enslaved by the townsend family. born around 1763 and now that house where she was born is a museum and oyster bay, long island. if anybody comes to long island i urge you to visit our museum and learn more about the story. now, the world she was born into had legal slavery and every one of the 13 colonies. slave ads like these appeared in every newspaper. the colony she was born into, new york, was actually the epicenter of slavery in the north. of all of the colonies north of maryland, new york had by far the most slavery. in fact, in 1770 when she was just a girl if you added up all of the slavery and the new england colonies and combined them, new york had more. much much more than pennsylvania. a colony of a similar size. if you look down at the very bottom of the colony map in georgia in 1770, new york had more slavery. this is not a narrative that is frequently understood by new yorkers today. now, decades before liz was born there is put into law in 1730 and edict that every town, every village in new york mu

townsend and ed sheeran present strong arguments on both sides. this is a case that no one has seen before in terms of chords of music, so it's hard to understand or predict what the outcome may be. but that outcome could rock the music industry. the concern that's been voiced by by sheeran's attorneys is that these are very common place, basic musical building blocks that are at stake in this case. and if you make it so that one person gets a monopoly on those, it will limit the toolbox or the palette and it will really chill future creativity. up next, bad cinderella takes broadway. we go behind the curtain of andrew lloyd webber's latest musical, meet the star with a cinderella story of her own mother. moderate to severe eczema still disrupts my skin despite treatment. it disrupts my skin with itch. it disrupts my skin with rash. but now i can disrupt eczema with rinvoq. rinvoq is not a steroid, topical or injection. it's one pill once a day. many taking rinvoq saw clear or almost clear skin, while some saw up to 100% clear skin and they felt d

and townsend's air is accusing sheeran of copying the classic song let's get it, on which townsend cowrotearting with sheeran's ballad thinking out loud. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> okay, bob, we just heard the two songs back to back. what do you think? did sheeran copy townsend in's song there, let's get it on? >> this is a law, not a motion. and under the law, it has to be a direct copy of the sheet music, prior to 1978, let's get it on, prior to and conciliate. that means must be exact replication of the notes. the plaintiffs have already admitted, of the four chord's, one is not similar. this is very important because it is not similarity in feel. it's literally whether it's the exact same notes. so, i believe it is not infringement. >> interesting. now, sheeran testified that both songs are based on a calming chord progression, and his lawyer said the similarities between the two songs are commonplace ingredients that are found in numerous other songs, and free for any musician to use. what do you say to that explanation? >> well, let's go back a little bit in history here. there was a conflagrati

at nds me include people townsend him first and foremost with everything we do. charlotte were part of the whole process from strategy calls, the design. we had a medical doctor that served on a committee that gave feedback when we were designing the dots of. yes, we absolutely put people with townsend him first and foremost on the design in the implementation of the plans. >> kayla, when you were little i have a memory of this myself playing with dolls that didn't look like me. how that made me feel. how did that make you feel? to have to play with dollars that didn't look like you? when i was young i didn't think twice about having a dog that looks like me. i would just play with don's play out different storylines. i never thought when i was young that there could be a draw with down syndrome. being part of this process it was just amazed saying. getting to created that looks like someone with down syndrome, i am so happy and so honored to be a part of this. this beautiful fashionista. >> kayleigh, you are the first lobbyist on capitol hill who has down syndro

alley ali vitali, symone townsend.ought you on this show last week from washington state democratic governor jay inslee has now signed into law a ban on the sale and distribution of semiautomatic assault weapons making washington the tenth state to do so he also signed a law that creates a ten-day waiting period on firearm purchases and another that clears the way for lawsuits against gun makers or sellers. and now we are going to go to the press conference between president biden and south korean president yoon let's listen in. >> several times over the last year, and each time we have deepened our nation's partnership and for the benefit, i thinks of both our peoples today is no exception. our nation's relationship has been a great success story the alliance formed in war and has flourished in peace, seemingly every day we've launched new areas of cooperation on cyber, strategic technologies, space, democracy, and all the areas that matter most to our future because of its core, our alliance is about building a bette

