tony blinken once to try to rebuild gaza without hamas getting the money for more rockets, so they wanthrough the palestinian authority currently greatly weekend -- weakened. >> laura, in jerusalem for us, thank you very much. tomorrow will be one year since the murder of george floyd in minneapolis and the deadline that president biden set for passing a major police reform bill. congress is letting the deadline slide, but if past the new law would change policing in america significantly, banning chokeholds by police in situations that are not life-threatening and limit the type of military grade eipment the department of defense can send to local police departments, ending qualified immunity for police officers. this is the issue holding up lawmakers and its a tricky one. that's a legal doctrine that shields lease from civil lawsuits, preventing victims and families pursuing individual cops for alleged civil rights violations. joining me now is the president for the national organization of black lawn summit. thank you for joining me. as one of your missions you have the establishment

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now tony blinken, a secretary of state, saying he was not told of any direct evidence of hamas workingbuilding? >> yes, and i'm sure there isn't going to be any. the israeli army, wouldn't has the proof -- when it has the proof, it provides it. it is not a coincidence the tower hosting the offices would be completely destructive. this is no coincidence. this is a deliberate targeting of the media voice and the gaza strip. amy: i want to turn to video of you last week when you work live on the air when israel leveled another high-rise building in gaza. >> sending a message to the world, please, beforyou say we e terrorists, and what you to see the pictures of the reality and the truth from all sides, not just take western media and go with that. the israeli -- as you can see now, the building has been run down. amy: that is your reporting last week for al jazeera in the gaza strip. at the building she worked out of come associated press and al jazeera, has also been bombed by the israeli military. for our radio listeners, what you can see, she is wearing a helmet when that explosion hap

you heard tony blinken. i think the comments suggest he's not persuaded. or the israelis, the idea if it's not made their case. look, the fact that there might have been some sort of hamas military intelligence office in that building which was directing attacks or providing intelligence for attacks, the fact the israelis have the right to do this in terms of laws of war, if it's proportionate if, they provide ample warning, if they go out of their way to avoid civilians doesn't make it right. i'm, you know, one of my former bosses is jim baker. he is right. you don't go to war with media. and i just don't think that attack could have been justified given the risks that the israelis have taken. what happens if people didn't leave or the warning wasn't timely enough? you could have ended up with a real disaster. >> yeah. i'm very curious to hear what the biden administration says about this going forward. because it's, i think, their response to this element of it is also extremely important. good to see you, aaron. sorry it is over. this but thank you for

israeli-palestinian negotiations restart, even though it's something the biden administration and tony blinkenld love to see happen, but it would matter. if netanyahu were out, you would probably know secretary blinken in a few hours will be meeting with the head of the opposition in israel, who's been tapped to create a government to get netanyahu out. and we will see where that goes. it's uh-uh likely we're heading -- unlikely we're headed to a fifth unprecedented election. i will say that in terms of the iran nuclear deal, jcpoa, the fact netanyahu is strongly opposed and tony blinken did his best to security around those questions and andrea mitchell at the end, it doesn't really matter. this is a deal the iranians all want and iranian hardliners want. despite the elections coming up in iran, despite the fact the israelis engaged in strikes, against iran's capability in the past weeks to try to derail the guilt and entice iranian escalations, no one is buying it. i think it's clear the biden administration, everyone you talk to including tony blinken, are quite confident america will get b

change it and it's not in our and it's wrong yeah and jeremy also ahead of this trip to london tony blinken accused china repression at home and aggression a bribe now 1st of all is that true i mean given a lot of people can say that this is hypocritical fence it's china who is working on economic prosperity projects like the new silk road and the last time i checked it wasn't china who invaded the middle east. yeah i mean if you look at you know xinjiang and the muslim issue i mean look at how the united states has dealt in the war on terror they've gone countries you know afghanistan the media barely reports on the human costs of the afghan war i mean china is not bombs in g.m. and you know it's in a look at an africa i mean chinese do a lot of infrastructure projects in africa and the united states has been building drone bases and militarizing the african continent so you know it's just divorced from reality and if you look at human rights unfortunately the united states record has you know greatly to be desired whether it's the prison system here in the united states or whether it's u.

