first place, the economy a tailspin but political calls it a win somehow someway joe biden is back in the game after enduring a brutal year dominated by economic aid, setbacks and approval ratings. the president is on the verge of a turnaround that the white house believes could salvage his summer and alter the trajectory of the presidency. all he needs to do now is close. there was also this victor left on cable news yesterday. appearance because a huge inflation reduction act claimant deal was announced yesterday genuinely good for a whole bunch of reasons. there is some good news tonight for president biden. i know, we haven t been hearing that much. inflation reduction act or build back better 2.0 we do a lot of good for the country. it is the cherry on top of an overall good week for the democratic party for the president and the country. she loves the super bowl and you wake up and my team won the super bowl. live griff jenkins where they will never win a super
My style of governance, which would be to be strong and compassionate. The battle between a democrat known as mayor 1 , rahm emanuel and a host of challengers has reached a fever pitch in chicago ahead of tuesdays mayoral election. We will speak with Rick Perlstein chicagobased reporter, author of how to sell off a city. Then this weekend memorials are the 50th anniversary of the assassination of malcolm x. We will speak with his daughter, Ilyasah Shabazz. The history of unpunished violence against our people indicates we must be prepared to defend ourselves or we will continue to be a defenseless people at the mercy of a ruthless and violent racist mob. And now with so many injustices happening, with people saying, yes black lives matter too, we get to revisit oh, here was this man who actually reacted to the violence that was perpetrated against his people. And he wasnt a man of violence. By far, he was a man of integrity, a man of courage impeccable integrity. Malcolm xs daughter Il
Reached a fever pitch in chicago ahead of tuesdays mayoral election. We will speak with Rick Perlstein chicagobased reporter, author of how to sell off a city. Then this weekend memorials are the 50th anniversary of the assassination of malcolm x. We will speak with his daughter, Ilyasah Shabazz. The history of unpunished violence against our people indicates we must be prepared to defend ourselves or we will continue to be a defenseless people at the mercy of a ruthless and violent racist mob. And now with so many injustices happening, with people saying, yes black lives matter too, we get to revisit oh, here was this man who actually reacted to the violence that was perpetrated against his people. And he wasnt a man of violence. By far, he was a man of integrity, a man of courage impeccable integrity. Malcolm xs daughter Ilyasah Shabazz will join us in studio. Her oped in the New York Times headlined, what would malcolm x think . All that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now
We begin with a major set back for the National Securitys bulk phones collection today. Ed program goes beyond what congress envisioned under the patriot act. And lisa stark join us and what did they say about it, and how is the Obama Administration reacting . Well, tony, the court soundly rejected the rationale used by first the Bush Administration and now the Obama Administration to justify this massive collection of phone records. They were collecting the length of time and the date though not the contact. The government argued that this data could be relevant to future terrorism investigations, but the court found such an expansive concept of relevance is unprecedented and unwarranted. This is pretty enormous ruling today for the court to hold that a program that the u. S. Government was implementing for over a decade was unlikely under what congress passed. Now, it was nsa documents leaked by Edward Snowden, back in 2013, that revealed the extent of this phone surveillance program
Extensions of joe bidens arms, and bracing. This is a new america. I hope a new america wins the war. The 46 president of the United States putting his soul into his first he gave the inaugural address are president s used to give. The inauguration was joyful. I cried a lot. We havent had a love story in the white house and four years. We saw this determination and compassion of president joe biden. There wasnt just one part that wasnt just medicine in the world. Jesse if that is so overthetop that the Partisan Press is getting called out by their own colleagues. A liberal Washington Post columnist says that it is very competent entry at times, and politico is calling the media turn down the biden adulation. Despite the abundance of praise, the white house planning to shield the new president from the press. Axios is calling it the biden Protection Plan. His staff wants to limit when and where he cannot speak freely and offthecuff. Maybe moments like this are why. [indecipherable] repo