This space that youre to work, increase your credit score with free rent reporting, download self today, how would really happen sunday . What cnn welcome to the lead on jake tapper this hour, the protests erupting at several major us colleges and universities lets go House Speaker mike johnson was at Columbia University calling on that schools president to resign amid demonstrations. Theyre plus a Powerful Cnn Exclusive never her publicly before seeing video captured by a us marines gopro camera one that contradicts the pentagons official report about the afghanistan withdrawal the footage that undermines whats been said about that horrific Airport Attack that killed 13 Us Service Members and dozens of afghans. And leading this our donald ill trump once again blasting the gag order against him attacking jurors and witnesses, and family and staff, and the judge and prosecutors in the new york hush money cover up case today, mr. Trump posting on twitter social quote, the gag order imposed on me a political candidate running for the highest office in the land is totally unconstitutional. All caps, nothing like this has ever happened before, unquote well, i mean, kind of those words just as judge juan merchan is considering whether or not mr. Trump has violated the gag order and what the punishment should be. The judges decision could come any day really . Honestly, any minute now, cnn senior legal analyst elie honig is here so la thanks so much for being here. Were still waiting on judge merchan to issue his ruling on whether or not trump violated the gag order. How long could this be left unresolved . Well, its up to him, but hes got to move fast. I mean, how much more evidence could he need them . This as the order is pending, donald trump is going out and revivim waiting and revitalizing. It would you think he did it . Oh, i think youve all ten those are all tentative, i think. Yes, i think the judge the judge has tended to split the baby as we say, he may peel off a couple of them and say, this ones a little bit ambiguous. The judge is going to find that he violated the vast majority of those ten or i think its 11 now and maybe more pending. I if i had to guess, i would guess well get a ruling tomorrow earlier before the court de so tabloid to magnate david pecker, thats a nice version for what he has Sleaze Merchant former publisher of the national enquirer, testified for about twoandahalf hours yesterday. Hes been granted in immunity deal, an exchange for his testimony with what we know of his testimony so far, what hes admitted he did for trumpn hes admitted he did for trump to help Trumps Campaign in his words, campaign is the classic case of immunity because hes involved at the margins. Hes not really involved in the actual crime of falsifying business records, right . What hes giving them a really Solid Foundation for their caseys taking jurors inside that sleazy world, and he setting a really, a really powerful, i think the basic structure of what the jury is going to need to you could actually argue that pecker as the star witness, everybody says Michael Cohen has, but pecker in terms of what hes revealing is pretty important. I agree. And i think hes i know hes going to have better credibility that Michael Cohen and heres a case in point. The Southern District of new york spent a lot of time with both of them. The Southern District of new york made a decision back to three years ago to give david pecker a nonprofit because they believed him they did not make that decision. And they said to the contrary to Michael Cohen sentencing judge, he was not fully forth. How do you think that defense is going to handle david pecker . I think theyre going to try a couple of things. One, they will attack that very nonprofit, nonprosecution agreement that weve been talking about. Theyre going to argue this is unfair. Why are you walking free when donald trump, theyre trying to lock up donald trump and theyre going to argue, you are trying to please the prosecutors. They gave you a sweetheart deal. Youre on the palm of their hand. I think the other thing theyre going to do and i dont know how much traction theyre gonna get is theyre going to try to argue the vast majority of your contacts about this catch and kill. Were not with donald trump. They were with Michael Cohen and he was operating off the books. But as you remember, jake, there were plenty of contacts, not plenty, but a few contexts between pecker and donald trump. Le, stick around while the Hush Money Trial resumes in new york tomorrow, the Us Supreme Court is also going to hear arguments tomorrow on whether trump should get the ultimate trump card when it comes to some of the most scathing charges against him, the justices are facing a momentous question. They have never had to answer before. Can a former president be immune from criminal liability for his actions while he was while he was in office. This all stems, of course, from trump challenging special counsel jack smiths federal for election subversion case. Lets bring in cnns, Audie Cornish and joan biskupic. Joan, do you have any insight into how you think the justices might rule . Well, you started off, right . This is untested, but back in the 1980s, the justices did rule in a case that involved civil immunity and said that former president Richard Nixon at the time could not have to be liable in a civil claim, but they set aside the way to your question of Criminal Immunity and what special counsel jack smith argues is that throughout history there has been a general understanding that president s could not be completely shielded in criminal cases which are more serious in nature. And he points to, for example, a modern precedent of the watergate that former president gerald ford pardoned Richard Nixon after he was forced out of office because of watergate in that pardon, had a general recognition that Richard Nixon could have been criminally prosecuted. Winning