hey, everybody. welcome back. it is 11:00 a.m. in the east. i m yasmin vossoughian back for a second hour here. we re following the breaking news out of michigan that is putting pressure on the u.s. supreme court this morning. the state supreme court rejecting a case to remove trump from the 2024 ballot, just a week after a ruling by the colorado supreme court removing him from the ballot in that state. want to bring in nbc news correspondent vaughn hillyard, carol lam, and former republican congressman from florida david jolly as well. vaughn, if you will, walk us through this ruling out of michigan. it is most notable the supreme court, we should understand, is not actually taking up the appeal from the litigants. instead, they denied to hear any arguments and to take up the case. but by doing so, they are all but affirming the lower court s decision, which in the state of michigan is to not disqualify donald trump from the ballot, like the state of colorado did. on the p
herschel walker at this point. but he has helped us distill a trend growing clear for decades among the gop. for republicans winning is the only thing. that s about blunts, unambiguous message conservatives have conveyed to the american people this week as they closed ranks i m around a man whose alleged life choices so thoroughly and fundamentally contradict the values they purport to stand for, it actually boggles the mind. the most recent development, the new york times reporting that the same woman who alleged herschel walker paid for her abortion in 2009 also alleged that walker urged her to terminate a second pregnancy two years ago, or two years later, excuse me. herschel walker has denied those allegations, saying he has never paid for or pressured a woman to have an abortion. this october surprise, which at one point would have ended other candidates chances, just didn t seem to matter to the right wing. we are full speed ahead in georgia, said the president of mitch
that is the blunt and ambiguous message conservatives have conveyed to the american people as they close ranks around the man who is alleged life choices so fundamentally contradicting the values that they report to stand for. it actually boggles the mind. the most recent development, the new york times, reporting that the same woman who alleged, herschel walker paid for her abortion in 2009 also alleged that walker urged her to terminate a second pregnancy two years ago. or two years later, excuse. me herschel walker has denied those allegations. saying, he has never paid for or pressured a woman to have an abortion. this october, as a, surprise which at one point would ve ended other candidates chances just studded seem to not matter to the right-wing. we are full speed ahead in georgia, so the president of mitch mcconnell center leadership fund super pac. we have seen this movie before said christian coalition, leader ralph reid. this goes beyond hypocrisy. it wouldn t be
government. a decade ago the new york times admitteded and they published a piece on the rise of domestic surveillance abuse which exploded. the patriot act became a short hand for government abuse in overreaching which inflicted collateral damage on political dissent and religious liberty. that s still true and still a tragedy. what is fascinating is that the new york times stopped acknowledging it. there was not a single mention of the 9-11 anniversary on the front page of yesterday s paper. the paper that purports to represent new york the epicenter of the 9-11 attack. why would the new york times ignore 9-11? a good question. because the new york times and the tiny leadership class it represents now endorses the nationwide crackdown on civil rights that 9-11 made possible. they benefit from it. it s how they keep power. so 9-11 was less a trag than an opportunities. if you don t believe that watch how joe biden commemorated that anniversary yesterday it s not
trump bomb shells. at that time january 6th hearings yesterday a star witness no one ever heard of testified about something she didn t see which right there makes her testimony as la jets mate as smoke signals from liz warren. so what s the gist? that is then president donald trump was being driven back to the white house after the january 6th rally and demanded the car pull over so he could snack on an injured dog on the side of the road. yeah. it was a pekingese which he then sleuthered in ketchup which he devoured with his hands. don jr. was in the back seat. she was told that anyway. actually she was told on the way to the rally donald trump stripped naked declared himself the king and all of shakespeare plays on his smith correspond rona processor he bothered from his head adolf hitler who isn t really dead but lives in a shampoo bottle in mar-a-lago pool house. maybe that ace bit much. but her claims are even much believable. she claims she was told that trump actuall