This our, Princeton University professor eddie glaude talks to me about President Bidens graduation speech at morehouse. The interview in just a few moments. A very good day to all of you from msnbc World Headquarters in new york. Welcome everyone to politico reports. First two political headlines. Here is what is happening right now. President biden arrived in atlanta a short time ago. He will attend Campaign Events later today and is expected to deliver the Commencement Speech at Morehouse College tomorrow. Earlier today, The White House released photos of a friday meeting with members of the divine nine historically africanamerican sororities and fraternities. Biden also spoke at the National Museum of African American history and culture. Together, the naacp and this museum are monuments to the power of black history to black history is American History. It is american. It is a really important thing to continue. We have a whole group of people out there trying to rewrite history,
Justice Department Inspector general to conduct inspections of all federal prisons and make recommendations to congress to fian problems. Later ith week, members debateeglation dealingith regulating Digital Assets by the securities and exchange watch live coverage of the house onspan, the senate cspan two. Ngressional coverage on our free video app, cspan now. Ore at cspan. Org. This week, 2024 campaign trail was on the road in where independent president ial candidate robert f. Kennedy, jr. Met withoters and continued his quest to get on every state ballot. From new york city, remarks from potential running matesfformer , showing their support during another week of his criminal trial. Harris as she met with voters during yet another swi t the mid yes midwest. First, a look at the top political headline of the week. T the top political headline of the week. Biden and trump have agreed to two debates. Another on september 10 hosted bybc. The agreement by the means they will be skipping
Of jim crow, Charles Hamilton houston and the to brown versus board of education. 1954. So today well talk a little bit about this major figure africanamerican history. Charles houston, whos really important because he uses american law to dismantle the legal structure, the system that supports and upholds racial segregation in america. Hes a phenomenal person. Most people dont know him, but theyre more familiar with his students. And well talk or ill just mention some of those individuals like thurgood marshall, First Supreme Court justice, as well, as pauli murray, who helped write the brief that leads to weve come to know today is title nine legislation and Constance Baker motley william hastily other individuals. That are associated with houston and the Howard University school of law houston is significant among other things, hes responsible for creating what becomes known as the civil rights lawyer is group and cadre of individuals that will use american constitutional law to fun
Temperatures expected to be in the 90s. And they could stay there for days. The cleanup from that crushing storm that downed trees and destroyed homes and businesses is just getting started. We are going to have to talk about this disaster in weeks, not days. And theyre not alone. Millions in the southeast now facing the possibility of Severe Weather today, angie is tracking it all. Brutal assault, newly released Surveillance Video shows what appears to be Sean Diddy Combs attacking his then girlfriend at a California Hotel in 2016, where the investigation into combs could go from here, orange to green Scottie Scheffler, the worlds number one golfer, is arrested and thrown in jail just before the second round of the pga championship. I did spend some time stretching in a jail cell. That was a first for me. Despite it all, scheffler shined on the greens near the top of the leaderboard this morning, remembering Dabney Coleman, the beloved actor who starred in classic movies like 9 to 5 a
Afternoon. I Martha Maccallum and this is the story. We have to warn you with this first video that its very disturbing hard to watch video that appears to show Sean Diddy Combs attacking his exgirlfriend Cassie Ventura back in 2016. Cnn obtained this video just a short while ago. You see him running after her in the hallway on throwing her to the ground. It seems to back up the accusations and venturers lawsuit that she settled last year. We have reached out to diddy us Test Representative and will have more details on what this means for any potential charges against him and were all of this might be heading. Very Disturbing Development breaking late this afternoon in the diddy combs situation. Also ahead this hour Michael Collins former Legal Advisor bob costello who has become very central and a lot of what surrounds the remaining days and hours of this case. He says is called upon he is ready to testify that cohen told him over and over again that he had nothing on former Presiden