are doomed to repeat. it eddie glaude jr., thank you very much. folks, i couldn t think of a better way to end today, it s the final edition of symone on msnbc. i want to save some time today to say, thank you. for nearly two years i ve sat at this desk, we brought you the news you needed to know from politics, pop culture, we made a point to pull back the curtain and see what s happening behind the scenes. and ask all the questions. especially the hard ones. we stay true to that mission and interviewed our nation s top leaders in washington and beyond. we covered breaking news, including many horrific mass shootings, constant threats to our democracy, and we brought you special coverage of wars abroad that are still being waged. we have gleaned analysis from strategist both democrats and republicans, and they ve helped us unpack everything from the midterm elections, to abortion rights, to the perils that the moxie continues to face. i ve had the esteemed honor to
the dear colleague letter from speaker johnson. tell us what you know about this agreement. we ve got a lot of numbers here. yes, symone. a lot of numbers. a little bit of a discrepancy and what we re hearing from republican leader, speaker johnson and democratic leaders. you mentioned we have that dear colleague letter that gives us the first sense of these top line members. you know, one point 59 trillion for fiscal year 2024, which republicans say allots 886 billion dollars in defense and 704 billion in non-defense. now, democrats are saying that they ve secured more than 772 billion in non defense spending. so, this is getting a little in the weeds here. but the difference is a side card dam deal that is a 69 billion dollars, that was negotiated as part of that speaker mccarthy, biden deal. and so, that is actually sticking around, explaining
ride to the occasion for you at four pm every saturday and sunday, it s been my pleasure to give you the information and the facts, the context required to understand what is happening here in the united states of america, across the globe. i ve been delighted because i had a team full of people that help me along the way. and while i cannot name everyone and our team, i m gonna say a huge thank you to each and every one of you from my producers, my makeup artists, to the production crew. special shout out to my ep, catherine, you know, your hard work behind the scenes, folks, help make sure that this show was the best that it could truly, truly be. it was an honor, a pleasure. thank you so much for watching our final episode of symone, on this sunday. i m symone sanders townsend, and i want you all to remember, this is while i m sad to see four pm go in the afternoon, you know i like to sleep in. i m excited to become a morning
we are heading into an even slimmer majority for speaker johnson. the republicans cannot afford to lose any votes, really, on this, at this point. and so, when you have members that are hard liners, like chip roy, who just went at a rally in iowa that he was a hard no on this, you already starting to see some cracks in the foundation. but i think we re seeing some promising signs from the members of congress that have weighed in thus far, symone. all right, thank you. nbc s julia jester, we appreciate you. that breaking news, folks, from capitol hill comes as the leading republican candidates for president votes in the hawkeye state with the iowa caucuses just eight days away. and a weekend that coincides with the third anniversary of the attack on the capitol. donald trump, the former president, and current gop front runner, who s been indicted for his actions surrounding that attack, he alluded to an insurrection, one that hasn t really happened, at
basic refrain, it s important to mention, for those folks who are shall we say content with the moment, i want folks to understand the implication of the collapse of reconstruction. from 1868 to 1898, 30 year period, 53,000 black folks were killed, 53,000 black folks were killed as the nation walked back its effort to be a multi racial democracy. symone, i m not talking about spectacular lynchings, and talk about killing with folks who are walking out from their farms, trying to in some ways terrorize those people who became the new leaders of the country. we have a historical precedent for the moment if that makes sense. it makes perfect sense to me, professor, i m very happy that you continue to tell the truth about this, history is an unbroken continuity and those that do not know their history