ayman mohyeldin will pick up our coverage right now. stay with us. >> good afternoon, everyone. i'm ayman mohyeldin in new york today. convicted killer derek chauvin is in prison today awaiting his sentencing in eight weeks time. the justice department will launch a pattern and practice investigation into the minneapolis police department as the white house indicates what it wants to see in national reforms. >> as the president alluded to last night in his remarks after the verdict was announced, he believes the bar for convicting officers is far too high. it needs to be changed. >> this, as the family of 20-year-old daunte wright is gathering right now for his viewing, after a police officer shot and killed him during a traffic stop earlier this month. one of the lawyers for the wright and floyd families joins us shortly about the way forward. >> we are also monitoring the

streets of moscow this hour where protesters amassing over the treatment of opposition leader alexei navalny. we'll have a full report later in the program. 91 days into his administration, president biden just wrapped up an announcement over the covid-19 vaccinations, touting success of 2 million shots and announcing tax breaks for companies who give time off to get vaccinated. >> no working american should lose a single dollar from their paycheck because they chose to fulfill their patriotic duty of getting vaccinated. back on march 11th, i outlined what america could look like by the fourth of july. america, we are much closer to normal life than we left behind a year ago. we remain on track for that goal. >> but we begin this hour in minneapolis where that justice department civil rights

investigation is now launching. joining me, nbc news shaquille brewster in minneapolis and radio public reporter grant williams. great to have you both with us this hour. shaq, let's begin with you. what have we learned about the scope of the doj investigation and how have officials there, minneapolis pd and others responded to it? >> reporter: we know this investigation will look into the patterns and practices of the minneapolis police department, looking to see if there's patterns of discriminatory policing, to see if there's patterns of excessive use of force. we actually, just in the past couple of minutes, got a statement from the minneapolis police department responding to this doj inquiry. we heard from the police chief in that statement who says he welcomes this investigation. he says that he and the department will cooperate fully. he had a quote there where he said i look forward to sharing the great work done by our teams, day in and day out. but the department of justice and getting their feedback on how we can serve our communities

even better. that's police chief arradando who testified in the trial of derek chauvin early on. so we also heard from city council members, one member who actually just walked by in the square. she represents this exact area behind me, where george floyd was killed nearly a year ago. we heard from city council members who also welcomed and invited the doj and this national spotlight on their police department. here in minneapolis, in the weeks after george floyd's death, a majority of city council members promised to defund and dismantle this police department. since then, they have shifted money from the police department and put it into violence prevention programs. they have said they're welcoming the spotlight on their department. they want that accountability. that speaks to what you heard from political leaders as well. the governor who spoke. we heard from the president yesterday as well right after the verdict. they said this vertical is not just about -- it's not just about the verdict but rather it's about the accountability that will come, the systemic

change that protesters have been calling for since george floyd's death. you heard many people welcoming the fact that the doj is going to be looking at this from that federal level. >> put this in context for us. and give us, if you can, the rundown of the department's history of police killings. how did previous attempts at reform play out with the mpd? >> as you mentioned, there have been, of course, several high-profile killings, particularly of african-americans by police in minneapolis over the last years. and they've often led to very passionate and deep discussions among elected officials about how to prevent it from happening again. we've seen improvements done to training and to the addition of body cameras. you'll remember after the killing of justine ruschek by

mohammed noor, police did not have their cameras activated in time to get the actual shooting itself. so, that led to a change in policies, telling officers more strictly that they need to have those on all the time. so, we've seen changes like that. when it comes to this particular federal department of justice probe, this is something that i've talked to. people who are close to the chief who have said he would welcome this last year and the year before. this is the type of intervention that he would welcome. it would help give some wind to the effort that he has been trying to make as far as changing the police culture at mpd. >> brent i know you were in the room in the chauvin trial at one point. what can you tell us about what you observed about the jury that gave this rare conviction? what stood out to you from your

