i'm yasmin vossoughian. we have a lot to cover in the two hours ahead. thank you for joins us.at a concert in houston. police looking into the role drugs may have played in the mayhem. >>> the biden administration taking a victory lap on the infrastructure bill. the money to spend send to every community and the democrats work on the next big piece of the president's economic agenda. >>> as the january 6

i'm yasmin vossoughian here in new york. we are gearing up for what might be the busiest monday news day in years. you have closing arguments hours away in the kyle rittenhouse trial. we'll take you to a city on edge. steve bannon set to surrender to authorities and make his first court appearance tomorrow. we've got new reporting on who might be next up for criminal charges. president biden set to sign his infrastructure bill on monday, as well. even as the house is preparing to pass his build back better bill. all of that plus a special report. who is really to blame for inflation? when it comes to rising gas prices, a journalist is putting the blame on the saudi government bent on pun iring the biden administration for the stance of the murder of a journalist. that's ahead, as well. >>> we begin with developments for former white house chief of staff meadows. a short time ago a committee member congressman schiff said they're moving quickly. meadows failed to appear for a deposition on friday. and repeatedly defied congre

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i'm yasmin vossoughian from msnbc world headquarters. in the two hours ahead, i'll take you through that breaking news on the missing chinese tennis player. olympics officials said they have talked to her and seen her. a live report on that coming up. a story just out from nbc news. unreported news on the shocking rise in threats to members of congress. much is fueled by a trump supporters. new reporting from "the washington post." why president biden felt the need to reach out to allies to tell him that he plans to run again in 2024. we'll talk about that we are just hours away from closing arguments in the trial for the killing of ahmaud arbery. with the issue self defense front and center. as the fallout from the kyle rittenhouse case continues i'll talk to a lawyer for one of his victims. after a scene of chaos we'll look at the travel scene at the holiday. and then in our next hour, run, beto, run. i'll talk live to beto o'rourke from the campaign trail kicking off the race for texas governor. all of that is coming up. >>> we start

i'm yasmin vossoughian. just joining us, welcome. if you're still with us, thank you for sticking with us. donald trump in legal cross hairs. a second grand jury 'em panelled this week in the criminal investigation of the trump organization. a decision on charges for the former president himself could be a manner of weeks away. in a moment i talk to the man to inherit the fallout from that decision set to be sworn in as the new manhattan d.a. in january after a history making victory. >>> the former president facing a political fallout, a political threat i should say from a january 6 committee ramping up the efforts to hold him accountable. >>> a victory from a trump averse candidate in virginia has republicans debating the future of the gop with or without the biggest draw and biggest problem. >> i think the only way the republican party can go forward in strength if s if we reject the lie and what happened on january 6, if we reject the efforts that president trump made to steal the election. >> he is not going away regardless of

i'm yasmin vossoughian. if you're still with us, thank you for sticking around. beto o'rourke will join me from the campaign trail kicking off the attempt to what no democrat has done in 30 years. win the texas governor's race. the dangerous precedent of the kyle rittenhouse verdict. will not guilty be seen as a green light for other armed vigilantes in this country? that's coming up. and then over to capitol hill. the quiet before the storm. the pause in the battle over president biden's build back better bill. the house is waiting for the senate to act. >> i'm very confident. i'm the overwhelmingly member of provisions in the bill are supported by the caucus. >> i don't think there's a doubt we can do it. people need to be open to compromise. and i think if we compromise like we did in the bipartisan infrastructure bill that argued and fought and came to a bill that would work i think it's the same thing within the 50 democrats, too. >> this bill is the biggest cost cutting family for working class and american families in decades this country and go at persist

i'm yasmin vossoughian here in new york. hours away in the kyle rittenhouse trial. we'll take you to a city on edge. steve bannon set to surrender to authorities and make his first court appearance tomorro

