lie that the 2020 election was stolen. and, as of today, with the endorsement of minority leader kevin mccarthy, it appears elise stefanik will be cheney s replacement, because she is willing to do what cheney is not. that s why we need a conference that s united, a conference chair delivering that message day in and day out and uniting the nation to make sure that we are on the right footing going forward. do you support elise stefanik for that job? yes, i do. cheney s ousting would mark the first high-profile casualty of donald trump s post-presidency revolution, something that some republicans believe will come at a cost. look, we had the worst four years we ve had ever in the republican party, losing the white house, the house of representatives and the senate. and successful politics is about addition and multiplication, not subtraction and division. safe to say, republican congressman adam kinzinger feels about the same about his party. right now it s basi
president biden marks 100 days in office with a trip to georgia. the question is, where is he headed next? plus new information into the federal investigation into president trump s former attorney rudy giuliani. what were agents looking for? and the fed plans to charge chauvin in federal crimes. the question is, do they have a contingency plan? welcome could way too early. i am kasie hunt. on this friday, april 30, we ll start with the news. rudy giuliani s role of the trump administrations ousting of an ambassador has investigators looking at whether giuliani broke lobbying laws with the firing of former ambassador. at least one warrant sought evidence to the role of the ambassador. according to the sources, that includes some of the same people also helping giuliani seek damaging information about joe biden and his family. the times notes, quote, at issue is a key question. did giuliani go after yovanovitch solely on behalf of trup p, who was his client at the time or
sets to see good-bye to the man. this is american voices. hello, everyone, i m alicia mendez. we are watching steps forward on the amendment, and gun safety, and voting rights and civil rights under attack, and when you zoom out, we re all of the shuffling forward and backwards back, we have the longest impact on american s generations. in 2020 millennial voters were clear about the issues they wanted addressed, starting, of course, with the pandemic, but also addressing climate change, racial equality, and an economy where wages are fair. president biden began to tackle the issues, starting with a clear plan to overcome the pandemic. he put america back in the paris climate accord and unveiled a massive infrastructure plan to rebuild our crumbling roads and bridges, same roads and crossings young people will travel in their self-driving cars. this week biden took on another issue young voters and a vast majority of americans are fed up with, a problem extremely unique to
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
boat that capsized just off the coast of san diego. officials say it looks like smuggling. and last night we asked you for your photos of things that helped raise your perspective in these troubled times. i call it the observatory effect. and you did not disappoint. we will share some of our favorites throughout the hour. from nbc news world headquarters in new york, i m joshua johnson. welcome to the week. well, president biden had a good week. he marked his 100 days in office delivering his first presidential speech to a joint session of congress. a new poll out today shows that nearly two-thirds of americans expressed optimism about the direction of the country. the last time we came close to that level of optimism was in december of 2006. i often think about a quote from abraham lincoln. public sentiment is everything. with it, nothing can fail. against it, nothing can succeed. perhaps it s clear why many americans are upbeat. 100 million of us are fully vaccin