We go out together. Welcome to The Beat. We Begin tonight with breaking news. A Trump Scandal is rocking the Department Of Justice. The doj has Been busted for Surveying Donald trumps political opponents and a twist that we will get into, the Surveillance Or Tracking of records of children. This is nixonian stuff. But it goes farther than what president nixon got away with. Searching the records of the house democrats in a coequal branch of government who had the authority to Be over seeing the doj and the executive branch. It is a huge story. Well get into it with our experts tonight. I want to Be clear about what were discussing. This is abusing some of the most serious powers of search of Fourth Amendment constitutional oversight and abusing them. Now, congress is the one that is supposed to oversee the Justice Department under Donald Trump what we were seeing is a politicization to get to a point where the Justice Department, with some judges involved, which well get to, was trying
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the process of bringing u.s. troops home from afghanistan could start within weeks from now. in minneapolis, minnesota the trial of derek chauvin resumes later this hour and the defense picks up its case as it tries to plant some seeds of doubt about the death of george floyd, this, as tensions grow following the police shooting of another black man just a few miles away. we have our team of nbc reporters spread across the country covering all angles of these stories and more, and i want to go to the breaking news in minnesota where at least 60 people were arrested after protesters broke curfew and took to the streets for a third straight night following that police shooting of a 20-year-old man just a few days ago. i want to go right to morgan chesky in brooklyn center, minnesota. walk us through how things played out last night. steph, they played out right here in front of the police department which is still lined with the high fence, and still has national guard humvee
outdated information, hours after a major study concluded the jab was safe and highly effective. also in the programme. the anniversary of the first uk wide lockdown in which trains emptied, classrooms shut down and life changed quicker and more dramatically than we could have ever imagined. plus don t do a me and delete your twitter, it turns out those brief musings can be rather valuable after all. we ll explain. i m laura trevelyan in new york city, christian fraser is in london. for a year, the grim ritual of the mass shooting here in america was on pause as we were locked down for a different reason. gun crime has gone up in the pandemic but the mass shootings were down. but now as we start to return to some form of normal life there have two mass shootings a week. first came the spa murders in atlanta, now ten people have been killed at a grocery store in colorado. the oldest victim was sixty five the youngest was only 20. a suspect is in custody, the mo