how they train how we play football. if you're a former football player like me, if you already have been hit in the head, you started to have cte or you don't, and at this point you should be doing everything you to protect your brain health. you don't want to develop other problems in addition to the cte, vascular issues, take care of your sleep, eat perfectly, stop alcohol and drugs, other things, and do everything you can to hold on to what you have, because for some of us, cte will be coming. >> so precious, our brains and our mental health. thank you so much, chris, for taking the time with us today. appreciate it. that's going to do it for us now. you can catch me every day, same time, same place, 10:00 a.m. eastern. until then, until tomorrow, reporting from new york, i'm ana cabrera. jose diaz-balart picks up our coverage right now. and good morning, 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific. i'm jose diaz-balart. a glimmer of hope in the underwater rescue mission

becoming more desperate by the minute. the coast guard now says noises have been detected in the search area where a "titanic" tourist submersible has been missing since sunday. we'll bring you the very latest on the intense race against time. another supreme court justice now at the center of controversy. new questions about a trip justice samuel alito took. we'll talk about it with one of the reporters who broke the story. china firing back at president biden after he called the nation's leader a dictator. china slamming the president's rhetoric as a provocation. we'll talk to congressman ro khanna about that and a whole lot more. at this hour, the frantic search for the missing "titanic" tourist submersible grows more desperate as the five-member crew's oxygen supply ticks below less than 18 hours. more help is arriving this morning, the u.s. coast guard says three vessels are on the scene to aid in the search.

overnight, there were fresh signs of hope that the coast guard is saying that a canadian aircraft detected underwater noises in the search area, prompting them to relocate their search vehicles to investigate. in two hours we're expecting an update from authorities. msnbc will bring you that live. nbc's kristen dahlgren is with us this morning from boston. kristen, good morning. how did the search area and the critical time that is left, what are officials saying right now? >> reporter: right. well, we're not hearing much. we did get that tweet overnight about the noises that they heard. there were some unconfirmed reports overnight going around about a memo that had been sent out that called it banging, that said it was on the regular intervals. nbc wasn't able to confirm that and our sources at the department of homeland security say today it is really much safer to characterize that as

noise. so we're still unclear exactly that that is. the implication is that if it is banging, you know, you might think it is from the crew banging inside. they're not ready to go there yet. so they're just trying to get out there, to listen to what's going on. you mentioned the three vessels that are now on the scene. one of them has side-scanning sonar and so they're hopeful that can give them a clearer picture of where that submersible might be. so the search really continues trying to narrow in on what those noises are. but keep in mind, there are now a lot of ships, a lot of vessels, a lot of planes in that area. so, potentially other sources of the noise. that said, you know, this is some hope. the first really sign of hope that we have heard of since sunday, since the last contact was made. so, that search continuing, and as you mentioned, the oxygen running out at this point, it is estimated that it is less than 18 hours.

so quite a desperate search at this time, jose. >> kristen dahlgren in boston, thank you very much. i want to bring in david gallow, an oceanographer who has been at the forefront of ocean exploration for more than 25 years, he's senior adviser for strategic initiatives and special projects at rms "titanic" incorporated. good to see you. let's talk about these sounds that have been reported. the ocean can be at times a very noisy place. what do these sounds tell you? >> very accurate statement. the ocean can be very noisy. and it would seem in other cases where sounds that they thought were in this case were from a plane were not at all. they did end up being natural sounds. well, the fact that they're every 30 minutes is important, that's a tough thing to explain to natural sounds. i think the important thing right now is to locate them and that doesn't seem to be -- that would be too challenging. and as soon as they locate them,

probably act as though that is the submarine. and start heading equipment in that direction and work on what are those sounds because time is getting short and they can't wait for an analysis to start moving. but, you know, i think that's issue number one right now, what are those sounds, and i wonder do they ping back from the surface to -- if that is the sub, to let the people in the sub know that we hear you, and we're doing everything we can. >> so, these five people are under water. i mean, 13,000 feet is where the "titanic" is, 12,500 feet. what is it like, and describe for us, david, you know, it is almost like there are so few people who have been at that depth, it is the way i was told by someone, it is like you're in

