unknown is always good to see you, my friend. thanks to you for joining us this evening. on april 3, 1968, the mason temple in memphis was packed. memphis was a city in mourning. it was grappling over the deaths of two employees of the memphis department of public work, employees who were crushed to death while taking cover from severe weather. today marks the 55th anniversary of their deaths today.th under the slogan i am a man more than 1,000 black employees were on strike and tensions were rising. so despite a bad thunderstorm that april night the room was filled, and there was one man the crowd wanted to hear from. martin luther king jr. had visitedhe memphis twice before. he was trying to help the black workers get a living wage and decent working condition, and that night he was back, delivering what would be his final speech the night before he was assassinated. dr. king began his famous mountaintop speech by saying something is happening in memphis, something h
friday agreement was signed, t bring if not an end, at leas some long overdue respite from the decades of fighting an violence and terrorism i northern ireland it leaves tomorrow t commemorate the good frida agreement. it will be back on friday. now it is time the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening rachel it is on msnbc you just had reinstate representative justin jone from tennessee i am going to have the not yet reinstated representativ justin pierson join us as ou first guest tonight. and so it is remarkable to see how fast this story has move and to see that reinstatemen tonight was just really, reall exciting as a video. i am glad you relayed it the way you did during our hour. that document you gave us. well, i have to say, seeing people on the lawn of the fron of a tennessee capital today saying no justin s no piece, n justin s, no peace, i though that was pretty irresistible but yeah, and looking forwar to seeing that - thank you rachel. thank you
the military takeover there. we start in the uk, which has seen the biggest day of strike action in more than a decade, according to the unions, with up to half a million people walking out in disputes over pay, jobs and conditions. among those striking are train drivers from the aslef union impacting most train companies across england. bus drivers in london about 100,000 civil servants from over a hundred government departments. thousands of university staff from 150 universities across the uk. and teachers from the national education union. these aerial images show demonstrators marching past the bbc s headquarters in london. 0ur employment correspondent was with them nearby at whitehall. the scale of this. this is the biggest straight for more than a decade. there has been some sort of talk about, could this be the general strike? it is not that. there are unions who have decided not to strike today. it certainly could be a lot bigger. what s interesting is there are un
questions. and you followed up, you gave him an opportunity to make his case. he did make his case. and he also made some news, i thought, on several key issues. i was taking notes on ukraine, for example. he made some news on iran. i had never heard the prime minister of israel acknowledge, confirm, that israel has already launched military action to try to destroy various iran military weapons, weapons that could be given to russia, for example, sold to russia and its war against ukraine. and he made that clear, that israel was doing that covertly, clearly. i thought that was significant. and you had a good discussion on u.s. israeli relations right now, which are going through various elements. i thought it was very significant a couple of weeks ago, when the u.s. and israel had their largest ever joint military exercises, the u.s. military s central command, which for many years, didn t want to be involved with israel because the arab countries would be upset. this is the
well, i thought your interview, first of all, jake, was terrific. i think you asked really important, very, very strong questions. and you followed up, you gave him an opportunity to make his case. he did make his case. and he also made some news, i thought, on several key issues. i was taking notes on ukraine, for example. he made some news on iran. i had never heard the prime minister of israel acknowledge, confirm, that israel has already launched military action to try to destroy various iran military weapons, weapons that could be given to russia, for example, sold to russia and its war against ukraine. and he made that clear, that israel was doing that covertly, clearly. i thought that was significant. and you had a good discussion on u.s. israeli relations right now, which are going through various elements. i thought it was very significant a couple of ago, when the u.s. and israel had their largest ever joint military exercises, the u.s. military s central command,