but it didn't end for james earl ray. because after james earl ray shot martin luther king on that balcony in memphis in 1968, he got away. he got in his car, drive away. drove back to atlanta. spent three more days driving north. he crossed the u.s. border into canada. he stayed in canada for a month. somehow got himself at least one fake passport there. he through to europe. spent some time in portugal of all places. ended up in london. it wasn't until two months after he assassinated martin luther king that james earl ray was finally arrested. he was arrested at the airport in london, as he was preparing to fly on to another country. james earl ray was extradited back to the united states to face trial. he admitted he did it. he confessed. pled guilty. he was sentenced to 99 years in prison for the assassination of martin luther king. but then a couple of things of note happened thereafter. one thing to note that happened thereafter, he escaped from prison. he had previously been an escapee and even after he was senten

per statute, james crumbley completed atf form 5300-9a. on or about november 26th, 2021, ethan crumbley's social media account revealed posts of a semiautomatic handgun along with the caption "just got my new beauty today" including an e mow you with hearts. emoji with hearts, "sig sauer 9 millimeter, any questions i will answer," unquote. subsequent, one of jennifer crumbley's social media posts read, quote, mom and son day, testing out his new christmas present, end quote. on november 21, '21, a teacher at the oxford high school observed ethan crumbley searching ammunition on his cellphone during class and reported the same to school officials. jennifer crumbley was contacted via voicemail by school personnel regarding the son's inappropriate internet search. school personnel indicate they followed that voicemail up with an email but received no response from either parent. thereafter, jennifer crumbley exchanged text messages about the incident with her son on that day stating, quote, lol, i'm not mad at you, you have to learn not to ge

attorney general james is seeking to question donald trump under oath in her office in january. attorney general james civil investigation is separate from the ongoing criminal investigation by the manhattan district attorney's office into whether the trump organization committed tax fraud. in a statement, donald trump's lawyer said quote we are not concerned about it because he has done nothing wrong. we will wait until we see what they show us this their subpoena, and we will respond with our motions. this is purely political, and he has done nothing wrong and we are not surprised at all. hours after the news broke that attorney general james would subpoena donald trump she issued this statement saying i have come to the conclusion that i must continue my work as attorney general. there are a number of important investigations and cases that are underway, and i intend to finish the job. i am running for reelection to complete the work new yorkers elected me to do. that was very bad news for donald trump, and that was more good news for the first woman governor of new york, kat

first statute, james crumbly completed atf form 3509-a. ethan crumbly's social media post revealed photos of the semiautomatic handgun, with the caption, just got my new beauty today including an emoji heart, sig sauer. subsequent to the purchase of that weapon, one of jennifer crumbly's social media posts on about 11/27/21, mom and son day testing out his new christmas present, end quote. on november 21st, 2021, a teacher observed him researching ammunition in class. jennifer crumbly was contacted via voice mail by school personnel regarding the son's inappropriate internet search. school personnel indicate they followed that voice mail up with an email, but received no response from either parent. therefore, jennifer crumbly exchanged text messages about the incident with her son on that day, stating, quote, lol, i'm not mad at you, you have to learn not to get caught, unquote. on november 30th, 21, the morning of the shooting, the next day, ethan crumbly's teacher came upon a note on ethan's desk, which alarmed her, to the point that sh

they said actually james earl ray -- moment of madness. he didn't do it and said they cooked up the scheme by which they would blame the assassination of martin luther king on a mysterious man named raul. who is raul? there is no role. they made up that much about him, but they never got much further with it than that. >> james earl ray is in solitary at -- mountain prison in tennessee. the last of the five men who broke out with him last friday night was caught this morning. today wray's lawyer was on hand, so was eric returns to report what the lawyers had to say about his client. this is jack or shaw, he's james earl ray's attorney and he talked to ray this morning, he told reporters that wray is okay physically, exhausted mentally, and sorry he tried to escape. he said there was no conspiracy to help reyes cape. >> i think we can discount the outside help. with any -- i hope there did be -- >> did he plan escape? >> no. >> who did? >> don't know. >> wray refused to talk to these investigators for the house and assassinations committee

