this "n" word voted for joe biden. the people that were with them joined in and said this "n" word, fu, fu, voted for joe biden. boo. >> whoouk it means about the state of america, where we are today? how do you -- you've had a little bit of time now to process it. >>. >> we have a long way to go. we have a long way to go. >> in this hour, a long way to go. we got a long way to go. >> so in this hour we identified two key individuals the officer was just describing, describing what it was like from the police perspective. and then also look at a few key moments, there were certain critical turning point moments at the beginning when the rider peeled back the fence and they weren't stopped and able to approach the western steps. the scaffolding turned out to be a major factor. going through thousands of hours of tv footage and rioters on the cell phones videos and taking selfies, we were able to identify digital moments. so that's what we're putting together this sunday. >> amazing. nbc's richard engel, thank you very m

so again, a recurring theme we're starting to see here. >> and a lot of people thought that joe biden would be focused on domestic issues, dealing with the pandemic, the economic free fall, but foreign policy seems to be the top item on the president's agenda, certainly this week. not only with today's meeting, but the withdrawal of u.s. troops from afghanistan. you had the sanctions against russia. here are some of what the president had to say about his call with vladimir putin on tuesday. watch. >> i was clear with president president putin that we could have gone further, but i chose not to do so. i chose to be proportionate. the united states is not looking to kick off a cycle of escalation and conflict with russia. >> give us the big picture here. what are we learning about the overarching foreign policy view of this administration? >> yeah, i would add to your list that we had the start of talks with the iranians in direct talks last weekend that resumed this week. so it has been a very busy and symbolic period in foreign policy for the administration. it's also really driving

i'm joe biden, i like the middle class. that was emblematic of democrats wanting sound, particularly too white working class voters that they're the party of the middle class. they're not helping some undeserving poor welfare queen fantasy that the reaganites concocted. and that has shifted to. i spoke to for my piece in "the atlantic,," reverend william barber. and they said, they are talking about poverty, using the word poverty, installing these benefits for low-income parents and various others ways, and that's one example in which -- i think the terms of the debate have shifted. i don't think there's that much daylight necessarily between ramesh and my's diagnosis of how far this guy has gone. that's not what i'm saying. i am talking about -- even on this show, that argument that joe and i might have had about capitalism and government six years ago is different than the one we have today, because i think reality has changed. i think there's a growing recognition that the american dream is fantastic, but it's a shame t

one, holding firm on the administration's commitment, and here's president joe biden just a few hours ago. >> starting today, if you're fully vaccinated and you're outdoors, you need -- and not in a big crowd -- you no longer need to wear a mask. the cdc is ability to make this announcement because our scientists are convinced by the data that the odds of getting or giving the virus to others is very, very low if you both have been fully vaccinated, and out in the open air. so go get the shot. it's never been easier. once you're fully vaccinated, you can go without a mask when you're outside and away from big crowds. >>> the bad news is that the biden administration is now rowing against a two-headed monster on the disinformation and polarization front. it's important to stop right here and tell you that, back when donald trump told people to inject bleach, there were people who took that to heart, who listened to him. in a story just this week out of brayden ton, florida, and man and his three sons were indicted by a federal grand jury for selling a bleach formula they claimed was a

joe biden democrats are going to have a lot to say about how they helped accelerate that. and republicans for the most part didn't cooperate with that, even though a healthy share of their voters support things like the infrastructure package. so yeah, the sort of politics of grievance and culture war and not cooperating, the hypocrisy that claire talked about putting them in a challenging place. this is a closely divided political country, so we still have a lot of close elections but right now, you see joe biden answering the mail of americans every day. they want focused on vaccinations, opening up schools, opening up the economy which is what he's doing. republicans nowhere to be found because they're under the throne of donald trump. it is more of a cult than a political party and if anything, that's intensified since his loss. >> i do wonder though, claire, with this infrastructure bill, obviously, there are legitimate questions that can be asked there, legitimate discussions that can be had about the price tag and how this money should be spent and where it should g

he has invented a way to make joe biden no longer the president. to reinstate donald trump as president of the united states.e we are today at 100 days into od the joe biden presidency, president was in georgia today to celebrate the accomplishments of his first 100 days, including the historic big legislation he was already able to pass, thanks to georgia voters picking two democratic senators to send to c washington to work alongside president biden to give him the majorities he needed in both the house and senate, to get the big covid relief act done and to d hopefully in the administration's eyes, to get the infrastructure bill, the voting rights bill, the policing reform bill, the american families plan, and all these other things they want to get p passed. tonight, we're going to be talking history in terms of just how ambitious biden's agenda is, as laid out in the state of the union and as we have seen over the first 100 days. when you compare that with other modern presidents, when you look at the markers from other modern presidents about

