that does it for us this morning. stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage right now. hi, there, i'm stephanie ruhle. it's monday, may 31, memorial day. a day to honor americans who sacrifice their lives in defense of our country. more than 14,000 of them buried at arlington, where president biden will be just an hour from now. but today we want to make sure we recognize all of the veterans who have given their lives as well as their families and loved ones. today also marks the unofficial mark of summer. masked mandates are going away and country is opening up. but we still only have half of all americans fully vaccinated. so the big question this morning, how safe is it? and breaking news out of the state of texas, where overnight democrats walked off the floor of the house in a dramatic last-ditch effort to kill a controversial new voting bill. now the governor is stepping in. lots to get to this morning, but

i want to start with the news out of texas. nbc's ali vitali has been following all of the twists and turns from d.c. ali i. what is going on? >> steph, they killed the bill but only for now. by walking off the floor last night, they made it so there weren't enough lawmakers present in order to actually vote on this bill before the midnight deadline but this only bought democrats time. as you said, the governor is stepping in and we heard from lawmakers last night this was one of the last arrows in their quiver as they tried to stop this legislation. listen. >> we use all of the tools in our toolbox to fight this bill, and tonight we pulled out that last one. >> they were prepared to cut us off. they tried to silence us. we were not going to let them do that. we killed that bill. >> again, steph, they killed that bill for now. we're going to see the next chapter of this unfolding in very short order because last

night governor abbott called for a special session almost immediately after this bill failed to pass. in a statement he called election integrity an emergency that remained in the state of texas and said legislators will be expected to work out the details of election integrity when they arrive at the capitol for the special session. this special session is something only abbott could call. you have to remember here because this is operating in the background of everything, he's up for re-election next year. this is one of his top priorities so a lot of pressure will be on him to call for this special session and pass this legislation through in the coming days and weeks. but there's also pressure coming from democrats, steph. not just the democrats in texas who fought off repeated attempts to pass this voter registration, but also calling on democrats here in washington to pass the federal legislation that's been languishing in senate in part because it can't overcome the threat of a filibuster.

now there's pressure to not just pass as one the legislation to shore up voting rights but also do so by getting rid of the filibuster and democrats to start governing like they're actually in the majority, which they are right now, steph. >> ali vitali, thank you. let's talk about the weekend. millions of americans are returning home after a long memorial day weekend. this is the the first major holiday weekend since we've seen so many americans see the vaccine. what a difference a year makes. a scene like this, look at your screen now, at yesterday's indy 500 was unthinkable one year ago. 135,000 fans packed into indianapolis motor speedway in the largest gathering since the start of the pandemic. it was also back to normalish at boston's fenway park, where capacity limits were officially lifted and at airports, a new pandemic record. nearly 2 million travelers on friday, and i can tell you despite freezing, awful, terrible rain here on the jersey shore, people were packing it

in. bars, restaurants, even barbecues, people were partying. our nbc news team is out and about this memorial day. cal perry is with travelers in maryland. maura barrett in the suburbs of philly. be we're at arlington national cemetery where we're expected to see president biden in the next hour. cal, i got to go to you first. you are at one of the busiest rest stops in the region. besides people being absolutely furious about the miserable weather, what are they telling you? >> it's really sad this is the first sort of brilliant day of weather we had all weekend and it's a little bit of a grind today for folks. this is the day, obviously, when people are headed home. 37 million people hitting the roads over the weekends. about 2.5 million to 3 million here in the d.c., maryland, virginia area. gas prices have been on people's

minds, about $1.08 higher than what we saw a year ago. as you said, this is a busy place -- it was a busy place during the pandemic. it's 8,000 to 10,000 people every day to come through this rest stop during the pandemic. it's increasing about 30% every week in the past month. today is no exception. we're also talking to people about their travel patterns. the world has changed and so has people's travel patterns. we had a chance to speak to the points' guy about this over the weekend. take a look at what he said. >> what people should know this is no longer a friday to sunday rush. now people work from home and travel at different times, we are seeing new rush hours on completely separate days. so i would recommend people try to leave as off-peak as possible, as early in the morning. >> regardless of working from home, a place like this, about 2 1/2 hours south of new york city, hour and a half north of d.c., should be busy throughout the day, stephanie.

