i'm yasmin vossoughian. breaking news. a deadly accident involving one of italy's iconic cable cars into the mountains. more nan a dozen killed. >> protests ahead of the anniversary of george floyd's death. >> new reaction to the republican effort to kill a january 6th commission in congress. >> a new texas law and a looming case in the supreme court puts abortion back into the national discussion. today. >> plus, later on this hour, we may soon know what we know about ufos. a senate panel will soon find out what the pentagon really has on what may exist out there beyond the stars. we're going to have more on that as well. but we do want to begin first with that breaking news from

italy where at least threne people are dead after the cable car they were riding in plunged to the ground some 60 feet. pictures from the scene show the horrific wreckage. the car is crumpled up, resting against a number of pine trees. this happened on a mountain slope overlooking lake mujory, north of milan near the border of switzerland. i'm joined by matt bradley who is covering the story in london with us. great to see you. thank you for joining us on this. what more do we know about how exactly this happened and who was inside that cable car? >> yeah, we really don't know how this happened. that's what the authorities are trying to figure out. it looks like the people in the cable car were mostly families. they were headed to what is essentially a theme park on the top of mt. majori, which is overlooking the lake that you just mentioned. and at least two children were the only people who were pulled from the wreckage surviving.

one of them later died in a hospital after both of them were flown to the nearby city of torin, so this tragedy is still taking lives, and authorities have said don't be surprised if the death toll continues to increase. we still haven't gotten a strong word on exactly how many people were inside that gondola, but as you can imagine, this would have been really quite surprising, even for authorities. you know, most of these trips are very safe. this whole system was renovated just five years ago. and of course, this is a really popular tourist destination. to give you a sense of how rare this is, the deadliest -- this is the deadliest accident involving a gondola in italy since 1998. and that was when a low-flying u.s. jet actually clipped one of the gondola lines in the mountains. that killed 20 people. so the death toll still has not reached that level, but really tragic accident in northern italy tonight. >> matt, while i have you, can

you talk a little bit about this area? i understand it's really popular amongst tourists as well. and also, do we know anything about how often they were doing safety checks on this gondola? >> we still haven't heard about the safety checks. and that kind of thing. like i said, this was only renovated five years ago. in fact, this had really all been shut down until just the last couple weeks because of covid. so that really meant that this was probably sitting around for quite a while. it's unclear whether safety checks were done after this long period when this whole system was lying dormant. all of that are questions that are going to be definitely posed to authorities in the coming days. yasmin. >> all right, matt bradley in london, thank you, matt. another breaking story that we're following. news out of belarus. the president there ordering a flight carrying an opposition blogger to land in the country's

capital of minsk earlier today. the president lukashenko ordered that the plane headed for lithuania to land because of reports of explosives onboard. none were found. officers detained activist roman protasevic, who was on a wanted list after last year's mass election protest. human rights groups say around 35,000 people have been detained since august in the president's crackdown on protests. we're also following some breaking news on some two mass shootings in south carolina. police saying at least 14 people were shot during an unauthorized neighborhood concert in north charleston. one of the victims, a 14-year-old girl, has died. the number of injured may be higher, as police are saying some victims left the scene before they even arrived. police have not said if they have a suspect as of yet. in new jersey, an active manhunt also under way after a mass shooting at a party in bridgeton. police say a house party packed with hundreds of guests turned into chaos when shots were

fired. 14 partygoers were shot and two have subsequently died. governor phil murphy is urging people in his state to come forward with any information that could help with this investigation. all right, so thousands of people are taking to the streets today to honor george floyd two days before the one-year anniversary of his murder when then-officer derek chauvin held his knee on floyd's neck for nine minutes. i want to bring in shaq brewster and cori coffin who is in new york. one year later, shaq, you are there where it happened. you're in the place where it happened. what are folks expecting to see today? >> yeah, we're just about a couple hours away from the first commemoration, the first in what will be a series of commemorations marking one year since george floyd was murdered here in the city of minneapolis. you see some of the setup and preparation behind me. you'll see there will be speakers here, community leaders, you see the flowers there. marking one year to the day since he died. that anniversary, of course, is

on tuesday. you also see the spirit of activism there, and you see some people here from visual black justice there, have what is a coffin here. and you see the words on there. it says for those who weren't filmed, who weren't on camera. that's the priority, and that's what they want their focus to be on. and to that point, many people are now wondering, what happens next? where do we go forward now that we marked a year since george floyd's deaths? we saw changes across the country. of course, president biden is inviting the family of george floyd to the white house on tuesday to push for national reform. even here in minneapolis, there's been a ban on choke holds, a ban of neck restraints. i spoke to a former minneapolis police department lieutenant, someone who before he retired called for change, called for some of the reforms we're seeing now, and we asked what he thinks about the changes he's seeing now. >> broadly speaking, as someone who has been calling for this before you retired, what do you think of the changes we have seen in the past year?

