it is good to be back with you in this second hour of chris jansing reports on this monumental day in judicial history. at this hour, the supreme court facing a major test after historic arguments about donald trump. what we heard and why the justices may be skeptical of colorado s bid to kick him off the ballot. plus, it s the decades old case haunting the high court today. how the ghost of bush v. gore looming as the justices weigh trump s eligibility for a second term. and she s the 91-year-old republican who grabbed her constitution after the january 6th attack. what to know about the unlikely woman leading colorado s ballot challenge against donald trump. but we begin with those hours of critical debate at the supreme court that could chart the course of the 2024 election. nbc s garrett haake is following this from the d.c. bureau. also here with me, former u.s. attorney and senior fbi official, chuck rosenberg and msnbc contributor. garrett, i have been scrollin
. today marks an historic day at the supreme court. you re looking at some of the footage and some of the protesters there this morning. if trump s conduct for alleged engagement in insurrection bars him from the ballot as colorado has decided, that was the question before the court. the justices at times considered implications. home in a physical sense how the high court operates. the justices referred to that attack at times but careful to avoid pre-judging the other prosecutions from that day. they focused on this question if a state can respond to that attack by deeming a politician an insurrectionist and then booting him off the ballot. everyone realizing today the stakes are high. monumental day in judicial history. donald trump is now at the center of a u.s. supreme court battle. a legal case that could rock the race for the white house. voters in colorado sued aiming to remove trump from the ballot. the supreme court facing a major test. all nine of the
to mention our allies around the globe. for days and up until now, months. so the way that the president s demeanor in that report was characterized could not be more wrong on the facts. and clearly politically motivated, gratuitous. and, so, i will say that when it comes to the role and responsibility of a prosecutor in a situation like that, we should expect that there would be a higher level of integrity than what we saw. thank you. thank you for the question. vice president harris pushing back strongly against special counsel robert hur s report. more on that coming up. good day. i am chris jansing live in new york city. you just heard from vice president kamala harris, passionately defending the president. many others lashing out at the special counsel for portraying him as elderly and confused. one official arguing that could sway the entire campaign. some democrats are having flash backs to 2016, warning it is like jim comey and hillary clinton all over again. we r
single sentence that favors or even slightly sympathizes with donald trump s argument for presidential immunity. instead, the d.c. appeals court stands up trump s defenses only to knock them down one by one. the judges reached back through history citing case law from the early 1800s along with founders themselves on how they envisioned the power and limitations of the presidency. the court concludes quote, for the purposes of h criminal case, former president trump has become citizen trump with all of the defenses of any other criminal defendant. on trump s argument that the separation of powers doctrine bars judicial review of executive actions, the court cited presidents nixon and truman, both of whom were found to have exceeded their authority by the supreme court. nixon on trying to shield his tapes and truman on trying to seize steel mills. they also cited an 1882 supreme court ruling that said officers of the government can be sued pulling directly from the decision, q
our border since just october 1. almost 8 million since president biden s inaugural. those are all record-breaking numbers. the records have been broken and broken again. so clearly there s a crisis. everyone acknowledges this. congress and the president are not acting to do anything to fix it or to reverse this situation at this point. the huge numbers that we talk about all the time, they are numbers. they re important. they impact american cities. they impact the national security of our country and the bottom line of all of that. no one knows any of this better than border patrol chief jason owens. and while this number may sound a lot smaller, it s one that he wants you to know something about. he says it s a huge concern. he just posted these photos. he says that since october 1 border patrol has caught more than 160 coming in with gang affiliations. ms-13. all of them involved likely with murder, extortion, narcotics, weapons, human trafficking. prostitution. so on all