ts r ight now wit i have one question for you, why is it so cold in the studio? i like it like this. this is you doing this? is it me? i don t even know. i think this is the equilibrium i am used to. i like being with you, so if that is the cost of sharing a studio you know what? we could raise it up to whatever you want. i ll just wear a sweater, thank you, have a good evening, chris. thank you for joining us tonight. i am ali velshi in for alex wagner. we will warm up in the next few minutes. president biden is now officially releasing his first campaign ad of 2024. in that ad, president biden makes clear what he believes will be the central issue of this election. i have made the preservation of the american democracy at the center of my presidency. i believe in free and fair elections. and the right to vote fairly and have your vote counted. there is something dangerous happening in america. there is an extremist movement that doesn t share the basic b
be a major political minefield for now. it deny special counsel, jack smith, requests to fast-track a decision on whether donald trump has broad immunity for actions he took as president while challenging his 2020 election loss. this means justices will allow the case to move forward through the regular appeals process. it is likely that the court will also be soon confronted with another trump case. today trump confirmed that his legal team is working on an appeal of a colorado high court ruling that would kick him off the primary ballot. there are challenges to trump s ballot eligibility underway and more than a dozen other states including michigan. now that state is also in the spotlight after the detroit news reported that trump and rnc chair woman, ronna mcdaniel, try to pressure to republican canvassers and michigan into not certifying the 2020 presidential election results. the paper reviewed recordings of trump and mcdaniel on phone calls with to local officials just
crowd: no! - who hides evidence? criminals hide evidence! [cheers and applause] - if you re surprised by the decline and fall, or really more crash and burn, of rudy giuliani, you haven t been paying attention. - this is a man who has a consistent willingness to play with fire when it s towards his benefit. - good to see you. thank you all for coming. the reason the morale of the police department of the city of new york is so low is one reason and one reason alone david dinkins! - who is rudy giuliani? he s the antichrist. he is the person who set us on a path of ruin. - you re all terrific. - he struck me as a pretty smart man who had some basic understandings of the law that were completely twisted and distorted in service of. the cult master. - rudy giuliani is. the greatest new yorker in the history of the city of new york. - rudy is a take-charge type of individual. - rudy giuliani was the crusader for truth. - congratulate the police department. - there doesn t have t
byte is and that answer. with us this morning we have mike barnacle, mara gay, georgeway and staff writer david from. a lot going on this morning. we start with that historic decision. the colorado supreme court has ruled donald trump is disqualify ed from holding office again after determining he engaged in insurrection on january 6th, 2021. the fourth ruling keeps the former president off the state s presidential primary lot next year. the court stayed its decision until january 4th to allow for any further appeals, and the trump team is already vowing they will be doing just that. but the fourth is just one day before the deadline for the state to print its presidential primary ballots. colorado secretary of state discussed the tight timeline in an interview last night on msnbc. if they take the case, we will make clear to the court that the deadlines and the timelines. the bigger thing is if the court does not take the case, as of january 5th, if the u.s. supreme court
face. just last, week we learned of another phone call from donald trump urging election officials to reject the will of the american people. that detroit news reports the call made just days after the election. of the call, the news outlet reports trump pressured two republican canvassers in michigan not to certify the 2020 presidential election. nbc news has not heard or verified the audit reports. president biden won michigan by nearly 155,000 votes in a fair and free election. but for donald trump, accepting defeat, not an option. instead, he discouraged his supporters to show up at he encouraged his supporters to show up to the capitol on january 6th, and you know what happened next. a deadly insurrection. and donald trump s all hands on thick effort to derail american democracy failed but we cannot let down our guard. a new column from the deli piece rates the fact that didn t work should not give us a false sense of security regarding the potential danger that someth