welcome to inside politics. i m phil mattingly in for dana bash. the friday before christmas is supposed to be slow, but there s no shortage of major news right now, including a new report about pressure the then president put on officials in michigan after the election. but at any moment, the supreme court could announce whether it ses fast tracking a a decision on donald trump s claim he s immune from prosecution if i for trying to you are overturn the election. i they want a quick decision to move forward with the trial. trump wants to delay if as much as possible. we start things off with katelyn polantz in washington. what s so striking here is it may seem procedural, but my goodness, the stakes here could not be higher. reporter: they are. i can t risk getting into the weeds on this. but it is a really big deal. that became so apparent in the way that the justice department wrote about this issue to the supreme court yesterday. they wrote that this issue of presiden
times that he s losing support amongst groups that he must wip. he cannot just win voters of color. he must win big. and right now, he s running even with trump in one crucial group. today why more men of color are backing trump and the states where those votes could be decisive. plus the white house hosted an event this week, but some guests rejected the invitation because of the handling of israel s war. we ll talk to one of them. and it s veterans day. we ll look at the push to further recognize the contributions of black veterans. i m victor black well. let s start the show. there s a new cnn poll of recommegistered voters this wee the news is not good for the president. he s running nearly even with donald trump among men of color. 49 and 46 with trump at 49. that s within the margin of error, but that s remarkable. in 2020 biden won men of color by 34 pointings. he won black men by 60 points. la tee know men, 23. and sure the election is not going to be held today.
a blues people are on intimate terms with catastrophe. you wake up every day with a heart ache and heart break. for me, it s not new. for a whole lot of folk, indigenous people, working people, it s not new at all, but we are fortified. we re not just staying in the work, but we are staying fortified because we can make a difference, but we make a difference by doing what? telling the truth, truth allows suffering to speak, being sensitive to those who suffer, no matter what color m one of my critiques of my dear brother is you can t just talk about black people. be morally consistent. stay in contact with the humanity of everybody. that s indigenous people, la tee knows, gay brothers, lesbian sisters, bisexual trans, people around the road in africa, tel-aviv, gaza and so forth. you can t be tribal and narrow. you need the over arching vision, that s the tradition of israel. you listen to that love.
analyst and washington bureau chief at mother jones, david corn. and daily beast senior contributing writer michelle goldberg. also joining us, texas democratic state senator la tee shah vandepue. thank you all for joining me. thank you. i want to go first to the state senators. if senator thompson could start off, explain to us the bill that started all of this. what was actually in the bill? i sort of gave a quick description of it but why were women in the state senate in such great objection to it? i m in the texas house of representatives across the hall from the state senate. it was restricting the right of women to be able to have an abortion and limiting the abilities for that. for instance, they would not have the opportunity to get an