politicsnation. tonight s lead, a christmas blizzard. right now, americans are preparing to celebrate christmas in the midst of a blizzard of legal developments surrounding donald trump. in just the last five days, the supreme has blocked special counsel jack smith s request to expedite a ruling on whether trump has legal immunity over his january 6th conduct. earlier, new recordings published by the detroit news reportedly showed trump pressing republican electors in michigan not to certify joe biden s victory in the state. three years ago. the state supreme court justices in colorado have been reporting death threats all week since they ruled that trump could not run for office in the state. all that plus what to expect when the senate comes back to washington next month. in new york governor kathy hochul joins me shortly as the empire state officially takes up the question of reparations for its black residents. i had a firsthand view this week as head of the national acti
Witnesses. Just because my own story touches on everything these three write about, i recommend all the books. Theyre wonderful. I and ellie native, which is something that does not surprise people as much as it used to, but my family came from the louisiana, from new orleans. My father came in 1942 during the war, and this kind of to margarets book. My family did not talk a whole lot about what happened in the south. You just did not hear a lot. I put it together over the course of my life, really. As an essayist, i always tried to sort of dove right i dont know write about the history of black folk and about my own individual life, which is very hard to do. I think im still trying to put those pieces together, so all these books speak to that effort, i think, by black people to continue to do that. We are in the era of black lives matter, which is the same campaign we have been running for a very long time. I think of dr. King in 1968. His last campaign for the sanitation workers in
marcus moore in ukraine. 24 hours after the deadly shooting rampage in atlanta the alleged gunman charge. as we now learn about the woman killed, a mother of two young children, a beloved cdc employee. four other women wounded. steve osunsami in atlanta. the deadly subway confrontation under investigation in new york city. disturbing video showing a former marine using a choke hold to restrain a man who witnesses say was acting erratically and threatening other passengers. the man later dying in the hospital. protesters demanding the former marine now face charges. the new report claiming the billionaire mega donor who paid for vacations or supreme court justice clarence thomas and bought justice thomas mother s home now comes reporting that the donor paid the private school tuition for thomas great-nephew who thomas raised as a son. n karl reporting tonight. the verdict for singer ed sheeran on whether he copied marvin gaye s song. you will hear his reaction tonight.
somebody asks you where you re from and you answer, i m from chicago, nobody s going to give you a patronizing response like, oh, chicago s charming. hey, chicago. more likely it ll be wow, chicago or oh, chicago. they ll be impressed. chicago is the town, a city that doesn t ever have to measure itself against any other city. other places have to measure themselves against it. it s big, it s outgoing, it s tough, it s opinionated and everybody s got a story. i took a walk through this walk through this beautiful world felt the cold rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder as late afternoon gives way to evening in chicago s old town, it s time to drink. though to be fair, almost anytime it s time for a drink at the old town ale house. the chorus assembles to give their opinions on matters of the day, subjects of great import to this city on the lake, this city of broad shoulders, this
we have correspondents live on the ground across the zast zozo disaster zone. we re going to speak to turkish basketball star and chef jose andres helping feed people as a humanitarian crisis unfolds. plus this where s mike pence? the special counsel is investigating donald trump and january 6. now they want to talk to mike pence. cnn is learning what he is seeking from the former vice president. also the district attorney in memphis says he is doing a deep dive into past incidents involving the five police officers charged with murdering tyre nichols. sfw we begin with the catastrophe in turkey and syria. the scope of the destruction is staggering. the pictures, devastating. the death toll, just growing. 21,000 so far, 719 people now confirmed dead after the devastating earthquake. thousands more are still missing, possibly dead or dying beneath the rubble. hope is running out to find any more survivors. the this morning four days after the quake, search teams rescue