Republicans successfully filibustered the creation of a bipartisan commission split evenly between democrats and republicans for a comprehensive inquiry into the deadly insurrection, a mob that stormed the capitol on January 6th in an attempt to overthrow free and fair elections while we watched on television. Republicans did it with the help of a key accomplice, the senate rules. Heres the vote tally. Ready for this . Do some math in your head. Which one is bigger . The vote was 54 yeas against 35 nays. Now, at any other context where youre voting and 54 people want something and 35 people do not, well, thats a win for the yeas. But in the United States Senate it apparently is not because you need 60 votes. Not even 60 of those senators who bothered to stick around, but 60 votes out of how far many there are, hence the answers. Two democrats were absence. Senators Kyrsten Sinema and washington and Patty Murray of washington. Nine republicans were absence, concluding Pat Toomey of penn
holocaust? what? believe me, that s come up. the super inten demt of that school district has since apologized but the texas law is still in the books helping to emboldened parents that impose any idea or conversation on anything that might make white people feel bad. elevating one group, white christian america s feelings over the facts about history as if jewish children haven t had to process their feelings about facts like the state sponsored persecution and murder of 6 million jewish people by the nazi regime and black children for the entire history of this country haven t had to process their feelings about facts like the kidnapping of millions of africans throughout the new world who were forced to endure the soul crushing torture of slavery by lynching and jim crow if they were even taught about the facts. in the whitewashed daughters of confederate dictated non-white children are expected to suck it up and sorry, asian-american kids, all you get are the chines
story. it is coming up. we want to begin though, with those new comments following the surprise visit to ukraine by house speaker nancy pelosi. and the small congressional delegation as well to meet with president zelenskyy in the capital city of kyiv. pelosi speaking after traveling to poland from ukraine. take a look at this. do not be bullied by police. if they are making threats, you could not back down. that is my view of it. that you were there for the fight. and you cannot fold to a bully. nbc s perry is in the capital of kyiv following the story. bring us up today. we know that this was a surprise visit due to security reasons, as we ve seen in other instances as well. what are we learning about this exchange? about this meeting? yeah, in this visit, the security the surprise of it came through. we have that comment by zelenskyy, which blew the lid off of this but we did not hear about pelosi s visit until she had left. we heard about it this morning and t
presidential candidate who has not won a single trump international golf club trophy at long last, sir, have you no chip shot? well, look. i would be happy to play. i told him once before when he came in to the oval when he was before he got sworn in. i said i ll give you three strokes if you carry your own bag. president biden at last night s huge fund-raising gala in new york, where he deftly handled protesters while his opponent sets his perceived enemies up to face violence. including judges and their families. michael cohen will join me in a moment. also tonight, on this good friday, the blasphemy of donald trump. he cashes in on bibles, breaks commandments and compares himself to jesus on the cross. why do so many evangelical christians continue to support him? but we begin tonight with a tale of two campaigns. on thursday, president joe biden was joined by two of his democratic predecessors for a star-studded fund-raiser at radio city music hall that his camp
up by the facts and when everybody from the tippy top all the way down to the company knows that that network is broadcasting lies to millions in america. should anyone still call that network a news network? it is a question worth asking today about fox news. in light of allegations by voting machine company dominion. we are still for our part pouring through court documents filed by dominion. those documents are filled to the brim with stunning revelations and evidence that fox news knew at the highest levels at the time that it was broadcasting misinformation to its audience. misinformation so dangerous that it led to death threats, harassment, ultimately it led to a deadly terror attack, so described by fbi director chris wray on the u.s. capitol dominion knew that sidney powell had never entered into an agreement to represent donald trump as his attorney. yet, she appeared on fox news over and over and over again. here is what lou dobbs said on december 10th, 2020, with