journal. with this lead line, it says that joe manchin is rescuing the democrats with his opposition to this bill. they also write about the fact that they think this is a moment to offer president biden a chance to shift some of the deck chairs in the west wing. they point fingers directly at the chief of staff, ron klain and also adviser susan rice by name. they say they re leading him towards policy is not working and it s time to make changes. also, another huge story today. the omicron problem and the lack of available testing treatments that are available in some countries but not here raising a ton of questions. everybody is trying to get tested today in new york city. we ll be joined by dr. amos who is great at answering the questions about what the this means as we head into the holidays. we can take some of your questions. we ve been getting good ones throughout the afternoon. sends your questions to@martha maccallum on twitter. we ll look forward to receiving thos
scheduled by the justice department and special counsel jack smith for his january 6th conduct. by shorthand you may have heard this called the immunity case. what we have new just in the last hour is the supreme court deciding to weigh in, to take the case to delay the trial. as we ll get into tonight it s not something they have to do but something they have the legal authority to do, and it s something they are doing. so the court is granting this cert, this review late today. and they re giving a calender which we ll get into because it has repercussions for the court, the country, potentially the election and on whether or not the fbi and justice department can patrol efforts to overthrow our democracy and stage coups. this means no matter what we know something tonight we didn t know last night that jack smith s scheduled coup trial and his victories because he s won not one but two basic hearings about whether or not presidents have immunity when they leave office, bot
school education. all you need is a calendar and a healthy skepticism about washington, and so while the lawyers were going through some of the understandable details, i thought you hit on the head in your journalistic coverage of it which was we can see what the court is doing. we can see where they re headed. right. i mean, i feel like all that we need to know is, and all we need to trust is that we can see it with our own eyes and what we can hear with our own ears and i needed a calculator to do it, but you can add up the days that remain and it could take up until july 1st what they think and there s not a day left based on what tanya chutkan said and shocking, but not surprising that the american people will have to be their own jurors once again. and the supreme court issues a ruling that says no one is above being put on trial while eliminating the very trial then that is a stress test for their credibility. we ll be talking about it more, but i did want to mentio
circuit ruling this week will be taught in law schools and in books about american history for many decades to come. right now in those cases, the supreme court is basically grappling with these key issues involving citizen defendant and candidate trump, which could shape not only this year s election, but legal and political boundaries of history as we know it. on this monumental day, in judicial history. a legal case that could rock the race for the white house. donald trump is now at the center of a u.s. supreme court battle. considering whether the leading candidate for the republican presidential nomination should be banned from running again. it seems like there were at least seven votes against colorado. he is very much lashing back at a lot of the building wave of all these different legal cases. that d.c. appeals court that had taken up this issue of presidential immunity. the court has denied trump s argument. if you read through the 57- page court o
with ari melber. we talk about history, we talk about precedents, and the unprecedented. but we are going to show you, in our special tonight that we ve been working on, exactly why we have just lived through a truly historic week. and that is not a comment on politics, or media, criticism or media speculation. i can tell you as a point of fact, the supreme court ruling this week, and the d.c. circuit ruling this week, will be taught in law schools, and in books about american history, for many decades to come. right now in those cases, the supreme court is basically grappling with these key issues involving citizen defendant, and candidate trump, which could shape not only this year s election, but legal and political boundaries and history as we know it. it s on this monumental day, judicial history. a legal case that could rock the race for the white house. donald trump is now at the center of a u.s. supreme court battle. considering whether the leading candidate for