It was a monday night, just after 8 30 eastern time when news broke that shook the entire country. Political had the once in a lifetime scoop about a draft opinion. Supreme court has voted to overturn Abortion Rights. We hold that roe and casey must be overruled, Justice Alito writes in a draft circulated inside the courtroom. That scoop, that headline changed everything. It certainly changed the course of the Midterm Elections. In that moment, the stakes of the upcoming november election, they skyrocketed. It gave democrats over a month and a half a head start to start campaigning on that issue before the opinion was handed down in late june. And on june 24th, the Supreme Court struck down roe v. Wade. The law of the land for nearly 50 years, they stripped away Reproductive Rights for millions in this country. Just six weeks later, the first test of Abortion Rights at the ballot box came in kansas. Voters in kansas headed to the polls in early august to vote on a constitutional amendm
, welcome to a Holiday Edition of the last word. 1934 congressional elections, because 2022 was the First Time Since 1934 that first term president saw every senator in his party reelected. Every senator who is running. In 1934, first term democratic president Franklin Roosevelt sought every democratic Senator Running for ev election get reelected. President biden saw the same thing this year. And the democrats added a seat to their control of the senate when John Fetterman won in pennsylvania. A very difficult state for democrats to win. As is arizona and georgia. But, Democratic Senate candidates won in those states to. From my race in arizona, i had wide support by republicans. Republican mares and county supervisors, business leaders, law enforcement. You know, theyve come up to me frequently. But also, endorsed me. Republican mayors. Because, you know, theyre tired of what theyve seen over the last, well, six years now. And they just want to get things done, and you know, they jus
of lying to pay off a porn star. duelling trump world figures, michael cohen, the star witness in this case, he was disbarred after he did time for multiple felonies. this man, new york attorney robert costello who spent over two years yesterday testifying in front of the grand junior saying that michael cohen, who he once advised cannot be trusted. watch. do you have anything on donald trump? he says no. repeatedly. i swear to god, bob, i don t have anything. then you know, you ve got a guy that probably doesn t have anything. it s a typical donald trump play out of the playbook. figure out how you can muddy the water as best as you can, denigrate the person, disparage them. martha: boy, this is a tangled web. first to john yu a former deputy atist about the attorney general, law professor at the university of california berkeley. great to have you here today, john. you know, it s interesting to see what s going on here. we watched robert costello when he came out. he
carefully studied china s peace plan for ukraine. we ll talk with congressman henry cuellar, and we will ask him with the hours long meeting with the president of mexico. and a teacher shot by a student is speaking out in an msnbc exclusive. i will never look at the look on his face as he pointed the gun directly at me. we begin this very busy hour with new developments in the high profile manhattan grand jury investigation of a hush money payment made from trump to stormy daniels. a new witness spoke to the grand jury on monday and accused former trump lawyer and fixer, michael cohen, of acting alone and making the $130,000 payment to daniels back in 2016. former legal adviser to cohen, costello, testified for over two hours yesterday and slammed cohen. if they want to go after donald trump and have solid evidence, so be it, but michael cohen is far from solid evidence. here on msnbc, cohen responded to costello s comments and defended his testimony. the beauty t
as hell. she s guilty as hell. i will say this. hillary clinton has to go to jail. okay. she has to go to jail. the party that has campaigned for more than six years on their plans to lock up their political opponents, well now they re crying foul now that one of their own, donald trump, is facing possible indictments for actual crimes. and as we await the first of possibly multiple criminal charges, republicans are all coming to trump s defense, as usual, and promising to haul anyone who dares to prosecute trump before congress. and we begin tonight with the potential indictment of donald j. trump over allegations he illegally paid hush money to adult film actress stormy daniels during his 2016 run for the presidency. the indictment of a former president would be a stunning moment in american history. full stop. it s an event that looms as grand jurors heard today from attorney robert costello who was called to testify at trump s request. he was a legal adviser at one