breaking news out of the state department this hour. tonight a new do not travel morning is in effect for ukraine, ordering non-essential staff and families of american embassy personnel to leave the country. we will dig into the tensions and how the u.s. is preparing if russia does, in fact, invade. and an enlightening new poll shows how many americans believe there is a threat to democracy. congresswoman camilla jayapal is here to discuss that and more. today we learned the january 6th committee has spoke to attorney general bill barr. peter strzruk is here to investigate why fully investigating former president trump is vital to the future of our democracy. i m ayman mohyeldin. let s get started. downhill, divisive, negative struggling, lost and back. those are the top answers americans gave nbc news when asked to describe where they believe america is today. but this shouldn t be surprising. just take a look at this number. a striking 76% of americans believe there is a
we talk a lot on this show about democracy being in peril, and after the week we ve just had, make no mistake, american democracy is certainly in grave danger. but sometimes it feels like we re talking about all of this in an abstract way. so let s talk about specifics tonight. let s look at arizona, a swing state that helped joe biden win the presidency. a state that democrats hadn t won at the presidential level since 1996. a state that in 2020 got two democratic senators for the first time since 1952. so how have arizona s republicans responded to these democratic victories? by trying to make it harder to vote, of course. meet gop state senator kelly townsend, who as chair of the senate committee on government, has broad discretion over which bills get to advance out of that committee and which get to die a slow and painful death. she s behind four of the more than two dozen bills that arizona lawmakers have submitted to make significant changes to the state s voting syste
good evening. i m mehdi hasan. we talk a lot on this show about democracy being in peril, and after the week we ve just had, make no mistake, american democracy is certainly in grave danger. but sometimes it feels like we re talking about all of this in an abstract way. so let s talk about specifics tonight. let s look at arizona, a swing state that helped joe biden win the presidency. a state that democrats hadn t won at the presidential level since 1996. a state that in 2020 got two democratic senators for the first time since 1952. so how have arizona s republicans responded to these democratic victories? by trying to make it harder to vote, of course. meet gop state senator kelly townsend, who as chair of the senate committee on government, has broad discretion over which bills get to advance out of that committee and which get to die a slow and painful death. she s behind four of the more than two dozen bills that arizona lawmakers have submitted to make significant chan
classified documents. the special counsel found evidence that president biden, quote, willfully retaineds classified materials found no reason to press criminal charges. drew distinction between the criminal probe of handling of documents and his findings regarding president biden. the long standing justice department priniple that you cannot indict a sitting president does not apply and would not bring charges even if joe biden were no longer president. we ll have more on that later in the program. we begin with a hearing at the nation s highest court. an historic hearing for some very big questions about the constitution. the future of our democracy and at the heart of the case, a request from voters for some accountability for an unprecedented insurrection. first up, jonathan mitchell, the attorney for donald trump, argued among other things, that january 6th was not an insurrection. it was a riot. he also argued that the president is not technically an officer of the unit
But it is not just them. as i pointed out on my show earlier, there are also quote, unquote liberals, centrists. i m done with covid on a day when three and a half million americans died from covid-19, kids made orphans, babies in hospitals in places like utah. perfect phrasing. yeah. it is a sad state of affairs when we have more than five million people around the world dead and people are saying they re over covid because they can t socialize or their lives have been inconvenienced. you want to know what privilege looks like, ayman. what s that? i said you want to know what privilege looks like, that s what privilege looks like, my friend. absolutely. sorry. didn t hear you my friend. great show. enjoy the rest of your evening, my friend. good evening at home.