June is pride month, a time to celebrate the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and Trasngender Community and their struggle for equal rights. Organizers chose june as pride month to honor the 1969 stonewall riots in new york city. They were a series of uprisings by the Gay Community against police raids of the stonewall inn, a popular gay bar in greenwich village. The riots are considered the start of the modern gay rights movement. President trump marked pride month this year with a tweet celebrating lgbt rights, becoming the first republican president to acknowledge pride month. But just a month earlier his administration had effectively banned transgendered people from the military. Stacey long simmons is the director of advocacy and action at the national Lgbtq Task Force. Its so nice to have you with us. Stacey thank you, so nice to be here. Soledad thank you. Those two things are in complete contradiction so assess for me i pride month is kind of a low bar but assess for me how you would s
Georgia. This week, willis, her staff and the grand jurors that did to hold Trump Accountable for her actions or verbally attacked by the former president and authorities on alert in georgia, as those attacks have echoed by Trump Supporters calling for violence on social media. And for nearly every one of trumps competitors for the 2024 republican president ial nomination, even this latest indictment has not been caused enough for a Fuel Repudiation of the former president or his actions. That may be put to the test on wednesday, as the gop holds its first primary debate without trumps participation, as he faces a friday deadline for his mandated surrender to Law Enforcement authorities in Fulton County. The politics, the people, and the peril facing them over trumps fourth and department. All of that tonight on politicsnation. But first, i want to update you on the latest happening now with Hurricane Hilary. They says hilary remains a category three, churning off Mexicos Pacific coast
it just with came up. 20 seconds later, it was gone. total chaos. glass breaking out everywhere. first one i have been in. severe storms sweeping through the south. at least 10 are dead, more than a million without power. a look at the damage and where the system is this morning. the white house rolls out another $400 million in aid as fighting continues into eastern part of the country. our alex marquardt with a look at the battle. not a murder. alex murdaugh will spend the rest of his life in riz. reaction from his attorneys and what s next for murdaugh, who still faces dozens of charges. plus public drag shows are now illegal in tennessee. it s the latest in a string of laws targeting the lgbtq community. the impact those laws are having coming up on cnn this morning. this morning, more than 1.3 million people are without power in the eastern united states as a deadly storm system continues to move north. in the last 24 hours, at least 10 people were killed i
how the lab leak theory is picking up steam. reporter: another covid report, 300 pages. the big take away is this statement. the preponderance of information affirms the possibility of a research related incident that was likely unintentional resulting from failures of biosafety containment during vaccine related research. relies on that scientists that have yet to discover any sort of naturally occurring viruses that are similar in composition to covid-19. furthermore, the report argues researchers in china started on at least two covid vaccines in november of 2019 before the pandemic. and that there are also safety concerns at that very lab. this is how the senator of kansas released the report interprets the fighting. i want to emphasize i think this leak was unintentional. they had no reason that they wanted to release this virus. i would hope for the best. we have to assume the worst. reporter: fbi director wray christopher wray said the virus most likely came fro
of presidential immunity and a quest to avoid being held accountable for the january 6 insurrection. the reset, president biden is with his family at camp david amid the new reports of concern over his debate performance as his own party continues to worry if he can or should go to the distance. biden harris campaign national cochair congressman jim clyburn and former alabama senator doug jones are here to discuss this looming consequential week. as we end month of pride celebrations around the country, i will talk to the leaders of top lgbtq+ organizations about challenges facing the community including a new warning about a potential threat to marriage equality. i am jonathan capehart this is the sunday show. tomorrow is a big day for american democracy and the power of the president of the united states. for tomorrow■ç on the final day of its term the supreme court will issue its long-awaited decision on donald trump s claim of presidential immunity in his federal