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castro in for alicia menendez. as we begin a new hour, a break continues on this holiday weekend. special counsel jack smith delivers a newfound, an urgent an appeals court to dismiss former president trumps immunity claims. ahead, what that means for the case and when we could get rolling. plus, nikki haleys campaign playing cleanup after she botched a simple question about the civil war. what herenda says about the state of the gop and its base. also ahead, but look at how the po...

court might soon decide an issue that could mean criminal charges against the former president simply vanished. so why is he telling the court, hey, not so fast when it comes to taking up the case? also tonight, was the colorado supreme court right to boot him off the ballot under the 14th amendment? we can ask the voters. plus, just in time for christmas, a judge rules that the women rudy giuliani defamed with his election lies can start trying to collect that nearly 100 and $50 milli...

Intelligence he suggestions. Thats the big argument. This has been such a contentious issue we saw the whole drama play out with the House Intelligence Committee and their Top Republican leader devin nunes came, saw the material. Out of the protocol of that committee and them adam schiff, came and looked at the same material. Theres answers about this coming from the white house first from the Deputy Press Secretary who says there was no attempt to keep adam schiff responsible. Not that im aware...

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It would allow for presidents to commit crime. former president trump made this statement on truth social. if i dont get immunity, crooked joe biden doesnt get immunity. with millions that went into his pocket, joe would be right for indictment. by weaponizing political poen p pon, me, joe biden opened a pandoras box. in december the supreme court declined to fast track trumps immunity request. last week the former presidents lawyers asked to hold jack smith ands had team in contempt of court fo...

Stay. theyre apeeling it to the circuit court. >> that just shows you this judge feels that trump has no leg to stand on. its a signal trump may win on some of these, he may win with don mcgahn, there is an immunity request on presidential advisers. >> even though don mcgahn wasnt the presidents personal attorney, hes the white house lawyer. >> reporter: yeah, you know, the trump team raised arguments that the obama and clinton administration has raised, its only been tested with understand in c...

Could influence or hurt him? >> there is more that comey should be worried about. the connection between the immunity request in the ig report is because the senate judiciary committee has scheduled a hearing to discuss the ig report once its made public. they had scheduled one for june 5. that didnt happen. they scheduled the next one for next monday, june 11. looks like that might not happen but its going to happen fairly soon. they wanted mccabe to testify. now he is asked for immunity, and t...

President trying to obstruct an investigation of who is helping the russians commit espionage in the united states and disrupt our political system. so i think this is critically important that we go forward with this. >> and if i could just jump in, i think we have to be a little careful in assume wig way flynn is going to go. i agree that flynn is a central figure in all of this, not just because of what he does, but because of what the president may or may not have done for him. i think we ha...

Important player in this whole thing. >> ron klain, a quick word on the flynn immunity request and how immunities are granted in cases like this. >> yeah, a savvy prosecutor like bob mueller is not going to give immunity without flynn first making a proffer what he would say if he would get immunity. so i dont think anyone is going to be flim-flamed here about the immunity grant. it is also important to remember there is a story out tonight also about moneylaundering in this investigation. thats...

Because we just dont know. hes being very, very guarded about what hes willing to say publicly which we may find that he doesnt actually end up testifying because that immunity request was dismissed out of hand. >> do you think it could actually change the immunity request. >> i dont think weve seen any indication theyre prepared to do that. pretty skeptical thats going to trance pyspire transpire. money in a reality linked to family or jared kushner. targeting chinese investors in effort to t...