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it's good to be back with you in this second hour of "chris jansing reports." the death of one of the most talked about men in america, o.j. simpson has died at 76 after a battle with cancer. the rise and star of the football star accused and acquitting of murdering his ex-wife and a friend. plus, the mug shot, the chilling image just released of the former virginia assistant principal charged for her lack of action when one of her students shot his first grade teacher. what we know about her unprecedented court hearing. plus, the new rule from the white house.

it's aimed at limiting who can legally get guns. and what one key piece of economic data just released tells us about the fight against inflation. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. we begin with nbc's chloe melas in los angeles on the death of o.j. simpson, what more do we know? >> reporter: hey there, i got off the phone with keith, he dated nicole brown simpson after his divorce from o.j. simpson. he tells me the death of o.j. comes as justice for him. he says o.j. simpson made his life and nicole brown simpson's life miserable. while they dated for several years, he alleges he was stalked by o.j. simpson. he testified in the grand jury, ahead of the criminal trial. he was also a character and portrayed in the docuseries, the limited series about o.j. simpson and the trial, and he said that, you know, he blocked

o.j. simpson out of his mind, you know, many years ago, and that, you know, o.j., he still haunts him but that he chooses to remember the good times. he was a pal bearer at nicole simpson's funeral. he is in touch with her sisters. he had not spoken to them this morning after this news of o.j.'s death. but he said that nicole simpson was a light and that they had a wonderful relationship but that it was overshadowed by o.j. and that they could not, you know, have their privacy. they couldn't be together because he said that o.j. simpson would allegedly intimidate them and would stalk them, and that it made it very hard for him to date nicole simpson for those years. he said that this is justice, but he said it's very unfortunate that o.j., in his words, he said, was able to live his life for 30 years after the

death of nicole simpson and also obviously ron goldman. >> nbc's chloe melas, thank you. today in virginia, a former assistant principal is facing felony child abuse and neglect charges after a 6-year-old student at her school shot and injured a teacher. nbc's julia jester is following this story for us. you know all of the developments in this case, what are the highlights today? >> reporter: chris, ebony parker was in the courtroom today for the first hearing in this case. she has not yet entered a plea. we are learning new details from press conferences with the prosecution as well as attorneys for abigail zwerner, the teacher who was shot by her 6-year-old student, and one of the key take aways is the focus on missing documents. both were appalled that these disciplinary records, these documents have seemed to have disappeared, and the grand jury recommended that the commonwealth's attorney's

office, look into possible obstruction of justice. it's unclear if those charges could be filed due to statute of limitations. i want to play a bit of the sound to hear what these attorneys are feeling in this moment. >> if there's a message at all to be sent, it's that the safety of children and staff and administration should be taken seriously. that it's incumbent upon all of us to look at systems and make sure that they are safe. >> i was not aware that the gun had jammed. i understood that there were bullets remaining in the magazine. but that was hard to read. to know that he tried to shoot a second time. >> reporter: just harrowing to hear the reaction to that detail, it's worth noting that the reason ebony parker has been indicted on eight counts of child neglect is for the eight bullets that were in the magazine of that gun in the classroom that day.

chris. >> julia jester, thank you. now to washington where the white house just approved the biggest expansion of gun background checks in decades. nbc white house correspondent monica alba is following this for us. this is intended to fill a loophole. tell us about that. >> this is the gun show loophole. while some retailers and stores that sell firearms do have to do background checks, there is really this market for people who can sell guns out of their home or online who don't have to meet those requirements, so this new rule put in effect by the biden administration, which would start in about a month or so would effectively force anyone who is doing that to conduct a background check, and chris, we know all too well, there are horrible stories about shooters who maybe were denied the ability to purchase a gun at a sports goods store, but then they were able to go online and buy one because it was an unauthorized retailer, so this is really the biden white house

trying to curb that. and it's something that specifically became a huge movement and moment for the white house to try to accomplish after the horrific school shooting in uvalde, so this is something that the president vowed to do. and remember, that when we were able to pass the bipartisan gun safety law that went into effect in 2022, this was a part of it, but they said it's going to take some time to actually make this rule effective so that we can see now what's going to start to happen in the coming weeks. now, it's possible this could face some legal challenges, but the administration believes they can cite the 2022 law as a reason to uphold it, and again, chris, we're talking about just next week it's going to be the 25th anniversary of the columbine shooting, and those shooters were able to get those guns, again, through this unauthorized process, which is known as the gun show loophole. so it just really is a stark

