good evening, lawrence lawrence oh, i have pretty bad sound here is alex wagner talking to me there she is i think i just turned on m phone. no, the volume thing was a little low it happens to all of us it s your show now you can do whatever you want with it. thank you for the soundtrack, alex we needed that have a great show, lawrence we have a statement fro president biden on the situation in tennessee tonight it was just released by th white house. the president said a state republican lawmakers calle votes today to expel three democratic legislators who stood in solidarity with the students and families an helped lift their voices today s expulsion of lawmakers who engaged in peaceful protes is shocking, undemocratic, and without precedent. rather than a debating the merits of the issue of, thes republican lawmakers hav chosen to punish, silence, and expel elected representative of the people of tennessee we had planned to cover severa stories for you in this ho
lawrence oh, i have pretty bad sound here is alex wagner talking to me there she is i think i just turned on m phone. no, the volume thing was a little low it happens to all of us it s your show now you can do whatever you want with it. thank you for the soundtrack, alex we needed that have a great show, lawrence we have a statement fro president biden on the situation in tennessee tonight it was just released by th white house. the president said a state republican lawmakers calle votes today to expel three democratic legislators who stood in solidarity with the students and families an helped lift their voices today s expulsion of lawmakers who engaged in peaceful protes is shocking, undemocratic, and without precedent. rather than a debating the merits of the issue of, thes republican lawmakers hav chosen to punish, silence, and expel elected representative of the people of tennessee we had planned to cover severa stories for you in this hour including the latest
and charm, it is you, lawrence. i trust you will get to them of, what the wife of clarence thomas, the activists, an election denier, ginni thomas, said in those four walls. we might not but we are going to try. we will do the best we can with congressman schiff, and then andrew weissmann will join us with the latest ruling of judge today. i saw the discussion of, it alex, and i want to try a different take. i am prepared with professor weisman, and a law professor, and he will grade me on this. one, it doesn t matter, and it was a criminal investigation, on the classified documents. and to, they might be right. donald trump should be able to protect his right to a criminal defense in court on the question of what about these documents, possibly, being planted. the normal place for that to come up, is in cross-examination of fbi agents in court. it may be that it is a good thing, that he is allowed to continue to hold on to that, all the way through a criminal trial, becaus
a law professor at nyu of so he will grade me on this. but i think one, it doesn t matter, it s kind of an academic ruling at this point since the investigation investigation on the classified documents. good evening. and two, she might be right. donald trump should be able to protect his right to a criminal defense in court on the question of what about these documents, possibly, being planted. the normal place for that to come up, is in cross-examination of fbi agents in court. it may be that it is a good thing, that he is allowed to continue to hold on to that, all the way through a criminal trial, because, would we be running the risk of reversible error in an appeal if donald trump lost that right to that argument, now, through a special master? all of that is for, professor weisman, later, actually coming right up in our first segment. i guarantee, politically, the ultimate legal outcome. we will hear donald trump repeat a lot, his claims, that may be something happen
tonight on the reidout leader mccarthy, do you have the votes for speaker tomorrow? do you have the votes for speaker locked in tomorrow? we ll have a good day tomorrow. kevin mccarthy plays let s make a deal with the most radical fringe members of the republican caucus. with his longtime quest to become speaker in serious peril. or comical peril, depending on your point of view. one vote he needs belongs to george santos, the biggest liar in washington since donald trump left town. we re getting a look at trump s taxes but where did santos get his money? also tonight, gen z finally arrives in congress. congressman-elect maxwell frost joins me. and republicans love to call themselves pro-life, but in recent weeks, many of those same people were voting against bare minimum protections for women and children. tonight, we re calling them out. we begin tonight with happy new year to all. we re in 20-michael jordan and hopefully 2023 won t decide to play baseball i