To try to prepare and potentially record high temperatures and humidity expected to smother the midwest this week the heat so dangerous. Some schools are being forced to close just days into the new year. Im sara sider with john berman, kate bolduan is out. Cnns new central starts right now this morning. Cnn is reporting on the debate about donald trump. But Kamala Harris boils down to one simple question why, why did donald trump just tell voters once again that he may not . Show up to a debate. He already agreed to listen to trumps latest if he shouldnt say this, because if theres a debate it would be nice to surprise her with that one so is he skipping or is he bluffing because the new reporting from cnns Alayna Treene this morning as Donald Trumps team recognizes, they do need to have a debate with harris, Alayna Treene joins us. Now with the very latest you are talking to the folks around him saying, yeah we know we need to have this debate so what is happening with him sort of co
fall from when the arguments start live at 10 am eastern thursday morning, thursday night starting at eight pm eastern all be here with all my beloved colleagues. we will have a primetime recap of all those oral arguments, i ll see you then. that does it for us tonight, now it s time for the last word with the great lawrence o donnell. good evening lawrence. gave, nothing i ll join you at eight pm thursday night and at some point don t look, i will sneak out to the side. i will have to prepare for the ten pm hour where i will be a growing here as usual after your two hour session. i realized today in a fifth of panic that i had planned to do other things on thursday, like a normal things like coconut dental cleaning and walk the dog s, and then i realized in a full panic oh, i m not doing anything. i ve got to be up at 8:00 heading refresh because it s going to go for an hour to, half for two hours on thursday morning and then we ve got a recap the whole thing and sound
just a little note for your calendar before we go, the this thursday, 10 am eastern, the supreme court is gonna live stream the oral arguments on whether donald trump is disqualified from holding federal court in the united states. here at msnbc, we will have that audio alive and in full from one of the arguments start live at ten 8 am eastern thursday morning, thursday night starting at eight pm eastern all be here with all my beloved colleagues. we will have a primetime recap of all those oral arguments, we will see you then. that does it for us tonight, now it s time for the last word with the great lawrence o donnell. good evening lawrence. good evening, rachel. i will join you at eight pm thursday night and at some point don t look, i will sneak out to the side. the cause i will have to prepare for the ten pm hour where i will be a anchoring here as usual after your two hour session. i realized today in a fifth of panic that i had planned to do other things on thur
indictments he s facing. plus, actor marcus scribner is in our simone spotlight. once a star of the tv company black-ish, now in the final season of grown-ish. what s next in his career and role and climate change activism? i m simone sanders-townsend, and i have something to. so it s been just over a week since the six conservative justices on the united states supreme court upended decades of precedent, banning the consideration of race in the polyp college admissions process. now americans are beginning to evaluate this new terrain, with some launching new efforts in the fight for racial equity in education. others working overtime to shut out students of color. this week, a group called lawyers forced civil rights or lcr fall to complete against harvard university. one of the respondents on the supreme court s admissions case is on behalf of three civil rights organizations based in boston. they re asking the federal government to intervene and abolish a system call
holiday. ahead of the 40th anniversary. the president s powerful call for action, what he calls an inflection point for the nation. plus, dr. king s granddaughter will join me here in person. i will ask about carrying forward the legacy of dr. king, and the important work she s doing for her generation. i am symone sanders-townsend, i have something to say. history has thrust something upon me from which i cannot turn away. that is what the reverend dr. martin luther king junior told jet magazine as he left for atlanta georgia to become a co-pastor of ebenezer baptist church and lead a movement that would change the world. a day before the nation celebrates dr. king s legacy, history was made of ebenezer once again when president joe biden bemeand the 107 years of a ship. alongside the current pastor and georgia s first black senator raphael warnock, president biden had this to say. this is a time of choosing. for the choices we have. are we people who would choose democrac