And thank you all so much for joining us. Cnn newsnight with abby phillip starts right now the Supreme Court picks the path of least resistance. Thats tonight on newsnight good evening im abby philip in new york and tonight, the Supreme Court pulled out the legal Jumper Cables to start the most consequential political week of the election so far thursday, President Biden will paint his vision for the country and for his own campaign delivering the state of the Union Address to a massive primetime audience but tomorrow, Super Tuesday, and it may effectively end the republican nominating contest. Today, the Supreme Court made sure that if it does, the man who is likely to emerge as the victor will actually appear on the ballot. And a nine to nothing ruling. The justices effectively cleared the decks for donald trump. They said the colorado got it wrong when it stated that he should be erased from the ballot. Now, added all up and the justices did something that trump actually liked quite
and arizona, and one month after pennsylvania voters go to the ballot boxes. the trial, of course, involving 34 felony counts related to the stormy daniels hush money case. trump has pleaded not guilty in that case. also tonight, florida governor ron desantis will announce his candidacy tomorrow in a rather unconventional way, appearing in a live conversation on twitter with elon musk. we are getting word donald trump and his allies are making plans to offend that announcement. maggie haberman will join us in a moment. just a reminder of how wide open and unpredictable these races are, take a look at the republican primary polls from this month back in 2015. marco rubio and jeb bush both led the pack. donald trump, he stood at 3%, tied with george pataki, and speaking of polls, fast forward to right now. you see the numbers show that republicans, they smell blood. president biden s approval rating just hit 40%. the lowest number since last summer. it s also lower than trump s
lucas tomlinson live in the north lawn of the white house, luck s. lucas: in addition to blaming the trump administration, also says evacuation should have started much sooner this as chinese forces launched 71 fighter jets and bombers to conduct a simulated attack earlier. lawmakers reacted on your show. the biden administration doctrine of appeasement, it s time we move beyond that, it s that we move to a place where we are exhibiting the strength. our national security drives much of our economic security these days. i m concerned about the russia-china discussions that we are seeing and i think we have to be very careful to not make inflammatory staples that in any way put on fire. third division head in japan, 370 miles away from taiwan, the recent years the marines have been gaming how they would respond in invasion of taiwan with antiship missiles to sink warships. the u.s. was hitting 90 targets and in a war with china officials say you re looking at a thousand
very dangerous, and i hope that as the nation watches that we to say we should sound the alarm across the nation we re entering dangerous territory. that was one of two democrats in tennessee that was just expelled after participating in a gun violence protest on the floor of the statehouse. we ll have much more on this partisan punishment just ahead meanwhile on capitol hill one of donald trump s most vocal allies in congress sends a subpoena to a former prosecutor in the manhattan district attorney s office we ll explain why this move may backfire on jim jordan, and we ll dig into a bombshell report exclosing years of lavish vacations taken by supreme court justice clarence thomas, all paid for by a gop mega donor all right, good morning. and welcome to way too early on this friday, april 7th. i m sam stein in for the irreplaceable jonathan lemire. republican legislators in tennessee voted yesterday to expel two black democrats from the statehouse over their protest o
i ll stop them. i have a veto pen. try to pass, i ll stop them, and if they send me a ban on the national right to choose, i will stop them. within the past hour, president biden delivering fiery remarks to the dnc, amid fresh new signs of economic recovery in america. also tonight, the trial balloon, the secretary of state postpones his trip to china after a suspected chinese spy balloon is spotted over the u.s. so why not just shoot it down? plus, the fallout from the vote to remove congresswoman ilhan omar from the foreign affairs committee, with one conservative congressman overheard calling it the stupidest vote in the world. good evening, everyone. i m michael steele in for joy reid. and we begin tonight with a track from the jackson 5. now, if you are of a certain age, you surely remember the song never can say good-bye. and if you don t, the lyrics go a little bit like this. i m not going to sing it so just calm down. never can say good-bye. every time i thi