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wrote 20, 7 to 15 minutes to get off the plane. we should remind people, air travel, safe but that is a scary accident. it really is safe. i feel like it is safe. just that one was scary. you know, what it was. happy new year. happy new year. well, we have 307 days to go until election day. can you believe it? the ballot battle is warming up. tonight i m more coates live. well fasten your feet both everyone, buckle up as they say, this is going to be an election like you have never seen an hour history. i know we say that a lot about this all being a wild wild west, and we are barreling down the road towards a collision between politics and the quartz. donald trump and what may be the least surprising development ever, today asking a main court to overturn secretary of state decision to remove him from the ballot there, the primary ballot that is because of his role in the insurrection at the united states capitol the seat of our democracy on january 6th. now th
that s not the first time i ve said it, far from it. the 14th amendment case heads to the supreme court with existential danger that donald trump poses to our democracy. plus, pictures don t lie. the horrors in gaza through the lens of now iconic palestinian photographer murtaza a visa. finally, republicans in control of the messaging law, while they are taking a victory lap over claudine gay resigning. when will liberals push back? good evening, i am mehdi hasan. three years, ago i launched the show with a very stark warning about the danger imposed to american democracy by one donald j trump. tonight, on the very last edition of the mehdi hasan show, yes, our last show. i want to begin by again warning you all about the threat to our democracy from donald j trump. the donald trump who was running for president again, who s leading joe biden in some of the polls. and who continues to make violent authoritarian unconstitutional threats about his political opponents. the donal
voters are asking for. all right, matt duss, thank you very much. that is all in for this week. alex wagner tonight starts right now with ali velshi in for alex. good evening, ali. important point there, this isn t an either or, all or nothing, don t support israel or do support israel. it s a measure of condition that goes along with the aid that we give ukraine or any other country that says we have to prosecute this war in a different way. in fact, it s interesting one of the things that we learned, right, during the early days of the war was very intense conditions placed on ukraine about attacks in russia, specifically because of fears of blow back, of escalation. and it was, this was an active conversation, very, ve clearly. very early, and they re constantly. i m glad you brought that up. thank you, my friend. have aooweekend. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. i am ali velshi in for alex wagner. last month, the united states economy gained 2
story . i m anderson cooper. last week at tokyo s haneda airport, a jal airbus collided with a smaller aircraft. five crew members on the coast guard plane died. but amazingly, all 379 people on the airbus survived. they were safely evacuated before the plane was engulfed in flames. investigation into what happened is still under way. it got us thinking about that miraculous story of survival that happened 15 years ago this month. us airways flight 1549 took off from new york s laguardia airport heading to charlotte, north carolina. there were 150 passengers onboard and 5 crew members, including the pilot, captain chesley sully sullenberger. it should have been a quick two-hour flight. but soon after takeoff the plane collided with a flock of geese. both engines went out and the plane headed down. captain sullenberger acted quickly, heading towards the hudson river for an emergency landing. his decisiveness saved the lives of all 159 people onboard. but this potential trage