the progressives, including alexandria ocasio-cortez who, if you remember first, was saying it wasn t organized and then now chicago s mayor lori lightfoot blaming literally as you mentioned, steve, the retailers, watch. a lot of these allegations of organized retail thefts are not actually panning out. i believe it s a walgreen s in california cited it what their data didn t back it up. . so retacialsz downtown in michigan avenue i will tell you, i m disappointed that they are not doing more to take safety and make it a priority. for example, we still have retailers that won t institute plans like having security officers in their stores, making sure that they have got cameras that are actually operational. griff: when asked about those comments yesterday press secretary jen psaki previously blamed the crisis on the pandemic starting to sing a different tune. does the president believe that organized retail theft is really happening and should it
the kind of focused compromise that our colleagues have been hashing out could not contrast more sharply with the multitrillion dollar reckless taxing and spending spree that democrats hope to run through on a party line vote later this year. and it s not just republicans. some democrats are also not sold on the larger bill. kyrsten sinema says she cannot support the $3.5 trillion price tag from the bigger bill. that s drawn fire from progressives like alexandria ocasio-cortez who ripped sinema in a tweet. joining us now is democratic senator tammy baldwin of wisconsin. bipartisan baby steps. it s cleared the first hurdle. i know that is a big victory for the bipartisanship in the senate. but you ve already heard the
richard lui with your hour s top stories. senior u.s. official, as well as a top kurdish commander, tell nbc news the cease-fire in syria is not holding. the kurds say they continue to be attacked by turkish affiliated forces. bernie sanders returned to the campaign trail less than three weeks after suffering a heart attack. in a rally in new york city, sanders was joined by congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez who, this week, endorsed sanders. now, back to msnbc s special bowling for columbine. happiness is a warm gun the town of virgin, utah, passed a law requiring all residents to own guns. when i hold you
for the first family. sarah sanders hitting back at congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez who slammed ivanka trump at the g-20 summit tweeting in part it may be shocking to some but being someone s daughter actually isn t a career qualification. it hurts our diplomatic standing when the president phones it in and the world moves on. sanders tweeting back saying, quote. phone it in aoc is wasting your time on twitter while destroying jobs in new york. a chick if i slay vandalized during sunday s pride parade in new york. giant pink x with the words [bleep] haters on the store front. and love is a terrible thing to waste. propped up against the door. the discriminatory for donations to considered anti-lgbtq.
ability to sideline the drama and to score twice against france. to be on this team is to understand how to deal with distraction and pressure of any magnitude whether it s large or small. so we are pretty well-versed in learning to deal with the problem head-on and within the group we have a great ability to just stay together and kind of block out those distractions when the time comes. we should also note that jumping in the controversy rather than far-left freshman democrat alexandria ocasio-cortez who issued a blanket invitation to the white house to rapinoe and the u.s. women s teams. that s going to wrap things up for us this hour. please do follow me on twitter and catch me every sunday night on kasie dc. thank you, friend. have yourself a great rest of your afternoon, kasie. it is monday, july 1st. canada day to some.