reports. we begin with breaking news, in the last 24 hours, donald trump suffering two major legal blows when it comes to his actions on and around january 6th. three judges, on a federal appeals court unanimously dismissed trump s claims that he has immunity from several claims connected to the capitol riot. the judge overseeing the justice department s criminal case ruled trump has no protection from prosecution as a former president. let s go right now to nbc s dasha burns joining us from cedar rapids, iowa. where donald trump is expected to speak in this next hour. welcome to you, dasha. how is trump s legal team reacting to these back-to-back losses? well, trump spokesperson is reacting to both of these lawsuits, saying in a statement, in a response to the federal appeals court ruling, this is a limited narrow and procedural ruling, the facts fully show that on january 6th, president trump was acting on behalf of the american people. carrying out duties as president of
night and lots of states across the country, we hear at msnbc we ll be covering it until the cows come home, until steve kornacki s eyelids turned inside out on live television. all, right that does it for us tonight. now it is time for the last word with of the great lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. as word witgood evening, rachel. i have a programming question to your programming note about wednesday night. you said we will all be here discussing the so-called debate. you don t have somewhere else to be, do you? does all include me? yes? because i haven t watched a single republican debate. i have a perfect record of not watching or commenting on a single republican so-called debate. i am going to change you to the proverbial loom, it is good for you, you know, anything can happen, lawrence. do i have to talk? yes. okay. i won t ever tell you what to say, but, also i like that you are appealing to me like i am making these decisions. it s up t
it s up to you lawrence. yes, it s completely up to you. you must discuss a lot about vivek ramaswamy. now, rachel, i ve spent the weekend curled up with this amazing new york times number one bestseller, debuting at number one on the bestseller list. and i have so many questions. and i was kind of wondering if maybe tonight, you could come over? yes. okay, here s what we ll do, to give you time to come over. here is what we are going to do. we are going to do a first segment with mary trump s reaction to her uncle being out of control in court today. and then we are going to talk about rachel maddow s number one best selling, new york times number one bestseller, debuts a number, one prequel, an american fight against fascism. and what i m gonna do, rachel, is it is going to be a discussion, but i am going to be selling the thing. no, but it s specific. i am going to be selling the audio book. and you know why i want to push the audio book. we will discuss all of t
subversion criminal case just reinstated the gag order she issued on the ex president earlier this month. a significant development made by u.s. district judge tanya chutkan, who denied trump s request to pause the initial order while his appeal plays out. she also lifted a temporary freeze on the gag order that she issued on october 20th while she considered his request. now, you may recall the gag order, which was limited in its initial scope, had prohibited donald trump from making certain statements about the special counsel s team or potential witnesses, including any comments that directly targeted the court s personnel. potential witnesses, or the special counsel and his staff. here s some important context on this late breaking developments on the sunday evening. earlier this week, following a report that his former chief of staff mark meadows might have actually reached an immunity deal with the special counsel, donald trump attacked meadows on his failed social medi
Television companies. It is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. Next on American History tv, historians discuss the social and political impact of several events leading up to the civil war. Including the fugitive slave act and abolitionist john browns raid on a federal armory at harpers fairy. Erry. This was part of Yale Universitys Gilder Lehrman center for the study of slavery, resistance, and abolition. This was the most fun to , deciding which events, which problems, which moments of the precivil war era would we represent. Said, thisanna and is one you should moderate. Speak on no, i want to it. [laughter] which is great. Hook herst trying to into being moderator. The shock of events. The passage by douglas at the nation, the way he put it, not educated by theory, they are taught by events. We all know, we lived through events that no one predicts. Who predicted pearl harbor . Some people, sort of. Who predicted the end of the cold war in 89 . 9 11 . Last ye