mason temple in memphis was hacked. memphis was a city in mourning, grappling with unrest over the deaths of two black employees of a memphis department of public work. employees that were crushed to death while taking cover from severe weather. today marks the 55th anniversary of their deaths. today, under the slogan i am a man, more than 1000 black appointees were on strike, and tensions were rising. despite a bad thunderstorm that april 9th, the room was filled. there was one man that the crowd wanted to hear from. martin luther king junior, who visited memphis twice before. he was trying to help the black workers get a living wage, and decent working conditions. that night, he was back. he was delivering what would be his final speech, the night before he was assassinated. dr. king began his famous mountaintop speech by saying that something is happening in memphis, something is happening in our world. we have been forced to a point where we are going to have to struggl
for staying up late with us. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. tomorrow on april 3rd, in 1968, the mason temple in memphis was hacked. memphis was a city in mourning, grappling with unrest over the deaths of two black employees of a memphis department of public work. employees that were crushed to death while taking cover from severe weather. today marks the 55th anniversary of their deaths. today, under the slogan i am a man, more than 1000 black appointees were on strike, and tensions were rising. despite a bad thunderstorm that april 9th, the room was filled. there was one man that the crowd wanted to hear from. martin luther king junior, who visited memphis twice before. he was trying to help the black workers get a living wage, and decent working conditions. that night, he was back. he was delivering what would be his final speech, the night before he was assassinated. dr. king began his famous mountaintop speech by saying that something is happening in memphis, s
i m not saying i did that, but maybe i did. the republicans today took that trick, that high school trick, and they took it to its logical extreme. new this morning, house republicans on the judiciary committee released a 1000-page roadmap detailing allegations of political bias in the fbi and department of justice under president biden. this is a preview of what a gop majority may uncover from daily administration at the midterm. i know what you are thinking, a thousand pages, they must really have some damning evidence there. but no, this is the high school big margins trick times doesn t. literally. as the washington post puts it today, the report itself is less than 50 pages. so what s in there? it s more than 700 pages of already public letters and those are mainly just dozens of duplicates of the same two letters. and then there are about 300 pages of just signatures. talking points memo characterizes the report as nothing more than a who s who of fox news flavo
hopefully, that settles that. and now we do not ever have to talk about litter boxes in school ever again! and be sure to tell your friends, this pre-midterm weekend, the truth matters. but only if you hear it. so listen up! and on that note, we wish you all a very good night! from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news. thank you for staying up late, i will see you at the end of monday! mo nday you know when you had to write it as a preschool and i had to be a certain number of pages? so you d bump up the font size and make the margins a quarter inch bigger on both sides. i m not saying i did that, but maybe i did. the republicans today took that trick, that high school trick, and they took it to its logical extreme. new this morning, house republicans on the judiciary committee released a 1000-page roadmap detailing allegations of political bias in the fbi and department of justice under president biden. this is a preview of what a gop majority may uncove
streaming on peacock. alex wagner tonight starts right now with my friend, mehdi hassan, in four. alex good evening, and thank you, chris. and thanks to you at home for being with us. alex has the night off. here is a question for you, do you recognize this man. do you know who this guy is? the president bears responsibility from wednesdays attack on congress by mob rioters, he should have immediately denounced the mob, when he saw what was unfolding. these facts require immediate action, on president trump. now, i know that visibly it s very clearly republican speaker of the house kevin mccarthy. but can you imagine which world which kevin mccarthy we need today, speaker mccarthy would openly blame donald trump for january the 6th? as hard as it is to believe, kevin mccarthy really did say those things about donald trump. exactly two years ago today. and he said on the occasion of donald trump s impeachment, his second impeachment for trying to overturn the election in