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Is a president above the law? It's a question bearing on not just a high-profile criminal case against former President Donald Trump but the integrity of American democracy and rule
The most unique legal cases ever and suggested he's going to bring up issues that, quote, never touched a court before, potentially involving things like executive immunity. do you agree with him on that? do you think the fact that this is unique, that some of these things have never been talked about before in a courtroom necessarily means that the 4-6 weeks might actually be longer? >> well, what we're talking about and what john lauro is talking about is pretrial motions when you say immunity issues and such. that's all going to take place before the march 4th trial date. what happens on ma...
That former presidents are entitled to claim the privilege. now, whether it applies or not is a separate issue. >> exactly. but you're being clever. >> they're entitled to claim it -- no, i'm not, i'm reading the supreme court case. >> but you're not reading it in context. does a sitting president have the privilege of executive immunity? yes. in all cases? no. which is why the primary holding of nixon versus gsa was seizing and examining records related to a former president that was still in control of the executive branch does not violate the separation of powers. the privilege is not with ...
It -- no, i'm not, i'm reading the supreme court case. >> but you're not reading it in context. does a sitting president have the privilege of executive immunity? yes. in all cases? no. which is why the primary holding of nixon versus gsa was seizing and examining records related to a former president that was still in control of the executive branch does not violate the separation of powers. the privilege is not with the president -- excuse me -- is not for the benefit of the president as an individual but for the benefit of the republic, which means it has to make sense in context. he's not ...
Going to go on a bit longer because the two inflection points she will need before she can hand over the impeachment articles are either a retraction from mitch mcconnell about his impartiality when he said he will not be impartial, or two she could hold them into the spring until the court finally disposes of the challenge on executive immunity he won't let anybody testify. she could make the case, look, we're not going to transmit these until the issue of mulvaney and others testify and is settled by the courts, and we know they'll have the opportunity in the senate to testify to the senator...