while joe biden hits his 100-day stride. while we top well over 200 vaccine shots delivered in 100 days, with the covid bill passed, with the infrastructure bill on its way, with voting rights reform, with policing reform, with the american families plan on its way, we're supposed to be a country that has two parties, two major parties competing with competing governing visions for the nation. with what the biden administration and the democrats are doing here at 100 days, do not sleep on what is happening on the republican side right now. because one of these two parties is not like the other. as absurd as it is, it is the center of what they're trying to do in american politics right now. mark my words. susan rice joins us live next. stay with us. clothes rub against you all day. for softer clothes that are gentle on your skin, try downy free & gentle. just pour into the rinse dispenser and downy will soften your clothes without dyes or perfumes. the towel washed with downy is softer, fluffier, and gentler on your skin. tr

you know joe biden. is this the same joe biden that you knew back in the obama administration? >> yeah, absolutely, alex. i mean, i think the decision that he made recently on afghanistan, again, echoed a lot of what i heard sitting in meetings in the situation room in late 2009 around that issue. i think in many ways he's very much the same person that i knew back then. i will say i think that if you look at some of what is happening around infrastructure and climate change, i think it's also a president that realizes that a lot of these problems have lingered far too long, and they're not going to get better if we keep kicking the can down the road. and i think you've seen really bold infrastructure plans, big plans around cutting emissions that contribute to climate change because he understands, quite frankly, we don't have four or six or eight years to waste on this topic. so, i think both he's steady in what he's believed, and i think as the vice president said, he's using that experience, but i also think he understands the moment in time that he sits in that oval office

we should say the reason joe biden is doing this is because joe biden has just astonishingly good approval numbers right now. i have no idea the last -- i'm surprised how high they are not only on the covid response but general job approval and this -- all of these proposals are popular even taxish corporations on the wealthy to pay for infrastructure it's popular among republican voters and trump voters. in a moment of crisis at the beginning of his presidency, joe biden is making clear he's willing to go for broke because he believes this is popular and has a window to do this. where it will break down as peter eluded to is among his own party if he's trying to use a narrow process to get through a party line vote, i think that talking point for republicans later this year and as we get into an election year next year, look, joe biden never included us in any of these negotiations, he's just ran through and incredibly ambitious agenda items without taking proposals or seeking votes that's more powerful than this paying for all of this needed infrastructure with tax hikes is a non-starter

biden and his family. the times notes, quote, at issue is a key question. did giuliani go after yovanovitch solely on behalf of trup p, who was his client at the time or was he also working on behalf of the ukrainian officials. >> fbi warned giuliani in 2014 he was a target of a matter of circulating disinformation about biden. the warning was part of an extensive effort and conservative outlet that they faced a risk to use further russia's attempt. last summer, the fbi also gave what's known as a defensive briefing to the republican senator. johnson confirmed the bureau warned him he was a target of information but disagreed with reporting on the nature of the briefing. okay. >> and on fox news last night, giuliani attempted to discredit. the federal investigation surrounding him. >> what have they said to you about what they are looking into? >> they haven't said anything. they haven't said what they are looking into for two years. no, just come in and talk to us. tell us about your whole life. that's ri

we talked a little at the top about what candidate joe biden wanted to do and really he has made some promises before the coronavirus pandemic became as large as it was about what he thought he was going to do on day one of his presidency, if elected. take a look at what the promise was on the company trail last year. >> my first day of office, i will send a bill over to congress repealing the liability protection for gun manufacturers, closing the background check loopholes and waiting period. >> reporter: so that's not something that the president was able to do. again, he said he wanted to focus his first few months in office on covid relief and getting that across the finish line, but now we are getting closer to his first 100 days as president, he wanted to do more common sense gun control actions and has to take these unilateral steps, because there doesn't seem to be a lot of hope on the hill. the president was asked in his news conference and he said it's about timing and priority. for him right now, that appears to be the infrastructure plan. >> monica, thank you. >>> our nex

biden who ran on the concept of childcare as infrastructure. the care economy as a thing. it's a great opportunity. but now he needs to make it happen. and by putting it in the second plan, i'm afraid there's a suggestion that the things in the first plan are, quote, about jobs. and the things in the second plan are, quote, about family. the white house's own terminology. i would like to see childcare be in the first plan. i'm eager to see it come out and when it does we need to make sure it is not a second class policy position in is a top priority just like infrastructure. period, full stop, we have to make the investment. women are participaing in the workforce at the lowest level since 1988 since i was in eighth grade. that will hold back our economic recovery. if you care about our economy, if you're a ceo. someone that never has kids and never wants them, and i would not blame you at this point in the pandemic, you still need to speak up to support childcare investment. >> i didn't listen to your last answer because i was just thinking ab

