evening. now it s time to last word with jonathan kaye pot in for lawrence. good evening, jonathan. good evening, alex. quite the day we ve had today. i know you re gonna have a great show analyzing what went. down yes, we will. alex, thank you very much. have a great show. this is not a normal court. that was what president biden said after the radical conservatives on the supreme court, for the second time in two years, reversed nearly 50 years of precedent on an issue that has significantly helped improve the lives of americans. last year it was undoing protections for women to make decisions about their own reproductive health. today it s undoing the consideration of race in college admissions, which has let helped level educational opportunities for minority students, like me. 30 years or so ago. it is a court that is looking to move the country backwards. as president biden told msnbc s nicole wallace earlier today. it s done more to unravel basic rights and
court, for the second time in two years, reversed nearly 50 years of precedent on an issue that has significantly helped improve the lives of americans. last year it was undoing protections for women to make decisions about their own reproductive health. today it s undoing the consideration of race in college admissions, which has let helped level educational opportunities for minority students, like me. 30 years or so ago. it is a court that is looking to move the country backwards. as president biden told msnbc s nicole wallace earlier today. it s done more to unravel basic rights and basic decisions than any court in recent history. and that s what i meant by not normal. i find it just so out of sorts with the basic value system of the american people. and i think across the board the vast majority of the american people don t agree with a lot of the decisions this court is making. he s right. it s not just of the radical conservative supreme court is undoing decades o
january 6th, and attempting to overturn the last presidential election. in a sealed legal filing, donald trump is appealing a federal judges order in washington d.c. for donald trump s white house staff to testify. to jack smith s grand jury. the order, the judges order, requires donald trump s last white house chief of staff, mark meadows, to testify to the grand jury. along with donald trump s last director of national intelligence, john ratcliffe, and donald trump s last national security adviser, robert o brien. along with other trump white house officials, the trump appeal is trying to claim executive privilege. to block that testimony, we are always lucky when we have neal katyal appearing on this program, we are especially lucky on appeal news nights. because former acting solicitor general the united states, neal katyal, is one of the top federal appeals court practitioners in the united states. in a moment, neal katyal will give us his assessment of the prospects for
states supreme court. we begin tonight with investigation news. the latest legal development of the day is the news that donald trump has launched another delay tactic. in special prosecutor, jack smith, federal grand jury investigation of donald trump s activities leading up to an on january 6th, and attempting to overturn the last presidential election. in a sealed legal filing, donald trump is appealing a federal judges order in washington d. c. for donald trump s white house staff to testify. to jack smith s grand jury. the order, the judges order, requires donald trump s last white house chief of staff, mark meadows, to testify to the grand jury. along with donald trump s last director of national intelligence, john ratcliffe, and donald trump s last national security adviser, robert o brien. along with other trump white house officials, the trump appeal is trying to claim executive privilege. to block that testimony, we are always lucky when we have neal katyal appearin
governor that does it for us this evening, we will see you again tomorrow it s time for the last wor with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence good evening, i hope my friend roberto clemente in los angeles is watching to kno that his cousin, the book abou his cousin, roberto clemente i back on the shelf. where it belongs, exactly thank you, alex mike pence will never be president, but he will be witness against donald trump mike pence has decided not t appeal a judges order forcin him to testify to specia prosecutor jack smith investigation with donald trum leading up to and on january 6th. mike pence has already tol much of that story for money in a lifeless book, that h wrote titled so help me god. mike pence appears to have tol his story to other authors like possibly bob woodward, ro acosta, as an unnamed source for their books about the fina days of the trump white house. and now mike pence will testif under oath to jack smith s grand jury about every singl