means you probably did. This. There was a recognition for that, but i just want to add just one little caveat here. I think its a very its a question we have to take seriously. We cant just dismiss it as absurd, even though donald trump is asking for something thats quite a lot, absolute immunity. This is a ct dominated by conservatives. Three of the justices put on by donald trump, and several of these justices does have wanted to strengthen president ial authority over the years. Bottomline, though, i do not think that they will theyre going to agree to absolute immunity and probably i think in the end, dental trump will lose and it will go back for trial, although it is interesting audie, because donald trump has been sitting in that new york courtroom miserable seething with contempt against the judge, seething with contempt against the da alvin bragg, as well as his prosecutor season with contempt against the witnesses, stormy daniels, Michael Cohen, i wonder he what he would give to be in the Us Supreme Court tomorrow instead, looking up at the guthrie that he appointed to the core ive given them winks, given them smiles. I mean, how much do you think hed rather be there . I think that the reason why i was even interested in following this in particular, is because right in the middle where we were all obsessed with Jury Selection for the case in manhattan. He was basically rage posting on Truths Social specifically about the Immunity Case and he had already been upset by the fact that he wasnt able to it wasnt granted the ability to go to his sons graduation, et cetera but i dont think its just punted on exactly. Been two and graduated but its the idea that he spent way more time talking about this and was very specific talking about the arguments that his lawyers have been making to the court, saying just one in particular, if immunity is not granted to a president , every president that leaves office will be immediately indicted by the opposing party the briefs that they have filed allude to these ideas over and over again, and that he was almost already forecasting, hey, this is where everybody should be looking. Elie, you have a new piece of new York Magazine saying that even though trump might not, trump might not win this particular challenge, the whole idea of president ial immunity, the argument is not as silly as, as people might think it is. Its not as simple as no man is above the law, right . Theres more to it than that. I agree with joan. I think the bottom line is donald trump will not prevail here. Ive given the facts of this case but its important to understand donald trump in his brief to the Supreme Court, hes actually not arguing. We have this term Blanket Immunity or absolute immunity. Its a little misleading. Hes not arguing. Im automatically immune for everything from new on january 20, 2017, when i took the oath until four years later, he was arguing that earlier, but he has i think wisely dropped that now hes arguing the more limited claim that im immune four official acts and that raises the question that the Supreme Courts going to have to grapple with. Well, were these official akre and i think the factual answer is hell, no. But it may take time to get there. And what i think is a Nightmare Scenario for jack smith is if the Supreme Court says, you can be covered for official acts, like in the civil context in case youve talked about, but its got to go back down to judge chutkan. You have to hold factfinding on that. Joan, how might this ruling impact future president s . Do you think widely because it will be the very first time the Supreme Court has ever weighed in on this. One thing i want to mention, not only do we have a bit of an issue on the official x, i dont think Supreme Courts gonna go there to tell you the truth. I think they faked it into the question presented, but ill tell you, jake where it could come up. Is for actions arising from Foreign Affairs jack smith even dropped a footnote into one of his brief saying, there are certain circumstances it says that as commander in chief dealing with foreign powers, there might be some actions taken that could be perhaps criminally suspected war crimes, but, but what he says, those are specific instances that would not are not here if the president is going to b immune from anything. The one thing he will not be immune from his Election Center footnote some more than i think it doesnt fourstar generals help file an abacus brief basically saying, look, no this is not what we want and they were actually arguing against what the president is saying about why until immunity. Well, theyre saying in fact, they note the threat of authoritarianism or around the world. They also talk about the ability to protect elections from candidates who may hold on to whether they have won or lost. These are the kinds of things that are going to resurface in this conversation over the next couple of days and the thing you pointed out that im pretty obsessed with now is the idea of an a court where there are several people who who are originalists and are paying attention to how the framers would think about something. How are they going to talk about this . Because obviously the framers werent into monarchs the idea of immunity to me in every, any context here its going to be something to see how they thread that needle in conversation. All right, Audie Cornish, joan biskupic, elie honig. Thanks to all of you. This is going to be the topic of audio podcasts. Her podcast is called the assignment with Audie Cornish, and you can download it anywhere you get your podcasts. Is this one up already or is it . Its up already a little early. This all right. Its already cornish wednesday and join me tomorrow morning. Cnn, its gonna have coverage as this Us Supreme Court hearing begins, were live in the morning beginning at 9 00 a. M. Eastern on tv or streaming on max. 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