outer space under water, but what is it like? >> good description. it is not what people think. it is not a big blue fishbowl out there. there is underwater mountains, underwater rivers, underwater waterfalls, underwater valleys, underwater lakes even. and so every dive, like, to the "titanic," first of all, the depth is the average ocean depth, it gets a lot deeper, but average ocean depth for the "titanic" is, but so a dive to "titanic" is, in fact, like a dive to a totally different planet. you assume on the way down you leave the world that we're familiar with, and you enter this dark world and you're in there for two hours on the way to the bottom before you get down to the "titanic." and on that way, you start to realize pretty quickly that this is not the world you're that familiar with. perfectly pitch black, always has been. just above freezing temperature. and so your mind gets ready to work inside that world. when you get to the bottom, you

know, typically baron landscape, and with the case of the "titanic," you drive toward where you think "titanic" is, and suddenly there it is in front of you. it is pretty impressive and dramatic thing. >> and so what -- how, you know, what is it like for five people to be since sunday in that -- under those conditions? what is it like in there? >> i can't imagine. i just can't imagine. it has got to be frightening and horrible and got to be incredibly cold. there is some debate about -- deep sea exploration people that used submarines have thought about this, about being caught on the bottom, running out of air, and then the most people i think today think that the cold would get you first.

and so it is cramped. it is just got to be absolutely horrible. i don't know any other way to put it. >> i understand you're friends with one of the passengers. >> yeah. p.h. nargeolet and i go way back. you couldn't ask for a nicer guy, more competent guy. in france, they call him mr. "titanic." he's the kind of person you would want to have in that situation because he's -- he's got a lot of wisdom, and knows his way around submarines and knows his way around "titanic." so, i can't imagine anyone better to be in a -- i wouldn't wish that on anybody -- but if i were in that situation, he's the person i would want to be stuck with, yeah. >> david, these are such small crafts, right? and the pressurization issue is so important. i'm just wondering what are your thoughts, you know, sunday to

now wednesday and also, you know, do you -- do you have hope? >> because of the banging, i have a lot more hope than i had two days ago. because there was maybe two days ago this report that there was an implosion heard by underwater -- said a seismograph that was heard around the same time as the last communication with the sub and the sub was in midwater. that made sense to me that made the sub imploded and that's why there has been no more communication with the submarine. but then, you know, that was maybe a rumor and that's one thing i hate about this kind of thing right now is that we live on rumors and the rumors are added on to by other rumors. so, that would have been, i get it, and even though i had hope that they were still alive somehow, but now with the banging, that's very

encouraging. hopes go up. tough for the families. really tough for the families because you have two things, is that really them, do they have enough air, and do they have enough air to wait until the recovery gets to them? so, it is really got to be tough for the loved ones and the families of those five people. >> yeah. >> i'm hopeful. i'm hopeful. >> we heard -- when we heard that it wasn't best described as banging, but rather sounds, you know, again, what you're talking about, there is so little information, we understand why, but it just evolves into a lot of speculation and if it is indeed just sounds versus banging, that could, you know -- >> i was involved with p.h. on the successful search for air france 447 and we were out there, and what was actually

going on was very different from what the media was reporting. and, you know, i try to remember how that was, so when i hear these things this time, and same thing with malaysian air, we heard just about every day in the early days that they heard the sound, they know it is there, we'll get it tomorrow and still missing, to this day. >> just remind me, the air france was out of brazil going to paris and -- >> out of brazil, going to paris. disappeared in the mid-atlantic. >> yeah. and that was also in depth -- i'm just wondering, there is no equivalent of black boxes or communication devices, emergency communication devices in this submersible as there is in air france and others? >> exactly right. they're going in the right direction. people thought we would never find that aircraft because it was -- the exact same depth as "titanic," by the way, but we did find that. so, again, that adds to my hopes

that this will be found. >> i really appreciate your time. i thank you for being with us this morning. >> thank you, jose. this morning, a new investigation from pro public la raises new edge ca questions surrounding supreme court justice samuel alito. a 2008 fishing trip with paul singer which alito declined to note in his financial disclio disclosures. alito has never recused himself. in an unusual move, alito penned an op-ed in "the wall street journal" before the pro publicia report was published defending his decision not to disclose the trip and accusing them of misleading its readers. behind us is justin, one of the