observations? >> well, the day i was there, the majority of the testimony was from the bureau of criminal apprehension, forensic scientists. it was a bit dry and elementary, and a lot of them seemed to lose focus after a while late in the afternoon. but i was actually surprised by how well most of them really stayed focused and paid attention. it's not easy information to take in. this jury was obviously taking this very seriously. when they came to such a quick verdict, it appeared to me that they were very motivated, that they felt perhaps that in listening to the testimony over the weeks that they had been there in the courtroom that they had the information they needed in order to make a decision. so, they were a motivated and involved jury. >> shaq, this time yesterday, 24 hours ago, you and i were about to go on the air to talk about

the verdict had been reached. i remember you were talking to that young woman, ashley, who talked to you about how anxious and nervous she was. as nighttime gave way, it went from anxiety to relief when that verdict was read. 24 hours later, what's the feeling in the community where you are today, as we look to the trial of the other three officers involved in george floyd's arrest later this year? >> yeah. you remember, ayman, she said her hands were shaking. that's how anxious she was. she saw that move, that tension turn into celebrations, relief and you saw that not only from the courthouse but here at george floyd square where hundreds of people filled up this square very quickly. i'll let you take a look at what it's looking like now. not celebratory, but more reflective. you see people bringing their family, bringing their kids, putting down flowers, writing

notes. you really get the sense that people are taking this seriously and being very somber about this exact spot. you see them taking photos over there. you mentioned, this is not done yet for this community. they're not only going to be reflecting on george floyd's death but they also now have to deal with another trial. the three other officers involved in his death, who were standing pretty much in this specific area. their trial will be in august. that's something that many people have -- few protesters, i should say, as i was walking with them, marching around the downtown area, they say yes, we appreciate that we got the conviction of derek chauvin but now are focused and looking ahead at what's to come. ayman? >> thank you, shaquille brewster in minneapolis and brent. we'll have live pictures of the viewing taking place for daunte wright later on.

you see the live pictures there as family members and other well wishers come to pay their final respects. antonio, public viewing, as we mentioned, is being held today for daunte wright ahead of his funeral tomorrow. the officer who shot daunte has been charged in his death. how does the wright family feel about the verdict against derek chauvin and what it means for your case? >> well, you can imagine the juxtaposition that the wright family is feeling right now. they watched a verdict, which could change american history in terms of police reform, systemic racism, and they're burying their loved one at the same moment. it really is bittersweet. i think the one consolation, or maybe even more than one consolation is that the wright family has stayed so close to them. they've been comforting each other. they've been with each other. they've been holding each other.

and that's been a tremendous source of relief and comfort to the wright family, knowing how strong the floyd family -- the model people that they have been through this ordeal since may 25th of last year. >> i want to share with you and our viewers the statistic that was featured in "the new york times" that, quote, there have only been seven murder convictions of officers for fatal police shootings since 2005. this, according to philip stinson of bowling greep state university. that suggests the chances of a killing by the police leading to a murder conviction are about one in 2,000. does that statistic surprise you? do you think it will change in the coming years after the chauvin conviction? >> interestingly, i know of one of those convictions besides the george floyd one, and that's the laquan mcdonald where jason van dyke was convicted in chicago.

i did not know it was one in 2,000. that's just an absurd number. not because it needs to be higher, but because we know that police have acted inappropriately over the years and have gotten away with it in the past because of the qualified immunity or they always declare the -- [ poor audio ] because of what the minneapolis police department did. they testified against one of their own. if they raise the bar for police officers to be held accountable. i do see change. >> part of that change involves what we heard today from the doj. do you think the doj investigation into the minneapolis police department is a step in the right direction, a step forward? do you think further action is necessary? >> well, what the doj is doing, what they're saying, rather, is that police reform in minneapolis doesn't begin or end

with yesterday's conviction, that there is going to be an investigation into other uses of excessive force, which have been systemic, which have gone on for a long period of time. what derek chauvin did was very likely a result of his lack of training or training in kneeling in that position, which leads to unnecessary death. so, i think this is a tremendous step. it's a tremendous step in leadership in order to look at this because the investigation itself will bring about positive change. >> tony romanucci -- antonio romanucci, thank you. >> thank you. have a good day. >> you too. >> president biden said it is ahead of its goal of 2 million vaccinations within his first 100 days but that's not enough. >> the time is now to open up a

