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
as the president said just last week, chris, it s been abused. he s not eager to move with destroying the filibuster. he s eager to get things done for the american people. but he s also not going to stand by and prevent forward-moving progress from happening. in just a few minutes hear the exchange as a congresswoman takes on the head of facebook about the head of vaccine misinformation. she was targeted by anti-vaxxers. new controversy regarding the colorado shooting after what congresswoman lauren boebert said about guns and hammers. and why a trump donor holdover is still in charge of the u.s. postal service. but now let s check in with nbc s monica alba at the white house and amanda golden on capitol hill. ladies, good day to you both. the president is expected to unveil his infrastructure plan. where does that fall on the priority list now that there are calls for gun control laws and election reform? the white house has made clear they re going forward with
democratic papers are fearful of this rising man. lincoln is going to win the 1860 election. from the moment abraham lincoln is elected, lincoln is confronted with crisis. to white southerner, lincoln s election means the greatest of their fears being realized. they are convinced, despite all the things lincoln says, he wants to create racial equality. lincoln and his family were subjected to unnerving threats that no other president-elect has ever faced. abraham lincoln was sent a letter saying i m going to put a spider in your dumpling, you goddamn son of a bitch, and other expressions that i didn t know existed in the 19th century. people had sent nooses. robert lincoln, the teenager, opened this threatening envelope and was unnerved by it. the situation required his father to calm him down. folks in the south using the dynamics of polarization and violence to move people into supporting succession. violence creates that sense of tribalism that is what the enti
they range in age from 20 to 65. killed, it seems, because they were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. among the victims is one of boulder police s own, officer eric talley, the first to respond. he was an 11-year veteran of the force. and he leaves behind seven children. witnesses and survivors of the shooting recounted nearly 20 minutes of terror, with the gunfire beginning in the parking lot and continuing as the gunman walked inside the store and opened fire once again. shoppers and employees ran for their lives. . so after i called 911, like i said, the shooting began. i immediately reacted, dropping the phone. i ran to my co-worker, put her into a corner with some trash cans to cover her, protect her. and then this is behind the starbucks kiosk. that s where we were. as congressman joe neguse noted this morning, the dead lost their lives at the grocery store, one of the last remaining public spaces amid a year of isolation. and in this year of separatio