>> good monday morning to you. craig melvin here on this memorial day. we are watching president biden and vice president harris and the official party depart arlington national cemetery in what has become an annual tradition. today, we remember the sacrifices of our men and women in uniform who gave their lives for ours. we just heard president biden marking this somber day at arlington national cemetery. the president speaking after the traditional laying of a wretch, saying a prayer at the time of the unknown soldier. this is part of what we just heard from president biden. >> here on these gentle rolling green hills and across america and around the globe lie buried

the heroes of the greatest experiment the world has ever known, ever seen. the experiment bears the noble name the united states of america. >> nbc's senior white house reporter shannon pettypiece is at white house for us. nbc's pentagon correspondent courtney qube is with us. what stood out about what the president said, the reverence of this event? >> reporter: craig, it wasn't just what he said but it was the way in which he said it. it was an impassioned speech. he started out in a very personal way. he spoke about the death of his son who was a delaware national guard soldier. he died of cancer six years ago this past weekend.

he spoke directly to the gold star parents who may be listening today. those are mothers and fathers of service members who have been killed in action. he talked about -- took a very personal tone about loss today. then he also went through a myriad of other issues. he spoke about the history of this day, referencing general john logan who was the union soldier who called on men and women to decorate the graves of service members killed in action, what we know as memorial day, the last monday of every may. he also spoke current issues, voting rights, the freedom of the press. he spoke extensively about democracy. it was a wide ranging speech. not exactly the same kind of tone that we usually hear on memorial day. he spoke more about current events than we have heard in years past. craig, what really stood out to

me was, we -- it's an emotional day for a lot of americans. that is definitely the case for the commander in chief, president biden. very emotional at his speech today. >> praising all of those veterans who fought and died. of course, shannon pettypiece, military service, sacrifice, these are topics close to his heart. we heard from him there. over the weekend, he spoke at another memorial day service. in that speech, he made a point of repeating one of his lines, empathy, fuelling democracy. how did that speech fit into the president's vision of america? >> reporter: absolutely. that's a theme we have been hearing from him all weekend, talking about a need for empathy, a need for sacrifice as a country and a need for unity. you heard courtney mention the

personal term he is speaking in and the personal emotional sentiment he is feeling. the anniversary of his son's death was yesterday. you heard biden in the remarks addressing that directly. his son, of course, was a veteran of the iraq war, died of a brain tumor shortly after coming back from iraq. he said that he understands not only the pride that military families see but the fear and the anxiety and the worry that comes with being a military family and tried to relate to that in this role we have seen from him as consoler in chief and being able to connect with people on that deep level of loss. of course, he reassured people that the phrase he says often that at some point remembering your loved one will bring a smile to your face rather than a tear to your eye. emphasizing that again. in the end, calling on all americans, even if they are not called to service for their

country, to do something, to honor their country and tieing in the current events like when it comes to voting rights and equality as a country. you could certainly see this painting a picture of the big bigger, broader role. >> general austin there, vice president harris, president biden there at arlington national cemetery last hour. this, of course, the tomb of the unknown soldier, that symbol of service and sacrifice and mourning and memory of laying of the wreath there. annual tradition. shannon, the president seemingly had an inflection point in his presidency, as we head into the summer months. give us a sense of his

priorities right now. >> he is returning to the white house now at an inflection point on a number of fronts. there's key pieces in the coming weeks that could come together, that could shape the trajectory of his presidency. on the domestic front, the infrastructure proposal. the white house is saying they want to have a clear direction on where that is going by june 7, when congress comes back. there's a lot of progress being made on police reform on capitol hill. the white house has been quietly behind the scenes pushing for that. then on the international front, overseas, the president in a few weeks heading off on his first international trip that will include a meeting with russian president vladimir putin. an opportunity there to try and stabilize relations with russia and also to try and improve relations with allies and put america back in a more leadership role. certainly going to be a very crucial time this summer. white house officials know that

