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right now. hi, everyone. its 4:00 here in new york. this month could be a pivotal one for the mountain of legal troubles for the disgraced, twice impeached liable for sexual ex-president. because he happens to be the front runner for the republican nomination for an historically unprecedented third time, it could be a pivotal month for the 2024 election with our democracy as well. any day now, we are expect odd to hear from the d.c. court of appeals on trumps claim that he cannot be ...

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...

hey, everyone. its 4:00 in new york. im in for nicole wallace. special counsel jack smith is a prosecutor that stays out of the spotlight. he prefers to speak through his fiings. thats why his laltest brief in the federal election case merits our attention. over the weekend, the justice department responded to trumps claims that he is immune from prosecution. what he did was within the scope of his duties as president of the united states. its an argument that trump was taking to the c...

Hi, everyone. Its 4 00 in new york. Theres no shortage of news today in the legal troublesing the disgraced expresident and current gop front runner, including a third trump lawyer and fourth trump associate earlier today Pleading Guilty in the Fulton County Criminal Election interference case. We begin with a moment years in the making at Aen Manhattan courthouse. The disgraced expresident coming face to face with Michael Cohen, the former fixer who said he would take a bullet for donald trump ...

Its now 4 00 in new york. This Morning A Key chapter until the first ever criminal trial of an american expresident came to a close. The Testimony Phase of the people of the great state of new york vermont vs. Donald trump is over after the defense rested its case and trump in the end did not testify. Although just a few weeks ago, he said this, quote, im testifying. I tell the truth. Whatever that means. Happening right now in court, prosecutors and trumps Defense Attorneys are discussing the i...

2016 campaign. Those words were in a text message sent from Keith Davidson, hes the attorney for both of the women at the heart of the story. Playboy playmate Karen Mcdougal and porn star Stormy Daniels. It was a text sent to the National Enquirer, dylan howard. And davidson is on the stand right now on day nine of the donald trump Election Interference hush money trial. With Explosive Testimony being given right now about his dealings with ami and Donald Trumps inner most circle. Earlier today,...

>> thank you very much. thats for me. deadline white house starts right now. hi, everyone. its so nice to be right here back with you. theres a lot of new news and new information to cover here today. im in because former congresswoman liz cheney has a new book. after the extensive coverage of the work of the january 6th select committee as well as pointed coverage since the very debut of our program about the threat that the republican party poses to american democracy, i have a lot o...

Department and in election workers and airline crews, when they are singled out, this can lead to threats of violence and actual violence. when you have the example of an attack on an fbi office by somebody incensed by political rhetoric. this does happen. we must not allow that to happen in this country. >> i have to imagine as a lead investigator this makes you want to pull your hair out. the fact that part of what you try to warn was that this was not the end, this was not in the rear view. t...

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...

Both legal perts have disdegreed with that position. not least because the federal charges hes facing are not analogous to those he face during his pooemt. thats where we start today with national investigative reporter carol len i guess. plus lead investigator tim haity and at the table former acting assistant attorney general for national security at the department of justice mary mccord. tim, let me start with you. what do you make of the arguments trumps lawyers are making here? >> they are ...