And then right after that at 9:00 p. M. Eastern we will premiere my new movie and its first documentary for my new production company a movie called from russia with lev with the absurd story of trump s first impeachment and a lot of stuff you didn t know about. Very excited for you to see about it and now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. We have senator whitehouse joining us tonight after the black buster blockbuster reporting on what is going on inside the supreme court with the chief justices and this is reporting like we have never seen before about how they arrived at that immunity decision. That reporting was based on source documents that don t exist in journalism. I know they exist in the real world, but you never ever see any of the journalism that says based on these documents we obtained from inside the supreme court, it doesn t happen and that is a unicorn. It is really striking to hold that in my hands reading it to think the supreme court is cracking i
Laura coates. Thank you all for joining me. Weve got a big show for you tonight with a notable lineup among those joining me, Chris Wallace, rod begovich, the governor who was freed by donald trump in a sentence, a d. C. Democrat that will be important to us calling on the National Guard to bring order to the city. We will have a talk on the sexism and racism surrounding a wrappers sentencing. Jillian michaels from The Biggest Loser will weigh in on all of these Weight Loss Drugs. First, everyone, there is Breaking News out of ohio tonight. A special election turned into a litmus test on Abortion Rights, in a postroe v. Wade america. The votes are being counted, and cnns jeff zeleny is following it all for us right now. Jeff, it is a win, it looks like, and a big one, for Abortion Rights advocates. Laura, this was a fascinating summertime election that Republican Leaders who scheduled it had hoped it went under the radar. It did not do that. This became a fullon campaign, a fullon figh
on this point. i am quoting here, we cannot except former president trump s claim that a president has unbounded authority to commit crimes. and we neutralize the most fundamental check on the executive power, in recognition, an implementation of election results. and going on to say, nor can we sanctioned his apparent contention that the executive has carte blanche to violate the rights of individual citizens to vote, and to have their votes count. the court throwing out trump s arguments that he should not have to go on trial, on federal election subversion charges. charges that you would expect, vowing to appeal to the supreme court. but he only has until monday to decide whether he can do that. let s talk right now with cnn analyst, norm eisen, and prosecutor, joe moreno. i m so happy that both of you are here today. first of all, we have been talking about this for the better part of a month, norm. the fact that it took this long, it s perhaps a surprising announcement.
a shot of a predawn los angeles. welcome to the fourth hour of morning joe. it is 6:00 a.m. out there on the west coast, 9:00 a.m. here in the east. i m jonathan lemire alongside the bbc s katty kay. we re happy to report that msnbc contributor mike barnicle is joining us for the hour. we re in for joe, mika, and willie. catty, a lot of headlines to get to in this hour. the biggest one got mike off the ice rink earlier. landed a couple triple axels and came upstairs and i m sort of disappointed he s changed out of his outfit, but there we go. and took the gold medal off. right. let s get to the headlines, mike, beyond yours. the latest from buffalo where the national guard is going door to door checking on residents who lost power during the deadly blizzard. we ll have the latest as officials face scrutiny over that. and southwest airlines cancels more flights as it struggles to recover from the winter storm. the unions are speaking out about how the disaster
engaging in military exercises. which north korean some publicly stated, repeatedly that they find provocative and they see as kind of a rehearsal for an invasion of north korea. just hours before, we saw this latest missile strike, we had a statement from north korea. condemning united states redeployment of an aircraft carrier. that specifically the u.s. has ronald reagan near the korean peninsula. and the north korean s call this, their statements are typically have the sort of awkward phrasing. they called it a considerably huge negative splash and regional security. and they said that they were defending themselves with missile tests, which they have been doing since the beginning of the year. and, again increasing frequency. they told us a righteous reaction to these intimidating military drills. so you know, this really has seen this year a big increase in the pace and in the tone of these missile tests. and again, in the tit-for-tat sort of answers by the united state