>> i don't think that's going to make the difference. the change, the policy changes aren't going to make a difference. we changed policies for years. >> what makes the difference? >> getting to know your community. >> and i mentioned there will be three days of these commemorations. today, there's that march and rally. tomorrow, there will be virtually organizing, and then on tuesday, the exact year to the day when george floyd was killed, there will be commemorations across the city of minneapolis, and i suspect, really across the country. >> all right, so from minneapolis, we want to go to new york, where we find cori in new york city, also a major part of the protest landscape last summer. what are you seeing there? >> yasmin, it was, and the george floyd movement showed up here to the brooklyn borough on the steps today for a day of remembrance. it's different than what we saw in the past year, the months of strife and marches in the street. today was reflecting, what has been done since then, and also

what hasn't been done. what other work still needs to be done. i spoke sw an event organizers well as the brother of george floyd about his legacy. listen here. >> i want everybody to love each other. love each other the way my brother loves y'all, and i wish you would have got a chance to meet him and understand him. but i tell you what, i tell you one thing, even though you didn't meet my brother, if you had time to meet me and talk to me, then you met him. >> he could have been my father, he could have been my brother, my uncle. and i still get emotional. and that's what happened. i cried when i seen that video. i never had a chance to meet george floyd, but i felt like it was me, it felt like it was my family. >> and you know, yasmin, something that shaq mentioned, that george floyd justice in policing act. i also asked terrance about that. he said in short, what's taking so long? now is the time. he said he fears every single day for the next black man or woman that will die at the hands of police brutality, every day this is not passed.

the white house has said they're still working with republicans. it is currently, as we know, clogged in the republican senate. they're hopeful to have some sort of compromise to move it forward. it's just taking longer than they expected, and as shaq mentioned, the biden administration inviting the george floyd family to the table on tuesday to continue the conversation. >> all right, shaq in minneapolis for us, cori in new york city, thank you both. by the way, reverend al sharpton hosting his show from minneapolis tonight. he's joining us at 4:30 p.m. to talk about what to expect in this special edition of "politics nation." you don't want to miss that. >> we're getting more reaction to the republican dismissal of a compromise offer from the white house that would have slashed the plan by $550 billion, the infrastructure plan, that is. the president's senior adviser cedric richmond, still insisting bipartisan negotiations remain a top priority. >> he wants a deal. he wants it soon. but is there meaningful

negotiations going, taking place in a bipartisan manner. he's willing to let that play out. but again, he will not let inaction be the answer. >> let's bring in nbc's kelly o'donnell who is standing by at the white house. great to see you. thanks for joining us on this. talk us through this. so i think the big question is why. why are republicans still it seems at this point refusing to come to the table after the white house slashed $550 billion from their original infrastructure plan? >> there are a couple reasons. some of them may seem obvious when you hear them. others may be about the negotiating tactics at play here. but to just answer your question, more directly, republicans differ on the definition of infrastructure. the white house has a broader definition. and how it would be paid for. republicans do not want to see a raise in -- an increase in the corporate tax rate. and so those are real big stumbling blocks. now, from the white house

perspective, president biden began this infrastructure push going very big, $2.3 trillion, including hard infrastructure and what is considered soft infrastructure, things that include home health care, elder care, parts of the economy where a lot of people could see benefit, but they're not typically associated with roads, bridges, and that kind of infrastructure. so the white house says it wants, and the president has repeatedly said he wants a bipartisan deal, believes that's good governing and that would be a benefit to the country. but how they get there, how they pay for it, and just how big it should be, and what's included are all the kinds of things that are causing difficulty. so it is significant that the biden white house slashed from infrastructure in the roads and bridges type category and broadband, reducing how much they want to put in this package, but keeping those softer forms of infrastructure, the home economy, the elder care, and that's a problem for

