university. that's here on msnbc. we have a big night tonight on msnbc. coming up in the second hour of this show , join live coverage of the white house correspondents dinner, hosted by an sl comedian, colin jost. tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern right here on msnbc, streaming on peacock. are you ready for nerd prom coverage? >> i'm here in new york , i drew the short straw this week, so unfortunately i have to work it, but it looks like you'll be heading over there to have some fun. >> i mean i hope it's fun. >> try not to sleep during the boring parts. >> yeah, i don't think it's going to be boring at all tonight. >> that's true. enjoy the rest of your evening.

as jonathan mentioned our special coverage of the white house correspondents dinner takes off at 8:00 p.m. please stick around. we will have extensive coverage. on this hour, we have two pivotal events testing the bedrock of our constitution, threats to first amendment rights, and to the rule of law. also tonight from new york to arizona we break down donald trump's head spinning week of legal drama including outrageous arguments his legal team made to the supreme court. marjorie taylor greene's political standing, shifting from maga hero to. let's do it. ♪ this week marked an inflection point in our nation's history. the united states constitution being tested in new and dangerous ways. on thursday former president donald trump and his lawyers went to the u.s. supreme court to double down on claims that a president possesses sweeping immunity from criminal prosecution.

basically according to the former president's lawyers his immunity is so absolute they argued, that even assassinating a political rival could be within the official powers of the presidency. >> if the president decides that his rifle is a corrupt person, and he orders the military or someone to assassinate him, is that within his official acts for which he can get immunity? >> it would depend on the hypothetical. we can see that well could be an official act. >> well could be an official act? just imagine how ridiculous that sounds here for a minute. because, if you apply trump's lawyers' logic they are basically saying, that the current president, joe biden, could kill his political opponent.

i don't know, maybe someone like donald trump, who he believes possesses a clear and present danger to our democracy? and, that could potentially be considered an official act immune from prosecution. it's insane. while trump is asking the supreme court to put the presidency above criminal law, the gop presumptive nominee is pursuing an even broader authoritarian agenda behind the scenes. should he win a second term trump and his allies are laying the groundwork to eliminate internal checks and balances on the executive branch. a system laid out by the founders in our constitution, and instead, centralize even more power in the presidency. so on one hand, we have this top down approach to authoritarianism, where trump is plotting a dictatorship that starts from the office of the presidency all the way down. and on the other hand, this week we saw another attack on our constitutional norms.

in the wake of mass antiwar palestinian solidarity protests at college campuses across the country. republicans began calling on president biden to unleash the full force of the national guard on demonstrators. >> my intention is to call president biden after we leave here and share with him what we have seen with our own two eyes and demand he take action. there is executive authority to be appropriate, if this is not contained quickly, and if these threats and intimidations are not stopped there is an appropriate time for the national guard. >> the national guard in case you don't know is activated and commended the governors of their respective states. however, under the insurrection act a president does have the power to federalize these forces. republicans are calling on the president to take these extraordinary actions despite the fact that we have yet to see evidence of mass violence or unrest that would justify such an extreme move. in fact much of whatever violence we have seen on college campuses has been at the hands of over militarized

police. those who were called in to help disperse the protests. images and videos of police violently arresting peaceful protesters has flooded social media. take for example at emory university, heavily armed officers can be seen standing there teasing a demonstrator who was already handcuffed and on the ground. in here, you can see police slamming economics professor, caroline f. into the concrete after she expressed concern at the violent protest of another protester. justifying the use of force, labeling these college students and professors as pro-hamas, or even terrorists. and here is what these protesters really are. students and professors using their first amendment constitutional rights to protest the actions of the american government, which is helping fund what they say is israel's genocidal war on palestinians. students who pay thousands of dollars in tuition to these universities every year, demanding essay and how that

money, their money, is being used, asking for divestment in any business that profits from the ongoing war, and an end to that war. and they have every right to do so. public officials in this country, do not get to advocate for the forceful suppression of citizens just because they disagree with them, or even dislike how they protest. as lydia writes in the new york times, these protests have showed just how unsettling some aspects of activism can be. pulgreen who has been reporting at columbia did notice anti- semitism outside the bounds. it doesn't mean the protesters' actions are misguided. these siegel these people seek a worthy cause. just imagine here for a moment, if united states president, perhaps someone like donald trump, buys

