first, yasmin vossoughian continues our coverage. ♪ ♪ >>> good afternoon, everybody. yasmin vossoughian coming to you from msnbc world headquarters on a busy labor day weekend. we got a legal victory for planned parenthood in the state of texas but is it enough to stop the toughest abortion law in the country from taking effect? we are live in austin with that report. >>> then the death toll still rising in the northeast here while louisiana deals with a power crisis that is expected to last beyond this holiday weekend. we expect to hear from the louisiana governor this hour as well. >>> new reaction to kevin mccarthy blatant attempt to meddle with the work of the january 6th committee and new insight into what the house minority leader may want to keep his colleagues from finding out. >>> early voting centers opening today in california as well. millions of mail-in ballots already sent in. the latest on the california recall effort. >>> also this hour, i told you it was busy, a special report. charges in the death of elijah mcclain at the hands of police this week. s

i'm yasmin vossoughian. if you are still with us, thanks for sticking with us. if you are just joining us, welcome. as our coverage of the 20th anniversary of the september 11th terrorist attacks continues, we are beginning this hour with a special look at the personal experiences of muslim-americans from 9/11 to now. i want to play for you more of the discussion that i had this week with a diverse group of muslim-americans. they spoke to me about how they have seen islamophobia in their own lives and how they hope to see awareness shift, an inflection point now and in the future. let's listen. >>> my heart just dropped and the first thought that i had was, god, please don't make it muslims. i can't bear if this is done by people who call themselves muslim. >> just feeling like fear and, you know, in the pit of my stomach, one, for my family in new york but also what i felt were just there. >> with my parents living in texas, in a small town, a farming town, i was really worried about their safety in the immediate aftermath because of the post-9/11, you know, an

i'm yasmin vossoughian. we have a lot going on. senator joe manchin hitting the sunday stores, making a public case against the price tag for a reconciliation bill, supported by a vast majority of his democratic colleagues, threatening to derail a wish list of priorities. >>> president george w. bush's attack on domestic extremism, championed by president trump. >>> and the new threat over president biden's covid battle plan, including vaccine mandates impacting millions. >>> in our next hour, a sign of the depths that we have gotten to when it comes to pandemic politics. >> this time last year, my grandmother, who was a former teacher at the rutherford county school system died of covid, because someone wasn't wearing a mask. this is a very -- >> shut up. >> that is a teenager in tennessee debt laughed at and mocked while talking about his grandmother's death and need for mask. that teen will join me coming up. we begin this hour with tension within the democratic party. he's dug his heels in saying $5.35 trillion plan will be pas

i'm yasmin vossoughian. i will see you next weekend.olitics nation." >>> good evening, and welcome to "politics nation." tonight's lead, code red. >> we have got to listen to the

i'm yasmin vossoughian. we have a lot going on.ag for a reconciliation bill, supported by a vast majority of his democratic colleagues, threatening to derail a wish list of priorities. >>> president george w. bush's attack on domestic extremism, championed by president trump. >>> and the new threat over president biden's covid

i'm yasmin vossoughian, coming to you live from washington, d.c.ved up to its billing. plus we have new efforts by the biden administration to deal with a massive surge of haitian migrants at the border. new reaction to the pentagon's admission and apology for a drone strike that hit afghan civilians including seven children. >>> and then there's the latest fallout to an fda panel's decision denying booster shots to most americans and we're just a couple hours away from splashdown for the latest historic leap by spacex. more on that ahead. we're going to begin, though, at the u.s. capitol where hundreds have gathered in support of the

on the ground for us in washington is nbc's yasmin vossoughian and allison barber. allison, you are across from the location of the rally. what are you hearing from the folks that gathered behind you? >> reporter: so walk with me a little and i'll give you a sense of how things are on the ground. there's pretty heavy pockets of police presence, capitol police in riot gear scattered throughout. for the most part the crowd, they're right over here. you have a couple hundred people who have gathered here to be part of this protest, this rally. if we keep walking this way you can get a better sense of how far this goes. take a second, just so we can walk a little better and get a little bit of movement here. yes, by our best count you have a couple hundred people who have arrived at the rally. you have capitol police in a very big show of force, obviously. remember, this is not something that we saw on january 6th. capitol police have said that they feel like they're well prepared for this. the big point is that they did not want to take any sort of chance or risk becau