time is of the essence. they have a limited window to act before we get into midterm elections. this is the moment for them to seize. >> shannon pettypiece at the white house. the annual event just wrapping up, the annual memorial day event. we are also marking the 100th anniversary of the deadly tulsa race massacre. it was a century ago today, a white mob destroyed the predominantly black community of greenwood, also known as black wall street. folks there have been honoring what was lost all weekend long. a live look now at a ceremony that is underway here in tulsa. dedication of a prayer wall at vernon ame church, that's what we are looking at right now. according to the church, it's

the only standing black-owned structure on historic greenwood area from the black wall street era. it survived by a miracle. it remains a reminder of the racial healing that is still not happened to a certain extent in tulsa, even after all this time. trymaine lee is on the ground there. the mood there today, what's it like? what does this prayer wall mean to folks on this somber anniversary? >> reporter: thanks so much for having me. i have been here for a number of days and have witnessed the commemorations and marches. there is something heavy in the air. behind me you see a couple hundred people for the dedication of the prayer wall. there is a reflective tone. folks understand the weight of what happened 100 years ago. the first shots began on may 31st and carried into june 1st. as you mention the destruction, for the first time americans

dropped bombs on other americans, dropped fire bombs and shot from the sky, between 100 and 300 people dead. this weekend, remembering all that was lost, the violence of the day. then also everything that came after. folks here are unpacking the past, reckoning with the past. the narratives are being centered. voices are being lifted. jesse jackson here for this commemoration. the mayor of tulsa is here. a small congressional delegation. also folks from all across the country and across town coming here to commune in fellowship here on historic greenwood avenue. you mentioned some of this, that 12 miles of greenwood had hundreds of black-owned businesses. today, that's less than two dozen. it's a tough reckoning. slowly, this community is getting there. the divide remains. we have yet to fully bring to bear the full truth of what happened. folks here are remembering this day. >> trymaine lee there in tulsa.

thanks. i want to turn to hannible turner. thank you for joining me. i think our country realized over the last year that the past isn't dead. it's not always necessarily even always in the past. two weeks ago, the householding that-- house holding hearings. one witness was 107-year-old viola fletcher. she is the oldest living survivor, just seven years old at the time of the attack. this is part of what she said.

>> i will never forget the violence of the white mob when we left our hope. i still see black men being shot, black bodies lying in the street. i still smell smoke and see fire. i still see black businesses being burned. i still hear airplanes flying overhead. i hear the screams. i have lived through the massacre every day. greenwood represented all the best of what is possible for black people in america. >> dig into what we heard from her and the idea that you get at in your book, the historical racial trauma of what happened today 100 years ago. >> absolutely. what happened in tulsa is emblematic of historical racial

trauma throughout the united states. tulsa comes on the heels of 1919 and the red summer when there were more than two dozen riots across the united states in places as far flung and new york and omaha and chicago and arkansas and on and on. that period was also really notable for lynchings. in oklahoma alone, between 1907 and the massacre in 1921, there were 33 lynchings, 27 of those victims were black. that historical racial trauma is deeply embedded in our psyche. not just in tulsa but elsewhere as well. >> as we are having this conversation, another live look at the vernon ame church. this ceremony happening as we speak. among the folks who have assembled, the reverend jesse jackson there in the crowd.

we just heard tulsa survivor miss fletcher say greenwood represented the best of what was possible for black america. burned to the ground. one of the things that i think has gotten lost in some of this, obviously, the lives lost should be remembered on this day. but the generational wealth that was wiped out in a matter of hours. what is your commission doing to make sure there's justice for folks there in tulsa 100 years later? >> the 1921 tulsa race massacre centennial commission was started by an african-american state senator, kevin matthews. we have had two primary goals. one is educational, to make sure this history is acknowledged, working with the department of education to make sure it's included in curriculum materials. we are building a world class history center that will open on

june 2nd that tells the whole story of the community. the community is not defined by the massacre. the community is defined by the human spirit of the individuals who populated it, who created a remarkable business community, who sustained it over time and who rebuilt it after the devastation. part of what needs to happen is, again, to make sure that we look at reparations in a broad sense that includes curriculum but also on a parallel track, we know there's a lawsuit pending seeking cash reparations for survivors and descendents. that is -- no question that that is morally justified as well. these things are complimentary. these kinds reparations, economic investment in the community, educational investments in the community, and then seeking those individual cash reparations for survivors and descendents. really the full compliment of the bundle of things that constitute reparations.

