with a qualifying internet bundle. that does it for me. comcast business, powering possibilities. thanks for watching. i will see you back here next weekend at five pm eastern. right now, it s american voices with alicia menendez. thank you so, much reverend sharpton. hello, everyone. i am alicia menendez. there was movement today in the effort to bring home more than 200 hostages held by hamas in gaza. family members of hostages held a rally in tel aviv holding up pictures of their loved ones kidnapped by hamas during the october 7th attack. this comes as the biden administration official tells nbc news there is a possible deal in the works to exchange about 80 of the hostages, women and children, four palestinians held by in israel. this morning on meet the, press israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu discussed israel s attempt to reach a deal to free all hostages. i can say that we weren t close at all until we started the ground operation. in fact, we heard ther
the heat is bad for the bad between the hotter it gets, the harder it is to find your words. wow. cucumber. hot weather can result in lower scores on math tests as well as higher rates of aggression ranging from mean-spirited behavior to violent crime. well, that explains florida. the heat wave is also blasting washington, d.c. when people complain it being over 90 president biden is like see, 81 isn t so bad. just saying. i m not kidding. it s hot out there. i spent all day sweating like a fox news anchor trying to explainp juneteenth. good morning. welcome to morning joe, it s wednesday, june 20th. millions of people from the midwest to the northeast will face extreme heat for a fourth straight day. the national weather service is predicting record highs again in several areas, and the heat is expected to last into the weekend. also, tropical storm alberto, the first named storm of the hurricane season, is expected to make landfall soon on mexico s gulf coast. the l
we fell in love i got along great with president putin. i liked him. he liked me. that s a good thing, not a bad thing. imagine the fomo from trump, the two dictators he admires and praises, and trump s not there to join the party? hmm? election interference 2.0, roger stone s plan to retake the white house even if trump loses again. good evening and happy juneteenth. i m michael steele in for joy reid. we begin tonight with an earnest question. what on earth is wrong with the republican party? the grand state of the party was on full display when donald trump held a particularly unhinged rally where he spent 90 minutes, folks, spewing a combination of lies, vitriol, and rambling word salad. joe biden s formal granting mass he s going to formally grant a mass amnesty to millions of illegal aliens. less than four years ago our border was secure, inflation was nowhere to be seen, the world was at peace. in 2016 we won. and then we did much better here in 2020, b
andrea mitchell picks up coverage right now. right now on andrea mitchell reports, a landmark deal between russia and north korea. what that could mean for vladimir putin s illegal war in ukraine. kim jong-un s illegal nuclear program. the threat they pose to the rest of the world. donald trump doing damage control in wisconsin, insisting he loves milwaukee and never actually called it a horrible city. are voters going to boy that? israel claiming it s punishing offensive in rafah is coming to an end. that doesn t mean an end to the war in gaza. no progress on negotiations to release the remaining hostages. the american parents of one of the young men kidnapped on october 7th will join me today. good day, everyone. happy juneteenth. we start with that historic partnership between russia and north korea, a bold show of anti-western defiance that s rattling the u.s. and its allies worldwide. this was the scene earlier today. russian president vladimir putin giving
county official with a post erased in which he shared a t-shirt blaming china for the coronavirus saying the suspects in the shooting just had a bad day. he does claim it was not racially motivated. i spoke with investigators that, yes, he understood the gravity of it and was pretty much fed up, at the end of his rope and yesterday was a really bad day for him and this is what he did. this was a really bad day for the victims too. today, celebrities are speaking out. testifying on capitol hill after speaking to nbc. this man targeted places where asian-americans were working. you don t have to peal the layers back far. i ll speak to activist coming up and with president biden and vice president harris. the president has addressed the shootings on wednesday. i know americans are very concerned. as you know, i ve been speaking about brutality against asian-americans for months and i thinks it very, very trouble some. joining me now from atlanta, nbc news correspon