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Continues with ac 360. For the first time in this countrys history, a former president of the United States has been charged with felonies allegedly committed while he was president. Im Anderson Cooper here in new york along with jake tapper. Anderson, the indictment charges former President Trump with four things, one that is antit antithetical. Despite having lost the defendant, donald trump, was determined to remain in power, unquote. We learned of the indictment in the 5 00 hour today. Short...

>> welcome back to the weekend everyone. this morning, the world is reacting to new round of airstrikes from the united states and the middle east. last night, the united states and united kingdom targeted houthi rebels and iran-backed militant group in yemen. the government says they struck 36 targets and 13 locations across the country. all of this comes just one day after a separate series of very consequential strikes by the united states targeting iran- backed militias militants i...

I dont know what was achieved over the last six plus hours. None of the Witnesses Today were fact witnesses. None were involved in the investigation into the alleged activities in the first place. Whats more, none of the witnesses testified today of direct knowledge of what republicans have been claiming about joe biden. Whether its smoke today, we got more smoke. Thats fox news host neal cavuto with the same assessment that came out of yesterdays Impeachment Hearing and came out hearings before...

But on this moment he was disloyal at precisely the right time. and what i wrote about today is although the record is pretty clear if you talk from constitutional scholars from the left to the right, basically anybody who wasnt immediately around donald trump in the days before january 6th, they will say that pence did not have the authority to single-handedly throw out joe bidens election victory. he didnt have the authority to throw out those electoral votes. i mean, its kind of insane to thi...

The impeachment process. and as you said, the courts are beginning to hold that the president is violating the law, although it must be said that in the recent d.c. circuit decision, one judge -- the judge who was appointed by donald trump -- had a rather remarkable descent in which she basically said that congress has to stop investigating the president as soon as it gets upon impeachable offenses. very bizarre opinion by judge row. but i think if any of these cases get to the supreme court, th...

So far, most notably, the 1973 decision roe v. wade that made abortion legal nationwide, and you mentioned that president trump has already had two appointees, but as you know, those two appointees neil gorsuch and brett kavanaugh succeeded conservative jurists. if ruth bader ginsburg felt the need to step down and donald trump got a third appointment it would be far more significant because this individual would be succeeding someone very much entrenched on the left, and in fact, she is -- she ...

Independent counsel and the special counsel which robert mueller is. >> decided the constitutionality of the old law that doesnt exist any more that allowed independent counsels to be appointed and then proceed mostly without supervision of the justice department. ken starr for example was an independent counsel. its been controversial on the right. anthony scalia wrote a dissent. im not surprised that brett kavanaugh disagreed with the opinion. im surprised he would come out and say it. one of ...

Outstanding. >> white house council are said to be spear headed the search relying from conservative jurists, its expected to be fierce, democrats contend that since majority leader mitch mcconnell stalled the nomination of merrick garland 2016, its fair play. >> he said we will not allow supreme court justice during election year. whats good for goose is good for gandor. >> its a low standard and it was a standard, i for one and i dont think others have forgotten so. as you sew, sew you wreath....

Who sided with liberals on abortion, affirmative action and gay rights. its a chance for trump to give the court its fifth full throated conservative. >> we have an excellent list of talented, highly educated, highly intelligent, hopefully tremendous people. i think the list is very outstanding. >> reporter: the president pledged to make his selection from a public list of 25 well established conservative jurists. he said he would move swiftly, a sentiment echoed by mitch mcconnell. >> we will v...

Judges. by the way, i have it on pretty good authority by talking to federal judges, he hasnt just angered liberal jurists. but moderate jurists. conservative jurists. some of whom hes even considered putting on the supreme court have been outraged by his attack of the judiciarys independence. this is another notch in the belt. >> you can go all the way back to the comments of the judge. i have a couple friends on the federal bench, and can i tell you that that was -- that outraged judges across...