that's what we are seeking. >> do you get the sense that there are far more folks who are at least familiar with what happened there in tulsa 100 years ago, more folks now familiar with it than just even five or ten years ago? if that's the case, to what do you attribute that awareness? >> there absolutely are more people familiar with this history than there were five, ten, 20 years ago. one of the interest things that's happened is that it has become a part of popular culture in a way that's actually quite helpful. the watchmen did an opening sequence, an imagination of what the violence must have been like in 1921. that spurred people to seek out the actual history of the community. that's really, really important. the real major watershed or opening point in terms of acknowledgement of this history and understanding and aware came, i believe, in february of

2001. a commission called the oklahoma commission to study the riot of 1921 issued an award winning report that drew international attention. it sparked people, including people in our educational systems, to begin to look at ways to integrate or to incorporate this history. in tulsa public schools, for example, they just began to integrate this history at every grade level, k through 12, age appropriate levels and in a variety of disciplines. not just oklahoma history or american history but social studies, economics, language arts, et cetera. awareness is increasing. now we need to work on the other parts of the reconciliation process which include apology and atonement. >> thank you, sir. best of luck to you. thanks for the work that you are doing on the ground there in tulsa. appreciate you. breaking overnight,

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we are following breaking news in texas. the texas statehouse is set to go back in session any moment now after that dramatic all night fight over voting rights. overnight, texas house democrats blocking final passage of a controversial bill. they walked out. they walked out in protest before the final vote could happen. it's the so-called election integrity protection act. it would among other things ban drive-through voting, limit voting hours, make it more difficult for many folks to cast mail ballots. it would also empower partisan poll watchers. it would seem as if democrats in texas all but delayed the inevitable overnight. walk us through where things stand now. >> reporter: craig, right now

this bill is mostly dead. i say mostly because the democrats last night were effective in being able to stall republicans on being able to vote for this bill before the midnight deadline, the last day of the session is today. that doesn't mean the bill is gone for good. in fact, democrats last night admitted that this was really the last arrow in their quiver as they fight back against this voting rights bill. listen. >> they were prepared to try to silence us. we were not going to let them do that. that's why democrats used the last tool available to us. we denied them the quorum to pass this bill. we killed that bill. [ applause ] >> reporter: you heard it there, they killed that bill, but only for now. moments after, the governor said he will call a special session. in a statement last night, he urged lawmakers to figure out

the details of this legislation before they got back into a special session, calling election integrity an emergency in the state of texas. there's an important backdrop here. the governor is up for re-election next year. this is a top priority for him and other republicans in the state. it all stems from this idea of election integrity being a necessity despite the fact that in texas more people voted than ever before and there was no evidence of fraud. this all ties back for republicans, not just in texas but across the country, trying to clamp down on voting access in the aftermath of 2020. in texas specifically, targeting things that were done in places like harris county, where voters were able to drive through to cast their ballot or have 24 hours of early voting period to give as many people as possible the ability to cast their ballot. those are the specific things that are targeted then in this bill. because republicans want to see this rammed through, there's

going to be pressure for abbott to call that special session as soon as possible. pressure is going both ways. democrats in texas putting up a fight and vowing to continue doing that. also, there's calls for democrats here in washington to push through a since stalled election reform bill that has been sitting in the senate because it does not have votes necessary to avoid a filibuster. what we heard and we will continue to hear from democrats is not just the need to pass that election reform bill, but also to do so by doing away with the filibuster and have democrats lead and govern as if they have the majority. right now in washington, they do, craig. >> ali vitalvitali on the hill. there has not been any evidence of widespread voting fraud in this country. thank you. in new york city, mobile vaccine clinics are popping up at public beaches now. we will take you live to a

