trump tower to rikers island, but the trump organization was sentenced today for felony tax fraud. manhattan d.a. alvin bragg joins me. plus, he needed help and was killed. those are the word of black lives matter cofounder patrice colors on the death of her cousin, keenan anderson. anderson went into cardiac arrest and died after being repeatedly tased by los angeles police. patrice colors joins me tonight. but we begin in september 1941. when a federal prosecutor named william power meloni on orders from the justice department was investigating the infiltration of nazis in the united states. a story that you probably never learned anything about in school. at the time, during the 1930s and 40s, there was a pretty darn massive far right movement literally supported by the hitler government in germany that was plotting violent attacks in the u.s. to overthrow the u.s. government and install hitler friendly fascism here. and in some cases, they went through with actual at
streaming on peacock. alex wagner tonight starts right now with my friend, mehdi hassan, in four. alex good evening, and thank you, chris. and thanks to you at home for being with us. alex has the night off. here is a question for you, do you recognize this man. do you know who this guy is? the president bears responsibility from wednesdays attack on congress by mob rioters, he should have immediately denounced the mob, when he saw what was unfolding. these facts require immediate action, on president trump. now, i know that visibly it s very clearly republican speaker of the house kevin mccarthy. but can you imagine which world which kevin mccarthy we need today, speaker mccarthy would openly blame donald trump for january the 6th? as hard as it is to believe, kevin mccarthy really did say those things about donald trump. exactly two years ago today. and he said on the occasion of donald trump s impeachment, his second impeachment for trying to overturn the election in
do you recognize this man. do you know who this guy is? the president bears responsibility from wednesdays attack on congress by mob rioters, he should have immediately denounced the mob, when he saw what was unfolding. these facts require immediate action, on president trump. now, i know that visibly it s very clearly republican speaker of the house kevin mccarthy. but can you imagine which world which kevin mccarthy we need today, speaker mccarthy would openly blame donald trump for january the 6th? as hard as it is to believe, kevin mccarthy really did say those things about donald trump. exactly two years ago today. and he said on the occasion of donald trump s impeachment, his second impeachment for trying to overturn the election in 2020. he said it exactly to it s an odd mile stone to hit for our country, it s especially odd when the same kevin mccarthy who once blamed iran for january the six is now saying a speaker he d be willing to look into ways to expunge d
In an investigation that implicates either me or my campaign because youre my Attorney General. Its my Justice Department and whats more, you can be a hero to conservatives if youll investigate my vanquished rival. When we meet with parliamentarians from emerging democracies we always urge them when you win an election, you dote seek to jail the losing side. Here our own president of the United States is trying to do exactly that. How big a deal is it fundamentally . Well, its a big deal in this respect. Its further evidence of a corrupt intent on the president s part. Further evidence that he may have violated the law by obstructing justice in the firing of comey. But in other efforts, as well. One of the other disturbing signs we saw just today is the president s announcement that hes going to pardon someone who had violated Campaign Finance laws by surreptitiously exceeding limits. It looks a lot like a message to Michael Cohen who may also be
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It s bigotry and lies, and we call it out, not because it s going to change them. you can t shame the shameless. we call it out, i really think, for our own sanity, so we re not gaslighting ourselves. there is a right and a wrong, and we stick to that path because beside that, you can t change them. it s about us. and dean, the muslim community knows better than anyone else, there has been weaponization of government against some communities. there sure has. but it s not the conservatives who take documents and the presidents who take documents. that s not who s being demonized. it s just the law is just doing its thing. brad and dean, thank you both very much. alvin bragg joins me next on the sentening today of the trump organization for felony tax fraud. stay with us. ay with us i d like to thank our sponsor liberty mutual. they customize your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. contestants ready? go! only pay for what you need. jingle: liberty. liberty. liberty. li