies. we're back in just one minute. e. choosing a treatment for your chronic migraine - 15 or more headache days a month, each lasting 4 hours or more - can be overwhelming. so, ask your doctor about botox®. botox® prevents headaches in adults with chronic migraine before they even start. it's the #1 prescribed branded chronic migraine

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can't pay the full $464 million bond against him by the monday deadline. we're talking about the civil fraud trial and the judgment against him in that particular case. put simply james says if trump can't get the money from one company, he should get it from several and put his real estate up as collateral. writing, quote, if defendants were truly unable to provide an undertaking, they at a minimum should have consented to have their real estate interests held by the supreme court. joining us now nbc's dasha burns in west palm beach, florida, along with msnbc legal analyst former federal prosecutor kristy greenberg and criminal defense attorney danny cevallos. kristy, can you just lay out this argument and this brief that we're hearing from the new york attorney general, letitia james, here what her argument is? >> so she says a number of things. first she says there's a lack of information. donald trump in objecting to putting up all of this money or

getting a bond hasn't really explained what he did, what efforts he's made to get a bond, what properties he's put up on what terms, and then she actually takes a shot at him and says maybe his property isn't worth as much as he says it is, and maybe that's why. we have no understanding as to why all of these companies are saying now. and by the way, there are alternatives, as you said, you could split it up among different companies to have smaller amounts if it's the amount that's the problem, but we actually don't know what's the problem because you're not saying what is, and at a minimum, as you said, there were ways to put up at least the properties in judgment so that the supreme court has those as collateral. so there are different alternatives that are available to him and, instead, he's just saying no, i want to pay $0.25 on the dollar, let's make a deal. that's not how it works. >> we had heard previously from trump's team they had gone to 30 different companies and been rejected because of this large summer, right, almost a half a

billion dollars. this idea of having several different companies provide a portion of that bond, how unusual would that be? >> this entire judgment is incredibly unusual, and really, in the world of civil litigation, executing judgment is something that doesn't happen as often as you may think because most of the time plaintiffs' attorneys are suing companies that have insurance policies that have excess policies and there's liquid to pay a judgment. this is an extraordinary amount of money that anyone would have trouble coming up with the liquid to pay. so execution of judgment, of course, letitia james is not a plaintiffs' attorney law firm, she's a government agency, so she doesn't mind execuing judgment, which is a thorny, difficult process. trump's motion is basically, look, we can't get this money. we're trying, go easy on us, and letitia james' response to that is essentially, look, the rules are the rules. there are plenty of other things you could be doing. you're not doing everything that

you possibly can. here are some other options. therefore, court, they don't really need that kind of mercy that they're asking. >> dasha, what have we heard from trump on this issue with all of his real estate on the line? >> reporter: well, we've heard a lot, actually, and you don't have to be a mind reader to try to understand his mind-set because he is putting it all out there. he has been posting about this relentlessly on truth social, calling it ridiculous, calling it a witch hunt, calling it election interference. he is clearly frustrated and concerned by this looming deadline, and ana, we've talked about this before. this is a man whose entire identity, legacy, brand has been wrapped up in money, in wealth, in status, and this really puts it on the line. this is a major concern for not only the trump family, but also the trump campaign given he needs to and wants to maintain

this idea of somebody who has seemingly endless assets. and he's concerned, he's talking about potentially having to put up a mortgage or to sell off his quote, unquote great assets as he puts this on truth social at fire sale prices. he is focused on this. he's been posting relentlessly, and this is something that is looming large over the entire trump universe right now. >> let's switch gears for a moment to a different legal case. trump also just filing a brief to the supreme court arguing he should have absolute immunity from charges in the election interference case. trump's legal team writing if immunity is not granted, that would be the end of the presidency as we know it and would irreparably damage our republic. kristy, this argument hasn't worked before in the two lower courts that rejected the immunity claims. is there any reason to believe this argument would work now?

