colbert. good evening, reverend sharpton. always good to see. i ve been keeping abreast of your activities this week, and want to applaud you for your protest with respect to the pushback that we are facing around d.c. and i efforts across the country. but i do have a quick question for you. for a policy measure, what s it gonna take for us to actually move the needle and finally keep dni from having the attacks that it s currently facing? i think we must make cities, municipalities, states and others, say that the a.i. must be enacted if people are gonna get state city contracts are funds. these businessmen, when we picketed on thursday, i ll do business in the public space. they cannot do public space business with taxpayer dollars if they re not trying to make it an equal place for all. so we need to have politicians putting legislation and policy in place to protect dei. well, that protection doesn t start without any pressure. and so with that, reverend sharpton, t
difference between america s two major political parties, and what they want for the future of this country couldn t be more stark. this week, the former president and republican president nomination, donald trump, tweet of his trump national golf club in bedminster, university speaking of the league s big tournament this weekend. now, the live tour is a new venture, financed by saudi arabia s public investment fund. it s all part of a campaign by the saudi government to refresh the kingdoms image in the eyes of the world. you see, they want you to think of your favorite golf players, when you think of saudi arabia. not their long list of human rights abuses, including the murder of the washington post schoumacher shoji. now, trump took a hands on role in that injury he had by hosting the event at his property. just miles away from ground zero, and they had this to say in his defense. well, nobody has gotten to the bottom of 9/11, unfortunately. a family member, family
and both investigations have expanded to former members of the trump administration. former acting chief of staff mick mulvaney, and ex treasury secretary steve mnuchin both testified before the january six committee this week. any day now, the committee could hear from former secretary of state mike pompeo. meanwhile, mike pence s former top aides, marc short and greg jacobs, testified before the federal grand jury convened by attorney general merrick garland, making them some of the highest profile witnesses to testify. they are questioning at those proceedings contributed to the news first reported by the washington post, that the doj is formally investigating trump s actions leading up to january 6th. possibly a step closer to a criminal probe of trump himself. more and more former trump officials have come forward since the january six committee s public hearings started last month, and congressman jamie raskin, who is a lead manager and trump s second impeachment trial
we begin this slit with breaking news out of iraq. we have to take an updated death toll from last earthquake. more than 2000 people now confirmed dead. another 2000 are hurt after the quake rocked the country s atlas mountains. officials are reporting extensive damage in cities across the region, including marrakech, a popular tourist destination and unesco world heritage site. nbc s priscilla thompson is following the story for us. what is the latest? alicia, it is that death toll which has risen by a built 1000 people over the course of today. and we know there are rescue crews on the ground. they are working to get into some of those mountainous areas in the atlas mountains, trying to get to folks to rescue folks who may still be trapped in the rubble. we know it is situations like this, time is of the essence. and getting to those folks in time is going to be a challenge because of the amount of destruction and devastation. a lot of the buildings and structures there,
monique pressley translator: matt, do you think that this myth around trump being too big to fail, does it have any truth to it, any merit? have any anytime you deal wa bully they survived by the perception that that they create that they can t be pushed down and around. donald trump created that perception among republicans. it has some factual reality tua since he has the backing of 75 or 80% of the republican base which is one of our major legacy parties and this. i would speculate, donald trump s other superpower is he s a great reveal are of people and who they are. keep in mind as you, elise stefanik was elected as a new generation republican who s supposed to bring some sanity and governance and competence in this. what donald trump has revealed, that she was never that, and that she s another typical