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Constitution, he contends the person who serves as president while in office enjoys absolute immunity from criminal process of any kind. consider the reach of the president's argument as the court reads it, presidential immunity would stretch to cover every phase of criminal proceedings, including grand jury subpoenas, diejts prosecution, arrest, trial, conviction, and incarceration. that constitutional protection presumably would encompass any conduct at any time in any forum, whether federal or state, and whether the president acted alone or in concert with other individuals. hence, accordin...

Private affairs, and all other conduct undertaken by him as an ordinary citizen both during and before his tenure in office. such immunity would operate to frustrate the administration of justice by insulating from scrutiny not only matters occurring during the president's tenure in office, but potentially also records relate to go transactions and illegal actions the president and others may have committed before he assumed the presidency. this court cannot endorse such a categorical and limitless assertion of presidential immunity from judicial process as being countenanced by the nation's c...

Sekulow. he's saying we should do when we want to, not when we're being forced. he says we won. we got a stay. i say that's not a 1. we'll see what happens. something i want you to defend and here's why i think you will lose on appeal. the district court judge, jay, said this is repugnant to the constitution what you are arguing. that the idea of federal supremacy and presidential immunity from judicial process is unqualified and boundless in its reach. it cuts across the grain of constitutional precedent. unother words comes from the office of legal counsel, not case law, not legislation, cer...

Okay, quick recap. we're getting after it with the president's lawyer jay sekulow. i'm arguing on a transparency side we should get the president's taxes and he's saying he doesn't have to. jay sekulow says we won, we got a stay. i say, no, these are unique issues. here's why i think you will lose on appeal. the district court judge said this is repugnant to the constitution what you are arguing, that the idea of federal supremacy and presidential immunity from judicial process is unqualified and boundless in its reach. it cuts across the grain of constitutional precedent. in other words, it c...

We mentioned this earlier. important new developments in the effort to see donald trump's tax returns. a federal judge ruled today the president cannot withhold his financial record from prosecutors in manhattan. the d.a. subpoenaed trump's tax returns last month. we reported on it here as part of its investigation into hush money payments made to cover up alleged affairs. they're interested in possible violations of state law this time around. trump's lawyers tried to argue the president can't be criminally investigated, period. a federal judge today rejected that claim flat-out, quote, this ...