america, about their well-being and their safety, abuse and discrimination, about ensuring equal justice under the law but here is the dirty little secret, the most powerful forces in america fueling the current rage against police are playing everyone and using grieving families to perpetrate their fraud on all of us. their goal isn t justice, it is revolution, they don t care about convicting police officers who commit crimes. what they really want to do is to convict america. show him chauvin is headed to jail but as america headed to justice? is justice convicting a police officer or is justice convicting america? when tens of millions of americans took to the streets, of nearly every american town we were convicting america. justice is not closing the case, justice is not closing the cell door on chauvin, justice is closing the door on racist narratives and policies. what policies precisely the talking about, what narratives? and what is the proof that they were de
what democrats have been calling cages since trump s presidency. now that painful site is sinking in and their reaction is coming fast and fierce. you had children side-by-side and come aligned on the floor, no beds, no cots, no mats, line on the floor covered up with reflective blankets and 10 percent of the population there is testing positive for covid. it s a humanitarian disaster and crisis and it s man-made. joe biden because this with political decisions made in the opening weeks of this administration. the numbers are just as stunning. border officials more than 4,000 migrants inside that facility. that s only meant to hold 250 during the pandemic. coming up, what he just saw during his tour of the facility they re. there. john. we begin our day with casey steagall he is live at the border in eagles pass, texas again today. hi, casey. hello come out with you do the math, what those numbers that you were just talking about, the donna cross-section facility here
the president is referring to this plan is being as ambitious and transformational as the interstate highway system or the space race. it comes with a higher price tag than any government spending proposal ever plus the biggest tax hike in decades. it s not a plan that tinkers around the edges. it s a once in a generation investment in america. the headlines of the infrastructure section of the biden production plan, $115 billion to modernize roads and bridges most in need of repair. 111 billion to replace all lead pipes. 213 billion to build or retrofit 2 billion affordable, sustainable houses. it s about infrastructure. the white house wants to raise the corporate tax rate to 20% and raise the global minimum tax to 21%. it s mended administration of the government, by the government, for the government. the only thing it appears they are in favor of his more government spending, taxes and government power over lives. the chamber of commerce argues against it. pr
the process of bringing u.s. troops home from afghanistan could start within weeks from now. in minneapolis, minnesota the trial of derek chauvin resumes later this hour and the defense picks up its case as it tries to plant some seeds of doubt about the death of george floyd, this, as tensions grow following the police shooting of another black man just a few miles away. we have our team of nbc reporters spread across the country covering all angles of these stories and more, and i want to go to the breaking news in minnesota where at least 60 people were arrested after protesters broke curfew and took to the streets for a third straight night following that police shooting of a 20-year-old man just a few days ago. i want to go right to morgan chesky in brooklyn center, minnesota. walk us through how things played out last night. steph, they played out right here in front of the police department which is still lined with the high fence, and still has national guard humvee
the mysterious workings of the united states senate, and getting into it with adam jentleson. i knew you would appreciate me doing that, because you re as much of a dork about these things as i am. but having adam talk me down and explain what it means in practical terms was good. because i was giddy. the idea of three reconciliation bills this year, most years they don t have any. these are not they re just not things that are used all the time. so here we are, this is unprecedented. and it s going to be exciting to watch. and it also means that they re going to have to think about legislation and legislative priorities in a very different way. if you re honest about the prospect of getting ten republican votes, it s never going to happen on anything. that means they now know it s not just one more reconciliation bill, it s three more. that means they need to think about their priorities in terms of what can be passed in a reconciliation bill. only a specific kind of