who is running far ahead of letitia james and other potential candidates for governor. and letitia james decided not to run for governor, kathy hochul has no serious competition. this is in the next year's election. she will remain the governor of new york. joining us now, paul butler, law professor of georgetown university, and a former federal prosecutor. he's an msnbc analyst. and we -- author of the big cheat, and enriched himself and his family. professor butler, let's begin with the legal process that letitia james is running in this civil case. she has the power to subpoena donald trump, he doesn't have any legal grounds for resisting that subpoena, he will try to drag it out, obviously he'll play some kind of game. but what do you anticipate in what kind of delay game donald trump can play in going under oath for attorney general james? >> what lawrence, both the attorney general and district attorney investigation are focused on whether the trump organization committed fraud. but each investigator, the new york we da have a different set of power. and in crimin

james crumbley and jennifer crumbley were captured hiding in a warehouse in detroit. they've pleaded not guilty to four counts each of involuntary manslaughter and their bond was set at $500,000 each. oxford county prosecutor erin mcdonald laid out on friday how james crumbley and jennifer crumbley brought the gun for their son. who used it as a christmas gift for him. and that they ignored clear warnings that he was dangerous. james crumbley and jennifer crumbley are now being held under suicide watch in the same jail as their son. hours after ethan crumbley shot and killed four of his classmates, senate republicans were speaking on the senate floor about abortion. so our next guest, democratic senator, chris murphy from connecticut took to the senate floor and said this. >> mister president, i understand that my republican colleagues have very strong views on issues related to abortion. but i listened to my republican colleagues come down here one after another today and talk about the sanctity of life. at the very moment that moms and dads in michigan were being to

as a result, james and jennifer crumbley were summon tods the school. both james and jennifer failed to ask their son if he had his gun with him or where his gun was located. james and jennifer left the high school without their son. he was returned to the classroom. when the news of the active shooter had opinion made public, jennifer crumbley texted to her son at 1:22 p.m., quote, ethan, don't do it. end quote. at 1:37 p.m., james crumblerks y called 911 reporting that a gun was missing from his house and he believed his son may be shooter. >> so, if you caught all that, the parents were warned that their son was demonstrating concerning behavior. the most concerning imaginable, including the second time the morning of the shooting with the drawing with the bullet and plood that said help me and they were called into the school. they didn't act and no one else did either. they didn't inquire as to whether the son brought the semiautomatic handgun they purchased be these are the facts as the prosecutor laid them out. the couple are being charged with f

you're right about james brown. my aunt, who is 92 right now, for some reason we are talking about michael jackson back when he hit and went really big. and she looked at him, he's copying james brown. >> james brown said the same thing. >> you know, willie, this was so unifying, this world that we used to live in where you'd have these radio stations. a great example of how i'm so connected to it and i know you are, too. willie, you are too young for this. once upon a time in hollywood for me what made that so extraordinary brad pitt being unbelievable, they had those old recordings of the l.a. deejays, people going down the 405 introducing these and it just took me back to that time where we were all united. we were all listening to the same radio stations and when you traveled into new cities listening to who is the deejay here and it was exciting. what do you think about once upon a time in hollywood? oh, it's okay. >> i will say, i have a 14-year-old and a 12-year-old there is a collection of songs you hear ove