first, yasmin vossoughian continues our coverage. ♪ ♪ >>> good afternoon, everybody.ters on a busy labor day weekend. we got a legal victory for planned parenthood in the state of texas but is it enough to stop the toughest abortion law in the country from taking effect? we are live in austin with that report. >>> then the death toll still rising in the northeast here while louisiana deals with a power crisis that is expected to last beyond this holiday weekend. we expect to hear from the louisiana governor this hour as well. >>> new reaction to kevin mccarthy blatant attempt to meddle with the work of the january 6th committee and new insight into what the house minority

i'm yasmin vossoughian. the future of abortion rights is front and center and under attack. a texas law allowed to stand for now by the supreme court is sparking a race to the bottom. republican governors around the country trying to duplicate or even surpass the law's impact. for those in the lone star state, the law has effectively ended abortion in the state as its citizen bounty hunter provisions encourage neighbors to inform on neighbors. >> we're talking about $10,000 as an incentive to sit in a parking lot, write down someone's license, take pictures of people, like that's -- that's insane. and you know, and really, you know, they do it without -- they know they've stripped away access to our constitutional right to make decisions for our own selves and that's really, really abominable. >> so in a moment i'm going to talk to congresswoman dina titus, co-sponsor of a bill that would enshrine the protection of roe v. wade nationwide. i'm going ask her if there's a plan to get that bill through the senate. also this hour, senator joe manchin again setting off a grenade i

yasmin vossoughian.ghian secretary mayorkas made the announcement while testifying before the house homeland security committee. the hearing focused on threats to the home land. right now, more than 8,000 migrants are encamped at the u.s./mexico border in del rio, texas. most are from haiti. morgan chesky is there. >> reporter: this morning, more than 8,000 migrants are waking up in limbo yet again on the texas border. the makeshift camp of mostly haitian men, women and children is shrinking. those left knowing they could be deported back to the island nation some left years ago. officials say more than a,000 haitian adults and families have already been sent back to haiti. on a tuesday flight, three i.c.e. agents were assaulted ar after a number of recently deported haitian men rushed a plane that just landed. governor greg abbott putting blame for the crisis squarely on president biden. >> the only thing they've shown is incapability of dealing with this crisis. it is total chaos. and the biden adminis

. >>> good afternoon, i'm lindsey reiser in for yasmin vossoughian. the clock is ticking on capitol hill. behind the scenes, negotiations are going on right now on a deal that could make or break president biden's agenda. donald trump is just hours away from a rally in georgia, which follows a flurry of lies about the results of a sham audit from his own supporters that proved again that joe biden won arizona. and by an even bigger margin. the latest on the search for the missing fiance of murdered woman, gabby petito. >>> and a bombshell claim in a new documentary about britney spears, how far her father allegedly went to spy on her. >>> we're also following late-breaking news on covid. a judge steps in to stop new york city's requirements for teachers to be vaccinated just days before it was set to start. >>> plus, chaos on the set. >> i need the two of you to step off for a second. >> ana and -- >> we're going to bring you in later. >> okay. >> and we'll tell you why. >> more information later. it's a tease. >> we'll tell you why in a couple of min

i'm yasmin vossoughian. i'll be back tomorrow at 3:00 p.m. eastern in new york.th the rev starts right now. >>> good evening and welcome to "politicsnation." tonight's lead, no remorse. right now i cannot stress the depth of the white privilege that was on

i'm yasmin vossoughian. i'll be back in the chair tomorrow 3:00 p.m. eastern. "politicsnation" with reverend al sharpton starts right now. >>> welcome to "politicsnation." tonight's lead, ripple effects. the nation has seen a full generation mature in the shadow of an indiscriminate tragedy. and right now the white house is still commemorating the 20th anniversary of the september 11th attacks. president biden punctuating his tour of the attack sites from that awful day with calls for national reflection and, at this point, unity. >> the core of who we are is not divided. everybody says, biden, why do you keep insisting on trying to bring the country together? that's going to affect your well-being more than anything else. >> president biden's predecessor striking a less unifying tone today, releasing a video where he talks about 9/11 for less than 30 seconds and spends a full minute and a half attacking biden by name for an afghanistan withdrawal policy that began during his own presidency. the former guy made it his own separate visit to new york city first r

