bet blowing up. the bipartisan border security bill now doubtful in the senate and dead on arrive value in the house. bet 2, the push to impeach homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas, a vote still on but all bets off as a second republican says he s a no. why california congressman tom mcclintock calls it a stunt and wants to explain here. bet three, that sure immunity defense from donald trump and his legal team, that a former president is shielded from prosecution. not so, not justified and to hear a unanimous appeals court today rule so not happening. so what now? well, place your bets. your world starts now. all right. so many bets, so little time. let s get right to it. welcome. i m neil cavuto. to chad pergram who always reminds me it s about the math, it s about the math. the numbers here is close as you can get, hu, chad? really tight, neil. impeachment for mayorkas will hinge on the math. two house republicans are expected to vote no. ken buck of colorad
chiefs. we re also going to sit by this hour as we were expecting to hear directly from president joe biden. it is said he will discuss the bipartisan senate border security bill. that bill, as you know, is facing increasing resistance and pressure from both sides of the political aisle. house speaker mike johnson is promising that it is dead on arrival when it hits the house and says it will never make it to the house floor. we ll talk more about what is happening today and we ll bring you the president s remarks live when we get them. homeland security in arizona just picked up suspects wanted after that vicious beating of two new york city police officers. it has been the headline for days now. a judge posted exactly 0 bail for men who are not american citizens and suspected of being in a larger gang of men who committed that cop attack caught on tape. i m harris faulkner. the faulkner focus. they crossed our border, we don t know how or when but they move around freely.
that s going to do it for me today. deadline: white house starts now. hi everyone. it s 4:00 in new york. i m ali velshi in for nicolle wallace. an incredibly important question looming over democracy, can presidents be held accountable for crimes committed in office. a unanimous ruling by the d.c. court of appeals rejected donald trump s claims of immunitity in the federal election case. the decision by the judges is a stinging rebuke of the ex-president in what has become a months long push to get the charges against him dismissed. in their ruling, the judges make the point that while donald trump is a former president of the united states, he is in the eyes of the law, just another criminal defendant. for the purposes of this criminal case, frp has become citizen trump with all the any executive immunity that may have protected him while he served as president no longer protects him in this prosecution. prosecuting presidents for things they did in office would have
appeals court to toss his 2020 election interference case arguing that he was carrying out white house duties at the time and therefore immune to prosecution. this move coming one day after the supreme court declined to rule on the immunity question for now. it is a blow for special counsel jack smith who sought a speedy decision. that trial like trump s three other criminal cases might play out while voters are casting ballots in the 2024 election meaning trump s political future could be determined before the juries decide his criminal fate. also new, trump s team is planning to challenge the colorado supreme court decision to disqualify the former president from the 2024 ballot for allegedly inciting the insurrection. a source with knowledge of trump s plans tells nbc news they intend to file an appeal after the christmas holiday. that could have implications far beyond colorado especially in the 16 other states with open legal challenges to trump s eligibility for offic
Might be for the future president if they have that. What i am more worried about you seem to be worried about the president being chilled. I think we would have a really significant Opposite Problem if the president wasnt chilled. If someone with those kinds of powers, the most powerful person in the world with the greatest amount of authority could go into office knowing that there would be no potential penalty for committing crimes, i am trying to understand what the disincentive is wrong turning the oval office into the seat of Criminal Activity in this country. In a moment i will be joined by former Trump Council and former white House Counsel in the Nixon Administration who was central to the last case the Supreme Court in deciding on if president s are above the law. And the transcript that just came out from today. We will hear from arthur and jeffrey and jessica, investigative counsel, and senior legal analysis and jim who was in court today. A lot of billable hours right here