descending into poverty. the most advanced continental and the planet, the birthplace of western civilization is getting much poorer, moving backwards at a high speed. just a year ago, europe was in a modern place. the overwhelming majority of europeans filled their homes with natural gas, as modern people do. in germany, the world s richest country, only about 6% of households heated their homes with and you can expect that given that germany is a modern, industrialized country, with central heating, indoor plumbing, the trappings of a modern society that has last year, only 6% of germans used wood to get their homes, but it s risen so fast, the demand, that there is none left to buy. so now, germans are cutting their own, scouring the forest like their ancestors. some in germany are taking matters into their own hands. about two hours outside of berlin, residents of the small town to go have to be innovative for this project organizer, if you don t it will neve
still fully engaged. with that as a back drop we begin tonight on the north lawn with rich edson who picks up the story from there. hey, rich, good evening. richard: good evening, bill. job performance to the preferences of democrats and younger voters, a series of tough polling for the president here just a year and a half into his term. this is also a day that the white house held an event on the south lawn to commemorate a rare bipartisan legislative victory. though activists are pushing president biden to be more aggressive. have to do more than that. a gunman murdered manual oliver s son in the park land, florida 2018. this morning he interrupted a presidential speech. as president biden touted the recently passed gun law. this law had been in place years ago, even this last year, lives would have been saved. it matters. this legislation is real progress. more has to be done. with continued mass shootings republican opposition to stricter gun measures and the s
hi, peter . actually , good morning. and you hit the nail on the head there. the big focus of today s meetings is going to be on iran right now. the big concern for leaders in the gulf that the president is going to be meeting with separately and then together today is iran s nuclear program. what exactly are they going to do? they re the top two foes in the region for iran. are saudi arabia, where we are today with the president and israel where we were for the last couple of days with the president and things are apparently of great enough concern now that israel and saudi arabia have this first in a lifetime dialog going on . they are the first line kind of relations came yesterday when saudi arabia announced that they are finally going to start allowing flights to take off in israel to land here in saudi arabia and israel is not a part of today s meetings, but it is a great concern in the region what exactly iran is going to do. president biden said he prefers diplomacy,
latest. reporter: been less than 24 hours from the shooting at a grocery store in buffalo new york, now a church shooting here in california. looking live there. some of the people gathered there. near the intersection of the church. there will be a heavy law enforcement presencessa they investigate. orange county sheriff will update public this evening. there are still cars around the church, combing through the area to see what they can collect for the investigation. figuring out what lead up to the tragedy. a suspect of detained the scene and a weapon which may have been involved was recovered. there are few details on this. the orange county sheriff office did confirm, put out a tweet. it says dispatch received a call of a shooting inside geneva presbyterian church, 1:26 p.m., 4 victims have been critically wounded, one with minor injuries, all victims are adults, en route to the hospital, one victim deceased. governor newsom commented on this put out a tweet saying in pa
continued special coverage of today s unanimous guilty on all counts verdict in the new york criminal trial of former president donald trump. i am rachel maddow joined by nicole wallace and joy reid and katie phang and chris hayes. also lawrence o donnell is with us. we re about to be joined by the star witness for the prosecution in this trial. michael cohen is going to speak with us exclusively giving us his first reaction to this verdict tonight. michael cohen will be joining us here in just one moment. he ll be with us live here on set. the jury sent a note to judge juan merchan, it said, quote, we, the jury, have reached a verdict. 45 minutes later at 5:05 p.m. the jury was back in the courtroom and seated. defendant donald trump was there and seated as well. judge merchan then addressed the foreperson of the jury. it went like this. the judge, mr. foreperson, without telling me the verdict, has the jury, in fact, reached a verdict. juror number one, yes, they have. the