news in the first week of 2024. the supreme court announces-able here at case on trump s ballot eligibility under the 14th and that meant. as president biden plays out the stakes of this election in the starkest terms to date. jamie raskin is here with his reaction and he s coming up first. plus, maine secretary of state, shannon ballot, joins me after in her state. a decision that is pulled once these appeals play out. also today, with eight days until the iowa caucus, i m gonna talk to someone who spends a lot of time in focus groups with voters. and later, we love player steps down from a top nra, as his corruption trial gets underway in new york. we ll take a look at the damage that he did and the future of americas okay, i really believe that sometimes we all just need to acknowledge how insane this moment we re living in really is. think about it this way, friday was of course january 5th, one day before the third anniversary of the january 6th insur
tonight wherever you get your podcast. now it s time for the last word. with it and i would like to consider myself somewhat a person that can follow logic but i was listening to that sound bite from donald trump about the shock and the electrocution and i just literally tried to follow and could not make sense. you can t follow it because it makes no sense. none of it makes any sense, but that is the point, isn t it? the more you speak in senseless nonsense, the more people come to expect senseless nonsense from you and that then lowers the bar to the ground. then everyone just ignores it and moves on and i think that is the scary thing that this guy could one day be president again, making no sense. great to see you. enjoy the rest of your evening off. have a good show. thank you so t bmuch. today s decision will have deadly consequences. that is what supreme court justice sonia sotomayor said about the ruling by her conservative colleagues rejecting a trumpeter a
double down. to never give an inch. and tragedy after tragedy after a horrible tragedy, that followed the columbine shooting, the nra and its acolytes never wavered from that mission. even 13 years after columbine, at sandy hook elementary school, where 21st graders and six teachers and staff were gunned down, the problem could still never be about the guns. the only way to stop a monster from killing our kids is to be personally involved and invested and a plan of absolute protection. the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. more guns. the answer for the nra and its right-wing allies was more guns, after 21st grade children were murdered in their classroom. in the upper decade since with each mass shooting that has become just commonplace in american life, that s still the