[ cheers and applause ] i grew up coming to this place so many times. and, this, tonight, is special. i thought about, when i was coming in backstage, i ve been on this stage with godfather of soul, james brown, who was like a father to me, and michael jackson, the list goes on. but, tonight, you will have something special at the apollo, because you will have two icons that are going to talk about their work, and talk about what they do in this country that is so needed at this time today could not be a better night at the apollo. this is not just a great show, tonight, this is history. so [ cheers and applause ] so, it is my honor and my pleasure that, i can t bring you tonight the godfather of soul [ laughter ] but i bring you the godmother of woke [ cheers and applause ] rachel maddow. [ cheers and applause ] i got you on that one. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] [ cheers and applause ] wow, how are you doing? we love you, rachel. [ cheers and a
we will hear argument this morning in case 23-939. trump versus the united states. reporter: tonight, new testimony of the alleged criminal conspiracy to help elect donald trump. trump turned to the business at hand and asked david pecker how is our girl. as his argument for absolute immunity finally goes before the supreme court. this court has never recognized absolute criminal immunity for any public official. a private attorney to spearhead his challenges to the election results. what was up with the pardon for president nixon? if everybody thought that presidents couldn t be prosecuted what was that about? if it fails completely it is because we have destroyed our democracy on our own, isn t it? tonight, rachel maddow, nicole wallace, joy reed, chris liz. lawrence o donnell, lisa ruben all here as msnbc s special coverage of trump on trial begins now. who has the time? who has the time? you are telling me that simultaneously, we have nearly three hour
Very happy, to ignore this whole thing. we don t want to talk about john fetterman s stroke. it s awful. it s depressing. john fetterman should have dropped out of the race in may with the encouragement of his loving would a, which apparently he doesn t have, but instead they re pushing him, the democratic party is pushing him, to run for the senate, despite his inability to speak. they re doing that because they want power. for the rest of us that means we are now required to pretend that the sad brain-damaged guy is actually incredibly brave and impressive. in other words, they re demanding that we ignore what we can see with our eyes. that s called the big lie. and four days before the midterm elections it s everywhere. here s joy read of msnbc telling you that inflation is not real. you may think, you may imagine that you re paying more for spaghetti and two by 4s and eating oil. oh, no. it s a figment of your imagination. it s a diabolical lie of the republican party in washington
Apparently the unquestioning support of the biggest telecommunications company in the united states . what does that say about the country and its leadership? jason whitlock is the host of fearless. he joins us to respond tonight. jason whitlock, thanks so much for coming on . this seems and i ll just be honest, as noted, i didn t really know this was happening . i m not all that interested in hearing people talk about race. and i m definitely interested in watching that channel. but once you do watch it, you think, how can this be happening? and nobody says anything. tucker, it s pervasive across corporate media is pervasive in the sports world. it s one of the reasons why i left espn and fox sports to be quite frank with you, and wanted to do my own independent thing because of the way that we talk about race in the corporate media. it s very unhealthy. it s very toxic. it s it s intended. people have been bought and paid for to undermine this country. tiffany cross, joy read , any
President , and you know, there are only three black black. okay, so you went to howard, okay? and when she talks to you, it is i mean, she found so regular ,she so regular and relatable. and i just it s unfortunate that more people don t do that. and there s also just the dumbing down of the american electorate. we could go on and on. we could read excerpts from tiffany cross book, which are brimming with racial hostility . we could play you a million clips from joy read , which are exactly the same, filled with open racial hostility. but you get the point. and if you don t believe us , just go ahead and tune in to msnbc. but it s not really about that. channel or those hosts. it s about a society that thinks that s okay. we re it s not really about diversity. it s about hating other people on the basis of their race. and it s a little bewildering to the rest of us . thought the whole point of out of america was that we re aspiring to a country where we are judged by the content