and as vice president joe biden led the obama/biden administration's efforts to reduce gun violence. we were just reminiscing that he and i talked back then about his work because i was attorney general back then in california. his work worked from expanding the loophole to other things. president biden has great determination and greater empathy. he has seen the grief of all of those who have lost a loved one to gun violence. it is for them, for all of us that he will never, ever give up on this fight. it is now my great honor to introduce the president of the united states, joe biden. >> thank you kamala, madam vice president. we are joined today by eric garland, attorney general, who i have asked to prioritize gun violence. it's good to see the second gentleman is here and the first lady dr. jill biden who cares about this issue deeply as well. i look out there and see so many members of congress who have led in this fight, so many of you who have never given up, so many of you who are determined to get this done. we have a long way to go. it seems like we always have a long way t

then they were mad about joe biden's big meat ban, even though joe biden is not banning meat. that was totally made up. one fox news anchor, to his credit, yesterday did run an on-air correction positively -- apologizing for the fox newschannel saying biden would ban meat when that's not in the proposal at all. there was one reporter apologizing in front of america for hyping that story. for the last few days, republicans have been all over that. they've also been hyping a totally different, also totally false story that all kids detained by immigration authorities at the u.s. border were being given a child's picture book written by vice president kamala harris. the implication was they were giving the book to migrant kids at the border. that is totally made up. it is not happening. it is literally a story made up out of whole cloth. never proposed. but that's the latest one. it's become yet another new, animating, totally fake grievance in conservative media and among republican politicians. the byline was on the fake kamala harris story. that reporter resigned tonight sayin

what do you know given joe biden's long career on capitol hill, how well he knows how everything works and his association with capitol police, what kinds of conversations have there been about moving forward, about what they're going to do in terms of not just security at the capitol but what might happen in terms of the capitol police, the staff there, the morale there? >> president biden having four decades of service as a lawmaker in this country and now, obvious, as president of the united states, is very, very familiar with the role of capitol police. he was a senator for a long, long time and also someone who has a long history, a long experience with tragedy so we are awaiting what i'm told will be a statement shortly from the president who is still at camp david and will talk about not just how to keep the country safe but the idea that this is a country the mourning. it is 86 days since the capitol was breached by that mob and the nation hasn't been the same since. everyone is on edge including the u.s. capitol police and expect the president to talk about security and traged

that's what joe biden said he was going to do to more than 62,000. and now he's saying that's not going to be possible in the short term. we got a sense from the national security adviser, jake sullivan, who was on the sunday shows this morning really trying to defend the administration's bungled rollout of this policy by trying to push back on the criticism that this was a reversal. take a listen. >> the president wanted to go with this in two steps. the first step was to change the allocation so people in africa could literally get on planes this week. and the second would be to raise the cap as we were fixing the system in its processing. he took the first step this past week. he will take the second step in the weeks ahead. and i think there was some misunderstanding on friday about the import of his decision friday morning, which was focused on the allocation, not on the cap. >> so the white house is arguing because the process is ongoing, there is still time essentially for the president to make this right, but a lot of democrats and groups hav

would there ever be real trust between joe biden and vladimir putin? and when it comes to holding vladimir putin accountable if navalny dies, it would seem that accountable has eluded vladimir putin in the past. is there anything that conceivably could be done to vladimir putin to hold him accountable in the world's eyes if alexei navalny dies? >> it's hard to see what that would be, that at least the united states would be willing to do. america, under presidents obama and trump, have from time to time imposed sanctions or expelled diplomats but have held back from pulling the trigger on truly punitive economic actions that would genuinely get his attention. they have not done things to expose his sources of his own personal wealth, something people talked about doing but not really followed up on. there's a lot of things america has not done in the interests of not escalating, as president biden put it. the question is how far can you go to get his attention without escalating it into a conflict you don't want. can you find ways to work with russia?

this is president joe biden, dr. jill biden leaving the residence of carters after visiting them in georgia earlier this afternoon. this was just captured moments ago and see there mrs. carter on the front porch walking them out. from here, the bidens will travel to a drive-in car rally to commemorate the 100th day in office. former vice president mike pence seen here in the capitol riot is stepping back into the political arena. he'll be speaking tonight to a crowd of evangelical voters at a gala in south carolina. his first public remarks since leaving office. pence is expected to take aim at president biden's first 100 days in office, contrasting them with former president trump's first 100 days and argue that the way forward for the republican party is to unite around an agenda rooted in conservative principles. the justice department releasing new body camera footage from the january 6 insurrection showing the moment when rioters spray an unknown chemical substance at brian sicknick and other officers. he later

