yesterday, manhattan, it s what we ll continue to talk about every day until the first debate and atlanta. but michael real quick that trump campaigns suggests that they think it s blown up in your face and in the movie you guys made yesterday saying that it proves the case that they ve been trying to make the whole time that politics is motivating the case. jason miller said after months of st. politics thanks, had nothing to do with this trial. they showed up and made a campaign event out of lower out of a lower manhattan trial for president trump. did this backfire on you no, not at all we re not talking about the trial. we re talking about the threat that donald trump poses to our democracy. his embrace of political violence, that he does every single day, whether he s outside the courthouse there in manhattan or he s down to mar-a-lago or he s shouting into an echo chamber on truth, social. that s what we were talking about with robert de niro and officers for know
our our institutions democracies, to say nothing of his wife. so the fact he would actually write that lets us know that he is so detached and so committed to his right wing white nationalist philosophy of dismantling american democracy, on a whole host of levels. and as you and neil have pointed out, it started with voting rights two years ago. it is now in the moment with women and roe v. wade. but we know it will extend not just to gun control but lgbtq+ rights and contraception and so many other things. we cannot count on clarence thomas to have a clear eye and on any of these matters. we know that he is really committed to taking right away, not just on african americans, but the larger american public at large. and read, i would love to get your insight on what justice thomas said there. first of all, i think he is making it clear that what judge alito said is exactly what he and others were willing to
slowly but surely seeing certain republicans saying this may be something that i can t justify to my constituents or to the larger american public. what cracks me up about this is think of what s been going on. it is hanging the kurds out to dry. it is a crazy plate ant quid pro quo to the president of ukraine. and then the hotel. and it s the hotel that is the tipping point. the hotel that he hears from house republicans or senate republicans that says, donald, you re going taofr with this one, back off. it s a funny prioritization of what s going on in the country right now what we have seen is the limits to the get over it as a concept, right? if you say this, if you can make the 5th avenue defense, i can do whatever i want, that way i can tip the republican conservative trump backing into backing whatever they re saying, you can
as for the larger american public, this halloween s trick or treat hall has more apples and boxes on razors than the full-size candy bars everyone loves. 70% say the nation is on the wrong track. half are convinced there s going to be another shutdown on january 15th. we start with the man who s not scared of the ghosts and goblins. nbc news senior political editor mark murray. mark, really fascinating poll. nearly half of the country does not identify with either party. they don t feel like they re being heard. 30% say they would prefer an independent or a third-party candidate for congress. that s more than wanted to vote for a republican. it s obviously early. and it s important to factor in the fact that we all have short attention spans. but how do you see this pretty significant desire for a third party impacting the political landscape leading up to the midterms? if i m an incumbent, i m pretty worried. of course, there s a lot of time. we have a year away until the
note. how do you speak to the audiences that martin indicated, when you know that most of the people there were black, a third were white. you re speaking to the larger american public, to the political establishment. the washington post editorial page for instance. he was speaking to us, the young militants. he s talked about the marvelous militancy. he managed to admonish us at the same time. don t go overboard. here was the ultimate skill of an orator who can speak to several audiences at one time, and it s as if he you would say, yeah, that line was for me. and somehow else will say, and yet you re right, it doesn t read like a set of grievances, it reads like a poem. it reads like the otheration of a poem. and it s precisely that genius that has brought about the mini-industry of