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election he lost. >> and hearing the case, the panel of nine supreme court justices including three that president trump himself appointed to the bench. >> whatever they decide has the potential to transform the trajectory of this years election, and trumps bid to retake the white house making it the most consequential election case since bush v. gore a quarter century ago. >> these oral arguments expected to begin in moments and potentially last several hours, and we will be here with...

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professor at the university of michigan and msnbc legal analyst, yamiche alcindor, nbc news washington correspondent. dasha, were waiting, were watching this historic moment. set the stage for us outside of trump tower. >> well, we have got a calm before the storm here yesterday. we had a massive crowd, a lot of noise today. it has been fairly quiet this is a business district, a tourist district, a lot of curiosity, a lot of onlookers. we have choppers overhead. we have got some antic...

a former president donald trump. mr trump landed at laguardia airport, just a short while ago. the former president expected derives soon at trump tower. he is expected to spend the night there ahead of his arraignment tomorrow afternoon at the manhattan criminal courthouse, where mr trump is expected to voluntarily surrender sources tell cnn that the former president faces more than 30 counts related to business fraud that we should note the indictment. remains under seal. these charg...

implicitly and explicitly go at the stirrers and say it was never fair and he never had a chance, your lawyer chose them, spoke to them personally. this was not the judge. at the end of the day, you picked the jurors, you did not object, and we got the outcome that we have. >> thank you both, that is all in for this week. alex wagner tonight starts now. >> you are not going to have kokomo played well for the weekend? >> how good was that clip? >> i got to say, i was laughing. maybe tha...

Supreme court. but i think it really just depends on the issues. if there are any of these issues that are attractive to the supreme court, it may very well be the preemption argument that we just discussed. although, i do think it is a really heavy lift, and it would kind of upend a lot of the established law. >> that sounds like it is tailor-made. >> is one of those moments you wish you had a supreme court that was not enmeshed with all these controversies, where you would believe that if they...

Keep in mind, this preemption argument is one that they already made last summer. they tried to remove the proceedings to federal court from state court to federal court. >> something they have done in other cases. >> in georgia, exactly. yes, exactly. so, what judge heller, the federal judge, said, is no, there is no issue of preemption here. why? because this is not a law that targets any of these federal campaign finance issues, it is just a state law, the object defense is a state law. it ju...

Dont know exactly what the charges are. of course, thats going to impact any defense arguments, but jake for hypothetical sake, lets say it is this misdemeanor falsification of business records charge combined with an accentuated to a felony, because its to cover up another crime and that other crime being ah, violations of campaign finance law. i think theres a lot of defenses that are going to come because thats a very novel legal theory in new york. first i would expect challenges on the stat...

Not state, not local. supporters of the arizona law argue the feds are not doing the job so the state had to take matters into its own hands. senior white house correspondent major garrett on the top story at the bottom of the hour. whats the administrations central argument here, major? >> it can be summed up in one word, shepard. preumption. what the administration is saying is the arizona law interferes with powers exclusively granted by the constitution to the federal government. not just bo...