in just a few minutes, we'll talk to the governor of minnesota and one of minnesota's senators about what leaders can learn from this statement in the last year. and later in the show, i'll talk with civil rights attorney ben crump and take his -- get his take on events of the past year. but we start tonight at the white house and the perfect guest to start with. joining me now is cedric richmond, senior adviser to president bush and director of the white house office of public engagement. let me ask you first, cedric richmond, the white house had to temper its expectations that the president would be able to give his signature to the version of the george floyd act that would have become law this week. the house now going into a three-week break. we understand that the president wants reform to be generated legislatively. but while negotiations drag on, what will the role of the white house be playing, if any to do around police reform, something he has said over and over again that he is committed to? >> thank you, reverend al for having me here today, and thank you for the work th

he is the minnesota state attorney general keith ellison. welcome to washington post life. a.g.on: great to be with you, jonathan. >> before we talk about the trial and the killing of george floyd we have to talk about breaking news that hit just about an hour ago. your office released a statement acknowledging that you are taking on the prosecution of kim potter the former minnesota police officer who shot and killed daunte wright on april 11. why are you taking on that prosecution? a.g. ellison: we have been asked to take on the case and we are willing to do it because we are public servants, and when the public needs service we step up to do the work we are called to do. so we are going to handle the case with seriousness, with all due regard for the precious life of daunte wright, and we are going to seek justice and a fair trial. let me just note kim potter is presumed innocent. >> given that you were the prosecutor and the derek chauvin trial, is that a template for how you will proceed against kim potter? a.g. ellison: no, because every single case is unique. cases are as

minnesota attorney general keith ellison who let the prosecution against former police officer derek chauvin sat down with the washington post to talk about racial justice and police reform. ♪ >> no justice. >> no peace. >> say his name. >> george floyd. ♪ >> i would not call today's verdict justice, however, because justice applies to restoration, but it is accountability, which is the first step towards justice. ♪ >> good afternoon, i am an opinion writer for the washington post. welcome to washington post live and another installment in our series race in america. one year ago this coming tuesday george floyd was killed under the name of former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin. the minnesota governor appointed a special prosecutor who assembled an amazing team that would succeed in convincing a jury one month ago yesterday to find derek chauvin guilty in the murder of george floyd. that special prosecutor joins us today. he is the minnesota state attorney general keith ellison. welcome to washington post life. a.g. ellison: great to be with you, jonathan. >> before we talk

here's something from minnesota. minnesota they called it a mobile strict team.ine sites around the country. this is a pop-up vaccine site. the minnesota health department partnered with a health care system called the central care. what they do is talk to people all over the state of minnesota. particularly rural areas. trying to find little pockets of people who are slow, reluctant, too worried to get the vaccine. and the important thing is that once they find communities of folks like that they go there. they go to that community, whatever site in that community makes the most sense. they bring nurses, syringes, a vaccines. and patients, a willingness to answer any question and talk you through anything you want to talk to about it. if you are looking at just sheer volume, you may end up vaccinating fewer people at a clinic like this then if you bribe people with cash, open up an arena. but when we're running up against peoples multi variant reasons for not wanting to take it there so substitute for talking to people in the community. sensing out the specific

in minnesota. but yet we know what was going on. these were not protests but violent riots. i'm sorry, you can't stand in front of a city on fire and people fighting and say it's a protest, it's a riot and it's not peaceful. kamala harris and unfortunately my own colleague from minneapolis, representative omar shared links to the minnesota freedom fund with their millions of twitter followers, and you know what? it raised a lot of money. in august the minnesota freedom fund reported that it raised $35 million in donations. yes, when the democratic candidate for vice president of the united states says donate to the minnesota freedom fund, people donated. when the congresswoman from minneapolis, minnesota, shared on her twitter to millions of followers and said, point it down, meaning follow suit, donate. guess what? they raised $35 million. and guess what happened from that. as a result of the all the money raised by then-senator kamala harris and then the democrat vice president of the united stat

