it has been said that the supreme court is like a family. a family composed entirely of in-laws. 42 years ago, i was assigned to help then judge o connor join that family. it was my first day in a new job at the justice department, and i was proud to be part of her team. i thought i did a pretty good job. after all, the justice was confirmed 99-0. we must have had something to do with that. only many years later was i told she thought i was slow in getting material to her. i should have learn ed that whe she had a challenge or responsibility before her, her approach was simple and direct. get it done. the way she participated in oral argument at the court is a good example. justices have many different styles on the bench. some like the back and forth of debates, others pose unusual hype otheticals, some badger counsel to get concessions. others spell out a particular theory at length and ask for comment. now all this is fine and good, but justice o connor was different. af
election admitted in a sworn statement released on wednesday that she had knowingly misrepresented the facts in several of her public claims that widespread voter fraud led to trump s defeat. the admissions by ellis were part of an agreement to accept public censure and settle disciplinary measures brought against her by state bar officials in her home state of colorado. jenna ellis s confession is a far cry from the lies she told to millions. president trump is right that there was widespread fraud in this election. we have at least six states that were corrupted if not more through the voting systems. we know that president trump won in a landslide. but we knew he didn t and it turns out so did she. in a statement posted on twitter, jenna ellis claimed that the case against her was politically motivated and ellis and her attorney insist that she remains a practicing attorney in good standing in colorado. what she admitted to doing, though, damaged democracy and sewed dist
guards will throw them out. i m the president. [ bleep ] you. i m challenging all of it and the judges we re going to are judges i appointed [ bleep ] you. you re not stealing the election. why was he so sure trump was going to lose? and here s roger stone after january 6th on plans for a pardon for himself and for others who were involved in plotting to overturn the election. talk b about how many i think 132 congressmen voted with trump. that s 132 right there. big or small as you want. it s a way of saying this is so you can t run your switch on two. i m going to deal with movie poster, witch hunt 2 with a big picture of merrick garland. has it been pitched to the president? yes, it has. i believe the president s for it. the obstacles are these lily livered, weak kneed bureaucrats in the white house counsel s office and now they must be crushed because they told the president something that s not true. lily livered, weak kneed. in a statement, stone says he t
good day. i m chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. high stakes political drama unfolding today. in two of the closest senate races in the country with two embattled candidates trying to keep their shot at victory from slipping away. this georgia republican nominee herschel walker is tripling down, maybe quadrupling down on his denials about an ex-girlfriend s abortion. flat out denial a lie. and democrat john fetterman giving his first in-person interview since suffering a stroke to nbc. he claims he s good to go, but he won t release his medical records to prove it. we ll have live reports from both states, show you that interview and ask pennsylvania democrat whether she thinks voters deserve more. plus will there be a smoking gun at the investigation on capitol hill the answer just 24 horse away. and finally it turns out intentionally slamming a $330 million spacecraft into the side of an asteroid is a good thing. how nasa s grand experiment tha
Spectrum, liz cheney on the right, joe biden, are warning on a near daily basis an increasingly dire terms that our very democracy is in trouble right now. I dont understand why one partys careen threatens to derail the entire american experiment, the entire republic. Can actually just look no further than what happened last night. Nikki haleys dorsment of donald trump is part of what has become a time honored tradition of Todays Republican Party in the trump era. Prominent republicans whose closely held private views about the expresident may not actually be that different from mine or that of any trump critic or any democrat. And taking all sorts of very public abuse and scorn from donald trump, including attacks on their spouses. Despite all that, despite everything he said about their families and everything they have said about him in return, they turn around and offer him their endorse the. Ted cruzs capitulation before the 2016 election after trump attacked his wife. Cruz said t