officially been made by msnbc. it has. i m sure someone can pass that message along to steve. we ll do so on tv here, just to be safe. thank you, my friend, much appreciated. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. 25 years ago, in 1996, a lawsuit was filed in great britain. it was a libel lawsuit filed against an historian and her publisher. deborah lipstadt is a renowned historian, her field of study is anti-semitism. a few years before this lawsuit was filed, she had in fact published a book on anti-semitism. it was specifically about this weirdly accelerating phenomenon on the far right where people were denying that the holocaust had ever happened, denying that the nazis had actually killed millions of jewish people during world war ii. she wrote a seminal book about that. and one of the most prominent promoters of that myth, a guy who tried not to look the part, he didn t just stomp around with a shaved head and jackboots giving nazi salutes. he wasn t t
shoddy. he said in facts. libelous under british law to say he knowingly, for one, used forged materials. he sued her over those claims that she made about him in her book. and they went to trial. and it ended up being a remarkable thing, that trial, because in that libel trial, she and her legal team literally had to prove the holocaust happened. over the course of ten superintense weeks, they systematically went through all of the fake sudo scholarship and all of the conspiracy theories and all of the forged junk, all the garbage promoted by these holocaust deniers on the far right. and they proved it all wrong in court. they proved that the holocaust happened and these far right nazi sympathizers were lying about it for political reasons. the holocaust denier guy, the guy who had brought the lawsuit, brought it specifically in england so his claims could have this kind of a trial, because he was so sure he would be vindicated and everybody would have to believe him now, he
again very soon. and amber heard tells the court and her libel case againstjohnny depp or of the violence she says she suffered in her marriage. he violence she says she suffered in her marriage- violence she says she suffered in her marriage. he sits down in front of me at one her marriage. he sits down in front of me at one point her marriage. he sits down in front of me at one point and, her marriage. he sits down in front of me at one point and, because i her marriage. he sits down in front. of me at one point and, because i m not answering him, of me at one point and, because i m notanswering him, i of me at one point and, because i m not answering him, i was looking out the window, he slaps my face. welcome to the programme. we re going to start with the war in ukraine, and go to the city of mariupol. as we know it s been under siege for weeks. ukraine says russia has launched an all out assault on the final pocket of ukrainian resistance, the azovstal steelworks
overturn roe versus wade. the breach prompted a wave of hostility from the left and the president is trying to capitalize on it. bill: this is dangerous stuff. poll numbers caving the president is cranking up the language condemning the bulk of the conservative movement and what could be his mid-term message. president biden: this maga crowd is the most extreme organization that existed in recent american history. dana: mark meredith is reporting live from the white house on a beautiful day in washington, d.c. good morning. a beautiful spring morning here. as you talked about not the best in terms of the environment. we re seeing the heated political comment of mr. president making it clear he isn t happy with what s going on with the pro-trump movement and make america great again movement. a notable change in tone for the president and the white house says it s intentional. he has made comments about the direction of some in the republican party. the maga direc
recent american history. martha: so president trump responded to that to fox just a short time ago saying that in his opinion, maga is safing the country. this editorial claims that president biden might be doing distracting here. it says biden s bid to paint the supreme court draft opinion in the first salvo of remaking america is an attempt to change the subject. soaring inflation and open borders and rising crime, the subjects that the public cares about the most. so this is the world that we live in right now, folks. the highest court in the land, they re putting up fencing that is deemed to be tall and nonscale be and our highest court. a group is plan protests outside the homes of those they call the six extremist justices. justice alito, who wrote the draft opinion has just dropped out of a public appearance that he was about to make at a judicial conference. senator josh hawley, who once clerked at the supreme court is standing by. first, pete hegseth from fox and