Further two week recess. There is more on this glimmer of bipartisan progress just ahead. By then administration also putting its weight behind fighting a surge of Violent Crimes in the country. Homicides up 24 , gonna salts up 22 over the same period last year, late today the president and Attorney General outlined a new anti crime strategy focused on getting more money to Police Departments and to violence Intervention Programs while cracking down on socalled rogue gun dealers. Zero tolerance for gun dealers who will fully violate the key existing laws and regulation. If you will fully sell a gun to someone whos prohibiting from processing it, if you will fully fail to run a background check, if you will fully falsify a record, if you will fully we will find you, and we will seek your license to sell guns. We will make sure you cant sell death and made him on our streets. Biden also noted crime traditionally rises during the summer months. He warned things could get worse in just the
How he balanced governing with being a husband and a dad in his recently published book a promised land. We dropped in on the former president in chicago, in high school where he was visiting with a group of young men who have been part of my brothers keeper to talk about their lives and the challenges they face. Are you going back to Community Organizing . Well, you know, probably im a little too grayhaired and old to be going door to door like i used to be. Plus secret Service Still follows me around, so im pretty disruptive. But i am going back to what inspired me to get into public life. One of the things that inspired former president barack obama these days are meetings like this one. Hey, people. Hey, hey. Its called a bam circle. Bam stands for becoming a man. A program that started in chicago in 2001 to mentor and support boys and young men. How is everybody doin . The idea is to create a place for them to safely and honestly share their struggles and successes, issues at home
How he balanced governing with being a husband and a dad in his recently published book a promised land. We dropped in on the former president in chicago, in high school where he was visiting with a group of young men who have been part of my brothers keeper to talk about their lives and the challenges they face. Are you going back to Community Organizing . Well, you know, probably im a little too grayhaired and old to be going door to door like i used to be. Plus secret Service Still follows me around, so im pretty disruptive. But i am going back to what inspired me to get into public life. One of the things that inspired former president barack obama these days are meetings like this one. Hey, people. Hey, hey. Its called a bam circle. Bam stands for becoming a man. A program that started in chicago in 2001 to mentor and support boys and young men. How is everybody doin . The idea is to create a place for them to safely and honestly share their struggles and successes, issues at home
I see it. So i tried to live up to that this morning because i knew i would be on the same screen as you. You are all wonderful, have yourselves a great day and i will see you tomorrow. Thanks for joining us. Today on velshi, Inside Donald Trump strategy as defendant candidate and why his inclination to over share his plans is more alarming than you think. Plus, movement on multiple fronts on the draconian crackdown on abortion in this country and worrying signs of what is coming next. Then, why one columbia lecturer says the school is teaching the wrong lessons. We will talk about protests and rates on College Campuses. Ended his a book so beloved by audiences that it spent eight years on the bestseller list. It is a beautiful story of resilience and survival, yet it has been targeted and beyond over and over again. The acclaimed author joins our book club to talk about her memoir, the last castle. Velshi starts now. Good morning to you, it is saturday, may 4. Week three has officiall
It be . It would be i miss you and i love him. What was going through your head . When you had your knee on my brothers neck. When you knew that he posed no threat anymore, yet he was handcuffed, why didnt you at least get up . My sons identity has also been reduced to that as of that as a racist. I want this court to know my none of these things are true. When you sentence my son, you will also be sentencing me. The court then heard briefly from Derek Chauvin himself. At this time due to some additional legal matters at hand, im not able to give a full formal statement at this time. But very briefly though, i to want to give my condolences to the floyd family. There is going to be some other information in the future that would be of interest, and i hope things will give you some peace of mind. Thank you. No one quite knows what that inference was to other information he was talking about. Late this afternoon President Biden, who has become close to members of the floyd family, host t