poorly, whether or not i got my agenda passed or not is going to have any real impact on winning and losing. president biden very confident about a critical race theme as a referendum on his administration. polls close in an hour. everything is on the table. education is at the top of voters minds. an issue that mcauliffe says parents should not have a say in. virginia has emerged as ground zero in the fight over critical race theory and who should be in control over what is taught in the classroom? mcauliffe focuses on teachers and youngkin wants to empower parents in their final pitches. i want to build the best education and i want every child to have a world class case. as your governor, i ll raise teacher pass above the national average for the first time in our commonwealth. what we won t do is teach our children to view everything through a lens of race where we divide them in to buckets and one group is an oppressor and the other is a victim and pitted them aga
tonight on the reidout and remember this, remember this, joe biden is a great threat to our democracy. he s a tremendous threat to our democracy. trump over the weekend doing his best george orwell trying to turn the tables on his own autocratic plans by claiming joe biden is a threat to democracy. meanwhile, the self-professed billionaire apparently doesn t have enough cash to secure a bond in his civil fraud case. also tonight, the family of a liberal icon was furious that an award given in her name is be handed to the likes of elon musk and rupert murdoch, and tonight there s an update on this story. plus, nikole hannah-jones at the table tonight on how the right has hijacked the term color blindedness, not to advance racial progress but rather to reverse it. but we begin tonight with a sad and terrifying reality that we face in america. namely that a mad man is running for president. and too many people are pretending that that is not the case. americans seem
weekend of campaign rallies to try and fire up his base ahead of the caucus there. president biden travels to the valley forge area, home to george washington s war encampment, to deliver a speech on america s democracy, marking three years since the capitol insurrection on january 6. secretary blinken overseas for high-stakes diplomacy, with tensions flaring throughout the middle east. a new u.s. drone strike in iraq calls for revenge from hezbollah. all as the idf is pressed by nbc on civilian casualties in gaza. good to be with you. andrea mitchell is on assignment traveling with secretary of state antony blinken in the middle east. it s january 5, 2024. president biden is beginning his campaign season, heading to valley forge where soldiers trained to fight for the new promise of america. using the historical site to warn voters that donald trump is dangerous, a threat he says to that idea of america, to our democracy. just remember what happened three years ago
massive manhunt is underway in texas. alleged killer who shot five people execution style. the youngest victim an eight year old boy. a short time ago, houston fbi officials released new photos of the suspect. 38 year old francisco oropeza, who they say disappeared after shooting his neighbors in the city of cleveland, texas. after hours of believing they had him surrounded investigators now say he could be anywhere. the fbi updated their investigation this afternoon, calling on the public s help to bring this man hunt to an end. offering an 80,000 dollar reward. the fbi said today, they have zero leads. we do not know where he is. we don t have any tips right now as to where he may be. and that is why we have come up with this reward, so that hopefully, somebody out there can call us. i can pretty much guarantee you he, has contacted some of his friends, we just don t know what friends they are and that is what we need from the public. any type of information. because righ
power grid across ukraine today. the strike such as this one which nearly hit a pedestrian bridge also in kyiv came during the morning commute. that bridge, by the way, is clearly not a military target. i ve been there. it s a tourist attraction, the place you might go for a stroll on a weekend with friends. this isn t a military target either. it is a playground in a city park. several missiles landed here and nearby at a busy intersection outside a museum. authorities say at least five people were killed in the city and 11 nationwide. lvil was also hit so was kharkiv and cities running south where this video was taken . the attack, the largest since the beginning of the invasion came days after a massive explosion damaged the bridge connecting russia to occupied crimea. something ukraine welcomed but did not claim responsibility for. president biden condemned the russian strikes promising continued support. using what they ve got on hand ukrainian forces say they shot dow