i know minnesota is great but can't be as nice as it is in mexico, is it?i'm just waiting for them to tell me when we can get going since we are live streaming this. >> your good. >> ready to go? okay. first of all, hi, everybody. it's good to look over here and not you guys but we've got six governors from the democrats andrew hogans they are meeting. governor mills of maine, ohio, governor from utah, governor of minnesota governor of massachusetts and governor of mexico. it's great to connect with you all. last week i provided an update on where we work with our vaccination program and what comes next. i said our goal by july 4 is 70% of adult americans of at least one shot and 160 million americans fully vaccinated. that's a huge role, i acknowledge that but you have done a remarkable job. if we succeed, we can take a serious step toward return to normalcy by independence day, which is a call not arbitrarily but talking to the doctors if we did what we had to do, we could meet if there's a lot of work to do to get there but i believe we can get there. pa

here's something from minnesota.all this a mobile team, this is a pop-up vaccine site. the minnesota health department partnered with centricare. they talk to people all over the state of minnesota, particularly in rural areas, to try to find little pockets of people who are slow or reluctant or too worried to get the vaccine. and the important thing is that once they find communities with folks like that, they go there. they go to that community, to whatever site in that community makes the most sense. and they bring nurses and syringes and vaccine and patience and a willingness to answer any question and talk you through anything you want to talk through about it. and, you know, if you're looking at just sheer volume, you may end up vaccinating fewer people at a clinic like this than if you bribe people with cash or open up an arena. but when we're running up against people's multivariant reasons for not wanting to take this, there's no substitute for to go people in the community, sussing out specific reasons peop

this from minnesota. he says yes. that has been proven because he has lied many times on the media will not check it. elizabeth in somers, new york. good morning. caller: good morning. a definite yes, president trump should be reinstated. i think the power of big tech is crazy. it is hard to even take in. if you look on the social media sites, people who truly speak hate speech are permitted to be on them that they never wanted him to be elected, ok. they wanted him totally gone, erased. that is the real reason and they are using the january 6th event as an excuse. host: messed up as helen in kentucky. go ahead -- next up is helen in kentucky. caller: my answer is no, the former president should not be reinstated because his words carry a lot of weight and he has the ability to influence and billions of people -- millions of people and when he was on facebook, he called people names . i do not think that it a good role model or example when this country is already fractioned the waiters. host: mark zuckerberg, the fou

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but he is not just a globalist yale ye he grew up in minneapolis, minnesota.ore on why that matters in a moment. you see, this refugee increase like everything else biden and company have done, was a craven cave to the anti-american open borders left. their base freaked out two weeks ago when in light of the border crisis that they wouldn't admit the white house initially planned to keep the refugee number set by the trump administration. orange man good? on the heels of the rise of isis and the rise of borderless europe remember that president trump put a ban on countries and cut refugee admission. seemed sensible to me, right? america first. but those days are gone. so 2020. common sense, once again crushed by shear ideology. as we know the white house has gone full on globalist, not just on borders and refugees but even on, get this, taxes. the white house also just announced they are seeking a global minimum tax to pay for their endless domestic spending this. as council of economic chair and harvard university lifer cecilia rouse defending the tax. >> int

governor waleds of -- walz of minnesota. another critical issue is increasing confidence among people who are hesitant to get the vaccine. governor cox, i know you're bringing community leaders in to build confidence. tell me about your efforts and how it is functioning. what are you seeing from those efforts? governor cox: thank you, mr. president. it's great to be with you. we appreciate jeff taking all of our complaints over the past few months. he's been remarkable at helping us resolving all of those. president biden: by the way, he doesn't own any pharmacist. i just want you guys to know. [laughter] dwoncher -- governor cox: we're very well aware. thank you for allowing us to highlight some of the things we're doing that are working well. by the way, just an aside to -- i see reporting that focuses on what percentage of the total population has been vaccinated. that's great for places like maine with the oldest population in the country. for places like utah with the youngest population in the country, a large signific

because they i were from minnesota. but this comes down tojudicial were from minnesota.d? xtet. grounds for appeal in your mind on what he decided?— what he decided? yet, it is called abuse of discretion. _ what he decided? yet, it is called abuse of discretion. so _ what he decided? yet, it is called abuse of discretion. so when i what he decided? yet, it is called abuse of discretion. so when the | abuse of discretion. so when the court of appeals is looking at all thejudges decisions, it is not whether he just thejudges decisions, it is not whether hejust got thejudges decisions, it is not whether he just got it right, it is do they completely disagree, can reasonable people disagree? so he has wide latitude. as to his decision not to move the trial someplace else, it would have had to have been in minnesota and as he set a number of times in denying the defence motion, there isjust no place in minnesota that you could move the trial where you would find people who hadn't seen the video, who did not know about the trial. there were some things that came up during the

