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a very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome everyone to alex witt reports. we begin this hour with an encouraging trend on the first holiday weekend since mask mandates were lifted for vaccinated americans. 43 states are experiencing a decline in coronavirus cases over the past two weeks. it comes as the country tops 33,400,000 cases with almost 600,000 americans losing their lives to the virus. and with the drop in cases comes a record spike in travel. the tsa says 1.9 million travelers passed through checkpoints on friday, making this the first time since the pandemic last march that passenger volume reached that height in a single day. and here's some breaking news. we're just learning that american airlines will maintain its ban on alcohol sales to economy passengers until mid-september. that is according to "usa today" travel. helping us track life after

lockdown and the first summer holiday without masks since 2019, nbc's shaquille brewster is in miami beach. cal perry is at reagan national airport in arlington, virginia. so, let's get out there and enjoy. that means we got to start with shaq. i'm curious the mood out there where you are. i mean, look, we can almost hear the waves hitting the shore. we can see the pictures. does it feel like the pandemic has come to an end there? >> reporter: you know, that's what you're definitely hearing from a lot of people. for some people i talked to, it's actually their first time traveling to a beach, coming out of their home states since the start of this pandemic and that's exactly what officials here are hoping for and have been expecting. they knew this was coming, and what they have been cautioning against is what you saw a couple of months ago with that spring break crowd when you had those clashes between members of law enforcement and vacationers. well, this time, there's fewer of those restrictions around. you see everyone just trying to have a good time. our group from jersey is over there, who we met earlier today, and they said they're here as a part of a group, part of a

vacation. and one thing we're also seeing from officials is they're taking advantage of the crowds that are here. they're also setting up vaccination clinics, not only at miami international airport where we were on thursday but they're also doing it right here along the beach. i want you to -- all right, in the previous hour, we talked to the commissioner and you heard from the commissioner who talked about the reason why they're doing it, bringing the vaccinations to people. i want you to hear from one of the people who actually got vaccinated with her feet in the sand. >> i just actually had johnson & johnson shot. >> reporter: right here on the beach? >> it's awesome. it took me like two minutes and that's it. >> reporter: it seemed really easy. >> it was. it's the most easiest thing ever. >> reporter: was it easy in terms of fitting in your day, you're hanging out and now you can celebrate the rest of your saturday? >> i swear, from my perspective, this is so convenient for everybody. passing by and having this pop up next to other pop-ups, it's really, like, for us, for the people, you know, for the community.

>> reporter: alex, i'm doing this just for you. you see the waves crashing on the shore there, people enjoying their time in the water. beyond in the distance, i'm sure you can see the boats. there's the air and sea show happening here. that is a show that was canceled last memorial day weekend. in fact, this whole beach, the south beach area, was closed on memorial day weekend just a year ago. you see the smiles. you see people just enjoying their time, people saying that they are happy they could come out and enjoy their memorial day weekend. officials are welcoming them and they are coming. alex? >> i am smiling. i love you, shaq. thank you for that, because i'm in the studio. >> reporter: just for you. >> it's a holiday weekend. that's the best. appreciate you. let's get more now on the alcohol sales for some air travels. cal perry is live at reagan national airport in virginia. that story broke just a few moments ago. what do we know about this? it's american airlines specific? >> reporter: yes, so, this is just american airlines until

september 13th, they're not going to be selling alcohol to economy class passengers. this actually follows what we heard from southwest airlines, which is going to do the same, at least through mid-summer. this is basically the corporate, you can't have nice things now, america, because there's been so many bad incidents in the hair. we've had 2,500 incidents of unruly passengers since the beginning of the year. compare that to a normal year when you only had between 150 to 200 incidents. it has been a very difficult year. i was talking to somebody inside the travel industry who said the other problem is passengers these days are bringing alcohol with them on to the airplane. that also has been an ongoing problem, alex. >> yeah, i bet, and i guess you can do that and i was thinking, you can't pass through security but there are places to buy it, especially the little bottles inside the airport. so that's how they can bring it on. let me just ask you quickly about the rental car issue. you're going to pay a premium price and you may not even be able to get the car at an even premium price, right?

