any moment now donald trump will be arriving at the courthouse where a three judge panel will hear arguments, can the former president be held criminally responsible for his efforts to overturn his 2020 loss or does he have immunity from prosecution. this is special coverage, i m layer ar laura coates. and i m kaitlan collins. this could ultimately change the landscape of what presidents are allowed do. trump is foregoing the campaign trail to be at these oral arguments as he claim that s has absolute immunity, that his actions constitute official acts that he took while in office. of course i was entitled as president of the united states and commander in chief to immunity. i m entitled to immunity. every president has immunity. especially one that did the job i did. i did a great job. and i wasn t working for myself, i was working for the country. i wasn t campaigning. election was long over. wasn t campaigning. i was looking for voter fraud, something that i have to
so we ve seen them in other courtrooms take on that more aggressive more performative tone. and i think a panel here in the d.c. circuit won t be receptive to that. and what a great point about this. there are pretty powerful alum from the circuit court of appeals that you can mention you think about some of the supreme court justices. in fact one, judge childs, was on a short list for a potential supreme court nomination to replace justice breyer. and i ve been before judge pann. and there was no pleasantries. she was very professional, but no moment where it was like let s shoot the breeze for a second. she wants to know why you are here and what you are doing about it. just twofr of the three very serious judge. he probably know that he is can t talk. even in new york he had to be on
parameters with justice breyer wanting to supply this term. what to you think of that? a lot of people wondered whether he intended to retire when he did. his retirement was leaked by he intended to give it. we don t know. did he intend to retire in a more traditional fashion at the end of the term or did he really mean for this process to happen earlier. whatever the case may be, at this point, we have judge jackson per the tradition on the d.c. circuit won t take any more cases there and now waiting to take her seat in june after the very end of june, probably more like july. neil: what did you think of the three republicans that did vote for her making it a close vote? yeah, 53-47 compared to