supreme court weighs in. plus, harvard s first black president steps down amid allegations of plagiarism and disastrous congressal testimony. was race also a factor? an exchange system in the u.s. falls victim to an elaborate kidnapping plot. one that cost his family $80,000. tonight, a warning from the fbi that he is not alone. let s go outfront. outfront to benight, trump appeals. his legal team appealing the decision that keeps him off the ballot in maine saying the secretary of state there had no legal authority to remove him from the ballot, calling her a quite biased decision maker who should have recused herself and otherwised failed to provide lawful due process. trump s team is expected to appeal colorado s decision. he s expected to appeal that to the supreme court at any moment, following in the steps of colorado s gop. those decisions are based on section three of the 14th amendment which was passed after the civil war and says a person is ineligible to run
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
unemployment kept steady at an historic 3. 7%. that marks three consecutive years of economic growth in biden s three years in office, and along with more jobs come consistently higher wages. there is no way to paint this as anything but good. so, let s see how they celebrate the good news over that, at fox. the job numbers are through the roof. jobs numbers are pretty gangbusters. jobs numbers smashed expectations. of course, the left is trying to figure out how to spend these great economic numbers. okay, i m getting. that isn t how they celebrated it at fox. that was fox. but that was not today. those were fox personalities talking about positive job numbers during donald trump s presidency because in fox s world, the monthly job numbers were always fantastic when trump was in charge. but today, when fox, and even fox business, did talk about biden s positive job numbers, the bulk of it sounded like this. we ve got another strong jobs report. but it isn t what
wagner. a maga freak show, that s a one person familiar with donald trump s january 6th trial preparations described the former president strategy, according to rolling stone magazine. in new reporting today, rolling stone cited several trump legal and political advisers who claim that the former president is demanding that they incorporate fringe conspiracies into his legal defense.quote, here s a list of ideas have included inserting that there is evidence that anti-trump elements in the fbi framed him and a maga protesters by using undercover agents and informants to instigate the january 6th riot. and there the left wing anti-fascist played a role in attacking the capitol that day, and that trump s lieutenants have gathered real evidence showing, quote, massive amounts of voter and election fraud, end quote, in 2020, in swing states. and heavily democratic urban areas, as hed has long baselessly claimed, and quote. if trump s team as we ve been discussed calling witnesses
yesterday, odds are, you saw one of these, an ad for election denier mike lindell s my pillow pillow. or an ad for his my slipper slippers. we school through the entire day, time we will never get back, and counted 30 ads by mike lindell in a 24-hour period. even though that is a lot of advertising for slipper slippers, that is not a scandal. mr. lindell can spend it is as much of his company money on fox as he would like. what is alarming about the sheer volume of fox ad time that is occupied by mr. lindell, what is alarming, is this. on december 17th, 2020, the ceo of fox news was forwarded this email by an executive in the fox news communications department. my pillows mike lindell was on newsmax tonight and criticize fox news quite a bit, saying it look like we were in on stealing the election from trump. he did say that he wouldn t pull ads over it, but he did make suggestive comments about our audience being smaller than before. the next morning, fox news ceo suzanne sc