i'm yasmin vossoughian.extraordinary act of civil disobedience by a texas doctor facing a law that all but eliminated abortions in the state. >> that is why, on the morning of september 6, i provided an abortion to a woman who, though still in her first trimester, was beyond the state's new limit. >> what that public revelation in the papers of "the washington post" means for the fight over the law and for that doctor personally. that discussion coming up in a moment. >>> also this hour, how much are progressive democrats willing do give up in the reconciliation bill to make senator manchin happy? >> we are 50 votes. we have to work it out as we did with the american rescue plan but i have made and my colleagues have made a major compromise going from 6 trillion don to 3.5 trillion. >> will talk to democratic congressman kildee and the reaction to this weekend's anemic capitol hill rally by extremists. >>> also coming up, aoc and provocation. the dress that set off debate on both sides of the aisle this week

i'm yasmin vossoughian. i'll be back tomorrow at 3:00 p.m. eastern in new york. "politicsnation" with the rev starts right now. >>> good evening and welcome to "politicsnation." tonight's lead, no remorse. right now i cannot stress the depth of the white privilege that was on display today on capitol hill. and by that i'm referring to the so-called justice for j6 rally where hundreds of protesters advocated without irony that the thugs who desecrated our national state house in the world's view should not face their deserved prosecution for attacking police officers or destroying the definition of public property. because they were victims then and now, political prisoners. as always, we have a lot of news to cover tonight, but i need you to know why today's rally disgusted me to no end. in the last decades where we've marched and protested, just take the last few years when we protested, whether it was around george floyd's murder last year in minneapolis or michael brown's killing by a policeman in ferguson, missouri, and some were out looting and destroying pr

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i'm yasmin vossoughian. i will see you next weekend. i am going to turn it over now to reverend al sharpton and "politics nation." >>> good evening, and welcome to "politics nation." tonight's lead, code red. >> we have got to listen to the scientists, and the economists, and the national security experts. they all tell us this is code red. the nation and the world are in peril. >> right now, i fear for the world. my 3-year-old -- just about 3-year-old grandchild will inherit. by that, i mean the planet itself. in ten days, the hottest summer in recorded history for much of the world will come to an end. but not after thousands have died from extreme heat, or the effects of extreme weather. america has certainly not been spared. the federal announcement coming this weekend that this past summer was our hottest ever documented between the two coasts. as more record-setting wildfires in california have fed so much smoke into the air that neighboring states have been debilitated. many of which are suffering under yet another brutal heat wa

i'm yasmin vossoughian. we have a lot to cover. breaking news out of texas. a military aircraft crashing into homes in a resident sh area. we will have the latest on that. >>> new developments in the case of a missing woman and the now vanished fiancee as a person of interest in the case. >>> a crucial week about to begin on capitol hill with a shutdown looming over the size and scope of the reconciliation bill. all sides making the case today. >>> fallout from the much smaller than expected capitol hill rally. what the turnout says about the extremist movement in the gop. >>> next hour, an extraordinary act of civil disobediences and the facts of restrictive abortion bill in texas. >> that is why on the morning of september 6 i provided an abortion to a woman who though still in her first trimester was beyond the state's new limit. >> a doctor going public there with his challenge to the texas law daring anti-abortion rights to sue him. we'll have much more on that. major conversation top of the 4:00 hour. >>> we do want to begin with that breaking news out

my friend yasmin vossoughian continues our coverage. ♪ ♪ >>> good afternoon, everybody. covering this afternoon as the country is marking the 20th anniversary of 9/11. the president is doing so by visiting three sacred sites, ground zero, shanksville, pennsylvania with a visit to the pentagon coming up soon as well. former president donald trump skipping the ground zero ceremony but has now made his way to new york city for unannounced visits to meet with police officers and firefighters. this is only coming though after the former president used the occasion of 9/11 to launch a video attack on his successor on the day other former presidents used for somber reflection. we're going to get to more on that ahead. >>> plus, new unhinged reactions from the right to president biden's new vaccine mandates. >>> and the latest outraged response to the texas governor's comments about rape while defending his state's abortion law. >>> plus, a look at what it is like to be muslim in american since 9/11. >>> who has experienced islamophobia since 9/11? >> at one point a guidance cou

