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good morning. it is saturday, february 10th. you re watching velshi on msnbc. i m charles coleman junior filling in for my friend and colleague, ali velshi. we have got a lot to talk about. we begin this morning with donald trump s new reality tv show. we all remember the apprentice. the whole, you re fired, thing? what we are watching now is more like, the defendant. a terrifying real-life spinoff series played out in actual courtrooms and along the campaign trail each and every day. talk about reality tv. the stakes in this game show are, quite literally, american democracy and the rule of law. let s be clear, no one is watching it as their, quote on quote, guilty pleasure. everyone is watching. this week s episode contained plot twist, new characters, and twist that left us all wondering what is happening next. let s discuss. donald trump has not had many good days in court in the last two years. for the guy who wants infamously predicted we will get tired of so much ....
republicans are expected to torpedo a bipartisan immigration and foreign aid bill. well, democrats aren t entirely on board either with that bill. fail to go pass immigration reform is especially embarrassing for republicans who have been screaming for decades that the border is in crisis, and needs to be fixed through legislation immediately. but now that a once in a multi-decade opportunity to do something about it is in front of them, they re about to decide that chaos at the border is politically better for them than an attempt to fix it. in the gob smack words of conservative republican senator james lankford who cowrote the bill, quote, are we as republicans going to have press conferences and complain the border is bad and intentionally leave it open after the worst month in american history in december. well, senator, it seems the answer is yes. so what exactly is happening in the republican party? who is in charge? and is this these failures, what they want? jo ....
distinguished supreme court practitioner, laurence tribe. harvard historian, yell historian, and of course on this important night we are fortunate to hear from to law professors who are also practitioners, andrew weissmann, and neal katyal. neil katyal is of course a distinguished supreme court practitioner, having argued 50 cases before the court, and andrew weissmann is a former federal prosecutor and justice department official. my mission therefore in this hour is to get out of the way so that you can hear from them and not me. but i, want to take a minute to begin with two things that may reside more in the category of pet peeves than scholarly discussion that you are about to hear from our guests. one is that clarence thomas should ve recused himself from this case because everyone on that bench today knew, clarence thomas s wife was there. she was there, she was present when donald trump incited engaged in insurrection. the essence of our case is president tru ....
and this side of the room what they see. and they will be looking at the same exact coin, but describing two very different realities. - calling it insurrection it wasn t. it was peaceful protest. - it s anarchists. breaking the glass of the united states capitol. - facts are indisputable. - i ve got secrets - i think that s the problem that we have. more people need to be able to stand up and say, that s crazy. it s a quarter, and we can talk about what s on each side of the quarter, but let s not disagree about the fact that it is a quarter. [people shouting] - january 6th was predicated on propaganda, in the most terrifying way. - so much for those claims that voter fraud never happens. of course it happens. they knew it happened when they told us it would never happen, because they re liars. - we re at a crossroads today between the promise of truth and the peril of falsity. between the promise of democracy and the peril of authoritarianism. - if i needed alter ....
with russia. watch. very clear from the very beginning about two things that have been unwaivering. first, the united states is not going to war with russia and the ukraine. second, the united states is not providing weapons to ukraine to attack russia. we do not enable attacks on russia. let s bring in a fox news contributor, brett. great to have you on. i want your thoughts on these clustering munitions once deemed war crime stuff and now they re sending them to ukraine. you agree? trace, look, there s no obvious that this is a very controversial weapon. at the same time, i just returned from ukraine. the russian government is using much more dangerous weapons, this pales in comparison to what they re using against civilians. look at the battlefield right now. it s brutal and horrific. most ideas have know idea the damage that the russian government have done to civilians that have never asked to be a part of this war. you have wagner mercenaries that have alr ....