To use. It would stretch from coast to coast. Was it some sort of antigovernment militia group? i no idea what we are dealing. With before leading investigators back home. My thoughts where, it s someone we know. Was he living a double life? i think he. Was here making him sound like kind of elector. It was just, wow. The courthouse the moral center of every. American city in town. The place we go to settle differences. Resolve disputes, find justice. What it s the place where the story usually ends, but not this time. We re not in kaufman texas, where life is legally and no one s a stranger. Oh my gosh, someone just saw shot someone. It was just bam, bam, bam. This time, it s where the story begins. Someone was trying to send a message. It s just so bold. A story that quickly got too big for this texas town. And like a prairie fire, spread across the nation. We have some new information this morning involved in the brazen murder of a. The in this town, the hunters became the hunted. I
terms of the particulars of it, i ll defer to the folks at the doj. what i can say is my good friend, michael harrison, is commissioner of the baltimore police department. and he and i speak fairly regularly. and they re under consent decree. and what i ve seen through him is how if you get the right team running the consent decree, it can do nothing but benefit welcome back. we are now in the 3:00 hour eastern. we ve been listening to louisville city officials that include the mayor, the police chief there, responding to attorney general merrick garland s announcement that the doj plans to open an investigation into the police department there in louisville, kentucky. after years last year s shooting death of brie oeonna taylor. we have anthony barksdale, former acting baltimore police commissioner and elie honig, former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. elie, i want to start with the tone of this press conference. i don t know what i was
terms of the particulars of it, i defer to folks at doj. what i can say is my good friend michael harrison is commissioner of the baltimore police department and he and i speak fairly regularly and they re under consent decree. what i have seen through him is how if you get the right team running the consent decree, it can do nothing but benefit the department and the city, so i think ideally we don t find ourselves in that space because it s just, i think it can be costly quite honestly, but i also will say if the doj comes back and says we think this is necessary, well, then it is necessary. so i think then what do you need to do to make it a positive. and again, i would encourage you to reach out to commissioner harrison. he is living it real time. he has told me repeatedly that the consent decree allowed him to drive change in baltimore. you know what, i want us to be successful and i m not going to say there s no reason to drive fear or be an alarmist. the doj wants us
joshua johnson. welcome to the week. president biden had a good week. he marked as 100 days in office, delivering his first presidential speech to a joint session of congress. a new poll out today, shows that nearly two thirds of americans express optimism about the direction of the country. the last time we came close to that level of optimism, was in december of 2006. i often think about a quote, from abraham lincoln. public sentiment is everything. with it, nothing can fail. against it, nothing can succeed. perhaps it s clear why many americans are upbeat. 100 million of us are fully vaccinated, just in time for summer. i m a week and a half away from my second shot. but this is just a snapshot of how the country is feeling right now. that can change, depending on how much the president gets done. the major successes of his first 100 days, centered around covid relief. now he is turning to infrastructure plan. the path ahead, for that, seems less clear. republicans say the
boat that capsized just off the coast of san diego. officials say it looks like smuggling. and last night we asked you for your photos of things that helped raise your perspective in these troubled times. i call it the observatory effect. and you did not disappoint. we will share some of our favorites throughout the hour. from nbc news world headquarters in new york, i m joshua johnson. welcome to the week. well, president biden had a good week. he marked his 100 days in office delivering his first presidential speech to a joint session of congress. a new poll out today shows that nearly two-thirds of americans expressed optimism about the direction of the country. the last time we came close to that level of optimism was in december of 2006. i often think about a quote from abraham lincoln. public sentiment is everything. with it, nothing can fail. against it, nothing can succeed. perhaps it s clear why many americans are upbeat. 100 million of us are fully vaccin