from msnbc s headquarters here in new york. alex witt reports. we begin with breaking news in texas. a man hunt intensifying at this hour for a gunman suspected of carrying out a deadly mass shooting against his neighbors. five people, including an eight-year-old were killed overnight in a home in cleveland. that is a city just north of houston. according to priscilla thompson, who is on the scene for us there. priscilla, welcome, what are you learning at this tragic hour? yeah,, alex police are now naming this murder in this case. identifying him as 38-year-old, francisco or up hazza. police say he is a mexican national and is being charged with five counts of murder and police say he is two miles from here and have established a perimeter and are using dogs and officers on horseback and drones that are working to track him in order to locate him. the sheriff is saying that he hopes to have the suspect in custody within the next couple of oropeza hours, and this informatio
january, this might not be happening at all. after a lot of democratic internal wrangling, the bill passed the senate over the weekend with exactly zero votes from the house. president biden said he would sign it as soon as he gets it, and the legislation could not be more urgently needed, as he indicated over the weekend. we took office 45 days ago. i promised the american people help was on the way. today i can say we ve taken one more giant step forward in delivering on that promise, that help was on the way. today the white house said the $1400 checks included in the plan could start going out by the end of the month. make no mistake, this bill is massive. it stands to help millions and millions of americans who have been economically crippled by a near year-long pandemic. the bill spends most of the money on the american people, describing it as the most generous form of aid ever going out. more than 93% of children, 69 million, would receive benefits under the plan.
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Carl, which created the headlines, which includes this from the daily beast. trump s lawyer shameful cross examination of e. jean carroll. slight magazine said, trump s lawyer did him no favors on thursday. newsweek, trump s attorney just blew carols rape case. do you agree with these takes. do you call his offense, and the way he s going about his questioning s retro, but do you agree with these headlines? look, alex, we are not the jury, right? the new york journalist cuddling the story is not the jury pool. if we were, i might agree with those assessments, but instead, and the jury box, we have nine people whose life experiences considerably diverge from those of us who are covering the case and might have considerably more progressive views. both are so respect to our understanding of donald trump, and also, with respect to our life experiences. the jury was carefully constructed so that folks who