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now. it is turning out to be an unusual news day which may be in part a function of the holiday i dont think so i think it is just turning out to be an unusual news day. this remarkable search and rescue operation is still underway about 370 miles off the coast of new foundland in the north atlantic a sub marine is an autonomous submersible, as opposed to a sub marine, goes under the water but it is not autonomous it has to use a ship or a surface platform as a kind of home base to whi...

g getting up "way too early" on this monday morning. "morning joe" starts right now. donald trumps position on the national debt is identical to joe bidens. >> there have been promises made about draining the swamp, building the wall, doing all these things you know, none of that came to fruition. >> he is a child when someone disagrees with him. >> he engages in reckless conduct. >> i dont need to read the indictment or believe its allegations are true, though im pretty confident th...

on board. one pilot. four tourists. the company leading this tour is ocean gate expeditions. type of sub they used is pictured here. the dive takes customers to see the wreck which sits 12,500 feet beneath the oceans surface. theyre stuck down there somewhere. the company has yet to comment on the report or confirm whether one of their subs is currently missing. the coast guard, though, telling us that the rescue operation is way off the coast of newfoundland, canada 900 miles east of ...

ship or surface platform of some kind as a kind of home base of which it is linkedch the vehicle that has been lost, that theyre looking for right now is the ship from which it launched lost contact with it yesterday about an hour and 45 minutes after it45 started a dive. the dive was supposed to be about 2 1/2 hours down, 3 hours on the bottom of the ocean, and another 2 hours back. so it was supposed to be about 8 hours beneath the waves, but about an hour and three quarters into tha...

that is testimony from mike pences former adviser regarding former president donald trumps repeated efforts to get pence to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. we will hear much more of the key moments from yesterdays january 6th hearing, including the vice presidents close call with the mob, very close call that day. and the pardon request from the architect of the presidents election scheme. plus, new reporting that the house select committee now wants to talk t...

Was not a place for the faint hearted to brave integration it was a little first grade girl who did it she got great grades she was great in school. she went on to be a ph.d. historian. she wrote the hemmings of monticello for which she won the pulitzer prize in history. shes a university professor at harvard. when you hear someone say a university professor, that is a big deal she is a pulitzer prize winner she is a texan and she is the author most recently of the book "on juneteenth." joining ...

Gordon reed elementary school in texas. she is a texan and the author most recently on the book "on juneteenth." joining us now is annette gordon reed. im really grateful youre able to join us tonight. thank you so much. >> thank you for inviting me. im glad to be here. >> let me ask you first, i feel like youve done so much in your scholarship and in your writing to explain and sort of paint a portrait of juneteenth in texas and in texas history and texas communities. i want to t ask you how yo...

Thats what weve done since 1865 is keep going in the case of a lot of recalcitrance, unnecessary and unfortunate recaltrance. >> the author most recently of "on juneteenth," pulitzer prizewinningul historian. and as i said the namesake of annette gordon reed elementary school in texas. >> thank you for inviting me. >> i appreciate it. weve got much more ahead tonight. do stay with us. do stay with us. d tonight. do stay with us.

The idea that this is settled as a matter of something where we all agree as a country that this is something we will celebrate and commemorate. there is a story i saw in the mississippi free press that in mississippi, state offices were open today a couple months ago, when mississippi celebrates the state holiday of confederate memorial day, they closed so state offices closed for confederate day but open for junteenth. >> its not surprising but it is disheartening. you have to keep going in th...

On this Juneteenth we celebrate freedom from slavery, but we also remember the tragic...