Thats that this is a question of president ial leadership. At the end of the day, it will come down to the president of the United States being willing to lead in a big picture and in a more macro sense, make a decision what he can support and pull the trigger on it. Here was Lindsey Graham in our conversation just a few minutes ago. What the house sent over is unacceptable to me. The cres can i the militar chs kill the military. I appreciate House Colleagues but we need to get this done. Were inside the 10 yard line. We need a white house that can make a decision and stick to it. And andegreeia, Lindsey Graham has cultivated his relationship with the president and the attempted skill of talking to the president through the television. And i think theres a lot of message sending going on that look, the way out of this is for the president to live up to what he talks about as the tuesday
version of the president from last week when he seemed to embrace willingness to deal with a biparti
are calling crimes against humanity. that march route including a stop at the white house. nbc s brie jackson is in washington, d.c. for us. welcome to you, brie. talk about the scene and what it s like there right now? good afternoon, alex. as you can see behind me, there is a huge crowd out there, organizers are expecting 25,000 or more people to come. we spoke with people from michigan, ohio, new york, all across the country. they are here with the same message. we re hearing chance of free palestine, cease-fire now, they are demanding action from the biden administration. they want them to stop supporting israel and the war. they are between israel and hamas. so, some of the speaker said of taking the stage have these emotional stories. we spoke with one man who says he has lost several family members there in gaza. take a listen to what he told us. whether it s women, children,
jesse kirsch joins us from highland park. how is the community doing one year later? reporter: the mayor marking this one-year anniversary by calling last july 4th the bloodiest day they have ever experienced in highland park. right behind me you can hear and see they are removing the barriers that were up along this march route. last year, it was the parade route. they took the same path on a walk today to commemorate, to remember, to memorialize, but also the sense that we get from the community is to show that it s not going to define highland park. leaders here talking about being able to celebrate on this day. you can see in the crowd, there are people in highland park shirts but also in red, white, and blue. the american flag present as well. this was and is july 4th here but has a somber underpinning to
just afterwards, emmanuel macron announcing that he was going to hold firm regardless of what happened on the streets, and so you ve really seen a definite uptick in the amount of violence that we saw on the streets of paris stay tonight. com has largely been restored in the french capital, but some pretty dramatic scenes earlier scuffles over the course of the day fires lit along the march route, much as we ve seen in the last protest, and the one before that , we now know that it is next week that the next protest will be held the unions calling for another massive day of strikes and protests. whilst the numbers were slightly down on the street today, just over half a million people in the streets of france fewer than we ve seen on the streets last week, we expect to see how many will turn out next week. but again, it is that violence that we ve seen really taking central stage that these protests that s been a definite shift and something that we expect to see. continue jake. all ri