the appeals court hearing on donald trump s immunity hearing has wrapped up. the three-judge appellant panel facing this big question can the former president be held criminally responsible for actions that he took while in office to overturn the 2020 election loss. we heard a remarkable argument from trump s team who heard the argument that prosecuting a former president would open up a pandora s box as john sauer said that working in the capacity as alleged in the indictment by jack smith, the special counsel s office pushing back on that. this notion that we are all of the sudden going to be seeing a floodgate, i think that, again, the careful investigations in the clinton era didn t result in any charges. the fact that this investigation did doesn t reflect that we are going to see a sea change of vindictive tit-for-tat prosecutions in the future. i think it reflects fundamentally unprecedented nature of the criminal charges here. cnn s evan perez joins us now. ev
was a person of color or a woman who could tell you about some circumstance in which their intellectual abilities have been questioned on the basis of their identity. lots more to discuss on this. i m out of time. thank you so much for your time and your work, jelani cobb and eddie claude jr.. i m back next weekend. inside with jen psaki starts now. well, we ve got a month s worth of news in the first week of 2024. the supreme court announced that it will hear a case on trump s ballot eligibility under the 14th amendment. president biden lays out the stakes of the election in the starkest terms today. jamie raskin is here with his reaction. he s coming up first. plus, maine secretary of state shenna bellows joins me after tossing trump off the ballot in her state, it decision which is now on hold while these appeals play out. also today, with just eight days until the iowa caucuses, i am going to talk to someone who spends a lot of time in focus groups with republican pri
is critical. it really is. look, you know, to the survivors and families, jill and i, my wife jill is not here today with me. she is in delaware right now. she had to go back up. jill and i have gotten to know many of you over the years. some of us have become friends for a long time. we ve kept in touch. mark, it s good to see you again and your family, and the losses may be different, circumstances, but we ve shared before us something that s helped our family. when my wife and daughter were killed in a tractor-trailer struck them, just after i got elected, my two boys weren t expected to live, and then later when my son beau, who was the attorney general and volunteered to spend a year in iraq died, stage 4, glioblastoma. my daughter ashley taped a message to the mirror, the way everything gets to me through my wife and daughter now is they know i have to shave in the morning, so they ll tape on the mirror, for real. so i see it when i m shaving. one day she left me a quot
tomorrow morning, 9:38 am eastern, a federal appeals court in d.c. is going to hear arguments on trump s claims that he is immune from prosecution. federal courtrooms, there are no cameras. but for a big case like this, you re going to release live audio of the hearing while it s happening. we are all gonna be able to hear that as it happens. we will have it live here on msnbc starting, again, 9:38 am eastern time tomorrow morning. i will also be back with you here wednesday night this week, live at 10 am eastern, for a special coverage for the next week republican debate, wednesday ten pm eastern, that day after tomorrow. i will see you hear that. that s gonna do it for me for now. now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. good evening, rachel. at 9:30 a.m., it means i m gonna be glued to my sofa listening to msnbc, which i have to say is way more dramatic than images, for me, it actually carries what i guess was the drama of radio
news in the first week of 2024. the supreme court announces-able here at case on trump s ballot eligibility under the 14th and that meant. as president biden plays out the stakes of this election in the starkest terms to date. jamie raskin is here with his reaction and he s coming up first. plus, maine secretary of state, shannon ballot, joins me after in her state. a decision that is pulled once these appeals play out. also today, with eight days until the iowa caucus, i m gonna talk to someone who spends a lot of time in focus groups with voters. and later, we love player steps down from a top nra, as his corruption trial gets underway in new york. we ll take a look at the damage that he did and the future of americas okay, i really believe that sometimes we all just need to acknowledge how insane this moment we re living in really is. think about it this way, friday was of course january 5th, one day before the third anniversary of the january 6th insur