a week ended with the president naming donald trump that s a threat to our democracy. the supreme court announcing they will hear the case on whether trump should be on the ballot and colorado in a major shake up. top of the nra. you are in luck. our nightcap is here to talk about all of it. it is a great one. joining me, eddie glock, princeton professor and msnbc contributor. u.s. managing editor for the times study stage, credit officer of the media. comedian pete dominic, host of stand up for pete dominic podcast all right. , let s start with the supreme court. peter, i turn to you. what is at stake here with donald trump getting on this ballot? i was at stake is everything. i will say, i was watching earlier with msnbc, a lot of legal debate on this on how strong the cases. i must say, i ve become so cynical that this court in particular. this is a political court. this is a political case. i don t think is it three of
be a guy, i would have chosen differently. but i chose activists who brought a lawsuit against representative scott perry in pennsylvania on the grounds of the 14th amendment that he should be disqualified from running for federal office. i think it for looking for this at the president, and i think that there are quite a few of those who are within documents of having aided the insurrection. i think that will be an interesting court case to watch, to see how they apply the laws and how many more of these come up. i am going with virginia dufresne, which a lot of people probably don t know, but she is, probably the most prominent jeffrey epstein accuser. this week, because that the lawsuit that she has persisted with, against ghislaine maxwell, who was the enabler of sitting in jail. sitting in jail, to remind
be happy, but there might not be happiness just because you get those things. you think you ll achieve something, and it will be great, that is called the arrival fallacy, by the way, in my business. you get there, it will be great, but what happens, what happiness is is progress. that is what brings happiness. you re disappointed when you get to the goal. it creates problems like new years resolutions, losing weight. you call envy the happiness killer, but envy is actually where we get a lot of our resolutions from. yeah, because we compare ourselves to others. we live impacts and tribes. we know who is on top of whom. we want to get better. we want to make progress, but that s not the way to life. in terms of envying other people, it creates a malign sense of relationship we have with others. the way to fix that, by the way, it did not stop comparing yourself to others, but to
donald trump appointees? and another appointee that has a life that has been advocating on this issue is going to be a legal case here i think we see up political decision, much like bush speak or. i was old enough to be in tallahassee covering that when the supreme court came down. there it was a straight line political vote. i think there is a lot of legal issues to discuss. i think the answer is done. you don t have to wonder, did trump appoint three judges, he s out there saying it. he is a mob boss threatening them. i saw his lawyer on tv. looking straight at the camera going, brett kavanaugh, he s going to come through for trump. what is your take on that, eddie? we don t take trump to be the most ethical kind of guy on the planet, you know? that kind of quid pro quo, that transactional approach is how he rolls. its how he
mobile charitable country in the history of the world, and we are getting three squares, and we have happy families, most of us, a lot of us, it s so great. yet, we re like, the food is not good in first class in this airline. it s a just craziness about our ungrateful we. are the way to do this the way you want to do is to actually start deciding to be more grateful, as opposed to deciding to be more happy. to say that i am going to look for why i am grateful in this moment, and then, you will get happier. a lot. i do want to talk to you about something that is not very happy. what s that? the college that you work. at the week harvard is having, the president of the school leaving, just the hurricane that has now descended on your campus. what do you think of this, and how is harvard going to get there? it s a terribly sad moment. harvard will get through it. it s a great university, been