That the United States Congress Passed the freedom to vote act, and the john lewis Voting Rights advancement act. [applause] the fight for freedom, today and states across our nation, extremists propose and passed laws that attack the freedom of a woman to make decisions about her own body. Laws that would make no exceptions for rape or incest. Here in alabama, they attack the freedom to use ivf treatments. Women and couples, denied the ability to fulfill their dream, of having a child. And consider the irony, on the one hand, these extremists tell women they do not have the freedom to and an unwanted pregnancy. Extremists tell women they do not have the freedom to start a family. Let us agree, one does not have to abandon their faith or deeply held beliefs, to agree the government should not be telling her what to do with her body. [applause] the fight for freedom, that every person in our nation has a right to be free from the horror of gun violence. [applause] and yet today, these e
The vote of the people determining who the president of the United States is, or instead, violence and forced determining. As alleged in this indictment, he chose the latter. And he failed at it. And now the country and federal government will attempt to hold him criminally responsible for what he tried to do. For that alleged felony criminal conspiracy. We of course have been expecting this indictment for a long time but it is no less stunning for having been foreshadowed for so long. This is a federal criminal indictment of the former president for trying to overturn an election and keep himself in power. The indictment also describes six unindicted coconspirators. Five of the six of them, lawyers, primarily those who crafted the bogus legal arguments that underpinned trumps alleged attempts to undermine the electoral process. I say that because theres been interesting efforts within the Legal Profession to essentially police itself, and without accountability of various kinds for a
Tonight on all in. A president of the United States has to have immunity. And the Supreme Court is going to be really good at it. The supreme will take Donald Trumps immunity case. This is a momentous Decision Just to hear this case tonight Rachel Maddow and lawrence on the Supreme Court their delayed decision, and what it means for justice. Plus, lisa rooney, and Kristy Greenberg on how we got here and david claw from the new political reality for an electorate that has stopped trump before. When all in, starts right now. Pierre i by a grand, jerry for his role in that insurrection. Well, today, in a single page order released a 5 00, the court agreed to consider trumps manifest weak claim, that he is immune from prosecution for the January 6th Insurrection because he was acting in some sense of his official capacity as president. But, the order itself is not the story here, its the timing it all comes back for the timing. Lets remember, the court case the trial of donald trump over h
Here tonight. Thanks for being here. Its gonna do it for me for now. But now its time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. But evening, lawrence. With evening, rachel. After we get through Andrew Weissmann and neal katyal talking about the case against donald trump, where it stands tonight. We are gonna get to the United Nations, which we dont do often enough here, to speak with our United Nations ambassador, because the United States becomes the head of the Security Council tomorrow. It is our term for the ambassadors term, i should say Linda Thomasgreenfield, u. N. Ambassador, fantastic. I was just talking about the u. S. Having this confounding, sort of dilemma, or decisionmaker, deciding whether or not its gonna keep its word on being really mad at uganda for their killed against law while simultaneously planning to go ahead with this hundreds of millions of dollars in funding that would we give them for anti age this year. With Linda Thomasgreenfield, which were gonna talk ab
Welcome to prime time week, and i am alex wagner. Lets get right to the weeks top stories. He is tall, lean, and blond, with dazzling white teeth, and he looks ever so much like robert redford. He dates slinky fashion models, belongs to the most elegant clubs, and at only 30 years of age, estimates that he is worth more than 200 million. That is how the New York Times described donald trump in 1976. If you asked donald trump then and now, hed say his most valuable asset was his brand. And for decades, the name trump has been synonymous with wealth. Trump promoted himself to the world as a business genius, want to be rich . Be like trump. You walk down the street sometimes, and people will touch you just for the good luck. Ive never figured that out of never really understood it. But its something thats been happening. And i took great offense that. And now i guess not to get at considered a compliment. I dont know what it is. But perhaps theyre going into a deal, or theyre going up to