Important discussions we have had this week. The Supreme Court has agreed now to consider former President Trumps claim of president ial immunity in his federal Election Interference case. We it will further delay a potential trial. The high court has scheduled arguments for april 22nd, and a final ruling might not come until months later at the end of the term in june. If the court ruled in favor of trump the special counsels charges would be dismissed. The u. S. Court of appeals unanimously ruled trump does not have absolute immunity. The Supreme Court does affirmed that, the delays still would push the start of the trial probably into the fall. Lets bring in former litigator and msnbc Legal Correspondent lisa rubin, and former u. S. Attorney and msnbc legal analyst joyce vance. Good morning to you both. Lisa, lets pause for a moment, i think this was shocking used a lot of people, lets talk about what the decision is and what it is not, it does not mean the supreme agrees that donal
immediately send them billions of dollars. now, if i were diane and i was trying to cut costs so w thater i wouldn t have to delay emergency operations, i might not have hundreduldn t hs of my employees staying at 1300 dollar a night luxury hotels overlooking a city burned to the ground with toddlers unaccounted for. this entire tragedy was preventable. and now the government s usingmi it as an excuse to dine out in style. ne out the corrupt two lying electric company neglected to clear the highly flammable grass underneath their downed power lines. emergency crews refuse to set off the emergency sirenyt because they thought the sirens would confushee people. and then the water commissioner wouldn t share the wateter r with the fire comy because water equity means indigenous plants get the water, not fighting fires. pthis colossal cluster of incompetence of ridiculous ideologythis and disrespect is w
of those people, the vulnerable in our country, but we cannot touch tax cuts for billionaires, we can t touch military spending, last week on 60 minutes they had a former high-level pentagon officials say that the cost overruns are astounding. he talked about the pentagon paying $10,000 for a 300 dollar oil switch. you mean to tell me that you cannot find one penny of savings in the pentagon budget? that that is somehow sacrosanct, off limits? we cannot go there? but instead we have to look at programs that help poor people? i mean, i think it tells you all you need to know about who is running the house of representatives right now. you have, now, all 213 democrats signatures on the discharge petition that you are now in charge of. the discharge position could be a way for democrats to force a vote on an increase in the debt ceiling, going around the republican roadblock that the speaker represents.
say that the cost overruns are astounding. he talked about the pentagon paying $10,000 for a 300 dollar oil switch. you mean to tell me that you cannot find one penny of savings in the pentagon budget? that that is somehow sacrosanct, off limits? we cannot go there? but instead we have to look at programs that help poor people? i mean, i think it tells you all you need to know about who is running the house of representatives right now. you have, now, all 213 democrats signatures on the discharge petition that you are now in charge of. the discharge position could be a way for democrats to force a vote on an increase in the debt ceiling, going around the republican roadblock that the speaker represents. you would need five signatures from republicans in order to get there, to 18. do you believe that that discharge petition is working as a real pressure on kevin mccarthy forcing him closer to
weeks before susan berman s murder and initially he was not a suspect but he took pains to keep themself hidden. and he told his friends the obvious don t be looking for robert durst in a 300 dollar month apartment under a fake name. the name of an old high school classmate named dorothy signer. although in his log he wrote that he didn t like where he was. it it s not in my eyes which made my head sweat. but, the version bob told over the years doesn t tell the real story. certainly not the famous killing of his elderly neighbors, mars play, or bob s activities in galveston or elsewhere. it was really strange, him in black, around galveston amongst the homeless. why is a guy of his wealth and his family s influence doing, stealing identities?