Theyre a combination. Thats going to do it for us. Happy friday. I will see you again on monday. Now it is time for The Last Word where our friend ali velshi is in for lawrence tonight. Good night. Tonight we begin with breaking news. Senate Democratic Leaders have reached an agreement over Unemployment Benefits with moderate democratic senator joe manchin, ending a ninehour standoff that threatened to derail action on President Bidens covid relief bill. The agreement would extend the existing 300 weekly Unemployment Benefit through September 6th, and it offers Tax Forgiveness on up to 10,200 in Unemployment Benefits for those who make less than 150,000 a year. In a Statement Released tonight, Senator Manchin said, we have reached a compromise that enables the economy to rebound quickly while also protecting those receiving Unemployment Benefits from being hit with unexpected tax bills next year. Joining us now on this breaking news, democratic senator tim kaine of virginia. He is a me
Unemployment holding at 6. 2 . That went over pretty well with wall street. The dow surged to a gain of 570. Still, as weve reminded our audience so many times, the market is not the economy. The market is not main street. Today, the president insisted the good numbers dont tell the real story. Todays jobs report shows that the American Rescue plan is urgently needed, in our view. Our economy still has 9. 5 million fewer jobs than it had this time last year. And at that rate, it would take two years to get us back on track. Without a rescue plan, these gains are going to slow. In less than two weeks, enhanced Unemployment Benefits will begin to expire for 11 million people. Now, another of bidens policy goals did not survive an effort to add it back in to the relief bill. Senator Bernie Sanders tried to insert an amendment to raise the federal minimum wage to 15 an hour, even after a ruling that it couldnt be inserted into the bill. Eight Democratic Senators promptly voted against that
Situation, a tremendous challenge. We are addressing it with a plan. We are executing on that plan. I, by no means, diminish humane issue that it presents, but i want to be clear that we do have a plan to address it, respecting the needs of the individuals and we are executing on that plan. All right, secretary, so much going if i may, i am very focused on the mission. Mission, and this issue, though, of semantics. It seems like that is something go on. Im not focused on the words that people employ. Im focused on the needs of the migrants, the execution of our responsibilities, and addressing the situation under the bridge in del rio. That is what i am focused on. All right, secretary mayorkas, dhs, thank you so much for being with us. Thank you so much. New day continues right now. Good morning to viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im Brianna Keilar with john berman. It is tuesday, september 21st. G the morning of the night of the 21st Of September to quote earth
that was the statement from huw edwards s wife, vicky flind. it came very shortly after the metropolian police issued this statement. so, that, some of the latest that we have got there from the metropolitan police, also from vicky flind, wife of huw edwards. a very personal appeal they are from vicky flind? yes, and no doubt thoughts with her their children. huw edwards now in hospital, receiving treatment, and he has spoken in the past about suffering from depression. he has been very open about that over a number of years and so here we are this evening, able to name the presenter who has been at the centre of five days of claims and counterclaims, as the television news presenter, bbc news presenter huw edwards, who has worked for the bbc for a0 years, he has been present the fight to bbc one news at ten for 20 years, he has taken part in anchoring so many state occasions for the bbc, elections as well presenter of the flagship bbc one news at ten. it will come as a re
memphis is one of those dangerous places in the western hemisphere where killings are very common, but this videotape and the violence it contains has dominated today s news, so we have asked trace gallagher to walk us through the footage. hey, trace. hey, tucker. we will do the step-by-step. it begins with the initial stop. remember, tyre nichols was pulled over for reckless driving, though the video starts at a point where there is no evidence. we can t see any signs of reckless or erratic driving. but when police officers approached the vehicle, they are clearly agitated about something, because they don t go up to the vehicle and ask tyre nichols to step out. instead, they immediately open the door and they pull him out of the car, and immediately then try to push them down to the ground. you can watch some of this and kind of see the process as it goes forward. in the process, while they are on the ground with him, he is tased and apparently pepper sprayed. some of the