Federal candidates. Thats all. Not to do what the majority actually did by officially giving congress the Sole Authority to enforce the insurrection clause. Theres no basis for that in the constitution quote, the Majority Attempts to insulate all alleged insurrectionists from future challenges to their holding federal office. Were going to explain what this means in plain language and what it means for the Supreme Courts next big trump case, immunity. Because that decision could have bearing on the other cases were watching on which we also have news. Joining us now, msnbc Legal Correspondent lisa rubin, nbc news senior Legal Correspondent, Laura Jarrett and slate Senior Writer, Mark Joseph Stern. Everybody welcome. Laura, this case, you know, you read the opinion, the Majority Opinion and the you see the headline, everyone agrees this is not political at all, and you read the dissent, and other Amy Coney Barrett, threat liberals on the court, it reads like a dissent. Not a concurrence
we are less than a week of nate from entering a presidential election year. and if i had to choose just one thing the republican front runner said this year, i think we should carry over to the next year, just one thing from 2023 that tells us everything we need to know about the upcoming election, well, it would probably be this. under normal circumstances you are promising america tonight, you would never abuse power as retribution against anybody. except on day one. he s going crazy. except on day one. meaning? i want to close the border and drill, drill, drill. that s not retribution. i am going to be he says, you are not going to be a dictator, are you? i said, no, no, no, other than day one. donald trump telling the world he plans to be a, quote, dictator on day one of his presidency. defenders at the former president at this missed that comment as a joke, a one-off quip that was never meant to be taken literally. trump himself has continued to promote t
and drill, drill, drill. that s not retribution. i am going to be he says, you are not going to be a dictator, are you? i said, no, no, no, other than day one. donald trump telling the world he plans to be a, quote, dictator on day one of his presidency. defenders at the former president at this missed that comment as a joke, a one-off quid that was never meant to be taken literally. trump himself had continued to promote the idea that he will be a vengeful dictator in a second trump presidency. over the holiday weekend, he shared this image of a word cloud put together by the daily mail. the image was based on a survey of what voters sent about trump s ambitions for a second term. and you can see that the most popular responses, the biggest ones represented in the middle r, power, revenge and dictatorship. revenge being the most devoted. that is the image that trump himself wants to cultivate ahead of the 2024 presidential election, an image she wants to promote, eve
senator lindsey graham plans to fight the subpoena. o figh good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this thursday, july 7th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. we have a lot to get to this morning. but we begin with breaking news from overseas. we re following reports that british prime minister boris johnson may resign today. this news comes amid a wave of resignations in his government and calls for him to step down. and taking a look at the famed front door there at 10 downing street in london. downing street spokesperson told nbc news that the prime minister will make a statement to the country later today. joining us now live from downing street, we have nbc news senior reporter alexander smith. thanks for hustling to be there for us this morning. what s the latest, what can you tell us about the situation there? this is really an extraordinary and unprecedented situation now. we have widespread reports that prime minister boris johnson will be
a look at what jeff bezos is saying about biden and why. first, two interviews about one of the most influential companies in the world and its name is tiktok. yes, the short form video app is the most downloaded app in the world beating instagram to that title. tiktok downloaded more than 3.5 billion. and the people who download the app love the app. they spent an average of 46 minutes a day on it. other social media giants look at tiktok with envy. tiktok is the fastest growing app in history. it is quite simply storming past the competition causing rivals to create rip-off products. on the surface the app appears to bring a lot of joy to people, influencing dance styles and pushing cooking trends and the like, something more sinister may be built into its model. that s certainly what critics believe. the control tiktok has, the power, comes from its data collection and its algorithms. so a tweak might lead to you stay inside and watch one more funny video clip, one more fu