when there s life and light and love. and that if we can just get to the light and life and love, 51% of the time, then we are having a good day. and we are having a good era. don t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. and i think that america is a marvelous example of a human community that gets so much wrong but which knows intuitively that if you do the right thing, everybody benefits. and we have to see each other as neighbors and not as enemies. do not despair, do not give up, in the words of churchill, never, never, never give up. try john meacham, as always, thank you for being with us. i hope you and your family are having a great fourth of july weekend. that was joe s conversation with john meacham ahead of this july 4th holiday. erin o hearn picks up the coverage right now. good money. morning, john. don t go far. no holiday starting yet. good morning to you at home and welcome to msnbc s live coverage on this monday, july 4th. we begin with the latest fr
two secret service sources have confirmed to cnn that donald trump did angrily demand to be taken to the u.s. capitol as rioters, may i say, armed rioters, approached capitol hill and he berated his protective detail when he did not get his way. this is significant because it corroborates some of the testimony from cassidy hutchinson on tuesday which trump and his allies have been trying to discredit. the president reached up towards the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel. mr. engel grabbed his arm, said, sir, you need to take your hand off the steering wheel. we re going back to the west wing. we re not going to the capitol. mr. trump then used his free hand to lunge towards bob by engel and when he recounted this story to me he had motioned towards his clavicles. let s start with the new reporting. cnn congressional correspondent ryan nobles has it. what are you learning? yeah, that s right, victor. this comes from two different sources within the se
world headquarters here in new york. welcome to alex witt reports. we begin with breaking news our sunday the supreme court is asking maryland officials to stop a protest outside of justices houses. in a letter to gary governor larry hogan, the court-martial says maryland law prohibits assembly quote, with another in a manner that perception a person s right to tranquility in a person s home. demonstrators have been ongoing since the decision to end roe was leaked in may. it comes as the battle for abortion rights intensifies. president biden is facing pressure from his fellow gov devin democrats to act. the president meeting with a group of governors yesterday promising to protect a woman s right to choose. also, new today in the january 6th investigation, nbc news confirming reports a catch cassidy hutchison, former aide to mark meadows, was the recipient of a message the committee revealed this week, as evidence of possible witness tampering. of which urging her to quote,
the effort in los angeles too remove progressive district attorney, george gascon. and a president biden then the seemingly defensive as gay trie their reporter over a question about economists who are forecasting a recession. the president said it that has people talking tonight. plus, thousands of flights canceled over father s day we can embed staffing shortages. why some are worried that this could be a bad sign for the summer travel season. we begin that with another violent and deadly weekend across the country. matt has the latest in tonight see crime reports. good evening. at five major us cities are on track right now to surpass their record homicide totals up from year. los angeles, baltimore, atlanta milwaukee and washington dc. over the weekend in dc, here is a horrifying moment caught on video when multiple people were shot. there they go. it looked. now they re shooting. it four people were shot on an unpermitted juneteenth music festival to adults if a poli
hearing from kyrsten sinema about it. lives in d.c., welcome back to the show, friend. good to be back. i know, i miss you guys. good morning to you and everyone out there. democrats truly feel like the tide is turning for them on a couple of fronts. that includes gas prices. we are now seeing 50 days into what remains a fast decline in gas prices in over a decade prices are coming down even as putin s work puts pressure on global energy supplies. okay, so yes, we are not paying $5 a gallon anymore but we are still paying $4.13 today and still more than we were paying a year ago. meanwhile, the democrats to pass $740 billion claimant spending plan but they have one big hurdle. you are looking at her, arizona kyrsten sinema from excess reporting she is worried about 15% corporate tax piece and whether it will trickle down to workers. get this, she is also calling for more climate spending. a big thing in her state of arizona. reminder, 400 billion in climate spending in