dangerously for american women post-roe and a hot off the presses economic stump speech that debuted yesterday in chicago. and all of that just since saturday. without further ado, the 46th president of the united states, joe biden. thank you for being here. thank you for having me. this is very exciting for us. exciting for me. you said today and i know that you have a lot of power but i can t imagine you manufactured the breaking news about the court. you say this court is not normal. what did you mean? what i meant by that is it s done more to unravel basic rights and basic decisions than any court in recent history. that s what i meant by not normal. it s gone out of its way i mean, for example, take a look at overruling roe v. wade, take a look at the decision today, take a look at how it s how it s ruled on a number of issues that are have been precedent for 50, 60 years sometimes, and that s what i meant by not normal. can i read you some of your ap
And it is pretty clear those options are as i just outlined it. Does that mean he couldnt find trump in violation of some other statute that has not been briefed before him . Nobody has also said im not going to summarily find contempt. These are things you have to bring before me. He has made it very clear. These are not summary proceedings. Unless he actually does it in front of me, im not going to do it on my own volition. We could keep going. , we shouldnt. That will do it for us for now. Now it is time for the last word with our good friend lawrence odonnell. Good evening. Good evening, rachel. We have convened our own version of the last word Supreme Court. In it, including Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe, Andrew Weissman is here with us. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse has a few things to say about it too and he will be joining us. Looking forward to it, lawrence. We learned today the United States Supreme Court has two different kinds of justices. Justices who are trying to pro
i think he is, joy. i think he is. but i think the tools that he is willing to use do not betray the institutions he reveres. yeah. which is interesting also. i think he is. i m not sure i think that s why the questions don t elicit defensiveness. he is almost selling me on i haven t talked to the doj about anything. it s not going to break my promise. the question about the court isn t like, they re doing fine, it s like it s this restraint that i pick up. it s not that he is calmer than we are, joy. i think it s just that the faith in the institutions, which all four of us have covered the republican strategy of burning them down. desantis is running on tearing down literally and figuratively the fbi and sticking it somewhere else. he trusts not just the
senate s only black member carol brawn. the civil war happened. it part of the history. i revere those forefathers of mine not because i have proof of slavery but they did what they thought was appropriate in their time, and so i do not feel we should deny this patent to the united daughters of the confederacy. he reveres. so cute. helms amendment was killed back then so why now does the confederate have so much outrage for manchin he would stick his neck out do and prime scream? why. because it would neutralize the greatest power in the senate and minority and majority leader, obstruction. this is the same mcconnell the use of filibusters skyrocketed and the numbers soared as remust
forced to do it, and pushed the short-term interest rate to nearly 20%, unemployment soaring to nearly 11% in 1981. but the approach worked, killing off the rapid price inflation that had festered throughout the 1970s. is jay powell willing to follow someone s lead he reveres. somebody was in the reagan administration in those years, and someone who worked for paul volker when he was head of the new york fed before that. volker inherited as fed chair a 12, almost 15-year inflation rise, ok. reagan said to him you do what is necessary to end this, ok. reagan cut taxes and volker revalued the dollar and pulled in the money supply and real interest rates, adjusted for inflation, were astronomical. sandra: brutal. jay powell has a one-year inflation problem, not a 15-year inflation problem. here is the point.