help as you always do you can also contribute to any of these organizations on screen. thank you for the privilege of your time. that wraps up my hour. a good wednesday morning to you. craig melvin here. right now we re juggling a number of live events this hour. and the word driving all of them, urgency. first breaking news in the last 30 minutes or so, former police officer derek chauvin pleading guilty to federal civil rights charges related to the murder of george floyd. you will recall chauvin previously pled not guilty. he s changed his employee. more on that in moments. also any second on capitol hill, speaker pelosi will be holding her weekly briefing. there s lots to talk about here. fighting to find mark meadows in contempt of congress. also congress will prevent a debt limit disaster for now. they passed a $2.5 trillion extension. and also in just the last few moments, we ve learned that the president s build back better plan being punted until next year. w
despite having an active warrant in nevada for a sex crime. while many are serious and wondering how could this happen, members of the squad are doubling down on criminal justice reform, aoc criticizing extensive fail in new york city and congresswoman being confronted over a plan to release everyone from federal prison. have you wrestled with any potential downsides of releasing into society every single person who is currently in a federal prison? yes, i think that everybody is like were going to release everybody, did you see how many people are mentally ill that are in prison right now? no, i know but you say that you re going to release everyone. it s begun ten years there are human traffickers. i know. do you mean that you don t actually support that? dana: jesse, on the very day that the darrell brooks is about to be these are life pictures, coming into court now, this is his first court appearance for this particular crime of the rampage where five
have to move forward to the senate. reporter: absolutely. this is a huge step forward for democrats in advancing joe biden s economic agenda. at some point it didn t look like this was going to ham. they can only afford to lose three votes. in the end, a moderate voted against the bill, and democrats are ecstatic right now. they were chanting in the chamber, build back better. i saw congresswoman pramila jayapal walking through the hall hugging one of her aides. she had huge hand in these negotiations. so democrats are very happy right now. but as you mentioned, erica, this is just the first step. now it heads to the senate where it faces a far more uncertain path. and over there, democrats can t afford to lose any democrats in the vote. of course joe manchin, the centrist from west virginia, is a big question mark in all of this. he has issues with specific provisions in the bill that the house passed. they knew that over here. democrats added paid family leave, for exampl
that s hilarious. good morning, welcome to morning joe, i can t tell if it s funny or not. i am snack sure. willie, was it funny? was it a funny? it was supposed to be a ted lasso s quote which is why he s coming under mockery this morning. it s halloween. we love it. willie, i am wondering what do you think of facebook changing their name? if moussilini thought about this in 1994, hey, wait, my name is mourny. i thought it was the onion. they had a horrible let s call it a month since these documents leaked since francis hougan testified before congress. we learned so much and had many suspicions confirmed based on their internal documents and the answer from facebook is hey, we are called meta instead of facebook, is that better? the question is what will cheryl sandberg do if she was still working with the a company? she would change the name to meta, she just did. she disappeared. it s a disappearing act for good reason. i am just curious, we have jo
in her management that could stop me from making a living. the explosive bombshells, an attorney with the free britney movement joins us as those two new documentaries reveal stunning new detars about her conservatorship. it s sunday, september 26th. we re setting up for a very busy week across the country especially on capitol hill. a team of reporters and analysts following the latest for you right now. we ll begin, though, with breaking news overnight, that deadly amtrak derailment in montana. three people are dead. as several train cars went off the tracks. the national transportation safety board is now investigating with crews working overnight to clear the wreck. all the survivors have been extra kated. this was a ten-car train heading from chicago to seattle and portland it derailed right there in the town of joplin, montana, one passenger describing the feeling like extreme turbulence on a train. the ntsb is launching a go-team to invest gate what happened.