>> i don't think this argument will work now. it's pretty clear in the past that former presidents had believed that they did not have immunity from criminal prosecution, and even donald trump himself didn't believe that he had immunity from criminal prosecution. remember in 2021 during the impeachment proceedings his own lawyer said there is no immunity, no former office holder is immune from the judicial process and that's the proper place to take this up. it's interesting that he's making this argument that if he was subjected to criminal prosecution that would make him weak and hollow. that would hollow out the presidency. when he's talking about being a dictator day one. he's the poster child for why you need criminal accountability. i think this particular argument will fall on deaf ears with the supreme court. >> in the brief, danny, trump's lawyers reference brett kavanaugh, justice kavanaugh a couple of times, including citing kavanaugh's writing back

in 1998 so before he was a justice where he wrote, quote, prosecution or non-prosecution of a president is, in short, inevitably and unavoidably a political act. trump of course appointed kavanaugh to the supreme court, at least nominated him. do you think there's a strategy here in bringing him up? >> here's a little secret about appellate practice, i'm sure kristy knows it too, when you're preparing a brief to a court, it's always a good idea to cite the judges you are submitting that brief to. how can a judge look at your brief and say, well, i said it, how can i go against what i said. in this case you're speaking to the likely majority, the conservative majority of the court. so it's a good strategy to take gorsuch, to take kavanaugh, to take their words and put it in this brief. trump's argument, we've been hearing it for months. we know what it is. it's pretty straightforward. it's basically presidents are immune for all official acts after they get out of office. then it's that secondary argument that may end up causing them more trouble than not.

when a president is impeached but not convicted, he's somehow immune. the problem i see with that is that the impeachment judgment clause in the constitution that they're relying on literally says in so many words that if a president is impeached and convicted, he may be tried and prosecuted afterwards in criminal court. that seems to run afoul of their theory that a president is always immune for everything he does that's official. you can imagine, a president is impeached for something official. then he's convicted and removed, then he can be prosecuted. those two arguments don't work together. i think ultimately there may be situations where a president is immune for an official act, an act of war, for example, but this ain't it, and i think ultimately this argument will work. >> thank you so much. appreciate it. meantime, high stakes for control of the senate. why what happened in ohio last night could be good news for democrats. plus, how donald trump is getting the old band back together for his 2024 campaign

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former president trump's chosen candidate in the ohio senate race cruised to a big win, bernie moreno, a newcomer to politics who trump campaigned for last weekend won more than

50% of this vote in the republican primary. it was expected to be close. now moreno will face long-time democratic senator sherrod brown in november and that race could be critical in determining which party controls the senate next year. let's bring in nbc's jesse kirsch in cleveland, ohio. how much did donald trump's endorsement of bernie moreno get him across that finish line? >> reporter: yeah, ana, you can see from the results that are in so far, you've got that decisive win. that's what that's shaping up to be before bernie moreno. someone who's a newcomer to politics and ran for the senate in 2022, dropped out of that race and then got back in this race and was up against the state secretary of state, matt la rose. and matt dolan whose family owns the cleveland guardians. those were big names here in ohio, and bernie moreno trounced them is what we're seeing from the results. we're also getting a look at exit polling, about how much the connection between a candidate

and former president trump mattered. when you look at the exit polling that we have from yesterday's results, overwhelmingly the majority of republican voters in the primary yesterday felt that it was important that the next senator from ohio supports former president trump. so you can see that they really cared about that connectivity by and large. but now bernie moreno had a challenge in front of him. he has to unite a republican base that was put into two camps. you had the trump wing of the party. and then you have the more established traditional wing of the republican party led by the state's governor, mike dewine who endorsed state senator matt dolan. you have those two wings of the party facing off last night, and now moreno has to try to bring them all together. here's part of what he shared last night at his election win party. >> party. >> . >> i think what we have to do now is as a fully united party understand we have one mission, which is to get rid of sherrod

brown. >> reporter: so now we'll be looking to see if he can do that in the fall, up against a vulnerable democratic senator in what is becoming an increasingly red state, ana. >> jesse kirsch in a snowy ohio this morning. go get warm, thanks so much for bringing us that update. let's bring in obama white house press secretary robert gibbs, and co-host of msnbc's "the weekend," michael steele. good to see you guys. michael, this wasn't even close. moreno won every county in the state, more than 50% of the vote. are you surprised? >> no, i'm not, and it really goes to how non-maga republicans have competed against maga republicans. you showed some of the exit polling. the question i'd like to get an answer to is what percentage of all registered republicans in the state of ohio actually vote