>> reporter: no, that's right. and look, last year, nobody wanted a rental car. the rental car agencies sold their fleets off to try to make some quick money. they now cannot replace those cars because of this semiconductor problem that we hear so much about. people are having to be very creative about how they get around the country once they land. take a listen to what brian kelly had to tell me on this. >> people are going to wild extremes due to the rental car shortage. we've heard reports of people renting u-hauls and moving trucks simply because they needed to get to where they want to go and places like hawaii, there's severe uber driver shortages. you can't even rely on ride sharing apps like you used to. people are also going to car dealerships and doing extended test drives, and some car dealerships now are even renting cars to desperate people. so, if you're in a tough situation, there are ways around it, but you got to be savvy. >> reporter: just to bring us down a little bit more, alex, we are now seeing delays along the

east coast in airports because of the rain, which also begs the question, who does shaq know that you and i do not know inside this company where he's in miami and we're stuck inside? >> i don't know, man. you called it. hey, just for the record, i love you too, so it doesn't matter. no matter what you're telling us, it's all good. thank you so much, cal perry. let's take a look at today's other top stories, including some new reaction to president biden's $6 trillion budget proposal. last hour, chairman of the budget committee telling me why he's not worried about inflation. >> what the biden budget does is finally after decades and decades ask questions in the right order. the questions we always ought to be asking is what do we need to do for the american people? what do we need to do to keep our country prosperous and thriving and provide an equal opportunity to everybody? what we've been doing is saying, what can we afford to do? and the answer is, no, we ask the questions, what do we need to do for the american people and how do we resource that?

how do we get it done? meantime, congressman matt gaetz under fire today after saying this about the second amendment at a georgia rally. >> the second amendment is not about -- it's not about hunting. it's not about recreation. it's not about sports. the second amendment is about maintaining, within the citizenry, the ability to maintain an armed rebellion against the government if that becomes necessary. i hope it never does. >> in just a moment, i'm going to get reaction to those comments from congressman steve cohen. but first on capitol hill, division and denial, gop senators facing backlash after blocking the creation of an independent commission to investigate the january 6th attack on the capitol. only six republicans joined democrats in support of advancing the measure but not enough to prevent a filibuster. the move pushing even the moderate democrats to speak out. >> choosing to put politics and political election above the health of our democracy is

unconscionable. and the betrayal of the oath that we each take is something they will have to live with, and i am sorry that my republican colleagues and friends let political fear prevent them from doing what they know in their hearts to be right. nbc's amanda golden joins us from capitol hill. where do we go from here, amanda? now this this commission to investigate the riot, it's blocked? >> reporter: yeah, well, alex, the political reality here is that this independent, bipartisan commission, as it stood, is now effectively dead. there is not that support to move it forward. it's very unlikely there could be an additional ten republican senators brought on board, even if majority leader chuck schumer, as he said yesterday, when the vote failed, would bring it back to the senate floor yet again but as we saw, when that procedural motion failed to get enough support with many republican senators not joining in for fears of the political repercussions of actually continuing to litigate the january 6th attack that we saw take place at the capitol, with that vote yesterday, the future is very uncertain for how

it could possibly move forward. we saw those six republican senators break with party and actually join democrats, including senators susan collins, lisa murkowski, bill cassidy, rob portman, ben sasse and mitt romney. house democrats could go in a partisan way to establish a select committee to continue to investigate the events of january 6th, and earlier today, congressman mike quigley was asked about what this could mean. take a listen. >> we saw what the committee hearings in recent weeks, it doesn't work really well, especially when the other side is denying that the insurrection even happened and they weren't willing to pay for a defense supplemental to protect the nation's capitol, but if you have to go it alone, you have to go it alone. >> reporter: a congressional leadership did want this to be a bipartisan, independent commission. they wanted to have both sides' input for this. now that house democrats could be moving alone with the select

committee, that would allow democrats to have subpoena power and this is something house speaker nancy pelosi has said she would be open to but has not yet fully committed if that's where things are going to move forward and of course congress is in recess right now. we don't expect the house back for another few weeks so not imminent steps here but this is something that house democrats now have the ball in their court to move forward. >> okay, thank you for the update on all that, amanda golden on capitol hill. joining me now, congressman steve cohen, democrat from tennessee. he sits on the judiciary and the transportation and infrastructure committees. congressman, always good to see you, my friend. so, let's take a listen together to what the mother of brian sicknick, of course, the officer who died following the insurrection on january 6th, had to say on cnn about her conversation with republican senators. here it is. >> it was tense, and we just -- they believe everything was fine and we were very nice to them for the most part. >> well, it was just tense because -- >> because of -- because we knew -- i think because we knew

