it is the eve of the iowa caucus, the start of the presidential primaries, you may have heard. and i m ari melber, with you right now for an msnbc special, a candidate slash defendant trump, reporting on his own clash of american politics, law, and how voters may assess the candidate, whose ear could end in the exalted oval office, or a small prison cell. that will depend on the outcome of several criminal trials, plus other cases. and the next person to track, and break it all down for you tonight on caucus eve, as the primaries begin tomorrow, some of trump s rivals are now invoking trump s legal problems as a general election problem for the ex president. obviously, the distractions of everything that s going on with all of these legal issues has been a huge thing for him. you re going to have criminal trials, you re going to have a lot of focus on things like january 6th by the media. and i think that ends up focusing the election on things that are going to be adva
primaries, you may have heard. i m ari melber, and right now for an msnbc special candidate slash defendant trump recorded on this unprecedented class of american politics. law, and how voters may is as a candidate who might and in the exulted oval office or a small prison cell. it will depend on the and other cases. we have special guests to help break it all down for you tonight on caucus eve of the primaries begin tomorrow. some of trump s rivals are now invoking trump s legal problems as a general election problem for the ex president. obviously, the distractions of everything that s going on with all of these legal issues has been a huge thing for him. you re going to have criminal trials, you re going to have a lot of focus on things like january 6th by the media. and i think that ends up focusing the election on things that are going to be advantageous for democrats. the notion that somehow all of the stuff that is swirling around and it s good to be a positive in
Organize, you campaigned, you use the franchise and in order to create a different result in what political violence is about. it is undermining that, it is replacing the rule of law with the rule of the merely strong. that is as fundamental to american life is anything. right? if you want to massively do work out, this is broadly put, tomas hobbs versus john locke. hobbs right against the state of nature. law road event how we enter contracts, protecting essential rights. the fact that you and i are sitting here and talking about hobbs and lock on a sunday night in 2024 is not a great sign for the health of the body politic. the only thing that i would say about the questionable news sources and all of that, i don t think there s a lot of people are confused. i just personally think they are wrong. they probably think that i am both. it is totally fair. i don t think that
What i think the host was asking there is about domestic political violence in pursuit of a particular agenda instead of the constitutionally sanctioned arena in which we debate our differences peace ability but passionately. we reach a cuban solution for a given period of time. if you disagree, then you organize, you campaigned, you use the franchise and in order to create a different result in what political violence is about. it is undermining that, it is replacing the rule of law with the rule of the merely strong. that is as fundamental to american life is anything. right? if you want to massively do work out, this is broadly put, tomas hobbs versus john locke. hobbs right against the state of nature. law road event
How we enter contracts, protecting essential rights. the fact that you and i are sitting here and talking about hobbs and lock on a sunday night in 2024 is not a great sign for the health of the body politic. the only thing that i would say about the questionable news sources and all of that, i don t think there s a lot of people are confused. i just personally think they are wrong. they probably think that i am both. it is totally fair. i don t think that and again, i know you ve had conversations. i live in tennessee, and so when i say i have conservative friends, it is redundant. they just have a different view. they have a different view of the things that and i don t think it comes from a place of malice. i really don t. i do think it comes from a place of reflexive