supporters worst impulses. it s flailing around about the classified documents he stole as a judge prepares to make a decision on trump s request for a special master to decide if he can get the stolen property back or decide what happens to it next. we begin with the battle for the soul of the nation. topic of tonight s primetime speech by president biden. he ll deliver that speech in about an hour in front of independence hall in philadelphia one week after calling his predecessor s vision for america semifascist. biden will make the case that the fate of america s democracy is at stake. here s some of what he plans to say, that maga forces are determined to take this country backwards, backwards to an america where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love. for a long time we ve reassured ourselves that american democracy is guaranteed but it is not. we have to defend it. protect it. stand up for it. each
Lifetime. i wrote at the time that we re in the battle for the soul of this nation. that s even more true today. we are in the battle for the soul of this nation. the brokenness of our country has only deepened since then. the former president s denial of the loss of a free and fair election, the hallmark of democracy and as the supporters exemplify violence. tonight president biden will defend american democracy as he tries to pull us out of this crisis of what he calls semi-fascism. he came in the age of the era of john f. kennedy. it may be hard to believe now but kennedy didn t start out as a warrior for civil rights. he was reluctant to lose the support of southern segregationist democrats by pushing too hard for federally mandated desegregation after
And other people should all come down, and there is never been any problems [inaudible] . this may be a bit of an ironic foreshadowing there because there were of course several critics of the relaying. mostly from southern segregationist states. one of the of that decision even years later, was this man, jerry falwell, one of the most prominent leaders of the evangelical america. this is a little bit of a serving that he gave his congregation and lynchburg, virginia, years after that ruling was quote, if chief justice warren s associates had known god s word and his desire to do the lords will, i am quite confident that the 1954 decision would never have been made. the facility should be separate, when god has drawn a lot of distinction, we should not
[inaudible] this may be a bit of an ironic foreshadowing there because there were of course several critics of the relaying. mostly from southern segregationist states. one of the of that decision even years later, was this man, jerry falwell, one of the most prominent leaders of the evangelical america. this is a little bit of a serving that he gave his congregation and lynchburg, virginia, years after that ruling was quote, if chief justice warren s associates had known god s word and his desire to do the lords will, i am quite confident that the 1954 decision would never have been made. the facility should be separate, when god has drawn a lot of distinction, we should not attempt to cross that line. the true negro does not want integration.
Msnbc s prime starts. now chris, thank you good evening to you and we ll see you tomorrow, and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. spring quite draft decision to overturn roe v. wade as weight is top-of-the-line across the nation right now, i want to begin tonight with a different ruling. one from 1954, that was the year the supreme court ruled in anonymously in brown v. board that racial segregation in children in public schools was unconstitutional. the lawyers who argued the case before the supreme court, and what included the future supreme court justice thoreau good marshall, he co-counsel stood after the ruling, to celebrate the victory. the express to hope, expectation that southern segregationist states would comply. it is my opinion that is law-abiding, and will comply against a decision that the board except. and members of our democratic party decided [inaudible] there s no question about it,