When we leave he gives us a hard. There you go. Thanks, steve. It means a lot. Wisdom borne of age. And friends born of a hes a mud duck. We are so happy that matt found his flock. Im so grateful that my colleague megan found this story, that mauro produce it and then boyd shared. It and please remember, it costs absolutely nothing to be kind, and i can assure you any nhl team owner that i know, ill be emailing you the segment tonight. You sure as hell better stand this man some cool gear. With that i wish you a good night. From all our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late with me. Today the Supreme Court made a momentous decision, one that has significant implications for the rule of law in this country. At five pm eastern, this afternoon, the Supreme Court agreed to take up former President Trumps claims of president ial immunity. These are not credible claims. That has been thoroughly litigated in District Court and federal Appellate Court. By nearl
What do they want to hear . Or is it potentially that they just want to be the ones to hear it. The lead on writing a definitive ruling on something as foundational as whether this president , any president , is above the law. But you cant separate that motivation from the timing. Why did it take so long for the justices to decide to hear it . And why will it take so long for them to actually hear it. The court has worked faster before, including on Hearing Arguments regarding the colorado ballot. Again, the timing here matters. Not just for this case, which is now unlikely to be tried before election day, but Donald Trumps other cases as well. The classified documents at maralago, maybe even georgia, if that case ever even gets off the ground. Or the arguments regarding the colorado decision to remove trump from the ballot. Theres so much to consider. The motivation, the political effect on november, and the future of the court itself. How much public trust can it stand to lose before
Good to be with you. Im katy tur. Mitch mcconnell is stepping down as leader of the Republican Party in the senate, a position he has held now for 17 years. What is going to change . Mcconnell has been hugely effective as leader. He single handedly blocked President Obama from filling a Supreme Court seat, refuse to go hold a vote on merrick garland. Coming up with a novel and hugely controversial policy that Supreme Court vacancies cant be filled in election years. A policy he immediately said did not apply when President Trump had the chance to fill Ruth Bader Ginsburgs seat just before november 2020. From the Supreme Court to the federal courts across this country, no Single Person has arguably had a bigger impact, confirming 228 judges in the trump years alone. Almost all young, White Conservative men who will be able to serve for the rest of their lives. In spite of that success with trump, mcconnell has also been seen as one of the last guardrails against maga. Holding firm on uk
Have you heard of the Rosemary Woods stretch . It is named after this woman, Rosemary Woods. The longtime secretary of richard nixon. Woods became her career with nixon in 1950, went long before his time with the white house. She was so close to the family the nixons daughters referred to her as aunt rose. In 1974, route woods was thrust into the National Spotlight during the watergate scandal when investigators discovered a Mysterious 18 and a half gap on one of the tapes handed over from the nixon white house. The tape was believed to contain a conversation between president nixon and his Chief Of Staff three days after the watergate breakin. Woods took responsibility for that gap. She tried to explain it away as an accident. As she tells, it she was simply transcribing the tape at her desk when the phone rang. As she reached for the phone, she mistakenly struck the wrong key on the recorder while her foot was on the machines pedal. The motion ended up somehow destroying the tapes co
trump s intent. the new york times reports that prosecutors have questioned multiple witnesses over the past few weeks, including jared kushner, and questioned them about whether trump had privately acknowledged in the days after the 2020 election that he had actually lost. the line of questioning suggests that prosecutors are trying to establish whether trump was acting with corrupt intent. remember, kushner also spoke to the january 6th committee last year. jared, are you aware of instances where pat cipollone threatened to resign? i kind of like i said, my interest at that time was on trying to get as many pardons done, and i know that, you know, he was always him and the team were always saying, oh, we re going to resign. we re not going to be here if this happens, as that happens. so i took it up to just be whining, to be honest with you. we also just learned moments ago special counsel jack smith requested a reply memo by trump and nauta to delay the documen