did you hear that? seacrest is on speed dial. he sure wise. congrats to pat sajak and such an impressive run. and way to go ryan, on your new gig. on that note, i wish you all a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. i ll see you at the end of tomorrow. of tomorrow we have some breaking news tonight from the new york times this evening, some reporting that makes a recently unearthed trump recording even more incredible. if you ve not yet heard it, nbc news has independently obtained the audio of former president trump and his bedminster unit new jersey golf club, essentially admitting to a crime. here is trump in july of 2021 telling a group of people that he still has classified information after leaving the white house, and then proceeding to destroy his own defense. he explicitly says on audiotape that he could have declassified this when he was president, but he did not. take a listen. isn t that amazin
this evening. alex wagner tonight starts right tonight with my good, friend alex wagner. ts righ thank you, chris, and thk you as always for joining us this hour. we have some breaking news tonight from the new york times this evening, some reporting that makes a recently unearthed trump recording even more incredible. if you ve not yet heard it, nbc news has independently obtained the audio of former president trump and his bedminster unit new jersey golf club, essentially admitting to a crime. here is trump in july of 2021 telling a group of people that he still has classified information after leaving the white house, and then proceeding to destroy his own defense. he explicitly says on audiotape that he could have declassified this when he was president, but he did not. take a listen. isn t that amazing? this totally wins my case. except it is highly confidential this was done by the military and given to me. i think that we can probably do that, yes? we ll have to
thank you both. that is all in on this tuesday night. alex wagner tonight starts right now with my good friend, alex wagner. good evening, alex. good evening, chris. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. we have breaking news tonight from the new york times this evening, some reporting that makes a recently unearthed chunk reporting even more incredible. if you have not yet heard nbc news has independently obtained the audio of former president trump at his bedminster, new jersey, golf club essentially admitting to a crime. here s trump in july 2021 telling a group of people he still has classified information after leaving the white house and then proceeding to destroy his own defense. he explicitly says on audiotape that he could have declassified this when he was president but he did not. take a listen. i just found isn t that amazing? this totally wins my case, you know? except it is like highly confidential. yeah, yeah. secretive this is secre
a lot to get to this morning, including another state removing donald trump from the 2024 republican presidential primary ballot. we will have expert legal and political analysis all not big decision from maine secretary of state. plus we will show you nikki haley attempt at cleaning up her highly criticized answer on the cause of the civil war. , also ahead, the latest from gaza. israeli forces continue to strike refugee camps where it believes hamas terrorists are hiding. this comes as the biden administration is putting more pressure on israel to protect civilians inside gaza. plus we ll take a look at the stories that dominated 2023, from two wars overseas to chaos on capitol hill, as well as the former presidents many legal battles as he enters a presidential election. a lot to go through. witness for all of it, nbc news national affairs analyst john heilemann, president of the national action network and host of msnbc s politicsnation the reverend al sharpton, washingto
joseph stern writes that the more v. harper ruling, one smacking down the lacking independent state legislator theory is a paradigm attic example of the course example this term. republican litigants come forward with a sloppy, big swing arguments that would destroy large swaths of progressive precedent and, in some cases, endanger our constitutional system. roberts joined by the liberals, plus justice brett kavanaugh, or justice amy coney barrett, or both, declines the invitation. in the process, this coalition gets to look reasonable moderate and independent even though they are just leaving the law where it was before. after the atomic bomb that was dobbs and his ongoing toxic followed cabinet and baird must surely be taking some comfort in the shelter that justice roberts is offering them. joining us now is mark joseph stern, and he s a senior writer for slate, covering the courts and law. mark, it s great to see you tonight. thanks for being here, let me get right to it. so, i thi