reporters. alito said he's spoken to singer in a handful of occasions. what did you learn about their interactions in your reporting? >> we learned that justice alito flew to that alaska fishing trip from the east coast on a private jet. provided by paul singer. we talked to a number of jet charter companies who said chart are that plane can cost over $100,000. this is an expensive gift, these flights to and from alaska. and the ethics experts we talked to said if you're a judge or a justice, you really shouldn't be sitting on a case or cases with a litigant who has been flying you around on a private jet. something justice alito said in his op-ed, he believed he could be impartial and one interesting thing about the supreme court, each justice gets to decide for themselves whether or not to step away from a case. >> this was one trip in 2008. were any rules violated? did he break any of them? >> yeah, you know, the supreme

court unlike a lot of the government -- unlike a lot of government officials, supreme court justices are allowed to accept expensive gifts like this in many cases. the one thing they have to do that justice alito did not do here is disclose the gift. and part of the reason for the disclosure law is so people who have cases at the court can raise issues if they think there is going to be a conflict. and in this case, justice alito did not disclose this private jet flight from the hedge fund billionaire paul singer, no one knew about it until our story published last night. he's maintaining he didn't have to disclose it. we talked to, you know, seven or eight ethics law experts at this point who say that the law is just clear that if you get an expensive private jet flight like this, you have to put it on your financial disclosure. >> what was your reaction to seeing the alito piece in the "wall street journal" before your piece was even published? >> yeah, i was pretty surprised. we did what we always do, we

reached out to justice alito last week, actually, you know, asked for an interview, sent very detailed questions like we always do because we want to get folks' responses before we publish a story. the supreme court spokeswoman told us yesterday morning that justice alito wouldn't be responding. and then i opened up twitter 6:00 p.m. last night and saw this op-ed. so, not the normal way to get comment on a story, but, you know, we're happy to get substantive responses in any forum and i think people read our story on the op-ed they can get a full picture of what is going on here. >> justin elliott, thank you for being with us. appreciate your time. >> absolutely. up next, new reaction today after president biden's son hunter agreed to a plea deal. how republicans and legal experts are at odds over the outcome. we're back in 60 seconds. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. s you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. from prom dresses to workouts and new adventures

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16 past the hour. this morning, new reaction from attorney general merrick garland following the agreement that hunter biden made with federal prosecutors to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges while facing a separate gun charge that is likely to be dismissed if specific conditions are met. here's what garland said. >> so as i said, from the moment of my appointment as attorney general, i would leave this matter in the hands of the united states attorney who was appointed by the previous president and assigned to this matter by the previous administration that he would be given full authority to decide the matter as he decided was appropriate. and that's what he's done. >> president biden briefly -- developments surrounding his son on tuesday saying, quote, i'm very proud of my son. on capitol hill, republican lawmakers are uniting around

their frustration with the plea agreement. joining us now from capitol hill, nbc's ali vitali. also with us, catherine christian, former assistant district attorney in the manhattan d.a.'s office and nbc news legal analyst. so, ali, republicans have been expressing dissatisfaction with this deal. what's next on the hill? >> reporter: yeah, look, jose, perhaps unsurprising to see republicans continue to use this as a cudgel in their press to say there is a two-tiered system of justice in this country. they have been sounding that note since after the former president donald trump was indicted for the second time. but the first time, of course, on federal charges. now, though, seeing these hunter biden plea deal agreement come down, speaking with people, like speaker kevin mccarthy told me that to him this is a sweetheart deal you only get if you're the son of a current sitting president. you see the charges against hunter biden, two misdemeanor counts of failing to pay taxes and one gun possession charge.

we have heard from not just the speaker, but through rank and file republicans, especially on the house side, members that i was talking to yesterday saying not only that they think that this further bolsters the case that the doj is political, but also the fact that they have, especially on the oversight committee, chairman james comer continuously doing investigations into hunter biden, specifically around his dealings with companies like burisma trying to find out if there were any connections there to the president and leveraging the relationship that hunter had with his father. so far there has been inconclusive and no evidence brought forward by that committee. but we heard from the speaker and the chairman yesterday that they will only continue on that front. plea deal or no plea deal. they're not done with this here on capitol hill. >> so, catherine, after this deal was announced, hunter biden's attorney spoke with my colleague katy tur. here's what he had to say. >> this was a five-year, very diligent investigation pursued by incredibly professional