you will see ben crump in the courtroom representing catherine townsend, and they have been fightingof court with different copyright infringements over the years. >> that is the truth. chloe, i want to ask you, as we are going through this, and it is not the first time and what is the other song? i don't remember it. >> yes, so "shape of you" which is one of the biggest hits and he won that lawsuit last year, and he spoke out about it on instagram and he talks about how there are so many notes to choose from when writing a song, and take a listen. >> there are so many notes and very few chords used in pop music and there is bound to be a coincidences, because there are 22 million songs and 22 notes available. >> so, he is likely to take the stand to defend his music, and one of the points and the points of contense from the townsend point of it is a performance that he did in zurich and he got on stage and performs his song and then he goes on to perform "let's get it on" and switches back and hundreds of thousands of youtube and he says, look, see, he knows that there are similarit

townsend's heir filed the c copyright infringement suit.e plaintiffs say are substantially and strikingly similar compositions. ♪ ♪ >> you have to listen to the beat. right? in the civil trial, sheer ran said that he made a lot of bad habits but stealing songs isn't one of them. he plays a video mashup of the two songs sometimes telling the court, quoting here, that he'd have to be an idiot to stand on stage in front of 20,000 people and play a song that he knowingly plagiarized. the lawyers for townsend called an expert to the stands and said the songs have melodic similarities. >> martha: i don't think they're close enough. >> it's about the beat and the keys. >> martha: we'll see what the jury decides. thanks very much. the latest untoll story podcast with mayor klitchko is available today. we'll see you back here tomorrow. >> sandra: from the mouse house to the courthouse, the battle with disney and ron desantis just got a lot uglier. disney filing a lawsuit against the governor and other state officials accusing them of weaponizing the

the singer sued by the family of ed townsend who cowrote the marvin gaye, get it on, saying thinkingities to let's get i on that violate the song's copyright. time for you to be the judge. let's listen first to ed sheeran's think out loud ♪ darling, i will be loving you till we're 70 ♪ >> great song. all right. so let's listen to a clip from marvin gaye's '73 soul classic, let's get it on. ♪ let's get it on, ah, baby, let's get it on, let's love, baby ♪ >> i mean, it's a little bit of a tough one seeing as chloe, she's been covering the copyright trial for us. how do they respond to this claim? >> it's not the first time. and looking with since like the beginning of music and the recording industry, you have seen stars have to deal with copyright infringement suits if you want to go all the way back to led srks eppli, or taylor swift shake it off. often times, we see these settle out of court. i just want to say that this is a common core progression that ed sheeran's legal team and their music experts are saying are found in countless songs from the beach boys, you name it, and that

it. >> thank you >> let's dig deeper and brin in my friend and colleague msnbc host symon sanders-townsend she was vice president harris' chief spokesperson and assistant democratic leader of the tennessee state legislatur representative harold love he's also president-elect of the national black caucus of state legislators. harold, what is next for you caucus >> the next thing for ou caucus is to get some bills we have filed around gu legislation out from the - bills committee. our process allows for those bills to come out -- majority - >> symone, you spoke to justin jones and justin pearson earlier this evening what was your take away? >> thanks so much for having me, stephanie ruhle, and playing the clip my take away from that - and i spoke to state representative johnson, an frankly i spoke to representative love earlie today and we receive that -- on sunday -- but my takeaway from all these conversations in nashville i that, first and foremost, with the protests were about, was a shooting at confident school and that shooting and th inaction, frankly, by th tennessee state legislatur

and the townsend family, ed townsend, who is no longer alive, his family is suing ed sheeran saying hearvin gaye and that ed sheeran's song sounds exactly like their dad's song. so i'm going to let you guys take a listen for yourself. we have a little mash-up of both songs, like a little snippet, and you guys can tell us what you think. take a listen. ♪ darlin' i will be loving you till i'm 70 ♪ ♪ let's get it on ♪ ♪ oh, baby, let's get it on ♪ >> reporter: so, jim, i listened to -- >> i don't know. >> >> reporter: to different musicologists who talk about melody and rhythm. i played piano for 17 years, so it's not completely foreign to me to hear them talk about the music theory of it all. there is a case to be made, but then there's also a case to be made on the other side. and ed sheeran took the stand on friday for just about an hour. -- i mean on thursday. so we're expecting him to get back on the stand tomorrow. i will be in there. he did have his guitar next to him, and he strummed a few chords to try to prove his point. but, hey, this is nothing like that song, and i did not dr