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i'm yasmin vossoughian with a lot going on this sunday afternoon. new cases of the new covid variant being reported in countries around the world. dr. peter hotez is joining me in a moment for his thoughts on the potential impact here. >>> congress reconvening tomorrow, with a massive to-do list that includes that huge build back better bill. >>> and the supreme court preparing for a hearing this week that could mean the end of roe v wade. >>> plus millions in the skies and on the roads in the busiest travel day of the year. we will have a live report on that. >>> we will have an amazing story of survival, a stowaway who made it through hours of subzero temperatures. that is ahead this hour as well. >>> we want to start with the breaking news that has much of the world on edge. more countries have been added to the list of places with the omicron covid-19 variant. australia denmark have been added in the past hours. all of those cases linked to travelers who arrived from south africa. with these new cases new travel restrictions as well. israel is s

i'm yasmin vossoughian with a lot going on this sunday afternoon. dr. peter hotez is joining me in a moment for his thoughts on the potential impact here. >>> congress reconvening tomorrow, with a massive to-do list that includes that huge build back better bill. >>> and the supreme court preparing for a hearing this week that

i'm yasmin vossoughian. i'll be back here tomorrow at 3:00 a.m. eastern.d evening, and welcome to "politicsnation." tonight's lead, halfway there. right now i'm cautiously optimistic again. my hope is that it was all worth it, the months of negotiations, the other priorities diverted, and, of course, this unity among democrats. that continued nearly into last night's historic vote to pass the president's $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure

♪♪ >>> hi, everybody, i'm yasmin vossoughian. if you are just joining us, welcome.you are still with us, thank you for sticking around. we're going to have the very latest on that new strain of covid originating in south africa and now popping up in countries around the world. >>> plus, there's new controversy from two members of what could be described as the gop's extremist caucus, congresswoman lauren boebert and marjorie taylor greene both making waves again as the republican leadership remains quiet. house minority leader kevin mccarthy out with a new statement just moments ago. i'm going to read it for you. >>> in a moment, i'm going to talk to congressman andy levin about the atmosphere on capitol hill as well as the build back better bill to be taken up by the senate on monday. a big smile there likely because of the michigan win moments ago as well. >>> plus i'm going to talk to one writer who believes that what president biden needs more than a build back better victory, an enemy. and molly jong fast has ideas of who or what that enemy should be. >>> we're

>>> good afternoon, everybody, i'm yasmin vossoughian. we are following news on a number of fronts this hour. at least eight dead at a concert stampede in texas. the president seizing on momentum hailing the passage of a bill that will send hundreds of millions of dollars to americans in all 50 states. >>> but he's also keeping up the pressure to pass another massive part of his economic agenda. >>> plus, the january 6th committee threatening action after a key trump figure turns a deposition into a circus. >>> and then you got aaron rodgers playing defense in a rambling and fact-challenged explanation about why he misled the public about his vaccine status. more on that ahead. >>> but i do want to start with some breaking news just in to msnbc. a federal appeals court has issued a stay, freezing the president's plan to require u.s. companies with more than 100 employees to require covid vaccines or weekly testing. the mandate was set to go into effect in the beginning of january. joined now by msnbc legal analyst maya wiley for more on t

i'm yasmin vossoughian from msnbc world headquarters.ews on the missing chinese tennis player. olympics officials said they have talked to her and seen her. a live report on that coming up. a story just out from nbc news. unreported news on the shocking rise in threats to members of congress. much is

i'm yasmin vossoughian. we've been following this breaking news throughout the hour that kind of broke for us around 1:30 this afternoon with shots ringing out in atlanta area airport, atlanta hartsfield international airport at a tsa checkpoint. an individual going through that checkpoint, something was discovered in their bag. they subsequently were taken aside for their bag to be searched. at that point, there was the discovery of the firearm. the individual then, through a discussion, reached for their firearm, and the airport telling us it was an accidental discharge. we're still learning more details about that. that individual, it seems, then fled the scene in the other direction, obviously, into the public area of the airport, not to the secure area of the airport, and they're still on a search for that individual. we don't have an identity on who this person is. why they brought a loaded gun in their bag, in their carry-on bag at that. so we're learning more details about that. and obviously, it was

i'm yasmin vossoughian. we are following major breaking news this hour.e cases of a new strain of covid that originated in south africa are now popping up around the world. the president taking the step of barring travel from countries in southern africa but is it enough to stop the spread? dr. blackstock is going to join me coming up. >>> and covid and supply chain issues affecting what is usually the biggest shopping weekend of the year. we're going to have a live report on that coming up. >>> representative ilhan omar demanding new action after shocking comment from colleague lauren boebert. >>> plus we are a little more than 40 hours away from the start of the potentially explosive trial of ghislaine maxwell. >>> in our 4:00 p.m. hour, we are just days away from the case that could overturn roe v. wade. the supreme court about to take up a mississippi law that is a direct challenge on the very future of abortion rights. that's ahead. >>> we want to start, though, with the breaking news on the new covid strain, omicron. with the last -- within the last

