Yeah. An important moment for you and important moment for people to see. Im glad we were able to see your photo. Thank you for being here to share your story. We are grateful for your service and time today. I appreciate it. Well think about you tomorrow. Thank you. Thank you for watching. Our special coverage live from the pentagon here. We will have more from the same spot tomorrow. Ill anchor here with Andrea Mitchell. Ill have more on msnbc reports. We continue with Craig Melvin live from shanksville, pennsylvania right now. This field is the site where the passengers and crew of United Flight 93 wrestled control of the hijacked planes on September 11th, 2001 and crashed it into the ground. Craig melvin picking up Friday Coverage from Sacred Ground In Shanksville, pennsylvania. The site where we lost 40 american heroes and sacrificing their own lives and likely saved thousands more. That plane was bound for the u. S. Capitol. Where im standing, literally, the exact place where Fam
Cuba. Also Chuck Grassley, Jesse Waters is here, and retired fourstar general. Democratic lawmakers escalating their fight against Gop Voting laws with President Biden coming under fire for his claims that the laws are 21st century Jim Crow assault. This is america reports, happy wednesday. Im Sandra Smith in New York and i will raise your with a butter pecan. President biden meanwhile saying yesterday republican Led Voting Reforms in places like Texas Aim to make it harder for americans to vote. He also urged congress to take action on federal legislation to combat those efforts. This as texas democrats receive a warm welcome in the nations capital. The democrats fleeing their state in an effort to block a gop that backed Voting Law and now a texas republicans are tHreatening to put the defecting democrats in handcuffs. We start off the day with our senior correspondent Casey Siegel who is life for us in the capital of austin. Good to see you. For the second day in a row, about an hou
Surfside with the late arest on whats going on there latest on whats going on there. Charles. Reporter good morning, neil. This is now the ninth day of Search And Rescue efforts. Crews are working around the clock at that collapsed site as they desperately search for the 126 people who are still missing. And miamidade officials say this Rescue Mission is really taking a toll on first responders as 22 people are now confirmed dead. That includes the 7yearold daughter of a firefighter who has been at the Collapse Site helping in the search for victims. All of this happening as Hurricane Elsa barrels towards the Florida Coast with an expected landfall sometime early next week. Urban Search And Rescue teams from indiana, pennsylvania, virginia, ohio and New Jersey are on site to provide relief to local teams. Elsa is already lashing the caribbean, and there is concern that heavy winds and rain from the category i hurricane could compromise what will remains of Champlain Towers south as mia
Good afternoon, and welcome to Washington Post live, im Tracy Jan economic reporter at the Washington Post. Joining us today are shaw, president of the asian american foundation and former Deputy Assistant to president obama. Along with jerry yang, founding Board Member of this new foundation as well as cofounder of yahoo . Welcome to you both. Thank you, tracy. Thanks. Lets start with you, you have spoken about both the importance of addressing antiasian hate as well as belonging. Give us a brief overview of what led to the formation of the asian american foundation. You know, in 2020, we saw a spike incidents against asian american Website And Jonathon who was the ceo of the Antidefamation League came to our board now to say theres a lot happening here. What are you all going to do and our board said we have to do something, and called jerry, called joe and they decide to create the asian american foundation because they knew it was an important time to do this and this was a moment
hatred. we cannot expect to make everyone our friend. but we can try to make no one our enemy. let us create together a new national spirit of unity and trust. how can we love our country and not love our country men? and loving them, reach out a hand when they fall. my friends, and yes i do mean friends, in the loyal opposition and yes i mean loyal, i put out my hand. i ask the congress to join with me but no president, no congress, no government can undertake this mission alone. civility is not a tactic or a sentiment. it is the determined choice of trust over cynicism, of community over chaos. on this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord. it s time to put away the harsh rhetoric. we have to stop treating our opponents as our enemies. they are not our enemies. they are americans. it s a new dawn, it s a new day, it s a new life for me and i m feeling good today, joe biden steps into pow