>> alcindor: the practice became a flashpoint in the aftermath of the 2020 elections.ump falsely claimed that the election was stolen from him, a number of poll watchers who were trump supporters stormed elections facilities. >> stop the count! >> alcindor: republicans say the legislation is in part about creating fairness in the voting system. they argue higher-populated counties that tend to vote for democrats shouldn't get more time to vote than rural counties that trend republican. alonso rejects that argument. >> so if the republican intent for voter integrity and cohesion were true, they would create a system that was more accessible overall. >> i move passage for senate bill 7. >> alcindor: republican state senator bryan hughes co-authored one of the texas bills, known as senate bill 7. what do you say to someone who thinks that this bill is based on a lie? and do you yourself think that 200, the election, was fraudulent? >> texas elections in 2020 went much better than other states, you can look at the results here. we didn't have near the problems that a numbe

>> alcindor: republican state senator bryan hughes co-authored one of the texas bills, known as senate bill 7. what do you say to someone who thinks that this bill is based on a lie? and do you yourself think that 200, the election, was fraudulent? >> texas elections in 2020 went much better than other states, you can look at the results here. we didn't have near the problems that a number of states had. >> alcindor: so, do you believe that the 2020 election was-- was-- was fair with that? it was that president biden was legitimately elected? >> president biden is the president. he did not win in texas. president trump won in texas. and a lot of people say we're unhappy about the 2020 election in texas. republicans did great in texas in the 2020 election. we held the texas house, held the texas senate, held every seat in congress. and so, if we were concerned about that, this wouldn't even be an issue. this is about making the system better. we do thisvery time the legislature meets. >> alcindor: the bills also limit the number and location of polling places in only a handful of counti

earlier this month, yamiche alcindor spoke with brown's father, michael brown senior, about what has since his son's killing and george floyd's murder. >> alcindor: thank you so much for sitting down with us and talking. it's been nearly seven years since your son was killed. i wonder how you're doing, how you've navigated this time. >> well, every day still different. sadly, this thing with community and police is still continuing. so it definitely does bring back the old feelings, open wounds, you know, brings that anger, that madness or whatever back. >> alcindor: so much has changed and so much hasn't changed since the death of your son. i wonder if you can talk to me a bit about where you were, when you learned about george floyd, if you saw the video and what that moment was like for you as a black man and as a father who had lost his son. >> i was at home when it was going live on the internet. we all went to minnesota to support and be down on the ground roots with the rest of the community. the energy, the energy reminded me of 2014. it was so much anger, pain. i met with th

yamiche alcindor begins our coverage. >> alcindor: one year after the murder of george floyd, community members gathered to pay their respects and renew demands for racial justice and police reform. they also held an outdoor festival at the intersection where he died one year ago today. using music and food, the owd tried to turn a place of agony into a place of hope. >> it's been a troubling year, a long year, but we made it. >> alcindor: on may 25, 2020, george floyd was killed by former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin, who keeled on floyd's neck for nine minutes and 29 seconds. in april, chauvin was convicted of second-degree murder and other charges. he awaits sentencing next month. in august, three officers who the murder triggered nationwide protests and calls for police reform that ve continued throughout the year, including yesterday at a march to the minnesota state capitol. george floyd's family has taken a lead role in those efforts. today, the family was in washington. they met first with house speaker nancy pelosi and other congressional leaders amid a push for a f

>> alcindor: well, judy, standing out again, what we saw today was thous ter of liz cheney.makes this day stand out today is house leader kevin mccarthy came to the white house today and he didn't want to own up to the idea that liz cheney was beingoused from her leadership position because she wouldn't embrace the false conspiracy theory, that the election was rigged. when the question was put to hi how is this going to impact the ability for democrats and republicans to work together? >> i don't think anybody is questioning the legitimacy of the presidential election. i think this is a all over with. we are sitting here with the president today. so from that point of view i don't think that's a problem. >> alcindor: in fact of course we know that dpormer president trump is every single day questioning the legitimacy of president biden. that's why liz cheney was ousted, she would not back what former prlt is doing when i requested, how this is going to affect the white house view, they say the president is determined to try to work with republicans. they have been using wor