instead this primary, and i bet you that number will be somewhere between 15 and 20% or even 25%, meaning there were a lot of votes that were left on the floor that could have been utilized in this election, and we see this across the board. you have this hard right base, and it's true, it's been true in politics a long time, that are the ones that come out. so i'm not surprised donald trump's endorses moreno. now moreno's got to cobble together support from those republicans who are not maga, who do not like trump and who aren't turned on by this endorsement to go up against sherrod brown. sherrod brown's campaign had a little love they shared with moreno's campaign to help him get across the line too. they saw moreno as the weaker of the two candidates. matt dolan would have been a more formidable candidate, had a broader appeal across the state. that's not what maga is about,

it's about what trump wants, not what will win an election. >> democratic senator sherrod brown took a shot at moreno this morning on a key issue republicans have been having a hard time handling, abortion. >> even though ohio strongly decisively, importantly passed abortion rights constitutional amendment by 13 points last fall, my opponent continues to say that we should have a national abortion ban, no exceptions for rape, no exceptions for life of the mother, and so we know that he -- the arrogance of even though we said that by 13 points in the state he's being to continue to fight against says that he's looking out for himself more than the people of ohio. >> and then just this morning, trump said he would be open to a ban on abortions at 15 weeks with some exceptions so obviously senator brown wants this to be a big issue for the election. how do you see this one issue

factoring into the race, that particular race, and the battle for senate control. >> well, abortion is going to play a huge role in ohio, and a huge role really across the country, as senator brown said there, ohioans overwhelmingly supported -- supported choice, and supported a woman's right to have an abortion in a statewide election. again, the polling is pretty clear on this nationwide, and i have a feeling you're going to see a lot of this, particularly you see sherrod brown there distinguishing even what trump is for, which is something that's a 15-week ban. something that has exceptions. the senate race now with a contested is for a full ban and no exceptions. that's way, way, way on the extreme edge of this issue. look, sherrod brown is in a tough race, probably the toughest race in the country

along with montana, and sherrod brown's going to have to go find some trump brown voters. he's probably as well-positioned as any democrat in ohio to do that. >> michael, switching topics here, "axios" is reporting that some rather controversial characters are reattaching themselves to trump's inner circle now that he has locked up the republican nomination. they're returning as trump more aggressively touts january 6th rioters as patriots. ramps up his racist incendiary rhetoric and embraces some of his most provocative loyalists. we're talking about corey lewandowski, paul manafort, robert stone. what does this tell you about what to expect from his campaign in the coming months? >> all hell is going to break loose. this is all in. manafort coming back in is to set up control of the convention so there are no slippages, you

know, having trump's people on the rules committee to control the rules of the convention, the flow of the convention, you've got lewandowski and others who are keen political operatives for trump that will be out and about enforcing a strategy that will take no prisoners, and i don't think people really appreciate exactly what we're going to be in for, and when you layer on top of that the political use of ai by some of these folks who know how to utilize that type of platform, this campaign is going to be very difficult on the country because these folks are all about one thing and one thing only, donald trump's absolute return to power. it's not about return to the presidency, people. it's about his return to power because the man has told us what he wants to do, and everyone's

still walking around, especially democrats with their heads someplace other than in this game worried about joe biden's age: you better worry about the 78-year-old man who says he wants to be a dictator, not the 81-year-old man who's trying to protect democracy. that's what this breakdown is, extremism versus freedom, and donald trump has very clearly declared where he stands, and it's not on the side of freedom. >> robert, i also want to ask you about something trump said and how democrats are battling that. second gentleman doug emhoff is now responding to trump's comments claiming that jews who vote for democrats hate israel. listen. >> this is a disgusting, toxic, anti-semitic thing to say by anyone, let alone a former president of the united states, and it must be condemned. >> robert, trump is going to keep saying outrageous things. what is the best way for

democrats to respond? >> the best way is to do exactly as the second gentleman has done here, and that's to call it out. look, everybody including the second gentleman is going to have a great opportunity to do that over and over again because donald trump continues to push the envelope. these were disgusting remarks. these were anti-semitic remarks, and good for doug emhoff, good for the antidefamation league, and others to call this sort of ugliness out. you're going to see it. you're going to hear it repeatedly, and it's important to, one, push back and to use it -- democrats to use it as a motivator as michael said to understand what four more years of donald trump would look and sound like. we're going to get a lot of how it would sound, but i think to many people believe exactly what he says about how those four years will look. that's a huge motivating factor