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i'm yasmin vossoughian. we are following breaking news out of atlanta. a frightening few moments for passengers there at the hartsfield jackson international airport just a short time ago. a gunshot was actually heard inside the building there, which caused a heck of a lot of panic, to say the least. travelers scrambling for safety, the faa stopping all planes from coming in or out. an investigation is currently under way. the airport was quick to tweet, of course, the incident was just an accidental discharge. no one was actually in danger. but nonetheless, this is certainly having a ripple effect not only in the atlanta area but across the country, and really globally. you think about atlanta hartsfield international airport, you got airlines coming in from overseas along with connecting flights as well. it is a delta hub. and of course, a major travel weekend ahead of the thanksgiving holiday, so it seems as if there is going to be somewhat of a domino effect of events happening here as we're continuing to cover this breaking news situation from atlan

i'm yasmin vossoughian. i'll be back here tomorrow 3:00 p.m. eastern. reverend al sharpton and "politicsnation" starts right now. >>> good evening and welcome to "politicsnation." tonight's lead, thankful for what we have. right now i'm still fairly full, but not with the remaining warmth of my thanksgiving meal, no. but with a pre-holiday hope for our national priorities. because the season has now opened up officially with the senate slated to take up the build back better plan after its passage in the house last week, and president biden's comprehensive plan to modernize our nation is now that much closer to reality. even as the current sum of nearly $2 trillion in social spending is in question, subject to both moderate democrats' demands and the republican party's wall of resistance. which can count among its victories this year, the complete blockage of voter expansions or the elections with gop state lawmakers entrenching their advantages in battleground states. and senate republicans doing the rest on capitol hill. we'll have more on what democr

yasmin vossoughian picks up the coverage right now. >>> happy thanksgiving, everybody.

i'm yasmin vossoughian. i'm going to turn it over to reverend al sharpton and "politicsnation." >>> good evening and welcome to "politicsnation." tonight's lead, now or never. right now i hope that democrats can finally committee all of their resources, because with the fight over the bipartisan infrastructure plan finished, and with democrats in the senate hopefully ready to strike a deal on the build back better act, it's time for the party to use that momentum to counter the national push from republican state lawmakers to restrict the vote in battleground and diverse states as much as possible. ground zero for that effort right now is georgia, where joe biden won an unexpected yet decisive victory one year ago, made possible by activists of color. and now the emerging battleground state is poised to see its electoral districts chopped up and skewed in the state's gop's favor, joining texas, ohio, north carolina, and others ahead of next year's midterm elections. to the we look at how the peach state's de

i'm yasmin vossoughian. welcome and thanks for sticking around. republican party turning on its own. new audio of drmpl unleashing on the former vice president as disloyal, ungrateful and unlikely to be on the 2024 ticket. just when you thought he couldn't go lower wait until you hear what he says now. this as he sends supportive messages to steve bannon. >> and now that witnesses see that if they don't cooperate, if they don't fulfill the lawful duty when subpoenaed they too may be prosecuted it will have a strong focusing effect on their decision making. so it's very positive. i view this as an early test whether the democracy was recovering. >> meanwhile trump loyalists in congress targtding colleagues for the sin of voting to actually do something, a situation that left a republican congressman that voted for an infrastructure bill searching for words after getting death threats like this one. >> voted for dumb ass biden. you're stupider than he is. [ bleep ]. piece of crash. i hope you [ bleep ] die. i hope your [ bleep ] family dies. i hope

i'm yasmin vossoughian. i'll be back here tomorrow at 3:00 a.m. eastern. reverend al sharpton and "politicsnation" begins right now. >>> good evening, and welcome to "politicsnation." tonight's lead, halfway there. right now i'm cautiously optimistic again. my hope is that it was all worth it, the months of negotiations, the other priorities diverted, and, of course, this unity among democrats. that continued nearly into last night's historic vote to pass the president's $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure framework, and that framework is soon to become the law of the land. president biden saying he will sign the bill soon, taking the delayed victory lap after a battering few months for the white house. >> we're looking forward to have shovels in the ground to begin rebuilding in america. for all of you at home who feel left behind and forgotten in an economy that's changing so rapidly, this bill is for you. >> of course the divides within the parties themselves are on display yesterday. six house progressives rejected the president's last-minute pitch,

