this is a historic moment for the united states supreme court and for american democracy. the justices about to consider whether donald trump is constitutionally barred from being president again. we ll hear the unprecedented arguments and the court s responses live. welcome to cnn s special live coverage of the trump ballot battle at the u.s. supreme court. i m kaitlan collins live outside the supreme court. and i m jake tapper. the nation s highest court will review this landmark case. the division by colorado s supreme court to disqualify former president trump from the 2024 ballot based on what some call the insurrectionist ban 12349th amendment to the u.s. constitution. today the nine justices, three of them nominated by trump, are poised to have the most direct impact on a presidential election since the supreme court decided bush v. gore nearly a quarter sentry ago. now among the questions before the highest court in the land today, did trump incite an insurrecti
in his report on the biden classified documents investigation. now, while hur ultimately decided not to charge biden for mishandling the classified documents going back decades, the bigger news was what his team uncovered about the president s mental faculties or lack thereof. the 345 page document is the must-read tell-all of the day. complete with gems like this. he, the president, did not remember when he was vice president. forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended, if it was 2013 when did i stop being vice president? and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began. in 2009 still vice president? he did not remember even within several years when his son bo died. and his memory appeared hazy when describing the afghanistan debate that was once so important to him. now, there is simply no way to explain this. you know the white house is worried about the report when biden s attorneys felt the need to dispute the findings about
i get it. rachel, before you go, i don t think you can guess the one thing that clarence thomas and i have in common. and i will give you a hand, it is a career ambition that neither one of us realized. is it related to bribery? it is the last thing you would guess ever went through my mind. but clarence thomas, at least, partially gets to dress as one of these and that is a catholic priest. [laughter] clarence thomas actually was in the seminary studying to be a priest before going off into law. and when i was a ten year old altar boy, and by far, the most solemn altar boy you have ever seen. it went through my mind, more as a performance thing because you are up there on the stage, i mean alter, and you are in a supporting role and you think maybe should i move up to the big role? lawrence, i feel like this is one of those things that could get real deep real fast, but i should probably leave it right there. it is going to get deeper in this show right before we b
on a real vote and it said roe and then the other side said wade, are o w versus wade on a robot. i thought it pretty fantastic. i get it. rachel, before you go, i don t think you can guess the one thing that clarence thomas and i have in common. and i will give you a hand, it is a career ambition that neither one of us realized. is it related to bribery? it is the last thing you would guess everyone through my mind. but clarence thomas, at least, partially gets to dress as one of these and that is a catholic priest. [laughter] clarence thomas actually was in the seminary starting to be a priest before going off into law. and when i was a ten year old altar boy, and by far, the most solemn altar boy you have ever seen. it went through my mind, more as a performance thing because you are up there on the stage, i mean alter, and you are in a supporting role and you think maybe should i move up to the big role? lawrence, i feel like this is one of those things that could
that action can overcome partisan division. serbia is taking swift action on gun violence not a progressive country, by the way. just two mass shootings in may that left seven dead and 21 injured, serbia took action. it has the third largest rate of gun ownership in the world, and it pushed through new laws with near unanimous support despite deep political divides. joining us now with more nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel. richard, how were they able to get this done? reporter: well, the secret is it wasn t even that difficult. there were these two mass shootings last month. they were extremely rare. people were outraged. they took to the streets. but they weren t just dismissed as tragedies, dismissed as part of a problem that is too difficult to confront. the people got together. the government got together. lawmakers from a variety of political parties put their differences aside, and they radically changed the entire country s relationship wit