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>> thank you so much, reverend sharpton. a big show indeed, i am alicia menendez. welcome to a new weekend of american voices. with our country now in uncharted waters with the federal indictment of donald trump. this hour, the former president is going to make his second public parents it today. stopping in north carolina. we are not going to air his speech live. but we will bring you any news that he makes. we expect his speech to mirror his remarks, just hours ago in georgia. the former president, the only president in u.s. history to be federally charged with a crime, firing up h...

providing that the united states reserves and retains complete ownership, possession and control of presidential records. for more than a year, and despite multiple opportunities to remedied situation and return materials that rightly belong to the federal government, donald trump refused to cooperate time and time again. as we know now from the indictment unsealed by the department of justice yesterday, the former president and his personal valet, and now codefendants, walt nauta have both been indicted. trump along faces 31 counts of willful retention of national defense informatio...

Cannot self pardon, because no one could be a judge in their own case. >> just like we don't let people be the prosecutor or the judge or the jury in their own case, the argument goes, you can't be the pardon or in your own case. >> since then, that legal opinion has never been tested, until maybe now. if mr. trump ought to win the white house in 2024, he could try to pardon himself on those new federal charges within minutes of a doctor issued. but experts say it would very likely go to the supreme court to decide whether that self pardon would hold and remember, it's a court that has a conse...

These new federal charges are not the only legal issues faced by mr. trump. he's been charged in new york, related to hush money payments. and as pleaded not guilty. but those are state level crimes. so a presidential pardon is off the table there. >> the cause in the constitution limits a presidents pardon powers to offenses against the united states. commonly understood to mean it federal offenses. >> reporter: down in georgia, mr. trump also faces an investigation belt around his 2020 election fraud lies. he denies any wrongdoing there. but the potential to pardon himself would depend on th...