you're right, chris, there have been historic changes really in the last five years in japan with regard to their defense spending, their willingness to coproduce weapons and colicense with the united states. these are major steps. japan is the third largest economy in the world, but for nearly half a century, it didn't have a military or military capabilities that were commensurate with that. we're seeing that change now, and we're seeing a better integration of the u.s. japan alliance. these are the sort of expert details, issues that make these militaries run better together, and not just separately. with regard to ukraine, you know, it's not just japan. japan, south korea, australia, have all stepped up and played some sort of role in the defense of ukraine. in japan's case, the united states contributes missiles to ukraine. they have given billions of dollars of assistance. we see them operating together, obviously in the region, the

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it's good to be back with you on this second hour of "chris jansing reports." we start with secret identities. the judge in donald trump's mar-a-lago classified documents case just sided with prosecutors' requests to keep the names of any potential witnesses in the case secret. msnbc legal correspondent lisa rubin joins me now. what more can you tell us, lisa? >> chris, the decision that judge aileen cannon rendered a request that would have revealed the names of close to two dozen witnesses that may testify for the prosecution if and when this case goes to trial. the government pushed back and asked her to reconsider because they said revealing their names would compromise not only their safety but the very integrity of their investigation in the case because it could expose them to efforts to interfere with their testimony. judge aileen cannon last night

begrudgingly agreeing with them, they made several arguments, the end result is witness names will not become public, and in ordering that their substantiative statements be revealed in interviews with the fbi, for example, in the past, she has also said that think details in those statements that could be used to identify them, those two must be redacted. >> lisa rubin, thank you for that. and the markets meantime, are tumbling after a hotter than expected inflation report. cnbc senior markets correspondent bob, break this down for us. whether or not the interest rates would be brought down by the fed. tell us what's going on and what it means? >> not immediately. overall inflation is measured by the consumer price index, up 3 1/2% year over year. that's stronger than the 3.4% expected. this hot cpi report is getting a very cool reception in the stock market and the bond market. the dow is down 1.4% this the

middle of the day and there's been a particular increases that we have seen recently, car insurance and health care, as well as shelter costs, rental costs, now the good news in this report is food costs beginning to moderate, as well as gasoline prices. even those prices are still going up. they're just not going up as fast as they were a few years ago. the report is an improvement. remember what happened a couple of years ago. inflation was over 9%. progress towards getting it lower has stalled out. it's been about 3% inflation for nine months now. the federal reserve has a target to get core inflation, that's inflation, food and energy down to 2%, chris. it's got a ways to go to hit that target. the good news is the economy is strong. we've got strong job growth and earnings are strong. this is why the stock market is near new highs, even with today's report. with the economy strong, and inflation still sticky, the federal reserve is not going to give the stock market what it really wants, which is lower

interest rates, and that's mainly what's bothering the markets today. chris. >> we'll see if the president's prediction that it may delay the rate cut a month or so proves true. bob pisani, always good to see you. thank you. an idaho teenager accused of planning to kill church goers in the name of the islamic state is in court this afternoon. fbi sources heard 18-year-old alexandria scott, they say he was planning on attacking church services during sunday services, using weapons, including knives, firearms and fire. during the arrest, police found an isis flag, butane canisters, a knife, a pipe and a machete, all at his house. nbc's ryan reilly is following this for us. what more can you tell us about this? >> counter extremism expert i spoke with today described this as a low hanging fruit case. this is a case that involved numerous fbi confidential

sources. the flag the fbi seized from the home is one of the sources gifted to this individual. this individual when he was still a minor was a believer in white supremacy. you're allowed to support domestic terrorist organizations if they're not designated as foreign terrorist organizations. but those designated terrorist organizations, you could be charged with material support. that's what this is. if he had stuck with the original ideology that he says he had, white supremacy, this would have been a tougher case for the fbi to make. because he went over and became a supporter of the islamic state, and were fbi human sources, as well as an undercover employee, that ultimately brought this case to

fruition. this is one of those cases right on the margins because he only recently became an adult and started talking with apparently fbi confidential human sources back when he was still a teen. this is one of those cases that's going to be looked at, you know, over the years about how the fbi exactly handled it but it's a tricky thing for them to handle about when to bring the cases to fruition without engaging the public. >> ryan reilly, thank you. >> when we're back in 60 seconds, the sentence for former mississippi sheriffs deputies for torturing two black men, and what we heard from the victims through their attorneys. >> after hunter shot me, they left know die bleeding on the floor, and they tried to set me up to be in prison. i could be dead and gone, but the god i serve has other plans. . ? it's basically tennis for babies, but for adults. it should be called wiffle tennis. pickle! yeah, aw! whoo! ♪♪

