insights. i am ayman mohideen in new york. don t forget to catch me sundays at nine. with my good friend ali vouch. good, evening ali. good evening, my friend. we ll see you again tomorrow. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. the winner of the 2017 2016 election was donald trump. you will recall that while he won the electoral college, he did not win the popular vote. and in fact, in the weeks after election day, the margin of his popular vote loss kept growing. every day, every week, hillary clinton s lead in the popular vote kept increasing. it was one and a half million. it was 1.7 million. it was 2 million. ultimately, hillary clinton would win the popular vote by nearly 2.9 million votes. and the reason for this was california. you see, california famously takes a very long time to tally all its ballots because there are a lot of ballots there, for one thing. and as they counted their ballots, hillary clinton s popular vote margin kept increasing. this
debate. and then disaster mode, wildfires in new mexico prompt action from president biden while tens of millions of americans battle a brutal heat wave. good friday morning. it is 10:00 eastern, i m ana cabrera reporting from new york, and we begin with breaking news this hour at the supreme court where we are expecting more decisions any moment with 19 cases still undecided, including the biggest one of all, donald trump s immunity argument. let s go right to nbc s julia ainsley live outsides supreme court this morning. julia, the clock s ticking until the end of the term. what should we expect this morning? reporter: that s right, we know we should be getting multiple cases today. this is likely the second to last week of this term, so we expect all these decisions to be made at least by the end of next week. you mentioned the big one, ana, that s whether or not former president trump can claim presidential immunity in the election interference case given his role in
So just to get the lead out of the way i just want to drop in opinion say that dropping opinions one thing but the study is just ripped a bit. the justice and they re embedded sources inside the supreme court. it s really troubling. i just want to relied everyone that we think of a supreme court as invulnerable institution, but that wasn t always the case. if we go back to the founding we see that the court was in fact the very fragile institution, and that the supreme court justices would often leave the court in order to be justices on state supreme courts or to be foreign diplomats, something that i think would be unimaginable today. it has built up its mystique in its prestige, but a lot of that has to do with its procedural regularity and its confidentiality. the more that gets breached as these leaks suggest that they are being breached, the more legitimacy of the court is going to take a hit. so one thing i want to look for, ali, is in these future big ticket cases, are we to ex
More important, and you re absolutely right to focus on. it but they are both important. so just to get the lead out of the way i just want to drop in opinion say that dropping opinions one thing but the study is just ripped a bit. the justice and they re embedded sources inside the supreme court. it s really troubling. i just want to relied everyone that we think of a supreme court as invulnerable institution, but that wasn t always the case. if we go back to the founding we see that the court was in fact the very fragile institution, and that the supreme court justices would often leave the court in order to be justices on state supreme courts or to be foreign diplomats, something that i think would be unimaginable today. it has built up its mystique in its prestige, but a lot of that has to do with its procedural regularity and its confidentiality. the more that gets breached as these leaks suggest that they are being breached, the more legitimacy of the court is going to take a hit
All these other forest fires that are raging and maybe while we give this issue some time to play out, circumstances will ripen so we re back to address this by the time the commission finishes its work. my belief is that those political circumstances have ripened. in the time since the commission s been doing its work, you ve had bills introduced in the house and senate that are garnering more co-sponsors. you re going to have a cry that arises among the public in june by not just upholding the mississippi abortion ban, but overturning roe outright. and keep in mind the other big ticket cases could force states like new york to allow texans with concealed carry permits to walk through sometimes square