it's just a fear thing. >> alcindor: a fear of what? >> fear that we're not going to do the right things. or fear that, "okay, yeah, you had this industry before, but you've only done it illegally. you don't know how to do it." or, i gues at the level that they feel-- and this is verbatim, i've had people tell us: "you guys cannot do how we can do it." >> alcindor: denver says the city needs to time to study to issue. it's now trying to col demographic data to build ael program to hp minorities get into the industry. >> alcindor: since colorado legalized, other states have tried to deal with this issue from day one. massachusetts was the first state to include language in itt legin specifically addressing the issue of social equity. >> i had worked on the campaign in colorado, and i think that none of us understood at the time how important it was to include in the law from the beginning that it has to be ententional and deliberate that >> alcindor: shaitle is one of the commissioners on the state's cannabis control commission. it creat

as white house correspondent yamiche alcindor reports, the controversy surrounding mr.mp's tweets that four progressive congresswomen should return to their native countries shows no sign of going away. >> here's the chant that i would >> alcindor: in north carolina,a a controversl chant, and ( "send her back" chants ) th capitol hill, republicans playing defense, afallout over president trump's racist tweets deepens. asat a rally in greenville night, the president again falsely accused congresswoman ilhan omar of supporting terrorist groups. the muslim minnesota lawmaker is a naturalized american citizen, who came to the u. as a somali refugee. the crowd-- including children-- chanted "senher back." this morning, house minority leader kevin mccthy downplayed the president's role in the chants. >> it was a small group off to the side. inat the president did-- the president did not n. the president moved on. >> alcindor: but others offered slight pushback. >> the point is, they're all american citizens, entitled to their voice, and when they do provocative things, they'r

yamiche alcindor looks now atde why the justicrtment r.cided not to file charges against the offi ne alcindor: eric garner died after he was detfor selling what were suspected to be untax single cigarettes. garner, who was 43 years old and had severe asthma, said "i can't breathe" 11 times before he died. the cellphone deo seems to show garner in a chokehold, which is prohibited by the new yorkolice department. but, the officer, daniel pantaleo, has maintained he did not use a chokehold to bring him down. pantaleo has been on desk duty since then. today, u.s. attorney for the eastern district of new york, richard donoghue, said his team decided they could not prove officer pantaleo willf intended to use excessive force that led to garner's death. >>e are committed to aggressively prosecuting excessive force cases whenever there is sufficient evidence to bring them. mr. garner's death was a terrible tragedy, but having thoroughly investigated the surrounding circumstances, the department has concluded that the available evidence would not support federal civil rights charges against a

. >> woodruff: our white house correspondent yamiche alcindor is on the national mall, and joins me nowllo,çó í0iw presidentko prominent role on the fourth of july and to make sure that the er&itarv is front andenter? on this day we think about our history? >> well, the president is -- it's really unprecedented for the president to holhd a fou of july address along military equipment and leaders. te president says he wan honor america and celebrate all this military equeipment h's excited is being made. in the oval office he says tankn are being madehio and he wants us to see them. politics are at play.e publican national committee were giving out v.i.p. tickets to republican donors. people close to the president will have good seats here. the president is excited about all this, but there's a lot of criticism about the president using the military in this hay. been talking to former milt officials who tell me it's ridiculous for t president to essentially force military leaders to stand behind him and next to him. isey also said s really the stuff of dictators, that in russia or north

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alcindor, yamiche, we're going come back and ask a big question. or he gets on that platform next year in october, they go to go mano a mano, what are they going to say based upon today? there are the naacp convention, fine. but when they look at the tapes and figure out what they will be able to take from today and throw it at trump, because i believe if they can't throw it in his face when they're looking at him, it's not going to serve much purpose. we'll be right back. our guests are sticking with us. coming up, where do democrats go from here? speaker pelosi weighed in this evening. we're going have that for you next. you're watching "hardball." all.] mm, uh, what do you do for fun? -not this. ♪ -oh, what am i into? mostly progressive's name your price tool. helps people find coverage options based on their budget. flo has it, i want it, it's a whole thing, and she's right there. -yeah, she's my ride. this date's lame. he has pics of you on his phone. -they're very tasteful. woman 1: this is my body of proof. man 1: proof of less joint pain an

attorney joyce vance and msnbc legal analyst and pbs news hour correspondent yamiche alcindor who is also a political analyst. you had supervisory role, right? you had people working for you that were prosecuting cases that were running things up to you as the boss for important decisions to make, which is the role acosta was in. he was not the sort of line prosecutor on this case. were you persuaded by acosta's account today of why things went down the way they did? >> you know, chris, i wasn't, not in the least. and i spent almost -- well, i spent more than 25 years at doj. i was a line prosecutor. i ran our appellate division. i was ultimately the u.s. attorney. one thing that anyone in a u.s. attorney's office knows is that the buck stops with the u.s. attorney. and so this notion that he tried to throw the career prosecutors, the fbi, the state prosecutors under the bus and not take responsibility for the decision here to let epstein off with a nonprosecutive agreement really rang very hollow. >> yeah, that's one of the things the palm beach prosecutor said in response, yamiche.

