simple question. it is a president of the united states above the law? it should be simple, you ve heard that phrase how many times? of course we say nobody is above the law, it is why the lady justice wears a blindfold. but it s not what trump s legal team things, they ve been arguing for a long time, along the lines of what you d call maybe the nixon doctrine. if the president does it, it is not illegal. you know how that worked out for richard nixon, don t we? but how will it work out for donald trump? well, jack smith does not want to disappear out and wait to find out. he is going straight to the supreme court to decide whether trump is, in fact, protected by the presidential immunity in the election subversion case in washington, d.c.. tonight, a preliminary win of sorts, will explain why. they are saying they will fast-track at least as a pondering of whether to actually take on the request for information in a ruling. let s read the tea leaves a little bit tonight bec
joining us now, nbc news chief political analyst, chuck todd, the man behind the article and nbc news correspondent, vaughn hillyard. chuck, when you go back and look at 2020, and why donald trump lost, is there a definitive answer for why he lost? i think if you surveyed political strategists and political scientists, you wouldn t get a definitive answer. i think he lost simply because of covid. there s a lot of people because of what happened after the election with january 6th, they think about his antics, the first impeachment. then we had the second impeachment that sort of took place right after the inauguration. we never really had that sort of consensus, you didn t have the after action reports because you have one party was in denial that they actually lost, so they didn t do an after action report. but in some ways, neither did the democrats and i think that what i feel like i m watching is what the biden campaign thought their theory of the case was in october of