decentralized voting by states, other things, as well as american public that would not willingly vote for a convicted criminal to be there president, they thought that was so unlikely. you can read the record of the constitutional convention in philadelphia, there is not one word about, what should we put in the constitution to make sure no convicted criminal because president? that is how far, sadly, this country is come. i don t think a convicted criminal will be elected this year. less then a minute left, what can americans do to make sure we get through this with the republic intact, because there are fears of political violence and calls for retribution? this is going to be a five months period and many more of the kind we have never seen before, sadly. we should race ourselves and expect the worst. hostile
cleaning up what he really said, many americans have seen that. if the stormy daniels affair come out on top of that, it would have probably defeated him in his own mind. the reason that is important, he was running against hillary clinton, talk about, lock her up , about things that were absolutely ridiculous, some server at her house or something. he was saying, lock her up to fast forward to now, we find 34 felonies and you have republicans saying, how dare you? that is how he got there, accusing somebody of a crime and covering up his crime when there was no crime. what is at stake for america, if hillary clinton had become president, we would not have had three supreme court justices that overturned roe versus wade, hurt voting rights, turned down affirmative- action. that was the difference for people who said that voting does not matter. michelle, let me bring you in before break, i will read
republican nominee this year. and he is saying the system is rotten. i want to dismantle parts of the constitution. i think that people should not respect the law. so when you have someone promising at the same time to be dictator for a day, it will never be for a day as you know. it will be for four years, if not for his lifetime if that begins. at the same time he is saying i m going to dismantle our rule of law which is the glory of america, keeps the peace, assures fairness when it works for all americans. you have dictatorship and anarchy at the same time. do you think the majority of americans will vote for dictatorship and anarchy? i don t think so either but we have seen some things. so the founding fathers seemed
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i saw an interesting poll. over 70% of americans already thought there was a federal law that protected lgbtq plus people from discrimination. that is not true. the equality act was first introduced in 1974. 50 years ago, and congress has yet to act. it is absolutely critical that we pass the equality act, an enshrine in american law that discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation is not acceptable. the legal ceo kevin jennings, thank you very much for coming to the saturday show. thanks for having me on, jonathan. coming up, how worried americans can move forward after donald trump s guilty verdict and prepare for what promises to be an unprecedented election season. nbc news presidential historian michael beshlas joins me next to give me his thoughts. you re watching the saturday show on msnbc. e saturday show on msnbc. opens my nose for maximum air flow. so, i breathe better. and we both sleep better.