Hello, new york. Thank you for joining us live at town hall in new york city for the Special Edition of why is this happening. Hes incisive. He is big hearted, hes very, very smart. Admit it, he is taller than you expected. Give a warm welcome to my friend, my beloved colleague, chris hayes. [applause] thank you. Stop it. How are you . Good. Thanks, thank you, thank you, thank you. Sit down. Thank you, its extremely kind. I hate attention and positive feedback. Its a very hard 20 seconds for me. Thanks for cutting it short. Le pen fits very amazing to be here in my hometown of new york city. Ive got my family here. Tonight we are going to talk about democracy. That word, we have probably talked more about democracy in the last four or five years that i had talked about all of my time as a journalist before that. Even that as a topic seems very weird. Americas a democracy, and there is a certain kind of history that we are taught as a part of the Mystery Civic Culture totally. Even civi
most significant of our time. it s about who can hold office in our country. a foundational statement on what are the basic qualifications to be president. of which there are three. an american-born citizen, age 35 and older and not an insurrectionist. that question right now is how that last part, the shall not be a traitor part, is defined. as you know, colorado has inked their definition, kicking donald trump off the ballot there. now the supreme court is considering it, and trump s legal team is officially weighing in. they ve submitted their brief to the justices, warning disqualifying the former president from the ballot in colorado would result in chaos and bedlam, their words. the words in question, are all in article 14, section 3 of the constitution. a word salad of an amendment that was ratified in 1868 in the que, no personha be a l war. senator or representative in congress o elector of president and vice presidt or hold any office, civil or military under the un
washington, d.c. i m in for nicolle wallace. we begin with the one thing that has consistently haunted the disgraced, twice impeached, four times indicted vice president, something that has time and again kneecaped donald j. trump, in the way his adversaries, even the legal system has struggled to do. we re talking about donald trump s own words. today we re reminded that words do, in fact, matter, particularly when they are uttered during a deposition under oath. it s part of the $370 million civil fraud suit brought by new york attorney general letitia james. as viewers of this show know well, that trial has not been short on fireworks between trump grandstanding outside court or grandstanding inside the court. time and again, trump has turned this trial into a cross between a maga rally and a wwe wrestling match. whether he s sparring with the judge or delivering last week s blistering six-minute soliloquy in open court, or final day of proceedings. this is not the first t
end of his presidency. john: the case is likely to up end the 2024 residential race where trump remains the gop front-runner and says he is the victim of a political hit job by the biden justice department. sandra: fox team coverage begins now. bret baier and martha maccallum moments away with analysis, but jonathan serrie is live on the ground at the federal courthouse. what is the scene right now? more people are gathering and you can feel the anticipation of the former president about to arrive at the courthouse and we have learned more about the booking procedures. he will be digitally fingerprinted, no ink involved, and instead of taking a new photo of him, they are going to upload an existing photo, but they are still not going to release the existing photo to the media, and at no time will he be placed in any handcuffs. a more streamlined process for this former president of the united states. he tells radio host howie carr he plans to enter a not guilty plea, an
,. Good to go, all right. Hello, new york. Thank you for joining us, live at in new york city for this very, very Special Edition of why is this happening . He is insightful, he is big hearted, very, very very smart. Admit it, hes taller than you expected. Please give a warm welcome to my friend, my beloved colleague, and msnbcs chris hayes. [applause] hello, everybody. Hello thank you. Oh, stop. [applause] stop it [applause] how are you . Good . Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Sit down, sit down, sit down. Thank you, thats extremely kind. I hate attention and positive feedback. Really, really hard 20 seconds for me. Thank you for cutting it short. Its amazing to be here in my hometown of new york city, ive got some family here. Tonight, were gonna talk about democracy. In that word, weve probably talked more about democracy in the last four or five years that i had in all of my time before than i would say. Even that as a topic seems weird, we know americas democracy. Ther