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mississippi sheriffs deputies and a police officer known as the goon squad have now been sentenced to between 15 and 45 years in prison on state charges. the six white officers attacked two black men, michael corey jenkins and eddie parker, verbally, physically, and sexually abusing them, shooting jenkins in the mouth in a mock execution. in court today, we heard from the victims through their attorney. >> january 24th, your honor, was the worst day of my life. i was brutally beaten and nearly killed by the rankin county sheriff's department, also known as the goon squad. i never would have thought a night of hanging out with friends would nearly cost me my life. they should be given what they gave me and michael jenkins, which was no mercy. >> the six men pled guilty to

state charges back in august and were sentenced on federal charges last month for that same racist attack. nbc's priya sridhar is outside the courthouse in brandon, mississippi. also with me, former federal prosecutor, professor at georgetown school of law, and msnbc legal analyst, paul butler. walk us through what happened in court today. >> reporter: that's right. well, the deputies themselves were pretty quiet. the federal sentencing actually happened a few days ago, and the six deputies were sentenced to ten to 40-year sentences and in that situation one of the deputies asked if he could address the victims, and the victims said they didn't want to hear from the deputy. today the deputies didn't try to say in court, and the victims spoke, as you mentioned, through their attorney. you can hear a little bit more about what they had to say about what the past year has been like for them. >> the very bad actions of the rankin county goon squad

officers severely impacted me and has left a scar on me that will last forever. i never knew the ones that were sworn to protect and serve would be the ones i needed protection from. they beat, kicked, tased, assaulted, water boarded and humiliated me over and over again. i'm a musician and a singer. and now because of a gunshot wound that shattered my jaw, i can no longer do what i love to do, and that's sing. i play the drums for my church. and because i was shot in the face, it affected my vision so i can no longer play. >> reporter: so after hearing those victim impact statements, the judge called each deputy up to the podium and handed down 15 to 45-year sentences for

aggravated assault, home invasion, obstruction of justice and conspiracy. those sentences will be served concurrently with the federal sentences that were already handed down to them. >> so, paul, when this was all over, the victim's lawyer called the sentence significant but believes it should have been harsher. torture, abuse, acts of sexual depravity. he says these are the kinds of crimes that are life sentences for his victim. he prayed his attackers would get what he got, and i think it's important to play just a little more of that victim impact statement. >> after hunter elward shot me, they left me to die bleeding on the floor, and they tried to set me up to be imprisoned. your honor, they killed me, i just didn't die.

>> do you see these sentences as sufficient, insufficient, significant? i think a lot of this is put in the context of mississippi and what has happened in the past. how do you view these sentences? >> these are substantial sentences that will send a message to other officers in the community at large. our colleague, joy reid wrote a book about medgar evers and she talks about mississippi and its tragic history of these kinds of attacks. in fact, some of these officers are linked to other racist attacks, including one in which two black men were killed. the naacp is concerned that the department still has the same sheriff. he wasn't a member of the goon squad, but he was their boss. >> the naacp there, paul, compared this kind of crime to

1964. not 2024. and you talked about the message it might send. he said while they can't erase mississippi's past, this is the head of the naacp, they can set a precedent for the future. is this precedent setting? is this strong message sending? will it make a difference? >> i hope so, and i think that it might. so today's sentencing came from after what's called a global plea agreement where the defendants pled guilty to both federal and state charges. so all six of these officers will spend the majority of the rest of their lives in prison. the top sentences were 40 years long. but as we talked about a lot, chris, a punishment response, that is charging people who commit these atrocious acts with crimes and sentencing them doesn't release all systemic problems.

