transparency. that s what this moment is about. and over 100 unarmed this is more than 100 unarmed people have been killed and brutalized by police since george floyd was murdered last summer. that s unacceptable. black and brown lives matter in this country. this is about saving lives and this is about holding those who commit murder accountable, regardless of who they are. no one is above the law. it looks like, you know the way capitol hill works, if you want to get to yes, you can get to yes. and so the question is, but sometimes there are some bridges that are just too hard to cross. what is a compromise on qualified immunity look like to you? i have to say, chuck, first of all, i know what it s like in these negotiations and i want to just say, our negotiators are doing a magnificent, phenomenal
( ) welcome to tuesday. it is meet the press daily. i m chuck todd. as the floyd family, white house, lawmakers on capitol hill, and communities across the country are honoring george floyd in keeping the focus on the fight for social justice as america marks the one-year anniversary of his murder at the hands of a police officer. right now we are awaiting the start of a white house meeting with the floyd family and the president. that is scheduled for later this hour. at the same time the busy day, we re also monitoring developments in the middle east where the secretary of state antony blinken has been meeting with israeli and palestinian leaders all day, as the tenuous cease-fire agreement is still
there. let me move over to monica alba. we know in roughly 30 minutes expect the president to also be meeting with the floyd family. what is his promise to them? this is a private meeting, and that is by design, chuck. you will not see cameras in the office when the president meets with the family and that s because the white house said they want to have a, quote, real conversation without the pressure or media or anyone else in the room. we know when the president was candidate joe biden, he been in close touch with them visiting houston around george floyd s funeral last june and talking on the phone several times since. what will be notable, of course, is the fact they re going to be face to face. i also think it s significant the white house is doing it this way. they want to allow today to be all about the memory of the floyd family and those images coming out of minneapolis, for instance, and all of shaq s terrific reporting indicates, that s also something the
experiencing. i remember i was trying to find george floyd square, and it was very clear the main many people felt just walking up to that area. that pain is something that s been consistent. it s been consistent throughout my coverage of the trial. throughout even today, the trauma that people felt after watching that video of george floyd under the knee of derek chauvin. i will tell you the difference you have now is that purpose that people feel. people who were protesters back then now running for political office here in the city of minneapolis. people putting that pressure on their political leaders, talking about the changes the police department, that they want to see in the police department. that sense of purpose is something i didn t experience then and i didn t necessarily experience in other police-involved killings i have covered before. that s the difference and that s what the family wants the difference to be. they want his death not to be in vain but something substan
holding. and secretary blinken is about to hold a press conference from jerusalem, where we re going to bring you that news conference live. but we ll start the hour with the remembrances of george floyd and latest on the police reform bill that bears he s name. today was supposed to be the day we had a deal for police reform. we don t. in minnesota the governor asked that a 9:29 moment of silence in downtown minneapolis be marked all across the state. that, by the way, is scheduled to come up at 2:00 p.m. eastern time. late this morning the floyd family, along with civil rights attorney benjamin crump arrived on capitol hill where they met with house speaker nancy pelosi, congressman karen bass to discuss those police reforms. all of this while senators say they made progress on the reform bill following the passage of the house s george floyd justice in policing act several weeks ago. president biden set a deadline of today to pass this but it will not meet that deadline.