Federal holiday to further the liberal agenda about critical race theory. His colleague representative ralph norman who voted against it said are we going to do one for the nativeamerican indians? where does it stop? reporter: for the record it s a day to celebrate the emancipation of enslaved people in the u. S. Perhaps what they should be pondering is why did it take 156 years to make it a national holiday? coming in at number 4, 21 house republicans, some of them said they didn t like the word insurrection in the legislation, but apparently there wasn t a dictionary nearby. Insurrection described as a violent up rising against an authority or government. Sound familiar? just this week one of the rioters was charged with bringing a gun onto capitol grounds. This is the same guy who according to what his family told the fbi said he d kill them if they turned him in. Coming in at number 3, freshman republican andrew cline who already downplayed the whole thing, conceding there was an u
What else has to happen in this country? plus a war in gauze is president biden s first foreign policy test. I m praying the cease fire will hold. And donald trump promises new maga rallies this summer even as criminal investigations ramp up. This is a scary moment for donald trump and the trump organization. Inside politics, the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters, now. Welcome to inside politics sunday. I m abby philip. A commission to investigate the insurrection should be a bipartisan issue but inside congress the idea may be dead on arrival thanks to republican in senate who promise to block the bill when it comes to a vote. Are they going to join us in pursuing the truth or are they going to cover for donald trump and his big lie? in the house, 35 house republicans broke ranks in favor of the commission when democrats conceded to most of their demands but there were plenty of no votes mainly driven by fear of one man, expresident donald trump, who predictably slammed th
First, bryan llenas is in guatemala city and filed this report. Good afternoon. Kamala harris said she believes making guatemala her first foreign trip is symbolic enough to show how serious she s taking the border crisis at the u. S. Southern border. 127,000 guatemalans made their way to the border. Standing next to guatemala s president, this is what she had to say. The president and i share a firm belief that our responsibility and our capacity is to give people a sense of hope. I want to be clear to folks in this region that are thinking about making that dangerous trek to the united statesmexico border. Do not come. Do not come. The united states will continue to enforce our laws and secure our border. They are legal methods by which migration can and should occur. But we as one of our priorities will discourage illegal migration. And i believe if you come to our border, you will be turned back. The vice president believes that investing some $4 billion to guatemala will help add
And to the judge in the chauvin case says congresswoman maxine waters may have given the defense something for an appeal that could even overturn the case. We have fox team coverage tonight, chad pergram on the hill, with the joe biden administration and other capital leaders are saying about to the comments, but we start with matt finn in minneapolis, the jury has the case and attends minneapolis awaits. Good evening, matt. Hi, bret, the jury is expected to deliberate until 7:00 p. M. Tonight and it was a very long day in court, hours and hours of closing arguments. Right now this area is relatively calm, there is a growing presence of demonstrators outside, but in general this area has been calm for days and weeks now. We have been saying that downtown minneapolis area feels like a ghost town. The early days of the lockdown last year, businesses in this area are boarded up. Around the corner we can see more businesses and corporate offices putting up boards in the final hours, bret.
may be tired of fighting radical islam, they are not tired of you. we ll speak with abigail spanberger. and johnson & johnson covid vaccine temporarily shut down. we ll tell you what you need to know about its safety. welcome to inside politics sunday, i m abby phillip and to our viewers in the united states and around the world, thank you for spending part of your weekend with us. the united states is reflecting on a week marked by violence. a mass shooting in indianapolis, a 20-year-old black man shot dead by police, body cam video showing an officer fatally shooting a 13-year-old who had his hands up. all as the verdict in the derek chauvin trial could come this week. the gun violence has not spared big cities or small towns. and just last night there were two more mass shootings, bringing the total to at least 47 in the past month. and in the town of brooklyn center, near minneapolis, a community again is in mourning. 20-year-old daunte wright was shot dead by an of