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hi there, everyone. its 4:00 in new york and we begin today as we have done so many times, too many times, on this show with a crisis that is uniquely ours, uniquely american. today our country witnessed the 129th mass shooting of this year alone, this one, like so many these days, took place at a school. three young students and three staff members were killed today. they were killed at covenant school a private school in nashville, tennessee, after a shooter walked in and opened fire...

good evening, im mehdi hasan. let us be clear what happened. a democratic president was elected to office in the midst of a once in a generation crisis, he entered into the white house with a mandate for the american people, a clear authorization for the president to push ahead with eight ambitious legislative agenda. but, a major obstacles hands in his way. a right wing, reactionary supreme court, with very little public legitimacy. sound familiar? this week, the supreme court wrapped...

of a once in a generation chrysler. santa or the white house with -- a clear authorization for the president to push ahead with unambitious legislative agenda but a major obstacle stands on his way, a right-wing reactionary supreme court with very little public legitimacy. some familiar? this week discipline court wrapped up an immense most controversial terms in american history. scaling back decades of progress in the matter of mere weeks. weve actually been here before. following a ...

>> while this defendant may be unlike any other in american history, we arrived at this trial and ultimately, today, at this verdict in the same manner as every other case that comes through the court room doors. by following the facts and the law, and doing so without fear or favor. many voices out there, the only voice that matters is the voice of the jury and the jury has spoken. >> manhattan district attorney alvin bragg speaking yesterday following the historic conviction of forme...

joining us see you in a news night with abby phillip starts right now donald trumps pulp fiction, thats tonight on these nine good evening. im abby phillip flip in new york tonight. donald trump channels tarantino. its almost like he sees himself as zeke el, the set on all sides by the tyranny of evil men but heres the thing about those enemies. there about as real as the samuel l. jackson character joules when field, meaning not at all. on the other hand, these biblical sounding promi...

so today shell be presented with frances highest honour, the legion dhonneur. im just amazed, really. im not expecting that sort of thing. president macron will give christian her medal here in ver—sur—mer, so she says shes brushing up on her french. i spent the morning trying to go through my french dictionary to find some really polite things to say in french, because i used to be absolutely bilingual when i was young and i lived in france for a whole year, and now ive forgotten ...

Parliament is put into lockdown after a Terror Attack outside westminster. It seems that a Police Officer has been stabbed. That the alleged assailant was shot by armed police. As mps are held in the chamber for their own safety, the Scottish Parliament also suspends its sitting. The fact that our Sister Parliament has had a serious incident is affecting this particular debate. On a shocking and dramatic day, the first mps knew of the attack was this statement from the deputy speaker, lindsay ho...

>> i think there is a there is ongoing look our constitution says we, the people united states, in order to form a more perfect union that journey to a more perfect union. as missteps in it, we know week i can catalog them as much as you can and youre a professional journalists and im just a guy that makes movies and reads books and a historic and okay. to late historian take that to over the long term, however in ebitda, billie made progress towards i think that more perfect union. thats what i...

Rules, rights and responsibilities. those rules protect us. those rights define us. and those responsibilities summon us once more. at this time in history, we must again stand firm against aggression and tyranny. and as i said here last year, if the troops of the worlds democracies could risk their lives for freedom then, surely the citizens of the worlds democracy cannot risk our comfort for freedom democracy cannot risk our comfort forfreedom now. —— can risk our comfort. select again uph...

Lawyer. the constitution of the united states says we are a nation of laws, not of men. it allows for trial by jury, which is one of the most sacrosanct things in a democracy and it calls for the peaceful transition of power and as a result of yesterday we now know that donald trump tried to stop the election from being held in a free and fair way and after it was held he tried to stop the peaceful transition of power. you cant have two more graber assault on democracy and democracy cannot have ...