president bidden and his former boss at a fundraiser last night. sounding off on the supreme court. i will ask about all of the ways in which the rules of law is in crisis right now. later on this father s day, thoughts from me about the aftermath of hunter biden s conviction and what it is telling us. okay. here is a really important thing to remember. donald trump can not take a wrecking ball to american democracy all by himself. he will need lots of help to do it. he will need help from people in power that don t care about anything other than policing him. right now we can see how much help he will have if he manages to get back to the white house. this week, just a couple days ago, trump made his first trip back to capitol hill since his supporters mob today on january 6th. stormed the place and how do you think they welcomed him back, the impeached and convicted felon that put their lives in dangerous? well, obviously, birthday cake, candles and all and fonding, grove
plus, we just got some exclusive video a president widen and his former boss at a fundraiser last night sounding off on the supreme court. i will ask congressman jamie raskin about all the ways in which the rule of law is in trouble. and some thoughts from me about the aftermath of hunter biden s conviction and everything it tells us about his dad. . okay. here is a really important thing to remember. donald trump can t take a wrecking ball to american democracy all by himself. he will need lots of help to do it. he will need help from people in power who don t care about anything but pleasing him. and right now, we can see how much help he will get if he manages to get back to the white house. just a couple of days ago, trump made his first trip back to capitol hill since his supporters mobbed it on january 6. brutally attacking police officers and threatening to hang the vice president. how do you think who put all their lives in danger? well, obviously, with a birthday cak
welcome to the beat: weekend. i m ari melber. let s get to the headlines. we begin with breaking news today out of the spring court and is feeling concerns about the increasing partisanship, credibility crises, and corruption on display in this court. let me tell you what s going on. conservatives now reversing one of the only measures for gun safety that was actually passed and the recent era, and again you can put all politics to the side, as a measure of how extreme the support supreme court is today with his ruling. this was one of the things that got through the broken, hyper partisan washington we hear so much about. it even had centrists and moderate and republican support to try to deal with one part of our gun crisis in america. today the court reversed a ban on something called bump stocks . and the opinion was 6-3 meaning the conservatives and all three trump justices are making it easier to get deadly weapons in america. the other three justices from democratic
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this court. let me tell you exactly what s going on. conservatives now reversing one of the only measures for gun safety that was actually passed in the recent era, and again you can put all politics aside. as a measure of how extreme the supreme court is today with this ruling i m going to tell you this was one of the things that got through the broken hyper-partisan washington that we hear so much about that even had centrists and moderate and republican support to try to deal with one part of our gun crisis in america. today the court reversed a ban on something that are called bump stocks, and the opinion was 6-3, meaning the conservatives and all three trump justices are making it easier to get deadly weapon in america. the other three justices from democratic appointees dissented. all you really need to know about the bump stock thing is it takes weapons and makes them deadlier, basically makes a faster semiautomatic with a faster rate of fire. in fact you can go hundre