new phase of this historic vaccination effort. to put it simply, if you've been waiting for your turn, wait no longer. the broad swath of american adults still remain largely unvaccinated. a number of states, they weren't eligible for the vaccination until this week. too many younger americans may still think they don't need to get vaccinated. >> joining me now, nbc news digital white house reporter shannon pettypiece and heidi pryzbyla. what can you tell us about president biden's statement on the vaccine rollout today? is there a sense of frustration that not enough americans are getting vaccinated now that it's become widely available to all americans? >> reporter: he's really trying to emphasize that and emphasize that we're now going from a phase, as you heard him describe it, where they were focused on getting the most at-risk people vaccinated to now shifting to that general population. and that's going to be a whole

different set of tools they need to pull out of their toolbox to get that done, including making sure people know they can now get a vaccine and they can get it at a local pharmacy, for example. and it's not that confusing, complex process that it was back in the winter. here say little bit more of what he had to say about that. >> 90% of the american people now live within five miles of a place where they can get a shot. under our federal vaccination program, shots will be available at nearly 40,000 pharmacies coast to coast. and if you can go in to a busy -- to buy your shampoo or buy your toothpaste, you can stop and get vaccinated. the vaccine is free. it's convenient. and it's increasingly available. >> reporter: and another thing the administration said they're doing to try to make things even more convenient, they announced a tax credit.

they're going to be giving employers for paying their employees to take time off, not just to get vaccinated but if they feel ill after that vaccine. so, one more excuse people have out there, saying they can't get the time off of work, they don't want to lose that wage to get vaccinated. the administration trying to address that, too, and encourage employers to use that tax credit and that benefit. >> it will be interesting to see if the incentive works. heidi, you spent some time at a cliveng where newly deployed mobile trailers will be used to help close the vaccine gap in the community, in that remaining 10% that the president was talking about. the 90% live within 5 miles, 10% that are out of that five mile range. what more can you tell us about that initiative? >> ayman, fema is rolling out these vaccination clinics on wheels to try to target what they call vaccine deserts. those are areas where people are either vaccine hesitant or there

are issues with vaccine access. we had an exclusive interview with the acting director of fema where he talked more specifically about what the approach is. >> it's not just vaccine hesitancy. it's access to the vaccine. some communities don't have the ability to maybe register on some of the systems that exist. how to reach out to those communities and make sure they're able to get an appointment and be able to come here and get vaccinated. these sites help in doing that. >> reporter: so this is a new, more surgical phase of the vaccine campaign, ayman. it demonstrates increased resources but also demonstrates the challenges, frankly, in terms of hesitancy. this cliveng behind me is capable of vaccinated 200 patients a day. there were a dozen appointments available yesterday, not like

that in urban areas. up to 20 to 30% of the public still does remain vaccine hesitant. many of those individuals are here in areas like this in rural maryland, ayman? >> heidi przybyla in easton, maryland, shannon pettypiece in washington. thanks to both of you. a moment to recommit to the racial justice movement. minnesota's tina joins us next. president biden keeps pushing for bipartisanship. we'll take you to capitol hill on that front. the streets of russia, where protesters are calling for the release of imprisoned critic alexei navalny. you're watching msnbc. navalny you're watching msnbc. ideas exist inside you, electrify you. they grow from our imagination, but they can't be held back.

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by the slimmest of margins, the biden administration has narrowly avoided the need for vez kamala harris to break a tie to confirm the third ranking official. just moments ago, vinipta gupta was confirmed. lacking a single republican supporter requiring the vice president to come to the capitol in case her vote was needed. this is a small bipart san win for president biden nonetheless.