reminder for how many years this has been such an issue, and the biden administration says this is a step forward. it's something that they did pledge to do, but that they would like to do a lot more when it comes to gun violence prevention, and of course that's part of the president's pledge to also ban assault weapons, which he has not been able to do so far this this congress. chris. >> monica alba, thank you. now to that encouraging new inflation report showing wholesale prices rising less than expected. nbc's brian cheung joins us now. what are the take aways from this? >> a lot of people wondering, we just got inflation data in the form of consumer price index. this measures wholesale prices, how much does a patio set manufacturers, for example, charge target or walmart when they buy it and try to ultimately sell it to you or me. wholesale prices increased by .2 percentage points between february and march. that was lower than what economists had expected of .3%. so one read is that at least on

the producer's side of inflation, it's not as bad as economists expected. when you unpack the report, it wasn't goods prices increasing over the month. it was services. one example of things that got more expensive on a wholesale basis were securities, fees, so maybe financial advisory fees, kind of boring stuff like that, but broadly speaking, this is an interesting fold to the data that we got yesterday when the government data showed that consumer prices, what we paid for everything, went up by 3.5% on a yearly basis. again, apples to originals to compare this .2 percentage to the 3.5% yearly figure that we got in the report. yesterday, that report was greater than what economists had expected. the story here is there are many reads of inflation, some are better and some are worse, but the overall story remains the same. inflation remains a household issue that americans are continuing to feel the pinch up and at the federal reserve where they have been raising interest

rates and keeping them high to take inflation down, they have more work to do. >> brian cheung, thank you, and when we're back in 60 seconds, the major decision in the bribery case of bob menendez and his wife nadine. ez and his wife nadine. nucala is a once-monthly add-on injection for severe eosinophilic asthma. not for sudden breathing problems. allergic reactions can occur. get help right away for swelling of face, mouth, tongue, or trouble breathing. infections that can cause shingles have occurred. don't stop steroids unless told by your doctor. tell your doctor if you have a parasitic infection. may cause headache, injection site reactions, back pain, and fatigue. ask an asthma specialist if nucala is right for you. mr. clean magic eraser powers through tough messes. so it makes it look like i spent hours cleaning, and you know i didn't. it makes my running shoe look like new! it's amazing. it's so good. it makes it look like i have magical powers. magic eraser and sheets make cleaning look easy. all—new subway wraps are packed

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this for us. also with me, former federal prosecutor, and msnbc legal analyst, carol lam. walk us through the latest that we have learned from court. >> good afternoon, chris. judge sidney stein has decided there will be two trials in this sprawling corruption case, in part because nadine menendez has this undisclosed serious medical condition but also because the judge says she needs to get new lawyers. her existing lawyers have a conflict of interest. the judge says they may be called as witnesses in the case because they represented the prosecutors that payments made by a businessman for a mercedes that nadine menendez were using were loan repayments, when, in fact, prosecutors say they were bribes and charged additional counsel with obstruction of justice. those lawyers may be witnesses and so they may have to step aside. it's hard to know exactly how the two trial scenarios is going to play out in this case. it's probably not greeted adds a great development by prosecutors

because it means nadine menendez and her lawyers will see how they present the evidence and gives a jury another crack at this case. it only takes one juror to make a case go sideways. this does appear to be a strong case, despite senator menendez's protests of innocence. senator menendez here is accused of acting as a secret agent of egypt while he was serving as the powerful chairman of the foreign relations committee, an incredibly disturbing allegation, chris. >> carol, do you see this as making it tougher for the prosecution? how do you view this decision today? >> it's not ideal for the prosecution, but it doesn't seem to me that this is a development that's really going to stand in the way of the prosecution obtaining a conviction of senator menendez in this case. you know, prosecutors ideally, when they bring a conspiracy count against two or more defendants in a single

indictment, they intend to and they want to go to trial in a sing trial so that all the evidence is presented just one time, and more importantly, it doesn't leave the door open to the defense attorneys arguing that the so called empty chair is the person who would otherwise occupy that empty chair is actually to blame for all the events here. this is a case with a lot of evidence as ken was noting. you've got thousands of text messages, you have loan documents, meetings, you have search warrants and all the gold and the cash that was found there. so there are many ways for the prosecution to prove up the case as it intended to. >> so do you see any way at all, carroll, that senator menendez could testify in his wife's trial or vice versa? >> well, there is this thorny issue that sometimes occurs where you've got a marital or a spousal privilege. in both cases, what it does is

it functions as a bar towards one spouse testifying against the other. if the spouses don't want the testimony of the other spouse to occur. that is a bit of a thorny issue, and i think there was some runway to sort of play out what would happen there. having separated trials here means that that issue is off the table, and if one of the defendants, either husband or wife decides that they don't want to testify for fifth amendment purposes, they can't be compelled to testify because they're both subject to legal exposure here. >> carol lam and ken dilanian, thank you. meantime, the potential witness list for monday's hush money trial is out. nearly a dozen people listed for the prosecution, but just two for the defense, one, donald trump himself. we'll see if he testifies. it comes as a new reuters poll shows there's been a 9 point swing in trump's political matchup with president biden since january in biden's favor.

