federal level with these candidates that the nr convention talking about you know, using guns to challeng the federal government i mean, we have to painter these anti-democratic forces that are putting all of us i danger, and putting our nation on a stage that do not want to beyond we are payin attention, and we will continu to pay attention tennessee state representative justin jones thanks so much fo getting us started next, some of the madness in congress, heading to new yor this week to talk smack abou the city, and the prosecutor who s going after their man. plus, cruelty by design, i appears that the ron desanti is wrapping up attacks on th lgbtq community and immigrants which will somehow propel hi to the white house i have some thoughts and it is a big week for reproductive freedom the unite states, the latest legal assault on your rights, no before the supreme court first is st. louis with othe big story we re tracking thi hour, on msnbc richard? breaking news for you, fir
about thomas accepting lavis trips from gop donor, i mean just talk me through, as briefly as possible, how thomas s presence on the court challenges its validity? well alicia, this is a cour like any court, that s the highest court in the country that depends on its legitimacy for his decision to have any force. the supreme court doesn t have an army to enforce its decisions, it does not have th power of the purse tha congress does, it cannot withhold money from any branch all it has its legitimacy, and here we have a justice who o any given day, has an apparent problem with disclosures it s not the fact that there i actual impropriety that ha been surfaced, there certainly disclosure problems that hav been service, we don t know if there is been a quid pro quo from these lavish plane flights, or for the home in the roo repair, or this latest thing it is simply the appearance of impropriety of the appearanc of being fast and loose with the rules that makes it look terrible for the c
political interference so when the republicans in congress are asking, what they are asking brag to do actually violates the constitution. the principle of separation of powers, they would break the law in new york for the eighth brag to reveal confidential, grandeur information he actually did what the republicans wanted him to do he would be committing a crime paul butler, good to see yo as always, paul butler s a former federal prosecutor an msnbc legal analyst. joining me now is olivia troye former senior aide to mike pence during his tenure as mike s president olivia, good to see you. just the other day your ol boss said no one is above th law including former presidents, yet here he is on fox news jus yesterday. the unprecedented indictmen of a former president of the united states on a campaig finance issue is outrageous. the details that will follow will not change that fact. i think millions of american looking on see this for what i
most prosecuting offices don t collect that information because they don t want to know the reality is is that the trump supporters who are sayin that they have two different justice systems in this countr are exactly right. but it s rich white men like donald trump to get all of the advantages, if you are a poor, person black or brown person who are subject to all of th investigations that trump ha been subject to, they would ve been charged a long time ago kevin mccarthy said tha congress is going to investigate alvin bragg. i m actually surprised tha alvin bragg gave them th dignity of her response but he did right back and say you don t actually have an authority over me. congress has no jurisdictio over this criminal case. did the eighth office told the congressman, their job is to pass laws. a criminal investigation o trump by new york state ha nothing to do with that. in, fact the da s office i required by federal and stat law to be independent of
on january six and shame on us if we don t take it seriously. and don t prepare for it right, we have actually see this before so we want to make sure that having known how thi can unfold, we take al precautions that it does not involve this way thanks to both of, you great t see what joe and freeman is professor of history and american studies at yale university, the author of book about political violence. they feel the, blood violenc and congress and the road to the civil war. jennifer reuben is an opinio writer with the washington pos and an author of resistance, how women save democracy from donald trump, still ahead former vice president mike pence said this week no man is above the law including former president but he also maintain that the trump indictment is quote the criminalization of politics straight ahead, i talk to hi former senior adviser olivia troye about pence s thinking and political calculations a he continues to mull a 202 white house run. another hour of velsh