politicsnation tonight s lead, a dangerou precedent. robert right now, the eyes o the nation are on tennessee, o the eve of a vote that may reinstate one of the two democrats expelled from thei seats in the state house las week and tomorrow, a county counselor in nashville wil vote on the next step for on of those vacancies a majority of its members on record saying they will vote t reinstate former state representative justin jones, along with justin pearson, was voted out by republica legislators for protesting gun violence on the state hous floor earlier this month the first time in tennesse history that house members hav been expelled for chamber rule violations we will hear from jones in jus a moment here. just as we heard last nigh from tennessee state representative - johnson, a white democrat wh narrowly escaped her own expulsion. and she pulled no punches in our assessment of why her tw male colleagues did not. of course, along with th racial overtones of thes exposu
good day from msnbc worl headquarters in new york welcome to alex witt reports i m lindsey reiser developing this hour, a ne poll suggest that donald trump s indictment may b causing political damage a majority poll think th former president intentionally acted illegally. 20% believe he did nothing wrong. now just 25% of will be 61%, unfavourably. earlier today, trump s lawye in another probe said th former presidents legal team will likely fight to dismiss the manhattan da s case. we ve been through this if there s an actual legal basis for disqualification they will pursue it. i think there will be some ver well placed motions to dismiss based on the legal frailties o this kind of mental gymnastics indictment that allen is tryin to piece together. new today, to tennessee state democrats could be on path to reinstatement this wee after being ousted b republicans. it comes as followed grows ove their obstacle shun, and despairing of their whit colleague for protesting g
chaos and confusion over reproductive freedom a trump appointed judge spends the fda s approval on america most used abortion pill, a another federal judge ordere the feds to maintain access to the abortion medication. what does it mean for you? also this hour, more of th tennessee three is with us she is the only one not to b removed from her legislative body for demanding gun safet laws it is her race, the reason why i m gonna ask status than it o gloria johnson plus, california congressman eric swalwell on what to mak of the indictment of donal trump. and the work ahead when it comes to gender roles that won t end at home. how maggie smith realizes ther is more to do in the lens of her own success. this is american voices. we begin this hour with a court ruling that threatens to ban access to medication abortion, not just i republican-controlled states that would be devastatin enough, but in every state i the nation even states where reproductive freedom is guaran
thanks for being with u tonight. it is very, very good to hav you here so, it was labor day weekend 1936 it was hot it was around 90 degrees and 100,000 people turned ou to see him he himself said from the stage from the podium at the front o the crowd that the crowd was about 80, 000, but the polic actually said it was bigger. the police said it was 100,000 people and, again, this was in 1936 so, if you want to adjust that for inflation, like it was $ amount, if you want to adjus that to account for how big th whole population of the countr was at the time compared to now, 100,000 people then compared t the overall size of the country, that will translate today to a crowd of, like, 250, 260,000 people which is a really big crowd, particularly since the perso that they were all there to se was just some guy with a radio show have you ever heard of a politician named william lemke it s okay if you haven t william lemke was a candidate for president, a third party candidate i
and even if he becomes the president again, he will not have the power over thos prosecutions that he does, a least nominally, over th department of justice. so, it is a lot to handle as a candidate for the presidency o the united states. it might also be a lot to handle for our country as well that is constantly being teste by this man and our lega system matthew dowd, it s always pleasure thank you for sticking aroun for us carol lam, please stick around yourself we are going to speak to you later in the next hour the second hour of ayman i coming up in just a moment don t go anywhere. ed small businesses. but to the people who build them there s nothing small about them. that s why at t-mobile for business. you ll save more than $1,000 versus verizon. and with price lock guarantee, we ll never raise your rate plan. so you can keep your focus on toe-turns and making sure the sauce is extra spicy. at t-mobile, there are no small businesses. at t-mobile, there ar