we have jonathan capehart back with us now. nathan, i am tempted again, my older brother is a baptist minister so i'm always tempted to just sit and listen to the gospel music. but before the service starts, i do want to ask you about these protests that we've seen. where you are, in washington, d.c., where i spent some time last week, in minneapolis, and literally every state in this country over the past 15 days, protests that we should note once again have been largely peaceful, jonathan, one of the things, and i thought when i was in d.c., just d.c., because of the demographics of our nation's capital, and then i get to minneapolis and the same was true, you and i have had a number of conversations after someone who looks like us dies in the hands of police custody and there are marches and rallies after, but here are the marches and rallies, and by and large, the folks at the marches and rallies also look like us. not so this time. i've been struck by the number of white people in america who are fed up, who are angry, who

jonathan capehart, first to you.act of this, this ruling is, is so broad and really does change the landscape of american civil rights and comes from the trump court it comes from, you know, justice gorsuch, of course, justice roberts, who was not appointed by president trump. >> right. it is a mind-blowing decision, and i think pete said it well. i can't remember which hour i saw pete say it. maybe top of your hour, andrea, where he noted how before, this ruling is probably, is more important than the marriage equality ruling that came down five years ago this month. then people like me were able to legally get married, same-sex couples legally able to get married thanks to the supreme court decision. but this, pete pointed out, everyone needs a job. everybody needs a job. so even if you are lgbtq and don't want to get married, you still need a job. what this supreme court ruling does is, it says that you cannot be fired because of your sexual orientation or your gender identity. and it must really stick, or it migh

nicole hannah jones, jonathan capehart, a big thanks to you. and professor wiley.olle wallace will pick things up after a short break. >>> george floyd is being laid to rest at this hour following a moving funeral service in his hometown of houston. one that honored his memory and his legacy, a revolution in his name. we are joined by eddie glaude. your thoughts about what you just saw. >> nicolle, i think we just saw the latest in a long line of public rituals of grieving. we have seen these funerals before. three things came to mind as i watched the service. grief, faith and hope. we have to deal with the fact that this family has to put george floyd in the grave. and i kept thinking of 1 corinthians 15. death, where is thy sting? grave, where is thy victory? that we have to deal with the fact that they are confronting intimate loss. we can make george floyd a symbol, but he was their brother. he wise their uncle, their cousin, their family. and we have to deal with that fact. so i saw grief. and i also saw faith that the way in which you grapple with the grave,

and boston, and jonathan capehart, pulitzer prize winning opinion writer for "the washington post." garrett haake, you had tim scott and the republicans not only announcing their bill but senate majority leader mitch mcconnell saying they'll do it next week, rapid time for them, as well as the big differences between the house bill advancing through the house judiciary committee and the senate bill. >> yes, the senate majority leader said they would move on their bill next week. meanwhile the house bill is proceeding in parallel in the house. it's being marked up today and could see the floor next week. now that both bills have been out for a little while, we're starting to see the compare and contrast here. democrats say the scott bill does not go far enough, it is not transformative enough, it does not rise to the occasion. it doesn't outright ban things like chokeholds. it doesn't ban things like no-knock warrants. it doesn't include anything on qualified immmunity. the question now that democrats will have to answer first here is, do they want to allow this to proceed in the sen

also with us pulitzer prize winning writer for "the washington post" and msnbc contributor, jonathan capehartn lemire is with us as well. mayor, thank you for joining us. let me ask, how did last night in terms of the protests? is violence down, policing issues, are they calming down in your city? where does washington, d.c., stand? >> let me be clear about this, joe. we have had peaceful protests in washington, d.c., all week. last weekend we saw a small group of people disrupt peaceful protests, and our police department, the metropolitan police department, will deal with those issues and investigate those issues fully. saturday what he with saw were our largest crowds, peaceful crowds, who were coming from all points of washington, d.c., converging on black lives matter plaza. to redress their grievances and demand of a more just system. >> how are washington police handling this? have they for the most part been respectful of the protesters? do you have any specific concerns or any serious concerns systemically? >> our police, joe, work with first amendment demonstrations for their entire

i'm jonathan capehart, opinion writer for "the washington post." with me is our special guest, house majority w.h.i.p. james clyburn of south carolina. he served in congress almost 30 years and is a senior member and former chairman of the congressional black caucus. he's also the chairman of the house select committee on the coronavirus crisis. a revered leader in south carolina politics, clyburn has long fought for civil rights. even being elected president of his naacp youth chapter at the age of 12. he was literally married to the civil rights movement, because it was in jail where he met his beloved and late wife emily. you guys were married how long, congressman? >> 58 years. >> 58 years, and i had the pleasure of meeting her several times. and she definitely was the power behind the man. >> oh, absolutely. she loved you so much. she talked about you all the time. >> oh, thank you. thanks again for being here. we've got a lot of news to get to, obviously. there's a lot going on. and i want to get your reaction that it was attorney general bil