>> let's turn to our nation's philadelphia, pennsylvania, with maura barrett. what's going on there? >> i have been here where people stayed inside for quarantines but the streets are blocked off for a better reason. the parade was originally canceled but put back on because pennsylvania is officially lifting all of its contradictions today, restaurants, bars, entertainment venues all can operate at 100% capacity, with the exception of philadelphia, they will be lifting their restrictions later on this week. nearly 70% of adults in pennsylvania have received at least one dose of their vaccine, so there is a mask mandate statewide still in place. those are unvaccinated. that will be lifted at the end of the month or until 70% of adults are fully vaccinated. we can see people clearly getting excited and ready for the parade here. there's chairs lining the streets already in anticipation of it. i spent the weekend here talking with business owners and

community members who expressed how excited they are to see a tradition like this come back to normal. i asked these business owners about their outlook for the summer season ahead. >> to actually be able to put into action all of the stuff that i saw happening when i started this store is really exciting. just to see life come back again and know people are feeling hopeful about things, it's a positive thing. it's a very positive thing. >> it feels back to normal. it feels like we can go back to looking at what we were planning on doing in february 2020 and re-establish that without being scared, worried, just get back to doing this the way it's meant to be done. >> both james and chris that you heard from there were newer business owners just ahead of the pandemic, having to shutdown and get creative with their sales to survive. chris acknowledging not all of his members of his community were able to make it through the

pandemic. he's proud of his success. and this town is proudly supported by a lot of independent business owners. they supported each other and got creative to maintain their business. you about now coming on the other side, they're excited to see their customers in person again and excited to see smiles on their faces. steph? >> no doubt, maura, thank you. let's get serious and turn to our colleague courtney kubier at arlington national cemetery, where president biden will lay a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier in the next hour. good morning, what can you tell us about the president's visit? >> that's right, this is the 153rd year this ceremony has been held at the arlington national cemetery. it dates back to just after the civil war, steph. today like we expect president biden will lay a wreath at the tomb of the unknown. then we will have brief remarks from him and secretary of defense and chairman of the joint chiefs, secretary mark

milley. this year will look different this year than last year. we stood in this exact same location last memorial day. because of the coronavirus pandemic, no outside -- no members of the public were allowed into arlington cemetery at that time. just last week arlington, and a number of other veteran cemeteries across the country, reopened to the public. so for the first time this time this memorial day, now we will have members of the public here. the ceremony is always a very somber event, where there are members of all of the military services there, the military bands and we will, of course, hear 21 gun salute that is in honor of president biden and they will pay "t.a.p.s." after the memorial wreath-laying. the ceremony e. as i said, it's always a very somber event. we should expect to hear exactly similar what we heard from president biden yesterday at his memorial day speech, where he

will honor the men and women who have died over the years, men and women in service to this country, steph. >> courtney, thank you. let's bring in dr. madad. extraordinary achievement between science and vaccine rollout. the fact here we are with more than half of americans fully vaccinated, that's extraordinary news. however, that also means the other half of the country isn't vaccinated. how concerned are you about another surge after the holiday? >> thank you for having me on. when we look at the current trajectory at the pandemic in the united states, we're at a totally different chapter. when we looked at the peak in january, we were clocking in over 250,000 pieces. now we're at 70 hours and 20,000 pieces. we're certainly in a much better state. as you mentioned, when we look at the coverage, there are still pockets around the country with

not great vaccination, like the deep south compared to the northeast. i think we could divert and will not see large surges moving forward but those unvaccinated still remain vulnerable. now the risk is who is unvaccinated and what risks are exposed to them? and the risks of those vaccines, we know they can resume pre-pandemic life and all activities become safer that's they're vaccinated. for now safely thoses vaccinated versus those not vaccinated and those who surfed covid-19, it's a time to understand everybody's vaccinated so we can get back to the activities that we all enjoy doing. >> we should remind, vaccines are available for all adults across this country. please get yours if you haven't yet. i do want to go global. there's a new extremely contagious covid variant that's been discovered in vietnam, doctor. what can you tell us about that? >> i think it's one thing for us to start off with the virus

continues to mutate. it's ongone, the pandemic is raging around the world. as we look at different variants happen and around the world, the b.1.617.2 in india, we know this is something affecting many, many nations. the vaccinations are holding up. the variant in vietnam is something to keep a close eye on but it's a variant of concern and interest. we are having ongoing surveillance, people that are unvaccinated understand they need to get vaccinated. the vaccines are readily available here in the u.s. we need to do a better job with vaccine equity around the world. vaccines have not been administered to everyone. so we need to do a better job. >> doctor, thank you. and to all of our reporters across the country covering this memorial day weekend. now we have to turn to our college sam brock in miami, where a massive manhunt is under way. police looking for three suspects who opened fire at a

