At xfinitymobile. Com/mysavings or visit an xfinity store to learn how our switch squad makes it easy to switch and save hundreds. A very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters in new york. Welcome to alex witt reports as we give you a look at what we saw transpire in the desert of new mexico today and frankly 50 miles above us here on earth we have seen billionaire richard branson launch his unity 2 spacecraft. He got suborbital flight. There you see the eve mother ship as it came in for a landing half an hour or 40 minutes ago. We re awaiting a press conference that richard branson and those three astronauts with him all employees of virgin galactic and the two pilots. We ll have a press conference with them. Tom costello is making his way to that press conference and we ll take a listen to some of the details of what transpired in suborbital flight. A first, extraordinary accomplishment on this july sunday here. We have other developing stories to get to at this hour.
This is transamerica. Hello, everyone, and happy pride month. I am joe fryer. Over the next hour, we ll focus on the reasons for hope and concern for those who are transgender. We ll have indepth conversations about politics, mental health, safety, faith, pop culture, and more. But let s begin with a look at where we are right now. Who s with me? it was the groundbreaking tv series with a short title and lasting legacy. This month pose came to a bittersweet end, but not before setting a new bar for transgender representation. Representation is key. We haven t shattered that glass ceiling yet. It s just a bit cracked. Visibility that s reflected in hollywood and beyond. I, dr. Rachel levine. In the political world dr. Rachel levine became the first openly transgender official nominated by the senate. I think it demonstrates how important equality and fairness is and that anything is possible. She now serves as assistant health secretary for a democratic president when california caitlyn
shepherds. and aisha? matt could be another example of hollywood unhinged people type out one celebrity suggestion on how to stop police involved shootings in america. that is right but first tensions are running high in cities across the country on the eve of closing arguments in the murder trial of derek chauvin the former minneapolis police officer accused of killing george like congresswoman maxine waters was at a protest last night in minneapolis at a democratic lawmaker was not doing much to lower the temperature. [background noises] has to be a guilty verdict of nothing doesn t happen we will know. [inaudible] we ve got to fight for justice. you scott to be more confrontational. got to make sure they know that we mean business. politicians are not alone and there position to fan the flames they re getting help for the mainstream media. take a look at what chris cuomo set up stopping gun violence in america? gun laws, access to weapons? your kids start getting
over 100 people arrested, the highest so far. some of those in the crowd were carrying baseball bats and throwing rocks and bottles at police and this as the city council here is planning to consider an unarmed traffic safety division for the city. meanwhile, kim potter, the police officer who fired the shot that killed daunte wright, she s made her first court appearance and charged with second degree manslaughter and could face up to 10 years in prison. as for the family, they say manslaughter is in the enough, they re pushing for the charge of murder. second degree manslaughter is not okay. i m not okay with that. that s not right. she murdered my son. my son is never going to come home. she gets to sit on a police pension right now while my son is going to be buried in a police body cam footage of 13-year-old adam toledo getting shot in march arose. toledo was carrying a gun and running from police in a dark alley, it was the moment that he tossed the gun he was shot an
robinson, apparently tired, punched fairly well and rocked jake right to his heels. come on, ray. a director and actor finds a story at the right time in the right place. and out comes this amazing combination of cinematic virility and absolute fear. it s like watching an animal. raging bull is a great title. the film fulfills the promise. the reality of the boxing and the great slow motion, all of the black and white gore, the violence of the flush bulbs going off. when he designed the movie, marty purely, he didn t pickup a clutch on the film. there s no clutch. hey, ray, you never went down, ray. you never got me down, ray. it s a boxing movie for people who don t like boxing. because it s really not about that. it s about this man who was based on a real person who is really at war with himself. come on. harder. harder. i didn t really understand boxing, but the character was interesting. he was just so contraire, as they say. he was