transportation secretary, pete buttigieg.hi and the new covid surge. i m worried that people are going to die and they never had a chance at getting a bed. new cases averaging near ri 100,000 a day, this as the government endorses pfizer and moderna boosters for all adults. joining me for insight and analysis are nbc news senior white house correspondent kelly o donnell, the reverend al sharpton, host of politicsnation on msnbc, republican pollster kristen soltis anderson, and civil rights attorney david henderson. welcome to sunday. it s meet the press. good sunday morning.e this past week we got more evidence of just how divided t we ve become as a country. on friday, wisconsin jury found kyle rittenhouse not guilty on all counts of shooting three r men, two fatally, at a concern osha protest last summer, sparked by the shooting of black man by a white police officer. in georgia right now there are three men on trial charged with an unprovoked killing of a b
People understand fists for some reason better than we understand guns. if i said somebody was running at you aggressively. what did you do? i punched him. i beat him to death. what other choice did i have. that s what the rittenhouse team did. never physically touches you, never touches your gun, which is strapped to your body. also the law of self-defense and stand your ground in wisconsin actually allows the jury to consider, when you re assessing whether or not what rittenhouse did was reasonable, the law allows you to consider whether or not he should have backed down. rev, what does this mean for your movement? what should you be fighting for when it comes to the specific issue of preventing vigilanteism? i think you need federal laws that would supersede a lot of these state laws. i think in a few months we re going to be facing the ten-year sentence with trayvon martin
Not guilty. sparks outrage. now they have legalized vigilanteism, sports killing. and applause. i feel like they made the right choice, you know it was simple self-defense. split political lines. ti plus, more division in washington, where only two l republicans vote to censure congressman paul gosar after his violent video targeting democrat alexandria ocasio-cortez. what is so hard about saying this is wrong? if i must join alexander hamilton, the first person to be censured by this house, so be it. i ll talk to democratic senator jon tester and republican senator kevin cramer. plus democrats finally passe n president biden s social safety net bill over unanimous republican opposition. didn t get a mandate to transform america. now can it get through the senate? my guest this morning, the