Eastern. His interview with the president is part of this blockbuster town hall that lawrence husker tonight on msnbc, that ll include not only his exclusive interview with president biden, but he s also got doctor anthony fauci, and vivek murphy and the health and human services secretary xavier becerra, and the superstar 34yearold scientists, dr. Kizzmekia corbett, who was on the team at moderna that develop the covid vaccine. That is all coming up tonight on lawrence is special town hall that he has here on msnbc at the top of this hour starting at 10:00 eastern. That town hall, and all of that news, that ll comes on the day where the cdc has just given approval for kids 12 and up to get vaccinated. We re gonna have more on that story a little later on including some of the practicalities in terms of what it means for you and your family, if you have kids aged 12 to 15 in your household. But honestly i m under no illusions, i recognize this hour that i m here tonight as the run up,
. welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. it s thursday, april 22nd, and the biden administration is putting police on notice. the department of justice is launching a federal several probe of the minneapolis police department to determine if there s a pattern of unlawful policing. and the issue is just so much larger than george floyd. today family and friends will say good-bye to daunte wright in minneapolis. he was shot and killed during a traffic stop. and two days ago a 16-year-old girl was fatally shot by a police officer in columbus, ohio. let s bring in jeremy diamond at the white house. reporter: good morning, brianna. president biden made very clear during that his remarks in the wake of the derek chauvin verdict that he wanted to move on police reform. he wanted to use this moermt as a galvanizing moment to produce browder changes. and we re seeing steam picking up over democrats and republicans over what the future of police r
extraordinary. they spanned generations. born in america, immigrated to america, but just like that, so many of them took their final breath alone in america. i know all too well, i know what it s like to not be there when it happens. i know what it s like when you are there holding their hands. there is a look in their eye and they slip away. the president tonight and to put it in perspective, he took office with fatalities having just crossed 400,000. nearly 100,000 lives have been lost since then. a quarter million in the last three months, 500,000 plus in about a year. no, there are a number of ways of expressing the awful figures, whether so many football stadiums, this many towns, this city or that ocho , these wars combined. it boils down to this, we all know someone who grieves or worse, someone who is gone. whatever scale the loss may be, whether close enough to touch or too large to grasp, it s clear by now we ve seen too much. more on this tonight along with conf
described as ordinary americans. there s no such thing. there s nothing ordinary about them. the people we lost were extraordinary. they span generations. born in america, emigrated to america. but just like that, so many of them took their final breath alone in america. i know, all too well, i know what it s like to not be there when it happens. i know what it s like when you are there, holding their hands. as they look in your eye and they slip away. the president, tonight, and to put it in perspective. he took office with fatalities having just crossed 400,000. nearly 100,000 lives have been lost, since then. a quarter million, in the last three months. 500,000-plus, in about a year. and though, there are any number of ways of expressing these awful figures. whether it s so many football stadiums, this many towns, this city or that. or these wars, combined. it boils down to this. by now, we all know someone who grieves. or worse, someone who s gone. and while, whatever s
half a million now dead in america. we ve done worse than most any other country. the kind of disparate responses of states rather than having a unified approach. we have to resist becoming numb to the sorrow. we must do so to honor the dead. merrick garland making it clear justice department he runs will be different from the one he would inherit. i can assure you, i m not the president s lawyer. i m the united states lawyer. you will make the decision based on the advices given and on the facts of the law wrashd to the political consequences. announcer: this is new day with alisyn camerota and john berman. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and all around the world, this is new day. it s tuesday, february 23rd, 6:00 a.m. here in new york. half a million american lives lost to coronavirus. it s a monumental loss made all the worse by knowing that in the united states it didn t have to be this high. this morning flags are flying at half-st