Flight to fight demanding congress do something, the farthest theyve gone literally and figuratively to block Gop Voting restrictions, even as texas republicans predict theyre delaying the inevitable. Once they step back into The State Of Texas they will be arrested and brought to the Texas Capitol and we will be conducting business. We are live in philadelphia where President Biden will head soon to deliver this long promised big Speech One that some democrats say is also long overdue. Our new reporting exclusively here on msnbc on what to expect from President Biden today, as his party pushes for more. I am Hallie Jackson in washington with the voting Rights Fight Front and center. Mike memoli is in philadelphia, sahilkapur on Capitol Hill, and reverend Al Sharpton joins us as well. Thank you all for being here. Sahil and mike, let me start with the reporting. Sahil, you have Texas Democrats, you are inside the capitol, about to deliver a News Conference i think at a different locati
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elena kagan, the supreme court justices. there s bret kavanaugh, also, walking in. we did expect several of the supreme court justices to attend today s festivities. we re also expecting momentarily the arrival of the former presidents barack obama and bill clinton. we did see, also, george w. bush pull up along with his wife laura. we re expecting former vice president dan quayle to be in attendance. mike pence is coming here today. we don t expect him to come in front of the doors where we are, but we do expect him here. of course, the big absence, donald trump not here at the moment, not planning to come, of course. many former top republicans in attendance, lawmakers and former presidents bush and justices nominated by republican presidents all here in this show of support for this peaceful this transition of power we re about to witness. manu raju on capitol hill. dan, i think that was supreme court justice sonia sotomayor that we saw walking into the capitol, the fi
circumvented. points for the baby bonnet. i think we can do that all day, if you like. absolutely. the point you made off the fashion point for a second, mike pence is a curious figure. he also kind of is the human embodiment of the tragedy of really white evangelicalism. you had evangelicals make a compromise of whatever they said they believed in, whether fidelity in marriage, reverence toward women, whether it s whatever it is they were putting forth. the evangelical church, the church tells you to love the poor and immigrant. they didn t do that. they traded it all for judges and whatever else they thought they were getting. see if we have audio from capitol hill perfect the where the pences were just introduced. we have temporarily lost our ability to communicate with joy reed. we should mention, joy didn t get the hook. we lost connection. we have technical difficulties. i think what s about to happen is i think we re about to see vice president-elect
u.s. government hit by cyber attacks, why has he been out of sight outrage tonight and chicago s mayor under fire admitting she knew about the botched police raid on an innocent woman over a year before the video emerged. my exclusive conversation with a man who served 1 years in prison for a crime he didn t commit finally free. walmart and tiktok teaming up for a first of its kind even tonight. could it change the way you shop? the coach going the extra mile more than 1,000 of them to stay connected to his students. this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, everyone the fda has just authorized emergency use of that second covid vaccine, moderna s, putting millions more vaccine doses into the supply chain beginning in just a few days. it comes amid serbs over whether operation warp speed has been slowing with worries some states aren t getting the allot. s they were counting on administration tonight is projecting confidence in its distribution pl