With kurdish leaders in iraq, United Nations reports or than 1000 iraqis had been killed so far this month. Will the u. S. Lawns launch military strikes . E will speak to Phyllis Bennis then we will look at the once secret Justice Department memo justifying u. S. Government drone strikes against u. S. Citizens. For the first time the court has ordered the government to disclose a memo it has wanted to keep secret. The memo lays out the governments eagle justification , constitutional analysis, for killing a u. S. Citizen. Then water is a human rights. Tell detroit attorney caps back on. That is the cry of residents in detroit appealing to the United Nations over the citys move to shut off the water of thousands of residents. Parents had to run to find out how theyre going to pay their water bill. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. A federal court has released a heavily redacted memo that outlines the Obam
Policy or a mandate, just looking to make people feel good. I want to do good. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. I suppose it would be funny, maybe, if we werent in the midst of a pandemic and it wasnt the president of the United States trying to steal an election. Here we are. This is todays latest development. Donald trump is flatout suing for the presidency. Just a short time ago in the wake of Rudy Giulianis stumbling appearance in federal court in pennsylvania yesterday, the Trump Campaign filed amended campaigns in which they asked the court to nullify the will of the people, prevent pennsylvania from certifying its own Election Results and have a judge declare trump the victor and or mandate, quote, that the results of the 2020 president ial general election are defective and provide for the pennsylvania General Assembly to choose pennsylvanias electors. Here is the kicker as articulated by the attorney, the Trump Campaigns proposal is that the
Nomination for the debate of the drone use here at home. Catherine herridge drive for us in washington. Were expecting to hear from the Senate Majority leader, harry reid, within the hour about the nomination and whether it is trouble. President obamas nomination of b b barron is one of the most controversial. Republicans and democrats and the president s traditional supporters on the left are banding together to force access to David Barrons legal opinions before his nomination. There are very few opinions that have come out of the Justice Department that are more important and more consequential than an opinion authorizing the president to kill United States citizen away from the battlefield objections were taken over the Obama Administrations secrecy over the drone legal opinions to the senate floor without full disclosure to the full senate of all materials on this nominees involvement in the legal case for the administrations drone program, this nomination should not proceed. Aske
In watching the news, theyre always so stoic. This man earlier today said im accepting this on behalf of the men who did not get out alive. Its 3 00 on the east coast. Noon on the west coast. Im Shepard Smith in new york. And this is Shepard Smith reporting. Somebody has rammed a truck into a television station in Baltimore County police say the guy who was behind the wheel is now in the building. They consider him armed and dangerous. And the circumstances surrounding this are extremely weird. It happened at tv station wmar. The abc station in maryland. Basically baltimore. Staffers have been tweeting about this situation. We have some of the tweets. Theyre a little old. They may have been in a meeting when all of this was going on. The suspect tried to get in the building scream, said let me in, he was god. He comes into the door, theres a receptionist there as the story is told us. He starts screaming i am god, i am god. Let me in the building. In an effort to prove it, he went outs
The political commentator. Douglas brinkley and former congressman steve israel and a political commentator. Cnn politics executive editor. Thank you very much. There is a lot of folks and officially Inauguration Day a short time ago. Donald trump spoke to supporters and he was talking about his momentous day he had. Lets listen. Arlington national cemetery, i dont know in anyone saw it. So beautiful. So many people. So many people. It was incredible. So we went there. We laid the wreath with mike and it was beautiful. And then we went to the Lincoln Memorial and had a concert. We thought it would be a small concert. Tens of th,000 theousands of pee there. Very few people ever had a concert there, but what they pulled off was incredible. It was an unbelievable period of time. Tomorrow seems to be the big one. So is he rising to the moment . Tomorrow he thinks it seems to be the big one. I think it is the big one. He actually takes office. I will give him his ability to kind of relish i