More speed for your business . Its not just possible. Its happening. Get started for 59. 99 a month for 12 months. Plus, ask how to get an 800 prepaid card with a qualifying internet bundle. Comcast business, powering possibilities. This morning the judge in the trump trial has been admonishing the trump attorney telling him to stop bringing up the same arguments again and again and this is day two of the trial, apnd we will have more o that for you. Developments in that courtroom, and now, hunter biden has plead not guilty to three gun charges. We will tell you what happened inside of that courtroom. And now, Kevin Mccarthy is on the brink of costing him a vote for his speakership. What is going to happen there. With john berman and sara sidner, im kate bolduan. This is cnn news central. It is chaos on capitol hill right now, and in a special kind of chaos this time. House lawmaker are getting set and ready to vote on whether or not to oust Kevin Mccarthy as speaker at some point to t
There is a possibility they may see some opportunity for some immunity for some president ial decisions. If they decide it that way, it may have to go back down to the District Court which could cause further delay. I appreciate you not being sidetracked by somebody who apparently wants to scream louder than anybody else. Catherine, the lower courts have been unanimous that trump cannot claim immunity. Does that tell you something . I cant imagine theyre going to say a former president has absolute immunity for criminal acts. What will be a win for donald trump is if theyre saying were sending it back to judge chutkan to determine which, if any he would have immunity for and which he would not. Thats a win because that would delay the trial, which is already delayed. So what of course obviously jack smith and Special Counsel is hoping for, a majority of the court will just say, no, absolute immunity from Criminal Prosecution for a former president and clearly jack smith would say this
Check abuses of power especially the use of official power for private gain. Here the Executive Branch is enforcing congressional statutes and seeking accountability for petitioners alleged misuse of official power to subvert democracy. That is a compelling public interest. In response, petitioner raises concerns about potential abuses. But established legal safeguards provide layers of protections with the Article Iii Courts providing the ultimate check. The existing system is a carefully balanced framework. It protects the president but not at the high constitutional cost of blanket criminal immunity. That has been the understanding of every president from the framing through watergate and up to today. This court should preserve it. I welcome the courts questions. Does the president have immunity or are you saying there is no immunity even for official acts . Yes, justice thomas. But i think it is important to put in perspective the position that we are offering the court today. The
hello, i m christian fraser. you re watching the context on bbc news. a court of appeals decides donald trump wil not be given presidential immunity for his role in the january 6th capitol riots, and must face a civil lawsuit. welcome back. at the cop climate summit in dubai today, the brazilian president, lula da silva, addressed the elephant in the room. we have a collective problem, he said, a lack of ambition, our current targets, he added, don t go anywhere near far enough. the evidence suggests he is right. today, the world meteorological organisation told us, with a month to go in 2023, the average global temperature is on track to be 1.4 degrees celsius above pre industrial levels. that is 2.5 fahrenheit. you might recall that the agreement in 2015, in paris, was to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees celsius and to pursue efforts to keep warming within the much safer limit of 1.5. few believe that that can now be achieved. and so, a lot of the fo
and this is america s late news fox news at night and breaking tonight, president biden and a teleprompter and a two and a half men s speech appeared to go off without a hitch as their lashing out at the supreme court decision my geico occur with justice sotomayor s dissent as the president is now a king above law and fear for our democracy, i dissent and of quote and so should the american people dissent. thank you. trace: as expected, no questions as it s the country deeply concerned and nudity and engaging in sexual acts during a pride parade apparently legal now in california but then again who is surprised. we begin a pressure mounting on president biden to lead the race after his debate performance and more on that 10:00. president biden came out swinging against the supreme court ruling that grants former president trump and all presidents immunity from prosecution for official acts while in office. aiko kerr i concur with justice sotomayor s dissent president