>> bret: steve harrigan in atlanta. steve, thanks. let's talk about the biden spending plans, his immigration policy, other issues. former senior adviser to president trump steven miller joins us. good evening. >> good evening to you. thank you. >> bret: i wanted to ask you, start with the infrastructure plan, which we're calling spending plan because there is a lot more in there as we know, these plans are being laid out. but either on the infrastructure, as you are looking at, if they get passed, billions and billions of dollars going to states and cities for projects. there is another element to this that you dealt with in the processing of getting projects through. >> i would like to demystify this issue for the american people tonight if i could. one debate that's raging in washington right now which is why only a quarter the bill on infrastructure as we would conventionally define it and only 10% on roads and bridges? that's an important debate and it should be had. but, let's talk about the money that actually goes to infrastru

but the atlanta braves say they are, quote, deeply disappointed. adding, this was neither our decision, nor our recommendation. the team says it had hoped our city could use this event as a platform to enhance the discussion. >>> republican governor brian kemp, who signed that controversial law, of course, ripped the decision. saying, the league, in his words, caved to fear, political opportunism, and liberal lies. now, the game will still honor braves' legend hank aaron, who died back in january. but no word, yet, on where the all-star game will now be held. hall-of-fame broadcaster, bob costas, who is a cnn contributor, says this is the latest example of sports leagues and fairness, equity, and politics. >> until relatively recently, baseball was not as apt as a sport to weigh in on social issues, as perhaps the nba, the wnba, the nfl. but that all changed. i mean, last year was obviously a time of reckoning, and it continues. there is a players' alliance now, in baseball. made up, primarily, of players of color. primarily, african-american playe

donny, this all comes up around the all-star game moving out of atlanta. pressure puppet put on companies like delta and coca-cola. so what's your sense of where corporations are right now? did they get it right in the case of georgia and how active should they be in these political debates where mitch mcconnell has said they ought to stay out of them? >> corporations have no choice at this rate. frankly, if they had their way, they would be agnostic. they have one god that they answer to at the end of the day, and that's the shareholders and that's the profit. i don't mean to sound cold and callus, but that's what they are. having said that, the right business for them now is to be on the right side of these arguments. they can no longer stay on the sidelines, particularly young consumers demand that of companies now. in all research, you see to talk about corporate conscience. now, when you think about that, most companies, if you look at their marketing plans, the audience they're going after, they're not going after old geezers like me. marketing plans

jonathan serrie, live in atlanta. jonathan, thank you. now capitol hill, intelligence agency chiefs sounding the alarm about threats to the u.s. from china, russia, and iran. they spoke about intelligence challenges at a senate hearing today. congressional correspondent jacqui heinrich shows us tonight from capitol hill. >> from chinese he is mean non-and the origins of covid to iran's nuclear power, russian interference and social media's influence on extremism, intelligence agency heads on capitol hill gave a frank assessment of global threats to the u.s. in the first public hearing of its kind in more than two years. >> the world will face more intense and cascading global challenges ranging from disease climate change to disruptions from new technologies and financial crises. >> china dominated the conversation, fbi director christopher ray saying the threat is so persistent and diverse the fbi opened a new investigation about every 10 hours. and is currently working more than 2,000 probes on economic spying alone. a 100 percent incre

correspondent jonathan serrie has details tonight from atlanta. good evening, jonathan. >> good evening to you, shannon. investigators are still trying to determine a motive. the gunman forced his way into the home of that prominent doctor who lived just outside of rock hill, normally a quiet town in upstate south carolina. 70-year-old dr. robert wesley and his wife barbara and two grandchildren ages 9 and 5 were found dead inside the home. the gunman also shot two air conditioning technicians 38-year-old james lewis was found dead outside the doctor's house. his co-worker called for help and is now hospitalized with severe gunshot wounds. and is fighting hard for his life, according to his cousin. the york county sheriff says it does not appear the gunman took anything from the home but he did leave evidence that led investigators to a immediately identify the suspect as former nfl player philip adams. >> we have no indication right now that there was a doctor-patient relationship between dr. leslie and philip aadams. >> authorities found adams d

reasons why arizona has swung so far of left and why georgia has become so purple is because phoenix and atlanta make up a majority of the voting population of those states. whereas you consider, why is still quite rural. one of the reasons why north carolina hasn't quite gotten there for democrats is that charlotte and the research triangle combined only make up about 41% of north carolina's vote. it's still actually a pretty rural state, so this urban/rural divide really rules. >> dave wasserman and jim messina, thank you both very much for being on this morning. >>> still ahead on "morning joe," did jo biden's first 100 days usher in a new era or a stalled revolution. we'll bring in the authors of these polar opposite pieces for that discussion. we'll be right back. pieces for that discussion. we'll be right back. it's my 5:52 woke-up-like-this migraine medicine. it's ubrelvy. for anytime, anywhere migraine strikes, without worrying if it's too late, or where i am. one dose can quickly stop my migraine in its tracks within two hours. unlike older medicines, ubrelvy is a pill that directly blo