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♪♪ ♪♪ right now, millions of americans are on the road for the long memorial day weekend. on friday alone, more than 1.9 million people passed through tsa checkpoints. for perspective, that's the most passengers screened in one day since the start of the pandemic. cal perry is outside the maryland house travel plaza on i95. i know that travel spot well, that plaza. ron allen is in queens, new york. ron is at a popup vaccination site. cal, you are at the busiest travel plaza on east coast. what traffic is the rest stop seeing? what are folks telling you?

>> reporter: this is one of the buiest places on the east coast. increasing by 30% every week. we have our first gas line. people are waiting in line for gas. not too bad, 10, 15 minutes. it's only 11:30 in the morning. this will get worse. i know you are familiar with this area. the dmv will see 3 million people hitting the road over the weekend. life has changed. schedules have changed. not everybody has to be back at work tomorrow. we see people spread out their travel. expect it to get busier throughout the day. this area feeds d.c., philly, maryland, beaches out east. it's not a surprise this is one of the busiest spots in the country. >> folks are filling up the tanks as gas prices hit a seven-year high on average. mr. allen, let me come to you.

this weekend, new york city's public beaches officially reopening. you are in a community there, ron, whereas i understand it, one in every 14 people died of covid-19, and they're still not getting vaccinated. what's the holdup? >> reporter: the numbers are daunting. this is a community where cvid has taken a toll. the weekend weather has been a washout. that has not deterred public health officials from new york who are continuing this approach of taking vaccinations to where people are, since the people won't come and get them. across the city, it's about half the adult population or so has gotten one dose or so. they want the numbers to come up. they are taking the vaccinations to the people. it's rockaway beach. here is one of the acting assisting commissioners in with the department of health. you have a van.

you have workers. you are trying to get people to take vaccinations. what's the problem? why won't people do this? it's astounding that people won't get vaccinated. >> we have to give information to people. we want to make sure they have everything they need, which is access, information and trust. the more they see us out here, the more they will be likely to get vaccinated. >> reporter: people are coming. the weather is terrible. that's not your responsibility. you are trying. >> we are here. we want to make sure we encourage. it's almost summertime. we want to remind people that this is an issue and that they should come out and get vaccinated. they don't need appointments. they just have to show up and say they are ready. we are here. >> reporter: this is a community largely african-american. it's largely hispanic as well, an immigrant community. queens was hard hit. you are targeting places. the other day, we were at the bronx zoo, which is another place that's been hard hit. is the message different here,

is it more, is it just more passionate? what do you say to people to convince them? >> what we are doing is trying to talk to the people. hear their questions and make sure we have answers for them so they can feel comfortable to get vaccinated. we have different languages that we speak. we want to make sure that the community feels comfortable. we are working with leaders in the community, faith leaders. we are also working with community-based organizations and elected officials to get the message out. >> thanks for being out here. the weather is supposed to improve. >> i hope so. >> reporter: you will be here until? >> 8:00. >> reporter: probably later. thanks very much. >> thank you so much. >> reporter: this is what we have seen all over the country, trying to take the vaccinations to the people. here they are doing it even though it's a washout of a weekend. they are trying to do the right thing. >> indeed.

ron allen, try to enjoy the beach, if you can. cal perry, thank you, from there in maryland. i want to bring in dr. patel, the former health policy director for the obama administration. she's now an nbc news medical contributor. dr. patel, we have seen a number of the popup vaccination sites in cities. are they working? not to disparage what we saw there. it wasn't a long line. at some point, dr. patel it would seem as if people have the education. they know the benefits of the vaccine. they have access to it. at some point, people just, i guess, are deciding, we're not going to do it. how do you overcome that? >> yeah, craig, you couldn't be more spot on about why there's a limit to how much a popup -- it is helpful to bring vaccines to the people. the people who are now not vaccinated kind of have a lot of reasons.

