contacted by world leaders. my conversation with star wars star mark hamill, on his new role, helping ukraine. and rachel maddow on a forgotten streaming relevant part of american history. when we get to from that is a not see blot to distribute german government flop propaganda and the united states through the u.s. congress. that happened. when all in starts right now. good evening from washington, d.c.. i am mehdi hasan in for chris hayes. there is always been a racist white supremacist fringe to the modern republican party. it hasn t always been overt, but it has reared it s head from time to time, going back decades. republican leaders, even presidents, have indulged it. for example, takes from the nixon era show the president engaging in blatant antisemitism. all of it which families are close, but there is this strange malignancy now that seems to creep among them. i don t know, the radicalism. the jews are born spies. you notice how many of them are? t
d.c., i m in for chris hayes. there has always been a racist white supremacist fringe the republican party. it hasn t always been overt, but it has reared it s head from time to time, going back decades. republican leaders, even presidents, have indulged it. for example, takes from the nixon era show the president engaging in blatant antisemitism. all of it which families are close, but there is this strange malignancy now that seems to creep among them. i don t know, the radicalism. the jews are born spies. you notice how many of them are? they re just in it up to their next. and ronald reagan, infamously popularized the racist trope of the welfare queen. in chicago, they found a woman who holds the record. she used 18 aims, 30 addresses, 15 telephone numbers to collect food stamps, social security, veterans benefits for for a nonexistent deceased veterans husbands, as well as welfare. her tax free cash income, alone, has been running $150,000 a year. george h. w. bu
reza aslan joins me to talk about what happens next. good evening and welcome to the show. war crimes that s what russia seems to be carrying out in its war against ukraine. earlier today russian forces bombarded the city of zaporizhzhia, killing 17 people and wounding dozens of others. the shelling was concentrating on number apartment complexes in one of zaporizhzhia s most densely populated residential areas. marking a clear instance of vladimir putin s invading army roth laws of war. upstanding doubly, the strikes serve as a particularly dastardly reprisal for ukrainian military games on the battlefield against russia in recent weeks. the most noteworthy of which occurred yesterday, when ukrainians destroyed a massive brae ridge linking rachel what the kremlin peninsula. a critical surprise route for the kremlin s forces. as you might imagine, a thin skin putin is not taking this well. on the contrary, he s renewed his nuclear saber rattling. unnerving western a
p.m. the cnn newsroom continues the cnn newsroom continues with jim acosta right now. captions by vitac www.vitac.com you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. new today, a member of the january 6th committee weighing in on what would happen if former president donald trump ignores their promised subpoena. here s congressman adam kens ger. do you believe that the justice department, if the president refuses, should hold him in criminal contempt? look, that s a bridge we cross if we have to get there. you know, look, we well-recognize the fact that because of the committee only being able to exist until the end of this congressional year because that was the mandate, we re in a bit of a time limit here. and as we re wrapping up the investigation, we re also pursuing new leads and facts. and we want to speak to the president. look, he s made it clear he has nothing to hide is what he says. so, he should come in on the day we ask him to come
newsroom. we begin this hour with breaking news in iran where large plumes of smoke can be seen rising from an infamous prison in tehran. officials there confirming a fire has been set by the inmates of that prison. let s go to cnn s jamana. what more are you learning? we re still trying to find out what really is happening or happened at the prison. that notorious facility in northern tehran. of course, that prison that where many political prisoners, human rights activists, journalists, foreigners are kept in tehran. now, an hour ago, we started seeing video on social media showing this large plume of smoke billowing over the prison and according to the social media videos we have received, you could hear gunfire. according to the activist group that put out this video, they say that special forces were heading to the prison. now, according to the government s account of what is going on, they say that this was a fire that was started by these rioters. thugs as they desc