and why, later this hour. that s a federal official. plus, the colorado ruling. why it s a political gift to biden, not donald trump. and just in time to ruin the holiday, this. breaking news on fog. very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters in new york. welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. we begin with this breaking news. just before the deadline overnight, donald trump s legal team filed a brief with a federal appeals court in washington asking it to toss out the d.c. election subversion case against him. saying he should be immune from prosecution for his actions while he was presidents. it comes a day after the supreme court declined to intervene and the case, leaving it to the lower court to decide first. meanwhile, on the question of immunity, president biden, now, has weighed in. mister president, do you think that our [inaudible] i can t think of one. joining me now, nbc s julie tsirkin in washington. julie, welcome. what did we hear from tr
Source tonight donald trump dodging questions about abortion on the Campaign Trail as a top democratic governor who wants President Biden to push the issue four is here. Youll hear from Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in moments and at the white house, biden hosting Muslim American leaders, but only a few of them after many rejected his invitation with Anger Building over the war in gaza. One palestinian doctor who spoke at that meeting to President Biden will tell me why he walked out. And dramas and promising to free january 6 inmates and dc jails . Yes. That convicted criminals that he calls hostages often. But a new report details how almost all of them were charged with assaulting Law Enforcement. Im Kaitlan Collins, and this is the source but. We start with our top story tonight as donald trump is back on the trail before were going on trial two weeks from now if our president was in a pair of states that could make or break his 2024 campaign. Michigan and wisconsin. These are
Spectroscope and that, that energy field, i would be very interested in hearing what she has to say. To me, it was completely indiscernible. Standby, mary trump has the y answer. Thank you, rachel. For the jury filed into the courtroom today to hear testimony in the case of the people of the state of new york versus Donald J Trump, judge merchan issued his ruling to the lawyers of what would actually happen to donald trump if he were to testify in his own defense in this trial. No, of course, before the judge issued his ruling about what evidence the prosecution would be allowed to use to attack Donald Trumps credibility as ad witness, there was absolutely no reason to believe donald so trump was going to actually testify in his own defense. Donald trump is incapable of telling the truth and that would become quickly obvious to the jury, who would probably ju find themselves watching donald trump commit perjury and probably concluding that they were watching him committing perjury. So,
moderate and came up far too short and was a disgrace and part of the republican talking points, those people played right into joe biden s hands. you saw joe biden as the lone defender of barack obama good lord. and obamacare. that s worth ten points for him. by the way, if i m a democrat and i m not, so democrats, you don t have to tell me on twitter i m not, i m not. but if i m a democrat and i have heard donald trump riding barack obama into the ground since he s been president of the united states and i hear democrats on stage doing the same thing, those people never get my vote. never. never get my vote. it was a stupid move on their part. and they better recalibrate because this is a big, big plus for joe biden. yeah, i talked to some democrats that night who said it felt like we were living in a parallel universe. are we really going after the legacy of the man we love, this historic figure in our party and in the country? it felt wild to a lot of people, richard haass
robert gates understand working with people like your father and knowing madeleine albright, knowing these are people who escaped their homelands after adolf hitler and fascism swept through their countries and so people should not roll their eyes when they get warnings from people who survived that time when somebody like madeleine albright draws a parallel or you have robert gates talking about the real concern he has about donald trump s affinity for strong men. trump is a strong man. he is playing the role of a strong man. that is incompatible constitutionally with the madisonian form of government this country has had for 240 years. 240 years, we have been a system of checks and balances. in fact, our constitution was put together specifically and