the reidout with joy reid starts now. tonight on the reidout look, the role of the congress and the role of the vice president on that day is to open and count electoral votes, no more, no less. i will always believe by god s grace i did my duty that day. but there was more to it than that. there s new reporting that mike pence seriously considered shirking that solemn duty and skipping the january 6th electoral vote certification. also tonight, russia extends the detention of american journalist evan girsh kovich and is seeking to prosecutor another journalist. plus, honoring the life of former first lady rosalynn carter, a tribute service is attended by all the living first ladies. and three presidents including her beloved husband of 77 years. former president jimmy carter. but we begin tonight with new reporting about january 6th that may help explain a lingering mystery in the lead-up to that day. just one day before then vice president mike pence was t
today on inside politics, big wins for democrats in ohio, kentucky and virginia last night. the clear message from voters, abortion rights matter. still, big time. but will that be enough to power president biden to reelection a year from now? plus it s debate night in america. five republican candidates will take the stage in miami tonight, absent once again, the front runner. so is tonight s faceoff really just a race for second? and new reporting on the democratic divide over israel. hear when some jewish democrats are saying about members of their own party who voted against the resolution supporting israel s war against hamas. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. we start with last night s election results. president biden summed it up like this. he said, quote, across the country tonight, democrats won and maga lost. voters vote, polls don t. now let s go win next year. cnn political director david chalian has more from what happened last night at
kilmeade and greg gutfeld. it s 5:00 in new york city. this is the five. dana: president biden facing criticism for focusing on islamaphobia despite a despicable wave of anti-semitism in america. the anti-defamation league says there s been a staggering 400% rise in anti-semitic incidents. just this week, a cornell student charged with threatening to shoot up, stab and murder jewish students on campus and there s this startling scene. a jewish student at harvard, singled out and screamed at by anti-israel mob who mocked him from excuse me, from walking freely. the university s president says they are working to fight all forms of anti-semitism on campus. and then with all of that in mind, the administration is rolling out a national strategy to counter hate towards muslims. vice president kamala harris making this announcement on social media. as a result of the hamas terrorist attack in israel, and the humanitarian crisis in gaza, we have seen an uptick in anti-pales
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important night for president biden. what can we expect? reporter: well, he s been preparing for it for about a week now, according to his aides who say he s been going through the speech line by line not only because he wants to strike that balance that you were talking about earlier, talking about coronavirus fatigue that s happening inside the country while also still talking about those 1,500 deaths still happening every single day. they also say he wants to properly convey what this $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill he just signed a few hours ago is actually going to mean for americans. it s this big, massive, complex bill, so they want to make sure he s talking about how it will benefit those lower and middle-income americans that they say he intended to look out for in this bill. of course, wolf, this comes as he signed the bill earlier today, earlier than expected. thank you all. appreciate it. reporter: with that signature, joe biden sealing a defining mome