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james earl ray was a rabid segregationist. he was a real racist. he was kicked out of the army in the late '40s. he'd been in and out of prison for years. he'd actually escaped from prison in missouri, in 1967, the year before he killed king. he spent time in mexico. spent time in california. by 1968, he was reportedly intoxicated with the reactionary campaign of george wallace, the segregationist alabama governor, who ran for president in 1968 on an anti-civil rights,

had i not fired james comey, you may not be talking to me about my four years at the white house. he said, quote, i don't think i could've survived if i didn't fire him. he doesn't mean, he'd be dead. he means, he couldn't survive does president. he couldn't have made it four years as president. because of the fbi investigations that were in placed under james comey, that stood to remove him from office. so he fired the fbi director in order to divert those investigations. in order to keep himself in power. he just admitted that is why he did it. and that it worked. that is how he managed to stay in office for four years. this is like the thing you hoped would entrapped somebody into saying. this is the thing you hope to tape somebody accidentally admitting to somebody doesn't know that they're going to get in trouble for saying it. this is him confessing. i would just say, not a lawyer, but, theoretically, if somebody were going to bring an objective prosecution against him, firing the fbi director in order to get rid of the investigation that stood to remove him from office. if

we will go straight to a joining us now is democratic congressman james clyburn, he is the house majority. congressman clyburn, always happy to see you, i have never been more happy to see you then tonight because when i read that statement about you testing positive and you said right away that you were asymptomatic which is great news, but we always worry when we hear something like that. how are you feeling right now? >> i feel great. except for nasal sounds, i have been fine. i have not had any fever. no aches and pains, and quite frankly, i was pretty surprised getting ready for my granddaughter's wedding, my daughter establish this protocol for everyone to get tested and we were sitting around [inaudible] it was at one point positive, at one point not positive, so i got concerns about that and i called my physician and told him what i had just experienced. he advised me to get the pcr. they got the results back at 8:30 this evening and i immediately put a statement out. >> one of the problems that you've identified and announcement about this tonight, it took 56 hours to get the res

but it's just about steve bannon, getting steve bannon out of legal trouble, attacking lebron james. it's really focused and that is exactly what vance has done as well. he jumped in by getting upset about dr. seuss if you remember that era of american politics and that is what really the competition is between these guys. >> it's broader than that, right? this is a sort of kind of a trump primary, the short hand is it is a real thing and it means that you're not running for office from the voters. i mean, in some ways it's like something fundamentally like offensive to my small "d" democratic sensibilities which is that the whole point of elective democracy is they answer to the voters. they don't answer to one person up there. that is like royalty. and yet that is exactly the m.o. here. >> yeah. and i mean that speaks to exactly what vance is doing. you know, which you referred to in the intro. i mean, vance doesn't seem to have much personal involvement or personal stake in any of the kind of issues he is talking about now. he's had a fairly long public career and never really tal

james earl ray was a rabid segregationist. he was a real racist. he was kicked out of the army in the late '40s. he was at of prison for years. he escaped from prison in

my lucky -- hello baker, joan robinson, james baldwin. they have all been involved with the vote on the situation passing the baton from one way to another. it is our ultimate irresponsibility to engage in the enlightenment and education of those around us. >> you know the thousands of people from all corners of america who marched after george floyd was killed, walk and they do now? what is the role of the collective in restored of justice. >> that is a great. point i think they have to do is stigwood normative. if the eyes can't seem to break, it doesn't know the know some more stuff! breathe, jonathan doug parker, breathe! -- oh read people who can inform. you james baldwin who fired -- i would recommend everyone can to read that book to pile grapple with powerful ejaculate sum of politics of grief, and the speech of white people, the traumas we've endured. but the overcoming power of love to remake american society. without black forgiveness, america wouldn't be what it is today. >> that is for damn sure. we are quickly, professor dys