going to change any time now or and it's wrong now and jeremy also ahead of this trip to london tony blinken accuse china repression at home and aggression a bribe now 1st of all is that true i mean given a lot of people could say that this is hypocritical thanks it's china who is working on economic prosperity projects like the new silk road and the last time i checked it wasn't china who invaded the middle east. yeah i mean if you look at you know xinjiang in the muslim issue i mean look at how the united states has dealt you know the war on terror they bomb countries you know afghanistan the media barely reports on the human costs of the afghan war i mean china's not bombs in g.m. and you know it's in a look at in africa i mean chinese do a lot of infrastructure projects in africa and the united states has been building drone bases and militarizing african continent so you know it's just divorced from reality and if you look at human rights unfortunately the united states record has you know greatly to be desired whether it's the prison system here in the united states or whether it's u.s

secretary of state tony blinken announced that the u.s.s the primary place for u.s. diplomatic relations with the palestinians. it was closed down during the trump administration. it's demonstrative of the fact that the biden administration is committed to rebuilding their relationship with the palestinians. secondarily, we're also learning, as you mentioned, that the u.s. is upping its assistance to the palestinians, a total of some $360 million in assistance, and i'm told that about $38 million of that is new humanitarian assistance to gaza and the west bank that, of course, have faced enormous wreckage in the violence over the last few weeks. and then, when we heard secretary of state tony blinken speaking with prime minister benjamin netanyahu, he did reiterate that the u.s. supports israel's right to defend itself, and they spoke about the u.s. support for the iron dome that has provided a lot of the stability and a lot of the protection from these incoming rockets. now, one thing that i also want to point out is that secretary blinke

sanchez mr rick sanchez jeremy 1st over to you in pretty plain language i think secretary of state tony blinken and his u.k. counterpart dominic rab said that the main goal for the g. 7 right now is to contain russia and china what can we extrapolate from that kind of rhetoric. well one thing that's not widely being reported as too naval vessels have been sent into the black sea it has a blink in the slaves who travels ukraine with the tory nuland later in the week i believe so i mean there's talk of you know that we don't want war i mean that seems very threatening action you know it's russia was sending ships into the gulf of mexico americans would be up in arms so i think we've seen you know a very aggressive stance towards russia as well as china that's a very dangerous right now by the you know by the mr ation continuing from what's going on for at least the last 8 years and rick you have covered this sort of stuff for a long time i mean do you recall a time where the former g 8 that used to include russia would use this kind of language and how does that translate to the average joe who i

this comes after axios reported secretary of state tony blinken told morocco's foreign minister during phone call in late april that the biden administration would not reverse president trump's recognition of morocco's sovereignty over the western sahara. the state department has not confirmed the report. morocco has occupied western sahara since 1975 in defiance of the united nations and international law. u.s. recognition came as morocco agreed to establish diplomatic relations with israel. to see our documentary on western sahara, go to democracynow.org. in italy, more than 2000 refugees -- mostly from sub-saharan africa, pakistan, and syria -- have arrived on the mediterranean island of lampedusa within the past day. hundreds of the asylum-seekers were forced to sleep on an open-air dock after the cal sheltesurpassed its capacity. hundreds more have been quantined til they're tested for covid-. this comes as at least five refugees died sunday after their boat capsized off the libyan coast as they attempted to reach europe. a humanitarian aid group said there could be a newborn baby

this is tony blinken and talking about his meeting earlier this week. >> it is no secret that we have our differences. when it comes to those differences, if russia acts aggressively against us, our partners or our allies, we will respond. president biden has expressed that. not to see the conflict but to defend our interests. having said that, there are many areas where our interests intersect and overlap. we believe that we can build on those interests. combating climate change, dealing with the nuclear programs in iran, north korea and afghanistan. there are many areas of intersecting interest. it is our view that if leaders of russia and u.s. can work together cooperatively, our people, the world can be a safer and more secure place. host: talking about defending our interest. what is the biggest threat that russia poses to the u.s.? guest: there are various problems between the u.s. and russia. the biggest question is about cyber security and the security of our elections. as the secretary of state mentioned, there is a long list of differences. afghanistan, iran, syria -- they d