they weren't sincere. they weren't sincere. >> and they didn't want to get to the bottom of what happened. >> no. no. and i don't understand it. >> that last part, that she knew they weren't sincere, didn't want to get to the bottom of it, what's your reaction to what she said there, the decision of your republican colleagues to block this commission in general? bipartisan independent commission. >> it was very cold of them, but of course, they've been very cold on this issue, and mitch mcconnell is deep freeze. he's all about power. he's all about maintaining his majority and elections and it's not anything about human beings. when i heard that offer sicknick's mother was going to go on the hill and the letter she wrote about how the congress people and the senators were carried away and put into secure quarters and rooms where they were hidden and had police guarding them while the other officers were out there fighting with animals, which included her son, of course, and she couldn't

understand why they wouldn't want to have a commission, and she considered it, in essence, a slap in the face to law enforcement, the men and women that were protecting them. i almost teared up. it's very emotional. >> so, we played at the top there, part of senator joe manchin's reaction to the vote. i'm curious what you made of that statement, and do you think, congressman, that what we saw yesterday makes a case for filibuster reform? i mean, if the senate couldn't get 60 votes on this, what makes you think you can get it on any legislation? not you, but the senate. >> well, it would be difficult for them to get anything else. i like joe manchin. this might have made an impression on him to see that the senate will not work in a reasonable way. i think he was hoping that the republicans would on issues like this, and there's no other issue like this. you're talking about the men and women who protected you from violence, who protected the vice president from being hung, nancy

pelosi maybe from getting shot, and others, mostly democrats, from being shot. mitt romney would have been in jeopardy. their colleagues. and they didn't care. the fact that joe manchin's position, i hope it does because otherwise we're not going to get things passed that are important for the american people, whether it be healthcare, whether it be voting rights, whether it be justice issues, john lewis voting rights act, it's going to be difficult. >> so, let's take a look at your colleague in the house, we're talking about congressman matt gaetz, who's facing some new criticism for the comments that he made at a rally on thursday night in georgia. take a listen. >> the second amendment is not about -- it's not about hunting. it's not about recreation. it's not about sports. the second amendment is about maintaining, within the citizenry, the ability to maintain an armed rebellion against the government if that becomes necessary. i hope it never does. >> what do you think about what he said? >> you know, he's totally wrong. it's unfortunate that what a

desperate person will do to take attention away from themselves and the issues that are more relevant and try to distort what's going on. i mean, the constitution talked about a well-regulated militia in the second amendment. i don't think that the government said well-regulated militias for the purpose of coming after them and putting them -- having a revolution against them. it was to defend the state, not to oppose the state, and to have insurrection. that was irresponsible. it was wrong. it puts ideas in people's minds that could act upon it. we saw what happened on january 6th. trump said to them, it will be wild, come here on january 6th, and go to the capitol, i'll walk with you. of course, he lied, but that's nothing unusual. and go down there and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore. and look what happened. >> yeah. >> that's what happened. >> look what happened. >> gaetz's conduct and somebody could take out a gun and do something. we saw some poll where 10%, i

think, or maybe more than that thought that it would be okay to have an armed insurrection and that they all support qanon. so, this -- we need to be concerned about our country, our congress, our colleagues, and try to have order. i mean, it's got to the point that just having order and peace and safety have resulted in magnetic devices being put up outside the chamber to make sure that people like boebert and others -- i don't know, hawthorne or who knows bring guns in. andy harris brought a gun in. who knows how many guns they got out there. and they're not a people that can lose it and go on a mass shooting. >> that's a bold statement, frightening, certainly. what about don mcgahn as we look ahead to friday? he's, of course, the white house counsel under donald trump. he's scheduled to testify before the house judiciary committee. you're on that committee. what kind of questions do you

have for him? >> well, it's mostly going to be a staff driven, as i understand it, hearing, and they're going to ask most of the questions and we're not in session until june 14th, so i don't think there will be many members there. i think it's been staff. it was limited in what they could get into in the agreement that the committee made with justice, and so i don't think there's going to be too much to come out of it. it's unfortunate -- public and it's not going to be more in depth. >> but it is going to be transcribed so you could direct staff to say, ask this question, right? give me the one question you want to have done that way. >> do you think donald trump, when he asked you to go to justice and was trying to obstruct justice? i mean, he instructed mcgahn to take actions with the justice department and to ask -- i think it was -- i guess it was