banquet hall early sunday morning, killing two and wounding 20 other people. nbc's sam brock is in miami. sam, are police are police any closer to tracking down these suspects? what in the world happened? >> yes, steph, short answer to that question is no. when we spoke with miami-dade's police director yesterday, he said they have absolutely no idea where these suspects are. that said, we're awaiting a press conference in about 45 minutes. there is video surveillance of what happened. we just haven't seen it yet. maybe that gets released. police were also out and interviewing the dozen-plus people who had suffered gunshot wounds. steph, there were 20 people originally injured. three of whom critically, two people also died. this scene right now was is so different than it was 24 hours ago. you look over my shoulder and see a couple police vehicles behind me. it was littered with officers yesterday, detectives and evidence markings for all of the bullets. there were close to 100 of them, stephanie. as you described, police said an suv pulled into this parking lot

some time between 12:00 a.m. and 1:00 in the morning sunday. three people waited in the parking lot for 30 minutes at least, maybe more than that according to police. when they saw their targets come out of the banquet hall, they left the car and unloaded dozens of rounds of ammunition with assault-style weapons acrossing according to police. people who got shot were apparently collateral damage. here's the police detective describing the nature of the shooting. >> they were not just shooting to shoot. they were there intended. they sat in the parking lot for a while, drove around to the business and whoever they thought they were going after, they came out of the vehicle commando style and just started shooting, jumped back in the vehicle and fled. >> the bigger picture here, stephanie, this was the second mass shooting in the miami area in the memorial day holiday weekend. to show you just how prevalent this has become. numbers speak for themselves. gun violence archive, 237 mass

shootings this year. 427 in 2019, 610 in 2020, during the pandemic, and who knows what we pace out to this year but this is certainly not the trend anybody wants to see. stephanie? >> no, it is not. sam, stay close. keep us up on any developments you learn after that press conference. ahead this hour, transportation secretary pete buttigieg said time is running out to get a bipartisan done on infrastructure. so where are we on it this morning? plus, just because republicans voted to block a january 6th commission does not mean it's over. as we head into break, here's a live look at arlington national cemetery on this memorial day. (vo) nobody builds 5g like verizon builds 5g. thousands of engineers taking peak performance to a new level. that's why in parts of many major cities where people can use massive capacity we added verizon 5g ultra wideband,

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the biden administration is putting senate republicans on the clock, one more week to see if they can get on the same page in terms of and infrastructure deal. if not, democratless have to go at it alone. here's transportation secretary pete buttigieg weighing in. >> i think we're getting close to a fish or cut bait moment. we agree this can't can go on forever. the american people want result. >> i want to bring in nbc's garrett haake on capitol hill and the co-founders of punchbowl

news. garrett, i don't mean to be sassy but what does that mean? real deadline, so the deadline, republicans have one more week or else what? >> i would frame it definitely. it sounds to me that pete buttigieg was putting a deadline on the white house. remember, it was republicans who gave the last counteroffer last week. house and senate are out this week. congress isn't here. the white house, frankly, has a decision to make along with their democratic allies in both dham burrs, do they think republicans are sincere. do they think senator capito and her colleagues can deliver the votes for something to be done in a bipartisan way or is there time, like secretary buttigieg said there, to fish or cut bait and try to go it alone through reconciliation. that's not an easy process and only going to work if democrats are convinced they have all of their votes ready to go. really the ball is in the white house's court right now. >> and where do you see things going over the last week? is i heard on thursday president biden said to his senior staff,

i don't want to go reconciliation. find a way to work with republicans. is that happening in any significant way? >> it's clearly joe biden's desire for them to figure out a way to move forward in a bipartisan fashion. i think to garrett's point, reconciliation will be a lot harder than people actually anticipate who haven't been a part of this process, getting all of the democrats on the same page is going to be extremely well. the other thing i think is important to think about is just how far apart republicans and democrats are on these issues. yes, they've come closer together. yes, republicans did tee up their latest proposal. but there's a lot of base in terms of how much money they want to spend, what their priorities are, does it include electric vehicles? how do you define infrastructure? since we're still talking about that, it's hard to see those things being reconciled over the next week. >> jake, the president will talk to senator shelley moore capito

