they 70s dirt on scene cnn breaking news. welcome to inside politics. i m dana bash and we start with a monumental supreme court decision on the power of the presidency the highest court in the land is just ruled that donald trump is entitled to some level of immunity from prosecution for actions he took in the final days of his presidency it could put big parts of the election subversion case against him in jeopardy and sets a critical new precedent for future commanders in chief the split 6-3 opinion was authored by chief justice john roberts, who writes in part, we conclude under our constitutional structure of separated powers, the nature of presidential power requires that a former president have some immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts during his tenure. for an office. at least with respect to the president s exercise of his core constitutional powers this immunity must be absolute he also said that there are some parts of what the president does. tha
trump s conduct in on january 6, related to january 6 is fundamentally different to that of someone who just simply showed up to the capital engaged in violence and an obstructed the proceeding in that way, there are many pieces of evidence that they can use to tie donald trump s alleged conspiracy back to documents or to the effort to essentially delay the proceedings to obstruct them in process, all that sort of stuff. so i think there are many arguments let me made to leave those charges in, but it will require really changing the sort of evidence that they think about putting in front of the jury. so bottom line is basically a variant encouraging good day for donald trump. no question. donald trump benefits from this, from this ruling, even if it s just in the context of creating numerous issues for him to challenge the indictment, to challenge the charges before this case ever goes on in the process, delay any criminal we ll trials, which is what he s trying to do. r
three-to-one. today. five good things listen wherever you get your podcasts a major decision from the supreme court, already having implications when it comes to january 6, defendants in a 6-3 decision, the court ruled the justice department actually overstepped by filing obstruction charges against people who rioted at the capitol, dozens of people, of course, have already been convicted and sentenced. and we ve just learned that a federal court in dc is already reopening some of the cases. cnn chief legal affairs correspondent paula reid and cnn senior crime and justice reported katelyn polantz joining us now with more on the decision of what happens next. so paula first walk us through this decision this decision today, this impacts potentially hundreds of people who have been charged in connection with january 6, and the attorney general issued a statement today saying that the justice department will take appropriate steps to act on this opinion today, but they also
reached a ceiling. so i enrolled in um, gc i would not be the person we are now fewer than seven hours away from cnn s presidential debate world headquarters in atlanta. and very soon president biden is expected to arrive here in atlanta for this highly anticipated face off with former president trump now, this is video of the presidential debate stage. and you saw cnn teams. they re putting the finishing touches. now, this is video of president biden getting off of marine one at joint base andrews and route to georgia, trump is expected to arrive here at the debate side a few hours later, but before the action kicks off tonight, both campaigns have been churning out attack ads potentially previewing the line of attacks that we may see after both candidates take the stage. let s bring in cnn s mj lee live from when the cnn debate site. all right. mj, the supreme court just issued this ruling on emergency abortions in idaho. we did get a glimpse yesterday it is now officially
both those and issues are likely to be center stage tonight in a historic presidential debate here in atlanta, president biden will face donald trump in a primetime show down here at the cnn world headquarters in atlanta. and america. of course, the world will be watching take a look at this new york times sienna college poll shows nearly three out of four registered voters in the united states plan to watch tonight s debate. let s begin this hour over at the supreme court, seen as pamela brown, who s joining us right now. pamela, what can you tell us first of all, about the abortion rulings handed down just minutes ago well, wolfe, what the high court did today with this opinion officially released, we should note is it essentially put the near total abortion ban and idaho temporarily on hold. so what this means is that women in idaho, they can get an abortion if there is a medical emergency, not just when they re life is on the line when this near-total abortion ban was i