a stolen election. more on how that has changen up these races in a minute. but let s start in my home state of texas, where the issue of abortion has become a key focus in a closely watched democratic runoff. back in march, neither incumbent nor bernie sanders-backed candidate could cross the threshold. in a race that featured an fbi raid and questions on electability and border poicy. they have tried to seize on the intention in the draft opinion overturning roe. putting the issue front and center against the pro-life candidate. this is how she made her pitch to chuck earlier this month. in this moment, we re watching the fall of rome. and the erosion of our fundamental rights. this moment we truly it necessitates a champion that s going to fight fur people s rights. there s so many key issue where is he s siding with republican asks he can become the joe manchin of the house. we don t want it to be the deciding vote on the future of our fundamental freedoms and rights in
Spewing more violence. He has asked the d. C. Giants to have trumps legal team has just over a week to respond. Starting us off this sunday Special Correspondent for that is a fair and host of the fast politics podcast. Matt dodd, county but and former chief strategist for bush cheney president ial campaign. Msnbc Political Analyst. And joyce vance, msnbc contributor and former u. S. Attorney. She is a professor at the university of Alabama School of law and the cohost of the hashtag, sisters emma podcast. It is good to see you all. Joyce, trump told nbc that he made the decision. And not his lawyers to challenge the 2020 election results. What does that mean for the special counsels case against him . Every time trump takes his television, or any other public form and begins to speak, my assumption is that someone at the Justice Department is taking notes. Because very often he says things that are contradictory or he undercuts his own defenses. Mostly importantly what is going on is
tomorrow. tomorrow. 12 years ago this week, then president obama signed one of the most important executive actions of his presidency the one that would change hundreds of thousands of lives across this country. the policy was that deferred action for childhood arrivals, or daca. it provided temporary protection from deportation for young people who are undocumented, young people who came to the united states as children, often brought by their parents or loved ones. they grew up in this country, attending school and places of worship, many without any knowledge of their legal status until years down the line, often finding out when they applied for a drivers license or applied to college or a job. for all intents and purposes, they are american, woven into the fabric of this country, which is why, 12 years ago, president obama took action. imagine you ve done everything right your entire life, studied hard, worked hard, maybe even graduated top of your class, only to sud
on ballots that had been mailed in this the presidential election. he said basically there were a bunch of ballots at that post office that had been sent in too late. they had been mailed in after election day was over, but his supervisor, he said, he heard talking about plans to doctor those ballots, to change the date, change i guess the postmarks on all of those ballots to make it look like they were sent in time, even though they weren t. da da da! very dramatic claim that would be a very illegal thing to do, right? so what did this letter carrier do with this information after he says he overheard this very damning, very concerning conversation that involved his supervisor? well, he went the a right wing activist group, and they drew up an affidavit, a statement that he then signed swearing that what i just described is what he witnessed. signed his name to the bottom of it, and then this right wing activist group publicly released this sworn affidavit as evidence of mas
in the presidential election. he said basically there were a bunch of ballots at that post office that had been sent in too late. they had been mailed in after election day was over, but his supervisor, he said, he heard talking about plans to doctor those ballots, to change the date, change i guess the postmarks on all of those ballots to make it look like they were sent in time, even though they weren t. da da da! very dramatic claim that would be a very illegal thing to do, right? so what did this letter carrier do with this information after he says he overheard this very damning, very concerning conversation that involved his supervisor? well, he went the a right wing activist group, and they drew up an affidavit, a statement that he then signed swearing that what i just described is what he witnessed. signed his name to the bottom of it, and then this right wing activist group publicly released this sworn affidavit as evidence of massive voter fraud. this is like the sw