. >> woodruff: this attack follows mass shootings in boulder, colorado, and atlanta in the last two weeks. in myanmar, demonstrations erupted across the country today, marking two months since the military seized power. protesters in yangon and mandalay burned copies of the constitution that ensured military dominance in the legislature. they also honored more than 500 otesters killed so far. a court in hong kong convicted seven pro-democracy leaders today for their role in mass protests in 2019. they include martin lee, the 82-year-old founder of the territory's democratic party, and media tycoon jimmy lai. they could get five years in prison. we'll have details, later in the program. back in this country, president biden held his first full cabinet meeting, with everyone spread out and fully masked. it took place in the east room of the white house, to allow for social distancing. the president urged them to push his infrastructure plan, and buy american. this was opening day for major league baseball-- but covid-19 claimed an immediate casualty. a washington nationals player tested pos

major league baseball moving the all-star game out of atlanta in protest. the republican governor calling it a cancel culture move. and there are some surprising reactions to boycotts from leading georgia democrats. abc's steve osunsami is in atlanta. >> reporter: it's a strong message tonight from major league baseball to republican lawmakers who just passed and signed new voting restrictions in georgia. baseball commissioner robert manfred jr. is siding with a good number of black americans and business leaders who believe that the new rules are voter suppression, saying, "i have decided that the best way to demonstrate our values as a sport is by relocating this year's all-star game and mlb draft." >> major league baseball just caved to the pressure. >> reporter: this week the president came out encouraging this. >> i would strongly support them doing that. people look to them, they're leaders. >> reporter: but this is money and business we're talking about, and even many georgia democrats who fought the new rules are not happy with baseball's decisions.

suspect who stomped on an asian woman, i don't hear the outcry of white supremacy and talked about in atlanta. that's a hate crime. they should be prosecuting his t man. but you hear crickets from the white house and aoc because his skin color doesn't fit their playbook. i want to make a comment regarding the george floyd case. gregg jarrett is correct. the reason why the prosecutor has to put that witness on, the girlfriend is because if they don't the defense is going to and regardless of everything gregg said, which i agree. the medical experts have not opined. it's going to be discussed later on. >> sean: all right. let me go to gregg, get your thoughts on the guy on the commission. cop killer. he is on the commission. killer of his mother, he's walking the streets and going after a 65-year-old lady. >> putting a cop killer on that board, it's like putting el chapo in charge of drug policy. it's outrageous. it's an insult to every cop. it's an insult to the family of robert walsh, the dead police officer, executed by this guy at point-blank range. >> sean: leo 2.0 to rail. gregg jarrett,

, two police officers were shot and wounded earlier this morning, during a high-speed chase west of atlanta. all of this, of course, is happening with the twin cities, already, on edge, as the prosecution continues to make its case against a former-minneapolis police officer, in the killing of george floyd. president biden spoke to the moment, and the mood, this afternoon. >> are you concerned things could be on a razor's edge, sir? >> i'm not going to speculate, now. i'm -- i'm hopeful that there'll be a -- a verdict and an outcome, that will be supported by the vast majority of the people in the region. and that's my expectation. >> shortly before airtime, the president tweeted this message. quote, today i am thinking about daunte wright and his family. and the pain, anger, and trauma that black-america experiences every day. while we await a full investigation, we know what we need to do to move forward. rebuild trust to ensure accountability, so no one is above the law. cnn's adrienne broaddus is in brooklyn center, minnesota, for us tonight. so, adrienne, daunte wright's death was rule

from southern california all the way to atlanta, there's 4 million -- approximately 4 million is my understanding people who drink some form of recycled waste water. and i should be clear, it's not just toilet water, it's shower water like mayor garcetti said, stuff that goes down in your front yard through the sewage system. toilet is the most fun to talk about. but this would double that in the united states of america. it's hard to state how significant it is. also, you feel proud of it, what you flush becomes what everybody else drinks. >> i'm not sure that's the best sales pitch. it's not just toilet water, it's also your shower water! but good idea. see how it plays out there. great report, jacob. thank you very much. >> that's amazing. i think he should have drunk the whole glass. >> i bet he did. i bet he chugged. >> you've got to have a lot of water. >>> that does it for us this morning. stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage right now. >>> hi, there, i'm stephanie ruhle. it's thursday, april 22nd, and this morning the nation begins to move on from the george floyd verdict and focusing on

