volume of questions that came her way. needless to say, a lot of students and their reaction has been pretty volatile on campus. many students say they don t feel safe here at upenn, given there has been a rise in antisemitic rhetoric and activity, even before the october 7th attacks. again, you have all these donors now threatening to pull some funding. so, that influence clearly adding some pressure here, and the board of trustees, again, set to meet tomorrow at five pm to have that discussion about whether or not liz magill will have a job here moving forward. yasmin? george soliz for us there. george, appreciate. i have a lot more coming up, folks. you re watching msnbc, our second hour starts now. hey, everybody. i m yasmin vossoughian. if you just joining us, welcome. if you are sticking with us, we are thankful for that. we are just days away from an expected vote in the house to move forward in the impeachment of the president, despite lacking any evidence t
handed future presidents a, quote, loaded weapon, in the words of a dissenting justice, aimed straight at the rule of law in the country. the conservative 6-3 majority of the court, half of them appointed by ex-president donald trump, two others have been faced calls for their recusal in this very case, a potentially fatal blow to council jack smith s effort to hold the president accountable for crimes committed on january 6th in the insurrection and the plot to overturn the 2020 election he lost. they ruled that donald trump and all future presidents are entitled to immunity for official acts, that they take during their presidency. now there is a question of whether a president can order a seal team 6 or assassinate a political rival, the united states supreme court said in effect, yeah, maybe. regarding jack smith s prosecution of donald trump, the court is sending that case back to judge tonya chutkan to parse out what is an official act in which trump is entitled to comp
ourselves certainly for a president who is not averse to using violence to achieve his political ends. you have not only been a member of congress and the january 6th committee member, but you have been an impeachment manager, gone through this former president s, you know, sort of ill acts in many ways. what do you think would be the consequences for our country if this court rules that somebody who egged on an insurrection, that was an insurrection for him to remain in office, remains on the ballot? if they rule that he can stage a coup and then run again, what do you think the consequences of that will be? the consequence i think will be at least twofold. first, it will mean that the 14th amendment section 3 no longer has any meaning. if it doesn t apply to someone who led a mob to attack the capitol in an effort to overturn and interfere with the joint
democrats who challenged the outcome of the 2016 election. mr. president, i object to the certificate from the state of alabama. and those who oppose certifying the results. mr. president, i object because people are horrified. still, none urged their supporters to march on the capitol. we re going to walk down to the capitol. january 6th committee member jamie raskin is comfortable that the doj wound up not charging trump with inciting a riot. i can understand why they shied away from the counts the statute has not been tried very much. bret, tonight, sources tell me even if the judiciary committee were to subpoena jack mitt to come here and testify, they doubt that they would actually show up because this investigation is still ongoing. in the meantime, though, attorney general merrick garland is slated to appear before the committee next month. be watching it.
one of them was senator rkowski. she said in statement, additional evidence presented since then including i by the january 6th commission has only reenforced that the former president played a key role in instigating the rye kwots on january 6th. and silence still from senate republican leader mitch mcconnell, who has said very little about donald trump since after saying he was practically and morally responsible for the violence that day. thank you so much for that reporting. let s discuss with the chairman of the house democratic caucus and former january 6th committee member pete aguilar. thank you so much for joining me. as a member of the committee, you know the facts of the case better than most. was there anything in this indictment that surprised you or that wasn t in the indictment that surprised you?