sessions at the time, and mcgahn refused to do it, and i think that's the moment. because that was obstruction of justice. i have no doubt in my mind that we get the whole mueller report, that you'll see that he didn't -- trump didn't commit enough acts that there's probable cause that obstruction of justice could have gone to a grand jury for an indictment. and -- it was impeachable, but we didn't get there. the jury was rigged in the senate and there's no way they were going to find him guilty. >> congressman steve cohen, thanks for spending time with me on a holiday. i hope you enjoy the rest of it. good to see you. thank you. survivors and descendants of victims of the tulsa race massacre want all of us to remember what happened there a hundred years ago but they also want something else, something that could make a big difference today. we're going to take you to tulsa next. ce today. we're going to take you to tulsa next

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a remarkable and historic gathering happening right now across tulsa, oklahoma, people are coming together to mark 100 years since that city's race massacre in one of the worst acts of racial violence in american history, a white mob attacked black residents in tulsa's greenwood neighborhood. it was then known as black wall street. they killed hundreds, displaced thousands and decimated what was one of the most prosperous black communities in the entire country. let's go to tremain lee. your reporting has been excellent and i know that you spoke with members of that community about this tragic event of a hundred years ago. what are you hearing predominantly from them? what is your takeaway? >> reporter: alex, thank you so much for having me. when you spend any amount of time here talking to those from this community, you begin the

realize that the space between the past and the present is very small and that the ripples of what happened back in 1921 on those two terrible days, may 31st and june 1st, are still being felt today and the people in this community are carrying that inheritance and that burden, not the least of which, you think about the violent economic dispossession that these people experienced. but again, i've been talking to folks on the ground here. >> you didn't read it in a book. you didn't see it in a movie. you witnessed it yourself in reality. history can make your heart bleed. >> repair me. repair me as a person, a citizen, whatever that takes, whatever it looks like. we're talking about going on four generations of tragedy. >> reporter: that gentleman you heard from first is 85-year-old bobby eton sr. and to look this man in his eyes and hear him talk about the legacy of what happened here in tulsa and how it's affected his community and how they're all carrying that

baggage, it will make your heart bleed, alex. >> oh, 100%. i was going to comment on that. it just -- when he said that, just looking at him, it literally strikes home, but when you look at the people in tulsa, and especially those that are descendants and survivors of this massacre, this weekend is not just a reminder of what happened. they want to make some meaningful changes, it's a chance to do that. what are they calling for as we move into the future? >> you know, first and foremost, when you talk to folks who are pushing and trying to push this community forward, it's reparations. we talk about that violent economic dispossession and 1921, there were over 300 businesses along greenwood avenue in this community. now there are less than two dozen, and so people experienced a stripping of wealth and so people want to be made whole as that second speaker said. they want repair. repair me. part of this is acknowledging the truth, telling the story in an honest, forthright way and in

so many ways, this city has yet to do that and so we're dealing with the truth, the narrative, but also making meaningful repair in the form of reparations because there was an actual injury here and that was the taking of wealth and no one was ever held accountable for that, alex. >> you know what's interesting, our colleague tiffany cross had someone on a panel who made the point that the most successful black hotelier in the entire country owned a hotel there that was burned to the ground, absolutely decimated and she made the point, who knows what might have happened? that person could have been a hilton or a marriott and grown that from there and we'll never know because of what happened in tulsa a hundred years ago. so, it's quite profound and when i think about what we have from you, the special that airs tomorrow at 10:00 p.m. tomorrow, trymaine, what do you want us to watch for in this special? >> reporter: i think the big resounding thing that i hope folks take away from is that the past isn't some grainy snapshot.

