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What do they want to hear . Or is it potentially that they just want to be the ones to hear it. The lead on writing a definitive ruling on something as foundational as whether this president , any president , is above the law. But you cant separate that motivation from the timing. Why did it take so long for the justices to decide to hear it . And why will it take so long for them to actually hear it. The court has worked faster before, including on Hearing Arguments regarding the colorado ballot. Again, the timing here matters. Not just for this case, which is now unlikely to be tried before ...

thank you for joining us this evening. it took nearly a month to get it, but we finally have it. the d.c. circuit court of appeals has ruled on presidential immunity. donald trump's last best attempt to evade a criminal trial for his attempts to overturn the 2020 election. in his unanimous ruling written by all three federal appeals court judges overseeing this case two biden appointees and one appointee of president george h.w. bush. those judges spell it out in no uncertain terms a former president cannot be prosecuted is worthless. quoting from the ruling, it would be a striking p...

Do you agree that those principles are just as relevant today as they were when the supreme court first decided "new york times" v. sullivan? >> "new york times" v. sullivan is the continuing binding precedent of the supreme court, and it does state the principles that the court has determined are undergirding the first amendment right to free press. >> okay. and last summer, actually, in lawson, the supreme court declined to review a case in which the 11th circuit applied "new york times" v. sullivan, justice thomas and justice gorsuch each dissented from the decision not to grant cert, argui...

Constitutional issue but on the other hand we don't have a circuit split where different courts are deciding the issue differently and if you look at the decisions, they're air tight. i don't they the supreme court will say we need to come in and fix that. >> i think it was a 68-page opinion, i think it was unanimous across all three -- >> it was. >> -- their judges. so if the court, if the supreme court did intervene and grant cert and take this up, what would that tell you about a court that john roberts keeping says is not political, is not political, is not political. >> i have to tell you...

Works of the committee. so i'm here to -- you know, to say that i think there's a good shot that this is the end of the road for trump. and by the way, it means that the law of the d.c. circuit is this executive privilege claim of his is garbage. and that matters for meadows. it matters for bannon. it matters for anyone else they would consider referring for criminal contempt because they couldn't hide behind a bogus executive privilege claim any longer. >> yeah. just to be clear, you need four votes, right, of the nine. >> that's right. >> to what's called grant cert, for the court to take on...