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the nba basically saying, yes, we embrace this, lebron james lead the name, these big marquis players willing to put themselves out there and the nba embracing it in the way the nfl hasn't. what's been the difference in the approach of some of these pro sports leagues? >> i think in the national basketball association you just said the two keyboards and that's lebron james. when you have the best player in the world say i want to be a political athlete, lebron james said i want to be a global icon like muhammad ali. lebron james was strongly, strongly affected, like the people i interviewed in my book, by the 2012 killing of trayvon martin. lebron james decided that he was going to bend the nba to being more accepting of political athletes and he became like a force field for other athletes who wanted to be political because how can you punish the last guy on the bench if you are going to celebrate lebron james being political. the nfl it's much tougher. the franchise owners are very, very conservative bunch and the contracts are not guaranteed, the average career only lasts three yea

james baldwin. i would recommend every american read that book to grapple with the powerful articulation of the politics of grief that have besieged black people, the traumas we have endured, but the overcoming power of love to remake american society. without black forgiveness, america wouldn't be what it is today. >> ooh. that is for damn sure. real quickly, professor dyson, what role does washington have to play, lawmakers up the street here, have to play in this conversation that we're having? >> well, it is extremely important. first of all, the bitter bickering, the futile feuding, and the nastiness and the resistance to trying to engage the other. now, i'm not pretending one side is not more responsible than the other for what we see now. the malaise we are confronting is mostly all made up of those on the right who refuse to examine themselves through self-reflection and decency and humility. what the politicians need to do is practice some of the religious discourse they are constantly pipi

the james webb space telescope launched into space on christmas day. tucked inside the nose cone of the european space agency rocket. within minutes of the launch all the rockets parts fell away. now the telescope is on its own. heading for its home a million miles away. it will take the telescope a month to get there. look at this timeline. the little yellow triangle on the left side of your screen is the current position of the telescope, and the farthest right object on the timeline, that is where it is going. while it's trying to get there, the telescope will go from looking like this to looking like this. it will take hundreds of maneuvers over four weeks for it to fully unfold unnecessary points. if anything goes wrong at any point, there's nothing humankind can do about it. we can't send somebody out there to fix it. the james webb telescope is years behind schedule, billions of dollars over budget. but it has finally left earth. and should everything continue to go well, it is going to be amazing. joining us now, somebody who has been watching

james whitfield and his family. >> i would be lying if i told you it didn't pain me to not be with the students that i typically get to serve each day. >> reporter: normally he'd be up by 6:00 a.m. in a suit, ready to lead a school of about 2,000 kids, but since late august he's been suspended from his job as the first black principal of texas' majority white colleyville heritage high school in the wake of accusations he was pushing critical race theory or crt on students. >> it has been difficult to be detached from really my purpose. they see that. they see the pain, even though i try to mask it. but that's all i've ever wanted to do, is be an educator and serve kids. >> reporter: he's become one of the most prominent casualties in a national war over race, history, around and diversity. >> psychologically what's that like? >> yeah. i go from different extremes. there's the part of me that goes, as any human, why me? why is this -- i didn't sign up for this. >> reporter: texas is one of eight states with new broad laws banning the teaching of critical race theory, a decades' old grad

james seeks to depose donald trump early next year. the on january 7th at her new york office as part of a civil text fraud investigation into whether his company gave fraudulent evaluation. the trump organization released a statement calling it another political witch hunt investigating trump. an attorney says the former president who has not been accused of any wrong-doing will fight it in court. >> joining now is david farenthol. good morning, what did you read by tish james yesterday to step away by the governor's race and stays and run for reelection as it impacts donald trump. >> she's running behind the current governor in a crowded democratic primary. the thing she's put the most work into. she didn't file a lawsuit against trump. all of that is done under the cloud. she's doing this for the governor. i think she saw a way and focusing more on the state. >> it was no guarantee that she will win. kathy hochul took over for governor cuomo. charles, let's talk about this case, this deposition. trump is a private citizen. does he h

attacking lebron james, it's really focused. and that is exactly what vance has done as well. he jumped in by getting upset about dr. seuss if you remember that. and that is what's really -- the competition is between these guys. >> yeah and it's broader than that, right, this is sort of a trump primary it's a real thing and it means that you are not running for office from the voters, in some ways theres like fundamentally like offensive to my small d democratic sensibilities. which is the whole point of electoral democracy is the answer to the voters, they don't answer to one person up there, thats like royalty. yet that is exactly the -- here. >> yeah, and i mean that speaks to exactly what vance is doing. you referred to in the intro. vance doesn't seem to have much personal involvement, or personal stake in any of the issues he is talking about now. he has never really had -- public career and never talked about this kind of stuff. very aggressive cultural -- but it is clear that he sees this as a one person audition. so that is why he is doing, he has made the choice tha

