it for me tonight. thank you very much for being here. now it is time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, rachel. we re gonna have two miracle workers joining us tonight, senators jon tester and sherrod brown, who somehow managed to get reelected to the senate in states where no other democrat can win. but we begin tonight with our history lessons from professor laurence tribe, also andrew weissmann is with us on this really historic night in the case of united states of america versus donald j trump. i m looking forward to hear that. the supreme court getting involved at this stage, even just to say that jack smith, we would consider what you are asking us to do. that alone is such a big deal. we will consider it, and we are ready to start hearing. we want your response by next week. i mean, it s happening. it s on. here we go. and, rachel, guess who was proven wrong today? that would be me. as of last, i think, it was thursday night, i had got
you in this second hour of chris jansing reports. at this hour, more on the breaking news just in the last hour, an unexpected move from special counsel jack smith. he wants the supreme court to immediately take up whether donald trump is immune from criminal prosecution. what it means for a criminal trial starting before the election. plus, israel s prime minister says it s the beginning of the end of hamas. the escalating push into southern gaza as aid groups warn of apocalyptic scenes on the ground. six killed, dozens injured as more scenes of destruction emerge. and alex jones, the conspiracy theorist who claimed sandy hook was a hoax and made money off of it returns to x and gets a warm welcome from elon musk. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. we begin with that breaking news on that fascinating legal move by special counsel jack smith. msnbc legal analyst lisa rubin is with me. i know you ve had time now to start going through
fascinating move, he s calling on the supreme court to weigh in and decide on donald trump s claim that immunity, once and for all. meanwhile, no trump, no trial, at least for today. the former president s civil fraud trial on hold until tomorrow after he says he will not, in fact, testify as promised. so why the last-minute change of heart? could it impact the judge s thinking as he weighs the future of trump s business empire in new york. plus, it doesn t matter what the other candidates do. it doesn t matter what they say. quote, i m voting for trump. those are the words of an iowa voter backing up the numbers in our new poll showing trump beating everyone else in the race combined. what are the chances any of that changes in the next five weeks? could harvard s governing board cut ties with president claudine gay just a year after she was chosen to lead the school over her remarks about anti-semitism and how over 650 faculty members are on the record wanting her to keep
g good evening. i m bret baier. breaking tonight fox news has new and exclusive reaction from president biden on the guilty verdict in former president trump s historic criminal trial. the first of a former current president in u.s. history. we have been talking about that and the fallout of it. now a little q&a. white house correspondent peter doocy joins us live from the north lawn with that. good evening, peter. peter: good evening, bret. it took 24 hours but we finally got president biden to tell us what he thinks the trump convictions mean for him ahead of november s elections this is iphone video as we took as he got done toasting the kansas city chiefs on the north lawn and you will only see it here. peter: do you think this conviction helps trump in the election? are you worried that this could happen to you some day, somebody comes up with some charges and tries to bring you into court after your term? [inaudible] and when trump says you are just trying to br
reporting that the court mistakenly posted its opinion yesterday on a major abortion case in idaho based that s right. that was really a shock development yesterday. and actually the high court did confirm that a document was inadvertently posted to the court s website, and this was reviewed by bloomberg news and this was involving the case about abortions and idaho. and according to that document that was uploaded and we should caution this could change depending on what officially comes down from the high corporate and this was a 6-3 opinion you had three conservatives siding with three liberals and it essentially allows for abortions to happen in the state of idaho. in the case of medical emergency these not just when a woman s life is at risk. and so that is what the idaho abortion ban initially allowed for was just when a woman s life was at risk of doctor could perform that abortion. so that law is essentially on hold for now. and just to put this in perspective, when