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also, an update on the hours long hostage stand-off at a texas synagogue. and my take on a dangerous rise in anti-semitism here in the united states. good evening. i m mehdi hasan. of the hundreds of people who have been arrested in the year plus since the january 6th attack on the united states capitol, the most important so far has been the arrest of this man. meet stewart rhodes the founder of the far right militia the oath keepers. he is a former army paratrooper who was honorably discharged after he was injured in a night parachuting accident. he then worked for libertarian congressman ron paul and went to yale law school. so far what would seem to be a kind of main stream conservative. according to the southern policy law center it s only when rhodes moved to montana that his beliefs turned a hard right away from small d democratic politics the justice department announced thursday it was charging rhodes and ten of his coconspirators with something called sediti ....
to a coup in a year later. our democracy remains at risk. today, that risk isn t from a group of men making their way up the capitol steps but from an coordinated nationwide attack. tomorrow, the u.s. will mark martin luther king junior day. every year, we celebrate the life, work, and legacy of the civil rights giant. but tonight, on the heels of yet another voting right failure, i want to play these words from king in 1963. i think the tragedy is that we have a congress with a senate that has a minority of missed guided senators that will use the filibuster to keep the majority of people from even voting. they want the majority senate for. and sooner they would want the majority of people to vote because they know they do not represent the majority of the american people. now that tragedy king spoke about almost six decades ago is still playing our country today almost down to a word. this weekend, kings family rallied in arizona, pushed for voting rights, home st ....
in year two? my guests this morning, democrats congressman jim clyburn of south carolina and democratic strategist james plus growing fears that russia is taking steps to invade ukraine. we have been very clear with russia on costs and consequences of further military action. now the u.s. is accusing russia of sending saboteurs into ukraine to create an excuse for an invasion. i ll speak with mitt romney about that and about the state of the biden presidency. also, the covid surge. there are many hospitals in the country on their knees. they re overwhelmed. cases, hospitalizations, deaths on the rise. testing, too, but is that too late? should we have done that sooner? we are doing it. should we have done it sooner? we are doing it. are rural hospitals ready for this wave? joining me for insight and analysis are nbc news chief washington correspondent andra mitchell, eugene robinson, amna nawaz, and anthony continetti of the american enterprise insti ....
and surprising details from the other woman who helped to uncover the truth. it still affects me emotionally. did scott peterson kill his wife? i do not believe he did. who else could have done it? i am glad you asked that once upon a time in a small california city lived a sweet pregnant woman with a radiant smile and outside family hardly anyone knew her name. my daughter s been missing since this morning. she is eight months pregnant. she would never know how famous the name of hers would become. would never know that a curious, sympathetic puzzled nation had cast an eye her way. laci peterson. she was 27 years old. and on the night before christmas she was gone. laci, if you are out there and can hear and see us, we love you. and we are searching. we are looking. it hit something, something in the air. that name. that smile. that mystery. impossible to put down. whoever has her, please, please, please let her go and bring her back to us. we lov ....
all of the hostages, which may include the synagogue s rabbi, we re told, are at this point reported to be uninjured. two law enforcement officials are telling cnn that investigators believe the hostage taker may have been motivated by wishing to free aafia siddiqui, who is in prison in texas. out of abundance of caution tonight, law enforcement agencies across the country have stepped up synagogues and other jewish establishments. let s begin this hour with my colleague, think mon por cue pez. a lot of reporting over the last hour, some good news, that the individuals being held hassage are uninjured and that the fbi is still talking to the hostage taker. right, and that s certainly significant. that at least point seems that the fbi feels that the negotiations are going well and that they can continue to negotiate, because people, of course, naturally, are asking, well, why doesn t the fbi just go in and take this guy into custody, but there seems to be some good co ....