The Nightcap: Political Headlines of 2024

The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle

MS NOW, Stephanie Ruhle

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🗓️ 5 January 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

With the end of a busy first week of the New Year our Nightcap roundtable takes on this week’s political headlines. Then, they share their picks for the week’s Most Valuable Players. Plus, a critically acclaimed author on his latest work, the resignation of Harvard’s president and how to worry less and be happier in the new year. Eddie Glaude, Peter Spiegel, Same Sage, Pete Dominick, and Arthur Brooks join.

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0:00.0	The Supreme Court has agreed to take up Donald Trump's appeal of a Colorado Supreme Court decision barring him from the primary ballot.
0:11.6	This is a major step.
0:13.9	It is something the United States Supreme Court
0:16.3	has never truly grappled with.
0:18.1	We never had an insurrectionist president before who was seeking re-election.
0:22.0	The president of Harvard University,
0:23.8	Claudine Gay resigned today weeks after her controversial testimony
0:28.0	before Congress about anti-Semitism.
0:31.1	The outrage came not from her academic peers, but rather from her political foes led by
0:36.4	conservatives who put her career under intense scrutiny.
0:40.1	I think it's going to be really a tremendous victory in Iowa.
0:43.6	I will defeat President Trump fair and square.
0:45.9	I have no doubt about that.
0:47.5	I'm the only one that has a chance to beat Trump and win the general election.
0:51.6	Three years ago tomorrow we saw their own eyes.
0:55.8	The violent mob storm the United States Capitol.
0:58.8	Everything is on the line right here,
1:00.7	and the question is, what kind of century is this going to be.
1:04.3	But the democracy is still America's sacred cause is the most urgent question of our time.
1:09.6	They've weaponized government.
1:11.1	He's saying I'm a threat to democracy.
1:13.2	We all know Donald Trump is.
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