into this label being depend on these students, that they are, in fact, terrorists, does that mean the u.s. president with his expanded powers could use drones to attack these students the way we have been droning terrorists all over the world? that might sound hyperbolic to you, but under trump's definition of absolute immunity, is anything truly off the table? so far, president biden has rejected calls to intervene in these protests, but it's not like the u.s. does not have a dark history of sending in the military to tamp down campus protests. may 4th, 1970, the ohio governor at the time then called the national guard to kent state university in response to student protests over the vietnam war. after demonstrators refused to disperse, troops opened fire on the protesters, killing four of them and wounding nine others. here's how one student described the scene to nbc news that very day. >> i know they, next thing i

know there were shots firing my jumped behind this car, some kid yelled at live bullets. a car window shattered. and finally it was over. i got up to run away, and the guy says my god, this girl is shot. she has blood coming out of her mouth. before, i was angry they were here, this is my campus. i have a right to be here. i felt like we had been invaded, and they were sort of pushing us around and everything but afterwards i was just afraid. >> so in the wake of these latest protests in the violent response from police, laurel krause, sister of 19-year-old allison krauss, killed the national guard that day, urged officials not to repeat history. "our institutions must learn from these past mistakes to not use militarized responses against unarmed, peaceful student protesters." however, five decades later it seems our institutions are facing this unprecedented test. if we normalize this kind of militarized response to peaceful protesters that are

labeled as terrorists, if we continue to ignore why they have resorted to protests on campus in the first place and off campus, and if the power of the executive branch that we saw this week being tested so that a sitting president like trump is immune from criminal wrongdoing and answers to no one, as he argued at the supreme court, then what happened to allison krauss and those other students could certainly happen again. we cannot and must not let that happen. let's discuss this now with jason stanley, professor of philosophy at yale university. author of the new book erasing history which details how the worst fascist movements of humanity's past all began in our schools. it is due in september. jason, it's great to have you on the show. i want to start with the premise i laid out in these protests. you have some sitting u.s. lawmakers calling for the national guard to be activated against college students, what

does that militarized impulse tell you where we are today is society? >> well, first of all, i would like to note they had snipers on the roofs of buildings in ohio state, and indiana, targeting the students. so, think about that. snipers for peaceful protests. they are trying to set up the universities as the enemy. this vocabulary of universities being filled with pro-hamas terrorists. and we have been hearing this since the fall, since the beginning of all this, since the terrorist attacks on israel on october 7th. they are trying to link professors and students to the terrorists in hamas, and they are doing that in order to make enemies of the professors. as jd vance said, the professors are the enemy, quoting nixon. so who, they will be running

against the institutions, running against the universities, and if americans don't think that our greatest university system in the world can be taken down, they should just look abroad at countries like india, where the best universities in india have got police invading them, tear gas, professors fired unlabeled as anti-india. and what we are seeing here is repetition of that. >> i want to talk to about that perception. i want to share another part of this section from lydia pulgreen. whether you are watching student protests on social media or experiencing it in person the way you understand these protests depends on your perception of what they are protesting. and that's what i wanted to focus on, in that moment of perception, how much of the discussion or discourse right now, what these protests are

about, and how dangerous that is for our response. to the point you were raising it's much easier to justify violence against a terrorist who is trying to undermine your national security regardless of whether they are in yemen or at your college campus next door. >> well that's what you do when you want to target people, you label them as terrorists, internal enemies, that is what we are seeing, the national socialists declared jewish people internal enemies, marxists, they said marxists were controlling institutions, the media, etc. so they were legitimate targets. now we have people saying democrats are really terrorists, democrats, the leftists, the universities. so they are sitting americans up to justify violent crackdown on universities, using these

protests which, let's remember started in response to colombia's president, making the error of arresting her own students over 100 of her own students. and that helped create these protests in solidarity both with palestinians and what's happening in gaza as well as the authoritarian maneuvers of the universities administrators have to be somewhat complicit in this. >> speaking of, we are showing live pictures outside the washington hotel where protesters have been gathering outside. others are going to be speaking this evening at the washington, sorry, the white house correspondents dinner. let me get back to the point that i started this show with, on one hand we saw with the president, with the former president is trying to do with

