i don t think that s going to make the difference. the change, the policy changes aren t going to make a difference. we changed policies for years. what makes the difference? getting to know your community. and i mentioned there will be three days of these commemorations. today, there s that march and rally. tomorrow, there will be virtually organizing, and then on tuesday, the exact year to the day when george floyd was killed, there will be commemorations across the city of minneapolis, and i suspect, really across the country. all right, so from minneapolis, we want to go to new york, where we find cori in new york city, also a major part of the protest landscape last summer. what are you seeing there? yasmin, it was, and the george floyd movement showed up here to the brooklyn borough on the steps today for a day of remembrance. it s different than what we saw in the past year, the months of strife and marches in the street. today was reflecting, what has been done sinc
the white house has said they re still working with republicans. it is currently, as we know, clogged in the republican senate. they re hopeful to have some sort of compromise to move it forward. it s just taking longer than they expected, and as shaq mentioned, the biden administration inviting the george floyd family to the table on tuesday to continue the conversation. all right, shaq in minneapolis for us, cori in new york city, thank you both. by the way, reverend al sharpton hosting his show from minneapolis tonight. he s joining us at 4:30 p.m. to talk about what to expect in this special edition of politics nation. you don t want to miss that. we re getting more reaction to the republican dismissal of a compromise offer from the white house that would have slashed the plan by $550 billion, the infrastructure plan, that is. the president s senior adviser cedric richmond, still insisting bipartisan negotiations remain a top priority. he wants a deal. he wants it soon. but
on tuesday. you also see the spirit of activism there, and you see some people here from visual black justice there, have what is a coffin here. and you see the words on there. it says for those who weren t filmed, who weren t on camera. that s the priority, and that s what they want their focus to be on. and to that point, many people are now wondering, what happens next? where do we go forward now that we marked a year since george floyd s deaths? we saw changes across the country. of course, president biden is inviting the family of george floyd to the white house on tuesday to push for national reform. even here in minneapolis, there s been a ban on choke holds, a ban of neck restraints. i spoke to a former minneapolis police department lieutenant, someone who before he retired called for change, called for some of the reforms we re seeing now, and we asked what he thinks about the changes he s seeing now. broadly speaking, as someone who has been calling for this before you reti