. >> whitaker: michelle thomas is a single mom raising six kids in atlanta. she has felt the drip, drip, drip of all of racism's "stressors." >> thomas: you see the confederate flag being flown. you see people driving by are calling you the "n-word." and you're just walking down the street. i don't know any other race that actually say they have to have a talk with their kids about how to handle yourself when you're in the street, or how to handle yourself around a police officer, or how to handle yourself when you go shopping in a store. make sure your hands are not in your pocket. there's a group that... >> whitaker: she points to a particularly painful moment in 2019 when her teenage son, jerome, who is on the autism spectrum, was stopped and handcuffed by atlanta police who said he fit the profile of a robbery suspect. >> thomas: i'm like, "if you talked to him for a little while, you would know for a fact that my son had had autism. but you didn't get a chance to know my son. you just assumed that he was the criminal. and that broke my heart." >> whitake

howie: jessica, by waiting several weeks after mass shootings in boarder and atlanta, even speech on guns got half a day of coverage as most of the press moved on from this difficult issue? jessica: i'm not sure he missed the moment and talked about the systematic issues that are the root cause of this in terms of obviously knowledge in what's going on in the rash of violence against asian americans like in the atlanta shooting, but i don't think that he missed the moment. joe biden has been a long-time friend to the gun reform movement. he's been supportive of organizations like every town and moms demand and when i did see the reaction from those organizations, they were positive. obviously tempered because this wasn't move toward assault weapons ban or federal gun registry. it was encouraging red flag laws, for instance, making sure we do more research, more community policing. but i want to push back on alex a little bit. obviously hunter biden has nothing to do with any of this and the idea that he comes up constantly, i don't understand. the answer for something that joe biden

i am from atlanta and once upon a time, we were up 28-3 in new england patriots so the world saw how that ended. being black american is like being a falcon fan. the outcome is not what you think is going to be. >> the defense began its case today by playing body cam footage from what we have all seen, right? floyd's arrests in may 2018, a year before his death. floyd told her he had been taken multiple pills every 20 minutes and he took one right before officers walked up the car. they're playing the drug use. what's your reaction of the defense today? >> it is character assassination and it happens every single time in a case like this. everybody who seen this case from the people who were there that day to the other cops in the minneapolis police department and all the paramedics responded. everybody sees this and they know derek chauvin is guilty. only thing they have is characterization. >> the jury was attentive today. she said floyd was happy and normal when she saw him inside the cup foods store and he suddenly fell asleep when they got into his car. let me play part of the e

think about a place like georgia where the atlanta suburbs have been booming, not so much in the other parts in the state. you have to readjust those congressional lines am you can gain or lose a seat as a party just because, even if you are not gaining or losing a congressional district, right. the good news for democrats, they have more control over the process than they did in 2010, the last time the lines were drawn. the bad news for democrats, the good news for republicans is that republicans still control more than twice as many congressal district lines in terms of, they have total control for drawing that many more lines. that is likely to help, as i said, especially in places that are fast growing, texas, north carolina, but also in a place like georgia where democrats have made really big gains in these last two years, but republicans control the entire line drawing process. and so what you may see there is democrats actually winning two senate seats but in the next upcoming election they may lose a congressional district. >> so much depends on who controls these states, the

major league baseball announced friday that it will be pulling this year's all-star game from atlanta as a handful of companies weigh whether to take actions of their own. of course, gop lawmakers in the state are punishing those companies for exercising their freedom to value black and brown consumers. just a short time ago, georgia governor brian kemp said he will not bow to pressure from major league baseball or anyone else. but georgians of good faith of all races tried to purge trumpism from their midst. president biden is counting proposals to reclaim republican hearts and minds, unveiling his $2 trillion infrastructure package this week amid immediate pushback from republicans who take issue with these tax hikes on corporations to improve conditions for america's poor and working class. later in the show, i'll talk to the point person for the president's plan, newly appointed and confirmed housing and urban development secretary marcia fudge. but first, georgia is on the nation's mind. and joining me now is democratic georgia state representative park cannon, who was arrested f

