investigations. a move certain to frustrate newly-empowered republicans. plus, alec baldwin s lawyers say they were blind-sided when the actor was set to be charged with manslaughter this week. that has many wondering, do prosecutors actually have a case? are they overreaching? we ll discuss. and the desantis administration blocks an a.p. african american studies course from being taught in high schools. we re joined by one professor for a look at what s actually in that course and why she feels it s critical for students. your weekend is finally here. we are glad to have you. it s saturday, january 21st. good morning. good morning. good to see you. we are going to begin with the war in ukraine this morning. a stalemate over tanks. ukraine s president says the country desperately needs them and there s no alternative. but germany failed to reach an agreement on sending its leopard tanks to ukraine because german officials say they will not send those tanks unless th
if this had been a boxinguld hae match, the referee would have c called this in the first 60 seconds. and now, in case you needur run reminding, it wasn t your run of the mill debate, because due to his stroke, fed chairmanons. required special dispensations. you may noticay notice thesed large monitors that are behind us .ca this is part of our closedptio ningcaptioning system.e questi it was requested by john fetterman to help him processar the questions we are asking him tonight. but right off the bat, it is pretty clear that fetterman would need a lot more than that wha big screen. what qualifies you to be a senar us senator? you have 60 seconds. hi. good night, everybody. good ngood night. ll well, scary thought that might have been actually the best moment of the entire debate.deb. one of for fetterman, one of the mostt remarkable exchanges was about d chairman s views on fracking. that i absolutely supporte need fracking. belilieve that we need independence
paycheck to paycheck. some are using credit cardse crt just to make ends meet for the bare necessities. now, the number one killer americ offentan young americans in this country is now fentanyl that is pouringh across the wide open. open so the border of joe biden now deaths are caused from drugdeats overdoses. now they re higher than ever before. oh, and don t forget, according to biden, we are now before. the closest we ve ever been toel a world wide nuclear armageddon. clost toe since the cuban missie crisis. but the economy is strongest,dwd heavily, he said, and there s no crisis at the border this fateful two year experimentg as with democrats in charge of hell an joeit has been unmitigated disaster. but according to joe , everything evejust just swell.hi great.take a and we should all be thanking wr him. take a looe stk. ws we re starting to seen th some of the good newseconomy. the price of gas at th on the economy. the price of gas apump it the p. is coming down. l
party. the turninemism of the repg pois that speech he gave a few weeks ago. really, really, really, reallyi, made it a referendum on the republicans and extremism and semite fascism. and i think that is starting tof pay off. ss now seeing progress, perhaps rewardee for some of the legislation that s been passed and some of the thingsn d he s been doing just latelyiden who look at what the administration has accomplished, whether it s a bipartisan infrastructure deal , whether it se the inflation reduction act, whether it s the christian in all of these things are about the economy. there sd scienc beating so fr their little heads are going toh fly right off. the ec the economy is in dire straits. here straits the truth. diode we ve got the dow dropping below thirty thousand below its june lows. the dow and s&p are now both below their june lows. nasdaq certainly alreadyy there. there, down 22% and about 30%. of the nasdaq year to date. there s a fear here that it s s
americans and their governmentm. a decade ago. the new york times admitted this. the times markedis the anniversary of 9/11 by publishinhed a piecg a piece on the rise of domestic surveillance abuses which explode after the 9/11 attacks. the patriot act, according to st the new york times, quote, govem quickly became a sort of shorthand for government abusenh and overreaching, which, quote, inflicted collateral damage on political dissent, religiousl liberty and the freedom of association, end quote. that is still true, in fact, truer than it s ever been,trage. and it is still a tragedy. what s fascinating is that stopd the new york times has stoppedi acknowledging it. in fact, remarkablity, there wae not a single mention oft page o the 9/11 anniversaryf yesterday. on the front page of yesterday s paper, the paper that purports to represent new york , the epicenter of the 9/11 attacks. now, why would the new york times ignore 9/11? ignore well, good question, be the new york