yamiche alcindor focuses tonight on questions over race and medicine. >> alcindor: the amerin medical associatiois one of thcountry's oldest, largest and best known associationof doctors, its voice has long been influential, but now the a.m.a. is finally beginning to come to terms with racism in its own past. it recently issued an 83 page report that found that the organization is, "rooted in white patriarchy and affluent supremacy." the report outlines a number of examples, including the group's past support of excluding physicians of color. and it notes that in the 19th century, a president of the group once practiced vaginal surgeries on enslaved black women without anesthesia. the a.m.a. is vowing to take action on racial justice and health equity. dr. aletha maybank is the a.m.a.'s chief health equity officer. she started work on the report two years ago. thank you so much for joining us, dr. maybank. i want to start by saying you did work on this report. tell me a little bit about what was most troubling to yowhen you look at what was uncovered and what the report says? >> you k

once again, from washington, moderator yamiche alcindor. yamiche: good evening and welcome to "washington week." tonight, a ceasefire is still holding in the middle east with president biden in office only 121 days, he's faced a number of unexpected challenges. this week, it was the israeli-palestinian conflict. white house sources tell me behind the scenes president biden pushed prime minister benjamin netanyahu to make a deal. pres. biden: palestinians and israelis equally deserve to live safely and securely and enjoy equal measures of freedom, prosperity and democracy. my administration will continue our quiet, relentless diplomacy toward that end. i believe we have a genuine opportunity. yamiche: as president biden affirmed the u.s. relationship with israel, he faced pushback from his own party. progressive democrats are trying to block a $735 million weapons sale to israel and later tonight we will discuss t political war in washington where most republican lawmakers are refusing to back a bipartisan deal to investigate january 6. join

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once again, from washington, moderator yamiche alcindor. yamiche: good evening and welcome to "washington week." the covid-19 pandemic was declared a national emergency in the u.s. 427 days ago. and the virus has killed more than 580,000 americans. but amid that trauma and hurting, some good news. president biden: the c.d.c. announced that they are no longer recommending that fully vaccinated people need to wear masks. this recommendation holds true whether you are inside or outside. i think it's a great milestone. a great day. yamiche: meanwhile, the capitol ints recollection was 128 today's ago and this week, house republicans removed and replaced representative liz cheney from her leadership post for repeatedly speaking out against former president trump's election lies. we'll dig into that in a moment. but first, what do these new covid rules mean for american life and what challenges still lie ahead for the biden administration? joining us tonight our four top reporters, kasie hunt, capitol hill correspondent for nbc news and the host

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we also have pbs newshour white house expandand yamiche yamiche alcindor. priscilla, what are you seeing on the ground so far? >> yes, oftentimes in cases like this we see renewed calls for justice and it ignites widespread protest. but that's not one thing we are seeing here. one thing that can do is put pressure on officials to act and release more tape or whatever it is protesters are calling for and activists say there are a couple of things that may be going on. one, someone pointed out to me this was an incident that happened outside of monroe and something that took place between greene and louisiana state troopers, not local law enforcement. so what activists are saying is they're calling on the governor to do more in this situation and to step in and act. the but we did hear from governor john bel edwards late yesterday about this, and he says he's standing by what he said initially about the release of the tapes and what the law enforcement agencies that are investigating this, including the doj and district attorney, have asked him to do as it re

our white house corresndent yamich alcindor joins me now to share her reporting. about the viewrom the white house on all of this. 11 days of fighting, a cease-fire, what role did president biden play in getting us to this point? >> i should say president biden is speaking right now at the white house. and what the president is really laying out is th fact there is going to be a cease-fire starting in two hours. and white house officials stress president biden was engaged in increasingly pointed, diplomatic talks behind the scenes, quiet they say, no grandstanding. but he was stressing to prime minister benjamin netanyahu that he expected a deescalation, and that a cease-fire needed to happen. you saw over the week, really, the language from the white house changed. they were still saying that israel has the righto defend itself. but they were also saying this needs to stop, that israel had major military objectives, and they were able to protect their people and that now they needed to seek peace. white house officials here are saying president biden played a maj

