George floyd that is still being negotiated tonight in washington. The president had said he had hoped to sign the bill by tomorrow but this afternoon, the three lawmakers who are trying to hammer out this deal which would be cory booker, Tim Scott, Karen Bass issued a joint statement that read in part, we are still working through our differences on key issues. You can bet that thats true. The Police Reform Bill just one of several big items on the president s latest. Theyre trying to get through congress. Theres nearly four trillion Dollar Infrastructure and Jobs Measure and Voting Rights measure. Both up against formidable republican opposition will today the White House was asked about these goals. We will assess internally as we go into memorial Day Weekend with the next steps are and where we go from here. As it relates to the George Floyd act, hes encouraged that theres ongoing progress and that there is a sense from the negotiators that theres a path forward and he believes tha
That cost her Leadership Position and addressing trumpisms impact on her party. Also ahead, new reporting showing a trend we rarely hear about. Brutality by police against latinos. And with cyberattacks on the rise against american companies, President Obamas former advisor Ben Rhodes joins us with how Team Biden should fight back. This this is American Voices. Thanks for joining us this here. Breaking news from North Carolina where Donald Trump is late to his own party. A speech before the states Republican Party bound to fuel fire to the states using his Big Lie to roll back your Voting Rights. Trump was set to be speaking now, but the venue says he is late. We will keep an eye on whatever comes of his speech in greenville to a crowd of 1,500 people. A smaller venue for a president obsessed with crowd size. Not his outrage over losing a legitimate election, but if he may give it another go in 2024 as republicans use his Big Lie to pass Voter Restrictions across this country. Republic
Of breonna taylor. It is the second civil Rights Probe the doj launched in five days. Also looking into the Minneapolis Police department. This is reversal from the Trump Doj which all but suspended federal oversight of troubled police agencies. The investigation will assess Whether Lmpd engages in a Pattern Or Practice of using unreasonable force. It will determine Whether Lmpd engages in unconstitutional stops, searches and seizures, as well as whether the department unlawfully executes Search Warrants on private homes. The new Probe Launching as biden approaches 100 days in office with real momentum for his broader agenda. Brand new Nbc Polling shows him at 53 approval. Cbs news putting him at 58 . Indeed, as of Tonight Biden has spent every day since taking office above 50 approval. His predecessor did not crack 50 once. The majority is with biden. It is not a clean partisan divide which may surprise those that depict the country as hopelessly gridlocked. Ultimately, Joe Biden has
boston, and d.c.. take a look at your screen right there. just to name a few of the places where we are watching this demonstration on s unfold. it s no secret that tyre nichols death is another reminder of the cycle of police violence normalized in this country. like so many of these cases, it started at a traffic stop. the driver just trying to get home. those were among nichols last words. in fact, as police video released yesterday clearly revealed. tonight we still don t know what led to the traffic stop in the first place. memphis police initially said officers pulled nichols over for reckless driving on january 7th. however on friday a memphis police chief told msnbc a review of police video shows no evidence that nichols was driving recklessly. we are going to show you some of that video, nichols traffic stop and initial interaction with police. it s very graphic but it shows with the 29-year-old was up against as he drove to take a picture of the sunset. man, i did
american democracy. it exists to serve you. that s the know the only kind of democracy, there s also the soviet version of democracy, same word but very different definition. bowl has conviction took power by promising more democracy. the country that created the soviet union became the most impressive police state in human history. yet it was, you should know, a democracy. that s what they called it. east germany was a democracy, too, so was north vietnam, and ethiopia, and albania. democracies all. in his first speech as leader of north korea in 1946, kim i will sung talked about destruction of opposition to his rule, killing of political opponents as democratic reform. almost 80 years later, kim jong-un continues to run north korea as a democracy, a soviet style democracy. so again, they re using a very different definition of the word. in their version of democracy all decisions are made by a shadowy oligarchy. front by a strong man. the point isn t to find out what the p