of corruption. now, new ideas to reform the court and revive its reputation. rich has the best chance of bringing change and get through congress? i will call through this week s meeting on the banned book club. another hour starts right now. saturday, july 13th. i am ali velshi. four years ago, as trump was preparing to nominate a third person to the supreme court, then house speaker nancy pelosi said in a statement quote, everything hangs in the balance with the nomination. in the years since, the super majority have handed down a decision that has led to the curtailing of america s personal rights and the remaking of the federal government. as all of that was happening, an ethical crisis was unfolding involving members of that super majority which is has doubts about some of the judge s impartiality and some of the most high profile confidential cases that have ever reached the supreme court. both have led to an erosion of confidence in the supreme court and efforts to
wow, i got my weeks out of other. stay right where you are. my good friend, katie vang starts now. starts now. msnbc headquarters in new york city and here is the week that was. a plot twist no one saw coming, the involuntary manslaughter charges against alec baldwin dismissed. articles of impeachment against associate justices of the supreme court clarence thomas and samuel alito. someone who stokes hate, e, should never again have the chance to stand behind a microphone and the seal of the president of the united states. do you think it is okay to our president where there was his open question about whetherp or not he is in cognitive decline? was it worldliness descending on washington as the nato summit mi gets underway. i think i am the most qualified person to run for president and i beat him once and i will beat him again. i am in this to complete the job i started. we may be in the dog days of summer but ballots are on my mind as election day gets cl
milley addressed phone calls he made with his chinese counterpart to diffuse fears beijing had at the end of the prior administration about the former president possibly ordering a strike on china. authors bob woodward and robert costa who described the calls in their new book peril join us shortly. general milley testified he spoke with bob woodward for the book, as well as the authorities of two other best-sellers, which for any author might be tempered somewhat by his subsequent mission that he s actually read none of the three. but the main focus today was the final chapter of this country s 20-year involvement in afghanistan, and the country s sudden collapse during which allied forces conducted a near-miraculous airborne evacuation but also saw 13 american troops and many more afghan civilians killed in a suicide bombing. the question has always been could different choices by this president and the former president have kept the taliban at bay? generals milley and ma
ordering a strike on china. authors bob woodward and robert costa who described the calls in their new book peril join us shortly. general milley testified he spoke with bob woodward for the book, as well as the authorities of two other best-sellers, which for any author might be tempered somewhat by his subsequent mission that he s actually read none of the three. but the main focus today was the final chapter of this country s 20-year involvement in afghanistan, and the country s sudden collapse during which allied forces conducted a near-miraculous airborne evacuation but also saw 13 american troops and many more afghan civilians killed in a suicide bombing. the question has always been could different choices by this president and the former president have kept the taliban at bay? generals milley and mackenzie, who goes by frank, were asked about the former administration s deal with the taliban in qatar, known as the doha agreement. did the doha agreement affect the
unprecedted. they have flirted with, threatened and bringing america to the brinkf defaulting on national debt repeatedly prox mitt ly approximately every two yearsince 2011 and our government actually shut down for a month because president obama refused to play charlie brown to mitch mcconnell s lucid with the football act. republicans represent lots of billionaires and senate minority leader mitch mcconnell and his wife are really rich. defaulting would hurt them, too. what s the point? so republicans can perform a fake kind of fiscal probe by demanding cuts to government services and spending in exchange for raising the debt limit and paying the nation s lls of course, that theater ma miraculously disappears and mitch has the gavel, which is why during the trump administration, spend away. because none of it matters. republicans do not care about the debt. they never have. what they do care about is not letting democratic administrations succeed even if that means recki