covered. only cn can this morning. i m christine romans. it is thursday, may 6th. it is 5:00 a.m., exactly, in new york. liz cheney is on an island facing near-certain exile from house-gop leadership. the wyoming congresswoman is making a last-ditch effort. she hopes to save not her job, her leadership role, but her party and much more. republicans are rejecting cheney because, well, she insists the 2020 election was legitimate and she voted to impeach the former president for inciting a deadly mob. a new washington post op-ed, she writes this, quote, there is good reason to believe that trump s language can provoke violence, again. trump is seeking to unravel critical elements of our constitutional structure that make democracy work. confidence, in the results of elections and the rule of law. the republican party is at a turning point, she writes, and republicans must decide whether we are going to choose truth and fidelity to the constitution. she continues, while em
found in the area, but they really don t have a lot of details about the circumstances surrounding his death. cnn s brian todd joins us now from the scene of the shooting there in virginia beach. where does the investigation stand now? victor and christi, the police are saying that they are speaking to the police officer involved. they have not released the officer s name yet. when he gives some more detail of this, hopefully we will know more. i m going to set the scene of what unfolded on a chaotic friday evening. this is what police say happened, the first shooting where most of the people got injured, no one killed, occurred right about over here, over my right shoulder. this is pacific avenue between 19th and 20th streets on virginia beach. it occurred right there. i m going to pivot over here. about eight victims were injured there. no one killed in that initial shooting. three people were arrested in connection with that. then there was a second shooting down this st
that he can to escape justice, actually. and he will take 9 million citizens, israeli citizens, down the drain, only to escape justice. but his supporters claim legal proceedings are a political witchhunt. now they re trying to do a governmental coup, and we are against it. because benjamin netanyahu is the one and only leader. he has no faults, maybe he s not perfect, but he didn t do anything, he didn t do any of what they re saying. leaving court, mr netanyahu, the defendant, is quick to return to business as prime minister. but it won t be easy to keep public attention where he wants it. his trial could last for years and looks set to decide his legacy. yolande knell, bbc news, jerusalem. now it s time for a look at the weather with darren bett. hello there. the cold arctic air has arrived now, but many places will be dry today, with some sunshine. temperatures much lower than they were yesterday, and it feels colder because the winds are strong and gusty. gusts of 50 o
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the rachel maddow show start right now. thanks, my friend. greatly appreciated. happy to have you here. we landed a car on mars today. just a stunning example of what is possible when americans put their heads to the to do something truly grand, just an american feat of breo and it made your heart sing to see those first pictures beamed back from the surface of mars where we have our rover now. it s just amazing. we ll have more on that later in the show tonight. but meanwhile, here on earth, today, same day, same country, we still have not figured out how to keep lights on. hundreds of thousands of people in the great state of texas still without power. a disaster caused by a storm in texas is a catastrophe, not only because of the weather but because of the mix of the weather and texas inability to prepare for it and inability to handle it. against the cold temperatures, demand for electricity is way up so people can heat their homes, but the energy supply in texas is