Him, honestly, the companies from which he was extorting these bribes these warned the kinds of companies that would normally tend to have a lot of cash laying around. It would be one thing if this guy, this government official was taking bribes from retail stores or even gambling operations. Something where lost of paper cash is trading handle there was a legit explanation as to why that would be a lot of cash in the books, and at the sight of these businesses. For this corrupt official who is demanding and collecting bribes from his company, he wanted them in cash and the problem was that these firms that he was getting the bribes from were like, engineering firms and architecture firms. In companies like that there s not a lot of call for cash money in those types of businesses. In fact it would be weird if there was a lot of cash in a business like that. What they did was that they developed a scheme. The boss at the company who knew he needed to pay this guy the bribe, he would ta
remembers her as warm, funny and smart. she was a bright light. she was one of those people that i think a lot of people who met her felt they already knew her. we re still a little bit in shock and we re stunned and i think we just have to take one day at a time and remember what she did for all of us and, you know, you hold someone in your hearts whether they re on the planet or not, you know? so i think that that s what a lot of us will be doing moving forward. we are also learning more about the gunman and his troubling past. a 21-year-old armed with an ar-15 style assault rifle and a semi-automatic handgun. he is in custody charged with ten counts of first degree murder. authorities have not shared information on a possible motive. here is how one friend described him. people chose not to mess with him because of his temper, people chose not to really talk to him because of how he acted and things like that. so, yeah, he was very alone i d say, but when he was with
put it on the camera on his computer because he thought people were watching him. the suspect also thought that people were hacking into his phone. and so when you take all of that, combine that with the fact he had easy access to weapons, you have the recipe for a disaster. in the meantime, we re also hearing more from the friends and family of victims. listen now to the friend of suzanne painter who was an actress and a financial adviser. she was a bright light. one of those people that i think a lot of people who met her felt they already knew her. we re still a little bit in shock, and we re stunned. and i think we just have to take one day at a time and remember what she did for all of us. you know, you hold someone in your heart, whether they are on the planet or not. so i think that that s what a lot of us will do moving forward. we ll be continuing to hear a lot more about the victims in the coming days. in the meantime, the suspect will have his first court appea
is nbc news reporter amanda golden. amanda, thanks for being with us this saturday morning. i do understand president biden spoke with senator joe manchin. any idea what was said? yes. president biden spoke with joe manchin on the debate we saw go late into the night yesterday. we don t have the specifics, but it speaks to the pressure that was definitely bubbling up thach wanted to make sure they were unified to move forward for these finally amendments during the vote-o-rama which you can see and speaking to the larger divisions that we see, progressive versus more moderate issues. senator joe manchin from virginia was not onboard with the democrats. you spoke to the differences in costs that ended up coming up with this revised democratic plan of $300 a week instead of $400 and seeing where they could cut corners on costs that at least for more moderate democrats, it was more superfluous and now needed for the emergency covid relief they re pushing for right now. don t
future policing. and calls to defund the police. here is what the city council s vice president told ali velshi earlier. we transferred $1 million to violence prevention to develop a mental health response, crime prevention so we re not always sending officers with guns out to situations that don t necessarily require that. let s go to nbc s shaquille brewster outside that courthouse. shaq, what do you know? reporter: in terms of the pledge and promise to dismantle and defund the minneapolis police department, the status of that depends on who you ask. it started with a promise and a park. to end policing as we know it. city council two weeks after the police killing of gorge floyd. majority of city council members on stage supporting that idea. headline grabbing commitment. defund the police sxwlr still unfulfilled today. what s happened since that day? we ve allocated it toward other programming. reporter: there has been progress. the police chief an