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national political reporter. that is our show for tonight. time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. lawrence, i m gobsmacked by some of these numbers. i m just gonna leave it to you while i scratch my head. ali, you know that thing happens once in a while where one of our great guests really is getting warmed up right when we have to go to commercial break because that s life on commercial television? that happened last week with yale professor david blight, who is an expert on the 14th amendment. he knows everything about how it came to be, the congressional debate about it. we are bringing him back tonight to finish his thoughts about that. that is worth watching because the most important amendment nobody ever thought about six months ago, and this is worth staying and listening to. certainly not thought about in this context. and he will follow harvard law professor laurence tribe, also an expert on constitutional law and the 14th amendment, who will gi ....
tonight, donald trump starting off 2024 by pushing back on maine s ballot ban. a clash of legal challenges and campaign events which is two weeks to go until the iowa caucuses. then, harvard university s president stepping down after backlash over congressional testimony and allegations of plagiarism. and, congress as a lot to get done in a election year. how this could all play out with republicans now in the majority in the house as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. happy to be back at msnbc headquarters here in new york city. we are kicking off our first show of the new year with the reality of defendant donald trump on the 2024 campaign trail, less than two weeks out from the iowa caucuses, three weeks from the new hampshire primary, and right now his challengers for the gop nomination have yet to touch him in the polls. but donald trump is likely facing multiple trials this year as he makes his pitch ....
the republicans have only a three seat majority in the house of representatives. the democrats have only a one seat majority in the united states senate, with democratic senators facing difficult campaigns in ohio, michigan, montana, pennsylvania and nevada. democrats will be running on a 3. 7% unemployment rate. unemployment has not been, has been below 4% for 22 months. that s the longest stretch since 1969. president biden was at an infrastructure event at the carpenters international training center in the battleground state of nevada on the day the final jobs report for 2023 was released. folks, all this project stands in stark contrast to my predecessor. he always talked about infrastructure week. [laughter] for years infrastructure week. but it failed. he failed. on my watch instead of infrastructure week america is having infrastructure decade. [applause] decade. trump just talks the talk. we walk the walk. [applause] look, he likes to say america is a failing ....
congregations just because they were not willing to take on this brawler mentality. you use the words earlier, pugilistic, that is in many ways how the evangelical mind has been conditioned to expect something more than just biblical doctrine. it is now, we need you to fight against our enemies who are out to get us. tim, it s an extraordinary book. the book is the kingdom, the power, and the glory. thank you for writing it. congratulations. that s our show for tonight. now it is time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. good evening, alex. we all remember where we were the night that the draft opinion of the supreme court s overturning of roe v. wade came out. samuel alito s draft opinion on it. i ll never forget running down the hallways here with it in my hands, not believing that we had such a document. tonight, in this hour, i have something almost as good. and it involves what will be the opinion of the supreme court in donald tru ....
earlier this week potential jurors in washington d. c. in the case of united states america versus donald j trump received preliminary questionnaires about their potential availability for a trial beginning on march 4th, in today donald trump s lawyers filed a motion to block any more preliminary steps in jury selection in that case, and to block everything else in that case, donald trump s lawyers filed a motion this afternoon to request, quote, the automatic state of all district court proceedings in this case, pending the final resolution of donald trump s recently filed appeal from the courts december 1st, 2023, rulings on presidential immunity and double jeopardy. last friday judge tanya chutkan issued a 44-page ruling denying donald trump s motion that he is completely immune from any criminal charges for anything that he may have done while he was president in united states, and that putting him through a criminal trial for his activities leading up to it on janu ....