Andrew weissmann is going to be joining us tonight with some trump news, but first i'm going to tell you the most hopeful story i know. It is a story about the place where joe biden went today. The place where joe biden was applauded by grateful people from around the world. It is a dangerous place. That is the title of daniel patrick moynihan's book about his service as ambassador to the united nations in the 1970s before new york voters elected him to four terms in the senate, where i went to work for him in the 1990s. The title, a dangerous place, referred to the world and the place where the world began together after world war ii to prevent another world war, the united nations. Ambassador moynahan served at the height of the cold where when the united states and soviet union had missiles aimed at each other and ready to launch in seconds. It did not soften the language about the imperialistic dictatorship. Many years later, he discovered the power of those harsh words. It was actually my first time visiting the news division in the building where i now work. I was staffing senator moynihan for an appearance on the today show. It was not long after the collapse of the soviet union, something no one in the cia or american government had predicted except senator moynihan. In 1979, senator moynihan said the soviet union was unsustainable. It could blow up, he said. A dozen years later it did. Across the large green room full of breakfast snacks and coffee at the today show was the new russian delegation to the united nations. The postsoviet delegation. The russian ambassador was scheduled to appear on the today show after the senator. What happened in that room that morning changed my understanding of the possible. It changed my understanding of the world and it changed the way i listen to president biden's final words. To the united nations today. In our corner of that room, senator moynihan was whispering to me about the russians he recognized from almost 20 years ago. He was pointing out the ones he thought were maybe kgb agents. A producer entered to lead the senator to the set, but senator moynihan took his first step out of the room with me trailing him in the doorway. A rough oyster russian man who was one of the suspected former kgb agents came rushing up behind me, saying something that sounded like russian over my soul my shoulder to the senator. He said it again. It was not russian, it was heavily accented english. We still did not understand it. It was the middle of the third time he said it that i noticed how big his smile was. How admiringly he was looking up at senator moynihan, who towered over both of us. Suddenly the heavily accented words made sense to both of us and the senator's face broke into the biggest smile i had ever seen on him. The russian, possibly former kgb guy was saying we were listening. Senator moynihan looked near tears of joy. I had never seen him so thrilled or even slightly thrilled for that matter. We both said thank you to the russian a couple of times. He beamed one more we are listening and the senator than had to fly onto the today show set. We are listening, meaning when you stood up in what seemed like the most hopeless and ineffectual protests against what the soviet union was doing, the soviet union was listening. Some of us were listening. We were listening. It was a validation of daniel patrick moynihan's lifework first as a teacher, a harvard professor trying to import important knowledge without ever really knowing if those kids were ever really listening. Then as ambassador to india before becoming ambassador to the united nations and then as a senator. We were listening to what he was hoping for. That's the first thing. The necessary thing. Listening, because if they are listening maybe we can solve this problem. Maybe we can solve the biggest problem. Maybe we can end wars. Maybe we can save lives. Maybe we can make a dangerous place less dangerous. The soviet union existed for daniel patrick moynihan's entire lifetime before it collapsed. The berlin wall existed for my entire lifetime before it collapsed. People were shot dead in their tracks for almost 50 years for trying to cross the berlin wall and escape the soviet control dictatorship of east germany. People got executed on the spot trying to climb that wall because that wall coming down was unimaginable. No one dared to hope that wall would come down. People died trying to climb that wall because they believed it would never come down. The berlin wall was permanent and u. N. Ambassadors would protested, but nothing would happen. Something was happening. They were listening. No one knew they were listening. Unfortunately you usually have to be old to know that things can change. To know that the hopeless can turn hopeful. The world war ii generation knew this. The vietnam generation learned this. So when we look at our most hopeless problems in the world today, the ones where it feels like we are making absolutely no progress, month after month, sometimes year after year, we should know that those problems aren't more hopeless than the berlin wall was. They aren't more hopeless than the vietnam war was. So now when you listen to an old man who has seen it all give his last speech today to the united nations, you might want to try listening to him the way i did. With an understanding of how he learned to be hopeful. I listened to him today with the hope that i earned, in that green room at the today show 30 years ago, the hope, just the hope that they are listening. The hope that people on opposite sides of the issues at the united nations and elsewhere are listening and that someday they will find each other. And maybe, just maybe because they were listening, they will find a way to end wars. To save lives. My fellow leaders, today is the fourth time i have had the great honor speaking to this assembly as the