it restores a lot of faith in humanity. the 14th amendment of the constitution says insurrectionists cannot hold, quote, any office, civil or military, under the united states. and tonight, in a ruling, as stunning as it is unprecedented, the colorado supreme court said that donald j trump, the 45th president of the united states, is an insurrectionist, and therefore should be disqualified from being president. good evening, i m pamela brown here in for anderson tonight. and we begin with not just the ruling, which is historic. but what happens when almost certainly reaches the u.s. supreme court, which could be seismic. starting us off tonight, cnn chief legal affairs correspondent paula reid. paula, tell us more about this really surprising ruling? surprising, and remarkable, pamela. and the judges, here they acknowledge that. at the top of their opinion, they talk about the weight and the magnitude of the issue that they are deciding here. i mean, this is the biggest c
today. humble is a word for the president to embrace. walter, thank you. frank, appreciate it. and by the way, mika, just to end up the segment, i think you have agreed all along and one of your concerns last night was the democrats still haven t figured out how to put their best foot forward. yes, i think that s true in terms of finding someone to really galvanize the party, but i really don t care if someone clapped or not. it s so beyond what we re really dealing with, which is probably preserving the foundations of our democracy which this president is stretching and pushing the boundaries and blowing through stop signs. i m worried he s going to fire mueller. we have to find consensus. we have to be willing that we make mistakes and we have to be willing to work together. all right. that will save the democracy. all right. coming up, is president trump stepping on his own message again? he was overheard telling a
point. and yet why can t people give him credit for what has happened? why can t they give him credit for his speech that went that people had a chance to see if you were a democrat, there was something there for you. if you re a republican, there s something there for you, that it has specifics. i think because he s literally screwed everybody in that room over a few times too many. he s been vulgar and racist and accused one of the senators in that room of giving sexual favors for money. he s insulted the wife of a republican senator in that room in the worst way possible. what about the speech? your job, what you do, frank, is you read rooms. you tell me that that room is supposed to respond like to the great dictator? no, but they re not supposed to sit on their hands. really? i m not sure. but using a phrase great dictator is not appropriate. that s how he feels of himself. this is my challenge which is i am willing to speak truth to power. i m willing to challen
i m not willing to dismiss everything in him. that s the problem. so walter isaacson, let me bring you in here. i think the democrat s great challenge, which they failed to deliver last night, is actually putting forward an optimistic vision for an america. i will say to frank s point, when they look like they are at a funeral procession while he s talking about how the economy is getting better, when most americans believe the economy is getting better, that doesn t help their cause. when they have five people responding to one speech. that doesn t help their cause. and if they go out today talking about donald trump being the great dictator when 48% of americans said the speech was very good, well, democrats will seem tone deaf. so how do they balance the reality that donald trump right now is committing a slow motion saturday night massacre at the same time he delivered a speech.
pocahontas, lien ted, owner of the exquisite mar-a-lago resort, the most stable genius in the history of the world, his exlensy, he of most enormous hands, president of the united states and like really smart person, donald j. trump! joining us now msnbc contributor mike barnacle and frank lunce. good to have you on board. mike, what s your take away on the speech last night? you know, i m probably going to be i m certainly not going to be in frank s corner on this. there was a level of disbelief in nearly everything he said. that was my take away. yeah.