>>> good to be with you, i'm yasmin vossoughian. as we were coming on the air, we are awaiting a major decision that could come at any moment now, one of the final hurdles before booster shots start going into the arms of americans age 65 and older and those at high risk as well. the fda has already given that green light. now it's the cdc's turn. even as those advisers debate the need, their own boss, does he say director rochelle walensky continues to push for the unvaccinated to get their first shots. she also said today she's not surprised that so many people are hold out because of how misinformation has actually crept in. >> i do think if we had community health workers in so many communities that have been vaccine hesitant now, that have been checking diabetes and checking blood pressure control and doing all of those things when it came time to vaccinate, it would have been a no-brainer, they would have easily been able to convince their communities to get vaccinated. they have been trusted health providers. >> so the u.s. i

i'm yasmin vossoughian. the future of abortion rights is front and center and under attack. a race to the bottom. republican governors around the country trying to duplicate or even surpass the law's impact. for those in the lone star state, the law has effectively ended abortion in the state as its citizen bounty hunter provisions encourage neighbors to inform on neighbors. >> we're talking about $10,000 as an incentive to sit in a parking lot, write down

and yasmin vossoughian continues the coverage now. >>> good afternoon, everybody. we have a lot to cover in two hours ahead. there is a lot happening this weekend. breaking news out of florida, a family murdered including an infants in its mother's arms. and a suspect in custody but the motive still a mystery. we'll have the latest on that. >>> and millions of americans set to lose unemployment benefits in a matter of hours as the biden administration works to get them help before it is too late. new outrage over kevin mccarthy and attempts to rewrite history. why the january 6 committee is firing back over comments about donald trump. >>> and as president biden prepares to visit more scenes of weather disaster, the ugly truth that america is not prepared for climate change having an impact right now. but we do want to begin with a tragic news out of the state of florida. polk county to be specific. where four people including one baby as young as three months of age are dead after a shooting rampage at a home there. officers say the suspect who is now in custody f

i bring in yasmin vossoughian in manville, new jersey, gary is in mullica hill and vaughn hillyard ahead of the visit to louisiana. yasmin we showed a little bit of governor in you are fee looking at some of the extreme flooding where you are and he's issued this warning now. he was out on the "today" show this morning, said we are not out of the woods yet. what are you seeing? >> reporter: not out of the woods yet. he's exactly right because a lot of the homes and i'll show you one of them a lot of flooding in the basement. pse&g wanted to shut off all the electric in the homes surrounding this area where i'm standing. the two homes behind me, one of them completely blew up. the other one in front of it, the smoke -- >> still smoking. >> reporter: it's actually bothering my eyes. it happened overnight. the one in front lit on fire because of the electric that was still there obviously with the flooding and then pouring onto the electric system that's why these houses actually lit up. why the governor says this, so many of the homes still have a lot of water inside them and the electrici

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yasmin vossoughian is in manville, new jersey, about 40 miles southwest of new york city. and morgan chesky is in louisiana right now. morgan, we'll start with you. the president is in that briefing right now with local and state officials. soon he is going to visit a neighborhood in the town of laplace outside of new orleans. what is the president going to see when he gets there? >>> what he's likely to see is a miserable site. as we speak, there are still streets under water there. we know those winds have lessened somewhat by the time it hit laplace, but the water wreaked so much havoc in that community and we're still very much in an active recovery mode right now. there are still upwards of hundreds of thousands of people left in the dark. we do know that here outside of new orleans, one of the main providers says the power will come back on in the city of new orleans by september 8th. consider the countless communities closer to the gulf that are left with limited food, water, fuel and still without power indefinitely. that is what the president is likely to witness

. >> shannon pettypiece, and ellison barber and yasmin vossoughian, i thank you all. >>> and now, we will go to hear from secretary of state to hear the taliban has full control of the country after eliminating a threat in the final place in the valley. so tell us, courtney kube, about this final pocket of resistance. >> yes, there was a pocket of resistance in the panjshir valley, and this is a historic place where there has been a resistance and led in this case by the old northern alliance group. many people may have heard of ahmed massoud who is a famed guerrilla warfare leader in afghanistan who fought against the soviets in 1980s, and he is well known. he was assassinated right before september 11th, and his son is leading the resistance movement. and the taliban are saying they have taken this area back, but we are not hearing the same from the resistance movement, but it is a small group, and some of them are well trained, and even are actually some members of the ghani government who are part of this, but they did not have any outside support, and the question we have been a