yamiche alcindor, danielle moodie-mills, john podhoretz, thank you all for being with us. coming up, robert mueller's congressional testimony. he is scheduled for next wednesday. well, now suddenly it might not happen, at least not next week. we'll tell you what the holdup may be all about. >>> and bran new poll numbers from the key early state of south carolina. we showed you national numbers yesterday. now we're showing you the first big state with a large african american voting bloc. new numbers to tell you about there. >>> plus, presidential retreat. trump backing down on the census. part of a growing pattern of bold talk followed by little or no action. >>> and here is something you don't see every day. >> and i'll tell you something about nancy pelosi. that you know better than i do. she is not a racist, okay. she is not a racist. for them to call her a racist is a disgrace. >> there is the president defending the democratic speaker of the house while also trashing her republican predecessor. much more ahead. stay with us. oh! oh! oh! ♪ ozempic®! ♪ (announcer) peopl

legal battle over presint trump's ntroversial immigration agenda.e our white horrespondent yamiche alcindor is here with the latest. hello, yamiche. to refresh everybody, it wasn backril the attorney general william barr issued this order saying that some migrants could not get out on bail, they had to more than po tt boney had to be detained indefinitely. but now you have thisederal judge in washington state issuing a ruling that casts what the strairlings did in doubt. >> exactly. what we had was attorney general william barr and the president seeking to keep migrants who came to e united states illegally detained indefinitely. this is not the people to come to pos of entry but the ones who me between ports of entry. they want no one to get in bail. the presidenalr presidentls this catch and release. he essentially says we can't just bring people and let them go out into communities. the judge is saying that's unconstitutional, that these migrants actually have to have due process under the fifth amendment. >> woodruff: so this ruling, what more can you tell us about the argument that thi

. >> woodruff: our yamiche alcindor who has been tracking the response from the white house. yiche, you did hear all what the president had to say. what are you taking away from whee house? >> the president, h words an white house aides all agree that the president feels like he's in a better position today than he was yesterday. he se this hearing as really foubling down and being proof o what he's been saying which is all a witch hunt and a waste time. he said the democrats were in a worse position today because they came away with nothing. democrats, of course, take issue with that. they think getting robert mueller on the record saying he didn't common rate the president and helso could be charged when he leaves office was a win for them, but the president overall was pretty confident that he thinkgothis ig to help him in the 2020 election. i also put the question to the president directly. robert mueller said generally the questions and the answerrous gae him were utrue. the president got very, very upset and said that the question was untruthful. when i pressed him some

they will be focused in on this tomorrow.al as iys of washington. >> nawaz: our own yamiche alcindorwill be covering that hearing tomorrow. thank you, yamiche. and join us tomorrow morning. our live covage of the mueller hearing starts at 7:40 a.m. eastern online, on oursi we our live coverage of the mueller hearing starts at 7:45 a.m. eastern online on our website at www.pbs.org/newshour, and on our social media channels, like youtube. then, tune in right here at 8:30 a.m. on your local s station, when judy woodruff leads live coverage of the former special counseifl teng before two house committees. check your local listings. >> nawaz: stay with us. coming up on the newshour: the new trump administration rules that may make millions ofb americans inel for food stamps. and, a preschool on wheels becomes a driving force in communities with no access to childcare. economically, venezuela has collapsed, with severe shortages of electricity, food, gas, and medicine. politically, the country's fates nclear, with president nicolas maduro facing off agait the us-backed, nationa assembly pr

yamiche alcindor begins our coverage. >> reporter: do you think your tweets were racist, mr. president? a >> nott all. not at all. >> reporter: president trump doubling down on racist tweets. today at white house event aimed at celebrating american manufacturing, the president defended his targeting of four freshmen congresswomen of color. and he once again questioned their status as americans and suggested leave the states. from their parents in front of an american flag. >> reporter: three of the four lawmakers had testifbod last friday their visits to crowded border detention facilities. on twitter sunday,othe president "why don't they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came?" the four congresswomen: new york representative alexandria ocasio-cortez, minnesota representative illhan omar, massachusetts representative hianna pressley and michigan representative r talib. all four women are american citizens. three of the four were bn in the u.s. >> it doesn't concern me because many people agree with me and they can leave. >> repo