>> reporter: it is a small bipartisan win because there is one republican, senator lisa murkowski, who decided to buck her party and vote for vanita gupta for this number three position at the department of justice. senator murkowski said she had a meeting with vanita gupta. let's listen to what she said herself. >> i felt i was speaking to a woman who had not only committed a professional life to try to get to the base of these injustices, to try to not just direct a little bit of money, put a program in place and walk away and call it a day but to truly make a difference. >> most of the rest of the republicans were opposed for various reasons. they said that she had previously said she supported defunding the police, which gupta denied. they criticized her for

criticizing republicans during the trump administration. republicans in congress were nearly unified against her. there was a lot of republicans outside of congress who wrote letters to mcconnell and members of congress signifying their support, including the fraternal order of police, not necessarily that they're republican, but the fact that it is a more conservative organization, including former homeland security secretary chertoff. former top coke executive. she is an honest broker and highly qualified for the position. ayman? >> leigh ann, let's talk quick about police reforms. are we hearing any movement on that front, an idea or even a plan to try and deal with the issue of police reform now that it's at the forefront of american discourse? >> absolutely. well, after the george floyd justice and policing bill passed the house of representatives

last march, discussions, bipartisan discussions in the senate had been mostly stalled. one day after that guilty verdict, one senate republican, tim scott of south carolina, who is leading the negotiations for republicans, is sounding a tone of optimism saying he has sent a counterproposal to democratic colleagues, seeing what their input would be and he says perhaps there could be some sort of agreement within the next couple of weeks. so, this is an issue we'll be watching the developments very closely. ayman? >> leigh ann caldwell live for us on capitol hill. thank you, as always. republican senator tina smith of maryland is joining me now. what are you hearing from your colleagues about a possible deal on police reform? >> thanks, ayman. what i'm hearing is that you've got to try. you've got to have the

conversations. my colleague, senator cory booker, is passionate about making progress on this. he has demonstrated his capacity to find ways of working together with republicans on other issues around criminal justice reform. that giveses me a lot of optimism. senator booker and then senator harris were the leads on the policing act last year. it went nowhere in the senate. the fact that now cory and senator scott are having ongoing conversations also at the house i think is a really good sign. >> i have to ask just because with everything that's happening in your state and the debate about police reform, let's talk about that verdict what are you

constituents telling you about what's happening with derek chauvin, what's happening with daunte wright? >> you could hear the culpable exhale, the sigh of relief from so many folks in minnesota when we heard about the three guilty verdicts for derek chauvin and also almost immediately, as people were thinking about that victimvy, that important victory, that piece of justice, that it was only a piece of justice to what we need to see happen here. what do we need to do next? what do we do to maybe sure this doesn't happen again? as you showed a moment ago, we are now turning to the tragedy of the funeral of daunte wright. i'll be back in minnesota tomorrow for that. so, there is a real sense of justice done in this one particular case, accountability in this one particular case but

how do we address the systemic problem? that's going to take time. >> do you support the doj investigation that was launched into the mpd today policies and practices? >> i think it is absolutely the right move. in fact, a year ago, i called on the trump department of justice to initiate a pattern of practice investigation. this is a way of coming in with an outside eye and looking at the systems and the policies and the procedures and the training in place and saying, how are these contributing to a systematic denial of people's civil rights and use of force which i believe is happening in the minneapolis police department. it's very much a good thing and i'm glad to see the chief of police welcome this investigation. there has been other work happening at the state level that should all work together in concert to try to get this done. minneapolis police department needs tools to make systemic change and this can be one of

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ground. dasha joins me now from tucson, arizona. tell us about that experience and what you saw. what's going on there? >> reporter: hey, ayman. yeah, we went on a ride along with a sheriff's deputy in cochise county that shares 83 miles of border wall with mexico. it's in the tucson area, second only to the rio grande valley. as we drove along the wall there, we could literally see traces of where people recently crossed. there are multiple places where barbed wire was cut, where we could see clothing, backpacks, robes hanging from the barbed wire where people climbed over the wall. we witnessed two people being apprehended by border patrol. there were two young men from mexico. they told us they came to the u.s. to find work, to provide for their families. ayman, the numbers here, they have doubled since january. but the sheriff tells me that while the numbers are increasing, the border patrol resources that they rely on here

