welcome to the beat: weekend. i m ari melber. let s get to the headlines. we begin with breaking news today out of the spring court and is feeling concerns about the increasing partisanship, credibility crises, and corruption on display in this court. let me tell you what s going on. conservatives now reversing one of the only measures for gun safety that was actually passed and the recent era, and again you can put all politics to the side, as a measure of how extreme the support supreme court is today with his ruling. this was one of the things that got through the broken, hyper partisan washington we hear so much about. it even had centrists and moderate and republican support to try to deal with one part of our gun crisis in america. today the court reversed a ban on something called bump stocks . and the opinion was 6-3 meaning the conservatives and all three trump justices are making it easier to get deadly weapons in america. the other three justices from democratic
Former GOP representative Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezinski interview newsmakers, politicians and pundits about the issues of the day. Job Approval Rating probably has seven or eight points, maybe even a little more of what i think of as 401 k trumpers right now. I think there are people who are looking at their statements, people who are on the right side of the economic equation any way. They see their numbers going up for all sorts of reasons. And so theyre willing to not really dive in to this russian novel story that no one can quite figure out. And theyre willing to suspend their bizarrely in my view, but they are willing to suspend their ordinary moral judgments about how this president conducts himself and is now representing us on the world stage. But i would not, if i were in the white house, count on that lasting until 2020. Well see. Joe, your latest column in the Washington Post really speaks to this entitled trump finally
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america would probably say this right is a more central right. now we are only analyzing this in terms of politics. not wrongly. you think back to roe, it was 7-2 decision? a 7-2 discussion. who was on the court, chief justiceberger, a nixon appointee. justice blackmon, a nixon appointee. justice powell, a nixon appointee. stewart, an eisenhower appointee. all of these people were republican appointees. that was what conservative used to mean in the judicial sense. they voted some ways in ways conservatives didn t like. they were separate, separate from the republicans in congress. but they the appointments of constituents are frustrated often when they thought they were going to get something and they got something he will. on this case, this has been the
george, otherwise white house colleagues are looking at his tweets. the whole world is scrutinizing your marriage. it doesn t seem to be the petry dish of happiness. but again, you know, i don t want to speak for anyone s marriage, a very unusual scenario. it s really almost unparallel. back in the 1970s, there was martha mitchell, the wife of a prominent nixon appointee who you know talked to the press a lot, was very critical. nixon later thought she was partially responsible for his demise. but other than that, we haven t really seen much like this. we have a spufs top aide in a vociferous public vichl criticism of the president and the president of him weighing in in real time. george conway is weighing in, in real time. here s what he responded to the president. you seemed to turn to prove my point. good for you. i mean, not shocking. he hashtag he put on there