risk. good evening from studio b in new orleans. site of tonight s national day of racial healing town hall, which i will be hosting tonight at 10:00 p.m. eastern along with chris hayes and trymaine lee. i ll tell you much more about that a little later. we begin tonight with the real life confluence of a toxic stew of election denial, extremism, and political violence. the type of nightmare scenario that is all too real in america. police in new mexico arrested failed republican legislative candidate solomon pena, who they say orchestrated a string of shootings targeting democratic officials in the state. last november, pena lost to his democratic opponent in a landslide, by nearly 50 points. but claimed he really lost because of so-called fraud. apparently he s both an election denier and a sore loser. after the election, a very stable pena wrote on twitter, i dissent. i am the maga king. he later posted a photo of himself in maga gear, noting much like donald trump, he n
anger, frustration and pain as parents plea for help and demand changes after a 6-year-old shot his teacher in the middle of class. i send my kids to school and find myself praying to god they will return home safely. we ll ask if there s any way to reduce number of school shootings that are up tenfold in the past ten years. in ukraine, key government officials including some helping run the war, killed in a helicopter crash. the tragedy compounded by more victims on the ground including parents taking their kids to school. and the stunning lengths some families have to glo after their water supply was cut off. skipping showers, flushing toilets with rain water and more. my live interview with the the head of one family trying to make it work, later in the show. but we begin with that incredibly intense and emotional school board meeting in newport news, virginia. it s the first since the 6 sheerld shot his teacher. several hundred parents showed up filling the main
the death toll from the russian missile attack on the apartment building in dnipro, ukraine, a rising. ukrainian officials say the total number of people killed now stands at 44. earlier this morning ukraine s first lady olena zelenska speaking in davos condemning russia for the senseless murder of civilians. translator: there is nothing off limits for russia. this missile was built to destroy aircraft carriers and was used against the civilian infrastructure. these ordinary people at home on a saturday, that s enough reason for russia to skill. we will take you live to the site of that atrocity where search and rescue efforts are ongoing. here in the u.s. several meetings are happening today. president biden hosts the dutch prime minister at the white house, secretary of state antony blinken meets his uk counterpart in a high-level delegation from the united states is in kyiv at this very moment. all this as russia says it is planning to increase troop levels. we a
seize power, by any means necessary. fight it in court, go after election officials, overthrow the government, storm the capitol. an entitlement to rule with devastating consequences, even with donald trump in the rear-view mirror. and joining me now is county commissioner and vice chair adrienne barboa, one of four people targeted by the political attacks on new mexico. commissioner, thank you for being here. i want to ask you how you re doing and if you could sort of lay out how you re doing and just lay out for us what happened at your home. yes, thank you so much. yeah, i was i was out christmas shopping and came back home to my house being shot up, literally four shots went through my front door and out my back window, literally through my living room where i had just only hours before been playing with my grand baby, my daughter was visiting. getting ready for christmas.