supreme court and the gop continuing to infringe on lgbtq rights in this country. there is the hamas attacks on october 7th and israel s indiscriminate retaliation, which have, quote, loyalty s inhumanity to a test. and we have seen a republican primary field that is providing moments of absurdity. and let s face it, a lot of levity. let s get started. we begin tonight with a rare warning about our democracy. it is in dire straits, and that is not according to just one or two, but rather, 13 presidential libraries dating back to herbert hoover, all of which on thursday released a joint statement calling for every commitment to the country s bedrock principles, including the rule of law, and respecting a diversity of beliefs. i can t say this enough. this is an unprecedented move, never before had the presidential libraries engaged so directly in political affairs. while their joint message stopped short of calling out individuals by name, the subject of the warning wa
not normal. no, it wasn t. then, it s not now, as we approach the one year anniversary of the uvalde shooting, i mean us speak to states, enron gutierrez, who i spoke to on the ground in uvalde when you are. go and has been fighting for change ever since. you do not want to miss that incredibly important conversation, stick with me for that. we want to begin with the 2024 presidential race, or the lead up to it. ramping up with less than eight months until the iowa caucus, south carolina temps, got violent network on friday to throw his hat into the ring. he is joining a gop primary field that well crowded has yet to see a candidate pose a real challenge in the polls to donald trump. axios reports, is joining me now, with more on this. sophia, thanks for joining us on this. we appreciate it. just hours before tim scott made it official, you, in fact, where that is launching a nearly 6 million dollar ad buy in iowa and new hampshire as well. where does he stand in this rac
we should be wondering why it was so fast. i mean, look, most times and charles can agree or disagree with me. as a former prosecutor, when you get a verdict this fast, it s usually a verdict of guilty. this jury has salt through multiple weeks of testimony. this trial started with jury selection january 23rd, i want to say. it s been going more than 61 witnesses presented by the prosecutor. we heard from experts witnesses, we had cell phone evidence, blood spatter evidence. at the end of the day, i think what really moved the needle for the jury was the rebuttal closing from the prosecution. when the prosecutor got up and said, alex murdaugh kicked the person he loved the most, and it wasn t his wife. it wasn t his son. it was himself. and in order to preserve his lifestyle, his addiction, his financial fraud, he picked himself. and if that s what the jury heard last before they went into the jury room, i would not be surprised to see if the verdict is guilty. ellison ba
state of north carolina, republicans they re getting their supermajority after one lawmaker there suddenly switched parties. and then subsequently, suddenly, switch their stance right on abortions overall. nebraska as, well republicans merging their abortion ban bill with gender affirming care, being able to subvert or go around the normal bill proposal process. what do you make of this? they can t get these things done with overwhelming majorities. they know how tenuous their support is, they see the same numbers we re hearing. they cannot untangle themselves from their extremist base. so, they are making deals, taking unusual measures, you know, combining in nebraska of abortion legislation with gender affirming care bands is really telling and underscores a really important point. which is opponents of these fundamental freedoms, freedoms for bodily autonomy, let s be clear, are unified in funded by
doesn t have anything uncomfortable. they don t want any ideas that could confront them with the realities of history or society. or the weird diversity and the weird various pathways that human life takes. things that do not seem normal to them inside that little bubble that they love to create. they re gonna try to allege a tree legislate against. they ve got a huge majority in the houses. they ve got a governor in billy who s a willing to go out as far in the closing. can we go to see more of. this it s iterating throughout the states. they re doing a lot of copycat bills in various states. once he gets away with it, another state will pick it up. and he states right now have gender affirming care bands. thing is, juanita, the percentage of people who are trans, especially trans kid, is like under 1%. this is like a tiny group of people. but you would think that there was this massive wave of parents deciding i ve got a girl and i would like a boy, or i ve got a boy i would like a