diplomatic leader to work with both sides to try for de-escalation. >> today secretary of state tony blinken'sadministration repeatedly over the last few days. as you said, secretary blinken said he has asked a senior diplomat here at the state department to immediately go to the region to meet with both palestinian and israeli officials. he said both the palestinians and the israelis have the right to live peacefully and securely. one thing i asked him about is if he believes the israeli response here has been proportionate given that dozens have been killed in gaza, including children in recent days? and he spoke about there being an absolute, quote, distinction between what hamas is doing indiscriminately firing rockets against civilians and what israel is doing in defending its civilians. he also spoke about the need to protect the lives of civilians. i want to listen to that. >> whenever we see civilian casualties, particularly when we see children caught in the c cross-fire, losing their lives, that has a powerful impact. and i think israel has an extra burden in trying to do everything

. >> reporter: secretary of state tony blinken says he hasn't seen that intelligence. >> we did request additional details regarding the justification for it. i have not seen any information provided. >> reporter: press secretary jen psaki is not saying if biden has either. >> i'm not going to be in a position of committing or confirming who has or hasn't seen intelligence. >> reporter: coming on top of all of this, we have also learned that the biden administration has approved a proposed arms sale to israel for $735 million. we found out about that because the administration notified congress formally about this on may 5th. that is before this latest violence broke out, but it does raise some questions about what those congressional democrats, the ones pushing back on biden's stance toward israel, what they'll say about that. it does open up about a 15-day window for congress to push whackback on the sale. a lot of things are tenuous when it comes to the situation. >> i also want to bring in the diplomatic correspondent the for axios and a senior fellow at the brookings institution's

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but tony blinken doesn't care. one reporter with the a.p.nto george floyd square in minneapolis to find out and that's when he heard gunshots. >> gunshots. [gunshots] it sounds like gunshots. i don't know what this is. >> tucker: it's not a car backfiring. those are gunshots in george floyd square. candace owens is the host of candace and we're always grateful to have her on the air. it's great to see you tonight. what's the message of this, u.s. embassy showing the black lives matter flag? >> the consequence of the black lives matter movement and i cringe when people call it black lives matter protests, because it's black lives matter riots, city burned for six weeks straight following the death of george floyd, black neighborhoods were riot and it led to more black deaths. way more black americans died during the black lives matter riots than the one black american that was killed by a police officer, that allegedly started this entire spree and it makes you ask questions why, is america promoting this so much? why is america promoting bla

. >> tonight on c-span, secretary of state tony blinken visits with the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu in jerusalem, followed by press secretary jen psaki taking questions on president biden's planned meeting with russian president why mayor pugh -- vladimir putin. a subcommittee examines the president's budget request for the national institute of health. ♪ >> c-span is your unfilte

but listen to the secretary of state tony blinken in copenhagen.rawing a very clear line. >> there is know equivalence between a terrorist group indiscriminately firing rockets at civilians and a country defending its people from those attacks. so we call on hamas and other groups in gaza to end the rocket attacks immediately. i've also said that i believe israel as a democracy has an extra burden to do everything possible to avoid civilian casualties, even as it defends itself and its people. >> let's get straight to cnn's nic robertson, he's near the gaza border. more rocket vollies this morning from gaza and air strikes from israel. any sense of if and when this might end? >> reporter: i think as we'll be talking over the next minute or so you may get the same sense of that as i'm getting here on the ground. we're at an artillery position, israeli ar tilly defense position, racing out additional artillery rounds to these guns behind me, there's another one of them firing off, firing big artillery shells into gaza. we don't know what they're targ

