crowd: no! - who hides evidence? criminals hide evidence! [cheers and applause] - if you re surprised by the decline and fall, or really more crash and burn, of rudy giuliani, you haven t been paying attention. - this is a man who has a consistent willingness to play with fire when it s towards his benefit. - good to see you. thank you all for coming. the reason the morale of the police department of the city of new york is so low is one reason and one reason alone david dinkins! - who is rudy giuliani? he s the antichrist. he is the person who set us on a path of ruin. - you re all terrific. - he struck me as a pretty smart man who had some basic understandings of the law that were completely twisted and distorted in service of. the cult master. - rudy giuliani is. the greatest new yorker in the history of the city of new york. - rudy is a take-charge type of individual. - rudy giuliani was the crusader for truth. - congratulate the police department. - there doesn t have t
conversations from the past month. we begin this morning with a discussion about the potential dangers of a second trump presidency. editor in chief of the atlantic, jeffrey goldberg, recently joined us to discuss the publication s special issue, which features 24 writers each outlining the threats they say a second trump term would pose to the united states and the world. we have a lot of writer at the atlantic who spent many years covering different aspects of trump and trumpism, and i wanted just to pull them all together in one, easy to read package. one copy of the print magazine, obviously it s online right now at theatlantic.com. mm-hmm. i wanted our writers to describe, as best as they could, what would happen in their areas of expertise if trump became president again. the next trump presidency will be worse. the restraints will be off. there won t be any quote, unquote, adults in the world. mckay coppins has a piece, who will get jobs in the next trump adm
dealing with hamas, or getting the hostages home. what we are seeing now is not the best way to do that. ben rhodes, thank you for spending time with me tonight. that s our show for tonight. now the time is my last word with ali velshi. i hope a lot of people listen to what ben says. we ll continue this a little later. but you have a good evening, my friend. tonight the special counsel jack smith is once again making his case for the supreme court to weigh in on donald trump s claims of presidential immunity in the criminal case of united states of america versus donald trump. the special counsel and his team are asking the supreme court to grant an expedited review of trump s claims that his attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election fall within the, quote, outer primitive perimeter, end quote, of his official duties as president and easier for immune from prosecution. yesterday fog filed a brief before the supreme court urging them to stay way for the issue
byte is and that answer. with us this morning we have mike barnacle, mara gay, georgeway and staff writer david from. a lot going on this morning. we start with that historic decision. the colorado supreme court has ruled donald trump is disqualify ed from holding office again after determining he engaged in insurrection on january 6th, 2021. the fourth ruling keeps the former president off the state s presidential primary lot next year. the court stayed its decision until january 4th to allow for any further appeals, and the trump team is already vowing they will be doing just that. but the fourth is just one day before the deadline for the state to print its presidential primary ballots. colorado secretary of state discussed the tight timeline in an interview last night on msnbc. if they take the case, we will make clear to the court that the deadlines and the timelines. the bigger thing is if the court does not take the case, as of january 5th, if the u.s. supreme court
very good to beac you for another hour. i m alex witt in for katy tur. we re continuing our breaking news coverage of a legal setback for special counsel jack smith in his election interference investigation into the former president. the supreme court has just put out a single line order statement denying smith s request to immediately settle trump s presidential immunity claims, meaning the issue now heads to the court of appeals in d.c. we do have the date for those oral arguments. so what this decision all means for timing and how quickly the supreme court could take up the case once that court rules, there s a lot to get into. we re going to dive in right now joining us, justice and intelligence correspondent, ken dilanian, and msnbc legal analyst, and former assistant d.a. with the manhattan district attorney s office, catherine christian. ken, first off, were we expecting a sidestep like this? because that s essentially what it is. it s a punt, if you will, from the su