i m katy tur in for ana cabrera. we are moments away from a, quote, rule for the ages. the supreme court has four decisions left to issue, including the decision on whether a president enjoys immunity for what they do while in office. a decision so big and so significant, justice neil gorsuch said during arguments they would be, quote, writing a rule for the ages, as i managed up top. what will the justices decide and what will it mean for the criminal case in overturning the 2020 election results. i m joined by msnbc legal xant lisa rubin, former fbi general counsel andrew weissmann, former u.s. attorney and senior u.s. attorney chuck rosenberg. also with us, forming acting solicitor general neal katyal. first let s go to nbc s yamiche alcindor outside the supreme court. yamiche, lay it all out for us. reporter: this is sure to be a consequential day at the supreme court where judges are set to decide on the trump immunity case. all of this is connected to his efforts to o
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U.S. President Joe Biden faces a new challenge as the demand for not appointing donor ambassadors gains momentum
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U.S. President Joe Biden faces a new challenge as the demand for not appointing donor ambassadors gains momentum
Imagine this conversation. U.S. Senator: “Good morning, Ambassador designate. I see that you have been nominated as our Ambassador to Sri Lanka. Have you ever been to Colombo?
Ambassador designate: “Yes, Senator. But I am going to Sri Lanka, not to Latin America.”
U.S. Senator: “Colombo happens to be the capital of Sri Lanka. Have you heard of Bandaranayake?
o brien and he wrote jfk. part of the speech jfk gave, take a look. matter of experience, i had announced earlier this year that if successful, i would not consider campaign contributions as a substitute for experience in appointing ambassadors. ever since i made that statement, i haven t received one single cent from my father. is this a sign that a lot of people remember about him, humorous side? yeah, so, i mean, they asked him when he was elected president if there was anything that surprised him when he got into office and he said the only thing that surprised him was the things were just as bad as he said they were. so he had a really good sense of humor and conan said that he was the funniest president except
on this matter of experience, i had announced earlier this year that if successful, i would not consider campaign contributions as a substitute for experience in appointing ambassadors. ever since i made that statement, i haven t received one single cent from my father. welcome back to hardball. that was then senator john f. kennedy back in 1960, a few weeks before he won the presidential election against richard nixon. i wrote an essay about president kennedy s knack for self-deprecation in the new book, jfk, a vision for america, a compilation of reflections on jfk s most notable speeches and commemoration of the month marking 100 years of his birth, in an essay about that, titled a damn fine speech, i wrote, even in the sound and fury of