and we start this friday night with a fox news alert. the u.s.with a supreme courtupre will decide whether donald trump can be kep c t off the 2024 ballot in colorado. with arguments starting on february the eighth, again, the supreme court, they have no.w to consider what is a very important appeal and constitutional issue, and that is whether or not president trump s name will remain on the ballot until. they render a decision. now, also tonight, a big update from the biden familonight apdas s hunter may soon be held in contempt of congresoos. tha we have an update on that. also, the one and only dr. cornel west will join us with m more of his defense, whichor i think is indefensible. the former harvard president igt ahead, did he shoot out tonight? but tonight, we begin in valley. forge in pennsylvania. nearly 250 years ago, during a bitterly cold and wet winter . george washington stationed the continental army on this rural plateau just outside of philadelphiuralu just o
at this hour, protests in akron right now. a special grand jury in ohio declined to charge eight officers who fatally shot a 25-year-old black man last year. the city s response and the live report from akron as well as legal analysis plus, caught in the cross fire secretary blinken confirming a u.s. diplomatic convoy was attacked in sudan as two rival militaries fight for control quote, when hell freezes over that s the timing for one republican reogting to the possibility that democrats will try to replace dianne feinstein. plus, with more and more parents saying it s just financially out of reach, any minute now, president biden is set to speak in the rose garden about his administration s plan to make childcare more affordable our nbc news reporters are following all the latest developments and i want to start with cnbc s senior white house correspondent. kayla, we are going to hear from the president any minute now he wants to make childcare cheaper. how s he going
hi, everyone we start with the fireworks in washington, d.c., today. emanating from the committee set up by the housegop. it took republicans 15 votes now in the days and months that fod followed, the house gop has done nothing except projecting the rest of their colleagues and us to the grievance of lies and conspiracies that animate life over on earth 2 where they live. today a hearing by the so-called weaponization commit presumably focused on censorship on social media and a lawsuit brought by the then-republican attorney general of missouri, he has to be an attorney from missouri, pushing back against efforts by social media to fight disinformation schmidt was one of two witnesses brought forward by republicans, but republican majority on this committee who testified and was dismissed, sent away before democrats could ask one single question so much for a functioning committee in which the free exchange of ideas and sharing of witnesses prevails democrats were justifiabl
form vice president mike pence has to sit for the counsel. a federal judge in washington, d.c. most of pence s argument to avoid testifying. the speech and debate clause shielded him in his role as president of the senate. we re going to explain what the judge said about alleged illegality on the part of donald trump and what it means for pence in a moment. also, what the judge conceded to pence s team. we also have breaking news on the trump hush money case. we re going to explain that so don t go anywhere. joining me now, laura jarrett. from west palm beach near mar-a-lago, and former chief attorney also here in new york, garrett haake for the reporting. all right, laura. i m going to begin with you. let s talk about what you ve learned about former vice president mike pence. what did the judge say about why he is compelling him and ordering him to testify? the headline is that pence will have to testify in front of the special counsel grand jury there in washington, d.
the twice impeached disgraced ex-president to overturn his election defeat. it s a glaring and unavoidable fact that mike pence one of the key stories of january 6th and the person that the entire plotry lied on doing what trump wanted him to do. he never testified about what happened to him or what made his whole family and the secret service detail run or what happened to the country for that matter under oath. today we have news of a potential break through on that front specifically. a federal judge ordered mike pence to testify before the federal grand jury under oath. that grand jury is investigating the january 6th insurrection and donald trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. judge boseberg rejected donald trump s and mike pence s efforts to block a subpoena. trump s lawyers asked the judge s predecessor to limit pence s testimony claiming certain issues were off limits because of executive privilege that protects communications between the president and some