president of the united states. It will be my last. I have seen a remarkable sweep of history. I was first elected as u. S. Senator in 1972 and i know i look like i am only 40, i know that. I was 29 years old. Back then we were living through an inflection point. A moment of tension and uncertainty. The world was divided by a cold war. The world was headed to war. America was at war in vietnam. At that point the longest war in american history. The country was divided and angry and there were questions about our staying power and our future. But even then, i entered public life. Not out of despair, but out of optimism. The united states and the world got through that moment. It was not easy or simple without significant setbacks, but we would go on to reduce the threat of nuclear weapons through armscontrol and then go on to bring the cold war itself to an end. Israel and asia went to war and then forged a historic piece. We entered the war in vietnam. The last year i met with vietnamese leadership. We elevated our partnership to the highest level. It is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and capacity for reconciliation. Today the united states and vietnam are partners and friends and proof that even with the horrors of war there is a way forward. Things can get better. We should never forget that. I've seen that throughout my career. In the 1980s i spoke out against apartheid in south africa and then i watched the racist regime fall. Afghanistan had replaced vietnam as america's longest war. I was determined to end it and i did. It was a hard decision, but the right decision. Four american presidents had faced that decision, but i was determined not to leave it to the fifth. It was accompanied by tragedy. 13 brave americans lost their lives along with hundreds of afghans in a suicide bomb. I think of them every day. I think of all the u. S. Military deaths over a long 20 years of war. 20,744 serviceman wounded in action. I think of their service and sacrifice and heroism. I know many look at the world today and see difficulties and react with despair, but i do not. I won't. As leaders we don't have the luxury. I recognize the challenges from ukraine to gaza and beyond. War, hunger, terrorism, brutality. Record displacement of people. The climate crisis. Democracy at risk. The promise of artificial intelligence and significant risk. This goes on. All i've seen and all we have done together over the decades, i have hope. I know there is a way forward. There will always be forces the polar countries apart and the world apart. Extremism, chaos and cynicism. Desire to retreat from the world and go it alone. Each one in this body has made a commitment to the principles of the u. N. Charter. Stand up against aggression. When russia invaded ukraine we could've stood by and merely protested, but vice president harris and i understood that that was an assault on everything this institution was supposed to stand for. We cannot grow weary. We cannot look away and we will not let up on our support for ukraine, not until ukraine wins a just and endurable peace. Thousands of armed hamas terrorists invaded a sovereign state, slaughtering and massacring more than 1200 people including 46 americans in their homes and at a music festival. Despicable acts of sexual violence. 250 innocents taken hostage. I met with the families of those hostages. I have grieved with them. They are going through hell. Innocent civilians in gaza are also going through hell. Thousands killed including aid workers. Too many families dislocated, crowding into tents and facing a dire situation. They did not ask for this war that hamas started. I put forward a ceasefire and hostage deal. It has been endorsed by the security council. Now is the time for the parties to finalize terms. Bring the hostages home and secure security for israel and gaza free of the hamas script, end this war. On october 7 as we look ahead we must also address the rise of violence on the west bank. Set the conditions for a better future including a two state solution, where israel enjoys security and peace with normalized relations with all its neighbors. Selfdetermination and estate of their own. Gaza is not the only conflict that deserves outrage. In sudan the bloody civil war unleashed one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. 8 million, 8 million on the brink of famine. Hundreds of thousands are already there. United states has led the world in providing humanitarian aid to sedan and with our partners we lead diplomatic talks to try to silence the guns and avert famine. The world needs to stop arming the generals. Speak with one voice and tell them stop tearing your country apart. Stop blocking aid to the sudanese people. In this war, now. The u. N. Needs to adapt and bring new voices and new perspectives. That is why we support reforming and expanding the membership of the u. N. Security council. We the people, these are the first words of our constitution. The very idea of america. They inspired the opening words of the u. N. Charter. I made the preservation of democracy the central cause of my presidency. This summer i faced a decision whether to seek a second term as president. It was a difficult decision. Being president has been the honor of my life. There is so much more i want to get done. As much as i love the job, i love the country more. I decided after 50 years of public service it is time for a new generation of leadership to take my nation forward. My fellow leaders, let us never forget, some things are more important than staying in power. It is your people. It's your people that matter the most. That is the soul of democracy. It does not belong to any one country. I have seen it all around the world. The brave men and women, ending apartheid, bringing down the berlin wall. Fighting today for freedom and justice and liberty. Nelson mandela taught us that it always seems impossible until it is done. It always seems impossible until it is done. My fellow leaders, there is nothing that is beyond our capacity if we work together. Let's work together. God bless you all and may god protect all those who seek peace. Thank you. It always seems impossible until it is done. So true. Coming up, tonight, donald trump is afraid, very afraid of what is in special prosecutor jack smith's 180 page brief that will be filed on thursday. Andrew weissmann and melissa murray join us next. With fasenra, an addon treatment for eosinophilic asthma that is taken once every 8 weeks. Fasenra is not for sudden breathing problems or other eosinophilic conditions. Allergic reactions may occur. Don't stop your asthma treatments without talking with your doctor. 