Hi. See, you got a little hat. Mother would have loved it. While we re on the subject of mothers, i d better warn you up front. I m not going to be like other mothers. But i promise i ll never make you wait until [laughs] until after the cake to open your birthday presents. [music playing] we were all together, making this show, which was the birth of this child. We made it funny. We made it emotional. And we all felt like, gosh, we did a good job with that. A lot of people in america were watching this and moved to tears. And then literally the next day, our world changed. It doesn t help matters when prime time tv has murphy brown mocking the importance of fathers. Bonding? i can t tell. I probably shouldn t have said that dam mistake number one. And now i just swore so that s 20 god who are you well, it certainly throws me back to the set holding that little baby. And we were in thrall to this baby cannot watch the thing to this day that either i cannot yeah. Yeah. Well, what s more
Perhaps you know me as, the kung fu panda. Ah, youre adorable. Huh. Oh, whah welcome back to msnbc state of the Union Special coverage. President biden gave a forceful speech and made clear that democracy is under threat. Not just abroad but right here in the u. S. In front of both chambers of congress, he reminded of the january 6th Capitol Attack in the very room, three years ago. History is watching. Just like history watched three years ago on january 6. Insurrection stormed the capitol , the threat of american democracy. Many of you were here on the darkest of days. We also, they were not patriots. They stopped to overcome the peaceful transfer of power. January 6th lies about the 2020 election and the plots to steal the election posed a threat to the u. S. Democracy since the civil war. They failed. America stood. America stood strong. Democracy prevailed. The Executive Director of the Georgetown Institute of politics and public service. And brendan buck is here but he is the for
okay. this one s going on the mantle. sandra: horrifying case in pennsylvania sparking a legal debate. 35-year-old woman charged with pushing her ex-boyfriend, an army veteran, to suicide. john: allegedly harassed him with a series of whatsapp messages and videos, destroying his things, talking about her new partner and threatening to keep him from ever seeing his daughter again. sandra: may remind you of michelle carter, 17 years old when she was charged with pushing her boyfriend to take his own life. carter eventually went to prison. will the same thing happen this time? welcome back as america reports rolls into hour two. sandra smith on this thursday afternoon in new york. john: john roberts, good to be with you again. no debate the messages are heinous, the big question is, are they criminal? our legal panel will be here to debate it. we will kick things off with this fox news alert. sandra: a gruesome scandal unfolding at one of the country s top medical sc
President elect has nominated Ardent Obamacare critic tom price, a republican congressman from the state of georgia, Congressman Price is very tight with paul ryan, this is according to the House Speaker himself. Here is speaker ryan on local talk radio. What im excited about is tom price who is a very close friend of mine. Tom price is one of the architects of replacing obamacare, of fixing health care. Hes a surgeon, he knows how the law works and hes been the most passionate advocate for patientcentered Health Care Reforms that ive seen in congress and im really excited he is now going to be the quarterback, the point person in the new administration on reforming health care. So that was speaker ryan and as donald trump is adding to his cabinet, hes also making headlines again for one of his tweets. This is what he wrote nobody should be allowed to burn the
the momentum our campaign got in the last two weeks of the campaign i think was largely due to the fact that those obamacare pr
how many times at least growing up when you got angry with somebody, you heard somebody say go drop dead or i hope you kill yourself. there s got to be more, got to be context. i think what tilted towards prosecuting this case was they are going to show that she knew or had some knowledge that he was suicidal and that she intended to do this, and you have to show the causation element, you have to show the speech crossed the line. i have a real hesitation as to when you start going down that path when you are able to say ok, this speech, it just gets up to the line but this speech doesn t. it s a very, very precarious position to be in. john: and what the westmoreland district attorney said about this, mr. metzger may still be here today if those messages did not influence and encourage him to take his own life. there s no evidence of a preexisting condition here