Manhattan courtroom and get a readout of the Oral Argument in washington, dc, it may be over a lunch break, over a courthouse, deli sandwich. The question before the Supreme Court does a former president have absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for anything related to his actions while in the white house lets put it in plainer language here is a former president Above The Law. No make no mistake with the Supreme Court decides may very welldefined this election and dont think donald trump does not know it for a single second. Thats why hes been on a tear about immunity for months now. If a president doesnt have full immunity, you really dont have a president , a president of the United States has to have immunity. If you dont have immunity, you can be black, then you have to have a guaranteed immunity for president , president has seven immunity as a president , you have to have immunity immunity seems to be the operative word here. But the fact is, no matter what the court does
everything you did is not presidential, so to speak. to saying now the supreme court will look at how a case normally goes through to get to the supreme court. this is significant, ian. it is. i think jack smith s being very smart trying to make this move as fast as possible. you don t want a situation where like on october 20th the supreme court throws out a conviction because of some procedural rule that no one anticipated. ordinarily i advocate for the supreme court to do as little as possible. you want narrow that s not because i don t like the supreme court. that s good judging. you don t want judges to overreach, but in this case i think we want the court to give us as much guidance as possible as to how this trial is going to be run. it s an unprecedented case. right. it s a case where the stakes are enormous. the voters need to know if this man is a convicted felon when it comes time for the election and so i am hoping that the supreme court is going to tell t
simple question. it is a president of the united states above the law? it should be simple, you ve heard that phrase how many times? of course we say nobody is above the law, it is why the lady justice wears a blindfold. but it s not what trump s legal team things, they ve been arguing for a long time, along the lines of what you d call maybe the nixon doctrine. if the president does it, it is not illegal. you know how that worked out for richard nixon, don t we? but how will it work out for donald trump? well, jack smith does not want to disappear out and wait to find out. he is going straight to the supreme court to decide whether trump is, in fact, protected by the presidential immunity in the election subversion case in washington, d.c.. tonight, a preliminary win of sorts, will explain why. they are saying they will fast-track at least as a pondering of whether to actually take on the request for information in a ruling. let s read the tea leaves a little bit tonight bec
Of the Manchester Bombing 14 year old Eilidh Macleod is laid to rest on the scottish island of barra. Good evening from London Bridge. We are still at the Police Cordon following the attack on Saturday Night. The metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick says they already know the identity of the attackers, and that their names will be released as soon as operationally possible as officers work to establish if they were part of a wider network. Their investigation is focussed on several addresses in east london with a number of people detained following raids in newham and barking. Richard galpin has the latest. This is Borough Market in the midst of the attack. Its being filmed by florin morariu, whos from romania. But instead of running to safety, he attacks the three men stabbing people in front of him. Translation i really thought i was in danger so i threw a bread crate at one of the attackers. I saw he was going to dodge it so i hit him on the head with another crate. He als
For months. His longtime lawyer, business associate, one of the men he is closest to is under investigation, has been braid the fbi, and could be indicted at any moment. And we just learned his own son held multiple meetings with agents of Foreign Governments offering help in the 2016 campaign. Thats just the tip of the iceberg. Now, it also turns out that the fbi back in 2016 was so alarmed by the Trump Campaigns various suspicious contacts with russia, it reportedly sent an informant to meet with three Different Campaign aides starting the summer before the election. And now the president , his lawyer, and his allies in congress are trying to use that incriminating fact in a kind of weird jujitsu move to discredit the investigation itself. Just a few weeks ago, the president warned us this moment might come. Ive taken the position, and i dont have to take this position, and maybe ill change, that i will not be involved with is the Justice Department. I have decided that i wont be inv