i'm jeff bennett.nator called political armageddon. the senate is expected to hold a key test vote on its voting rights bill, a critical piece of the democratic agenda. supporters argue this legislation is an existential necessity for the american voter and the democratic

i am jeff bennett. as we come on the air shock waves are coming through washington with a most

it was one of the first results of racist violence here's nbc's jeff bennett. >> president joe biden leading the nation in a remembrance and reckoning marking the 100th anniversary. >> mr. biden becoming the first president to commemorate tulsa. >> this was not a riot, this was a massacre and for too long forgotten by our history. >> reporter: the president announcing new measures aimed a dinners in mom and pop shops that could have been passed down sho shockingly, the percentage of black american homeownership is lower today in america than when the fair housing act was passed more than 50 years ago lower today. that's wrong and we're committed to change that go. >> reporter: in the early 1900s tulsa's african-american district of greenwood was sufficient and self-sufficient until 1921 when a white mob descended on greenwood, shooting and killing hundreds of black residents and burning thousands of homes and businesses. the massacre ended 48 hours later. at 107 years old, she testified before congress last month about the horror she experienced a century ago. >> i still smell smoke

here's nbc's jeff bennett. >> this morning there's a new federal holiday, juneteenth.sident biden calling it one of the greatest honors of his presidency after signing the bill thursday. >> this is a day of profound, in my view, profound weight and profound power, a day in which we remember moral stain juneteenth celebrates the end of slavery in the united states and commemorates june 19th, 1865, when union general gordon granger arrived in gavelston, texas, and informed enslaved african-americans that the civil war had ended and that they were free. >> we must learn from our history, and we must teach our children our history. >> reporter: this week congress passed legislation making juneteenth the first new federal holiday since dr. martin luther king jr. day was created in 1983 with unusual speed for the federal government. it goes into effect right away, today. some public schools quickly announced closures and most federal workers got friday off with some states still working to adjust. the movement to make juneteenth a federal holiday grew stronger after the year

nbc's jeff bennett reports. >> reporter: this morning president biden proclaiming a day of remembrance marking the centennial of the tulsa race massacre. his visit to tulsa caps a long weekend full of events, speakers and vigils. ♪♪ ♪ hallelujah ♪ >> reporter: all of it commemorating 100 years since one of the darkest moments in american history. >> that was one of the worst sights that i can ever remember. >> it stays on my mind, it's been on my mind all of these years. >> but it was covered up, and we didn't talk about it. >> reporter: in the early 1900s tulsa's african-american dysentery of greenwood was known as black wall street with its own luxury shops, restaurants and movie theaters until a white mob descend on greenwood and shot at black people indiscriminately. when the massacre ended 48 hours later on junest, 1921, according to witness account, hundreds of survivors were rounded up at gunpoint and forced to march to camps where they were held for weeks. survivors recounted seeing bodies dumped into the arkansas river and into mass graves. >> those ancestors are still crying

i am jeff bennett. as we come on the air, it's touchdown geneva. president biden has a meeting with vladimir putin less than 24 hours away. this afternoon nbc news is learning new details about the intense preparation behind the scenes and what president biden plans to raise. here's how it all set to go down. the two leaders will meet over several hours at a swiss video overlooking lake geneva, and there will be two sessions, including one meeting with four people, biden, putin, russian foreign minister and the secretary. biden intends to confront putin on human rights abuses and election interference, and nothing is being left to chance, we're told. after all, president biden is walk into a meeting with a former colonel of the kgb, and when asked if ready for the meeting with putin, biden was succinct. days before departing for europe the president was briefed at the white house by a who's who of russia experts. the group also included former ambassador to russia, michael mcfaul, and arms control expert rose gutmiller that will join me live in a m

i am jeff bennett. as we come on the air shock waves are coming through washington with a most detailed look yet of the attack on the capitol. a new report reveals capitol intelligence trump supporters were discussing ways to get through the tunnel under the capitol, and that intelligence never made it to capitol police officers, who soon would be surrounded like sitting ducks pleading for help that took hours to arrive. listen to what one officer speaking in his own capacity told my colleague, kasie hunt, this morning. >> the crowd, they wouldn't listen to anything the police were saying at all. they continued to say we are here because trump sent us here, and we won't listen to nobody else but him. >> that was sergeant benell. he said they used whatever they could get their hands on to beat officers. today is the second day back on the job after he suffered injuries that required surgery. much of the fallout today is not from the report reveals but rather what it does not. it recovers what and how of

