midterms that i want to talk to him about, something i think you can help us wrap our heads around. let s start with the great state of louisiana. every ten years, there is a census, right? the last census in 2020 shows the same churned and louisiana that was taking place across several southern states. over the last decade, the white population shrink, and the black population grew. what people are now less than 56% of louisiana s population and about a third of the population there is black. yet, this is louisiana s congressional delegation. other states six members of congress, five are white republicans. one is a black democrat because even though louisiana is one third black, only one congressional district has majority black population. that s a state lawmakers drew the congressional maps. but after every census, state lawmakers get to draw new congressional maps and last year, despite those new census numbers showing a shrinking white population and a growing black pop
floats. then it just opened up, that familiar, you know, semi gunfire. just a rain of shots. nbc s rehema ellis has been monitoring this. rehema, what do we know right now? reporter: not much more than what you talked about, steve, because this is unfolding as we speak. you pointed out the police are looking for a suspect. this event happened, this mass shooting happened just a short while after the fireworks, the fourth of july festivities, were getting under way. as you reported, there are reports of several people who were shot. we do not at this point have an exact number of how many people were shot or if any people were killed in this incident. as one person was saying there that we just heard from, people were enjoying a fourth of july festivity, a parade, in highland park. this is a community about 25 miles north of chicago. when they heard these sounds ring out. the guy was saying there, you heard a pop, pop, pop, and he said it was like a rain of shots that just
i m poppy harlow. and i m jim sciutto. tonight the january 6th committee will begin to lay out its evidence. after 11 months of interviewing witnesses, scrutinizing thousands of hours of video, more than 100,000 pages of documents, the panel will hold its first public hearing, this one in prime time. it will make a case, that the former president was at the center of a coordinated multistep effort to overturn joe biden s 2020 election win. the committee will present, it says, never-before-seen material. and chips of taped interviews with family officials, and witnesses who had an up-close view of the rioters in action. many leaders like kevin mccarthy, have been all over the air waves, trying to downplay and denigrate the committee s work. leaked audio from just five days after the insurrection, coming from mccarthy himself, reveals that he really wanted a bipartisan investigation into the attack. listen to part of that. we can t just sweep this under the rug. we need t
oklahoma where a gunman killed four people at a medical office, the president expected to twist the arm of congress, even though he has been awol during the current senate negotiations and is headed to the beach in delaware tonight. the white house getting grilled on how the president plans to press ahead. if the president thinks that congress must act immediately to end this epidemic of gun violence, is he going to bring any of the key players to capitol hill to the beach with him tonight? oh, okay. so i don t have a big part of biden s whole thing that he knows how to get things done. he does. he s beaten the gun lobby before. meanwhile fireworks on kirill as house democrats clash with republicans on new gun legislation being pushed by the left. there s something gun crazed about our country we need to deal with. you are not going to bully your way into stripping americans of fundamental rights. if the supreme court objects we will expand it and we will no
this memorial day we know the memory is still painful of all the fallen who lost their lives during the last few decades in combat. each of them leave behind a family, a community. lives will never be the same. the same could be said of the decades of combat that american children have faced in their classrooms where hundreds of them have been shot and killed by mass murders. yesterday the president and first lady brought flowers to the memorial site outside of robb elementary school in uvalde, texas. they touched the photos of the 19 dead children and two teachers who lost their lives trying to save lives. president biden and the first lady attended sunday mass, as is his custom, but this time it was in uvalde, at the catholic church filled with mourners, including some of the family members of the victims. as the president was leaving, some in the crowd pleaded with him to do something. president biden responded by saying i will. president biden s justice department