. >> yeah, there was a lot that came out of the statements today from secretary of state tony blinkent to dwell on the fact that first and foremost, they were focused on the violence that occurred in gaza, in jerusalem and the west bank over the last few days. prime minister netanyahu underscoring that he was thanking president biden for continuing to support israel's right to defend itself. secretary of state tony blinken again reiterating that biden has said that he fully supports israel's right to defend itself, particularly against hamas. the second thing they spoke about is the support that is needed now to try and push forth peace to get humanitarian support to the palestinians. secretary blinken said that's an urgent need and that he will work with regional partners to make sure that that doesn't get into the hands of hamas. and we should be hearing more about that today. and then as you said, iran also came up. this is an area where the two leaders, of course, don't really agree. the biden administration is trying to get back into the iran nuclear deal. prime minister netanyah

amy: that is the secretary of state tony blinken.ave been having this discussion about vaccines. the u.s. being seen in the eyes of the world right now as more of a danger to the world, especially when compared to russia and china. russia and china getting out their own vaccines and facilitating others. the u.s. not doing the same at this point. if you can link that to this also increased tension between china and the united states? >> yes. first of all, i think we people look at what the trump admistration a -- did with respect to blocking the trips waiver a contrast that to the ways that china was shifting chinese vaccines to countrs under the global sou, ok, there was a very big contrast. shipments been donations given. in the case of the philippines, for instance, the final -- the only vaccines until abt two days ago that were available for the general population. yes, we had the astrazeneca vaccine from europe that had come in and seniors were vaccinated with that, but the vast majority has been sinovac. there is the net contras

hear from tony blinken and also leader abbas. blinken on a mission to shore up a cease fire. we're on the ground and we're live on minneapolis and on capitol hill. it is one year since joorge floyd ignited movements across the country. congress failing to meet the president's goal of having a police reform bill on his desk today, but this morning our team has new reporting on signs of optimism in the last 12 hours or so. we have more to get to. i'm hallie jackson along with gabe gutierrez, leann caldwell, and britney patrick-cunningham. gabe, let me start with you you have been covering the story for a year now. i know you had a chance to talk with the family of george floyd and other that's have been united in this movement here. >> yeah, that is right and they tell me they're disappointed that congress has not been able to meet the self-imposed deadline. it has been a difficult year as well as other women that lost loved ones including the mother of eric gardner. for them, the pain is still fresh. >> what changed the host is yun si throughout the country. >> when the verdic

any minute from now secretary of state tony blinken is set to meet with jordan to meet with king abdullahn called a voice for peace in keeping the israel-hamas cease-fire from falling apart. >>> police reform after george floyd's family met with the president and called on lawmakers to get a bill done in floyd's name. and the investigation into donald trump and his business empire appears to have reached a new phase. "the washington post" reporting that the manhattan d.a. has convened a special grand jury that could hear evidence and weigh possible criminal charges against mr. trump, his staff or his family. i want to bring in my colleague to the white house, nbc's chief white house correspondent kristen welker, david farrenholt covers trump for "the washington post" and the one who broke this stare, legal affairs columnist for politico and joyce vance is former u.s. attorney and professor at the university of alabama school of law. dared, let me start with you because it's your reporting here. it wasn't unexpected, but it's certainly significant. talk to us about what exactly this means,

>> secretary of state tony blinken is someone who looked at this, one of the first people to look atputy secretary of state back in the obama administration. and what he did was help to implement reform so that these diplomats were told, if they had restrictions in place for their assignments and why those restrictions were in place. these restrictions have been in place while diplomats feeling they can speak out about this and there is bipartisan support on the hill for this. during the trump administration this was a task force set up to look at this issue. that has continued, that effort continues now during the biden administration. we expect the secretary of state, tony blinken, is going to speak about the findings of that task force, perhaps implement some reforms. i want to point out that the real problem, one of the real issues comes down to competition, global competition. these are diplomats who have linguistic skills they can apply in certain regions and they're prevented from applying those skills. >> i'm so glad you're shining a light on this. thank you to you and your t

