michelle goldberg, thank you for your time tonight, my friend. that is our show for this evening, now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell, good evening, lawrence. o donnell, good evening, lawrence. good evening, alex, we will be joined by a yale law professor who won t be elaborating on what hillary told you, what the supreme court might be doing, exactly about hillary clinton s idea in detail. it s of course on the supreme court argument. we have senator sheldon whitehouse but also, we have senator jon tester, and, alex, we know him as the mild mannered and, of course, toughest person in the united states senate, because he s an actual farmer. he has a majorly huge tractor, yes. he sent out an email today that begins with, i am sick of this bs. . so, i don t know. we might be getting gloves off. sounds testy. we ll find out what bs he s exactly into. that s coming up. keep it a family program tonight, lawrence, we ll be watching. thank you, alex
joining us to break this down, andrew weissman, an nbc news contributor. what are the top lines of the ruling, the 57-page ruling that has a lot of information in it. good morning, josé. it sure does. this is an unsigned ruling by a three-judge panel of two, appointed by democrats and one appointed by a republican. a unanimous ruling that rejected trump s arguments about why he should be immune as acts of a president. and quoted from an 1882 supreme court decision that says all officers from the government from the highest to the lowest are creatures of the law and bound to obey it. and the judges added it would be a striking paradox that the president with the duty to take care the laws be faithfully executed is the sole officer of defying those laws with impunity. the opinion makes clear other presidents assumed they could be prosecuted, and therefore ford pardoned nixon for the watergate crimes after leaving office, and this is the first time a court has ever rendered t
we will watch the court, maggie vespa, thank you very much. that s going to do it for me. deadline white house starts right now. hello, everyone, it s 4:00 in new york. i m ali velshi in for nicolle wallace. just a few hours ago, attorneys for donald trump filed a brief defending their can client s place on the ballot in that critical 14th amendment case that s before the supreme court over whether his role in the january 6th insurrection bars him from running for office. oral arguments before the justices are on thursday. we are also hearing from special counsel jack smith, his prosecutors are mounting a defense of the classified documents probe in a filing to judge aileen cannon. we re going to have more on that in a little while as well. we begin with developments in the middle east where the threat of further air strikes looming across the region and a furry of diplomacy with one goal, preventing the war in gaza from widening even further. president biden and his
with trump to hide classified documents at trump s florida beach glove and then attempted to cover it all up. for weeks now, mr. nauta has been delaying this arraignment, claiming that he s had trouble finding local florida representation. and today we ll, we learned he has found that local representation, the dawn baton a law. we don t know for sure who is paying for mr. nauta s new local council but the other lawyer, the non local council that mr. nauta has had for a while who by the way was also in court today and entered mr. nauta s plea, that lawyer is an attorney named and we know from public disclosures that mr. woodward s law firm is being paid by former president trump political action committee save america. that matters because if the past is prolonged here, then the lawyers and who pays for the lawyers can make a world of a difference when it comes to actually getting at the truth. i was in the vicinity of a conversation where i overheard the president say som
is an offense to women, this is an offense to everybody. and it is offensive that you have to go celebrate the oppression of women at a church. felicia helton of des moines calling out iowa republicans as the legislature returns for a special session to implement extreme new restrictions on abortion. meanwhile in terms of former football coach will understand, sanity, turberville on military promotions is weakening the defensive lines own team. the united states of america. to score points with his extremist fans on abortion. oversight chair james, talks a lot about getting laughed at on msnbc. after the latest whistleblower embarrassment. the laughs are going to keep on coming. you may know hill harper from csi new york or other performances. now he wants to play a role in america s future as a united states senator. and he joins me tonight. we begin with the republican party forcing a drew carney and and possibly deadly vision on america. more restrictions on abortion