president biden didn t seemabou to have an answer when asked about the incident today. but white house press secretaryr karine jean-pierrey did at least try to come up with an explanation. take a look come up wit. > the president and the firsn lady and their family were not here this weekend. as you all reported on this. u o and as you also know that they left on friday and returned jusknow tt where we this was discovered is a heavily traveled area where many white house west wing, i should be even more specific. i sha west wing visitors come through this particular areavi. i just don t have anything more to share. it is under investigation by the m. secret service. this is in their purview. and so we re going to allos inw certainly the investigation to continue. and we have confiden t that the secret service will get to the bottom of thio ths. fr for their part, t the mainstream media found the whole situatioamn a little ridiculous. check this out. chi can t even fa
and we start this friday night with a fox news alert. the u.s.with a supreme courtupre will decide whether donald trump can be kep c t off the 2024 ballot in colorado. with arguments starting on february the eighth, again, the supreme court, they have no.w to consider what is a very important appeal and constitutional issue, and that is whether or not president trump s name will remain on the ballot until. they render a decision. now, also tonight, a big update from the biden familonight apdas s hunter may soon be held in contempt of congresoos. tha we have an update on that. also, the one and only dr. cornel west will join us with m more of his defense, whichor i think is indefensible. the former harvard president igt ahead, did he shoot out tonight? but tonight, we begin in valley. forge in pennsylvania. nearly 250 years ago, during a bitterly cold and wet winter . george washington stationed the continental army on this rural plateau just outside of philadelphiuralu just o
during these truly extraordinary times. we are grateful the beat with ari melber starts now. nicole, thank you very much. new evidence that fox news host facing the most damaging and existential existential cri hosts careers. it s the lies that fed the insurrection. the implications are quite significant. accountability could literally help protect america from another coup attempt. this new evidence broke last night. it spurred another round of coverage in a story that keeps revealing, every time we get more information, what seems to be another low and another low below that in this case against fox news. now, we covered parts of the new evidence as this broke last evening. if you ve been following the news on your phone, phone alerts, msnbc, i ll bet you re seeing some of it today. we have more damning, secret details from fox. i want to do this in a straight forward way. if you take nothing else from this whole story that s been going for a while now, just remember
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we began this weekend with the voting rights march in selma, alabama. commemorating the 50th anniversary of bloody sunday. a short time ago, president biden laid a crowd of hundreds across the edmund pettus bridge. we re still rights leaders were brutally beaten by police on march 7th, 1965. biden was also issuing a call to action as dozens of states pass voting rights protections. salma is a reckoning. a right to vote. a right to vote, to have your vote counted. it s the threshold of democracy and liberty. with that anything is possible. without it, without that right, nothing is possible. and this fundamental right remains under assault. in january, i signed electoral reform acts to protect the will of the people and the people transferring the transfer of power. we know that we must get the vote in congress. to pass the john lewis voting rights advancement act. let s get right to sell not where we find nbc news correspondent antonia hylton. good to see you, this is a