in mind how outraged and shocked e leaders were off to the force lending of the ryan air plane in minnesota. so they wanted to punish the government. they wanted to make clear that the european union is not going to pillow rate such incidents in the future. and they are hoping that by imposing targeted economic sanctions that those sanctions will, will buy it eventually. however, we also have to say that sanctions imposed so far didn't have any effect on location on his regime. he didn't change his behavior. but at the same time we have to keep it. we have to keep in mind that the european union is walking a tightrope here. they want to punish the government, but they don't want to punish the people of the president. alexander, look a shame because he has the support off moscow. alec, for anything change in bell. ruth, so long as that is as long as he has that support. well, that's the key question here, and many experts are saying that nothing is gonna change as long as russia is supporting alexander lucas. shank, russia isn't political l. i, russia, it's subsidizing the economy. and that'

. ♪ announcer: next minnesota attorney general keith ellison on race relations and police reform.th of george floyd and conviction of former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin. prior to this event the attorney general announced his office will lead the prosecution against another minnesota police officer, kimberly parker -- potter, charged in the shooting death of daunte wright. this is half an hour. ♪ >> no justice. >> no peace. >> say his name. >> george floyd. ♪ >> i would not call today's verdict justice, however, because justice applies to restoration, but it is

thomas in minnesota.he myanmar military overthrew the government and staged a coup eight weeks ago, activists say security forces have killed more than 800 people. now, an open source investigation released today from a human rights organization and the associated press reveals how the myanmar military has sought to use those killings to terrorize the country. nick schifrin reports. nick: thanks to brave local journalists and activists, the world has witnessed the horror of the crackdown in myanmar. much of it is so violent, we can't show it to you without blurring the video. activists shot, their bodies taken away. soldiers beating demonstrators. security forces killing demonstrators, and then dragging their bodies through the street. and now the human rights center investigative lab at berkeley and the ap found the myanmar military used dead bodies, corpses, who were killed indiscriminately, as a tool of war to try and control an entire population. alexa koenig is the center's executive director. she is

special correspondent fred de sam lazaro has the story of one such example, from minnesota's capital, it's pt of our "race matters" series. >> reporter: for most drivers, this is just i 94, the freeway in and out of downtown st paul. but for 73-year-old bill finney, a former st paul police chief, this is more hallowed ground >> we are now parked on the spot where my house was. >> reporter: the finney home in this spot was taken away by the freeway, six decades ago, one of 700 families displaced from st paul's once-thriving and tightly knit black neighborhood. so this is like going down memory lane for you? >> oh god yes! >> reporter: those families are memorialized at a plaza commemorating the rondo community's evisceration dismantling by i-94, shaded yellow on the map. >> so that disrupted whole lot of people i see present in these pictures, you know, and in some cases, some of the folks even moved out of state. >> reporter: and community was never quite the same? >> never, no, no, >> reporter: it was one of thousands of communities where land was taken by eminent domain to build the

cloud, minnesota is over.ore the fbi stormed the building and arrested the suspect. four other hostages had already been released. >>> today's weather, rain and snow in the pacific northwest. thunderstorms in texas. showers for the midatlantic. heavier rain near the eastern great lakes into new england. >>> and finally on this friday, a very special story all about kenneth. today is his final day anchoring here on "america this morning" and "world news now." will ganss has some highlights from kenneth's time here on the set. >> f now,w on earlier than this one to "america this morning." >> good welcome to kenneth moton. great to have you. >> so great to be here. "world news now." >> it is a tradition. are you still clapping yourself? >> i always do. >> are you allowed to slow clap yourself? >> yes, you are. ♪ >> just like that. >> no, no. >> can you stop making so much noise? >> i will. >> this country boy will now get into it. >> whoa, whoa! you have done that before. >> that sounds awful. i don't do ranch. i