jonathan capehart took those pictures. jonathan joins us along side jamil smith, a senior writer for rolling stone. good to see you today. jonathan, let me start with you and poll. how do you square the polling about the nation feeling out of control with the protests we see across the country? are they two different matters or different facets of the same thing in. >> i think they're different facets of the same thing. people are protesting because they view -- they watched george floyd lose his life at the hands of police with the knee of a police officer in his neck, on his neck for eight hours, i'm sorry, eight minutes and 46 seconds. the 80% number is shocking to me only it is that high. i think it's also because just think of what we saw this -- in the last seven days. i think the most shocking things we have seen was the clearing out of lafayette square. the clearing out of lafayette by political tear police, park police, pushing peaceful demonstrators away from lafayette square park just a block away from the house

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i'm joined now by "washington post" opinion writer jonathan capehart, maya wily, university professornew school, also with me nicolle hannah jones, staff writer for "the new york times magazine" who focuses on racial injustice. a big thanks to all of you for joining me this morning. i'll start with you, nicole, the significance of this moment we find ourselves in right now. another family mourning their loved one. but unlike a lot of other men and women who died under similar circumstances in this country, this particular death at this particular moment has triggered something we have not seen in this country before. >> yeah,

jonathan capehart, always good to have you, as well. good to have you all. >>> we also want to talk about the huge protests we're seeing now in georgia. the protests come on the heels of the shooting death of rayshard brooks in atlanta. nbc news does not know what happened before the videos we're about to show you started. we want to warn you, once again, that these images, this particular video, may be dist b disturbing. officers responded to a call that brooks, who was asleep in his car, according to officials, was blocking a wendy's drive-through. this video, provided by the atlanta police department, shows a mostly calm, initial interaction between brooks and two officers. they say that brooks failed a sobriety test. about 43 minutes into the video, we see a struggle. as officers try to arrest him. this eyewitness video here, it shows an apparent struggle. investigators say brooks then took one of the officer's tasers. this surveillance video -- i'm going to wait here for this particular surveillance -- this surveillance video provi

jonathan capehart, you took that iconic picture, really of muriel bowser with john lewis. let's talk about that as we show it to our viewers. >> reporter: sure. it was, andrea, an honor as always to be in the presence of congressman lewis. but also for, to have him with mayor muriel bowser who really responded to president trump's tweets and taunts. actually ugliness. painting the street in block letters, black lives matter, renaming that portion of the street black lives matter plaza. let's remember that it was -- congressman lewis, was a young man, trench coat and backpack at the foot of the edmund pettus bridge clubbed in the head by law enforcement in alabama fighting for african-americans and their right to vote. then to have him, you know, more than 50 years later, 80 years old, fighting cancer, in the middle of a global pandemic, wanting to see the black lives matter on the street, and to be there with the woman who made it happen tells you that, again, history is cyclical. also shows and is reminding people -- because people applauded when they saw him, andrea. the

phil rucker and jonathan capehart. >>> as protesting in california tuesday also had a more peaceful tone from los angeles to the bay area, calling for state and local leaders to bring change to their communities. california congresswoman has introduced a bill to form the truth in racial healing transformation commission in terms of relationship with police. the congresswoman joins me now. it's very good to see you. thank you so much for joining us today. tell me, what do you hope to accomplish as the black caucus and other members of congress organize to try to do something about the way policing different -- different rules and rules that are followed and not followed, the fact chokeholds are still permitted in places like minnesota. >> sure, andrea, thanks again for having me with you this morning. first, let me see first the tragic murder and the country is grieving over mr. floyd's death, murder. and we're angry. and members of the congressional black caucus, all members, came to congress fighting for justice and for the end of systemic racism. and to make sure this country truly bec

jonathan capehart is also joining us. both are msnbc political analysts and both are rushing onto this program ahead of schedule because of the breaking news we just heard from senator amy klobuchar who just announced on this program that she's called joe biden last night to withdraw from consideration as the possible vice presidential nominee on the biden ticket. zerlina maxwell, your reaction to amy klobuchar now saying the vice presidential nominee should be a woman of color. >> well, i agree with senator amy klobuchar, and i think that she, like so many of us on the left, are looking at the democratic electorate of the future, and we're looking at the where the energy is and where it was lacking in 2016, frankly. and when you are looking at the data, what you see is very, very clear. you need somebody on this ticket who can excite young people of color. particularly women of color. and if you were able to do that, if you were able to message directly to those communities, and i think that a woman of color will be able