yamiche alcindor, thank you. >> thanks. >> woodruff: the troops are baca in bs, the military jets have landed, and the fireworks smoke has cleared after president trump's "salute to america" last night. but as william brangham tellsma us, questions about mr. trump's relations with the military, and the role politics play. s ♪ >> reporter: it lled as the show of a lifetime by the president, who cast himself as its star. flanked by military hardware outse the lincoln memorial a with jets overhead, president trump's "salute to america" heaped praise on the u.s. med forces. >> through centuries our soldiers have always pointed toward home proclaiming this we'll defend.ey re the greatest soldiers on earth. ( cheers and applause ) >> reporter: but some critics just across the mall said the event was a wae of millions of taxpayer dollars, and another move by the president to co-opt the military and to make patriotism political. h >> i don't think the fou july should be politicized like it has been this year because it's a national holiday, and >> reporter: after presidentat trumnded france's

thank you, yamiche alcindor, jeremy psychs. the conditions facing the migrants. a situation the homeland inspector general is calling, listen to this, we're going to know this later, a ticking time bomb, he called it. let's watch. >> we came today to say we will shut this down if we have to. >> it's a whole new 2020 ball game for the democrats out there. two major polls now show joe biden's huge lead is melting like an ice cream cone in summer. and senator kamala harris is getting the biggest debate bounce by far. plus, with the television ratings for last week's television debates tell me about republican voters. were they window-shopping for an alternative to trump? a lot of them were watching. much ahead. stay with us. with us as a doctor, i agree with cdc guidance. i recommend topical pain relievers first... like salonpas patch large. it's powerful, fda-approved to relieve moderate pain, yet non-addictive and gentle on the body. salonpas. it's good medicine. hisamitsu. a peaceful night sleep without only imagine... frequent heartburn waking him up. now that d

yamiche alcindor, who is at the white house. plus, amna nawaz, and lisa desjardins. the studio. yamiche, let me come to you. the president had been, it ems, determined to add this citizenship question one way ort thr to the census. now he's backed down. why? >> this is a big loss to president trump and he's esntially admitting he ca't argue for the citizenship question to be added to the nsus without jeopardizing the census itself. the supreme courruled the administration's reasoning was essentially contriefd and they were arguing theoting rights act needed to be betr enforced, the voting right that's supposed to prevent discrimination in voting. the president is now saying they can't do it without essentially putting at risk the census. the census is already being sresented. critics say this chilling effect because the census is tied directly to how weri dite money, how we draw congressional lines and tied to the electoral college. so there is already som people fear an effect where immigrants won't want to fill out the census. but the president is saying he can't get done what

(ches and applause) >> woodruff: our yamiche alcindor is still on thehe national mal in washington and water and thse ld in front of the president. tell us what more he's saying. >> well, the president reatay ed about the history of america. he talked about american inventors, theending of slavery and civil rights. he said the nation is stronger than it's ever been, a ittle bit of the "make america greatai again. the critics still point out the republican national committee got tickets to thevent while the democratic national committee did not. the people still close to the president are still the people eith the best views of him, but it is open to th public. >> woodruff: yamiche, you're saying the speechs directed to american history, speaking about the reasons we celebrate on this day. >> exactly, judy, and the president has reoally stuck talking about what makes america great in his mind and that is all the different tthat america can do. g also said he would like to put the american f mars some day. he's talking about astronauts and really inme soays celebrating the history of ame

white house correspondent for pbs "newshour," yamiche alcindor.rmer u.s. senator and now an nbc news and msnbc political analyst, claire mccaskill. and political writer for "the washington post" and msnbc political analyst, robert costa. he's the moderator of "washington week" on pbs. >> john heilemann, we've all heard now, have been talking about it over the past hour, about the "send her back" chants. put that in perspective. where does that put us as a country? where does that put our politics? >> well, i think in an incredibly depressing and you know, i think dangerous place, you know, it's not just that -- i mean, this week has been -- i think you said in the 6:00 hour, joe, that it was the low point for the trump presidency, i think last night, and there have been a lot of low points, but last night, i think, really was the low point in the sense that, you know, the president's racism and bigotry and idiocy have been on display on many occasions, never more glaringly than this week. but to see the president of the united states standing at a

