town hall where they were supposed to get the chance to confront the people responsible company let a train full of chemicals fly off the rails and lit it on fire ceo of norfolk southern alec shaw shown right there just decided to back out of the meeting. allen shaw and rail company won t even show their faces. primetime has a producer out there, so we will be giving you updates throughout the hour. can you imagine how angry these people are? the company responsible for potentially cancer clustering the town is hiding from them. after they were riding the rails with bad parts. surveillance cameras caught the train sparking unjust 20 minutes before derailing. but now alan shaw and his rail company seem pretty comfortable turning their backs on ohio. is it because they line the pocket of every politician in ohio? probably. maybe norfolk southern didn t have the spine to face their victims. i wake up every day. i have been sick with my upper congestion. this morning i wok
academic for decades. we knew each other for more than 40 years. why we did not always agree, we always came back together. over the last two years, he and i were closely as co-chairs of the national campaign to have the black community fight covid. he was on politics nations of november 2020. we booked as late as a couple of weeks ago about this work and he was still fighting cancer all the way through, he kept fighting. we have the community on health conditions, housing and economic conditions, he will be tremendously missed. that does it for me, thank you for watching, i ll see you back here tomorrow at 5 pm eastern for another live hour of politicsnation. american voices with alicia menendez starts right now on msnbc. methank you as always, reference sharpton. hello everyone, i m alicia mendez. we begin to saturday in san francisco where federal and local investigators are piecing together the motive behind friday s brutal attack on paul pelosi. the husband is the spea
[inaudible] everybody s behavior [inaudible] than what we are getting right now! jesse: the people of east palestine showed up to the town hall thinking the company that dropped the toxic bomb on their town would be there. but norfolk southern and its cowardly ceo alan shaw backed out. they are hiding f from the residents after turning their town into little chernobyl. and primetime talk to the people in east palestine, listen. are you experiencing any symptoms. a little light-headed and my lips did get all tingling yesterday morning when i went to clean up the house. it smells terrible up around the house. there is black residue on the pictures, surface stuff. i hit a cloud of something down in there that it put me i went to the hospital. i was worried about me i have
you? who cares about you? that s the choice in this election. all the other stuff is surface stuff. it s distraction. and welcome to our set here in d.c. as we count down eight days to election day. as we say with all the early voting going on, the election in many ways already under way. again, to underscore the stakes here, a 50-50 senate. republicans needing a net gain of one seat to get control of the senate back. the house sits as close as it could possibly be pretty much. it would be a net gain of five seats that republicans need if they re going to take back the house here. taking a look at the senate battleground in blue, you see, the five most vulnerable democratic seats in red. you see the five most vulnerable republican seats. for every one of these blue seats that republicans are able to flip red, if they re able to flip any of them red, for every
we have factual fears. factual fears over our democracy, factual fears over the fact that we have children specifically in the state of texas that are sadly enough being raped almost daily, yet they would not be able to seek the reproductive help they need, and they will be victimized again and a state like texas. we had to push hard, and we got to push back on the republicans and make sure we tell them that the facts are really on our site. let me play for you a soundbite of former president barack obama, who i still think is a master communicator, one of the greatest communicators in the democratic party and all of american politics, to be honest. let me play this soundbite. this wasn t waukee if you are as we go. the fundamental issue, you should be asking yourself for now is who will fight for you? who cares about you? that s the choice in this election. all the other stuff is surface