we feel it here today. there are people who are still alive today who experienced that. and so it's not just something for the history books. this is playing out today, and real people and real families and real communities are being affected by this, and i hope that's the takeaway. and again, a little bit of a history lesson. so many of us growing up in school didn't hear stories like this. it was buried, intentionally, alex, so hopefully the history lesson, but also connecting the past to the present that, we're still living it. >> i referred to tiffany earlier as a professor and i included you in that as well, trymaine lee, a professor on all these things and i appreciate your time. we're going to tune into this special so let me promote it right now for everybody. note this, folks. watch trymaine's special report, "blood on black wall street, exploring what really happened a hundred years ago in tulsa" and how tulsaens are still reckoning with their history. you can also watch it on demand through our peacock streaming service. renud calls in louisiana this year for charges against six state troopers involved in

the 2019 arrest of ronald greene. police body cam video shows police officers violently restraining greene, dragging him by shackled feet while he was face down and spraying him in the face while handcuffed. greene ultimately died. >> it's not only disappointing. it's unconstitutional. these men, to date, from the governor's office on down, are complicit in the denial of this family justice. >> it hurts the hell out of me to even say my son was murdered. it's so disrespectful to the state of louisiana to continue this, to run this through, hoping that eventually it will lose traction for some reason or other, it will just die away, which is not going to happen. >> joining me now, david henderson, cnbc contributor, civil rights attorney and former prosecutor. david, good to see you again. where does this case stand, and do you expect charges to be filed? >> alex, it's hard to know where it stands because it's been so long before we've seen any type of activity.

what you just heard was correct. the family was initially lied to about what happened. they were told this man died by a car crash and now we find out that he completely surrendered and despite that was beaten and tased and dragged across the ground. i think you will see activity because there's a light being shined on the case but it's too little, too late in order to see true justice. i think we're going to see yet another example of something wrong happening and too little being done in response to it. >> that's heartbreaking to hear. louisiana's attorney general, david, released a statement saying that this investigation is being handled by louisiana state police, fbi, the third judicial d.a.'s office and d.o.j. even mentioning now, president biden, i mean, calling on d.o.j. to seek justice. what do you make of that? >> alex, i make of that the fact that, again, a light is being shiend so now we're going to see some type of response but what's really difficult about this case for me, my heart bleeds by

recognizing how many parallels i can draw between this and what happened in tulsa in 1921 and at the top of that list is how there was initially a cover-up. beyond just addressing the needs of the police, because this has existed for two years, more needs to be done. every single person who knew about the video and who participated in the lie to the family and to the public needs to be held accountable, because this doesn't just affect this case. it affects every case for the police engage in wrong doing against a member of the public. >> yeah, it is a weight on all of our shoulder, on all american shoulder, and i agree with you 100% on that. what about the video of greene's arrest? so, it gets released almost a year after george floyd was killed, and my colleague, craig melvin, talked to three police officers about the conviction of derek chauvin and what that all means to them. let's take a listen to what they said. >> i felt good. i felt good about it because it showed that there is hope for

justice. >> george floyd opened a discussion about more real, genuine transparency. once these protests are over, the delay in releasing videos, and when you wait a year or two years down the road to release a video, it's just going to -- it adds to anxiety, adds emotional distress within the community, adds to complete distrust. >> being black and seeing the police misconduct, whether or not you're an officer or not, unfortunately the feeling is the same. there's been same feelings that you have had of trauma and turmoil from seeing rodney king up into mike brown up until now with ronald greene. >> wow. rodney king, 1991 and '92 with the court trial there. i mean, that's extraordinary to have that kind of trauma for so many years. and even before, frankly. but there's a full range of emotions, obviously, from these police officers. what does it say to you about

the urgency of police reforms and getting them enacted in this country? >> i mean, alex, it says a lot to me about is urgency for the need for police reform and the urgency to be honest about what constitutes meaningful reform. i like that video that you just played because i believe strongly in hope and the power of hope. the only thing i believe in more strongly is the need to be honest and unfortunately, i think that the george floyd trial and specifically the conviction of derek chauvin, left us with a false narrative about what role it's going to play in the larger battle for police reform. what you saw in louisiana, i hate to say it, constitutes the rule, not the exception. police have not traditionally released videos that show them doing things that are bad. most of these cases were broken by bystander videos, not police body camera footage that was released to the public so i think what needs to be acknowledged here is we're on the precipice of meaningful change but it's not going to happen unless we keep fighting for it.