prosecutors. some of whom have been career prosecutors. one of whom at least was appointed by president trump and no one has ever said they're not competent, good or diligent. >> catherine, what do you make of that? >> well, i'll tell you, when politics enters the conversation, the facts and the law go out the window. it could be said that this was anything but a sweetheart deal. when you have a client who has fully repaid his taxes, which happened in this case, hunter biden is now pleading guilty to two counts for not -- for owing $100,000 in 2018, owing $100,000 in 2019, he fully paid them off, and now he has two criminal convictions for the rest of his life and the collateral consequences that go with it. and it is unusual, not usual that you end up with criminal convictions in a case like this. so, it is hard to say it is a sweetheart deal. and in terms of the law, these are not the equivalent of traffic tickets or infractions

as i said. they are misdemeanors, which are crimes. and they will be with him for the rest of his life. and in terms of the gun charge, which he is being allowed to enter into a pretrial diversion, there is no accusation he possessed the gun what he was shooting or pointing at anyone, it is because he lied about it when he applied for it when he said he wasn't a drug addict. and we know that one of the problems when you are addicted to drugs is that you lie. so, it is completely appropriate that he would be given a diversion program and no alternative to incarceration. i don't think it is accurate. politically i guess it is -- you're going to say it, that's a sweetheart deal, but legally and factually, from what i know of the law, and from, you know, cases like this, this cannot be considered a sweetheart deal. and this u.s. attorney, as his defense attorney said, was appointed by donald trump, it was five years of investigating. believe me, if there were other federal crimes that this u.s. attorney could prove hunter

biden was guilty of beyond a reasonable doubt, he would have charged him with it. i have yet to hear in all of the sweetheart deal, sweetheart deal talk, any specific federal crimes where there is evidence that hunter biden has committed. and talk about criminal trials, you need evidence that could be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. >> appointed by the former president during the former president's administration. so, ali, meanwhile, john durham, the special counsel who oversaw the investigation into the origins of the mueller probe is on capitol hill today. what has he been saying so far? >> this is a testy hearing, jose. perhaps not surprising given the fact this is in front of the judiciary committee. chairman jim jordan, i believe, is currently speaking with john durham who is there testifying. it is his second day here on capitol hill. yesterday he testified behind closed doors to the house intelligence committee. today, of course, testifying publicly for the first time about the multiyear

investigation that he did into the fbi's probing of whether the trump campaign colluded with russia during the 2016 election. it is going pretty much along party lines here. we have seen democrats, for example, ask durham questions about if there were anyone he wanted to indict that the department of justice said he couldn't indict. durham said no. then, of course, on the other side of this, we have people like jim jordan and other republicans looking at other parts of this investigation that they say point to fbi wrongdoing and an example that this is an example of political and partisanship within law enforcement and the department of justice. so, again, both sides here kind of picking what they want to see in this report as we go into more hours of this very political and testy hearing. >> and, ali, we're going to be learning more information tomorrow on the george santos front? >> reporter: that's exactly right. this is about the money that he got to pay his bail, specifically who gave him that money or where it came from. this is information that santos

did not want made public. nevertheless, a judge in that case saying that it will be made public and we'll get those names and all of that information tomorrow, jose, or later this week. >> ali vitali and catherine christian, thank you, both, so much for being with us this morning. right now, back on capitol hill, federal reserve chair jerome powell is testifying before the house on the current state of inflation. what he's telling lawmakers next. plus, china's angry reaction to president biden calling xi jinping a dictator. we'll talk to congressman ro khanna about that and a whole lot more. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. re u're watching "jose diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. verizon. the network she can count on. and now she has myplan, the game-changing new plan that lets her get exactly what she wants and save on every perk. sadie is moving to the big city and making moves on her plan, too. apple one, on. now she's got plenty of entertainment for the whole ride. finally there! hot spot, on. and she's fully connected before her internet is even installed. (sadie) hi, mom! (mom) how's the apartment? (vo) introducing myplan. get exactly what you want,