i'm yasmin vossoughian. i will be back next saturday and sunday at 3:00 p.m. eastern. going to turn it now over to reverend al sharpton and "politicsnation." >>> good evening, and welcome to "politicsnation." tonight's lead. a reason to believe. right now, i have to ask the obvious. what does it mean for black americans -- and by it, i mean the biden infrastructure framework which must now be implemented after the president signs it into law, of course. expected to happen early-this week. meanwhile, the second bill to upgrade our social infrastructure for coming challenges remains without a concrete vote date. but suggested to come by mid-month. we'll get back to that, later, with our panel, of course. because that fault line between progressive and moderate democrats has not closed. and if you are the head of the congressional black caucus, you've watched a number of priorities sub -- subsumed by the infrastructure negotiations. to preside, ultimately, over black democrats that voted for the bif and, after all, for the ones who did not. you also have the inevitable qu

yasmin vossoughian picks up the coverage right now. >>> happy thanksgiving, everybody. and welcome to a new hour of msnbc reports. we'll start with brand new reaction to the verdicts in the murder of ahmaud arbery. all three men, gregory mcmichael, his son travis, and their neighbor william bryan were found guilty on 23 of 27 total charges. including multiple counts of felony murder for each defendant. travis who had the shotgun and pulled the trigger was also found guilty of malice murder. all three are facing life in prison. they shot and killed ahmaud arbery who was black after chasing him through their neighborhood in their truck. the three say that they thought that he was a burglar, but there was no evidence to support that. nothing backing that up. ahmaud arbery's family and their supporters reacting with relief and tears to those verdicts. the judge is going to decide later if the sentence include the possibility of parole. but this case is far from over. the defendants say that they will appeal and all three face federal hate crime charges in a trial set to beg

i'm yasmin vossoughian.ow or never. right now i hope that democrats can finally committee all of their resources, because with the fight over the bipartisan infrastructure plan finished, and with democrats in the senate hopefully ready to strike a deal on the build back better act, it's time for the party to use that momentum to counter the national push from republican state lawmakers to restrict the

msnbc's yasmin vossoughian spoke to an eyewitness who was at baggage claim when shots rang out. >> you hear about it and you read about it, but just being in the middle of it is something i thought i would never experience in my lifetime. >> that weapon-holder handed been identified. the tsa reminds passengers firearms are not permitted at tsa checkpoints. the tsa says air travel is returning to pre-pandemic levels this thanksgiving. they're expecting to screen 20 million people during this holiday period. more "politicsnation" reverend al sharpton right after this break. at fidelity, your dedicated advisor will help you create a comprehensive wealth plan for your full financial picture. with the right balance of risk and reward. so you can enjoy more of...this. this is the planning effect. ♪♪ (calls dog) buttercup... (whines) ♪♪ ♪ ohh ohh ♪ bipolar depression. it made me feel like i was trapped in a fog. this is art inspired by real stories of people living with bipolar depression. i just couldn't find my way out of it. the lows of bipolar depression can take you to a dark place... ..

i'm yasmin vossoughian. i will be back next saturday and sunday the at 3:00 p.m. earn eastern. i am going to turn it over now reverend al sharpton and "politicsnation." >>> good evening and welcome to "politicsnation." tonight's lead as goes wisconsin, so goes the nation. the midwestern state once known for cheese heads and happy days has come to perfectly encapsulate our politically polarized nation with deep divides between urban and rural, as well as white and nonwhite populations that have become nearly impossible to resolve or ignore. these fissures were on full display this week in the kyle rittenhouse verdict. an acquittal being cheered by the far right, even as it strikes fear in the hearts of communities of color who believe it will be used to justify further violence and oppression. but as troubling as that verdict was, we should not ignore the dangerous assault still being waged by wisconsin republicans on our democracy. this week, the state's democratic governor vetoed republican-drawn redistricting plans that doubled down on maps experts have already called the mos

i'm yasmin vossoughian coming to you live from msnbc headquarters. we have a lot to get to this hour. steve bannon indicted for refusing to cooperate with the january 6th committee. what this means for the investigation into what happened that day. and we have shocking new audio of the former president's callus response to the chants of hang mike pence aimed at his own vice president during the riot. plus new e-mails revealing how far the trump white house went to interfere with the cdc's covid response. >>> and the kyle rittenhouse trial set to end on monday after an explosive week. that included the shooting suspect on the stand and the judge in the spotlight. >>> and then a major court decision in singer britney spears' fight to regain control of her own life. the details on that as well. >>> we want to begin on capitol hill of steve bannon's indictment on contempt of court. with me is nbc's juli tsurkin and david henderson. julie, let me start with you on this one. walk us through the details of this indictment. >> reporter: yesterday hours after