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as donald trump prepares to hit the road next month, many republicans aren't looking forward to the return of trump rallies. a new article in politico playbook reports that republicans in washington are dreading donald trump's return to the stump, predicting his rallies will cause a major headache for the party as it mounts a bid to take back congress in 2022. joining me now is eugene daniels, who co-wrote that article. eugene is also an msnbc political contributor, a white house reporter for politico and coauthor of the politico playbook, which is required reading. good to see you. tell me why are these rallies so concerning for the gop? >> yeah, i mean, it's kind of all of the same things that you go -- it goes back to liz cheney and what we've seen over the last few months.

they don't want to talk about the 2020 election. they don't want to talk about the big lie. they don't want to talk about january 6th. and they know that if former president trump gets on the road, all of those things are going to be brought up. he has been working with newt gingrich to work out this new policy platform but he does not stick to policy when he does this, so there are a lot of republicans who, they won't say it publicly, but they definitely will tell reporters privately and told us that they're concerned about this because they are not sure how that's going to play. they saw how the lies of the 2020 election affected the georgia senate races, that if that was a reason why they lost those two seats, so they're very concerned about how this is going to play out. >> so, just real quick, they talk one way publicly and privately they're saying something different because? what's the answer to that? >> i think because they -- this is a party that is still led by donald trump. this is a party that also, at times, is fearful of donald

trump and the kinds of things that he is going to do afterwards, if he's going to come after you, if he's going to send someone to primary you because he's already promised to do that for people like liz cheney, people like adam kinzinger who voted to impeach him in the house, and so they're worried about whatever backlash there is. so, you have a party that, you know, is at once saying whatever donald trump wants to hear, kind of playing and guesstimating what he would want them to do, but at the same time, very concerned about how he's going to impact the 2022 midterm elections, and more importantly, the primaries, because their key worry there is a trumpy person wins in a swing district in the primary but loses that seat in the general election. and that is a big concern that a lot of republicans have right now. >> you mentioned the general election. there's another article that you co-wrote in which you addressed donald trump and another possible run for president. according to his aides, his interest in running isn't just a defense tactic.

he's missing being president terribly, and others say that he gets angry when questioned if he's really serious. how much of that doubt would you say is coming from the gop? i mean, do you think the party itself wants a second trump term? >> yeah, i think it depends on who you ask. his base definitely wants it, some of his staunch supporters on the hill want it, but i think a lot of people want to noouf move on, right? they want to put another person in there. and it's also what's really interesting is kind of donald trump's will he or won't he guesstimating game that we're all playing, including that he's kind of putting out there and putting his party in that position, is that there's all these kind of rising stars, nikki haley, marco rubio, tim scott, josh hawley, who are at a stand still, waiting to see what he's going to do and so until he actually makes that decision, and says what he's going to do, because right knew, he's kind of still, even when he does a sitdown interview, playing with

the idea that maybe he will, maybe he won't. >> let me switch gears to the senate and the -- after the bill to create a january 6th commission was blocked. i know you were following the deliberations there. you called them chaotic. were you surprised at all by how this played out? >> no, i don't think so. it was one of those things that you, you know, as an american that wants to know what happened on january 6th, you were kind of hopeful that something -- some kind of commission or something would be created so that they could do this independently. that's what you -- when you talked to a lot of voters, especially, that's what we kept hearing. but i wasn't surprised. we knew this was going to happen. and it started when donald trump said, no, don't do this, and mitch mcconnell started kind of haranguing people to also not support the january 6th commission, and once you have your leader saying no, you kind of have to do what they say and that includes the senate but also donald trump. and you know, now, what's probably going to happen is democrats are going to go it

alone. nancy pelosi is, you know, being asked and begged to create some kind of select committee, something like that, but then, you have republicans already saying that that process is already going to be too partisan, and so whatever comes out of that, it's going to be tinged with all of the mess that's happening in washington, d.c., right now. >> yeah. okay. well, then, eugene, you're going to have to come back and make sense of it for us. thank you so much. have a great holiday weekend. coming up for all of you, you're going to meet some good kids, the stories of some inspirational offspring caring for veterans with disabilities next. e and phosphate - helping keep teeth strong, white and protected from sensitivity. new pronamel mineral boost wanna grab pizza? bad move, guys! get a freshly made footlong from subway® instead! like a classic italian b.m.t.® stacked with fresh veggies. there's a subway® three blocks from here! choose better, be better.

