US television news host Savannah Guthrie said in a video message released yesterday that her family is willing to pay to secure her mother's return after her presumed abduction in Arizona.

Police launched a massive hunt, with officials offering a reward of $50,000 (£36,000) for information that leads to an arrest.

The White House first defended, then deleted, a video on President Trump’s Truth Social account that included a racist image of the Obamas after bipartisan condemnation. CNN’s Dana Bash and the “Inside Politics” panel discuss what CNN Political Director David Chalian calls a “blatant racist trope.

In a rare reversal, the Trump White House deleted a re-post of a racist video of the Obamas from the president’s social media account following intense backlash.

NBC News' Melanie Zanona reports on the response from the White House and lawmakers.