this week. she is the person sort of representing republicans here. if she does come to some sort of agreement with the white house, is that going to stick? does she speak to the rest of her party? >> no, absolutely not, not in any way, shape or form. we have to see if one day she might or might not. but as garrett and anna know well, we talk to a lot of republicans on capitol hill, not very few but a good portion are not interested in a trillion dollar bill. steph, i can't emphasize enough the space right now between the white house and republicans. i mean, i don't know how it's bridgeable if you're -- if they don't even count how they're raising money in the same way. so i really just don't understand how they're going to pay for this thing. that's the big hang-up to me. i think you can get there on the spending portion of the bill but when it comes to raising nearly a trillion dollars in revenue, i just don't see it. mine, they've not moved any closer to each other.

the republicans' last offer said they wanted to use unspent covid stimulus money. the white house doesn't even agree there is unspent covid stimulus money that can be used. so given all of that, i simply don't understand how they're going to get anywhere closer to each other. >> okay. them given all of that, anna, one week from now we're all having the same conversation again. there isn't a deal. then what happens? are all democrats even on the same page if they do go at it alone? >> that's going to be the big question, right? i don't think you have democrats on the same page. progressives want one thing, moderates something else. where is john manchin, that's always the big question we're asking? the point is they then have to look to july to pass a budget because they have to did a 2022 budget reconciliation around that. i think it will be much, much, much more difficult than people on the outside that think we will pass this on reconciliation

if we can't get republicans to agree to the bigger deal. that's a much more nuanced and tricky process for the democratic leadership and joe biden because this isn't covid relief where you have a bunch of thing that's have -- you voted on several times by the party. infrastructure means a lot of different things to a lot of people different and there's going to be such big competing priorities, i think it's a lot to hear. >> nobody can define it and it isn't hasn't gotten to the parliamentarian who can look at this thing and say a whole lot of this content doesn't count as infrastructure. garrett, i want to turn before we go and talk about the january 6th commission. almost a dozen senators didn't even bother casting a vote. how did they justify that, it wasn't a priority? >> the moral justification is probably between them and their priest and god but the logistical justification was

they did not want to see this at all. they i wanted to take as much air out of the balloon as they possibly could. we said this all along, the republicans tried to make this horrible day go away for them. they didn't want to be talking about it six months from now or year from now during the next election cycle. so to walk away from that vote is in a weird way politically consistent. it makes it all seem less important. that's what their goal has been all along. >> watch any of the footage, any of the videos, talk to anyone there, any of the capitol police officers or their families, they would not tell you it was not a day of significance. for many, it was the most significant in their entire lives. jake, anna, garrett, thank you very much. i'm sure you will all be back soon especially as we discuss these negotiations or lack thereof. still ahead, businesses still trying to hire for summer season but it's not just wages keeping workers home. the real reason you're hiring so many now hiring signs next.

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this morning more states are lifting covid restrictions after we saw a real return to normal this holiday weekend. but a number of businesses still have a major challenge, hiring seasonal workers. many who usually come from overseas are now having a problem getting here. i spoke to a number of businesses to find out the real reason behind this shortage.

greg and sally own camp hill croft and kids can't wait to come back. but they're worried they won't have enough stamp, especially counselors who need j-1 visas. >> the ask not to bring our international staff over is something that keeps us awake at night. >> reporter: because of covid, the u.s. has a ban on travel for 33 countries. many where these workers come from. there's also a back log to process j-1 visas. without all of the counsellors, gymnastics like swimming could look different with current staff doing double duty. but lack of visas for workers is causing all sorts of problems for employers across the country. they rely on j-1 workers during peak tourist season. >> as a result they actually help keep americans employed in those places. >> reporter: last month over 500 companies urged the secretary of

state to defer parts of the visa process, calling the situation a crisis. the state department says it's waived some interviews to speed up the process. >> it's great that the state department took that action, but it's not enough. >> reporter: cal harrah resorts owns four water parks and hires about 700 year seas workers. this summer, maybe 100. >> the j-1 visa program is vitally important for tourism in america. >> reporter: they offered beanouses, relocation packages and even housing to find employees. but for sally, the issue is a personal one. >> i came over on a j-1 visa. little did i know i would end up marrying the camp director's son. >> reporter: summer is here. will the workers be? joining me now to discuss, austan goolsbee, former chairman of the council of economic advisers. there are all sorts of reasons we're not seeing people back to work, whether it's international workers who can't get j-1 visas, childcare issues, health issues, take your pick. but does all of this get worked

