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
investigation, political violence in america has not been this bad since the 1970s. people instead of property, most recently deadly outbursts have come from the right. viewers of this show are familiar with what some of those deadly threats and outbursts have looked like. the, quote, unprecedented number of threats against fbi agents, who participated in the search of mar-a-lago classified documents, threats against alvin bragg, fani willis, and judge tanya chuts kin. sensing a theme you are not wrong. common denominator here is, of course, the disgraced, twice impeached four times indicted ex-president, who has become a next u.s. between the workings of law enforcement and our system and political violence and now has happened again. less than hours since the colorado supreme court ruled that donald trump is disqualified from being on the republican primary ballot in that state. now, in the wake of that landmark ruling, the judges who sit on the colorado supreme court are b
we begin this hour in washington where president biden and speaker mccarthy are rallying support for their tentative deal to extend the nation s debt. the agreement will likely need votes from both republicans and democrats to pass the house. mccarthy says the vote could come as soon as this wednesday before it heads to the senate. just moments ago, president biden said he is confident this will pass both chambers of congress. the speaker and i made it clear from the start that the only way forward was a bipartisan agreement. that agreement now goes to the united states house, and to the senate. i strongly urge both chambers to pass that agreement. let s keep moving forward on meeting our obligations and building the strongest economy in the history of the world. in the meantime, majority leader chuck schumer is alerting his conference they should be prepared for a final vote in the senate as soon as friday. mccarthy also talked with senate republicans this afternoon, tel
to lead talks on how to stem the surge in illegal border crossings. those crossings reaching historic proportions with authorities routinely reporting 10,000 encounter a day. the influx is in border authorities, 10,000 in custody right now. so stretched are resources, customs and border patrol had to close two major railway crossings and other ports of entry so they can shuffle agents to busier points along the border. $43 billion in trailed a year are carried on those two rail lines alone. no telling how politically costly an extended closure could be. with congress on holiday, talks for a comprehensive border package have installed, and with them, hopes for ukraine and israel aid. republicans say funding for those embattled nations must be paired with measures to secure the u.s. mexico border. it s a quid pro quo triggering a backlash who fear an asylum and refugee crackdown could hurt the party among latino voters. joining us now, nbc news correspondent guad venegas who s
conservatives had second thoughts, and what the leaked draft did to any hope for compromise. now a year and a half later, the high court is on clean up duty. agreeing to take on the first major complication from its ruling, this one on the abortion pill. mifepristone. the decision, which could effectively ban the pill nationwide should come next june, meaning the court will keep abortion front and center in the summer before the presidential election. an issue that has repeatedly proven to boost democrats, especially as republicans are still struggling to figure out what to say on it. just listen to senators ted cruz and john cornyn on this week s decision by the texas supreme court to deny kate cox an abortion. senator, are you supportive of the texas supreme court s ruling in the kate cox case that prevented her from getting an abortion after she learned her fetus was not viable. call the press office. i have for two days, and i haven t received an answer. are you w