but it doesn't take into account the political impact to come with trump set to spend the bulk of the next few months in court rather than out on the campaign trail. my colleague, yasmin vossoughian, is with me in studio. the big question has always been will these trials impact what happens in november. we don't know the answer to that with this trial starting on monday, but it's been a long time coming. >> it has been a long time coming, and we cannot stress enough the historic nature, the former president of the united states, the presumptive nominee for the republican party, standing trial for criminal charges. that is a wow moment in this nation's history, and then the kind of tangled web that it took to get here, right, the handover from cy vance to alvin bragg, retired as a manhattan d.a., dating all the way back, chris, as we remember to 2016 and the "access hollywood" tape, which is really where it began. let's watch. >> on august 21st, 2018, michael

cohen, donald trump's former fixer pled guilty to eight counts in manhattan federal court. cohen alleged in a court of law donald trump directed him to make illegal payments to influence the 2016 election. >> he worked to pay money to silence two women who had information that he believed would be detrimental to the 2016 campaign. >> those two women, adult film star stormy daniels and playboy play meat, karen mcdougal were at the center. >> women, and more women like me matter. >> cohen played $130,000 to stormy daniel, and karen mcdougal got $150,000 from the "national enquirer," a deal cohen said he orchestrated himself on behalf of donald trump and the trump organization. donald trump and the organization deny the allegations. >> do you know about the payment to stormy daniels.

>> reporter: cy vance began investigating the payments. the fight went all the way to the supreme court before cy vance got the documents in 2021. >> the manhattan district attorney is in possession of former president donald trump's tax returns. >> reporter: and the next month, prosecutors turned their sights on allen weisselberg, the trump organization cfo. >> this guy is the ultimate service provider, he has been working for the trump family for decades. if you crack the service providers, you can crack the case. >> reporter: and when weisselberg refused to testify against the former president, prosecutors announced charges against the trump organization and the cfo. they both plead not guilty. >> 15 counts for a range of charges, larceny, to tax evasion, to falsify records, it shows the d.a., cy vance meant business during this multiyear probe. >> reporter: in january of 2022, a new manhattan d.a., alvin bragg is sworn in with speculation over whether he will

pursue charges. on april 7th, 2022, he releases a statement saying in part the investigation continues. in august of 2022, allen weisselberg pleas guilty and agrees to testify against the trump organization. four months later, the trump organization is convicted, found guilty of tax fraud and eventually alvin bragg calls a new grand jury. >> we finally got answers on the political, financial, legal, moral, public corruption scandal. >> reporter: and in march of 2023, trump posts on true social of an imminent arrest. and while the arrest on that day did not happen, on march 30th, 2023, mr. trump was indicted on 34 counts. days later in a manhattan courthouse, he was arraigned. he's pled not guilty. >> charging a former president of the united states for the first time in history. on a basis that every single pundit and legal analyst said

there is no case. there's no case. >> donald trump's got to be in court every single day. it's supposed to take four to six weeks. you take a look at this witness list earlier on today, the star witness being michael cohen, stormy daniels likely a witness as well, karen mcdougal, a witness as well. i think the big question is the credibility of michael cohen. i'll harken back to the judgment by judge engoron in which he said, michael cohen was, i fact, a very credible witness. will the jury find michael cohen, supposed star witness, as credible. >> and others who may bolster his testimony, which also could be helpful. fascinating stuff. remind us of so many things that happened since then. yasmin. thank you so much. coming up, the death of o.j. simpson, we'll speak to one of the reporters that was at his big murder trial, then break down his legacy, and the

