Along the same lines when i was reading the initial eyewitness accounts yesterday, before we really knew the full scale of what had happened. People talked about finding the ways to the staff areas of the floor, off the floor, people running through the stock areas and jumping off the Loading Docks to try to get away yesterday, and reading those eyewitness accounts yesterday, i realized, i worked stocking shelves. I have been in those sorts of places in stores. But in a panic, would i know to do that . Would i have my wits about me . We shouldnt have to think about these things in civilian life. That is how we have to live as americans. In part because our political system is broken. Yeah, we have to think about all the Different Things wherever we go, and the list of places we have to worry about expands. It constantly expands. Yeah. Indeed. Thanks. Thank you, rachel. Thank you. Well, american mass murder came to the Grocery Store yesterday. And now we know, when we enter Grocery Stor
The Senate Becomes jurors and the case in front of them they witnessed. Incitement of insurrection spurring a hoard of radical right wing terrorists to breach the capitol. The mayhem left five dead that day, including u. S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick in one of the darkest days in modern history for americas democracy. The trial starts with debate and then a vote on whether the proceeding against the former president is constitutional. A source says citizen trump is telling former aides and advisers that hes convinced the senate will acquit him. The former president s lawyers tha have dismissed the impeach. As political theater, and a system gone awry. They call this the logical and heinous conclusion of a monthslong campaign by donald trump and his allies, including some accomplices, To Cast Doubt on the election results. They say the president has no defense and the evidence of his misconduct is overwhelming. Todays historic trial, the first time a former president faces im
Were either canceled or that we were not allowed to board. Reporter but today President Joe Biden tried to assure the American People that these are precautionary measures. This variant is a cause for concern, not a cause for panic. Reporter and he along with other Top Health Officials continue to echo one main message. Get vaccinated. Please, folks, if you have been on the fence, im not a politician. Im a scientist. Maybe we can even ask all the politicians to agree on this one. Get your vaccine. Get your booster. Its the best chance weve got to drive this covid19 pandemic away. Jake, as we have been saying, theres still a lot we dont know about this new coronavirus omicron, including whether or not it evades vaccines. In fact, if it indeed does, pfizer and Biontech Staying is prepared to adapt its vaccines within six weeks. Johnson johnson also saying it is pursuing an omicron specific vaccine as well. As you heard from President Biden and public Health Officials, your best protectio
With the case that undoubtedly dominated many discussions at the thanksgiving table this week. Thats, of course, the guilty verdict for the murder of Ahmaud Aubrey. Lawyers for travis and greg my mcmichael as well as William Roddie brian plan to appeal the conviction. Up next, a federal hate crime for intimidating aubrey because of his race and color. All this comes almost after a decade after the killing of trayvon martin. So these guilty verdicts are certainly a welcome change. But lets be honest, we have to remember all that it took to get here. The case faced an uphill battle to get to court. The when were not charged or arrested for month, until the video of the shooting was leevenlgd even the shoddy testimony by Travis Mcmichael and a strong presentation by the prosecution, this verdict was, quite honestly, still a Question Mark in a case that should have been opened and shut. And we have to remember, there are many more trials to go. Joining me now to discuss them, msnbc contrib
good to see you. that document is so good, and it speaks to how the civil war is taught differently than you d think it is. the whole idea that in many places through the south, they do discuss the fact it wasn t about slavery. it was about states rights and the north invading. but what was really amazing about it is the effect that it has to this day on students in mississippi. i went there earlier this week to talk to some of those students about how they have to get out of high school before they learn real stories about the civil war and about slavery because they don t learn it in school. and it s this thing that is so big and so present in american history, you would think there would be an american history about it. yes. but there absolutely is not an american history about it. and those of us who learned it a specific way because we went to school in certain parts of the country are totally ignorant of how it is taught in other parts of the country and vice ver