i'm a professor of mechanical engineering at the university of minnesota.y lab group has recently become the testing of control technology to remove pollutant particles specifically, including infectious particles with viable viruses in them, from the air that we breathe. and we were able to do a test where we aerosolized high concentration solution of porcine corona virus into very small droplets. when we did that particular set of tests on the oxypure, we got an overall removal efficiency of 98%. it's because it uses multiple control technologies in it. first, the air flow passes through an electrostatic precipitator. this is the device which is designed to first ionize particles, so that they'll move in an electric field. and then there is a high efficiency particulate air filter integrated with an activated carbon filter. for particle removal, the more important part is the high efficiency particulate air filter which to have that rating, must be able to remove 99.97% of particles at 300 nanometers. those two technologies together will be extremely effi

demings: we thank the gentleman from minnesota for that tribute. and it is now my honor to present the gentleman from ohio, mr. ryan. mr. ryan: i thank the gentlelady from florida. mr. speaker, this week, may 9 to may 15 is national police week. and i stand today to join with my colleagues in caring forth the tradition that started 59 years ago. in 1962, president kennedy proclaimed and congress ratified may 15 as national peace officers memorial day. and the week in which that date falls as national police week. during this time, we pause to recognize those law enforcement officers who have lost their lives in the line of duty. for the safety and protection of others. those of us here in congress know well the bravery and dedication of law enforcement officers for we saw it firsthand on january 6 when they protected the citadel of democracy and the public servants who are discharging their duty. some of those brave souls paid with their life such as officer brian sicknick. we also lost howard liebengood and officer smith who died by suicide in the

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he quit. >> what an incredible failure of leadership in minneapolis, minnesota.o abolish the police and reimagine public safety. whenever that was supposed to mean. they saw this violence slowly building and exploding and with the budget cut, with law enforcement leaving, there was this panic. people said, we actually don't want the police. we talk about safety and protection, we need those who protect and serve. they were scrambling to bring in officers back into minneapolis to augment the police presence there. now they're trying to refund the police. i hope voters remember who the politicians were made these decisions, we decide to pander and make awful calls in the name of something that may have originated from something important, but they went down the wrong path and put people in danger. >> harris: they will remember that there democrats. i will give you a quick last word. >> miranda: that video we've been looking at is so perfect to show the disconnect between the media narrative and the reality of what's going on in minnesota. reporters talking about po

joining me senator tina smith, democrat from minnesota.or, one of the questions we just keep circling back to is whether it is time for democrats to put aside this idea of bipartisanship and accept they're going to have to go it alone, especially when you have mitch mcconnell admitting openly that all of his effort is on opposing biden? take a listen. >> 100% of my focus is on standing up to this administration. 100% of my focus is on stopping this new administration. and that's 100% of my focus. >> i don't know if you caught it there, senator, but that's 100% of his focus. where does that then leave legislators in your party? >> hi, alicia. it's great to be on with you tonight. you know, mitch mcconnell is saying what he really thinks. he is the great obstructer. i have to tell you, you know, i was thinking about this today just minutes after the united states senate voted not to convict the former president of the united states, mitch mcconnell cried a river about what a bad actor he thought donald trump was. yet here he is just a few mo

we all know that. >> reporter: now minnesota governor tim wallace has signed a proclamation declaring a moment of at 1:00 p.m. for 9 minutes and 29 seconds for george floyd. >>> new fallout after the leader of belarus known as europe's last dictator forced a passenger plane to land so he could arrest a reporter who was critical of the government. the european union has already agreed to impose sanctions on belarus. the white house called the hijacking a, quote, shocking act. the journalist who was arrested has been seen on video offering what was likely a forced confession for organizing protests in the country. his anfl fr lithuania was brought down sunday after officials in belarus reported a false bomb threat. >> this is unprecedented to have a commercial airliner brought down to have a journalist arrested using this incredible ruse even in an authoritarian country so the eu has agreed on new sanctions against belarus including a ban on the use of eu airspace and airports, and i don't think too many people will be flying over belarus itself. >> our martha raddatz there. witnesses s

