Offenders who ve served 40% of their prison terms will be eligible for early release. It s necessary, says the government, because of severe overcrowding in jails. There are fewer than 500 spaces left in men s prisons in england and wales, a crisis made worse by the convictions of hundreds of people involved in riots last month. Our senior uk correspondent sima kotecha was given full and rare access to hmp pentonville in london and this is what she found. Siren blares. Chaos in hmp pentonville. Shouting. We re the only broadcast journalists given access. . . It s a code red. . . To one of britain s most dangerous jails since the current crisis. 0k, come on, folks. And some prison officers are so frightened of being targeted on the outside that we ve had to blur theirfaces. Hmp pentonville! staff are overstretched. . . Another alarm here. . . And on the verge of breaking point. You worry about, you know, opening the door in the morning and making sure that they re alive. Anything could
Of the United States. Its kind of our way, or the highway. Mississippi senator roger wicker on all of that very shortly, In The Meantime, to Mark Meredith on how this is all going down, fueled by not only the president stating that this is the only way to do it, republicans, at a jobs report which might have helped his argument. Mark . Reporter neil, good morning to you right that jobs report is having an impact on the discussions. President biden counting on house and Senate Democrats to pass his 1. 9 trillion Stimulus Package. Republicans want the president to reign in spending but the president made it clear yesterday that hes willing to do this on a Party Line Vote if necessary to fund a few priorit ies like the 1,400 round of stimulus checks that he wants to see go out, more money for Food Assistance programs, as well as extending those enhanced federal Unemployment Benefits. The president making it directly in a speech on friday. Others think that things are Getting Better and we
the same to declare a climate emergency. here we are. we don t know why the white house stopped short of making this emergency declaration on climate today with of course president biden standing in front of a once-fired coal powered plant being converted into an offshore wind manufacturing facility. there s speculation a tough time to roll out that announcement amid high gas prices and recession fears and since can it be used as a legal basis to drop oil and gas drills. congressional republicans say pain at the pump is the point. i think the administration does want us to suffer. the secretary of transportation said yesterday you don t like the cost of gasoline, buy an electric vehicle. so some announcements did come from the president s remarks plan to propose wind mills in the gulf of mexico and a record of amount of fema funding for infrastructure, neil. jackie, thanks for that. let s go to jeff block right now. he s in philadelphia. witnesses this for himself. the
wildfires rage in spain, a stunning case of climate reality in the uk. it has halted flights in and out of our f, because the runway has melted. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. this week, the committee investigating the january 6th insurrection will hold its second primetime hearing, only second time they ve done that. and in advance of that big hearing, which will be aired here, thursday night, the committee is still uncovering new facts, day by day by day, and hearing testimony from people they haven t talked to before, including details pertaining to that bonkers meeting that took place in the oval office on december 18th, 2020, with the ex president donald trump. now, remember that meeting initially didn t include a single member of the white house staff. it was just a group of people that wealth in the white house, met with trump. it included a rock tack group of coup plotters, people like sydney powell, michael flyn
can keep running from the law. then, meet the second member of congress who is getting a subpoena over georgia election interference. plus, the head of the american medical association on the unseen reality of post roe america. and as paris boils and wildfires rage in spain, a stunning case of climate reality in the uk. halted flights in and out of raf, because the runway has melted. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. this week, the committee investigating the january 6th insurrection will hold its second primetime hearing, only second time they ve done that. and in advance of that big hearing, which will be aired here, thursday night, the committee is still uncovering new facts, day by day by day, and hearing testimony from people they haven t talked to before, including details pertaining to that bonkers meeting that took place in the oval office on december 18th, 2020, with the ex president donald trump. now, remember t