and we ll see you tomorrow night. a big show to get to tonight. thanks so much. this is don lemon tonight, and we are at a very critical point in this country right now. a crucial point, as a matter of fact. a moment when we get to decide whether we re going to do something about the gun violence that is killing more and more americans every day, even if it s only a first step, or do nothing and just watch more and more funerals, more and more families torn apart. this could be the moment. i don t want to get preachy about it but it could be the moment. a bipartisan group of senators working to hammer out a deal. but it s no sure thing and whatever they come up with will likely be less than what democrats want and a tough sell in the red states. they re looking at bolstering checks on 18 to 21-year-olds who want to buy semi-aublth v automatic weapons, red flag laws, school security and mental health care. the white house says that president joe biden is optimistic and negot
Not become law. Because if this doesnt make a difference, if these bills are moving together and this is all about giving people yet another chance to vote on something they already voted on, whats the point . I mean, the rule provides 30 minutes of debate on this side car ukraine funding bill. 30 minutes, 15 minutes on each side. Boy, what a debate thats going to be. I mean, come on. Ill tell you what the point of all this is. Let me read you the words of our colleague margry Taylor Greene when she left the Conference Meeting this morning, she told a reporter, and i quote, were not funding ukraine. Thats what i heard in there. End quote. Let me inform the gentlelady we all had a chance to vote our conscious, up or down. Those who voted to strike aid can go home and tell their constituents they voted to strike ukraine aid. Its not that complicated. What concerns many of us is the signal these extreme maga republicans are sending to putin. Putin is an authoritarian thug. What hes doing
Times. A recent abc News Washington post polls shows his favorable rating is 45 work 54 having an unfavorable opinion. Joining me now with a look ahead jeffmorrows inauguration, greenfield and joining us from los angeles, president ial historian john meacham. Im pleased to have each of them here on the program. Kathleen, i begin with you, youre in washington, what is the mood of expectation there . Kathleen it promises to be rainy tomorrow, if trump is wise, hes got about 900,000 umbrellas printed with trump on them or make America Great again. Everyone is trying to guess what the president elect is going to say. Especially as he claims to have written it himself. As for the 60plus democrats who are not going to attend the inauguration, im curious to see who fills those seats and most of the action is going to be on the mall with all the protest groups coming in. I think theres Something Like 90plus, including all of those that dont require a permit because there are fewer than 25 to t
This morning. 10 degrees right now in philadelphia. Feels like 5 degrees below zero. 6 below for allentown. The windchill is 5 below in trenton. And 5 below also in wilmington. Single digits for much of the morning. So a very cold morning and we will see bright sunshine. 10 degrees by 9 00 by lunchtime, 15 degrees. Your neighborhoodbyneighborhood forecast, back in ten minutes. But first right first alert traffic reporter general jillian mele is standing by. And we just got word this camera looks like were having trouble with it unfortunately, you cant see that image. That camera just froze. Vehicle fire on the shoulder 95 northbound near the betsy ross bridge. We have an accident 76 westbound on the shoulder as you approach conshohocken but its not slowing anyone down because it is on the shoulder. Drive times average on the schuylkill expressway. Taking you to bucks conte, radcliffe and christine avenue, take route 13 if you want to avoid that area. Finally for septa, no a or b servic
Halfstaff at the capitol and Supreme Court. She leaves behind a legacy there on the court, and of course, that seat, 45 days out from an already heated president ial election, it is clear this race has now been intensified. More now on the political fights that have already started. In just a moment, but first, a look at juices ginsburgs life and the zbrit and tenacity she was known for earning her the name the notorious rbg. Reporter ginsburgs rise from humble neighborhood to the Supreme Court is a classical story. What is the difference between a bookkeeper and new yorks district as a Supreme Court justice just as one generation my mothers life and my bear witness where else in america would that happen. Reporter she was smarted tied for first in her columbia law school. There were three strikes against her. First, she was a woman, first she was jewish, third, she had a young child. Very much with the model of the naacp defense fund led by thurgood marshall, she had this idea you had