jonathan capehart, jeremy peters, great to have both of you with us. that does it for us on "morning joe." we'll be right back here tomorrow morning. for now, stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage. hair hey, steph. >> hi there. i'm stephanie ruhle, it's tuesday, june 16th. here's what's happening. at noon today, president trump will sign an executive order on police reform. it comes just days after rayshard brooks was killed by police in atlanta sparking new protests across that city. the president's order will cover the use of force and police misconduct, but it does not touch the issue of racial bias. anything like that would have to be handled by congress, and that's where it gets a lot more complicated. democrats put out their plan last week. we're expecting a republican plan tomorrow. senate leader mitch mcconnell says he wants a vote on the republican version before the fourth of july. let's go straight to d.c. where shannon pettypiece is at the white house. how did president trump land on these ideas he's going for this executive order? >> a big

joining, pulitzer prize winning writer, jonathan capehart. writing on yesterday's 6-3 supreme court decision. guys, good morning. it's good to see you both. jonathan, i want to start with you. i mentioned some people were surprised. maybe not by the outcome but by the vote, 6-3. i think you were one of them. >> yes, i was very surprised. i'm no lawyer, so there are lots of lawyers who weren't surprised because justice gorsuch is a, quote, textualist, he looks at the case and does the case before him follow the text and that's the way he's going to go. but for those of us who aren't lawyers, this was huge. one, because the decision was 6-3. not 5-4. from a conservative court. also because justice gorsuch was appointed by president trump. nominated and was confirmed by president trump. and so the fact that you have this incredible new expansion of rights for the lgbtq community coming from this conservative court truly is breathtaking. and breathtaking also because it comes five years -- five years after the supreme court made same-sex marriage

jonathan capehart, msnbc political corrector. david jolly, i'll start with you. here's a drudge headline last night. that could not have been pleasing to the trump campaign and probably got brad parscale screamed at. here it is. it says maga-less mega. maga-less mega. it shows the whole empty top part of the arena. there were only 6,000 some odd people there. somebody going to get fired? is this the kind of thing that somebody gets fired over, because this was a complete -- a complete bollix. >> it was. look, joy, this was a disastrous night for the president because it was framed as kind of the launch to his summer campaign going into november. nothing about the event worked. we saw the poor attendance, the sparse crowds. we know how that damages donald trump's ego. but it was also a president who was off his game. he had lost his stride, he was off message. you know, there really was no core message until the very end when he went to the teleprompter for the last five or ten minutes. there was some kind of distressing elements, the notion of delaying covid test

. >> with me now, colonel jacobs and will goodwin, and jonathan capeha capehart. will, we spoke earlier with senator tammy duckworth and said she felt the president missed an opportunity in this speech to talk about racism and the moment we are in. your thoughts? >> he absolutely did. i think, first, we have to start by congratulating these graduates and thanking them for their continued service to our country. but today they were forced to listen to a president who is himself a walking, talking betrayal of everything that they have been taught over the last four years. i mean, west point held those cadets to an honor code that they wouldn't lie, cheat, steal or tolerate those who do and donald trump is a president who died over 18,000 times, who cheated his way through business, who cheated on his pregnant wife with stormy daniels, and who stole billions of dollars from military construction funds from military families to build his racist border wall and tolerated the same behavior from people across his administration. i hope donald trump enjoyed giving that sp

to that point, jonathan capeh t capehart, i want to ask you about the counterpart when you see thingswind taken off or cops being canceled. you automatically hear this pushback of cancel culture and that has people worried that we're on you know, even some of the left are saying we're not tolerant of diverse viewpoints if you're just trying to cancel everything we don't like or agree with. >> i mean i'm, i -- look. if a show or a movie wants to be aired or whatever, well then you know, folks should be prepared. shouldn't be such snow flakes and should be prepared for that movie to be criticized. i mean gone with the wind, yeah, a classic movie. people love it. there's some issues there and from what i understand, it might come back with a, with some programming before with african-american professors talking all about it. these are the nitty-gritty cultural conversations that need to be had and i, i don't -- i can't be bothered with the whole cancel culture argument or conversation because the people who are doing it, the people who are engaging in it in terms of leveling of criticism