Hello, new york. Thank you for joining us live at town hall in new york city for the Special Edition of why is this happening. Hes incisive. He is big hearted, hes very, very smart. Admit it, he is taller than you expected. Give a warm welcome to my friend, my beloved colleague, chris hayes. [applause] thank you. Stop it. How are you . Good. Thanks, thank you, thank you, thank you. Sit down. Thank you, its extremely kind. I hate attention and positive feedback. Its a very hard 20 seconds for me. Thanks for cutting it short. Le pen fits very amazing to be here in my hometown of new york city. Ive got my family here. Tonight we are going to talk about democracy. That word, we have probably talked more about democracy in the last four or five years that i had talked about all of my time as a journalist before that. Even that as a topic seems very weird. Americas a democracy, and there is a certain kind of history that we are taught as a part of the Mystery Civic Culture totally. Even civi
Stephanie ruhle, all here for msnbcs special coverage of these Court Arguments on the disqualification of donald trump. Welcome to our Primetime Recap of the historic proceedings that the United States Supreme Court. I am Rachel Maddow at msnbc home base along with my beloved colleagues, Lawrence Odonnell, and joy reid, and chris hayes, happy to have you all here. No cameras are allowed in federal courtrooms, including the United States Supreme Court, but today, for the arguments about whether china for having an insurrection against the u. S. Government, the justices did allow for the sound of the proceedings, the audio, to be livestreamed here on msnbc, we carried the audio of those Oral Arguments live unfold. That was starting just after 10 am eastern time. But we also know that people have lives, jobs, school, other responsibilities and might make it hard to take two hours out of a thursday to stare at an Audio Speaker for hours trying to figure out of that was gorsuch, or a Leader
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Iranianlinked group amid a rise of attacks targeting u. S. Service members. All this as a top israeli official arrives in washington, d. C. The latest on the escalating tensions just ahead. Plus, holiday returns. The latest from the roads and the air as millions of americans head back home, while shoppers rush to bring back those not so great gifts before time runs out to make their returns. Thanks for being here. We begin this hour with the expected visit tomorrow to mexico. By Secretary Of State Antony Blinken and Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Both are set to meet tomorrow with mexicos president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and first on the agenda will likely be the socalled caravan of migrants heading toward americas Southern Border. Organizers say 8,000 people, including thousands of children under the age of 14, have started the more than 3,000 mile journey from Southern Mexico to the United States and they are walking. Sam brock is following this for us. Sam, goo
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