vice president kamala harris plans to attend along with keisha lance boughts and mitch landrieu. tomorrow night we ll speak with reverend sharpton about how the nichols family and people across the country are grieving in this moment and what justice in this case looks like. but tonight sharpton, nichols family, and their attorney, benjamin crump, are gathered at the historic mason temple to discuss how authorities continue to investigate nichols death. the memphis fire department fired two medics and a lieutenant who all failed to give nichols medical attention in the immediate aftermath as theia officers who had just bean him laughed on the side lines. in addition to that the memphis police department confirmed yesterday that two other memphis officers on the scene that night have been suspended since january 8th. one of those two officers is a man named prestten hemphill. nichols family attorney and civil rights lawyer ben crump says hemphill is the one who pulled nichols
november, it won t help him in the general. keep looking at those polls, be proud. check out the podcast saving america. good to see. wherever you get your podcasts, that is all in on this thursday night. alex wagner starts right now. before we go, don t forget to watch right here on msnbc. and over on peacock there s a new original episode of inside with jen psaki every thursday. alex wagner starts right now. good evening, we have indictments, but they are not the ones we thought they were gonna get. not what was on her bingo card. a lot of reading, a lot of post and notes. the bingo card must be ripped out and thrown out. that is the world that we are now living in. exactly. i like sharing a studio with you. me too. thank you my friend, thank you for joining us this evening. we expected, as i just said, we might get new charges against donald trump today. but we did not expect this.
voters would say, you, know that we think it was horrible would happen on january six but we want to move on, we care about issues like abortion and inflation and other issues. the democrat still kept in the headlines. and that did have an effect. as you noted right before the break, all of these trump election denying candidates lost their races. i think it will be important as we get into the fold to keep it in the news if it is not already in the news. because the other thing is that donald trump will be running for president and he will have all these trial dates. the trial in march, the classified document trial scheduled in may, we are going to have the january 6th indictment, the georgia indictment, so he s going to have images of him sitting in court, and all these extra details we didn t expect this is going to be in the headlines from now until november and it will help donald trump in november, it won t help him in the general. keep looking at those polls, be proud. check
process. they did not win a governing majority. they don t have the house and the senate. they don t have a veto-proof majority. so if president biden were to negotiate with them or come to some sort of concession to reward this behavior and maybe they get whatever makes them happy, what happens the next time? is it a federal abortion ban? is it book bans? is it undoing the law that was just passed preserving marriage equality? you cannot allow that to happen. there s a normal legislative process. and all the polling shows he has the most political high ground possible for this fight. this is not the normal legislative process, and by the way this is not normal, period. dan fifer, former senior white house advisor to president obama and co-host of podcast saving america, great to see you, my friend. and thanks for coming on the show. thank you. still ahead this hour the latest from ron desantis in