The Appeals Court hearing on Donald Trumps Immunity Hearing has wrapped up. The threejudge appellant panel facing this big question can the former president be held criminally responsible for actions that he took while in office to overturn the 2020 election loss. We heard a remarkable argument from trumps team who heard the argument that prosecuting a former president would open up a pandoras box as john sauer said that working in the capacity as alleged in the indictment by jack smith, the Special Counsels office pushing back on that. This notion that we are all of the sudden going to be seeing a floodgate, i think that, again, the careful investigations in the clinton era didnt result in any charges. The fact that this investigation did doesnt reflect that we are going to see a sea change of vindictive titfortat prosecutions in the future. I think it reflects fundamentally unprecedented nature of the criminal charges here. Cnns evan perez joins us now. Evan, you were inside of that
[applause] [applause] good afternoon Justice Amy Coney barrett and i am delighted you are here. Im delighted be here and think you for having me. Thank you for coming especially in the first two weeks of the current term which began the first monday in october and how is it going this year. Related this good so far we only had six and and run a two week in between our sessions so oral argue in arguments last week now it will be two weeks of readings to prepare for the next round. Will we are delighted that you are here. And for so many reasons. You grew up in new orleans, the other end of the mississippi. I did. I think you said there is a Family Connection to the university of minnesota and can you tell us about that. I did and professor stein did not know this so i dont think it was the reason you invited me about my brother actually went there and so so my first time visiting campus. Compaq ipaq. And so he lived in a house down talent so i went to visit. I know something about the u
Functions also coming up, joe biden rolls out the red copied for kind of in president william routes. So as the us tries to roll by china is influence in africa. And i believe at this time that you were walking with king deployed capabilities and really like minded democratic countries to set up the cost for democracy. Welcome to the day as well. Most stuff its ministry offensive and rafa under the humanitarian 8 to flow freely into the gaza strip. That was the order from the u. Ns top called the International Court of justice to these right. The government is late. These daughter adds to a growing list of diplomatic and legal moves against these ro and have undermined its international standing. And it comes days after prosecutors that another international tribunal, the International Criminal court goal for the rest of israels prime that is done. And in the same week, thats 3 European Countries to be coordinated steps of recognizing the state of palestine will have expedited legal an
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For the next round. We are delighted to have you here. For many reasons, you grew up in new orleans in the end of the mississippi . I think you said that there is a Family Connection to the university of minnesota . Can you tell us about that western mark professor stein did not know this when he invited me, i do not think it is the reason he invited me. It is not my first time visiting campus. He lives rental house. I went and visited. I know that you know about the university, i saw them. I would like to start asking questions by asking a question about your undergraduate college. As the dean had said, you had graduated from Rhodes College in memphis, a superb school and i noted several years ago just a fortis graduated from that justice fortis graduated from that college. We aware that a Supreme Court justice had graduated from the school and did you think about the Supreme Court at that time . I did not think i was going to be a lawyer at that time, i had some vague awareness that