his power grab, with him claiming he has immunity, even if it was to kill a political opponent. this person has invoked the insurrection act to quell blacks like black lives matter protests. if the supreme court grants this president this type of authority, and he comes back into the white house, that we can see the unleashing of military violence against civil rights protesters or other protest movements in this country? >> these are anti-word antiwar protests, just like vietnam, these are peaceful, less disturbing at university campuses than those antiwar protests. and they are sending a signal of what they are going to do with other kinds of pro- democratic protests. let's be clear what the supreme court is considering. carl schmidt, the nazi legal

theorist famously said he who can make the exception is above the law. this is fascist legal theory 101. this is what the supreme court is playing with. he who can make the exception is above the law. that's meant to make way for a fascist dictatorship. that is fascist legal theory. this is what the supreme court is playing with his fascist legal theory. so, we know where that leads. we know that means that there will be violent repression. we know that the violent rhetoric that say the nazis aimed against marxists, the jewish, and liberals are being targeted as marxists. so, so that's where we have got

the fascist legal theory. we have the fascist rhetoric, and you are gearing up for the fascist state violence. >> let's hope it does not get to that moment. jason stanley, i really appreciate your insights. couldn't think of anyone better to talk to about these developers. thank you so much. up next, justices, opting for hypotheticals over facts in trump's election aversion case. on medicare? have diabetes? with the freestyle libre 3 system you'll know your glucose and where it's headed no fingersticks needed.

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core's conservative majority treated mr. trump's assertion that he tried to subvert the election as a weighty and difficult question. they also seem determined not to focus on his actual actions, instead indicating that perhaps they believe as noted "the real threat to democracy wasn't trump's attempt to overturn the election, but the justice department's efforts to prosecute him for the act. " justice samuel alito said in part quote i am not discussing the particular facts of this case." communications director, and dave ehrenberg palm beach county, florida, good to have you both. the conservative super majority on the court, addressed this issue on thursday, and i wanted to start by asking you what we heard from the justices. justice alito saying he's not really talking about the particular facts of the case? >> it's unbelievable. the reason why the supreme

court stepped in and delayed this was because they didn't want to talk about the specifics of the case. they would have not even reviewed the appeal, because the lower court did a really good job explaining why trump's actions on january 6th and before were not official acts. he should not be getting anywhere near immunity, but the courts said we are going to the broader principles of what constitutes official acts, and whether that would be immune. to do some hypothetical thinking. the fact is the clock is ticking. they know what they are doing. there was a case against donald trump in washington, d.c. where they delayed it to people who are on the far right, justice alito and others are ignoring what's in front of them, and instead, doing really the former president's being bidding. >> that's the scary bit, tara.

i can't think of a legal analyst worth their time that has said this is not an open and shut case in terms of how clear it is, but when it comes to this conservative majority, has apparent concerns about how a lack of immunity will prevent presidents from leaving office peacefully and destabilizing democracy, it does not seem like that matters to them. >> it's quite remarkable we have not had to ask this question since 1789, since the first peaceful transfer of power after george washington left office. why, why are they trying to give donald trump every opportunity to escape from being held accountable for the fact that he was the first president to break our tradition of a peaceful transposition of power? i think the opportunity to know whether the former president

and current candidate is a quick or not or an insurrectionist, or someone who committed violations against the constitution or not, denying the american people the opportunity to see if that person is convicted in a court of law which is the way our system works, i think is a travesty. i think it is an abdication of their responsibility and an affront to the oath of office is these justices take. this is a perfect example of elections having consequences, and for people who are out there right now, who are apathetic or think it doesn't matter, or arguing over policy disagreements they may have, if they think not going out to vote or casting their vote away to a third party and protest doesn't matter, this is a perfect example of how it does, because presidents nominate supreme court justices. >> right. >> and you get the supreme court you vote for, and we are seeing the dire consequences of that right now, from dobbs to this. i think it's shameful. >> dave, i want to play audio