are declining. i want you to take a listen to just some of what sheriff danells had to say. >> what's going on in texas and other parts, we've lost a lot of our federal support, checkpoints, federal border patrol stations. the resources we had a year ago, six months ago are no longer with us. where we were just four months ago and where we're at today is night and day. it truly is. we watch the resources erode every time a decision is made in washington, d.c. >> reporter: ayman, the sheriff tells me he and his team have tried to step up to make up for some of those lost resources. they set up a camera system that helps alert border patrol to crossings. he says at the end of the day, they are not immigration officials and cannot enforce immigration policy and they need that federal partnership. ayman? >> dasha burns live for us in arizona. thank you, as always.

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>> officials in columbus, ohio, gave an update on the deadly police shooting. an attempted stabbing call and police shot and killed a 16-year-old girl, makia bryant, who reportedly had a knife. police released new body camera footage which we will show you and pause at the moments shots are fired. police have blurred the faces in that video. and a warning to our viewers, what you are about to see is

disturbing. >> get down! get down! get down. >> joining me now from columbus, ohio, nbc news josh lederman and kirk burkeholder, law professor and retired police officer. who called the police with reports of an attempted stabbing? >> we learned there were not one but two calls to 911 that took place, one that appeared to be from a bystander, from a male. the first call, police say they are still not sure who placed that call. but in the background, you could hear there's quite a commotion taking place. there is reference to a knife. we are told by police our initial 911 dispatch sent out was not for an attempted

stabbing but a disturbance,' commotion. take a listen to some of that 911 tape. >> trying to fight us. put her hands on our grandma. get here now! >> is there any weapon? [ bleep ] [ bleep ] >> ma'am, do you see any weapons? >> we need a police officer here now. >> do you see any weapons? >> we need an officer here now. no! [ indistinct chatter ] >> reporter: ayman, just before we came on the air, i spoke with mayor ginther here in the city of columbus and asked him what he would say today to the parents of a black child who is scared, who doesn't understand what happened.

he says, continue to hold us accountable. continue to demand more from the police in terms of training, in terms of recruiting, diverse applicants for the police force continue to insist that there is accountability. he's hoping that message will go out to a community that is confused, angry right now. concerns about potential unrest that could take place as the community digests this shooting yesterday. ayman? >> josh, stay with me. kirk, the police chief, police chief woods, was asked about why the officers didn't aim for a leg in place of something that could kill, the large mass, if you will, of a human body. watch what he said. >> we don't train to shoot the leg, because that's a small target. we train to shoot center mass. what is available to stop that threat. there was a threat going on, a deadly force threat that was going on. the officer is trained to shoot center mass. when you try to start shooting the legs or arms, rounds miss and then they continue on and

there are people behind that that could be in danger. >> do you think the officer used proportionate force, kirk? >> yes. yes, i do. and i will explain why. the chief is absolutely correct. this is -- i'm glad that this issue was addressed because it's a common question. if we attempted to train police officers to shoot toward smaller parts of the body, arms, legs and so forth, that's a small, moving target. they are very likely to miss, very difficult to train someone to be that much of a marksman with a handgun. what happens is a bystander will be shot. bullets continue to travel. they'll ricochet and you're likely to hit someone that's the unintended target. we would see so many fatalities and injuries in that respect. there is only one type of force. a knife was -- i'm not opining on the issue of whether the police should have used -- but he saw. if he feels deadly physical

force sk used they will meet that with deadly physical force and to -- under no circumstances is a knife not deadly physical force. when you look at the video, this police officer was confronted with a fluid situation, where a knife was being used. so this doesn't mean that he should have fired, he shouldn't have fired. these are just the issues that need to be examined. the main issue here is the loss of public trust. so now the community is suspicious any time a police officer fires his or her weapon and an african-american person is killed and they've lost that public trust, lost that benefit of doubt. and that's what the issue is here. it certainly is positive that the department is attempting to be transparent and releasing the video so quickly. but the police have a long way to go to regain that public trust. >> you raise a very important point about both trust and the transparency. there is a need for transparency, given how little trust there is. is there also a downside to

