believes you have to basically burn the system down to rebuild it and fix it. steve bannon on trial in the first of several major developments this week related to the capitol insurrection. right now the secret service is getting ready to hand over subpoenaed text messages as the january 6th committee gets red for thursday s primetime hearing on the 187 minutes when trump did nothing to quell the violence. in uvalde, texas it was 77 minutes that police, hundreds of them, did nothing has children were being murdered. what a damning report reveals about policing in uvalde and beyond. we begin with a day in court for steve bannonch the right wing podcaster and one-time adviser to the twice-impeached former president. his trial for contempt of congress got under way today. jury selection wrapped just a short time ago after two last-minute attempts by bannon s team to delay the trial, including an offer to testify before the january 1th committee. narrowing the jury pool from
signed into law on friday. president biden also announcing in just the last hoursh more vaccine split in the u.s. ensures the u.s. will have more than enough supply to vaccinate the entire population. here s president biden moments ago in the latest push. we re now on track to have enough vaccine supply for every american adult by the end of may, month earlier than anyone expected. today i m directing, my hhs team, to produce another 100 million doses and perform another of the 100 million of the vaccine. this is wartime effort, we need maximum flexibility. there s always a chance we ll encounter unexpected challenges or will there be a new need for a vaccination effort? a lot can happen. a lot can change. we need to be prepared. of course, we need to match the manufacturing of science and massive logistical undertaking. the leading to approval number rarely seen in the legislative pushes by either pared. 75% of all americans are squarely behind the bill, but even with
Nothing to do with his qualifications. They are opposed to donald trump pointing anyone to the Supreme Court. Kneneil gorsuch a good man. Its the democrats who are breaking the rules, what theyre doing is changing the 200 year status quo. The ironny is that you could have said the exact same things, regarding judge garland. That, of course, was president s garlands dom knee to fill the same vacancy who republicans refused to hold a single confirmation hearing, much less a vote. It was an unprecedented feet of obstruction. Which Mitch Mcconnell on the Campaign Trail later, one of my proudest moments. The Garland Affairs seem to have taught democrats a lesson about the up sides of obstructionism and now with engaged based marching the streets and turning up the town hall showing to posed any kind of cooperation whatsoever with this president ,
theres new in washington. Just four Democratic Senators came out against a gorsuch fill buster, facing tough reelection battles. Theyve vowed to c
Up 10 points. That has now evaporated. Interesting to see who turns out, a testament to the excitement level. Thank you all. That is all for this evening. The Rachel Maddow show starts right now with ari in for rachel. Good evening. Rachel has the night off. We have a pretty big show. Today was day two of the federal criminal trial of the campaign chairman. The witnesses were several people who sold the defendant clothes and houses that he bought through secretive International Wire payments. One important thing we learned from what happened today, this judge is holding muellers prosecutors to the line, limiting their questions and how they present key evidence to manafort to the jury. A former prosecutor who tried these kinds of cases and inside that courtroom today joins me to explain if what the judge is up to could hurt muellers case. There are reports tonight about the russian woman charged with trying to carry out the government influence campaign through the nra in the u. S. And
Advice of Career Lawyers in the Justice Department. It wasnt just a whim of Jeff Sessions, this was a serious consideration went into this. Im sure Jeff Sessions didnt want to recuse himself but that was the advice he got. The president has been loudly lamenting sessions decision to do just that. Sessions pushing ban on his part saying essentially that the actions to have department of justice will not be improperly influenced by political considerations, thats the thing that he shot back, your thoughts on that . Yeah, i think the other thing was that was the beginning of the statement, at the end of the statement he mentioned that the people in his department and him are committed to advancing the rule of law and i think that was a very important thing too because hes basically suggesting there that donald trump is trying to get the Justice Department to do his bidding is trying to avoid the rule of law, rule of man rather than rule of law, i think Jeff Sessions had strong words there