. >> i really feel that joe biden had the temperament to help heal our country. >> how do you feel about him now? >> i think he is trying very, very hard to unite the country. >> is there anything of the last 100 days of president biden that you have discomfort with? >> the situation at the border. he he just hasn't come up with the right solution to the problem yet. >> her view of the president, high marks on unity, hesitation on immigration, reflects how many americans feel 100 days in. our new nbc news polling shows seven in ten voters approve of how president biden is handling the pandemic and more than half say he is doing well on the economy and uniting the country. but only about three in ten voters approve of his work on immigration, with a record number of unaccompanied migrant children crossing the border, an issue relevant in arizona, a state that flipped blue in 2020, partly because of voters in maricopa county. >> i was probably build the wall guy. that's obviously not been the answer. has it? >> larry lives there and had never voted for a democrat for president until novemb

so there's so many things that joe biden, his administration wants to get done, and they don't -- joe biden really does want to do things in a bipartisan manner. people have a hard time believe it, but what we're seeing with the infrastructure bill, they're having meetings. what i've been told in those meeks, the meme there are more serious and they're not having these screaming fights. they are having these conversation but the cameras aren't there, right? so because of what then president trump has done with the republican party, making it about politics of contempt, when you get in front of the cameras, these same people act different live. that's something hard to counter act when you have to get legislation done. >> or when you get off camera, it's hard to walk back and say i didn't mean any of that. eugene daniels is sticking around. errin, thank you. and david jolley, congratulations on your wonderful news. it fills our hearts with joy. is anybody sleeping? >> no, no, but you used the word jody. a few times in life you get to experience joy. we nope happiness and excitement, bu

we started wednesday morning with the president of the united states joe biden giving a tribute to this organization national action network as he spoke to us on his policy, but this is what he said about the national action network. >> this organization has always been an essential voice, but never more essential than it is today. upholding and advancing the security and prosperity of health and well-being, dignity and possibilities of all black americans. >> we also heard from the majority leader of the u.s. senate, chuck schumer and the speaker of the united states house of representatives nancy pelosi, but then we heard from the mothers of the move am, the mother of trayvon martin and the mother of michael brown from ferguson, missouri, the mother of stephon clark from sacramento, california, and the mother of eric gardner in new york city, citien island, as we talked about the policing act and attorney ben crump led that panel. we had faith leaders. we had business leaders and some of the top business leaders in black america and youth activists who on their own, many of them, have

and things that joe biden said during the campaign that he would undo and redo, and and he is doing a whole bunch of them all at once this week. so yesterday for example, we get president biden announcing the and to the longest war, the american military has ever fought, for nearly two decade in afghanistan the war will end. all u.s. troops will be brought home before september 11th of this year. interesting ali, that today, the day after that announcement about ending the war, president biden sent his secretary of state, anthony blinken, on a surprise trip to afghanistan to go meet with the afghan president. basically to show that even though u.s. troops are leaving afghanistan, but he was government is still committed to supporting the afghan government, and supporting the nation of afghanistan and other enduring ways. so, the tight scheduling -- biden announces the pull out of all u.s. troops from afghanistan yesterday, on wednesday, on thursday anthony blinken is in afghanistan talking about the enduring commitment from the u.s. government to the nation of afghanistan, which nobod

if prime minister joe manchin has his way it's definitely on the menu. prince of appalachia unequivocal about his opposition to changing the filibuster and made it clear he was done with budget reconciliation as a workaround for democratic legislation. senator manchin wrote that the filibuster is a critical tool and no circumstance i will vote it eliminate or weaken the filibuster. former member of alec, shadowing organization, told cnn the january 6th insurrection solidified his opposition. >> something told me, wait a minute. pause. hit the pause button. something's wrong. you can't have this many people where they want to go to war with each other. >> seeing a hoard of trump fanatics lay siege to your capitol made the people want to work more to those in the senate? huh. remind you manchin tried this act before the in 2013. he and republican pat toomey tried to pass a watered-down gun bill. fell six votes short of 60. trying again. this time with a republican party controlled by, as former speaker of the house john boehner put it, a bunch of whack job

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>> we heard, you know, something that, frankly, joe biden is really good at, right? joe biden is someone who we talk about this all the time, because it's so important to understanding how he and his white house administration approach issues of grief and death in the way they think about this country. so you heard him consulting this family. this is a family that he has talked to and had a relationship with for months. one of the very first trips that he took as a candidate during the election after covid, after they started traveling a little bit was to meet with that family. he also shot a video for george floyd's funeral. so what he and kamala harris promised the family was some kind of action, right? there is literally a bill that has passed the house in the name of george floyd, as you said, the george floyd justice in policing act. they promise that they are going to do more. and, you know, that is something that, for this white house, while they were in transition, while they were on campaign, racial equity and issues of racial justice were one of the top fou

joe biden is aware of that. and he knows. he will make whatever relational deal he needs to make on the back end with whomever he wants to make it with, whomever is willing to ache make it with him. he's moving forward. despite the obstacles, the president has led and has stood firm in his leadership and i think that's reflected in all of these polls you see, whether they like the man personally or believe he's uncle joe or whatever, they're buying what he's offering the country right now. for republicans, it's hard for them to come pack and say, you really don't want that. what? you don't want infrastructure, covid shots? you don't want to open up your communities again? tell me what it is you don't want. and i don't know how you make that an easy-winning narrative with americans when they're liking what they're hearing from joe. >> the wide shot, of course, that we're seeing is underlying the -- undergirding the strangeness of what it means to have this big chamber with all the social distancing and covid protocols with so

