with more than 90% of the american withdrawal complete, a stunning new report from the associateded press claiming that the u.s. bagram air base without notifying the new afghan commander. the pentagon is denying the u.s. left without telling anyone. just moments ago, we ll have an update on that. today marks six months since the deadly january 6th insurrection on capitol hill. we ll bring you these stories. as we await president joe biden for an update on the nation s efforts against the coronavirus, joining me is the white house reporter for the associated press. he is, of course, also an msnbc political analyst. also with us, physician and fellow at the brookings institution. she is also a form white house health policy director under president obama. great to have you both with us. starting us off this hour, jonathan, let s start with you. walk us through the white house strategy here moving forward on coronavirus. how are they planning to combat vaccinations plateauing i
dead. we ve heard republicans, including their dear leader himself, turn the rioters into victims and martyrs, even as video showed them beating police. we heard congressional republicans like andrew clyde even describe k it as, quote, a normal tourist video, and then widely reject a bipartisan commission to investigate the attack. what is also emerged in the past six months is a clearer picture of what happened on january 6th thanks to the government s have you had yo evidence released at the request of nbc news and other organizations. some of that new video shows police trying to rotate fresh officers to the frontlines of the siege. slowly, guys. we re rotating out. we ve got a shield behind you. you go behind me. you, come here. go, go. you, go. ladies and gentlemen, back up! joining me now is scott mcfarland, investigative reporter for nbc washington, michelle dean, nbc columnist. scott, i want to start with you. you ve been going through and pouring through these
championing the country s progress on beating the pandemic. today, all across this nation, we can say with confidence, america is coming back together. history tells us that when we stand together, when we unite in common cause, when we see ourselves not as republicans or democrats but as americans, then there s simply no limit to what we can achieve. and then on the other side there s florida man, still holding his maga cult rallies and spreading the big lie about the election. we re not going to play what he said, not just because it s really, frankly, sad how much of a sore loser he is, but because his claims are downright dangerous at this point. he knows exactly what he s doing, riling up his supporters, and then giving them hope that somehow he ll magically come back into office, which is never going to happen. and he s gone even further than usual in the past week, asking the menacing question, who killed ashli babbitt? putting the officer who shot her as she attem
more than half a million lives just gone. today, we mark a truly grim, heartbreaking milestone. as we acknowledge the scale of this mass death in america, we remember each person and the life they lived. they re people we knew. they re people we feel like we knew. we often hear people described as ordinary americans. there s no such thing. there s nothing ordinary about them. the people we lost were extraordinary. as a nation, we can t accept such a cruel fate. we ve all been fighting this pandemic for so long, we have to resist becoming numb to the sorrow. we have to resist viewing each life as a statistic or a blur or on the news. we must do so to honor the dead, but equally important, care for the living, those left behind. for the loved ones left behind. that s what has been so cruel. so many of the rituals that help us cope, that help us honor those we loved haven t been available to us. the final rites with family gathered around, the proper home going. as a nation, w
harry litman on what this means for the criminal case against trump. senator sheldon whitehouse on what it means for the rule of law. then, how do you stop gun violence from killing kids in schools? it s a horrible, horrible situation. and we re not going to fix it, criminals are going to be criminals. tonight, the maddening reality of a political party that has given up the awful truth of the cult of the ar-15. and an author describing what he calls america s slow civil war. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. donald trump cannot stop losing the courts. today yet another federal judge ruling against the ex-president, and now the man trump s angry mob wanted to hang is ordered to share what he knows under oath. this afternoon a judge with the u.s. district court for d.c. ruled that mike pence must cooperate with the subpoena from special counsel jack smith as part of smith s investigation into donald trump s attempt to overturn the 20