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lecturing the rest of us about equity, meaning that straight white men are bad. yet strangely the person he chose for this job was not a member of a racial or sexual minority, he was instead a highly privileged straight white guy. he was called nick mcwade. he went to private schools, wesleyan, went to colombia for law school. that didnt matter to joe biden. some jobs are too important foray if i remembertive action. his main qualification was being former law partner of hunter bidens ...

the another surprise for the world -- the intense resolve of that entertainer turned president, volodymyr zelenskyy. unlike others in his position, he did not -- indeed, hes only left the country a handful of times to plea for guns and ammunition. and for the last year, he has faced off from across the border with vladimir putin, who has ruled russia for more than two decades. a key player who is not a participant in the war, the united states of america. it is a country that has organ...

defendant trump in photos that will live in infamy. the first american president to be charged with a crime. defendant donald j. trump, is seen here surrounded by his legal team a photo trump most certainly did not want you to see. its nothing short of a remarkable image of the new reality for the man who raged in all caps on social media ahead of his day in court before surrendering for arrest and processing in manhattan criminal court. trump was uncharacteristically grim and silent, ...

country. velshi starts now. good morning to you. it is sunday, january the 28. im ali velshi. demonstrators in major cities around the country took to the streets again yesterday after the memphis police department released footage of the brutal beating of tyre nichols by five members of its own police force. in the continuing aftermath, memphis pd announced yesterday that it has permanently deactivated its scorpion unit. scorpion what the departments anti violence group which has been...

progressive gets you right back to living the dream. now, where were we? [ cheering ] a slew of unanswered questions after u.s. fight e jets shot down three unidentified flying objects in as many days. the presidents team trying to squelch theories and aliens. theyre offering little information. also, were getting a fuller picture of the catastrophic loss in turkey and syria over a week after the massive earthquake. his charity is mobilizing to feed quake survivors and cnn is on the ...

also tonight, a possible indictment looming in new york, former president donald trump blasts investigators, manhattan district attorney receiving death threats, and new witness testimony expected before the grand jury. the death toll rising in that explosion at a pennsylvania chocolate factory as they search for victims intensifies. growing political turmoil in israel. a top government official is fired as protests escalate over what some call a power grab by prime minister prime mini...

is seeking to compel a lawyer for the former president to testify before the grand jury. according to a source familiar with the matter. prosecutors alleged in a sealed filing that they have evidence that some of trumps conversations with the attorney were in furtherance of a crime. the special counsel is reportedly asking a judge to invoke the crime fraud exception. and force an attorney to testify under oath about conversations between him and his client which in this case, would be ...

he is reacting against what he feels inside, which is the steady loss of his power as a man. the faster that power recedes, the more frantically he asserts it. he is raging against the dying of the light. these last embarrassing decisions are in fact his death throes. it is sad, really. unfortunately what happens to men also tends to happen to the systems they create. for the last 80 years our world has been covered by a system formed in the final months of world war ii. its features d...

we began this weekend with the voting rights march in selma, alabama. commemorating the 50th anniversary of bloody sunday. a short time ago, president biden laid a crowd of hundreds across the edmund pettus bridge. were still rights leaders were brutally beaten by police on march 7th, 1965. biden was also issuing a call to action as dozens of states pass voting rights protections. >> salma is a reckoning. a right to vote. a right to vote, to have your vote counted. its the threshold of...

show, trump versus desantis. fascism versus fascism. is this what the grand old party has been reduced to in 2024? really? but, congressman jamal bowman, one of the lone defenders of tiktok, will be with me to argue against congress trying to ban it. and filmmaker an activist michael -- also join me on the show tonight. 20 years off from his famous anti-iraq war oscar speech. ♪ ♪ ♪ good evening. im mehdi hasan. as we read the tea leaves ahead of the next election, the 2024 presid...