mlb moving game from atlanta to denver in response to georgia republicans passing and signing into law new restrictive voter access law. republicans promptly responded with the extended performative whining that's become a central hallmark of modern conservative politics. >> do you believe major league baseball will live to regret this decision? >> yeah, i think they will. almost comical, people here and all over the country have figured this out, they're outraged and sick and tired of cancel cover. >> that's brian kemp, pushing the lie that georgia's law is to make it easier to vote and anybody who says otherwise is trying to cancel georgia, i guess. republican party as we said is radicalizing against democracy, lost an election with highest turnout in recent memories and set themselves to doing everything to make it harder to vote, in the hopes, possibly misguided, it will help them win. this isn't happening in back room. we've all watched it, watched them propagate the toxic big lie that the election was rigged, leading to violent insurrection that killed a police officer. that was

i don't care if that's detroit, atlanta, chicago, jacksonville, anywhere in between. not only if you're not black, but a black person that's sympathetic and empathetic to the community. i introduced the world to tommy no norman. you dealt with his community. you got a chance to see him marry a black woman, see him be a person who was sympathetic and empathetic to the people he's policing. no way an officer of the state who is brown should be harassing and spraying in the eyes pepper spray of another brown person. so, that brown person shouldn't be a police officer. i need him replaced with a brown person that understands and will walk and talk that other brown person through in the same way i've seen a 61-year-old white man hit a policeman with a hammer, drive off with a cop in the car and get taken in without being shot. the state is empowering people who look like me and don't look like me to be less empathetic, more sympathetic and more brutal. this must end. if you cannot empathize with the community you're in, you should not be policing that community. >> just go

today the mlb announced it's moving the all star game from atlanta. where do you stand on this? do you welcome that move? >> listen, our actions have consequence. we've said for months now that voter suppression is bad for business. we said it directly to corporations and what you're seeing now is american voters who are voting with their dollars, that we've not seen a retraction, a retrenchment, we've seen republican legislatures across the country double down, that there are -- there's been a 43% increase in the number of anti-voting bills in legislatures across the country. i maintain that this is one of, if not the central organizing issue for the gop in this moment. the white lash that we are living through, that we are experiencing as a result of elevated voter participation has been severe, and it's been widespread, and that's why we're suing, and that's why we're calling on congress to pass hr 1 and hr 4 because fighting this piecemeal state by state by state is inefficient -- >> exactly. >> -- and we don't have time. there are municipal elections that are coming up this

why are you taking the all-star game out of atlanta which is going to cause georgia and specifically fulton county, democrats $100 million in revenue?? are you really that spineless? are you really that stupid? because the league apparently has no problem. mlb, they do business in china and we are learning tonight that mlb is bolstering its ties with one of china's largest tech companies. actually cracks down on that executive. by the way, can you pick up will call tickets for a baseball game, sporting event, concert if you don't have a picture i.d.? no, you cannot. senator marco rubio had the strong message for the commissioners saying i am under no illusion that it will sacrifice business revenue on behalf of its elected corporate values. similarly, i am under no illusion that you intend to resign as a member from augustine national yacht club. to do so would require a personal n sacrifice as opposedo the woke corporate virtue signaling of moving the all-star game to atlanta. why is joe biden not being held accountable for his role in starting and fueling the entire fire? peter doo

abc senior national correspondent steve osunsami is at the cdc in atlanta tonight leading us off. >> reporter: it's a decision tonight that health officials say is in the best interest of public health. >> the vote is ten in favor, four opposed. >> reporter: a cdc panel recommends that we should remove the hold on using the single shot johnson & johnson vaccine. anyone 18 years old or older should feel free to get the shot, and they will be warned about the low risk of blood clots. >> our systems help to identify incredibly rare events. we took the time to fully investigate the issue. >> reporter: public health authorities put a pause on using the vaccine after six women came down with severe blood clots about two weeks after getting the shot. tonight, the cdc shares that there are now 15 of these cases, most of them with severe blood clots near the brain. all of them are women between 18 and 59 years old. three of them died, and seven are still hospitalized. but the experts underline that these are out of 8 million americans who've gotten the shot with no serious complications. >> t

mayor bottoms, mayor of atlanta. there are people outside the state saying we're not comfortable going in there, so major league all-star game responded not because the values were offended so much so, but players themselves said we don't want to go to a place where we feel unwelcome or a where our voice can't be heard and can't vote. we'll see how hollywood responds because that's an interesting split that we see right now and they don't want to take jobs from front line workers and the jobs will be there, just a different state will get those jobs. >> all right. let me thank both of you for being with us. jerry sonnenfeld and michael walden. my thanks to both of you. up next, my final thoughts. stay with us. ext, my final thous stay with us , it's more treatab. i'm cologuard. i'm noninvasive and detect altered dna in your stool to find 92% of colon cancers even in early stages. tell me more. it's for people 45 plus at average risk for colon cancer, not high risk. false positive and negative results may occur. ask y

