Tonight on the reidout and remember this, remember this, joe biden is a great threat to our democracy. Hes a tremendous threat to our democracy. Trump over the weekend doing his best George Orwell trying to turn the tables on his own autocratic plans by claiming joe biden is a threat to democracy. Meanwhile, the selfprofessed billionaire apparently doesnt have enough cash to secure a bond in his civil fraud case. Also tonight, the family of a liberal icon was furious that an award given in her name is be handed to the likes of elon musk and Rupert Murdoch, and tonight theres an update on this story. Plus, Nikole Hannahjones at the table tonight on how the right has hijacked the term color blindedness, not to advance racial progress but rather to reverse it. But we begin tonight with a sad and terrifying reality that we face in america. Namely that a mad man is running for president. And too many people are pretending that that is not the case. Americans seem to be numb to the ramblings
not necessarily reflect the reality of another, or of the whole. soldiers enjoying a pause in battle does not mean there is no war. az prudhoe film for four jfk shot does not make it a parade. pretending otherwise is conning. people pretending otherwise is counting something else and enabling that come when you are a high-ranking elected official directly in line of succession to the presidency is hard to imagine. or so you might think. because that s just what house speaker kevin mccarthy has done. he s enabled this. the crowd was enormous. a small percentage of them were hooligans. they committed vandalism. you ve seen their pictures again and again. the overwhelming majority weren t. they were peaceful. they were orderly and meek. these were not insurrectionists, they were sightseers. fox s tucker carlson last night cherry-picking from some 40,000 hours of footage that speaker mccarthy released to him and only him. of the january 6th attack on the capitol. the fox
of cruelty, in addition to the loss they have to live with for the rest of their lives. it s unlike just about anything we ve ever seen in the wake of any other such tragedy, never mind accountability. in many points since may 4th, these families haven t even gotten the simplest answers from anyone involved in what was by any measure, in almost every imaginable way a colossal failure. and that cruelty of officials playing keepaway with the truth, it continues. at a meeting today of the texas public safety commission, public safety director steve mcgraw was supposed to have a report on uvalde, containing updated timeline and other new information. instead, he provided neither. with the families of the murdered victims in the room, he did not deliver a director s report. he failed to deliver on that promise and family members in the audience responded. you have disgraced the state, your position, and the people. the officers are still under your position. maldonado, bettancou
tropical storm force winds. the greatest concern right now is in the gulf coast where a combination of heavy rainfall, massive storm surge and rivers already at flood stage could send up to 12 feet of water into low-lying areas. the january 6th smcommittee canceled tomorrow s hearing because of the storm. jennifer gray is in the weather center. i want to start with a new bulletin. so what have we learned now? we have 120-mile-per-hour winds with gusts of 150. it s still moving to the north-northeast at about 10 miles per hour. basically it s paralleling key west right now. the lower keys have received tropical storm force winds, and conditions are only going to deteriorate across the southern peninsula of florida throughout the overnight tonight. tropical storm force winds will be arriving across south florida within the next couple of hours and throughout the day tomorrow and the early afternoon. or early to mid afternoon. we should be seeing a landfall. so 8:00 tonight, b
also at this hour, hurricane hunters are flying into the eye of the storm right now and they will be talking with us live. what they re seeing right now with this hurricane. they are the noaa team sending real-time data back. and they re joining us tonight. the other news this tuesday night, the first results coming in from vladimir putin s referendums in eastern ukraine. russia tonight saying 96% of people are in favor of becoming part of russia. we saw the images, pro-russian soldiers armed with assault rifles going door-to-door to pick up ballots. tonight, the u.s. calling this referendum a sham. the new satellite images showing the mass exodus from russia. russian men looking to avoid the new draft. the line, ten miles long. and when putin is now set to address the russian people. ian pannell in ukraine tonight. back here at home, the january 6th rioter convicted of attacking an officer. the world has seen those images. tonight, sentenced to more than seven years in p