earlier today, my friend, yasmin vossoughian, spoke to the ia organizer of that rally. here -- here is a little bit of what he had to say.he and obviously, we all saw ha january 6th unfold so i want -- i want you to watch this. >> many innocent people, we believe, were swept up and have been overcharged disproportionate to the way they have been treated in the past. o >> you feel the people that stormed the capitol, that walked into the capitol -- >> the exact same way the people who did that with alexandria ocasio-cortez and the same people who did it with kavanaugh. or >> but alexandria ocasio-cortez, they didn't break windows. they didn't storm into the capitol building. >> we're not talking about people who broke doors and broke windows. look the people who did that with kavanaugh knew they shouldn't be there, too. they had to be arrested and dragged out. they were not turned into le t domestic terrorists. >> michael, what do you make of this whitewashing of -- of -- of history here? you -- you have the organizer here and you have others who are calling these people

i'm morgan radford in for yasmin vossoughian on this very busy sunday afternoon.vote that could come tomorrow. plus we'll have the latest on a deadly train derailment in montana that left three dead. this as the frantdic manhunt for the fiancee continues for gabby petito. >>> the stark warning from a mother as pediatric covid cases surge and details on the latest moves by the commit tee investigating the january insurrection. all that and much more coming up right here on msnbc. >>> we begin the hour in our nation's capital where democrats led by speaker nancy pelosi are gearing up for a major week. there's a note on the infrastructure bill and the negotiations for the reconciliation package. this is all while trying to prevent a government shutdown. house democrats are set to meet tomorrow to hammer all the specifics but speaker pelosi made it clear this morning on abc news to only bring bills to the floor if she has the votes. >> are you confident the progressive members will vote yes? >> let me just say we'll pass the bill this week but i'm never bringing a bil

and yasmin vossoughian continues the coverage now. >>> good afternoon, everybody. there is a lot happening this weekend. breaking news out of florida, a family murdered including an infant

i'm yasmin vossoughian, coming to you live from washington, d.c. we're going to have the latest on whether it lived up to its billing. plus we have new efforts by the biden administration to deal with a massive surge of haitian migrants at the border. new reaction to the pentagon's admission and apology for a drone strike that hit afghan civilians including seven children. >>> and then there's the latest fallout to an fda panel's decision denying booster shots to most americans and we're just a couple hours away from splashdown for the latest historic leap by spacex. more on that ahead. we're going to begin, though, at the u.s. capitol where hundreds have gathered in support of the pro trump mob that stormed the capitol building on january 6th. nbc's elson barber on the ground with the latest for us. it seems at this point, right, the rally is now over. we were out there together a little while ago. how have things transpired since then? >> reporter: yeah, let me just let you look with me to show the kind of little bit that is left of the police pr

we're going to begin with yasmin vossoughian. tell us what's going on where you are at that rally. >> reporter: the crowd has picked up. we were here earlier today and there was no one in sight aside from some press. now the crowd has picked up. let me show you a little bit of what i'm seeing so you can get a sense of the crowd. you see the stage. the organizer of justice for j-6, he was a former trump operative, worked underneath corey lewandowski when he was the campaign manager for then-candidate donald trump. he's the organizer of this rally. he's going to be speaking in just a moment. i spoke to him a little bit earlier to ask him what he thought about the turnout and he admitted because he understands that one of the reasons why he decided to have this rally here was because he wanted to get as much press attention as possible. i asked him, why would you want to have a rally at such a political place, understanding what took place on january 6th, understanding how politicized it is, how so many people have ptsd if they were

. ♪ >>> good to be with you, i'm yasmin vossoughian.that could come at any moment now, one of the final hurdles before booster shots start going into the arms of americans age 65 and older and those at high risk as well. the fda has already given that green light. now it's the cdc's turn. even as those advisers debate the need, their own boss, does he say

. >> joining us now are the msnbc anchor yas mean vossoughian, and michelle grossman is here with the latest, and anne thompson, and so, yasmin, what is the situation right now? >> well, first, geoff, it is something that you see when you come to the communities devastated by floodings, storms or earthquakes or storm, and you have seen it, it is all-hands-on-deck for the community, and the volunteers out with the yellow hats and the shop vacs coming to folks knowing that the houses here along the roadway were completely flooded. this street was totally and absolutely flooded. at 5:00 they were bringing the generators and that, because there is no power here. let me walk you here, and before i do, i want you to swing around, j.p., and show you this car here. this tesla here, it does not belong to this house, geoff. it floated from the neighbor's house to the front of this house in the middle of the night. the own over this tesla lives in ground floor of this house, and he had to crawl out of his window to get to the higher ground, because the water was overwhelming the resident, and now i want to show you that if you will roll