stood out to me, percentage of republicans say they disapprove of joe biden's presidency so far. a lot higher than the percentage of democrat whose said it for president donald trump and republican whose said it about former president obama. that tells you a lot where our country is at this particular moment. and the challenge that president joe biden faces in the next 100 days of his presidency where arguably he'll have to face some of these other challenges on issues like immigration, on guns, i'm sure we'll get to in a minute. >> a very united country for sure. ununited country. michael, from a historical perspective, give me a sense how important the first 100 days are as a measure and how does president biden stack up in your mind? >> well, it's not a bad measure, alex. i thought francesca said it well. you know, the thing is that this all comes from early 1933 as you know when franklin roosevelt came in and did a lot of things like, you know, saving the banks and getting people relief and doing things to relieve the suffering of the great depression, and about 100 days in,

he occasionally unofficially advises president joe biden. and award winning historian professor and writer kiesha enblain, associate professor of history at the university of pittsburgh. but let's go now to the murder trial of derek chauvin. the former officer decided against taking the stand yesterday. he invoked his 5th amendment right passing up his final chance to give his side to the story to the jury. >> have you made a decision today whether you intend to testify or whether you intend to invoke your 5th amendment privilege? >> i will invoke my 5th amendment privilege today. >> with that decision, the defense rested its case. let's bring in professor of law at georgetown university paul butler, an msnbc legal analyst and former u.s. attorney now an nbc news law enforcement analyst, chuck rosenberg is with us this morning. good to have you both. >> gentlemen, thank you for being with us. paul butler, was it just too much of a risk for the defense to put the defendant on the stand? i mean -- and were you expecting this? was this a surpri

she's president joe biden's nominee to lead the justice department civil rights division. since january, right-wing voices have sought to cast clark as a left-wing radical. even yesterday at her confirmation hearing she was accused of being anti-semitic and a champion of cop killers, that's despite support from the jewish council and current police chiefs. "the new york times" editorial board lays it out like this. the real reason some conservatives want to take down ms. clark is that she's been an effective champion of voting rights for black, brown, and poor people. that's why she was nominated and that's why people like tucker carlson are grasping at straws to tank her nomination with lies. joining our conversation is mara gaye, katie benner is still here. mara, the right wing has taken this weird step in doing what i think ashley parker first coined, the quiet parts out loud. they're now smearing and trying to scandalize an incredibly competent and impressive nominee as an extense of their effort to sort of not have any obstacles in their campaign to suppress voting ri

they didn't work with barack obama and they're not going to work with joe biden. they want to keep the taxes that were taken off of the rich by donald trump in the tax scam and that's the best way to fund this package so they won't go along with it. so it will be budget reconciliation. the democrats will do what we did with the rescue bill which the american public embraced. they know we need infrastructure and need to catch up and get 21st century infrastructure. at secretary buttigieg said, it's not just roads and bridges, it's so much more and we need to invest in things like senior living and care and we need to invest in broadband and we need to see that this is a 21st century program. so i think we couldn't even get together all of us on honoring our capitol policemen with the gold medal that protected us on january 6th. it was so sad that we saw the death of a capitol policeman, who is one that i knew because that was my entry to the capitol from my condo. it's so sad that he was killed and lost in that action. i put out my deepest condolences to his family

joe biden often talks about having long relationships with other leaders. prime minister suga is new to the office. had been in japanese government for a long time. today, you will see in this covid era a lot of time spent on trying to elevate the relationship between the u.s. and japan. that's important because they need a counterweight to china as well as north korea. there will be issues like talking about covid. also, the olympics and how will japan be able to carry out that difficult mission of hosting the world athletes without much of the world, since there won't be foreign visitors there and a lot of other issues that go along the business relationship, 5g technology and that kind of thing. we will see this visit with the prime minister and the vice president. there will be behind the scenes meetings at length today between the japanese delegation and u.s. officials. then we will have the president and prime minister together and something that will look more like administrations of days gone by where there will be a news conference and statements m

that coalition is the coalition frankly that elected joe biden and that coalition extends even beyond that to republicans, to others who really see that this is completely out of control, no other civilized nation would allow this to go on and an overreach by government in the cases of so many police killings. i actually think there's a whole lot of reason for hope and another thing that struck me this past week is listening to george floyd's brothers, he has a lot of brothers. which i didn't realize. but they were so powerful the other day speaking after the verdict and when they talked about their faith it really felt like i was kind of in church in a black church specifically and it was a great reminder of the power of hope and the power of i think the black community which has for generations, right, had to hope in the face of hopelessness and it was such a refreshing thing to see the word of god and the name of god invoked not to talk about stripping people's rights away, whether that's transgender americans or women, but in fact, talking about justice. as an american, as a chris

