good morning. welcome cnn this morning. merry christmas eve out there. santa is making his rounds. new developments from former president trump s legal team in a filing submitted late last night. the president is urging a federal appeals court to slow out the federal election subversion case against him in washington, d.c. his attorneys driving home the point trump was working in his official capacity as president to make sure the integrity of the election results. in the document they said before any single prosecutor can ask a court to sit in judgment of the president s conduct, congress must have approved of it by impeaching and convicting the president and since that didn t happen, trump has immunity. well the appeals court expedited the process and will hear arguments january 9. the judge for the case paused procedural deadlines. it s up to an appeals court to decide if presidential immunity applies here. he is not the first president to invoke presidential i
Content, its clear that petitioner is acting in the capacity as office seeker, not as president. We would look at that content. Okay. The test im focused on the legal test. Im not hearing any objections to it. Other than, i think that the d. C. Circuit placed more Content Consideration off limits than i would. All right. I wanted to understand, on the Core Immunity or whatever word we use, that it seems to me we are narrowing the ground of dispute here considerably, do we look at motives, the president s motives for his actions . For example, he has more power as we discussed, but he might use them to enhance his election, his personal interests. Is that a relevant consideration when were looking at core powers . I am thinking of this more as looking at the objective of the activity as opposed to the subjective motive in the sense that your honor is talking about. I think theres a lot of concern about saying an electoral motive to be reelected. Right. Every firstterm president everythi
hotel including how and why loan terms changed during his presidency. under the terms of the loan and prior to trump becoming president the trump hotels was scheduled to begin principal payments on the deutsche bank loan in 2018. however in 2018, one year into the trump presidency the terms of the loan were changed to allow trump to avoid any principal payments on the loan for six years. he got a sweetheart loan from deutsche bank. as other investigations have shown, deutsche bank was the banker for the kremlin, the banker for vladimir putin. there are many questions here, nicole, as to why did deutsche bank extend this sweetheart loan to donald trump despite his terrible financial record? there are at least two other red flags i see in david s reporting. first the mere fact that foreign dofts could shovel millions of dollars to the trump organization just by renting hotel rooms and catering services basically shows that the trump administration had a for sale sign around its neck
during the four years he was in the oval office. second, most important, this hotel was losing millions of dollars. any time a financial fraud investigator sees a business that s losing money, they think two words. money laundering. think about the pizza shop on the corner where it s not really a going concern, they don t care if they lose money. but it is a way to get cash in and cash out. that s money laundering. i would be wondering if i was investigating this whether or not the losses in the hotel were designed to conceal other financial transactions by the trump organization. they didn t care if they made money at that hotel, they just wanted that mean cleaned up. that s interesting. we have also learned since trump left office that the mueller probe andrew weismann writes mueller never looked at his finances. the new york times has investigated his financing. david has been on the beat for years now. we really don t know. i mean it is still an very opaque picture. i wonder