tonight the official benchmark of his
first 100 days in office
he will highlight police reform we're
told in his speech next wednesday
now republicans plan to counter with the
architect of their police reform bill
which by the way you'll remember
democrats filibustered
senator tim scott of south carolina
tonight the white house is putting the
finishing touches on an exceptionally
aggressive effort to both
unwind the trump administration's agenda
as well as advance
executive actions and legislation that
have gone down remarkably well with
progressives such as
a new push to cut american emissions in
half
and even actually remove carbon dioxide
from the atmosphere
listen to congresswoman alexandria
ocasio-cortez ty
together climate change and all sorts of
other things
the trampling of indigenous rights is a
cause of climate change
the the trampling of racial justice is a
cause of climate change
for clarification the minnesota chapter
of the sierra club puts it this way
to protect the planet we must dismantle
systemic racism wherever it exists
we must dismantle harmful police systems
and replace them with real investments
in people
and communities and while the border
patrol continues to tweet out
heart-wrenching images the white house
still refuses to acknowledge the massive
migrant surge is a crisis
but for the past 93 days they have used
the term climate
crisis repeatedly
this is a crisis it is the climate
crisis when i think about climate
crisis 5 by 2030 so that we could
actually
once again lead the world in this effort
to address our climate crisis
we kick things off with white house
correspondent kevin cork reporting
tonight on the mixed messaging from the
biden administration good evening kevin
good evening shannon now political
scientists actually have a term for this
they like to call what's happening right
now in d.c
flooding the zone that is to say when a
party in power promotes and proposes
policies that
standing alone might not get real
serious consideration at all
but in a sea of ideas just might slip
through
it actually works more often than you
might think and democrats in the white
house are
banking on it what critics call
a basically open border billions for pet
projects disguised as covet relief and
billions more
for items that are laughably described
as infrastructure
all policies that define the democrats
takeover of the u.s
government and just the beginning of
what promises to be a fairly lengthy
progressive wish list
well uh president biden strongly
supports d.c statehood and he
doesn't and we will all our
administration will work with congress
to get it passed the latest on the
democrats to do list
statehood for washington d.c which
passed the house on a party line vote
today
but faces virtually insurmountable odds
of ever making it out of the senate
this bill is not about civil rights
it's not really about about
enfranchising or disenfranchising people
this is about
mr nadler and miss pelosi and and
senator schumer and others trying to
consolidate
liberal power this is a moral imperative
an economic
imperative a moment of peril but also a
moment of extraordinary possibilities
while statehood for the district may
prove a political long shot
the biden administration's international
green policies will very likely be paved
with your taxpayer green
today the white house at its global
climate summit
pledged the country will cut greenhouse
gas emissions in half
in the not too distant future and
challenge top polluters china and india
to do more to reduce carbon output
mr biden also renewed the u.s pledge to
rejoin the paris climate accord
which according to some estimates could
cost the u.s
up to three billion dollars annually and
speaking of money
there are new reports tonight that the
administration is preparing a major cash
grab on wealthy investors
planning to raise federal tax rates on
capital gains for some investors
to as high as 43.4 percent
for new yorkers the combined state and
federal capital gains rate
could be as high as 52.22 percent
for californians a staggering 56.7
pretty incredible when you think about
those numbers now this is all happening
as the number of u.s citizens looking to
renounce their citizenship
is actually exploding according to
americans overseas that's a
european-based organization that
specializes in u.s tax prep
a record 6705 americans
gave up their citizenship in 2020 and
just for perspective that's up about 260
percent from 2019
with you guessed it taxes being the top
issue
shannon listen we all want to save money
but i am not
abandoning my country over that yeah i
do with my taxes were lower like
everybody else but i am staying but
okay now kevin i know okay i want to
talk to you
about this 6-3 decision out of the
supreme court today this case jones v
mississippi
the challenges rejected a challenge to
life sentences without parole for
justices this involved a 15-year-old who
killed his grandfather
justice cavanaugh wrote for the majority
he said this in part quote
a state's discretionary sentencing
system is both constitutionally
necessary and constitutionally
sufficient
but check out justice sotomayor's
dissent and justice thomas's very
pointed footnote
quite a difference of opinion among
these justices on this case yeah very
interesting because this again
is really the separation of powers as we
know it in this country
often you will have a legislative branch
decide
that this particular policy or a
different policy for example
is the way to go but really it's really
about the courts really stepping in what
i found most interesting
is in reading the dissent i mean justice
thomas is so unique
just in the notes but i really felt like
this didn't surprise me as much
as perhaps it surprised some legal
scholars and you as an attorney
can obviously look and sort of unpack
what happened today but i thought
it didn't surprise me probably as much
as maybe it surprised a lot of the other
uh
observers out there what about you yeah
well you know justice sotomayor's
dissent was all about the fact and and
listen she's been involved as a
prosecutor in this criminal law um
space and so um she knows about this and
she said that she wants to
be sure that juvenile offenders aren't
sentenced in a way that they have
absolutely no hope of ever getting out
or showing that they can be
rehabilitated but i want to read
something justice thomas said in a
footnote he said it's curious how this
court's view of the maturity of minors
ebbs and flows depending on the issue he
said
we want to give them all the breaks in
the world when it comes to this
but he said also when it comes to
abortion you think that they should be
able to decide everything for themselves
um so are they adults or not when it
comes to these really difficult
decisions
um definitely a family dispute on
display for the court with this one yeah
no doubt about that and not just as far
as abortion but also
transgender rights a lot of people
saying well they're young enough to make
decisions
or even making these decisions absent
parental notification in some school
districts
of a variety of different cases so very
interesting indeed
well you know kevin you don't have to be
a lawyer to be on the supreme court
there's no requirement so if they decide
to pack the court with four more
justices maybe we should
wait for the call i'm with you
later kevin all right