about little changes, not that little, that do happen. they are smart but they all meaningful. they re meaningful. i think that s why you see a lot of tension in this country. because the progress happens in small steps, but it s happening. in palpable ways. it s happening. this evening was interesting, the speech by president biden, the address from the white house. i thought what was interesting about it was the quiet normalcy. the idea that the lack of superlatives, there isn t punditry all over the place. twitter is not it could be a tree falling in the woods. the president of the united states gives an important address. first of all. and it s okay. and said nice things about republicans and nobody set their hair on fire. that s the way it has to work. you pointed out, even in the obama days, it would ve been hard-pressed to pay a compliment to the speaker of the house. yes. that s what joe biden did tonight. the normalcy was the part that amazed me
on our house in terms of what we will end up doing to our fellow human being. if you think of a scale, on one side of the scale it s like the current situation in venezuela, which is quite dire, as it is in cuba, what would we do to even the scales, to get to a point where what we were doing produced an equal amount of desperation. yes. it s unthinkable. a quarter of venezuela s gone. staggering, thank you my friend, as always. thanks to at-home for joining us this hour. on november 4th of 2008, america elected its first black president. senator john mccain had called senator barack obama to concede the race, and as he began to deliver his concession speech before a crowd in phoenix, arizona, this happened. a little while ago, i had the honor of calling senator barack obama to congratulate him. [crowd chanting] please. to congratulate him. on being elected the next president of the country that we both love. john mccain. gently, but firmly, and managing a crowd of
the race, and as he began to deliver his concession speech before a crowd in phoenix, arizona, this happened. a little while ago, i had the honor of calling senator barack obama to congratulate him. [crowd chanting] please. to congratulate him. on being elected the next president of the country that we both love. john mccain. gently, but firmly, and managing a crowd of republicans for booing the election of our nation s first black president. at the time, this was seen as an important moment, it wasn t as though statesmanship was exactly the norm in the republican party. it was sort of the opposite, actually. remember, john mccain s running mate, sarah palin, who was a proponent of birtherism, that conspiracy theory that unfounded racist fearmongering that undermined the historic election of our nation s first black president, and that turned conservatives against barack obama, that you could probably hear in the booing of senator mccain tried to hush that night. mccain d
tonight. can you believe it? i get to talk to someone, i m, you know through a whole lifetime and never meet someone who files a discharge position, because it s so rare. and the circumstances of the filing district petition were, like, the plot of a mission implausible. it is a cape, or if you will, lawrence, one that has yet to be resolved because we don t know how the drama is going to and, in the end. but it is certainly, he is the person of the hour as it concerns the financial stability of the american colin economy. it s going to be, at the end of the, are because we have a lot of other stuff to get through with neal katyal and others, and it s one of those things where you just have to have just a little bit of belief in miracles for it to happen. we will. see i always believe in miracles, lawrence. i m here, aren t? i thank, you. have a good night. i get the joke. thanks alex, thank you. well, if you re tuning into this program in the hope that for the
station in new york city. john ratcliffe says the explanation for covid-19 is a leak. pizza delivery man in the right place at the right time, a suspect happened to run right by him. police thank the pizza man for the assist and said if he is interested in a job, they are hiring. i was at the right place at the right time. ainsley: we start with a fox news alert, a russian court upholding the detention of journalist evan gershkovich on espionage charges steve the u.s. ambassador says the charges are bas baseless. alexandria hoff with more. alexandria: legal procedure doesn t seem to work out for americans. the 39-year-old reporter appeared resilient. he was in a pen made of glass and metal and did not speak during the hearing. based on the outcome, gershkovich will be held in the former kgb facility, which was used to house alleged spies during the soviet era and that is what the kremlin has made gershkovich out to be. his detention is part of a control campaign b