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all in with chris hayes starts right now. tonight on all in. good present order seal team six to assassinate a political rival? history inside a d.c. courtroom. i asked you yesterday question. could a president who ordered seal team six to assassinate a political rival who was not impeached, could he be subject to criminal prosecution? the united ex president claims complete immunity. i think qualified, yes if he s impeached and convicted. first trump s criminal attorney is confronted with trump s impeachment defense. after he s out of office, they re gonna arrest him. the arguments, the implications, and the timetable for a republican front-runner running to stay out of jail. plus, starting new evidence of the ongoing coup as we learn of harrowing new threats to trump s prosecutor and judge. when all in starts, right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. history made in front of the entire country today. at least we can all hear it, if not s
everybody out there. harvard is failing and brainwashing all of their we students into a progressive mindset. he does have the tools that are running around washington right now, whether it s cruz or wholly or stefanik or this guy that was in court today, our harvard educated. or yale. harvard or yale. so, i mean, it really kind of blows up this theory that there is some kind of like a vast conspiracy to have all the ivy league schools turn out woke robots. and it s on its face, knowing what impeachment is like, knowing what the process is, it s a political process. it s not a court of law. anybody who thinks impeachment must be necessary to enforce the criminal law in this country, does not understand the constitution and the role of checks and balances and the role the judiciary is supposed to play in the united states of america. yeah, and there s also i think, your point clear, he thinks it s helping him. i think there s a pretty
powers issue they would create enough controversy airy and they might pose a question for the supreme court. i don t think they do that. a smart lawyer i talked to about this today made this statement, said i said what s up with all the impeachment staff? and she said it s a fallback position. the argument in the brief is, you can t do anything. if it s an official act, tough luck, buddy. which means if he tells seal team six to go assassinate his political rival they couldn t argue that because it s so ludicrous. so now they ve got this fall back impeachment division. it s just worth playing because it s the classic trump thing. and one venue the argument is like, this is the event. and the other venue, it s not the venue now. here s trump s lawyer. during impeachment, assuring the senators, look, if if you go get a phone to convict, he can of course go get arrested
senate. former federal rug judges, secretary, some of those people have been prosecuted without impeachment. hello henry cisneros, the former secretary. there are a litany of federal judges who ve been prosecuted and convicted either without impeachment or before they re impeached. so trump s lawyers had to have known that during the impeachment debacle that you just showed there. they understand full well that the impeachment judgment clause isn t just about the president, and those real life examples show why it can t possibly be victorious here. i thought, when the impeachment thing showed up in the brief, so in their brief they had this, again, a little light taking a shot from 36 feet. if you hit it, great, but you ve got to try. so they had this thing like, it s double jeopardy because he was already impeached impeached and wasn t convicted, so criminal trial. that has fallen by the wayside. they re-fashioned it. my feeling was, are they trying to come up with something novel e