the naacp is also calling for the justice department, the united states justice department to conduct a pattern in practice investigation of this entire police department. >> and talk about exactly what is involved with that and why it's important. >> so the justice department goes to the community. they talk to all of the stake holders, including police officers, the supervisors, the mayor, and citizens. so they try to get a sense of what the problem is. virtually every time the department does one of these investigations of a local police department, chris, they find that the police disproportionately arrest and use excessive force against black and brown people, and, in fact, in this case, the officers, after they horribly assaulted the men, tortured them, water boarded them, tried to sexually assault them, and then left the guy they shot on the floor to bleed, then they talked about what they were going to do to cover up. which was they were going to

plant drugs on these two men and then arrest them. it's hard to believe that this is a one-off and when the united states department of justice investigates, it can find out, again, whether there is, in fact, a pattern and practice of these atrocious abuses. >> and when you look at the level of depravity involved, it's hard to even fathom that it could be a first time offense at this level of abuse and depravity. paul butler, thank you, i do appreciate you coming on the program once again. and in ohio, we have brand new body cam video from akron showing the moment that an officer shot a 15-year-old boy who was holding what he says was a toy gun. the video, which has been edited and blurred by police shows the teen, tavion williams getting shot in the wrist on april 1st, just seconds after the officer ordered him to put his hands up.

this was the moment the teen was shot. and i do want to warn you, you may find it disturbing. >> can i see your hands real quick? >> it's fake. it's fake. it's fake. it's fake. it's fake. it's fake. >> drop to the ground. drop to the ground. drop to the ground. >> it's fake. >> you can hear him yelling over and over and over again. it's fake. nbc's shaquille brewster is following this for us. what for can you tell us? >> well, chris, i tell you that we expect to hear more from the family on friday during a press conference. that will be the first time we hear from the family since the shooting occurred. police say this happened last monday on april 1st, about 7:00 p.m., when they got a call from a woman who said she was walking her dog and saw someone pointing a gun at different houses. that's when officer ryan westlake, you see it in that video, pulls up to the scene, and that's where the video picks

up. westlake is a nine-year member of the force. after the shooting, police in the statement said it was a replica firearm. i want you to listen to what tavion told police as he was receiving medical attention. >> it's my hand, please, officer. please. >> we got paramedics coming. >> i'm a good kid. i get a's in school. i play football. i just wanted to be safe. my cousin died. >> you're going to be all right, man. >> you're all right, man. >> get a perimeter set up. >> he was taken to the hospital with nonlife threatening injuries. i'm told by his family attorney that he is back with his family. this will be investigated. it's being investigated by an independent state agency. those results will be handed over to a grand jury as there is an internal investigation that will also take place. this officer in question, the

mayor's office has released his personnel files, which does show some disciplinary action. in the words of the mayor, it shows a number of disciplinary actions and use of force incidents. and one that was deemed unreasonable. his file shows that in 2021, you see some of the files there. he was suspended for 71 days for multiple incidents including brandishing a firearm toward his girlfriend while intoxicated. he was suspended, then fired after he appealed that suspension, and then the next day was reinstated on the police force. it's that record that you hear members of the community and the family snou now calling for that officer to be fired. i should mention the fraternal order of police is defending the officer's actions, saying his actions complied with law enforcement policy. you see the statement on the screen, that it was within the policy and procedure and according to his training. of course this is something

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court the disengaged voters that are critical to his reelection and to reach them, team biden is turning to tiktok and you tube. >> this is what happened when the president and first lady came to our house for pizza. here's betsy, hamming it up with the president. >> you did awesome last night. >> come with me to meet the president of the united states, and then attend the largest dnc fundraiser in american history. >> tell me about you. >> don't let anybody tell you you can't do anything. you can do whatever you want to do. >> thank you so much. >> so good. >> thank you. >> let's bring in nbc news white house correspondent mike memoli and democratic strategist, basil smikle, former chair of the new york state democratic party. mike, you report that the biden campaign is organizing events with the president. they're specifically designed to generate social media

engagement, days of coverage from local media outlets. tell us a little bit more about it, and how they hope it will work. >> chris, if you look at how the president is facing really head winds on a number of issues, the economy, the border, the situation in the middle east, there's also a larger challenge facing the biden campaign, which is just the sour mood that many americans are in. and the biden team sees a lot of the voters that really could decide this election are also those individuals who are most fed up with politics right now. the last thing they want to hear about is that we're in the middle of a presidential campaign. if you can't bring these voters into the campaign, you have to bring the campaign to them, and they're doing that in through their social media channels. you look at what the president did over the last month, traveling to eight battle ground states. he did your traditional podium event, a modest crowd, let's say, speaking about a particular issue. he built into the schedule, the