most of them are ones that we have tried to deal with, myths, facts. the most effective thing we can do at this point is to try to appeal to the sense of normalcy. if you are vaccinated, you can have your mask off in every situation, indoors, outdoors. helping people kind of understand that. that depends on state and local officials. we unfortunately made this political. if people still need to get vaccinated, we need to both meet them where they are but be very practical about the limits if you are unvaccinated. you are likely to be infected but also be limited from normal activities you desire. >> there's this new guidance from the cdc. it says that unvaccinated kids still need masks at summer camp. campers can take their mask off outside in some circumstances. what do parents need to know as they get ready to send their kids to camp? >> this is a source of a lot of

controversy and conversation amongst the medical community. i will say this. i treat adults and kids are not small adults. i consulted with my pediatric colleagues. there's a great website developed by pediatriciapediatr helpingchildren.com. go to it. the bottom line is if you are sending kids to summer camps, there are questions you should ask about how they are taking precautions. in some cases, that might include testing prior to camp arrival. of course, you should be evaluated by a doctor. then as you mentioned, the bottom line with masks in my opinion is, set the expectation your child is likely going to need to wear a mask in all circumstances, because it's very confusing to say, close contact sports, if you have a huddle, put the mask on, but if you are six feet apart, keep the mask off. that's not the real world we live in. i think it's safe outdoors for children, period. but if you are going to camp and

camp settings, parents, ask questions. you have to realize there's emotions on both sides of this, people who are angry about the guidance, people who are relieved this guidance gives them direction. >> here is the thing. granted, i'm trying not to get too close to this because i have a 7-year-old going to camp this summer. if we know that the risk of transmitting the virus outdoors -- if we know the risk is very small, then why are we having kids wear the masks outside? >> yeah, i think that the reason we're having children wear mass -- masks outside, we have not had kids outside since the start of the pandemic in camps. what we know is that while cases are coming down, the numbers of cases are increasing amongst younger people. why? they are not vaccinated. we know a lot more about the

effectiveness of masks. i think what you are seeing is just an incredible layer of caution. i will tell you, my own kids who are about your kid's age, i don't have them wearing masks outside with me. they will probably wear a mask outside at camp. we go by the rules the cdc and guidance recommends. >> dr. patel is doing it, i suppose i should do it as well. dr. patel, thanks, as always. appreciate your insight. thank you. trust in the senate could be at an all-time low. republicans block the bill to establish a commission to investigate the january 6 attack. where do democrat goes from here? benjamin netanyahu's run as the longest serving israeli minister could come to an end. we will tell you why and what that could mean for u.s./israeli relations.

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there's a growing course of democrats ready to proceed with a commission to investigate the january 6 attack on the capitol without republican support. it comes after senate republicans blocked the vote to form a bipartisan commission to investigate the deadly insurrection. garrett haake has the latest. garrett, any insight into the democrats' next move here? >> reporter: speaker pelosi holds the cards. she's been careful not to show them. she has said she wanted to go the route of a commission, a bipartisan commission, in part to make sure people would see the results of their work and believe it. i'm talking about the people who are most likely to believe in conspiracies around january 6. she's also said that nothing is off the table. with the commission vote defeated in the senate, the house could give the investigative authority to do the same work, the same

investigation, to a committee that exists or they could create a special select committee like republicans did to investigate benghazi. either way, i can tell you their trust level in the house, which was terrible, is now also starting to get more terrible on the senate. this thing was negotiated right down to the end on the senate floor. we heard from house members over the weekend talking about just how broken they think this bipartisan process is. here was jason crowe on "meet the press" over the weekend. >> this has to get done. i am sick of playing the game of whack a mole with gop members in congress. every time we address one of their concerns, another one pops up. we just can't continue to do that forever. we need to get answers. >> reporter: there's concern that that whack a mole game is going on on issue after issue, not just here. watch speaker pelosi perhaps in

