a very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. we ve got the latest for you happening at 2:00 p.m. eastern, 11:00 a.m. pacific time. we re beginning with big breaking news out of washington. a new reaction coming in by the hour, one of the key pieces of the president s agenda is now facing its biggest obstacle yet. senator joe manchin, one of the 50 senators needed to pass the president s build back better legislation, publicly stating today pretty definitively he will not vote for the social spending package. i ve always said this, brett. if i can t go home and explain it to the people of west virginia, i can t vote for it. and i cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation. i just can t. i ve tried everything humanly possible. i can t get there. you re done, this is a no? this is a no. on this legislation. i have tried everything i know to do. his comments have sent shockwaves throug
that followed a police shooting of jacob blake. the prosecution has argued rittenhouse was the aggressor. protests outside the courthouse got a bit tense yesterday and we ve been watching this build up. remember, there are 500 national guard men and women that the governor has called in with regard to what might happen after the verdict is read. they didn t do that the night of rioting going on august of 2020, just pointing that out. yesterday the defense made a second request for a mistrial after the jury asked to rewatch some key drone footage of the shootings. rittenhouse s attorney claim they received an inferior version of that video not high resolution that was shown during closing arguments only. watch. we didn t have the quality of evidence that the state had until the case had been closed and i think that is required in a case like this where he is looking at a life sentence potentially without parole if he is convicted. harris: that video is huge in this case ri
after writing a best-selling memoir called hillbilly ellergy, he feared donald trump, and j.d. vance told a slate reporter that donald trump was, quote, leading the white working class to a very dark place. again, those are direct quotes from a man named jd vance. now jd vance is now after last night the republican candidate for senate in ohio thanks almost entirely to an endorsement from the ex-president that propelled him from also-ran third place in some polls to the top of of a very crowded field as the bull work told me in the ohio times, at this time, there s no moving past trump. he s re-made the republican party in his image and many republican voters now crave his particular brand of combative politics described again by j.d. vance, as, quote, cultural heroin by, quote, america s hitler. that particular brand of combative politics fueled by disinformation and paranoia and now best embodied by one jd vance has nothing but contempt for our democracy. vance has peddle
gutfeld have air. happy monday. control yourself. put your pants back on. so let s talk about january six. i know, i know. but was it really as our mainstream contends, 911 and pearl harbor rolled into one.r well, thanks to the new house speaker, mike johnson, video from inside the capitol building was just releasednsid almost three years later, showing what mane y who attendee the protests have been contending all along that not only were the capitol doors more open than hunters knows on a saturday night, but in a many cases, the capitol policeet escorted the protesters in like ushers at a wedding or stoodin k by objecting. now, let s be clear. no one s defending the chaoss o on the capitol, so spare meto the gutfeld supports insurrection, tweets from substitute teachers in brooklyn still traumatized by trump, slappingd s hillary into retirement. t riot i may not support riots, but i do support the truth and have the right to hear the whole story, especially when many of