Principle of the united states of america. On the very day he was inaugurated Joe Biden signed Executive Order 1395. That makes equity mandatory across the federal government in all the agencies. And yet strangely neither Joe Biden nor anyone else in the administration has ever defined the word. So what is equity . Tonight we finally know what it is. Equity it turns out is racism. Its as simple as that. Equity is racism. And to be clear we dont mean racism in the sense that Ice Cream and Shakespeare And Math are all now supposedly racist or that dr. Seuss is now considered an exalted Sigh Clocks in the Ku Klux klan. No. We mean racism in the literal sense, in The Way that Martin Luther King defined the term which is the act of hurting some people and hurting others purely on the basis of their respective race. Bigotry, prejudice, hatred. Thats what equity is. We know this thanks to Lori Lightfoot, the mayor of chicago. Earlier today she released a twopage memorandum. She gets specific
and good morning, everyone. this is andrea mitchell reports in washington following the continuing devastation from historic floods in kentucky. at this time at least 30 people are dead. thousands more are still trapped in their communities. with residents desperate for food, shelter, electricity, and clean drinking water. this morning kentucky governor andy beshear updating reporters on the devastation and search for survivors. i got to talk to some of the families here and the other places too. they don t have anything. i mean the clothes on their back, but happy to be alive and grateful for the folks that are helping out. on capitol hill, senate democrats are hoping to sell their colleague kyrsten sinema on a health care package than casts hundreds of billions into the climate and energy sectors. she has tremendous, tremendous input in these pieces of legislation. this is something everyone has worked on in the last eight months or more, and she basically insisted
woman. i m not sure what it was, but i ll save that for another conversation. yeah, she s got to get close to pulling your hair. come on . that s an old trick. oh, the new one . i m out of the loop.i i don t know. yeah, he s blushing. you can see it through is an all right. i ll pick it up where you left off. have a good night. all right. i m laura ingraham. this is the angle from washington tonight. an alarming exchange in the house. at representatives today revealed the true intention of democrats when it comes to your firearms. we re going to go back and show you this back and forthk and speak to the republican who elicitedto admission. but first, the real military destroyer. that s the focus of tonight s angle. let s face it, the left is really good at destroying things. they destroyed education during the pandemic with all the school closures. they ve destroyed respect for law enforcement. we see that all the time.em they destroyed historical markers, ripped down sta
this cyclist and just driving away, despite calls for her resignation, her spokesperson telling fox news that she plans to remain in office. we re following this story. we are live in our new york city newsroom. you saw the biker pop up. this could have been so much worse. a lot of people are waiting for a more public response from the council woman. her office confirms with fox news in the past two hours she s not stepping down despite thousands of people calling for her job. take a look. this happened on july 19th. the council woman is accusing of driving the black suv. the driver had green light here. but it s what happened afterwards that s drawing the criticism. the biker gets hit, remarkably, pops right up, walks over to the sidewalk. police say he complained of pain in his ankle and leg. he didn t see the car s plate number. but police tracked it down using surveillance cameras. that car is registered to the council woman. police say two summons were issued for leavi
texts by tomorrow. just in time for what may be the summer finale of their public hearings. what we are learning about new witnesses, including somebody the committee we found out will meet with tomorrow. that s just coming in to us, all of it as across town in d.c. inside the building you re looking at live here, you ve got steve bannon in court, getting ready to learn which of his peers will decide whether he s guilty or not in his contempt of congress trial. also this hour, breaking new details out of indiana, with police revealing more about the shooter who went on a rampage inside a mall, and the man who stopped him. and our nbc news team dropping a new investigative piece out of texas. what one conservative group is blaming for a recent school shooting, not guns, per se, but what they call a woke teaching philosophy. we ll explain that later in the show. i m hallie jackson in washington. with me now are my correspondents. allie, let me start with you and this new report