. >>> this week joe biden is looking to get his big push for his infrastructure bill passed, and we're looking at what industries could benefit from it. so let's start with what is traditionally considered infrastructure, transportation, roads, bridges. biden is asking for a once-in-a-generation spending to fix how we move, with a $621 billion price tag that includes $150 billion to repair roads, bridges, tunnels and, you know, potholes. that is a very big deal because one in five miles of road are in bad shape across the nation and more than 45,000 bridges too. so who's going to take care of this? think about the big companies, one would be caterpillar. it makes construction and mining equipment, which will be needed to do all of that work. same goes for john deere, which makes heavy machinery that can be used for rebuilding. keep in mind industrial stocks have outperformed the s&p over the last three months and the bill hasn't even passed yet. what does that tell you? that the market thinks it will get through. the biden team is meeting with a group of bipartisan lawmakers today to t

necessity made clear they want to stop the certification of the election ever joe biden. there was one meme i think you can put up on the screen, a cartoon with two big red buttons giving members of congress a choice, certify trump or get lynched by patriots. there was discussion of creating a stampede to overwhelm capitol police. there was even talk of erecting a gallows -- in fact, a mock gallows was put up on the right side of the capitol. so it's possible none these anonymous users ended up going to the capitol and that's why we're not seeing the evidence in court but that does not explain why the fbi said they had no credible intelligence beforehand. lawmakers want answers and the inspector general is actually investigating how the fbi handled all of this and that may be one avenue we get answers to the questions you asked at the top. >> we'd like answers too. ken and pete, thank you both so much. >>> still ahead -- we're following breaking news in minneapolis. the jury is deliberating ntz derek chauvin murder trial as we speak. do not go anywhere. >>> plus, another

and so, it's important and joe biden campaigned on a pledge to appoint a diverse bunch of nominees, and he delivered in this first bunch, and they're not just diverse in their racial make-up and ethnic make-up. they're also diverse in their backgrounds. i mean, the classic, easy way to get a federal judgeship is by being a prosecutor or a corporate lawyer. and if you look at the federal bench, there are very few people who came up as public defenders representing indigent defenders, and several of these nominees did just that. i think more than several, including ketanji brown jackson who's nominated for the u.s. court of appeals for the district of columbia and is sort of a hot ticket as a potential supreme court nominee, among other things, she was on president obama's short list in 2016 and president biden, again, has promised that should he get a supreme court nomination, he will appoint a black woman. so, of course, everybody looks to the black women who are appointed to the lower courts. >> she would be filling merrick garland's seat there. this election in part is motivated by a

. >>> as we mark the 100th day of joe biden's presidency, we visit one city that proved key to the president's success in november, milwaukee, wisconsin. voters there helped flip that state blue and push president biden over the finish line by a little more than 20,000 votes. we caught up with black voters who were key to biden's win in the straight. it's great to see you. you talked to four voters. interestingly, none gave the president above a b grade for his first 100 days. why not? what's going on? >> reporter: good morning. i spoke to four voters. we got three bs, b mine you b -- b minus and c. it fits with the black national rating. they there are many areas where they want specific action, not just talk, not just feel good stuff but something at black voters, similar to the anti-asian covid bill. they want direct action. let's listen. >> i want a bill that speaks to racism and discrimination and white supremacy and policing. i want that to trickle down. we have a broken system. giving word or voice that is heartfelt isn't enough when we are dying and being killed. >> reporter: that's th

. ♪♪ ♪♪ >>> president joe biden is renewing calls for gun reform following the mass shooting at a fedex facility in indianapolis that left eight people dead. nbc's monica alba is joining us from wilmington, delaware. how is the president responding to this latest mass shooting? >> well, he's defending his position quite intensely, alex, saying there's only so much i can do, urging congress to act. he wants lawmakers to consider these bills on gun safety that have passed the house, but are currently stalled in the senate, and he also outlined some of the executive action that he took just a couple of weeks ago saying he has tasked his department of justice and his attorney general with trying to do more and they're currently in the midst of reviewing these rules and regulations on ghost guns, for example, but you really heard the president here quite impassioned and quite outraged at what we've seen from the string of latest mass shootings in the country when he did speak in the rose garden yesterday. take a listen. >> immediately upon us becoming an office having an attorney general i a

: president biden says he's open to bipartisanship. he wants to hear ideas from republican lawmakers about how to pay for this giant infrastructure bill. so far transportation secretary pete buttigieg says he hasn't seen anything that will actually work or will be productive from the gop side. they're willing to hear ideas. that's what's going to take place tomorrow at the white house in that meeting. one area of likely compromise is the corporate tax rate. we know the biden white house wanted to raise it from 21% to 28%, but now they've signaled a willingness to come down to about 25%. that's likely an idea where you'll see democrats and republicans find some common ground. you managed drk senator joe manchin, of course, that moderate who really holds a lot of sway in terms of how this process could play out. he wrote in an opinion ed just a couple days ago that he doesn't think they should use reconciliation which wouldn't require republican votes. he staunchly came out against eliminating the filibuster which is that 60-vote thresho

