mehdi hasan, is a stream us on msnbc. we also have mona charen who hosts the podcasts "the beg to differ". and david plouffe, seniors visor to president obama. i thought that we would start with each of you going around about how you see this. in terms of how central this question is to american politics in american democracy survival right now. and how you expect or view mainstream institutions responding to the growing threat which i think all three or four of us agree is quite apparent. let me start with you mehdi hasan. >> chris, i'm glad you started the way that you did. it is the biggest issue facing us. it is the biggest issue that in this past year. it will definitely be the biggest issue in 2022 with the midterms coming up. i know that we journalists always say that the midterms are the big deal and they are important. but this 2022 midterm elections are. because i'm of the view that if the republicans take the house as the polls suggest that they will, they will not certified democratic victory in 2024 in curren

eastern for more "american voices" but for now i hand it over to mehdi hasan. hi, mehdi. >> hey, alyssa. well said. we live in a country where you have a party that is pro life but not pro life in schools and pro family isn't pro family leave. it is all very weird and kind of orwellian. i am glad you raised that. >> i'm excited to hear what you have to say about it tonight. >> i've been away so i'm glad to be back. have a great rest of your sunday. >> you, too. >>> tonight on "the mehdi hasan show" the omicron variant is popping up in states across the country so why are we not taking more action to mandate vaccines? i'll discuss the threat with the special adviser to the director general of the world health organization. >>> plus how do we build a coalition to save democracy and prevent trumpian authoritarianism? how do left and right come together and what compromises need to be made? i'll discuss and debate with never trumper author tom nichols. the chinese communist party's choreographed response to doubles tennis star peng shuai's sexual assault allegations

i'm mehdi hasan.rn kentucky where dozens are feared dead after a series of powerful tornado r

i'm mehdi hasan. before we get started on those stories tonight it's been another day of search and rescue in western kentucky where dozens are feared dead after a series of powerful tornadoes ripped through the area early saturday morning. many of those missing were at a candle factory that collapsed as they were working inside. at least six people were killed at an amazon distribution center in southern illinois. four states in all were devastated by the deadly twisters with more than a hundred people feared killed. more on this developing story ahead this hour. >>> in washington, d.c., the house committee investigating the january 6th insurrection has released its full mark meadows contempt report 24 hours ahead of tomorrow's vote by the committee. we only started digging through all 51 pages but among other things it says meadows exchanged messages with a member of congress in november, 2020, indicating potus meaning donald trump wants to chat with certain state legislators and on january 5th one

eastern for more "american voices" but for now i hand it over to mehdi hasan. y isn't pro family leave. it is all very weird and kind of orwellian. i am glad you raised that. >> i'm excited to hear what you have to say about it tonight. >> i've been away so i'm glad to be back. have a great rest of your sunday. >> you, too. >>> tonight on "the mehdi hasan show" the omicron variant is popping up in states across the country so why are we not taking more action to mandate vaccines? i'll discuss the threat with the special adviser to the director general of the world health organization. >>> plus how do we build a coalition to save democracy and

i am mehdi hasan in for chris hayes. on january 6th, donald trump just stood there in the oval office as lawmakers and members of the press and fox news hosts and his own family members begged and pleaded for him to stop the siege, to step in and tell the mob to leave the capitol. donald trump refused. he stood by and did nothing. we know this because all those people reached out to donald trump's chief of staff, mark meadows, and he then turned over those messages to the committee investigating the january 6th attack. tonight republican congresswoman liz cheney of wyoming, the vice chair of the committee, laid out all of that damning, damning evidence. >> for 187 minutes president trump refused to act. when action by our president was required, essential, and indeed compelled by his oath to our constitution. mr. meadows received numerous text messages which he has produced without any privilege claim imploring that mr. trump take the specific action we all knew his duty required. these text messages leave no doubt the w

i am mehdi hasan in for chris hayes. on january 6th, donald trump just stood there in the oval office as lawmakers and members of the press and fox news hosts and his own family members begged and pleaded for him to stop the siege, to step in and tell the mob to leave the capitol. donald trump refused. he stood by a

i'm mehdi hasan. chris hayes will be back tomorrow night. you can find me sunday nights on this network 8:00 p.m. eastern right here on msnbc. "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening rachel. how are you? >> good evening. i'm very good mehdi. how are you? nice to see you here in primetime. >> it's nice to be here especially to hand it over to you. >> thank you, my dear. much appreciated. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. very happy to have you with us here tonight. you know the tornadoes hit very late on friday night and that means tonight in the dark and the cold in kentucky it is a third straight night, saturday night, sunday night, and now tonight of searching for survivors. the death toll in kentucky is almost unimaginable. it stands at more than 70 already. at least 13 other americans have also had deaths attributed to the storms in arkansas, illinois, missouri, and tennessee. but even just in kentucky, it is deeply worrying that beyond the dozens of people known to have been killed already, there are mo