biden s remarks, despite a switch from mitch mcconnell joining the house speaker and donald trump in trying to kill the bill without even a vote in congress. shuttle diplomacy. secretary of state tony blinken on his fifth trip throughout the middle east today, trying to strike a deal to pause the war in gaza and free the hostages. he is expected to speak this hour. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in new york. there s crushing legal defeat for donald trump. today s d.c. court of appeals ruling says the former president, who the court calls citizen trump, has no right to the sweeping immunity he claimed from all prosecution. he can now face trial for his alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election, barring some future decision if the supreme court takes the case. the former president is expected to appeal to the high court. today s ruling was unanimous and signed by the court making it more likely that the high court could just decline to consider any challeng
of justice kavanaugh. on capitol hill this morning, house speaker nancy pelosi reacting to the senate vote. senate republicans lined up in lockstep behind mitch mcconnell and donald trump to vote to rip away the constitutional right to health freedom for american women across the country. this hour, i will speak with president obama s former attorney general eric holder about the supreme court, voting rights and the attempts to overturn the 2020 election. trump defense secretary mark esper joining me to talk about the astounding revelations about the former commander in chief. with covid cases rising, president biden mourning the loss of 1 million lives to the virus. 1 million covid deaths. 1 million empty chairs around the family dinner table. around the world, many more millions have died. millions of children have been orphaned. we must honor those we have lost by doing everything we can to prevent as many deaths as possible. we start with the fight for abortion ri
interviewed because it s too close to an election and then you put amy coney barrett on the court while in the process of voting. those were stolen. you see the ideological nature of the court in the way in which they are ruling on a variety of things. the court does not seem like the unconnected, distant precedent driven institution that has always garnered great amounts of respect. of the three branchs, it has been the supreme court that has gotten the greatest amount of respect. now you see polls, about 40% of the american people now support the court and 60% think it s just like the other branchs. that s a serious negative for our society. should clarence thomas recuse himself from decisions affecting the 2020 election given his wife s activism, her emails? clearly he should. that s not a close question. that s not a close question. given what we know about her involvement in the attempt to stop the peaceful transfer of power, the emails that we have
cause. there are internal rules. i m not totally sure. to the extent that the determination is made that the testimony is critical, i would not be adverse if i were running the committee to issue a subpoena and ask for some expedited review in the courts. is there anything that can be done about 2013, the shelby decision on voting rights? there was a lot that could be done. we had the ability in this congress to put in place the john lewis advancement act, which would have not only fixed the problems of the shelby county decision but would have expanded the scope of the voting rights act to cover the nation as a whole instead of just the old states in the confederacy. we had in the bill that was hr-1, the ability to have things as we describe in the book, same-day registration, automatic registration. democrats have had control of all three branchs. has the president done enough? the president has certainly done enough.
palestinians. when we look at this, three branchs of power here in the united states. we re looking at one seemingly for some, if you re to be critical. the white house, the executive branch in this case affecting the ability for the parliamentary or the house members now, unable to visit another country. that is one dynamic. in addition to that, this ability of the executive branch to discuss with another leader of another power something and being able to get that other leader to agree with him and therefore, say, hey, you can t come into our country. there s a couple dynamics of the very power structure that you report on. the white house. well, yeah. in fact he s exporting his own domestic political battles overseas. beyond the borders. he s asking his friend, prime netanyahu, to take action against people who have been his favorite targets. who have been critical of him. and so we are expanding in effect the domestic debate we re