releasing body camera footage too fast? >> well, this is what we've heard in the past, right? that body camera footage, if you notice in the past, hasn't been released because the investigators, the police are conducting their investigations and whatever authorities. however, that body camera footage is not going to change. investigations should not be conducted based on the court of public opinion. think about the other way. imagine if it's body camera footage is released a month later. look at the incident in virginia, right? we've seen this body camera footage released months after the incident occurred. in order to be transparent, why not get that footage out there? let people think what they may and keep them informed as to the investigation and explain the investigative steps. i think that in this day and age, that will go a long way towards transparency. there's really not much of a immediate to hold on to that

footage until you have completed your investigation. that was a time a few months ago -- >> i apologize. very quickly, kirk, if i can ask you a follow-up, given what we saw what happened with derek chauvin with the initial statement by the police, should the police even be the ones briefing the media and public? should it be somebody from the bci say here is what we know so far and have that come from an independent body, given the fact that there is no trust with the police, and asking the police to brief the media about it does raise all kinds of questions. >> that's a great question. in some respects, the police are certainly the best party to brief the media. they know exactly what happens occurred. we may be at a point that perhaps an independent body, now we're hearing things secondhand. at this particular point in time, it might be useful to use a media official from the municipality to release that information. but it doesn't matter. that info is still coming from the police, directly from them. so that's what the public will get. >> very important point there.

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alexey navalny demonstrated against his imprisonment. united nations human rights experts say his health is in danger and calling for an evacuation from russia. in his annual state of the nation address president putin issued a warning to the west amid a rise in tensions along the border with ukraine. joining me now from russia matt vodner. were the protesters what they hoped? will they have an impact? >> reporter: thank you. yes and no. yes in the sense to take moscow for example. you said the protests happened across the country. we saw about 10,000 to 15,000 people come out on the streets tonight and an impressive number, especially when you consider that the risks that a

russian citizen will take by participating in one of these unsanctioned pro-navalny protests. but it's also -- we have to keep in mind just how the navalny team has been billing the protests the last few days and in their own words nothing less than a final battle between good and apathy and also a kind of last-ditch effort to save his life and with that billing they got fewer people out on the streets in moscow tonight than they expected and i think more importantly fewer than we saw at the record-setting protests back in late january and early february. but they did send a message and that is that despite everything they showed that they continue to command a pretty sizable support group to pull out on to the streets on a wednesday night. >> so, matt, ahead of today's

protests several allies were detained. how much of an effect do you think that arrests will have on future protests and public opposition to putin? there's a great risk for people to go out into the streets as you mentioned. >> reporter: it is pretty standard practice for the senior opposition leaders to be arrested. essentially walking out of the house on the protest day and some serves house arrest, others face investigations but what's i think more important is there's a broader more serious campaign right now waged against the entire navalny movement and something that we are expecting in the next week or so is a court hearing here to evaluate and hear a government motion to classify the entire navalny organization as an extremist group and used this used that the kremlin doesn't like and it would be crippling to his ground

game across the country and essentially drive -- we are looking at a situation where in the near future the movement could be driven underground. >> of course all of this happens against the backdrop of what we are seeing in the ukraine on the border with russia. today putin warned the west not to cross the russian red lines why what is the feeling in russia regarding that military build-up? >> reporter: sure. let me put it this way. if you were to get your news only from russian state media, russian state television you would be terrified of a war. you're being shown images of nato troops moving around europe. ukraine preparing an offensive on eastern ukraine and not

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hi there, everyone. 4:00 in the east. the wave of relief. it was palpable across the country in the wake of derek chauvin's conviction for the murder of george floyd. it's now giving way today to calls for action as the biden administration takes steps the make good on its promise of systemic change. the justice department today announcing a broad investigation of the minneapolis police. it's a move designed to address deep-rooted issues that may have contributed to floyd's murder and to determine whether a pattern of unlawful policing demands urgent reforms. >> i have been involved in the legal system in one way or another for most