against the white woman state representative who joined with them in the protests we called for you all to ban assault weapons. and you respond with an assault on democracy i can say to you, the movement for justice can never die because the heart for justice can never be killed. we will talk about what the republican-led legislature did and the state s racial legacy with one of the ousted lawmakers. this hour, boiling point in the holy land on passover. ramadan and holy week, ahead of easter sunday, israel retaliates with air strikes, rockets fired after violence between had a m had a mass and gaga and israel evan gershkovich getting a hearing day in two weeks he has not been able to see u.s. diplomats. the former u.s. ambassador to russia john sullivan joining us today. good day, everyone i m andrea mitchell in washington with the fallout from the unprecedented move by a republican super majority of state lawmakers in tennessee, expelling the two 27-year-old bla
everyone. i m laura coats. this is cnn tonight. you just saw banks bust. there are fears about what could be happening overseas as we speak and how that could affect us all. we ll have more on that later in the show. plus, the president of mexico blaming the united states for the fentanyl crisis, charging lawmakers haven t done a thing about it. what is being done about the fentanyl that s killing thousands and thousands of every single year. there is news out of the full ton dcounty grand jury investigation of president trump. remember this call trying to overturn joe biden s victory in the state. so, look, all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have because we won the state. well, apparently, there is another call as well, and one only the grand jury has heard. now you re really interested. we ll tell you about it in a moment. a lot to talk about with my panel. obama white house senior director, communications director, p
to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us and imminent and an important deadlines for the justice department. it has until one p.m. one hour from now to respond to a late night filing an abortion court battle that could impact women coast to coast plus family ties and college controversy. the top democrat on the house says he hardly remembers his uncle s flagrant anti semitic remarks. but cnn s k file uncovers an opinion piece from a college age takeem jeffries defending his uncle and defending louis farrakhan from his in his words, quote. white media. and tim scott feels out of presidential run today. he s in iowa as he stands up and exploratory committee is opening message. heavy on biography heavy on faith, the biden agenda but makes no mention of the republican frontrunner donald trump. today our country is once again being tested once again, our divisions run deep and the threat to our future is real. joe biden and the radica
by the way, was a member of the civil rights movement. i just think it s a shame what rhonda santas is doing. nobody will stop him because they re afraid of what might be next for desantis. david, obviously there s a lot of talk about critical race theory, and that was a focus target of a lot of states of republicans. this is african american studies, which is different. the democratic florida state senator tweeted that florida curtain has ap costs for european history, japanese language and culture, german language and culture, italian language and culture as well as spanish language and culture. adding, quote, it s crazy how african american studies made the chopping block in florida. to that, what do you say? anderson and bakari, as well, i did, believe it or not, read the 82-page syllabus today, which i can send you. the letters sent to the ap board said we dismiss this as presented. and the future, if the college board would like to work with us on something that wou
tentative from me for now, now it s time to the last word with lawrence o donnell, good evening lawrence. good evening rachel, we ve heard many speeches on this day, and martin luther king s birthday over the years since his assassination. i heard when today for the first time, that was delivered in 1983. and it is just the most extraordinary, 60 minutes long, we re gonna show some of it later in this hour, the most extraordinary speech about martin luther king, i ve ever heard, it was delivered by then funniest man in the world, richard pryor. in washington d.c.. and thanks to c-span, which is something we say all the time, thanks to c-span, it is been preserved, and we must show some of it later, it s like nothing you ve ever seen on this day, i have no memory of it, i don t member seeing it, know remember hearing about it. it wasn t in a news cycle that day, that s for sure. that is fantastic i did not know this existed. not only have not heard it before, they know exi