seats of government, the seats of power, and embarks on a campaign, a political intimidation, in order to secure outcomes that personally benefit him. and that at the core is part of the sticks of our democracy that are before us today. because once rule of law goes out the window, it is not something that is easy to get back and it is very much a part of the decision that we have to make before us in the next few months. congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez, congressman jamie raskin, thank you for your time tonight. i really appreciate it. that is all in on this tuesday night. alex wagner tonight starts now. we have new exclusive audio from the supreme court historical society that lauren winsor has given us and we will be playing that in the hour, so stay tuned. i will pick like i said, exclusive never before heard audio recordings of justice samuel alito speaking to an undercover progressive activist. that is what we have tonight. that is in addition to the bom
you have donald trump who takes and weaponize is the seats of government, the seats of power, and embarks on a campaign of political intimidation in order to secure outcomes that personally benefit him. that at the core is part of the stakes of our democracy that are before us today. once rule of law goes out the window, it s not something that is easy to get back. it s very much a part of the decision we have to make in the next few months. thank you for all your time tonight. that s all in on this tuesday night . night . tuesday night. good evening, alex. we have some new exclusive audio from the supreme court historical society that lauren windsor has given us and we ll be playing that in the hour so stay tuned. will. like i said exclusive never before heard audio recordings of justice samuel alito speaking to an undercover progressive activist. that s what we have tonight. that is in addition to the bombshell reportings that were released poyesterday, and you l de
Hours later. and the shamelessness, i don t think, it surprises us at this point, and yet, the drumbeat of disregard is hard to ever mobilize. reporter: i m sorry, for his mother-in-law s funeral. because he s going to a campaign event. and you can tell, because of the change positions, no matter what proceeding is in, whether the supreme court back in 2020, whether it s in the d.c. circuit here in 2023. whatever position suits his purposes in the moment, that is the position he will take, and shamefully, his lawyers will take that position. like we expect this from trump. but to have lawyers, unable that, which is with frauds on the court, i think some of these lawyers will, at some point, and should be held to account. reporter: i want to broaden up a little bit. because all this conversation is here, and, now in the moment. but thinking ahead to what our system looks like for future presidents, what are some of
people talk about how donald trump is unpredictable. here donald trump is completely predictable. he sees nikki haley potentially breathing down his neck in new hampshire. he has to shore up that evangelical base in south carolina to basically end the nomination contest. then in the general election, donald trump will sound very pro choice. in fact, i think you might actually use that term to describe himself pro choice. he knows at that point the evangelical base and all those folks will go along with it because they have gone along with every single thing donald trump has ever done. cruelty is part of his brand. so is shamelessness. he s going to be shamesless on this issue movering back and forth, pretending things he said and did did not happen whenever it suits him. mini? it s so interesting. i to thely agree. he s prone to pretending when he
He said he never had any dealings with his son s business. that he never even talked to him. we have now found out not only did he call into the meetings he went to dinner. we also have a d.o.j. that gave tried to give a sweetheart deal to hunter biden. a natural step forward you have to go to an impeachment inquiry. dana: congresswoman, the white house basically said a natural step forward based on what saying kevin mccarthy is threatening to impeach biden for not turning over documents they ve never requested and calling it a crazy exercise rooted not in facts and truth but in partisan shamelessness. how do you respond to that? well, i have a message for joe biden this morning. we re coming for you. if you will not answer the questions for the american people, the oversight committee will answer them for you with regards to the investigation we ll be conducting. it is time for joe biden to start telling the american people the truth. why wasn t the white house on
Step forward that you would have to go to an impeachment inquiry. a white house spokesperson called the idea a, quote, crazy exercise, rooted not in facts and truth, but partisan shamelessness. and donald trump meantime is arguing that the speaker should skip the inquiry all together and move straight to a vote, writing, these low lives impeached me twice. i won, and indicted me four times for nothing. either impeach the bum or fade into oblivion. they did it to us. nbc s sahil kapur joins us from capitol hill. a lot of pressure still on kevin mccarthy from house republicans. donald trump wants it to move straight ahead. what s happening where you are. reporter: mccarthy is facing pressure from the right. he s facing a divided party and slim majority on how to move forward. mccarthy is trying to navigate this saying all we re trying to do is open an inquiry into
This sort of shield around him of impervious shamelessness that is a very concerning prospect. but it s also that the party is opposed conservative, post ideological party that patrolman schiff about any principle. you know what surprises me is nikki haley. i m not a foreign. i want to be very clear. but it was a fan of some of the stuff she said. let s take a really quick listen to what she said about a possible federal abortion ban. take a listen. when you are talking about a federal, ban be honest with the american people. we haven t had 45 pro-life senators in over 100 years so no republican president can t ban abortions anymore than a democrat president can ban all those state laws. don t make women feel like they have to decide on this issue when you know we don t have 60 70% of the american people support legislation. but 70% of the senate does not.
James was ahn actual hardened criminal who killed people without any apparent fee of being grabbed, being convicted and put behind bars. we know that s trump s greatest fear. he is just improvising, nicolle, doing what he does, bluster, bragadoccio, and run fast in a direction and hope everybody else gets too tired to chase you, or confuse them, or they ll back down. somehow your relentlessness and shamelessness will win the day. for donald trump, he s had a pretty good record. playing that strategy has served him will. he s gotten away with everything
The Monica Lewinski scandal was a turning point in the history of the Democrat Party. It was only then that the Democrats fully grasped that they had a superpower if they chose to use it: sheer, utter.
And charlie, you have my favorite headline so i ll start but. jack smith has the war plan. can do i get that right? yeah, we were wondering where they were.n do i get that right? yeah, we were wondering where they were. do i get that right? yeah, we were wondering where they were.do i get that right? yeah, we were wondering where they were.o i get that right? yeah, we were wondering where they were.o i get that right? yeah, we were wondering where they were. that was a case of that was then and this is now. and so many things that have become hardwired into the republican party. projection, shamelessness, and the double standards. feels old story to talk about hypocrisy and the republican party. we know once that they accepted the hollywood actually once they accepted donald trump as a plausible candidate for president. but you know, you are seeing how much of this is just pretextual, that they never cared about hillary s emails or servers, but it is among the many delici