rhetoric with a potential indictment looming, predicting death and destruction just hours before the manhattan da s office received threatening letter. van, marjorie taylor greene takes her political theater to a dc jail to visit a january 6th defendants. but what were conditions really like? and florida s culture war takes aim at michelangelo? how the rallying cry of so-called parents rights could shape the 2024 election, as the 11th hour gets underway on this friday night. good evening. i m mehdi hassan in for stephanie ruhle. and 1:00 this morning donald trump posted yet another insulting and threatening message to his social media platform. he called manhattan da alvin bragg a, quote, degenerate psychopath, and warned the potential death and destruction could follow a charging decision from brags office in the stormy daniels hush money case. at 11:40 this morning, da brags office received an anonymous threatening letter. that letter said, quote, alvin, i m going to kill y
but what were conditions really like? and florida s culture war takes aim at michelangelo? how the rallying cry of so-called parents rights could shape the 2024 election, as the 11th hour gets underway on this friday night. good evening. i m mehdi hassan in for stephanie ruhle. and 1:00 this morning donald trump posted yet another insulting and threatening message to his social media platform. he called manhattan da alvin bragg a, quote, degenerate psychopath, and warned the potential death and destruction could follow a charging decision from brags office in the stormy daniels hush money case. at 11:40 this morning, da brags office received an anonymous threatening letter. that letter said, quote, alvin, i m going to kill you for this. in all capital letters, with 13 exclamation points. we envelope contained white powder, which, thankfully, was not dangerous. a senior new york law enforcement official says there have been several hundred threats to the da s office and recent
run. plus, more than 12 million people are facing ice storm warnings as the deep south gets hit with a deep freeze. hundreds of flights cancelled, roads covered with ice. it s made traveling dangerous and it s contributed to at least six deaths. but we begin in memphis where starting an hour from now, the funeral for tyre nichols will attempt to take the focus away from the horrific images of his brutal death, and instead honor his life and the man his mother called a quote, beautiful soul. mourners have begun to arrive right now at mississippi boulevard christian church, less than 20 miles from where the 29-year-old lived and died. his death, the latest rallying cry for a nation sickened by watching the same images play out on police body cameras again and again. the fact that george floyd s brother and breonna taylor s mother will attend today s funeral, underscoring the sad truth that past calls for change have gone unfulfilled. reverend al sharpton was asked earlier t
letting us into your homes during these truly extraordinary times. we re grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now. happy monday. hi, noig nicolle. thank you so much. the first vote of this new congress under this new speaker is slated for this hour. it s the rules package for the 118th congress. a rules vote is not typically coveraged but assist last week showed washington is not taking typical for granted under speaker kevin mccarthy, who begins the job in a diminished posture as it took 15 ballots over four days, or five if you count saturday at 12:00 a.m. to even get the votes from his own party. it s a public squabble we all witnessed. no speaker has had to go through anything like that since 1819. as we track the rules vote, we begin with something special i want to show you, if unusual bruising way we got here. a speaker has not been elected. this dramatic day that is not turning out remotely the way kevin mccarthy had hoped. a speaker has not baske
daniel ellsberg. they failed. and today he is still warning the american people about the dangers of unchecked military power. but are they listening? daniel ellsberg, welcome to hardtalk. glad to be with you. it s a great pleasure to be at your home. now, you have lived a long and a very full life. and i guess the truth is, you know that you will always be associated with one extraordinary decision you took to leak the pentagon papers. does it bother you that that is the thing that people think about you? no. well, i know that it is, but i ve lived with that for a long time. my intent at the time was to put out more important papers. i felt top secret papers on nuclear war planning and the prospects of nuclear strategy, supposedly, which i had in my safe. top secret safe at rand. and i copied them at the same time. and as a friend of mine who went to prison, and was a model for me, really, randy keeler. told me at the time he was one of the very few people i told i was going