Number three today. Heres what i know about my bff Jacki Schechner. Shes always perfect in every way. Melissa fitzgerald and jacki and i have a thing. You send me ambien texts. It is a thing. Melissas are all misspelled. Jacki sent one yesterday spelled with perfect grammar. What does it take to get you to loosen up, Jacki Schechner . I think youve seen me loosen up from time to time. I think jim and chris have seen it too. Oh, yeah, youre fun when youre loosened up. Stephanie lets just go with fun [ laughter ] here she is. Perfectly compose and coifed, Jacki Schechner. Time magazine has named president obama its person of the year. Time points out the president has weathered four of the most challenging years in our nations history and he still has the opportunity to leave office in four years with an enviable legacy. Also in consideration for that honor were molalla the teenage girl who spoke out against the taliban in pakistan. Apple ceo tim cook. Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi a
Want to call our military. Well have reports from around the country. My guests this morning, keith ellison, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, washington d. C. Mayor muriel bowser, and val demings. Also, those protests happening in a country already on edge from a virus that killed more than 100,000 americans and put more than 40 million out of work. As much of the country is trying to return to some form of normalcy, often ignoring social distancing. You see no masks here. You see no fear. Were all just embracing it. Prompting fears of a second wave. Every community is one wild weekend from falling off the cliff. Joining me for insight and analysis are msnbc anchor joshua johnson, maria teresa kumar, president of voto latino. And former republican governor, pat mccrory of North Carolina. Welcome to sunday and a special edition of meet the press. Announcer from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is a special edition of meet the press with chu
Offices and we have four in the hospital and thank god now lives. Thank god they are alive pieces. And nypd sergeant run over by speeding suv, the whole thing caught on camera, stop the video right before he is hit. The moment of impact so hard to watch we just cant show you. He is in serious condition. Mike not far from there another new York City Police Department Officer beaten, cameras role as punches fly. So that is what we are up against today. Officers under attack coasttocoast. I read a moment ago that apparently a couple officers were shot in the last hour or two down in richmond, virginia. More on that in a moment. As you look at images from the streets of new york city lets go to Aishah Hasnie live in midtown whereafter a seventh night, the violence and rioting and looting continues. Reporter good morning. That is right. Midtown manhattan has been hit by looters. There are stores that have been ransacked. Im standing in front of a store, you can see behind me they tried to p
Burning, this is the fifth precinct here. I want to show you sort of just the number of police cars and if you can come over this way, you can see all of the police cars and some buses off in the distance there, they go on and on and on. Our producer just walked up and said there are about 200 officers all heavily armored up and clad, that passed him, as he was parked down here. Ken tillis, our photographer got hit by a canister. Carolyn, our producer, she got a very healthy dose of tear gas as well. And now you can see police have cleared that area. Theyre moving back in this direction now. And in fact, im not even sure, this looks like minneapolis police. These are not the state patrol. So they were doing other stuff up in here. Now, it looks like theyre moving to a different area. Lets go over to the side over here, well stay out of their way, look at the number of police here, as they move out. They were able to clear. Move over to the side there. Watch your back, watch your back.
We cant see many protestors there at the moment, but it has been designated a riot and apparently the authorities have issued final warnings to the people on the streets to d disperse or action will be taken. Meanwhile of course there have been angry sporadic violence spilling in to the streets of many major u. S. Cities, all of it sparked by the death of an africanamerican man while in the custody of minneapolis police. A short time ago the governor spoke about the unrest. We understand what has to happen. What is going on out there right now is not that. T thedestruction of businesses that took generations to build are being torn down. The disenfranchisement that we witnessed with georges death is one thing, but this is not grievi grieving, this is not making a statement that we fully acknowledge needs to be fixed. This is life threatening. More people are mounting the cnn sign in front of the building and they are now still chanting. Meanwhile georgias governor declaring a state of