the judicial system itself was an insurrection against a multi cultural america. that s just what it was. especially in the jim crow south. fast forward to today. three days after the 43 republicans of that party s far right wing served on the jury in the trial of the former president, donald trump s, sedition against a multi cultural united states and our free and fair elections. just like the jim crow juries of old, they let him walk. so the job of holding the insurrectionist president responsible for the violent siege of our capitol has fallen to the courts. in a case brought by a black democrat from the deep south and one of america s oldest civil rights groups which cut its teeth during the heart of america s age of lynching. federal lawsuit filed by the naacp on behalf of mississippi congressman benny thompson accuses the impeached former president, his lawyer, rudy giuliani, and the proud boys and oath keepers of conspiring to incite the january 6th insurrection. the s
it could bolster the argument that rioters were acting on donald trump s behalf, his direction. here are the words said by the man who has become known as the qanon shaman. what is your message? donald trump asked everybody to go home. he just said he just put out a tweet. it is a minute long. he asked everybody to go home. all right. so i want to get the latest from our team covering the impeachment. with that, let s start with ally vitale who is on capitol hill where the impeachment trial will be getting under way in two days time. amanda golden in milwaukee, wisconsin which was a critical battleground state as we remember in the election. ali, i want to talk here about the democratic strategy going forward. we now know much of the evidence that will be used in that we have seen so much of the evidence. it is some of the video we have shown on this very program and some of the testimony we have heard from members of congress. but talk us through the strategy from t
date on hold awaiting the fda ruling, after weeks of controversy and confusion. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. we begin with poib s meeting with key democrats tonight, as he fights to prevent his domestic agenda from collapsing. we re covering the breaking story from both sides of pennsylvania avenue. we are standing by on capitol hill, but first to the white house. jeff zeleny is joining us. jeff, the president is meeting face-to-face behind closed doors right now. give us the latest. reporter: wolf, the president is in his third meeting of three today. he s about 30 minutes into a meeting with progressives. that s senator bernie sanders, a few other senators, and five house members. wolf, this is designed to be president biden s full-court press, listening to the concerns from across the wide spectrum of the democratic party. at issue
a very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters in new york. welcome to alex witt reports. we re beginning with the breaking news, a tsunami advisory currently in effect for the entire pacific coast as well as alaska. it comes after an underwater volcano erupted early this morning off the coast of tonga in the pacific ocean. you can see here that nation s largest island was hit by some pretty big waves. just last hour, though, hawaii ended their tsunami advisory. no major damage or injuries being reported at this hour, only some minor flooding. let s go right to nbc s guad venegas. i m going to be honest and tell you i got an email from a friend from new port beach saying they were alarmed about it and wanted to know what the latest was. reporter: right, so, a lot of people saw the alerts. they ve been seeing posts on social media talking about the tsunami. a lot of the images that we ve seen that we were just showing come from tonga. this is where they did
calling it a mass casualty incident. at least 100 people are believed to be in the building working the overnight shift. storms and damages also being reported in parts of kentucky and tennessee and there are also reports of several collapsed building in mayfield, kentucky, they are declaring a state of emergency and activating the national guard. a nine year high, the worst number in four decades since 1982. look at this headline from cnbc. inflation surge 6.8% in november. even more than expected, the fastest since 1982. price of gas 58%, the price of food is up dramatically, the price of everything we buy in every store we go to is up dramatically. make no mistake, this is a tax and disproportionately negatively impacting low and middle coal income americans for people can afford this. it is a tax on retired americans living on a fixed income. in other words, the people that make this, so much confusion the monopoly of compassion for, all of this was preventable and all