Will join us later this hour. Lets gun with afghanistan. Here to start us off with the latest, Nbc News white House Reporter and nbc national Security And Intelligence Correspondent And Nbc News Pentagon Correspondent Courtney Kube and Lieutenant Jern and Deputy Security Adviser for iraq and afghanistan. Thank you all for being here. Well start with you, mike, outside the White House. Talk about this decision to stick with that August 31st deadline. What led to that decision . Well, aaron, i want to start by noting that president s scheduled remarks that we were expecting initially at noon and then 2 00 p. M. Have just been postponed yet again. We now expect to hear from the president sometime after 4 30 this afternoon. If the president is watching as i hope he sometimes does, i say this not as a criticism but as the Data Point to really speak to what White House officials have been a dynamic situation. We do expect as White House officials and other Administration Officials have been
Five years now, tried to tell Paul Ryan, off and on air, before he endorsed Donald Trump the day or two after he called him a racist, that hes a bully and you dont you dont negotiate with bullies. And you dont grovel, because when you grovel with bullies, they spit in your face. And thats whats happened time and time again with republicans. And, you know, again, all this groveling what has it gotten the republican party . Minority status in the senate, the house, theyve lost the White House. They now seem to be their two main planks right now seem to be voodoo when it comes to Health Care, letting people die. Theyre on the side with wild antivaxx conspiracy theorists. And then basically forgiving the violence of what happened on January The 6th. Trying to forget the violence, ignore the insurrection. So voodoo and violence. Thats really not something that a party wants to side up with. But, mika, again, though, on this personal front, you cannot Suck Up to a bully. It never works. It d
At this fully. Our Manu Raju is on capitol hill. Two committees are investigating this for some time. But what theyve been looking at is what happened on January 6th. Why was the response so slow . Why was there a lackluster Information Sharing between Law Enforcement agencies . Why did the National Guard not come in at that time . They are looking narrowly at the fail to secure this building on January 6th and the runup to it on the Law Enforcement side. Its been part of the senate Rules Committee and Homeland Security and government affairs committee. They plan to release the first authoritative report of what happened that day some time next week. Now this is a naurrrow focus. It is not going to look into donald trumps role in fueling the insurrection. Rallying supporters to come to the capitol on January 6th, come and suggest the election was stolen, trying to subvert the will voters. That is not within the mandate of this investigation. But in talking to the leaders of this, they
George floyds murder, america still has a race problem, promises of meaningful Police Reform have not been met on Capitol Hill and in the year since floyds killing, reignited demands for racial justice and accountability, more Black Americans sadly have died at the hands of police. But this morning there is new light at the end of the tunnel in the words of one of the key lawmakers leading the negotiations. Theyre indicating a bipartisan deal may happen and it may happen soon. Members of Floyds Family will will meet privately today with the president and lawmakers. Among them will be floyds young Daughter Giana who said that her daddy changed the world. And he did. So will actual change happen in the form of a new law on policing . We have live Team Coverage from washington to minneapolis. We begin at the white house. John harwood is there for us. John, this is the first time president biden will meet with the family in person since floyd was buried. Do we know what will happen, what h
Everyone. Lets begin. Today is a somber day for our country and a very important day. A day to remember a man who has become a symbol in the fight for racial Equality And Police reform in america. One year ago a white Police Officer in minneapolis murdered George Floyd. His killing sent shock waives Thro Shock waves throughout the country. But americas reckoning with racial injustice is far from over. Far from solved. A Jury Convicted Floyds murderer Derek Chauvin last month. He will be sentenced, he is set to be sentenced next month. But will there be lasting change after floyds killing . Were being joined by our reporter from minneapolis. How does it feel there to mark this anniversary . Well, kate, celebration of George Floyds Life And Legacy is going to kick off a day of Remembrance And Reflection on this anniversary. Thats going to start a little later this morning. It will be highlighted by those that have been devastated by Police Violence themselves. But even this year later, a