i m ari melber in for nicolle and i ll anchor for the next three hours right now with a lot of news breaking out of new york as the d.a. alvin bragg moves forward with two witnesses who faced this grand jury today, robert costello a legal adviser to that key witness we all know about, michael cohen. he s testified today at the request of trump s legal team. under new york law a person who is expected to be indicted which in this case may or may not be donald trump but in an abundance of fairness, that individual can request a witness appear for them before this grand jury finishes its work. so that s part of what we re following on this big breaking news day. today cohen also on hand, this weekend he said he would be back today to address what costello says making him the rebuttal witness and this, today, is his third appearance before the grand jury. so, that alone makes all of this a major day and probe that is quite near deciding whether or not to indict donald trump. so,
palestine. florida governor ron desantis in california for a book signing saying not just retirees moving to florida. the last four or five years people beat a path to california state hemorrhaging population. it still hurts. infamous oscar slap. you will never see my on oprah or gail crying. i m not a victim. all right. we begin here with a fox news alert. 35 people are under arrest after a violent protest at the construction site of the state of the art training facility inn atlanta. protesters throwing rocks, fireworks, molotov cocktails at the police officers. todd piro joins you now with the latest. todd? steve, ainsley and brian the site dubbed by progressives as cop city still under lockdown this morning. surveillance footage from the attack shows protesters throwing fireworks, including one that exploded near police officers. some demonstrators wearing masks, gilly suits and carrying shields. acts of destruction and violence will not be tolerated.
i think what joy reid did frankly is the issue that happens to black conservatives all the time. where somehow we re less black than black democrats. first of all, i ll tell you and i ll tell joy reid and anyone else who wants to hear it, i grew up in brooklyn, new york, in the inner city, in a single parent household. i am a black man. i m also a republican. the republican congressman you just heard, byron donalds of florida, who got a bunch of votes for speaker, joins me in studio tonight. meanwhile, kevin mccarthy and his far right overlords are off and running with an extreme agenda. and normalizing people like marjorie taylor greene and paul gosar. while punishing lawmakers like adam schiff, ilhan omar, and eric swalwell, who joins me in just a moment. plus, my pal and colleague, chris hayes, is going to help me make a big announcement tonight. you do not want to miss it. we begin with the extreme republican agenda taking shape in the u.s. house of representatives.
now that there is a speaker and a set of rule, kevin mccarthy is making good on a promise he made two years ago. if you, democrats, kick our people off of committees, we are going to do the same to you. back in february, 2021, democrats and 11 republicans voted to remove marjorie taylor greene from her committee assignments for a laundry list of extreme views and conspiracy theories, including that jewish space lasers actually caused california wildfires, school shootings were staged and her liking social media comments that supported violence against democrat, including one that said a bullet to the head would be a quicker way of removing nancy pelosi. then, in november of that same year, 2021, democrats and two republicans voted to do the same to paul gosar for tweeting a violent animation that depicted him killing aoc. now in january of 2023, two years later, with republicans back in control of the house, they are turning the table. promising to deny adam schiff, eric swal
tawdry, ari. there s a lot to talk about here but, you know, imagine if a democratic president had been accused of trying to cover up an affair, wait, you don t have to imagine that because what happened to bill clinton, the very same republicans impeached him when he was president and here the republican party has reached a point where they are defending somebody who was covering up an affair with a porn star and, oh, by the way, they are supporting a member of their party, george santos who lied about everything, who committed fraud in an election in order to get himself elected. they re defending paul gosar who did a video of killing aoc and the tawdriness of what the republican party has become. would the party of reagan countenanced any of this? i m not terribly impressed speaker mccarthy somehow found it in himself to say we shouldn t be violent. my god, that s a low bar.