we hope you are doing well. from all of our colleagues across the network of nbc news, thank you for staying up late, icu at the end of tomorrow. of today, i saw down with former secretary of state presidential candidate hillary clinton and we covered a lot of ground. we talked about conflicts overseas in the middle east and in ukraine. we talked about donald trump s legal jeopardy and the utter chaos and the republican party. chaos that, by the way, it s in full display tonight. with the senate now scrambling to find a path forward after republicans killed their own bipartisan border legislation in order to appease donald trump. for weeks, republicans have insisted that they would not pass aid for israel in taiwan, as well as urgently needed funding for ukraine unless democrats agreed to have new border policies. just to put this all into perspective for, ukraine is facing some of its biggest challenges since this war began. russia has ramped up missile strikes across the co
and tonight, straight from the source, no immunity. donald trump s claims outright rejected by a federal appeals court in what was a unanimous decision. the judges referring to him as citizen trump, saying that former presidents cannot escape being held accountable for their actions while in office. all eyes are now turning to the supreme court. also, that republican effort to impeach the homeland security secretary over the border just went down in flames, failing spectacularly in the house this evening. it s a major embarrassment for the house speaker, but really for the house gop. also tonight, we are tracking this. for the first time ever the parent of a school shooter has been held responsible for her actions related to her own son s murderous rampage. what it could mean for the future of school shootings in america. i m kaitlan collins and this is the source. the answer, if you re wondering, is no. a president cannot order s.e.a.l. team 6 to assassinate his politi
trump s case probably doing battle with multiple federal judges and multiple counts. this week alone was the d.c. circuit cut put his screams of presidential immunity temporarily on ice reminding him for the purposes of this criminal case, former president donald trump has become citizen trump, with all the defenses of any other criminal defendant. there were the nine supreme court justices who regardless of how they ultimately rule on the 14th amendment case sure sounded like they were not enjoying getting drawn into the nonstop cyclone of chaos that is donald j. trump. those keeping score at home, it is t-minus 72 hours till trump s legal team must file their appeal to the supreme court in the presidential immunity case, an appeal that must somehow convince those nine supreme court justices to agree to hear yet another trump case. that s just the cases we spent all week talking about. we also saw the judge, trump s civil fraud trial, judge engoran days away from ruling on t
into the official record what so many democratic voters have been complaining about publicly, and so many movers and shakers have been worried about privately. the president is not as sharp as he used to be. but the question for them is how is that worse than the alternative. another senior citizen who has serious memory and confusion problems and also facing 91 criminal counts for trying to overturn an election, hiding and endangering extremely sensitive national secrets, including information about our nuclear arsenal. a man found liable for fraud, defamation, and sexual assault, let me repeat that. a man who a jury found sexually assaulted a woman. listen, i get it if you want to tune out and talk about super bowl snacks. nachos sound great, especially if you add crab on top. as americans, we don t have the luxury of tuning out. there s too much at stake. join me as we try to understand the playing field. monica alba, nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dil
school night here for this next hour. it is. we have andrew luck laurence tribe. and stanford historian jack rakoff, who is an expert on the impeachment clause. all of their previous statements about this case on this program, have been vindicated today, by the appeals court. and so, each guess will get a victory lap, that s how it s going to. work quite a ruling, quite vindication. i will be watching. thanks alex, thank you. will thanks alex, thank you. well donald trump has many bad days ahead of him, as criminal defendant trump. none will be more painful than the days he spends in winston daughters winston chutkan told the new york times that when he won a scholarship to go to high school in jamaica, quote, i wore shoes and experienced indoor plumbing for the first time in my life. winston chutkan worked very hard, did very well in high school. he went on to become an orthopedic surgeon, one of jamaica s most prominent physicians. when his daughter tany