begun one hundred days of mourning for the more than eight hundred thousand people slaughtered in the genocide that begat it twenty five years ago today that country president paul kagame led a ceremony in the capital kigali commemorating the lives of the ethnic tutsis and moderate hutus who were killed in a span of just one hundred days. pledge that rwandans would never again turn against one another. remembering run this dead on the day the brutal killing began twenty five years ago president could go home and ten heads of state and reads at the kigali genocide memorial the burial place of over two hundred fifty thousand victims of the genocide which wiped out close to a million rand and. he had to quit because flame the flame of remembrance well done for one hundred days that s how long the fastest and so if the twentieth century lost it. in the can god he can mention center right behind me the main commemoration event is taking place we just watched all across the country this is
o donnell to say that he believes that because he grew up nearby where john kelly grew up, that this is some sort of racist argument against this woman based on desegregation epithets hurled at buses 50 years ago. how do you get away with that? i can t speak for lawrence o donnell. i can speak to what is on the videotape that john kelly referenced. in fact he was not telling the truth. when faced with that at the white house today, the press secretary didn t walk it back. she doubled down. martha: that is for good reason, actually. because john kelly did say at a commemoration event that she talked about pushing through funding for legislation. he thought that was inappropriate. in fact, what she did is brag about her role in the naming
the tax code that bar them from being actively involved in politics, endorsing candidates or issues. that s expected today before he makes his first trip back to new york city. he ll be part of a commemoration event on the u.s.s. intrepid to mark the 75th anniversary of the battle of the coral seas. he will also meet with the australian prime minister, a relationship has that has been tense based on some of the things the president has said in conversations with prime minister turn bull, over things like trade in the pacific and refugees. thanks to kelly o donnell for that report. a big day today. may the fourth be with you, international star wars day, the first since the death of carrie sher who played princess leia. that does it for us on this thursday. i m alex wi alongside ayman mohyeldin and louis burgdorf. morning joe starts right now.
i was at a commemoration event that was held yesterday in lindenhurst. which was hit particularly hard. a number of them have had damage. this is the worst storm we have really had in the history of new york. over 60, $70 billion worth of damage was done. so you combine the new york/new jersey area. so all i can say is there is no issue more important to my office. we re working with these people on a regular basis who have been hit so hard. and progress has been made. i think we ll see that progress going ahead exponentially, but again, we can t let up until everybody has been taken care of. let s hope you re right. the group, taxpayers for common sense, says that according to its review, that less than a half of the $11 billion for relief that has been appropriated has
are proper. we try to work with fema. we work with the s.p.a., we did for a while. and now we worked with new york rising in new york, which distributes the funds and i think it is speeding up. again, it took a while for everything to be approved at the federal level, and then the state. and fema has been giving a lot more money, and all i can say is the process is speeding up. for anybody out of their home as a number of my constituents are, it still is a real problem. we are far, far ahead of where we were just a year ago. i was at a commemoration event that was held yesterday in lindenhurst. which was hit particularly hard. a number of them have had damage. this is the worst storm we have really had in the history of new york. over 60, $70 billion worth of damage was done.