Well, hey there. It s good to be with you, tonight. This week, president biden will head to louisiana to pitch his getting america back on track tour. And also, to promote his jobs plan. This hour we will dig into his exclusive interview with msnbc s craig melvin, including his plans for immigration. His multitrilliondollar economic package and his thoughts on race in america. From nbc news world headquarters in new york, i m joshua johnson. Welcome to the week. Joe biden has probably attended many joint sessions of congress. On wednesday night, he addressed a joint session for the first time as president. The speech capped his first 100 days in office. It s an arbitrary marker but it s good time to take stock of his administration so far. We will see how the next 1,300plus days in his term measure up to these hundred. Still, this checkpoint coincides with some major accomplishments. His $1. 9 trillion american rescue plan. And as of yesterday, 100 million americans are fully vaccinate
Thomas figures, he is in a position to push and nudge and make sure that this case does not rest from a criminal standpoint. I stuck to the klansmen. The more i asked questions, the more they talked. Tyiger moses finally cracked and he named henry hays. Got him. When we think of michael donald, how long will it take for him to get justice? how many years? how many decades, how much time? the body of a black man has been found hanging from a tree in mobile, alabama. Lynching is a tool to control and oppress black people. Racialized violence is as old constitution. Klans are not running around with white sheets over their head, but it s still happening. Today people are horrified of the police. It s the modern day lynching. What are we going to do about it? we move forward with people deciding i m bold enough and i m going to make it change. Beulah mae donald took on one of the most violent criminal organizations in the united states. This was an incredible story of courage. When beulah
majority leader chuck schumer. we re being told by several democratic aides mansion agreed to the extension of unemployment benefits through the covid relief package through september, the beginning of september and september 6th i should say for 30 $0 0 a week. the original plan was the end of september. there is going to be a tax credit available for people that receive the benefit for $10,200. that was an issue mansion was concerned about. mansion was considering supporting a republican alternative to this provision that was offered up by rob portman of ohio. that would have cut off the benefits through july at only $300 a week and also, not provide that tax credit. so this appears to be enough for mansion to cut off the benefits a little less than a month earlier than what democrats had originally intended but this was a long day, john, of a lot of anxiety for democrats that were concerned that they were not going to be able to cut this deal with mansion, and he was singl
oh. oh, my god. fox news alert. the hawaiian island of maui has burned beyond recognition. devastating wildfires have roaredthslandeyond across the ie and residents compare it to the apocalypse. ntat least 53 people have been killed already with the death toll expected to increase significantly. dozens more are missing as thede island now resembles a war zonne . oh, my gosh. look a oh, mt the harbor. baok a oh, mt the harbor. this looks like baghdad or something. the historic popular vacation town of lahaina is almost unrecognizable. thousands of people have evacuated it, leaving behind charcoal cars and homes. rescuegnizable crews are workind the clock to fight the fire. joe biden s asking for 12 billion in fema aid to help hawaii. the scorched islands home to everyone from surfersg ev to workers, retirees. even oprah winfrey owns a home surfe. rah winfrey owns a home the devastation will take years to recover from. let s turn it over to traceac gallagher, anch
indict joe biden or proceed with the 25th amendment. he will join us momentarily. alsoment., yesterday was the bit game. so what ads did you like ads? which ones do you think were best and which were the most effective? which were the bombs? anyway, we ll get to that. also, my opening monologuen on the continued fallout over biden s speciathl counsel and te growing calls for him to step aside. tot, we begin with this. we start with a fox news alert. a horrific shootinnight, w foxgl osteen s lakewood church in houston, texas. it happened during sunday service. our very own bill milligan has the very latest on this shooting from our west coast newsroom tonight bill. scary. and i know a lot of churches, synagoguesof , the country, they are taking a lot of precautions more than ever beforeeuntry ar. e gettin yes, john, they are. and we re starting to get a much clearer picture of justaa who the shooter was. she was apparently a woman from el salvadoe was r with documentd me