i want to send you a tape of howard stern interviewing james brown in the studio. >> oh, my god. electric. >> you need to -- one of the rare times i saw james brown really get -- well, you need to watch the interview. to have james brown and howard stern in one interview, only god could make that -- >> only god could get you through that one. >> that's a lot. peter baker, thank you for being on. >> what are you working on other than your howard stern interview? >> if you listen to howard stern's interviews with donald trump, we're working on the book on donald trump, you learn everything you needed to know about what the presidency was going to be like. actually, you're right about howard. early on, he gave us what we needed to know. not everybody listened. >> peter baker, thank you. jonathan lemire, thank you. >> jonathan, what are you working on today? >> we'll be following the president. he is heading to kentucky, of course, to console those impacted by those terrible tornadoes. and we will, indeed, keep watching capitol hill for any progress on the build back better agenda. a

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joining us now, retired admiral james. ambassador taylor, thank you so much. what are these tough unprecedented sanctions? say vladimir putin is not bluffing and we have seen more than 90,000 troops on the border. we don't know his intentions, and he could move if he wanted to. one is the death penalty of economic sanctions, one is the economic banking system. they have don't that against iran, could they do it against vladimir putin? >> they could, and i understand the swift sanctions have been on the table this week. i understand that the state department and the treasury department officials have been in europe discussing exactly this. they're also talking about angsts on people right close to president putin. who have access to travel and investment over seas that would go. more angsts and they lead to russia, but you're right. swift has been the ultimate sanction and they, i know they have been talking about it and they could do it. >> we talked to secretary blinken. i was on that trip, and asked what about these sanctions, and he said we know what they a

that the fbi director at the time, james speak comey, testified before congress and acknowledged that there was this investigation. he briefed lawmakers in private and he went out and said at a congressional hearing. that created huge reverberation in washington that combing was acknowledging it. he helped fire comey. >> right. that is a great point. what else can you tell us about the progress of the committee's work? because at some level there have been no public hearings thus far. we have seen them come forward and gives some evidence. we have seen high profile cases of individuals who have refused cooperation. whether that is deep bennett who has a criminal referral department of indictment. versus mark meadows who is pleading the fifth like roger stone. but under the iceberg, hundreds have been interviewed. a ton of documents have been worked. and i'm curious what your reporting indicates on the progress on it. >> whatever they had, whatever they, know it was enough for list shiny to go out and say what she did in these past few weeks where she read from the criminal code. i thi

those parents, james and jennifer crumbley, are being held on a combined million dollars bail after pleading not guilty to involuntary manslaughter charges. they were found in a detroit warehouse where police say they spent the night. their 15-year-old son is accused of killing four and injuring seven at a metro detroit high school. he's being tried as an adult on murder, assault and weapons charges. authorities believing the parents bought that gun, allegedly used in the shooting as a gift for their son. >>> the cdc added more countries to its travel advisory list. concern is rising about the covid omicron variant. they urge u.s. residents to avoid travel to poland, trinidad and tobago, niger and papua new guinea. >>> and a volcanic eruption injured 41 people in indonesia. thousands were forced from their homes. this volcano is java's highest peak and part of the ring of fire that stretches across the pacific ocean. more "politics nation" with reverend al sharpton right after this break. (vo) subaru and our retailers believe in giving back. that's why, in difficult times, we provided one hu

