introspection. n express our thoughts and feelings and wait for the response. there is no response on memorial day. those we honor our dead. which leads us to supplying both sides of the conversation. i spent some time studying the deadliest battles in our history. the battles which require the most sacrifice. i wondered what it was like to be a teenager sent to europe during world war i. probably never crossed an ocean before. for many the only cross the ocean once. buried somewhere in france or belgium or england and we sent them to liberate a continent. to liberate other people and they did what they asked them to do. it cost them their lives. world war ii was a deadly war both in europe and the pacific. our young people were sent to defeat an evil access to liberate a continent to defend people being victimized by tyrants. we sent young people to defend our own country after we were attacked pearl harbor. some of those holders are buried on the amount of fields where they
general of louisiana and missouri allege the white house worked with social media companies to suppress freedom of speech. how damaging could this be for the white house? constitutional law expert jonathan turley here to weigh in just ahead. sandra: begin america reports on this monday afternoon with a major wake-up call from our nation s report card. the fed revealing decline in children s test scores in the country, biggest drop we have seen in decades. it follows the devastating closures due to covid that kept millions of children out of the classrooms. hello and welcome, everyone. sandra smith in new york. great to start the week with you, john. john: good to start with you too. 15 days to the midterms, on average, fourth grader math dropped five, eighth graders plunged eight. sandra: reading scores dropped three points since the pandemic started, the decision to close schools and along with parents rights have made education a key issue in the midterm elections.
i m chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. we have a new poll. and basically here s what it says. americans are ticked off and they re pointing fingers. it shows millions of voters who are frustrated, who are increasingly furious at folks in the other party, believing the other side s agenda could end america as we know it. right now president biden is preparing to speak at the dnc. he s one of the folks arguing that democracy is at stick next month. so, what s really motivating voters? is it anger or issues? or is it impossible to separate the two? if so, what does that mean for candidates s closing arguments? plus, a major townsment from merrick garland is moments away. it s not about trump, but they say it involves a foreign nation trying to spread its influence here in the u.s. we will have that as soon as it starts. finally, anyone with kids in school, knows the pandemic was absolutely brutal. but new nationwide test scores show the impact is even w
this room and the next contain my archives. it s magazines, newspaper articles, depositions, documents. everything relating to watergate. i was 31 when i went to the nixon white house to work. i have no intention of ever walking away from the job that the people elected me to do. the job forever changed the trajectory of my life. we re not on the road to fascism. but we re dangerously close to it. these are the events that are going to follow me to my grave. i told the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency. we will never give up, we will never concede. we will stop the steal. here we are, 50 years later, and the events of watergate are as relevant as they have ever been. there will not be a cover-up, there will not be an abuse of power. weapons of mass destruction. open up, you traitor! my name is john dean. i was richard nixon s white house counsel. the morning of june 17th, 1972, i got a call saying they ve got this strange,
i m ayman mohyeldin. let s get started. it s good to be with you. i m ayman mohyeldin, a new york. for a year and, have you heard that vice president mike pence was in mortal danger on january six, 2021, when donald trump s mob overran the capitol in an attempt to stop pence from counting joe biden s winning electoral votes. we all saw the video of pence s evacuation on that day. it happened. it was close. but we didn t know how close, until thursday when the house january six committee played audio of secret service agents trying to protect pence as the insurrectionists closed in. they are on the second floor. moving in now. we may want to consider getting out and leaving now. coffee? will we encounter the people once we make our? way repeat. if we made our way to the there are six officers between us and the people that are five feet away. we have a clear shot if we move quickly. got smoke downstairs. standby. unknown smoke downstairs. by the protesters?