And it is pretty clear those options are as i just outlined it. Does that mean he couldnt find trump in violation of some other statute that has not been briefed before him . Nobody has also said im not going to summarily find contempt. These are things you have to bring before me. He has made it very clear. These are not summary proceedings. Unless he actually does it in front of me, im not going to do it on my own volition. We could keep going. , we shouldnt. That will do it for us for now. Now it is time for the last word with our good friend lawrence odonnell. Good evening. Good evening, rachel. We have convened our own version of the last word Supreme Court. In it, including Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe, Andrew Weissman is here with us. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse has a few things to say about it too and he will be joining us. Looking forward to it, lawrence. We learned today the United States Supreme Court has two different kinds of justices. Justices who are trying to pro
will now have to testify to the grand jury about what transpired on and around january. 6th and jake. our team is told that trump s legal team is expected to appeal this decision and not let these officials assert executive privilege. and interestingly, it does mean that some of these officials who have already been subpoenaed like the former national security advisor robert o brien, also ken cuccinelli from homeland security, it s likely they ll have to go back and testify more now that they can assert that privilege. all right, jessica standard. thank you so much. let s talk about this now with cnn senior legal analyst and former federal prosecutor, tony ellie a lot to talk about here. let s talk about the start, with the judge telling all these trump people that they have to testify, sources say trump s legal team they re expected to appeal. do they have a case to make an executive privilege case? no, they don t. jake. they certainly have the right to appeal, but they re not going t
and former acting u.s. general, he has been he is an nbc legal analyst. neil, i give you the floor in the reactions to the court. well well, i see this reaction to this. why is everyone so excited? because it is a dark time in our country. people are worried about and here we ve got, at least for this moment, the rule of law coming back. even if ruled in a different way, i told you there are different results that the supreme court was appointed here. the executive privilege case. it is exactly what happened, they denied donald trump s claim 8 to 1. what is it now? executive privilege is a good idea. it is that there is some
professor at georgetown university and most importantly a former acting u.s. solicitor general who has practiced before the united states supreme court repeatedly. he is an msnbc legal analyst. neal, i give you the floor in your reaction to the court. well, lawrence, i don t think i ve seen this much excitement about a late-night literary release since the final harry potter book came out. and why is everyone so excited? because it s a dark time in our country. people are worried about voting being under assault and rules and laws more generally, and here we ve got at least for this moment the rule of law coming back and in a really profound way. you know, i was on your show last night. i told you to predict this result, that the supreme court wasn t going to hear this executive privilege case. and lo and behold, that s exactly what happened. they denied donald trump s claim 8-1. so what s the case about? executive privilege is this idea it s a good idea. it s the idea that presi
coin toss as to what he does. i think it s going to be a 50/50 call. wow, interesting. and a federal appeals court ruled against former president trump as he has tried to keep his white house records from the committee. trump is now vowing to take this legal battle to the highest court. one of our viewers wants to know how likely is it that the supreme court will decide to hear the executive privilege case involving trump and the national archives? what do you think? yeah. so i actually think the supreme court is not going to hear this case. you need to have four out of the nine justices to vote to take a case. this case has already been ruled on by the court of appeals. they ruled against trump. so why might the court take it or not take it? they might take it because it raises an important and novel constitutional issue. we don t know exactly for sure whether a former president can invoke the privilege. we have not heard that from the supreme court. there s not what we call a cir