tonight on the reidout. this maga threat is a threat to the brick and mortar of our democratic institutions. it s also a threat to the character of our nation. it gives our constitution life. it minds us together as americans in a common cause. the biden team weighs how to talk to voters about the dangers of trump at a key time when the president is trying to lock in some of the crucial groups in the biden coalition. also tonight, my panel of esteemed guests and i are going to announce who won the year in 2023. it could be one of those accomplished people on your screen, or it could be somebody else entirely. stay with us to find out. plus, i will be joined by a major special guest. he is very much in demand right now, and in this business, we call this a good get. that s a tease. but we begin tonight with the fate of donald trump and his legal and political future. resting with the nine members of the highest court in the land. today, special counsel jack smith
investigation, political violence in america has not been this bad since the 1970s. people instead of property, most recently deadly outbursts have come from the right. viewers of this show are familiar with what some of those deadly threats and outbursts have looked like. the, quote, unprecedented number of threats against fbi agents, who participated in the search of mar-a-lago classified documents, threats against alvin bragg, fani willis, and judge tanya chuts kin. sensing a theme you are not wrong. common denominator here is, of course, the disgraced, twice impeached four times indicted ex-president, who has become a next u.s. between the workings of law enforcement and our system and political violence and now has happened again. less than hours since the colorado supreme court ruled that donald trump is disqualified from being on the republican primary ballot in that state. now, in the wake of that landmark ruling, the judges who sit on the colorado supreme court are b
in 1952, in the middle of the korean war, the united steel workers of america threatened to strike. but before they, could president truman shocked the nation with a televised address announcing he was seizing control of the steel plants so as not to interrupt the war effort. within half an hour of that address, lawyers for the steal companies had driven to a district court judges home in washington, d. c., and gotten the judge to set a hearing for the next morning. a hearing as to whether or not a could actually do that. now, the merits of that case a really interesting, but the reason the steele seizure case matters today is the speed at which was heard by the supreme court. the issue was so urgent for the steel workers, the unions, the steel companies, the u. s. military, it was so pressing that the case skipped the appeals process and the supreme court heard oral arguments just a little over a month after truman s announcement. they decided the case less than a month afte
former supreme court justice sandra day o connor honored today in d.c. as an american pioneer, on and off the bench. are there lessons the country can still learn from her remarkable life? speaking of high ranking women, vice president kamala harris with an extraordinary political challenge to be a game changer in next year s election. the biden campaign s bold plan to make abortion the pivotal issue for 2024 and putting harris in charge of making it happen. and what s it going to take to get rudy giuliani to stop lying about georgia election workers ruby freeman and shaye moss? after a $148 million judgment failed to stop him, freeman and moss are suing giuliani again, seeking a court order to stop his, quote, campaign of targeted defamation and harassment. so, what happens now? but we start in washington, where tears mixed with laughter and applause remembering a life well lived, a stirring and emotional tribute to sandra day o connor, known to history, of course, as
december 16th, i m ali velshi. we begin this morning with a justice served. a pair of election workers were terrorized by don trump supporters. yesterdaya ry awarded ruby freeman and shaye moss a total of 100 and $48 million in damages as a result of their civil this defamation lawsuit against really giuliani who repeatedly and falsely accused him of carrying out a elaborate election fraud scheme without producing a shred of evidence that could withstand scrutiny. the verdict is a new low for giuliani, who rose up the ranks of new york politics early in his career, but has been on a downward spiral for the better part of the past two decades. he s gone from being americas mere to a codefendant indicted alongside his longtime pal donald trump in fulton county s sprawling r.i.c.o. case. on top of, that giuliani faces a number of other lou legal troubles. yesterday wondered 48 million-dollar verdict pulsing comparison to the 1.3 billion dollars that dominion voting systems to s