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realtime the deep racial divides in the way our country views its justice system. i want it talk about with "washington post" associate editor, mark fischer, and msnbc legal analyst, charles coleman. you covered every in and out of this trial month after month and you've written about the deep divides it revealed in america. how pivotal was that 1995 moment of acquittal? >> it was tremendously revealing, not only about america in 1995 but about america today. the o.j. simpson trial foreshadowed a lot of what we deal with in american society today, on the racial divisions, the backlash from jurors, and the public over police violence, the whole idea of jury nullification, the jury protesting against the justice system, the one black man on the jury leaving the room at the end of the trial after the verdict was announced with a fist pointed in salute to the defense

lawyers, and of course the celebification of the legal system, celebrity lawyers, celebrity judge, celebrity prosecutors, focusing on the personalities, the players, that was all relatively new. it obviously foreshadowed a change in american society. it created all of these celebrities, the real revolution for me, sitting in that courtroom was the prosecutors had prepared for a murder trial. witnesses, forensics, all of that. johnny cochran and the dream team of defense lawyers prepared for a media show, foreshadowing donald trump's approach to politics, and cochran brilliantly brought that strategy of national media attention and winning over a national audience so that by the end of the trial, more than half of black americans believed simpson was not guilty of murder. >> i'm not sure the dream team

could have dreamed of the kind of show it would become. charles, at a time when we weren't used to watching live trials, how different was it for people to see this adjudicated in realtime, especially black americans? >> chris, correct me if i'm wrong that people can really understand if you weren't there how significant this was, and i think it's very ironic that this is coming on the heels of what now i believe will be the most anticipated and most watched trial, if it begins on monday, that being that of donald trump, since the o.j. trial. let's put something in perspective. in 1995, when o.j. went to trial, it is not hyperbole to understand that there are people in that same state of california who could still smell the burning embers after the trial of rodney king's assaulters where they walked free, and so when you're talking about having access to this justice system visually, and being able to see the process and watch it unfold, for a number of black wholly sr

a justice system that we do not trust. i also want to underscore, to mark's point, for many black americans, seeing someone like johnny cochran in the position that he held and the way he conducted himself and the outstanding lawyering that took place actually inspired an entire generation of black americans to become lawyers, and that point cannot be understated. it is a really big deal. and so when you talk about the significance of what it was to see this play out on national television, it really, really was a very very significant thing. >> yeah, in and out of the courtroom, johnny cochran, was something to see. i wonder also, charles, if this wasn't also, i guess in some ways a revelation for white americans. they maybe didn't understand the strong feeling in the black community about a two-level system of justice. >> i think mark alluded to that, chris, and in many respects,

when you think about the verdict and the different reactions that we saw across the country, literally half of the room rejoicing, and half of the room lamenting, wondering how in the world could this have happened, it exposed racial fault lines in america that people of color, particularly black people were already keenly aware of their existence, but because of their privilege, other parts of america went blind to and did not understand. and the other thing that i think was so interesting about this, for the first time in the lives of so many different people in america, they looked at the justice system strangely. they looked at it differently. in many respects in the ways that black people have always looked at the criminal justice system, with a sort of third eye of skepticism. there were a set of jurors who said that they did not want to convict, and that they could not convict him, that the state had not met its burden, and therefore, orenthal james

simpson went no guilty, and there were americans convinced that he had done what he was charged for. you found a group of americans that were not willing to accept what the justice said. it really turned americans on their head, particularly along the racial fault lines which had been deeply exposed. >> except when he went to prison, o.j. never stopped being in the spotlight. he loved the spotlight. obviously not what it brought him in the later years of his life, and i wonder, if you can comment on what you think his legacy is and the fight, i think he had even after being acquitted because so many americans did not believe he should have been acquitted to reclaim his name, reclaim his fame. >> he never reclaimed his name, really. i mean, he ended up serving nine years in prison. the kidnapping case in las vegas, he lost the civil suit

that the families of the victims filed against him. so he was never held in high regard again. and that's something that transcended racial lines. it's fascinating to look in 1995 at the end of the trial, 57%, i'm sorry, 22% of blacks said o.j. simpson was guilty. fast forward in 2015, and in the same "washington post" poll, it's up to 57% of blacks who say he was guilty. same trend among whites, went from 63% said he was guilty in 1995. 20 years later, 83%. nobody was fooled about who committed the murders of nicole brown simpson, and goldman. this was all about a nullification. this was about a change in the way americans perceived the justice system, and we are living with that change today.

very much this is similar to the attitudes of donald trump supporters when they weighed his misdeeds, the "access hollywood" case, for example. people began to see the justice system through the lens of identity rather than through the idea that everyone is equal before the law. and we are living with that shift and that cynicism told. -- today. >> and we are living with it in realtime. thank you both so much. coming up on "chris jansing reports," the brewing power struggle between the speaker of the house and one of the loudest voices in his caucus, but who in the republican party really knows what the base wants? s? not like a migraine. with nurtec odt, i found relief. the only migraine medication that helps treat and prevent, all in one. to those with migraine, i see you. for the acute treatment of migraine with or without aura and the preventive treatment of episodic migraine in adults. don't take if allergic to nurtec odt. allergic reactions can occur, even days after using.

