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thats going to do it for me today. "deadline: white house" starts now. hi everyone. its 4:00 in new york. im ali velshi in for nicolle wallace. an incredibly important question looming over democracy, can presidents be held accountable for crimes committed in office. a unanimous ruling by the d.c. court of appeals rejected donald trumps claims of immunitity in the federal election case. the decision by the judges is a stinging rebuke of the ex-president in what has become a months lo...

Texas and others in texas put a lot of pressure on them and you dont get an oops when there is a death penalty case. you have to make sure were right, and they bombarded the court with new evidence that was never presented before in the past 23 years. new evidence, new eyewitness testimony looking to go after the fiance. so the court boweddeference, there was like 250 prisoners, and this is only the second time there has been a stay issue. the stay is indefinite. the case is remanded back to the...

Doomed in d.c., doomed today in manhattan. and well see if he does any better in the appeals court. >> how quickly could it make it to an appeals court? and could this potentially, eventually wind up in the u.s. supreme court? >> what makes these two cases so perilous for the president is that he is not in control of the people who have the documents, his accountants and these banks. they are going to turn over this material. they dont want to be held in contempt, unless the presidents lawyers h...

In place until the issue could be heard substantively. there was a brief that was filed a little bit early tonight, but thats not on the substantive merits of the case. its just on this issue of staying the contempt. all that to say this is really interesting to lawyers. not very interesting or illuminating for anybody else yet, but we do expect to get an order from the court pretty quickly on the merits of this stay issue, and then well have to wait a lot longer for an ultimate decision. >> yea...

Applicant, the individual or corporation that mueller is trying to get information from is trying to stay some action that the lower courts took against them, holding them in contempt of court for not complying with the order that they turn over information to muellers team. and so now thats in front of the supreme court. the supreme court had initially stayed that penalty from being in place until the issue could be heard substantively. there was a brief that was filed a little bit early tonigh...

Corporation that mueller is trying to get information from is trying to stay some action that the lower courts took against them, holding them in contempt of court for not complying with the order that they turn over information to muellers team. and so now thats in front of the supreme court. the supreme court had initially stayed that penalty from being in place until the issue could be heard substantively. there was a brief that was filed a little bit early tonight, but thats not on the subst...

Now, with this stay question, he may ask for more briefs. he may ask for oral arguments so he can hear from the lawyers directly because this is a very important question. what might happen if gay weddings resume and then what would happen to the validity of those unions if the ruling was overturned on appeal? there is no deadline for the judge to rule on this stay issue so until he or, perhaps, eventually the u.s. supreme court otherwise californias ban on same sex marriage remains in effect. >...

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Which raises a lot of eyebrows. we have a former assistant secretary of defense of detainees. good morning to you. reporter: l thank for having me. martha: what is your reaction to the store row off the bat. reporter: l well i dont think its necessarily just an immigration issue. clearly its a security issue. we dont send ncis after pure immigration scofflaws, these guys have common access cards, kak cards which are military id cards. i used mine to go on two different military installations thi...