So now they can focus on doing what they do best for the next five years. Thats a lot of bread. You got this. The Comcast Business 5year Price Lock guarantee. Switch today for a limited tim. Good morning. It is saturday, july 20, and you are watching velshi on msnbc. I am Charles Coleman junior, filling in for my friend this morning. We come On The Air with sad news that brooke overnight, democratic Congresswoman Sheila Jackson lee has died after a battle with cancer. She was 74 years old. In june, she had announced that she had been diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer and was undergoing treatment. Jackson lee, who was born in texas, serve the public for more than 20 years, beginning in Cindy Council and in House Of Representatives since 1995. Throughout her tenure, she served on several committees, including judiciary, homeland security, and budget. She was also a fierce and outspoken advocate for the interests of black americans. For more on this, i am joined by congressional correspond
Joining us is nbc News Chief White House correspondent, peter alexander. Whats happening so far and whats on the agenda . As you noted, those meetings are under way behind closed doors. Within the next hour or two well see the president visiting with the french prime minister, emmanuel macron. These summits can take on the tone, the character of The American president. The past four years had summits that were much more standoffish. Yesterday a dramatically different scene as we saw Macron And Biden literally arm in arm, sharing that embrace, which wasnt just symbolic, it was in many ways descriptive of this effort to bring together, to embrace Americas European allies after the last four years to erase the americafirst policies. All of it comes ahead of the crucial Summit Set to take place with Vladimir Putin next week in switzerland. This morning a white House Official telling us that unlike what took place in helsinki a few years ago between former President Trump and Vladimir Putin
About Voter Sentiment for Democrats Progressive Push to the left. And Concerns Tonight about a possible meat shortage, how another big Ransomware Attack could put the Nations Food Supply in jeopardy. Lets begin tonight with infrastructure as time runs down on a possible deal coming together, we are just hours away from a meeting between the president and the g. O. P. Chief negotiator. Kevin corke has the very latest tonight and kevin, i got to say when i talked to the senator sunday, she still sound hopeful. She did sound hopeful. I actually had a chance to hear a lot of her comments and i must say, that positivity could go a long way towards hopefully bridging the gap, but the planned Oneonone Meeting as you know between biden and the senator actually comes after senate republicans last week offered a nearly trillion Dollar Counterproposal to the White Houses infrastructure plan. That counter, by the way, still leaves the two sides about a trillion dollars apart. Even worse, there is
Calling for defunding the police . The title of your article was Defund The Police, but lets not should look to the title. Your article begins by saying the national protests we saw last year opened up space for transformative policy discussions, you then continue to write, into that space, and this is a quote, into that space has surged a unifying call the black lives matter movement. Defund the police. Do you really believe Defund The Police is a unifying call . I dont support defund the subleased im reading from your article. Do you disagree with your article . Lawrence you think that is controversial . Just wait, buckle up, there is more. Was officer Darren Wilson justified or not in the shooting of Michael Brown in ferguson, missouri, in 2014 . As a private citizen, based on the facts that i note i am not privy to the details that the federal government have been privy to in the course of its investigations, as a private citizen, there is something that feels unfair. You obviously
issued new executive orders or royal proclamations as we say in my cultural actual addition. as a matter of fact it was one of the complaints rebel colonials against poor old george the third royals were getting vapor raised by the royal prerogative ever since january 20th in washington we have had legislation by photo op. whoever is waggling that sock puckett maneuvers joe into position, they slide the executive order under his nose, he signs, and it s now the law of the land. he is doing it at a brisk clip and today he turned to the big one for many americans, quote; unquote, gun control. they are phony arguments suggesting these are second amendment rights at stake what we are talking about. but no amendment, no amendment to the constitution is absolute. i have no idea what that really means. an amendment is part of the constitution. and the constitution is certainly constitutionally absolute. at least until they can mussel mustmuscle up a judge to rule tt the constitu