of the questioning of trump's attorney oh over hypothetical. >> let's say this president who ordered the military to stage a coup is no longer president, he wasn't impeached, he couldn't be, but he ordered the military to stage a coup, you're saying that's an official act? >> i think it would depend on-- >> that's immune? >> i think it would determine on the circumstances. on the way you described that hypothetical it could well be. i just don't know yet. again, it is a fact-specific context-- >> that answer sounds to me yeah that's an official act, but that sure sounds bad, doesn't it? >> well it certainly sounds very bad. >> well it certainly sounds had a president orders a military coup. your thoughts on that line of questioning and the way he responded? he was just dismissing saying whether the president accepts a

bribe to go after a political opponent or order the military to stage a coup. >> this is where the high court should not have gone down this road, it would have been easier to do what they do in other cases, take something limited, here in this matter donald trump's actions were not part of his official duties, it's in the constitution that states in elections. trump was acting as a candidate, not the president, but instead, they are stepping into it, and there is no clear- cut rule to delineate between official acts and personal acts. for example what if donald trump were taking bribes to give out pardons? would that be an official act or personal act? see? it is so difficult to go into this, it will create unnecessary delays, and if they go down this road that is so convoluted it misses, it is easy, no, donald trump's actions were not official acts. >> and no president has immunity for those actions.

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bombshell testimony this week as donald trump's hush money trial got underway. former national inquirer publisher, david pecker, admitting to a catch and kill story, purchasing the story about an alleged affair with donald trump without any intention of publishing it or running it. the former editor testified he believes the affair did happen, and that trump's concerns with wanting to cover up the story during his 2016 presidential campaign were purely electoral. not for the sake of his family or for personal reasons. the former president's personal secretary, rhona graff, took the stand and confirmed he had

saved contact information of both karen mcdougal and stormy daniels. she also said that she saw daniels in the trump tower reception area, all this in just two weeks of the trial. tara and dave join me again. quite the testimony there, from pecker. you had trump's attorney trying to pierce his credibility, making the case whether the former editor published these salacious stories about celebrities purchased them for future leverage he did so purely to improve his company's bottom line. is that something that stands in court? >> i think that pecker was a pretty strong witness. and given his intimate knowledge of how everything worked, and his relationship with donald trump over the

years he came across as credible. i don't think donald trump's defense team really made a dent in his testimony. and by the time they get to closing arguments i think the highlights of testimony will be what the jurors remember. and, the fact that he was such a strong prosecution witness, pretty calm and collected going to the whole thing on the witness stand. he was pretty unflappable. you know, it's interesting to watch how donald trump is reacting to this. that was his friend. he didn't attack him unlike other witnesses. i wonder why. pecker knows where a lot of bodies are buried , not just for trump. it's a reminder that donald trump isn't a good guy, you know? what a flawed character he is! and the fact this is all about the fact he had multiple affairs while his wife was pregnant, and he complains about not being able to go to the graduation of his son that his wife birthed, and he was having an affair with a

pornstar during all this. that should b the take away, besides the fact he was acting illegally. >> from the very getting trump has been insulting people in all his cases, he goes after everybody from witnesses to judges, potential jurors. but, take a listen to how he described david pecker this week. watch. >> david testimony so far? >> is been very nice, david has been very nice, nice guy. >> the idea that donald trump is just giving out a complement to david pecker who is testifying against trump is very hard for me to believe. if you believe that is sincere and i have a bridge to sell you. >> tara makes a great point as well. we don't know why, and terrace background by the way is outstanding, a+, wish i had that. >> thank you. >> as far as david pecker is

concerned, here's a guy within trump's inner circle, someone he respects worked with, someone who as tara said, knows where the bodies are buried. he is transactional. he's going to back off if you think you have leverage. the bigger question is why did he cut michael cohen loose? had he kept cohen in the circle maybe this case would've never happened, but he backed away from cohen, and now you created an enemy out of someone like cohen. maybe that's a lesson trump learned about david pecker. you don't want to create enemies when you don't have to. pecker didn't want to be there, but he's under a nonprosecution agreement, an immunity deal, and on subpoena where he had to testify. perhaps that's part of it, too. >> tara, your take on trump's comments on pecker. the psychology of donald trump trying to assess and analyze

