monster rival, the threads app now live and millions are signing up. we re going to begin this hour with that surprising announcement regarding the potential location of the man who led an uprising in russia last month. in a rare news conference this morning, belarusian leader alexander lukashenko said the head of the wagner group yevgeny prigozhin is in russia, not in belarus, despite saying last week he was in his country. nbc news cannot verify that claim. it is raising new questions, though, about the supposed deal that ended the attempted rebellion. joining us now from the presidential palace in minsk is nbc chief international correspondent keir simmons. you attended the news conference. you spoke with lukashenko, what did he say? reporter: yeah. yeah, as you can see, we re not at the presidential palace anymore. we were there. nbc news one of the few international news organizations invited to that conversation. and after an incredibly unpredictable almost two week
Therapies and well produce a vaccine before the end of the year or maybe even sooner. We will defeat the virus and the pandemic and emerge stronger than ever before. The president made no mention of the coronavirus death toll in the united states. Its approaching 181,000 americans. For some perspective on the rate of people dying during just the four nights of the rnc, more people died from coronavirus than on 9 11. And while trying to claim the mantle of law and order, President Trump did not mention jacob blake or talk about how two protesters were shot and killed, allegedly, by a teenage trump supporter. Joining us now, cnn political analyst, maggie haberman, a columnist for the new york times. But first off, dr. Sanjay gupta. Sanjay, we want to start with you, not just because you have a medical disagree, but i want to know what you were thinking as you were looking at the south lawn last night and seeing all of those people sitting side by side for so long with no masks and to hea
Pursuing criminal charges in ms. Breonna taylors death. Justice is not often easy, doesnt fit the mold of Public Opinion and it does not conform to shifting standards. All right, that announcement was within the last hour, ahead of that grand jury report, though, a very tense situation on the streets of louisville the louisville mayor declaring a state of emergency, calling in the National Guard and announcing a curfew starting at 9 00 p. M. Local time. Theres so much to get to. We go right now to correspondent cal perry in louisville. And kimberly crenshaw, a law professor at ucla. And sheryl dorsey, a retired police sergeant. Cal, let me begin with you. Set the scene for us on the ground. What areout their reaction to t charges against one officer . Reporter people are upset. People are just now sort of reacting, we got the word in last few hours and leading up to this, this citywide curfew, a city in lockdown. Weve been talking about it, these huge dump trucks, stopping vehicles fro
Nick, we still have not released the video. Walk us through what stands out wbr id wbr70 to glow that video. I just read the lengthy release from the Charlotte Police department. That release also included a narrative of what they say happened. In the videos, we see a video from a body camera of one of the officers. Its not clear that mr. Scott has a give up. The dash cam video has a wider perspective. In it you see an officer behind a truck. It appears he has something in his hands, but you cant make out clearly it is a gun. It is just in a matter of seconds while police have their guns trained on mr. Scott, giving him verbal orders to drop b
his weapon, drop the gun, drop the gun. As he is walking backwards, when he is walking backwards, wbrid wbr670 thats when the fatal shots were fired. The body cam video is just a minute long. The dash cam video is about two minutes long. You hear verbal commands by Police Officers as their weapons are trained on mr. Scott, but its not clear from
It is 5 00 a. M. Here in atlanta, georgia. We appreciate you joining us. U. S. President Donald Trumps return to the campaign trail did not match the preevent hype, but the smaller than expected crowd at his rally inside an arena in tulsa, oklahoma, didnt stop him from attacking protesters, joe biden, the media and covid testing. The Trump Campaign said almost 1 Million People asked for tickets for the rally, a second speech outdoors was canceled when only dozens showed up. The inside the arena many seats in the upper deck were empty as mr. Trump painted the protests outside as violent. The left is trying to do everything they can to stop us. Every hour of every day including even violence and mayhem, theyll do anything they can to stop us, look what happened tonight. Look at what happened tonight. Law enforcement said, sir, they cant be outside, it is too dangerous. We had a bunch of maniacs come and sort of attack our city. The mayor, the governor did a great job. But they were very