37 g.o.p. senators demanding education secretary magill cardone nasa strike the plan. mcconnell wrote quote americans do not need or want their tax dollars diverted from promoting radical ideologies tonight in divide us. americans never decided that our country should be taught that our country is inherently evil. the 619 project says slavery was a key force in the american revolution. many miss torians dispute that. we have got to defeat this proposal this. is unwarranted federal intrusion into the content of the curriculum. education secretary miguel cardona says he hasn t seen mcconnell s letter. the federal government doesn t have a role in the curriculum. i have faith that the educators will get it ride. use as a wedge national conversation on race. it s wrong to try to use our painful past to dishonestly shut down debates in the present. scott says the u.s. isn t racist. president biden agrees. but democrats tinker with using government to address wrongs.
the shootout at a casino, a gunman opens fire in wisconsin, killing two. outrage and grief in north carolina as the community remembers andrew brown jr., killed by police. splashdown, four astronauts back on ready for splashdown. what they did on their trip home that hasn t been tried in 50 years. the new shortage that may delay the reopening of backyard swimming pools, while we re running out of the chlorine tablets that keep water clean. and the moment this teen s life changed forever. are you kidding me? are you absolutely kidding me what does it say? the inspiring past that got him there. this is nbc newsly news with kate snow. good evening, while there is positive news tonight in this country about the covid pandemic the news out of india is there is still a dire lack of oxygen for pa e sick can t even find a bed even as countries around the world rush to send supplies and with a more contagious variant ravaging that country the biden administratio
neck of someone handcuffed behind the back in a prone position? no, i haven t. reporter: prosecutors questioning minneapolis police department s longest serving member about the 9:29 officer chauvin placed his knee on george floyd s neck. what is your view of that use of force during that time period? totally unnecessary. reporter: the defense countered. generally speaking, in a fight for your life, you as an officer are allowed to use whatever force is reasonable and necessary. correct? yes. reporter: during a week of gripping testimony, young bystanders said they watched helplessly as floyd pled for his life. one was just 17. it s been nights. i stayed up. apologizing and and apologizing to george floyd for not doing more. reporter: george floyd s girlfriend taking the witness stand saying they both suffered from opioid addiction and admitting that floyd overdoses in march of 2020. it is a classic story of how many people get addicted to opioids. r
many times, while i was watching their testimonies, i was brought to tears. i mean, i can see that the impact of having been there to witness what they had to witness was going to have a lifelong effect on most of them. and knowing the pain that i feel, i mean, my heart just breaks for them. we re going to be talking about the trial in just a little bit. first, let s go back to the breaking news for capitol hill. from capitol hill, rather, with nbc s vaughn hillyard. so, vaughn, a lot of people want to know about a possible motive. is there any update on that? reporter: this individual is 25-year-old noah green, alex. we know that this man spent most of his life in the state of virginia, in neighboring virginia here to washington, d.c. what the exact motive is, it s still unclear. what led him to the capitol yesterday, this friday, what led him here is still unclear, why attack the u.s. capitol is unclear. we do know from facebook postings, however, that prescribed
rioters stormed the capitol one year earlier, president biden cast donald trump as holding a dagger at the throat of america, spreading lies that undermined core democratic values. a remarkable speech on a remarkable day, cnn s jasmine wright joins us live from washington. good morning. what do we know? reporter: that s right, christine. we can think of it as a political reset of sorts. really, president biden over the last few months has had a lot of highs, but also some lows. so really at the start of this year, it was one of, if not the strongest speeches that he s given since being in office for about a year, and it did something, as you said, he has been reluctant to do. it took on former president donald trump directly. and even though he did not say him by name, about 16 times he made references to the former president, the former defeated president, and i think it really is a strong look at president biden because he did spend a lot of time writing a lot of parts of