out in the next couple of months. i mean, you've got all of these businesses at the same time trying to rehire. that's going to settle down come september. >> i think that's right. the thing to remember is we never hired as many people as rapidly as the economy is doing right now. we have never grown as fast as we planned to be growing coming out of this downturn. it's interesting that in all of the countries, or in many of the countries where they're coming out of covid, if you look at the uk, for example, they got a bunch of the same labor shortages and they can't find chefs to cook in quick restaurants, and if they have summer camps, they're going to be having the same problems. i do think a lot of this is just because when the town reopens after the winter, you've got to brush out the spiders, you've got to open a bunch of problems and hopefully they can be worked out over the short run.

>> "the new york times" is actually reporting that this could be good for teenagers. higher wages, more incentives, is that who's going to fill a lot of these roles? i can tell you my 15-year-old started his first-ever paying job last night scooping ice cream. and to be honest, we couldn't believe what a good job he got. >> i thought you were going to say, you were down there as the first customer. then it would have been impressive. >> we actually went in shifts. so it would seem like there was more customers on a rainy night. >> that's good. that's good. >> i went, mom, husband, separate customers. >> don't tell -- the boss is like this kid is bringing in business like no one they've ever seen. but i do think teenagers, you're going to see some come back. now, it partly depends how much you think the covid disease is a

component of why people are not willing to go to work. and i've been, for a long time, pretty big advocate of that view. now teens can get the vaccine but the vaccination rights of teens still remain much lower than of older adults. so whether teens can fill the entire holes is probably dubious but i do think you're going to see a lot of nontraditional or ancillary parts of the job market, where it's going to be quite strong because there's a lot of demand and we're trying to put more people back to work faster than ever before. >> we are seeing pockets of it but do you really think we are going to see any significant wage increase that could stick with us for a while. you and i have been discussing the last few years, worried that wages weren't just going high enough at any fast pace. are we finally seeing it happen now? >> years we've been talking

about that. we certainly saw for a month that wages were up. but, you know, i want to see some sustained real wage growth over and above inflation before we're going to count this as a victory. and it's worth remembering, the sector that's having the hardest time hiring people, they're still hiring a lot of people but leisure and hospitality, if you look at restaurants the minimum wamg for taped worker is a little over $2 an hour. you can see when tips are down during the pandemic, there are a bunk of people who do not want to go back to work for $2 an hour. so i think we need to see sustained wage growth for this to be a success. >> $2 an hour with the hope you get a big tip, or you can be the well over a million people that aren't not working that shifted to warehouse jobs, where they start at $15, $16, $17 an hour regular shift and get health

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known as the tulsa race massacre, a deadly and coordinated attack on the prosperous african-american neighborhood in tulsa, oklahoma, also called black wall street. it is one of the worst incidents of racial violence in u.s. history, and it was swept under the rug for decades and decades. our friend and colleague harry smith traveled to tulsa for a revealing look back. >> reporter: on june 1, 1921, 9-year-old el doris was awakened by her mother. what her mother said next, she never forgot. >> she said we have to go out, get out. she said, "the white people are killing the other people." >> reporter: el dorous grew up in the greenwood area of tulsa, a buoyant, bustling community of some 10,000 african-americans. there were schools, churches, stores, theaters and a hospital. >> it was a place where for

african-americans, the american dream was working. >> reporter: scott is a tulsa native. he's been searching for the truth about what happened for most of his life, reporting his findings in his new book "the groundbreaking." >> something happened in an elevator in downtown tulsa between a 19-year-old shoeshiner named dick roland and 17-year-old white elevator operator named sarah page. >> reporter: a scream from page leans to roland's arrest the next day. and then a lynch mob gathered outside the house where he's jailed. >> the mob gets large, 500, 800 people. >> reporter: and a group of black men show up to help defend him. >> as they're leading an elderly white man to a tall black area,

he said where are you going with that gun? a tussle ensues, gun goes off and massacre begins. >> reporter: the mob in pursuit, gun battles erupt but somehow it is quiet overnight, until the next morning. >> all of a sudden there's a whistle that goes off and at that point, this white mob starts walking toward greenwood. >> reporter: el doris and her family plea, running north up a set of railroad tracks. >> the crowd was up the whole of the railroad tracks, down the sides and rail. >> reporter: the residents of greenwood try to defend their neighborhood but don't have a chance. the national guard sflam with machine gun fire and it gets worse. >> you have something new up in the air and airplanes start flying over greenwood. there's evidence, and i believe this firmly, at least on one of the airplanes a co-pilot is dropping sticks of dynamite down on greenwood. >> airplanes was raining down