is a veteran prosecutor and executive director of san fran's department of account symone sanders townsendand now the host of "simone" on msnbc. simone, somebody makes a simple mistake. i've done all of those things. gotten in the wrong car. had to turn around in somebody's driveway, and get shot what's going on here, do you think? >> i really don't know, chris. and i think we should -- i definitely viscerally connected with the words the congressman, disturbed about how easy it is to turn to violence against one another. i think particularly, in the case in kansas city, the young man who was just trying to go and pick up his brothers, that is a case where the suspect himself said he peeked out of the window and the witness statement that the police took from him, said after he saw a black man, he opened the door and we know what happened in other cases that we discussed, the case in new york, the case in texas, it does not make sense i think people are on edge i think people are scared. but i also think that folks who feel -- who are exhibiting this feeling should not be folks who are wie

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. >> tim, it is simone sanders townsend we have talked a lot about jus what we know about this case thus far what we do know is that th judge in this case is the same judge that presided over the allen weisselberg case, judg marchand donald trump has attacked th judge online and today we hear the former district attorney vance on this network, on meet the press this morning, talk about the caution that donal trump and his lawyers should heed in attacking the a brag and the judge. what do you think the, i'm jus the conversation in trump worl like - what do you think they wil tell in that >> i think they were advisin -- -- that judge ruled, i think th weisselberg courtroom, with strong and steady fist and i think you will see tha again in this case but again, donald trump and th deposition, donald trump in th courtroom, donald trump in public, when he is under the threat of the justice system holding him to account, is not an easy client for any attorney, because he just doesn't listen to them. and i think what, i think they are telling him to let the process run through and let it follow

marvin gay and ed townsend didn't invent it back in the 70s.fore and since. >> ed sheeran was on the scene yesterday and back on stand monday and the trial is not being heard today to continue his testimony. and this is not the first case that has been brought against ed sheeran for copyright. so he actually now records all of his song writing sessions so that if or really when a new lawsuit is brought against him, he says look at video, i did not copy. stuart: that's fascinating and take that kind of defense. >> he says it's a bummer and doesn't encourage music creativity but it's the reality of our litigious nation. stuart: lance bass is former member of n'sync band and says he made more money after the group broke up than when they were together. how did that happen? lauren: well, the manager lou pearlman put them in bad deals and they were young and nevoand, they were famous and justin timberlake was part of n'sync. they were rich at the time. got to be careful with things like that. he was also behind the backstreet boys and they sued him

and with us, symone sanders townsend harry belafonte leaves behind a huge legacy.pacted so many parts of society. what yo thu thinking about with his passing today? >> you could not really estimate the impact of harry belafonte. he was an activist and an intellect. he never got the credit he should have gotten he was one of the first ones to break through black entertainment in mainstream music and movies he did all of this, and being one person, it was unbelievable. when i got to know him, i was coming up in the king movement in the north he would spend time with us and reprimand us you should do this you should do that he was strategic no one knew movement better than harry belafonte. it was harry who got entertainers to support dr. king and all the way up to the work we've seen around police brutality. he marched with us i remember last year when france was going to honor him and because he was a little frail, they had to do it in his residence, a room in his residence. his publicist and his wife, and that's the last time i saw him always was a mentor and a teac

>> greetings, everyone, i' symone sanders-townsend, in fo alicia menendez. and we begin this hour with historic moment and a test for the american justice system, a chance to prove no one is abov the law, even a former president who spent decade working to escap accountability and all those years of outrunning the law, they might soon be over for donald trump. on tuesday, trump was set to appear before a new york judge in a case over alleged hus money to silence adult fil star stormy daniels before the 2016 election. this afternoon, on msnbc trump's former lawyer, who i already served time for hi role in the scheme, had this t say. >> he's furious right now. because donald is not somebody who likes to tak accountability and alvin bragg dropped 2000-pound and vilify coun ability right on to his lap. so, it's the first time in his life that he's going to be hel accountable for his own dirt deeds. >> despite trump facin criminal charges, he's movin forward with his 2024 righ house run. the trump campaign's eve raising money off this cas claiming it raised more

