keep them for whatever reason. the person he was listening to instead of his lawyer who was saying you have to give it back, is a guy who is not a lawyer, even though the organization he runs is called judicial watch. he took advice from him and a range of others who told him he could legally keep the documents and should fight the justice department. trump would often cite him to others, and he told some of trump s lawyers he could keep them, even as they disagreed. my question is whether or not trump will try to compel his current lawyers to try to make that argument again in court. there s a pattern here of the president forum shopping. looking for people who tell him what he wants to hear. the same thing happened with respect to the election. he had very capable lawyers like bill barr, like pat cipollone, like his own campaign general counsel telling him, sir, you lost the election. there s no evidence of voter fraud. he had other people in his ear telling him otherwise without a
these arguments. trace: your assessment is there i know the court leaps conservative. is it even close in the end? well, if they reach the merits, i would bet against the president s claim. the president previously said he had authority for the eviction moratorium through the cdc. many of us said at that time, no, you do not have that authority. in fact, it was declared repeatedly unconstitutional. so this is a president that has exceeded his authority repeatedly and has violated the constitution. in my view, he s doing it again. now, that doesn t notice what the white house press secretary was going into, the merits of why the president wants this. it s not a question of the reason. it s a question of how he went about it. that is what is in front of the supreme court, if they get past the standing question.
to mifepristone. as you ve said, this is a drug that was approved decades ago and been safely used it s the most commonly used form of medication to terminate pregnancy. and the fact that we re even having this discussion is absolutely insane. this is just like dobbs was something we had never seen, constitutional right taken away by the supreme court, we have never had a federal judge say he knows better than the entire medical establishment including the fda about the safety and efficacy of a drug well, i mean, i think the standing question is one that has galled a lot of the lawyers we have on the show. the supposed people with standing are conservative doctors who say they may in some instance have to treat a woman who at some point took mifepristone and winds up in the e.r. your job is to treat women in the e.r. the standing thing is wild but what i want you to comment about, alito when he wrote this ruling, one of the concurring
be covering the costs of college graduates with high paying jobs. howard: right. tim, there was a debate within the biden administration at the time that one faction said this was unconstitutional. the president made the decision go ahead anyway, but that s barely been mentioned in the coverage. it s been mentioned in some of the coverage, and congress it s been tilted too far towards the biden administration. you see people at the washington post still critiquing it, the washington post editorial board, see some support from the los angeles times, sos the mixed. you re seeing a sense of what the debate is. and the question on legality is important, and i think the press is zeroing in a little bit on the standing question which is whether or not people who have brought this case are injured parties. i mean, it s kind of funny that one of the entities that is claiming they re injured is a student the loan servicing organization. i guess that is the entity we re supposed to feel so
Moscow. And on this show, from the parents of one of The Americans being detained in russia, were live with them in just a moment for an interview youll not want to miss, all of it as President Bidens domestic agenda seems to pick up steam. Infrastructure and voting rights. Whats happened in the world while the eyes are fixed on geneva. And its decision day in the Supreme Court. Its on obamacare, lgbtq rights, and free speech. Any second we get word from the court, were going to break in as it happens. Im Hallie Jackson with Josh Letterman at the white house. Leigh ann caldwell on capitol hill and an msnbc contributor. Good morning to all of you. Josh, let me start with you. The president returns home from overseas. Then the sales job begins. Frankly, theres a pretty long list of unresolved issues here. Reporter what the white house is saying, hallie, is the president achieved what he cement out to do, not some grand detat or where moscow becomes a u. S. Alley, but instead trying to ke