sunday, january 28th. in the washing, velshi on msnbc. i m charles coleman junior, filling in for my friend and colleague, ali velshi. and we ve got a lot to talk about. we start this morning with the trials of donald trump. now he s had his day in court, and just like that, he s been ordered by a jury of his peers to pay 83 point $3 million to e. jean carroll for repeatedly defaming her. and how does he respond to this? of course, he went to vegas. the campaign valley, and we can have before that was replete with a typical vitriol, hatred, and lies, that we ve come to expect in the twice impeached, multiplied republican front runner. however, instead of focusing on his primary part in nikki haley, trump largely directed as verbal assault president joe biden. now this is understandable, and it actually makes more sense for his political economy. primary season may have just begun, but let s be real. this primary race is pretty much all but over. president joe biden is going t
i m alicia menendez with simone standers townsend and michael steele. here are some of the stories we are following today. donald trump delivering a new calling for, quote, compute complete immunity for presidents. plus, the house speaker cold water on congresswoman the net paragon will tell us where things stand. we will also hear from hhs secretary javier after record breaking care for the affordable care act. grab your coffee, settle, in to the weekend. we begin with donald trump ramping up his calls for presidential immunity. the former president posting late last night that, quote, without complete immunity, a president united states would not be able to properly function. this comes as trump gears up for a busy few weeks on legal and political fronts. appeals could go at either moment on those immunity claims. just days from now, the supreme court will hear oral arguments over whether the state of colorado can a boot trump from the presidential ballot. those cases
cheated. they are normalizing the completely false idea that american elections are rigged. and it is not just laura engroom. now, turning to joe biden and what we are hearing from voters on the ground in iowa. about a third of iowa republicans say joe biden was legitimately elected president. but almost half, almost double that i should say, double that amount say he was not, and next up we have the integrity of our elections. and up next moving on, no facts checks necessary. if you thought joe biden was not legitimately elected as president, you re in good company. multiple times steve kornacki mentioned two thirds of election goers, and fox moved onto the next thing, no mention that belief defies reality. after the attack on the capitol january 6th there was a moment it really felt like republicans might finally ditch donald trump. fox news owner rupert murdoch said he wanted to make trump a nonperson, which sounds severe. kevin mccarthy discussed removing trump from o
funny i to think about another situation, like a job interview someone just being like, oh, yeah there s one more thing, i m facing 91 counts. yeah, i mean. anyway. don t worry about it. we re going to t figure it out. thank you, my friend. thanks to you at home for joining me this hour. if you are a person who does not think a convicted felon should be running for the country, you might think of this statistics as a glachls half empty kind of number. in an exit poll yesterday 51% of voters said if donald trump were tors be convicted of a crime th would still consider him fit to be president. don t get me wrong, that s not a sign of a healthy democracy. a majority of new hampshire s republican primary voters would not care if trump ends up a convicted p felon. by the way, that would also mean that donald trump, a florida resident, would not be able to vote for himself as a convicted felon, although 54% of new hampshire republican voters stillbl would. elections in ial
with his attempt to win the nomination, the courts say his name belongs on the ballot. secretary of state asked the states highest court to review her decision to remove trump from the republican ballot. the same judge already paused her decision until the u.s. supreme court rules on a case out of colorado. joining the conversation is marc elias, founder of the democracy docket, he s also a partner. thank you for joining us and person. you have argued in front of the supreme court more than most people i now, except for neil i have had my few. i have won all of them. look, we re not going to step on the screen, but thursday, trump s team, there was illegal bridge out of the supreme court. his lawyers wrote about this disqualification effort. quote, they threatened to disenfranchise americans who promised to unleash chaos if other supreme court follow colorado s lead. what do you make of this legal argument? what do you think the supreme court is gonna do? i think that