well, it is shaping up to be a really big week for the country, because this week, the supreme court is going to hear oral arguments on whether the 14th amendment disqualifies a donald trump from the ballot. and today, just a few hours ago, actually, we got a pretty good window into how trump s legal team plans to make their arguments. and let me tell you, this brief, i read it today, it includes a fair number of arguments from an alternate universe. for starters, trump s lawyers claim that the former president is not in fact and officer of the united states, which is who the 14th amendment covers. now, this is not a new or surprising argument necessarily being made by the trump team. but let s be real. it kind of defies logic. i mean, how could it be that the president of the united states is not an officer of the united states with an obligation, by the way, to abide by the constitution. it s kind of what the founders had in mind. but then, there s the other, perhaps even m
by, trump was reportedly just not interested in doing more to stop it. and trump learned that his own vice president had to be rushed to a secure location, trump reportedly responded, so what? so what? trump accepted the violence that they. he liked the threat to democracy than, they re whipping of violence on his behalf, the anger. and he still does. and that s quickly emerging as the core argument in president biden s reelection campaign. in a speech on friday, biden called democracy the most urgent question of our time, saying trump is willing to sacrifice it. and just this afternoon, speaking at mother emanuel church, he compared the perpetuation of the big lie to those who denied the outcome of the civil war. biden isn t imploring americans to save democracy from the man who by his own account wants to destroy it. but as president biden leans into this contrast with trump, this particular line of attack, something to think is just kind of old dunes, it s in the past. rep
ide with jen psaki starts no w. well, if the first week of the new year has shown us anything, it s that joe biden and donald trump are basically living on different planets when it comes to their approach to american democracy. tonight, i m gonna talk to house speaker emeritus nancy pelosi about all of that. plus, president obama has appointed david plouffe as a senior strategist who might be useful to the biden campaign. of course he would be. david is gonna join me tonight as well. but we do want to start tonight with some new reporting from abc news that is shedding greater light on what trump was doing, and more importantly not doing on january 6th. as a mob pushed its way into the capital, becoming more and more violent as the minutes tic by, trump was reportedly just not interested in doing more to stop it. and trump learned that his own vice president had to be rushed to a secure location, trump reportedly responded, so what? so what? trump accepted t
and on that note, i wish you all a very, very good night. it is an honor to be back with you. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thank you for staying up late with me. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. with news out of colorado, the state supreme court has ruled that state donald trump should be removed from the 2024 republican primary ballot. since january 6th, there has been plenty of discussion and legal circles and even some excitement about section three of the 14th amendment of the constitution, which bans insurrectionists and people who have aided insurrectionists from holding office. there has been a whole lot of interest into whether this section of the amendment might bar donald trump from running from office because of his role in the january 6th insurrection. the minnesota state court dismissed the idea. over in michigan, a judge ruled trump could not be taken off that state s ballot. in total, 14th amendment suits to disqualify t
conviction. why so many voters know the ex president did something criminal but still plan to vote for him anyway. for the most part even if he was found guilty i would still vote for him. she s here on that. just hours after the colorado supreme court kick to trump off the ballot, the threats started pouring in. ryan riley has the latest. plus language meant to divide us. it is language that i think people have rightly found similar to the language of hitler. the biden campaign now explicitly calling out what donald trump is doing. i never read mein kampf. and rudy giuliani declares bankruptcy rather than pay out millions in lawsuits. just who he owes money to when all in starts, right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. are very polarized country where it s hard to achieve consensus on just about anything, a strong majority of americans believe that donald trump is a crook. this comes from new polling by the new york times which found that 58%