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james clyburn is positive, congressman jason crow, congresswoman jan schakowsky. staffers who worked with president biden and vice president harris have been infected. both the president and vice president have been repeatedly tested themselves and they remain negative. we are told. but it is -- it is all over the federal government, among other things. today, seven different people who had recently traveled with the deputy secretary of defense, they all came down with it as well. seven of them. and in all of those instances, i just named, we don't know of anybody having to be hospitalized. even though some of those folks do say they have had covid symptoms. i think all those people i just mentioned said they had been vaccinated and boosted. so these are breakthrough infections for people who are nevertheless well protected from serious illness by the vaccines. and we also do know that while, yes there can be breakthrough infections for people who are fully vaccinated and boosted, but we know that, we also know for sure that people who aren't vaccinated are way, w

new york's attorney general latisha james has dropped out of the race for governor and says she wants to depose former president donald trump next month as part of a civil litigation. i know this is all breaking, but what do you make of that? >> well, i think there is two significant things. one is a deposition is a very routine thing that needs to occur in most civil cases. the fact that they're takes his deposition should not be all that news worthy if is because donald trump believes the best defense is a good offense. and i think her dropping out of the race for governor is probably a good development. she is certainly eligible to run for governor, and if she believes she wants to be governor and has the qualifications, she should do that. i think is a distraction in this case. people are saying she just has political ambitions and she will do whatever it takes to score political points. i think by dropping out of the race it's more difficult to impugn political and personal motives to her. this is a necessary step in a civil litigation. >> she said there are a number of important

now new york's attorney general, tish james, wants trump's deposition, this time of trump's core business. and this civil investigation where she wants the deposition from him, that civil investigation is proceeding in parallel with an ongoing criminal investigation of his business. that's being carried out both by the attorney general's office and the state prosecutor in manhattan. that's the criminal prosecution that has already led to felony charges against his business itself, and his chief financial officer. so trump's about to be subpoenaed to give a deposition in the civil case that is unfolding in parallel with that criminal one. what's he going to do? if he does respond to the subpoena and he gives testimony in the civil case, presumably, that testimony he gives in the deposition could be used against him in the criminal case. if he decides, okay, then i'm not going to testify, he refuses to testify, and he takes the 5th, well, him taking the 5th can be used against him in a civil case. when they take the 5th in a criminal case, they can't use your silence against you but in a ci

it was to unlock rosen stein's nomination, to get him confirmed that the fbi director at the time, james b. comey, testified before congress and acknowledged the fact that there was this investigation. he briefed lawmakers in private and he publicly went out and said it at a congressional hearing. that created huge reverberations in washington, the simple fact that comey was being acknowledging it. rose enstein got confirmed and helped fire him. >> right. there have been no public hearings thus far. we have seen them come forward and give some evidence. we've seen high-profile cases of individuals who have refused cooperation, whether that's steve bannon, who has a criminal referral department of justice and of indicted or mark meadows or people pleading the fifth like roger stone, hundreds interviewed, tons of documents. i'm curious what your report indicates about the progress of it all. >> look, whatever they have, whatever they know, it was enough for liz cheney to go out and say what she did in these past few weeks where she read from the criminal code. i think this committee wants

new york's attorney general, kitsch james said she will follow california's lead. >> when i heard about that, i said to my team, we need to follow his lead. and the reason why that is is because gun manufacturers and gun distributors in this country are immunized. no liability whatsoever. they are the only industry that is protected in this country, and given the carnage, and given the fact this is the ninth anniversary of sandy hook, i am sick and tired of prayers and individuals whose hearts go out to all of those who have lost lives. we can do something about it. >> rejoining our discussion is neal katyal, former acting attorney general. i'm amazed reading governor newsom's amendment. it mirrors the texas law word for word. >> right, and it's the right thing to do. what they did was green-light this texas provision. texas got it wrong in the details because it included licensing officials, but bottom line, the governor said this is okay. you and the state could enact a law that says you could sue other individuals for pursuing their constitutional rights. if that sounds crazy to you,

