Been proved. We do know these unprecedented mask quarantines, the mask mandates in particular, have driven many americans to the brink of insanity and some far beyond it. We ll have more in a moment on the outbreak of mental illness. But first what has all of this isolation done to children? we ve had to guess about that but tonight we re hearing first hand from a 10yearold from john who lives in martin county, florida. He spoke at a school board meeting to describe what being forced to we are a mask has done to his life. I love my school but my teacher seems stressed and that makes me feel bad. One teacher walks around with a clipboard full of referrals if a mask isn t on properly. It makes me feel scared that same teacher yells at us having our mask on to drink a water while outside. She told us we had to wait until we were in our parent s car to drink a water. She had her mask the entire time while she was yelling at us which makes me and my friends very mad. This happens a lot. And
It was a texas lawmaker today who reminded us that while one battle for equality is finely finished, others are in limbo right now in congress. We steadfastly worked day after day for 12 years and it says that you voted for this holiday, now you can vote for the george floyd justice in policing act. You can fix the voting system to give us voting rights to protect against those voter suppression laws. But the sweeping voting rights bill s1, it s frozen. While moderate senator joe manchin waives the flag of bipartisanship, the fate of his counter proposal to federal democrats might be a foregone conclusion. Minority leader mitch mcconnell seems more intent on acting like a blockade. Equally unacceptable. Totally inappropriate. All republicans i think will oppose that as well if that were to be surface on the floor. Yet manchin s counter is gaining traction on the left with voting rights advocate stacey abrams. She s signaling possible openness to a voter i. D. Requirement. What senator
There have been a lot of images from the rioters. Along with the videos of rioters, one of them has been of police officer eugene goodman running up a staircase leading rioters away from members of congress. The men and women that he was sworn and assigned to protect. Since then lawmakers have voted to award he and other officers medals for their service. And tonight officer goodman was given this honor as well. He threw out the ceremonial first pitch at tonight s washington national baseball game against the new york mets. I hear it s really hard to do that. The news continues. Let s hand it over to michael smerconish in for chris. How cool is that image? i am michael smerconish in for chris cuomo, and welcome to prime time. And also the first official juneteenth federal holiday in our nation s history. Complete with its own flag hoisted in places like wisconsin today. The single white star symbolizing texas where the last enslaved people in this country were told they were free and t
Gordon granger rode into galveston, texas, bringing news for black texans, the last group of enslaved people in the nation. They had been free for more than two years. Finally this was an army to enforce the emancipation procl proclamation. And president biden s signature this week cemented it, that legislate passing with overwhelming bipartisan support, something that doesn t happen often here in washington. Suzanne malveaux right here in the nation s capitol, so great to see you, so great to see so many people celebrating j june juneteenth. Show us how people are marking this historic day. We are at the cultural center in washington, d. C. On the corner of 14th. You see behind me all the people start to go gather this evening. This day is really about black resilience and black achievement as well as too celebrate this very important howl days. It s also a time to recognize this is something that s just the beginning, just the start of many changes that the community is fighting for.
Throughment rich edson is joining us from wilmington, delaware where the president is spending the weekend. Good afternoon, griff. When president biden returns to washington the white house says he ll be negotiating with republicans and democrats and a compromise on infrastructure. They re discussing a $1 trillion infrastructure proposal however there are stick being points, how to pay for this. Democrats want tax increases and republicans want to use unspent covid relief funds. His own proposal, as you know, is a huge package, 2. 65 trillion dollars with a $2 trillion of new taxes, particularly taxes on american businesses and american workers which makes no sense coming out of this pandemic. Now, griff, as you mentioned, democrats are working on two tracks here, there s that bipartisan trillion dollar track, but also looking for a larger bill, something in the order of $6 trillion, potentially up to that much. This is something that the democrats would have to pass with all of their