if we are gearing up for 2020 rematch, it will be a very different scene this time around. plus, the u.s. conducts its first mass evacuation of american citizens trapped in sudan amid deadly fighting. we will get the very latest. and, it was no accident that the lawsuit seeking to ban abortion pills across the united states arrived in front of one particular ultraconservative trump appointed federal judge in texas. the antiabortion plaintiffs in that case did what is known as judge shopping. another conservative coalition is doing it again with the same judge. i will have the details on that case and i will talk to democratic senator mazy about her plan to put a stop to it. then new evidence of the deadly reality on the ground in post roe america. in one state where women live under strict abortion bans most hospitals could not explain their own emergency abortion procedures. velshi starts right now. a very good morning to you, is sunday, april the 30th. i am ali velshi, ex
forth and i misread your tex [laughter] i thought i was gonna have you on the top of the show and the you are you crossed on the top of my show and i was lik sending everyone on a while it was chase. but it s wonderful to see you. no or you thought i was gonna be on with you an hour ago, just pop up roundly o your show uninvited? no, i was having you on but then i realized afterwards tha i d screw that up and heads an a bunch of embarrassing emails telling people to stand down having revere the text you sen me so it s wonderful to see you here on this very importan day. thank you, chris. hey, and thank you for askin me to be here, i m here unde weird circumstances. i did my own makeup which is hilarious. so i look like we ve all bee talking about nicks nixon an actually here to remind us o the ghost of nixon nixon it s 1960. you do everything including your makeup. before you go, let me jus ask you, chris, because you ve been asking a lot of questions this hour and,
13 years ago this week a right-wing anti abortion group called operational rescue, emailed its members encouraging them to participate in the special hollowing contest. it was known as the nancy pelosi and harry reid burn in hell competition. yes, really. operation rescue included a video showing step-by-step how you could make your very own nancy pelosi and harry reid effigy. they even showed you how to burn the effigy once you made it. the whole thing was supposedly a protest about abortion related aspects of the affordable care act. the winner of the contest would receive an all expense paid trip to d. c. just burn that effigy. i m not showing you this because the contest was particularly impactful in anyway. it wasn t. this was a fringe group in 2009 taking dangerous political rhetoric about political figures like reid and pelosi to a new and discussing extreme. but the fact that there were not mass effigy burning across the country is not the point. the worry is not th
even top secret. the revelation that the search was part of a federal investigation into possible espionage violations has launched us into uncharted political territory. trump enablers that once called down the swiftest punishment for democrats facing they are facing now state and federal probes. they are either complying with them or forced to. and the party of both law and order has largely signaled that it is not but rather democrats and the biden justice department should trump supporters execute any of the violent threats against the fbi that have search online since the raid during which time a pennsylvania man was arrested for threatening to kill agents last week. while a january 6th and selection assist, armed with a semi automatic weapon, actually attacked and fbi field officer in ohio. and it appears that for a biden administration is still prosecuting and insurrection, and now watching extremist threats to law enforcement explode on social media and play out
so this is the date that january 6th committee has circled on its calendar. tonight, in primetime, i m john berman, brianna is off, chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins is here. it is the morning before this primetime hearing. and committee members have said there will be more hearings potentially, one or two down the road, but nothing immediate. so it is kind of seen as the closing arguments they re going to be making. i think people will be watching to see how effectively the committee does tonight. and they want people to be watching tonight, which is why they re putting it in primetime. the committee s focus will be, we re told, on the 187 minutes from the end of former president trump s speech on the ellipse, on january 6th, when he sent people to the capitol, to his video asking the rioters to go home. those 187 minutes. they will say that his action or inaction during this time period points to a dereliction of duty. he was, they say, resisting pleas fro