And assume the responsibility. Amy west African Leaders from ecowas are holding an emergency summit to determine their next steps after a deadline past sunday to restore nigers mr. President. Former president. We will get an update. Then we speak to ukrainian pacifist Yurii Sheliazhenko who has been charged justifying russian aggression days after his apartment was raided and searched. It is total nonsense. [indiscernible] amy than 10 peace activists are rested on the runway of a u. S. Airbase in the netherlands where 15 u. S. Nuclear bombs are stock out for nato socalled nuclear sharing program. The action came on the 78th anniversary of the u. S. Atomic bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki. We will speak with john laforge who just served a 50 day sentence in germany for protesting u. S. Nuclear weapons stationed at a base there. Within the pentagons threatened use we take the pentagons threat very seriously. This ongoing well rehearsed readiness to tech people with Hydrogen Bombs is an
Court for the donald trump legal team, who won, who lost, and the comments the judge made that the former president might not want to hear. Also, a former army officer who was an adviser to the Trump Administration explained why his blood ran cold after reading jack smiths latest indictment. Plus, the Vice President talks exclusively to msnbcs Reverend Al Sharpton amid new revelations about her role in the 2024 campaign. Campaign. As i bid you all a very good day from msnbc World Headquarters in new york, welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. Were beginning this hour with some staggering the numbers. About the wildfires of this devastated murray this past week. The math now says it will cost five and a half billion dollars to be built from hawaiis governor says. We will likely be the worst Natural Disaster in the states history. So, he comes as many residents return to assess whats left, if anything, of their homes. Officials say more than 2200 buildings were destroyed. That majorit
Persuasive rather than polarising . Kwame kwei armah, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you so much for having me. It is a great pleasure to have you. Now, youve been in the Theatre Business as an actor, a writer and a director for the best part of three decades. Ijust used that phrase, some would call it a cliche, about the culture wars. Does it feel to you that today there is a somewhat toxic culture war . I think youve framed it beautifully. It is toxic, but most importantly, its disingenuous. In my humble opinion. Its used to kind of create political fear. And ourjob as artists is, i think, fundamentally to take away that fear, to take away the binaries that i think this farce of the culture wars are. You know, i often hear politicians and im not one to diss politicians, but i also often hear politicians use race or class or immigration or use history as a Battering Ram to get themselves into the hearts of the populist. But those issues youve just outlined race, immigration they are centr
So, right now, at this very moment, former President Donald Trump is giving his first extended extended public remarks since he was indicted on tuesday for trying to overturn the 2020 election. At this event tonight, trump has been railing against the Department Of Justice and multiple federal in the multiple federal criminal indictment that have been brought against him by that department. He has called out marxist prosecutors for what he referred to as racist in reverse racist in reverse, just making sure you get, that racist in reverse enforcement of the law which presumably means racism against white people. According to his prepared remarks, theres also some room in there for five remarks about the deep state, and crooked joe biden, and you get the picture. Now, because mr. Trump is currently running for president , Conventional Wisdom might suggest that he would make these remarks on the campaign trail, maybe in an early primary state, like iowa, or new hampshire, or south caroli
Referred to as racist in reverse racists in reverse, just making sure you get, that racist in reverse presumably means racism white people. According to his prepared remarks, theres also some room in there for five remarks about the deep state, and crooked joe biden, and you get the picture. Now, because mr. Trump is currently running for president , Conventional Wisdom might suggest that he would make these remarks on the campaign trail, maybe in an early primary state, like iowa, or new hampshire, or south carolina. But mr. Trump decided that his first major post indictment Public Address would take place in the state of alabama. And that is notable for a couple of reasons. To begin with, one of the most important and, honestly, under discussed parts of the Trump Indictment is that Special Counsel jack smith chose to charge mr. Trump under section 241 of title 18 of the u. S. Criminal code. If you dont know what that is, just often, that statute is part of a group of us called the en