ide with jen psaki starts no w. well, if the first week of the new year has shown us anything, it s that joe biden and donald trump are basically living on different planets when it comes to their approach to american democracy. tonight, i m gonna talk to house speaker emeritus nancy pelosi about all of that. plus, president obama has appointed david plouffe as a senior strategist who might be useful to the biden campaign. of course he would be. david is gonna join me tonight as well. but we do want to start tonight with some new reporting from abc news that is shedding greater light on what trump was doing, and more importantly not doing on january 6th. as a mob pushed its way into the capital, becoming more and more violent as the minutes tic by, trump was reportedly just not interested in doing more to stop it. and trump learned that his own vice president had to be rushed to a secure location, trump reportedly responded, so what? so what? trump accepted t
on his door. benjamin crump is the attorney for the family of ralph yarl and he will join me live why the dominion lawsuit against fox news, what donal trump would not be able to delay the a. j. carroll tria in one week. just when you thought th clarence thomas could not look worse, - that s why i wouldn t say. i would like to keep tha friendship all in starts right now good evening everyone, from ne york, i am midian in for chris hayes. the republican on the hous judiciary committee took a field trip to new york cit today as one of their ongoin campaigns to harass, and yes intimidate new york attorney alvin bragg. bragg is prosecuting donal trump for those hush money payments that he made to adult film star stormy daniels judiciary republicans like vic committee chair jim jordan they have tried every single trick in the book to blunt brags efforts. they have tried to muddy the waters around trump prosecution. today s affair was a braze political stunt wher congressman jor
ayman, nice to see you. thanks at home for joining us. so if you got in your car and you drove out of oklahoma city, you drove southeast out of oklahoma city about four hours, before you left oklahoma state limits, before you crossed the border, the last place you would hit is mccurtain county, oklahoma you can see it on the map in the farthest southeast corner of the great state of oklahoma. it borders arkansas to the east and borders texas to the south and in mccurtain county, in that part of oklahoma, the local newspaper there fittingly is called the mccurtain gazette-news and the mccurtain gazette news is a print only newspaper. if you want to read its reporting it s like the good old days, you have to wait each week until the hard copy of the paper hits your doorstep and then you can see what they ve reported on now, like all good local news outlets online or in print or both, the staff at the mccurtain gazette-news make it their business to make sure they are di
western civilizations has no inherent value whatsoever? we have teachers who are not able to teach the curriculum that they want because they disagree with ron desantis and his view of the world. that is limiting free speech. they are trying to shield students from the truth about history. we are nothing without our history. which is exactly why conservatives are going after public education in america. to erase, dismantle and rewrite the true account of our past. what happened on this soil, the oppression that was fought and overcome. and what shaped who we are and the very moment we are in. history is vital, as is knowledge. it s why education is so often ground zero in the u.s. culture wars. and why florida governor ron desantis apparent white house ambition strikes at the heart of the american classroom. desantis has staked his political future on a bid to block an advanced placement course in african-american studies, saying it lacks educational value. it s that f
this midterm election cycle has been unlike any other. historically the party of the sitting president intends to lose seats during midterm elections. and that would appear to be bad news for democrats. who only have a slim majority in congress. but the relative factors at play this year and that has made the outcome of this election cycle very difficult to protect as the supreme court s aggressive decision to overturn roe v. wade for months ago created a sudden radical intangible change to reproductive rights and health care access and the unpopularity of that decision has helped democrats gain a political advantage. the january six committee and its public findings hat could also factor into november s elections and even though the committee has presented plenty of documentary evidence and testimony from witnesses about the central role that donald trump played in spreading the big lie implementing a coup it has not really effective support for the republican party. that is