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right now on capitol hill hois republicans are holding their latest hearing in the push to impeach president biden. this one looking at hunter biden's business deals. two of hunter biden's former business associates are testifying with one joining remotely, actually, from federal prison where he is serving a 14-year sentence for fraud. noably missing at this hearing is hunter biden himself. nbc's ryan nobles joins us from capitol hill with more.

so ryan, explain why hunter biden is not there and who do we expect to see today? >> reporter: to answer your first question, ana, hunter biden has basically been in a back and forth with the committee for quite a long period of time as to the form and fashion of his testimony. you'll remember that he initially refused to appear behind closed doors and said he only wanted to appear in a public hearing, but then the house voted to formally authorize the impeachment inquiry. they also moved to hold them in contempt of congress, and then he agreed to that closed-door hearing. so the question was would he ever appear in a public hearing. well, the leaders of this impeachment inquiry james comer, the chair of the oversight committee planned this hearing today, this public hearing where they decided to invite a number of his business associates to participate in this event, and hunter biden declined to attend saying he would only come if it was also about the influence peddling that he alleged happened during the trump administration and that jared kushner, the former president's brother or son-in-law i should

say, also be invited to attend. so instead house republicans are now going to focus share energy on two former business associates, tony bob lynn ski, someone who has accused biden family of being involved directly in hunter biden's business dealings and president biden from using his office incorrectly, although he has yet to provide any specific evidence of that. and jason gali in that case who is serving a 14-year prison sentence for fraud and will testify remotely. democrats did throw a curve ball yesterday when they decided to invite lev parnas as their witness as part of this hearing. you'll remember lev parnas, of course, a ukrainian-born american citizen who was a former associate of rudy giuliani's, was a key witness during the initial impeachment inquiry of president trump, and of course that phone call with volodymyr zelenskyy, lev parnas says he believes there's no evidence that joe biden was ever involved in any of hunter biden's business dealings or every used his office

incorrectly. of course parnas himself was convicted of a crime as well. there's a lot of theatrics that are involved in this hearing here today. we've already seen both sides kind of go at each other a little bit, jamie raskin accusing tony bob lynn ski of being a pawn of the trump family. and then there's jared moskowitz, he showed up to this hearing today wearing a vladimir putin mask, and we're told that he may even ask questions while wearing that mask today during this hearing. moskowitz basically accusing republicans of doing russia's bidding as part of this impeachment inquiry. so i'm not sure how much substance we're going to get out of this hearing today, ana, but certainly a lot of theatrics as this whole thing continues, ana. >> wow, you did a great job laying it all out. yes, you're right, it looks like they're all just putting on a show. ryan, thank you. we're also awaiting a decision today from the federal

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israeli plans to attack the city of rafah driving a real wedge in u.s./israel relations right now. as you said, president biden making very clear he is opposed to any large scale military operation in rafah, but speaking at israel's parliament, prime minister benjamin netanyahu sounding defiant. this morning growing fear in rafah as israel refuses to back down on plans for a major offensive, despite warnings from the white house. prime minister benjamin netanyahu saying he told president biden a ground assault is the only way to destroy whit. prime minister benjamin netanyahu saying he told president biden a ground assault is the only way to destroy hamas units hiding in the southern gaza city. we have an argument with the americans about the need to enter rafah, he says. but the u.s. increasingly alarmed by what that will mean for more than a million palestinian civilians sheltering there and asking netanyahu to send a team to washington to discuss alternatives to an

all-out attack. >> obviously he has his own point of view on the rafah operation, but he agreed to send a team to washington. >> reporter: the u.s. trying to convince israel to take on hamas with smaller targeted raids. but another problem underground, rafah is home to hamas smuggling tunnels used to bring in weapons like these. we went with israeli forces into targets in khan younis and asked about the fighting in rafah. >> we have to find a way, if we go there. >> reporter: u.s. diplomacy coming too late for this family. this is what is left of their home after an israeli strike. mahmud said his parents and three siblings were killed. it is now up to him to look after his little sister, trying to make his way through this cruel war.

