ramallah. palestinians have come out to protest and also to clash with israeli soldiers and they re expressing solidarity with the people of gaza. what s interesting here is these are not all hamas supporters. this is not traditionally a hamas stronghold. there are other palestinian factions that hold sway here. but all of the palestinian factions are coming together right now. the reason i m looking around is we re trying to see if there is tear gas coming from the israeli soldiers right now. you might bible to see there is a drone up in the sky, and that drone is either an israeli drone, either taking photographs of us or it could drop tear gas. it is something the israelis do quite a bit. instaud of launching tear gas, they will fly a drone and drop it into the crowd. it sounds like the israelis the palestinians are trying to fire fireworks to disrupt or confuse the drone. the but that is what we are seeing here. there have been volleys of tear gas, and everyone is runni
their fellow officers being run over. you mentioned you can t use the court of public opinion [ question inaudible ] but this is your community. are you concerned how this decision will be received to protesters outside? we assume it will not be received well. is that a concern? i believe there will be folks not happy with this decision. when i was appointed the district attorney in 2013 and ran for this position in 2014 and ran for this position in 2018 i had a full understanding of what the duties and responsibilities of the district attorney are. sometimes i make popular decisions such as charging the four inmates with capital murder, and i make unpopular decisions. i signed up for all of them, popular and unpopular. wait a minute. showed up yes. the family saw a longer version. i did not include the portion where law enforcement officers removed mr. brown from the car. i did not think there was any journalistic need for that. he s clearly in a lifeless posit
district attorney ssers were justified in that shooting. plus, a major split in the gop over whether to back a bipartisan agreement to form a commission to investigate the january 6th siege at the capitol. the house s top republic now opposing the deal. will the party try to quash the commission all together? and a new train of attack in israel and gaza, hours after president biden said he supports a cease-fire. the violence suggests there s no end in sight from this conflict. good tuesday afternoon. it is meet the press daily. i m andrea mitchell in for chuck todd. kasie hunt will be with us in a moment. but we start this hour with breaking news, a court ruled deputy courts were justified in the deadly shooting of andrew brown jr. last month. they were serving an award warrant on felony drug charges. in a press conference that ended about an hour ago, district attorney andrew womble said none of the others involved would be criminally charged and their actions were
through new barriers. you know, it has china the largest fastest growing vehicle market in the world. the key part of the electric vehicle is the battery. right now 80% of the manufacturing capacity of those batteries is done in china. so not the battery for the 150, f-150. we went down to georgia and took care of that. it allows them to corner the market on the supplies of raw materials for those batteries. important importing almost all the lithium, 90%, and it comes from countries like australia which leads the world in mining these kinds of critical materials. here s the deal. it s not that china s technology is that much better than anybody s elses, and remember our automakers led in the development of this technology, but today china has a bigger manufacturing scale than all other countries, and using that scale to make these batteries not just in china but are making them in germany and mexico and exporting those electric vehicles around the world, with sights on the
ensuring equal justice under the law. but here s the dirty little secret. the most powerful forces in america fueling the current rage against police, they are playing everyone. and they re using grieving families to perpetrate their fraud on all of us. their goal isn t to justice. its revolution. they don t even care about convicting police officers who commit crimes. what they really want to do is to convict america. chauvin is headed to jail but is america headed to justice? is justice convicting a police officer? or is justice convicting america? when tens of millions of americans after floyd s merthyr last year took to the streets of nearly every american town, we were convicting america. justice is not closing the case. justice is not closing the door on chauvin. justice is closing the door on racist narratives and policies. laura: that s been taught to your kids, by the way. what policies precisely? what narrative? once the proof that they were in fact designed to