politicsnation. tonight s lead, a solemn anniversary. it has been four years to the day since and ceramicists stormed the u.s. capitol in former president donald trump s name. and despite the horrors of that day, very little has changed in our politics. capital rioters are still being brought to justice three years later. just this morning, three january 6th fugitives were arrested by the fbi in florida. and with just days before our first presidential nominating contest of this election year, the u.s. supreme court will soon decide whether colorado and other states can legally bar trump from the appellate over his january 6th conduct. though that conduct hasn t stopped much of the republican party from circling around trump as your choice for president. a reality that president biden, in his first campaign event of 2024 last night, cost a historic, existential threat to our union. democracies still americas secret calls, the most urgent question of our time. donald t
midnight on the east coast i am stephanie ruhle and we ar continuing our breaking news coverage of the indictment o former president donald trump. the grand jury in manhatta indicted him earlier today making trump the first forme president to ever face crimina charges in our nation history. those jurors have been hearing evidence of hush money payments, made to adult film star stormy daniels during the 201 presidential campaign. trump s current lawyers issued a statement saying he did no commit any crime and they plan to vigorously fight this political prosecution. one trump attorney tells nbc trump is expected to b arraigned on tuesday in ne york let s bring in our panel o experts to break it all down simone sanders townsend, msnbc host and former chie spokesperson for kamala harris harry lippman, former u.s. attorney and deputy assistan journey jonathan allen, senior analyst reporter for nbc news. and tim o brien, bloomberg opinion senior columnist and the man who wrote
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i am not concerned about what it means for historically black colleges like morehouse, except from the vantage point of, i think we re going to see a surge in applications, quite frankly. you know, i think there is some talk that, to the extent that this agenda, on dei, will come at black colleges, it will be through the distortion of who we are. for example, there is a myth out there that we only admit black students. that has never been the case for morehouse college, except during a period when the state of georgia actually would not allow white students to come to morehouse because of segregationist laws. we ve always had what students. we have white students today. but there is a mess out there
not jump to conclusions. harry the problem is, the point i very well taken, you canno quibble with a statement tha he made, but it does not matte what the facts are, strong o weak, we know exactly what i going to happen. it s going to get driven through the political system itself so we are just in for a lot of stress here. i just want to urge though that we should adopt a vantage point of, four, five, si months down the road where i is likely that there will be other charges against him an it will just be daily news wha is happening in little motions in court and the like. but they will be jugglin problems that will make it har to actually protest agains each, or another individua suit of course, lanny davis is righ in the basics, but we have got an unprecedented situation we used that word every da