If Tom Holman were to come to try to arrest us, my me rather, uh I can say first of all that he can try. Um I can also tell you that I will stand in the way of Tom Hman going after people who don't deserve to be frightened in their communities, who don't deserve to be threatened, terrorized. I would rather that he came and arrested me than do that to the people of my state. I would rather he came and arrested me than do that to the people of our state.Now, after that hearing, it's safe to say I had lots of ...

Good evening from New York. I'm Chris Hayes and thank you for joining us on a very, very busy Friday. We're covering a whole bunch of developing stories, including the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran that began, or at least this round of it began 24 hours ago when Israel launched those military strikes against the capital city of Thran, targeting both nuclear and military infrastructure, as well as key leaders, the armed forces, residential homes.Iran then retaliated earlier today starting aroun ...

Tanahasi Coats is a national book award-winning author and journalist. His acclaimed work, Between the World and Me, is being re-released in paperback on its 10th anniversary next week. And his most recent book, The Message, is out.It's good to have you. Thanks for having me, Chris. We have not gotten a chance to talk on air in a bit.A lot has happened. You think. Well, we got a US military parade on the birthday of the president of the United States, ostensibly for the armed services.Um, we've got deployme ...

The Department of Homeland Security says law enforcement teams are searching for four people who escaped a detention facility in Newark, New Jersey, housing ICE detainees. It's hard to ignore this news right now because this is what happened after protest escalated overnight at Delaney Hall. That's a newly opened facility run by a privately held group.It opened under the Trump administration. If it rings a bell, it's where New Jersey Congresswoman MacGyver was recently arrested during protests there. and pr ...

More breaking news overnight. An appeals court pausing a lower court's ruling that gave control of the California National Guard back to Governor Gavin Newsome. That means President Trump will be able to keep the California National Guard active on the streets of Los Angeles for now as more immigration and Trump protests are planned over the weekend.And that legal battle plays out at there as there's new fallout after this dramatic scene. Democratic Senator Alex Padilla of California forcibly grabbed and re ...

Democratic Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut. Welcome, Senator. Um, thanks for having me. Your reaction, your thoughts to the day. Well, I mean, listen, this is got to be put in context. Donald Trump has made it very clear that he is going to use violence in order to try to intimidate people away from protests, that he is going to encourage violence uh when it is being used on his behalf. And this is a triedand-rue authoritarian tactic. Um, what happened today is absolutely outrageous. Um we're all collea ...

Just want to once again for not just the community here in Los Angeles but throughout the country because there is a lot of concern, there is a lot of tension, there is a lot of anxiety and a lot of people are beginning to make plans for what they may or may not do come this Saturday. I encourage everybody to please peacefully protest just like I was calmly and peacefully listening in that press conference and preparing attempting to ask a question. No violence, no vandalism.Please continue peacefully prote ...

you and I want to bring in Democratic Congressman representing part of his native San Antonio, Wen Castro. Congressman, thanks for joining us. I first want to play for you, Governor Abbott, explaining his decision to send in those National Guard troops.Watch. First of all, we want to make sure that what has happened in California does not happen in Texas. Texas is a law and order state and we will use every tool that we can to ensure order across our state.That includes the deployment of Texas Department of ...

Back here at home, we turn now to protests against the Trump administration's immigration raids. They continued in cities across the country last night as the White House says that agents have arrested more than 300 migrants in Los Angeles since Friday. NBC News correspondent Liz Kitz brings us the latest.Just hours before a curfew takes effect for a second night in downtown Los Angeles, protesters again taking to the streets. Demonstrations opposing ICE immigration enforcement operations now in their sixth ...

Right now, there are more troops deployed to Los Angeles than there are deployed in Syria and Iraq combined. Let me just repeat that because I've just been thinking about this all day since one of our amazing producers shared this with me. There are more troops deployed to Los Angeles than there are deployed in Syria and Iraq combined.And right now, Donald Trump is also doing everything he can to make Los Angeles look and feel like a war zone. That's on purpose. That's what he's trying to do.Today, NBC News ...