Trumps pursuit of reelection may have played with the virus. Conspiracy theorist running for congress in georgia and how her racist videos may not keep her from winning. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. There is actually good news for the country today and more bad, bad news for donald trump, the impeached president of the united states. Its been an unexpected theme this week that we saw play out again today when the Supreme Court, the roberts court, ruled against the Trump Administration in an amazing 54 decision. The Supreme Court prevented the Trump Administration from taking away the protected status of socalled dreamers. They are americans who are brought to this country as children without authorization. Trump tried to take their protections away, which would pave the way to them being deported. Today the court said, no, cant do it. This time around chief Justice John Roberts joined the more liberal justices offering the opinion. As he did in t
Catastrophic response to the virus. Plus the trump cult conspiracy theorist running for congress in georgia and why her recently unearthed racist videos may keep her from winning. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. There is actually good news for the country today and more bad, bad news for donald trump, the impeached president of the United States. Its been an unexpected theme this week that we saw play out again today when the Supreme Court, the roberts court, ruled against the Trump Administration in an amazing 54 decision. The Supreme Court prevented the Trump Administration from taking away the protected status of socalled dreamers. They are americans who are brought to this country as children without authorization. Trump tried to take their protections away, which would pave the way to them being deported. Today the court said, no, cant do it. This time around chief Justice John Roberts joined the more liberal justices authoring the opinion. As
A modest rebound today after its worst plunge since march over coronavirusspike fears. The dow was up 470 points today. And larry kudlow is echoing Steven Mnuchins comments saying the United States will not shut its economy again and kudlow even went a step further than mnuchin. I spoke to our Health Experts at some length last even. Theyre saying there is no second spike. Let me repeat thatthe. There is no second spike. There is no emergency, no second wave. I dont know where that got started on wall street. For what its worth, heres what larry kudlow had to say on february 25th about the coronavirus spreading in the United States. We have contained this, we have contained this i wont say airtight but pretty close to airtight. There you go. I dont know how much you want to take those comments to the bank right now. President trump is gearing up for a series of controversial public appearances beginning with a commencement speech at west point tomorrow. Cadets had left the academy in m
A week later were enough to get you fired from your job and a number of people were fired. An awful lot happen this weekend. For the next hour, we want to assess the aftermath of it all to suggest what it may mean and where this country is likely to go from here, but first, we want to give you a sense of what happened. We are going to begin tonight in minneapolis where the black lives matter riots first began almost two weeks ago. Is the violence there raged, some Democratic Leaders came to a conclusion that didnt on the surface make intuitive sense. What their city really needs, they decided, is less Law Enforcement. In fact, no Law Enforcement, so they began to demand that minneapolis defund the police. The first thing you notice about this ideas how unpopular unpopular with the public it is. Almost nobody in the country supports it. But the activists undeterred kept pushing the idea and within days pressure mounts on the mayor of minneapolis jacob frey to get rid of his citys police
To president obama . Earlier today, before meeting with the president , House Speaker john boehner dodged the question of troops on the ground. What im hoping to hear from the president today is a strategy that goes after isis and destroys them. Are you opposed to ground troops, or is that an option . I am looking for a strategy from the president that takes on this terrorist threat and defeats it. But we did get some hints about the gops directions from others in the party. Today, House Republicans met with the architect of the disastrous bush era middle east policy. Former Vice President dick cheney. The Los Angeles Times says cheney, quote, gave a pep talk to House Republicans on tuesday, highlighting the value of a hawkish national defense. Also today, a telling comment from a gop republican congressman who supports a vote in congress to authorize military action. But he says other republicans dont. Quote, republicans dont want to change anything. We like the path were on now. We c