truman shocked theco nation wita televised address announcing he was seizing control of the steel plants so as not to interrupt the war effort. within half an hour of that address lawyers for the steel companies had driven to a district court ivjudge s home i washington, d.c. and gotten the judge to set a hearing for the next morning, a hearing as to whether or not a president could actually do that. now, the merits of that case are really interesting. but the reason the steel seizure case matters today is the speed at which it was heard by the supreme court. the issue was so urgent for the steel workers, the unions, the steel companies, the u.s. military, it was so pressing that the case skipped the appeals process, and the supreme court heard oral arguments just ad little over a month after truman s announcement. they decided the case less than a month after that, which is like light speed in supreme court time. and that is why in special counsel jack smith s filing before
that is an attempt to have a fix in. the pushes of the big lie reach full throttle. we are not gonna have 2000 situation in these boxes. tonight, marc elias on the multi-front fight against the anti-democratic threats across the country. then, how the georgia senate race got somehow crazier. i want the biggest night for the herschel walker campaign to be tonight. plus, did sarah palin just endorsed her opponent in alaska? maybe it is kind of that alaskan chick thing, you know. and david wallace dwells on the new climate reality coming into view. and why there may actually be a case for optimism. when all in starts right now. joining from new york, i m chris hayes. today, a january 6th insurrectionists, a violent one, was sentenced to the longest prison sentences yet for someone who did for his role in the violent attack on the capitol. his name is albuquerque head, he is a tennessee resident. and he was sentence seven and a half years in prison after
the pushes of the big lie reach full throttle. we are not gonna have 2000 mules situation in these boxes. tonight, marc elias on the multi-front fight against the anti-democratic threats across the country. then, how the georgia senate race got somehow crazier. i want the biggest night for the herschel walker campaign to be tonight. plus, did sarah palin just endorsed her opponent in alaska? maybe it is kind of that alaskan chick thing, you know. and david wallace dwells on the new climate reality coming into view. and why there may actually be a case for optimism. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. today, a january 6th insurrectionists, a violent one, was sentenced to the longest prison sentences yet for someone who did what he did, for his role in the violent attack on the capitol. his name is albuquerque head, he is a tennessee resident. and he was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison after pleading gui
just a few hours. his remarks coming after a harrowing 24 hours in america yesterday when one gunman shot and killed four people inside a hospital in tulsa, oklahoma, before turning the gun on himself. the shooter whom officials say purchased his ar-15-style rifle just hours before he barged into the facility looking for a doctor he blamed for ongoing pain after back surgery. the tragic attack in tulsa was not the only one to take place. a prison inmate in dayton, ohio grabbed a security guard and fatally shot him. outside in los angeles, a student was shot outside a high school. that incident now among the two dozen acts of gun violence near schools that have taken place since the start of 2022. according to one count there have been 20 mass shootings just since the rampage in uvalde, texas, last week, which of course, became the country s deadliest mass shooting this year, just ten days after a white supremacist murdered ten people and wounded three others in a supermarket
Everybody wanted for over 50 years and we got it done. Thats donald trump once again taking credit for the end of roe v. Wade. The former president made several false claims about the issue during both of his Campaign Rallies yesterday. Well have more on that in just a moment. Also ahead well go through the chaos overnight on the campus of ucla after a group of counterprotesters attacked a propalestinian encampment. And meanwhile Secretary Of State Antony Blinken is pressing hamas to accept a Gaza Ceasefire deal. Well bring you the latest on those negotiations. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this thursday, may 2nd. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. And well begin this morning with the unrest on the campus of ucla there in Southern California. Police officers are on campus at this moment and have ordered the crowd of over 1,000 people to disperse. But a large group still remains protesting the war in gaza. As of now there have not been any arrests.