And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Reaction to the tragic shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed teenager, by a Police Officer prompted a media frenzy, to be sure. Outraged protest and thousands of hours of opinion by pundits and politicians pointing just how difficult it is for Americans Still to deal with issues of racial inequality. A recent pugh survey found that only 37 of white americans believe Michael Browns death raised important issues about race, while 80 of africanamericans say that it did. Joining us now from providence, rhode island, to discuss where we need to go as a country is dr. Tricia rose, director of the center for the study of race and ethnicity in america at brown university. Tricia rose, good to have you on the program. Let me jump right in with this pugh study, i guess im not fascinated. I saw these same kinds of numbers after rodney king in l. A. , same kinds of numbers after Trayvon Martin not too long ago. I guess the
Will take. And today marks 100 days until the november election. President trump visited his golf club in new jersey. Its looking more and moore like his Reelection Campaign is struggling politically. Polls in Battle Grounds show trump trailing. Mr. Trump made a big campaign change, replacing his Campaign Manager two weeks ago. Today we canceled his Public Acceptance speech. Florida passed new york with the state with the second most cases in the country. California has the most. Calling off that big celebration came as a surprise to some of his allies and donors. Apparently even his aides did not see it coming. But we begin tonight with the Biden Campaign and some new reporting from nbc news on where it goes from here. The latest National Polls sew biden leading trump. The race is tight in some critical Battle Ground states. An internal memo from the Biden Campaign makes clear that the campaign will increase staffing and tv ad spending after some strong fund raising. Mike joins us now
Months into the pandemic. And breaking news from the white house, an historic break through agreement between the United Arab Emirates and israel, made possible by israel for now giving up its plan to annex large areas of the palestinian west bank. Israel and the United Arab Emirates will fully normalize their diplomatic relations. They will exchange embassies and ambassadors and begin cooperation on a broad range of areas. This is a truly historic moment. Not since the israeljordan peace treaty was signed more than 25 years ago has so much progress been made towards peace in the middle east. And we begin today with nbc White House Correspondent and weekend today cohost kristen welker, nbcs mike memoli covering the Biden Campaign, Washington Post columnist eugene robinson. Kristen, the president is hitting senator harris hard and fighting any if ynew funding foe post office. Bring us up to date. Thats right, a lot of people woke up this morning to those comments by President Trump real
Our goal is not simply to unite the democratic party. Our goal is to unite america. I can think of no better person to do that than joe biden. Harris however, President Trump is mocking democrats emphasis on unity at of tonights dnc event. These are the same people i beat last time, and theyre not going to unite. They dont know how to unite. Also, bernie is very unhappy, but actually biden went further left than bernie wanted him to, and bernie is still unhappy. Youll never make this guy happy. Harris and a new cnn poll shows joe bidens lead over President Trump has significantly narrowed since june. Its now 50 to 46 within the margin of error. We have live team fox coverage. Mark meredith is in minnesota where the president is speaking today. I first want to go to jacqui heinrich, who is live and joe bidens hometown of wilmington, delaware. Jackie harris, democrats are trying to show there is broad support across the political spectrum to vote out President Trump. From progressive sen
Acting with extreme indifference to the value of human life. He could get up to five years in prison. Breonna taylor worked as an emt early march 13 was in her apartment with her boyfriend when three Police Officers broke down her door in a no knock warrant. Attorney general said six bullets hit but only one killed her. Investigators say they never found drugs in the apartment. The foreign for the family called the lack of charges out rage us. Matt reporting in frankfurt kentucky at this hour. The Kentucky Attorney general was often emotional as he announced the findings of the grand jury. He says as a black man he understands how painful this is for the black community and was speaking on behalf of his team they were search informing the truth and some of the scrutiny receive was misplaced because they did their best to investigate this case the attorneygeneral saying twice the criminal law is not always meant to respond what he calls a tragedy. Big news of the day up in of the office