envoy on the ground speaking with israeli generals and officials from russia and tony blinken speaking with his counterparts in egypt and qatar. they still maintain ties with hamas. they're talking about deescalation before an actual cease-fire. matt gutman, abc news, tel aviv. >>> here at home many americans say they're confused about the latest mask guidelines. springtime is bringing more people outdoors like here in new york's central park. some with masks, many without. cdc chief doctor rochelle walensky says vaccinated people can go without masks. one source of confusion, who's in charge of enforcement? earlier i spoke with dr. ali. dr. ali, thanks for joining us. things are changing rapidly when it comes to masks. what are you hearing about the new cdc mask guidance and confusion it's causing. >> some states have completely opened up, removing masks as a mandatory item. but still a lot of people are still afraid. and i guess some people are not ready. the thing is, many businesses are worried because there's no way to really confirm who indeed is vaccinated and who is following t

secretary of state tony blinken landing in israel overnight to start a tour of the region still reelingetween israel and hamas. hadas gold joins us live from jerusalem where blinken and prime minister netanyahu just spoke. hadas, what did netanyahu say about u.s. support on all of this. >> reporter: benjamin netanyahu thanked the secretary of state and joe biden for what he said is their steadfast support of the israeli right to defend itself and a commitment to replenish the iron dome missile defense system. i think, though, the biggest headline from all of this is blinken announce that go later today the u.s. will be announcing a significant contribution to help gaza rebuild itself, tried to rebuild the building and give aid to the people there who suffered during this violence. he also spoke about making sure that this aid that they are hoping to rally the international community around to help donate this aid to gaza will not fall into the hands of hamas militants and the u.s. officials did say earlier they hope the u.n. will lead this effort and that they are trying to work on a fr

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tony blinken has the leverage. they need to use it. and for the best interests, not just of the palestinian people, but for the israeli people and for the state of israel, for the state of israel, they need to broker a cease-fire now. >> we're going to certainly return to this, but we want to turn now to national political reporter for axios, jonathan swann, who has incredible new reporting for axios on what was happening behind the scenes at one of the tensest moments between a president and the military in modern history. the reporting is for the final episode of his off the rails series entitled "trump's war with his generals." and jonathan, i'm stunned hat what i'm reading here. in terms of president trump's then attempt to address the afghanistan situation and how he had a withdrawal plan, that's for sure. and i'll tell you about that in just a moment, but no peace plan, which is what president biden has to deal with now. but it's this piece of paper where they had some directions scrawled out that included, get us out of afghanis

secretary of state, tony blinken, said that israel has an extra burden, that israel because of its strengthnd dominance, has an extra burden on the question of casualties. the question is whether israel is meeting its extra burden in responding to these rocket attacks from hamas? >> we certainly are. i can tell you there have been many studies by serious military analysts, who have compared israel's actions with that of other western armies in similar situations, fighting radical islamists, whether it is in iraq or afghanistan or elsewhere, and you know how prolonged those conflicts are, how many casualties are caused. so i think there has to be a measure of fairness. there has to be a measure of reasonableness and projecting this kind of criticism against the israeli army that is second to none in seeking to min protecng our ownyou knw, if hamd simply move the rockets out of civilian areas, if they move their command posts out of homes and offices, there wouldn't be any problem. but the fact is they're sending thousands of rockets on our cities with the specific purpose of murdering our ci

so this is no victory lap by tony blinken, secretary blinken saying that right now, the problem is solvedwas going to hope to look to other issues, as an example of the world intruding, when you're president of the united states, you don't get to choose all of your agenda. >> all right. mike allen, thank for spending some time with us. i know you're sticking around for "morning joe." before we hand things over, another headline from the morning papers. "the new york times" reports that federal headlines in brooklyn are investigating whether several ukrainian officials were planning to interfere in the presidential election, part of that plan rudy giuliani making plans to tilt the election in favor of president trump. "the times" writes, the criminal investigation which began during the final months of the trump administration and has not been previously reported underscores the federal government's increasingly aggressive approach towards rooting out foreign interference in american electoral politics. the investigation is unfolding separately from a long-running federal inquiry in manhat

