thanks alex, thank you. well donald trump has many bad days ahead of him, as criminal defendant trump. none will be more painful than the days he spends in winston daughters winston chutkan told the new york times that when he won a scholarship to go to high school in jamaica, quote, i wore shoes and experienced indoor plumbing for the first time in my life. winston chutkan worked very hard, did very well in high school. he went on to become an orthopedic surgeon, one of jamaica s most prominent physicians. when his daughter tanya arrived in washington from jamaica at age 17 to attend george washington university, she fell in love with the city, and has lived there ever since, except for her for three years as a distinguished student at the university of pennsylvania law school, where she was an editor of the tanya s younger sister and brother both followed in their father s footsteps, and became physicians. tanya chutkan served as a public defender in washington d.
emma like am i free? can i watch you guys? now, i know. all right. burning the midnight oil, chris a s. i ghlove to see, my friend, i have a good night. you do. thank d you for joining me this evening. it took nearly a month to get it, but we finally have it, the d.c. circuit court of appeals has ruled on presidential immunity, donald trump s last best attempt to evade a criminal trial for his attempts to overturn the 2020 election. it is unanimous ruling, rimmed i by all three federal appeals court judges overseeing this case, to biden appointees and one appointee of president george h. w. bush. those judges spell it out and no uncertain terms. donald trump s claim that a former president cannot be duly prosecuted is worthless. quoting from the ruling, it would be a striking paradox if the president, alone, is vested with the constitutional duty to take care of the laws he faithfully executed, where the e sole officer capable of defying those laws with impunity.
on this point. i am quoting here, we cannot except former president trump s claim that a president has unbounded authority to commit crimes. and we neutralize the most fundamental check on the executive power, in recognition, an implementation of election results. and going on to say, nor can we sanctioned his apparent contention that the executive has carte blanche to violate the rights of individual citizens to vote, and to have their votes count. the court throwing out trump s arguments that he should not have to go on trial, on federal election subversion charges. charges that you would expect, vowing to appeal to the supreme court. but he only has until monday to decide whether he can do that. let s talk right now with cnn analyst, norm eisen, and prosecutor, joe moreno. i m so happy that both of you are here today. first of all, we have been talking about this for the better part of a month, norm. the fact that it took this long, it s perhaps a surprising announcement.
voted no. now, let s go live to capitol hill where fox news senior congressional correspondent chad pergram has all the details. now, chad, we heard yelling. then we heard cheers from the floor. what can you tell us? well, democrats were yelling at the republicans to close the vote. because they were prevailing in this, obviously democrats did not want to impeach alejandro mayorkas, so they were winning, they kept yelling regular order. shut off the vote. and so here s what happened at the end. as you say there were four republicans who voted no. but i want to point out that that s with a caveat. here are the four who voted no and i will explain why this is very important. mike gallagher republican of wisconsin. ttom mcclintock. ken buck republican of colorado. the vice chair of the republican conference blakemore. now, at the end of the vote he switched his vote so this lost. 216 to 214. it was 215 to 215. by rule, a tie vote loses in the house of representatives. so why d
a fan who s going to watch the game like the rest of us. thanks for joining me today. smerconish is up next. legal exoneration, political nightmare. i m michael smerconish, legal nightmare. the report of the investigation into president biden s handling of classified documents. the word exoneration, an overstatement, i think, how bad was it, the president who turned down a pre-super bowl interview with a guaranteed audience of millions in an election year sudly felt obliged to speak to the nation in prime time from a diplomatic reception room at the white house. when he did, he seemed to be in denial about the substance and the political implications. the majority of americans including a majority of democrats have major or moderate concerns about biden s fitness nor a second term. when cnn raised that with the president he said that was only her incorrect perception. when you were asked about your age, you would respond with the words, watch me. many american people have