reminds me of a mom alcindor had this year where she asked the president a question about why his policiesoed strongly with white nationalists. he turned the tables on her and said the exct thing. >> that's such a racist question. honestly, i know you have it written down and you're going to tell me -- let me tell you, that is a racist question. >> reporter: i thi that, too, tat turning of the tables is not a new thing. >> it's not a new thing, but it has become especially effective in the post-civil rights era. it was mowmp acepting to be explicitly racist and to have legal discrimination, obviously, and to have those signs -- no jews allowed, no chinese allowed, noe mxicans allowed, et cetera, but explicit racism was illegal andell out of favor, and, so, we have become much more adept at color-blind racism, at dog whistle politics without talking about race or ing explicitly racial language. at's not new but it has become new way and effective way in the post-civil rights era and in the and post-obama era to denigratothers, to iult them, to treat them as unequal, to justify inequality wi

secretary acosta's comments, and other developments in the jeffrey epstein case, are our own miche alcindor, who was at secretary acosta's news conference this afternoon, andss a roth. she was previously a federal prosecutor in the sohern district of new york, where epstein's case is being tried. she is now at the yeshiva university cardozo school of law. hello it to both of you, yam itch, i will turn to you first, you were in the the room today when sretary acosta was answering those questions, as we said, for about an hour. here is what he said. when you asked him about his message to victims of jeffrey epstein. >> the message to victims, the message is he needs to come forward. i heard this morning that anotr victim came foward and made horrendous, horrendouson allega allegations that should never happen to any woman much less young girl. and as victims come forward, these cases cabr bought. and they can be brought by the federal governe nt. they canought by state attorneys. and they will be brought. >> woodruff: soia mitch, what more, yamitche, what did esad w add at we just heard. >> s

: let's examine how the white house is getting ready for mueller'testimony tomorrow with yamiche alcindor. yamiche, let's jump right in. there's been a lot of talk about the potential imlect of that mutestimony. what do we expect im to say? >> in his testimony before the house, robert mueller wants to stick to the confines of the 448-page report that he and his team compiled. a spokesperson for robert mueller told me he wants th stay within "the four walls of the report." he is also -- robert mueller is also going to be wanting to esenter into the cononal record the actual report to really underline and double down that point.at said, i'm told he will have a short opening statement. he's been preparing with people that worked for him at the special counsel's office to anally figure out and hone in on what he can can't talk about in this setting. he also wants to really be thinking about how to not go beyond the report. and as a result, what's going tt beesting is after that short opening statement, democrats and republicans are going to be posing questions. democrats are going to be tryin

fo as yamiche alcindor reports, major themes from the first debates-- including race, criminal justice and imgration-- made their way onto the campaign ail. ( eers and applause ) >> reporter: at san francisco's pridparade this weekend, california senator kamala harris sought to build on her breakout performance at last week's debate. >> we remember those who have fought for civil rights. for equality. >> reporter: harris'ampaign has announced it raised an eye- popping $2 million online... in the 24 hours following the thursday deate where harris criticized former vice president joe biden for s past opposition to busing students to desegregate public schools. but since, harris has been the target of online attacks, that have questioned her racial identity, as the daughter of a jamaican father and indian mother. on saturday, president trump'smp son donald tr retweeted and then deleted a tweet lsae turday that claimed "kamala harris is she is half indian and half jamaican." a flurry of harris' 2020 democratic competitors quickly came to her defense. biden wrote on twitter that "the same f

. >> yamiche alcindor?e court has said that it's going to be looking at daca, the policy that allows children brought here as young people by adults to remain and possibly at some point get on the path to citizenship if democrats get their way. can you talk to me about what impact if at all that could have -- president trump has moved to end the program. >> well, it could end the program. i mean, the president has very broad power on matters of immigration. so far, i think he has lost in the courts primarily because, you know, if he were to turn around tomorrow and say i hate daca, i'm getting rid of it, good-bye, i'm not sure that there's much the courts would do about it. but that's not what he says. he says, i love daca. but the program was illegal. and nobody so far has found the daca program to be illegal when president obama put it in force. lots and lots of presidents have granted temporary legal status to large groups of immigrants. republicans and democrats alike. so this is one of those cases wher

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and yamiche alcindor, i want to turn to you.a week after the debate, and the candidates are still talking about busing. meantime, in iowa, elizabeth warren's favorables seem to be on the uptick as biden and harris keep battling this out. but it occurs to me that, yes, kamala harris might have these sincerely held beliefs about busing, but really it strikes me that this was really or was a proxy argument for her fw, in t debate to say that she can prosecute the case such that it exists against joe biden in much the same way she could prosecute the case against donald trump should she become the nominee and meets him on that debate stage. is that why you think she keeps returning to this well? >> i think she keeps returning to this, because it's an issue that has worked for her and a moment that allowed her to start to ride this moment that she's trying to now take into iowa. so there's this idea that i think, at the core of that exchange between senator harris and joe biden was the issues at stake in the democratic party. so ther