be 2024. and the president will be running for reelection in the face of some significant head winds that are turning into quite the hurricane. everything, everywhere all at once. you have wars in ukraine. israel. bombs, still raining down. hostages still desperate for rescue. some of biden s own staff members holing a vigil outside the white house masked to conceal their identities calling for a cease fire in gaza. the president giving a personal message to israel. i want them to be focused on how to save civilian lives. not stop going after hamas, but be more careful. well then there is ukraine. biden is trying to push his own party where they don t seem to want to go. he is open to changing border policy in exchange for the votes to pass the aid that ukraine desperately needs. but democrats have been balking. and the president s approval rating is underwater in poll after poll after poll. now he faces the biggest challenge of all, republican led impeachment inquiry wit
country, actually worldwide. we are going to ask them about lowering the price of insuli and making drugs affordable fo everybody in this country. bernie sanders, a pleasur as always. that s all in on this thursday alex wagner tonight starts right now. good evening, alex there s a lot of people underestimate in - great show, as always. and thanks to you at home fo joining us this evening. it is a big test for the vic president of the united states a test of his competence, an of his fitness to serve second in command. just a heartbeat away from the presidency in that moment, the vice president failed, he failed to spell the word potato. potato. very good and a little bit to the end, they spell that again. potato that was former vic president dan quayle in 1992 telling it had to add in eat t the end of the word potato a lesson for all kids an adults everywhere, there is no easy at the end of the wor potato i myself remember at the tim vowing to never spell potato run
mines. right, now i am grateful for a week of perspective. one that reminded me why i d what i do. tonight, my national actio network s annual conferenc closes out here in new york. as always, i had the pleasur of hosting some of the mos influential people in th world. most of them black from cabine members to venture capitalist. but i am proud to say th keynote speech yesterday cam from the most powerful black women in the world vice president, kamala harri who covered several topics but as casualties mount from recent mass shootings, she specifically address the impac of our gun culture has had o black immunities where gun violence is often commonplac but public sympathy is not often there. let s reject the fals choice that some are pushing t suggest that you are either in favor of upholding the secon amendment or you are in favo of passing reasonable gu safety laws. let us reject that false choice, we are not falling for the oke dokey. of course, the vice president sob
you can be all of these things and not only can you be here you can lead just like me. setting a legacy she hope will be followed molly hunter, nbc news a nerd, a crier, and a hug. or jacinda ardern, reminding u all that we all have what it takes to lead. and on that beautiful note, wish you all a very good night and a happy passover to thos who celebrate. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late wit us i will see you at the end of tomorrow if you are a superstitiou person, as i am, then maybe yo are familiar with the notion that bad things happen i threes for, example you might get a flat tire and spill coffee all over yourself, and then sprain your ankle all in the same day or if you re donald trump, you might get arrested on stat level charges, and grapple wit a major setback in a federal investigation, and then be forced to face the specter o an ongoing fraud investigation all in the same week the bad things range but le
really happy to have yo here at 10:13 am today, 10:1 a.m., exactly, kids in nashville tennessee all walked out of their classes look at that 10:13 is when the first 9-1- calls started coming into th police department when we coul go today one week last week when th shooting unfolded at the covenant school. an elementary school in that city police today said that in th roughly 14 minutes that it too for that school shooting t relapse, the shooter fired 126 rifle rounds and 26 rounds fro a handgun. hundred and 52 rounds al together in 14 minutes to honor the three little kids and the three school staff who were murdered in their school, monday last week, and to deman legal change to stop gun violence, literally thousand of tennessee students walked out of their classes today and in some schools, they left their classrooms and the rallied outside their school that opened in a whole bunch o different schools in tennessee at some schools today, they sa a walk in instead of a wal