are deciding whether donald trump is immune from prosecution. in other words, can a president do whatever he wants to in office? even order the assassination of a political rival? trump s team argues a qualified yes. what does that mean? and what did the judges say in response? plus, after the door plug blew on that alaska airlines flight, is it safe to fly? investigators now find there are major problems across boeing s 737 max 9 fleet. what went wrong on the assembly line and what s the fix? and does voting matter? what michelle obama says she is terrified of this election year. let s begin in washington because for the first time in our history, a federal appeals court is tasked with ruling on whether a president is above the law. you might say of course now, but donald trump s team argues actually yes, that congress has the primary authority that if congress doesn t impeach and convict first, then any official action is golden. can a president order seal team six to a
at the white house with more on this. good afternoon, mark. good afternoon. we expect the meeting to begin any moment now. as you mentioned, top congressional leaders talking about the debt ceiling. we re going to get video from inside the oval office with the president sitting down with the leaders, listening to remarks before the meeting. the president, the vice president, speaker mccarthy and schumer and mcconnell. the biden administration has urged congress to raise the debt ceiling as soon as possible warning any delay could hurt the u.s. economy. the white house once again urged congress to act now and negotiate spending later. we are right now having a conversation negotiating on the budget. that s what the president has been very clear about. we want to go back to regular order and talk about appropriations. and we ve been very clear that the debt limit needs to be taken care of. congress needs to do their constitutional duty. republicans who control the house o
to the breaking news tonight. now, former president donald j. trump has been indicted by a criminal court in new york city . he will be arraigned ink that wl manhattan at some point next week. we are told will likelyke new be tuesday. fake news. cncnn is reporting that he coull face over 30 charges. in a statement, trump is saying, quote, political persecution and election interference at the highesution ant level in hit from the time i camehe down the golden escalator trump tower, and even before i wasfore sworn in as your president of pt the u.s., the radical left t democrats, the enemy of the hard working men and women of this country. they have been engaged in a a witch to destroy the makey th america great again movement. now, you remember it just like i do. russia, russia, russiae , the muehler hoke s, ukraine, ukraine, ukraine, impeachment, hoke s one impeachment hoke s to the illegal and unconstitutional mar-a-lago rage. and now this. he s right after years ofn partis
new york was diagnosed with prostate cancer and that didn t force his resignation. there are many other office holders who have had prostate cancer and continue to hold the office. so he could you know, relen kwish some of the day to day responsibilities to the deputy secretary of defense and not actually resign his position. we ve had many cabinet secretaries who have had all kinds of illnesses in the past. just to go back to the very first ever secretary of defense was a man named james forester. they later named an aircraft carrier after him. and he was suffering from severe depression when he was secretary. hospitalized and during one of those hospitalizations, he jumped out a window and killed himself. so i just mention that not because i think there s any suicide connection here, but because you know we have, and that was at a very, very perilous time in the history of
asking lawmakers from both parties to look into it. we of course will keep you posted on this story. meantime new fall-out from john durham s report on the investigation of former president trump and russia. it says the fbi treated the trump and clinton campaigns very differently and agents did not give appropriate consideration to the possibility that the so-called steel dossier on candidate trump could be russian didn t force. here s durham using the code name for the trump investigation. the speed and manner in which the fbi opened crossfire hurricane during the presidential election season based on raw unanalyzed and uncorroborated intelligence reflect add noticeable departure from you how it approached prior matters involving foreign election interference, plans aimed at the clinton campaign. jim jordan has invited graham to