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we hope you are doing well. from all of our colleagues across the network of nbc news, thank you for staying up late, icu at the end of tomorrow. of today, i saw down with former secretary of state presidential candidate hillary clinton and we covered a lot of ground. we talked about conflicts overseas in the middle east and in ukraine. we talked about donald trumps legal jeopardy and the utter chaos and the republican party. chaos that, by the way, its in full display tonight. with th...

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fatigue and morale issues, and in thele meantime republicans a playing politics. they are playing politicwise the vital resources ukraine needs to defend its democracy from invaders. the democrats agreed to work with republicans and to craft a bipartisan bill to increase border security measures in exchange for that aid. but then donald trump came out against the deal. he did not want to hand president biden a victory on trumps favorite campaign issue, which is drumming up fear about w...

mexico while their asylum cases are under review. so what do these major rulings say about the direction of the court, and what can we expect for the next term? ilya shapiro is author of "supreme disorder," which is available on paperback on tuesday. ilya, welcome. good to see you here. historic term for the supreme court. did the court surprise you with its ending? >> the court finally colessed; has, the conservative majority that has long been promised, expected, feared, vaunted fina...

Has strayed from that originalist interpretation over the decades. is that fair? >> i think you have to look beyond simply a left versus right or kind of an overdue 50 or 60-year-old correction of the warren court. its more like before we had, especially in the religion era, mushy standards or balancing tests with multiple fact ors, and now theres a clean rule. and thats what the court is trying to do as well as give wiggle room to states, to local officials to regulate in various ways. and so i...

Go to my website at smerconish.com. and vote on this weeks survey question. will mike pence testify before the january 6th committee? yes or no? is trump right when he identifies his opponents concern about the law. joining me matthew sellaman, hes a fellow at harvard center for law. taught at harvard law. and just published a provocative paper covered at the "washington post" called "a realistic risk assessment of the presidential election of 2024." okay, matthew, can a vice president reject th...

If it wasnt true then, when did it become true. and olsons point was we dont keep track of the constitution like a clock. what the point is is that its unconstitutional today to discriminate against gay people in this way. that was what both sides were getting at in that argument. >> thats why so many conservatives have turned on ted olson, because they believe that he ought to be the scalia on this and have an originalist interpretation of the constitution and in this courtroom today, he seemed...

And olsons point was we dont keep track of the constitution like a clock. what the point is is that its unconstitutional today to discriminate against gay people in this way. that was what both sides were getting at in that argument. >> thats why so many conservatives have turned on ted olson, because they believe that he ought to be the scalia on this and have an originalist interpretation of the constitution and in this courtroom today, he seemed to be saying something very, very different. >>...

>> thats why so many conservatives have turned on ted olson, because they believe that he ought to be the scalia on this and have an originalist interpretation of the constitution and in this courtroom today, he seemed to be saying something very, very different. >> yeah. fascinating day. another one tomorrow. gloria, appreciate it. jeff toobin as well. the idea of equal rights for gays and lesbians as civil rights -- and civil rights being interchangeable or compatible has not always been so. t...

Olson, because they believe that he ought to be the scalia on this and have an originalist interpretation of the constitution and in this courtroom today, he seemed to be saying something very, very different. >> yeah. fascinating day. another one tomorrow. gloria, appreciate it. jeff toobin as well. the idea of equal rights for gays and lesbians as civil rights -- and civil rights being interchangeable or compatible has not always been so. that notion is growing in no smart part due to veterans...