Union general rode into gal va t texas, rode in and told africanamericans they were indeed free. Moments ago president biden tweeted juneteenth marks both the long, hard night of slavery and the promise of the brighter morning to come. It is the day of profound weight and power. Let s get straight to nadia romero who joins us from tulsa, oklahoma, an important cllocati, especially on juneteenth. This comes less than a month of events commemorating the race massacre. Walk us through what is happening today. How is tulsa marking juneteenth? reporter: good morning, boris and amara. This has been such an important time for tulsa residents to have national spotlight and people talking about them and what s happening here. I ve been here all week and there have been multiple moments where i ve gotten chills thinking about the massacre, but also thinking about the resiliency of this community to come back and rebuild time and time again. You know, it was freed enslaved africans who were ensla
Joe manchin s compromise bill come makes election day a public holiday and mandates at least 17 days of early voting and bans partisan gerrymandering. Betto o rourke who will join us in a minute to explain why he supports manchin s bill along with other progressive democrats like jimmy harrison and stacy abrams. As for mcconnell, he s just being mitch mcconnell. The revised version produced by one of the democrats yesterday endorsed by stacy abrams and extraordinary dubious constitutionality would remove legislating from state legislatures and totally inappropriate and all republicans, i think, will oppose that, as well. I actually think when stacy abrams immediately endorsed senator mcconnell s proposal it became the stacy abrams substitute and not joe manchin substitute. Infrastructure is the other big item on the hill. At least 21 senators say they back a bipartisan proposal. A fiveyear spending plan with about a $1 trillion price tag. It would do far more than just fix roads and br
Overturn his election loss. First republicans tried to blame antifa. Then they tried to blame democrats posing as trump supporters. Then, they tried to say, well, it wasn t an insurrection at all, even claiming the insurrectionists were as peaceful as tourists. Now they have settled on an alarming new narrative. Last night, tucker carlson doubled down on the baseless conspiracy theory he raised on tuesday, alleging once again without any actual evidence that the fbi played a role in carrying out the insurrection. In other words, he s suggesting it was an inside job, another socalled false flag operation by the deep state. Tuckms says because court documents name unindicted coconspirators were named, those people must be undercover fbi agents. One of the problems is by definition, the government literally cannot name an agent as onunindicted coconspirator, and it s no surprise the theory arose on a dubious website run by a former trump speechwriter. Never mind it was immediately debunke
today we are able to breathe again. i m going to miss him, but now i know he s in history. what a day to be a floyd. it s a victory for all of us. there s no color barrier on this. this is everyone who has been held down, pinned down. you know what, people? we standing together in unity. the brothers of george floyd reacting after a jury finds derek chauvin guilty of murder. the first such conviction of a white police officer against a black civilian in the state of minnesota. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is wednesday, april 21st. guilty on all charges was the verdict rendered after ten hours of deliberations for former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin who killed a black man named george floyd on may 25th of last year by kneeling on his neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds. chauvin s bond was revoked and he was immediately remanded to custody at the oak park heights correctional facility where he will spend the next eight weeks awaiting sentencin
lady paying their respects and today the moving tribute. the president s strongest comments on the impeachment of donald trump why he says the trial must move forward as trump s legal team arrives at the capitol. the house is set to vote disciplining republican congresswoman spreading conspiracy theories. nearly a year into the pandemic, the shortages of everything from cars to frozen pizzas. what to know before you shop the life-changing medical miracle. this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening everyone, some welcome findings tonight that vaccinations are in fact putting us in the right track to get ahead of the coronavirus. the encouraging headlines came from astrazeneca, its vaccine reduces its ability to spread tonight as the pace of mass vaccinations pick up across the country with the strongest efforts on minority communities, we are getting a jarring look of how our first line of defense mask wearing is still being rejected in parts of our country. wha