republicans. they don't believe that there is a bipartisan deal to be had there, and they still think the number is too rich. they're offering about $600 billion for infrastructure. so are we just at a point where you take the $600 billion republicans are offering, the revised biden number of $1.7 trillion, and is there still somewhere to meet in the middle? that's what we'll have to find out. but the differences right now are stark. it's not just about moving the chips on the board. they're real philosophical differences here, and that does not bode well for this plan. at the same time, the president says if he has to go with a different approach that would be democrats only, he's open to that, but we're not quite there yet, yasmin. >> and he would also need all democrats on board, too, which also is a big question. >> not so easy. >> kelly o'donnell in washington, good to see you. >> the republican congresswoman marjorie taylor greene is doubling down on comments comparing the house mask mandate to the holocaust. she compared being compelled to

wear a mask to prevent the spread of covid to the stars jewish people were forced to wear during the holocaust. she was given the chance to walk that back this weekend. here's what she said. >> i stand by all of my statements. i said nothing wrong. and i think any rational jewish person didn't like what happened in nazi germany, and any rational jewish person doesn't like what's happening with overbearing mask mandates and overbearing vaccine policies. >> interesting, her use of the word rational. her use of the word rational. greene's comments have been condemned by jewish groups and other lawmakers. >> coming up, everybody, the truth may really be out there soon. the government and ufos and what we all may learn very soon. >> plus, a supreme court case and new laws across the country. abortion rights, they're under attack like never before. could we see the end of roe v. wade soon? we'll look at that next.

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welcome back, everybody. with roe v. wade hanging by a thread, the supreme court has agreed to take up a key abortion case next term involving a controversial mississippi law banning most abortions after 15 weeks. it will be the third major abortion case acted on by the court's conservative majority this year with a ruling potentially coming in the middle of the 2022 midterms. it's all coming amid a huge wave of moves to restrict reproductive rights across this country. so far this year, at least 549 abortion restrictions have been introduced across 47 states, putting 2021 on track to become the most devastating antiabortion legislative session in decades. joining me now to talk more about this and the months ahead and what this could mean for roe v. wade, melissa murray, professor of law at nyu and msnbc contributor. leah lipman, assistant law professor at the university of michigan law school. they're also coposts of the

strict scrutiny podcast. thank you. we appreciate it. some of the stuff is astounding. i want to start with the op-ed that you both wrote together for "the washington post." melissa, i'm going to start with you, and i want to read a portion of it and just have you kind of explain on top of it. the supreme court's conservative supermajority is about to show us its true colors. with trump's three historic appointments to the high court, all that opponents of roe needed was the right vehicle. the mississippi case gives them just that. it will be heard in the court's term beginning in october. can you expand on that, melissa? what did you mean by vehicle? >> well, to be really clear, president donald trump when he was campaigning made clear he was going to place individuals on the court who would roll back and even overturn roe v. wade. he made that a centerpiece of his campaign, and during his presidency, he made good on that. nominating and having confirmed

neil gorsuch, brett kavanaugh, and amy coney barrett. with those three historic appointments, the court's delicate 5-4 majority really shifted to a 6-3 conservative supermajority. and that meant for all intents and purposes the chief justice who had often been a swing vote and who just last term had voted with the liberals on the court to strike down a louisiana admitting privileges law, lost his authority to steer the court to a more moderate perspective. they only need five vets to actually do anything, and that means the path is wide open for roe, and any case will do. >> so leah, it's interesting when you think about the state of mississippi. there's only one abortion clinic in the entire state. and that abortion clinic now being targeted by anti-abortion activists since the supreme court's decision to take up this case. on a kind of everyday level here, talk us through how detrimental it is banning

abortion at 15 weeks with no exceptions, of course, for victims of sexual assault. >> so up until this point, for the last few years, the supreme court has heard cases that have imposed requirements on clinics that perform abortions or women seeking abortions. this mississippi restriction that the supreme court agreed to hear goes much further. it flat out prohibits any woman from having an abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. that runs straight into the teeth of what the core of the abortion right has done, in planned parenthood v. casey in 1992, the supreme court made perfectly clear a state may not prohibit any woman from making the ultimate decision to perminate her pregnancy before viability. the mississippi law does prohibit women from terminating their pregnancies before viability. because of that, the law takes square aim at roe v. wade. obviously, some women will find it more difficult than others to get to a clinic within 15 weeks of pregnancy. be it for cost, they can't get

