special what we ve been working on why we ve lived through a truly historic week. and that is not a comment on politics or media, criticism or media speculation. i can tell you as a point of fact the supreme court ruling this week and the d.c. circuit court ruling this week will be taught in law schools and in books about american history for many decades to come. right now in those cases the supreme court is basically grappling with key issues involving citizen, defendant and candidate trump, which could shape not only this year s election, but legal and political boundaries in history as we know it. it s on this monumental day, judicial history. a legal case that could rock the race for the white house. donald trump is now at the center of a u.s. supreme court battle. considering whether the leading candidate for the republican presidential nomination should be banned from running again. it seemed like there were at least seven votes against colorado. he is very
their own extremists into saying they wouldn t do that. now, this is a big story tonight with a real twist. the president is drawing an treatment on that very important from an unlikely source. donald trump himself who is, of course, running against biden right now, running to be president again. but trump is, as politico reports, tying the entire gop in knots by pushing back on something pretty straightforward, the obviously unpopular plan to cut medicare and social security that some conservatives want. now, that s the view from a candidate, while new reporting shows that veterans in the trump administration are part of the possible push to get medicaid or health care funding slashed. now, in the house republicans have some leverage. they narrowly took the majority there. but democrats see this debate going their way. they re relying on a new magic budget word, that word is woke. call everything woke, and then try to cut its funding seems to be the strategy. housing, wo
hello, new york. thank you for joining us live at town hall in new york city for this very, very special edition of why is this happening. he is incisive, he is big hearted, he is very, very, very smart. and admitted, he s taller than you expected. please give a warm welcome to my friend, my beloved colleague, msnbc s chris hayes. thank you. hey. oh, stop. stop it. how are you? good. thank you. thank you, thank you, thank you. thank you. sit down, sit down. thank you. that s extremely kind. i hate attention and positive feedback. that was a really hard 20 seconds for me. thank you for cutting it short. it s amazing to be here in my hometown of new york city. i got some family here. so tonight, we re going to talk about democracy. and that word, we probably talk more about democracy in the last four, five years than i had in all of my time before that. like, even that as a topic seems weird. we all know, america is a democracy. there s a certain kind of history you re taught
protect the nation and the public interest? both men have now served as president, so their actual records can be assessed. for all the understandable focus on trump s legal problems and controversies and rhetoric, it was his substantive handling of the covid panic that dragged him down in the eyes of many americans who concluded he failed that task when faced with that all-important leadership test. as for trump, he said at the time he did not see the emergency as his test of a lifetime. was there a moment in all of this last two months where you said to yourself, ah, this is the leadership test of a lifetime? no. no, and no hesitation. now, that is a small part of one of trump s news worthy interviews with legendary journalist bob woodward who secured more time with president trump than any other writer. 20 interviews across that stretch. trump sometimes making the calls. somethinge apparently now regrets. the former president is suing woodward, we should note, over p