breaking news out of the state department this hour. tonight a new do not travel morning is in effect for ukraine, ordering non-essential staff and families of american embassy personnel to leave the country. we will dig into the tensions and how the u.s. is preparing if russia does, in fact, invade. and an enlightening new poll shows how many americans believe there is a threat to democracy. congresswoman camilla jayapal is here to discuss that and more. today we learned the january 6th committee has spoke to attorney general bill barr. peter strzruk is here to investigate why fully investigating former president trump is vital to the future of our democracy. i m ayman mohyeldin. let s get started. downhill, divisive, negative struggling, lost and back. those are the top answers americans gave nbc news when asked to describe where they believe america is today. but this shouldn t be surprising. just take a look at this number. a striking 76% of americans believe there is a
laura: in radio i used to call into my own radio show from the elevator on the way up. sean: did you really? laura: yeah, i have a problem with punk walt i don t know what it is. sean: i don t know what it is. i think it s adrenaline. i wait until the last second no matter what. laura: we ll try to pick it up where you left off but i can t wait for your town hall monday. i am laura ingraham from the laura ingraham from a very busy washington tonight. falling stars. that s the focus of tonight s angle. now, how many times has the regime media told us that some emerging democrat is going to be the next big thing? the next big star? now on rare occasion, as in 2004 when obama spoke at the dnc, the buildup paid off. but that happens maybe once in a generation. back in 2020, they desperately wanted kamala to be the next obama. she was a former prosecutor, tough, no nonsense, a woman of color. your city council made that decision. so that s where the federal governmen
We all stand up for. laura: she says nothing and means nothing. the truth is, spam burger is just another nancy pelosi liberal voting with the speaker every time. enter wesley vega an american first conservative. this is close but momentum is with the republican. no wonder politico is freaking out. they re reporting democrats are sweating it. they thought they elected a bright political future in 2018 but now their bench of potential state wide leaders could get wiped out in the midterms. one such super nova was this woman, michigan congresswoman alyssa slot kin. you were very public you will not support nancy pelosi, does anything in that change post tuesday? no. i ve been really clear for a long time now, i never want to be disrespectful to anyone who served especially a woman who
Congresswoman slotkin or do you think arizona democrats made the right move to let senator sinema know there should be a consequence for going against the will of the people that overwhelmingly support passing voting rights reform? i think it is two things. the arizona democratic party is of the people. that s what a state democratic party is. so people are going to push because they re furious that their senator who is a democrat, i think that that is legitimate. at the same time, i think what alyssa ( is saying is that we need to be focussing on the real things that have gotten done in the last year and the things we are going to do in this year because there is a 24/7 news cycle that is constantly talking about the divisions to the exclusion of the things that we ve gotten, right? we have reduced hunger by 32% last year because of the american rescue plan and a whole bunch of other things we did.
We should remember that a year ago this time there were a lot more than two senators who didn t want to reform the filibuster for voting rights. at least now there is just two. so we need to keep at it. we need to do the work at the state level and we need to continue to make the argument to the people about why this is so essential for our democracy to be successful. let me talk to you for a moment if i can about politics. this morning your colleague representative alyssa slot kin ( was asked about censuring senator sinema. let me play for you what she had to say. i don t come from a school where you are constantly airing dirty laundry. there are really big divisions in washington right now, period, democrat, republican within each party. but i don t believe the way you get back at other people is by putting that on air, airing that publically. do you agree with