left, like, what do you put on that generation of children that are witnessing this level of draw trauma and, destruction, and death? and peter beinart, thank you both, appreciate it. that is all in on this tuesday night. alex wagner tonight starts right now. good evening, alex. thank, you my friend, we have a lot to get to this evening. thank you tom for joining with me tonight. this time of year, four years ago, democrats were preparing to impeach donald trump for withholding aid to ukraine in an attempt to get political dirt on joe biden. the republicans were not surprisingly outraged. but there was one republican congressman in particular who had a very specific reason for opposing trump s impeachment, a reason that he repeated over and over and over. but the founding fathers, the founders of this country, warned against single party impeachment. they said it would be bitterly divisive, protect perhaps irreparably divisive for the country. the founders of this cou
a very good day to all of you from msnbc world quarters here in new york. welcome everyone to alex witt reports. we begin with some breaking news. a dramatic turn in a texas abortion case. the state supreme court now stepping into pause a lower court ruling effectively preventing kate cox from having an abortion. her baby is unlikely to survive the pregnancy. i m gonna be talking to a legal expert in just minutes about what this all means. also this hour, president biden is on the west coast. he and the first lady will be in california for fundraising events tonight. before that he stopped in las vegas to highlight a major infrastructure success. we are building the first high speed rail project in our nation s history. part of a 2.8 billion dollar investment. ten major rail projects across america. reaching tens of millions of people. also new today, outgoing congressman kevin mccarthy is now endorsing donald trump for president, saying he is open to serving in trump s c
Parties can live with a good call or a bad one, but they need the balls and strikes called promptly. The United States District Court for the District of Maryland has established.
for the government, it is to get this into law before a jury and the public. so to me, the fact that the judge said this is the briefing schedule, and i am going to decide this on the first day you appear. you will all have an opportunity to be heard because you have papers you will submit, but the very first court date i am going to set a trial date. terrible news, i think, the other thing i would expect because of that, the government i think before that date is going to be basically backing the truck up with discovery. i mean, i don t think there s going to be discovery disputes. it is going to be everything under the sun because they need to show up and say it s been done. because they want to be ready and to tell the judge we have done everything we need to do. and they will be making a lot of good arguments about how much this defendant actually knows even before that discovery went out, because they have all the
in the course of their appearances before the grand jury. as you know, there were multiple challenges brought during this investigation when witnesses when donald trump was claiming executive privilege with respect to various witnesses. in those instances, jack smith took those to the chief judge of the d.c. district court. in so far as what has been publicly reported, we know those arguments were rejected and people had to testify. i think some of those issues have been hashed out. that doesn t mean there won t be more raised by his attorneys. and if there are multiple defendants, everyone will have their own attorney. they will all be filing motions of various types. mowings to dismiss the indictment. motions to suppress certain evidence, et cetera, and there could be discovery disputes. jack smith and his team will be doing everything to make this go as smoothly, as quickly as possible, just like they have