the kind of information david pecker can reveal about him speaks to what david pecker knows about donald trump. >> absolutely. this is a multi-decade relationship. this is the tip of the iceberg. trump has had his hands in all kinds of salacious things over the years, and david pecker controlled a lot of that cremation flow. so it's a transactional relationship. donald trump may be a lot of things, but he's not stupid when it comes to knowing where his bread is buttered, or making sure who doesn't get on his backside, when he can control it. the michael relationship, with michael cohen, he did a lot of dirty work for trump, but then michael has seen the light, went to prison for it, and he's willing to tell the truth now, and that infuriates donald trump, because it is the loyalty issue. everyone is expected to be loyal to trump, but trump is not loyal back to them. i'm curious to see how he behaves when it's michael cohen's turn on the stand.

even though they will try to impugn his integrity and all that, that's fine, but there are receipts. this case isn't just based on michael cohen's word on things. there are other people corroborating this, and david pecker being one of them. that's why he went first. >> dave i wanted to turn to the gag order violations, trump is accused of violating the gag order four more times, bringing the total number of violations to 15. some eagle experts have speculated judge mershon might be willing to rule on these all at once rather separately. will he be asked to spend a night in jail or have consequence for violating these gag orders? >> maybe way down the line, ayman, but i think he's going to get a fine, an accumulation of fines, but trump is being treated different than us. i've never seen any defendant

curse at the judge and get away with it. i mean the judge has the gavel, where's the black robe, you have to stand when that judge enters the room, and they controlled their courtroom, but when trump is a defendants the judge doesn't want to be seen as political, so they are playing with trump with kid gloves. so it is small fines. anybody else, they would perhaps be wearing an orange jumpsuit by now. >> no doubt. tara, stick around, we will switch gears and look at some of the other legal trouble for donald trump including indictment against fake electors in arizona, that's coming up next. get excited to get up to 80% off. ooo, yes. plus score free shipping on everything. [ grunting ] [ bell rings ] and surprise flash deals.

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giuliani , amongst others, and efforts to overturn the 2020 election. indictment charges 11 republicans submitted a document to congress falsely declaring trump won arizona in 2020 and seven trump advisers and aids with violation of conspiracy fraud and forgery. trump himself was not charged but referred to as the unindicted co-conspirator number-one. arizona becomes the fourth state where they have been charged with using false claims of voter fraud related to the election. tara and dave are back with me. dave, talk to us about what was laid out in this indictment. what's significant about who was charged, and why trump was not charged if they believe he was involved in this effort. >> well boris epstein was charged, that's a first. he wasn't charged in georgia for the fake electors asking there. he was an unindicted co- conspirator in the case in dc

brought by jack smith. but, for the first time he's going to pay the price here in arizona. he is essentially the inside counsel to trump. and you got to believe if he's involved in this, then donald trump is personally involved. but why wasn't trump charged himself? i think it's because the attorney general there saw when trump is charged in other cases the cases slow down to a crawl. whether it's because he's claiming political interferences, or the judges, there are tactics at work, it has hurt these other cases. so she said okay, we will charge the other players and see if some of them will flip against the boss, and then we may bring the case against trump later when we have a more solid case. if you are going to get the king, you had better have the goods. >> tara, there was a number of arizona officials charged as well including state legislatures and the republican national committee's arizona chairman. talk to me about what

these indictments spell out for the broader republican party in arizona, and nationally, due to these cases they are facing. >> oh, it's a mess. i mean, it's absolute chaos, but that's chaos is the point, they live on this in the republican party know. anytime you have trump you have chaos. this is a perfect example. this is not a good look for them. and if people remember the cyber ninjas, that was arizona. i mean, arizona, right? they have been a circus for years, so i'm glad to see that finally people are being held accountable for that. the cyber ninjas was one of the most asinine things we have ever seen, and after the results of all that you had president biden get 99 more votes than trump, so even the trump-friendly audit couldn't get more votes in arizona. this has been a slow trickle of

