trending. musk is doubling down on his promise to make the platform fair for everyone. the furious response from critics is telling, he says the anti-body reaction from those who fear free speech says it all. he is referencing the topic of hunter biden s laptop, saying suspending the twitter account of a major news organization for publishing a true story was inappropriate. musk supporters agree this is a step toward restoring free speech for all. i don t know his politics, i don t care. he wants this to be as free as possible as a platform and coming under criticism from the media because the american media is corrupt. and the social media giant is showing signs of change. u.s.a. today analysis of accounts of 529 congressional members show 72% gain in followers since monday s announcement that musk s $billion offer had been accepted. twitter says it is business as usual and fluctuations are normal. saying, we continue to take action on accounts that spam po fluctuation
february 11th, i m stan stein, filling in for my friend ali velshi. we begin this hour with the latest signs at the justice department s investigation into donald trump s escalating and shifting to a more advanced stage. on thursday, nbc news learned that former vice president mike pence was subpoenaed by jack smith, the special counsel appointed by attorney general eric garland, to handle the justice department investigation in the january six. and donald trump s handling of classified documents. the subpoena was filed between pence s legal team and the doj. it s taking a hard look at the scheme to mistake electors to falsely declared trump the winner of the election in states that joe biden actually won. in december, just about a month after he was appointed, smith subpoenaed local officials in the spring state, the trump team targeted in effort to overturn the results. trump it had his way, would ve paid a critical role. which is why this subpoena is a significant mileston
the cnn film little richard is up next. ow! man: little richard, it s now 16 years since you had your first hits. oh, yes. do you realize that well, you must realize that at your performances now there are people who weren t even alive when you first began? yes, but i have woke them up now. everybody that wasn t alive when i started and was gone, i have brought the spirit and put it on them. were you always so shy? no, i m not. a lot of people say i m shy, but i let it all hang out, every bit. the love, the gentleness, the tenderness, the kindness, you ain t supposed to hide them. you got it. god gave it. show it to the world. announcer: ladies and gentlemen, if you will, a man who s become a legend in his own time, little richard! [ cheers and applause ] good golly, miss molly sure like to ball that music, that beat, his voice. the oooh my god, who is that? who is that? can t hear your mama call good golly, miss molly i d never seen any
To jot talk to jack. right, we re all trying to figure out what the timing of this means. on one, hand this could be that jack smith is wrapping things up, pence is one of the big names that he wanted to talk to. usually with subpoenas , on the other hand, mike pence is gonna run for president probably, right? and that announcement is likely to come relatively soon. if you want to issue that subpoena and get it out before he, runs not after he runs, right? he s you certainly don t to be in a position where your base basically press in a legal case against a candidate for president, it looks political, it looks like you re trying to hinder him. it is yet to be seen exactly how fast pence will make an announcement for president, unlike a lot of the other candidates, he is national name idea, he doesn t have to get up and running in terms of fundraising like other people do. he has a floor organization that allows him to do a lot of traveling the country, he has a
Because she doesn t realize what her voice is doing. she is spewing darkness and someone needs to hold this woman accountable and as god has anointed me to do that, i will move forwarded toed to jack, do you think she will apologize. i don t know. i pray for her. i really do. i don t hate her. i m a man of god. the bible tells us to forgive. i will forgive her. i will forgive msnbc, whatever is on their hearts but i hope she does because, you know, as a black woman that has this much power and this big of a voice to so many people i think she has the obligation to her people that she claims to love so much. this is a program we re touching them. each and every day. if she wants to come see our kids and see what we do, come on, joy, we are open for you, but do not bash us in public and don t take this away from our kids. they were excited to meet their governor. now all of a sudden they got to hear people harassing them and