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At the end of this hour we will show you something very special that happened at the white house on friday afternoon, but first, the breaking defendant trump news of the night is that federal judge chutkan has ruled federal prosecutor jack smith will be allowed to file a 180 page brief in excess of the ordinary fighting ordinary 45 page limit in order to prove that the new indictment of donald trump by a second grand jury charging him with conspiracy against the united states to overthrow the last presidential election meets the supreme court's new guidelines about presidential immunity for donald trump. Jack smith says that the comprehensive brief is necessary for the judge to determine how the supreme court ruling on immunity applies to the case. Donald trump's lawyers tried to prevent that 180 page brief from being filed. It is due on thursday of this week at 5:00 p. M. , by arguing that the brief itself would be prejudicial to their client. Judge chutkan rejected the argument saying first he protests that the government aims to proffer their untested and biased views to the court on the public, as if they are conclusive, but allowing a brief from the government is not contrary to law, procedure and custom as defendant claims, citing no authority. It is simply how litigation works. Each side presents arguments and proffers evidence on disputed issues, here, whether defendants charged conduct involved official acts and receives immunity. The judge noted that the trump lawyers will be allowed to offer evidence in their brief that is helpful to donald trump, if they have it. The judge said a parties factual proffer does not conclusively establish anything. It merely provides evidence for the judicial factfinder to consider. The trump lawyers also told the judge, quote, it is incredibly unfair in the sense they are able to put in the public record at this very sensitive time in our nations history. Judge chutkan said that the timing of the election that the lawyers were obviously referring to has no bearing on this case. The judge wrote, defendants concern with the political consequences of these proceedings does not bear on the pretrial schedule. What needs to happen before or shouldn't happen before the election is not relevant. Joining our discussion now is nyu law professor team of andrew weissmann and melissa murray. They are coauthors of the trump indictments, the historic charging documents with commentary and are both msnbc legal analysts. Andrew, it looks like we could be reading something fascinating on thursday night. Well, thank you for having the nyu faculty meeting on air tonight. So, yeah, i mean this is, as you noted, donald trump, this is actually his third effort to try to have no fax submitted to the court. He wants to live in that fact free zone that he campaigns them, but this is a court of law and the judge would have none of it. It is really a scathing decision by the judge, saying i am going to go forward because this is the rule of law that is going to be imposed. And so on thursday what we can expect is a submission that is going to include, according to the government, very detailed and factual evidence about the case and about why, as jack smith will say, this is material that is either personal in nature or overcomes a presumption of immunity and thus can go forward. Some of the evidence could be marked sensitive and then there will be some time before we see that if ever, but the judge will decide to see that redacted portion. What are examples of things the judge might want to redact? information the public has not yet seen. Information that might be viewed as influencing the upcoming election. It is hard to say. There is some evidence that we don't know about because we have not seen it, but there is also new evidence. That new evidence has been added in response to the supreme court decision. Again with very little guidance on the immunity decision. Both are trying to structure this in the best way possible, so it is not surprising that she was so receptive to a more fulsome brief with more evidence, but also guardrails to protect the defendant going forward. This is precisely what the supreme court ordered. They sent the case back to a trial judge with an order saying, do some factfinding and find out whether the facts in this case fit the immunity decision that we are handing you. Absolutely and judge chutkan made that point. She said i am doing exactly what the supreme court said i should do and you, defendant trump, are the ones who went to the supreme court and you got this ruling and now i am carrying it out. At one point she says, you know your brief to me says that i am going too fast and you also say i am going to slow. It basically is just, no pun intended, but spaghetti at the wall. This is one where i really do think we will get a lot of information. I think one of the things we will not get is certain names of witnesses. The kind of information that the government has been sensitive to, to make sure there aren't people who will be put in danger as we have seen with respect to a whole host of people. Whether they are witnesses. Election officials. People who work for the prosecutor and the court office. Jurors. Those kinds of names are the kinds of things we may not see on thursday. My dear professors, please stay with us because on the other side of the commercial break i want to take a look at what happened in the senate judiciary committee today where they were considering the supreme court ruling on immunity. We will be right back. Ht back. Many people were in remission at 12 weeks, 1 year,. . . . . . And even at 2 years. Serious allergic reactions and an increased risk of infections. . . . . . Or a lower ability to fight them may occur. Tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms, had a vaccine or plan to. 