problematic behavior by the republican party in arizona. arizona is ground zero. it is ground zero for this election. the political tectonic plates have really shifted here between the arizona abortion law, because they are trying to party like it's 1864 in arizona. now, you have this case reminding people of the cyber ninjas, and all the disasters' behavior after the election. this has really put arizona in a good place for the democrats to swoop in, and for joe biden to take that state. it will take work, but this has opened it up, and i'm here for it. >> there's an interesting thing here at play, david, which is why these charges happened. it's almost 4 years after the attempted overturn of these elections, but they are happening now, and there's something revealing about it,

because the politicians in arizona decided to do something about it, even if it is two years late. >> elections matter, and the reason why this is being brought now is attorney general chris mays, elected in november, 2022, she didn't take office until january, 2023. her predecessor could have brought this, a conservative republican, but he refused to even when asked to do so by katie hobbs. he apparently took her letter and threw it in the trash. a year later this case is brought, so it wasn't like this was slow. but when the new attorney general was elected she was elected by only 280 votes out of 2.5 million votes cast. yes, every vote matters. that should be election importance going into this year. >> that is a message democrats can take. the party of law and order ignored these allegations,

ignored the evidence, did not even want to look at it for the better part of two years, because they knew it would upset their cult leader. >> of course, and they have installed a bunch of people who are election deniers and pro- insurrectionist's in the rnc top down. same thing with the arizona state republican party. they are full of people they don't want them to actually get to hold anyone accountable for this, because they are part of it. so yes, that's why i'm saying politically this is really good for democrats, because the moderate middle-of-the-road folks in arizona don't like this. you combine all of what's going on, and it is an absolute turnoff to the point where kari lake, ms. election denier herself, altar and all, now she's trying to back away from some of her commentary on this and moderate her position, now that she's running for senate, whether on abortion or election denying.

did she not concede the governor's race still? all of this is coming to the floor, because you have people that are in office to david's point, that are actually willing to follow the law. and for years, i'm no longer a republican, partially because of the hypocrisy. you are about law and order or you aren't. you believe in a peaceful transition of power, or you don't. if you just put d next to all these people, how would republicans behave? what would fox news be doing? they would be losing their minds with their constitutions on fire. but, here we are, hypocrites. >> let me ask you about the other case unfolding here, dave. because, it wasn't just that trump was an unindicted co- conspirator in arizona. on wednesday, state investigators had trump as well as meadows and rudy giuliani are among the unindicted co-conspirators nfa collectors probe in that state.

is there a smart strategy here behind these descriptions and not charging trump and inner allies like we've seen? >> i think the attorney general of michigan is doing the same as in arizona. you want to go after main players unless you have a solid case against the former president. i don't think you want to charge him yet, because it will slow down everything, and you have a better chance eating him once current defendants flip, maybe some of them will. mark meadows and rudy giuliani, boy, your loyalty to donald trump has really cost you. right? rudy giuliani 35 years ago would have loved to have persecuted the rudy giuliani of today. >> is a very good way of putting it. tara setmayer, david aronberg, thank you. marjorie taylor greene, unraveling.

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they are making it known they are getting sick of her antics. watch. >> i think she is uninformed, she is a total waste of time. she is dragging our brand down. she, not the democrats, are the biggest risk to us getting back to a majority. >> i think that's an obvious reality. [ bleep ] >> her fear in this constant effort to hold congress hostage has to come to an end. >> here's the thing it's not just in congress, her allies in the media are also fed up with her. >> i love speaker johnson. who would be better than him, mtg? what's your plan? >> with all due respect he didn't give a plan for the speakers role. >> you should blame marjorie taylor greene who decided to take down the speaker of the house for no reason other than to get her name on tv. >> in fact almost all the

murdoch owned outlets have denounced mtg. fox put out an op-ed by conservative commentator, liz peek with the title marjorie taylor greene is an idiot. she is trying to wreck the gop. pretty straightforward. the new york post joined the trolling with a cover calling greene , win moscow marjorie" after she voted get against aid to rick ada to ukraine. nicknaming mayhem taylor greene. newsmax asking who put marjorie taylor greene in charge? where is trump in all this? the man who helped launch her to maga superstardom? it appears he's also had enough of mtg siding with johnson instead of her. >> well, look, we have a majority of one, okay? i think he's a very good man. i think he's trying very hard. >> so in just a short time span, marjorie taylor greene has gone from maga hero, to zero. but she didn't flameout because

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