nye. good evening. i m mehdi hasan. it was the biggest question in the country this week, that liberals, conservatives and those in between seemed to be asking. is america a racist country? it started when tim scott, the only black republican in the senate made this his battle cry in his party s response to the president s address to congress on wednesday night. hear me clearly. america is not a racist country. it s backwards to fight discrimination with different types of discrimination. senator scott s rather unambiguous message on the thorny issue of racism in america put the first black and south asian vice president on the spot and kamala harris, like a good politician, also denied that america is a racist country. i believe that we need to first of all, no, i don t think that america is a racist country, but we also do have to speak truth about the history of racism in our country and its existence today. joe biden was also asked about racism in america by n
how much will the plan s popularity help get it through the senate? also, the prosecution in derek chauvin s murder trial will soon rest its case. how will the defense present its side? we ll have a live update from minneapolis. and former congresswoman katie hill joins us. she resigned over allegations of inappropriate relationships with a campaign staffer. we ll discuss a privacy lawsuit she just lost and why congressman matt gaetz is trying to involve here in his situation. from nbc news world headquarters in new york, i m joshua jonls welcome to the week. let s do some quick word association. first thing that pops into your head. ready? infrastructure. whatever you thought of, it s part of the congressional debate over president biden s multi-trillion dollar plan. right now it seems different things are popping into each party s heads, and that could complicate things. republican lawmakers are thinking of roads and bridges. democrats in the white house are thinkin
i cannot see over the crowd, but there definitely was a movement, and people got spooked and started running. i have to tell you that before this, there is a gentleman on top of a car with a megaphone that s been talking all night, and he kept asking people not to throw anything. he s like, we need to do this peacefully over and over and over again. and then people just didn t listen. and it s only a couple of people, but that s all it takes for there to be, you know, this back-and-forth where things get violent and they get dangerous because less than lethal munitions will be fired. people have been firing off fireworks. that spooks the crowd as well. sometimes on the ground they explode. sometimes in the air they explode. sometimes they re throwing that towards the police line, which is all the way around the precinct you see there in brooklyn center. some folks have shields, but for the most part, the crowd has been peaceful. but it s only a few people, and that s few peop
it s a specific kind of terror, that only seems to, constantly, haunt the united states. mass shootings. the most recent took place, thursday night, at a fedex-ground facility in indianapolis, indiana. eight people lost their lives. that horrific news is compounded by the number of similar incidents, in recent weeks. in fact, it s the 45th-mass shooting in the u.s., since the atlanta-area spa killings, on march 16th. and some cities have had more than one. now, cnn defines a mass shooting as one, in which at least four people are hurt or killed by gunfire, not including the gunman. officials say they won t reveal the identities of the people who are wounded in that shooting friday but they have released the names of those who lost their lives. they are 32-year-old matthew r. alexander. 19-year-old samaria blackwell. 66-year-old amarjeet johal. 68-year-old jaswinder singh. 48-year-old amarjit sekhon. 19-year-old karli smith. now, investigators in in inside yap lyap lis are com
manslaughter, culpable negligence creating an unreasonable risk find the defendant guilty. derek chauvin guilty on all charges. the former minneapolis police officer who killed george floyd with a knee to the neck handcuffed and led away after a jury of his peers deliberated for just ten hours. but as chauvin disappears behind bars, what s next for america? that s a much harder question. collective relief over the verdict, understandable and spektd. but this is one conviction. that s a measure of accountability denied to so many others. an in justice not lost on minnesota s attorney general. this verdict reminds us how hard it is to make enduring change. here we are in 2021, still addressing the same problem. since dr. clark testified, we have seen rodney king, abener luima, oscar grant, eric garner, freddie gray, sandra bland, laquan mcdonald, anton black, breonna taylor and now daunte wright and adam toledo. this has to end. we need true justice. that s not one case.