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28 past the hour. right now on capitol hill, federal reserve chairman jerome powell is facing questions from lawmakers on the economy as he presents the semiannual monetary policy report to the house financial services committee. here's some of what powell said moments ago. >> inflation has moderated

somewhat since the middle of last year. nonetheless, inflation pressures continue to run high and the process of getting inflation back down to 2% has a long way to go. >> joining us now with more is cnbc's dominic chu. dom, good seeing you this morning. so what is the reaction on wall street to all of this? >> the takeaway right now for wall street, jose, is for everyone to expect more interest rate hikes and expect higher interest rates to be around for longer. now, he also added that members of the fed's open market committee, which sets interest rate policy, were nearly unanimous in expecting that it will be appropriate to raise interest rates again before the end of this year. now, those statements, they're not a huge surprise given that's pretty much what we heard last week when the fed decided to pause their interest rate hiking campaign in order to allow some time to assess what the previous ten rate hikes have already done to the economy. but that's where kind of it remains somewhat confusing for

investors and traders. if policymakers of the fed are nearly all in agreement, that more rate hikes are needed, then why pause those rate hikes right now? it is part of the reason very likely that it rests with the relative strength of one key part of the economy. it is the jobs picture. plain and simple. powell makes the point that the labor market is still tight with more demand for workers than available supply of workers. but that he sees signs that those conditions are getting somewhat looser. in other words, more people are joining the workforce and that there are some signs that those wage gains are moderating. still growing, jose, but at a slower pace. powell did also make mention of the banking crisis that we got earlier this year that led to those big bank failures, biggest since the financial crisis, saying that it did serve as a reminder that the fed continues to be and needs to be vigilant on the bank's supervisory and regulatory fronts as well, jose. >> dominic chu, thank you so very much. well, this morning, china's

foreign ministry issued a strong rebuke after president biden called china's xi jinping a dictator during a fund-raiser in california. foreign ministry said, biden's comments were in part, quote, extremely absurd, irresponsible, and seriously violate basic facts, diplomatic protocol and china's political dignity. the president's comments come just one day after secretary of state antony blinken met with xi jinping in the first visit to china by the united states top diplomat since 2018. joining us now, democratic congressman ro khanna of california. he's a member of the house oversight committee as well as the select committee on the strategic competition between the united states and the chinese communist party. always a pleasure to see you. i thank you for your time. so, the president calls the dictator of china a dictator, and that's what china is upset about? >> first of all, look, the president made these remarks at a political event in california.

china needs to be far less sensitive. we just had secretary blinken there, who did an extraordinary job. we asked for open lines of communication with china. we said, can we have military to military conflict? china is the one that reneged that. so the united states has acted in good faith, and it is china that is not reciprocating. >> so, what is, do you think, the cost of this? >> well, this president has tried to lower the temperature. we have been very clear, it is unacceptable for china to be building out a spy infrastructure in cuba or trying to get troops trained about that there. and this president is going to speak out about that and be strong on national security. it is unacceptable for us to have the trade deficit that we have with china. this president is going to speak out clearly about that. the human rights issues in china are unacceptable. this president will speak out about that. this president also has talked about diplomacy and will

continue to do that. >> and congressman, i want to touch upon what you just mentioned. "the wall street journal" reports during a trump administration u.s. officials reviewed, quote, intelligence that tracked workers from the chinese telecom giant's huawei technologies and zte entering and exiting facilities suspected of housing chinese eavesdropping operations in cuba, according to people familiar with the matter. how alarmed are you by the recent developments or certainly news reports recent. looks like these bases and these efforts have been going on since the trump administration. how concerned are you about these? >> well, i'm concerned that it has been going on for a few years. i believe the president is acting appropriately and decisively to make sure that that does not continue. they are putting diplomatic pressure on cuba. they have raised this with china. some of the details as you understand they don't want to go into, but the reality is the

president inherited this problem and is now trying to address it and i've been working with members of the armed services committee to raise it to the defense secretary. >> and, congressman, your thoughts on, i mean, is there a line between china having eavesdropping bases or operations in cuba and then having troops that could be training in cuba? do you think that there is a line there or no? >> jose, there is. the troops are unacceptable. china cannot have troops training in cuba. the president has made that clear. secretary blinken has made that clear. that has to be a hard line for the united states and we will not accept that. >> congressman ro khanna, i thank you so much for being with us. really appreciate your time. >> thanks. up next, what new polling reveals about former president trump's support a week after his federal indictment. you're watching "jose