i'm jeff bennett coming to you live from tulsa, oklahoma. just a short time from now joe biden will be the first president to lead our nation in reckoning of what happened 100 years ago today right here where we are sitting. the tulsa race massacre had been largely and intentionally erased from the history books until recently, but not by those who survived the two days of unspeakable atrocities and lived to tell the world about the horror. >> that was one of the worst sights that i can ever remember. >> stays on my mind. has been on my mind all of these years. >> it was covered up and we didn't talk about it. >> in the early 1900s, greenwood was known as the black wall street until the evening of may 31st, 1921, when a white mob descended on greenwood shooting black people indiscriminately and burning thousands of homes and businesses along with churches and schools, and when the massacre ended 48 hours later, hundreds of survivors were rounded up at gunpoint and forced to march to camps where they were held for weeks. survivors recounted s

for more on this we want to bring in msnbc news correspondent jeff bennett. here coming out of the white house just because of the history of juneteenth and the significance that it has now taken in this country. i want you to talk to us about this and what this moment means. it looks like the vice president has already taken to the podium and let me interrupt you, jeff and listen to her. apologies. >> liberation day. emancipation day and today a national holiday. [ applause ] >> and looking out across this room, i see the advocates, the activists, the leaders who have been calling for this day for so long including the one and only miss opal lee. [ applause ] [ laughter ] >> we just received a very special recognition from the president of the united states. [ laughter ] >> and i see members of congress, members of the congressional black caucus, members of the united states senate who passed this bill unanimously, and all -- [ applause ] and all of whom collectively were responsible for delivering this bill to the president's desk, and i thank you all. we t

i'm jeff bennett.we come on the air this hour, congress is just hours away from what a senator called political armageddon. the senate is expected to hold a key test vote on its voting rights bill, a critical piece of the democratic agenda. supporters argue this legislation is an existential necessity for the american voter and the democratic party. as republicans in red states actively work to make it more difficult to cast a ballot. here's the kicker. it's all but a foregone conclusion that this vote will fail. it's going to be doomed by an easy republican filibuster, because it appears democrats don't have the numbers or the unity right now to stop them. with the hours ticking down to today's vote, all eyes on west virginia's joe manchin, who has repeatedly said he does not support the bill as it stands, and arizona's kyrsten sinema. >> you spoke to president biden about this bill yesterday. what was his message to you about it? >> he and i had a very good conversation. >> did you ask you to vote fo

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jeff bennett at the white house and victoria soto. democrats say this thing isn't over, but it sure seems like it is. what can they do next? >> options here, plan a for progressive supporters of this bill was to unify the senate democrats behind it, and get that 50/50 vote and then hope that enough democrats support nuking the filibuster, the 60-vote threshold to push it through. that has not happened. there are several holdouts who are not budging, including kyrsten sinema, a co-sponsor of the bill. plan b was to win ten votes in the senate. that isn't happening. you heard mitch mcconnell, the senate republican leader, say that the federal government simply does not need to weigh in on this at all. they're happy to let the states handle it. they don't believe there are restrictive voting laws in places like georgia and texas, they're fine with them. what can democrats do at this point if they have 50 votes, if there's a filibuster in place and ten republicans are not willing to do a major voting rights bill, they don't have good opti

i'm jeff bennett coming to you live from tulsa, oklahoma.oning of what happened 100 years ago today right here where we are sitting. the tulsa race massacre had been largely and intentionally erased from the history books until recently, but not by those who survived the two days of unspeakable atrocities and lived to tell the world about the horror. >> that was one of the worst sights that i can ever remember. >> stays on my mind. has been on my mind all of these years. >> it was covered up and we didn't talk about it. >> in the early 1900s, greenwood was known as the black wall street until the evening of may

