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. today marks an historic day at the supreme court. you're looking at some of the footage and some of the protesters there this morning. if trump's conduct for alleged engagement in insurrection bars him from the ballot as colorado has decided, that was the question before the court. the justices at times considered implications. home in a physical sense how the high court operates. the justices referred to that attack at times but careful to avoid pre-judging the other prosecutions from that day. they focused on this question if a state can respond to that attack by deeming a poli...

single sentence that favors or even slightly sympathizes with donald trump's argument for presidential immunity. instead, the d.c. appeals court stands up trump's defenses only to knock them down one by one. the judges reached back through history citing case law from the early 1800s along with founders themselves on how they envisioned the power and limitations of the presidency. the court concludes quote, for the purposes of h criminal case, former president trump has become citizen trump with all of the defenses of any other criminal defendant. on trump's argument that the separat...

classified documents. the special counsel found evidence that president biden, quote, willfully retaineds classified materials found no reason to press criminal charges. drew distinction between the criminal probe of handling of documents and his findings regarding president biden. the long standing justice department priniple that you cannot indict a sitting president does not apply and would not bring charges even if joe biden were no longer president. we'll have more on that later in the program. we begin with a hearing at the nation's highest court. an historic hearing for some v...

Stephanie ruhle, all here for msnbcs special coverage of these Court Arguments on the disqualification of donald trump. Welcome to our Primetime Recap of the historic proceedings that the United States Supreme Court. I am Rachel Maddow at msnbc home base along with my beloved colleagues, Lawrence Odonnell, and joy reid, and chris hayes, happy to have you all here. No cameras are allowed in federal courtrooms, including the United States Supreme Court, but today, for the arguments about whether china for having an insurrection against the u. S. Government, the justices did allow for the sound o...

that argument. >> there is some evidence to suggest that. >> any evidence to suggest the presidency was what they were focused on? >> there is some evidence of that. people saying we don't want jefferson davis to be elected president and one of the drafts of section three specifically mentioned the presidency and vice presidency. >> it wasn't the final inaction. >> it wasn't final but there was concern by some people about con federal insurrectionists ascendsing to the presidency. we didn't want to make a a history argument. the other side can come back and throw this counter evidenc...