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,. good to go, all right. hello, new york. thank you for joining us, live at in new york city for this very, very special edition of why is this happening? he is insightful, he is big hearted, very, very very smart. admit it, he s taller than you expected. please give a warm welcome to my friend, my beloved colleague, and msnbc s chris hayes. [applause] hello, everybody. hello! thank you. oh, stop. [applause] stop it! [applause] how are you? good? thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. sit down, sit down, sit down. thank you, that s extremely kind. i hate attention and positive feedback. really, really hard 20 seconds for me. thank you for cutting it short. it s amazing to be here in my hometown of new york city, i ve got some family here. tonight, we re gonna talk about democracy. in that word, we ve probably talked more about democracy in the last four or five years that i had in all of my time before than i would say. even that as a topic seems weird, we ....
question. what was the cause of the civil war? she managed to give an answer they did not include the words slavery. we re going to show you that later in this hour. and explain. why she gave that answer. lawrence i m looking forward to that because i saw also that same comment after we did our segment so i m glad you re covering it. thank you, jonathan. thanks, lawrence. on christmas day a 77 year old criminal defendant facing racketeering charges and other felonies in four jurisdictions said that his prosecutors should rot in hell. and unlike every other criminal defendant who has said that, he didn t mumble it to himself bitterly, alone in his jail cell, awaiting trial. he didn t say it angrily to a cell mate. he said it through the reach of social media to the world and while he was at it, he said the president s united states should rot in hell. the 77 year old criminal defendant is also the leading republican candidate for president of united states. thank ....
and drill, drill, drill. that s not retribution. i am going to be he says, you are not going to be a dictator, are you? i said, no, no, no, other than day one. donald trump telling the world he plans to be a, quote, dictator on day one of his presidency. defenders at the former president at this missed that comment as a joke, a one-off quid that was never meant to be taken literally. trump himself had continued to promote the idea that he will be a vengeful dictator in a second trump presidency. over the holiday weekend, he shared this image of a word cloud put together by the daily mail. the image was based on a survey of what voters sent about trump s ambitions for a second term. and you can see that the most popular responses, the biggest ones represented in the middle r, power, revenge and dictatorship. revenge being the most devoted. that is the image that trump himself wants to cultivate ahead of the 2024 presidential election, an image she wants to promot ....
our top stories this hour the ballot ballots destined for the u.s. supreme court. colorado republicans appeal a ruling that would have kept donald trump out of that state s primary cost. so what happens next. plus, new scrutiny for nikki haley, after a voter confronts her with this question what was the cause of the united states civil war? well, don t come with an easy question or anything. so her full response and the damage control she s trying to do today. and the sight of a quadruple murder. today there s a lot of debate about tearing down the house where four college students were brutally killed. we begin the hour with former president donald trump and the efforts to boot him over the ballot over the constitution s so-called insurrection clause. in colorado, the state democratic republican parties is asking the supreme court to consider the issue. maine s secretary of state is due to decide whether trump can be on their state s ballot. the forme ....
decision did not come down to a panel of state justices. instead just secretary of state shenna bellows upheld two of the three challenges brought by maine voters. one of whom i ll speak to in just a moment. what bellows says her reasoning was based on and what it all means for donald trump heading into super tuesday. we re also watching colorado where time is ticking on the decision to remove trump from the ballot there that the former president has yet to file his appeal with the supreme court. still voters are urging justices to speed up their review of an appeal from colorado s republican party. how and when they could act. plus which other states could throw a wrench into trump s 2024 calendar. we ve got a whole lot to cover. let s dive in. joining me msnbc news justice reporter ryan riley. bring us up to speed on what happened in maine and how donald trump is now reacting. yes. as you expect the trump campaign plans to file an appeal quickly and get this throu ....