senior national correspondent mark strassmann is in atlanta with this report. [yelling] >> reporter: again this weekend, intertwined demands for racial justice... [yelling] >> reporter: ...and police reform. and american movement sparked by an american moment. george floyd dying facedown on a minneapolis street. >> there has been a systemic problem that has persisted for a long time, that has covered up murders at the hands of police in the twin cities and across the nation. >> reporter: former officer derek chauvin was convicted of murdering floyd. >> justice, for the moment, was served. we have a long way to go. >> dickerson: but communities of color everywhere say they're tired of the knee on their neck. and week after week, outraged by police killing more people of color. like 16-year-old ma'khia bryant in columbus, ohio. 1-year-old adam toledo in chicago. >> we are not playing games. charge the officer now! >> reporter: daunte wright, shot by a cop in a minneapolis suburb. and andrew brown, jr. in elizabeth city, north carolina. deputies serving brown a wa

this is a live look at atlanta from fox 5. a lot of atlanta stories today. one of the big stories there tonight atlanta's mayor says she hopes a new police academy will raise morale on the force and attract new officers. kisha lance bottoms says she wants to build the safety training academy on 150 acres at the old atlanta prison farm. the facility would also support fire department personnel. that is tonight's live look outside the beltway from "special report." we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ i'm only one call away ♪ i'll be there to save the day ♪ my name is austin james. as a musician living with diabetes, fingersticks can be a real challenge. that's why i use the freestyle libre 14 day system. with a painless, onesecond scan i can check my glucose without fingersticks. now i'm managing my diabetes better and i've lowered my a1c from 8.2 to 6.7. you can do it without fingersticks, too. ask your doctor for a prescription for the freestyle libre 14 day system. and visit freestyle libre.us to try it for free. we made usaa insurance for members like martin.

watch this. >> major league baseball has now moved the all-star game from atlanta to denver. estimated loss of tourism about $100 million. what are your thoughts on the whole$1 thing? >> i guess the government ander them, they shot themselves in theoo foot. for now this is going to be, all the events, super bowl, other nba all-star games, et cetera, they aren't going to want to come here. >> i think it's really unfortunate. >> it's not the city of atlanta, it's not the state -- well, somewhat the state of georgia's fault. you shouldn't blame the braves, shouldn't blame the atlanta fans. it's what the governor did. in colorado, the voting rights, it's different than here. it's stricter there. >> allegations that showing i.d. is racist. what do you think about that? >> i mean, that's appropriate. showing i.d. let you know that, you know, that you are really you, if your true identity. i don't have an issue with that. >> i think it's awful and sit here to say the people of color and minorities can't get an idea or don't havee an i.d. why do they think black people, people of col

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major league baseball has now moved the all-star game from atlanta to denver. estimated loss of tourism about $100 million. what are your thoughts on the whole thing? >> i guess governor in them, they shot themselves in the foot so now this is going to be for all the events, but for the super bowl, the nba all-star games, et cetera. they're not going to want to come here. sig. i think it's really unfortunate. >> the city of atlanta. somewhat the state of georgia's fall. he shouldn't blame the braves. he shouldn't blame the the atlantafans. >> in colorado, the voting rights? it's different than here. it's more restricted. >> has been allegations that having to shown ideas racist. what do you think about that? >> i mean, it's appropriate, showing i.d. let you know that you are really you, it's your true identity. i don't have an issue that. >> i think it's awful to sit here and say people of color or minorities can't get an idea or don't have an i.d. why do they think black people, people of color don't have i.d.? why? why did they keep putting passing narrative?

abc's elwyn lopez leading us off from atlanta. >> reporter: tonight, after an 11 day pause, the johnson & johnson vaccine >> i think the benefits outweigh the risks. >> reporter: at least 22 states saying they'll resume the one-dose shots immediately. what would you say to people who are hesitant? >> i would just say look at the facts, trust science. >> reporter: the cdc and the fda recommending j&j's shot come with a warning label of the risk of rare blood clots. so far, 15 blood clot cases verified, but with 8 million shots given, that's about 1 clot per 500,000 vaccines given. experts say things like birth some americansse are exceedu a blood clot than the rare but potentially deadly type from the shot. >> the risk of you having this complication versus the potential risk of getting covid right now certainly is on the side of getting covid. >> reporter: over the past nine days, the average number of daily vaccines administered dropping nearly 16%. and with supply outpacing demand, some states like louisiana and mississippi now asking for fewer doses. adding to growing concerns that v

he again assailed major league baseball for moving its all-star game out of atlanta in protest to the law, a move he said was, quote, irritating one hell of a lot of republican fans. he also made a reference to delta airlines and coca-cola, both headquartered in atlanta, both which have opposed the law. >> republicans buy stock and fly on planes and drink coca-cola, too. so what i'm saying here is i think this is quite stupid to jump in the middle of a highly controversial issue particularly when they have their facts wrong. >> keeping them honest, mcconnell hasn't always felt that way. back in 2012 in a speech to the american enterprise institute, he said that all corporations, quote shore, be free to express themselves on the issues of the day. again, quoting i mean who is afraid here? let's all have a conversation he said about the future of the country. meanwhile, the former president has weighed in, as well, in a statement over the weekend he called for a boycott of delta and coke among others but in a phone interview with a conservative cable news network newsmax, he directed so

