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first, the latest headlines. the us supreme court has ruled donald trump is partially immune from prosecution for actions taken while he was in the white house. courts will now need to distinguish between what were official and unofficial actions — and that will be delayed well beyond november's election. the trump ally, steve bannon, has reported to prison to begin his four month sentence for defying a congressional subpoena. bannon refused to give evidence before the committee investigating the storming of the us capitol building injanuary 2021; he was convicted the following yea...

dissents in her opinion, which concurred in part. still, these justices, thomas, alito, kavanaugh, gorsuch, roberts and barrett seemed to treat the allegations and the indictment that brought this ground breaking case to the supreme court as more of an academic moment than an existential one. the allegations that the former president of the united states while in office tried to use the levers of power to keep himself in office. reading the decision can seem circular, even. the president is immune because the constitution implies he is immune, even when highs trying to violate the sa...

To anyt president's ability to carry out a core constitutional function. is this more r soso a protectio the prior administration as opposed to this white house feeling that it is protecting the candidate? >> well we don't know withoutt s seeing the documents, but in my suspicion, it is protecting the candida candidate. they should release them, and they are rushing it through, and the concern is what do these document documents show about the type of oadvice that he gave george w. bush and where he stands on the various issue, and while he was advising george w. bush, and there are a lot of i...

They use that charge to sort of limit and curb him in every turn. you're saying he can apply that logic when he's asked to sit down with mueller. he would make the argument how that that is not constitutional? >> yeah. right now -- this is what is wrong with the legal strategy, he's lawyers are learned about his personal legal liability. we've been told that they don't want to sit with mr. mueller because they're worried that president trump might purger himself. the other argument is we will not sit down with special counsel mueller so long as he's engaged in an unconstitutional obstruction o...

An attack on the core functions of government. i get if you're a conservative and you're saying, i don't know, government shouldn't be mandating what's taught in classrooms, or government is too intrusive in our economic life, that's standard conservatism. when you're going after what a core function of government is, which is public safety, right, a core constitutional function, then you're talking about a very different kind of republican party and what you're saying is exactly right. this plays into the russian agenda because what russia really wants to do is sow profound distrust among ame...