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as donald trump makes a third bid for the white house and is the the first votes are to be cast in iowa in just under two weeks. trumps lawyers say the 234-year unbroken tradition of not prosecuting the presidents for official acts, despite calls to do so from across the political spectrum, provides powerl evidence. no president prior toth donald trump tried to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power. had his attorneys point to the likelihood of mushrooming prosecutions. and future cycl...

So theres a lot here for the court to chew on, but jack smith has stuck with the same argument hes been making all along. >> do you think if youre team trump that this is about delay, or do you believe you have a the shot of getting this tossed. >> i think theres three things. he is hoping that eventually if he loses in the d.c. circuit and can get the supreme court to accept this case, hes hoping that he will pull enough justices to say there should be presidential immunity and will agree what ...

Block the peaceful transfer of power. the first time a the president has ever tried to do that, ever since he was charged, his poll numbers have been inching upward fairly steadily. >> if you are jack smiths team, how do you pair for these arguments? >> he rebutted them in the filing. he put in with the court on saturday, which is that the founders could never have imagined that a the president would be um mun from committing crimes that were directed at overwriting the will of the people and st...

He has no current exposure. and yet in fulton county, he is square in the middle of her sights. being able to move to federal court it advances his chances to say either i have a better jury pool and/or a better chance of arguing immunity because i have this other federal case where ive been ab amazing cooperator rather than a charged unindicted coconspirator. >> theres also another detail that i found really interesting, which is that meadows beefd up the legal team. he added veteran trial lawy...

Will all play out. given that the case law is so thin here, to what extent do you think the justices are relying and watching what the appeals courts do? >> its one appeals court here. the d.c. circuit. most cases dont get to the supreme court until an issue is percolated among multiple sur kits, but this is not that kind of a case. i actually think theres a not insubstantial chance if the d.c. circuit rules and makes a thorough ruling and has using the strictest tests possible, that the supreme...

Federal court. its about immunity. its also about a potential jury pool. >> thats right. hell have the former chief of staff will have a less democrat-heavy region, essentially, if hes being heard in a federal case rather than in fulton county. and there is the other matter, lets be clear, if you dont mind me reminding people about this, that in the case that jack smith brought, the unindicted coconspirators, the allies that are described as having helped donald trump in the crimes of trying to ...

Consider his request to move his case to federal court. again. hes asking the same court that rejected his request a few weeks ago, except now hes asking all 12 judges on the court to consider it instead of just the three judge panel. your sense of what they are trying to do here. >> yeah, it is not a surprise that mark meadows is going to pull every possible lever at his disposal to try to get the trial judges ruling reversed and to get this case moved to federal court. but kiptly, the trial ju...

Briefs filed in support of jack smiths position in this case. one by a number of former republican high-level administration officials and judges from five different administrations, raising the executive vesting clause argument, which is that it would violate the executive vesting clause, whiches vests the power of the presidency in one person for four years and four years only unless reelected and to allow a president to escape criminal liability when they commit crimes that would keep them in...

It issue its mandate within five days of its ruling. and what a mandate is basically a directive saying this case is now going back to the lower court. that means the loser, whoever it is, if it they want to seek it, they need to be able to move before that mandate issues. otherwise the stay will lift because once it goes back to the lower court, the stay would lift. if donald trump loses, lets assume the d.c. circuit rules theres no such immunity, he will want that stay in place. so it will con...

Privilege and prevent those records from being turned over to the house select committee. that was litigated. he lost there. it was litigated at the d.c. sur kit. they said we will apply every test possible, i mean the test that they need to apply, he loses under every test. the supreme court did not take that case. think said under every test he loses, were not taking it. and that very night, the night that they issued their ruling, the documents started flowing to the house select committee. s...