off work, they don't know they're pregnant until later in their pregnancy, or complications arise later in the pregnancy. the mississippi statute is quite an onerous restriction, and i think more so than the laws that the supreme court has taken up in recent terms. >> so melissa, then you have the texas heartbeat bill, banning abortions roughly around six weeks into pregnancy, which is astounding to say the least, but then talk about the wording of the bill and the intricacies or details of it. instead of having the government enforce the law, it turns it over to private citizens who are newly empowered to sue abortion providers or anyone who helps someone get an abortion after a fetal heartbeat has in fact been detected. talk to me about this. >> well, first of all, the fact that the law prohibits abortion at six weeks, as leah says, at 15 weeks women may not know they're pregnant. that's certainly the case at six weeks. it's already quite aggressive. the fact it takes the enforcement of the law out of

thandz of the state and places it squarely in the hands of private citizens who may not only report abortions but report those who facilitate the abortions, whether it's providers themselves, the uber driver who drives the pregnant person to the clinic, clinic staff. it dismantles any support system for the woman or pregnant person going forward. >> wow. all right, melissa murray, leah lipman, thank you both. and by the way, make sure to tune in to their podcast, strict scrutiny, wherever you get your podcasts. you must come on because we're doing podcast segments every weekend here. i hope you come back and talk about your new podcast. >> coming up, a volcano sends residents fleeing. details ahead. >> plus, the latest on the battle lines ahead of a commission on the capitol hill riot. from dry and stressed, to bright and smooth. so, i can feel my best in my skin.

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of state antony blinken talked about the cease-fire, its importance as an opportunity to build something more positive. he reiterated the u.s. position of the importance of a two-state solution to this crisis, talking about equal rights for both israelis and palestinians. and emphasized the need to get aid to gaza. take a listen. >> we're dealing with the grave humanitarian situation in gaza. then reconstruction, rebuilding what's been lost. and critically, engaging both sides in trying to start to make real improvements in the lives of people. so that israelis and palestinians can live with equal measures of security, of peace, and of dignity. >> reporter: and he's expected to arrive in the region in the coming days. he'll be meeting with israelis, palestinians as well as other regional partners. and he'll be arrived to what is

a tense situation. i was out in jerusalem today. there was a heavy police presence inside the old city as well as inside east jerusalem. earlier this morning, after a pause of 19 days, they once again allowed jewish visitors into the holy site known to yous as the temple mount, and to muslims as the noble sanctuary. that serving to increase tensions even further. just yesterday, we saw confrontation between palestinian protesters and israeli police in the east jerusalem neighborhood where six palestinian families are facing possible eviction. that following the tensions that we saw on friday, clashes inside the compound. it's looking like a tense situation, a situation that could escalate quickly. yasmin. >> all right, erin mclaughlin for us in tel aviv. thank you. coming up in our next hour, we're going to break down

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impede our progress. this bill brings us one step closer to stopping hate, not ownfly for asian-americans, but for all americans. >> all right, hate has no place in america. president joe biden and vice president kamala harris celebrating a rare moment of overwhelming bipartisanship this week after signing legislation into law addressing the surge in anti-asian hate crimes throughout the covid pandemic. in this week's edition of "in the spotlight" we're diving into those rising incidents of asian hate and what needs to change in this country. on an episode of the asian enough podcast, sandra oh took listeners through her passionate speech at the stop asian hate rally in pittsburgh in march and discussed the fear and anger her community has suffered over the past year. >> we must understand as asian-americans we need to reach out our hand to our sisters and brothers and say help me.