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and uncertainty on capitol hill. congresswoman marjorie taylor greene is not backing down from efforts to end mike johnson's speakership. it's gotten so bad that some republicans are worried the fight could ultimately hand the gavel to house minority leader democratic hakeem jeffries. green believes she has her finger on the pulse of the republican party. >> i pretty much have the best view of how the base feels and what republican voters want. it's not about whether you like president trump or not. the republican party, republican voters are supporting his policies, yet mike johnson's leadership has been completely opposite. >> with just hours until speaker johnson heads to mar-a-lago to

meet with donald trump, the question today is whether frustrated republican centrists would back jeffries, just to end the cycle of dysfunction and inaction. >> well, listen, if the chair is vacated, it's certainly possible you get a democrat speaker. we have demonstrated 13 total members ran for speaker before i was elected and it would be very difficult for anyone to get the votes. >> nbc's ryan nobles joins us from capitol hill. also with us, stewart stevens who is chief strategist for the 2012 romney presidential campaign and a senior adviser for the lincoln project. good to have both of you here. should speaker johnson be worried? any stirrings moderate republicans might jump ship? >> reporter: i think speaker johnson should be worried about losing his job. the chances that the person who replaces him are a democrat are probably very slim. the same problem that republicans have would be the same problem democrats have in a

situation like this. there just really isn't any appetite for bipartisanship when it comes to electing the speaker of the house, and so republicans still have two more votes than the democrats do, so it's likely that they would hold on to the speakership, but it would be another brutal battle. i think the more likely scenario here is if mike johnson does move forward with putting ukraine aid on the floor, putting the federal surveillance program on the floor, and it passes, that maybe democrats come to his rescue to at least avoid another cycle of trying to replace a speaker like they did the last time around back in the fall. listen to how hakeem jeffries phrased it when he was asked the question, would democrats come to mike johnson's rescue if the situation was right. >> now, i made the observation, not a declaration, the observation that if the speaker were to do the right thing and allow the house to work its will with an up and down vote on the

national security bill then i believe that there are a reasonable number of democrats who would not want to see the speaker fall as a result of doing the right thing. >> reporter: now, that is significant that the current democratic leader is at least opening the door to the idea of a group of democrats either sitting on the sideline or actively working to help mike johnson keep his job. that may seem like, chris, oh, he doesn't have to worry about this anymore. it's exactly the opposite. what mike johnson doesn't want is to hold on to a speakership at the behest of democrats. that puts him in a more difficult situation than the one he's currently in. he's standing still at this impasse right now. what he would really like to do is pass ukraine funding, pass fisa reform without worrying about a motion to vacate. that's not the current environment he's living in, chris. >> i think the thing that jeffries said, stewart, that's so significant is he said let the house work its will. imagine that.

marjorie taylor greene seems oblivious to the reality that supporting trump's policies does not change the fact that there's a democratic senate and a white house. so why is she starting this fight? >> look, i think this is a classic example of life imitating high school. think about it, you know, marjorie taylor greene is the mean girl with the rich daddy who always got out of trouble. mike johnson is that invisible guy who always wanted to belong, who was desperate to be accepted, and that's just really a toxic mix when it comes to saving the world, and that's really what's at stake here. it's easy to look at marjorie taylor greene, she's an incredibly unlikable person with the awful voice, and is one of these freak shows that runs through congress, but she could change history because if the united states does not vote to support ukraine, it is going to change history. it's going to be a pale over this country for generations and

change the way europe is, it will affect the way china looks at taiwan. this is big historic stuff, and it's being left to the smallest of people, and really the question i would ask mike johnson is, let's say you are a christian, take you at your word, how do you go to bed every night knowing that your weakness that night will kill innocent ukrainian women and children and men sleeping in their beds. how do you live with that, because that's what's happening? >> one of the things he's going to have to do is talk to donald trump tomorrow. they're holding that event at mar-a-lago, how does he negotiate, navigate that? >> look, it really comes to a question of, you're the inheritor of the legacy of the greatest generation, right, they passed this torch to you, and you're going to either honor that or you're going to honor the wishes of this god from queens who's having trouble making bail who's on trial in multiple jurisdictions across

