Right now. Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. You know, ever since human beings started congregating in institutions of what we would call a higher learning, colleges, universities, conservatives and traditionalists have been freaked out but just were dangerous ideas were being shared their. I mean, really the whole dangerous ideas coming out of universities is literally as old as universities themselves. It has been a core reactionary concern for millennia. Just like everything else, this old thing is new again. This brings us to the most recent republican freakout in florida, which as you may have heard as a governor there, ron desantis calling the creepy Thought Police to campus. He just signed a bill that would require public universities and colleges to survey students, faculty, and staff about the beliefs and few points to support intellectual diversity. Not only that, he is gone on to suggest that budget cuts could take place if schools are found to be, quote, indoctrin
Politically bludgeoned donald trump. In the middle of a pandemic law makers will be focused on yet another unfounded Impeachment Charade Schiff show and ultimately we know the outcome. President trump will be acquitted for three main reasons. Lets start with reason one. The trial is they are right. The 45 republicans, its totally unconstitutional. The u. S. Senate has no jurisdiction over a private citizen. Thats clearcut. Thats simple. You dont need to be a harvard law grad to figure it out. There is a reason why john roberts is not presiding. With democratic senator, Patrick Leahy, imagine this, presiding. Officially a Kangaroo Court because hes already said he wants a conviction. Wow, thats real equal justice and due process, isnt it . So number two. The reason this will fail. The Incitement Claims are bogus. Look at this. You even have the fake news media, the Washington Post, cnn, we also have the fbi and court documents, and now even congresswoman Alexandria Cortez saying the bre
Him running in 2024. That right, that fear is palpable. So come in the middle of a pandemic, lawmakers will be focused on yet another unfounded impeachment Charade Schiff shall commit ultimately we know the outcome. President trump will be acquitted for three main reasons. Lets start with reason one. The trial is, they are right. The 45 republicans, its totally unconstitutional. The u. S. Senate has no jurisdiction over a private citizen. Thats clearcut. Thats simple. You dont need to be a harvard law grad to figure it out. And there is a reason why john roberts is not presiding. With democratic senator, Patrick Leahy, imagine this, presiding. Its officially a Kangaroo Court because hes already said he wants a conviction. Wow, thats real equal justice and due process, isnt it . So, number two. The reason this will fail. The Incitement Claims are bogus. Look at this. You even have the fake news media, the Washington Post, cnn, we also have the fbi and court documents, and now, even cong
States of scandal with jake good morning. You were alive in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta and washington donald trump is off the Campaign Trail and back in the courtroom just minutes ago he arrived at the federal courthouse in South Florida for a hearing and his classified documents, case trump and his attorneys will ask the judge to dismiss the charges or at least grant them a delay in the trial and delay could also be looming in trumps election subversion okay. Its down in Fulton County, georgia at any time now, the Presiding Judge there could announce if District Attorney fani willis is disqualified from the case and a decision that could derail the trial from starting in august. Lets begin with the classified documents hearing today in florida. Cnns Kaitlan Polantz is outside the courthouse. Kaitlan, how likely is it that a judge Aileen Cannon will dismiss the case . There jim, that is going to be entirely up to her and were watching to see exactly how she reacts to the arguments
Questions. Our nbc News Reporters are following all of the latest developments. Lets start with the extreme heat and Severe Weather happening all around the country. Marissa parra is in south florida, tracking tornadoes, floods, triple digit temperatures. Its hot where you are. Whats the latest . Reporter you know when you have the hot weather, the Severe Weather kicks in. In north carolina, the ef 3 tornado snapped power line, ruined homes. There were over a dozen hurt, and the pfizer plant took significant damage. And over in kentucky, that flash flooding, we know the governor of kentucky just tweeted out not long ago that there were several people who had to be rescued from the flash flooding, but so far, no one missing, no fatalities reported. The thing to remember here is the most deadly form of Severe Weather is actually extreme heat, and that is something we have seen from coast to coast across the country, particularly were not just talking about here in miami we hit the 40th d