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welcome to meet the press daily, i m chuck todd here in a solemn washington in a studio that is just outside the perimeter of the u.s. capitol which was stormed one year ago today by a mob of trump supporters seeking to overturn the results of the free and fair 2020 presidential election. it has been a day of solemn remembrances here at the capitol. last hour we saw speaker pelosi lead a moment of silence. members will hold a prayer vigil on the capitol steps this afternoon. we ve heard from lawmakers mostly on one side of the aisle recount their harrowing experiences. 17 are speaking on the senate floor. none from the republican side of the aisle. it hasn t just been a day of remembrance about what happened then, it s also been a day of reckoning about what s happening right now to our democracy. as the former president and the lies that incited the riot itself have grown stronger within the republican party not weaker, a lot of us were wrong about that. virtually ev ....
knoxville, tennessee, boston massachusetts, wilmington, delaware. reno, nevada. st. paul, minnesota. kansas city, missouri. austin, texas. americans turning out in city after city across the country, many of them kind of in shock. the country is digesting the bombshell news that broke just over 24 hours ago that a majority on the supreme court appears poised to revoke the constitutional right to abortion in the united states. today, the chief justice john roberts confirmed that a draft majority opinion published last night by political.com is authentic. and that draft opinion, justice samuel alito eviscerate s both roe v. wade, and planned parenthood versus casey. the foundational supreme court precedents that have guaranteed the right to an adoption in this country for decades. if the court does ultimately rule that way, the justices take away a right that americans have been guaranteed for nearly 50 years, the ramifications will be immediate, widespread, severe, and i ....
that s what we have all these prosecutions happening across the country. jenna griswold, always great to see you. thanks for being with, us thanks for the things you do to keep our elections actually safe. she is the secretary of state, for colorado. coming up in our next hour, we re gonna call to order a special edition of the velshi banned book club. ominous discuss with two call scholars, one of america s most important most divisive documents, the constitution of the united states of america. we re gonna dig deeper into the section of that same constitution that legal experts say disqualifies donald trump from holding the office of the president ever again. another hour of velshi begins right now. right now. good morning, it s saturday, august 19th. i m ali velshi. in the span of just 12 months, the twice impeached president donald trump has been charged with a total of 91 felony count. stemming from criminal cases against. tim he remains firmly at the top of th ....
a very good day to all of you from the tom brokaw news center here in los angeles. welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. developing this hour, donald trump and his 18 codefendants now have six days to surrender at the fulton county courthouse in georgia, on racketeering and conspiracy charges. three senior law enforcement officials tell nbc news, they are anticipating the former president will turn himself in at the atlanta jail, no earlier than thursday, but they stressed nothing is yet officially it. democratic what congressman, eric swalwell, gave msnbc his assessment of what happens next for the former president. here it is. donald trump is going to get a justice system that he s never been willing to afford to others. he always wants to try and convict people in the public square, without giving them any due process. he s gonna get all the due process, he s gonna get every protection under law, and whatever happens to donald trump, it is going to come from h ....
election. some state election officials have objected to trump collation of the constitution s 14th amendment, which bars any person who engaged in a rebellion or insurrection from holding public office. let s bring in cnn chief anchor and chief political correspondent dana bash and cnn senior legal analyst, elie honig. guys, as we re waiting to see what the supreme court decides here, let s do a little bit of a pre-game because we don t want to presuppose what the supreme court is going to do but elie all weekend long were anticipating this could happen before the colorado primary as part of super tuesday and then yesterday, there was this indication from the supreme court that something s coming down, something s cooking. yeah. we don t know for sure that this is going to be colorado, but all indications are that it will be because the primary is tomorrow, colorado how his voting tomorrow and it would make sense for the supreme court to decide its needs to interrupt ....