Well, we got a month's worth of news in the first week of 2024.

The Supreme Court announces that it will hear a case on Trump's ballot eligibility under the 14th Amendment,

as President Biden lays out the stakes of this election in the starkest terms to date.

Congressman Jamie Raskin is here with his reaction, and he's coming up first.

Plus, main Secretary of State Chenebell, joins me after tossing Trump off the ballot

in her state, a decision that is now on hold while these appeals play out.

Also today, with just eight days until the Iowa caucuses, I'm going to talk to someone

who spends a lot of time in focus groups with Republican primary voters.

And later, Wayne Lapeier steps down from atop the NRA, just as his corruption trial gets underway in New York.

We'll take a look back at the damage he did and the future of America's gun lobby. Okay. I really believe that sometimes we all just need to acknowledge how insane this moment we're living in really is. Think about it this way. Friday was, of course, January 5th. One day before the third anniversary of the January 6th insurrection incited by the former president.

It was also the same day as a major speech by the sitting president about the danger that the former president still poses to democracy.

And then, on that same day, the United States Supreme Court announced it will hear a case on whether that former president can even be on the ballot because of his role in the insurrection, all in one day.

It's also important not to lose sight of how we arrived at this moment and why we arrived at this moment.

The Supreme Court is taking up this unprecedented case because of the unprecedented actions of Donald Trump.

That's why.

And we're going to spend lots of time today talking about the specifics of that case and about the 14th Amendment.

But even if the justices do leave Donald Trump on the ballot, his position as the pro-insurrection candidate isn't really in doubt, is it? I mean, take Trump's

appeal to the Supreme Court earlier this week. Andrew Weissman, who's going to join me later in the show,

tweeted this about that filing. Any normal person would lead this brief by saying, I did not engage

an insurrection. But since Trump is embracing that conduct and not condemning it, he relegates that

to a later aside. That's exactly the point. The justices very well may leave him on the ballot.

We don't know. But Trump isn't even denying the court argument against him. He's not running from

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