. >> and i think what happened in atlanta was perhaps on a more national ale, a catalyst, an explosion, because it combined something like a mass shooting with the concept of hate and that hyper sexualization of asian-american women. so, i think that's why many see it as a turning point. >> reporter: shocking as the images and stories are of the recent surge in asian hate crimes, it's not totally surprising to the people here in oakland's chinatown. california has the oldest and largest asian community, and as such, a long and tortured history of discrimination and harassment. >> knowing the yellow peril history that whenever a disease arrived from asia that asians would be met with violence and with racist policies, we knew we had to document the racism we're experiencing. >> reporter: russell jeung, professor of asian american studies at san francisco state university, started the stop asian american pacific islanders hate crimes online tracking system in march 2020, at the start of the covid crisis. >> the chinese virus... >> that's exactly when the same week president trump began t

atlanta's democratic mayor telling cnn she understands baseball's decision, but she worries about the economic backlash from the law. >> it is going to impact millions of georgians' employment, small businesses, our corporations. and it's very unfortunate. >> reporter: the league's move could be seen as a warning to other states considering changes to their voting laws, like texas. american airlines and dell already opposing proposed bills there. here in georgia, governor kemp digging in. >> i will not be backing down from this fight. >> reporter: and whit, cobb county travel and tourism officials tell me they estimate the economic loss from the all-star game's relocation could top more than $100 million. whit? >> elwyn lopez, thank you. >>> we move onto the murder trial of former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin, set to resume on monday after a week of gripping testimony. eyewitnesses reliving the moments leading up to the death of george floyd. so, what's next as the prosecution builds its case? abc's reena roy from minneapolis. >> reporter: tonight, jurors gearing up for an

his executive authority even before today's news, amid growing pressure after the mass shootings in atlanta and boulder. biden taking steps today to limit so-called ghost guns, kits that allow people to legally build guns at home that cannot be traced. >> anyone from a criminal to a terrorist can buy this kit. >> reporter: the president also putting restrictions on stabilizing braces that effectively turn pistols into short-barrel rifles, like the brace used in the boulder rampage that left ten dead. and he's directing the justice department to create a template that states can use to enact red flag laws, which allow authorities to remove firearms from people who are deemed a threat. but these actions are limited and some gun control advocates say the president should have taken bolder action even sooner, something he promised on the campaign trail. it is something he promised on day one. it is day 78. what's the holdup here? >> there's no holdup. it's just, legislation needs to be reintroduced. >> reporter: but the president promised to send his own plan. it's clear you're waiting to see h

i remember actually going to the presidential library, carter's library in atlanta and walking around like a mondale geek, i'm looking for joan's dress and those kinds of things from the inauguration. on the wall, i see these words that were actually the words that mondale uttered shortly after they lost, summarizing their four years. and he said, "we told the truth. we obeyed the law. we kept the peace." and that was a lot of my touchtone during the trump years. i had written that down in a piece of paper and put it in my purse. we told the truth, obeyed the law and kept the peace. jimmy carter and walter modale were men of integrity. they bonded on that. what was school having worked for mondale at the law firm afterwards and back on side of my races, including the presidential race, i got to see how the two of them kept talking through time. they would work on things together. carter came out from a funeral just a few years ago and he traveled to minnesota and spoke at her funeral. their friendship strengthened after they left office. >> michael beschloss, it was my privilege at my

this is an industrial site, not a commercial area like we got with the recent atlanta shootings or a place with a lot of consumers that we got with the boulder shooting. this is a place where you wouldn't really see the traffic that you see in those places. so one would expect this is a employee or former employee that triggered it. you know, three times in two weeks i'm here with these mass shootings. and each of them you can sort of parse the different motivations. so i would be curious what kind of gun was used in an age when we certainly know the ability to kill lots of people or harm lots of people quickly is made easier by the amount of guns that we have here uniquely in america. >> certainly. so let me ask you, chief, the texas department of public safety does say a dps trooper was shot while pursuing a suspect. and they had to pursue the suspect into a neighboring county. this was a pursuit. what does this tell you? >> erin, as a person who has responded to these kinds of situations, you are always thinking the worst, who, what, when, where, and why. and certainly what kind o

