of the jewish community in pittsburgh who said they felt a lot of relief when that conviction came down. just to describe the tone inside the courtroom, it was also silent as they read the first charges and the first guilty verdicts. it shows you intently the community has been paying attention to this trial. i want to touch on the charges that robert bauers was found guilty of. 63 federal charges, also guilty of 22 of the capital offenses, it was the instruction of the free exercise of religious beliefs resulting in death. the jury said robert bauers killed jewish worshippers while they were exercising their religious freedom. it has been a long time coming and a hard trial to listen to over the past three weeks. i ll bring up one testimony we heard. we heard from carole black. she was a survivor of the shooting. she described hiding in a closet while bullets were ringing out above her. she saw her friend mel wax be killed. she testified he immediately went down on his back.
host begins right now. e msnb host begins right now. good evening. welcome to tonight special coverage. i m rachel maddow here at the msnbc mothership with my colleagues joy reid and lawrence o donnell and jen psaki and ari melber. i friends chris hayes and alex wagner and stephanie ruhle or are gonna be joining us later. it s going to be fun. we re less than a week out from the republican presidential caucuses in iowa. theast eye or a public can debate is underway tonight with oddly a sort of random selection of two of the remaining five republican presidential candidates. taking part in that debate. if you can, right now, name all five remaining republican presidential candidates at the top of your head without looking anything up, congratulations. and i ll say you need to get out more. two are debating tonight. nikki haley and ron desantis. also tonight, two miles away from that iowa debate, fox news conducted a live town hall with the front running republican candida
the build back biden, build back better. god save the queen. don t worry normal, he has been like this for year, that is comforting, florida governor ron desantis serving up fresh attacks. we need to restore sa sanity in this country, this country is in decline, this is a choice we as americans will make. new op-ed pointing out desantis strategy is one other other presidential hopeful could learn from. senator into the is firing back at president biden for calling him a r racist. there is no higher compliment to be attacked by president biden, what democrats feel threatened they have his maim comments about someone running. if anyone should be standing and shouting on the mountain tops that america is not racist, it should be the man that americans support twice for the nomination and becomes president, the evolution of america is palpable, progress in the nation is undeniable. god save the queen, tommy, they are just not weird but they are scary words, these are
right now on ana cabrera reports, breaking news from capitol hill, two house committees meeting this hour on whether to hold hunter biden in contempt of congress. what it means for the president s son. plus, countdown to the caucus, nikki haley and ron desantis preparing to go head to head this evening with just five days to go. this as donald trump aims to play spoiler tonight and siphon attention. and there s a new twist in his appearance in a new york courtroom tomorrow. also ahead, extreme weather, millions impacted by a winter storm system that brought everything from snow to floods to tornados. thanks so much for joining us on this busy wednesday. it is 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. we begin with breaking news on capitol hill where two house committees are kicking off meetings right now to consider whether to hotel hunter biden in contempt of congress. the house judiciary and oversight panels both expected to vote on whether to proceed
To this that is not constructive in our country. Joe biden looked all of us in the eye in 2020 and said, elect me and ill bring us together. And then he ran far left and abandoned most of the country philosophically. So, how could he be the uniter in a second term . A second term all hell do is keep doing what hes doing, which is dividing the country even more than we were divided in 2020. So, the way i would go about it is very direct and very simple, that there is no bad opinion. You want to express your opinion in this country, express it. I want to hear it. And then everybody gets around the table and resolves our issues one at a time. The same way we used to do at Dinner Parties before the last eight or ten years. Wasnt like there werent political differences discussed. Its just people didnt start throwing the cutlery. It was a little more civilized. And it wasnt as if our democracy was at stake. See, in the end, if you make everything a crisis, then it will be. And i heard the pr