and secretary of state antony blinken is back in the middle east today. he just arrived in saudi arabia. he'll also be going to egypt and coming here to israel. he arrives just as canada announced it is cutting off arm supplies to israel. that is causing a lot of anger over here. that is something that president biden indicated so far, at least, he's not prepared to do. ana? >> raf sanchez, thank you for that reporting. turning to the crisis in haiti, with growing gang violence and unrest, u.s. officials are discussing a possibility of a mass migration from haiti. now, in a new interview, florida governor ron desantis is suggesting his state would sponsor a new wave of migrant flights sending any new haitian arrivals in florida out of state immediately. >> we do have our transport program also that is going to be

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we're back with serious new allegations of a potential security breach involving the princess of wales kate middleton. hospital staff reportedly tried to access her medical records from her january surgery. nbc news international correspondent molly hunter has more. molly? >> reporter: hey, guys, good morning, from a sunny buckingham palace this morning. something new every single day and the headlines today just aren't stopping. there is a new allegation that there has been a security breach at the london hospital where kate was in january. take a look. this morning, another day of headlines about kate, the princess of wales. and a serious allegation the

mirror breaking the news that staff at the london clinic allegedly tried to access her medical records from her january operation. a uk privacy watchdog confirming to nbc news it received a breach report and now investigating it. kensington palace saying this is a matter for the london clinic. >> this is quite a serious breach, even if it is someone who is just feeling a little bit nosey, they should not have been able to access her records. for someone like the princess of wales, who made it clear how much she wants to keep her privacy, this will be very alarming. >> reporter: meanwhile, prince william carrying on and for the second time in as many weeks mentioning kate. but the scrutiny continues as photo agencies review past handout photos from the royal family. the getty photo agency calling in question numerous inconsistenies in this photo taken by kate in 2022.

this video gave rise to another cycle of wild conspiracy theorys. >> i don't know, this is getting really, really weird. what do we think? >> it is kate, okay? it is kate. >> this is getting weirdly suspicious. this feels like right out of a tv show. >> reporter: a windsor neighbor and professional cricket player kevin peterson posting the conspiracy theories around kate are absolutely absurd. we see w & k most days. and without new pictures, even grainy ones, there is still questions swirling. >> when the palace goes silent, it leaves a vacuum for people to ask more questions and speculate. at this point, the only way out for the royal family is full transparency. people need to see kate middle middleton and understand they're getting the truth from the royal family. >> reporter: we saw king charles

drive by buckingham palace twice yesterday, carrying out official duties, even as he undergoes cancer treatment, subscribing to his mother's mantra you have to be seen to be believed. we have been asking for a statement and we received this statement to nbc news. it says everyone at the london clinic is acutely aware of our individual professional ethical and legal duties with regards to patient confidentiality. it is a very long statement. it continues to say, we have systems in place to monitor management of patient information and in the case of any breach, all appropriate investigatory, regulatory and disciplinary steps will be taken. there is no place at our hospital for those who intentionally breach the trust of any of our patients or colleagues. they are clearly taking it very seriously, not giving up any details about whether or not they are investigating this as of today. the health minister was on a media round this morning. she said there could be hefty implications for anyone accessing notes without permission.

>> the plot thickens. molly hunter, thank you. that's going do it for us today. i'll be off for the next week or so. you can catch our show online, around the clock, on youtube and other platforms. thanks so much for spending part of your morning with us. for now, i'm ana cabrera, reporting from new york. jose diaz-balart picks up our coverage right now. and good morning. it is 11:00 a.m. eastern. 8:00 a.m. pacific. i'm jose diaz-balart, right now, a federal appeals court is set to hear arguments over whether to keep a controversial texas immigration law on hold or allow the state to enforce it. just yesterday, the u.s. supreme court said the law could go into effect, but just a couple of hours later, the appeals court put it back on hold. the law known as sb-4 would allow state and local police to arrest anyone suspected of being in texas illegally a