and i'm here. and just for one thing, i am proud to be asian. i want to hear you. i am proud to be asian. >> i felt so moved to speak and to speak about mostly the pride, mostly honestly that t-shirt. it's just to remember that. even through the fear. even through the fear, we belong. you know, and i just wanted to voice that for a moment, and i'm happy that it resonated with people. >> let's talk about this. joining me are the cohosts of asian enough. welcome to you both, guys. thanks so much for joining us on this. jen, i want to start with you because you talk about the climate and what we have been experiencing over the last year plus, the rise in anti-asian hate across this country. the tragic stories we have seen and heard of. how has your podcast and the trajectory of it, the conversation for you and your

listeners changed? >> well, consider this, we actually launched this podcast last year, right before the pandemic. we had been working on this already, trying to make a space, create a space for asian-american experiences to be explored because that was something that really didn't seem to be out there enough. and then the pandemic happened, and along with that came this huge upsurge in anti-asian racism and documented reported hate crimes. the stop aapi hate organization that has been collecting and calling for people to report in incidents, reported 3,700 plus incidents since march 2020, between march 2020 and february 2021. and it's one statistic that gives you a sense out there, if you're not in the asian community, and feeling it yourself, of the feeling that

the large asian-american community is feeling right now, just one part of the stories that have yet to be made more visible, and so that's one part of the reason why this podcast was started in the first place. >> johanna, i know you all cohosted the latest episode with rapper and scientist ruby barra. i want to play a little bit of that for folks to hear. >> after taking other asian-american studies courses, i started incorporating a lot of the things that i had learned in those classes into some of my raps, you know, whether it was to also include my own experiences or also incorporating sometimes some filipino history in some of the raps. music, i think, is the most accessible form of media that exists in our culture, and ever since then, i have made it a point really to always make sure that if i'm going to be rapping, if i'm going to be writing, that

there's going to be intent behind it. i need to be intentional with my work. >> how important is it to include what you have been through, right, your journey, in your art, as ruby was explaining there? especially when we think about representation and what that means for so many minorities across this country and in the world. >> sure. it's so important. especially for children growing up, reading about history, reading about american history and not seeing your own history reflected in that is really damaging. as ruby said, she's very intentional about her work. she wants to reflect the filipino story. so much of the asian-american narrative is told within the context of hate attacks. but it's really time for us to move past this really elementary conversation of we're here, we're humans. please respect us, and tell the stories, the really unique, really diverse, really multifaceted stories of asian-american experiences in america because the history

of -- the american history without asian-american history is one that is not reflective of reality. it's one that is lacking and it's important to tell those stories in the context of our everyday lived experiences, not just when we're being discriminated against. >> right. i want you to weigh in on this pew research poll. 20% of asian-americans blame trump's rhetoric for the rise in hate crimes? is that surprising to you or do you feel as the former president just awoke a sleeping giant, something that was always there? and he gave them the permission to do so? >> i think when phrases like kung flu are repeated on such massive media platforms, they have an impact. to counteract things like that, we need to have more stories, more lived experiences. the lived experiences, from across this very, very diverse, very vast community that really

is many, many communities under one umbrella that is asian-american. so for me, exploring the depth, exploring the multidimensions of individual lives, one by one, on this podcast, that what we try to do, because words do matter. and this is one way of trying to counteract the negative and the stereotypical racist terms that have been perpetuated for so long. >> jen and johana, thank you both. make sure to tune in to asian enough, the podcast, wherever you listen to podcasts. new episodes drop every tuesday. we're doing this again next week, so let me know what podcasts you love at yasmin v. on twitter. >> coming up next, restaurant owners are demanding more help from washington, saying the american rescue plan's restaurant revitalization fund

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welcome back, everybody. from the first time in nearly one year, the u.s. is recording fewer than 30,000 daily new coronavirus cases. as of thursday, the seven-day average of new infections is about 29,100. a milestone not seen since june of 2020. coronavirus deaths have also plunged to their lowest level since july. an average of 552 per day. but as the u.s. forges ahead in its recovery from the pandemic, some industries feel left behind. restaurants still facing an uphill climb as they navigate their post-pandemic normal. with me now to discuss this is nbc's scott cohn in san francisco for us. thanks for joining us on this. talk us through how the industry is doing in that area. >> it's one of those situations where looks really are deceiving. behind me is rose's restaurant

in san francisco. popular spot. you can see they're doing some good business today, outside and inside. but they are still operating on under capacity limits in san francisco, 50% of capacity inside. if you know anything about the margins in the restaurant industry, that's really difficult to make a go of it at that level. one of the reasons we're outside because the inside space is so precious. now, those restrictions are about to ease, but we're still about three weeks away from that in california. on june 15th, no more capacity limits, no more social distancing required inside, and no masks required for people who are fully vaccinated. but the owner of rose's, who is also the executive director of the golden gate restaurant association, says they are not out of the woods, not even close. >> we're looking at the summer, right, once we know what can reopen. the summer, and then after labor day, how many kids can go back to school? and then we're looking