. >> the $2 trillion price tag on president biden's infrastructure proposal has many from across the aisle pushing back, but it's not just republicans. democratic senator joe manchin remaining defiant as the president opens the door literally to bipartisan negotiations tomorrow. he's hosting a group of democratic and republican lawmakers to work on the package. his administration is sort of pitching it as a massive jobs creator. nbc's monica alba is at the white house for us. monica, good morning. what do they hope to actually accomplish in tomorrow's meeting? they've had these sort of bipartisan meetings before. nothing came of it. >> reporter: that's right. they are starting face to face negotiations in earn he felt. this is different from the covid relief bill in several ways. the biden white house is a bit more open, it seems, to hearing from gop lawmakers in terms of their ideas for how to pay for this giant $2.2 trillion infrastructure bill. that's different from the american rescue plan because, remember, the president said at the outset of that, he was going to get that passe

joe biden is listening to his base. he's listening not just to his bait, but to what the majority of americans want. we know the majority of americans are supportive of this bill, that we understand, infrastructure is also human beings. you need child care workers, you need those workers who are taking care of the people who will be building the infrastructure and watching the children of those who are building the infrastructure. so it's a comprehensive bill that i think represents the best of america and what american government can do for its citizens. >> and mike barnacle, doesn't it also address something that has been important to this president, but that has been a problem now for years, which is income disparity. and getting people to work and paying them. >> you know, mika, this discussion we're having right now is an important one and one that's going on from coast to coast, no doubt about that, about income disparity and about the needs of ordinary people and ordinary people who have been really battered duri

i also expect him to be pretty aggressive in terms of responding what joe biden's infrastructure plan is going to be, the cost is too expensive, that raising american taxes is not the answer right now. and i think we will hear a lot of the themes that we already started to hear from republicans as they started to attack the infrastructure bill, az they try to find a pathway forward, for potentially some bipartisan bill. we'll see how effective it is. to your point, i think the response will be very fraught, and almost a do no harm position, because many oftentimes, it doesn't work out necessarily as the person giving them expects. >> indeed that is the case. i guess we will see how it goes on wednesday. punch bowl news anna palmer, thanks for being up with us. we appreciate it. >>> let's turn now to the coronavirus pandemic. and those questions of whether those who are vaccinated still need to wear masks outdoors. yesterday, dr. anthony fauci said he expects the cdc will soon update the guidelines on that. >> very soon, imminently in the next few day, very likely, the cdc will be comi

so i actually put that in joe biden's hands. in terms of police reform, that is something that i would really hope could happen. and this is an area where we actually have seen in the past some bipartisan work done, right? even donald trump was able to work on criminal justice reform. obviously, this is something that tim scott, the south carolina senator, is passionate about and has talked about in the past. so that -- i see some cause for hope here, without being too naive or quixotic. >> all right -- >> jonathan lemire, on the question of bipartisanship, it's something that president biden has actually been striving for, hasn't achieved it, obviously. he's brought in those republican senators, first on the covid relief plan and then on this infrastructure plan. no votes yet. is hope dwindling that there actually might be a breakout of bipartisanship under president biden? >> well, willie, i think we saw some small signs of progress yesterday on a few different issues. certainly this, josh hawley aside, on this covid hate crim

biden cannot do it, either. >> at least joe biden is being proactive on the issue, and we need to get to the source. why are so many immigrants coming here? >> these are desperate, desperate people, and we've got to be humane about it. >> but that is exactly why we need reform. first of all, we have to make it to where it doesn't take eight years or ten years to get a green card, for goodness' sakes. >> and you're conservative. >> i'm very conservative. but we should let people in. that's what america is. america is a better place for anybody that wants to better their life. >> reporter: so interesting, they all agreed on that, and for the republicans, they looked at it as an opportunity to improve business. so for them, they're looking at that. as you know, chuck, though, the devil is in the details, it's always been in the details. president after president after president has failed, but if there was one other telling remark by karen, our conservative republican, she said, you know what? whether the wall gets done or not, which isn't something i think a year or two ago you would ha

to help joe biden pursue his agenda. this is no doubt in part a thank you to the voters of georgia who helped to do all of that. we know that the president is first going to stop in plains, georgia, and meet with former president and fellow democrat jimmy carter and his wife rose lin carter. the president will head to gwinnett county, one of those diversifying suburbs of atlanta that was really crucial to the president's win here in the state. it was formerly a republican stronghold, but over the past decade as that area has grown and diversified, has begun to trend blue. we expect that the president is, of course, going to talk about what he considers his biggest achievements in the past 100 days, likely to mention the $1.9 trillion covid relief bill, but this visit comes on the heels of the new proposals that you all have been talking about -- expanding educational access opportunities, the possibility of greater job creation, and, you know, he laid that out in his address last night, but i've got to tell you, most of

