poorly, whether or not i got my agenda passed or not is going to have any real impact on winning and losing. president biden very confident about a critical race theme as a referendum on his administration. polls close in an hour. everything is on the table. education is at the top of voters minds. an issue that mcauliffe says parents should not have a say in. virginia has emerged as ground zero in the fight over critical race theory and who should be in control over what is taught in the classroom? mcauliffe focuses on teachers and youngkin wants to empower parents in their final pitches. i want to build the best education and i want every child to have a world class case. as your governor, i ll raise teacher pass above the national average for the first time in our commonwealth. what we won t do is teach our children to view everything through a lens of race where we divide them in to buckets and one group is an oppressor and the other is a victim and pitted them aga
from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome everybody to alex witt reports. we begin with breaking news, a united nation is underway to evacuate civilians trapped in that avoztvaz steel plant. the president says that a group of about 100 evacuees are heading their way to a city of zaporizhzhia, which is under ukrainian control at this time. they are giving president prudent credit for the evacuations. this is where that plant looks like now, after weeks of bombardment from russian forces. we are learning a bit more about how speaker nancy pelosi s high profile meetings with his lewinsky in kyiv. she says that the west cannot shrink from russian threats. do not be bullied by police. if they are making threats, you cannot back down. that is my view of it. you were there for the flight and you cannot fold to a bully. and that visit came within hours of another big attack from russia. a missile strike on a military airfield and odessa. one congressional delegate h
little to stop covid deaths, and instead wreaked havoc on every aspect of our lives. johns hopkins with a bombshell study that shows restrictions only reduce deaths by .2%. at the same time, the lockdowns devastated our economy, education system, and damaged our mental health. all the while fueling major political unrest. many of us were never given an option. remember president biden and top health officials told us lockdowns were our only choice. president biden: statewide, lockdowns that so many americans lived under for months were intended to buy us time to get our act together. when you have an acute situation, and extra ordinary number of cases the answer is to close things down, go back to our basics, to shut things down, the flatten the curve. the fact that we shut down when we did, and the rest of the world did, has saved hundreds of millions of infections, and millions of lives. now, s before now, while their policies have been proven wrong once again,
thunderstorms expected at edgbaston. talking thunderstorms, some of you had a talking thunderstorms, some of you had a pretty disturbing night last night, had a pretty disturbing night last night, lightning and thunder across parts night, lightning and thunder across parts of night, lightning and thunder across parts of the uk and more severe storms parts of the uk and more severe storms to parts of the uk and more severe storms to come today. i will have your storms to come today. i will have your full forecast here on breakfast. it s sunday the 18th ofjune. our main story: a video has emerged showing some conservative party workers drinking and dancing at a christmas party during covid lockdown. the footage, published by the sunday mirror, was taken at the conservatives headquarters in westminster in december 2020, when london was in tier 2 restrictions. our political correspondent iain watson has more. some conservatives will not want to look in the mirror toda
he s back in delaware for another weekend of rest and relaxation. we have full coverage of his latest cognitive malfunction. it was pretty bad. that s coming up tonight. also, england s own piers morgan will weigh in on meghan and harry. [applause] the royal couple are reportedly struggling to cope with a cartoon that made fun of them. these are people who say they want privacy, but they show up on oprah, on netflix, they write books. didn t want privacy, they want money. they are just lying to us. anyway, first we begin tonight with something really deadly serious, and america is now suffering from what is a severe violence and murder crisis. in fact, countrywide, the murder rate is at the highest point in more than 20 years and it s going higher, it seems, every day, with a 4.3% increase in 2021 alone. now, of course, you won t see any of these statistics on other networks, because they hide for example, in 2020 we had 574 riots, and they refused to call riots riots. we h