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38 past the hour. new national poll is the first to appear to show some erosion in the approval rating of former president donald trump since his indictment. the new cnn poll taken after his arraignment in federal court last week found that 47% of republicans and republican-leaning registered voters say trump is their first choice for the party's nomination for president. it is down six percentage points from 53% in may. joining us now, former republican pennsylvania representative charlie dent and victoria francesco soto, dean of arkansas. what do you make of these new numbers? >> what i make of it is it appears that donald trump is has dropped six points on the ballot. ron desantis has not picked up at all. he's still at 26%.

also appears to me that the other candidates have picked up a little bit, but they're still in the single digits. think the laws of political gravity apply here that indicted candidates typically implode. this is not going to help donald trump certainly in a general election in the two-person race. but we'll see whether or not those laws of political gravity still apply here in a primary. i do think these indictments are going to hurt him. whether or not republicans can rally around one alternative still remains to be seen. >> yeah, i mean, victoria, you think this apparent dip in support could lead to trump's challengers being more critical of him? >> maybe. and i know that's a bit of a soft answer, but i would want to see more polling. one thing that did give me pause, jose, was that the drop in lead that the trump has compared to desantis was within the margin of error. it was a big margin of error of

6 percentage points, but i'm not going to bank the dip on trump yet. i want to see follow-up polls. i want to us to remember that the trump base very much has a history of rallying around donald trump when he is threatened, when he can position himself as an underdog. so i think that, yes, he's still the dominant candidate. it is just a matter of whether or not that is still the dominant position as we see the next couple of weeks go by and the indictment news and the potential trial date. >> i mean, charlie, former republican governor chris christie slammed trump yesterday of he offered a new round of justifications for why he held on to classified documents. listen to some of it. >> problem for donald trump and all of this is his own conduct. he's his own worst enemy. none of this would have happened to him or to the country if he had just returned the documents. it appears to me last night as a

former prosecutor that he had -- he admitted obstruction of justice on the air last night to brett bear. i can tell you this, his lawyers this morning are jumping out of whatever window they're near. >> that was chris christie in on cbs. but, charlie, what are your thoughts on that? the former president just says as much as he thinks and thinks as much as he says everywhere. is this going to change anything? >> well, yeah, the -- chris christie is absolutely right that donald trump is in this predicament because of his own -- because of trump's own misconduct and terrible judgment and actions. it is remarkable that what that interview that donald trump provided was -- he just said so many things, he's obstructing -- i cannot get over the fact that any person with a security clearance could ever walk out of a classified setting and take

those documents home with him and upon learning he has the documents, they demand them back and then not returning? anybody else would be arrested and charged if they chose not to return documents once the g-man shows up at the door. i think christie is right about this. whether or not this is going to affect trump among the primary base still remains to be seen, but this is hurting donald trump tremendously among independents and he's also in that poll, his numbers still aren't that great among republicans. he's at a 70% favorability rating. he used to be much higher than that in order to win a general election. >> victoria, your thoughts on just, you know, the independence, the folks that are seeing this and maybe haven't, you know, decided one way or another. but their future, you know, decision-making on something like this, do you think this could change then? >> well, to representative dent's earlier point, this is a

losing strategy in the general election. so we're looking far ahead to november, and in the primary, it is yet to be seen. in looking to the general election, we know that the independents are the ones who in the past held their nose, voted for president trump. the question is are they going to take part in primaries and it depends on the rules of every state, whether or not you have open or closed primaries. same thing with the moderate republicans, with your country club republicans, chamber of commerce republicans, what are they going to do and one difficulty in looking at the primary is that there are so many candidates already and so this is also going to strengthen trump in the primary, but potentially weaken him in the general. >> former congressman charlie dent and victoria francesco soto, thank you so much. we're near, the one year mark since roe was overturned.