you have become the biographer of the speaker of the house, talk about her role in helping joe biden with an agenda that is beyond ambitious. >> nancy pelosi, actually entered her last week and we talked about her relationship with joe biden. she has worked with and against is series of presidents, but i think she's closer to joe biden to any of his predecessors. she says that his long experience mean that they could speak and shorthand and she described him as a transformational president, and i think that is what we have seen so far in his first 94 days. i think that's what we are likely to hear him on the speech -- his first speech to congress next wednesday. you look at what he has proposed in the past two days on climate change, an incredibly ambitious, a breath taking ambition in terms of cutting emissions in the united states, and obviously bending like we haven't seen in an effort to really change some of the fundamentals about the u.s. economy. >> doctor patel, you've guess this question was coming to you, jonathan noted the biden administration debating whether july 4th wou

so tonight will be a critical and very important moment in joe biden's presidency. and it will be important for couple of reasons obviously because of the details of what he's going to propose but because he believes, truly believes that this is the way to change the country. these are people he knows. these are people he grew up with. this is what he wants to do. he's committed to doing it to getting it done and it will change the country. >> to me fascinating speech to watch tonight. fascinating proposal to follow. and to see exactly what is possible, what is politics is the art of the possible. what can he pass not just through the house but what can he get joe manchin and kyrsten sinema to support as well when you start adding up all the money and the bill for all of these very, very aggressive programs that a lot of progressives have been fighting for for generation. before we go to break, i would love for you to talk about the republican conference for a second. i spoke with somebody close to kevin mccarthy yesterday who said, basically admitted that kevin mcc

that's what you hear from joe biden, apart from the fact that this is the moral right thing to do. joe biden doesn't become president if african-americans in south carolina and other states this is who we want to be our president. so there really is this kalt laos. it goes back to the very survival of black people in this country. >> john heilemann, because, of course, that is the bigger picture and of course this is about big and painful truths, the republicans are going small. let me end with jimmy kimmel with you. watch. >> with all his complaining about cancel culture, this guy tried to cancel more culture than anybody ever. if you listen to donald trump, you'd have to cancel baseball, coke, delta airlines, viacomcbs, citigroup, sysco, ups, univision, hbo, rolling stone, starbucks, geico, goodyear, amazon, at&t, nfl, t-mobile and merck which has to be the company that makes pro peesh yeah. what are the chances that he'll give up diet coke or his bald medicine? none. but he wants you to. >> it's that simple. there's no chance that republicans will live by the canceling you're ca

one thing is for certain, black voters here are not going to let joe biden forget what he said during hishe victory speech, th he would have the backs of black voters and the black community. so the voters i spoke with said give me a grade on how you think joe biden is doing so far, three bs and a c, in many ways they were dissatisfied and say there's room for improvement. let's take aom listen. >> people want to work with business they bring in the ceos. i'm the ceo of poverty. bring me in. other people like me. >> i'm not really saying anything that is really ten jible, that'ste really reflecti you value black people in a way where we can progress as a people. >> i don't know if i really felt good about the vote. the only thing is, i wanted to -- i wanted to see something shift. >> i introduced him when he came toen milwaukee. i haven't heard from his campaign. i haven't heard -- i gave what i could. now i'm waiting i for the gift be returned. >> reporter: if you value black people, let that be reflected in your policies and they want more than just talk, stephanie. they want real a

looking at the map in 2020, joe biden would have lost three electoral votes, trump would have gained three. the new map would be good for republicans. what do we know about the demographics in a state like texas, which you know so well, whether those two seats will be leaning red or blue or purple? >> so, andrea, in fact, we were surprised because we thought texas might be gaining three seats instead of two because of the massive population growth we've seen as a result of folks coming in from other states and fertility rates among hispanics. but what's really interesting here is you see the population growth of hispanics, asian americans, one of the fastest-growing populations, are mainly in the urban centers. however, we know that the lecture is controlled by republicans and the republican stronghold here in texas are the rural areas. so i foresee very creative map drawing as we go into the fall because even though texas gained two seats, they gained two seats because of the growth of minority populations, republicans want to maximize the seats they have. maybe democrats will get o

biden's standard and saying the manufacturing is going to be what gets this done. all of that is new. the apparatus of obstruction and denial is beginning to collapse. at the end of the day, it's the koch brothers, marathon petroleum and there's not much for the republicans to rally around any longer. >> sometimes you can see the segment as you are doing it and you are like, am i talking myself into something? we went through it. then i talked to you and now i'm convinced of my own thesis, which is a nice feeling that there really is a moment here, there's opportunity. >> the determination in the democratic senate is greater than ever. remember the republicans didn't want cap and trade. the white house and the senate leadership is what took it down and didn't even get it a vote in the senate. we have our own problems from the past. those are over. there is a really solid commitment from joe manchin across the board to solving this. >> all right, senator whitehouse, a leader on this. thank you for your time. >>> i said this before. it's worth repeating. it's still a