the country. what do you want your legacy to be? who do you think is going to be more admired? who do yoo be, liz cheney or someone who gets voted out of congress because he didn't do the right thing anyway? i don't know mike johnson, you would hope somewhere inside there there's enough decency and some sliver of courage to be able to stand up and try to defend innocent women and children who are getting murdered by russians. >> stuart, always good to have you on the program, thank you. ukraine's lawmakers taking a big and controversial step to beef up its military while russian missiles rain down throughout the country. you're watching "chris jansing reports" only on msnbc. you're wg reports" only on msnbc (man) mm, hey, honey. looks like my to-do list grew. "paint the bathroom, give baxter a bath, get life insurance," hm. i have a few minutes. i can do that now.

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more air defense support, criticizing allies for turning a blind eye to his country's plight. and it's not just ammo supplies that are running low, more than two years into this war, ukraine is also running out of soldiers. zelenskyy is expected to sign a controversial new conscription bill passed by the ukrainian parliament today making it easier to identify men eligible for the draft. whether ukraine can arm those recruits without western help is very much in question. nbc's matt bradley joins us now. matt, what can you tell us about this new law and the impact of those russian attacks? >> yeah, so this new law, it's a careful attempt to try to bolster ukraine's depleting ranks while at the same time avoiding public anger. the main feature, it lowers the conscription age for young men. they will all have to join the army after age 25. it lowers it by two years, and the law offers some incentives for those who join the military,

and also higher benefits for slain soldier's families. at the same time, this does expose the reality of russia's war in ukraine, which is well into its third year. ukraine shocked and impressed the world when it held the line against russia's invasion back in the early days of 2022, but those days are gone. in fact, they really ended last year, and we're left with a long and grinding war of attrition with mass casualties on both sides. but the thing that's causing anger with this new law, it's not necessarily the expanding enlistment effort, it's that the new law delays when soldiers might be demobilized or a military term for leaving the armed forces. it doesn't really specify. that's disappointing to a lot of ukrainians whose family members are serving in the military who this were expecting were going to be coming home soon. chris, you mentioned those attacks, as if the ukrainians needed to be reminded of why this new law is in place, the russians launched a missile and drone blitz against ukraine's capital kyiv, and once again, as

we saw several years ago, this assault was aimed at ukraine's civilian electricity network. the attack destroyed a large electricity plant near the capital, setting it on fire. ukraine's electricity infrastructure has long been in moscow's cross hairs, more so in the past week. this adds new urgency, as you mentioned to ukraine's lobbying efforts in washington and europe, trying to get more money to fund their flagging war effort, chris. >> matt bradley, thank you. a potential cvc warning that could have people freezing in their tracks. more on that story first reported by nbc news coming up. first, caitlin clark's legacy, formalized at the university of iowa. when she said good-bye to her team at a special ceremony, the school announced it's retiring her number 22 jersey. fans lined up for autographs and a chance to celebrate her incredible run. she is expected to be the number one pick in the wnba draft. >> and to another celebration of

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the cdc is expected to alert doctors nationwide after a multistate investigation into fake botox. botox is generally considered safe, used by millions. as nbc news reports, this run of fake botox has already put at least four people in the hospital. i want to bring in nbc medical fellow, dr. akshay. about 7 million people a year get injections for botox, many for cosmetic purposes. how does this happen that somebody ends up in the hospital? because it is generally considered safe. >> it is generally considered safe. it's a neurotoxin, meaning it paralyzes the nerves that control some of the muscles in your face, and this can prevent wrinkles and fine lines, which is why most are getting it done. it's tightly regulated by the fda, pure fied in a lab, and it's a tiny dose that shouldn't cause problems elsewhere in the

body. if you go to unlicensed places, which is the case here in illinois and tennessee, if you go unlicensed places, you don't know what you're getting. the dose could be way too high. there could be something else in it. it could be given by someone else who's not trained in this. i think that's the take away for people. you don't need to stop getting botox. make sure the person you're getting it from is licensed and the product is fda approved. >> presumably they go to the unlicensed places because it's cheaper. sometimes if the price is too good to be true, it may be. >> and you don't want to mess around with your health. it is the same toxin that can cause botulism, the serious food poisoning illness. make sure you look up the license of the person giving it. >> dr. syal, thank you very much. that's going to do it for us this hour. join us for "chris jansing reports" every weekday 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. eastern on msnbc. our coverage continues with "katy tur reports" right now.

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