to the teflon don. josh marshall hugo lowell and andrew weissmann. appreciate it. that s all in alex on this thursday night. wagner tonight starts right now, good evening, alex. chris, what a thursday. accountability, i think that is the phrase of the day. accountability. yes. again, lots of things it seemed here to for unthinkable, becoming think-able as the other theme of the last few years. in some, ways unthinkable to donald trump. as much as he knew this was coming, now that it s happened, he s in a different league. he has made history, not the kind of history that i think you want to make. thank, you my friend, as always. you bet. thank you to you at home for joining us this evening. nbc news can now report that former president donald trump has been indicted in the special counsel s investigation into his alleged mishandling of classified documents. the indictment was filed in federal district court in miami. trump has been summoned to appear in federal
here, i got to the point where no one had any idea what was happening behind closed doors in the debt ceiling negotiations. so i offered a wild guest, because that s all anyone was doing. and it is turning out to be pretty much based on pure guesswork and i came up with tuesday night and so i m hoping this thing kind of stays in this direction you say it s pure guesswork, but that s also someone who is a veteran of capitol hill and has seen negotiations and knows what they look like and also understand the stakes. that s the most important thing. here not just the political stakes, but what it would mean for the u.s. economy if we were to default. so we have congressman jim mcgovern, former chairman of the house rules committee, y all important house rules committee, now the top democrat on the committee joining us tonight. and we ll get the update from him as best he can reveal it at this point of exactly what the state of play is on the debt ceiling, above which i am
this is gps , the global public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i m fareed zakaria coming to you from new york. today on the program, what is happening inside putin s russia? is he losing his grip on power? is he at odds with his own commanders? and how might his forces fair against the up coming counter offensive. we ll get inside from julia yoif and andrei soldatov. and since china opened up its economy in 1978, it has averaged almost 10% growth a year. but are we now at peak china? the economy ims keyu jin weighs in. also, has humanity gotten, well, dumber, thanks to the supercomputers in our pockets that could tell us everything that we need to know in an instant. i ll talk to the author simon winchester about the past, present and future of knowledge. but first, here is my take. america s debt ceiling crisis once again provoked the usual commentary about how it shows the country s basically dysfunctional. but the truth is t
should donald trump be treated like the rest of us or does his position as idol of the maga movement preclude him from something so silly as the law? you can guess the answer his lawyers are hoping for today, requesting a hearing in front of the full united states court of appeals in washington, d.c. specifically they are asking the court to narrow or throw out the gag order imposed on trump in the criminal case having to do with his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, and they would like a hold on the order while an appeal is considered. you will remember trial judge tanya chutkan first imposed the restriction on trump in october, holding him to the same standards as any other criminal defendant, that he shouldn t publicly attack witnesses, specific prosecutors or court staff members. two weeks ago a three-judge panel upheld that basic idea, although it narrowed the order s scope allowing trump a bit more latitude, particularly to talk about the special pro
conservatives had second thoughts, and what the leaked draft did to any hope for compromise. now a year and a half later, the high court is on clean up duty. agreeing to take on the first major complication from its ruling, this one on the abortion pill. mifepristone. the decision, which could effectively ban the pill nationwide should come next june, meaning the court will keep abortion front and center in the summer before the presidential election. an issue that has repeatedly proven to boost democrats, especially as republicans are still struggling to figure out what to say on it. just listen to senators ted cruz and john cornyn on this week s decision by the texas supreme court to deny kate cox an abortion. senator, are you supportive of the texas supreme court s ruling in the kate cox case that prevented her from getting an abortion after she learned her fetus was not viable. call the press office. i have for two days, and i haven t received an answer. are you w