i want to bring in nbc national political reporter, and white house correspondent jake bennett, jay sherman. jeffthe president doing linking the two bills together? >> reporter: yeah. it may have been inconvenient truth telling in the east room friday, stephanie. everyone here in washington and involved in deals know that democrats are planning to push the second bill focused on what the white house calls human infrastructure, social spending at the same time. it is when the president linked the two, suggested he would veto the bipartisan bill if he didn't get the democrat only bill that called some concerns and consternation for centrist republicans because they're withstanding a force field of pressure from conservatives and from activists who would like to deny the biden administration a win on this. what president biden did in suggesting this both or nothing approach is that he denied them political cover that they need. after 48 hours of phone calls, back and forth between the white house and the hill on this, on saturday, the white house put out a statement where president biden said it was

jeff bezos has sold that auction for $28000000.00. the 1st crude flight by the amazon, the founders aerospace company, blue origin, was blast off next month. charlotte bennett report. when he 9 know, well, you know what they say they say going once, this is tourism for the rich bidding to join. amazon found jeff bezos in a 10 minute trip to specs. thank you, and that is sold $20000000.00. number one. 02. 1. this is the rocket. you ship it launching for his flight. in april basal space company blue origin, it will carry its 1st humans into space aboard new ship it on july 20th. and we have got new stafford go inside the capture. we bagels, his brother, the yet to be named auction winner and a 4th anonymous person. let's get into what the flight itself is going to be like. it's about 10 times higher in altitude than your normal commercial jet flight over the carmen line. that's when we're going to let our passengers on buckle get to experience about 3 minutes of weightlessness. the freedoms of 0. g worth almost $200000000000.00 space. also the world's richest man, he found that e commerce joined amazon and $994.00. but in this month his last day ceo will be o

jeff, lauren, great to see you this morning. thanks. >>> developing overnight in israel, naftali bennett is calling for a calm and orderly transition of power in a face of increasingly hostile and inciting critical rhetoric. netanyahu is spouting claims of election fraud, echoing president trump, and they're warning that things have turned violent and could become lethal. cnn has reporters in israel and around the world covering this. let's begin with hadas gold. it's so interesting following violence against u.s. lawmakers to hear benjamin netanyahu that say things that sound so incredibly similar, hadas. >> reporter: yeah, john. there are members of this parliament, especially of this new coalition who have received such level of threats there's a fear here this parliament could experience mob-level violence similar to what the u.s. capitol experienced on january 6th. the head of the israeli internal security service said in this period we have identified an intensifying and severe increase in violence. it is our duty to come out with a clear and definitive call to stop the discourse and violence. the responsibilities rests on al

jeff states. want to take you back to our top story and more on. well, israel's king maker and potential prime minister 49 year old natalie bennett, who was the son of jewish immigrants in the u. s. and was a tech startup millionaire. he began his political career in 2006 and for a few years was a senior to benjamin netanyahu, who was in opposition then. a 2020 became the leader of the yes council, which is the main settler movement in the occupied west bank. but it's also served as minister of defense, education and economy. in netanyahu's coalition governance, he is known for a hotline anti palestinian stumps you've against the creation of a palestinian state. in fact, he says there never was such a thing and supports the annexation of the land, which is illegal under international law. bennett also supports a military solution to the conflict and once in quite i have killed a lot of arabs in my life and has no problem. with that, bennett appeared on al jazeera, on may the 12th 3 days into the light, his conflict within his earl and her mouth. all night day, i questioned him on the root causes of it all, namely, these ready occupation. this was hi

from jeff she added that it would be better if dispropro-portionate wealth were not concentrated in a small number of hands. israel launched air strikeses on gaza. violence comes two days after bennettk office ending netanyahu's 12 years in power. a conflict last month killed 243 people in gaza and 12 in israel. global news 24 hours a day on air and on bloomberg quick take powered my bimore than 2300 journalists and analysts. this is boob. annmarie: thanks so much. recap your fist word news. the meeting is not the only thing to come out of president biden's trip to europe. another big thing is the u.s. getting the e.u. onboard when it comes to issues and tackling china. take a listen. >> i think that with respect to china, we will continue to do business with them. and that is in our interest. we have a tremendous amount -- to china. that is important for american businesses and american jobs. we need to agree to where we can find agreement and do business in all possible ways with china. however, we also have to protect americans and american workers, the american national security. i think the best thing we can do in that regard is invest in america. you know, the best thing we ca