elbows are impossible to lick. i meant your own elbows. you don t settle for bad internet. that s why you have the xfinity 10g network, with ultra-low lag for better streaming. wish you would have been more specific about your elbow. only from xfinity. good afternoon. i m chris jansing reporting live from msnbc headquarters in new york city, and it is suddenly another wild day inside a manhattan courtroom. breaking news as we come on the air, former president trump addressing the court right now, part of the final chapter in the civil fraud trial that could bring down the empire that made donald trump a mogul and then arguably president. today there were dramatic closing arguments as the former president tried to argue his way out of a devastating blow to his business. lawyers putting their final mark on what has been an intense and important 11 weeks. i want to bring in new york times investigative reporter suzanne craig. also with us new york times chief white house c
right now, two weeks of seismic supreme court decision starting with a reversal a federal abortion rights have left america s political fault lines even deeper. on one side of the divide are blue states racing to codify abortion rights and offer safe haven to women who may now have to cross state lines for the procedure on the other side. on the other side are mostly red states that have already seized upon this moment to ban abortion with some conservative lawmakers in those states contemplating punishment for those that seek the procedure elsewhere. if not just an outright national ban. of course, rose reversal was just one ruling of the court s conservative majority. it has also issued a full slate of decisions on guns, the environment and voting rights. that illustrate just how conservative the supreme court usually is. by all accounts will be for sometime. is america being remade by the rulings? that is the big question on politicsnation. and another big question, just h
right now, two weeks of seismic supreme court decisions, starting with the reversal of federal abortion rights, have left americas political fault lines even deeper. on the one side of the divide, our blue states, racing to codify the abortion rights. and offer safe haven to women who may now have to cross the state lines for the procedure on the other side. on the other side is mostly red states, that have already seized upon this moment to ban abortions, with some conservative lawmakers in those states contemplating punishments for those that seek the procedure elsewhere. it s not just an outright national ban. of course roe v. wade s reversal was just one overruling of the by the court s conservative majority. guns, the environment, and voting rights, that illustrate just how conservative the supreme court truly is. by all accounts, will be for sometime. is america being remade by these rulings? that s the big question tonight on politicsnation. and another big question.
possible way forward on gun safety legislation. the senator leading those talks, chris murphy of connecticut, will join me a little later, but after yet another community has been devastated by yet another mass shoot, we twin the reidout tonight with a hard conversation about the gun because we need to understand how we got here, and we can in the avoid talking about the ar-15 and the industry that gives murderers the tools to success. former prosecutor ryan busy explained how the ar-15 conquered the american market. prior to about 2010 or 2012 there was never a gun sold in the united states commercial market that was desert tan color. now a significant percentage of guns are sold in desert tan color. why? iraq and afghanistan? adding about 1999 in the columbine shooting, the nra set its political course. we re in the culture war business. then you have these you have these wars happening, ar-15s, patriotism, islamophobia all of that in the culture at the same time. busy
executed on and that violence occurs or an attempted threat is carried out is very low, but that also misses the point because the intent here is, for example, swatting people in the middle of the night where officers come with long guns to your home and bound on the door to see if you re okay is designed to wake you up, get you tired for the next day of court or whatever you ve got going on, and send a signal that you better think twice before you pursue your profession and your calling. so the fact that the violence is never carried out still doesn t negate the fact that the negative impact is happening. so comey is trying to reassure people in election positions, that volunteer for election precincts and other roles all the way up to fbi agents, he s telling them stay on target, to your job, pursue justice, uphold your oath and keep moving, and i get that, but the reality is that nevertheless, there s a negative impact here. until we see very high profile