pro-american meritocracy still standing was the u.s. military. from the progressive perspective, the military was too masculine and had way too many republicans and a dangerous knack of turning minorities into patriotic, self-reliant conservatives. this could not stand. michelle obama s decision to make military spouses her top initiative as first ladies was the first clue that they have their sights set on the u.s. armed forces. by obama s second term, a stealth takeover of top brass top military brass was underway. officers who were aligned were promoted. a general who obeyed and advanced the woke progressive agenda could expect a lucrative afterlife on corporate boards, already populated by the obama-clinton world. one of the first whistle-blowers was james stephane, who wrote stand down, documenting the obama-era changes to military call culture and its negative impact on national culture. the military s job is not to be woke or sensitive. simply, it is to defend th
keen about what to expect. the white house endorsed the idea for that commission as president biden prepares to leave for his first domestic trim. we begin this hour with the federal lawsuit filed by the naacp on behalf of mississippi democratic congressman benny thompson against former president donald trump and his lawyer rudy giuliani. along with extremist groups, the proud boys and to think he keepers for their roles in the capitol riot. the suit alleges that trump and giuliani violated the ku klux klan act. it was set up to interfere with constitutional duties. joining me, benny thompson, the chair of the homeland security committee. thank you so much for your time. let s start with the broad generalities here. what is the goal of this lawsuit? this case is civil, not criminal. we should note. is the purpose to create a record that trump violated the law or how would you describe it? well, it s to create the record but it is also to set the standard. if you disagree in
flames and smoke tore through a high-rise building in the bronx. 19 dead. nine of them children. it was dad. i see kids crying for help, and at that point we couldn t do anything. you know about the surge in cases. but also right now in this country, about 138,000 people are in the hospital with covid. that s just short of the all-time high of 142,000, and right now medical professionals don t see an end in sight. i m here to tell you we re tired. we re exhausted. and we re literally on the edge. and that is where we are going to start this morning. we are at a testing facility in los angeles, in chicago where classes have been cancelled for the fourth day in a row now. also a physician in chief, is with us. let s start in l.a. that city saying like so many other places, a record number of cases right now. but they re also seeing what s been called flurona. the flu and coronavirus. if you re sick, it s already tough to figure out if it s a cold, covid j something else
you know, each and every day we re out here and, you know, we come to work just like we did on that day. we came to work. we re always ready for whatever happens. why would you do it all over again? it s what we do. i m glad that you finally spoke out, and i think, you know, the one-year anniversary is the perfect time for you to talk about it. what do you want people to know after a year, commander kyle? i want them to know that the metropolitan police, we come to work every single day. every single day whatever the challenge is, we meet it. you know, on january 6th, it was to save democracy. you know, today maybe it s battling gun crime in the city. but every single day, there s challenges out there, and we re not in the business of failing. and there you go. the truth and the facts about what happened on that day one year ago. let s bring in our chief political correspondent and co-anchor of cnn s state of the union, dana bash, and former fbi deputy director
was my name on the list i ran out of ink saying tiffany please be gone in 2022. it wouldn t burn, crazyiest thing. that s the magic of me. yes. that was different for me. usually i spend new year s last year i ordered a deep dish pizza and watched the ball drop, red a book. but 2021 has been heavy so it was nice to have that experience with other people. it was heavy for a lot of folks. deep dish pizza is not real pizza, by the way. wow. yeah. i think it s been heavy for a lot of folks in 2021, quite honestly. as a result you did see a lot of scaled down celebrations last night anticipating what year 2022 is going to be. do you think 2022 is going to be better than 2021? i hope so. otherwise the whole ceremony last night made no sense. tell me about it. objectively, i m worried. i don t know what you did, clearly tiffany is not trying to tell us what she did. i will tell you what i did. i went to sleep around 8:45, 9:00. my plan was wake up before ne