I mean, ive spoken to him a lot. And weve come a long way together. Weve had tremendous difficulty together, and now we have come a long way, but the answer is, yes, he does. So this isnt a case of stringing him along as revenge being a dish best served cold for the comments he made during the campaign . No, its not about revenge. Its about what is good for the country. Our Leslie Schneider is live outside the trump tower. What is the latest news, jess . Reporter secretary of state is the mostly watched post. All eyes have been on the former Massachusetts Governor mitt romney. Hes a leading contender sitting down with donald trump twice over the past few weeks. Mitt romney after the last time he met with donald trump even came out and praised Donald Trumps electoral victory. Interestingly this morning, donald trump talked about the fact that the two have come a long way together. And that donald trump has come a long way in his thinking about mitt romney. But despite that over the past
hate in the year since charlottesville. we ve seen a lot of the members of the unite the right fallen on hard times, taken off the internet, facing lawsuits, arrests. we ve seen a lot of energy from the far right move to the northwest with groups like the proud boys. so, you know, today i don t expect there to be anything like we saw in charlottesville a year ago and i m less concerned with what happens outside of the white house, quite frankly, than i am concerned with what happens inside when it comes to white nationalism. jason, you re in charlottesville. can you give me a sense of there s a state of emergency that s been declared through monday. what s the mood, the sense you get on the streets there? there are police everywhere, jonathan. it reminds me of going to the funeral for clemente pinkney several years ago in charleston,
church, prayed with them for an hour, then took out a gun and killed at least nine people. he s pleaded not guilty. the jury selection process, we understand from our procedure in the courtroom, the jury striking process has already begun this morning. poppy? do we know obviously heartbreaking to see those faces and see the nine victims. obviously some of their family members were in the church and survived when this shooting happened. do we know who will be in the courtroom through all this? reporter: we expect the family members of at least some of the victims to be in the courtroom. much of the attention and at the face if you will of these victims was the state senator and reverend of the church, clemente pinkney. his wife and 5-year-old child at the time were there at the time of the massacre last june. we don t know if they are expected to show up. we do understand that there is an overflow room for the general public as well as the media and
from more people. from all of our viewers joining us, this is our continuing coverage on msnbc. noon on the east coast, 9:00 out west. it s already been quite a day. just two hours ago the supreme court issued a landmark ruling saying that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry. marriage equality is now the law of the land in all 50 states. it was a 5-4 decision with justice anthony kennedy writings for the majority and reaction is still pouring in. today s ruling from the supreme court affirms what millions across this country already know to be true in our hearts. our love is equal. that the four words etched on to the front of the supreme court, equal justice under law, applied to us too. all americans deserve equal dignity, respect, and treatment when it comes to the recognition of our relationships and families. now at long last ohio will recognize our marriage and, most important, marriage equality will come to every state across our country. hearin