Rose welcome to the program. Today the president announced his initiatives on gun control. Well have an assessment from Joe Scarborough of msnbcs morning joe and Michael Scherer of Time Magazine. For a week or two after newtown more americans were against banning assault weapons than were for banning assault weapons. Now a month later you actually have that becoming a 64 40 issues. The numbers havent looked like this in decades. They didnt look like this after kohl bib. They didnt look like this even after the 94 bill was passed. I think theres some great opportunities politically now and the only question is whether my Republican Party, especially in the house of representatives, is going to recognize the political reality before them and realize that newtown changed everything. Rose we continue this evening with a look ahead at the world of technology and a conversation with Roger Mcnamee of elevation partners. I think the Search Engine was the result of a mistake that wont be made a
Look at the progress in this view going into the tunnel. There are now stripes marking traffic lanes. Kpix5 brian webb shows us, it is so close you can feel the excitement. Reporter yes, less than 20 of the work left to be done on this end of the project. Some of it happening behind me. The lanes and the barriers lined up. Tomorrow looks like it will be a day of ceremony and shaking handing and by tuesday morning, if all goes well, the bridge will be open. Are we there yet . Reporter 11 years and 6. 5 billion behind us, the bridge countdown turns from days to hours. I think everyone is just very excited, relieved to be at this point. 16,000 tons of asphalt packed on the pavement, a dirty tunnel cleaned to look like new and shiny toll booth station complete with a new fast lane with everything in its place. A lot of things at the end for the roadway sweepers, you know, making sure there are not odd bits of metal in the roadway, that kind of thing. Reporter a bike path was so important t
Happening today. Reporter we expect cantran to give an update at 8 00 this morning. They say the opening is still scheduled for tomorrow at 5 00 a. M. Theyre putting on the finishing touches on the project in 20 years in the making. Some marking, paving of the east bound lanes, striping and cleaning up. They will not say if the bridge will open early. All work is going well. There has not been any surprises and if there is an opportunity to open the bridge earlier well take advantage of that but were not ready to make that call yet. Reporter here is the sped up version of what youll see if you drive on the span tomorrow. This is a version of heading west bound. Its definitely different than what were used to. What can you tell us about the road test happening this afternoon . Reporter we know that about 20 historic cars are going to take a trip on the eastern span this afternoon after a ceremony. We dont know if that will have an affect on whether or not the bridge will open early. We
Obamas fight on the campaign. And Sarah Huckabee sanders only an hour ago briefing for the First Time Since monday. The president knows that there was no collusion in the campaign. And he has been quite clear about this. Its gone on for over a year. They have found no evidence of collusion, and still strongly believe that it is a witchhunt. So this you have trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani marking this anniversary with yet another round of media tours, this time the blitz is centering on this question. Can special Counsel Robert Mueller actually indict a sitting president . Well, according to giuliani, muellers own team told him the answer is no. Lets start this hour at white house with msnbc hans nichols. There is a lot of Foreign Policy The Middle East news we will get to in a little bit about what the president had to say today. But here we go again. You have those major events, a north korea summit, china, all the things the president talked
about today. And yet hes tweeting, his lawyer,
Straight nights of starpacked speakers. None more so than tonight. It was worth noting a specific strategy to what the Clinton Campaign and democrats trying to do. Michael bloomberg talking to independents. Joe biden talking to blue collar voters and tim kaine talking to midwesterners. And reengaged for Hillary Clinton. Take a listen. Tonight, i ask you to do for Hillary Clinton what you did for me. I ask you to carry her the same way you carried me. Because you are who i was talking about 12 years ago when i talked about hope. It has been you who fuelled by dogged faith in the future. Even when the road is long. Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope. America, you vindicated that hope these past eight years. And now im ready to pass the baton and do my part as a private citizen so this year in this election, im asking you to join me to reject cynicism and reject fear and to summon what is best in us to elect Hillary Clinton as the next pr