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the lives of five american families over the course of four years, experiencing the daily highs and lows these young heroes face. >> do me a favor. put your hands inside here. spread it apart. both hands in. spread. >> squeeze. >> try to push over. >> this way? got it. >> my friend and colleague, richard lui, is joining me now with a big welcome. i'm guessing that your role as a caregiver in your family is part of what led you to produce this film and make it? >> yeah, alex, and good talking with you about this again, and yes, it was the topic of 53 million americans taking care of family members, and this time, we wanted to focus on those who were 17 and younger. while i was going through that with my father as a middle-aged person, there were all of -- millions of these young children that were going through this

daily, very much part of a brave lifestyle. i call them young care heroes, alex. >> young care heroes, that makes sense. covid-19, how much did this affect their lives? i know you produced a lot of this before it hit but i'm sure you stayed in touch with them. >> we've spoken to them over the last year, year and a half, and we have some recordings after we started editing. we started editing probably about a year ago, year and a half ago, and they still changed. the amazing thing about them, like you're seeing some clips here of rihanna and darren. she's about to go to high school. darren, who you saw helping her father with his legs, she's now in college, and for us, watching them grow up as these amazing young people is sort of like, i can't believe they're getting this old now. but they still remain so strong. >> and how young they were when they had to begin caring for that veteran with disabilities like that, their parent. let me play another clip right now from "sky blossom" and have

the viewers watch. here it is, everyone. >> is this it right here? this one? i think it's this one. >> yeah. >> i make sure my grandfather's comfortable at all times, not too hot, not too cold. i'm just like a little butler in a way. all right, here, i got your ears for you. >> put them in. >> you want them over there? >> yeah, so i can put them in later. >> okayment. it's about the love and the care and you just have to make sure that you're showing it. >> remarkable kids. let me ask you about the film now that it's out and you reflect on the past four years and putting it all together. what's your biggest takeaway, richard? >> you know, alex, the biggest thing is how open they are going to be when you watch the film with us, and they share the difficulties. they share what they're happy about. they share what makes them very, very sad. and i think what we'll see in this is very inspirational existence. you'll get an inspirational cry out of it too, because as they

go through every day, they laugh harder, they cry harder too. and at the end of the day, i think it's a really great way of seeing how they are the next greatest generation. >> yeah, indeed. get your kleenex handy, that is for sure. richard, i always love talking with you about this film and i'm so glad we're bringing it here at msnbc. you can catch it, available to own on dvd and digital nationwide. you can find details at skyblossom.com. broadcast premier tonight, 9:00 p.m. eastern right here on msnbc. congrats, my friend. so, will you head to the movie theater this summer or is watching at home as good as the real thing? the results of a new poll next. g the results of a new poll next , so you only pay for what you need. oh um, doug can we talk about something other than work, it's the weekend. yeah, yeah. [ squawk ] hot dog or... chicken?

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talk about it quickly, sear nelson, president of the association of flight attendants. sarah, welcome, why do you think they decided to do this, maintain this ban? >> first of all, alex, it wouldn't be the weekend without an airline story. happy to talk with you. but no, we're thrilled with this decision. and it's because in the first five months of this year, we've had 2,500 cases of unruly passengers. those are just the ones that have been reported. in a typical year, you would see 130 for a full 12 months. so more than 20 times that in the first 5 months alone. most of these issues are over mask compliance, but there's also a component of alcohol. and alcohol was at the core of the events even before coronavirus, even before masks. so, this is not the time to be adding anything to the problems that are going out there. flight attendants are getting beat up and other passengers are being put in danger, and so i really applaud american for doing this.

southwest has suspended service as well, and we really need to have all the airlines do this for a period of time. >> yeah. and the fact is that alcohol can only exacerbate strains and difficult things when it gets used out of hand and, you know, people keep drinking on an airplane because maybe they're bored as they're traveling. you've seen it again and again. when you see the violent acts, though, sarah, i mean, we have the example of the southwest -- we're just showing the video right there -- of the southwest airlines flight attendant getting two of her teeth knocked out by that passenger who will now be facing charges, by the way. violence. how much more has that been on the uptick, not just complaints and annoyances about masks. >> most of these complaints have some component of violence to them. so, we are seeing a general violent attitude coming on the plane and that's because people have been taught to believe that the safety measures that we're putting in place and enforcing are a political issue rather than a public health issue. so, we're seeing this all the

time. and flight attendants are having to deal with that combative issue every day when they go to work, it's become so taxing that some of them have quit the job that they love. and so we really need everybody to respect each other. don't forget, flight attendants are there to fight fires, to revive people from heart attacks and address other medical issues, to address security threats. when these things are going on, and someone is acting out, failing to comply, then it puts everyone else in jeopardy, and it puts us in jeopardy of not being able to do the job that we're there to do. >> yeah. >> alex, i would also say that it's really important for people to understand there are severe consequences here. you can be fined $35,000 for a single incident, so if there are several incidents, you can be fined way more than that. and it's a federal offense. >> yeah. >> so you're going to be looking at jail time with a federal felony. so, people need to understand they need to calm down, listen to the instructions of the flight attendants, and you have to have the spirit that we're all in this together on these planes where we have to safely

