justice samuel alito - and no one else there s no other birthdays o that day [laughter thank, you my friend thank you and thank you at-home for joining us this. our i m happy to have you here i know it is weird to have m here on a thursday, like i was last night, and now and friday as i am tonight. i know that is unusual but your usual host at thi hour, the great alex wagner, i off on a family vacation thi week great week to choose, alex wagner and because she is a way, yo are stuck with me. i apologize, alex wagner we ll be back next week. but tonight, because you are stuck with me, you are als stuck with this. - believe you and i have all received copies of the statement that i read to the court, in open court as i said in that statement, the reason that i have changed my decision to fight thi matter is because i now believ it would be against th national interest and have a brutalizing effect on my family, that s had a long two-year struggle concerning this matte
tonight. but your usual host at thi hour would be alex wagner s of on a family vacation this week great week to choose, alex and because she is a way you are stuck with me. i apologize. alex we ll be back next week but tonight, because you are stuck with me, you are als stuck with this. gentlemen, i believe you ve all received copies of the prepared statement that i read to the court in open court as i said in that statement, the reason i changed m decision to fight this matte is because i do not believe it would be against the nationa interest and we have a brutalizing effect of my famil and is gone a through two-year struggle concerning this matter. you also may be aware that wha i said in open court, that i categorically and flatly den the assertions that were mad by the private prosecutors wit regard to their contentions of bribery and extortion on m part i will have nothing more to sa at this point. i will make an address to th nation within a few days and so the cri
it s the first time in hi life that the guy is actuall being held accountable for his own dirty deeds. did you think that this day would ever come for this man karma is a big pitch. we don t know what but what we do know is that th republican party has decided i not going to take an off ram once again give the president some money to bite this bowl [bleep so demanding that da brag essentially hand over all of his evidence - you have no jurisdictio here it will require them to b pro-hush money payments to por stars, pro insurrection, pro classified documents sitting around at mar-a-lago - arrested me for so many things oh, those prosecutors. this is a genuine test of how much war we are as a democracy that believes in liberty under law. and i don t know how we ar going to do. good evening once again i m stephanie ruhle, back at msnbc headquarters in new york city donald trump s true hometown this weekend, the former president will likely be preparing
the public reaction to the pardon but also to wha preceded net the supreme court going essentially up against nixon directly on things lik the white house tapes which le to his resignation was the public reacting to those things in a way that showed him sympathy or inclination towards one side o another in those previou fights the country - one month to nixon resigned in august of 1974 he d been quite popular. his parole rating has droppe about 20 or 25% people were so angry. thursday there s some people who think that nixon and for made a deal where nixon woul leave office and fort wort respond by giving him th presidency some people even think tha ford russo frayed of what nixo might have on him or be able t retaliate and other ways they did this out of fear of nixon and wanted to make sur that he did not have nixon as dangerous enemy may be the bottom line is not like very bad people to be president. and if you do, make sur there s a big legal proces we re seeing i
about the gop s cheap tricks and, leguizamo does america, john leguizamo joins me to discuss his great brand ne msnbc series celebrating latin excellence in america. i a ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. all right, we start this hour with some majo breaking news, just moments ag nbc news learned that the star of the trial in dominion votin systems civil lawsuit agains fox has now been pushed back one day. it will now start tuesday at 9 am eastern instea of tomorrow morning. now, th cause of the delay is unclea at the moment. that means that in less than 48 hours, dominio will finally square off in court against fox. more than two years after failing a 1. 6 billion-dollar defamatio lawsuit alleging the network knowingly aired disinformation about fraud in the 202 presidential election. dominio not only has to prove that fox made false statements, which i already has done, but also has demonstrated actual malice and that those false statement caused harm. successfully suin fo