I need to hand it off to the next hour with jose diazbalart who picks up our breaking News Coverage right now. Good morning. We begin with breaking news. Former nfl star o. J. Simpson who was acquitted in one of the most famous murder trials in American History has died at the age of 76. His Family Posting on his x account this morning saying he succumbed to his battle with cancer yesterday. Joining us Now Msnbc Anchor , Chris Jansing. What do we know about this . Well, we dont know a lot. A short statement was put up by his family that he had succumbed to cancer but the announcement o. J. Simpson has died is sure to send ripples through much of america who remember this incredibly gifted Football Hero who became a guest as the guest said in the last hour a bona fide movie star, someone on commercials, someone who was at football games. He was ubiquitous throughout america and crossed all racial lines. The idea that he might murder his wife came as the most incredible shock for anyone
next president. take a look at these headlines. the atlantic devoting an entire issue to the subject of a second trump term with the words, if trump wins. from the new york times, why a second trump presidency may be more radical than the first. from the guardian, a second trump term will be far more autocratic than the first, he s telling us. the washington post, a trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. the through line is a warning donald trump could transform every institution that comes under the sway of the presidency from the justice department to the federal bureaucracy that makes every government agency tip, to the allianct underpin our foreign pocy. don t assume trump will fall sort of his goals like did so often in his first term. a second-term trump would be different. from the atlantic, i his first term, corruption and brutality were mitigated by lay v llaziness. in a second term, he woul have more willing enablers in tow and a much more
saturday. smerconish is up next. voting with conviction. i m michael smerconish. can anything shake donald trump s hold on the republican nomination? the polls are nothing if not consistent. here s what they show. joe biden and donald trump are the likely favorites to win their party s presidential nomination. as of today, that matchup is close viewed nationally or by battleground states, it s probably trump who is in the lead. polls show americans overwhelmingly think the country is headed in the wrong direction. trump benefits from the perception that he s best for the economy and kept the united states out of war. biden perceived by many as being too old for the job, of course, as bad as the polling has been for biden, tuesday s off year elections for big for the democrats. big in ohio, kentucky, virginia. from the day after coverage in the washington post, there was this. for democrats, tuesday s results were an ant dote. polls don t vote. it quickly became a post tue
to engage in national security and foreign affairs under the constitution. but that is not leeway to commit crimes such as abusing and misusing the military for political purposes or to commit murder. and i think the nixon cases that were cited show also the important distinction between civil cases for money damages like the nixon versus fitzgerald case, and criminal cases like the case that the special counsel back then was investigating and prosecuting against the watergate burglars. the court made clear that there is a need for a president when in office to be able to make decisions without constantly worrying about being sued civilly for money damages. and that s why in nixon versus fitzgerald the court held that in view of the special nature of the president s duties it s appropriate to recognize absolute immunity for acts that the president engages in within
carroll civil damages trial. this is the second trial in a defamation case against trump. the judge just today issued some rules of what the attorneys can and cannot do. walk us through what we learned. yes, so, essentially the judge made it clear that what we re talking about here is damages. so donald trump is not to again defame e. jean carroll, not to again deny that he engaged in sexual assault, he s not to bring in her own sexual or dating history. all of that is out of bounds because the focus here is all about money damages. so, without all of those things to talk about, i think things will be very focused. louis kaplan is the judge who presided over the last trial. he has a good sense of the need to put a tight leash on the lawyers for donald trump and it appears to me that s exactly what he s doing. barbara mcquade, thank you for offering us your expertise. good to see you here. her book, by the way, attack