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face-to-meeting with president boris johnson even as president biden works to restore america s image after four years of the disgrace twice impeached former president, he does so in the face of a world that has frankly lost faith in our democracy here at home. a new pew research center report on global attitude showed only 17% of respondents from 16 nations said democracy in the united states is a good example for other countries to follow. and 57% said it used to be a good example, but has not been in recent years. another 23% said it never was a good example at all. that s not exactly surprising, given that one of our two major parties in the united states, the republicans, have become a leading force against democracy. maga cheerleaders taking turns questioning fbi director chris wray today in a house judiciary committee hears and while democrats pressed wray on the january 6th insurrection, a blatant attempt at destroying our democracy, the top rb, jim jordan used ....
what a news night. thank you. good evening, every one. i am joy reid. we have a lot of moving parts tonight. our plan was to spend a large portion of this hour talking about the anniversary of george floyd s murder and the legislation that s moving through congress to try and enact police reform in mr. floyd s name. the breaking news gods had other plans as prosecutors did in new york. we begin with explosive nutz of new york of the former president of the united states, donald trump and the trump organization. in a breaking story, the washington post revealed that manhattan s district attorney has convened the grand jury that is expected to decide whether to indict trump and other executives at his company or the business itself should prosecutors present the panel with criminal charges. that s according to two people familiar with the development. one of whom said that trump related testimony in the secret proceeding has begun. it s not clear whether the grand jur ....
than nine minutes. use of force expect, jody steiger, a sergeant with the lapd returned to the stand and made it clear that force should not have been used once george floyd was handcuffed and on the ground and that the risks were very well known. because at the time of the restraint period, mr. floyd was not resisting. he was in the prone position. he was handcuffed. he was not attempting to evade, not attempting to resist and the pressure that was being caused by the body weight could cause positional asphyxia which could cause death. two days ago the emergency room doctor who received floyd at the hospital said it was his belief that the causes of floyd s death was, in fact, a lack of oxygen. the defense is trying its best to dispews that. attorney eric nelson put the spotlight on george floyd. nelson played part of a police body cam video and can be heard floyd saying, quote, i ate too many drugs. after the next witness, james ryerson, the minnesota law enforcem ....
on the russian/ukrainian border. that is not the case. we have never cited that figure. we ve never confirmed that figure. russia support bid china tried to block the meeting from even taking place but the u.s. and its allies voted them down. we ll have a lot more on their fiery objections. president biden expanding his list of black women to replace justice breyer on the supreme court as senators from both sides stake out their positions. and a stunning admission from former president trump saying his vice president mike pence could have overturned the election on january 6th, although we know that the vice president had no such authority under the constitution or election law. the former president said if he s elected in 2024, he would consider pardoning the january 6th rioters. if i run and if i win, we will treat those people from january 6th fairly. we will treat them fairly. and if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons. but we begin this hour with ....
hit is mccurtain county, oklahoma you can see it on the map in the farthest southeast corner of the great state of oklahoma. it borders arkansas to the east and borders texas to the south and in mccurtain county, in that part of oklahoma, the local newspaper there fittingly is called the mccurtain gazette news and the mccurtain gazette news is a print only newspaper. if you want to read its reporting it s like the good old days, you have to wait each week until the hard copy of the paper hits your doorstep and then you can see what they ve reported on now, like all good local news outlets online or in print or both, the staff at the mccurtain gazette news make it their business to make sure they are diligently covering the local government in their corner of oklahoma, so they re the people who show up to things like, you know, county commissioner meetings where the agenda is buying equipment for the local volunteer fire department or road repairs or stuff like that. ....