Antigovernor protests in cuba over the weekend. Cubas president is blaming the u. S. For sanctions causing Power And Medicine shortages. President biden issued a statement supporting peaceful protests. Lets begin at the White House with Nbc News white House Correspondent kelly odonnell. First lets talk about the meeting the president is holding today with Police Chiefs the mayor of dc, as well as the democratic nominee for new york city, trying to get a handle on if surge in violence, incoming attacks from republicans as well. Reporter andrea, this is all about the practical issue of dealing with crime as people are experiencing it, and also the political undercurrent that the White House is facing with pressure from the progressive left to do more, as well as criticism coming from the republican right, questioning whether the president is tough enough on crime. All of these forces coming together at a time when these are difficult problems, theres a clear and, without dispute, spike i
Hunt. Were watching the Rescue Effort in surfside, florida. Search efforts had to pause while the remaining building was demolished last night. They say it could speed up the process because they sflou more access to the site. They really believe they will be able to make identifications, that they can accelerate now that they have access so that because because it had been inaccessible and there was likely a lot of people who were sleeping at that time unfortunately in that part of it. At the same time, floridas residents are bracing for tropical Storm Elsa turning off of the coast of cuba. Vaughn hilliard is in surfside, florida for us and Sam Brock is in Key West. Vaughn, met he will start with you in surfside. What more do we know now about where things stand and where does the Operation Go after the demolition . That is right, the hope here is that the process of recovery can accelerate. Theyre still calling this a Rescue Mission essentially. Theyre not going to be the ones that e
That are out there working are working fabulously together. Theres a joint effort. Theres a camaraderie, and everybody has the same goal, and thats to pull people out of there. He also added that the intensity and the numbers will continue to increase, which i was very interested to hear. Thirdly, i want to make everybody aware that there has been some discussion about why this happened and that is, as the mayor said, Mayor Cava said and the governor, thats an issue for another day. Right now we have two issues. Number one is to pull our family and friends out of that rubble and unite them. Number two is to support the families. But to The End, with respect to the information, we have directed our staff to go ahead and scan every shred of documentation that the town of surfside has, which includes going to our Archive Storage sites. Were sending those boxes to a printing scanning company and those documents will be available for your review. I know youve seen some documents already, an
Years. That number could make things much more difficult for President Biden as he gets ready to hold a Highstakes Meeting with congressional leaders at the White House this morning on his infrastructure plan. And in just two hours a Cdc Panel could give the official Green Light for kids ages 12 to 15 to get the Pfizer Vaccine, but some states, they are not even waiting. I have the best group of people here this morning to help us break this down. Darren hake, and my old and dear friend matthew dowd, founder of country over party. Garrett, ive got to start with you. Set the stage, the Gop House Meeting is going on right now, whats happening . This has been a longawaited meeting and theres not going to be, we suspect, much drama to it. This meeting is Behind Closed Doors and it is the weekly House Republican Meeting and todays will include a motion from some woman to recall the Conference Chairwoman Liz cheney. There will be a vote, likely a Secret Ballot and it is not entirely clear if
Parent or grandparent born in another country. the racism was online, on murals vandalized this morning. the english team says we re disgusted that some of our quad have been subjected to the discriminatory abuse online after tonight s game. we stand with our players. as you might imagine the condemnation from the mayor of london, from the prime minister, look at this has been swift. he says this england team deserved to be lauded as heros, not racially abused in social media. racism in football not new, but those watching say it reached a new ugly peak. molly hunter, thank you so much. troubling indeed nap does it for this edition of andrea mitchell reports. kaci hunt will be in for chuck todd coming up next. e in for chk todd coming up next. you hope the more you give