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lawyers for the heirs of ed townsend, the co-writer on the classic, played a clip of a mash-up of thehe songs are in the same key and that he'd have to be an idiot to stand in front of 20,000 people and do that if he had copied the song. >>> carrie fisher is getting her star on the hollywood walk of fame. the late actor who played princess leia in the "star wars" franchise will be honored on may 4th, also known as "star wars" day. fisher died suddenly in 2016. her daughter billie lourde will accept the honor on her behalf. fisher's co-star mark hamill tweeted "long overdue and so well deserved." >>> and the london i is celebrating the king's coronation by giving visitors the royal treatment. the attraction launched a coronation-themed capsule that looks like you're in westminster abbey. it includes replicas of the crown jewels including the crown, orb, and sceptors, as well as the coronation chair that visitors can sit on. >> it's so amazing to see the coronation chair here, a replica. the real coronation chair, that dates back to 1296. and yes, it got graffitied by westminster school

business records, i new york and where the histori prosecution goes from here i am symone sanders-townsend and i have something to say. ♪ ♪ ♪ 136,378 people in tennessee ar now without representation i their own state house, all thanks to the action of th republican majority. yeah, this week republican lawmakers in tennessee, treate the second memo with mor reverence than the very bedroc of the republic they claim t love i'm talking about democrac itself as parents students and legion of other everyday tennessean's demonstrated against gun violence, passionately but peacefully, at the state capital last week, in the wake of that deadly school shooting in nashville, three democratic state representatives who ha the chance to interview, justi jones, justin pearson an gloria johnson, they stood i solidarity with protesters marching to the well of th house, to demand their colleagues support gun safet reform three days later, the trio now known as the tennessee three are fighting for their jobs. not by addressing the voters who elected them, a republican supermajority vowing to punish them rep

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this is your first time sanders townsend and host of symone at msnbc.is is your first time at the table and there's a lot. >> a lot this week >> i'll start with the dueling briefs here. look, we can get into the politics of how we got to this moment and let's go with mifepristone is it going to be on the market this year or not >> as of this moment, it is. nothing has changed, but we could be entering into a period of significant legal uncertainty if that order in texas is actually upheld within the next week, if another judge doesn't block it, another appellate judge doesn't block it, then it is as if the drug was never approved in the first place because he's put the effective date of it on hold, which is not exactly what the plaintiffs in this case asked for, but that's what he's done, and yet at the same time, you have another federal judge with the exact same level of authority and jurisdiction who said the exact opposite, and that's why i think folks are likely predicting it could be headed to the supreme court's doorstep >> will it go through the

governor chris sununu, why wouldn't you roll the dice, ge in the presidential race symone sanders-townsendst of symone on msnb and peacock. david drucker is a senio writer for the dispatch, autho of in trump's shadow, th battle for 2024 in the futur for the gop. and they both join me now. symone, we've got news from as hutchinson, who you know, it's not necessarily a huge name in politics, former governor, tha he's gonna be entering the race chris sununu, governor of ne hampshire, done quite well they're politically, it's quit popular. and it just struck me that you might as well take a flyer, of those guys on the whole thin imploding at some point in the next 18 months what do you think? >> yeah, you know, i think i was very notable that former governor asa hutchinson made his announcement right thi sunday, leading into the wee that donald trump would be arraigned. and he even went so far in tha interview to say that donald trump should drop out of the republican primary for president. he and chris sununu and others have alluded to the former president as a distraction i don't know how mu

