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that's going to do it for me today. "deadline: white house" starts now. hi everyone. it's 4:00 in new york. i'm ali velshi in for nicolle wallace. an incredibly important question looming over democracy, can presidents be held accountable for crimes committed in office. a unanimous ruling by the d.c. court of appeals rejected donald trump's claims of immunitity in the federal election case. the decision by the judges is a stinging rebuke of the ex-president in what has become a months' long push to get the charges against him dismissed. in their ruling, the judges make the point th...

Texas and others in texas put a lot of pressure on them and you don't get an oops when there is a death penalty case. you have to make sure we're right, and they bombarded the court with new evidence that was never presented before in the past 23 years. new evidence, new eyewitness testimony looking to go after the fiance. so the court boweddeference, there was like 250 prisoners, and this is only the second time there has been a stay issue. the stay is indefinite. the case is remanded back to the trial court, and you know, he -- mr. reed lives for another period of time. >> what do you see ne...

Doomed in d.c., doomed today in manhattan. and we'll see if he does any better in the appeals court. >> how quickly could it make it to an appeals court? and could this potentially, eventually wind up in the u.s. supreme court? >> what makes these two cases so perilous for the president is that he is not in control of the people who have the documents, his accountants and these banks. they are going to turn over this material. they don't want to be held in contempt, unless the president's lawyers have get in the appeals court, the d.c. circuit in washington, the second circuit court of appeals...

In place until the issue could be heard substantively. there was a brief that was filed a little bit early tonight, but that's not on the substantive merits of the case. it's just on this issue of staying the contempt. all that to say this is really interesting to lawyers. not very interesting or illuminating for anybody else yet, but we do expect to get an order from the court pretty quickly on the merits of this stay issue, and then we'll have to wait a lot longer for an ultimate decision. >> yeah. something tells me that before this year is out, that theme song from "jaws" is going to seem ...

Applicant, the individual or corporation that mueller is trying to get information from is trying to stay some action that the lower courts took against them, holding them in contempt of court for not complying with the order that they turn over information to mueller's team. and so now that's in front of the supreme court. the supreme court had initially stayed that penalty from being in place until the issue could be heard substantively. there was a brief that was filed a little bit early tonight, but that's not on the substantive merits of the case. it's just on this issue of staying the co...