enough if we do it this way. let us know in the chat box. a warm hello, happy to see so many of you. i want to start by thanking david goldman, to switch, for me very new for all of us in the region of live stream. we are presenting that in partnership with our good friends at the public library. we are all gripped by the precarious and frightening reality of this moment. so many books conserve as antidotes and only one of those antidotes and we are sharing the next 45 minutes or our tonight and before introduce speakers in detail, and step aside or minimize or whatever it is we do, i want to say quickly, this fabulous book mengele: unmasking the angel of death is available here at labyrinth or whichever is your nearest and dearest local bookstore. all of us in the independent bookselling world are trying to find a way through to the other side of this crisis. if you want to buy this book at labyrinth it will ship for free, place the order over the phone we will post to the
rise. they re up only 3% in the last week. still some of the nation s largest cities are breaking records in case number, new york setting a new high. in los angeles, new cases tripled in the last week. the surge is making a mess of holiday travel, too, with several major airlines cancelling hundreds of flights this morning because of staffing shortages. that s where we start, as one of the nation s bus yi airports, one of the world s busiest airplanes in atlanta. nadia, what is the situation like here? reporter: you hear a lot of people saying merry christmas, but there s a lot of grinches out there, because the flights have been canceled. getting home to see their loved ones is not going to happen. we re talking about more than 1,000 flights canceled today, tomorrow, throughout this christmas weekend. we just had an update on more cancellations. delta air lines, almost 300 flights canceled today so far. more than 200 for united, more than 100 for jetblue. the numbers keep
who broke the news is trying to save face. what is the story here? well, the president s right, it s fake news. plus dr. anthony fauci on the biden team s winter covid plan and what he knew about the former president s positive test. and why that blogger from mar-a-lago is throwing a tantrum over the maga primary in ohio. i might have to hold my nose and vote for hillary clinton. i didn t vote for trump because i can t stomach trump. i think that he s noxious. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. for as long as i ve been working the world of american national politics, covering politics, there have been two ways of thinking about opponents of abortion, at least from progressives. those who support abortion rights. one is that the opponents of abortion, people who call themselves pro life, are sincere in their belief, well intentioned, but just wrong. and the other is that they re being fundamentally kind of dishonest, that
abortion actually is a means to control women s bodies, to preserve traditional gender roles, patriarchy, and it s not really about the sanctity of life. i have to say, i have always been much more sympathetic to that first view, you are well-intentioned but wrong. and i think it s partly because i was raised catholic. i have been around people my whole life, including loved ones, my beloved grandparents who went to the march for life every year. who sincerely oppose abortion. i know kinds of people who really believed in what the pope called a seamless garment opposed to wars like the iraq war, death penalty, visit people in prisons and also opposed abortion. i think that experience has made me feel a little defensive about the notion that the anti-abortion movement, which called itself the pro life movement, is actually all about controlling women and their bodies. and people in that moment really do use life as this kind of beacon. they use that word life, sanctity of, lif
and so in that moment what you see on dr. fauci, this is what people say to me that he doesn t represent science to them. he represents joseph, dr. joseph of the nazi doctor that did experiments on people. the way some people say getting nasty stuff in. to show you how ludicrous but how offensive that comparison is, let me talk a bit about who joseph mengele is, he sevened as a physician at the auschwitz concentration camp and the embodiment of absolute evil, a doctor assigned to select who would die or live only to be subject to the ghoulish human experiments he over saw and enamored of tortuing twins. dr. fauci that seen this nation through aids, bio terrorism, ebola, swine flu and now covid is nothing like joseph mengele or like the creator of fascism because that too is offensive. it s a comparison tucker carlson made on his show but doesn t make sense. making sense is hardly the point. it s about power and spreading lies and fake outrage so the maga squad wins electi