moving the all-star game out of atlanta. a move supported by president biden. joining me now for reaction along with fox news legal analyst jarrett is outnumber co-host and attorney emily -- thank you for joining us. emily, i'll start with you. you're a sports fan, and i see these companies succumbing to this rhetoric that's false information and then making corporate decisions that are, in the case of atlanta, going to harm the people of georgia by pulling out major league baseball and the all-star game out of atlanta. >> that's exactly right, jason. the people who end up paying for this are those that were employed by the event that they are pulling out. it's those communities that depended on the retail, on the support by crowds, et cetera. it's exactly what we saw when hollywood decided to boycott georgia and the irony is that there are states with far more drag -- drag conous election laws. they are laying out their social justice line. what about the 1.5 million corporations and entities that are headquartered in delaware that enjoy the law that is protec

fox five in atlanta the u.s. supreme court rules unanimously for georgia in its long running dispute with florida over water. the court rejected florida's claim georgia uses too much of the water that flows from the atlanta suburbs to the gulf of mexico. justice amy coney barrett wrote for the court saying florida failed to prove its case. fox news 2 in san francisco is one embattled school board member is suing her colleagues for tens of millions of dollars in damages. alison collins says she is the target of a smear campaign to label her a racist. many civic leaders have called on collins to resign over tweets before she was elected suggesting asian-american students and parent benefit from white supremacy and stereotype of being a model minority. she says her words were taken out of context. and this is a live look at new york from our affiliate fox 5, one of the big stories there tonight, legendary singer, song writer paul simon sells his entire song catalog to sony music plusing. financial terms not disclose

. >> major league baseball pulls the all star game out of atlanta. organizations condemning georgia's new voting restrictions. >> there is something that's more than money. this is about protecting the voices of our people. >> it means can sell culture and partisan activists are coming for fight over voter rights. joining me for analysis areia mitch yamich cindor. >> joining me from washington, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >> good sunday morning and happy easter and a happy passover. you know, the backdrop of the current political fights on covid, the economy, immigration and voting violates a -- voting rights. very the attack on capitol shook the slow return to normalcy. the cdc supports travel but cases are rising up in 31 states over the past two weeks. america's past-time, restricted georgia's law, announcing it was moving the all star draft out of atlanta and all week in minneapolis, the nation watched eyewitnesses forced to relive the violence over the final minutes of george floyd's life. it's perhaps because of this uncertain bac

or new york to atlanta. a trip in the united states, it would take about 20 hours by train. and where there is good, fast transportation and communication, there's commerce, and where there is commerce, there are jobs. at some point in the not so distant future, if america doesn't pick up on this, we're going to be left behind on the global stage, if we don't step up and invest. joining me now, nicholas kristoff, pulitzer winning columnist for "the new york times," joining us from his family farm in yam hill, oregon, which is poetic for this discussion, because yam hill oregon, is a place during the new deal, during franklin delano roosevelt was electrified and like a lot of rural america was and thankfully you can talk to us because of that. >> and if i freeze, that's because an owl jumped in front of the dish we have here and it will underscore the importance of improving broadband around the country. but that's right -- >> and broadband, your point is broadband is in fact the new electricity. that's one of the things we got to be thinking about. >> exactly. exactly. and y

so you don't want to be saying, yeah, i gut the all-star game out of atlanta. i deprived you, the peanut vendor, of a day's worth of work, stuff like that. that makes sense for them to have done that. and in the long haul of history, it made sense for rob manford to delay, uh-uh, we're out of here. >> but, you know, nicole, brian kemp keeps repeating in all of his public statements, it seems, in all of his written statements, that woke radicals like stacey abrams moved the game out of atlanta. time and time again, from the beginning of this, stacey abrams has made it quite clear that she fought to keep the game in atlanta. and he knows that, and yet he continues to lie in his press releases about stacey abrams. he continues to lie in his public statements about stacey abrams. >> yeah, i mean, but this is not surprising. we know that these laws are based upon lies. these laws are based upon lies that the election was stolen, that there were illegitimate voters that led to the democrats to really sweep the state of georgia. so the least surprising thing is that n

