Above the law. Also, deeper dysfunctions. Speaker Kevin Mccarthy had to turn to democrats to avoid a shutdown just hours before the midnight saturday deadline. Will democrats rescue him from the hard rightwing move to punish him by taking away his gavel . If somebody wants to make a motion against me, bring it. There has to be an adult in the room. I am going to govern with what is best for this country. The latest on the effort to end his speakership with Congress Matt gaetz set to take the house floor at any moment. Plus the back story of just how that last minute deal came together at the last minute to keep the government open, and the crisis its creating for ukraine. And the new democrat in Town Appointing Butler as the only third black woman senator in history as she temporarily fills senator Diane Feinsteins seat. What that means in the growing list of democrats already competing for that prize. Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell In Washington. Former President Donald Trump
court and just back here in the studio from the supreme court. tell us about that. this is just a fascinating case about a bakery in colorado where the baker has a religious objection to same-sex marriage. a same-sex couple, two men said we want a wedding cake. please make a custom wedding cake for us. the baker said no because i have this religious objection. colorado has a law as the united states as a country does not, colorado has a law that said you can t discriminate against gay people in business. this is a case that is a challenge between the rights of the baker to express his religious and free speech views versus the right of colorado to ban discrimination against gay people. the case as so often appears to come down to anthony kennedy. four justices seem sympathetic
owner of his former team jed york came out and said specifically that he didn t think the nfl owners should be intimidated by the president s tweets. and neither do we. we think that is one of the reasons why he hasn t been signed. we think anybody who has any kind of football experience or management in the nfl will tell you that he s clearly one of the top ten quarterbacks if not top 20 quarterbacks walking around on the face of the earth today. so the only reason he s not working is because the owners have decided to to quote the one owner, intimidated by the president s tweets. so you feel that president s tweets, the frez s interference in this donald trump s interference, is part of the problem intimidating the owners to allow a fully qualified quarterback to pursue his career because of his political and free speech views?