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we have a report for minnesota. it is part of our continuing series race matters.ondent: she remembers the first time she came to the small popular in the symbolic community. -- somali community. i was buying something from her and she said if you were q would be more beautiful. just casually. correspondent: being told she would be more beautiful if she were lighter is nothing new. prejudice against dark skin is pervasiv even where people are dark skinned. >> my mother said i am darker -- ck to slavery and class in case. people with letter complexions are less likely to be arrested if convicted serves shorter sentences. like this is the global beauty standard. it is reinforced in marketing bike asking lighting products. hundreds of breads and very well know once -- margaret has studied corners and globally. >> in some countries the names are over. white and beautiful, whit dream. >> introducing ole wendy body wash. >> in other countries we use coded language but they are selling the same values. correspondent: skin creams have long been marketed to black americans

we're going to follow minnesota law. our goal is to make sure we keep people safe.road map here that's going to ensure that. but at the same time, make sure that we're preventing the kind of deaths we've seen in the case of daunte -- and in the case of george floyd, we believe that the senate measures we have actually achieve that. >> all right. mayor michael elliott, thank you so much, of brooklyn center. thank you for being with us. >>> president biden briefly mentioned the intense fighting between israel and hamas as he visited michigan last hour and now the house speaker is adding her voice to calls for a cease-fire. is past year has fele a long, long norwegian winter. but eventually, with spring comes rebirth. everything begins anew. and many of us realize a fundamental human need to connect with other like-minded people. welcome back to the world. viking. exploring the world in comfort... once again. (computer beeps) (shaq) magenta? i hate cartridges. not magenta, not magenta. i'm not going back to the store. magenta! cartridges are so... (buzzer) (vo) the eps

well eric holder who is chauvinist lawyer has filed this with the minnesota district court he contends in this 4 page appeal to the court that there were multiple problems with the verdict in this particular case now among them is the fact that the judge in the case peter cahill declined to move the venue despite the attorney the publicist ted got in that particular area within minnesota itself but he also makes very serious charges about jury misconduct now this appears to be connected to the fact that one of the jurors in the case has now reportedly to have attended a rally in washington d.c. back in august a george floyd. rally now this according to many legal experts is a critical issue the fact that a sitting juror did attend police protest and did not declare so on his jury form when he sat in this particular case so here we've got an issue with the attorney for derek chauvelin. multiple series of misconduct in terms of the trial this is while the judge is sitting contemplating sentences the sentencings due to come in a few weeks time on the 3 charges of which was convicted but n

see, it was a former hennepin county chief public defender in minneapolis, minnesota. she currently teaches at the university of minnesota law school speaking to us via scott. many thanks for speaking to sarah. is there any merit to any of the ground cited in this appeal? as was said, almost all of the grounds have already been raised throughout the trial some multiple times. and so there really isn't a lot new there. one thing that is new is they are alleging germ misconduct and that is very vague. in fact, the, the defense asked the judge for more time to develop the points that they've made here because some of them are so vague, they're hard to know what they're specifically referring to. but one of the reasons they're bringing up term is conduct is because one of the jurors has been getting interviews publicly and had talked about going, or he actually hadn't talked about. it did participate in march in washington dc in august. and when he was asked on the questionnaire or whether he had participated specifically in any protests over police brutality, he said no.

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the gentlewoman from minnesota is recognized. the gentlewoman from minnesota reserves.gentlewoman from pennsylvania is recognized. ms. scanlon: madam speaker, i yield one minute to the gentleman from nevada, mr. horsford. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from nevada is recognized for one minute. mr. horsford: thank you, mike:. i rise in support of house res. -- madam speaker. i rise in support of houses remain 188. 100 years ago the city of tulsa, oklahoma, was home to the greenwood district. a thriving, prosperous community where black families could pursue the american dream. on may 31, 1921, this vibrant community was attacked and destroyed by white supremacists in one of the worst acts of racial violence in american history. but today greenwood is rising again. h.r. 398 commemorates the victims of the tulsa race massacre and mourns the loss of black wall street to hatred and bigotry. it celebrates the strength and perseverance of black americans and it calls on all americans to work towards a more perfect union, one that will finally fulfill our nation's promi

this program was part of a tribute to the former vice president, hosted by the university of minnesota's humphrey school of public affairs. moderating the conversation is richard moe. mr. mondale's former chief of staff. >> i'm humbled tonight by president carter's sprens with us, despite his personal health challenges. i was honored to be his vice president and to be with him at the center of most of his central decisions. we succeeded over our years together where many other presidential/vice presidential teams have been shattered. what held us together is a deep shared common bond committed to truth and decency. and i never doubted the president's commitment to those values and i don't doubt it today. we also succeeded because we always lived up to his promise to welcome -- lived up to his promise to welcome me into the center of his presidency and to protect the dignity of my presence. he always, always kept that promise. we succeeded well for many of the reasons we'll discuss later tonight. we agreed on those issues. so, i'm here with you tonight to celebrate the life of this remark

