Currently qualified to hold the office of president of the United States, or any elected office in the country for that matter . To start, lets go back 155 years to july 9th, 1868, went two years after passing the senate, the 14th Amendment to the constitution is ratified. And within it, Section Three reads, quote, no person shall be a senator or representative in congress, orelect or, or Vice President , or Vice President , or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States or under any state, who having previously taken an oath to support the constitution of the u. S. Shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. Donald trump having incited an insurrection and having tried to overturn the results of a free and fair election, in violation of the constitution of the United States, is now constitutionally ineligible to be president again. That seems pretty straightforward if you read your constitution. So ho
right now. good naming from new york. i m chris hayes. it is all about the clock and the calendar. that has been clear ever since the first criminal charges came down against donald trump last spring our justice system moves at its own speed. but there s a finite amount of time for the ex president to be tried and the 91 charges he now faces before voters go to the polls on election day. now of, course everyone knows this, and trump certainly knows this. it is why, remember, he announced his 2024 campaign for president all the way back in november of 2022. that was one of his first attempts to shield himself politically from the legal accountability that he knew was coming. and of course, since then, trump has been doing everything possible to slow down the wheels of justice. he is basically in a race with a very sluggish system, trying to make it to november 5th when he very well could be elected president again before justice can catch up and put him on trial. the goal is
headlines across the globe. what it means is that i m untouchable, you can t touch, me i m above, you which is embarrassing, frankly, simply doesn t stack up tonight, the race to get donald trump inside judge chutkan s courtroom. i think they have to find that section three applies to people who phone in and participate in insurrections. alex wagner on her exclusive interview with hillary clinton, plus if you tried to move a bill that solves the border crisis during this presidential year, i will do whatever it can to destroy you. senator chris murphy on the republican sabotage of their own border bell. and alexander at costco court as on the chaos in the house and what all that starts right now. good naming from new york. i m chris hayes. it is all about the clock and the calendar. that has been clear ever since the first criminal charges came down against donald trump last spring our justice system moves at its own speed. but there s a finite amount of
what you had earlier in the show about why donald trump and others in history have said these provocative things that they do. i would ask the usual post that because that should be watched over and over again. to those who don t listen to the demagoguery we have a job to do to get democracy from it because as you pointed out it has worked over and over again. and so, we may be victims of whether or not we fall prey to that sort of language. yes you don t have to believe in it for your country to fall for and to change itself fundamentally because of it. we have to understand it s not just bad the people are doing these things and how they are work and how to counteract them. i have thought that for a long time and my brain can t articulate the way you can say them so the fact that you said it, i am just going to please you show, i had to send it to everybody. this is why you have to care about the stuff that he says and others like him say because it s your democracy. th
for me tonight, i m sorry that i ve run over. now it is past time for the last word, with good evening ali, i m sorry it took so much time. not only am i not story, i want to have what you said earlier in the show about why donald trump and others in the history, have said these provocative things that they do i would, as that your show post that because, that should be watched over and over and over again what it does is draw tension to the fact that don t listen to the democratic the autocratic top in the racism we have a job to do to protect democracy from it because as you pointed out it has worked over and over again we may be victims of it whether or not we fall prey to that sort of language you don t have to believe in, for your country to fall for. it in to change itself fundamentally because of it, not just that it s bad that people are doing this, but how they work and how they counteract them. i thought that for a long time, my brain cannot articulate the