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secretary of state tony blinken but we are deeply concerned with the loss of life. among civilians especially among among children. the palestinians have a right to live in security and to live in peace just as israelis do and so. we are working hard to encourage all sides to stand down meanwhile in congress strong bipartisan support for israel but from democrats a show of support too for palestinians caught in the fighting there is a respect for meeting the needs of the palestinians but there is a palestinian have struggle and this is about how mosque so i wouldn't just label it palestinian i would say hamas and hamas is. threatening the security of people and israel israel has a right to defend itself from republicans accusations the u.s. has indirectly endangered israelis by trying to pursue a new nuclear deal with hamas is primary supporter iran if difficult to believe an american president would consider removing terrorism. or missile related functions at the very moment right now rockets are writing down on israel a sign of how challenging it will be for the b

secretary of state tony blinken continuing to work the phones to other senior diplomats, including some of those key players in the middle east, egypt, qatar, who the world usually looks to broker ceasefires during these gaza conflicts. but guys, no sign of a ceasefire right now. >> still a highly contentious situation there, raf thank you for the update >> for more on how the united states and the united nations are responding to these clashes, here is nbc's kelly o'donnell. >> reporter: a push for diplomacy. the united nations security council called this virtual sunday session to urge a ceasefire, including the u.s. ambassador >> with time ticking on the cycle of violence. >> reporter: on american television, prime minister benjamin netanyahu defended israel's strike on a gaza building that housed the associated press and other media outlets. he contends hamas intelligence used the same building. >> we took every precaution to make sure that there were no civilian injuries. >> reporter: netanyahu rebuffed pressure for an immediate ceasefire. >> we're trying to degrade hamas' terroris

calls to isolate russia speaking at the 1st in person g. 7 meeting since 2019 secretary of state tony blinken said the goal is to balance countering the latest challenges without trying to contain beijing or to escalate tensions with moscow. we are focused. very much on russia's actions and what course it chooses to take. president biden's been very clear for a long time including before he was president that if russia chooses to act recklessly or aggressively we'll respond it is not our purpose to try to contain china or to hold china down what we are trying to do is to uphold the international rules based order that our countries have invested so much in over so many decades to the benefit i would argue not just of our own citizens but of people around the world including by the way. joining me now to discuss it has been that co-host and investigative journalist and swan now ben let's start with the issue of how the group of 7 plans to deal with the rise and growth of china why do we know so far. yeah it's kind of interesting because as you heard there the anthony blinken the secretary of s

and with israeli tanks trucked back to their bases, secretary of state tony blinken headed to the regionoday. >> we've got the cease-fire and now deal with the humanitarian situation. >> reporter: the u.s. is hoping to freeze hamas from incoming humanitarian aid. but as we found out, driving an hour south of gaza city to an area where hamas was seen exhuming the bodies of militants from its bombed-out network of tunnels, the group the very much in control. as soon as we got out of the car, our palestinian producer got a call telling us we cannot be here and basically just got kickederywhere, collateral damage. dunya asaliah's daughter dima was killed by an explosion last week, right outside their house. dunya tells me an israeli drone killed her daughter but the israeli military tells us it never targeted that location. dima was buried last week and her scent is the most precious thing her mother has left. she tells me it brings her comfort. it still clings to her pillow and her blanket and dunya clings to them. secretary blinken, david, arrives in the region early tomorrow. now, the adm

calls to isolate russia speaking at the 1st in person g. 7 meeting since 2019 secretary of state tony blinken said the goal is to balance countering the latest challenges without trying to contain beijing or to escalate tensions with moscow but we are focused. very much on russia's actions and what course it chooses to take. president but it's been very clear for a long time including before he was president that if russia chooses to act recklessly or aggressively we'll respond it is not our purpose to try to contain china or to hold china down what we're trying to do is to uphold the international rules based order that our countries have invested so much in over so many decades to the benefit i would.