plan the white house is rolling out today. we have a lot to cover on multiple fronts. we start with yamiche alcindor and also garrett hake on capitol hill. let s start with the multiple efforts by the white house, what does the plan entail and what does it not? the president is going to be going to tulsa to talk about racial injustice, and he announced new initiatives, trying to focus on create an opening for more ownership and small businesses, and rolling back two trump-era housing
people to reflect on the deep roots of racial terror in our nation and recommit to the work of rooting out systemic racism across our country. jermaine lee and antonia hylton are live in tulsa, and brendan nails alford, descendant of the survivors of the tulsa race massacre also joins us. president biden is calling it a day of remembrance. let s start, what does that mean and what is he doing today? that s right, thank you for having me, stephanie. joe biden s visit to tulsa is important for a number of reasons. it validates the story folks have been telling him in this community for a very long time. i expect him first to reflect what this momentumly means and pay respect to the estimated 300 people or so killed and all of the violence this community experienced afterwards. he will also roll out the plan to shrink the racial wealth gap. billions of dollars in federal contracts to black-owned businesses, tinker with some of the housing rules undermined by
give to small disadvantaged businesses and another step they plan to take is rolling back two trump era housing rules. you noted this is the first presidential visit to mark this somber day. it was about a year ago that president trump informs tulsa, a much different event in that tulsa rally that was indoors. very low attendance, it became very controversial. you can see a year apart, two very difficult visits and moods around them. let s talk about that messages. we spoke with viola fletcher, one of a few living survivors. i want to play for you what she remembers witnessing and seeing when she was just seven. people running and screaming
you don t have a week chose to call in to help like on the way to behave did not call that was the way it feels as it was rude the rains are starting and this year s hurricane season is fast approaching so are a woman is another volunteer. a psychologist from jamaica spending her three weeks of holiday treating people here for trauma she says they don t just need new roofs their psyches also need to heal. you. know you know. i was relieved that we all housing rules and i guess we weren t certain circumstances may force you to keep going even though you may feel devastated right after a hurricane after the earthquake allowing some spaces for that gives you. the women and girls start out shine skeptical but slowly they start to open up and find room
1995, he loosened the housing rules by rewriting the community reinvestment act which means he put pressure on all those banks to lend the low income neighborhoods which caused the collapse in 2008. by the way, andrew cuomo was the head of h.u.d. at the time. so it all comes together. all full circle. more from bernie sanders now. the country belongs to all of us and not just the billionaire class. do i think that s hillary clinton s politics? no. no i don t. more to come from him, i m sure. every republican consultant make sure you clip those remarks and run ads about it if she wins the nomination, right? her party eating its own. and about face from president obama as we learn he s now willing to sign a bill that would give congress a say in a final nuclear deal with iran. that is if a deal is reached by the june deadline. so did the president cave? this is a totally different position or did the bill get watered down? and a new twist in the case of the free range kids. remem