at january 2022 as when we should see more markers in terms of conventions coming back, maybe more workers coming back to the downtown corridor, which we need for the service industries that dependent on the foot traffic and the daily influx of workers we used to have pre-covid. >> the head of all that, some pretty gruesome statistics. just in the state of california where we love our restaurants, 76,000 restaurants and bars before the pandemic. a third of those have closed entirely. employment in the restaurant industry down by more than half. it's rough out there. it's going to take some people before the industry comes back here and across the country. >> yeah. those are some big numbers. scott cohn for us in san francisco, thank you, scott. >> after a year doing shows during covid, of course, the cast of "snl" was in a reflective mood as they opened their final show of the year

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do you believe in the existence of extraterrestials? >> logically, i would have to say. >> might we not turn to fantastic as a plausibility. >> the idea of extraterrestials is still up for debate. the existence of unidentified objects have become more and more the topic. mysterious objects flying in our air space without any explanation. next month ufos are making their way to senate as intelligence agencies are expected to deliver a report on unidentified aerial phenomenon to congress. what do we know? good to see you this afternoon. i think this is fascinating stuff. i actually had my kids watch

e.t. to prepare them for this very moment. my 4 and 2-year-old. they're ready. what do we know at this moment? >> we don't know what it is. that's the facts right now. the most straightforward fact is a big one. it's something flying in our skies that appears to be under some intelligence control in a way our government seems unable to explain and our best military trained aviators, including fighter pilots, commanders, lieutenant commanders are describing objects that don't o bee the law of physic, gravity, as we understand it. we have things that are zipping around at more than 13 times the speed of sound without breaking the sound barrier. instant velocity. we have radar operators saying they have been tracking things

that are deskrending from the upper atmosphere around 60, 8 o,000 feet down to the ocean in matter of seconds. we have swarms of unidentified somethings that have been swarming and harassing some of our warships off the coast of california. there's a lot of things that are happening all at the same time. some people say it's aliens. we don't have any evidence to suggest conclusively this is extraterrestials. other people might say it's drone technology from russia or china. we don't have evidence suggests that either. the bending of physics suggest this is something beyond what humans are capable of doing right now. then there are explanations that it might be something mistaken. what we haven't seen in the past is a lot of sensor data that we have seen coming or suggested by some of these leaks we're seeing

but we're still hoping for the government to release a bit more information when it comes to some of that in this upcoming report. >> what could we learn and how much will the public actually hear? >> that's the big question. so much of this is still classified. what we're seeing are these leaked images that we have been showing that are coming from some of these ships and showing what looked like objects that are swarming those ships. we're seeing the pentagon confirm those leaked images but we're not seeing the radar returns that go with that. it leaves a lot of questions as to what's going on. we do know what ever is happening is being passed over to the uap task force which is the unidentified aerial phenomenon task force.

that will go do congress and we're hoping some of the senators that sit on intelligence committees will be able to see some of this source information and be able to tell what's going on. we talked to one senator who is expecting the report at the end of june. he says what he sees so far reported in the public gives him a lot of pause. take a listen. >> i took enough physics in college to know you wouldn't want to be a human being and be inside of anything that moved that way. i just think it's really important that we don't -- that we quit pretending like this isn't happening and we just, as a government, and as a military we take it serious and investigate it. >> again, what he's describing these reports from fighter pilot who is are saying that some of these may be capable of pulling 600 to 700 gs. i got to fly in a f-16 once and

started blacking out at about 9gs. the human brake light is not build to sustain any of that. 600, 700 gs just boggles the mind. >> you're on it. thank you. appreciate it. approaching the top of the hour, you're watching msnbc reports. welcome back. if you've been watching for a little bit, thanks for sticking around. the republican party trying to have it both ways on several different fronts this sunday. really o kill a commission to investigate the capitol hill while still supporting efforts like the arizona recount that perpetuate the lies that spark the violence. claiming they want bipartisan action on infrastructure, police reform and other issues while doing everything they can to sabotage talks with the white house. is it enough for