. >> joining us now, the brand-new moderator of "washington week" airing tonight on pbs, yamiche alcindor, but i have to start with ali vitali on capitol hill. there's an all-out firestorm on capitol hill right now over liz cheney. tell us where it stands now. >> it stands that liz cheney is likely to lose her place in leadership and congresswoman elise stefanik is likely to succeed her in the number three role. but that doesn't mean it's smooth sailing for elise stefanik. she's spent, as you mentioned yesterday, on all of the favorite maga talk shows from steve goehrkia's radio show to steve bannon's podcast, where she's talking about the red meat the trump base loves to hear about. making sure she supports that controversial audit in arizona of the election results and railing against cancel culture, even as the party moves to cancel one of its own, liz cheney, for marching out of lockstep with the former president and his allies here on capitol hill. cheney doesn't have a lot of lawmakers allies at least in the house who are speaking in her favor but she does have conservative groups w

our yamiche alcindor joins me now to break down this blueprint of priorities. hello, yamiche, tell us what more do we know about this proposed budget document that the president is expected to unveil tomorrow? >> that's rightwell president biden is expected to unveil a $6 trillion budget and if passed in its form currently it would be the highest federal sustained spending since world war ii. now the white house says this say big budget because we have biproblems and big chal eggs ahead. i want to walk you through what is in this budget based on what white house sources have been telling us all day. there are $8 trillion in total spending by 2031, $6 trillion for fiscal year 2022, 1.512 trm sphor discretionary, education, housing, and climate change and $1 trillion in deficits for at least the next decade, white house press secretary jen psaki was out and said the budget we will see more details tomorrow reflects the priorities of president biden and that is about creating jobs and doing the types of things talked about including having generational investment

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joining me is nbc news capitol hill, kasie hunt yamiche alcindor, white house correspondent for pbs "newshour," former democratic senator claire mccaskill and lanhee chin from the stanford's hoover institute. senator mccaskill, we're seeing more openness to where you don't have to pay for all of this. where is this realistically heading? are we going for half of what's been proposed on the tax increases at the end of the day and more deficit spending? >> probably. what chuck schumer has to do is work through many, many senators. it's not just joe manchin and kyrsten sinema. there are others concerned about competitiveness and making sure we target these tax increases for the people who aren't paying their fair share. will it be 28 in terms of a corporate rate? maybe 25, maybe 26, maybe 27. will everything on the wish list get through? no, probably not. but at the end of the day, chuck schumer is going to work through those senators and try to get them all to agree, and then once he gets close to 50, like 49.5, then he starts working on the republicans to get it across the finish line.

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joining us now to discuss the new moderator of "washington week" airing tonight on pbs, yamiche alcindorn, senior national reporter for nbc news. yamiche, two nights ago the president signaled when he was talking to lawrence o'donnell he was willing to make a deal with republicans on hard infrastructure. he then touts this very productive meeting yesterday. and i want to share what republican senator roger wicker said this morning -- >> it was a good meeting. we feel good about it. we've agreed to give the president a more concrete proposal, and he's going to get back to us. i think we can get it done. >> could we actually see an infrastructure deal here? >> we could. talking to white house sources all week and talking to some of the senators who came to the white house after those meetings, you got the sense -- and there is a sense there really is optimism when it comes to trying to get a deal on hard infrastructure, that being roads and bridges. that being said, these senators who emerged from that meeting, especially senator shelley moore capito, when i asked her what were the actual

. >>> joining us now is moderator of washington week yamiche alcindor and chris brown the president ofof the oldest gun violence prevention groups. it feels like we have this same conversation on gun reform every few weeks as horrible as that is to say. as someone who has dedicated their life to this cause, i know you believe that change is possible but how? it doesn't seem like any change is coming in the federal government on this. >> we've made huge strides. i know it feels hard, it's terrible to see the loss every time it happens and i have to tell you it never gets easier. it's heartbreaking to see and hear the impact of gun violence in america today which is at an epidemic level and is preventable. the house of representatives has passed hr-8, it's pending in the senate and ultimately it takes 60 votes because of the filibuster to pass gun violence prevention reform. just like anything else on president biden's agenda. i think the question is whether we have enough support for common sense measures. and let me just lay out, if you will, for ten seconds, 20 seconds about what this