get people from one place to another. >> particularly on planes, to that point, sara nelson, thank you so much. safe and happy weekend to you, my friend. i appreciate that. meantime, talk about safe and happy, everyone, with millions of americans vaccinated, many cities reopening, this memorial day weekend people are returning to theaters just in time for summer blockbusters. a new fandango poll finds 96% of movie goers plan to see multiple movies this summer. 77% say they would be comfortable inside the auditorium. so joining me to discuss, a correspondent for fandango. good to see you. and listen, i saw a headline just this morning, and it says, "a quiet place" is streaming to 57 million. "cruella" will dazzle with 27 millions. we haven't seen those numbers for a long time. does that indicate a return to normal movie going? >> alex, absolutely. and the amazing thing about those numbers, first of all, this is traditionally the kickoff to the summer movie season, and the fact that this

is -- the first time since before the pandemic that we have two major movies opening against each other shows real consumer confidence but when you see $57 million opening, that is just a big number. they were only projecting $30 million to $40 million, and look, overseas, where we have already had theaters and this theater experience return to normal in like japan and china and australia, they have had record numbers and bigger numbers than before the pandemic and they were predicting that would happen here, but this is a great indication that is, in fact, true, and we're going to have a renaissance of going back to the movies. >> that's exciting. this fandango survey found movie goers feel that blockbusters have to be seen on the big screen and that experience cannot be duplicated at home. over the last year, we've become pretty comfortable screening movies from our own home. what kind of efforts are under way to change that or do theater owners and the studios, do they think these pre-pandemic habits

will be resurrected? any incentives? >> a lot of them have said this was an interim thing, eithering this things to stream or go straight to streaming was only meant to be temporary and especially those big blockbuster movies that open during the summer are really meant to be seen on a big screen, and disney, for example, the last movie they'll release at home simultaneously and in theaters will be "jungle cruise" at the end of july, that stars the rock, and then starting in august, their big movies will be seen in the theater only. what i think you're going to see is a smaller window of time where people have to wait if they want to see something at home. it used to be three months. it's going to go to about 45 days so the people that really want to see those movies and they can't wait are going to see them opening weekend anyway so the smaller window will really help the streaming component and the in-theater component. >> last question, the definition of a blockbuster, is that now different because things can be seen in streaming? i mean, it used to be a

blockbuster, all you're doing is measuring the ticket sales in the box office returns. how are they defining a blockbuster now? does it have to incorporate both? >> yeah, you know, i think we are really going to see a return to just the theatrical experience. like this summer you have a fast and furious movie opening, "fast 9," it's going to open only in theaters. you're going to see that. but what i think you're going to see, alex, and the studios are going to consider every movie on a case by case basis and maybe some of the smaller movies that aren't considered blockbusters are going to go to streaming only or a streaming and theatrical component on the same day and what that's going to do, it's going to actually help those movies, because sometimes people don't seek those out in theaters. >> great. nikki novak, correspondent for fandango, gee, can i borrow that dress? i'm just saying, that is a great dress. >> absolutely. any time. >> thank you so much. >> thank you, my friend. >> appreciate that. and a very big thank you to all of you. i'll see you tomorrow at noon

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happy holiday weekend. i'm yasmin vossoughian. we got a lot to get through in the next two hours, despite this being a holiday weekend, and we have coverage across the country with a team of reporters following these events. dubbed the first maskless holiday in america since the pandemic began, a short time ago, the tsa saying those traveling by air is record breaking. that leaves a big question. can airports, roads, along with beach and park destinations handle all of this congestion? we are also monitoring the events under way in tulsa, observing one of the nation's darkest moments 100 years ago, targeting black america and how that event impacts the city and this nation to this very day. then, we go to washington. president biden proposing a $6 trillion budget for next year. we're going to dive into his wish list, focusing on infrastructure, free pre-k, public health and so much more. how is this country going to pay for all that? and the not so surprising reaction from the republicans. but we do want to start with a glimpse of life after lockdown this holiday weekend. a short time ago, the tsa saying americans are