republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic. there s something dangerous happening in america now. there s an extremist movement that does not share the basic beliefs in our democracy. the maga movement. president biden is set to deliver a dire new warning about donald trump as trump, late today, asked the u.s. supreme court to keep him on the ballot in colorado. also tonight, the outrage following the resignation of dr. claudine gay at harvard. result of dei, women, people of color, academia, all of it. plus, yet another biden administration official just announced his resignation over the administration s, quote, blind eye to the atrocities in gaza. that official joins me tonight in his first tv interview. but we begin tonight with the three-year anniversary of the greatest assault on american democracy in modern times. the january 6th insurrection. we re just about three days away, again, from that that anniversary. and th
sources, the grand jury has voted to invite daniel penney, the marine veteran will now face trial for the choke hold death of jordan neely, 30-year-old homeless mentally ill man that witnesses say was threatening passengers aboard the new york city subway last month. we don t know the exact charges that he is being indicted on y yet, but he was facing a second-degree manslaughter charge. this grand jury had been hearing evidence and witness testimony on this case since may 31st. they weren t considering whether penney was guilty or not guilty, but rather whether there was enough legally sufficient evidence and reasonable cause to believe that a crime had been committed here. the bar for indictment is low, he only needed 12 of the 23 grand jurors to vote yes to indict, and they have, there will now be a trial. the manhattan district attorney alvin bragg said they believe there was enough evidence. witness interviews, photos, videos, in this case, to prove that penny recklessly
,. Good to go, all right. Hello, new york. Thank you for joining us, live at in new york city for this very, very Special Edition of why is this happening . He is insightful, he is big hearted, very, very very smart. Admit it, hes taller than you expected. Please give a warm welcome to my friend, my beloved colleague, and msnbcs chris hayes. [applause] hello, everybody. Hello thank you. Oh, stop. [applause] stop it [applause] how are you . Good . Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Sit down, sit down, sit down. Thank you, thats extremely kind. I hate attention and positive feedback. Really, really hard 20 seconds for me. Thank you for cutting it short. Its amazing to be here in my hometown of new york city, ive got some family here. Tonight, were gonna talk about democracy. In that word, weve probably talked more about democracy in the last four or five years that i had in all of my time before than i would say. Even that as a topic seems weird, we know americas democracy. Ther
candidate he cost bush the election. ross perot struck a cord with voters and shook up america s political landscape in the process. mobilized over 30 million voters to get him on the ballot and was the most successful third party candidate in u.s. history. jesse: a third party candidate can be deadly in the general. right now, half of americans say they would consider voting for a third party candidate if it s trump vs. biden: so there is an open lane and someone is sliding in. his name is cornell west. can these bleak times, i have decided to run for truth and justice which takes the form of running for president of the united states as a con democrat for people s party. cornell west a far left guy. there is an appetite on the left antiwar. bernie sanders abandon the people that voted for them once their party got in power. cornell people s party founded by one of bernie s old staffers. tried to recruit bernie-to-run in 2020. he thought he would have a better chance
by the use of atomic bombs in a single night. i am afraid that the answer to that question is yes. - -(clock ticking) jon else: robert oppenheimer was the father of the atomic bomb. he was this complex ball of contradictions. oppenheimer: they are weapons of aggression, of surprise and of terror. richard rhodes: oppenheimer wanted the bomb to be used. how else would the world know what it was? eleanor roosevelt: dr. oppenheimer, are we creating something we may not be able to control? oppenheimer: in a world of atomic weapons, wars will cease. (ticking) newsreel narrator: it is d-minus one for the test of the world s first atomic device. else: this cultured, nonviolent man was responsible for birthing the most violent weapon in human history. and he devoted the rest of his life to trying to control the monster that he had unleashed. oppenheimer: if there is another world war. .this civilization may go under. kai bird: he became a political pariah. edward r. murrow: is it tru