welcome to the beat. we have a lot going on tonight. possible legal nightmares increasing for donald trump. you may say doesn t he already have enough legal problems, but with a top campaign lake cooperating with jack smith it is another story. george santos also back in court with a lot of problems. we begin with the wider story we were discussing with the breaking news yesterday, the war on rights waged by a supreme court that said it cared about president but only cares about some precedent. this now trump tax court is that these two rulings, businesses can now legally refuse service to lgbtq customers, ruling in favor of a web designer who said they could not, would not work on same-sex weddings. now businesses can refuse to sell products and services basically on the argument that the message matters more than the equality and nondiscrimination of their potential client base. no one he wants to go about their lives thinking if i go to this place, if i go to this restau
come on. hypocrisy is stunning. you can t help a family making $75,000 a year, but you can help a millionaire and you have your debt forgiven? i believe the court s decision to strike down my student debt relief program was a mistake, was wrong. one of the most regressing supreme court terms in history comes to an ignominious end with blows to president biden s student debt plan, lgbtq protections, and affirmative action. also tonight, moms for liberty was designated an extremist group by the southern poverty law center. so it s no surprise that republican presidential candidates including ron desantis are right at home at their convention. we begin tonight with the supreme court on the final day of their term, delivering a devastating one-two punch to the american people. today, the six conservative justices ruled in favor of an evangelical christian web designer who refused to make websites for same-sex weddings. a major setback to lgbtq rights and protections. they als
crossfire hurricane, the investigation into russia, collusioe,n with donald trump ws fairy dust. f it wasake, fake. it was nothing. as matthew mcconaughey said in wolf of wall street , it was a fugazi. fugazi was it was it was a woozy it was nothing but whato we learned todayda with a longit anticipated release of the durham report is that the fbi worked as he workeda disinformation shop for hillary clinton and the democratic nationaic national ct special counsel john durham s report shows us that the samesap people that lecture you today about threats to democracy nearly destroyed it by usingstre our intelligence agencies to target the then republican nominee for president and then later targg president donald trump . the entire story begins no t not b by rigging the election againstt donald trump , though. it starts with rigging aartsh rc clection ition in support of hiy clinton just weeks beforinee fb invefbi launched a crossfire hurricane investigation, wikileaks releas
of everything nefarious, as willfully taking them are obstructing their efforts to restrict that of course is in stark contrast with the mar-a-lago documents, former president posting this on his social media site today. mike pence is an innocent man, did not do anything knowingly dishonest in his life, leave him alone. he certainly not saying the same about president biden, newer will james calmer, the new oversight chairman backing off of his investigation with the president. saying today, former vice president pence s transparency stands in contrast to white house staff who continue to withhold information from congress and the american people. this is the same comer in that last week said that investigating the president would the would not be a priority for his committee. the news today helped blur with the real distinctions are between former presidents case and apparently the other two. an opportunity to blame the system, but instead as a member of the house intell
morning. it is sunday october the 9th. i am velshi. it is 21 months ago, just hours after the halls of the capitol were cleared of the insurrectionists tomb of the building in an attempt to prevent joe biden from becoming the presidents. 147 republican members of congress, remember that number, voted against certifying his victory. now, as we head into the final weeks of the 2022 midterms, it appears likely that the number of election deniers and congress is going to increase on november 8th. according to a new washington post analysis, the majority of the republican parties candidates for congress, and top state executive positions this year, are election deniers who have spread donald trump s big lie about baseless, unfounded, in debunked claims of widespread election fraud in 2020. by the washington post county, take a look at this, there are 299 republican candidates vying to be representatives or attorney general. that s all the squares. to 99. they ve denied the in