expected tomorrow. governor ron desantis is going to be put to the test, forced to actually do his job. when he s used to spending most of his time hanging out on fox news and owning the libs. the approaching hurricane is also changed the january 6th committee s plans. we have our hands on some documentary footage of roger stone laying out trump s plot to steal the election. which the committee is expected to show when the hearing is rescheduled. also tonight, the senate takes up the electoral count act to protect democracy. and we re going to try to answer this question of why republican lawmakers still genuflect to trump and promote his lies. we begin with florida, bracing for ian, a major hurricane that could submerge large portions of the gulf coast. and it will be a test of leadership. governing, you see, is hard. it s unsexy, and not always television friendly. and governing through a crisis, well, that is where the proverbial rubber meets the road. president bide
juneteenth, of fresh perspective . we will also pay tribute to the late great mark shields. his daughter amy will join me live. the first, the u.s. medias narrative about president biden. it s facing a perfect storm right now with the rising inflation, skyhigh gas, the continued covid pandemic, the president s unpopularity in the polls. more and more columnists are commentators are bringing up biden s age is a factor as well. right now, some liberals see up pylon going on. conservatives just think others are coming where they have been. standard photo ops seem to be going sideways for biden right now. chooses what video to show. maybe warps these narratives. vs reporters come you will see those complaints. this week, he invited a reporter from the associated press into the oval office for 30 minute interview. it was a rare move at some of these headline said. there long list of media outlets still waiting for the turn with the president. there was an news in that interview. t
closely watched primary race in georgia. amid reports that the republican governor s association hatched a plan months ago to spend millions to defend incumbents against what one former governor called trump s personal vendetta tour. and there are new developments on the war with ukraine as russia intensifies its bombardment in the eastern industrial heartland. fierce fighting in the donbas region is forcing a new round of ukrainians to flee their homes. as ukrainian and russian troops battle it out town by town, the battle for donetsk has become a major focus as russia seeks to capture one of the major cities still under ukrainian control after taking the southern port city of mariupol. the head of the luhansk region said russian bombardment in using scorched earth tactics. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy said the fighting in the east has become increasingly bloody. with up to 100 ukrainian soldiers kill each day. meanwhile, ukraine is ruling out any cease-fire deal
i would like to keep that friendship. the massive ethics scandal unfolding at the supreme court as clarence thomas copps to the luxury chips he took with his billionaire buddy. tonight, the amendments to his financial disclosures, the reporting that led to it, and the ongoing issues with justice thomas. it really is good to be me, it really is. that is his former chief of staff gets arraigned on charges of trying to steal the election. trump takes his vengeance towards dr. phil. well, revenge does take time, i will say that. and sometimes revenge can be justified, but i have to be honest, sometimes it can t. plus, new data on just where americans are getting misinformed about immigration. and another huge day for the biden jobs market. 272,000, everybody, the estimate was 185,000. and, by the way, that blows even the top of the range from economists going on. all in starts right now. it evening from new york, i am chris hayes. we are currently in the midst
custody. there s a picture there. right now the motive is unknown. it is unclear if the attacks were racially motivated. but we should know police are ramping up security in asian-american communities as a precaution. president biden has been briefed on the shootings, and at this hour he returns to the white house. we ll bring you any live comments. also today, concerns of another covid surge. cases are climbing in more than one dozen states. the cdc is sounding the alarm on two variants in california. we ll get to that in a moment. let s begin on this tragic shooting spree. our ryan young joins us this morning in atlanta. what do you know about the victims, eight total, six of them asian. what can you tell us? reporter: so far, very little information is coming out about the victims except, besides their races. of course, what we ve been told so far is at least six of the people killed are asian. of course, we re trying to move forward with parts of this investigation. w