Welcome to this MS. Welcome to this MSNBC special, 100 days of Trump, law, and disorder.

And good evening to you. I'm Ari Melba and I'll be joining you for

this special hour as we aim for some perspective on what has been, of course, a very litigious

first hundred days in office. President Trump testing the limits of the law itself and the

Constitution. We have a very special panel assembled of individuals you recognize Melissa

Murray, Mary McCord, and Andrew Weissman.

We'll be hearing from them not only in a moment, but also across the hour.

So we're hoping to aim for some more depth and perspective.

Indeed, if you're watching and thinking, I know about some of this stuff.

I bet you do, but we promise with the time we've allotted to go even deeper if you're interested in that kind of thing.

Now, many have been pushing for even stronger efforts to find ways to combat President Trump's obvious and extreme power grabs across these hundred days.

And those words, obvious and extreme, are based on the facts and the evidence in the cases where he's continued

to run into trouble, not an opinion, but rather the extremes that have drawn rebukes, not only

from lower court judges and both parties' appointees, but all the way up through the Supreme Court.

The president has claimed war powers to openly plot a bid for an illegal third term.

Neither of those things are acceptable under the law.

Both are testing the courts.

I'll tell you that coming up in this special,

we also have a booking of one of the nation's top civil rights lawyers

who's doing this work in court,

including bringing some of the very lawsuits

which stopped Trump's

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