kennedy: outrage after felicity huffman sentencing, a judge giving the desperate housewives star 14 days in the pokey for her role in the brazen college admissions scandal. comedian neil brennan tweeting, who will earn less, felicity huffman after 14 days in prison or a child after four years in college, another reaction, i can buy milk when she goes to jail and it ll still be good when she s released. so much for criminal justice reform. john legend, who has been outspoken in terms of this issue not a college admissions, but people who have been incarcerated wrongly he wrote on twitter, i get why everyone s mad when rich person x gets the short sentence and poor person of color y gets along one paid this answer isn t for x get more comets are both to get less. or even none. we should level down, not up. is there something to be sent to
his speech later today especially after the criticism that followed that answer that he gave on thursday night about the legacy of slavery? as you pointed out his every word on race will be closely scrutinized especially because the immediate take away when he made that comment at thursday night s debate was that he was speaking about a record player and that was perhaps not great considering his advanced age, but the answer in its entirety was to a question on the legacy of slavery and he seemed to indicate suggest that children of color need to be educated and guided by their white educators, by white teachers, by people outside the family and the core. but now he maintains his lead in the polls but that s very much due in large part to his very strong support among black voters, particularly those of older generations. when he goes to alabama today an early voting state, a state that s a super tuesday state, his remarks about the bombing will resonate pretty strongly among those
the american dream is big enough to welcome more immigrants. biden s every word on race even more meaningful after critics say he delivered a botched answer to a debate question about the legacy of slavery. and as biden continues to bank on the legacy of a popular democratic president, barack obama s attorney general, eric holder, defended biden, but did not endorse him. i don t think that there s any basis for people to believe that a president biden would be, you know, less committed to civil rights endorsement than president obama was. now, i m not endorsing him. it s then for him, you know, to explain and torques as i ve just said, say, well, i might have been wrong then, but this is where i am now and, you know, you judge me on the entirety of my career. joining me now emily known and daniel lit man reporter for politico. good morning to you both. emily, let s start with you. let s stay on biden. what will you be looking for in
noting the discrepancy tweeted the answer isn t for x to get more, it s for both of them to get less. we should level down, not up. in addition to two weeks in prison huffman received a $30,000 fine, one year supervised release and 250 hours of community service. her sentencing comes as nearly three dozen parents await their fate including actress lori loughlin who pleaded not guilty to more serious charges. felicity huffman s sentencing a wake-up call for lori loughlin, evaporating any hopes she might have had that she wouldn t be sentenced to time in federal prison. noing me now is attorney and msnbc legal contributor katie fang and ashley merchant. good morning. some people say because huffman pleaded guilty, took responsibility and was remorseful her sentence was appropriate. do you agree with that? i think jail is jail and i think that the point that john
secretary pompeo this morning tweeting, having failed at max pressure. secretary pompeo is turning to max deceit. he goes on to say that the u.s. is is it you can in yemen because the illusion that yep ens superiority will lead to military victory. according to the houthi are he believes who took responsibility for this, it was ten drones relatively inexpensive technology that sent these two saudi aramco facilities up in flames. these strikes have cut the kingdom s oil output roughly in half, a loss of 5 million barrels a day, that s significant, it s about 5% of the world s daily supply. so, phillip, one big question is what effect is this going to have on oil prices. according to the analysts i ve spoken with the answer is going to depend on how quickly they return to output. the department of energy indicated last night it would be willing to tap into reserves if necessary. we got a little preview of the market reaction this morning, sunday of course is the first