reeling from the mass shooting in uvalde, texas, that killed 19 children and two adults, shaken by another mass shooting at a hospital complex in tulsa, oklahoma yesterday that left four people dead. they found the first victim, then the next victim. reporter: biden plans to call on congress to take action, as lawmakers try to hammer out gun reforms. so far, biden wary of giving too much optimism. are you confident congress will take action on gun legislation, sir? i served in congress for 36 years. i m never confident, totally. it depends. and i don t know, yi don t know about the negotiations going on. reporter: during his visit to uvalde, the president hearing pleas for change in washington. earlier in the month, he had traveled to buffalo, new york, the site of another mass shooting that left ten dead at a local supermarket. the shooter targeting the black community. i promise you, hate will not prevail and white supremacy will not have the last word. but evil
Hosting a very special conversation in new york citys historic apollo theater, all to talk about to his new book, met grandmotherly. You can catch it all on saturday night, 9 00 p. M. Eastern right here on msnbc and streaming on peacock. Set your dvr if youve got hot plans on saturday but for now i wish you from all of our colleagues across the networks of his neck a very good night. Thanks thanks thank you for staying up late with me. Ill see you at the end of tomorrow. Thank you at home for joining me this hour. Have you ever seen veep . It aired for 7 seasons. Its julia dryphus. She won six consecutive emmys for it. She plays Vice President myer who is an Instant Iconic political figure. Even if you havent, she is very ambitious, she wants to be president not just Vice President and shes a total disaster. Shes a Political Animal but spends all her time having to put out fires of her own. Making fires of her staffs own making. Shes just a disaster. And one of the sort of signature pr
But time has prologued again and again. let me read this. he is talking about how, for the west, it seems china, the ottoman empire, the muslim offshoot, japan, this was going these were going to be the nations that would nominate the next 500 years. the beginning of the 16th century, europe was destined to rise above the rest. however imposing and organized some of the oriental empires appeared by comparison with europe. they suffered the consequences of having a centralized authority, which insisted upon a uniformity of belief and practice, not only an official state religion, but also in commercial activities and weapons development. the lack of any such supreme authority in europe and the warlike rivalries among its various kingdoms and city states simulated a constant search for military improvements, which interacted fruitfully with the newer technological and commercial advances that were
Response to the timing of it all, given past history. russia went into georgia in 2008 after the olympics. russia went into crimea in 2014 after the olympics. i was struck by an interview that the foreign ministry spokesperson in russia yesterday gave to a russian journalist and when she was repeatedly refuting a report from, i believe it was bloomberg, that suggested that chinese officials, specifically, president xi, had asked vladimir putin not to do anything before the olympics. they were refuting that. now the chinese news sources refuting that as well. what is your take on anything about past or perhaps being prologued here? is anytime the russians vehemently refute anything, it usually means it s true but secondly, yeah, that s an important point that it seems to be a trend line after olympic games are held, especially by russian and chinese countries when they re holding the olympics but the other thing that s important to note, a conventional attack that the
In that context is the danger, lies the admonition, lies the warning that this is something who came perilously close to toppling everything we know about our republic and our democracy to the extent that our top military general had to prepare contingency plans should it reach a level of success that truly feared toppling our democracy and yet the past is prologued because that man remains the head of one of only two major parties in the united states today. and he may very well be the nominee of that party in 2024 and so when i say the past is prologue defines the danger for us, what does that mean for a nation going into 2024 that this man could be the leading candidate to run our nation? we can look backwards and be fearful of the events we will recall and the select committee in the congress but what does that mean going forward for our nation? are we the nation on the