the game had been scheduled for mid july just outside atlanta. the league it says it is looking for a new post city. a senior minneapolis police official testified today that derek chauvin no reason to kneel on george floyd's neck when he was already down and handcuffed. the lieutenant richard zimmerman heads the homicide division and said the former officer's actions were totally unnecessary. >> i saw no reason why the officers felt they were in danger. and that is what they would have to feel in order to use that kind of force. stephanie: that testimony closed out the first week of derek chauvin's trial in minneapolis. he is charged with murder and manslaughter. a texas sheriff has fired seven officers after a black man died in jail last month. marvin scott was arrested for marijuana possession. the guard said he was acting strangely so they tied him down and used pepper spray and a so-called spit hood on him. his family says scott had mental health problems. the suspect in a mass shooting rampage in southern california was charged today with f

the murder rate in atlanta is a 50%.nd new york city murder of 48%. after defunding efforts in milwaukee, homicides rose a whopping 97%. in seattle, after the lawless summer of love, you know, the chaz chop autonomous spaghetti pot luck zone, 61%. on sunday, multiple people were shot in the city central. our 2-year-old little girl is tonight in critical condition. no widespread national news coverage or outrage on this horrific shooting. the same can be sent to the cost of violence in the citylu of chicago. murders there are up a whopping 50% in the windy city and they were already high. raget your screen. i think we're the only shot ever ever scroll the names of victims for years on this program. obama, biden did nothing. they never lifted a finger to stop the violence in obama's home city, nothing. unfortunately for democrats, the media mob, e the only violence they seem to care about is that once that the examples they could use for political gain. they don't want to tell the whole story. for them, nothing else seems to matter. america is in crisis

you should pay attention, in the city of atlanta, my home town, murder is up 58%. new york city, 40%. even defunding efforts in milwaukee, guess what, homicides there went up a whopping 97%. in chicago, murders this year alone are up 33% over last year's record increase. we've been scrolling the names of murder victims, shooting victims in chicago for years. when biden was vice president, obama's hometown, when he was president, we scrolled names you never heard of before. we begged for action. they didn't lift a finger in obama's hometown. can anyone tonight, can you name the latest round of murder victims in chicago? there were 26 people shot this weekend, five dead. a 7 year old little girl was murdered in a mcdonald's drive through. is anybody paying attention? do you know her name tonight? those are important lives, too. what about the 103 policemen so far this year in this country that have died, most of them shot and killed in the line of duty. their lives matter, too. their families' lives matter. make no mistake. when police are vilified, when they are def

steve osunsami leading us off tonight with late news from the cdc in atlanta. >> reporter: a cdc advisory panel tonight says it needs more time and information to respond to the new concerns about the johnson & johnson vaccine. which means for now, americans should continue holding off using this brand of the covid vaccine. >> we do not have to arrive at a vote today or a recommendation today. if we need more time to think about this, we can reconvene later this week or this weekend >> reporter: a very small number of women who suffered blood clots after getting the shot caused health officials to put a hold on using the drug. health officials here worry that this potential adverse reaction looks a little too similar to what happened in europe with the astrazeneca vaccine. the astrazeneca vaccine is made using similar technology as the johnson & johnson, and in europe 19 people died. >> there are some rather strong similarities about this with regard to the time frame following vaccination. particularly importantly, the clinical syndrome of these clots together with low platelets. so ther

i mean, pick the city, buffalo, new york city, denver, portland, atlanta -- wherever, they look like. that they look like they're going to war. they have shields. they have big equipment. and they do that because they want to let people protesting know who is in charge. who holds the authority. who will bend the need to whom. that's the point. explicitly. it's a psychological performance. >> that's what we saw in the streets of minneapolis and brooklyn center, a show of force with curfews and tear gas. flashbacks. and now just take all of that footage we've seen. before last summer, during last summer, and since, and now. take all of that. and just look for a moment at the utter in version of what happened on the steps of the capital in january. there was hardly any police presence at all. i mean, there are officers there, right? i've covered multiple protests in washington. there tends to be a lot of cops around. particularly on the mall, on the capital. but on january six, there was relatively speaking, no one there. they don't have the big man huge fits of equipment brought in. the

as we mentioned, major league baseball moved their game out of atlanta. georgia companies have come out against it. what more can be done to pressure republicans there who seem to be pandering to the trump base to roll that law back? >> the job is not yet done. the federal government still has a role to play in this with hr-1. the georgians here, we understand why something named the john lewis voting rights act is important, because we have these memories etched in our brains about his sacrifices to vote. but we're not here just to speak. we need action from our federal government. we've heard the department of justice is interested in what is happening here, and we need for local election boards to pay attention to what the state election boards are doing. senate bill 202 allows for the state to take over local election boards and replace them with one individual. this is a call for action in georgia, and we're going to keep knocking. >> you're absolutely right to single that out. that is the one that keeps me up at night. imagine if they had been able