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Rights, but we focused on this policing act, which was stalled in the senate since passing the house in june. now, according to grio.com, senator manchin and tim scot will meet next week to discuss, while president biden is leaning on manchin and senator kyrsten sinema to abandon the filibuster so this bill, along with voting rights protections, can pass without any republican support. can you explain to our audience the political strategy and the urgency behind all of this sudden activity? >> r...

Speak up in our classrooms because students are being affected by this. i thi we need to have a bigger opinion and more topics on how we can help change this. >> nice to talk to both of you. very important topic at the grio.com. president trump went after james comey, andrew mccabe and robert muellers team, accusing comey of lying under oath, mccabe of fake memos and questioning robert muellers team. let me start with one thing that the president tweeted this morning. he said the mueller probe...

This week tens of thousands of students from across the country joined the students of parkland high school to walk out for a 17-minute protest. it brought together students from all backgrounds to call for gun control legislation. some students pointed out the gun reform debate has largely ignored how media responds. how race, poverty and police violence affect how we address gun reform. joining me, the chief content officer, amy barnett, who created t created it. its great to have both of you ...

When you think aarp, then you dont know "aarp" find more surprising possibilities and get to know us at aarp.org/possibilities welcome back. im melissa harris-perry. its graduation season. yesterday first lady michelle obama delivered the commencement address at us the ke ghee university and spoke about the tuskeegee airmen. >> instead of being defined by discrimination and doubts of those around them they became one of the most successful -- >> on friday we saw another according to a report o...

Live election process the more critical people are going to be. >> joined now by democrat strategist and political analyst and contributor at grio.com. bob what do the latest numbers tell us, if they tell us anything about democratic voters. >> that the press wants a contest and they are really going to promote one hard. >> really. >> yep they want one. number two some people on the left want a contest to challenge hillary clinton. if you look inside the pole it is 63% of self side eye fidenti c...

Legislation next week followed by a mark up the week after that. im joined now by jane clebb of bold nebraska and zerlina maxwell of the grio.com. does this signify in a serious way -- not thats there was a chance -- that the president will not work with boehner, that the house and the executive office are not going to see eye oh eye for the rest of the term? >> this puts the last nail in the coffin. nobody else was under the illusion that this house was able to pass legislation that helps peopl...

Roots. i will also be part of the festivities with members of the msnbc family. they can join the growing hope conversation and share your hope for change in our communities. joining me, the grio.com editor chris witherspoon who will be at the festival and also wrote about my natural hair on the grio. the essence festival. why is this so popular? >> it started out fairly small and now its getting bigger and bigger. its now the largest live event in the country. its amazing. 543,000 attendees as ...

Questions. of course he has declined. joining us tonight from the grio.com. zerlina, great to have you with us. he says there is a danger here that the definition and interpretation of sexual assault would become too broad. i would like your response to that. >> i think what hes trying to get at is he thinks that there is an epidemic of false rape allegations. so by broadening the definition of sexual assault to include unwanted touching which is when you touch someone without their consent whic...

New laws aimed at restricting voting rights. yesterday, the president presented himself as a product of the civil rights act of 1964. >> because of the laws president johnson signed, new doors of opportunity and education swung open for everybody. not all at once, but they swung open for you and for me, and that is why i am standing here today, because of those efforts, because of that legacy. >> let me bring in goldie taylor from grio.com, and james taylor is a director of african-american stud...

Turn it around to where its more based off constitution. not socialism. >> mitch, i dare you to debate. i dare you to debate him. step up and be a man and debate him. >> we dont have any information on that mans hat. but i can tell that you there is a battle brewing in the bluegrass state. but not your average rank and file republican. hes the highest ranking republican, mitch mcconnell. and at least for now, the far right and democrats are united in an effort that has been dubbed very simply di...