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well, it is shaping up to be a really big week for the country, because this week, the supreme court is going to hear oral arguments on whether the 14th amendment disqualifies a donald trump from the ballot. and today, just a few hours ago, actually, we got a pretty good window into how trump s legal team plans to make their arguments. and let me tell you, this brief, i read it today, it includes a fair number of arguments from an alternate universe. for starters, trump s lawyers claim that the former president is not in fact and officer of the united states, which is who the 14th amendment covers. now, this is not a new or surprising argument necessarily being made by the trump team. but let s be real. it kind of defies logic. i mean, how could it be that the president of the united states is not an officer of the united states with an obligation, by the way, to abide by the constitution. it s kind of what the founders had in mind. but then, there s the other, perhaps ....
the senate? no, we made very clear what the requirements of the house were. that is to solve the problem at the border. is donald trump calling the shots here, mr. speaker? of course not. he s not calling the shots. i am calling the shots for the house. that s our responsibility. of course not. but trump did tell them to do nothing about the border this year because republicans can t afford to give it up as an election issue. also tonight, how trump managed to delay, delay, delay his criminal trials. something no regular citizen would be able to do. plus, as trump openly roots for a crash, joe biden presides over what even trump advisers admit is a whopper of an economy. but we begin tonight with an emergency. a crisis, a catastrophe, at least that s what republican lawmakers have spent the last few month calling the situation at the southern border. one thing is absolutely clear. america is at a breaking point with record levels of illegal immigration. it i ....