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in a list that is about the top risks. the founder of that eurasia group. straight ahead, republican mark sanford, former south carolina congressman and governor and presidential candidate, helps us understand what s happening inside the gop following a bitter speaker bottle and what it means for the future of the american democracy. another hour of phil she begins right now. and good morning. it s out of the, january the 7th, ending up in the east, 6 am in the west. i m ali velshi. as the old saying goes, if i don t succeed, try, try 14 more times until you do. that s the attitude kevin mccarthy is bringing with him into the new year as he was finally declared the new speaker of the house after four days and 15 attempts. republicans appeared optimistic as the house reconvened at 10 pm last night for the 14th ballot. things quickly devolved as that vote appeared headed for failure, which led to a lot of scrambling and conversations on the republican side. tensions spi ....
we will see you again tomorrow, now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening lawrence. or good evening alex we are gonna discuss franklin foer article it is hour, with harvard law professor laurence tribe, who was merrick garland s conquered law professor, he agrees, he believes that this article is absolutely right on and this is it s a very good prediction of what merrick garland is going to do. also, we have john fetterman joining us tonight, senate candidates, john fetterman and alex i m going to ask him about the health issue, but i have to tell, you i don t get it. i really don t get it we have two current democratic senators, one a little older than him, one a little younger than him, both of whom have strokes this year in office! and no one said, you gotta quit, you can t be a senator if you have a health issue like. that bernie sanders had a heart attack when he was running for president! what did he take? two days off or some ....
champion, as the activist and paved the way for every black player who came into the league after him, and including me. the world has lost a legend and my condolences to the family and may he rest in peace. this is from the boston celtics organization, bill is a champion unlike any other, and bill s dna is woven throughout the celtics organization with relentless pursuit, and from the individual glory to the commitment of social justice and civil rights on and off of the court. andy shoals is taking a look at bill russell s life and career. i took basic skills and egotistically speaking, i think they had the best command of all of the skills in basketball as a package of anyone who has ever played. reporter: the champion of champions, bill russell played the best of anybody in nba history, and he had one thing on his mind winning. one thing i loved to do was to be back on defense by myself and have a three-on-one coming to me, and i loved that. because over hal ....
yeah, i mean, i lived in blissful ignorance most of it. i remember standing by a window towards the back of the capital, looking at a crowd accumulating back there, and kind of making light of. it it looks like a low turnout, little to find, out they were all at the white house, at the rally at the time. it wasn t until the senate floor, you have phones, i wasn t following the news. it wasn t until the capitol police came in, interrupted senator land brackets, and you can t leave the chamber. the capital has been breached. even then, i felt like i was in the safest place i could be, the senate chamber, being stored by protesters was on a magical to me uptime. the real waking up moment was when i heard chants of hang mike pence and four more years on the other side of the wall. i had no prior knowledge of how close they were, and that was definitely frightening. i guess, unlike members of congress, or people very familiar with the environment, how familiar were you? what did you thi ....
It would have been worse. who wants to hear that when you ve put your life on the line and are dealing with the trauma of what actually did happen, which we shouldn t be making light of. she said, we would have won. i know you don t support these comments, but what does that mean, we would have won? who knows exactly what she went. it s hard to understand her sometimes. even if she was joking, she s implicitly validating the efforts of these people and someone like that really has no place in our politics. she s reflective of a type of person who sees our institutions as performive playgrounds where fact and fission and truth and un-truth blend together because it s all about the performance. people like this shouldn t be in our politics and they shouldn t have committee assignments, either. so i think the real problem is what to do about this kind of thing now that it s happened. it seems like a win would have been donald trump remaining in office, right? ....