Surfside, florida which is bracing for the first hurricane of the season set to make landfall in the next couple of days in florida. Later today, about 225 miles northwest of surfside, the former president is set to deliver remarks at a rally in sarasota, at the sarasota fairgrounds. Wfla even reports that people have been camping out since yesterday in anticipation of seeing their dear donald, either that or the free fireworks show that follows. This after the president traveled to texas for a propaganda stunt which turned into a typical grandstanding trump tirade about anything and everything. He does have something new to rail against tonight, charges filed against the trump organization and its longtime cfo allen weisselberg on tax related crimes to which the company and weisselberg have pled not guilty. How this may be just a bit of the story we could see right now and how it could hit the former president where it hurts the most in a bit. Accompanying the former president on his
Related to the death of a black man after his arrest by troopers in louisiana. The death of ronald greene adding new urgency. Senator cory booker, one of the negotiators negotiating the bill, expressing his optimism earlier today. I wouldn t have a negotiating partner in tim scott if mitch mcconnell didn t believe that that is something that we should be at the table trying to work through. There are a lot of people who know the crisis we have in this country. The federal government has a responsibility, i believe, to deliver substantive, meaningful police reform. And now to expand for you on the hour s headlines, nbc s monica alba and garrett haake. Monica, now that infrastructure discussions have stalled on capitol hill, what options are white house officials exploring ahead of the memorial day deadline just over a week ago? reporter: exactly, alex, the white house is saying they re preparing to explore going it alone again. What that means is employing the strategy they used for the
How to pay for it. And brian sicknick is meeting with republicans ahead of the procedural vote of the commission. It passed the house but doesn t have support in the senate. [ question inaudible ] usually i stay in the background. Nbc garrett hak is at capitol hill. Having her there, raises the stakes. How will republicans listen to her, talk to her and go down to the floor and vote no. Some of them, including ron johnson, saying they feel for the sicknick s family but will say they feel this is designed to be political and will vote no anyway. A republican senator from louisiana voted for conviction of former president trump in the last impeachment trial. He said he is still on the fence about the vote. It s possible that the sicknick family appearance could sway some of the republicans who have been wavering but by and large they think this is a political move. Let s talk about infrastructure negotiations. The president just spoke on the tarmac about his conversation with shelly abou
If you are vaccinated you don t have to wear it indoors or outdoors! hallelujah. Nice to see you. Literally, nice to see you! vaccinated people. Cdc didn t say anything about me sitting on your lap. No, you are okay with us and the cdc, savannah. But what does it mean where you are. State and local officials said they are slugging it all out. The two former epicenters, new york city and los angeles are keeping their mask mandate intact. While places like kentucky say it goes into effect immediately. This hour i will be talking to dr. Fauci. And israel hitting tunnels overnight. At least 150 strikes. The latest from richard engel in tel aviv. And it s official. Elise stefanik replaces liz cheney as number three in the house. But let s start with this. Foyers queens, that was the epicenter where you were there for so many weeks seeing such death and tragedy and such terrible sadness and heroics from the front line workers. What is it like today? hey, andrea. This is a neighborhood of cor
report in perspective. look, we came to office. we knew we were facing a once in a century pandemic and once in a generation economic crisis. we knew this wouldn t be a sprint. it would be a marathon. quite frankly, we are moving more rapidly than i thought we would. this morning we learned in april we created 266,000 jobs. listening to commentators today as i was getting dressed, you might think we should be disappointed. when we passed the american rescue plan it was designed to help us over the course of a year, not 60 days, a year. we never thought after 50 or 60 days everything would be fine. today there is more evidence our economy is moving in the right direction, but it is clear we have a long way to go. we have added 1,500,000 new jobs since i took office, the most since any president took office in history. in perspective, in the three months before i got here, the economy added about 60,000 a month. since i have been here the economy has added about 500,000 a month