B is august. He has made an immunity argument, the same argument that is made in d. C. One minor difference. He wasnt president. His argument is, but i took the documents while i was president. I have said, that is like a bank robber saying you know, i legally got the gun that i used to rob the bank. Right. I was a customer of the bank when they went in and took the money. Everything is just such an irrelevancy. But hes got judge cannon and so the question is whether judge cannon will sit on that, whether she will grant it, or if she denies it and says but its not a frivolous argument, meaning all of these delays of appeal that we have seen in the d. C. Case, don trump is going to try that, of course. Same road. Back to the Supreme Court. Its much harder factual argument. But, thats not the issue. Just remember, we were all sitting here going, hes arguing that he can order s. E. A. L. Team six to kill a political important opponent and were going as absolutely laughable laughable. A no
What well garland do. Im Michael Smerconish in philadelphia, Attorney General Merrick Garland may eventually make a singular decision that determines the outcome of the 2024 election, whether the doj will continue to push for donald trump to be tried before election day in the federal case, premised on alleged Election Interference for months. Here, ive delivered commentaries focused on the timing of this particular prosecution because i think its most perilous to trump, and ive often done so with the assistance of elie honig will join me again in a moment. Heres the issue on wednesday, scotus granted cert and announced that the high court will hear Donald Trumps Immunity Defense i dont think the ultimate outcome is in dispute. I think trump loses that claim. In my opinion, its unlikely its illogical that the court will provide Blanket Immunity from criminal prosecution to an american president more important is the process, the timing of the courts Decision Garland told cnns evan pere
Classified documents case to begin on august 12th. That is correct. Donald trump asked for that trial to start just three months before the president ial election. Except, that request may not exactly be what it sounds like. It could very well be a game of 3d chess. It does not sound like something trump placed on that often, but play with me here. Trump pitching that august date could be a way of trying to block the other federal criminal case, the Special Counsels much more serious a federal Election Interference case from going to trial before the election. Yesterday we got that massive news, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear trumps argument, that those criminal trials in the d. C. Case should be thrown out because a president ial immunity. But the court did not schedule oral arguments on that case to start until the week of april 20 seconds. Because of that delay, even if the Supreme Court decides this case incredibly quickly, this Election Interference case most likely could no
Fleece jackets in our famous go to sweat we have what you need to stay warm all winter long. Go fabletics. Com gets 70 . Every single thing in brazil are alvarez and brownsville, texas. And this is cnn i everyone thanks for joining me. Im omar jimenez in today for fredricka whitfield. Weve got some Breaking News for you to start here as the us begins, airdrops today over gaza, we are now learning that Vice President Kamala Harris will meet with israels war cabinet minister benny gantz on monday in washington, and it comes as a senior us official tells cnn that is six weeks ceasefire has basically been accepted by israel and theyre now waiting on a response from hamas earlier today, three c130 hercules cargo planes dropped a total of 66 bundles and gaza, they included mainly food but no water or medical supplies. Cnns Priscilla Alvarez is in washington and Paula Hancocks is in abu dhabi. I want to start with you, priscilla but what do you know about this Vice President meeting . Well, t
Scheduled by the Justice Department and Special Counsel jack smith for his january 6th conduct. By shorthand you may have heard this called the Immunity Case. What we have new just in the last hour is the Supreme Court deciding to weigh in, to take the case to delay the trial. As well get into tonight its not something they have to do but something they have the Legal Authority to do, and its something they are doing. So the court is granting this cert, this review late today. And theyre giving a calender which well get into because it has repercussions for the court, the country, potentially the election and on whether or not the fbi and Justice Department can patrol efforts to overthrow our democracy and stage coups. This means no matter what we know something tonight we didnt know last night that jack smiths scheduled coup trial and his victories because hes won not one but two basic hearings about whether or not president s have immunity when they leave office, both the trial judge