Good evening, and welcome to this very, very special edition of politics nation. Tonight s lead, tenth anniversary. Right now i m a mix of emotions because in the last in the midst of last week s news of every kind, i celebrated my tenth year as the host of this program, politics nation with al sharpton. And before we begin tonight i just want to thank you, the audience, who has followed me throughout the years and the different time slots. You stayed with me. I assure you that every one of us here at politics nation strives to bring you the most profound insight we can. Of course, it starts with our guests. And as always, we have a stellar group of voices tonight. The right voices to articulate where our current political life affects us all. Yet understanding that the black community remains the epicenter of our nation s oldest and most recent traumas. Case in point, the covid19 pandemic, which continues to generate disparate outcomes for black americans. As the biden administration
Antiracists protesting police violence. But fast forward to this week, to yesterday when the senate gop voted near unanimously to block the commission to investigate the insurrection that desecrated our capitol and brutalized its police force. Because it would anger donald trump and implicate too many of his allies, and yes, his voters. It s a lot to think about when many americans just want to tune out over the holiday. But the coming weeks will determine whether president biden and congressional democrats can effectively push back with their agendas. For biden, it s his infrastructure plan and his newly released budget, already declared doa by congressional republicans. For the democrats, it s their stalled, if not sabotaged, legislation to reform our law enforcement and restore our border protections. For both, it starts with determining whether the filibuster that republicans invoked to kill the commission will continue imperil everything else, starting with infrastructure, the bud
he s been at the center of a criminal investigation. giuliani denies any wrongdoing, has not been charged, but this underscores and suggests, i should say the months-long probe is advancing. cnn report kara scannell, and evan perez are following the story. federal investigators tried and failed in the past to obtain a search warrant. what hank ed. reporter: that s the question we re trying tots to. the last time this request was made, which was in the closing months of the previous administration, the deputy attorney general jeff rosen and some of the other top officials of the justice department, they decided that there wasn t enough evidence. they viewed the case wasn t as strong as prosecutors in new york thought, alisyn and victor. here s the issue. the center of this case is what s known as a fara case, the foreign agents registration act, a law the justice department has had trouble with. there s been years-long struggle to try to enforce the law. there s been a new
nursing home deaths in the state of new york. we will be following that as well. first, it is the day after. reactions have been pouring in from everywhere to donald trump s new status of being the very first president to be impeached and acquitted twice. there are also lingering questions whether the house could have done anything differently. house manager plaskett said calling witnesses would not have changed a thing. watch this. these are not honest people. kevin mccarthy has changed his story multiple times about what happened. prepare pence, his own president came after him and tried to assassinate him. and we are still waiting to hear from him. what does that tell but the fortitude of these individuals? at the end of the day, it wasn t more witnesses that we needed, it was more senators with spines. all right. let s get into this w. me now, alley vitale, who is on capitol hill. it has been quite a 24rks 48, 72 four years shall we say? we could go on. talk me th
o er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming and the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there o say does that star spangled banner yet wave o er the land of the free and the home of the brave the honorable kevin mccarthy of the state of california, having received a majority of the votes cast and is duly elected speaker of the house of representatives. [applause] that was easy. i never thought we were to get up here. now the hard work begins. i may not know all of you, some of you are new, but i hope one thing is clear after this week. i never give up. will: 15 rounds of voting. after 15 rounds, the cost elects kevin mccarthy as speaker. rachel: mccarthy takes the gavel in a late-night session. the gop looks to get to work. pete: just after midnight, if you haven t seen it, alexandria hoff is in washington. reporter: the final tally took place after midnight. s