welcome to the beat weekend. i am ari melber. we begin with these vows, and sometimes confessions about the extreme agenda of the modern right, and we are not just talking about policy extremism, on taxes or education, but rather, how maga forces are openly plotting what independent reports call and a revenge administration. the last new america will have no written constitution. some will say that i am advocating christian nationalism, and so i do. this is an approach on display at a national conservatism gathering, which i will get into with you tonight. this matters because voters are not only going to decide whether they truly want four more years of donald trump, but what more trump actually means. this is, i will tell you up top, a story about donald trump s positions. he is one of the people running for president. you know that. it s a story about his allies, and like anything in politics, it operates, it exists within these times, this current mood in politi
it s a hard moment. have a good show. yeah, it s been a lot. i ll see you, nicolle. thanks. and thanks for the kind welcome back. and good to be with you even in the mid-s of what we deal with in the newsroom, in the world. i did have some time off and i want to say off the top here thanks to katie phang for her great work anchoring. we do have several big stories we re tracking, including a real interesting push for something you don t usually see, which is specific accountability for supreme court justice s alleged misconduct. there s a new push to impeach some supreme court justices. that is new today. i have a special report on that coming up in the hour. as well as a look at the president s busy week. we begin with the vows, pledges, and even sometimes confessions about the extreme agenda of the modern right. and we re not just talking about policy extremism, say, on taxes or education, but rather how maga forests are openly plotting what independent reports call a rev
at it properly and whilst we should keep it in reserve as a potential option, i m pleased to say we will not be going ahead with plans for vaccine passports. the trade union congress warns that up to 660,000 jobs could be at risk if the uk fails to reach net zero carbon emissions as quickly as other countries. the anti immigration hungarian prime minister, victor 0rban, meets pope francis in budapest. good evening and welcome to bbc news. 18 year old, emma raducanu has won the us open in one of the most dramatic victories in modern tennis. she beat 19 year old leylah fernandez of canada, in two sets: 6 4, 6 3. raducanu only made it into the tournament as a qualifier, but she won the title without dropping a single set. she s the first british woman to win a grand slam singles title in 44 years. here s our sports correspondent, joe wilson. the borough of queens on a sunny day, and the extraordinary progress of one young woman. she s been absolutely amazing this whole tournam
a killer motivated by hate intending to start a race war in south carolina. he joined his victims in a bible study class and he took their lives in the house of worship. it s a reminder that our work to root out hate never ends because hate only hides. it never fully goes away. it hides. and when you breathe oxygen under that rock, it comes out. that s what we must understand juneteenth represents the end of slavery in america more than 150 years ago but the ongoing work to bring true equity and racial justice into america society which we can do. in short, this day doesn t just celebrate the past. it calls for action today. i wish all americans a happy juneteenth. i m shortly going to sign into law making it a federal holiday. i ve only been president for several months, but i think this will go down for me as one of the greatest honors i would have had as president. not because i did it but because you did it. democrats and republicans. it s an enormous honor. thank you for
the election ended nearly seven months ago. why is this still going on? and what are some republicans hoping to find? also, the trump organization faces a new criminal probe. just the latest in an array of investigations. what kind of legal trouble could the former president be in? and, even former president obama is talking about the possible existence of ufos. we will get into it with our panel. though after how we handled covid, you really think we ready for aliens? from nbc news world headquarters in new york, i m joshua johnson. welcome to the week. it was another good week in the fight against the pandemic. with new cdc masking guidelines in place, americans are beginning to enjoy a bit more freedom to start this summer. more than 3 out of 5 american adults have received at least one dose of the vaccine, hopefully you, too. and the seven-day average for new cases is down 19%. last time that number was this low, last june. across the country states are lifting ma