as donald trump makes a third bid for the white house and is the the first votes are to be cast in iowa in just under two weeks. trump s lawyers say the 234-year unbroken tradition of not prosecuting the presidents for official acts, despite calls to do so from across the political spectrum, provides powerl evidence. no president prior toth donald trump tried to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power. had his attorneys point to the likelihood of mushrooming prosecutions. and future cycles. the ex-the president snlt prolsing retribution. his al lies aren t the ones plotting to end the independence of the justice department. the most audacious argument, one yesterday. on this program donald trump cannot be tri a criminal court for role in the january 6th insurrectn because heas acquitted by the senate during his second impeachment the new york times reports both legal perts have disdegreed with that position. not least because the federal charges he s facing are not analogous
when you re telling people that a presidential election is being stolen, you can t be shocked when people believe you and then become violent. at some point, they have to take responsibility. you know, you know, the thing is, mika first of all, donald trump is saying that it s smart. yeah, so smart that while he is sitting there lying to them and grifting and getting hundreds of millions of dollars from people lying, saying, give me money and we ll fight the election, and it all goes to him. first of all, not smart there. also, unfortunately, there were a lot of people that went up to the capitol because they believed donald trump. they believed his lies. yeah. they re sitting in prison right now. he s just sitting back at mar-a-lago, living his life, loving it. family vacations around the world, on beaches. flying all around on his private, well, you know, 757, whatever it is. flying from one country club to another. and they re sitting in jail, yeah. you ll no
This our, Princeton University professor eddie glaude talks to me about President Bidens graduation speech at morehouse. The interview in just a few moments. A very good day to all of you from msnbc World Headquarters in new york. Welcome everyone to politico reports. First two political headlines. Here is what is happening right now. President biden arrived in atlanta a short time ago. He will attend Campaign Events later today and is expected to deliver the Commencement Speech at Morehouse College tomorrow. Earlier today, The White House released photos of a friday meeting with members of the divine nine historically africanamerican sororities and fraternities. Biden also spoke at the National Museum of African American history and culture. Together, the naacp and this museum are monuments to the power of black history to black history is American History. It is american. It is a really important thing to continue. We have a whole group of people out there trying to rewrite history,
let me talk about all the great things i ve done. i wouldn t worry about getting ahead of whatever lie donald trump comes up with next. i would want to get ahead of what are the ever narratives are that exist within the people, people who are upset, people who say joe biden is too old, people who say he hasn t done enough, get ahead of those concerns because if joe biden satisfies those people, donald trump will continue talking to the same little coffee class he s always talked to and lose again. because it is not that many people. but joe biden has to galvanize the people who have already benefitted from his presidency. if he can t do that, yeah, trump will be in office and we ll all be in trouble. my understanding, molly, having listened to the biden campaign talk about their intent, talk about the stakes of the election is that there is sort of a duality to what they understand they need to do. they need to go after this, start off the new year focusing on the stakes, on dark day
speaking out against the supreme court s decision to overturn roe v. wade. keep protesting. keep making your point. it is critically important. we can do a lot of things to accommodate the rights of women. in the meantime, fundamentally, the only thing that s going to change this is if we have a national law that reinstates roe v. wade. as president, i don t have the authority to say that we re going to, you know, state roe v. wade as the law of the land. the only way we do that is through an election of the united states congress. in the meantime, states can make those judgments. so my ultimate goal is to reinstate roe v. wade as a national law. we have a lot to talk about. meanwhile, the white house is defending the president s response to the supreme court ruling on abortion from progressives, who say he hasn t done enough. white house communications