thomas in minnesota. please join us tonight at 10:00 p.m.your local pbs station or oine for our primetime special, america after george floyd. >> woodruff: in the day's other news, moderna announceits covid-19 vaccine strongly protects children as young as 12. the drugmaker plans to ask the f.d.a. for emergency authorization. the agency already approved pfizer's vaccine for teens. and, half of all u.s. adults are now fully vaccinated. still, the c.d.c. urged caution today, during the holiday. >> if you are unvaccinated, in the context of memorial day weekend, we are really encouraging you to adhere to our guidance for people who are unvaccinated and of course to get vaccinated. >> woodruff: also today, white house covid adviser andy slavitt demanded that china and the world health organization give definitive answers on the virus' origin. there've been renewed reports that it might have escaped from a chinese lab. airlines began avoiding belarus today, after a plane was forced down there on sunday, and a dissident journalist was arrested. an

she says the state of minnesota is at the forefront of police brutality against black people. >> today very important, because this is the day that revealed the truth about everything that they have been doing to our people here in th state of minnesota. reporter: at a rally in front of the minneapolis courthouse where george floyd's murderer was convicd, family members an civil rights activists our commander rating -- are commemorating the man whose death made him an icon. >> it has been a painful year. it's been very frustrating for me and my family. for your life to change within thblink of an eye. reporter: floyd family attorney ben crump says they are looking to congress, setting their hopes on a sweeping police reform bill, named after floyd. >> we know it is a tipping point. it has to be meaningful legislation, because of not, george floyd's name can't be on it. reporter: at the site where george floyd was killed, a gospel service reminds worshipers the world has changed and that there is hope that reform could follow soon. ♪ >> after israel's 11 to conflict with -- 11 day confl

host: from minnesota, diane, good morning to you. caller: good morning.g because i would like to be able to share with you a short story that i know. i know a young girl who was 13 years old and got pregnant and, by the time she was 19, she had five kids, who moved to minnesota from arkansas. with no education. with a fifth grade education. but when she got to minnesota, there were plans in place, put together by lyndon baines johnson, the president that i love so much. because he gave me the opportunity to go back to school and get my ged. and my children were taken care of in childcare, not having to worry about it. i had five of them at 19, and i didn't have any money to go to school with, and i could not get a job because when i applied for a job, even at montgomery ward, i could not do the math to get that job. so, i was able to go back to school because of these federal programs that now biden is trying to bring back, were killed by ronald reagan. i was able to go to school, get my masters degree, and still maintain my welfare check and take care of

he was a mentor to mondale and many of us from minnesota, and to you.suffered in the vice presidency. even though he did, vice president mondale, he urged you to be open to the idea. you want to talk about that? >> i went, at your suggestion, i went to see hubert and i said, you know, i think i got a possibility of joining with mr. carter and refund for vice president. but in light of the experience you had in this office and the kind of painfulness and humiliation of it all, what do you recommend? and he said, i recommend you take it if you can get it. he said it's wonderful, you'll learn more than any other way. you'll have more influence one day than you'll have all year in the senate. and he said i hope you'll consider doing that. now, i must say i was never sure whether he wanted me to be vice president or he wanted me to be minnesota's senior senator. [ laughter ] [ applause ] >> well, he gave you the right advice and you did the right thing. >> yes, right. >> what did it mean to you to have the office in the west wing that president carter gave y

i know in minnesota we have very high insurance rates and great premiums for the coverage in minnesota, somewhat to see how this breaks down by state because the states are not offering policies that are affordable. that can become a different issue that we will need to address. and but i would like to know how you especially when it comes to mental health that you mentioned, not having soldiers, airmen, marines and guardians without healthcare coverage. how do you see this full impact on your? i also need to understand when we do our health panel how tricare fits into this. our people refusing to take tricare in some cases? is it unavailable in some locations? i want to ferret out health insurance issue a little more with you, so the staff will be following up with questions. so i look forward to working with you to resolve that. so i'm going to go to a question i would like you to answer a little more today, and that is in january as you know secretary austin order a departmentwide standdown to extremism and earlier this month he established counter extreme working groups to examine

