why president biden is in a unique position to do something about it. we re not going to change the constitution. we re enforcing it. and former dnc chair tom perez on the state of the dems and his big announcement on running for office. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. ever since human beings started congregating in institutions of what we call higher learning, colleges, universities, eve monasteries, conservatives traditionalists have been freaked out by just what dangerous ideas are being shared there. i mean, really, the whole dangerous ideas are coming out of universities is literally as old as universities themselves. it has been a core reactionary concern for millennia. just like everything else, this old thing is new again. which brings us to the most recent republican freak-out in florida, which as you may have heard, has a governor there, ron desantis, calling the creepy thought police to campus. he just signed a bill tha
right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. you know, ever since human beings started congregating in institutions of what we would call a higher learning, colleges, universities, conservatives and traditionalist s have been freaked out but just were dangerous ideas were being shared their. i mean, really the whole dangerous ideas coming out of universities is literally as old as universities themselves. it has been a core reactionary concern for millennia. just like everything else, this old thing is new again. this brings us to the most recent republican freak-out in florida, which as you may have heard as a governor there, ron desantis calling the creepy thought police to campus. he just signed a bill that would require public universities and colleges to survey students, faculty, and staff about the beliefs and few points to support intellectual diversity. not only that, he is gone on to suggest that budget cuts could take place if schools are found to be, quo
I want to start with the news out of texas. Nbc s ali vitali has been following all of the twists and turns from d. C. Ali i. What is going on? steph, they killed the bill but only for now. By walking off the floor last night, they made it so there weren t enough lawmakers present in order to actually vote on this bill before the midnight deadline but this only bought democrats time. As you said, the governor is stepping in and we heard from lawmakers last night this was one of the last arrows in their quiver as they tried to stop this legislation. Listen. We use all of the tools in our toolbox to fight this bill, and tonight we pulled out that last one. They were prepared to cut us off. They tried to silence us. We were not going to let them do that. We killed that bill. Again, steph, they killed that bill for now. We re going to see the next chapter of this unfolding in very short order because last night governor abbott called for a special session almost immediately after this bill
keep surfacing in charging documents for the rioters? then racism is real in america, and it has always been. xenophobia is real in america, and always has been. sexism too. a solemn day in georgia as we learn more about the victims of the attack on three asian spas. plus in our culture today, there s a desire it seems to cancel history, cancel culture. the fight to keep a confederate war criminal and founder of the kkk in the tennessee statehouse. and the fight against covid stalls, even as vaccinations soar. dr. fauci joins me live on what we need to do to stop a fourth wave, when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. some fascinating, revealing new federal filings unsealed today that shed new light on the january 6 insurrection. two and a half months after a mob guided by donald trump, in fact invited to the capitol and violently attacked the u.s. capitol, it s becoming more and more clear for many of the insurrectionists thi
i m john berman with brianna keilar on this new day . huge news moments ago that brings together the pandemic, sports, international relations. australia basically tells the world s number one tennis player to get out just days before the australian open. a landmark indictment for the leader of the far right oath keepers. for the first time, a sedition charge for the january 6th capitol riot. it has been a brutal week for president biden as he faces serious setbacks for his agenda. the two senators who added more salt to the wound. and queen elizabeth strips her son andrew from charities. the royal family now saying you re on your own. good morning to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. it is friday, january 14th. and breaking just a short time ago, the australian government canceled the visa for novak djokovic, the world s number one tennis player three days before the start of the australian open. this is a huge deal. djokovic is the n