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Rep. Steve Scalise is the GOP’s nominee for Speaker of the House, Rep. George Santos faces new federal charges for defrauding campaign donors, and Stephen has incredible news about a new Sasquatch sighting.
Seth takes a closer look at Republicans choosing Congressman Steve Scalise as nominee for Speaker of the House and whether or not he actually has enough votes to become Speaker.
Hamas encircled and fired guns at Israeli festival attendees on Saturday at dawn, and kidnapped those who didn’t manage to escape.
Tsubame Industries, a Tokyo-based startup, just unveiled its massive human-piloted robot. The four-wheeled robot named ARCHAX, which bears some resemblance to “Mobile Suit Gundam” from the popular Japanese animation series, is about 15-feet tall and weighs 3.5 tons. Tsubame CEO Ryo Yoshida plans to sell five units of the robot for nearly $3 million each.
Gili Yoskovich was at the Supernova festival, held in the desert in southern Israel, when Hamas militants opened fire during a surprise attack on Israel. In an interview, Yoskovich recounted the experience and how she escaped.
Former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy took aim at Democrats at a press conference following his ouster, and Stephen has a theory about Commander Biden‘s behavior at the White House.
Bill reacts to the top stories of the week, including Republican infighting and Biden’s border wall.
Noelle Dunphy’s lawsuit against Rudolph Giuliani accuses him of violating labor law, sexual harassment law, and laws against sexual assault but, as MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell points out, the lawsuit also claims there are audio recordings of Giuliani – some of which allegedly show Giuliani committed federal and state crimes.
Rachel Maddow shares video of the Patriot Front white nationalist group attempting to rally in Washington D.C. as a resident on a bicycle makes a mockery of them.
Stephanie Ruhle sits down with the U.S. Special Envoy for monitoring and combatting antisemitism to discuss the troubling rise of antisemitic incidents over the past year.
Frank Sesno, former CNN Washington Bureau Chief who is now a professor at George Washington University, was set to be an expert witness in the Fox News-Dominion trial. He joins CNN’s Michael Smerconish to break down the latest about Fox News and the recent decision by the network to part ways with Tucker Carlson. #CNN #News
16-year-old Ralph Yarl was shot twice when he rang the wrong doorbell trying to pick up his little brothers. 84-year-old Andrew Lester pleaded not guilty to the shooting. Klint Ludwig, Lester’s grandson, speaks to CNN’s Don Lemon about the incident.
“We should all be angry, sad, horrified, and upset.” Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter was killed in the 2018 Parkland shooting, reacts to recent mistaken shootings and calls for stricter gun measures. “There is so much we can do that the majority of America agrees with.”
Chris Hayes breaks down the effects of the “constant stream of paranoia” presented by right-wing media. “The idea that America is a crime-riddled dystopia. That behind every corner or knocking on your door is someone who wishes you harm. That the young women who accidentally pulled into your driveway or the child who rang your doorbell on mistake are there to kill you.”
Dennis Purifoy survived the largest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history, the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. Sitting in his cubicle on the ground floor of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, he saw the flash of an explosion on his computer screen and was covered by debris. Sixteen of his co-workers and 24 visitors died. The attack opened his eyes to the reality of hate and terrorism, and he now urges law enforcement agencies to pay more attention to the rising threat of far-right extremism in the country. He believes that the divisions and polarizations in society make it easier for people to think in terms of “me or us versus them,” and he is more concerned about it today than he has been in a while.
The defamation trial against Fox News concluded before it even began. Dominion Voting Systems sued the right-wing network for knowingly broadcast lies that its voting machines were used to steal the 2020 presidential election. On Tuesday, Fox agreed to settle the case and pay Dominion $787 million. Geoff Bennett discussed the settlement with NPR’s David Folkenflik.
The pandemic highlighted the power of local health departments and brought backlash from people who said these authorities were overreaching. In the wake of the turmoil, many were overhauled, leaving an outsized impact on rural parts of the country. With support from the Pulitzer Center and in collaboration with the Global Health Reporting Center, Dr. Alok Patel reports for our series, Rural RX.
Rep. Jennifer Wexton (D-Va.) has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, she announced in a tweet Tuesday, but the three-term lawmaker said she will not leave office.
The country is closely watching how the battle over abortion medication unfolds in federal courts. It follows a Texas judge’s decision to overturn FDA approval of the mifepristone. But there’s also growing concern over what that ruling could mean for the drug approval process in general. Amna Nawaz discussed what’s at stake with Dr. Joshua Sharfstein, the former FDA principal deputy commissioner.
During a 1991 interview on the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, former Chief Justice Warren Burger was asked what he would change in the Bill of Rights. He called out the Second Amendment.
“If I were writing the Bill of Rights now there wouldn’t be any such thing as the Second Amendment,” Burger told the NewsHour’s Charlayne Hunter-Gault. “This has been the subject of one of the greatest pieces of fraud – I repeat the word ‘fraud’ – on the American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime.”
The interview was part of a series marking the 200th anniversary of the Bill of Rights, the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
He pulled out his tiny copy of the constitution and read the Second Amendment aloud, which states that “a well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
“If the militia, which was going to be the state army, was going to be well-regulated,” Burger asked, “why shouldn’t 16 and 17 and 18, or any other age, persons be regulated in the use of arms the way an automobile is regulated?”
Months before Burger’s appearance on the NewsHour, former President Ronald Reagan called on Congress to pass the Brady bill, a piece of legislation named for his press secretary who was wounded during the 1981 assassination attempt against him.
“Every year, an average of 9,200 Americans are murdered by handguns, according to Department of Justice statistics. This does not include suicides or the tens of thousands of robberies, rapes and assaults committed with handguns,” Regan wrote in a March 1991 New York Times op-ed. “This level of violence must be stopped.”
It took another two years before President Bill Clinton signed the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act into law.