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What would stop a president from directing the investigation of his enemies, journalists or activists even when there is no basis for doing so? could that include directing the fbi to engage in unlawful surveillance or bypass seeking a warrant to search a home or workplace or to target individuals or groups based on race or religion? if the president were to bring a civil suit against the department of justice, as the former president has provided notice that he intends to do, could he order the department to settle the case for millions of dollars if the suit were baseless? no prosecution would prevent the president from directing the irs. Likewise no criminal prosecution would prevent the president from using the cia for domestic operations. Still with us, andrew weissmann and melissa murray. This was such an interesting hearing. This is what the hearing should've been. It seemed like there were questions that were so obvious and issues so obvious that were dealt with here that were not dealt with in oral argument at the supreme court. I recall the argument being quite robust and certainly the liberals and even justice barrett asked probing questions. In fact, justice spirit cornered trump's lawyers into a series of concessions that should've been devastating for trump's case. The real issue was that in writing that opinion the chief justice rejected opportunities and overtures to write a more narrow and minimalist opinion and instead wrote a sweeping opinion. That is in addition to running out the clock on that sweeping opinion such that it was virtually impossible for this to get to trial before the election and the opinion itself made it absolutely impossible that many of these charges would be able to be heard. Now it is back with judge chutkan and we are seeing that the senate judiciary committee has questions and they should. Let's listen to some of senator peter welch's questioning of republican witnesses. Why in the world with the president of the united states who has a lot of things to deal with decide that person a or person b should have the irs go after them? in what world would that be legitimate? it is not legitimate, as i said. So should he or she get immunity for that? no. What about the professors recitation of nixon's focus on going after jews in government. Again, no. So no immunity for that. Correct. But under this decision i think this is left open by the decision because the supreme court defined these core constitutional powers is absolutely immune. Andrew weissmann, i don't see anything in the decision that prevents donald trump from sitting in the white house reading any tax return he wants from anyone in the country who he hates and then ordering an investigation and prosecution. So, you played a clip that was really remarkable because that is the senator, the junior senator from vermont who basically flipped the trump witness who is the former attorney general and got him to concede that he thinks it would be improper and a president should not be immune from using the tax department to go after people, to go after people based on religion, but you are right. If you look at the supreme court decision, it says that the president is absolutely immune from ordering the department of justice to engage in sham investigations. To say it is to refuted and he got the former attorney general of the united states to agree. Really it was sort of a surprising moment, that that is something that should not be immune, but it is clear from this decision that there is no language in this decision that would prevent that horrendous outcome and as melissa murray likes to say, if you need reason to think the supreme court is on the ballot, this is one more reason. One of the things that the description can include is what you are not immune from, not protected from and senator sheldon whitehouse pointed out that the supreme court wrote this decision and did not, did not exempt treason from immunity. Professor murray, apparently treason is an open question now about how that might apply to a president. The thing that is great about this opinion and i mean great in a completely snarky way is that it offers up three categories. There is the core powers category that is entirely immune from prosecution. There are unofficial acts that are able to be prosecuted but then there is the murky middle of official conduct. Not necessarily core powers, but that enjoys a presumption of immunity and the opportunity to rebut that requires considerable evidence. The report does not talk about what would rebut that. That is where most of the action will be. I think a lot of the action for judge chutkan and there are not a lot of guardrails the court has given her. I think treason according to senator whitehouse is one of those things that might fall in the realm of official conduct, depending on how you think about it and it might enjoy the presumption of immunity unless it can be rebutted by a high standard we don't even have knowledge of at this point from the opinion. Andrew, it seems to me that the discussion