washington at the march for israel on the national mall, as the national guard is deployed and homeland security officials update security to its highest designation. president biden delivers his strongest rebuke yet to israel s targeting of hospitals claiming hamas fighters israel claims hamas fighters have tunnelled under the medical facilities. you know i have been not been reluctant in expressing my concern that s going on. it s my hope and expectation that there will be less intrusive action at the hospital. israel and hamas could be moving closer to a deal to free women and children hostages for palestinian women held by israel. i ve been talking with the people involved every single day. i believe it s going to happen. hang in there. we re coming. on capitol hill, speaker mike johnson today forging ahead with a short-term resolution to keep the government open by seeking democratic votes but costing him support from far right republicans. here we are on the
tomorrow night, to talk about a new book, pickle, and american faye against fascism. i ll see you there which stevens colbert tomorrow night, and i ll see you back here on monday. now it s time for the last word with the great lawrence o donnell, good evening, lawrence. stephen colbert is so lucky to have you, rachel. i know he knows that. so, ritual, coming up in the show tonight, i don t think you ll be surprised to know is senator sheldon whitehouse. , who will be addressing the age old question in washington, is something better than nothing? senator sheldon whitehouse, who certainly more than any other elected official, maybe more than anyone else in america pushed the court to be responsive in this totally unprecedented way, for all the shortcomings that they have done today, they had never before fognini through answer to their ethical failings before the american people and i think sheldon whitehouse indeed i state senate is the man who more than anyone, push them
the prosecutor. providing a plethora of details about the days and weeks after the 2020 election. when donald trump and his allies tried anything and did everything they could to reverse what they knew was trump s election defeat. we re getting a look at what sidney powell and jenna ellis told prosecutors during the recessions. those are the meetings where defendants who take plea deals reveal any information that could be used against the other defendants in this case. which includes rudy giuliani and donald trump. former trump attorney general ellis descriing a chilling conversation with trump aid at a white house christmas party. i said something to him like i m sorry that we haven t been able to do more. and i emphasized to him i thought that the claims and the ability to challenge the election results was essentially over because of the dismissal of the case from the the supreme court. he said to me in an excited tone, well, we don t care. we re not going to leave. i
Back to about roughly a year ago. Just looking at that, from that point on, we have had 1000 point climbs seems every few months. Would be in this case a little more than a month since crossing 23,000. If we cross 24,000, it would be the fifth 1000 point climb in the dow, since this year. Since the president was elected a little over year ago, sixth time weve seen that happen. Appreciable advance, that at this point has a lot to do with tax cuts and optimism they are going to happen. But there is aggressive timeline here that is, has to follow exactly. Chad pergram following that very, very closely. Chad, what can you tell us . Sometime 2 00 this afternoon is when the United States senate will have a vote to proceed to the tax cut bill. They have to vote to get on to the bill. At that point as you said it triggers a 20hour clock of debate. This is under the special process of budget reconciliation. Why is that important . Well, budget reconciliation turns off filibusters. In other word
Come back. Alix abigail the dow was down 1. 4 , but was scarlet asking was that is the trillion dollar question in terms of uncertainty. The kneejerk reaction we saw the headlines crossed around Michael Flynn with a mans was a massive selloff. This was on pace for the worst day since may. The russell 2000 has been down more than 2. 5 . The russelloday, 2000 had been up on the week. At those lows, it turned lower on the week. We are looking at weekly gains for the s p 500, the dow, and the russell 2000, but this tech heavy nasdaq is still on pace for weekly declines, down 7 10 of 1 . Lots of uncertainty about what this could mean. It is interesting that this comes as we are also hearing about tax reform. It seems as though it may not derail policy, but that will be something investors will have to figure out Going Forward. Lots of uncertainty, we are a risk off tone. But that being said, from a world stock perspective, this is incredibly interesting. This chart is the all world stock in