shot and killed daunte wright. i remember yelling taser, taser, taser, and nothing happened. and then he told me i shot him. plus as the january 6th committee prepares for more key depositions, one of the rioters gets one of the toughest sentences yet for flowing a fire extinguisher at police officers. and dark side of social media, unverified threats on tiktok, shutting down the country. good morning, everybody. it s saturday, december 18th, i m lindsey reiser. and we have a team of reporters and analystists following the latest from washington, d.c. tole kentucky. we begin, though, this weekend with americans across the country grappling with a really tough decision. keep their holiday plans to see loved ones or cancel as a massive twin variant surge of covid cases begins to hit. it s been 21 months and one week since the world health organization declared coronavirus a pandemic. this is a case rate over that time. over there on the far right there, you see how sharpl
now having to push through the pain of devastating tornadoes that have brought death and destruction at what should be the most joyous time of the year. towns like bowling green, kentucky. that s what you see there on your screen. they have been flattened. and there are desperate searches through rubble and thrown debris to find people who are missing at this hour, including eight people at a candle factory in mayfield. right now dozens are dead across at least five states. kentucky s governor just said it could be a week before there s a final count for the number of lives lost. he just spoke about who we ve lost so far. 18 are still unidentified. of the ones that we know, the age range is five months to 86 years. an understandably emotional governor who also said that president biden will come to the state in the near future. and any moment now president biden will be briefed on the federal response to these tornadoes which will bring you once it happens. these are torn
united states of america. we need it and we are really grateful for it. 18 are still unidentified. of the ones that we know, the age range is 5 months to 86 years and six are younger than 18. it s just horrific. the national guard is on the ground working with state and local officials to find dozens of residents still not accounted for. while thousands of people who live and work in towns like may field and dawson springs brace for this long road ahead. we had no water within the city limits. all the power was cut just for safety reasons after everything fell. so there s no power within the city limits, and the natural gas has been turned off because of so many leaks. so we have no resources to that. i didn t think anybody knew what happened. i didn t know if they knew that we were hit, and i needed them to know so that somebody could come so they could send people to come and get us because, i mean, look at it. we were under that. it was horrible. it was really, r
there is still a lot to learn about omicron, and we will be transparent and share the updated science with you as soon as it becomes available. with all the attention on omicron, the more immediate covid health emergency now continues to be the delta variant, as cases and delta-related deaths rise across the country, with winter just weeks off. the november jobs report released this morning fell for a short of expectations, with just 210,000 jobs added. that s well below the estimated nearly 500,000 that economists had expected. and congress cleared one major hurdle with a vote last night to avoid a partial government shutdown today, punting that possibility to at least mid-february. but they still face big hurdles. and for little time before christmas to get it all done in the 50/50 senate. starting with raising the debt ceiling, passing the defense spending bill, despite opposition there from marco rubio, and reshaping the president s massive social spending bill to try t
officially been made by msnbc. it has. i m sure someone can pass that message along to steve. we ll do so on tv here, just to be safe. thank you, my friend, much appreciated. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. 25 years ago, in 1996, a lawsuit was filed in great britain. it was a libel lawsuit filed against an historian and her publisher. deborah lipstadt is a renowned historian, her field of study is anti-semitism. a few years before this lawsuit was filed, she had in fact published a book on anti-semitism. it was specifically about this weirdly accelerating phenomenon on the far right where people were denying that the holocaust had ever happened, denying that the nazis had actually killed millions of jewish people during world war ii. she wrote a seminal book about that. and one of the most prominent promoters of that myth, a guy who tried not to look the part, he didn t just stomp around with a shaved head and jackboots giving nazi salutes. he wasn t t