reports, president trump lashing out at jack smith today trying to portray the investigation as an attempt to rig the 2024 election calling on his supporters to fight against the justice department and fbi in a series of fiery social media posts. as the potential for indictments grows by the day. despite a direct appeal this week from trump s legal team. the special counsel in new video obtained exclusively by nbc news is not ready to show his cards. is an indictment coming soon, sir? is an investigation wrapping up, sir? also today, former new jersey governor chris christie is entering the republican contest kicking off a string of announcements this week from candidates trying to catch donald trump in the polls. and i ll be joined by maryland governor wes moore on the culture wars being waged by top republicans as a wedge issue against democrats. plus a disaster in ukraine, a major dam and electric power plant blown up, thousands are being evacuated from rising floodw
today in america, we commemorate juneteenth, the annual holiday that celebrates the end of slavery specifically the arrival of union troops in texas in 1865 freeing 250,000 enslaved african-americans in the state and enforcing the emancipation proclamation s two and a half years after its signing n.charleston, south carolina, at the site of one of the world s most prolific slave ports, a museum has been built honoring the thousands of a cans forced to leave their homes under barbaric conditions. the international african museum also severs as a memorial and a research center allowing african-americans to connect with their ancestors to find answers about their place in american history, and my cnn colleague victor black s well joining us now with that. victor, you actually worked with the pewsium for several months
empowered you are. when we had our inauguration, i started it at the docks which is one of the oldest slave ports. and a couple hundred people marched from the docks up to the statehouse where i was sworn into become the 63rd governor. and immediately people said that he is starting his inauguration, his governorship with indoctrination, that is not indoctrination, it is history. and it wasn t done to make people feel bad, it was done in a way of making all of us feel empowered about look where we ve come from and look where we are now. weren t you sworn in on frederick douglass historic bible? i was. and another intentional thing. one bible was my grandfather s bible and he was the first black minister in the history of the dutch reformed church. and second was bible of