retail events, pizza at the home of one family, a business owner in the philadelphia suburbs. he went in north carolina to the home of a man who had a significant amount of student debt relieved. same thing in michigan. the point is, traveling with their own digital team filming more intimate settings, conversations, some are posted online to the campaign's accounts immediately. some like the video you played of the pizza dinner with the first lady and president, posted a full month after the fact. they get local coverage in the local media in realtime but then they can put them out in their channels over a longer period of time. when the campaign talks about the strategy, they know the most consumed content on instagram is not posted publicly. it's shared in direct messages. the idea is to get maybe some of those people who support the president to share this content with their own social network, including some of those disengaged voters. that can eventually bring people

back into the campaign. >> let's talk about this as a strategy. i spent more than 20 years in local news, newspapers, radio, television, they're right about that. that hasn't changed since when i was doing local news. the president of the united states goes in to somebody's house in your coverage area, it's a big deal, and you're going to get tons of stories about it. the neighbors are going to get one story and the family will get another story, and talk to people in the campaign. that's one part of it. you can hear the other side saying he can't fill a big auditorium, he can't get a big crowd out the way donald trump can. i wonder what you make of this as a strategy? >> actually, i think it's a good strategy. it's important to take the campaign to the voter. does he care about people like me? and it's actually hard to say that and see that from a podium where the camera is solely focused on the speaker and not the ten or 20,000 people in the audience. but if you're going to

somebody's home in a small town and talking about the importance of that town to fabric of america, then the subject of that, and those neighbors are going to care, and they're going to participate and engage. so it's really important in my view that the campaign do this, that they create the shareable content because my students know that most of their news they get, they get from tiktok, and so if they have the ability to send that information out and particularly get to disengage voters and young voters, it's incredibly important. >> "politico" is reporting one of biden's closest allies, former chief of staff, ron clain, thinks he's talking too much about infrastructure, and not enough about the economy. klain says i think the president out there talking too much about bridges. he's not a congressman. he's not running for congress.

how interesting is the bridge. it's a little interesting, but it's it's not a lot interesting. he concedes biden has an infrastructure record to run on. maybe it's not the most fascinating conversation he can have. do they need to relook at what he talks about it and how he talks about it. >> if you're talking about a bridge and infrastructure, it's important to the people of maryland, especially the mayor of baltimore who had to go on tv and talk about how his race didn't have anything to do with the bridge collapse. yeah, it matters in very specific parts of the country. but i also think that that's why the campaign has said let's put out the cabinet members. he's doing this, going out and talking to voters about infrastructure. he acknowledges it takes a long time to build something. he's also saying you can get union apprenticeships through the projects. i think biden can focus on the big picture, the broad strokes, cabinet members doing exactly what they're supposed to do,

talking about how the individual can get access to government services, government contracts. >> basil smikle, you and i have been talking on television for a very long time. this is the first time you've brought an entourage. >> my students. >> hunter college. i asked you if they were good, and you said they're great. >> hunter college students are always great. >> how many of you get most of your news from social media, you tube, tiktok. >> that's not msnbc, but we're going to let that go. >> you put it on tiktok, they'll watch it. >> thanks for coming. always good to see you. we'll be right back. you we'll be right back. just sinex, breathe, ahhhh! what is — wow! sinex. breathe. ahhhhhh!

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a group of bipartisan lawmakers just introduced a bill to target the dramatic rise in anti-semitism in the u.s. following the october 7th attack on israel. nbc's julie tsirkin broke the story about this. she joins me from capitol hill. so this has bipartisan support in both the house and senate. if it passes, what would it do? >> reporter: this bill would do a lot. it is a monumental piece of legislation from a bipartisan group in the house and senate, led by jackie rosen, one of the first jewish women to serve in the senate. certainly this has symbolic meaning for her. this would create a point

person, a strategic adviser to the president of any administration. it doesn't tap out with president biden. it's supposed to be a role in which this person advises inner agencies, has coordination, not only with the federal government but also the department of education, for example, when it comes to anti-semitism in higher education. also coming out with a strategy and implementing that plan online as well. chris, 9 in 10 jewish americans feel like anti-semitism is the highest its ever been. that's according to a new pew research poll from last week. this is something that has bubbled over after the october 7th hamas attack on israel and israel's invasion of gaza since that has claimed many lives. never the less, though, i asked congressman ted deutsch, former congressman of florida what this bill means and why it's so important to focus on this issue now. watch this. >> this is a moment of enormous challenge for the jewish