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mean for real people almost immediately in our country. who for the most part many will suffer in silence and are alone and without resources of many types. >> joining us now with more is npr national correspondent sarah mccann. good seeing you. so, broad picture, how much and what has changed in this last year when it comes to abortion rights? >> well, so much has changed. i mean, a year ago abortion was at least nominally legal across the country. now there were two states, texas and oklahoma, who passed these kind of unique abortion bans a few months before the dobbs decision was released that quite significantly and >> reporter: enforce that through civil lawsuits but other than that, abortion was legal nationwide. what happened since more than a

dozen states have banned virtually all abortions. if you at in states that have 12 or 15 week bands, that number goes up, several more, and other states that are on the verge of implement restrictions that are either tied up in court right now or scheduled to go into effect at a later date. so, it accesses dramatically has been restricted and that's putting pressure on states where abortion is legal. >> your new piece details while how some states are restricting abortions, other state and local governments are spending millions to fund access to the procedure. >> we seen states like california, new york, and others, take steps to expand access in various ways, and in some cases, some states have directly funded abortion, others have expanded the infrastructure for either training medical providers or funding women's health clinics.

according to the national institute for reproductive health, at least 15 localities and six states have approved these types of measures to help people seeking abortions since the dobbs decision. that's a big increase from the previous few years before dobbs where there was a little bit of activity but not a lot. the other thing we've seen states passing laws designed to protect abortion patients and providers within their state boundaries from litigation or prosecution from other states which is a fear that a lot of people have. >> there must be a widespread series of impacts on places where abortion is still legal. what are the bands in the other states what are they placing on these states? >> we are hearing from abortion funds, these local, regional and state-based organizations that provide abortions for people who are not able to have the procedure, childcare, even, they are seeing a dramatic increase in the demand and the need for help, one fund in new

york that i heard from this week said they have spent over 1 million, i think $1.7 million funding people from 29 different states so states like new york, like new mexico, illinois, particularly states that are surrounded with lots of restrictions, providers are seeing increased demand and even states like georgia where abortion is legal up to about six weeks, i mean providers are struggling to meet the demand there so that sort of spills over into other states with looser restrictions. >> i thank you so much for being with us, thank you for your time. still ahead, how immigration advocates are responding to the biden administration's new immigration policies. it's drastically reducing the amount of migrants that can claim asylum.

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turning to arkansas where a federal judge on tuesday overturned the states ban on gender affirming care for people under 18 declaring it unconstitutional. the ruling marks the first time a judge is ordered such a law and although the decision only applies to arkansas, it's predicted to have a ripple effect in other states with similar restrictions. currently, 19 other states have similar bands in place. judges have temporarily blocked restrictions and alabama, florida and indiana. turning now to the tragic shipwreck off the coast of greece last week that left more than 500 migrants missing and feared dead after an overcrowded boat carrying as men many as 750 people sank. a greek court on tuesday ordered the detention of my egyptian men suspected of truing the smuggling ship. the coast guard is facing criticism for their decision not

to intervene sooner with the european commission calling for a thorough and transparent investigation. only 100 for men and children survived the shipwreck. the migration chief is calling it the worst ever tragedy of its kind in the mediterranean sea. the number of migrants allowed to apply for asylum at the southern border has been reduced by nearly half since the end of title 42. according to a recent court filing by the administration. migrant arrivals were just at historic highs for the last several years. what has changed in how our folks dealing with it? >> josi, i think you were just as surprised as i was, there was an incredible drop off after title 42 ended. we expected the numbers to rise but in the place of 24 title

42, the biden demonstration had tougher -- that's what the biden administration has argued in a court filing, they say the people who are allowed to come through and claim asylum, those rates are just about 43% of those who are even allowed to claim asylum compared to 83% before title 42. we are at a place where after the lifting of the covid 19 restrictions, we are not back to status quo we are at a place now where it's harder harder to claim asylum now than it was at the end of the trump administration or at least 2019. >> these are men, women and children who risk everything for a chance to ask for asylum. how are groups that support

them responding? >> they are suing them in court. we've seen people like the aclu come forward and say, look, these numbers are there because the biden administration is in violation of federal law and international law and the fact that people should be allowed to claim asylum no matter where they are in the process, no matter how they got here. so we will see later next month, how a judge in california decides to rule on this matter. >> that wraps up the hour for me. i'm jose diaz-balart, you can always reach me on twitter and instagram , and you can catch highlights from today show online. thank you for the privilege of your time. andrea mitchell picks up with more news right now. right now, a big stumble by president biden a day after the secretary of state tried to repair relations with china. will the president offhand remarks derail the efforts to set up a meeting with president she? also fallout