the country. when the liberals fight back? will we ever get any real genuine reform from the place? i ll speak to new york congressman and sworn member, who is himself a former police violence. and more on that surveillance balloon from china and the sheer it is sea of the response from some republicans. good evening. welcome to the show. congratulations on surviving another week in the life of our public. 70s of craziness, mainly from the republican party. mainly, i mean, no words that more true these days and the right-wing state that has become the lip artery for extremism. america s country within the country, florida, land of sunshine. and the leadership of that tropical autocrat in training, governor ron desantis. perhaps we could start calling florida america s very own mini hungary, authoritarian narcissistic bully. because in only the last seven days, mind you, ron desantis and florida republicans have managed to, on monday, introduce a bill to make it illegal to
from obesity world headquarters in new york. welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. we begin this hour with the growing concern over china s posture on the war in ukraine. three u.s. officials telling nbc news new intelligence suggest china is considering sending artillery and ammunition to russia. this could be the latest in a series of insults. here is an exchange between my colleague, chuck todd, and white house national secretive of jake sullivan on meet the press today. we re sending more troops to taiwan. that shine is ignoring calls from our defense secretary. secretary blinken to cancel his trip. the president wants to have a call with xi, there s no evidence that anything it s been scheduled. this like a communication, how dangerous is the situation with china right now? we have said repeatedly that we need to have military communications channels to avoid escalation, to avoid surprise, to avoid mistake. it is unfortunate that the chinese defense ministry has d
which turned out to be not be bad idea i mean, yeah, really. there are good investment you will see in this job? you have to cover a lot of the person who sometimes you get little moments of levity. when someone told me on my staff that steve bannon ha been apprehended by postal service inspectors on the yach of a chinese billionaire i connecticut, i was like, okay. this is one of the good stories. yes you enjoy that, all the way home, my friend. thank you at-home for joinin us this hour in december it was about parental rights. a federal judge in texas ruled that a grant program designe to provide birth control t kids from low income familie was unconstitutional because that program violated parental rights the judge wrote, the court finds no compelling government interest justifies dependenc disregard of plaintiff parental rights in this case in november, it was abou discrimination on the basis of sex. that same federal judge signed with lawyers associated with
the war on lgbtq rights, house republicans vote to ba transgender students fro women s sports teams congress woman, ramallah jayapal will be here with he reaction and on the run, congressma george santos launched his reelection bid, but he already has a republican challenger, colin curry. will join me live. i m jonathan capehart, this is the saturday show. americas unrestrained gu culture, the rising levels o fear and division, have made for a deadly week. two texas cheerleaders wer shot after one of the team mistakenly entered the wrong car in a parking lot caitlin gilles, a 20 year ol woman was shot and killed afte the car she was in drove up th wrong driveway the 65-year-old homeowner said he feared for his life, even though neither she nor her friends ever left the car. 84-year-old, andrew lester shot 16-year-old, ralph yarl through the door after the teenager rang hi doorbell ralph mistakenly went to the wrong address to pick up his little brother s harmless mistakes wit
haven t seen a yet, but i don t anticipate a major initiative on the part of china providing weaponry to russia. if they did, would that be crossing the line for you, mister president? it would be the same line everyone would have crossed. in other words, we will post severe sanctions on anyone who has done it. meanwhile, a group of media organizations, including nbc news, have asked house speaker kevin mccarthy to share 44,000 hours of security footage from january 6th. and at the request comes after fox news host tucker carlson says he has been given access to the videos. democratic congressman j.d. raskin expressed a concern to msnbc of this video being named a public. we have security concerns about turning over the location of security cameras in the u.s. capital that that police used. we have concern about the could escape and evacuation routes that were used on that day. we don t want to just, you know, there are hands up and say we will let everything go. and