their part. there s a good chance you, your families and friendses, will be able to get together in your backyard or your neighborhood and have a cookout or barbecue and celebrate independence day when we mark our independence as a nation and our independence from this virus. joining me now, nbc news chief white house correspondent and weekend today co-anchor, kelly o donnell, yamiche alcindor, former deputy white house chief of staff to president obama, jim messina and former rnc chair, michael steele. welcome, all. kristen, let me start with you. if big primetime address last night after a major legislative win. now of course the challenge to make sure that americans understand why it is that they are receiving the help that they have. what s the plan going forward? reporter: that s right. now the president and vice president are going to be focused on selling this massive piece of legislation that just passed, $1.9 trillion covid relief and of course one of the cente
in trouble in the first place. jimmy fallon upstairs last night. good morning. tuesday, june 4th. politico s jonathan lemire. pulitzer prize winning columnist and associate editor of the washington post and analyst for msnbc, eugene robinson. vanity fair writer and host of the pod cast the fast politics, molly jong-fast. president biden made his most candid comments yet about trump s criminal conviction. in off-camera remarks, biden told the audience a convicted felon is seeking the office of the presidency. the president added, quote, as disturbing as that is, more damaging is the all out assault donald trump is making on the american system of justice. . biden is reported to have said, something snapped in this guy of the election and it is literally driving him crazy. biden went on to call trump unhinged. maybe a private preview, joe, of where we might see president biden go publicly as the campaign rolls out, now that donald trump has been convicted on 34 f
shielded donald trump from the scrutiny of the rest of the voters. when they actually hear him talking again and he is in their living room again, which he was in the news conference on friday, which he will be in the debate in a few weeks time, americans will be repulsed and don t want to go back to that trump term. in terms of how the president and his team are going to handle this, it was previewed to me a couple weeks ago, as we saw last week, president biden s first words about the verdict were simply, we need to respect the process. the judicial system worked, and attacks against it are disgraceful. now, we re seeing other democrats and the president himself begin to ramp up his attacks on donald trump. the biden twitter account, more than a dozen times yesterday, used the phrase convicted felon. we heard it again from president biden last night. now, they don t believe this conviction itself is a race-changing event. they do think, though, it ll
from president biden last night there was no mention of iran. the word was not used and i think that s because in the heat of this moment, he didn t want to be seen to be directly pointing a finger at the iranians. he left that to lower level officials who in a series of briefings overnight and into the morning were talking with how they believed the iranians were involved in their words at every phase of the houthi attacks on shipping over the last few months. what you are seeing amid all of this is the americans, along with the british who were also involved in these military strikes, trying to walk this line to deter the houthis but not to escalate and wider regional situation and the risk of escalation is that it draws in the iranians and that s really why you re seeing the us in particular tried to disconnect what
condolences to your community. i know you spoke with president biden last night, i believe. what was his message to you in that call? i did. well, he was very gracious and obviously offered his condolences for our community and just offered any help that he could give. and i appreciated that very much. you said in the wake of this shooting that there are days where it feels like you re going backwards to some degree, the community and the country is to some degree going backwards. how big of a shock has this been to the community? unfortunately, i d say it hasn t been much of a shock, phil. this is something that happens all tooof often and have a violt gun problem in our community and country, we know that. we also have a problem with racism and i think that every step on the path that we take either is a step toward more