hello everybody, i m jesse watters. it s 5:00 in new york city and this is the five. the five. the race hustlers are doubling down to defend the poster child, gay stepping down as president of harvard after 50 examples of plagiarism and her congressional testimony on antisemitism. she has expelled students for plagiarism but not if you re copy cat claudine. he has an army of journalists crying racism. check out headlines, how the right toppled harvard president. new conservative weapon against college plagiarism and conservative see gay s resignation as victory and liberal pundits are going to bat for gay. what happened to claudine gay was mob pressure. there is open pressure on black progress black history. claw dean gay is now the latest casualty of that. i don t think it s fair to say all her critics. only added to their theirs to dethrone her. what they didn t mention was the first ivy league head to roll and other president sally cornbluff is fearing for
the decision is based on a rarely used provision of the us constitution that bars officials who have engaged in insurrection or rebellion from holding office. the ruling says he s ineligible to appear on next year s ballot because of his role instigating violence against the us government. the ruling only applies to colorado s republican primary ballot but is on hold pending appeal until next month. the decision came down shortly before mr trump gave a campaign speech in iowa, where the first contest of the 2024 season will take place in less than a month. the former president did not explicitly mention the case, though he has discussed other legal cases against him before on the campaign trail. in a statement, the trump campaign said the court had issued a completely flawed decision . adding they. will swiftly file an appeal to the united states supreme court. live now tojosh gerstein who s the senior legal affairs reporter at politico. thank you forjoining us on bbc new
it s confusing. justice samuel alito said this issue is going back to states. we know that 26 states will soon, if they haven t already banned abortion. some of those states had these laws on the books before roe. those went back into effect. others has trigger laws. laws that would be triggered to go into effect if roe were to go down. each state, the trigger law goes into effect at a different time. that s why we re seeing confusion nationwide. there s one other fascinate thing going on. just a couple of hours ago, planned parenthood staid it was going to state court in utah because it was going to challenge utah s trigger law by saying that it violated the state s constitution. the reason i keep emphasizes the word state is this is no longer in the federal arena. e everything is happening in the state and that will be a big lawsuit to watch. it s really changing the legal terrain. that is fascinating. wh a twist. what let s take a look at that. i do not have a positi
took nearly three decades but most significant gun legislation in that time, closer to law as it awaits president biden s signature. let s go outfront. and good evening, i m erin burnett, outfront tonight, protests nationwide tonight as the supreme court overturns roe v wade, looking at like pictures from chicago, boston, atlanta and the steps of the supreme court. at least 70 protests in the united states planned tonight as crowds have been growing through the day. some are celebrating, but the vast majority we see tonight are protesting the 5-4 supreme court ruling. we refuse to go back! this decision is an outrage. it s terrifying, more than anything, makes me angry. these people do not decide our life. the decision for many in america already being felt. there are 13 states, i ll show on the screen, that already have what s called a trigger law. a law in place that would ban abortion in the event the supreme court overturned the land mark roe v wade decision
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Seated, the judge will give fairly long explanation. On. Reporter after the jury is seated, the judge will give fairly long explanation. Were not going to hear Opening Statements today. Its possible we could hear them tomorrow or thursday. Got it. Pete williams. Thank you very much. Let me bring in National Political reporter for the Washington Post and msnbc political analyst. Two msnbc contributors. Charlie savage. Let me go over briefly this reminder about Paul Manafort and why the Special Counsel is interested in him. Starts with donald trump. He hired Paul Manafort to run his president ial campaign in march 2016. Prior to his work on the Trump Campaign, manafort did political work overseas. Some for the prorussian
highlights which as you indicated, rick gates, all eyes will be on him. He was the right hand man to manafort. What hell have to do in order to fulfill his cooperation agreement, for the government