at the judiciary committee today was more careful than what i was hearing from the republican judges on the supreme court when they were considering this. Well, there definitely was an effort by the republican witnesses and senators to sort of downplay the import of the decision and that is something that chief justice roberts tried to do at the end of his decision. But throughout the main part of the majority, this is not a very timid decision. It should be noted not only as mary mccord noted, a very expansive view of core presidential powers, but as melissa noted even with the middle category for official conduct. The court said it is entitled to at least a presumption of immunity, meaning that later the court to decide we are going to make it absolutely immune and the test for how to rebut it is a really high standard. I agree that is where the action will be. This decision is really a reason to have somebody sitting in the oval office who shows restraint. Andrew weissmann and melissa murray, thank you very much for joining our discussion. And a programming note, you can join melissa murray and symone sanderstownsend for a msnbc special, black women in america, the road to 2024, sunday right here on msnbc and coming up at the end of the hour, you will hear what the former fictional president martin sheen had to say at the white house on friday and next we will be joined by the leader of arizona republicans for harris, and find out what he is telling arizona voters in the final days of the campaign. That is next. In jellyfish and found only in prevagen. In a clinical study, prevagen was shown to improve memory in subgroups of individuals who were cognitively normal or mildly impaired. Stay sharp and improve your memory with prevagen. Prevagen. In stores everywhere without a prescription. Life, diabetes, there's no slowing down. Each day is a unique blend of people to see and things to do. That's why you choose glucerna to help manage blood sugar response. Uniquely designed with carbsteady. Glucerna. 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I can't imagine what that was like for you as a republican to do that. More importantly as we come to the final days of the campaign, what are you saying to arizona voters who you know are not yet in the spot you are and ready to vote for kamala harris? thanks for the opportunity to be here. I'm having a lot of those conversations. There are a lot of people like myself that are lifelong republicans, that for decades have felt comfortable in the republican party, but feel now somewhat homeless when it comes to politics. To politics. And many of those folks, when i have the conversation, will begin with the premise yeah, donald trump is horrible. Have voted for him in the past, we can do it again for millions of reasons, integrity, abandoning the rule of law. The list goes on. They will see that outside of these conversations he is a bad choice. But for many lifelong republicans, getting across the bridge to voting for a democrat at the top of the ticket is a bridge that is a little bit too far. So, my job is to try to help them realize that kamala harris is a great alternative, that she is someone who will govern from the middle, she is someone who is focused on solving problems, and she is head and shoulders a better alternative than donald trump. So, you know i am a lifelong voter whose presidential vote has never mattered, because i have been registered in the following states in this order. Massachusetts, new york, california. It was going for the democrat every single time, it did not matter whether i added my vote to that or not. I can't imagine what it is like to have the right to vote in arizona, and what a high privilege that is. Two arizona voters understand that their votes count so much more than mine ever could? they do. Because it is walltowall political ads here. And for the last couple of cycles we have had very, very close elections. As you know, biden won by a 10,000 votes here four years ago. Two years ago we had a state attorney general election and millions of votes were cast. Did democrat won in a statewide election. So everyone here is painfully aware of how evenly divided we are and that all either on arizona. What you getting from republicans who are angry about what you've done? well, predictably, the people do not take kindly to people disagreeing with them. But i have been, frankly, far more taken aback by the positive reaction i've gotten from people. I can't go to the grocery store walked out of my office without people stopping me and saying you don't know me, but i am a republican, and thank you for giving voice to the feelings that i've been having about this election and about the direction of the republican party. Mayor john giles, thank you very much for joining our discussion tonight. Thank you. 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On friday at the white house, the first lady celebrated the 25th anniversary of the debut of nbc's fictional white house series the west wing, created by aaron sorkin, who joined a few of the cast members for the celebration at the white house. The marine band played snuffy walden's emmywinning theme music, and the inspiring fictional president of that white house, martin sheen, said this. I am given this opportunity, rare enough these days, to morph once again into the wonderful character that changed my life and a lot of others, as well. So, thank you for this opportunity. You know, the irish told the story of a man who arrives at the gates of heaven and asked to be let in, and st. Peter says of course, just so show us your scars. The man says i have no scars. St. Peter says what a pity, was there nothing worth fighting for? we are rightly called to find something in our lives worth fighting for. Something deeply personal and uncompromising. 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