Welcome to welcome to primetime weekend. I m rachel maddow. Let s get right to the week s top stories. The past 24 hours have been a microcosm of the race. Kamala harris and tim walz doing the standard campaign work for a major party candidate. They kept an even keel at the sitdown interview last night that went through a lot of the republican charges against them. While they are doing that, trump is out there, honestly stumbling to put together english sentences. His campaign keeps stepping in masses of its own making including an enormous one tonight which we will get to. Both the candidate and his aides are, as usual, posting through it. The fallout continues from trumps a political photo op and campaign commercial on tiktok at arlington national cemetery at the beginning of the week where he gave the thumbs up over the graves of veterans, including many who did not consent to any of this. He cut a video blaming their deaths on democrats. Now, his campaign is openly doing battle wi
School was wrong to punish her. A trump family rift. He is miffed at his soninlaw Jared Kushner over a book deal. Plus, a big meeting of cdc Vaccine Advisors tries to settle some big questions. Will we need Booster Shots and when, and is there a link between vaccines and Heart Problems in a small group of kids . We have been receiving reports from other countries of potential issues of myocarditis. Theres been this question as to whether its associated with these mrna vaccines and if it has, what the risk is. I think the data well see this afternoon at this meeting will overwhelmingly demonstrate that the benefits of vaccination far outweigh the risks. Up first, the Biden Administration at a crossroads. The president wants a big and bipartisan deal on infrastructure, but progressives in his own party are mad that the president and moderate Senate Democrats wont chuck the filibuster to make progress on another critical agenda item, Voting Rights. Here in the studio cnns jeff zeleny, rac
All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. It was a big day for the future of american democracy. We will get to that significant action in a moment, but before we do, just give me a second to go back to the context of what happened in the last election. I think it has been obscured by the sabotage and disinformation and violent insurrection unlike anything weve seen in the history of the country stoked by the former president. Remember this, last november, right, once in a cent ray pandemic, we got a glimpse of what a full or fuller participation version of our democracy would look like because due to the pandemic, state after state, jurisdiction after jurisdiction, and i should note this is both democratic and republican there were fights over this. But across the board, more or less on the whole in the aggregate, all these places did something praise worthy and novel. They took steps to make it easier to vote. They did this by expanding eligibility for mail
Get the vaccine . Lets make a deal president us plan, but theyre billions apart. Plus a week before his senate trial, former President Trumps lawyers quit. Officers suspended, after they handcuff and pepper spray a 9 yearold girl. Tony bennetts battle, the family of the legendary singer opens up about his alzheimers diagnosis. On this first day of black history month, Unifying America. How a Theater Company is inspiring americans to start frank conversations about race and bias. Snow day the pandas show us all how to properly enjoy the snow. Theations capital. Odonnell good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us. Well begin with Breaking News on that Monster Winter Storm thats pounding much of the east coast with blizzard like conditions, shutting down schools, businesses and even Vaccination Sites across moreanl outagee tef right now, nearly one out of every four americans is in the path of the noreaster and for millions of them, the worst is still ahead with
Robust offense of our nato allies. All of these are in addition to the 8500 personnel on heightened alert poster i announced last week. Those 8500 are not currently being deployed but remain ready if called for the Nato Response force. And President Trump taking it to the fellow republicans coming to the defense of mike pence. Lindsey graham after days of admitting he believed pence could have overturned the 2020 election. Of course, that is false. On the coronavirus, pfizers request for Emergency Use Authorization for children under five years of age is getting a mixed reaction from both vaccinated and unvaccinated parents. Ill speak to dr. Zeke emanual about their concerns this hour. And millions americans are in the path of a massive winter storm. By far the biggest of the season so far. The threeday Weather Event will slam states with sleet, Freezing Rain and potentially recordsetting snow totals along the rust belt. We begin this hour with the crisis in ukraine. Joining me is the