CNNW CNN July 6, 2024
you are live in the "cnn newsroom," i'm jim acosta in washington. we begin this hour with donald trump arguing that lobbying owe election officials to overturn the 2020 election was within his official responsibilities as president. that argument was part of a brief filed last night in which attorneys for the former president asked an appeals court to dismiss his criminal election subversion case, one day after the supreme court refused to decide for now whether he is protected from prosecution. in the filing trump's attorneys argue that, quote, president trump has absolute immunity,...