year s eve celebrations around the world. and, donald trump s legal life. a special counsel launches a new attack on trump s immunity defense while the former presidents legal team gears up to keep his name on the primary ballot in several states. a very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. we begin today in maine where police are investigating a incident at the home of its secretary of state. the fake emergency call to the home of shana bellows coming after her decision to disqualify donald trump from that states primary ballot. fellas is telling msnbc that she is receiving nonstop threats of violence. i also want to call out the dehumanizing images that have been placed online of me. the threatening communications to people in my family, and to my staff. people who work for. me i is designed to instill fear, and to provoke silence, to keep people from speaking out. to send a message. that is
confidence. the court, which still has decisions on a dozen argued cases yet to be announced this term. today inadvertently posted online a document related to an abortion case which was obtained by bloomberg law. a supreme court spokesperson confirmed that the document was, quote, inadvertently and briefly up loaded but noted that the ruling has not been release and would be in due course. nbc news has not independently verified the document. it is not known if it is a draft decision, the actual decision, or neither of those things. the document has since been removed from the website. well if the document did signal was that court appears set to allow emergency room doctors in the state of idaho to perform life-saving abortions which they are unable to do under that state s defensive life act. that passed in august of 2022. the law is one of the most extreme abortion bans in the country. it prohibits nearly all abortions and does not allow for exceptions for the life of the
moderates that he would be that moderate hand and also suggesting to anti-trump performing voters, independents, democrats, republicans, that joe biden was not donald trump. last night donald trump wasn t on the ballot. you saw glenn youngkin and other republicans get as much of the trump brand as they wanted to maximize the appeal but also distance themselves. and this is the critical lesson, frankly, for democrats in swing states in 22. florida democrats, pennsylvania democrats, texas democrats who think they have a shot. look at what happened in virginia last night. the republican brand without trump is a strong brand in many of those states. now, the paradox is republican candidates need trump to get through their primary. what we saw in virginia is there is a successful way to thread the needle from the primary to the general. kyle, the argument we hear all the time is you have to fire up the base. but the democratic base is progressives. the republican base are trumpers. neith
terrorism and equated it to domestic terrorism. he s right. but then he said that creates a duty for all of us to act. today s republicans will not respond to that. but it is an affirmation for a lot of former republican and former republican performing voters that you know what, those are the principles i believed in. and it drew a contrast that you can t find those principles in today s republican party. it is now one of the reasons that democrats now represent a majority in the country. thank you both. we have got more politics nation on the other side of the break. stay with us.