the nation s special, pride to be seen. time magazine for their article on pediatricians who serve trans youth facing increasing harassment. in the daily beast article, alabama trying to raise the legal driving age for trans people to 19. president and ceo glad sarah kate ellis took some time to address the increase in laws against the community. watch this. there is one thing that extremist politicians and activists can never ban, and that is our joy. we are not going to let them anyone tell our stories or villainize who we are. when the truth is, everyone deserves to live a life happily ever after. yes, so raise your voices [applause] so raise your voices, take action with glaad, get loud, and stay proud. and we are loud and proud to have the glaad awards take us off the air tonight. on that note, i wish a very good night. from all our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, state thanks for staying up late. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. tonight on al
democrats at this time. the whistleblower doesn t make committee rules, sir. that happened. jim jordan s weaponization of government hearing goes off the rails. his so-called fbi whistleblowers are getting paid by a trump supporter and recently had their security clearances revoked. that s just one example of how toxic the republican brand has become as speaker kevin mccarthy allows the most extreme members of his caucus to run wild. also tonight, the rapidly growing field of republican presidential candidates and the misplaced perception that any of them can take the nomination away from donald trump. i m michael steele in for joy reid, and we begin tonight with the republican party. the party of abraham lincoln, ronald reagan, the party i chaired for two years. the face of so many losses, you would think that maybe just maybe the party would take a beat and reconsider the brand. alas, the modern maga republican party looks failure in the face and says, please, sir,
twice impeached once indictment ex-president and his loyal attorney general s pledge to investigate the investigators. it was a flashing red warning sign, though, of the politization of the trump era justice department. now, after an investigation that lasted four years, twice as long as the russia probe, it was initially set up to investigate, special counsel john durham has released a final report. it s more than 400 pages long. our team of experts and reporters are combing through it. but the probe s many failures and contradictions and chaos that surrounded it have been reported on and they are out there for everyone to see including high-level resignations. john durham is not today bringing any new charges. he s lost both of the cases that he decided to bring to trial. that s why some of the people at the highest levels of that probe left. the probe s stunning clashes and ethical lapses and internal chaos have been documented and detailed in an extraordinary body of repo
the most dangerous terrorist in the homeland is white supremacy. the president makes the case again and the backlash from the rioters ferocious. it s absurd. it s really disgusting, it s divisive. tonight, new reporting on a potential connection between white supremacists and the office of a sitting republican congressman. then, what we know after two were hospitalized during a violent attack at the office of democratic congressman gerry connolly. plus, the desantis campaign overhaul that includes shaking hands and looking people in the ice. i m not a candidate, so we will see if and when that changes. senator on ed markey his renewed plan to fix a broken supreme court by adding four new justices. when all in starts right now. good evening. from washington, d.c., i m mehdi hassan in for chris hayes. over the weekend, president biden delivered the commencement address at one of the nation s leading historically black universities. he warned the graduates
thinking of a crew. thanks for joining us. i ll be back at 9:00 for a special edition of outfront. ac 360 starts now. good evening. we begin tonight with the search for survivors in turkey and northern syria after one of the strongest earthquakes on record struck the area at the worst time imaginable, early in the morning with most people at home . those are just two buildings, two of more than 5,600 that have collapsed in the quake, the aftershocks and the aftermath on the turkish side. already in turkey and syria, nearly 4,000 people are known to have died, according to turkish officials and syrian state media. the number has been climbing with each new update. nearly 19,000 more are said to be injured. a major international aid effort is gearing up, but the priority right now is search and rescue. take a look. this is video from cnn from a town close toward where the quake was centered. for the last several hours now, we ve been watching crews there trying to make