These disruptions . Reporter we had been expecting today to be more violent, better attended by yellow vests simply because they had made this a massive call for what they were hoping to be a black saturday. As you can see just behind me, thats what theyve achieved. Weve seen pretty big numbers coming out. We dont yet have the official interior numbers but from what weve seen there are a lot of them out here. Theyve been blocked off from the main arteries by the police in a pincher movement to try and separate them. Not only are there a lost them, but they are very determined. There is a lot of tear gas being thrown by the police to try and push them back. Regularly the police front line the riot Police Charge them. It seems to be happening once again. The rioters then push back to get as close as possible. Whats added to that frederica, beyond the call of the yellow vest in greater numbers for this easter weekend is what happened on monday, far from dampening these protests down, far
Reporter there is a political fight and a legal fight brewing and democrats have been sitting on the subpoena and now they have issued it, they want to see the full Mueller Report without redactions and want to see the underlying evidence. If you go through this report, not a whole lot of redacting in the justice section but plenty of redactions when it comes to the whole collusion section, especially when it talks about interactions between the Trump Campaign and wikileaks, thats one of the things that democrats had been asking about. But the Justice Department is already pushing back on this request, calling it premature. Let me read a statement that they put out that says in the interest of transparency, the attorney general released the special counsels confidential report with only minimal redactions and the Justice Department has made arrangements with chairman nadler and others to review the report with fewer redactions. In light of this, the subpoena is premature and unnecessar
Person, President Trump. But before he can take on the president , biden must win over enough democrats to get the nomination and there are already indications that wont be easy. Correspondent peter doocy starts us off from philadelphia. Joe biden started today first and primary polls but he also started his day last in primary fundraising. So to catch up hes not going to be one of those democrats that keeps lobbyists at arms length because a few minutes from right now, he will attend a fundraiser hosted by the head lobbyist for nbcs parent company, comcast. The motorcade is gone and so is the support. If you are the best choice for democrats in 2,020, why didnt president obama endorse you . I asked president obama not to endorse and whoever wins this nomination should win it on their own merit. Obama isnt a factor in bidens launch, speak out the famously friendly biden struck a serious tone zeroing in on part of the comment that he said there were some very fine people on both sides.
Fellow World Leaders there as well and they have a long list of world crises to deal with. One of the pressing issues, most pressing issues right now is the environment and the Climate Crisis were facing. Specifically, the french president wants the devastating wildfires burning in the amazon to be a priority. Nick paton walsh is joining us with the latest on the fires in the amazon in brazil. Nick, the last hour you gave us a really good scan of what the impact of the fires, the smoke in the air, what that looks like and described what it feels like. I wonder for the people who are with us at this hour you can tell us about that and what is changing at least, the suggestion from the brazilian president. Reporter well, look, let me run you through where were standing here. We are where close to 300 large fires are currently burning, the most afflicted states in all of brazil. Im going to show you what this has slightly got worse, the sun has kind of picked up in terms of visibility. Yo
Called this another fake news story out there. Well, is that how it ended up . Friday morning the president delivered a series of contradictory talking points and insisted the conversations he had with ukrainian officials under scrutiny were, quote, totally appropriate and beautiful. Then later said he couldnt remember them and said he had not read the whistleblower complaint. Then in the next breath claimed that, quote, everybody had read it, they laughed at it. By the weekend however the president was largely confirming all of it. Even defending it. Here he is. I had a great conversation. The conversation i had was largely congratulatory, was largely corruption, all of the corruption taking place, was largely the fact that we dont want our people like Vice President biden and his son creating to the corruption already in the ukraine. Okay. So there it is in his own words on camera and all of this while he attacked the whistleblower for what he called spying at the same time continuin