Coming up. All that plus i am absolutely geeking out a little bit over what i think is the coolest car ever. The tesla. I will tell you why its so cool but also why its so important. But tonight we begin with a man who i believe is the most dangerous politician on the american right. In october 2007 i sat in the media gallery of the United States Supreme Court and watched the solicitor general of texas argue on behalf of the state that he should have the ability to put to death a mexican national, jose, who had been convicted of raping and murdering two teenage girls in houston. He won that argument and he was executed by texas on august 5th, 2008, despite the objections of the United Nations and the International Court of justice. At the time, i had no idea who this man arguing on behalf of texas was. But all i could think was holy crap, this guy is good. It was one of his nine times arguing before the Supreme Court and he was witty, incredibly fast on his feet and clearly had a brill
Also tonight the terrifying prospect that one result of the bankruptcy of the city of detroit could be the thousands of potential personal bankruptcies caused by the slashing of retirees pensions. A full discussion on that is coming up. All that plus i am absolutely geeking out a little bit over what i think is the coolest car ever. The tesla. I will tell you why its so cool but also why its so important. But tonight we begin with a man who i believe is the most dangerous politician on the american right. In october 2007 i sat in the media gallery of the United States Supreme Court and watched the solicitor general of texas argue on behalf of the state that he should have the ability to put to death a mexican national, jose, who had been convicted of raping and murdering two teenage girls in houston. He won that argument and he was executed by texas on august 5th, 2008, despite the objections of the United Nations and the International Court of justice. At the time, i had no idea who t
I will tell you why its so cool but also why its so important. But tonight we begin with a man who i believe is the most dangerous politician on the american right. In october 2007 i sat in the media gallery of the United States Supreme Court and watched the solicitor general of texas argue on behalf of the state that he should have the ability to put to death a mexican national, jose, who had been convicted of raping and murdering two teenage girls in houston. He won that argument and he was executed by texas on august 5th, 2008, despite the objections of the United Nations and the International Court of justice. At the time, i had no idea who this man arguing on behalf of texas was. But all i could think was holy crap, this guy is good. It was one of his nine times arguing before the Supreme Court and he was witty, incredibly fast on his feet and clearly had a brilliant legal mind. It is to this day one of the most impressive displays i have ever seen before the court and i have had
Revelations about the nsa surveillance programs. The agency has the ability to monitor up to 75 of all u. S. Internet traffic. I mean, that is just incredible. 75 of my traffic to steal a joke from one of our producers is a lot. Imagine that from the entire country. It can retain written content in emails and filtering domestic phone calls made over the web. Meanwhile nbc news reports the nsa still doesnt know exactly how much information Edward Snowden took from the agency saying officials are, quote, overwhelmed while trying to assess the damage. Snowdens leaks have also raised a question of how the media investigates and reports on the intelligence community. The guardians Glenn Greenwald spoke about that last night. All the best reporting over the last 40 years involves journalists having classified information. The pentagon papers, illegal warrantless eavesdropping program. If you want to start criminalizing that, it means youre asking as a citizen to be kept ignorant and to allow
Well, looking very dapper. And joe and mika are away, but mommy and daddy, you look good. Fresh in from the hamptons. We take this job very seriously. We make sure we are color coordinated. There is bill deblasio, front runner for mayor, lifelong Boston Red Sox fan, born in cambridge. Nicole wallace, youre communications expert. You stand tall, you come off like mitt romney and change teams. Youve got to stand tall. Politics 101, anyone whos ever, on a bus tour, bus tour, anyone . Before you get off the bus, the last thing you ask your Communications Director is, whos the home team . Who do they all root for . What hats are they going to be wearing . This is, you know, so fundamental to feeling like the person we might vote for is someone that cares about the same things i do. And nothing unites people more than rooting for the same team. Its who he is, he cant deny it. Its like theres a history there. If you were his opponent, though, the ad agency guy, wouldnt you start running ads u