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First juneteenth celebration honoring the end of slavery. >> we will have a dance group, african dancers, live deejay, vendors and food and we will end the night with fireworks. >> reporter: the deputy mayor is excited to show off how many is different in the village of roughly 6,300, now 78% black. >> it is our hope that people will see us for who we are today and recognize that, you know, things have changed. we may not be perfect, but were not who we used to be. >> reporter: but the celebrati...

Live through now. >> a historic day in south carolina as governor nikki haley signs a bill to remove the con federal battle flag from state house grounds. >> historic day in south carolina. the confederate flag is down, but the fight is not over. >> for all of us who had grown up in the shadow of this con federal battle flag here in columbia, it will be an emotional day. after more than 50 years, the flag will be taken down in a short but solemn ceremony. joining me now is the man you saw ther...

>> joining us now is nbc news political correspondent ali vitale. ali, this is an early start to the primary. tell us what you collected yesterday in your reporting, including what happened on that stage a couple hours ago. >> reporter: very early start to our conversations about 2024, but i hope youll allow me, as a fellow politico, because moving over all of this is the shadow of the former president donald trump. you saw it there in the clip you just showed, mike pence having a higher tightro...

But delta does cast a little bit of a shadow. >> were heading into, god willing, the summer of joy, a summer of freedom. >> reporter: but will the delta variant, which recently ravaged india, become the dominant strain here in the u.s.? >> i anticipate that will be the predominant variant in the month ahead. >> reporter: over in britain, this more contagious variant now accounts for 99% of new cases. what does that actually look like? well, case counts there are rising, but death rates are not. ...

Personality as a factor in foreign affairs. i am joined now by biden biographer and cnn contributor evan osnos. so, evan, i am wondering what your sense what this summit meant for president biden? >> well, its enormously important for exactly the reason you mentioned, anderson. he made a promise, essentially, to the people. something you will find more recognizable what it was before the era of donald trump. so there was a tremendous amount on the line. an event like this, particularly the first...

Renowned for this. but, you know, i think it was signaling. i have been at other meetings where he hasnt actually been appreciably late. meetings in the kremlin, for example. when i have gone with delegations. and he does appreciate a business-like and when there is a full agenda. so i think he was signaling there they did want get down to business and they did want get through everything. that, of course, itself isnt something you can take home to the bank. and we did see, in his press conferen...

We dont just work at recology, we own it, creating opportunity and a better planet. now, thats making a difference. brother against brother. well, this should be interesting. [ grunting ] ive spent my entire life in your shadow... and now, you spend the rest of yours livin in mine. ♪ ♪ i aint going anywhere little brother. think about this. the president was using the justice department as his own lawyer to try to overturn the election. it is incredibly dangerous, a threat to our democracy...

President biden and president putin are meeting, there is a shadow hanging over it, and that shadow is donald trump. there is perils and pitfalls. >> there will not be a joint news conference. there will not be a one-on-one meeting between president biden and putin that we know of, anything could happen, but not that we know of taking place the way it did with president trump and vladimir putin. >> to this day we still dont know what specifically what they talked about. only the translator was i...

Years ago we were talking about the million door knocks and even during the height of the pandemic you were trying to figure out how to make it work. now you are going deeper in that. just quickly you are knocking and talking with people that normally vote or vote republican? >> were seeing a lot of gains from immigrant communities who love this country. i talked to somebody a few weeks ago saying i came to this country with $25. i lived an american dream. dont tell me this is a racist country. ...

Confidence in biden to do the right thing regarding world affairs. but as president biden has been overseas working on rebuilding and repairing americas image on the world stage, his predecessors shadow is looming large back at home, too. as new and troubling questions arise about the damage the trump administration did to the u.s. justice department and whether the biden justice department is doing enough to repair it. and on that front, we have breaking news just this evening, with the house j...