dealing with hamas, or getting the hostages home. what we are seeing now is not the best way to do that. ben rhodes, thank you for spending time with me tonight. that s our show for tonight. now the time is my last word with ali velshi. i hope a lot of people listen to what ben says. we ll continue this a little later. but you have a good evening, my friend. tonight the special counsel jack smith is once again making his case for the supreme court to weigh in on donald trump s claims of presidential immunity in the criminal case of united states of america versus donald trump. the special counsel and his team are asking the supreme court to grant an expedited review of trump s claims that his attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election fall within the, quote, outer primitive perimeter, end quote, of his official duties as president and easier for immune from prosecution. yesterday fog filed a brief before the supreme court urging them to stay way for the issue
byte is and that answer. with us this morning we have mike barnacle, mara gay, georgeway and staff writer david from. a lot going on this morning. we start with that historic decision. the colorado supreme court has ruled donald trump is disqualify ed from holding office again after determining he engaged in insurrection on january 6th, 2021. the fourth ruling keeps the former president off the state s presidential primary lot next year. the court stayed its decision until january 4th to allow for any further appeals, and the trump team is already vowing they will be doing just that. but the fourth is just one day before the deadline for the state to print its presidential primary ballots. colorado secretary of state discussed the tight timeline in an interview last night on msnbc. if they take the case, we will make clear to the court that the deadlines and the timelines. the bigger thing is if the court does not take the case, as of january 5th, if the u.s. supreme court
very good to beac you for another hour. i m alex witt in for katy tur. we re continuing our breaking news coverage of a legal setback for special counsel jack smith in his election interference investigation into the former president. the supreme court has just put out a single line order statement denying smith s request to immediately settle trump s presidential immunity claims, meaning the issue now heads to the court of appeals in d.c. we do have the date for those oral arguments. so what this decision all means for timing and how quickly the supreme court could take up the case once that court rules, there s a lot to get into. we re going to dive in right now joining us, justice and intelligence correspondent, ken dilanian, and msnbc legal analyst, and former assistant d.a. with the manhattan district attorney s office, catherine christian. ken, first off, were we expecting a sidestep like this? because that s essentially what it is. it s a punt, if you will, from the su
face. just last, week we learned of another phone call from donald trump urging election officials to reject the will of the american people. that detroit news reports the call made just days after the election. of the call, the news outlet reports trump pressured two republican canvassers in michigan not to certify the 2020 presidential election. nbc news has not heard or verified the audit reports. president biden won michigan by nearly 155,000 votes in a fair and free election. but for donald trump, accepting defeat, not an option. instead, he discouraged his supporters to show up at he encouraged his supporters to show up to the capitol on january 6th, and you know what happened next. a deadly insurrection. and donald trump s all hands on thick effort to derail american democracy failed but we cannot let down our guard. a new column from the deli piece rates the fact that didn t work should not give us a false sense of security regarding the potential danger that someth
of the 14th amendment in the constitution, which bans insurrectionists and people of aided insurrectionists from holding office. and there has been a whole lot of interest in 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 michigan, a judge ruled a trump could not be taken off that states ballot. in total, 14th amendment suits to disqualify trump have been dismissed in four states. they are pending appeal in two states and they are panicked being heard in for the first time in 13 states. and just until two hours ago, it looked like colorado would go in a similar direction to what we have seen in these other states. last month in colorado the issue got a weeklong public hearing in district court and you may not have been paying attention but there were high prideful witnesses, like congressman ken buck, and trump aide kash patel who spok