Word with lawrence o donnell. We have sheldon whitehouse joining us. He will tell us something you might suspect. That is that the background investigations and senate confirmation process aren t quite what some people say they are. That is an explosive rep court. Everyone that cares about the integrity in the high court and decisions. I will save you time. Bob casey is joining us and he is the political expert. We will get it settled tonight at the end of the hour with senator casey. That won t be a question anymore. That is not going to be a question. I know this from spending time with him. It is a must watch our. This is for monday night. It is relevant. Bob woodward be on the program monday night to discuss this book which is the surprise of books. Just raise a flag. In our is plenty. Have a great show. The breaking news of the day went from breaking news to a presidential campaign ad in record time. With the harris for president campaign, setting a new speed record. Converting br
Will be opened up for the homeless. The scene today reminiscent of this, the more rooms for housing protest in oakland late last year, a group of homeless mothers occupied a home for several months after being forcibly evicted in january, they were given the opportunity to buy the property. Developing news out of palo alto where smoky fire near the popular hiking area beneath the stanford dish could be seen for miles. You can see multiple patches of thick smoke coming up from the dry grass, fire crews aggressively attacked it, even cal fire joined the fight. Fortunately only vegetation burned, less than three acres per onto the other big story today, a Bay Area Company at the forefront of working to treat the virus just got fda approval from a promising experimental drug. Today the fda granted emergency use as a result authorization for Gilead Sciences remdesivir drug earlier this week, the National Institutes of health announced the results of a study showing hospitalized covid19 pati
Court, bidens Campaign Goes on the offense, making a play for nikki haley voters in swing states as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. Good evening, im katie saying in for stephanie ruhle. We are now 194 days away from the election. But today all eyes were on the United States Supreme Court. The justices hearing Oral Arguments in trump versus the United States. This is the case that is all about the former president s controversial claim that he is immune from criminal prosecution. These are the questions at hand. What is the scope of president ial immunity . And what constitutes an official act . Our own Laura Jarrett has more on todays arguments. Reporter tonight the u. S. Supreme court weighing a monumental question that will decide whether the former president goes to trial for plotting to overturn the last election and win. The Supreme Court has a very important argument before you today. Reporter mr. Trump hoping to persuade the justices to fight him immune from
committed the crime of falsifying business records with the intent to influence the 2016 election. then, the prosecution will recap their case and tied together testimony from their witnesses and the evidence including documents with handwritten notes accounting for just how the hush money payment was to be reimbursed to michael cohen, who testified that he did it at the direction of and for the benefit of donald trump. closing arguments will take up most if not the entire day, st which will be followed by judge mershon giving jury instructions, which should last about one hour. and then the fate will be in the hands of the jury that could reach a verdict as early as this week. trump is already attacking the jury instructions on social media. there is a significant development in florida and the classified documents case against him. jack smith is asking eileen cannon to modify the conditions of release in the classified documents case after he told the very dangerous lie abo
Outside source in 2018. Happy new year. The middle eastern editor jeremy bowen has just arrived on set, so you can contact us with any questions for him. After six days of Anti Government protests in iran, and the deaths of 22 people, its Supreme Leader has spoken. We have also heard from the Us Ambassador to the un. Here are both of them. Translation following recent events the enemies have united to create problems for the islamic republic, using all their weapons. We all know thats complete nonsense. The demonstrations are completely spontaneous. They are virtually in every city in iran. This is the precise picture of a long and oppressed people rising up against their dictators. Nikki haley also said washington wants an emergency meeting of the un security council. These demonstrations started on thursday in irans second largest city, mashhad. You can see it there in the north east. But by saturday, many more people and places were involved, including the capital, tehran. Its worth