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we also just gone news that house majority james clyde burn has tested positive for covid, he is asymptomatic, he's 81 years old. doctor craig spencer's director of global health and emergency -- he recently wrote about his concerns that omicron will overwhelm americas emergency rooms. and doctor eric topol is a professor of molecular medicine, where he publishes and used a letter grounded truths. doctor topol, let me start with you you have been, i follow you for granular updates on the emerging omicron literature. and again, a lot of this is very early, it hasn't been peer reviewed, and we have both lap steadies which are looking at how the molecule works and the virus works and then we have just like what is happening out in the world. it does seem an emerging theme is, less severe illness even if we don't understand the mechanism that is producing it. >> chris, it's good to be with you and also with craig, i think this is a very important point you are making, the severity of the illness is hard to gauge, but there is now data from three countries, scotland, inland, denmark it all looks f

president this weekend last night told an interview on the fox news channel that he fired the fbi director james comey when he was president in order to stop fbi investigations that he believed would result in him being removed as president. he just volunteered this information. he said, quote, don't forget, i fired comey. had i not fired comey you might not be talking to me right now about my four years at the white house. he said, quote, i don't think i could have survived if i didn't fire him.rvat he doesn't mean he'd be dead. he means, he couldn't have survived as president. he couldn't have made it four years as president. because of the fbi investigations in place under comey that stood to remove him from office. t so he fired the fbi director in order to divert those investigations. in order to keep himself in power. he just admitted that's why he did it and that it work. that's how he managed to stay in office for four years. this is like the thing you hope to like, you know, entrap somebody into saying. this is the thing you hope to, like, tape somebody accidentally admitting to somebod

so the question is, if tish james can get donald trump under oath on this fraud claim, even though it's civil, that creates a record that cy vance might use in the criminal space and go after donald trump on the same type of fraud but with criminal implications. >> david jolly and danielle moody, thank you for coming to "politicsnation." >>> coming up, one of the former president's best people is taking another step to prove his loyalty. probably a step in the wrong direction. >>> later, trump's next coup has already begun, january 6th was just practice. is the gop in a much better position to subvert the next election? i'll have a guest who thinks so. >>> but first, my colleague steven romo with an update on today's top stories. steven? >> yeah, rev. thanks, right now we are watching the latest developments from those deadly tornadoes that swept across the central u.s. last night. more than 100 people are feared dead as search and rescue efforts continue across six states right now. in kentucky at least four tornadoes reportedly touched down. the national weather service estimates one

and the shared solution for both is a lot more transparency to give to american citizens, voters what james madison called for, which is knowledge, because knowledge will forever governor ignorance, and you can't allow the american people to be ignorant of what's going on around them by letting politics be secret. >> senator sheldon whitehouse, thank you so much for making time tonight. >>> an extraordinary accusation of lies and a cover-up by top army officials trying to hide what actually happened with the national guard on january 6. the jaw-dropping details next. . . i needed him to be here. your heart isn't just yours. protect it with bayer aspirin. be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. feel stuck with student loan debt? move to sofi and feel what it's like to get your money right. ♪ ♪ move your student loan debt to sofi— you could save with low rates and no fees. earn a $1,000 bonus when you refi— and get your money right. ♪ get help managing your money for the life -- and years -- ahead. with fidelity income planning, we'll look at what you've

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james e. >>> happy to have you here. it was may, 2019 when michael cohen was ordered to report to prison. mr. cohen of course had worked for years for donald trump at his real estate business. when mr. trump turned to politics, mr. cohen became this very visible surrogate and enforcer for trump, after mr. cohen pled guilty to, among other things, helping cover up illegal campaign contributions for his presidential campaign actually hush payments to women to prevent them talking before the campaign, after he pled guilty to helping trump with that, among other things, in may, 2019, he was sent to prison. after serving about a year in prison, though, mr. cohen got out and was transitioned effectively to home confinement and the reason he got out then is because of covid. it wasn't special treatment for him, this happened to a lot of prisoners at the time but a seriously crazy thing happened to him right after that. something that appears to have been very specifically designed for him. just a few weeks after he was sent hom