Glad youre with us on this monday im Frances Rivera and im philip mena that breaking news overnight, nascar has opened an investigation after a noose was found in the garage of nascar driver Bubba Wallace it happened yesterday in alabama. Wallace is nascars only fulltime africanamerican driver for the latest on this, we turn to dara brown in our newsroom. What can you tell us about this . Reporter good morning. Details are breaking overnight it was discovered sunday afternoon before the geico 500 was postponed due to bad weather. According to espn, wallacer in saw the noose. It was seen by a member of his team and responded to nascar, which responded saying, we are angry and outraged and cannot state seriously enough how seriously we take this heinous act. As we stated, there is no place for racism in nascar, and this act only strengthens our resolve to make the sport open and welcoming to all late last night, Bubba Wallace tweeted a statement saying reporter he goes on to say reporter
Apparent winner, 16 days after he was actually declared the victor. That frees up million of dollars and, importantly, makes the transition official initiating background checks on the president elects nominees. President trump says his legal team is moving full speed ahead even though they have lost every major battle that could have affected the outcome. The president elect officially announced his nominees on monday. He will not unveil his full Economic Team until next week but nbc news has confirmed that former fed chair and past head of the White House Council of economic advisers, janet yellen, will be his nominee for treasury secretary, the first woman for that role. On wall street, the dow cleared 30,000 in the last hour, a new all time intraday high. Joining me now, nbc news correspondent Geoff Bennett in delaware and weekend today cohost Peter Alexander at the white house. Geoff, first to you, the biden transition entering a key phase. We expect to see him as soon as 1 00 unl
From victory in the iowa through the door asked if he caucuses [ cheers ] are you guys ready to win . Could be on the show and we were like, yeah. Heres my mic. [ cheers ] are you ready to give it your im looking over your all . Shoulder, joe. Pictures of the wall including a picture of you and mika, tim russert still wearing the coat when he came in and asked to be otton show. A superior special place. Yes. And my daughter still on my lap is in college now. Joined by three president ial candidates, Pete Buttigieg [ applause ] a lot of pete folk heres. Senator Amy Klobuchar and andrew yang will be here. [ cheers ] plus, were going to be joined by, i cant wait, my friend dr. Jill biden will be here onset as well [ applause ] so the starting gun if that isnt a big enough headline, look at the week ahead. An tonights action in iowa, tomorrow is President Trumps state of the Union Address to congress. Kind of awkward given everything going on. On wednesday, the senate will take a final vot
Enough is enough. The people marching in the streets are telling you enough is enough. Georges name mean something. You have the opportunity here today to make your names means something too. If his death end up changing the world for the better, and i think it will, then he died as he lived. It is on you to make sure his death is not in vain. Incredible strength. One day after laying his brother to rest. It is. Its amazing. Is what that a black man is worth in 2020, 20, if his death changes the world, then he will have died as he lived. That plea at the very end so moving to ensure that george floyd did not die in vain. That was George Floyds brother appearing before the House Judiciary Committee has Congress Debates the way forward on Police Reform legislation. Good morning and welcome to morning joe, its thursday, june 11th, along with joe, willy and me we have former chairman of the Republican National committee Michael Steele joining us, nbc news correspondent and host on msnbc ka
Without masks in a mega church to cheer the president repeating his highly criticized racist term for the virus for the second taime in a week. And the European Union may block americans from entering in a draft proposal. This comes after number one ranked tennis star Novak Djokovic announces hes covid19 positive after he hosted a tournament in which he was seen out in clubs the days before. Ill speak with georgias Stacey Abrams on tuesday nights exciting primary results and on her campaign against voter suppression. Lets begin with Nbcs Joe Fryer in scottsdale, arizona. Dhae thanks for joining us. Whats the governors plan to turn these numbers around . Reporter andrea, in the last hour we got the latest news. The good news is the number of new cases in arizona is 1,800, half the number we saw yesterday, yesterday a recordbreaking day in arizona with nearly 3,600 new cases. The bad news today, arizona reporting 79 new deaths. That is a single day record here for the state of arizona wh