Good evening, i am norah odonnell. And thank you for being with us. We want to begin with the news and analysis of that historic decision from the Supreme Court. The justices ruling that states cannot bar donald trump from running for another term. Even though he is accused by some of insurrection. Colorado and several other states were seeking to disqualified trauma because of his action surrounding the january 6th attack on the u. S. Capitol. Now todays decision was unanimous. All nine justices agreed that trump cannot be barred from the ballot. And perhaps the most important ruling about a presdential election of more than two decades since the decision of Bush Versus Gore in 2000. This is the key paragraph of the ruling. States may disqualified persons attempting to hold state office, but states have no power under the constitution with respect to federal offices, especially the presidency. Now the courts three liberal members say the courts majority went too far. Justices sonya so
Good evening. I am norah odonnell. And thank you for being with us. We want to begin with the news and analysis of that historic decision from the supreme court. The justices ruling that states cannot bar donald trump from running for another term, even though he is accused by some of insurrection. Colorado and several other states were seeking to disqualified trump because of his action surrounding the january 6th attack on the u. S. Capitol. Now todays decision was unanimous. All nine justices agreed that trump cannot be barred from the ballot. And perhaps the most important ruling about a president ial election of more than two decades since the decision of Bush Versus Gore in 2000. This is the key paragraph of the ruling. States may disqualify persons attempting to hold state office, but states have no power under the constitution with respect to federal offices, especially the presidency. Now the courts three liberal members say the courts majority went too far. Justices sonya sot
in south korea. president biden will tour a samsung facility. president biden said i m on my first trip to asia as president to strengthen alliances and partnerships and working with fellow democracy to shape the rules of the road for the 21st century. the president lands as soaring gas prices hit a new daily record high. new numbers released $4.59 for gallon of regular gas, that is up 1 cent from yesterday. the house voted thursday to prevent price gouging. members want to place the blame on russia. you can think the activity of vladamir putin for invading ukraine and pulling oh, nonsense. with all due respect, that is utter nonsense. griff: others refusing to believe the pain being felt at the pump. americans are still recovering from this terrible pandemic and there are a lot of other world events making things difficult. you are unwilling to say gas prices are too high. we re doing all we can, senator. griff: not the only mounting crisis the president left
here is what s interesting, i would say. there is a theme. we have seen several races in which the conservative media, the republican establishment, others folks, even donald trump, have come in and tried to take out a candidate or persuade their voters not to go down a certain road. we saw it with certain attacks on kathy barnette who had a late surge in that race and pennsylvania. she still in it but not ahead as of now. we saw a bit with mastriano. it has followed on deaf ears. donald trump endorsed him over the weekend and, he now appears to be the winner. there s no real, i don t think there s a theory here yet about what does and doesn t work when you re trying to get manga era republican voters to turn against a candidate. but that is a thing that a lot of paid professional politicos are trying to do and it s used for powerful power to have if you re working for mitch mcconnell and want to steer things in your direction. the thing i m looking forward to that i don t
pennsylvania. where lieutenant governor john fetterman has won the democratic senate nominations, nomination just days after suffering a stroke. his campaign says he doesn t expect a full recovery. fetterman will now face off with the winner of what is turned out to be a very competitive republican primary. with former hedge fund manager david mccormack, trump back doctor oz, and conservative commentator kathy barnett. doctor oz is one of the many candidates endorsed by the former president. another, doug mastriano. remember this name. he has won the republican nomination for governor of pennsylvania. this man, he was at the capitol on january six. he refused to accept the results of the 2020 election, and he is now going to be running, come this november. meanwhile, we had just learned that north carolina congressman, madison cawthorn, called primary challenger chuck edwards to concede his race. we ve got a lot to cover, so you know the one person who is going to be here to