our top stories this hour the ballot ballots destined for the u.s. supreme court. colorado republicans appeal a ruling that would have kept donald trump out of that state s primary cost. so what happens next. plus, new scrutiny for nikki haley, after a voter confronts her with this question what was the cause of the united states civil war? well, don t come with an easy question or anything. so her full response and the damage control she s trying to do today. and the sight of a quadruple murder. today there s a lot of debate about tearing down the house where four college students were brutally killed. we begin the hour with former president donald trump and the efforts to boot him over the ballot over the constitution s so-called insurrection clause. in colorado, the state democratic republican parties is asking the supreme court to consider the issue. maine s secretary of state is due to decide whether trump can be on their state s ballot. the former pres
republican that is running against us. that s the only way they re going to counteract the problems they have in the midterm election. we ve seen it time and time again, voters make decisions in ate very particular way. and it doesn t necessarily reflect polling and an important question. and then, the question is why did georgia republican voters think that the best person to address the extraordinary complex issue of inflation is herschel walker. we ll leave that to the good voters of georgia to sort through. good luck with that. it kind of bruised the poll. david drucker, sam tine, adrienne elrod, thank you. let s sneak in a quick break. up next, we ll get a report as russia escalates aggression, some calling gas blackmail.
time that the lease was considered and that he was actually living there. he has not live there for quite awhile. he s no longer a tenant that have condo. so that is inexcusable to think there was not such a document that existed at the time that the lease was entered into that evaluated. to do it after the abc breaks the story undermines any suggestion that this was an arp s length kind of evaluation of the appropriateness of him being there and that the market rate. it looks like something they threw together in a day to try to defend what he had already done. the author of that is kevin minoli, a career person there 1 years. it was striking he you the his name to the memo. he owns that as a kind of independent career judgment about the ethical probity there and one wonders under what circumstances that was written. given the way that the arrangement obviously flies in the face of sort of common sense. you ve also got a story, sam, in the daily beast that the pruitt lied to congres
major epa announcement that happened today, the ending of the fuel emissions standards for cars put in place under the obama s epa. that is being done as pruitt is being dogged by all these revelations. we ll talking about that issue with our next guest and a good point these ethical lapses are orders of magnitude greater than david shulkin. i have a funny feeling we ll hear more things coming out. eric and sam, thank you. with me now ted lieu, in a letter today requesting congress investigate pruitt s condo deal. what you do you make of this news. what is scott pruitt did is part of a pattern of corruption in the trump cabinet. we ve seen ben carson order a $31,000 dining table. ryan zinke spent $13,000 on office doors.
associate identified only as person a who the fbi believes to be a russian investigation operative. van zer zaun is one of the characters who looks more important as time goes by. barbara mcquaid, a former federal prosecutor and justice analyst, frank figliuzzi, an msnbc national security analyst and benjamin wittes editor-in-chief of the law fair blog and an msnbc analyst. frank, on the vander zune sentencing and i want to move to the manafort file. what do you interpret as the reason to hammer this guy? in the way that mueller did? so an even bigger story than the 30-day prison sentence which to most people would seem like small potatoes for lying to mueller s team is what van der zwaan lied about. that s the message that mueller