Tonight on the readout.

And just minutes ago, standing beside Speaker Johnson,

Donald Trump just said the collection of state bans is quote,

working the way it is supposed to.

Vice President Kamala Harris, just a short time ago in Arizona, delivering a scathing rebuke

to those who are taking away reproductive rights in that state and across the

country. Also tonight, Trump rarely steps foot into church and yet he's

increasingly stoking Christian nationalist sentiment, which was once at the fringes of politics

and has now almost totally consumed the Republican Party.

Plus two election deniers get together in Florida to talk

about air quotes election integrity as Speaker Maga Mike Johnson clings to

Donald Trump in hopes of saving his stumbly bumbly unproductive and all around

disastrous speakership.

But we begin tonight with small but important signs of hope for our 248 year old

democracy. Yes, it remains under severe threat from Donald Trump and his Christian

Nationalist Party. Just not for the reasons that he's telling you.

What is set to begin in a Manhattan courtroom Monday morning is not an attack on democracy

as Trump is leading his cult members to believe, it's actually a sign

of its health and evidence that it can still function the way it was intended to.

To help explain, I want to take a brief trip to Italy and introduce you to

Sylvia Verlaskoni, the country's longest serving prime minister and a former

media baron. He was caught in an endless string of investigations during his time in politics and was ultimately indicted for embezzlement, tax fraud, bribery, abuse of office, and underage prostitution.

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