Welcome to the week. On june 19th, 1865, union soldiers informed slaves in galveston, texas, that they were free. They were among the last ones to get the news. This was two months after the confederacy had surrendered and more than two years after the emancipation proclamation. Juneteenth is a reminder that our history is full of both progress and pain, progress usually takes a long time but its time does come. I will have more to say about this in the hour. On thursday president biden signed into law a new federal holiday recognizing juneteenth. He recognized the importance of confronting the difficult moments in our history. Great nations don t ignore their most painful moments. Great nations don t ignore their most painful moments. They don t ignore them, they embrace them. The house voted overwhelmingly in favor of the bill. 14 republican members voted against it. The senate bill passed by june of yu man must consent. Republican ron johnson dropped his objection to the bill. He bl
On june 19th, 1865, union soldiers informed slaves in galveston, texas, that they were free. They were among the last ones to get the news. This was two months after the confederacy had surrendered and more than two years after the emancipation proclamation. Juneteenth is a reminder that our history is full of both progress and pain, progress usually takes a long time but its time does come. I will have more to say about this later in the hour. On thursday president biden signed into law a new federal holiday recognizing juneteenth. He emphasized the importance of confronting the difficult moments in our history. Great nations don t ignore their most painful moments. Great nations don t ignore their most painful moments. They don t ignore them, they embrace them. The house voted overwhelmingly in favor of the bill. 14 republican members voted against it. The senate bill passed by june unanimous consent, meaning if someone objects, it passes without having a formal vote. Republican ron
Silly goose stepper. Breaking, joe biden makes a big statement in his house. Nope, nope, nope, down, down. There he is! this president is going to try to steal this election. This is a guy who said that all mailin ballots are fraudulent. By golly, he s lost his marbles. He s your friendly neighborhood conspiracy theorists. Leave it to democrats to go out there and level these conspiracy theories. That s joe biden right now with this conspiracy theory. We ll conspearasee about that. He says you ll steal the election. Joe s not there, we all know it. Certainly, if i don t win, i don t win. I ll move on and do other things. Yes, other things. We ll walk down to the capitol. You ll never take back our country with weakness. Freedom! dumb is right! this has been this week in covid history. What an exhausting week! what an exhausting time! what an exhausting year. What an exhausting five years! wow, willie. A lot packed into that week, a year ago. There was! there was, but for all the horror
So that exact moment. Do you have a sense of what that will look and feel like surrounding the courthouse and on the streets? reporter: absolutely. So when the jury starts their deliberation, they will be sequestered, so they will be cut off essentially from the outside world. The way that process works is that you have the deliberation in their private room, they can send questions to the judge, questions about process, questions about evidence, questions about the law and we are hearing that we will get an update, an advanced warning whenever those questions come in, so we can televise what the jury is asking. Of course, we won t see their faces. Once with eget to the moment where they have actually rendered a verdict and the judge is prepared to announce that we expect to get one to two hours notice. Then that will be televised. We will see the moment when that is read is court. We will obviously get the reaction from the defendants, derek chauvin. The world will be watching as well
I didn t even know you were jewish. I think, johnny carson became johnny carson, in that moment. Watch the story of late night, beginning sunday, at 9:00 p. M. Eastern, only on cnn. Thank you so much for watching. And, please, join me for smerconish, tomorrow and every saturday morning, at 9:00 a. M. Eastern. Cnn tonight with don lemon starts right now. Don. I watch everysingle weekend. And you know what? i have to tell you. My favorite was johnny carson. When i was a kid, my i would get into an argument with my sister. She would try to take the remote. Before remotes, she would try to change the channel and i wouldn t let her. And we had to watch johnny carson everysingle night in the summer. On school nights, i couldn t do it. And then, she said once i moved out of the house and she moved on her own, she found herself watching johnny carson because of me and she fell in love with him. He was the best. Look at you. You are consistent. You were staying up late, then. And you are stayin