jr. a standstill on voting rights. the deadline for major reform was supposed to be today, now president biden says he s not sure if he can get a bill passed at all. and on the other side of the world the australian open under way just today, but novak djokovic is back home in serbia. officially barred from the tournament for refusing to get vaccinated. why this could be just the beginning of a tough road ahead for that tennis star. plus a dangerous storm plowing through the northeast with millions of people waking up to snow, ice, strong winds, thousands of flights canceled. everything you need to know this morning. but we begin with that brazen hostage taking at a synagogue in texas. this morning police are trying to learn more about why a 44-year-old british man interrupted a saturday service, brandished a weapon and held four people hostage including a rabbi for 11 long hours. a new twist emerged on sunday when british police detained the man s two teenage sons, alt
semantics in the language, but let s focus on the reality. what we re dealing with is we have students who i always tell my students it has to be both, electro politics and protest politics, that s the only way faerns have ever gotten anything in this country. i think we need to encourage students to actually, one, take more political science courses hopefully to understand also the history of this nation to help contextualize the moment that we are in right now. amen. more history classes, more civics classes. tom rodgers, christina greer, thank you both. that does it for us this morning. chris jansing picks up the coverage right now. hello there. happy mlk day. i m chris jansing in for stephanie ruhle live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. it is monday, january 17th and today as the country honors the legacy of dr. martin luther king
Normalize the public display of thuggery and open racism by white americans who felt powered to assert themselves as the arbiters of culture legitimacy in his name. they would decide who s really an american, who belonged in public spaces whon hand who had rights they were bound to respect. donald trump was indeed waging a new american civil war. i remember seeing you and talking to you on election night when the shock was still really raw. and my faerns offense to trump campaign was built around two pillars, i accepted it because i thought americans will not elect someone who said women will let you do anything when you re famous, can you grab their bleep. she was bleeding everywhere, attacked a former miss america pageant and all of the things we just played and muslim ban, which we didn t play. he running for american president where some of our
Of blackness because if you do you can t talk about congresswoman shirley chis em, you can t talk about malcolm x, harry belafonte, colin powell, eric holder. many faerns who have family from the african dis pra like senator harris. i want to pick up on one of your points. i m not sure all the people tweeting this material are even black. you have a lot of people who are fake. 2016 you saw russians and republican operatives trying to get african-americans to not vote for hillary clinton. so there s a lot of people who are not who they say they are. john, a lot of these folks are black. jonathan, i ve been dealing with them since february. some of them are, not even. they even questioned my blackness because my paternal great-grandparents migrated from haiti. those folks who are black, who are doing it shame on all of you. question her policies, but don t