community and there's great fear in the jewish community, and it's no longer anecdotal. this used to be something that we talked about, we felt it. but the data confirms what we all already know, that what used to be a simmering flame has become a five alarm emergency. anti-semitism is at an all time high. jewish americans are scared. >> reporter: chris, i know you spoke to congressman deutsch many times until the past as well, including in the last few months when the jewish committee has come out its own report, the antidefamation league coming out with data, before the october 7th attack. anti-semitism was at a high peak. now it's only getting worse, and officials hope this legislation would aim to stem the flow of some of that. there are growing concerns

over the fierce rise of threats facing elected officials right now. "the new york times" is reporting that capitol police hired a team of reporters to build a case against anyone threatening members of congress. luke broadwater is one of the reporters behind that reporting. he joins me now, you write that capitol police investigated, this is an astonishing number to me, 8,008 threat cases last year. that's the second highest total in the agency history. what kinds of threats are we talking about, and how might prosecutors help? >> right, well, it's really a wide gamut of threats. what's become a staple of life on capitol hill for these lawmakers is there are phones, e-mails, social media are nonstop ringing off the hook with people calling and threatening them. this happens whenever there's a controversial vote, whenever donald trump demonizes one of the lawmakers, whenever they become the target of a

television program or radio host who goes after them. their phone lines will blow up with this. and oftentimes it moves beyond just calls. people drive by the house. you saw recently someone start a fire at bernie sanders' office in vermont. so to try to combat this, capital police have often referred the threats to the justice department. but what they found is many times the threats are not prosecuted, and so they have taken this step of paying for their own prosecutors to be installed at three different offices around the country. they will specifically handle the threat cases referred to them by capitol police. >> so far i understand three lawyers have been hired. it doesn't sound like a lot, right, when you're talking about more than 8,000 cases here. but is this just the beginning? what's the long-term plan?

>> right. you're right. three lawyers can only do so much. this is a starting point. they hope to expand to other offices. already some lawmakers on the hill are asking for it to be expanded, and of course one of the things these lawmakers are doing is they have been designated by the attorney general as experts on dealing with threats and how to prosecute threat cases, so they're doing trainings and briefings for prosecutors around the country to try to be sort of a force multiplier so no longer will they look at threats against members of congress and say, you know what, that is not as important as a carjacking or a homicide. they will actually know how to put the pieces together. build the case and hold someone accountable. >> that's where my question was going because you've got an election that's less than eight months away. you have a lot of very heated races. i mean, how do police adjust to this heightened threat environment, and sift through what can be noise but you don't know, necessarily, when that one is going to be a threat to life,

to property. >> yeah, it's a very difficult task for the capitol police. they spend a lot of time visiting people's houses, questioning them, trying to figure out who just got angry or drunk and shot off their mouth, and who is serious about intimidating a lawmaker, and so they spend a lot of time following up with people, questioning them, and even though they investigate 8,000 threat cases a year, the number of cases they actually refer to prosecutors to try to hold someone accountable is much much smaller, we're talking about hundreds of cases, not thousands, and so those are the cases they want to see prosecuted, when they think medicine has gone beyond just getting angry and sending an angry e-mail, and is actually trying to intimidate a lawmaker to try to get a political end, that's when it crosses into being a threat and being prosecutable. >> maybe the prosecution sends a message to others. luke broad water, great reporting, and thank you. appreciate you coming on the

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could lead the aircraft to break apart mid flight. nbc's blayne alexander has more. >> reporter: growing turbulence for boeing as the federal government has launched a new investigation into the company amid allegations about one of boeing's airplanes. the faa tells nbc news it's investigating new whistleblower claims made by a boeing quality engineer about the 787 dreamliner. the latest claims first reported by "the new york times" come after a series of dangerous mishaps involving other boeing planes in recent months. the whistleblower says sections of the dreamliner's fuselage are put together improperly, and that after thousands of flights, it could break apart midair. in a letter to the faa, his attorney writes, it is likely to cause premature fatigue and failure over time in two major airplane joints. >> he is alleging that boeing knowingly took a series of

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