with bullets, and i could see them and i heard them and i was so frightened. >> reporter: greenwood is left a smoldering ruin. 9,000 people left homeless, the dead uncounted. estimates range from 75 to 300. el doris lived until 2010. her granddaughter, joy ma couldn't which i, keeps her story alive. >> what did tulsa lose by having that entire neighborhood destroyed? >> the glory of a bright city shining on the hill. >> reporter: el doris and other survivors gave testimony to the tulsa race riot commission, a commission that ultimately recommended reparations for the survivors. >> the state had a great opportunity. they turned it down. instead they gave each survivor a gold plated medal. >> reporter: a sorry substitute for the enormous loss. >> why should the sins of the

father be visited upon the son? >> reporter: uh-huh. >> i'll tell you why, because the wealth of the father went along with the sins of the father, and that wealth was visited upon the son. >> reporter: a lingering question is where the victims were buried. the commission identified three potential mass gravesites. one has yielded a dozen caskets. but there's another site never filmed before that has scott's attention, near a homeless encampment above the arkansas river. >> in 2002 a retired tulsa police officer named bob paddy told us about being shown a photograph showing a trench with bodies in it. you can see a steam shovel behind it. so it's our supposition that it's here. and the homeless are very much convinced that there's something evil in the canes right there. >> reporter: gavin ross is chairman of the mass graves investigation. do you feel like tulsa has come

to grips with this very dark day 100 years snag. >> i wouldn't say grip, i would say tulsa has come to make that first step. >> reporter: joy will be taking her own steps to come to terms with the past, organizing a century walk for june 1st, retracing the same route her grandmother took some 100 years ago. >> we're going to walk a mile in their shoes as they escaped on this railroad track. that's the only way i feel i can make my grandmother proud. >> extraordinary to watch. joining us now to discuss, oklahoma state senator kevin matthews. he's the chair of the 1921 tulsa race massacre centennial commission. it's hard to watch this for many reasons, but for years and years, this horrific part of u.s. history was hidden. it was not in my high school social studies class, and i

don't think it was in yours. what do you want americans to know about what happened there 100 years ago? >> thank you, stephanie. i want them to know that i'm 61 years old, and it wasn't taught to me in schools, even here in the black community. nobody talked to me about it in my family until i was in my early 30s when my grandmother's brother, my great uncle came to tulsa for a family reunion and gave me a vhs tape. many people might not know what that is but i learned about it in my 30s. what i want people to know is this, that horrific incident, one of the worse massacres of americans upon americans, domestic terrorism that happened against people in businesses, and we're still suffering the effects. the first part of what we're doing is just trying to tell their story transparently, what

happened before 1921, what happened on that day, what happened after that. and then how it was destroyed again by urban renewal and then what happened after that. the resilience. there are many more things that have to happen but i believe the story needs to be hold transparently in an effective way and that's what is going to be happening june 2 when we open these -- this history center around telling the history. and then there are many more complex issues we're going to be addressing at that time. >> why didn't you learn about it? why hasn't it been part of american history? >> you know, people called it tulsa's dirty secret. i think the people in the government at the time were embarrassed by it, even though we believe because of the red summer from 1919 through 1921 or

so this happened across the country. so we believe the dick roland, sarah page story were an excuse. but a lot of people were embarrassed by it. then a lot of progressive black business owners fled to chicago and california and other places and people were taken into internment camps. and i believe some of the people that stayed here feared it would happen again, so it wasn't talked about in the black community and it wasn't talked about in the white community. >> president biden will be visiting tulsa tomorrow. what do you want to hear from him? >> well, i just think that this is sacred ground. this is a sacred moment. i'm just hoping not just the president but people here in our city and our state, we come together to not just commemorate this moment, which is very

important, but there are some other issues that need to be addressed to -- to make our community whole again. we lost a lot and so i think that the dialogue with the the state, and federal government needs to be significant, it needs to happen now, and i think that the fact that the president came here says that he, at the federal level acknowledges is. and i think we need to do that at every level and start not just healing, but the types of things that makes this community whole again. >> senator matthews, thank you for the work you're doing and for being here this morning. >> coming up next, brand new court documents released over the weekend.

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