the next couple of days to see what democrats will do. they said not getting to the bottom of what happened on the 6th isn't an option. >> if there's anything keeping hope of bipartisanship alive there it would seem to be at this point infrastructure. this is transportation secretary pete buttigieg talking about the counteroffer of nearly a trillion dollars for an infrastructure package. >> it is encouraging to see republicans talking about getting to the neighborhood of a trillion. of course, when you start trying to makeapples, that's where the devil is in the details. those are the things that we're continuing to discuss with them. i will say, we have been in these discussions in good faith. there have been really healthy negotiations of the kind that i think people were starting to wonder whether that's possible in washington anymore. >> reporter: garrett, you have covered congress for some time

now. it seems as if every three months there's talk of an infrastructure bill. do you get the sense that it's different this time? >> reporter: i don't know, craig. you hear the transportation secretary say the devil is in the details. it's not a detail that the two sides don't really agree on what infrastructure means and what should be included in the package. it's not a detail that they don't agree at all on how to pay for it. while the negotiations have been in good faith, i think there's a total agreement here, including among the republicans -- i spent time with shelley moore. she knows they need an investment in infrastructure. this isn't where the two parties disagree on the need. on almost every other element, they do disagree. it's up to the white house over the next week or so -- the house and senate with both out on recess this week -- to decide whether they want to continue to pursue these negotiations,

pursue the conversations or if they have done enough to at least get all democrats on board and they should try to go it alone. that will be a choice for the president and his transportation secretary and others to make. >> garrett haake from the hill for us on this monday morning. thank you. right now, we are following a political power shift. that's in israel that could have major implications here at home. a coalition of israeli political parties say they have the votes to form a unity government. the move could see benjamin netanyahu unseated as prime minister for the first time in 12 years. i want to bring in the white house correspondent for "the washington post." ann is an msnbc contributor. you are doing reporting on the story as we speak. where could a possible ouster leave the larger israel/u.s. relationship? what could it mean for the dynamics between our two

countries? >> well, craig, i think it will change, certainly, the way that president biden deals with the israeli government going forward. netanyahu has dominated the political scene for a dozen years now. remember, he had been prime minister before that. and working in the background during the period when he wasn't prime minister. effectively, for the last 20 years, he has been the most known, the most dominant political figure. he is essentially joe biden's political adulthood in dealing with the israeli government. most of it has dealt in one form or another with netanyahu. dealing with anybody else will be a difference. one big change will certainly be that if bennett becomes the israeli prime minister, he is not someone who is well-known to president biden.

he has been in israeli politics for a number of years, but never in an extremely high level role, high enough to have met very often with a vice president or now a president. he is a new figure. he is the son of american immigrants to israel. he is extremely conservative. he is to netanyahu's right. any dealing biden has with him will inevitably end up talking about the question of jewish settlement on land that the palestinians claim for a state, which is biden's stated goal for an outcome to middle east peace. >> a power change there. what would it mean in terms of perhaps peace in the region, reaching some sort of peace agreement? >> well, i have a counterintuitive view of this. i think that because if bennett becomes prime minister, he will be leading an extraordinarily

diverse coalition of israeli political parties that makes the kind of coalition building you were talking about with garrett haake there look very simple by comparison. it's incredibly complex that a political interest that would all be under his political umbrella. that would mean that if he chose to, he would be able to come negotiations with a broader spectrum of backing than netanyahu had. >> we will leave it there. this is something we will talk about over the next few days and weeks. thank you. up next, after losing his job during the pandemic, how one man found the recipe for success in a booming new business. if you have risk factors like heart disease, diabetes and raised triglycerides,... ...vascepa can give you something to celebrate. ♪

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