Dont go anywhere. I will be back with Rachel Maddow and the whole gang for special Coverage Of Trump On Trial that starts right now. The expresident of the United States. Two american courtrooms. Facing Criminal Trial in one. I will go in now and sit. And making a desperate case to avoid justice in the other. We will hear arguments this morning in trump versus the United States. Tonight, new testimony of the alleged criminal conspiracy to help elect donald trump. Reporter trump turned to the business at hand and asked david pecker, how is our girl . As his argument for absolute immunity finally goes before the Supreme Court. This court has never recognized absolute criminal immunity for any public official. A private attorney who was willing to spread false claims of Election Fraud what was up with the pardon for president nixon . If everybody thought president s couldnt be prosecuted, what was that about . If it fails completely it is because we have destroyed our democracy. Tonight,
And it is pretty clear those options are as i just outlined it. Does that mean he couldnt find trump in violation of some other statute that has not been briefed before him . Nobody has also said im not going to summarily find contempt. These are things you have to bring before me. He has made it very clear. These are not summary proceedings. Unless he actually does it in front of me, im not going to do it on my own volition. We could keep going. , we shouldnt. That will do it for us for now. Now it is time for the last word with our good friend lawrence odonnell. Good evening. Good evening, rachel. We have convened our own version of the last word Supreme Court. In it, including Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe, Andrew Weissman is here with us. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse has a few things to say about it too and he will be joining us. Looking forward to it, lawrence. We learned today the United States Supreme Court has two different kinds of justices. Justices who are trying to pro