tina fordham, avonhurst head of political strategy.are concerned about six cases of clotting connected, they think, to the vaccine from j&j. they are literally just going over the data to try to work out if there is a connection at this point, and that is basically what we know. 6.8 million doses of the j&j vaccine administered in the united states, and six reported cases of rare and severe types of blood clots following the vaccine from j&j leading them to have an investigation. tom: i am going to cut everybody a lot of slack. as i mentioned earlier, and i can't convey this enough, america is different. this is embedded in our academics of medicine and pharmacology. it goes back to after world war ii, we decided to do things differently, and that is still true today. jonathan: equities a little lower off the back of that headline. still down by about 0.2%. cpi coming'out in about five minutes time. 2.54% is your median estimate from the economists we survey at bloomberg, and your price action going into that print looks a little somet

hays brown is with msnbc daily and christina is at fordham university. catch me back here tomorrow morning at 8 a.m. eastern. i'm talking to white house national climate advisor gina mccarthy. don't start heading to brunch because the cross connection starts now. ♪♪ ♪♪ >>> i was talking to one of the relatives and i said, well, why are they -- what are they trying to justify? they said -- one said, well, they saw some air fresheners in the back of his car. where we come today as the air fresheners from minnesota. we trying to get the stench of police brutality out of the atmosphere. >>> good morning, i'm tiffany cross. a busy morning on "the cross connection." antiprotest laws sweeping the country. new guidelines on covid vaccines. we begin with the next steps in the fight for justice. reverend al sharpton delivered such a stirring eulogy thursday at the funeral for daunte wright who was killed at a traffic stop in minnesota. wednesday police shot and killed

it is can -- tina fordham with us. constrained because of our conversation with the vice chairman. we go into this weekend with instabilities in europe, including in eastern ukraine, including here, including their. it is an uneasy time that i would suggest has been underreported. why do we need to focus on the international relations of europe this weekend? tina: there is so much good news, and i have been watching the program this morning. so much genuine basis for the enthusiasm about outperformance, forecasts upgraded, but also an excellent time for opportunists to take advantage of governments staying distracted elsewhere. demobilizing in eastern ukraine is where -- israel. there are so many things happening that would have been front of mine that i would be talking to you -- front of mind that i would be talking to you about regularly that are getting swept under the rug because frankly, we are coming out of this pandemic tunnel. but as you know, with the way i work, i am always monitoring the horizon for things

. >> laura: a professor at fordham university in new york was on msnbc today with a special take on policing. >> it's beyond just a few bad apples or incidents. we have a real systematic widespread clearing out of officers. it has to be a systemic change from washington d.c. to police departments across the country. >> laura: matt, it is the professor's world now, is it not? we're living on a college campus. it's a campus we can't ever graduate from. because the professors seem to be in charge with these policies. >> they are. what we're hearing now, it's so delusional, this idea that there's systemic racism in policing, police are hunting and killing innocent black men. it's entirely delusional. it's not clues to true. you gave the statistics that are important. in a given year, there's 10 million arrests. police affect about ten million arrests. about 1,000 shootings of those arrests. a very small percentage. the vast majority of those, it's a straightforward case. there's a reason why the vast majority you never hear about. the vast majority of police shootings involving black men. why is

christina greer, both doctors, associate professor of political science at fordham university. dr. thing yesterday. you can criticize tim scott all you want, say he's sold out, tim scott was lying or dishonest, but nationally uncle tim was trending on twitter last night. to me it was reminiscent of people referring to condoleezza rice as aunt jemima during the bush administration. from your viewpoint, what do you think about the fact that that was trending last night and do you find it as problematic as i did? >> yeah, i definitely found it problematic. but i think it's also one of those things where on social media the internal conversations that many black people have about tim scott and the republican party have now made their way to the public discourse. i mean, let's be clear. looking at tim scott's response, we know that he's carrying the water not just for the republican party and see two other black colleagues, but he did so under the trump administration. when he talks about growing up in a one-bedroom house, ask yourself, why, because your party doesn't believe in equalit

studies at princeton university, and a christina greer, an associate professor of political science at fordhamthe cases where the people arrested are what they appeared to be when we were watching them do what they did that day. >> right, lawrence. reading this piece by my colleague it reads a little bit like a web story for a lot of folks. this idea of economic anxiety is something that black organizers have been talking about for years where it's just their -- the economic anxiety is so minuscule compared to the white supremacy that we saw in charlottesville and again on display january 6th. when people were marching through charlottesville talking about the jews will not replace us, blacks will not replace us, specifically going under the ideology that the president had sewn those seeds for months and years, so many americans knew exactly what that was. and during the tenure of donald trump, far too many americans refused to recognize it. they told themselves it was everything but white supremacy, everything but racism. even on january 6th. >> we had far too many americans trying to justify

roger besser, former acting director of the cdc and currently ceo of the robert fordham foundation. i have so many questions but i want to start with the white house telling michigan they will not send more vaccines. i want to share what dr. fauci told our colleague mehdi hasan last night. watch this. >> one of the reasons why we're hesitant to make that kind of redistribution is because when you take it away from one state, you never know where you're going to have another surge. so you may inadvertently be essentially facilitating a surge in one place by pulling vaccines away as you try to prevent it or blunt it in another state. >> what do you think? >> well, you know, i think we're seeing a major surge in one state, then we are seeing some states where the supply of vaccine is starting to outstrip the demand, it would make sense to send additional doses to michigan. what they are seeing is really different from the rise that we are seeing in just about any other state around the country. putting additional resources where a hot spot is, is a public health approach that has been

in 2005 she published an article in the fordham law review which she called critical race lawyering. in that article mrs. gupta argued that the rule of law and equal justice for all and equal protection aren't the great bulwarks of our liberty, aren't the signal -- single achievements of our republic and constitutional form of government but instead code words. code words, that's what she called them, for some kind of twisted rac race -- racism. anyone who thinks that the rule of law or equal justice for all or equal protection are simply code words for racism is unfit for any position in our government but especially a position of leadership in the department of justice. the concerns with ms. gupta's nomination are not limited to her extreme views on these and other topics. she has made a career over the last few years on social media attacking the character and integrate of federal judges, judicial nominees, and members of the senate. she accused four different jurists currently on the supreme court, currently on the court of being liars, extremists, dangerous, or opposed to civil

and associate professor of political science at fordham university, christina grier.ion, christina! joe will be back on monday. we're going to get to the news now. lawmakers on capitol hill take a key step forward toward police reform. we have new reporting on that in just a moment. but first, we want to look at this week's verdict in the derek chauvin trial, one of the alternate jurors is recounting the testimony she heard and is weighing in on why she feels she would have voted guilty. she spoke with nbc news correspondent gabe gutierrez who filed this report. >> it's really sad. how did a $20 bill in question end up in somebody's death? it boggles my mind. >> reporter: lisa christiansen was one of the alternate jurors who did not get to deliberate over derek chauvin's fate. were you disappointed when you were dismissed from the jury? >> absolutely, i was. >> reporter: you wanted to vote? you would have voted guilty? >> i would have. what stood out to me, that video, they took a still photo of it, him on mr. floyd's neck with his hand in his pocket. i feel like he w