pete couldn't make it to congress because minnesota voters rejected him.call someone a racist every day. oh, wait, that's kind of your thing, isn't it? you are right. i make a pro-america argument for americans of all races and all faiths including muslims and i'm a racist. got it. and some people did something, too. right? but i have to agree with congresswoman omar about one thing. did i run for office in minnesota. and i lost. in fact, i got crushed. and i'm glad i did. you see, 10 years ago look at that young man, i would have been a terrible senator. even though i had been to the battlefield twice fighting those people who did something on 9/11. i was still young, i was politically out of touch. i loved the establishment. and was really good at regurgitating scripted talking points like a teleprompter. the swamp would have eaten me alive. i would have been very useful to them. but thankfully the freedom loving republican voters of minnesota saw right through me and made sure that i stayed the hell out of washington. and it turned out to be a gift. i n

what is happening in minnesota? the governor there waste nothing time. the mask mandate ended there, but some mayors, including the mayor of minneapolis, say people need to wear a mask indoors. illinois will line with the cdc guidance, but no way. and pennsylvania, they are waiting until 70% of people there are fully vaccinated. it's expected to happen in pennsylvania in two weeks. and the moment we hear from the state, we will let you know. our team has been 2r50eg9 updates on the mask throughout the day. >>> what we need, thunderstorms that could lead to lightning strikes. that you will see now. concern is that the tivity thunderstorms could have lightning and lightning could spark fire. >> you're right. it has been active on the radar. you can see lightning strikes right here off to the north, and in fact, i just did a search here. you can see 17 slight thing here in the past hour. because there is not a lot of rain with it, could spark more fishs. wind gusts, 15 to 30, and the lay offed land. tomorrow morning, the fog and the drizzle over the bay are

you know, the week before the trial wrapped up in the -- brooklyn, minnesota, 10 miles away somewhere chauvin was standing trial, daunte wright was shot and killed at a traffic stop and then andrew brown, jr. the day after the conviction was shot and killed by police in elizabeth city, north carolina. host: we are talking with marty johnson with the hill newspaper taking your phone calls, your questions on police reform, whether it is at the federal or state and local level, covering these issues for the hill newspaper, take us to the state level, one year anniversary, what has changed in minneapolis specifically when it comes to policing in that city? guest: right. in december, the mayor of minnesota along with the future council unanimously decided that they will rollback the police budget, they will take out $8 million from the police budget and shift it toward violence prevention, other social services in an effort to drive down, i guess, the encounters with police that turned violent, that turned deadly and also in minneapolis, a couple of weeks ago, the near term general merrick

but progressive democrats including minnesota's ilhan omar are condemning that weapons sale. released a statement saying, in part, quote, the u.s. cannot stand idly by while crimes against humanity are being committed. since world war ii, the u.s. have given billions of dollars in military aid, more than any other country, anne-marie. >> laura podesta in new york. laura, thank you very much. >>> the u.s. is marking the cases in covid cases down in all 50 states. yesterday, president biden warned those who don't get vaccinate ld payd will pay the . his administration is also send be tens of millions of vaccine doses to other countries. debra alfarone explains why. >> reporter: president biden announced the u.s. will share 80 million covid vaccine doses with countries struggling with covid. >> we know that the america will never be safe until the pandemic that's raging familily is under control. no ocean is wide enough, no wall is high enough to keep us safe. >> reporter: the president says at least 60% of americans have received at least one shot. that puts the administration

as the senator of minnesota, we have a very diverse population in minnesota. many of the jobs are tied to agriculture. have to know how to talk to everybody, and, you know, and people can disagree with you. people in minnesota -- listen. paul wellstone got re-elected even when people disagreed. when he said we all do better when we all do better, it's like this big sfinfrastructure packa where 8 07 of the jobs will not require a college degree, many people respond to that and where people will have day care, reliable day care so they can go to work and know that their kid's being cared for. that's what people care for. that's what people meant by faculty lounge language. >> senator, i want to thank you so much for being with us this morning. >> my pleasure. thank you for having me. >> all right, sir. >>> coming up, bloodshed across america. nine, nine mass shootings this weekend including one at a birthday party. >>> plus, the conspiracy caucus hits the road. we're going speak to a former qanon believer about the big election lie that doesn't seem to be fading