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. >>> but i want to start in washington, d.c., sahil kippur on capitol hill, yamiche alcindor, white house correspondent for "pbs newshour" and "washington week." and carol leon ig, her new book just came out, "the rise and fall of the secret service." let's start with what's going on on capitol hill, gaveling out at 3:00 a.m. what's going on in the senate? >> chaos, i can think of other words but let me walk through it briefly. they were set to vote and a chinese competitive package that was written by chuck schumer the democrat and todd young the republican. it has deep bipartisan buy-in from the start. the senate faced a number of curveballs yesterday that delayed passage. the first was from republican mike crapo who demanded a vote on an amendment and finally got it. it looked ready to pass when out of nowhere another curveball came from senator ron johnson, the wisconsin republican, demanding an amendment he involving the border that has already failed. this was highly frustrating for senators was this was not seen as a good-faith effort. this was siege as kind of a wrench in a

our white house correspondent yamiche alcindor joins me now to share her latest reporting.ell us about the view from the white house on all of this. 11 days of fighting, a cease-fire. what role did president biden play in getting to this point? yamiche: president biden is speaking right now the white house. he is laying out is the fact there will be a cease-fire starting in two hours. officials stressed president biden was engaged increasingly pointed diplomatic talks behind the scenes. no grandstanng. but he was stressing to prime minister benjamin netanyahu expected a de-escalation and a cease-fire needed to happen. he saw over the week the language from the white house changed. he was still saying israel had the right to defend itself but this needs to stop and israel had major military objectives that they were able to protect their people and now they have to have peace. they were saying president biden played a major role and there were over 80 engagements. also with all sorts of white house officials at all levels talking to their counterparts in israel. amna: we als

as always, yamiche alcindor. meanwhile, one of matt gaetz former colleagues is in the new. on wednesday, congresswoman marjory taylor verbally assaulted congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez outside the house chamber, accusing her of supporting terrorist. greene has a long history of accosting aoc. this newly unearthed video from 2019 before she was elected first reported by cnn shows the then-private citizen greene and several others including someone who later partook in the insurrection, searching for aoc at her office. take a look at what is going on here. after finding the office door locked, greene and the group proceeded to defile aoc's guest book and mock the congresswoman and her staff through the door's mail slot. >> you need to stop being a baby and stop locking your door and come out and face the american citizens that you serve. if you want to be a big girl, you need to get rid of your diaper and come out and be able to talk to the american citizens instead of us having to use a flap, a little flap. >> kin of like -- >> flap. >>> per "the washington post" gree

yamiche alcindor, thank you very much for your reporting. >> mike barnicle, man, you've been around theor years. and as a reporter and just in and out of the place. i know you hold it -- you have a special reverence for it yourself. i'm just curious about your thoughts watching liz cheney last night on the floor. and again, for people watching, again, let me be very open and clear about this, i think republicans are really pushing themselves further into a corner. so, as we speak about this, mike, it's not like, oh, geez, they'll get a big advantage out of this. like mitt romney said this isn't going to pick up a single vote for them, probably going to lose more votes in suburbs. more votes with women. more votes with actually true conservatives like me who actually believe like in american conservatism. so given all of that, just what were your thoughts on that sad spectacle we saw last night as men that rushed out of the chamber as liz cheney went in to tell the truth? >> you know, joe, i had a bundle of thoughts last night and certainly this morning and even up to and including right

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politico sam stein and white house correspondent for pbs news hour and msnbc contributor, yamiche alcindornamed the new moderator of pbs public affairs show "washington week." congratulations. >> that is great news. congratulations. >> thank you. >> so, really quickly, jonathan lemire, great, great night for the red sox last night, of course. the yankees have been playing with us all along a cat and mouse game. they're on a 43-game win streak. they're going to overtake us by the middle of may. probably end up 15, 20 games behind them. but you know that. but the bigger news, of course, is that back huskies lost, i'm not one to call out 9-year-olds, your son pitched against the guy lord perry of 9-year-olds. the ball was doctored, willie. foreign substances all over it. it was an ugly, ugly mess. >> the kid, i don't want to, you know, cast aspersions, but there was a 9-year-old who was throwing curveballs and kept going to the tip of his cap for some reason to put something, i don't know if it was pine tar or vaseline, it's unclear. yes, the mighty huskies did lose last night. but they're ba