fighting for we will take a look at wha is next the movement they have inspired i am symone sanders-townsend and i have something to say. it's been a very busy week all we start with the continue assault on women's ability t make decisions about our own bodies today, people rallied across the country for the right to have abortions that ryka change in just a few days because a little over a week ago, a federal judge in texas issued a preliminary ruling invalidating the fda' 23 year old approval of th abortion pill, mifepristone. this was nothing short o devastating. the ruling effectively ban mifepristone and further restrict abortion access in ou country, even in states wher abortion is protected. now less than an hour afte that, ruling a judge i washington state issued contradictory ruling in anothe case, ordering the fda not t make changes to mifepristone access the justice department immediately appealed the rulin from the judge in texas to a higher court, the fifth circui and on wednesday, those judges concluded that the guy in texa was not wrong. -- the fifth circuit order di block the

i am symone sanders-townsend and i have something to say. no one is above the law. it is not just a slogan, it' an american principle that i supposed to guide the justic system a principle that's pursued accountability for everyon from billionaires, to hollywoo hot shots to members o congress, to capitol secretaries. there, governors to mayors but never for an american presiden current or former. that all changed on thursday when a manhattan grand jur took the historic step o indicting former president donald trump after a lengthy investigation led by manhattan district attorney, alvin bragg that case centers around alleged hush money payment, to adult film star stormy daniels during trump's 2016 campaign true sources familiar with the matter tell nbc news to expect about 30 charges related t document fraud here is what trump's attorney, joe tacopina told my today sho colleagues about the forme presidents response. >> he decided we have to fight now and he got into a typica donald trump posture where h is ready to be combative o something that he believes i an injus

. >> the family of ed townsend, marvin gaye's cowriter, accusing sheeran of copying the chord progression and other elements of "let's get it on." here is sharon's hit. musical physical and marvin gaye's ♪ ♪ >> sheeran denies the allegation, his lawyers plan to defend numbers on that both songs are based on a common chord progression. >> i'm sorry, this is ridiculous. just because something sounds a little bit like something else it doesn't mean it was stolen on purpose. four score and seven years ago, you never would have seen a lawsuit like this. i have a dream that someday nuisance lawsuits will come to an end. luke, i am your father. if anyone should be suing at sheeran, it's elvis. hyman, stealing a black guy's music was his idea. that is copyright infringement! [applause] i don't know how this is all going to turn out but if ed sheeran was smart he would try to move this marvin gaye traveled to florida, they refused to acknowledge anything gaye there. [applause] and finally, some exciting news out of the world of science. researchers are coming very close to answering one of mankind

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captain townsend was more than a mayor, he was a general in the mexican-american war. some say that the statue of him is a symbol of the oppression of mexicans and native americans. some say they are surprised to see this day arrive after fighting for it for so long. >> reporter: james dominguez couldn't believe what he saw this tuesday morning in san jose. >> this is awareness month, so it's a good start. >> reporter: it is an unofficial start to the council in downtown san jose. james is a member of the tribe and tells me that it is a relief to see this happening here. >> a lot of people have been ue iting and protesting ns >> repo: the de de in 2021 when the san jose city council voted to remove the sculpture. it is located at the downtown intersection of julius street and st. james street. it was installed in 1846 on what was then mexican land. he views it as disrespectful. >> we want to celebrate somebody who encouraged genocide and profit off the genocide of indigenous people here? >> reporter: so he waited and recorded every second while workers broke the concre

they will take over three floors and 30,000 square feet of a building on townsend street. they also get some rooftop space there. maybe a nice little happy hour. workers are not required yet to be back in the office in person, but a lot of workers are pretty excited about being able to collaborate face-to-face again. >> i am wanting to meet each other and to have face time and every time we talk to them, they tell us how energizing it was to come together and meet people and bump into people. those spontaneous interactions don't just happen. for us, it was more about how do we get that where we are want to be rather than forcing people to be there. >> the new office can accommodate up to 500 employees, which s.a.p. tells us is about 15% of the folks working in the bay area for the company. >>> all right. meteorologist kari hall is here. we were talking about a lot of heat yesterday. still a little heat today. but then a flum et. >> it's very wild looking at this forecast. >> it is. >> it's springtime so sometimes you get that battle of the air mass, and that's going to be

insight and analysis are, nbc correspondent laura jarrett, nawaz, brandon buck and simone sanders townsend, former chief spokesperson for kamala harris. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press". >> from nbc news in washington, the longest-running show in television history, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >>> and a good sunday morning. happy easter, passover and ramadan. the spring holidays are here. pope francis presided over a mass in the vatican st. peter's square, but he did ride through the crowd on this easter sunday morning to the cheers of many, but despite the celebrations this morning, let's be honest, this is no ordinary holiday week. in fact, come november of 2024, let me look back at this week as the most consequential to the future of the republican party and into the overall electoral politics for the dueling abortion rulings friday night to overt policy warfare in tennessee. the least consequential event may very well be the former president's legal troubles at least the manhattan case though it's still important, obviously. what's happened this week in texas and

townsend simply said. i prefer not to talk about it. cnn's isaac to vera is with us now, with his reporting isaac, the kennedy family. obviously they're going to rally around the president biden. i guess that's not a huge surprise, but , um, i go. what are they going to do about this? the kennedy family i guess they best they can do is just i say anything. i mean, this has been going on for years. rfk jr. moving away from where a lot of the family is on a lot of issues. lot of dispute within the family of where he is on vaccines. that's been an issue. he's also taking a stance about his father's assassins, their hunt sirhan wanting to see him paroled and maybe saying that he didn't shoot robert kennedy. so this is an ongoing thing that is now led to this situation and the family saying, hey, we love him. our myers past work, but we don't want anything to do with this. and i mean, obviously there are questions as to whether or not any of them should be taken seriously when it comes to rfk jr running for president at all, but i mean, what

at townsend , maryland. townsend is the first unionized apple store in the u. s. workers also claimed managers criticized union dues and the unionization process during these meetings. there's new research about dreams that you might want to know about. a harvard medical study revealed that recurring dreams could be tied to mental health. the study finds people with post traumatic stress disorder or anxiety or more likely to experiencing a drink experience a dream more than once. researchers say. the brain is trying to resolve whatever trauma has not been resolved. now tips to help do that include journaling or meditating before going to bed. well the easter rabbit is not the only bunny with an important job to do this time of year. this is officer percy, who just joined the yuba city police department as a wellness officer . rabbit was found by officer ashley carson last year at percy avenue and ub, ub city after a failed attempt to return the money to its owner, police services analyst adopted the animal. percy was granted this new position for his continuous su

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but general townsend and people like colonel pat work, who was a key person in the battle for west mosul. so i had that kind of access. but the embedding was with the partner forces. thank you. we mentioned policy secretary flournoy. you obviously, as cliff said, served as undersecretary of defense for policy in the obama administration from 2009 to 2012. and you're the the administration's then decision to withdraw u.s. forces from iraq in 2011 is an important antecedent. i'd say, to the events that michael describes in his book, before i ask michael to walk us through some of those key milestones and decisions from 2014 to 2019, i'm wondering if you be willing to provide your insights into the thinking and policy debates within the administration surrounding the 2011 iraq withdrawal. let me start by saying, first of all, congratulate michael and how important i think books like this are, because as americans, we too often are in a hurry to get conflicts in the rearview mirror and not to actually pause and try to learn lessons from them so that we capture what works. we from what doesn'

we saw air raids against anti townsend communities in the suburbs of baghdad. so we rebelled against the invaders. what else could we do? there was not a single shred of freedom of democracy in the actions are religious laid as openly cold. dom invite us, our politicians at the time sided with the americans turning against their own people. that's what our country looked like for a while. sad. oh, so like i said, my brother was one of the 1st to be arrested at the time i was filming the developments in various neighborhoods in baghdad on apple straight and on high for straight. like we filmed our people being arrested and murdered. we had 40 showing sniper's push on the roofs of hype. a straight gunning people down like cattle. how is that freedom and democracy and the rocky government wouldn't lift a finger? many of us were killed, murdered in cold blood. some would kidnap yes, they kidnapped people. there were people in civilian clothes, we didn't know who they were or whether they worked for the americans. when the arrests started, we could no longer sleep s